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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-08 08:15 PM
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What's the worst movie ever made?
I made the mistake tonight of finding Jaws 3 on some station, and I can't turn away. I saw it as a kid, when it was in 3-D. I thought it was cool then.

Now, I think that this is the worst movie ever made that I've ever seen. Simply horrible.
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Merrick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-08 08:24 PM
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1. Depends on the criteria
Of course there are a thousand bad movies in the vein of 'Manos - The Hands of Fate' and other MST3K fodder, but if you incorporate budget, hype, the caliber of performers/directors involved as criteria, I couldn't think of a worse movie than that new Indiana Jones piece of shit.
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 01:57 AM
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58. Star Wars?
:shrug:
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triguy46 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-08 08:24 PM
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2. Ok, I'll take the bait, put on my asbestos suit, and run for cover....
Dancing with Wolves (woofs as we call it around the household).
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-08 09:29 PM
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7. I liked that one.
I didn't love it, but I liked it.
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edbermac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-08 08:28 PM
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3. Jaws 4 was even worse!
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-08 10:12 PM
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18. I recall Michael Caine going on Letterman and urging people not to see it
Now that's an endorsement!
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Sheets of Easter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 09:03 AM
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89. The fact that the shark roars at the end of the film is an indicator.
You know, there's that nerdy little detail regarding the fact that fish do not have lungs.
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 12:59 PM
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106. This shark did--it was special
Very special!
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Sheets of Easter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 01:54 PM
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107. Well, I guess if a shark can have a personal vendetta, it can have lungs too.
:silly:
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 11:40 PM
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115. I have to agree, as that pile was on this evening.
Actually, I think it's a tie. What crap.
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CreekDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-08 08:30 PM
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4. oh i thought i was lame then too
:rofl:
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kaiden Donating Member (811 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-08 09:26 PM
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5. Well, there's Blair Witch
and then Blair Witch II.
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Tommy_Carcetti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 08:28 AM
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79. I liked Blair Witch a lot.
But I'll go with you on Blair Witch II.
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OmahaBlueDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-08 09:26 PM
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6. You have to establish some criteria/ground rules
Edited on Thu Aug-21-08 09:26 PM by OmahaBlueDog
Do straight-to-videos count?

There's tons of obscure, low budget crap; are those worthy, or does budget figure in?

Sequels?

I'll throw out these:

Far & Away
Ishtar
The Adventures of Pluto Nash
Howard the Duck

All had major actors and/or directors, big budgets, and damn near no redeeming qualities whatsoever. "Wild Orchid" & "Showgirls" at least have eye candy to behold. "Basic Instinct 2", "Gigli", and "I Know Who Killed Me" are all worthy contenders.
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democracyindanger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-08 09:29 PM
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8. Highlander 2
No other sequel is so bad it's able to ruin its original movie.
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-08 09:49 PM
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15. Umm...
Batman and Robin, anyone? It managed to do what even Highlander 2 couldn't... destroy an entire franchise. At least with Highlander 2 they just went on and pretended it didn't happen. With Batman and Robin they just called it quits until enough of the rest of the world had forgotten about it that they could start the entire franchise from scratch.
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geomon666 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-08 10:09 PM
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17. That's 2 votes for Batman & Robin.
This single video explains it all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU7tzVu2h6k&fmt=18">Batman & Robin in 30 seconds
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-08 10:51 PM
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40. ... and the script and casting was only a small part of the suckage.
There's no way to fit that much suckage into a tiny youtube video. :P
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democracyindanger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-08 10:14 PM
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22. Touche
I need to see B&R again to confirm. Or maybe I should just take your word for it.
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-08 10:35 PM
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29. If you love your brain cells at all you'll skip it.
:P
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fishwax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-08 10:39 PM
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32. a very good point
that movie sucked.
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-08 10:50 PM
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39. That movie performed the physically impossible act of both sucking AND blowing at the SAME TIME.
:P
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jeff30997 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 10:08 AM
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96. "sucking AND blowing at the SAME TIME"
Well, once I met a girl who...Er,nevermind.
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vixengrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-08 09:30 PM
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9. Big Momma's House II was pretty awful.
It had a bad, nonsensical plot. Martin Lawrence was milking the Big Momma suit and character for laughs, which were cheap and kind of awkward. The filming was so slipshod I saw boom-mikes in the theatrical release, and what really galls me is--I paid to see it in the theatre. And it was quite obviously a "make-money-quick" movie. I certainly hope someone's bookie got paid before anyone's legs got broke, or they made a crap movie for absolutely nothing.
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Midlodemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-08 09:30 PM
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10. Good Burger. I took TM to see it for a birthday party
when she was 8 (I think)

