Possibly the worst movie ever made - Day After Tomorrow

[skygazer]

I was completely taken by surprise. I'd heard the story was a little lame but the effects were good. A little lame!? It was so bad that I nearly started throwing rotten vegetables at my own TV screen! I couldn't beleive that anyone had given it any kind of good review but a lot of people did. What the hell were they thinking?

The plot was so lame and contrived that it wasn't even funny as satire. I mean, every single person in the whole hospital leaves except for the one kid with cancer who is still sitting around in his bed with a book? Come on! They wouldn't have him ready and lined up with the other patients? He'd have one ambulance all to himself? :wtf:

And the wolves!? I almost died laughing at the wolves! Oh, god, there was just so much that was so bad - it made Gigli look like Lawrence of Arabia!

Stupidest movie I've ever seen, bar none. The only saving grace I got out of it was I returned it early and got a dollar refund. :puke:

[mikehiggins]

1. Not even close to the worst

You should get out more. DAT was hokey, fluffy SF and it missed any number of chances to be better than it was. On the other hand, wasn't it put out by the guys who did Independence Day?

It was a fun story that went by pretty fast and many of the effects were really good (the tidal surge hitting Manhattan in particular).
The wolves thing was laughable, and the guy holding the Gutenberg bible was majorly cliched but come on, what did you expect?

I liked the movie very much for what it was, but I didn't expect it to be very much more than it was going into the theatre.

And what about Gigle? Wasn't that objectively a much worse movie? I could name dozens like that.

[madrchsod]

2. speed 2

that`s all i can say about the worst movie in the last few years..

[pres2032]

31. i agree

pretty bad, can't replace the chemistry of Keanu and Sandra Bollock. though the whole scene with the ship crashing through the harbor was at least entertaining.

[DuctapeFatwa]

5. Gigli was great! an EPIC comedy. It was just too sophisticated for the

reviewers, who didn't understand any of the jokes.

How can a movie with JLo as a bisexual Mafia operative AND lines like "God bless you, penis" be anything but a classic?

[tjdee]

10. Gigli wasn't that bad!!

I'm a one person crusade to prove that, LOL.

Some of the script was absolutely ridiculous and pointless.

But it was no worse than any Jennifer Aniston movie. It was no worse than any Hilary Duff/Mandy Moore picture. I wouldn't have paid 10 bucks to see it, but I didn't want a refund like I do when I see stuff that REALLY sucks.

And at the very least, Affleck falling in love with Lopez was totally believable (well, he wasn't acting there, but whatever!).

[DuctapeFatwa]

12. I will join your crusade to stamp out anti-Gigli sentiment

And I will stand up for the freedom of those dead-ender rejectionists to see it again, and recant.

[tjdee]

13. Join me, my brother.

Should we get badges or buttons made up?
I like badges.

;)

[DuctapeFatwa]

14. Nail art. I think JLo would want us to have nail art. Manly nail art

maybe an auto part, like an exhaust pipe with the Gigli logo.

[qnr]

18. Can I join? I've never seen Gigli, but

I've always loved Ishtar and I'm not sure how likely I am to find others to join an Ishtar-lovers club.

[hyphenate]

26. Ishtar wasn't completely horrible

but I wouldn't include it on any of my favorites lists, either.

Waterworld also wasn't a horrendous film. It actually made back the investment they made in it.

Never saw Heaven's Gate.
Never saw Gigli.
Never saw Day After Tomorrow, but DID see The Day After, which was made as a mini-series for TV back in 1984, which was about the same thing, I believe.

[VelmaD]

32. Uh...no...The Day After was about...

a nuclear attack on the US and the aftermath in middle America.

[qnr]

33. Yes, but the club would be to support Ishtar

against the claims of it being one of the worst films. I thought that Ishtar took a funny, anti-CIA stance during the Reagan era.

Personally, I liked Waterworld, and I liked The Postman, for that matter.

I never saw Heaven's Gate, but I hear that a new version is coming out.

And what VelmaD said about The Day After.

[Beartracks]

55. Whether weather...

Wasn't The Day After in relation to the day after some kind of nuclear attack (rather than weather phenomena)?

[realisticphish]

36. mandy moore?

you HAVE seen her movies right? she is (fairly) talented, and i guarentee that there is NOTHING like hilary duff in moore. not to jump on you or anything, but watch Saved! and youll see what i mean

:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[tjdee]

37. I'm not even saying THOSE movies are bad, LOL!

I was just thinking of cheesy romantic comedies, they were the first ones I thought of. Moore is okay, actually--I think she is by far the best of the acting/singing teensters. Except for Lindsay Lohan, but I digress...

