Very worst movie of all time, in your opinion only, of course

[steve2470]

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Plan 9 from Outer Space ?

[csziggy]

1. Plan 9 has some redeeming social value

It sets the standard by which all other bad movies can be judged.

[PassingFair]

2. Apparently there is a new contender for the title....

"The Room" by Tommy Wiseau

http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/the-room-director-tommy-wiseau-returns-with-new-sitcom-20140717

Big cult hit with the "kids".

My daughter went to a midnight showing last weekend and got her picture taken with Mr. Wiseau.

[CBGLuthier]

4. I have to admit to kind of liking The Room.

Never mind, I was thinking of another movie. The weird one where the woman is obsessed with finding some place. Can not remember what that one was called.

[dawg]

72. "You're tearing me apart, Lisa!"

[CBGLuthier]

3. Manos The Hands of Fate makes Plan 9 seem like the work of Hitchcock

Here is the MST3k version which is almost tolerable

[Coventina]

8. Hahaha!

My brother once described "Manos" as one, long, awkward pause.

After seeing it, I had to agree....

MST3K does make fun, though.

[trof]

10. What a hoot. Thanks.

[mackerel]

26. WTF is that shyte? LOL

[catnhatnh]

5. How about a movie so bad the director attempts suicide?

Robot Monster is a 1953 American black-and-white science fiction film made in 3-D by Phil Tucker and distributed by Astor Pictures. It is frequently considered one of the worst films ever made.[1] [2] Years later, Robot Monster was included as one of the choices in the book The Fifty Worst Films of All Time.[1]


The poor quality of the film gave rise to a long-lived rumor within the industry that the poor reception from audiences caused director Phil Tucker to attempt suicide by gun, but he missed. According to Keep Watching the Skies!, a comprehensive history of 1950s and early 1960s American science fiction films, author Bill Warren claims that Tucker's attempted suicide was due to depression and a dispute with the film's distributor, who had allegedly refused to pay Tucker his contracted percentage of the film's profits.[12]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Monster

[KamaAina]

6. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes?

Glen or Glenda? (another Ed Wood classic* )
Hudson Hawk?
Ishtar?
Leonard Part 6? (Bill Cosby actually apologized to his fans for that one.)
Howard the Duck?

We could have a whole film festival of these, in someplace decidedly non-Sundancey, like my old hometown of Bridgeport, Conn.

[Boom Sound 416]

9. Leonard Part 6 takes it.

Melted Butter!!

[lastlib]

12. "Killer Tomatoes" was hysterical! (Not quite "Blazing Saddles"....

...but still hilarious!) It was funny (and good) because it was TRYING to be bad! (And it had all the ingredients of bad, but still managed to be hilarious.)

"Zardoz", OTOH, tried to be a good movie--and failed ABJECTLY MISERABLY! TOTAL.WASTE.of celluloid.

[CBGLuthier]

70. I love Zardoz. But I am a Boorman fan.

I think it is a better story than 2001. Note I said better story not better film.

Solaris beats both of them but this is not about good movies.

[fizzgig]

14. shut your mouth about howard the duck

that movie is awesome

[KamaAina]

40. Pain meds kicking in?

[fizzgig]

56. it's a piece of cinematic genius

drugs just enhance the experience

[Xyzse]

101. May have to agree.

Heck, probably why I enjoyed the cartoon Duckman.

[awoke_in_2003]

95. Lea Thompson

Enough said

[Squinch]

80. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes was awesome! And it had a fabulous theme song, which I can

sing for you if you like. I know all the words.

[KamaAina]

81. You're from San Diego, aren't you?

It was filmed there, and has a cult following there.

[Squinch]

82. No, NYC. It has a long reach among those of us with impeccable taste in movies.

Remember Herman Farbage, while taking out his garbage, he turned around and he did see, TOMATOES hiding in his tree, and now he’s just a memory!

[lovemydog]

102. Wow, the theme song sounds atrocious.

[Squinch]

105. Fabulously so!

[hunter]

7. It takes big egos and big budgets to make truly bad movies.

Battlefield Earth is far worse than Plan 9 -- the story, the sets, everything...

Plan 9 digs a few holes with shovels. It's actually sort of interesting once you know the story behind it.

Battlefield Earth excavates immense craters with nuclear weapons and fills them with shit and vomit.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0185183

[progressoid]

41. I tried to watch it once.

Could only manage about 30 minutes of it. I love how nearly every shot has the camera tilted to the left or right.