Worst movie ever. God, did it suck.
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-08 09:33 PM
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12. But it had ABE VIGODA! Before he died, even, I think.
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OmahaBlueDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-08 09:36 PM
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13. Abe's still with us
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-08 09:39 PM
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14. That's just a rumor he keeps spreading.
He's died many, many times.
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Midlodemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 08:44 AM
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85. He's such a giver, that one.
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-08 09:31 PM
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11. I'd put Jaws 3 on my short list.
I saw it at the theatre in college. I don't remember anything except being bored and thinking I never realized you could spend so much to make such a bad film.
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Starbucks Anarchist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-08 09:58 PM
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16. Forrest Gump.
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-08 10:13 PM
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20. Yes, followed closely by Patch Adams
believe it or not, I know someone who was in both of them
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Starbucks Anarchist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-08 10:15 PM
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23. Voluntarily?
:scared:

It's not that Forrest Gump is bad on *all* levels -- the soundtrack is excellent, and there's some nice cinematography. It's just the overarching message of the movie and all the surrounding acclaim make it look that much worse upon closer inspection.
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-08 10:25 PM
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26. He's got a gift for being cast in high grossing garbage...
also, in "The Patriot"

However, he doesn't always function as a good luck charm. The remake of "That Darn Cat" didn't pull in the $$$$. Nor did that movie where Henry Rollins kills him by breaking his neck.
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Starbucks Anarchist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-08 10:32 PM
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27. Have you ever seen "Heat"?
I love that movie, but I crack up when Al Pacino, of all people, manages to take down Henry Rollins. :rofl:
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-08 10:35 PM
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30. That is hilarious...I've also been amused by the Oliver Stone movie...
where Pacino plays a pro football coach. Aren't most coaches former players? And just what position did Li'l Al play?
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Starbucks Anarchist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-08 10:39 PM
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31. Ironically, I was an extra in that movie.
"Any Given Sunday" is the title. I was attending college near Cowboy Stadium in Irving, and there was a call for local extras to fill the stands.

From about 200 feet up, I caught a glimpse of Jamie Foxx, Dennis Quaid and Lawrence Taylor. Shortly after that, I saw Al Pacino himself as he was driven in a golf cart onto the field.

He was waving to people, but he looked like an ant from where I was in the stands.
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-08 10:41 PM
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33. Man, that is ironic
:)
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rebel with a cause Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 12:43 AM
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48. the eye ball on the field was enough
to put me in stitches.
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Aristus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-08 10:12 PM
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19. I just saw "The Clone Wars". It's probably in the running.
:hurts:
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-08 10:14 PM
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21. Johnny Mnemonic
While watching it, I kept wondering how it got past all those many people that had to OK it before it got to the screen.
The best performance in it was given by Ice-T.
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geomon666 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-08 10:18 PM
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24. Johnny Mnemonic cannot be the worst movie ever...
simply because Henry Rollins is in it. He's that cool. That goes for anything Christopher Walken is in too.
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mwooldri Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-08 11:41 PM
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46. The only movie I walked out of...
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Though I didn't have much choice in the matter. It's my wife and her cousin who walked out. But then I didn't get into it anyway.

