Nominations for music, movies, and scripted TV we can all concur is irredeemable shit.
This could just as difficult as the others. “Worst films ever” are typically things like “Plan 9 from Outer Space” or “The Room,” but even those have their fans.
Birth of a Nation?
Ladyballers?
My first thought was Manos: The Hands of Fate, but I love the MST3K version.
Battlefield: Earth (movie). Worst movie I’ve ever seen, not in a good way at all.
I’ve told this story about Battlefield: Earth before, but it bears repeating.
I traveled for business and an associate in the remote office insisted that I stay at his house for the few days I was in town. The very first night, they wanted to show off their new surround sound system, which was, quite frankly, a fairly cheap and low-quality system. To showcase it, they chose Battlefield: Earth. That evening seemed interminable, but I gritted my teeth and thanked my hosts for the “experience.” Next evening, they said, “Hey, you liked it and we enjoyed it, so let’s watch it again tonight!” The next afternoon, I had packed up and was waiting for a ride to the airport…and they watched it AGAIN while I was waiting.
I’ve never recovered.
I’ve read enough about The Brown Bunny. I walked out of Turbulence and actually got my money back. I didn’t walk out of The Avengers (the TV show film, not the MCU) and I should have.
But after all that…The Star Wars Holiday Special reigns as the absolute worst.
Were they Scientologists?
Birdemic: Shock And Terror and the sequels. Worse than The Star Wars Holiday Special or Plan 9 From Outer Space.
I watched part of the movie adaptation of Atlas Shrugged once. Watching it was less horrifying than trying to read it, but I still don’t recommend it.
Strangely, no, they weren’t. But they had a good-for-nothing son who lived in their basement with his common-law wife. (No judgment here, just fact.) I think he was the one in the family with the lofty artistic tastes.
Every reference I’ve ever seen to the long-running British soap opera Crossroads appears to agree that it was a completely shambolic amateurish heap of nonsense:
Yes, Crossroads seems to have been a very popular show, but even its fans seem to have been aware that by any reasonable standard of production quality, it was terrible.
Purple People Eater. Just because a movie is made for kids doesn’t mean there is no point in making ut well-written.
Miracle Beach
I guess somebody might actually like Theodore Rex
Yoko Ono’s music comes to mind.
I nominate Small Wonder for TV.
I had the misfortune to be in a job where during the breaktime the breakroom TV had on a sitcom called Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, and so I saw a few episodes. I’m sure nobody outside the UK has even heard of it, but that was the biggest laugh-suck “comedy” I ever saw
Shouldn’t ‘music’ be in quotation marks?
For music: Achy Breaky Heart? (though I have a dear friend for whom the song is a guilty pleasure…)