All of those movies are okay. Gigli isn't any worse than any of those pictures.

Saved! is on my list of films to see--I was pleasantly surprised from the trailers, to see what kind of character Moore plays.

[realisticphish]

43. gotcha

o yes, see saved!; i saw it twice in the theaters; i love jena malone anyway, and macauly caulkin was suprisingly good

:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[The Zanti Regent]

24. 20 Worst Movies Ever...

No speicific order except for the last one

Star Trek III
Star Trek V
Can't Stop The Music
Deadly Weapons
Chatterbox
Showgirls
Wild Wild West
The Apple
Sextette
Ishtar
Xanadu
The Experts
When Time Ran Out
The Swarm
Two of a Kind
Moment by Moment
Blackenstein
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
Battlefield: Earth
The worst...
Lost Horizon (Ross Hunter's remake with Peter Finch, Liv Ullman, Sally Kellerman, Michael York, Olivia Hussey, John Gielgud, Goerge Kennedy and James Shigeta all singing and dancing...)

[Blue_Tires]

30. scratch out

Star Trek III...you can put 4 and 5 up there, but not 3

[dr.strangelove]

51. Like your list, but

Ishtar and Battlefield Earth top mine, and its Battlefield by a freaky dreadlock to win the title as worst ever.

[realisticphish]

56. whoa whoa whoa

wheres plan 9 from outer space? c'mon man! its the well recognized worst movie ever...check out Jabootu for more... www.jabootu.com

:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[qnr]

3. Battle of the Godfathers

but, as mentioned in an earlier post, it had a hilarious boat chase scene, if you ran it backwards.

[skygazer]

4. That's what I should have done

Watched it backwards. It was so bad frontwards that I didn't think of it!

[devilgrrl]

6. Wasn't this done by the same morons that brought us...

Independence Day and Godzilla???? How is it that they keep getting to do movies?

[Phillycat]

39. I actually liked Independence Day.

*ashamed*

[earthside]

7. A little too elite

Let's see no stream of four letter words, no gratuitous violence, no great philosphical angst, no gratuitous sex, no sloppy, cheap bathroom humor ... must be a terrible movie.

Once upon a time, there were many adventure movies that appealed to most all folks of all ages, genders, political bents, etc. 'The Day After Tomorrow' is a classic, predicatable disaster movie ... nothing spectacular, but certainly not anywhere near the worst movie ever made.

Folks who are condescending towards this movie are a little too elite in their view of the arts and entertainment. Either that or perhaps they think the 'Ernest ...' movies are high quality comedy ...

[skygazer]

15. Oh, get a life

I don't object to it because it was "elite" - I object to it because it was impossible to suspend my disbelief. Someone earlier mentioned that these guys did "Independence Day". I thought that was much better than this because the characters behaved in believable ways. I enjoy Stephen King - not because his storylines are something that I beleive will happpen but because I always believe what his characters do.

You have to believe that people would actually behave as they do in a movie for the movie to work for you. It wasn't happening for me in this one.

You don't appreciate my being "condescending" toward this movie. Fair enough. I don't appreciate you being condescending of my opinion. You have no idea what sort of movies I like. For you to assume that I'm into Ernest movies is so fucking "elite" it's ridiculous.

Start your own thread.

[Archae]

8. Don't forget where this movie began.

A book co-authored by Witless Streaker, (Whitley Strieber,) and Fart Smell. (Art Bell)

"The Coming Global Superstorm"

Garbage written by garbage throwers, made into a movie, becomes a garbage movie.

[SmileyBoy]

19. Witless Streaker and Fart Smell. LOL!!!!

:D:D:D

[LibLover]

9. I laughed out loud

I thought it was hilarious when all those Americans were crossing the Rio Grande into Mexico. It was a complete turn around to what happens now.

[ET Awful]

11. You haven't seen "The Core" I take it?

Much worse :)

[barb162]

16. "Armageddon" was the worst by far and made the "Day after

Tomorrow" look like best picture of the year in the science fiction genre

[DS1]

17. Good point

Even though the idea of the wolves surviving long enough was silly, it wasn't that bad of a sequence.

[CanuckAmok]

21. YOU PEOPLE ARE FOOLS! The worst movie ever made was:

"The Doom Generation", directed by Greg Araki, and starring that chick who almost married Marilyn Manson, and some guy who looks exactly like Keanu Reeves, but is a worse actor (yes, the bar has been raised).

Simply the most embarrasing, gratuitous, and needlessly offensive film ever made, with cheap production values and a terrible script.