Mark.
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deucemagnet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 10:43 AM
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98. I don't know about that. Walken has been in some stinkers.
Here's a clip from the movie McBain where Walken shoots down a fighter jet with a pistol.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLUGBujl2-0
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pitohui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-08 10:20 PM
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25. tron
however i have never seen any jaws movie

but if tron is not the worst it's got to be way up there
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Lethe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-08 10:42 PM
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34. blasphemy!
Edited on Thu Aug-21-08 10:53 PM by ikhor
jeff bridges will teach you the meaning of life on the game grid!!!

edit: also David Warner, he will destroy you in a very villainous voice over.
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JeffR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-08 10:34 PM
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28. Trog, Joan Crawford's last movie
If you're high, it's a groove. If you're not, you'll be calling the local suicide hotline before the first commercial break.

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Enthusiast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 11:01 AM
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105. Trog was reeaally bad! nt
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maseman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-08 10:43 PM
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35. Howard the Duck
It was OK until Lea Thompson fucked the duck.
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eauclaireliberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-08 10:48 PM
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36. All three "prequels" to Star Wars
They should have just stopped at the first, released in '76. Greedy fucktard Lucas continues to milk it for all he can get, even if it sucks.
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-08 11:23 PM
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44. That's not what Lucas is doing.
He's into his stories. When he made Willow and it flopped, he continued the story through books.

And none of them sucked. Christen Hadenson sucked, and made them all a lot worse, especially the second one. But they weren't that bad. They weren't like, say, Lord of the Rings bad. They just didn't have the magic that the first round had.
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AZBlue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-08 10:50 PM
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37. Three-way tie: Blair Witch, Napoleon Dynamite & English Patient.
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-08 10:50 PM
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38. Battlefield Earth (n/t)
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Drum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-08 11:07 PM
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42. Wow, that gets my vote too.
I don't see everything, of course, but I was thoroughly disinterested after about an hour...and I'm usually a look-for-the-strengths, grade-high and tip-well customer.
:shrug:
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-08 11:22 PM
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43. Easily the worst I've seen
I'm sure that there are worst I haven't seen.

Showgirls was pretty bad but it had one redeeming quality. Well, two actually. Battlefield isn't even a "good" bad film.
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elshiva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 05:14 AM
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68. Yes, totally sucked.
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Starbucks Anarchist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 09:12 AM
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90. OT, but I love your sig pic.
:rofl:
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Riddler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-08 11:03 PM
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41. Pink Flamingos, hands down.
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-08 11:30 PM
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45. Worst that other people liked? LotR, or Ferris Buehler. Worst that had a reasonable chance of being
good but just came out bad? (That's where I'd put Jaws 3--they had the budget to make it good)-- I don't know, that's a long list. Starsky and Hutch comes to mind, and the two Jackie Chan sequels--Shanghai Noon 2 and RushHour 2.

But the worst film I've ever seen was Yor: The Hunter of the future. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084935/ It was badly made, badly acted, and just bad, and it didn't even have the redeeming clever plot or cult-like charm of other bad films. Even so, I'd rather watch it again than Ferris Buehler or LotR.
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rebel with a cause Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 12:48 AM
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49. Ones that most people, especially women, liked
and I hated was "Titanic" and "Bridges of Madison County"(both book and movie).
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 01:05 AM
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50. Loved Titanic, never saw Bridges.
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Lil Missy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-08 11:56 PM
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47. Mr Giggles
A low budget movie about a killer that dressed up like a clown and giggled when he killed teenagers. Dumbest damn movie I've ever seen.

A close second would be "The Hills Have Eyes." Gawd, painfully stupid.
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 02:03 AM
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59. The Hills Have Eyes was CRUSHINGLY bad
I started laughing part way through. :o
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Lil Missy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 02:15 AM
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61. OMG, it was awful. They came out with a Part 2, and we said NO WAY!
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Zavulon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 01:06 AM
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51. Dana Carvey's "Master of Disguise."
Inexcusable. A violation of basic human rights.

Another good candidate would be Strip Search, which starred Michael Pare and Pamela Grier, but that one is actually worth watching because of horrifically wretched dialogue which is so unintentionally funny that it winds up being ten times as amusing as Plan 9 from Outer Space.

