Hey I loved that movie! Although you are right about the Kathy Bates scene...that was rather unpleasant.

One of the worst movies I can think of off the top of my head was "The Animal" with Rob Schneider and that chick Colleen from "Survivor." That movie totally sucked ass. :thumbsdn:

Quite easily. It was overhyped, with an overly contrived plot whose "Oh my God, I was so shocked at the ending" ending I saw from the opening reel. Bruce Willis gets shot! Kid sees dead people! And, as if simply for insurance, kid says dead people often don't know they're dead!

My only regret is that I fell asleep before I could make bets with the others in the audience on how the movie would end.

I think it took a lot of moxie for Kathy Bates to do that scene. Speaking from the "mature adult" perspective (in age only), I think our society puts way too much emphasis on youthful beauty, leaving the rest of us feeling like we should just go hide somewhere because we aren't fit for the cover of Cosmo.

Fuck that. Old people need sex too. Someday, those who found Ms. Bates' nude scene unpalatable will look in a mirror and wonder what the hell they were thinking back when they were whippersnappers.

Bubba Ho-Tep. I really liked Bruce Campbell up until that movie. Bought the DVD without seeing it in the theatre first...first mistake....

And Toad...Men in Tights?? I LOVE that movie.... :(

Bubba Ho-Tep is fun to watch with "The King" commentary track.

Elspode--did you ever know that you're my heeeeeeerrroooooooo?

Old people DO need sex and I've known some really HOT "older" men who could teach the youngsters a thang or two. So there, all you who worship at the alter of youth and Britney Spears.

Flesh Gordon was bad enough to be campy entertainment, which is as it was intended. If nothing else, the stop-motion-monster sequences (particularly the King Kong parody near the end) gave it redeeming value far above many other movies in this thread.

Now, The Avengers? Highlander 2? THOSE were bad movies.

Worst Movies Ever are in the news today:

Long-lost final Ed Wood movie found

I'll pop this thread back up for a movie I haven't seen (obviously, it hasn't come out yet), but must confess some curiosity about...

I was in the worst movie I have ever seen.

Which one was that?

It would hurt people's feelings if I told... it went to some festivals and they search the name from time to time to see who is talking about it.
Let's just say it seems like drunks broke into the editing room after the actual film was made and made the same movie from the worst takes as a joke & the film was not well done to begin with. You have no idea how pissed I was.

I'm curious now. Can you spell it backwards? