Whats the WORST movie ever made?

[Archae]

Ishtar. What in the hell were they thinking? :eyes:

[XemaSab]

1. End of Days

Even Arnold was wasted in that role.

[Danger Mouse]

2. Manos: The Hands of Fate. So bad, even MST3K couldn't make it watchable.

So bad, at least three cast members committed suicide after making the movie.

So bad, it makes Ed Wood look like a cinematic genius.

[SunnySong]

5. Try the MST3K version of The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy

makes Manos look like Basic Instinct.

[Drunken Irishman]

6. Yup. Gotta be the worst ever made.

Especially when you consider the writer/director wanted to make a serious movie.

[joeybee12]

56. Agree...they can usually make anything watchable...

...but this is soooooooooooooooooo bad I saw it once on MST3K and never wanna see it again.

[Arctic Dave]

3. Anything with Chuck Norris.

Blair Witch Project

[Drunken Irishman]

7. I actually liked Silent Rage.

[Arctic Dave]

8. Chuck Norris doesn't even like Chuck Norris movies, Chuck Norris is never wrong.

[SunnySong]

4. Mainstream? AI: Artificial Intelligence.

Kubrick should be dug up just to be given an ass kicking for that film.

[Zavulon]

9. Since I haven't seen every movie ever made, I'll go with what I know:

It's a tie between Dune (1984) and that second Hellraiser movie. Holy fuck, I've never seen examples of worse acting than I saw in those two movies.

[Taitertots]

10. Back Woods

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0270847/

[rocktivity]

11. Sure, there are movies I've regretted sitting through

but The Bodyguard with Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston is the one that made me want to sue the producer for stealing two hours of my life.

x(
rocktivity

[BlueJazz]

12. "Kabasha...Giant Snail of the Pacific"

[Texasgal]

13. Flash Gordon

Trailer here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMEc_MiLmgw

[Archae]

14. Are you kidding??!!??

It's one of the best cheeseball "shut half your brain off grab the popcorn and enjoy" movie.

And the soundtrack, by none other than Queen!

[Skittles]

26. CORRECT

yes INDEED

[Dr Morbius]

27. I like that movie. It's a comic book come to life. It's fun.

And Brian May playing "Here Comes the Bride" on his electric guitar is worth the price of admission alone.

There are so many bad movies that it's hard for me to name the worst. Part of the reason for this is my annoying tendency to avoid movies I've heard are awful, so I've never seen most of the often-named classically bad movies such as Manos.

I did recently watch Toxic Avenger, which is horrible but kind of knows it's horrible and it's like the movie embraces awfulness. I rather enjoyed it; before the end I found myself laughing.

[Deep13]

35. I never liked it until a friend back East explained that to me.

We watched it together and every scene he pointed out how the shot was just like a comic book. And Queen did a great job.

[LearnedHand]

15. EXACTLY the movie I thought of when I saw your thread title

:puke:

[rrneck]

16. Laser Blast

I snuck into the movie without paying and still got beat.

[mitchum]

22. Laser Blast is the only movie where I asked for my money back

I may have been a stoned teenage degenerate, but even I has standards.
Oh...I didn't get my money back.

[Doc_Technical]

17. Week End

Either I'm a dense rube or this was a joke
fostered on us as French New Wave
groundbreaking art, or both.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062480/

[jobycom]

18. Godfather I and II, and The Shawshank Redemption.

Okay, I think those are some of the greatest ever made, but people will start naming movies like Titanic or something with Cruise of Costner just because they think it's cool to hate popular things, so I thought I'd beat the psuedo-iconoclasm rush and go straight for the top.

[mitchum]

25. You forgot Citizen Suck with that fatso Orson guy

[Common Sense Party]

41. That movie actually does suck.

Or at very least, it doesn't stand the test of time.