You can't imagine how hilariously bad the latter is. The former, however, which unlike the latter is MEANT to be funny, is offensively bad.
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TankLV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 01:07 AM
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52. American Pie - simply awful subject matter...
the one with Kevin Spacey that begins with the nakid UNDERAGE GIRL covered in red rose petals...

Old pervert/pedophile sexually desiring a young girl made "beautiful"

ugh...

utter crap...
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Mad_Dem_X Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 07:57 AM
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76. That would be American Beauty.
American Pie is where the kid sticks his wee-wee in a pie and tries to have sex with it.
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 01:08 AM
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53. Noises off
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Adsos Letter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 01:11 AM
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54. My standard answer....
"Gods and Generals"... :boring:
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bluesbassman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 01:26 AM
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55. Popeye
Couldn't understand a single word Robin Williams mumbled. This dovetailed nicely with the plot though, which probably still would have not made sense even if you could understand Williams.

The only bright spot was the near perfect resemblance of Shelley Duval to Olive Oyl.
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 01:33 AM
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56. Star Wars 1-3
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Lethe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 02:07 AM
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60. blasphemy!
wait, no, you're right they did suck
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Tabasco_Dave Donating Member (744 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 01:49 AM
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57. Sextette
Here is a scene with a 84 year old Mae West and a young Timothy Dalton on their honeymoon. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoCRgcKqb8M :puke:
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begin_within Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 10:48 AM
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100. That's an unintentional comedy
We got a laugh out of it and were even repeating some of the worst lines for a few days afterwards.
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lob1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 02:26 AM
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62. I'm surprised no one has mentioned "Spiderman 3".
Spiderman dancing? The webslinger becomes twinkletoes. Suck, suck, suck, suck.
One more...suck.
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eshfemme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 04:55 AM
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65. My entire theater laughed when Peter Parker went emo by adjusting his bangs
Edited on Fri Aug-22-08 04:57 AM by eshfemme
to hang in front of his eyes. God was that lame. I felt really bad for Toby Maguire-- to his credit, he nearly sold it but the scripting was just too awful.
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WhollyHeretic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 02:50 AM
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63. I know it's an easy answer but I'll have to say
Waterworld.

Kevin Costner has bugged the shit out of me as long as I can remember. Hulk Hogan gave a better performance in No Holds Barred.

The movie was made worse by the fact that I not only paid for my ticket to a Kevin Costner movie but paid for someone else's as well. My friend had a crush on Kevin Costner. We took him out for his birthday and said we'd pay for whatever he wanted and he picked seeing Waterworld.
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Tommy_Carcetti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 08:38 AM
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82. I liked Waterworld.
Flame away, but I thought it was good fun.

Of course, it came out in the summer of 1995, and I basically liked everything about the summer of 1995.
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coyotespaw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 02:55 AM
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64. While I'm sure that any "part 3 movie" fits in quite equally on the suck scale...
The Crow: Salvation has a special place in my heart. Horrid plot, horrid special effects... It almost makes me shiver to think what would happen if someone tried to make a sequel to Highlander.
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Indi Guy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 05:03 AM
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66. Casino...
...the editor must have died.
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 05:06 AM
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67. Still got to go with "Armageddon"
It's easy to say something like "Plan Nine from Outer Space". But "Plan" was made on a miniscule budget, and starred mostly non-actors (like Vampira and Tor Johnson)

"Armageddon", on the other hand, cost something like $180 million, had a slew of A-List actors (Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck) and what was the result? A big, horrible, unwatchable piece of steaming shit.
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Indi Guy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 05:16 AM
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69. Yeah - Armageddon was about as good as Hudson Hawk...
At least Armageddon had a budget.

