Worst movies ever....

talinthas · Dec 11, 2003

bulletproof monk. the mind reels at the horrid script. who the hell thought that hot dog bun philosophy was cool?

Man, chow yun fat must have been hurting for cash...

Krieg · Dec 11, 2003

s/LaSH said:
Spawn was an OK movie too; but I like the TV series much better

The theatrical release of Spawn was pretty bad, but the director's cut was far more watchable.

Oops, almost forgot about Megaforce! Now there was glimpse into future conflict if ever I saw one! lol

Brown Jenkin · Dec 11, 2003

Abraxas said:
Ones I haven't seen here already . . .

What about Bob

Thats because it a a great comedy. I love that film.

Atridis · Dec 11, 2003

s/LaSH said:
[...]at least The Matrix universe has a realistic cross-section of humanity.

I'm sorry, I know it's off-topic, but that comment made me laugh so hard I almost puked.

Back to the topic, sort of, I'd nominate "The Matrix Revolutions" in the sub-category of "Most Disappointing Movies Ever." It wasn't exactly _bad_ but, as with "Highlander 2", it made me wonder whether the writers had even seen the previous movie.

Mallus · Dec 11, 2003

Hammerhead said:
Some Like It Hot

???!?!?!?!?

With Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis [and Tony Curtis's crackerjack Cary Grant imperssion in the middle??!].

With lines like "You see the way she moves, its like jello on springs" and
"But I'm a man!"
"Nobody's perfect."

Surely you jest.

trilobite · Dec 11, 2003

Mallus said:
???!?!?!?!?

With Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis [and Tony Curtis's crackerjack Cary Grant imperssion in the middle??!].

With lines like "You see the way she moves, its like jello on springs" and
"But I'm a man!"
"Nobody's perfect."

Surely you jest.

I would like to second that! Some Like It Hot is a GREAT movie!

more lines from the movie:

Joe: [apologizing because the motor boat will only move backwards] I'm afraid it may take a little longer.
Sugar: It's not how long it takes, it's who's taking you.

trilobite · Dec 11, 2003

Does anyone remember a british alien vampire movie called Lifeforce? Yuck what a bad movie. The only reason to watch it would be the the girl/alien/vampire who walks around naked for the first 15 minutes of the film.

tetsujin28 · Dec 11, 2003

Maraxle said:
I know this one has a cult following (for reasons that I can't fathom), but another one I hated was Bad Taste. Peter Jackson, how could you?

What do you mean, how could he? Haven't you seen Meet the Feebles or Dead Alive? Those movies rule.

And again: none of you know pain. I've sat through every movie that's been mentioned so far. None of them are At Long Last Love.

Villano · Dec 11, 2003

reapersaurus said:
It's always amazing to me how people can fool themselves into saying (with any shred or pretense of objectivity) that films like Pirates of the Carribean and Contact could be some of the worst movies ever made.

Similarly, some of the movies listed here are not nearly a "worst movie ever", simply they are a movie that you hate, or a movie that many people like that you harbor a dark spot in your heart for (Fargo, Contact, PotC, etc).

There's a big difference.

Good and bad is subjective. The English Patient, Gosford Park, Gladiator, and Titanic all simulaneously landed on both best and worst of the year lists by major film critics. Hell, Gladiator, TEP, and Titanic won Oscars and GP was nominated for one.

Ebert even said before Gladiator won that if it did it would be the worst film to ever win an Oscar. And he loved Speed 2.

For me, I can't understand why people think Peter Jackson is such a great director. Fellowship of the Rings was okay, imo, and I actually kind of liked Two Towers, but I don't think he shot either film all that well. The first one was nearly as bad as the "wipe, 45 degree camera angle, blue filter" style of Battlefield: Earth with it's sweeping helicopter shots for practically every establishing shot.

And TT had more than a few scenes that were downright laughable, like the heroes standing at the top of a hill, looking down it, and then running and hiding while an army rides past them, unawares. Um, how did the army miss them if they were standing on the top of the hill and, judging from the time it took for the soldiers to reach them, they must have only been 30 feet away?

buzzard · Dec 11, 2003

Enforcer said:
In the vein of Kevin Costner doing the post-apocalyptic thang: The Postman. I don't know how it ended (if it ever did), because I had to turn it off when it was running on cable.

The Postman deserves to be reviled because it does such disservice to such a good book. Costner really has a gift for making horrific movies.

buzzard