Hysterically Awful Movies (spoilers)

Congo
Chopping Mall - tagline: “There’s more than prices getting slashed!”
the Butterfly Effect
Striptease
Sisters - early Brian DePalma ripoff-of-Hitchcock work “starring” Margo Kidder.

Oh, but I LOVED Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. And, the producers knew it was cheese. I think that’s why it’s a cult favorite.

My biggest disappointment was the endings of two third of the Mariachi series, Once Upon a Time in Mexico. Great googly moogly, did it suck. It reached levels of suckitude previously unknown to man. And Spy Kids, 3D, the ending just had me rolling. Of all the times to stick in a silly moral platitude. It was just sooo… fake. Everyone in the theater was giving me offended looks, I was laughing that hard.

GAH!!

  • My biggest disappointment was the endings of two …* Roberto Rodriguez movies, DAMMIT!!

I’ve got you beat. I actually payed first run price to see American Cyborg, an attempt to do a Terminator type thing with the robot as a hero. Obviously this came out shortly after T2. It was horrible. The best quote from the movie was the MST3K comment from someone in the audience. (Yes, there were four of us. Two groups of two, calling out snide comments left and right.)

I was going to. I just watched the MST3K version the other night. It’s astounding how horrible a movie can actually be. Plan 9 is an academy award winner compared to this. I like how the mads (separately) apologized to Joel and the 'bots for going a little overboard on their movie choice.

One crack during the ending credits had me howling because it was the exact thing I was thinking at that point.“A crew?! They had a crew?!?!”

I was describing this horrible monstrosity of a film to one of my friends. He thought for a moment, then said that he seemed to have a vague memory of having heard the title. After some probing, he realized that as an 8 year-old boy, he’d actually been present on the set! In his cinematic innocence, he had no idea that the movie was legendary for its incomprehensible badness.

Just to make sure he wasn’t pulling my chain, I did some checking. Turns out he wasn’t kidding. It was filmed at his grandfather’s ranch house. :eek:

Route 666. Or almost anything else featuring Lou Diamond Philips.

What?
No Starship Trooper?

Without a doubt, one of the worst movies of all time is The Terror of Tiny Town.

What can one say about a singing cowboy movie with an all dwarf cast?

I guess one can say that the alleged “humour” of watching dwarfs (for those benighted souls who find odd-looking people funny) is that they are small. Now, if everyone in your movie is a dwarf, and all the sets are dwarf-sized, they don’t look small - just odd.

So what you get is a singing cowboy movie cast with odd-looking non-actors. Dreadful beyond belief. :eek:

The best part of *The Terror of Tiny Town * is that everyone rides a hsetland pony and the film is sped up to make it look like they’re riding faster. That movie is a hoot!

Evil woman. I had managed to block it from my memory.

I think you’re assuming the worst there. Sure, some who have seen the movie are the type who enjoy sideshows but one could also say that some who’ve seen Bugsy Malone did so because they like watching children, if you get my drift.

Yor, Hunter From The Future

He’s… THE MAN!!! (the man hang-gliding from the body of the dead pterodactyl, that is)

If you can come up with an explaination for an all-dwarf musical western other than “dwarfs are funny”, I’d like to hear it! :smiley:

Sorry to Hijack, but has Christopher Lambert been in a good film? Highlander was kinda ok, and everything else I’ve seen him in has been just horrible. He’s not that bad of an actor, does his agent hate him? Did he sell his soul to the wrong devil?

Really?! Yes! I adore this film! The writers claim that they deliberately wrote as OTT as possible, but told the actors to play it straight. (no idea if that’s true, or the spin put on it).

Bloody funny, funny film.

This POS was made under the eye of the great weirdo Howard Hughes…and directed by Dick Powell. It stars John Wayne as Ghengis Khan, uttering such immortal lines as “the woman, she is like the second pressing of the grape”-whatever that means!
I was always interested in seeing this movie, because Hughes forbade it to be shown while he was alive (I guess he was really embarrassed!). Anyway, AMC has been showing it incessantly! Anybody know why?
It was really a piece of dreck…but anybody know who played the treacherous sorceror/magician? I could swear it was Anthony Quinn!
Oh, and I should add, the film was made in the Nevada desert, during the time the US Army was conduction A-Bomb tests…leading to speculation that the radaiation caused most of the cast to die of cancer! :confused:

Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure that notion figured into it but the main reason was the novelty. This was supposed to be the first in a series of such films but it didn’t go anywhere - which is probably a good thing.

Dang, I was gonna nominate Manos. Bad acting, bad directing, bad lighting, bad script, bad costumes, bad sets…I’m pretty sure they even had bad catering.

In lieu of Manos, I nominate Prince of Space. It has everything: laughable script, bad dubbes acting, and chicken men with saggy areas.

The only bad non-MST3K movie I’ve seen worth mentioning is Suburban Commando starring Mr. Terry “Hulk” Hogan.

If anyone is going to nominate a musical that helped kill movie musicals, I’m going to suggest Can’t Stop the Music! with the Village People, Valerie Perrine, Bruce Jenner and Steve Gutenberg.

Disco was already dying by the time the movie came out, the Village People couldn’t act, the trio of Guttenberg, Jenner and Perrine gave the performance you feared they would and the whole thing ended with an out-of-place although not out-of-character gay liberation anthem.

And if you’re lucky and you watch closely during the YMCA number, you’ll get to see naughty bits!