[sharp_stick]

73. I took an afternoon off

when I was in grad school to go see this in the theater alone, nobody wanted to go with me for some reason.

I handed my ticket to the guy and he looked at me funny, I told him that I'd heard that it was a horrible movie and wanted to find out for myself. He said he was pretty sure that I would not be disappointed. I was the only one in the theater, the only person there and I watched it all. The ticket taker was absolutely right, it was a shit movie, horrible from start to finish.

When I left the guy smiled at me and congratulated me for sticking it out, most people weren't capable of stomaching that much suck.

[Soylent Brice]

97. LMFAO

[lastlib]

11. Zardoz. Period. End of discussion.

I win.

[First Speaker]

76. I love Zardoz. One of the best SF films ever made...

...like the best SF literature, it doesn't do all your thinking for you. It was way over the heads of the critics of the 70s--and, alas, over the heads of the audiences, too...but I'll defend it to the death...

[First Speaker]

77. I might suggest "Monsignor"...

...Chris Reeve as a priest, from the 80s. Really too terrible to describe...you must experience this film. "Exorcist, Part Two" and "Battlefield Earth" certainly must be in the discussion...

[Jenoch]

78. Anytime somebody writes or says

'end of discussion' that tells me the discussion is only beginning.

[HeiressofBickworth]

13. I love movies and can generally find something

to like about most of them, even if it's merely the scenery. I, however, know two movies I absolutely hated:

Thelma & Louise and The Perfect Storm.

Both movies show the devastating affects of making one poor judgment after another, ultimately resulting in the demise of the lead characters. In fact, I think of the two movies as the male and female version of each other, neither of which has any redeeming value.

[LiberalElite]

15. The Kentucky Fried Movie nt

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[fishwax]

22. I loved the Kentucky Fried Movie

Haven't seen it in ages, though.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

32. The same screenwriters as Airplane!

I know it's different strokes for different folks, but I thought Kentucky Fried Movie was hysterical, although it's probably a movie that can best be appreciated by people who were contemporaneous with its time, since it's just a loose string of commercial and movie spoofs of the era (late 70s).

[fishwax]

33. I liked the news updates

"The popcorn you're eating has been pissed in. Film at eleven."

It's definitely a different strokes kind of movie ... I discovered it as a kid in the late 80s/early 90s, and my friends and I absolutely loved it. We were big fans of The Naked Gun and Airplane, too. There are definitely some misses among the little sketches, but there are a lot of laughs there too. And the Fistful of Yen stretch.

And the capital of Nebraska is LINCOLN!

[Joe Shlabotnik]

38. +1

Zinc Oxide and you!

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

129. The only portion of their spoof of '70s sexploitation films I can show here

entitled "Catholic High School Girls In Trouble":

[Joe Shlabotnik]

130. (NSFW) ...and also starring Stephen Stucker

Grindhouse classic!

[LiberalElite]

67. .

[Logical]

45. No sense of humor I assume! nt

[LiberalElite]

66. I have a great sense of humor -

and yet, I hated The Kentucky Fried Chicken Movie. Strange but true.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

16. For me it's The Lonely Lady with Pia Zadora

based on the Harold Robbins novel, it's just about the most boring story I can ever remember seeing on film. Robot Monster and Battlefield Earth at least had good intentions and can be fun to goof on. But Pia Zadora is mentally painful to watch on the screen. The poor girl had absolutely no talent and the only unusual thing about her was the fact she had the body of a grown woman with the face of a little girl. Her millionaire husband, 31 years older than she, tried to buy her a film career, financing several absolute duds of which Lonely Lady was probably the worst. He even bought her a Golden Globe Award for the film Butterfly and is said to have made a generous offer to the awards judges they couldn't turn down. She won a Golden Raspberry in the same year for that film as the worst actress of the year. After flopping in Hollywood, her husband tried to buy her way into a singing career. Here's what she received for The Lonely Lady according to wikipedia:

"...The Lonely Lady was hugely panned by critics. The film was nominated for 11 Golden Raspberry Awards and won 6: Worst Actress, Worst Director, Worst Musical Score, Worst Original Song ("The Way You Do It&quot , Worst Picture, and Worst Screenplay. It was also nominated for a Razzie as Worst Picture of the Decade, but lost to Mommie Dearest, and as Worst Drama of the Razzies' First 25 Years, but lost to Battlefield Earth.

Zadora won Worst New Star of the Decade for this film along with Butterfly. She was also nominated for Worst Actress of the Century, but lost to Madonna.

