worst movie ever

[spearo]

Picking up on the concept:
What's the worst movie ever?

There are Sooooo many I could list but my all time worst (ever since i watched it in the cinema so that's going back a while):

Eraserhead

Absolutely the standard for me for judging all others, none have ever fallen below this one !

do yourselves a favour and NEVER watch it!

:lol:
Frank

[Rokketboy]

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes or Boomerang

[TrevorW]

Australia

(it really did not do us justice)

[Kevnool]

The cube and OMG they made a sequel --- what more can i say.

[DJDD]

all sappy, soppy love stories out of Hollywood! especially any with J-Lo and/or Richard Gere in them.

[gmbfilter]

The Terror of Tiny Town
The first and only all midget musical western!
Even has shetland ponys

[alan meehan]

RoboJox...what can i say the name says it all

[Liz]

Didnt like Armageddon at all, and had to walk out!!! Only saving grace was Bruce Willis, but rest of movie goes down in FLAMES. Very annoying :mad2:

[MrB]

The Fast and The Furious... and all sequels

[DJDD]

:lol:

when i lived with friends during uni we used to have a "schlock movie night" and RoboJox was the movie that started it off for us.

[jjjnettie]

Without a shadow of a doubt it has to be
"Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet"

[Lyinxz]

Well you guys will prob hate me for this.
Mine:

Star Wars
Lord of the Rings
Batman (the latest one , forgot its title)
James bond series
Zoolander (cant believe this is a movie)
Star Trek
Harry Potter (absoutly rubbish)

.. lots more but they top the list for me.

I like documentaries, cant stand fantasy movies!

[Chromed]

Starship Troopers 2.
After loving the first one, I turned the second one off after I noticed the bad CGI and the flashing LED's inside the guns.

[marc4darkskies]

There are too many to forget ... and that's what I do, forget them!!!

One of the relatively recent ones was Moulin Rouge. It gave me a headache ... and I switched it off before that turned into a brain aneurysm!!! :scared2:

Marcus

[PCH]

The packet said....

"If you only see one movie this year - it has to be UTU"

This was an NZ film with a maori main theme - the actual details of which I've long since expunged from my memory.

Jeepers, talk about crap.

Although I believe they have since introduced electricity to New Zealand, so more recent offerings may be an improvement :lol:

[multiweb]

C'mon dude! Best low budget horror sci-fi movie made. Concept was brilliant. :)


Mate, why do you bother going to the movies ?:rofl::rofl::rofl:

[Rokketboy]

Lyinxz, You are dead to me.:P

Many of those movies are some of my favourites. The Dark Knight (the latest Batman movies) is one of the best films of the past 5 years.
Lumping all Star Trek movies together - impossible. Some were crap (Insurrection) some were great (Wrath of Kahn).
Same goes for Star Wars - Episodes I-III don't exist, IV & V fantastic, VI - meh average.
Don't get me started on James Bond - anyone who says they all are crap hasn't watched many if any. The latest, Quantum of Solace, is probably one of the best ever. This is what Bond was like in the original books - a hard arse with a bit of ******* but still cool and suave. The later Sean Connery and Roger Moore movies turned him into the wise cracking gigilo that most of us know ( I like those as well :) )
And finally Lord of the Rings - THE FINEST series of movies ever made. And to find someone that hates them leaves me speechless. I am without speech.

Anyways, different strokes for different folks, but geez. lol

P.S I like documentaries too!

[TrevorW]

What

Star Trek the Wrath of Khan- come on !!!

[DJDD]

i'll double dip and add "Snakes on a Plane".

[Rokketboy]

Don't be dissin Wrath of Khan Trevor. DOn't make me come over there and open up a can a whoop ass. Just like James T Kirk would do! :D

[beren]

Battlefield Earth :lol: Phantom menace

[spacezebra]

Attack of the killer tomatoes! Yikes!

Cheers Petra d.

