Worst Movie of All Time?

[derby378]

C'mon, don't be shy, you've seen at least one of these...

[edbermac]

1. I have a tape of PNFOS

Of course anything by Ed Wood is ranked right up there...or down there.

[FloridaJudy]

39. Ed Wood's stuff is so bad it's funny

Particularly if you get together with friends and do a MST3K riff on it.

"Manos, the Hands of Fate" is so bad that even the MST3K crew couldn't rescue it. Only time I've ever turned it off in the middle of an episode.

[HopeHoops]

2. Shit. I must not be missing anything. I haven't seen any of those.

[Walk away]

3. No "Battlefield Earth"?

This should be at the top of anyone's worst movie list!

[lifesbeautifulmagic]

31. Thats the one!

I saw the title of this thread, and immediately thought, the one where John Travolta does the Scientology thing.....I actually sat through the whole movie, and boy, is it bad in ways that you cannot even imagine...

[undeterred]

45. That was the first film I ever walked out of...

I didn't think you could go wrong with John Travolta, but I was so wrong.

[derby378]

46. I thought about including that movie...

...but realized that although it was pretty bad, I could still find plenty of stuff that's worse.

[Alexander]

76. With endless options for renewal!

[chrisa]

4. Epic Movie, Meet the Spartans

[PassingFair]

5. Other..."Druids"

Two words.

Un. Watchable.

Must-read review here:

http://efilmcritic.com/review.php?movie=6141

"...Druids is an epic historical drama featuring a cast of dozens. In the background of every scene you’ll find local folks drafted in as extras that have all the ferocity and acting talent of a small cod. When they’re required to run across a battlefield like warriors, they jog for a while, then slow to a walk to catch their breath. Some wave their fists in the air, but not so much like they’re angry, more like they’re trying to get the attention of a valet outside a restaurant. The fight scenes are similarly laughable. In Braveheart, you spotted the occasional extra not exactly trying hard, but in Druids you not only can’t find one that is trying hard, but Christopher Lambert himself walks through the battle scenes like he’s pulled a hamstring and is looking for somewhere to sit down."

:rofl:

I could not make it through, and I am a fan of Christopher Lambert AND Druids.

[Dr. Strange]

6. I voted for Glen or Glenda.

Pull the Strings!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b_zIy97FyE

[MadBadger]

7. Like Mike

[jobycom]

8. Wow. I've managed to avoid all of those. Yay me! nt

[hobbit709]

9. What? No "It's Alive"?

[MilesColtrane]

10. Leonard Part 6

Although he wrote and produced it, Bill Cosby denounced and attempted to disown the movie before it was ever released.

He supposedly preemptively purchased the TV rights to the film just so it would never be shown on the air.

[hobbit709]

16. It's been on cable

[TZ]

11. I think I just saw a preview for a new one that will shoot to the top

"The Human Centipede"...:scared:, :puke:

[LynneSin]

12. That's actually gotten some good reviews even though you'd have to be a really sick mind...

...to watch a movie like that.

Rumor has it the director has 2 sequels planned for the movie.

[TZ]

13. There is also apparantly a game that goes along with the movie

Dr. Strange and MccTatas are "knowledgeable" about this subject. Which should tell you something about them...:scared:

[LynneSin]

15. Ewwww

Ewww ewwwww EWWWwW eeewwwWWWWWeeeWWWWW Eewwwww EEwweEWWWWWW eeeewwwewwwwwewwwww

nuff said!

[dawg]

23. I would watch it.

Well, I might not. I'm losing my creepy movie watching buddy, and Human Centipede doesn't sound much fun to watch alone.

[Minimus]

40. Ishtar

Only time I have ever left in the middle of a movie.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

33. It's bad, but it's not awful.

It's watchable with friends in an MST3K kind of way.

Now "The Room."

That's a bad movie.

[derby378]

47. Well, yeah, there's that...

Reminds me of a South Park episode gone horribly, horribly wrong.

"I'm going to clone you a new ass!" :rofl:

[begin_within]

14. "Cycle Vixens" aka "Young Cycle Girls"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079018/

Supposedly sort of a female version of "Easy Rider" with teenage girls riding across the country, but it's so god-awful in every aspect: writing, acting, filming, editing... it's the worst example of filmmaking I have ever seen.

I actually enjoy watching "Glen or Glenda" and "Plan 9 From Outer Space" because they are unintentionally funny. Those are his classics, but also "Bride of the Monster," "Night of the Ghouls," "Jail Bait" and "Orgy of the Dead" are all worth seeing once.

