Hmm, I have liked about 5 of the movies already mentioned. The movie that I think really, really sucked was Bicentennial Man.
Add me to the list of those who disliked “Bicentennial Man”. Compared to the Asimov short story that inspired it, this movie is horrible. If I hadn’t already read the story, I probably would have considered the movie “eh” but not too bad. I highly recommend the short story to any interested parties.
Annihilate N*Sync and Brittney? I’m in… throw the Backstreet Bitches in there and I’ll carry the torch!!!
Mars Attacks?
The World According to Garp?
For various reasons, I loved both of them.
I do, however, have a new suggestion. This one is a killer, you will all agree with mee this time. It is the ONLY movie I ever walked out of, physically ill from all the crap acting I had witnessed over the first, say, 12 minutes. Later, I saw it on TV whilst extremely drunk.
It still sucked beyond belief.
I am, of course, talking about: THE BODYGUARD
I’ll leave you alone now. I suppose you need to throw up as bad as I need to.
What Dreams May Come
I hated that damned movie. I saw it once and refuse to ever watch it again.
The Bodyguard was truly awful. Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston had ZERO chemistry. Both of them are wooden onscreen and while with the right partner, that can be covered up (sorta), together they were awful.
The World According to Garp is a flawed movie, but I liked it. I doubt anyone not reading the book will like it, though. You have to fill in holes with what you know from the book. Kudos to the director for giving Robin Williams the Garp role–I think that was great casting.
Haven’t seen Mars Attacks, but otherwise, I agree with you.
The Blair Witch Project was inspired genuis, BTW.
Ugh yeah I heard about it…how it sounded so creepy and all.
Also- The Breakfast Club. (Okay i have a love hate relationship with this one.) Sometimes its just so obnoxiously bad, cliched characters, sort of dull…but other times I just get sucked into it and I’ll watch it whenever it comes on TV. Weird? I guess i’m sort of ambivelent towards it.
Jumangi i’ve never liked. I know, they had to add a plot onto it, b/c the book was so short. But it was so nice as a book, a bit creepy, rather fun…the movie was so in your face. That girl main character was an annoying bitch. And when the boy turns into monkey-boy. And that frigid aunt-bitch.
Oh. The nightmare before christmas. <shudder>
Can you say “parody”? Look at the “classic” monster films from the 50s. They usually had “personality-free aliens who kill for no reason at all”. This was not one of Burton’s best films. I thought it started out great and then lost steam at the end. But “worst movie of all time”? I think you just didn’t gt the joke.
Yeah, how can they get lost? Why can’t they just follow the stream? It’s almost as if something supernatural was going on! As if someone or something was thwarting their efforts to get out of the woods. As a narrative story, The Blair Witch Project didn’t really work. It relied on the audience thinking that what they were seeing was real. Since most people knew it never happened, that kind of blew the entire premise. Still, I thought the concept and technique were refreshing.
For me, for a movie to be truly aweful it has to have pretentions of being a great film. Like Magnolia and The English Patient. Magnolia was utterly predictable and I was offended when the director revealed his “twists” as if they were golden nuggets. FLASH! If the audience knows what’s coming, they’re not “twists”! As for The English Patient, yeah, yeah, we know. Die already!
I also hated The Cheap Detective.
I trust these choices require no explanation:
Highlander 2: The Quickening
Grease 2
The Ninth Gate (Although this one at least has some MST3K potential)
Event Horizon
The Thin Red line
Except for Edward Scissorhands…
Oh someone else here said it too…Dracula. (Yep, the Keanu Reeves one, with Winona Ryder, and Gary Oldman.)
My English teacher showed it to us because she needed to grade some papers that day, and we had just finished reading it.
It was one of those movies that’s so bad its funny. That scene with the “vampire-whores” seducing Jonathan…cheesey as hell. And Lucy Westenra getting screwed by the werewolf: tres bizarre. And Gary Oldman as Dracula? Umm. That was wrong. Very much so.
How anyone could fall in love with someone so selfish, so spoiled, and so mercurial is beyond me. It makes the whole movie painful for me to watch. SHUDDER
I couldn’t agree more. I feel almost unAmerican for despising this movie, but I do nonetheless. I hate it for precisely the same reason as you. Scarlett is absolutely wicked, and I feel I have become stupider for having watched her prance around and wail.
The only movie I’ve ever walked out of is “Bram Stoker’s Dracula.” Where do I begin. Keanu? Winona? Gary Oldman? No, I can’t, remembering this movie will have me laughing so hard I’ll probably wet myself.
Good God, that movie was indeed horrendous. I remember seeing bits and pieces of it a few years back, and I thought it looked really scary (I admit to being freaked out by the way his shadow lingers around). I read the book, which was EXCELLENT, so I decided to watch the movie. Pure drivel it was! What a terrible interpretation of a wonderful book! I watched it with a friend who hadn’t read the book, so we simply fast forwarded through the last hour or so. Disgusting.
Man. I can list a hundred bad movies, but I can’t think of one that I actively loathe the same way that Vyvyan from the Young Ones loathes “The Good Life” with Felicity Kendall. I suddenly miss my adolescent view of the world.
For a movie that’s not only dreck but also offensive as well, you can’t do much worse than Nickleodeon’s Snow Day. It’s a horrifyingly bad ripoff - AND they show off a 14-year-old’s nipples! Boy, that’s family entertainment!
I’m amazed nobody has yet mentioned Spice World.
Oh? how’s it offensive, i just thought of it as kind of crumby but not offensive…its one of those Nick ones.
Oh- that other Nick Movie, Harriet the Spy. I never liked that one…
Blues Brothers 2000 does not deserve to exist.
My father once brought home a rental (back in the old days, before Blockbuster) titled something like “Alaska”
It was a monotonous documentary about these men and their trip to Alaska, which they basically did nothing but huddle in an igloo. He lost rental priveledges for six months. Yes, children can do that to their father.
We never even watched the whole movie, just kept fast forwarding for the ‘good part’ that never came. But we will always remember that movie.
Otherwise, most sequels suck. Grease 2, Meatballs, Police Academies.
I’m hard-pressed for an absolute worst. Not having read all the posts, but I once had a thing for Kristie McNichols… kind of sick huh? So I liked the Pirates movie.
In French class we had to watch these movies…we all hated them righteously. The first was called Chocolat, it was about a French girl living in Africa. End of story. There was an African servant too…stuff happened…but slowly and in an excruciatingly boring way. Another one, I forget the name, was about these kids living in the West Indies. <G> I’m guessing the French aren’t known for the films?
Someone else mentioned Episode 1. I agree. That has to be the worst film I’ve seen in a couple of years. If it wasn’t for Natilie Portman, I would’ve walked out.
What I think is the absolutely worst film of all times is Natural Born Killers. I didn’t drive to it so I couldn’t even walk out. Aaaaaaarrrrrrgggh. I wish Oliver Stone would’ve been killed after making Platoon so that we could’ve been spared this crap. Dammit, now I’m pissed thinking off thinking about it.
Answer me this, then: why is it that no one has mentioned Eddie Murphy’s “The Nutty Professor”? It is the quintessential definition of puerile offal. I suppose, to answer my own question, that it’s really too self-evident to need mentioning.