The movie was nominated for a Stinkers Bad Movie Awards for Worst Picture. ..."

[Tom Ripley]

23. +1000

It is so bad that I can't even appreciate it as camp

[skygazer]

100. I don't know - she plays a catatonic person pretty well

That can't be easy. The vacant look, the complete lack of expression. That's talent, that is.

[lovemydog]

103. Those three minutes should be shown in film classes

on how to ruin a movie. The score. The camera. The voice overs. The acting. The dialogue. The lighting. Everything sucks. Thanks for sharing.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

107. And did you see the hair on the leading man's back?

Almost looks like he's wearing a sweater in bed.

[lovemydog]

108. Yeah, kinda wish I hadn't

[steve2470]

17. for sheer racism, "The Birth of a Nation" in 1915

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_a_Nation

[rurallib]

18. I will nominate two - #1 is Valley of the Dolls

Based on a steamy paperback of the time (late '60s) all I can remember walking out is "What did I just see?" the acting was horrible and wooden and far as I can remember had little plot, but a lot of skin.

The second is "Santa Claus Conquers The Martians" every bit as bad as it sounds.

[hunter]

19. "Santa Claus Conquers The Martians," yes.

A movie well forgotten.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

20. Pia Zadora's first film!

[hunter]

35. Okay, the Santa Claus movie must be better than The Lonely Lady.

(Pia Zadora, right.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus_Conquers_the_Martians

No way am I watching The Lonely Lady, ever, especially after the clip you posted.

[Tom Ripley]

24. I rewatched Valley of the Dolls yesterday morning

It is wonderfully awful.
SCCTM is beyond redemption.

[Jenoch]

21. "Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man"

[Inkfreak]

28. Oh, how dare you...

[Initech]

25. Only movie I ever walked out on: Batman & Robin

[jmowreader]

49. Try watching it again on your DVD player

But this time, skip all the Dying Alfred shit. Without Alfred fixin' ta croak from a disease the primary villain just happens to know how to cure, Batman & Robin is campy and silly and quite a lot of fun if you really loved the TV show.

[Inkfreak]

27. The Lords of Salem by Rob Zombie.

He's lost me. Horrible. Terrible. Atrocious.

And I loved his previous movies. Vulgar by Kevin Smith is up there as bad, too.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

30. That one (the Lords) was a let down.

It had so much going for it, especially with the cinematography, but it just fell flat.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

29. Thats a tough question. I love Plan 9,

but I also prefer 'bad' or cheesy movies from the 60's and 70's.

I think the worst movies must have been made during the '80s, and had huge cult followings, like Red Dawn, or Footloose, or Road House, or Breakfast Club.

[hobbit709]

31. It's Alive.

[DFW]

34. Last Year at Marienbad

Supposedly a classic. The only movie (I found out afterward) that my parents EVER walked out on. I stuck it through, thinking SOMETHING had to happen more than "je PEUX perdre, mais je gagne toujours," but it didn't. My parents couldn't believe I stuck it out to the end. AFterward, nor could I.

I have been pummeled on this board more than once for expressing my sentiments about this film. I stand by them, nonetheless. Just label me "Kulturbanause."

As far as I am concerned, "The Gold Of Cairo" was better, and that was by Frederico Fabrizzi, who was a character made up by Aldo Vanucci, who wasn't real either.

[steve2470]

36. never heard of that movie but I'll take your word for it LOL

Enjoy your vacation !

[DFW]

37. BE GLAD!

Rumor has it Saddam Hussein made political prisoners watch it three times in a row, from which not one of them recovered his sanity afterward.

Vacation--ah, yes, a sore subject with us tonight. We have to leave tomorrow

[Doc_Technical]

48. "The Gold of Cairo"

starring Gina Romantica!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060200/

[DFW]

57. And......

"Datsa my Tony!"

(Good morning, Good morning!&quot

[ailsagirl]

60. That film was shown in the White House when JFK was President

It was one of those arty films that Jackie loved-- JFK hated it, I recall reading.

Hey, Roger Ebert gave it four stars!

http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-last-year-at-marienbad-1961

[DFW]

61. I'll have to go with JFK on this one.....

Roger Ebert and I will just have to remain at opposite ends of the spectrum with respect to arty French films.

Give me "Les 400 Coups" any time.

[ailsagirl]

63. I tend to agree but I did enjoy...

Luis Buñuel's Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie!!

Pretty darn amusing, in a bizarre sort of way.

[DFW]

69. Apples and oranges

Pretty hard to put Resnais and Buñuel in the same boat!

