No argument here, Wally; I couldn’t sit through 15 minutes of Rocky Horror.
Other notable disasters include :
You’ve Got Mail
Hope Floats (I rented that one by accident. Meant to grab a different movie and didn’t realize my mistake 'till after I’d left the store)
Practical Magic
Slacker (truly awful)
Also, I’d like to vote for 99% of all the romantic comedies ever made. And any movie where a teacher “makes a difference” and turns drug-addicted gang members into honor students in 2 weeks.
And just about any movie on the “premium” movie channels. One can only imagine the meetings that produce these programming decisions : “Hey, I got an idea! Let’s show Saving Private Ryan once every two months and show Campfire Tales three times a day, every day!”
Highlander II is probably the worst sequel ever made. I kinda liked the first (music by Queen, Sean Connery as Ramirez - not too shabby), but nr. II sucks toxic waste.
Solar Chrisis has to be one of the worst SF movies ever made, bar none.
Off topic: I’ve heard rumours that key scenes were cut out of Highlander I before it was shown on US TV. Among other, the scene where our hero shoots a Nazi soldier and rescues Rachel (“It’s a kind of magic”). Any truth to this ?
I went to go see Spawn on a co-worker’s recommendation. I don’t read comic books, and am not a part of the 'zine subculture, but I thought I’d give it a shot.
Absolutely terrible movie. Ridiculous plot and horrible acting. Seeing Martin Sheen hamming it up was excruciating. And what was up with that annoying blue clown creature?
Kyla mentioned Kevin Costner, but even among his body of work, we should especially recognize “For Love of the Game”. This makes some of his other performances seem rich and three-dimensional. Someone on SNL said it should have been called “For the love of God, stop making movies”
I’ll second Waterword. Interesting concept. It could have been a classic, if they had bothered to hire some writers.
Interesting side note: A while back, I saw Die Hard on the USA Network. Needless to say, all of the swearing was cut out. I actually enjoyed the movie alot more without the gratuitous profanity.
“I had a feeling that in Hell there would be mushrooms.” -The Secret of Monkey Island
Allow me to speak for Cessandra and say Fooey on youeey.Rocky Horro was great,only if you are there in the theatre.
I’ve pretty much only watched “comedies”,so.I believe it was called One Fun Summer and Bobcat Goldthwait was in it. Boy,it bit the big one,all right.
Also I totally was bored by Waynes World.Paid a dollar to see it,wasted my money.
Back during the 80s, I worked in a movie theater on and off for about 6 years, so I’ve seen my share of stinkers. The absolute worst was a movie called Salsa, which came out on the heels of Dirty Dancing. My manager showed it as a private free screening for the staff. It was so bad, I asked her for my money back. Here’s Leonard Maltin’s blurb for it on the Internet Movie Database:
The best line in the movie, delivered by Menudo-guy in the most whiny voice ever, “But boss! I just wanna dance!”
It went downhill from there.
I would also add to my personal list:
Amadeus - This movie was so hyped that by the time I got around to seeing it, I was already sick of it.
The Full Monty - Don’t tease me with that title, then refuse to deliver the goods.
Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves - Or would it be easier just to list the whole Costner oeuvre? (Except maybe Silverado and Field of Dreams.)
(Hanging my head in shame because I actually paid money to see these stinkers, either in the theater or at Blockbuster):
Encino Man
Rhinestone
Son-in-Law
Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
Bloodsport
American Flyers (I was an extra in this movie)
Suburbia
Mallrats
The Fish that Saved Pittsburgh
The Last Boy Scout
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
Hudson Hawk
Turk 182
Days of Thunder
“I never lie, but I don’t always say what I’m thinking.”
There are two types of bad movies: “good” bad movies, and “bad” bad movies. I think we all know this already, but I just want to point out that im listing “bad” bad movies; that is, movies that failed to do what they set out to do, rather than “campy” movies that are fun to watch because they are so lame (like a lot of the old sci-fi movies on mst3k).
Godzilla (the most recent incarnation) …the fire alarm went off in the theater and they offered everyone rainchecks, but we didn’t even bother coming back to re-watch it. I hate this movie. I hate the lame characters, the lame plot, the fake “anti-nuclear weapons” slant.
The Doom Generation …I hate this movie. I hate it because angst-ridden teenagers think its “deep”. I hate the lame “666” joke (every time anybody buys something, the total is $6.66. Man, what a biting commentary on something or other.) I hate the pseudo-artiness of it. I hate the actors.
salinqmind, you say you hated both Pulp Fiction and The Sting? Can you elaborate on this? I dunno, I thought both were great.
BTW, Independance Day was another pretty bad movie, once I thought about it, but most “summer blockbusters” are.
Worst movie I’ve seen was also the only one I’ve been in (as an extra), Iron Eagle III I rented it once for 75¢ to see if I could find my friend and myself in the air show audience but didn’t. If you’re ever subjected to torture by having your eyelids taped open during a screening see if you can spot a fat guy and a skinny guy both on mountain bikes.
I have to agree that most of the movies mentioed are pretty hideous but I intentionally bought some on DVD and tape. No accounting for taste I suppose. IMO Ed Wood is the Citizen Kane of bad movies.
“Popeye? Hm? He’s not much of a judge of women!” King Blozo
Worst movie I’ve seen was also the only one I’ve been in (as an extra), Iron Eagle III I rented it once for 75¢ to see if I could find my friend and myself in the air show audience but didn’t. If you’re ever subjected to torture by having your eyelids taped open during a screening see if you can spot a fat guy and a skinny guy both on mountain bikes.
I have to agree that most of the movies mentioed are pretty hideous but I intentionally bought some on DVD and tape. No accounting for taste I suppose. IMO Ed Wood’s Plan 9 From Outer Space is the Citizen Kane of bad movies.
“Popeye? Hm? He’s not much of a judge of women!” King Blozo