[Odin2005]

19. The Core.

Jebus, that was horrible! :rofl:

[gmoney]

20. Ishtar rocks, don't believe the hype

Sure it's a mess, but at least it's entertaining. If it had stayed in NYC, it would have had real potential. The original songs and their cover of "Little Darlin'" are epic.

[NewJeffCT]

52. I think because of the stars & budget

it's probably one of the biggest letdowns in terms of movie quality vs budget/star power. However, it's far from the worst movie ever judging it just on its own merits.

[gmoney]

57. Right... it was hype at the time.

"OMG, it's over budget! OMG, it's behind schedule! It's the worst movie evar!" was what media was squawking about back in the day.

They said the same kind of shit about Apocalypse Now! "OMG, Brando's heavy! OMG, there are production problems! OMG, it's in big trouble!" and to my mind, it ended up being the definitive Vietnam movie, maybe the definitive war movie.

Not that Ishtar is the definitive anything, but I think people were programmed to dismiss it before it ever saw the light of day. It's certainly more entertaining than half the "comedies" being released these days.

[vixengrl]

21. Weird--I just blogged about bad movies.

Particularly regarding The Last Airbender, which I contend wasn't that bad.

http://strangelyrandomstuff.blogspot.com/2010/07/i-saw-m-night-shamalayans-last.html

Big Momma's House 2 was spectacularly inept, though. Boom mikes in scenes, the scene where Malcolm in the Big Momma suit lets himself be massaged or anything else at a spa where undoubtedly the artificiality of his "cover" would be blown, the gratuitous fat and old jokes, the way "magical fake fat granny" was supposed to fix everything. It was hellaciously bad. It was a movie of which I said, during the end credits, "At least someone's bookie got paid." Other than make-rent, this thing had no cause to be.

[tblue]

23. Picnic at Hanging Rock

After decades, I have relatives who still won't forgive me for suggesting this movie in which nothing, absolutely nothing happens.

[mitchum]

24. I watched it years ago and could remember nothing about it...

I thought that was due to my altered nature at the time.
I tried to watch it just a couple of months ago. I really tried.

[Tobin S.]

28. I thought Plan 9 From Outer Space was universally accepted

as the worst movie ever made. So bad that it's classic.

[hobbit709]

29. +1

Though "It's Alive" could be a very close second.

plan 9 was so bad, it's funny. It's Alive is just bad.

[tigereye]

40. Plan 9 is much more coherent than one would think - esp when one is sober!

:rofl:

[Joe Fields]

55. I loved plan 9. I guess it's in the eye of the beholder.

[old mark]

65. Plan 9 is a fucking hoot! Buy a copy and save it for a snow storm or a rainy day. nt

[OmahaBlueDog]

70. Here's my problem with calling any of the Ed Wood films "Worst"

...yes, they are campy...yes, they are badly written and badly acted .. but Wood made those films with resources that weren't a whole lot more than what student filmmakers have. He had no money, and what starpower he had (Lugosi) was drug-addicted and washed up. I'm not saying any of his work is great filmmaking, but I have a helluva lot more respect for wood than for filmmakers like M. Night Shamalamadingdong -- who can get most anyone they want to perform in their films, and huge budgets, and produce dreck like "Lady in Water" and "Airbender"

[bigwillq]

30. Hostel

Just no need for it really.

[cloudbase]

31. Anything coming from

M. Night Shamaramalamadingdong.

[EOTE]

39. Most movies, anyway.

I loathe almost all of his films, but I really liked "Unbreakable". I thought "The Sixth Sense" was OK, but everything after those two sucked royally. Movies like "The Happening" and "The Village" are laughably bad.

[Touchdown]

32. Toss up between The Watchmen and Magnolia.

Grade C level movies like Manos, I Spit on your Grave, Galaxy of Terror, etc. are expected to be bad. Duds like Ishtar and Battlefield Earth are famous for their laugh ability. Both of my movies were hyped up to be the best in their class, lived up to much less than their hype, are over 3 coma inducing hours of self indulgence, and have the most annoying fans on Earth, even years later.

