Besides the first movie on the list, which is so terrible I had to include it, I’ll only list movies I watched all the way through and hated. So Garden State, Wicker Park, What the #$%@ Do We Know etc aren’t on it though I hated them too.
Full Frontal
Lost in Translation
Malevolence
The Darjeeling Limited
Broken Flowers
The Libertine
Bless The Child
Cold Creek Manor
Heaven
As for a 10th movie, I can’t decide if which I disliked more, Ghost World or Little Miss Sunshine.
I agree with a lot of the movies that have been posted here, and I’m grateful to have been warned off some of them.
To add my own, not technically this decade, but with a release date of Dec 22nd, 1999, I’d like to nominate Any Given Sunday. It just went ON and ON and ON…they were still blathering through the ending credits!
Others worthy of the list:
The Core
The Day After Tomorrow
Sunshine (which was actually based on an old SF short story that I read when I was a kid, didn’t have psycho burned zombie dudes in it)
Kill Bill Vol 1 has made me forever swear off Tarantino, and I used to like his stuff.
The Butterfly Effect 2
The Royal Tennenbaums (can’t stand Ben Stiller)
The Scorpion King I wasn’t expecting much, but I actually fell asleep. In the theater. And I wasn’t particularly tired.
The X Files: I Want to Believe I want a movie, not an overly long monster of the week episode.
Shanghai Knights Shanghai Noon was clever, the sequel was just the quest for more money.
Again, we pleasantly disagree.
My issue is that if I haven’t seen the original, the style of acting and making a movie today is better, to me, than what it was years ago. It’s like how they hired Sean Connery to be Sean Connery, not a particular character. or DeNiro, Pacino, Nicholson, etc.
So, watching the original planet of the apes is like watching a stage play where some of the actors have this ape costume but all it does is get in the way of their performance. In contrast, I completely believed that Roth, Carter and even Duncan were apes, especially Roth. He did an excellent job, imo. I didn’t like the ending but the movie was good for me otherwise.
In general, early TV and movies were adaptations of plays, which was known and better understood than this new technology. Even as late as the 1960s, TV and movies were merely an extension of vaudeville and troops that toured the country. While there are stand outs for me, I generally don’t like the acting back then, so usually the newer ones win. There are exceptions, of course, but that’s true as a general statement.
Thanks!
vislor
Just a few nominations.
Next. I’m not a Nic Cage basher, but this was just hopeless in every way. Started off making no sense at all, and managed to get worse with every scene.
Spider-Man 3. A mess. A bloated, incoherent, designed-by-committee mess that took some very promising material and flushed it away.
Grindhouse - Deathproof. I’ll simply say ‘Bad’ and leave it at that.
All the Star Wars rubbish. So much time and money… but if you don’t start with a good story and someone who knows how to tell it, it’s never going to be anything more than mediocre.
Quantum of Solace. ‘Casino Royale’ was such a triumph for all concerned… and then they served up this dreck. A ‘what the…?’ story that never knew where it wanted to go, and all those dull ‘action’ sequences where everything was cut together so fast that you couldn’t tell what was meant to be going on.
That Indiana Jones rubbish. Big fail, guys.
-The Time Machine-The trailer looked cool. Just about the only positive thing I can say.
-Dodgeball: The Move-So bad I treated myself to a second film at the movie theater.
-Land of The Lost-Just terrible. Can’t even figure out where they spent all that money on this one.
-Farenheit 9/11-responsible for my slow walk towards the center
-Bruno-cohen brought lots of uncomfortable moments, but left out the funny
-The Black Dhalia-words can’t even express how horrible this was. By the far the worst movie I have ever seen in the movies. By the end of the flick the entire audience had turned on this film and were laughing instead of gasping as the plot unfolded.
I’m kinda surprised by a lot of the choices so far. Folks are picking a lot of average or subpar movies, but not really a lot of out-and-out BAD movies. The type of movie where its clear that nobody involved had any idea how to do basic things, like editing or lighting.
I mean, the Matrix sequels and the new Indiana Jones were disappointing to many, but at least they were competently directed. Like, you could watch them and still basically understand what was happening, or at least there were some good special effects. Movies like Kill Bill and Crash, which I didn’t like but which everybody else did, are movies that I can see the merit even if I don’t want to watch them. So, I would hardly call those the “worst” movies, either.
Yeah, yeah, subjective tastes and all that. Meh. This is why I don’t usually like or participate in Top 10 lists.
Anyway, since the topic was brought up, and since I’ve got nothin’ better to do, here’s my list.
10 - From Justin To Kelly
9 - Meet the Spartans
8 - Cat in the Hat
7 - Baby Geniuses 2: Superbabies
6 - Ace Ventura - Pet Detective, Jr.
