Few movie threads lately - so here is my top five all time worst. Yours?

[Faygo Kid]

In alphabetical order, only those I have seen, and way too heavily skewed to the recent. Still, if you have to pick just five, these aren't bad choices (just bad).

Bewitched
Gods and Generals
Lost Horizon (the musical)
The English Patient
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

[donco6]

1. I'd agree on Lost Horizon.

That was embarrassing.

[Arkham House]

2. My Five:

Inchon, Monsignor, Mod Squad, The Avengers, The Great Dictator(yes, it's Chaplin, and it's still a debacle)

[Faygo Kid]

3. Not bad. I disagree on Chaplin (expected), but the rest are worthy.

I just can't bring myself to include anything with Gregory Peck like Inchon, though - bad movie decision, but he was a class act.

[Arkham House]

4. It's even worse than you think--

Peck was in "MacArthur"...believe it or not, Laurence Olivier played Big Mac in "Inchon"...and he's pying for it in Purgatory right now. Nothing--absolutely nothing--can excuse his participation in this film...

[Faygo Kid]

6. Aarrgh - you are right. Would make a good thread, wouldn't it?

Great Actors (female, too), in their Worst Roles (What were they thinking?) You post it, I will reply. Great suggestion!

[Arkham House]

8. You have a deal--

I'll post it right away...

[Broken_Hero]

35. oh crap

I forgot about the Avengers movie...

[Arkham House]

45. Lucky you...

...it's imprinted on my neurons, and I don't think even electroshock can ever get it out...

[Broken_Hero]

47. yeah, but now, the memory is back!...:)

I remember making a big hub bub about it, and rented it, got popcorn, drinks, all of that, and then whammo..movie stinks...I couldn't believe Connery would allow himself to be in such a crappy movie...I did like the League of Extradinary Gentlemen though, so it just a difference of opinions...:) I see quite a few people listed the League in there top five.

[KamaAina]

5. "You didn't like The English Patient?"

Elaine, I'm afraid this calls your continued employment into question. :-)

[Faygo Kid]

7. LOL! Elaine's Finest Moment.

Much, MUCH better movie critic than dancer.

[Oeditpus Rex]

9. 'Lawrence of Clamorgan'

"Bridge on the River Trent"
"The Mad Woman of Biggleswade"
"Krakatoa, East of Leamington"

And...

"Scott of the Sahara"

[ploppy]

33. Did you

make those up?:shrug: Or am I that out of it?

[Oeditpus Rex]

44. Just another rather vague Monty Python reference

Booming out of the pages of history comes a story of three men and one woman
whose courage shocked a generation!

From the same team that brought you

'Lawrence of Glamorgan'
'Bridge Over the River Trent'
'The Mad Woman of Biggleswade'
and 'Krakatoa, East of Leamington'

comes the story of three people and a woman united by fate who set out in search
of the fabled Pole of the Sahara and found... themselves!

[Left Is Write]

10. I'm trying to think of five movies I saw that I hated.

It's hard to remember because I either:

1. Didn't finish watching the movie because it was so horrendous ("Battlefield Earth" just came to mind)

or

2. Thought the movie was so horrible that I purged my brain of all memories of it.

[driver8]

17. I work at Warner Bros. and we ran the dailies on that movie...

you think the movie was hard to watch!!!

[Ravenseye]

11. Cool World

You can't tell me that any of those movies are better than Cool World. If you do I will know that you are

a) Insane
b) Ignorant
c) Stubborn
d) Both A and B
e) Both B and C
f) Both A and C
g) A, B and C
h) Damn Sexy Guv'nah!

[hippiechick]

12. League of Extraordinary .... Vanilla Sky ... Narnia ...

...Master & Commander ... anything with Vin Diesel.

[Faygo Kid]

13. Master & Commander was OK; great visuals. Your other choices are great.

Me? Gonna make it tougher next time; worst movies of the 40s (tough) and 50s (easy).

[fightingdem]

14. King Solomon's Mines (1985)

Only movie I ever walked out on in the middle.

[yellowdogintexas]

15. Is that the one with Richard Chamberlain and Sharon Stone?

God Awful!

The Exorcist....
Zabriskie Point
some movie we saw about 22 years ago about which I remember nothing EXCEPT that it was one of those dusty noisy post apocalyptic things with lots of loud rusty machines and the only actor I remember is the guy who played Bull on Night Court. He played some sort of giant evil alien emporer troll... AND HE WAS THE BEST THING ABOUT THE MOVIE!!!!! We walked out on it and we just never do that.

L'Enfante...recently saw this at a local art house and it may have gotten rave reviews in Europe but it sucked.

and of course: Citizen Kane.

[BigMcLargehuge]

46. Metalstorm: The destruction of jarred syn

is the film of whick you speak, but cannot name.

It was so bad that Richard Moll said "it was showing on the plane he took to the premier"

[driver8]

16. I work at Warner Bros. and have had to sit through Gods and Generals

at least five times!! It is just plain awful.