[Rokketboy]

Just to give you an idea of how bad this was:

Man dressed as giant tomato sitting around a campfire with a group of actual giant tomatoes (he has infiltrated the giant tomato army) apparently having dinner.
Man is about to start eating when he looks up innocently and asks loudly - "Anyone got any ketchup?":rolleyes:
Que screaming as Giant Killer Tomatoes devour him. lmao

This was made back in the 70s from memory. Some say so bad , its good but its just plain bad :)

[multiweb]

Yeah... he was better in Saturday night fever :lol:

[Rokketboy]

awww. I forgot Battlefield Earth. That was one shocking movie

[marki]

Easy, the crying game:jawdrop: :scared:

[badchap]

I didn't mind Eraserhead - couldn't really explain it to anyone though - perhaps watching it in an altered state of consciousness may assist.
;)

[badchap]

Worst movies for me - anything with Sylvester Stallone in it - closely followed by anything with that VanDamme girly.

[Lyinxz]

Hahaha I just dont see the point in those type of movies, they seem only to encourage the mind into fantastical superficial and egoistic ideals. :screwy:
I enjoy movies that have meaning and make you think, movies with a good twist. :)

I thought fellow astronomers were the same, guess i was wrong!? haha all good. We are all different :):thumbsup:

[Lyinxz]

Agree strongly with you on that one badchap! :thumbsup:

[entity62]

Soylent Green

[jjjnettie]

"Soylent Green, is people!"

[Glenhuon]

Ash, while most of us enjoy documentaries, who would'nt :). Now and again I like to be taken away from the "real" world and indulge in a little fantasy. How many things we have nowadays have had their genesis in the mind of a fiction writer. :)

Worst movies. One that comes to mind is Solaris. Book was OK but the movie was just plain boring, had 2 attempts at it, never got past 1/3 through. The other, who's name I can't remember it was so bad, involved some alien invasion and shot through a home video camera by someone from a party that was going on at the time. Reckoned it was really shot that way :lol:

Bill

[Enchilada]

Hey... How about all The Matrix Movies ? I.e. The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions
:scared::scared::scared::scared:

Who really understood any of it, eh? :shrug:

All it did was to make Sydney look like Cyberpunk Central!!! :mad2:

Note: I even read the 1984 William Gibson' novel "Neuromancer", that was based on the three main movies (and the DVD)! I didn't understand that well either!

"The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel"
Indeed. Describes it all very well!

[Enchilada]

Oh dear. I really liked that / those film(s)!
Actually, I especially the Tarkovsky Soviet version made in 1972. Loved all the Polish Stanislaw Lem novel/books too! It was all about real and perceived realities in the world, and the unadulterated ancillary fictional nonsense we surround ourselves with in our lives. I.e. Twisted moralities, holding on desperately to relationships and even the illogical regrets of someone's demise from our own perspective.

[Rokketboy]

Damn it. I'm getting angry now;)
The last 2 Matrix movies DO NOT exist, there is only the first - the chosen one. Awesome movie. The next 2 disappeared so far up their own backsides that no one could understand or like them.:D

[multiweb]

My Gawd! :eyepop: Are you guys for real? :screwy: I only bought two DVD box sets ever. One is the lord of the ring trilogy and the other the matrix trilogy :lol:

[matt]

Recent examples include the Golden Compass, Don't Mess with the Zohan and War Inc (Starring John Cusack).

That last nomination is particularly hard to mention, since he's one of my favourite actors.:)

[lacad01]

"Pearl Harbour" would have to be in this list as well.

[starlooker]

Catwoman is the only movie I've never been able to finish watching. Me and my mate gave up about half way through, and that was after forcing ourselves to watch it up to that point.

Horrible dialogue, horrible effects/lighting, horrible acting.

Not even Hale Berry in leather could save this most terrible production.

I feel sick just thinking about it.

EDIT: And Ghost Rider with Nicholas Cage sucked too, but at least me and my mate managed to force ourselves to watch it to the end.

EDIT2: Oh, Passion of the Christ was the only other movie I haven't been able to finish watching. How they could call a piece of torture porn a movie is beyong my understanding. Sick.

[troypiggo]

Deep Blue Sea (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0149261/) - worst shark movie ever, and it had Samuel Jackson in it!

