The worst movie I have ever seen is The Royal Tenenbaums. It is boring, dry, and there is not one scrap of humor in it. There is absolutely nothing redeeming about this movie, NOTHING I say! I can’t believe somebody thought it would be a good idea to make it into a movie!
Okay The worst movie i ever saw was KENTUCKY FRIED MOVIE . the others that i list here are pretty muck sucky
Scary movie 2. it was so boring ,andthere was way to many sex jokes i know there funny but there has to be a limit
Dude Where’s My Car is hilarous if you laugh at it rather than because of it (hmm, that made sense in my mind).
I first saw Tomb Raider on a flight while listening to “Abby Road” on my headphones so I liked it. Then I caught it on HBO and heard the dialogue. The scene was Lara and her father is the only redeeming quality this film has. Well there are two others…
|Krull the Conqueror. Think a bad Red Sonja. A really bad Red Sonja.
All the Pretty Horses. Normally I can get though any movie by making MST3K style quips to myself and my friends (On “Lilo and Stitch:” Wow, she’s beating her like a red-headed stepchild. Hey, she is a red-headed stepchild!), but this movie had nothing. I love the scene when Matt Damon (or was it Ben Afleck?) had to drop his pants in court. What a blantant “This one’s for the ladies” plot device. Geez.
I almost forgot “Tron.” What can be said about this movie than hasn’t been before. :Shudder:
Five pages and no one’s mentioned Warlock 2? Ye gads! The entire audience began MST3King this thing when I saw it in the theater. Awful, just awful.
Then there’s Traffic, I remember sitting in the theater, looking at my watch and hearing the guy next to me say to his date, “This guy’s checking his watch more often than I am!”
I’ll add Monster Dog, so far as I know, its Alice Cooper’s only movie. And for good reason.
Viking Massacre which featured neither a massacre nor Vikings (it was an Italian movie, all the “Vikings” had dark roots).
Can’t forget Graveyard Shift, but that might not count since I was drunk and kept passing out, that one has to be the worst of all time.
Heh. I was the prop master on this film And yes, it was abysmally bad (hopefully my props had little to do with that, though). But at least you didn’t have to go the premiere and tell the director (who was actually a really nice guy) that the film was ‘really, really good’. And say it with a straight face. 
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Can’t believe nobody has mentioned Husbands a 1970 totally self-absorbed piece of dreck wasting the talents of Peter Falk, John Cassavetes & Ben Gazzara. Actually, most of the blame should be laid at Cassavetes’ feet. He “wrote” and directed this stinker.
The IMDB plot summary: “A common friend’s sudden death brings three men, married with children, to reconsider their lives and ultimately leave together. But mindless enthusiasm for regained freedom will be short-lived.”
ANY kind of enthusiasm regarding this alleged movie will be short-lived. IIRC, at the time much was made out of the fact that most of the dialog was ad-libbed. I HATE having watched what should have been some third-rate acting school’s improv class.
Also I Am Curious (Yellow) a hopeless Swedish mishmash about a young girl Exploring Life and a parallel plot about the company making the film. Totally ghastly and only worth sitting through to see full frontal nudity (male and female) which was absolutely a novelty in 1969 in the US outside of stag movie houses. Oh, yeah, and there were also some self-consciouly anticapitalist politics involved.
The title derives from the colors of the Swedish flag. A companion film “I am Curious (Blue)” released the following year reportedly did not achieve the high artistic standards of the first.
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The worst movie I ever saw was “Batman and Robin.” Nothing else even comes close.
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and any Steven Seagal movies
Also, the one with Lance Bass last year, I didn’t see it but I’m sure it sucked.
Observe my trembling hands, my hollow eyes, the way I twitch in nervous terror every time I see a cartoon anus from the inside.
Many years ago, I bought a full-price ticket to see <b>Cool World</b>.
It has scarred me forever.
I really liked All the Pretty Horses, probably because I always have liked western/cowboy/life on the ranch type stuff. I was envious of the life they lived out on the ranch.
Both of the Austin Powers are two of my favorite movies and I can’t wait to see Goldmember!
The absolute worst movie of all time is without a doubt the “film” (and I use the term loosely) Brain Donors. It’s basically three guys who do a cheap knock off of the Stooges and the Marx Brothers. Constant one liners. And they are really really really bad. This movie caused me actual, physical pain. I only got through 30 minutes of it. Absolutely terrible.
In fact, I highly encourage all of you to rent this awful awful thing just so that you may experience the pure awfullness of it. Then you will believe me and we can unite with the knowledge that Brain Donors is the worst movie of ALL time.
Oh no…flashback…spring, 1993…I watched this horrible pile of stink at a party…ahhhh! Seriously, I had apparently hidden the memory of this movie deep in the very bowels of my mind, but, much like an old landfilled tire, it has once again bobbed to the surface.
I was only 14 at the time - I have to think an experience like that causes permanent mental scars.
- Cool World
- Savages
- Highlander II
You can’t make a worse movie than “Highlander II.” You couldn’t make a worse movie if you TRIED.
This thread has reminded me of a lot of films I had pushed out of my mind. Bringing them back has been painful. However, some more movies that are IMHO awful:
Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot! - GAH! Sylvester Stallone attempting comedy. I wish Mom would have fired.
Sudden Death - Jean Claude Van Damme stomping precious time out of my life. The best scene in the movie is a fight with the Penguins mascot.
