Doomed Love.
Combining the worst of college film-student writing with the worst of community-theater acting. The dialog actually makes Manos look competent. I couldn’t act that badly if I tried.
If you actually want to see it, it’s available in Twilight’s cult movie collection, the same one that released The Brother From Another Planet and Forbidden Zone.
–sublight.
I don’t understand why they didn’t have Austin Powers 2: The Spy Who Shagged Me. THAT was a horrible movie.
This question creeps up every couple of months and I am always compelled to submit Grease 2 as the absolute all-time worst.
Not only was it a horrible, horrible idea to begin with, the movie starts out bad (as in really bad) and then, amazingly, continues to get worse and increasingly more stupid.
You know, despite that, whenever it is shown on TBS/TNT I always find myself watching it with utter fascination. Go figure.
astorian is dead-on here. I’ve seen Titanic. It may not be good. Loads of people have the right not to like it, just as teenaged girls have the same right to love it. But it is not The Worst Movie Of All Time. It has a redeeming quality…look for it. As do maybe even most of the films in the OP’s list. [sub]Well, maybe not Grease 2…[/sub]
But, since we’re listing things… 
My vote goes to Prometheus, a 1998 film by poet/playwright Tony Harrison. Has anyone else seen this film?? It’s a 2-hour-plus road trip of a 30-foot gold statue of Prometheus…all in rhyming couplets…ahh, the agony!!
The list is missing The Man in the Iron Mask, a movie with a great cast and the plot of a 6th grader’s book report on the novel.
I think that the list on The Stinkers is based largely on the personal biases of the site’s owners rather than really representing the all-time worst in film. I visit that site fairly often, and the hatred they have for The Blair Witch Project is just ridiculous. For cryin out loud, even Mr. Cranky, the one film critic I trust, kinda liked TBWP. And he hates everything! He did, however, hate Blair Witch 2 so much that he added a new basement to his ratings scale, which I believe it deserved (the rating was first called “An abomination of human endeavor”, was later changed to “Proof that Jesus died in vain”, and now sits at “A festering wound in the anus of cinema”.)
Oh. Excuse me while I hide bundle into the fetal position in shame. :eek:
I will admit, for the whole world to see, that I liked Blair Witch Project.
The worse movie ever? I don’t know. The worse movie I have ever seen? Hmmmm, any “Teen” movie made in the 90s.
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I will second the nomination of Forrest Gump. Mine would be Rudy. I hoped against hope it would end with Rudy twisted and broken on the football field.
American Psycho and Eye of the Beholder come to mind.
They left out “Santa with Muscles”.
Perhaps the most horrid movie ever made. “These crystals explode if you drop them!”
Of course, at the end, there’s a fight scene where the crystals are used as swords. And the orphanage is obviously a hollow set.
The two worst ever are Weekend at Bernie’s II (on the list) and Repo Man (not).
If you’ve not seen them, I urge you not too. Not even to say you’ve seen them. They are SOOOO bad.
**WTH!?!?!?!?! **
Hudson Hawk is on the list?!?!?!
It’s a FANTASTIC whimsical comedy!!! And even if you didn’t like it you could harldy label it as one of the worst ever!!!
sheesh
Philistines!!!
todaystomsawyer said
Watched Eye of the Beholder last night on video. What a crock of shit. Plot? Nah. Believability? 2 x Nah. Ewan McGregor? Don’t go there. Wooden doesn’t even start to describe the miserable non-performance he puts in. And the whole thing tries to come across as some deep, meaningful … something. It fails. On every level. It says something when the characters and plot are overshadowed by the wigs.
Sheesh.
But disregarding for the time being the “experience” the movie has become, have you ever watched “Rocky Horror Picture Show” strictly as a film? It’s really pretty bad.
If you want to know about BAD movies, this is the definitive source.
My vote for worst movie goes to anything with Jean Claud Van Damm. Thankfully, I can remember none of the specifics of his movies, only the pain in watching him feign concern, anger, contempt, and other painfully forced emotions.
I can’t believe noone here has commented on a little gem of a movie I see on cable quite a bit. Screamers. It’s one of those movies that takes a little bit of plot from about ten different movies and mixes it all together into a big mess. Truly a bad film
Well, it’s bad, but it’s bad in an “it’s supposed to be bad sort of way.” And the soundtrack is often inspired, which right away disqualifies it from a “worst of” ranking.
I was going to start a separate thread lambasting the movie Spawn but I might as well do it here. When it came out, the movie garnered some raves for its special effects and was panned for its plot. I love cheesy fantasy flicks with good special effects so I always wanted to see it, but somehow it never made it past my “should I rent it?” threshold in the video store. Well, it ran on TV the other night and I’m thankful I never paid to watch it. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen more inept movie making in a relatively big budget movie.
Let's see...first of all, they give away the entire plot in a voice over in the first scene of the movie. Although plot is an extremely strong word for the disjointed series of cliched scenes that follow. In fact, the plot makes so little sense that the Clown character has to continually insert pointless asides to the viewer to remind them why he's doing whatever pointless action that he's doing. (e.g. "This will enrage him so much that he'll do such and such stupid thing.")
Another instance, hilarious in its stupidity... The plot of the movie, such as it is, is to have Spawn begin the war against heaven by releasing deadly biological agents that will wipe out human life on Earth. The forces of hell want this to happen by having Spawn kill the person who originally killed him. So somehow they convince this idiot to have a pacemaker implanted such that if he dies and his heart stops beating, the toxic agents will be released. Just in case the audience has lost track (and they have, because this makes no sense whatsoever), the doctor doing the operation says, in effect, "We've now implanted the pacemaker. If you die, the virus will be released. Now no one will dare kill you." OK, is the doctor perhaps the stupidest person who ever lived? What if the guy gets hit by a bus?
The movie was trying to establish the mythos of the doomed soul who struggles to retain his humanity against the allure of the powers of hell and the lust for revenge. In other words, the same plot that was done reasonably well in the Crow and very well in the short-lived TV show Brimstone. Here, it's this weird tacked on vestige of a better movie.
Example: The protagonist is on a pedestal in front of the lord of hell and all his minions. The demon says “Serve me, act as my servant and destroy the armies of heaven and destroy the entire earth and I’ll let you see your wife, Wanda, again.” Spawn essentially shrugs and says “Sounds good to me.” Real mythos building.
But the reviews were right – some of the specials effects were cool…