The Master doesn’t approve of such viewing habits.
Go to Metafilter.com and do a search sorting by lowest scores. Here are a few choice picks from The Cat in the Hat:
“A vulgar, uninspired lump of poisoned eye candy.”
-NYTimes
“The movie is crass and vulgar almost beyond belief.”
-Salon.com
“If the producers had dug up Ted Geisel’s body and hung it from a tree, they couldn’t have desecrated the man more.”
-Boston Globe
“An abomination, impure and simple.”
-Wall Street Journal.
“The producers may as well have skipped the hassle of securing licensing rights and simply called this mess Mike Myers: Asshole in Fur.”
-Dallas Observer
Now thats what I call criticism
Oh my God, that’s the funniest bad movie ever. I recommend it to everyone. Alcohol and funny friends must be involved.
Anyway, I think that some of the worst movies out there are the ones that were expected to be big but became major jokes when they flopped. It would be really, really hard to talk me into watching Gigli. There’s a big difference between a low budget USA Up All Night campfest that pretty much knows it’s bad and a multimillion dollar motion picture featuring A-list Hollywood stars that thinks it’s awesome but really sucks donkey nads.
Okay, the worst movie ever is Fearless Frank, starring Jon Voight. It has a character named “Plethora.” It’s really awful.
But for somebody out there it’s their favorite movie.
Note that even on IMdB, the “worst movie ever” is Manos the Hands of Fate (well, I think that was it), and yet there are people who loved it.
The movie I most hated sitting through but sat through anyway was Mr. Holland’s Opus (Fearless Frank was at least campy and those were the sensimilla days) but other people in the audience, including the friend I saw it with, liked it just fine. I thought American Beauty was pretentious but redeemed, somewhat, by the ending, even though it was kind of a manipulative ending. Grand Canyon got the worst possible rating from both local papers when it came out, and even though they were both usually pretty much on the same page as I am, I loved that movie.
Movies, unlike television (or at least, most television), rely not just on what the screenwriter, director, and actors bring to the screen, but what the individual members of the audience bring to the theater. As MST3K proves, you can actually have a good time watching a bad movie, and a not so good time watching a good one.
Batman and Robin is the worst movie ever made. This is an objective fact.