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MrSlayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 05:56 AM
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70. The Jerky Boys.
Hilarious phony phone callers but horrendous actors in a terribly scripted, poorly edited disaster of a "film". Just dreadful, makes "Tarzan, the Ape Man" look like "The Godfather"
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billyoc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 07:28 AM
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71. Titanic.
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bertha katzenengel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 07:32 AM
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72. Don't anyone dare say "Ishtar."
You just didn't get the movie, that's all. My dad spent 12 years (with frequent breaks home) in Abu Dhabi and other Middle Eastern locales. Having spent so much time in the culture of the Middle East, he found "Ishtar" to be hilarious. Absolutely uproarious. It was one of his favorite movies.
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gmoney Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 08:38 AM
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81. Never been there, but I still like it...
Edited on Fri Aug-22-08 08:41 AM by gmoney
The pathetic songwriting is hilarious, the cross casting of Hoffman as the ladies' man and Beatty as the gameless wonder is fun. It's not the greatest movie ever, but it's entertaining.

Ishtar got the bad rap not because of what's on the screen, but because of the finances. If it didn't make a ton of money, it must have sucked. I hate how that's now the public's only concern. "How much did the movie cost? How much did it make opening weekend? OK, let's go see it." Regardless of if it's entertaining or not.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KdQ7Gig770
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwReb36h0KA
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CrownPrinceBandar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 03:30 PM
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110. I liked "Ishtar"........
the songs were so bad, they were classic.

"Telling the truth can be dangerous business,
Honest and popular don't go hand in hand.
If you admit you can play the accordion, no one will hire you in a rock and roll band."

No Ishtar hate here.
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hobbit709 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 07:36 AM
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73. "It's Alive" was bad, real bad-not even funny bad.
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Midlodemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 08:42 AM
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84. I saw that in the movie theater.
And my brother snuck up behind me at one point and put three, splayed fingers on my shoulder.

I still haven't recovered.
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driver8 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-23-08 12:23 AM
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117. OMG! I would have sh*t myself!
I remember seeing the trailer for this movie on tv when I was a teenager...the trailer scared me to death!

I still went and saw it in the theatre, though.

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EstimatedProphet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 07:41 AM
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74. StarCrash
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079946/

Here's a snippet from an online review:

People who love bad special effects will believe that they have died and gone to Heaven. Space is a glorious backdrop of colorful stars; it looks like somebody went nuts with a Lite Brite set (do not miss the constellation, in the shape of a "J," that is visible in almost every scene). Most of the explosions, including spacecraft being destroyed, are realized through impressive displays of fireworks. It is rare for more than five minutes to pass without a flurry of laser beams criss-crossing the screen that result in fantastic showers of sparklers when they hit. Last, but not least, are the spacecraft models. The ships are insane clumps of cans, thread spools, and spare parts from plastic model kits (including the old space shuttle Columbia kit that I built as a kid). Some of the sprues are just glued onto the outside of the models to add chaotic detail. I think I saw tank treads still attached to one sprue. The result is something shaped like the "spaceships" that are created by four-year-olds using basic LEGO blocks, except these masterpieces are painted a solid color.
More: http://www.badmovies.org/movies/starcrash/

And it stars David Hasselhoff!
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MissMillie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 07:55 AM
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75. I thought general consensus was "Freddie Got Fingered"
of course, I didn't see it because I don't see many movies at all.

The worst movie I ever saw was Pulp Fiction.
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old mark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 07:58 AM
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77. The classic, ultimate all-time worst ever is
Plan 9 From Outer Space.
Directed by Ed Wood.1959

With: Gregory Walcott, Tom Keene,Duke Moore, Mona McKinnon,Dudley Manlove, Joanna Lee,Tor Johnson, Lyle Talbot,Bela Lugosi, Vampira, Criswell.
Bela Lugosi died 2 days after shooting some scenes for this movie in 1956, and in later scenes his character was replaced by a man with a cape hiding most of his face.
This one has flying saucers made of tableware on strings, terrible dialogue, terrible evrything. Funny, but not on purpose.
This is the movie they are making in the movie "Ed Wood".
AKA "Grave Robbers From Outer Space".
I have sen this several times, and it is actually embarassing to watch.

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nuxvomica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 08:27 AM
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78. You think it's the worst yet you've seen it several times?
I've seen it many times myself and I think it's a great movie. Ed Wood was the ultimate auteur, pursuing his own personal vision despite the numerous obstacles -- including a lack of financing, technical ability, and good taste -- in his way. Yes, the movie is unintentionally hilarious but what holds it together is Wood's unabashed commitment to his art despite his lack of talent.
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old mark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 08:41 AM
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83. That's one of the reasons I watch it.
That and the cast.