[sharp_stick]

75. I love Bunuel's stuff

I've watched them all at one point or another.

[Wolf Frankula]

92. Last Year At Grand Central Was Much Better

The dirty marble floors, the ticket booths, the wan smell of indiscretions
reminiscent of yesterday, concentric conundrum of fate, the dirty marble
floors, the fake heavens on the ceiling in this place where there is no
heaven, concentric conundrum of fate, the Hershey machines, the Kodak
exhibit, frozen people looking down on a frozen world, the ladies' room, the
benches for waiting, the frozen people on a frozen wall looking down on a
frozen wolrld, concentric conundrum of fate, the dirty marble floors. .

Wolf

[Jenoch]

39. Jingle All the Way

[Populist_Prole]

42. 'Pearl Harbor'

Everything I hate about big blockbuster movies designed to make big money. Brutally formulaic and corny, and goes for the easy tug at the emotions angle rather than do a good docu-drama.

'Space Cowboys' is another one along those lines that makes me want to throw up in my mouth.

I guess I could add 'Top Gun' as well.

[Logical]

44. Not even close to the worst. nt

[Populist_Prole]

46. OK then, how about 'Flags of Our Fathers'?

I've figured out over the years upon later discovery that so many of the movies I hate ended up being on lists of movies conservatives will like.

Anyway, all that aside, please don't tell me you think 'Pearl Harbor' was a good movie.

[Logical]

71. You are talking about personal preference. Not industry wide terrible. n-t

[Populist_Prole]

83. Oh. I had always assumed it was about taste rather than box office coffers

[Jenoch]

84. I agrew with you on Pearl Harbor.

They sure as hell did not transfer fighter pilots to the unit that flew B-25s off aircraft carriers to attack Japan.

[Populist_Prole]

85. Yeah, that and so many other gaffes

I've never seen such contempt for accuracy. I've never seen such gratuitously mawkish escapism in the form of both flag-waving and romance.

When I first heard of this film being made, I had high hopes it was going to be a modernized 'Tora Tora Tora' with better effects. Man oh man was I wrong.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

43. Horror Planet (a.k.a. Inseminoid)

[Wolf Frankula]

47. For Me It's Either 'Manos Hands of Fate'

Or 'The Fountainhead' with Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal. I started to watch it because Gary Cooper was in it. I shut it off after 20 minutes. Ayn Rand couldn't write.

Wolf

[Demoiselle]

94. The Fountainhead wins my vote.

It's sneaky bad because Cooper and Neal are very appealing and gorgeous and all that. But the Ayn Rand philosophy, although slightly soft-pedaled (I still love Gary Cooper and think Patricia Neal didn't get all the stardom she deserved) still comes through as putrid. And it also has Kent Smith. Anybody else remember Kent Smith?

[jmowreader]

50. It's Atlas Shrugged, Part 1 and Final

Case closed. End of discussion. That movie sucked so bad the guy who's using it as a tax write-off fired everyone even remotely involved in it before he made the sequel. Apparently the sequel is almost as bad.

I'm going to be kind to Manos because of its backstory: the creator of Manos made a bet with Stirling Silliphant, a great screenplay writer (he wrote, among other things, Route 66, Naked City, In The Heat of the Night, The Towering Inferno and The Poseidon Adventure), that horror films were so easy to make he could make one all by himself. Stirling was a kind and generous person and paid the bet even though the movie the guy made was really fucking lousy.

The producers of Atlas Shrugged don't get that kind of generosity. They hired professionals and produced a film that's not even in focus, much less properly lit or competently acted in. And don't give me that shit about Atlas Shrugged being unfilmable...The Great Gatsby is also unfilmable and compared to Atlas Shrugged Part 1 and Final, Baz Luhrmann's Gatsby was fuckin' Casablanca.

[Tom Ripley]

52. But the old King Vidor version of The Fountainhead is hilarious

One of the greats of camp!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

51. Saw Bucksville the other night. It was pretty darn bad. n/t

[azurnoir]

53. Hostel a movie no one needs to see ever followed closely by Human Centipede 2

and I love horror movies but movies that are nothing more than blood letting shock fests not so much

[pinboy3niner]

54. You asked for it...

(Old Sci-Fi movie poster updated by DUer GReedDiamond.)

[steve2470]

55. Funny ! nt

[ailsagirl]

59. Vampira is in it!!

She used to hang out with James Dean.

It's appropriate that it reads, "a GOP release."