And here they come... 3, 2, 1...

[Deep13]

36. I actually liked Watchmen...

I liked its general feel and the music.

I Spit on Your Grave was hard too watch because of the subject matter, but it was very well done and full of symbolism. The version with the audio commentary by Joe Bob Briggs brings it to life and makes it a bit less painful to watch.

[Fire Walk With Me]

37. I'm a Watchmen fanboy

LOVED the book, wasn't impressed much by the film. Can't say I ever want to watch it again.

[Forkboy]

33. Freejack for me.

I watched slack jawed and unable to comprehend the monumental stupidity unfolding before my eyes. I wept openly.

[Deep13]

34. It's a toss up.

Either Ray Dennis Steckler's Blood Shack for it's intense boredom and pointlessness or it's Manos: The Hands of Fate (resurrected from obscurity by Mystery Science Theater 3000) for its overall ickiness.

[bif]

38. Chicago.

[Ahpook]

42. Anyone seen "Baghead" thats been on Encore lately?

I like the odd independent film, so gave it a try. That one hurt! :)

Only redeeming factor was the soundtrack. It consisted of acoustic guitar playing that actually sounded pretty damn good. Almost psychedelic in nature.

Wouldn't mind finding those guitar bits

[jp11]

43. Triumph of the Will

There are plenty that might be worse like The Birth of a Nation, Reefer Madness or other exploitation/propaganda films I can't recall.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

44. That "Christmas Story" sequel with Charles Grodin. UNWATCHABLE.

My Summer Story (1994)



Charles Grodin (Actor), Kieran Culkin (Actor), Bob Clark (Director)

This sequel to the wildly successful "A Christmas Story" traces Ralphie's summer transition from boyhood to young adulthood, aided by his eccentric family. Based on the novels of Jean Shepherd, the novelist and famous radio personality of the 1950's 60's and 70's. The film is narrated by Jean Shepherd, in the same familial voice that made him such a beloved radio star.

http://www.amazon.com/My-Summer-Story-Charles-Grodin/dp/B000FSMEAG

[underpants]

76. Wow worse than the Beethovens?

that is amazing

I had never heard of that movie

[Maccagirl]

45. The remake of Psycho

with Vince Vaughn and Anne Heche. It had to have been that bad on purpose.

[HughBeaumont]

46. Manos for sheer low budget fertilizer salesman shittiness, but . . .

. . . grandiose, I'm going with Howard the Duck. Second worst film I ever saw at a theater next to Toys. Yes, let's disgrace cinema even MORE by showing Caroline in the City fuck a damned bird. And to top it off, it's set in Cleveland. Thanks.

I felt really, REALLY embarrassed for myself just watching it in a theater. People were walking out left and right. A phenomenally stupid idea, horrible script, cringeworthy scenes . . . you just wonder how many pounds of uncut Brazilian cocaine was snorted in THAT meeting to greenlight this bomb.

[blue_onyx]

47. The Number 23

I had to turn it off after 20 minutes.

[Lasher]

48. Stripper Zombies

I couldn't stand to watch it all but I am confident it is the worst movie ever made.

[NewJeffCT]

51. The premise sounds cool, though

just like that movie "Ninja Cheerleaders" I saw on Showtime a few weeks back... starring George "Sulu" Takei as the owner of a strip club and teacher of the ninja arts to three young strippers who are hoping to use their stripper money to pay for an Ivy League eduction. Still not sure why it was not called Ninja Strippers, as cheerleading played very little part in the movie.

[Lasher]

58. You're right, Stripper Zombies and Ninja Cheerleaders are both catchy titles.

I got sucked in by the title. Even beer didn't help.