[multiweb]

:lol: Yeah he's also got snakes (in the plane) to his credit. Another pearler :lol:

[Moonboy]

I can't believe nobody has said twilight yet.....
WORST MOVIE EVER!!!

Just to add to that, My favorite TV show is "The Mighty Boosh"... must see.

[Terry B]

Many years ago I went to a show at the Enmore theatre in Sydney called "Double Take Meets the Astro Zombies"
It was a number of actors live dubbing over the top of a film called Astro Zombies with very funny dialog.
The show was great but the Astro zombies film must be one of the worst ever made.

[Inmykombi]

I found a forgotten copy of this on VHS in my video / DVD cabinet.

Please dont tell anyone I have a copy OK....It must have been bad as:

1 / I cant remember the movie.
2 / I forgot I had it.

Geoffro.

[bloodhound31]

The old black and white movie "Them" about giant radioactive ants, followed closely by the tooth pulling, "Moulon Rouge" or should I say "Moron Rough."

[Screwdriverone]

My choice is the most ridiculous crap ever put together..........

Vanilla Sky with Tom Cruise and Penelope Cruz (nuff said)

Basically, Total Recall meets Sliding Doors and then......2 minutes from the end, some crap Aussie actor gets in the lift and rides 150 floors to the top of a building and "explains" the movie's plot and basically tells you all that...the point in the movie where it could have changed, ACTUALLY did and then you were effectively watching a fantasy for the rest of the time.

Someone should have been shot for that one, and basically, if I had a gun, it would have been me.....the shooter that is.

Chris

[Enchilada]

Oi !! Don't you starting knocking out dear Aussie Nicole K
(A second time in this thread mind you!) :mad2:

Now, Disappointment... now that is a better word. :thumbsup:

Note: Wasn't "Days of Thunder" surely a much worst movie
on the dreaded condemnation meter ?!? ;)

[Enchilada]

Bingo !! Finally got it....

BATTLEFIELD EARTH
(2000) :mad2:

What was little Johnny (Qantas 707) Travolta thinking! :doh:

(and he still wants to do the sequel! :eyepop: )

[Jen]

Oh dont get me started on those stupid Kill Bill movies :doh::doh::doh:

And The Castle (was boring):rolleyes:

[Enchilada]

... and me too on the disturbing and chilling SAW series of movies. :sadeyes:

[bloodhound31]

Worst excuse for an actress ever.....:poke:;)

[bloodhound31]

OOH OOH!! I forgot! TANK GIRL!!! YEAH!

[starlooker]

I don't think Nicole Kidman is the worst actress, maybe overated, like Julia Roberts. :D

[Enchilada]

Isn't being an Aussie at least something we can all view positively
I.e. Stand by your mates and all that jazz? :shrug:

[starlooker]

Actually, Kidman is a talented actress, but the botox really limits her facial expressions.

Hence her range of emotions is limited and quite frankly, inadequate. You'd only know she was crying if tears came out of her perfectly smooth, unworried face.

I remember when she used to be a cute freckled redhead. I guess she must have a low body image to drastically alter her appearance.

Time for me to go to sleep. Good night! :D

[bloodhound31]

That's easy......NUP!:rofl:

[Enchilada]

Yeah. I agree. I recently saw her in the old Pat Wilson film clip (song) of Bop Girl made in 1981??? :P

Actually, I generally thought our Nicole had changed very little....

Sure she might not be an actress of Shakespearean ilk or acting brilliance, but she's is at least an Aussie, and in my own humble view, right or wrong, she at least act like a loyal Aussie - and that's all that should matter! :thumbsup:

Actually, I thought she was absolutely great in the Irish emigrant story in the lovely film "Far and Away" (I like it for more personal reasons - but that is a completely different story!). How she then fell of the perch (literally) in just one movie. I.e. Days of Thunder , is totally beyond me! :scared:

[Glenhuon]

Sorry Enchilada, national/ethnic affiliations ain't in it, your either good at what you do or not. Seen a few of Nicoles movies and pretty average she was IMO. Looking pretty/handsome (Botox aside) does'nt make up for acting ability.On the other hand I think Sean Connery is the only James Bond, who's biased now :lol:
Bill