[Terra Alta]

115. I hear it's a big hit in Ubeki-beki-beki-stan.

[ailsagirl]

58. PNFOS could well be but...

What is the name of the movie that has in its credits:

"Written by Sam Taylor with additional dialog by William Shakespeare"?

[steve2470]

62. The ONLY movie I've walked out of, was a "Scary Movie", not sure which one

Put that film in the dictionary next to juvenile. 12 year olds might not even like it.

[Bjorn Against]

64. White Pop Jesus

If you want to cringe you can watch the whole movie here, use the closed captioning option on YouTube to turn on English subtitles.

[Boom Sound 416]

65. Smokey and the bandit 3

[pipi_k]

68. Dirty Mary and Crazy Larry

Pretty much anything with Susan George in it is a stinker.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

79. Oh no you didn't....

DMCL is, perhaps, the greatest car chase film of all time

Of course, there is also Vanishing Point

[pipi_k]

89. Yeah, the car chases

are OK. Especially that one at the end where "Mary" announces that she wants to pull out of the association with her compadres just before....




Other awesome car chases...

My all-time favorite, Steve McQueen in "Bullitt"

then there's the car chase in "The French Connection"

[dawg]

74. Birdemic

Although I must admit that I do agree with the movie's environmental message, I fail to see how global warming will lead to large aggressive birds that attack humans and then explode.

Also, the birds look like animated gifs.

It's a really bad movie, but fun to watch if you're in the mood to laugh *at* a movie instead of *with* one.

[ailsagirl]

93. The title is preposterous!!!

The birds turn into bombs? omg

And Tippi Hedrin is in it. How appropriate.

It sounds like something we'd see on MST-- I miss that program, particularly the ones with Joel in them.

[ReverendDeuce]

122. Oh no, no no no... "Birdemic" is WONDERFUL, especially with a group!

This thing is a damned classic! Watch with a group and with the Rifftrax commentary on...

[sakabatou]

86. Plan 9 but...

Cave of Forgotten Dreams. The only movie which I fell asleep in.

[steve2470]

113. never saw CoFD nt

[sakabatou]

118. It's about the Lascaux and/or Chauvet cave paintings

[mysuzuki2]

87. The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob was pretty bad.

So was The Bare (sic) Witch Project.

[IronGate]

88. Don't mess with the Zohan.

IMO, dumbest movie ever made.

[JCMach1]

90. Battlefield Earth

no contest...

[Calista241]

91. Mortal Combat 2

Worst movie ever made.

[awoke_in_2003]

96. Dark Star. nt

[eppur_se_muova]

98. NO WAY !! You MUST be thinking of the wrong movie. nt

[awoke_in_2003]

99. Okay...

the beach ball monster was kind of funny.

[lovemydog]

104. For me the worst

are the ones you didn't really feel like seeing but your friend wanted to see it.

[steve2470]

106. your friend or your kid, etc, yes nt

[Bosonic]

109. Carnival of Souls

I watched because of its (improbably) high IMDB rating of 7.2 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055830/)

Complete snoozefest.

But don't take my word for it, it's public domain so watch it all here:

[abakan]

110. Fargo...nt

[steve2470]

111. never saw it nt

[abakan]

112. If you get a chance...Don't waste your time...nt

[LWolf]

114. I don't know, because I haven't seen it.

I try really hard not to watch movies that I don't think I'll appreciate ahead of time. All slasher movies fall on that list.

The worst I've ever seen, that I can actually remember the title to:

[Ino]

116. Love Story...

every bit as bad as the book

[steve2470]

117. completely OT but I re-watched Star Wars IV, V and VI this weekend.....

I absolutely loved them when they came out in the 70's and 80's. Now, I still like them but far less impressed with the acting and the special effects. CGI technology has really revolutionized sci-fi movies.

[steve2470]

119. any more nominations ? nt

[my2sense]

120. After Earth n/t

[ReverendDeuce]

121. Awww, I liked this one...

It was not terrible at all. Lots of creative design work.

[ReverendDeuce]

124. "The Avengers" from 1998 with Uma Thurman and Ralph Fiennes

This was absolutely the worst, most unwatchable hunk of shit ever foisted into mainstream cinema. Absolute garbage from start to finish.

[Miles Archer]

125. Love Story

[YankeyMCC]

126. Prometheus

[BootinUp]

127. Your suggestion is exactly my choice.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052077/

The whole hilarious movie may be available here

https://archive.org/details/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space_1959

[bigwillq]

128. Forrest Gump

Just awful.