That was Crash, directed by David Cronenberg. There didn’t promise to be any exploding heads or guns stored in abdomens, so I gave that one a miss.
woops. That belonged on the bottom of the last page. Didn’t see that there was a second page already. Keep this up and this will be moved to the Great Debates.
Now, I’m a pretty forgiving guy, as I seem to like almost any movie. BUT, the worst movie I’ve seen recently is the stinky cinematic flick - “End of Days” with Arnold. What a stinkburger. I have nothing good to say about that movie.
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O.K. Now we’re into great debates. The Sting is one the best movies ever. Robert Shaw, Ray Walston, Harold Gould, Eileen Brennan, Charles Durning and Paul Newman are spectacular. Robert Redford’s pretty good too. You must see it all the way through next time you get the chance.
Nobody has mentioned either the Flintstones or Lost in Space. Why is it that movies based on TV shows really suck?
The best part of Lost In Space was when Matt LeBlanc said, “And the monkey pushes the button”. For me, that line alone was worth the price of the rental.
See those stars over there? That is the Little Dipper. I’d show you the Big Dipper, but my zipper is stuck.
The movie you speak of is:
Crash.
I actually thought it was kind of neat, in that really creepy sort of way.
The only movie I ever walked out of a theatre in the middle of is Destiny Turns on the Radio. I admit, I went to see it because of the Tarantino connection. I guess I didn’t realize yet what a horrible, horrible actor he is. He needs to keep that giant chin of his on the other side of the camera.
Oh, BTW, the movie you’re thinking of is Crash 
Hell is Other People.
But has no one mentioned “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”? Peter Frampton, the Bee Gees and Alice Cooper, all embarassing themselves. It’s just indescribably grotesque. The only good thing in the movie is a half-decent performance of “Come Together” by Aerosmith – then, as I distantly recall, they kill off Steven Tyler, which was a happy notion on someone’s part. Neither of the lead women in it were ever in another movie, according to IMDB, which seems sort of unfair. I mean, it wasn’t their fault.
I agree that “Tommy” also stinks, but in a completely different and sort of interesting way. Roger Daltrey never looked or sounded better than he did in that movie, though – the very picture of an English rock star. Of course, you also get to see Keith Moon dying before your eyes; I think he was in his late 20s and he looked a well-worn 45.
“Grease” didn’t do much for me, either; perhaps I just don’t like musicals.
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Man, you guys mentioned a bunch of my very favorite “bad” movies…(Joe vs. The Volcano, Four Rooms (how can you NOT like Four Rooms?), SpiceWorld, The Full Monty, etc.)
Truly bad movies:
Shock Treatment I know there’s a universal love/hate relationship with RHPS, but the sequel is VOMITVILLE. Don’t even bother to check it out for yourself. It’s terrible.
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation(sp?) Another sequel gone horribly wrong.
Any of the Batman movies beyond Batman Forever. The first two were the best.
etc., etc., etc…
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I just saw Armageddon last night. Truly cringeworthy! Doesn’t Bruce Willis ever get tired of playing the world weary anti-hero?
Shakes the Clown ROCKED! That is one of my favorite movies! So is the Full Monty, so you guys can bite me.
And the reason no one mentioned “plan 9 from outer space” is that the OP said no B movies allowed.
My vote goes for HOME ALONE, its sequels, and any movie that ripped it off.
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Dammit, y’all started a bad movie thread and didn’t call me? Bad movies are my hobby, man…
Anyway, I don’t think sequels oughtta count, because sequels traditionally suck (yeah, yeah, Godfather II and Terminator II, there are exceptions). For the record, though, Hellraiser IV has to be the worst sequel ever. So bad it got Alan Smitheed.
Now, non-sequels. Worst I’ve seen in the theater in recent memory was The Avengers, but I’ve been a lot more discriminating lately, so I’ve missed lots of crap; you couldn’t drag me into Wild Wild West. The worst I’ve seen that other people inexplicably worship is Heat. GOD, that film caused me pain. I would have left if I had driven myself to the theater.
In case there are any Heat-lovers here, allow me to explain: about an hour and a half into the movie, I realized that I didn’t know any characters names. What’s more, this wasn’t my fault; the characters were never named in the film. Subtle indicator that the filmmakers didn’t bother to make sure that the audience cared about anyone in the film.
Two hours in, I realize that Val Kilmer got paid untold millions for less than a page of dialog; they could have replaced him with an umbrella stand and the film wouldn’t have been affected. That leaves Pacino and De Niro, who spend the film trying to out-act each other. That simply can NOT be made interesting.
Somewhere in here, Pacino’s film-daughter, who we’ve seen onscreen for a total of 20 seconds, attempts suicide. They wheel her into the hospital, where she and her problems promptly vanish from the film. Why was I supposed to care about this?
That became my mantra for the final hour, as I cried aloud with every cut to a new scene, “Where are we? And why should I care?” (Really. And others in the theater agreed with me.) Alas, my questions went unanswered until the predictable and unfulfilling conclusion, around an hour later. Oy, the pain…
And what’s most galling about that experience is that people actually LIKE this film. The cast and crew of Heat deserve a big Hollywood bitchslap.
Okay, on to greener pastures. In the history of film, three have sunk to the bottom of the barrel and been considered by various critics as the Worst Movie Ever Made. They are Robot Monster, Plan 9 From Outer Space, and Glen or Glenda?. I’ve seen all three, and all three are stunningly bad. I can’t choose. But, if you think you’ve seen the worst movie ever made, and you haven’t seen Glen or Glenda?, you need to think again.