[Arugula Latte]

17. "Patch Adams"

[dawg]

18. Are you joking? I became a doctor because of Patch Adams.

Just kidding, I did it for the money. :rofl:

Well, actually, I'm not really a doctor at all. :crazy:

[Common Sense Party]

20. That was excruciatingly bad.

[Skittles]

38. very, very bad movie

I watched it when I was donating platelets and it made me want to off myself

[Burma Jones]

19. Mr. Holland's Opus

A dreary suck fest with some of the most awful music I've ever had to hear. Glad I only saw it on TV. I've wanted punch Richard Dreyfuss in the nose ever since I endured that abomination.

[Common Sense Party]

21. My vote is for Caddyshack 2.

That's the worst I've seen.

I haven't seen the ones on your list.

[flvegan]

22. Anything with the words "Star" and "Trek" in the title.

:hide:

[dawg]

24. Blasphemer!

:mad:

[baldguy]

35. Welcome to my ignore list, Philistine.

[edbermac]

36. What??? Mr Sulu is going to pay you a visit.

[underpants]

42. "But Captain! There be whales!"

my brother says that that is the lowest mark on American cinema EVER

[Archae]

70. KHAAAANNN!!

Go ahead. I DARE you to diss "The Wrath Of Khan."

[Fire Walk With Me]

25. Oh man, the Brown Bunny...

Some of the films listed are unintentionally funny, but TBB is obviously exactly what he wanted to put on film.

[bif]

26. "Love Liza"

Just painful to watch.

[cemaphonic]

27. There's always "The Day the Clown Cried"

Unreleased and largely unavailable, but yet legendary in its badness.

[CBGLuthier]

28. I have seen them all except for Brown Bunny

having no interest in Vincent Gallo's sex life I passed on BB.

I actually liked The Room but I can understand most not liking it. Manos is the worst of this bunch but the movie Hobgoblins gives it a run for its money.

[Doc_Technical]

29. Teenagers from outer space.

A limited budget
Gigantic plot holes
atrocious acting
The monster is a shadow of a crawdad
A stock film of a volcano is used for the
climatic explosion.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053337/

[Va Lefty]

30. "Howard the Duck"

[yellowdogintexas]

43. which goes to show it is all in the point of view...we love it in our house nt

[chrisa]

55. That movie was excruciating.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

32. New film making the rounds:

Birdemic

I can't go to youtube to fetch the link (if someone feels charitable) but this thing stinks so bad skunks wouldn't stop to crap on it.

Until this thread has Birdemic it fails.

[RandomThoughts]

34. Pepe Le Pew. LOL

Yeeeaaaa!!!!!

:loveya:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mSbIc1AG8c


Gonna Glow like Cats in the dark, That is bright eyes isn't it !
Interesting thought. And a better thought on cats.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQP3gSEVALg
There is humor in that post I think. :)

:rofl:


:D Funny thought there :D

[dawg]

57. This can't be real, can it?

The trailer looks like any other boring low-budget movie until around 1:40 or so when the birds apppear. Surely this is a joke.


Birdemic trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgAbVfh6WYg

[Nuclear Unicorn]

61. It truly raises crap to an art form

[Archae]

71. Those birds had me falling off my chair laughing!

:rofl:

[azmouse]

37. The Fountain

What an amazingly bad piece of tripe... :puke:

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

41. Ask me again in a year or two.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8425548

[ElboRuum]

44. Lays Potato Chip Poll...

Can't pick just one...

Lessee...

Gigli... yes, awful... um... oooh... and then there's Ishtar... yes that one smelt pretty bad... and more recently there was Torque, oh can't forget Battlefield Earth... Highlander 2, yes, now that one was excruciating.

[mikeytherat]

48. "Road House" - The "Fanny and Alexander" of bad movies.

The whole thing is bad, but the last 20 minutes are a rolling snowball of awful - it just gets dumber, and dumber, and dumber.

mikey_the_rat

[rurallib]

49. FWIW - only movie I ever walked out on was "Almost Heroes"

I was on campus visit with my daughter and we went in the evening. About a half hour into it I leaned over and said "this is the worst movie I have ever seen." She replied "Me too. Let's go." and we left.

[LanternWaste]

50. The Matrix... followed closely by From Justin to Kelly.

The Matrix... followed closely by From Justin to Kelly. Thinking about it though, it's a bit difficult for me to decide which is the worse of the two... :shrug:

[racaulk]

51. Son of the Mask.

:puke:

[arbusto_baboso]

52. Anyone who has seen Manos, KNOWS that it's the worst. No contest.

It is so bad that it even reduced the Mystery Science Theater 3000 writers to silence for long stretches of the film. Contemplate that for awhile.

And it's not a coincidence that a Texas fertilizer salesman was pivotal in the making of that movie, either...

[Flipper999]

53. Remember the Question Mark at the end?

They could always make a sequel! I'm actually surprised that some MST3K fan/film maker didn't just slap one together and call it an Indie flick.

:)

[arbusto_baboso]

54. No one could INTENTIONALLY make a sequel as bad as Manos.

Manos was as bad as it was simply because the original makers were so earnest and serious.