[Yukari Yakumo]

49. Anything made by Uwe Boll {nt}

[StarlightGold]

50. Toss up between

Showgirls and Swept Away w/ Madonna.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

53. Glitter.

[Joe Fields]

54. Monolith Monsters

A strange '50's sci-fi movie about rocks that set out to destroy mankind.

[Dr Morbius]

59. It's not very good but not all that bad.

Hands down much better than the William Shatner vehicle The Devil's Rain. Amazingly, this film did not ruin the career of young actor John Travolta, although it did ruin the career of the director, Robert Fuest (who had made the enjoyable Dr. Phibes movies). Also amazingly, even though Shatner was awful (this was 1975), he wasn't the worst actor in the film! Ernest Borgnine turned in arguably the worst performance of his life.

The Monolith Monsters is by comparison very satisfying.

[kid shelleen]

66. You liked Plan 9

but didn't dig Monolith Monsters?? Well don't watch Kronos then.

[Moondog]

60. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.

No redeeming social value whatsoever. It sucked. And not in a good way.

[Art_from_Ark]

79. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes was, indeed, awful

I don't think I made it through the first 5 minutes of that one.

[Jennicut]

61. Showgirls.....worst acting ever.

[Moondog]

63. With respect -

I don't that flick was about acting, all it was about was T & A.

[Jennicut]

68. LOL....that is for sure.

[lazarus]

62. 2001: A Space Odyssey

Absolute dreck. No plot. They were making it up as they went along, and it shows. Boring as hell, too.

[old mark]

64. "The Terror" I think 1963, starring Jack Nicholson and Boris Karlof.

I first saw this piece of shit back in the 1970's when I was young and I attributed its lack of any real plot or continuity to the fact that I was still smoking pot. It is patched together from odds and ends of film by 5 or 6 directors (depends on who is counted) including Roger Corman, Francis Ford Copola and Nicholson himself. Absolute junk, one of those "so-bad-it-has-a-following"movies that seemed to happen in the '60's... Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terror_(1963_film)

Pretty much unwatchable for me, although I might just get a DVD of it just to see if it makes any sense now... Last time I saw it, I tried to figure it out and concluded it was not worth the effort.


mark

[mikeSchmuckabee]

67. Clerks 2

Half the dialog was "ass to mouth". Useless

[OmahaBlueDog]

69. The link in this post should help - Movifone's "Biggest Box-Office Turkeys of All Time"

http://insidemovies.moviefone.com/2007/11/15/biggest-box-office-bombs/

"Ishtar" earns mention on this list, as do such gems as "Battlefield Earth", "Catwoman", "Gigli", and "Inchon"

[lightningandsnow]

71. Go Fish.

The script is like a seventh grade drama script, the sex scenes are awkward, the main character is dislikable, and it's filmed in black and white for no reason.

[Steely_Dan]

72. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

I couldn't get through the first five minutes. The BeeGees???? Frampton???

Of course, "Frampton Comes Alive" is probably the best live album ever.

-P

[Wolf Frankula]

73. Sgt Pepper blew dead toads

But it wasn't as bad as Urban Cowboy with John (deep from da heart a New Joisey) trying to sound like a Texan. And then there's Last Year at Marienbad. The Chileans used a Spanish dubbed version of that as torture.

Wolf

[Patsy Stone]

74. Showgirls

But it's so bad, it's great.

[tishaLA]

75. Moment by Moment. Or Battlefield Earth. Or The Lonely Lady.

[underpants]

77. Reality Bites, Quick & The Dead , Remember the Titans, High Noon

http://www.amazon.com/Quick-Dead-VHS-Sharon-Stone/dp/0800139151
Sharon Stone ... Ellen

Gene Hackman ... Herod

Russell Crowe ... Cort

Leonardo DiCaprio ... Kid

[mysuzuki2]

78. Hair Club for Men

don't ask - I'm really ashamed of myself for venturing into the back room of the video store.

[Art_from_Ark]

80. Night of the Lepus

Killer bunny rabbits terrorize a doll house