[Enchilada]

Yeah, but is she actually better than Tom Cruise? ;)

[JD2439975]

Couldn't agree more.
I like to remember Nicole as she was in 'Dead calm', such a little hottie.:D
Then she went to America and it all turned to muck, I mean dying red hair blonde and covering freckles with makeup is a crime against humanity.:screwy:

As for the worst movie ever...how to choose, there are so many.
Even people with a fear of snakes would laugh at 'Snakes on a plane', a very silly movie.
Most stuff from Hollywood nowadays takes itself far too seriously.

The Double take and D-generation dubbed movies are classics, Bargearse and the Olden days :rofl:
Very clever and funny.

[Glenhuon]

Most of the time I'd be better than Tom :lol:
Only one I think he's good in is "The Last Samurai"

Bill

[Gallifreyboy]

I would like to take a different tack. There are many movies that by the end you know you will never get that 90 minutes or whatever of your life back. As a genre american romantic comedies have the most duds for me. The prize though goes to 'the English Patient' not because it was the worst but because it was the longest painful movie ever. Most of the others were more merciful in their duration.:scared:

[toryglen-boy]

"Doctor Who - The Movie" was pretty dire.


:)

[space oddity]

The 2006 version of Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy is my crappiest ever movie. Picked up at a garage sale before official release in OZ. Thought it was a cheap knockoff when I put it on, but found it was the actual movie. 5 bucks wasted:(. It was even worse than Eraserhead, which I saw at uni. One of the guys in my year who was a bit warped of mind I tried to hoodwink with Eraserhead. Said "Hey Bill, saw a great movie the other day, Eraserhead" trying to sucker him in. He replied "great film - saw it 3 times." Methinks we need a vomiting icon.

[spearo]

HAHAHAHA
"saw it three times"
maybe it took him 3 times to see if he could make sense of it!
I agree,
we need a vomiting emoticon!
I still remain unflinching, Eraserhead, worst movie ever, for me anyways.

But this thread sure has been a lot of fun!
frank:lol:

[Glenhuon]

The Hitchikers guide (Hollywood version) got added to my "keeper as its so bad" category :)

Just remembered another series I had a look at "Space Pirates" (think that was the name), gave up after 6 episodes. Thought I'd give it a chance to get into its stride, so to speak. Sort of Star Trek meets Star Wars meets Farscape. Absolutely awful, best cure for insomnia ever invented. :lol:

Bill

[Rokketboy]

Oh..oh..oh I nearly forgot. I had blotted this travesity from my mind to prevent mental scarring.
Dungeons & Dragons

Worst.Movie.EVEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR! !!!

I am a D&D player from way back and had such hopes for this but alas. Shockingly bad.
There was a smaller budget D&D movie done a few years later and it was better than the bigger budget one that had recognised actors. So sad :(

[cookie8]

Right up there is Golden Compass. :zzz:I could have easily walked out after the first 30mins.

[bones]

"Remains of the day" - Watched it on DVD waiting for something to happen. At the end of it I said to my wife "what was that all about?" Worse still she actually bought it on special. Wouldn't even use it for a coffee coaster.

There was another that comes to mind back I think in the late 80's ... "Surf Nazi's Must Die." So bad I don't remember it much. Might have been something like Mad Max at the beach.

[TrevorW]

Worst ever watched last night from the Video store

Avoid at all costs

a low budget attempt of a "Cloverfield" remake, makes 'Cloverfield" look like academy award nominee in comparison

"Monster" 2008, Americans in Japan, Japanese monster not even as good as Godzilla you never actually see the monster.

:sad:

[Liz]

I recently bought Cloverfield, a new edition (didnt realise there was an older version) .... and I couldnt finish watching it ...was driving me baaaaaananas!!!!!!!

