Manos is a definite contender for worst-ever, but out of the MST3K movies I’ve seen, Red Zone Cuba was the absolute worst.
Well, it WAS a pretty big ship. And most of us knew it was going to sink, though apparently someone my aunt worked with had never heard of it.
Of movies I actually paid to see I agree partially with Joe_Cool, Event Horizon and Godzilla (1998) were the worst. I thought Lost World and Deep Blue Sea were 2-star, sub-par movies (and I rented Sea).
Did anybody like actually like Mimic, Species 2, Virus or Deep Rising? Truly awful. You just can’t make up for a bad script with special effects. Or maybe it was just the style I didn’t like–I kinda liked Pitch Black, which wasn’t exactly Oscar material…
I stand corrected. I’ve only seen the movie once. And that was too much.
Actually, I like this one. It’s twisted. (Besides, any chance I get to see Holly Hunter naked… :D)
I still say Magnolia is the worst. I’ve seen some boring, bad, laughable, and otherwise crummy movies; but Magnolia is the only one I’ve almost walked out on. (The only reason I stayed was because I was being hired to shoot a parody of one of the scenes, and thought I should get feel for what it was like.)
This one was so bad, even Bo Derek naked couldn’t possibly overcome the pain of having to hear her try to speak some of the worst dialog ever written, or even just having to hear her speak (is there anyone who gives a better impression of empty headed?).
Besides my own incredibly low opinion, these tidbits from the IMDB are telling:
Movie critic Leonard Maltin said it was so bad, they nearly had to invent a rating worse than ‘Bomb’.
Newsday called it ‘unendurable’.
It was nominated for Razzies (a bad movie award) in the following categories:
Worst Actress - Bo Derek
Worst Actor - Richard Harris
Worst Director - John Derek
Worst New Star - Miles O’Keefe
Worst Screenplay
Worst Picture
Bo Derek won for Worst Actress.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a movie that was quite as bad.
For truly putrid acting, those two pointless and inane Brooke Shields vehicles Blue Lagoon and Endless Love. Models should not be allowed to act. Examples: Tanya Roberts in one of those James Bond movies, Kathy Ireland in some football movie…these women may be beautiful, but they can’t act. They can’t! Their acting was so bad, I just wanted to fling feces at the screen.
I think the worst movies are those that are supposed to be some kind of masterpiece, a truly egregious example of which is Legends of the Fall. I was dragged to this movie by some friends who LOVED Brad Pitt. This movie contained every single freaking cliche ever spawned - the naive idealistic youngest brother, the straight-laced uptight elder brother, the rebellious free spirit brother who affects a ponytail (Brad) and how they vie for their father’s love and approval. The death of the idealist. The around-the-world voyage/quest made by the free spirit brother in which he finds himself and grows lots of facial hair. The rivalry between the uptight brother and the free spirit. How the uptight guy feels overshadowed by the free spirit and how they realize they need each other at the end. The fight over the woman (who does nothing but rock and moan the whole time, etc etc etc. But I have to admit, the scenery was pretty nice. It kept me from going insane during those interminable 2 hours.
Eyes Wide Shut is the worst movie I have recently seen. I kept waiting for something, anything, that was interesting to happen. AND IT NEVER DID!!! What a stupid, stupid movie.
I also must back up Groundhog Day and Dr. Strangelove as masterpieces in the comedy department.
Are you guys talking about bad movies? Because you really haven’t mentioned very many yet. The Stoned Age, Where the Heart Is, Cherry 2000, Hell Comes to Frogtown, (and Return to Frogtown), and the one that outranks them all, The Beerdrinker’s Guide to Fitness and Filmmaking, a “film” that will have you rueing the day you developed eyesight.
Highlander II sucked. (The first one is still one of my favorites.)
This is not a ‘lauded’ film, but… The Honeymoon Killers is apparently used celluloid toilet paper. It was not meant to be viewed – someone forgot to flush. While in college, some of my buddies came over to my place to watch it – I still get rude comments about it (ten years later), and I didn’t pick the movie out, it was just my apartment. It wasn’t my fault.
I said 2001 was overrated, not Kubrick, though he is. (“Underappreciated”? Are you kidding?) He certainly made some great films – Dr. Strangelove, A Clockwork Orange – but also some mediocre ones (The Shining, Barry Lyndon). Not really bad, and visually interesting, but badly flawed. 2001 suffers because Kubrick painted himself into a corner and had to wimp out on the ending because he had no clue about what to do. It’s the sort of pretentious meaninglessness that impresses some people.
I do like it, and so did most people who reviewed the movie and not its price tag. It was a nice light comedy, with at least one scene – the arms auction – as good as any bit of comedy on screen (certainly better than anything Jim Carrey has ever done, for instance). It’s sensibility was a bit dated, but it was overall a very pleasant bit of entertainment.
Groundhog Day
Not a great film, but certainly a good one.
Dune
A failure, but an honorable one. The material defeated Lynch, who tried mightily.
Others I should have mentioned:
Godzilla (the Emerich remake)
Starship Troopers – pretty dumb film. Paul Verhoeven is probably the worst popular director ever.
The man who knew to little. ( Great idea that never left the ground. I never finished the video. Too bad for Bill Murray, a perennial favoriteof mine and the only movie of his that just sucked.)
**Ghosts can’t do it. **( A -I guess- Soft porn Bo Derek crap fest that I was mesmerized through the whole thing to wonder just how in the hell does a movie like this get funding?)
**Long Kiss Goodnight & Cutthroat Island **- During a Geena Davis film festival weekend at my house, I rented these two craptacular pieces and have since sworn off all of her movies, prior, present and future.(Except A League of their Own.) The woman,btw, cannot run to save her life. She looks like the Scarecrow when she runs. She also cannot act.
My husband wanted to put in his two bits and nominate
**Very Bad Things **
English Patient Why is this movie so popular? Rafe Fiennes has the acting range of a stroke victim on medication. Am I missing something?
Mrs. ricepad and I started watching Lost In Space (on video) the other day, and could only take 15 minutes of it. We would have stopped after 5 minutes, but we kept hoping it would get better. It didn’t.
I really hated the English Patient, too, but the worst movie of all time is. . . man, I can’t even think of the title. It was totally bizarre–these creepy, androygenous models in New Wave Manhattan who are all addicted to heroin, but there’s this alien who lives inside one of their bodies because it thrive on the drugs, but soon sex gave it the same “chemical nourishment” (quote from the back of the box), but after she has sex, it makes her partners explode or something. Terrible plot, awful camera skills and special effects, and the worst acting ever. God, it was the most spectacularly bad movie ever made!