5 - Postal
4 - Alone In The Dark
3 - The Room
2 - Transformers 2
1 - Disaster Movie
Well, the OP asks for films we have actually seen. I understand and agree with what you are saying, but I don’t watch films like that. I mean outside of professional film critics and projector operators, I don’t know who does go to those movies. I’m looking at your list in disbelief. Did you really see all those movies? Why? Do you hate yourself or something? What could possibly motivate someone to go see Baby Geniuses or From Justin to Kelly?
On the other hand I like to point to the AI principle. This outlines why AI is the worst film ever made, as opposed to say Manos: Hand of Fate. Basically it means that the more talent and money, the higher the production values and professional involvement in a film, the higher the expectations of quality. Therefore films like The Matrix sequels are justifiably held to a much higher standard than cheap gimmicks like From Justin to Kelly. And when they fail they are objectively worse than their cheap and silly counterparts.
For your first three questions: Yes, not sure, and probably.
I watch way too many movies. I probably go through at least 5 a week, and I usually try to watch a little bit of everything. This means I tend to watch SyFy originals alongside movies that I actually expect to be good.
Of course, now that I’m working a lot more and have less free time, I have been a lot more scrupulous about my movie choices, which is why I haven’t seen any of Boll’s movies since Postal.
I somehow missed the part of the OP about movies you’ve seen, though. That would certainly explain a lot.
I disagree with this. I used to think this, but after watching a LOT of movies, I realize that higher production values just about always pay off, even if the movie ends up not being as good as you’d expect. Considering the Matrix sequels (not AI, because I actually did think AI was a great movie and that’s a topic for a new thread): yes, the story was pretty stupid and the scripts were terrible. But the budget wasn’t spent on story. The budget was spent on special effects and action scenes. And what did you get? Lots of special effects and action scenes.
Now, if the Matrix sequels looked like some flash animation drawn in MS Paint, and Keanu mimed all of his lines instead of speaking - then, yes, you could argue that they were worse movies than Manos because the budget and talent were very clearly wasted. I just don’t think many big-budget movies actually are “wasteful” in that sense. High production values always come across somewhere on the screen - just not always in the story-telling part. (Arguably the most important, yes, but there can still be merit in a movie even if the story is bad.)
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You can get up and leave in the middle of the movie too, you know. 
I know, I know. Problem with Alexander was that I was sort of expecting it to get better, or at least have some cool scene that would make the rest of the crap remotely worth it. Alas, it did not.
Oooh, I forgot Crank 2, which may be the worst movie I’ve ever seen.
Alexander was indeed quite horrible. I probably should have thought longer.
August Underground’s Mordum
Ultraviolet
The Happening
Lady in the Water
Cursed
Black Christmas
Van Helsing
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
My Bloody Valentine
Orange County
What? I had never heard of this. Do you watch a lot of these straight to DVD movies? Why???
Blowjob Mountain
http://www.warholstars.org/filmch/sleep.html Movies from this decade have a long way to go to reach Warhols “Sleep”.
Seriously dude, this is one step off posting a link to Goatse 
They did, however, make a sequel (if you can bear it).
Enjoy!
I’ll chime in. I don’t see very many movies, and haven’t seen most of the ones mentioned. In fact, I haven’t HEARD of a lot of them.
I thought of 4 that I thought were really pretty awful:
The Pirates of the Caribbean sequel, Dead Men’s Chest.
Signs.
Master of Disguise.
The Dark Knight.
Take it as you will.
I take that list something like this: :rolleyes: with the exception of Master of Disguise.
I just saw The Box and WOW it’s bad! Great premise, based on a Richard Matheson short story, but a complete train wreck. Bad acting, terrible dialogue, and predictable ending while trying to stuff some moralistic view of human nature into a sci-fi thriller.
Almost as bad as Southland Tales…
Wow, I could have sworn that Dungeons and Dragons movie was in the 1990’s, but now that I find out it wasn’t, it easily wins this contest. Easily one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen, and that includes many MST3K episodes over the years. Both Transformers movies were bad, too…the first one was bad, but it was a few hours in AC on a very hot 4th of July, and the second one was a total hunk of excrement. My husband dragged me to all these movies, and all I can say is that I’ll fake being sick if I have to to get out of Transformers 3.
The one movie that I wanted to see that was really bad was Hancock. Actually, the first half was pretty good,and I was blown away with how much I was enjoying myself. Then my hopes were dashed by the completely craptacular ending, which was so traumatizing that my 11 year old daughter left the theater bawling. Yeah, that was a mistake, all right.