My five:

Battlefield Earth
Fear.com
Pluto Nash
Any Given Sunday
Titanic

[Jade Fox]

23. I guess I'll skip Any Given Sunday.....

I've occasionally thought of renting it. I don't know why--I loath Football!

[driver8]

24. Re: Any Given Sunday -- to me, it seemed that Oliver Stone had

never sat down and watched a pro football game.

One of the offensive linemen lost his eye on the field -- the eye was just laying there on the field. That sealed it for me. Piece of shit.

[av8rdave]

18. Message in a Bottle

Actually, it's not fair to be too harsh on that one. I've never made it through without falling asleep.

[BigMcLargehuge]

19. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

http://www.horrorview.com/League%20of%20Extraordinary%20shame.htm

Frankestein Meets the Space Monster

http://www.horrorview.com/Frankenstein_Space_Monster.htm

War of the Planets

http://www.horrorview.com/WAR%20PLANETS%20SHAME.htm

Shark Zone

http://www.horrorview.com/Shark%20Zone%20shame.htm

Death Machines

http://www.horrorview.com/Death%20Machines%20shame.htm

Over 30 exhaustive reviews of crap here -

http://www.horrorview.com/hall%20of%20shame.htm

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

20. My list:

"Death to Smoochy" -- totally suckalicious; numbingly unfunny.
"What Dreams May Come" -- also starring Robin Williams; overblown sentimental claptrap.
"The 'Burbs." Walked out of this one.
"Ishtar" -- probably on a lot of lists.
"The Bonfire of the Vanities" -- a bad, boring film version of a bloated, boring book.

[Nikia]

21. Very Bad Things

My husband and I both wanted to walk out but didn't because we thought the other was enjoying it.
I fell asleep during the Italian Job and hadn't been tired until I got bored watching it.
House of 1000 Corpses was just an awful movie. I don't even want to see Rob Zombie's other movie.
The Neverending Story sequels were very disappointing compared to the first.
The Cook, the Wife, and Her Lover was also a horrible movie, although I guess that it was supposed to be an allegory of sorts.
Aside from these, several porn movies that my husband and I had the misfortune of renting were worse.

[Harley Quinn]

22. Okay! I'll play

Showgirls
Freddy Got Fingered
American Pie (pick one)
Catwoman
The Toxic Avenger

[LanternWaste]

25. No particular order...

No particular order...

Return to Valley of the Dolls

Starship Troopers

The Matrix (any of them)

Any of the last five 'Star Wars'

Any Stephen King novel made into a movei (except "The Stand)

[heart of darkness]

30. Blasphemy!

I can't believe you put Empire Strikes Back in your worst 5.

"Empire" had the better ending. I mean, Luke gets his hand cut off, finds out Vader's his father, Han gets frozen and taken away by Boba Fett. It ends on such a down note. I mean, that's what life is, a series of down endings. All "star wars" had was a bunch of bad acting..to paraphrase clerks slightly..

:)

[LanternWaste]

31. Believe me, I've been through this with my "purist" friends...

Believe me, I've been through this with my "purist" friends...

The first film had the pacing; the rest were soap operas with special effects. That's my story and I'm sticking to it...

[heart of darkness]

38. ha ha

well, they're your picks :)


:toast:

[Dukkha]

26. i like these lists. my Bottom5

5. Kazaam
4. You Got Served
3. Kids
2. Very Bad Things
1. Armageddon

[RandomKoolzip]

27. OOH! I've got a brand new movie (still in theatres) that belongs on my

list:

"Brick," starring that kid from "Third Rock From the Sun" trying to look like a hard-boiled narcotic informant with a secret and a soul in torment (thanks, MST 3K) while still in High School, is by far the worst movie I've seen in YEARS, perhaps decades. Like a bad episode of 21 Jump Street, with uncomprehensible jargon to confuse the adults. It was obvious the director saw 'Kiss Me Deadly" and 'The Breakfast Club" on the same day and said to himself, "let's combine them!" Overblown, pretentious, unintentionally hilarious. I laughed when I should have been moved. The whole time I was in the theatre seeing "Brick," I kept turning to my wife and saying, "Where are their parents? Doesn't this kid have algebra homework to do?" Avoid this piece of shit; it's getting good reviews, but then again, Germany loved Hitler, didn't they?

The rest of my list:

The Breakfast Club
Girl, Interrupted
The Doors
Metropolitan

[shugah]

28. 5 bad

1) alexander
2) opossums
3) the astronauts wife
4) wyatt earp
5) can't think of a 5th that would be bad enough to meet the same criteria as the four already listed

[Giant Robot]

29. oh this is so hard

Let's see in no particular order:

Blair Witch Project (1 or 2 it doesn't really matter...well ok 2 sucked way worse)
Cape Fear ('90's version grrr predicted everything that was going to happen)
Dirty Love (Jenny McCarthy vehicle)
The Hulk (and I'm a comic book geek)

All right I can't think of any more right now. These just stand out in my mind for their suckiness.