He must have been a real hollywood bullshit artist to get financing and cast for these films.

mark
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gmoney Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 08:48 AM
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86. it's not boring, therefore it can't be the worst
It's at least entertaining, if incompetent.
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Dr. Strange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 10:03 AM
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93. Nah. Plan 9 isn't even Ed Wood's worst film.
Glen or Glenda is far worse.
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old mark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 10:52 AM
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102. Maybe worse, but funnier -
I actually saw Glen or Glenda in a drive-in in the early 1960's.
Wood did make a few that may be worse than Plan 9, but I can't recall seeing them.

I really like Tor Johnson and Vampira in this movie.


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begin_within Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 10:56 AM
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103. Have you seen "Glen or Glenda?"
Just as bad/good as "Plan 9" for my money, with Bela Lugosi as the inappropriate narrator, Ed Wood as a transvestite (which he was), idiotic stock footage thrown in, and some bizarre dream footage all adds up to a laugh riot.
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Puglover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 02:29 PM
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108. Here's a link to watch it online.
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Puglover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 02:29 PM
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109. Here's a link to watch it online.
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old mark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-23-08 08:58 AM
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122. In the "Ed Wood" movie, he
meets and speaks about film making with Orson Welles. Does anyone know if that event ever really took place or was it just in the movie?
I believe I read a boigraphy of Wood's, but I don't remember much - it was a long time ago.

Should try to find it again he was a very interesting guy.


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skypilot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 08:31 AM
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80. The last Die Hard movie was pretty awful...
...unless it was trying to be a parody of an American action flick, in which case it was brilliant.
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lazyriver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 08:50 AM
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87. Joe vs. The Volcano. Tom Hanks should be forced to return all
the awards he's won for his good movies just for agreeing to star in that piece of steaming shit. Four of us went to see Hunt for Red October but all showings were sold out. The person who drove to the theater insisted we see something and Joe v Volcano was the only movie with tickets available (we soon learned why). After 35 minutes I realized 3/4 of the people had walked out and the three people with me were all sleeping. I woke them up and we left too. I came very close to getting arrested on the way out during my argument with the manager as we demanded our money back. Once I calmed down and stopped swearing, I dared him to go in and sit through the last hour. I said we would leave quietly if he would do that. He ended up giving us each a free open ended voucher for a movie rather than take me up on the dare.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 08:53 AM
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88. Maybe not the worst, but the silliest, with youtube link
Shark Attack 3: Megalodon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nzd0R_OeOc



and I think this might be the movie with the famous line, after the action is over, "So, how about we go back to your place and I eat your pussy"
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w8liftinglady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 09:19 AM
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91. if you have a really bad movie...you HAVE to check out Rifftrax
http://www.rifftrax.com/
They do voiceovers for some of the most popular movies with hilarious results.I have downloaded about 10 so far.
here's a link to free samples
http://www.rifftrax.com/samples
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Rob H. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 10:01 AM
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92. Anything touted as "A Sci-Fi Original Movie"
The worst of that bunch that I actually saw was called Mansquito, about a man who mutates into a murderous beast that's half-man, half mosquito, obviously. One thing the screenwriters apparently didn't know is that it's only the female mosquito that feeds on blood--the male feeds on nectar!

There was also one called Manticore that I saw a couple minutes of--it had the most obviously CGI screen monster I've ever seen.
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-23-08 12:38 AM
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119. They make Ed Wood look like Francis Ford Coppola
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Tommy_Carcetti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 10:08 AM
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94. I don't know if they are the worse, but those [Genre] Movie "parodies" are pretty bad.
I'm referring to Date Movie, Epic Movie, Meet the Spartans, and Disaster Movie. Who exactly is bankrolling these producers to put out such crap?

