While listening to the radio recently (Okay, it was Definitely Not the Opera, for you CBC fans) I heard the host say, “we’ll be looking at the latest Jack the Ripper movie adaptation, ‘From Hell.’” Of course, I heard it as “movie adaptation from hell.” Seems like we could have a lot of fun with this one.
My vote… Independence day!
Yarrrrgh! It was everything that is wrong with Hollywood plus.
The movie from hell? For me, it was the Led Zeppelin monstrosity The Song Remains the Same. I kinda like LZ’s music, but the movie was just painful - alternating between soft-focus fantasy sequences and twenty-minute guitar solos. I was forced to watch it in its entirety while I was a houseguest of a stone-faced Led Zeppelin fan.
Gawd! Just about any ‘disaster’ film (i.e. The Towering Inferno, The Poseidon Adventure, ad infinitum, ad nauseum). The more ‘big name’ stars, the worse the show.
Although, when i think about it, a lot of really bad movies somehow ended up being ‘camp’ later. Hmmmm…
Another thing that really burns my crackers is taking a perfect movie and remaking it for TV. I am speaking specifically of Casablanca. David Soul as ‘Rick’? It’s enough to put you off your feed!
Dislike him? I wouldn’t piss down his throat if his heart were on fire!
Comes in two varietys: the inept, which title simply must belong to Plan 9 from Outer Space.
Then theres movies with solid professionals, plenty of money to spend, and still god-awful! Personal fave: The Quick and the Dead, followed closely by At Long Last Love. Dishonorable mention: Hudson Hawk
The Sony version of Godzilla. It takes a special kind of stupidity to f*ck up a Godzilla movie…
Well Said rjung
The only good thing “Jean Reno’s Elvis impression”
I would say Episode 1
“The only way it would have survived the hype was that if Jesus walked off the screen and up the aisle of every showing.” Direct quote from my friend and what best sums up the movie
Jake Lloyd is the freakin Scrappy Doo of Sci Fi now. Look for him soon at your local washed up ex celeb autograph convention at a Holiday Inn near you.
Spineless, brainless, sawed off, rotten little whiny ass yuppie larva.
Hell Corky from Life goes on could have been better.
Can you tell I dont like him?
MONKEYBONES – what a waste of good talent!
Steve Biodrowski
http://www.thescriptanalyst.com
Has there ever been a movie as bad as Robo C.H.I.C.?
That is the funniest movie of all time–all those hideous scenes where they’re climbing mountains with their children or riding motorcycles. I love it when those super-crappy 70s video effects are used–the double image, or the flames on the sides of the screen. Man, it’s terrible.
I’ve said it before and I’m sure many will agree with me, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Blasphemy, I tell you, pure and simple.
Haj
I always thought the Mr. Bean movie was awful. It took the essence of what made the TV series funny–the nigh-silent sight gags and buffoonery–and made it into a long, drawn-out locus of idiocy. Bean’s a bold and stupid man, sure, but every other character around him had to made even more stupid in order to make his actions plausible and allowable.
I admit it, I couldn’t even watch it all. My wife and I got about a third of the way through, wrinkled our noses at each other, and decided it was a true stinkburger and a waste of time.
And we love Rowan Atkinson’s work.
Hey, a guy I know from another board was actually in this movie. The inimitable peter johnson. He was supposed to send me a copy, but hasn’t done so yet.
That website:
badmovies.org
And a review:
RoboC.H.I.C.
I hated Sweet November…
HATE!
It was the worst movie I’ve seen this year.
Except for It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
One of the best IMHO. 
Worse movie of all time was the original Fantasia by Walt Disney. Just ask anyone who was alive then.
Sweet November blew chunks. It was hideous. The entire premise of the movie was dumb, and that Keanu Reeves, the dumbest man alive, played a lead role did not help.
It wasn’t even the major premise of the movie so much as we’re supposed to believe that as she is dying of cancer, Charlize Theron finds a different guy to fuck for a month, every month, to somehow make him some sort of reformed hippie, earth-eating freak who truly understands the meaning of life and love and all that bullshit. I mean, Charlize is beautiful, but who does that?
And had they hired a corpse with animatronics to play opposite her, I think the same amount of emotion would have been conveyed.
I watched it at a friends house, and I didn’t know she had her alarm clock set 45 minutes ahead. After an eternity of this crap (and it felt like we were only 10 minutes into the horribly slow-moving plot), I looked at the clock and saw that it was 2 hours and 15 minutes later. I totally wigged out. “I can’t watch this anymore! God! I can’t do this! Please turn it off, Susann! Please don’t make me watch this anymore!”
I never even saw the end of it.
Pink Flamingos
I thought I could watch anything before watching that. One day I’m going to force myself to sit through that entire movie just for kicks. I played it for my conservative mother and I had to restrain her from throwing the tape out the window.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, the worst movie ever made:
“Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean.”
Robert Altman directs Cher, Karen Black, and Sandy Dennis.