This could be the first faithful adaptation of Starship Troopers, and dammit, I’m willing to take that chance.
Yes, in terms of the ratio of A listers to awfulness, it may be the record holder.
Most recently, and perhaps not the ABSOLUTE worst I’ve ever seen: Under The Skin. The filmmakers did something extraordinary; they made a sci-fi horror film starring Scarlett Johannsen frequently getting naked and killing people and managed to make it boring as hell. Painful. It’s like they took two hours of B-Roll and decided to make it the movie. Here’s Scarjo staring at herself in a mirror, expressionless, for an uncomfortably long time. Here’s a long shot of the interior of a car that Scarjo just got out of. Nothing is happening. Here’s Scarjo walking along the street, nothing happening, for about five minutes. This story could have been told in a twenty minute short film. Gah. Negative stars.
Yeah, I second that motion. I watched it when I was stuck in a hotel room and couldn’t get anything better without paying for it. The other appalling film I saw in that hotel was Gus Van Sant’s shot-for-shot remake of Psycho. Why does that film even exist? In what way does it make any contribution to human culture?
Oddly a Knight’s Tale was much better, despite several anachronistic issues (and the protagonist choosing the wrong woman, but oh well…)
Going by the criteria of the OP?
Star Trek: Beyond
Worst movie ever?
The problem is all the bad movies I watch all the way through are so bad they’re good. I think I’d have to pick Treasure of the Four Crowns. But even that had something good in it. The world’s only Swiss army sword.
No love for The Emoji Movie?
You make a point. But apparently* they did run a quick segment of power armor vs bugs past a sample control audience and the response was "Meh- bugs vs robots, who cares who wins?".
Note that in most historical costume fests, even good ones, the main stars almost never wear helmets covering their faces. And in most of the Iron man films, you can see
Robert Downey Jr’s face for quite a bit, even while in armor.
- or so I have been told.
I agree. Arthouse films and camp films should be exempt. Saying that Attack of the Killer Tomatoes was a terrible film says more about you than that camp masterpiece film. I laughed my ass off.
I’ve never seen Joe Vs. the Volcano, but I remember when it came out in theaters and my friend took his girlfriend to see it. The next day he told me it was the worst movie he had ever seen. And that was before it was a “thing” to harsh on it. To this day, I’ve taken his word for it.
I have two nominations, not yet mentioned in this thread:
Battle Royale 2. The original **Battle Royale **is a 5-star film in my book. And I don’t hand out 5 stars like candy. Tremendously original film. I loved it. When I saw there was a sequel, I had high hopes. The sequel wasn’t just bad, but cringe-inducing. Terrible acting. Non-sensical plot. Part of it may have been that the director died early in shooting and whoever took up the reigns just botched it. Maybe.
The other is Bad Guy, by well-respected (by many; not me) director Ki-duk Kim. Vile and reprehensible movie. I just wanted to curl up in the shower after watching it and try to cleanse my soul. Or kill myself. Many people loved it. I’m not sure if they truly liked it or just think they are *supposed *to because it is “edgy” and part of the “Asian Extreme” genre that has become popular.
Every time this comes up, I have to chime in with Boxing Helena. I’ve probably seen 15 minutes of movies that sucked more, but this was by far the worst movie I ever sat through to the end. I was out with a friend, and I thought maybe he was seeing something in it that I didn’t so I just sat through it. Turns out, he thought maybe I was liking it, so he just tolerated it to the end as well.
Yeah, not only bad but sick.
Here’s one I forgot about: Anaconda. I only saw part of it, but it stunk so badly, I was rooting for the damn snake.
I’d managed to block that one out. Ye gods, that stunk. Most of it was just plain boring.
There is a problem - some movies are such stinkers, so obviously bad, most people steered clear, and hence aren’t in a position to claim they stunk.
I can’t say The Emoji Movie is the worst (though by all accounts it was horrible) because I never dreamed of attempting to watch it! 
Ditto with Avatar the Last Airbender (the movie, not the amazing TV series) or The Dark Tower - I would have seen both, but was warned not to by others, and so can’t say if they were really bad or not.
I wondered if it was some kind of tax scam.
I generally loathe John Leguizamo. The only movie he was in that I liked was “Regarding Henry.” He played the robber who shot Harrison Ford.
Aw, come on! Anaconda definitely belongs in the other thread. And I think you were *supposed *to root for the snake! Maybe. I dunno. But I’ll enjoy its idiocy if it comes on.
My nominees:
“Traffic”
They kept using different filters to “help” me keep track of where this scene was supposed to be.
“Signs”
Aliens who could be poisoned by water.
Worst in a theatre: Ghost Fever - Pretty obscure. George Jefferson in a really bad haunted house comedy - My first exposure to Alan Smithee. At a dollar theatre on a double-bill with what I wanted to see.
Worst in a regular theatre that I expected to be good: The Burbs - I know recently it’s started getting a cult appreciation, but damn did it suck.
Walked out of a free screening: Gothic Bad even by Ken Russell standards - weird shit happens until Mary Shelley gets the inspiration to write “Frankenstein” (at least I think that’s what would have happened - I left during the umpteenth nonsensical scene of weird shit).
Worst at home: Hook - I tried twice, but both times I gave up and found something better to do. Only Spielberg film I’ve started but never made it through. And this is from someone who actually enjoyed most of The Lost World (velociraptor-kicking gymnastics and Vince Vaughn’s every-single-death-on-the-island-is-his-fault-but-the-script-says-he’s-the-good-guy character aside)
A similar exercise in boring, offensive beauty was “What Dreams May Come”. Gorgeous but with the vile theme that suicides automatically go to Hell and a reminder that Robin Williams was out of his wheelhouse doing drama and could only do it by making it heavy-handed and mawkish.
It was a lovely primer in assassination. Early in my internet years I signed into a chat with Frederick Forsyth and told him how I loved the difficulty separating the real from the fictional. “The Dogs of War” is a step-by-step manual in making a coup, and his research was so detailed and complete that there is still suspicion he was planning one in Equatorial Guinea.