Worst movies ever....

[Taren Seeker]

I can't imagine any stretch where Fargo is your worst EVER. I can see not liking it, but worst ever?

Many Van Damme movies, but Street Fighter is probably the worst of his that I've seen.

Rollerball, the one with LL Cool J (at least I didn't pay for it)

Dumb and Dumber

Batman & Robin

Batman Forever

Pretty much anything with Steven Segal in it.

My list would be longer but I've managed to avoid a lot of the flicks already mentioned. I'm sure Battlefield Earth, Waterworld or the Postman would head up my list otherwise, just from what I've heard.

edit: Changed Returns to Forever...they all get mixed up in my mind. I didn't really like any of the Batman movies aside from Michelle Pfeifer as Catwoman and pieces of Batman 1, but those 2 stuck out as truly vile.

 

[Kesh]

Battlefield Earth, without question. The acting was bad, the story made little sense, the aliens were laughable... and cavement flying Harriers? WTF?

As someone once said, "I can't believe in an alien race whose homeworld would've blown up the first time someone tried to microwave a burrito."

Batman Forever One sentence: "Holy rusted metal, Batman!"

Please, kill me. At least I didn't bother with Batman & Robin.

Then there was the 'comedy' with Sandra Bulloch in an alchohol rehab center. Filled with the most horrific cliche steretypes, unfunny jokes and poor attempts to tug on the heartstrings. It's so bad, I don't even remember what it was called.

 

[Maraxle]

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?

 

[Mallus]

Hudson Hawk, Ack!! A horrendous movie with Bruce Willis! Bad acting, bad story, bad everything.

Grrrrr....

A film the contains the quote -- "History, tradition, culture... These are not concepts, they are trophies I keep in me den as paperweights!" --cannot, in my own supersubjective opinion, be all bad. As a matter of fact, a line like that pretty much guarantees the film a top spot on the "Its all good" list...

 

[Kahuna Burger]

I can't imagine any stretch where Fargo is your worst EVER. I can see not liking it, but worst ever?

its a matter of expectations, as should be clear in this thread. I expected... I don't know, something to happen? A plot? A character who didn't make me annoyed, just one? The majority of scenes or actions to have a point? Mostly I expected to maintain some respect for the academy, considering that the year before I had watched and enjoyed every film up for best picture...

hmmm.... this is kind of like the "zaphod plays it safe" short story. Really psycho people are safe because they give off signals a mile away that tell people their psycho. the ones who can fake normalacy are the dangerous ones. Fargo is high on the list of my worst movies ever because it faked being good and didn't give the obvious signals which would have made me skip it entirely (as I did for the majority of films on this list...)

Kids for example... I knew kids was gonna suck... all the signs were there. Unfortunately I had the responsibility of running the film in college and had to duck in and out once in a while to check the projector... But I mostly managed to miss it.

kahuna Burger

 

[MEG Hal]

Well....
Freddy was piss poor, but on my list of worst movies ever is--Bringing out Your Dead starring Nick Cage and Ving Rhames and some big director directed it, maybe DiPalma?

It was a piece of manure and I have stated that I would rather watch my kids dirty diapers then that movie again.

Another crappy title is The Fantastic Four, the budget was equal to my family getting happy meals at McDonalds, it was real bad....

Some of the ones you mention, are not good by anyones imagination but I would not say worst movie list ever--Howard the Duck as an example. Now I liked Hudson Hawk, and would love a sequel.

 

[Claude Raines]

Lost in Space was the worst movie I saw. The fact it was in japanese with english subtitles actually improved it.

 

[Psion]

Lessee...

Brazil - I just sat there saying "End, damn you! End!" And it just wouldn't.

Jacob's Ladder - probably because it reminded me too much of Brazil.

Spanking the Monkey - when the contemptable worm of a lead character was about to commit suicide I was like "Jump! Damn you! Jump!"

The Cube - It SOUNDED cool. Little did I know it was like a demented cross between Flowers in the Attic and a Gore Fest.

(On a side note, I find it richly ironic to trip upon the words "they have no place reimagining" emerging from Darrin's keyboard after he gave me a lecture in the BSG thread about how the holders of a title have NO OBLIGATION WHATSOEVER to the fans.)

 

[Hypersmurf]

... and 3) making movies with Uma Thurman that I can't stand to watch, no matter how much I stalk....errrr...... like her.

I'm almost the opposite, actually... I can't stand Uma Thurman, but I like most of the movies she's been in.

Batman and Robin and The Avengers are, however, exceptions to that rule.

-Hyp.

 

[barsoomcore]

Alright, alright, you've all gotten it off your chests.

I saw Dungeons and Dragons twice in the theatre. And I own the DVD. I also own The Avengers.

At least those films appear to have been made by individuals. Sure, they're messy and incoherent and occasionally fall flat on their faces, but at least they reflect some personality. In sharp contrast to dreck like Pirates of the Caribbean, or Attack of the Clones, where effects, big stars and bigger budgets overwhelm any personality whatsoever.

Sometimes I think Peter Jackson's greatest accomplishment is making a $300 million dollar picture that still feels like a Peter Jackson film.

What makes me angry in films is lack of vision, lack of imagination and lack of respect for the audience. I'll forgive incompetence, I'll forgive mistakes, I'll forgive limited resources, if I feel like the film-makers are trying to give me something from their hearts.

I get that from both Dungeons and Dragons and The Avengers. I don't get it from very many big-budget Hollywood films.

But frankly, there is no "worst film ever". There are offensive films (PotC, for example), incompetent films (Plan 9 From Outer Space) and just plain pathetic films (Tomb Raider) -- which is REALLY the worst ever?

Talk about a plethora of choices.