Worst movies ever....

[Numion]

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.

28 days

I heard of a dude that tried to get 28 days later (the british zombie flick, not half bad) and somehow ended up with bollocks 28 days. Dude was pissed That was crap. Crap crap crap. I dunno if if bullock tried to define crap or something.

So was her movie 2 weeks notice. Utter totally predictable crap.

 

[demiurge1138]

If there was justice in this world, 28 Days Later should have been about Sandra Bullock being attacked by flesh-hungry zombies.

Why, exactly, is Highlander 2 (or lack thereof, Hypersmurf) the worst movie ever, according to some? I've never seen it, and the only word-of-mouth I've heard has been vitriolic hatred on this board.

Demiurge out.

 

[Hypersmurf]

So was her movie 2 weeks notice. Utter totally predictable crap.

I haven't seen it, so I'll take your word for it... but the snippets I've seen in trailers etc made it look like Hugh Grant got to deliver a few amusing lines...?

Why, exactly, is Highlander 2 (or lack thereof, Hypersmurf) the worst movie ever, according to some? I've never seen it, and the only word-of-mouth I've heard has been vitriolic hatred on this board.

If such a movie existed, I'm sure it would actually have been considered a forgettable B-grade SF movie, no worse than hundreds of others, if it had retained exactly the same plot, but not attempted any overt connection to The Highlander.

If it had featured immortals who could only be killed by decapitation, people might have noted a touch of Highlander rip-off in there, but obviously, a plotline focused around aliens from a parallel dimension crossing over to 21st century semi-apocalyptic Earth to assassinate an exiled rebel alien-from-a-parallel-dimension would overwhelm any minor details like that.

But if such a movie existed, and actually called itself Highlander 2, and included characters named MacLeod and Ramirez, and somehow brought the aforementioned Ramirez (decapitated four or five hundred years earlier) back to life... fans might get a little put out.

If such a movie existed.

-Hyp.

 

[theburningman]

I don't know if I can pick out a worst movie ever. I've seen a lot of e to be sure, but worst ever?

Well. . .

Movies I saw at the theater and wished I could get my money back:

*Weekend at Bernie's 2 (I still hold my wife responsible)
*Body of Evidence (with Madonna and Willem Defoe, during the late 80s/early 90s "erotic thriller" heyday)
*Highlander 2 (seriously, why?)
*Natural Born Killers (no redeeming value whatsoever; contributed to my continuing distaste for the post-"Cheers" Woody Woody Harrelson)


A lot of the movies on this thread I think would go better under the category of movies that got a lot of critical praise/box office receipts but you just don't know why. A few of my least favorites that fall into this category:

*The English Patient
*Gosford Park (this one really ticked me off because the trailers for it made it look like an actual comedy, like Cold Comfort Farm [which is well worth a rental, btw]; trust me, it ain't a comedy, not if you measure it by laughs anyway)
*Traffic
*Armageddon (disappointing to me after Bay's The Rock)
*Home Alone (it's funny, but it's not that funny)
*How the Grinch Stole Christmas (the doctor had to have rolled over in his grave; how can anyone who enjoyed the book/cartoon as a child watch this movie without feeling dirty?)
*Men in Black 2 (just not that great, still made a buttload of money)
*My Big Fat Greek Wedding (again, funny, but not that funny)
*The Mummy Returns (this movie was NOT as good as the first one)
*Scary Movie (hey kids, try Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, or Airplane for a few lessons in the fine art of parody)

The list goes on, but I won't.


BTW, why is Pirates of the Caribbean offensive?

 

[Look_a_Unicorn]

I posted some stinkers earlier, but I had forgotten just how repulsively bad "Spanking the Monkey" is, till another post mentioned it.

I've seen more than half of the bad movies mentioned here, and in most cases I'd agree- but none of them can compare to the pure nausea that this movie induces.
Don't watch it. Punch anyone who recommends it- they are trying to destroy your mind.

 

[Hypersmurf]

Movies I saw at the theater and wished I could get my money back:

*Highlander 2 (seriously, why?)

You didn't see it at the theatre. There is no Highlander 2

Maybe you're thinking of Highlander 3? You could perhaps have asked for your money back on that one.

*How the Grinch Stole Christmas (the doctor had to have rolled over in his grave; how can anyone who enjoyed the book/cartoon as a child watch this movie without feeling dirty?)

I've got a copy of the book translated into Latin at home

The translators managed to keep a "Seussian" feel to the language, too, with rhyme, alliteration, etc...

Fantastic gift.

-Hyp.

 

[Pseudonym]

*The Mummy Returns (this movie was NOT as good as the first one)

Oh yeah, I had forgotten about that one. Probably some sort of defense mechanism on my part. The mousy librarian turned reincarnated Egyptian ninja and the undead pygmy, Jurassic Park rippoff scene were bad enough, but the kid was the worse. I don't often go through a film praying for a small child to take a bullet, preferably in a slow motion close-up, but I was pretty disapointed that the kid lived through to the end.

 

[ConnorSB]

Here's my nominee:

Hyperspace This is a movie I bought on DVD for $2. Thats right. not twenty, not ten, but TWO. And actually bought it, from the shelves of a real store (Fry's Electronics). Here's how to describe this movie: Take Soldier, only the movie is about the garbage scow, not the guy who falls out of it. Then add a bit of event horizon, for the waking up from hypersleep. Mix in some "Angry ex-marine," "horny old man who keeps a shotgun onboard an extremely thin-hulled ship," and "girl who freaks out a lot." Then make the ship break, and add in the tension of that other movie, "The Cube," where there is only room for one person on the exit ship. Then add in an alien crab, some cyborgs, and a murderer or four. Oh, and some backstory cyborgs that like decapiation. Oh, and it was filmed by college students... or looks like it.

 

[Villano]

Why, exactly, is Highlander 2 (or lack thereof, Hypersmurf) the worst movie ever, according to some? I've never seen it, and the only word-of-mouth I've heard has been vitriolic hatred on this board?

I honestly can't believe that I forgot H2 on my list.

If you want to know why it's one of the worst films of all time, it commits a double crime of not only being full of terrible dialogue and a nonsensical plot, but it totally ignores everything established in the first film. In Highlander, the characters were immortal humans battling for a mythic "prize". In H2, they are now aliens, and everyone who met each other in the 1st are now really old friends from another planet.

Oh, and they are mortal on their homeworld, Ziest, but immortal on Earth. Or as one character puts it:

You will live forever here, until you return to Zeist, where you can die, or, under certain circumstances, you can die here, but not on Zeist.

Isn't that perfectly clear? Now imagine an entire movie filled with this dialogue.

Oh, and Zeist is a barren wasteland of a world where everyone is mortal, so they banish their criminal rebels to beautiful Earth where they will live forever. See, they are being punished by being forced to live forever in a place a million times better then they were.

Go ahead and read that over and over again. It won't make any more sense.

EDIT: Oh yeah, doesn't it also begin with some weird title cards that read some thing like, "1999" (it was made in 1991), followed immediately by "25 years ago" and then "500 years ago"?

 

[Hypersmurf]

In H2, they are now aliens, and everyone who met each other in the 1st are now really old friends from another planet.

Ugh... wouldn't that be a horrible movie?

Let's hope they never make it.

-Hyp.