[starlooker]

There are 3 movies which I have not been able to finish watching:

1. Cloverfield (nauseating shaky cam)
2. Catwoman (bad dialogue, acting, lighting, effects)
3. The Passion of the Christ (torture porn is not entertainment)

[Rokketboy]

I found Cloverfield a bit "Meh". It was ok, nothing special. The handycam style of shooting took a bit to get used to but I was fine with it. The Blair Witch Project was one of the earliest films I had seen shot like this and it was the same "meh" and more recently "Diary of the Dead". Once again.."Meh". And I love zombie movies:)

[stephenb]

ditto, I don't care is an actor is Australian or not. If I don't like them, I don't like them.

moving on......


I watched Hulk with Eric Bana a few weeks ago, and let me tell you, I feel like Eric personally owes me 2 hours of my life back. As Margaret would say "Sorry David, One star from me".

[styleman333]

Little Nicky with adam sandler and Down with Love with who i cant remember :screwy:

[telecasterguru]

I love the Troma movies e.g: Attack of the Killer tomatoes, Surf nazis must die, Killer clowns from outer space, Amazon women on the moon, The Toxic Avenger etc etc. The Brady Bunch movies 1,2, and up to 10 are also the best.

Now to the worst movies as required by this thread: You can't stop the music by the Village People, Grease 2 with Michelle Pfeiffer(Grease 1 fantastic, we love you Livie), Apocolypse Now, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, did I mention Grease 2. OK I'll stop there.

Sorry about the long list.

[Gallifreyboy]

Apocalypse Now worst movie of all time????

The horror......the horror

[pgc hunter]

"The Day after Tomorrow" was a massive load of poo poo. Infact, that movie is so crap that it's an insult to all crap things in the world.

[Liz]

Ohhhh ... i loved 'The Day after Tomorrow' :shrug::confuse3::jump2:

[allan gould]

All got it wrong.
Titanic was the worst. Knew the ending and wanted to barrack for the iceburg to sink that load of trivial crap as low as it would go.

[bloodhound31]

OOOO!!!! I just remembered!!!

"Sky captain and the world of tomorrow"

SHOCKER!

[astronut]

"Star Trek" The Movie. Just full of special effects, no real story!!
And I'm a long time trekkie!!:lol:

[Starkler]

Anything with Julia Roberts in it.

As for Attack of the killer tomatoes,.....well its meant to be bad and doesnt take itself seriously. A bad movie is one that DOES take itself seriously and fails dismally.

[Barrykgerdes]

There have been many bad movies over the years but I haven't needed to sit through them. The worst movie I ever sat through was in the early fifties call fourteen hours. The whole movie was a guy standing on a skyscraper ledge and threatning to jump. I wish someone had pushed him in the first five minutes.

I just looked up the details and the critics gave it three stars and it had some very well known actors in it. Richard Baseheart, Agnes Moorhead, Grace Kelly, Debra Paget, Bardara bel Geddes, Jeff Hunter and a few others.

Another shocker that everyone went to see in 1952 was One summer of Happiness. A Swedish film that had the first bare breast in a film. It was all about "illicit love". Up till then films could not even show couples in bed.

Barry

[evad2009]

Nothing could beat this one, does anybody remember Flash Gordon?

It was a cerial I used to see at the cinema every Saturday morning when I was a kid. He was a 'space traveller' and his "rocket ship" was visibly suspended on wire and swayed across the screen spewing iron filings (as in sparklers) from the rear. Mind you, the only things flying around in those days were Tiger Moths. :)

[TrevorW]

[QUOTE=evad2009;438082]Nothing could beat this one, does anybody remember Flash Gordon?



Actually "Flesh Gordon" was worse

:D:D

[spikeface]

FLASH! I LOOOOVE YOU! BUT WE ONLY HAVE THIRTEEN HOURS TO SAVE THE EARTH!!!

isn't generally assumed that the worst (modern) movies are battlefield earth, freddie got fingered and catwoman?? though i thought master and commander was awwwwwwful...

[Rokketboy]

Flash Gordon the movie from about 1979-80 was awesome though. I saw it at about age 6 and loved. Still do.
FLASH! AHHHH AHHHHH!
Great queen soundtrack :) And the King of the Hawkmen. Awesomeness!:thumbsup:

[Enchilada]

I agree. This film was an insane riot.

