We do not speak ill of TRON.
I think Sex and the City 2 was one of the more painful experiences of my life. It’s the kind of movie entitled first-world-problem people watch to feel like they’ve really struggled through life.
Howard the Duck was also pretty horrible, but at least it had the benefit of being inappropriate and bizarre.
The movies you list would appear to violate this provision of the OP:
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In any case, it doesn’t make much sense to list movies that are just pure trash and would never be seen in most daily experiences. For example, there was one old horror movie starring Paris Hilton that was really terrible. But almost no one ever saw it. So, what’s the point of listing it? I’m hoping people will list movies here they have seen or have heard about that proved to be real stinkers.
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Well,heck, I saw them without going to special effort. A lot of these were just running on the TV. The only two that were obscure to the point of having to search them out special were Terror in the Tropics and Star Crystal.
What a dark and disturbing movie that was, like Christophe Gans directed a Chevy Chase Vacation movie. The funny couldn’t break through the nightmare.
I had the impression that I don’t watch many movies that I hate but a look at my ratings on IMDB shows,down the bottom among the 3,000 I have rated:
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
Screw Loose
Sharknado
Best Defense
The Mad Bomber
Rocky V
Showgirls
Liquid Bridge
There are dozens more that I have obviously wiped from my memory that I have rated very poorly.
No one’s mentioned The Postman yet? That certainly deserves consideration. It’s not as bad as Battlefield Earth, though.
Another one that could be considered for worst ever is Superman Returns from 2006. It’s hard to imagine a movie being more effective at shitting all over the Superman franchise than that mess.
Superman as a deadbeat dad.
I have seen both* Bulletproof Monk* and Lassie, though not back to back, of course. I am invulnerable.
I thought “Sharknado” was hilarious. Living in Tornado Alley, it was so incredibly, deliberately bad.
Supernova… the only movie I have EVER walked out on after paying money and my nomination for the single WORST Science Fiction movie of modern times.
Okay. I decided to look the movies up that I mentioned earlier. The first one I can remember walking out of was “The Dream Team” with Michael Keaton (I remembered that he was in it), Peter Boyle, and Christopher Lloyd (I didn’t remember that they were in it). The other one I mentioned that I couldn’t remember the name of was “Atonement” with Keira Knightly. Just not my cup of tea. But for my money I have to go with “Gladiator.” For a movie that won the Oscar for Best Picture I was just appalled at all the violence and lack of historical accuracy in it (lack of historical accuracy in a Hollywood flick - I know…my wife and I were fools to have expected much of that from that P.o.S.)
Bloodrayne.
yeah, I know I’m shooting fish in a barrel with this one but it was stunningly bad and without merit. Even the sex scene wasn’t sexy.
I thoujght Bloodrayne was redeemed by Kristanna Lokken, damn, she was hot in that movie. Otherwise, it was a generic vampire movie. Not seeing much difference between it and the Underworld movies except for art direction.
I did come up with a truly awful movie, “National Lampoon’s Awesomest Maximus,” a supposed parody of “Gladiator” and “Troy.” It was fart jokes, gay jokes, stupid jokes. There was one character who was supposed to be funny because he was a cross-eyed idiot. Literally, cross-eyed idiot, point and laugh. It sucked the funny right out of funny. Twelve year old boys of lower than average intelligence would have been embarrassed to have written that script.
I remember watching The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle and I was so disappointed.
Yes. The entire movie was terrible. But specifically, Piper Parabo was in this movie and it was such a terrible shame to waste her on this crap fest.
Spanglish
It’s one of those insufferable films in which spoiled rich white people learn a valuable lesson from the fountains of homespun wisdom that are the dark complected people who serve them. Even worse, that lesson was something vaguely like: “Don’t let a wealthy benefactor pay for your child’s education, because then she might start acting white.”
It wasn’t so bad it was good. It was just incredibly boring and dreary.
A lot of the movies on “Worst Movies of All Time” lists had very restrictive budget limitations. They spent 80,000,000 dollars to make this piece of shit suburban dramedy starring Adam Sandler and a bunch of nobodies.
I was working 2nd shift and me and my SO went to see this when I got off. Fortunately, I was tired enough to fall asleep around the halfway point. Awful…just awful
Big budget movies that should have worked, or at least not sucked so bad, but couldn’t pull it off:
**
Waterworld
Mars Attacks!
Twister
Star Trek**
A surprising choice, probably get a lot of pushback on:
The French Connection - I’ve tried twice, and I think it just doesn’t work as a movie. It SHOULD be good, but I think it lacks coherence. Or motivation. or heart. or something. I can’t quite put my finger on it, but it doesn’t seem to have any THERE there.
Honorable mention:
Silver Linings Playbook - I quit watching after 15 minutes. I hated the guy so much that I couldn’t imagine how the movie could turn it around, and I figured it wasn’t worth my time.
(It couldn’t, and it didn’t.)
…Seriously, the movie’s appeal, for those to whom it appealed, was similar to that of the similarly-lauded The Artist. For those of us who didn’t buy into the wonderfulness of identifying with the main character, the Mary-Sueness was all-pervasive, and horribly off-putting. (In my opinion the concerns of those living with bipolar disorder were not well-served by this movie, though I can understand the reaction of gratitude to a movie giving attention to those concerns, since they are usually ignored.)
What?? Matilda May made it must watch viewing and the story wasnt bad for a horror/sci fi film. Besides, it has one of the sexiest opening scenes Ive seen. The aliens are so deadly yet so hot. Id have died happy.
Allow me to be the first to push. I love The French Connection. The sequel sucked, but hey, it’s a sequel.