I’d like to once again mention the movie reviews at http://www.jabootu.com (No, they don’t pay me for plugs…) Jabootu does full-length, scene-by-scene, funny-as-hell reviews of the worst movies around, including Can’t Stop The Music and From Hell It Came. Their review of Sphere is a masterwork, as is their epic destruction of the TV movie The Beast. Check it out.
I’m pretty sure the person who mentioned both Joe vs. the Volcano and Pulp Fiction was, dare I say it, a woman. Pulp – obviously not a chick flick,and definitely overhyped. “Joe” wasn’t exactly great – (it had some slow moments, and what was up with the orange crush?) – but I have to say allegorically – man, dead end job, even new girlfriend some strange variation on the last, having to deal with his mortality while doubting the nobility of his existence, ultimately overcoming. The best “chick flick” with some degree of allegorical parallel I can think of is “Pretty Woman” I guess.
“Ammegeddon” was definitely the worst movie I ever saw. $8.50 I’ll never see again.
“The Phantom Menace” – now that was awful. Racist stereotyped aliens (Jewish shop keeper, nutty Jamaican Jar Jar – when’d Lucan join the Klan? let alone make his universe have non-Jedi aliens that could speak English) all as a merchandizing ploy (merch all filling landfills by now). Fight scenes with no exposition. Jackson’s pointless Jedi cameo. Whiny brat. Stilted dialog. I’m too much in the video game gen. to be impressed with “special” (why do we still call them that?) effects. I still hold some hope (er, a new hope?) that the next one will make up for this farce.
Oops, I meant “End of Days”, not “Armeggedon”. So bad I couldn’t even remember the name!
So, sequels are bad, prequels are bad, dare I hope sequels to prequels for a movie with good sequels oops, I’ve gone cross-eyed…
The worst movie of all time is “Snuff”
Yeah, THAT “Snuff”. You know, the one at the video store where the liner notes on the box claim that none of the actors were ever seen again, presumably because they all killed each other on-camera. The killings are all obviously fake. Obviously.
I was a real sickie in my younger days.
I never could get the hang of Thursdays. - Arthur Dent
The Shape Of Things To Come. --a 1970’s era rip-off of Star Wars that borrowed the title from an H.G. Wells novel, but nothing else.
The space helmets were made of plastic bags! The spaceship engines glowed, but you could easily see the filaments of the light bulbs. It had no musical soundtrack.
One scene, suppossedly on the moon, showed a fountain spraying water everywhere. In lunar vaccum.
This film made me feel physically ill. It was lame beyond belief. Sad.
“Show me a sane man, and I will cure him for you.”----Jung
I have a “reviews” page, if anyone is interested. http://pw1.netcom.com/~heliboy/reviews.htm
Okay, I’ll fess up. I worked on two of them. But dammit! I LIKED them! (One of them more than the other.)
Actually, I liked the movies I reviewed. I couldn’t see wasting too much time on movies that really sucked. shrug
Kepi: Wow…as far as I’m concerned (not that you care or anything) your opinion about anything just becamse meaningless when you listed “Amadeus”. Brilliant, beautiful film.
ENC: You got what you deserved. What the hell were you thinking?
And “Pulp Fiction”, while suffering from hyper overload, ROCKED. (PS: I’m a GIRL)
Now…no mention of Leonard 7? (Bill Cosby. I never saw it, but that’s because I could see for myself that it sucked royally without having to sit through it.
“Sphere” is definitely up there. Amazingly, extraordinarily BAD, bad bad. And “Showgirls”, of course. Excrutiating.
You guys seem to have covered all the obvious candidates. I’d probably throw in a vote for “The Ten Commandments” - “Moses! Kiss me, You adorable fool!” I’m screaming.
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I know it may LOOk like I’m not doing anything, but at the cellular level, I’m actually quite busy,
I didn’t like Pulp Fiction because I thought it was way, WAY too violent and profane, I thought it reached new heights in its portrayal of torture, perversity, murder, drugs, and remakes of lame old songs. Not that there’s anything wrong with any of that! It was just “too much” for me, though my husband thought it was the finest thing ever captured on film. Also it was way overhyped. Now, I’m a good little lemming, most of the time. I’ll book passage on the Titanic; I’ll shake my bon-bon with Ricky Martin; I will seriously argue about which Backstreet Boy is the cutest. But not in the case of Pulp Fiction, it was more of a “man’s movie”. As for The Sting, Paul Newman and Robert Redford didn’t do a thing for me; I liked David Cassidy, I loved David Bowie. Strange but true, I was the only woman in America who did not swoon over this movie. I will probably give it another try if it is ever on TV. I can see why people like these movies, I can understand they are clever and well made, but they don’t appeal to me. (I have seen the Rocky Horror Picture Show 152 times, That’s one I do like, so there!)
Lawrence! How nice to finally find a kindred spirit in your reaction to Good Will Hunting! The movie wasn’t THAT horrible until you get to the climactic breakdown scene - which hadn’t been ANY different than any of the other psychology office scene other than it was time for the breakdown. And Robin Williams talking about how cute his wife was when she farted in bed. Oy vey, I still squirm with embarrassment for him.
One more - no one has mentioned Me And Him. This consists of a guy and his penis, which talks out loud. What more needs to be said?