While I don’t know if it’s the worst, I do agree with the mentions of Wild, Wild West. I mean, come on - Will Smith was at his peak as king of the summer movies; WWW was ripe for a good revival on film; Kenneth Branagh with no legs; a giant mechanical spider; how could this have gone wrong?
My strongest memory is getting the feeling that the filmmakers had kidnapped Phoebe Cates and perhaps other members of Kevin Kline’s family to force him to do the movie. I’ve never seen any actor walk through a part with less effort and soul than Kline did in that movie - and he’s a wonderful actor!
(My wife and I did walk out on Sunset, with Bruce Willis - we could tell that was terrible from the get-go.)
I don’t know, I think Dr. T and the Women has got to be up there. Boring. Insulting stereotypes. Annoying performances by big (at the time) stars doing a “LOOK AT MEEEE! I’M IN A ROBERT ALTMAN FILM!” in this steaming pile, and that was before the ending which was… memorably terrible.
Dark City was terrible.
Weekend at Bernie’s 2 was awful.
The sequel to Dragonheart, direct to video of course, but that was inexcusably bad.
Well, to be fair, isn’t it kind of the whole point of an event horizon that it’s a portal to Hell?
The Stainless Steel Rat, John Carter wasn’t actually nearly as bad as its reputation. I mean, I won’t be calling it a great masterpiece, but it was entertaining enough, and mostly faithful to the book while scaling back on the corny pulpiness. The only real criticism I’ve seen of it is that it cost too much to make, and really, why should I care about that? The tickets were still the same price as anything else.
There are bad movies, then there are movies that offend. For me, M Night Shyamalan’s **Signs **offends me viscerally. The whole premise of the movie is that, nothing that you do matters because it’s all part of God’s plan. Your wife dies? Good, God wants her dead. Your daughter has a weird drinking water fetish? Good, that’s God’s plan. Your brother in law can’t get a job in his chosen career? Good, that’s God’s plan.
We walked out of Project X with Matthew Broderick. We expected Broderick greatness & fun.
There was another, film with some older but not quite has been stars, that 15 minutes into the film my companion said “This is a depressing film about depressing people” so we walked out.
And of course there are the camp films like Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, which dont really count here.
That’s entirely my point. Sometime between “Bosom Buddies” and Private Ryan he learned how to act and I want to know when that was. I still don’t know if he’s become funny on the big screen. He wasn’t when he started and I skipped stuff like Big because my expectations were so low.
…ya’ll need to deep dive. Most of these movies are “I just didn’t like them”
Not really BAD movies.
I think Joe versus the Volcano is an amazing movie and easily in my top 5 of all time. No clue how someone could but it on a bad movie list.
I’ll tell you about Bone Sickness…
Low budget “zombie” shock horror that features a sex scene dream sequence with a bad skeleton dummy. Looks cheap, bad acting and no charm.
Yeeesssss… It could have been so much better even without changing the premise or the cinematographic choices. The fact that it wasn’t better, and that it was hyped as soooooo scary, was the true horror.
A lot of movies I have seen and enjoyed here, some I have seen and hated.
Hard to separate “I hated this” from “objectively worst”, but some to consider:
Bedazzled (2000) - promises a sexy Elizabeth Hurley as the devil, but plays out like it was written by a fifth grader. Idiocracy - great premise, great intro sequence, repellent movie. Nothing but Trouble - Demi Moore was very attractive in this movie, otherwise it was ruthlessly unpleasant. Lowlights - Dan Ackroyd’s disgusting 100-year-old judge with a phallic prosthetic nose and John Candy in drag as a fat girl desperate for a man.
Event Horizon was so very disappointing. I had seen a short “making of” promo for it on HBO and was really psyched. Terrible.
It was almost worth making this movie for Charlie Sheen’s and Denise Richards’ send up of the traffic accident scene where the wife is pinned to the tree.
“Let’s say this is her bottom half. Can I squeeze in a few minutes with that?”
Agree, sort of. The first third/half is very funny stuff. The second part, not so much.
My nominee: Las Vegas Vacation, the regrettable fourth piece of the Vacation series that tried to capitalize on the two very funny and one not-so-funny prior films. A crappy, unfunny, shark-jumping stinker of a film with halfhearted performances by all concerned.