And that question mark sometimes wakes me up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night...

[chrisa]

56. Ben and Arthur

It's on YouTube. It's so bad, it's good.

For example, characters waking up in the morning with their shoes on, palm trees in Vermont, etc.

The creator of the movie thought that he had made a masterpiece.

[Yavin4]

58. "Death Bed"

Patton Oswalt did a great routine on it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01l1WIC9mBo

[Supply Side Jesus]

78. Classic!

one of the funniest guys around

[KamaAina]

59. Heaven's Gate? Gigli? Hudson Hawk?

:shrug:

[derby378]

62. Bad, yes, but the worst?

I saw part of Heaven's Gate, but not the other two. At least, not yet.

[WildEyedLiberal]

60. OMG "The Room"

Granted, it's the only one I've seen, but... truly, truly, truly atrocious. It did, however, provide an entire 80 minutes of comic relief. It was ALL so BAD I couldn't stop laughing. The director/writer/star now likes to claim that it was intended as a "black comedy," but... no.

[gratuitous]

63. The first measure for a bad movie, in my opinion

Is that it had to have been made in some seriousness. That immediately lets out Ed Wood oeuvre, Manos, and most other atrocious movies. People were putting together dreck, and they knew on some level that it was dreck.

What qualifies a movie for bad movie status is that it has to be a serious attempt at something else. Gigli and Ishtar were major studio productions, and to this day no one can quite grasp why they were made. (Although, I have seen Ishtar, and it’s not 100% bad; did it justify its incredibly bloated budget? No, but it’s not like it’s your money, right?) From Justin to Kelly didn’t try to be anything it wasn’t: a quickie attempt to cash in on very fleeting fame. A lot of sequels qualify; they aren’t trying to get a fresh approach to a classic set up, they’re just running that horse into the ground (think Rooster Cogburn on Little Blackie in True Grit) to squeeze out a few more bucks.

Sometimes a bad movie can be saved if you squint just right, hold your mouth a certain way, and think about something else entirely while it’s being screened. Sometimes a movie gets to bad because of some poignant happenstance: some fine or decent or even just inoffensive actor makes a piece of absolute crap just for the paycheck before dying unexpectedly, and you think, “God, I’d hate to be remembered for that!”

So, what’s the worst movie of all time? Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Ask any of the surviving principals.

[Orrex]

69. +1

[pink-o]

64. I still contend it's "Rabbit Test" written and directed by Joan Rivers

OMFG what a schlockfest from the 70s!!!! So sad, cuz Billy Crystal was the main character. He starts out a virgin, has bad sex and becomes the first pregnant man. So with a premise like that, there's no where to go except down, and man was that the spiraling vortex of hell. It's the only movie I ever walked out on, what a POS.

[BlueIris]

65. "The Hearse" (Trish Van Devere, 1980.) nt

[Lasher]

66. Zombie Strippers

Worst movie I have ever seen in my life.

[Orrex]

67. It's a mistake to include Plan 9 and Manos in these kinds of polls

Along with other B-movie fare. Let's be honest: most people who vote for them only know of them thanks to MST3K (if at all) or because they've seen the titles in previous "worst movie" polls. I submit that not one person in 10,000 who claims to have seen Manos has actually seen it except in that context.

A film made 50 years ago with a shoestring budget (even for the time) and no resources simply shouldn't be judged against multi-million dollar films from the past ten years, with access to top-of-the-line special effects, A-list actors, and award-winning writers. That would be like saying "your second grader's tooth pageant really sucks compared to Avenue Q" (or whatever).

For a film to qualify as "worst of all time," there should be a reasonable expectation that the film could have/should have been good. Including Plan 9 and its genre-kin in the selection pool is kind of like beating up on the poor kid in the rich school IMO.

[Gabi Hayes]

68. many worthy choices, but seeing is believing:

[ohheckyeah]

72. The Strangers.

What a dog of a movie.

Have you ever noticed that in horror movies women can NEVER, EVER run more than 2 feet without falling down? And they ALWAYS sprain their ankle.

[Art_from_Ark]

73. How about Night of the Lepus

that featured killer bunny rabbits that were creating havoc by hopping around a dollhouse set.

Then there's Saturday the 14th, a somewhat lame attempt to spoof the "Friday the 13th" series

Of course, there's also Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, a movie that requires the viewer to be, um, intellectually incapacitated in order to be able to sit through the whole thing

For foreign movies, there's Zazi dans le Metro, which is all about a French girl running around a subway

[cheneyschernobyl]

74. Glengary GlenRoss

or something like that.

[Lucian]

75. I watch Plan 9 From Outer Space whenever I need to focus on a difficult problem...

the film is so incredibly bad that it shuts down the logic centers of my brain, allowing me to make intuitive leaps of logic.

[Supply Side Jesus]

77. Hellride

is a definite contender