Showgirls - Saved By the Bell star (I can’t remember her name) strips… the movie is so boring and bad, I couldn’t even stick around for the gratuitous nudie scenes.
The Phantom Menace - Pure misery. Lucas ruined the Star Wars brand with this POS. I will never watch another movie he makes.
Titanic - I saw this on a date. I received a slew of dirty looks when I laughed out loud during the final sinking sequence. When one poor guy fell from the stern and "PING"ed off of the propellar, I couldn’t help but laugh.
Monster’s Ball - One of the most overrated movies of recent memory. Pure P.C. CRAPOLA. If they wanted to make a movie about a white racist falling in love with a black woman, let them use Oprah Winfrey, Whoopie Goldberg, or Nell Carter… NOT one of the most beautiful women on the planet.
Nobody saw (b) Showgirls(/b)? Even the the sex- which I’m generally in favor of- was ridiculous. The completely gratuitous rape scene made it all the more disgusting. Screenwriter Joe Ezterhaus proves again that he’s got some kind of problem with women, some kind of serious Freudian mother issues, no doubt. The Worst Movie Ever because it came from people who can and should know and do better.
I have to second all of the following as truly craptastic movies:
Batman & Robin
Highlander II
Superman IV: Quest for Peace
Planet of the Apes (Tim Burton version)
There was also mentioned another fairly robust piece of cat vomit that deserves my hearty lack of endorsement, which I am mentioning seperately because if I could take an ice cream scoop and get rid of the section of my brain where the memory of this movie is stored, I would do it:
Nothing But Trouble. This movie was seriously rank. There was nothing good about it. I knew when I was supposed to laugh, but I could only wince.
I also want to mention a few that I haven’t seen mentioned yet:
Leonard, Part 6. Painful, seriously painful. The only time I have considered walking out of a movie I saw in the theatre.
As awful as all the previous movies were, my refined hatred is reserved for films that befoul the plots and characters of books that I truly enjoyed. Two of my favorite books have been given this treatment. One hasn’t been mentioned yet, and that one is:
Striptease. Some books just aren’t going to make good films, and this, sad to say, was one of them. It’s far too complex to translate well into a two hour movie. Some types of humor don’t simply won’t work well in a visual medium. So, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, filmmakers, have the sense to leave certain kinds of literature alone!
And I can only whimper in pain as I agree with those who have already mentioned this film as the suckiest movie of all time. I wanted to like it. I wanted to love it. We’re talking about one of my all-time favorite books here. But they sucked the soul out of it, and they made it into this HORRIBLE, BORING, and worse yet, PRETENTIOUS, piece of fetid goat dung. And it is because I take this as a personal affront that I sadly award Even Cowgirls Get The Blues my own personal Palm D’Orrible. Gus Van Sant should be shot repeatedly in the testicles with a paintball gun, and I feel I’m being merciful here.
First of all : I cannot believe how many people list movies which in my book are pretty good.
I mean :
Kentucky Fried Movie : one of the best comedies of all times
Unbreakable : Very stylish and well-crafted
The Player : Incredibly good story with top-notch acting
The Cable Guy : Very good black comedy
Dune : fantastic science-fiction. Why don’t you try to cram 12 hours of storytelling into a 2 hour movie. Kudos, Mr. Lynch.
Of course he took a lot of liberties, but otherwise it would have been boring.
AI : Nice fairytale. Maybe a bit boring.
Now for my personal list of bad movies :
#1 The Thin Red Line : what an incredible stupendous movie filles with sophmoric, stoner philosophising. I have never before been so annoyed with a movie as with this piece of crap.
#2 Highlander 2 : what the hell was that all about. You have a good movie Highlander with an interesting concept which you could milk for years and years and they just throw it all overboard an create something that doesn’t make any sense. It feels like it even plays in a different world than part 1.
#3 Plunkett & McLean (might be misspelled) : terrible. Terrible. Terrible. An insult to the UK, history and mankind in general.
#4 The Perfect Storm : the perfect sleepingpill. OMG was this movie boring. And for a real-life story I didn’t think it was very believable. I mean would you try and repair your ship in 20 meter high waves ? No, but Mr. Clooney can !
#5 Chasing Amy : Maybe I had to high expectations, but I loved Kevin Smit’s other movies and he claimed this is his best. This movie was just painful and boring. It felt like watching two friends having marital problems.
#6 Ocean’s Eleven : I just turned it of because I lost interest. This is not a good sign for a high-budget, well-casted caper movie.
#7 All movies from the Batman series except the first one with Michael Keaton. Especially Batman & Robin was a gruelling experience. I had to wash my eyes with batteryfluid after watching that POS.
By the way : I loved “Even Cowgirls get the Blues”. I thought it was quite funny and a lot better than that other Gus van Zant-movie “My own Private Idaho”.
i don’t remember the title, but it had sandra bullock in it as an environmentalist in the amazon dealing with rainforest depletion. now, i’m really interested in the subject matter, but seriously, i rarely turn a movie off in the middle, and this one i did. no character development, no interest whatsoever! and it was a recent movie too! no wonder it didn’t get any advertisement!
all of you are talking about highlander II. sure it was bad, didn’t follow the plot as laid out in the first one, was totally different, just with the same character and so on and so forth. that said, i still kinda enjoyed it. it was highlander IV that really disappointed me. i expected so much more out of adrian paul and that movie sucked really badly.