My truly favourite character was the evil villainous and wicked General Kala (played but the wonderful Italian actress Mariangela Melatoe (meow)), wearing an ultra tight black leather outfit. She was bumped off by Hans Zarkov lasered her, but the best bit was the way she disintegrated like a deflating black balloon and oozed black liquid all over the floor. This left the overall impressing that she really bad inside and out!

Of the few lines, probably the best was from Kala sounding very much like the character Fra Blucher (neigh) played by Cloris Leachman in the Mel Brooks classic "Young Frankenstein". Here Kala says in a very matter-of-factly way;

"We are going to empty your memory, as we might empty your pockets... doctor." **
Hear at http://guntner.com/FlashGordon/EmptyMind.wav

Not the worst movie of all time, but it certainly was the campiest! :thumbsup:

** This also has the brilliant words that Ming the Merciless utters;
"Every thousand years, I test each life system in the universe. I visit it with mysteries: Earthquakes, unpredicted eclipses, strange craters in the wilderness. If these are taken as natural, I judge that system ignorant and harmless; I spare it. But if the hand of Ming is recognized in these events, I judge that system dangerous to us. I call upon the great God, Daizan, and for his greater glory - and our mutual pleasure - I destroy it, utterly."

Absolutely Hilarious in every sense!! :lol:

[Analog6]

Holy Smoke (Harvey Kietel & Kate Winslet, made by Jane Campion). An absolute load of drivel and tosh, and there is a pee scene (if you haven't seen it, you don't want to know!) and I reckon they used a cow - no woman could produce that amount.

A toal loss so far as I am concerned.

[evad2009]

I won't mention Hop-along Casidy.... OOPS!!

[Outbackmanyep]

The worst movie in my books is a tie :
"Hey dude, where's my car?" - watching with a friend a long time ago and turned it off after sitting through 10 mins of it.
"The Fifth Element" - This was the movie that made me hate just about every sci fi movie made after it.........what a joke this one was!

Ahhh, thats my 2 cents.....

[starlooker]

1. Catwoman
2. The Passion of the Christ
3. Ghost Rider
4. Cloverfield
5. The Condemned.

[Rokketboy]

The 5th Element, worst movie ever?????
OMG people. Awesome movie. Not meant to be taken seriously, just a great fun movie. The only movie Chris Tucker was funny in:)
Pure escapism at its finest:D

[UniPol]

Brigadoon !

[M54]

Strongly agree.

[spikeface]

thankyou!! i mean... gary oldman, people!!

[Barrykgerdes]

What about the "Three Stooges". That was always voted the worst program on TV in the 60's but I think everyone used to watch it. I also note the series is still regularly availble on DVD.

Barry

[cruiser]

I have to place the movie Anaconda is this illustrious list. I'm not sure if it was meant to be funny but we sat there and laughed at some of the scenes and bad acting.
The one scene I remember vividly is where they showed a scene of the boat pulling away from the shore into the river. Rather than film the boat leaving the shore the producers decided just to take the scene of the boat arriving at the shore and play it in reverse. Someone forgot that there was a waterfall in the background, so as the boat was 'pulling away' from the shore the waterfall was going up. :doh:

Brett

[firstlight]

Ther have been so many duds, and mostly forgettable, but the ones that really disappoint are the ones that had so much promise, with actors, story or hype...


Doomsday 2012 (Saw this as new release in the video shop and wasted a dollar)
Allan Quartermain, Temple of Skulls (Read above)
Dune - Brilliant books, totally failed to translate
Hitchhikers Guide (I thought that Donaldson had nothing to do with it and I was bitterly disappointed that he wrote the screen play)
Johnny English (Mr Bean is bad, this is worse. Rowan Atkinson was absolutely brilliant as Blackadder the Third)
Return of the Mummy... again... third one anyway.
Empire Strikes Back? Episode vi. All of the original ones failed at the end anyway, but this one only had the first 10 minutes worth watching.
Any of the Garfield movies... I mean really, Jon was successful with Liz?? Please!
Must be plenty more, and I will be reminded by others in this thread, but these are the top (bottom?) I can think of.