Yeah that’s probably the reason no one mentioned them, Grace.
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover was a big pile of turkey droppings. Some of those Ed Burns movies are pretty bad. Do the Right Thing was a piece of junk and wildly overrated but I would agree that it isn’t the worst thing ever.
** Shock Treatment**… This was the sequel to The Rocky Horror Picture Show where Brad and Janet (who are played by different actors) appear on a game show but get sucked into some scheme. This is by far the worst use of film – ever.
People, I think we have forgotten about our good friend Peter Jackson’s earlier work (yes, same guy that directed Lord of the Rings)
Meet the Feebles
Dead Alive
Bad Taste
The three worst movies of all time, IMO. Altough Dead Alive does take the title of the bloodiest film of all time, thanks to a little lawn-mower scene 
(I did like The Frighteners, though, ‘cause Michael J. Fox is da’ man!)
Did you know — did you care — that Heston’s Omega Man from '71 or so was a remake? I saw the original on a late late show years and years ago after having seen Heston’s version. It was a Vincent Price made-in-Italy or Spain black-and-white. What a stinker! He takes a new car to collect bodies — a station wagon, because, he narrates, “I didn’t need an ambulance, I needed a hearse.”
Too bad every third scene it’s a sedan.
Bad editing. Worse dialog. It’s a so-bad-it’s-a gut-busting-funny flick.
De Mille’s Ten Commandments is another one. The mid-50s epic is creakily funny now, but it was a remake of a silent version I rented on video. Blechhhh. No wonder he had to do it again. He had to repair his reputation. Interesting two-color scene in it, though; might have been Technicolor stretching its legs. Many of the shots in the second version are duplicates of shots in the first. He did it before that Psycho clone, and he did it to himself.
Gotta agree, Plan 9 is the absolutest worstest. It’s even worser than Birth of a Nation, and that’s saying plenty. Emote THIS, D.W. Griffith.
The original Rocky is a classic great boxing movie. Anyone who even says it is bad knows nothing. And having read the thread, you guys don’t get out much.
I’ve seen that Plan 9 from Outer Space is listed by a few folks, and it is pretty bad.
However… The Horror at Party Beach is even worse. Plan 9 is just incoherent weirdness. Horror is a straightforward plot with every rotton cliche and plot device imaginable.
HAHAHAHAHAHA… [bitter laughter fills the night air]
Fools… you have not seen a movie more horrible than “The PageMaster”! I have yet to hear word in ANY language filthy and evil enough to describe that… thing. No movie, not even “Attack of the Killer Tomatoes” even comes close to equaling the pure AWFULNESS of that wretched excuse for a film.
That would be The Last Man on Earth (1964). Yep, nobody makes atrociously bad horror movies like the Italians. Not even the Americans. And THAT’S saying something.
Gimme a friggin’ break. Not even the critics who despise its racial hatred message think that it’s a bad film. It was groundbreaking on so many levels, even more so than Citizen Kane.
Even DW himself was flabbergasted by everyone calling him and his film a bigoted effort. While the film was racist, I believe DW wasn’t. He tried to clear his name with his next film, Intolerance. Of course, that one was an utter box office failure.
Starship Troopers
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again - this movie was so illogical and stupid it made me wish I had just stared at the wall for two hours instead. Also, nothing is resolved at the end, and a psychic Doogie Houser shows up to tell us that the giant bugs from outer space are afraid. Great! Exuse me while I go vomit.
“Zardoz” was incomprehensible.
I think my brain went into automatic shutdown mode after Sean Connery appeared, in an extraterrestrial… diaper. :eek:
Nothing else registered after the sheer ugliness after that image!
Did anyone else think that if the Nazis had won World War II, Starship Troopers would be their recruitment film?
I maintain that Starship Troopers was a joke. Literally. Verhoven may not have intended it that way, but the movie made me laugh.
- An asteroid crashes into a major city, wiping it off the face of the planet… with absolutely no ill effects anywhere else on earth.
- This asteroid was supposedly aimed at said city from halfway across the galaxy… and lands bang on target.
- Humanity has built a ring around the moon for planetary defense. Brilliant.
- Humans invade a planet full of carnivorous bugs the size of trucks with thousands of riflemen. No tanks, no orbital bombardment, no heavier weapons (with one very silly exception, see below).
- Troopers use nuclear weapons on several Bugs of Unusual Size and then charge into the freshly radiated area. Hope their state-provided insurance covers Leukemia(sp?).
- Troopers run in abject terror after seeing two men die.
- Assault rifles which get more and more destructive with every battle. By the end, three men shred dozens of the same bugs entire squads could barely scratch at the beginning.
- and my very favorite… amongst the most atrocious plot devices in cinema history… (drumroll please)
An infantry unit secures an alien world and celebrates by having a high school dance, just so a corporal can hook up with his squad leader in the most gratuitous fashion possible (without getting an X rating, of course)
Am I the only person who thought this movie was funny?
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Also, I feel it is my duty to urge anyone who hasn’t read the very excellent book Starship Troopers to do so. Thank you.
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Starship Troopers is worse even than Speed, and Speed is awful. A GM “New Look” diesel bus with a gas tank, and no one unplugs the runaway electric train. Awful, awful, awful.
But Starship Troopers took a classic Heinlein and turned it into a compost heap. Here are all those “troopers” who try to kill insects with rifles. I could have wiped out the planet with a can of Raid.
Battlefield Earth
Bats
The Omega Code wait a second, that wasn’t a real movie…
Wild Wild West… stupid movie almost ruined Will Smith’s career…
That’s all I can think of now…
Hi All! I would have to agree,Mission:Impossible and Wild Wild West were not as god as they should have been,but far
worse I think were My Favorite Martian and Josie and the Pussycats,but I have to put my money on the The Blob!!!
Rich from Seattle
The truly awful movies are low profiles ones I didn’t see. When I respond to a list like this, I think of the movies that I went to that were supposed to be good, but I didn’t like. Such as Traffic, Heat, and Pulp Fiction.
I think Star Wars was mentioned on this list, one of the most successful films ever.
I walked out of AI - I found it nauseating. Other bad movies… hmmm. I saw Americas Sweethearts in the theatre - awful. I kind of enjoyed the goofiness of Starship Poopers though - you just had to turn your brain off and watch the slime fly. It reminded me of some of the old Arnie movies like Commando where our hero runs acros a field firing his machine gun at a load of commies (or something) hidden in the trees on the perimeter and takes them all out, they obviously cannot hit Arnie, for all of his beef.
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So far in the future that…everybody walks! (“Hmmm, maybe some jeeps next time Mr. Rico.”
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Pack the starships in soooper close so they can run into each other.
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Doogie Howser, SS
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Hand grenades the size of malt liquor bottles
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Bad “Zulu” imitation by the bugs.
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Armor that couldn’t even protect the soldiers from their own weapons at extreme range.
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Gee, maybe its just me, but wasn’t Rico supposed to be just a little bit latino? Myabe I read to much into the name.
I liked the computer animated cartoon series (ROughnecks) though…it had its logic flaws too, but nowhere near as egragarious and I didn’t pay to watch it.)
I’ve just had a quick glance through this thread, but I can’t see this anywhere COYOTE UGLY!. God, this is not just bad, I actually felt myself blushing while watching this (and I was there was only me and my girlfriend watching). Of course it goes without saying, she absolutely loved it. [sub]chickflick, chickflick[/sub]