For an effective parody--think Young Frankenstein, Airplane, Naked Gun--there has to be some sort of unifying plot. These "movies" don't have that--it's just a string of different parodies put together, half of which don't even fit in with the actual genre which is supposed to be spoofed. Moreover, the spoofs of comedies rarely go beyond the original joke from the original movie, so why do they even bother?
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jeff30997 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 10:11 AM
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97. Is Scary Movie a good example? n/t
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Tommy_Carcetti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 10:50 AM
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101. Scary Movies were passable....
but not great. Not Another Teen Movie was actually pretty funny if predictably dumb.

But Date/Epic/Meet the Spartans/Disaster Movies were just horrific.
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Kire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 10:08 AM
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95. Death Race, out today, got half a star from Roger Ebert
Edited on Fri Aug-22-08 10:09 AM by Kire
I don't remember seeing one that low before.

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080821/REVIEWS/341/-1/email_headlines

Also, I think there is a movie called "Cure for Insomnia" that is 87 hours long,or something like that. I heard it was pretty bad.
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begin_within Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 10:45 AM
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99. This one:
"Cycle Vixens" (a.k.a. "Young Cycle Girls") from 1978. It's hard to believe that someone agreed to put up the money for it. Astonishingly amateurish in every aspect. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079018/

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Pierre.Suave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 10:58 AM
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104. Amazon Zombie Strippers From Mars...
:P




























Whats that? it hasn't been made yet? Well it should have been...
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704wipes Donating Member (966 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 11:28 PM
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111. Rocky
Edited on Fri Aug-22-08 11:29 PM by 704wipes
yo,it sucked, sucks, will always suck....
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FloridaJudy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 11:32 PM
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112. Manos, the Hands of Fate
Edited on Fri Aug-22-08 11:46 PM by FloridaJudy
Unwatchable, even with the crew from MST3K deconstructing it, and I usually love watching them dismember cheesy movies. Only time I've turned off MST3K. Ever.

It made "Plan Nine from Outer Space" look like Citizen Kane.
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leeroysphitz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 11:35 PM
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113. You LOOOOOOVE Jaws 3.
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elshiva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-23-08 12:42 AM
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120. You LOOOOVE saying "You LOOOOOOOOOOVE...."
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-08 11:37 PM
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114. Angels In The Outfield!!!!!
I've held a serious grudge against Disney ever since that piece of shit came out.
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loveable liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-23-08 12:21 AM
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116. Gone with the Wind
blah blah blah "Mah Lawd" blah blah blah
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-23-08 12:26 AM
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118. The one porn I saw once with the inadvertent spider cameo
I've repressed the name of the movie, but I now have a lifelong fear of going at it on cheap lawn furniture.
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Lorien Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-23-08 01:58 AM
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121. Two Tom Cruise movies: "Legend" and "War of the worlds"
though I don't think either were the worst films ever made, they were pretty painful.
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MicaelS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-23-08 09:34 AM
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123. Gone with the Wind
A fucking 4 hour long soap opera. The only good part was the burning of Atlanta. Scarlett O'Hara has to be THE most ignorant, stupid and annoying lead female character ever put on film.
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YellowRubberDuckie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-23-08 10:05 AM
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124. Time Bandits
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just a girl Donating Member (173 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-23-08 10:26 AM
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125. 'Seeing Other People' or '10,000 B.C.'
Either one leaves you feeling like you got ripped off.
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skygazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-23-08 12:36 PM
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126. I can't believe no one has mentioned Costner's Robin Hood
Horrible, horrible train wreck of a movie. Costner as Robin Hood with a flat American accent, Morgan Freeman as the token black man, predictable "drama" (Little John's wife and baby in peril! the birth of said baby, saved by Morgan Freeman! Maid Marian nearly raped by the sheriff - Allan Rickman, the only bright point, mainly because he had the sense to see he was in a comedy), and corny crap like the long-lost brother storyline. :puke:

God, I can't believe I remember all that. How depressing!
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JCMach1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-23-08 02:15 PM
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127. How many times has this thread appeared in the lounge?
could be triple digits by now.
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-23-08 02:16 PM
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128. I saw Jaws 3D in the theater. Using a ticket I paid actual money for.
I do not know why I did that.
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