Duck kiss? I do not recall a messy duck kiss in Howard the Duck. I do recall duck boobies.
I happen to be a big fan of what is largely considered to be the worst movie ever made: Plan 9 From Outer Space. I’ve seen others, but this one struck me odd as not being on here yet.
Yeah, but that doesn’t really count. I mean, everybody knows it’s the worst movie ever made, with the possible exception of Manos, Hands of Fate. This is more about movies that were, you know, serious. Somebody thought they’d be big successful movies but failed to realize their fundamental flaws. I don’t think anybody ever thought Plan 9 would be a big box office success.
Me also…
TWICE!!!
Plan 9’s not really a “bomb” as I’m familiar with the term. That usually means a movie that loses a ton of money, or was critically reviled. Everybody who knew of Ed Wood knew he made no-budget crap, so it couldn’t really lose money or disappoint; it’s just sort of the Ed Wood movie. Now, if Steven Spielberg made Plan 9 for $100 million, that’d be different. 
Well, I saw Sky Captain in the theater, which I liked.
I also saw Monkeybone. And it wasn’t exactly the nicest of theaters, either.
What can I say…it had the same director as Nightmare Before Christmas, and Rose McGowan as a catgirl.
It still doesn’t make the hurting stop. Or the shame.
On the plus side, it had some nice surf-rock by Lisa Zane. And Edgar Allan Poe’s real-life great-nephew.
And Rose McGowan looked good, damnit.
I’m still think it was financed by that last postal increase. 
:dubious:
Okay, time for a serious listing.
Babe: Pig in the City Didn’t mind it. Battlefield Earth Oddly compelling. Got stoned with friends and we ended up watching it three times in a row. It’s amazing how there is not a single shot that isn’t at a canted angle. The Chronicles of Riddick Watched it in India for thirty cents. It made me embarrassed of my culture and country. Riddick is the least compelling protagonist in the history of film. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within Painful. Soulless. I called that the black guy would die first immediately. He did. Try it one day. It nearly always works, unless there is a gay around, in which case the death will be tragic. Heaven’s Gate I hate movies that are too pretty, and this was. I especially like that the “true story” of the great moral conflict depicted was actually a minor skirmish where a few harsh words were thrown in a city council hall. The book about the movie was fascinating though. Intolerable Cruelty Snuck in to it. Wasn’t worth the minor humiliation of getting kicked out of the theater. It made me sad that my beloved Coen bros would fail so greatly. And it was almost a good plot idea kind of. A romantic comedy between two utterly horrible people. But no, not even a hint of humor, romance, interst or anything. Jersey Girl Saw it on a snowy VHS copy on a bus in Honduras. Worse than I could have imagined. Possibly the lamest movie ever made. Another one of those “ashamed of my country” incidents. The Manchurian Candidate I fell asleep, but my friends say it was a really interesting take on the original and worth watching. Showgirls One of the most masterful movies ever made. My favorite underdog along with Death to Smoochie. Brilliant. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow Oh god the dreck. The lines seem like the were written by someone in a verbal full body cast. I wanted to slap the exceedingly lame plot device…errr…camera…out of the ditzes hand. Heck, I just wanted to slap everyone. Not even saccharine nostalgia, this movie is a parody of the very idea of making a decent movie. Bonus points for spitting on the grave of the dead. The Stepford Wives Watched on an airplane. Completely pointless. It lacked the edge of satire that original had, and replaced it with pulsing blandness. Thirteen Days Whats this doing here? This was a great movie.
How did Mystery Men sneak in there? That was a fucking great movie: it’s worth the money just for the casting scene where they try to recruit a new member…
{Very angry woman in blood-red costume} I’m PMT Woman and I can only work four days a month! IS THERE A PROBLEM WITH THAT!?
{MM, in meek unison} No. No. Absolutely not. Not at all. None whatsoever etc
Please spare yourself the pain of trying to sit through this if you liked the book. I loved the book, and even though I am pretty forgiving when it comes to adaptations (I actually liked Bonfire of the Vanities, but I can only like it by realizing that it has almost nothing to do with the book - they are two completely different entities), this movie it just crap. I have tried to watch it three times - once on a Netflix rental, then two more attempts on HBO - and I simply can’t get through it. Horribly boring, pointless film.
Oh, and Case Sensitive, I think you mean PMS Woman…
What’s Sky Captain doing in this thread? I enjoyed the hell out of that movie, which I saw on the big screen. Excellent popcorn entertainment.
Probably not so much that it was “bad,” just “unprofitable.” (Like if, say, if they’d spent $200 mil to make Sleepless in Seattle, or something.)
See even sven’s comments a couple of posts upthread.
Ich Auch: saw and liked.
Yep, along with others: Waterworld, Ishtar, Body Double (I don’t know if it is infamous, but the DJ’s that gave away the free tickets actually apologized on the way out of the theatre). Probably others I’ve put out of my mind.
Ishtar - saw on video and liked it. I laughed quite a lot.
Xanadu - saw it at the theatre in my early teens. Started laughing hysterically at the animated fish bit. Nearly had to leave the theatre.
Showgirls - saw part of it on TBS. Thought they’d probably cut quite a bit out. Certainly wasn’t impressed enough to watch the full length version, and figured as a women not part of the target market to begin with.
Highlander II - saw it a couple of years ago, and my thought through the entire thing could be summed up as WTF?!.
Haven’t seen the others name above, except for Mystery Men, which I wouldn’t add to the list.
Though it’s not on the same scale, for pure awfulness, I’d add *Serial Mom *, which I walked out on to the list.
Not sure if it was “big” enough to be a bomb, but my first date at 12 was an atrocious Richard Pryor vehicle called Dynamite Chicken .
May he rest in peace.
Flipping through cable a couple weeks ago and came across “House of the Dead”. Wow! I managed to watch all of 30 seconds of the gun battle before having to turn the movie off. A group of people standing around shooting guns while the splice in video clips from the video game. ouch. my eyes.
Was **Drop Dead Fred ** successful enough to be a bomb?
Wait, I kind of liked that movie.
I paid to see **Breaker! Breaker! ** with Chuck Norris in a real movie theater. Not the theaters we have now. See kids, way back when, theaters had one BIG screen and sometimes a balcony. And they had only one movie at a time. These theaters were HUGE and sat hundreds of people.
And there my brother and I sat. The two of us. Alone in a theater with 4 other losers. Sure we were kids and hey, CB radio movies were the rage… but what a stinkeroo.
I have to admit a strange attachment to this movie. Every time I stumble onto this thing on cable, I stop to watch 10 minutes. It’s like staring at a car accident with a bunch of mangled metal. You can’t believe it, you know it’s bad and people got hurt, but you can’t turn your head either.
My brother and I still laugh about it, so I guess it was worth the money.
A close runner-up in the genre is Convoy, starring Chris Christopherson.
Another bad movie that I was an extra in (yes, you can see me if you look closely in the crowd! about .25 seconds) is Sudden Death, staring that star among stars, Jean-Claude Van Damme (De Camp). This movie is just bad. Although there *is * a scene where the Penguin mascot “Igloo” gets shredded, throwing foam and beak bits all over the place. Still cracks me up.
I’ve noticed that both my selections star martial art guys. That’s not on purpose. As a rule, I don’t really enjoy martial arts movies anyway, so maybe I’m biased.
However, I love naked women as much as any heterosexual man, and I still couldn’t get through Showgirls. How could someone possibly make a movie so bad as to make straight men walk out of a cheap boobie-flick? I can’t even watch it for free on HBO.