[kiraboo]

32. Sadly, I don't really remember movies good or bad, but

especially bad.

[Broken_Hero]

34. mine

and not in any order...

1. Batman and Robin

2. The Crying Game

3. Meet Joe Black

4. The Thin Red Line

5. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil-the one with K. Spacey

[Giant Robot]

39. Thanks for that reminder!

Batman and Robin was sickening.

And I was not brave enough to put The Thin Red Line since critics loved it so much, but it was sooooooo long and borign to me.

[heart of darkness]

40. Batman and Robin is a good (bad) choice..

any film that could kill that good a franchise has to be really awful.

[Broken_Hero]

42. Yep

Before I saw the Thin Red Line, co-workers, and the critics were touting it, and that it was a lot like Saving Private Ryan, and I was like, well SPR was pretty damn good, so I wasted damn near 3hrs of my life watching The Thin Red Line...it was a waste to me.

Another, one, that I admit, i was dubious of throwing out there, was Apocalypse Now...I didn't care to much for that one either, it had its moments though, and memorable lines/moments, but in my mind, it was highly overrated...

On Edit: The Deer Hunter fits in the same category as Apocalyspe Now, highly overrated, IMO.

On Edit II:typo's...

[heart of darkness]

36. ok how bout these beauties?

Baby Geniuses...ha, beat that for crap..I mean, c'mon..

Metropolis..yeah it was made in 1927, but sucks still sucks.

Transporter 2..the first one sucked, but they didn't get it so they made a worse one. Not even a evil woman running around in her underwear with machine guns could save this tripe. Rented for pointless action movie and it failed me.

Battlefield Earth..I would expect the almighty to come up with something better. I mean, the Xtians got The 10 Commandments and Heston.

This is my most arguable pick, but I saw it recently and thought it was gawd awful..The Constant Gardener. Between that and the English Patient, I now hate Ralph "Ralf" Fiennes for taking 13 hours of my life from me.

[ploppy]

37. Dick Tracy

Unforgiven
Titanic
Citizen Kane
Jerry McGuire
and I didn't like The Piano either.

[LeftyMom]

41. Star Trek: Nemesis

The Island of Dr Moreau (I'm sure there's more than one version of this, but this the 90's one with Marlon Brando and Val Kilmer.)
The Ninth Gate :wtf:
Highlander 2

I can't think of a fifth movie that deserves to be mentioned with these four. Plenty of other bad movies but none so very awful.

Edit: Nevermind. Batman and Robin deserves that last spot. I had repressed that one.

[Faygo Kid]

50. "Nemesis" almost made my list, as did "Insurrection."

But, two of five from one series was too much. Can't believe how bad they were, though. Killed the Star Trek franchise.

[HughBeaumont]

43. Let's see ........

Toys. SHITE SHITE SHITE. Robin Williams at his most idiotic.
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.
Meatballs II. We kept saying "who WROTE this and why weren't they hung?"
Summer Camp Nightmare. Starring the Rifleman himself. Because Runk the Punk wants you to suck his Beef Boloneh!
Kids. Wake Up America, your kids curse, do drugs and give each other HIV! And some of them actually help others and make a difference in life, but you wouldn't know that by watching this loathesome pile of pedo-gaggery.
Waking Life. I couldn't even make it halfway through. It felt like sitting through the worst pseudo-intellectual stoner philosoph roundtable between Ethan Hawke, Matt Damon and Macauley Culkin. You just wanted to kick whoever's ass wrote that. Kevin Smith would think that movie was way overwritten.
Dogs In Space. Now we know why Michael Hutchence gagged on a belt. He probably got super drunk and watched himself.

Tidbits in general:
Any movie that Will Farrell ruins with his scenery chewing.
Deadpan-o-ramas directed by Wes Anderson
Creepy come-fests directed by Todd Solondz
Harmony Korine's fart-house droppings
Vincent "I want to send you straight to the" Gallo. Die you Puke Rasputin wanna-be.
Smugshots starring Jason Schwartzman and Chloe Sevigny
Kevin Smith's quest to stuff dialogue in every unnecessary millimeter.

[grace0418]

48. Boxing Helena, Event Horizon, Your Friends and Neighbors,

Braveheart, Titanic...in no particular order.

[BlueIris]

49. The Hearse, Darkness Falls, Cruel Intentions 2, The Killer Eye

and 21 grams.

[Downtown Hound]

51. My five

Team America: World Police
The Creeping Terror
The Green Berets
Batman and Robin
Scream 3

[Cannikin]

52. Thin Red Line put me to sleep. I dont do that.

[SaveElmer]

53. Gods and Generals...a good 90 minute movie

Squeezed into 4 hours...

Definitely needed some editing

[Fox Mulder]

54. The worst movies I have seen...

involved Jim Carey in some degree.

More than five there.

[SaveElmer]

55. Gone With the Wind...

Encino Man
Superman IV
Left Behind