The whole point, I guess, was for Araki to shock the complascent bourgeois viewer with his in-your-face bisexuality.

Meh.

[barb162]

22. hey, I never saw and never even heard of it

[hyphenate]

27. I love your pic!!!!

It's just so totally true, too!!! (My cats would love to be that size, playing with cars!)

[Phillycat]

40. And I also loved Armageddon.

So much so that I've seen it like 10 times. Every time Liv Tyler has to say goodbye to Bruce Willis before he goes off to save the world, I cry. EVERY. TIME.

Wow. There must be something wrong with me. (I said upthread that I truly liked Independence Day.)

[gulfcoastliberal]

20. I love this movie

It's a damn good way to showcase what might happen to the earth should we continue our unsustainable ways.

As for the acting, I thought it wasn't bad and the soundtrack is in DTS so it rocks the house.

[DrZeeLit]

23. So you're saying NOT on my Netflix queue? Okay! n/t

[alarimer]

25. Van Helsing

Was the worst movie I actually paid to see in a theater. I never saw Day After Tomorrow. I guess Hugh Jackman needed a big paycheck or something. Frankenstein (who was actually a good guy), Jeckyl and Hyde, Dracula, werewolves all in one package. What crap.

[Terran]

28. I just saw Matrix 3 last night

and that gets my vote for worst film, at least among those recently made. The Day After Tomorrow was better, if a bit unbelievable. But then of course, I really found the whole Matrix concept sooo 'believable' too. Get lives, you people! It's science fiction, fercrissakes. It's *supposed* to strain your credulity a bit! Just enjoy the special effects, 'cause it ain't art.

[Kid_A]

46. I liked the Matrix sequels...

They aren't nearly as good as the first one, but they definitely take the story in an interesting direction. Sometimes it gets a little overly-convoluted, but the whole scene with the Sentinels attacking Zion is mind-blowingly awesome.

[Terran]

48. "overly convoluted"

Oh please, don't be so polite. "Mind-numbingly obscure" is more how I'd describe it. I also think a film should be able to stand on its own and not just be "Part 3". If I hadn't seen the other ones (and I disliked #2 also) I would have been 100% confused instead of just 57% confused.

[LizW]

29. It wasn't the worst I'd ever seen but

it was much worse than I had heard. I was really glad we didn't pay to see it at the theater.

The science was awful, awful, awful.

[ikojo]

34. You have neglected Blair Witch 2 and Highlander 2

Both were wretchedly awful movies

The remake of Dawn of the Dead took 90 minutes of my life I will never retrieve.

[Skittles]

35. it was laughably bad, very stupid

yet I still found it entertaining

[LDS Jock]

38. Have you seen "Glitter"?

with Mariah Carey? :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[FuzzySlippers]

41. Dammit! Why didn't you post this earlier?

I just got it from Netflix.

[qnr]

42. Just watch it. :) What is it with people automatically

blindly accepting the word of others on movies? I mean, true, the movie is stupid, but it can keep you entertained for a while, and it certainly won't tie your mother up and place her on railroad tracks or anything.

[norml]

44. It had some hokey elements,like the cancer kid,but I enjoyed it.

It's made for TV movie style should give it great rerun value,for basic cable networks over the coming years.

[Kid_A]

45. "Van Helsing" makes "Day After Tomorrow" look like "Casablanca".

That definitely gets my vote for worst movie in recent years.

[ArkDem]

47. I liked the basketball sized hail. Gravity must have been suspended.

[ibegurpard]

49. You must have missed "Volcano"

As long as we're talking about ludicrous natural disaster movies, who could fail to mention that big cheeseball?

[dr.strangelove]

50. Battlefield Earth - Worst Ever

[terrya]

52. Roland Emmerich knows how to do special effects...

But Lord...everything else....plot, plausible characters, getting decent acting from the cast...oy vey. Forget it. Emmerich is one half level above Michael Bay in terms of talent.

NO THANKS to this movie. I've seen Independence Day...and Godzilla. Enough is enough.

[marlakay]

53. I saw it on airplance during bad turbulence

almost scared me and my husband laughed! The turbulence hit during the time things were falling apart on screen. I thought it was funny later but not at the time.

[frank frankly]

54. me too!!!!

i was flying to europe and watched the movie and we hit the roughest turbulence i've ever been through!

:hi:

[LiberalManiacfromOC]

57. Napolean Dynamite......

oh my god..... my freinds owe me 100 minutes of their lives to me because that movie was absolute shit. I doubt anyone else on DU was willing to degrade themself by seeing that movie but my friends invited me and I felt obligated to go....

Teen movies suck (as well as having teen friends who want to see teen movies).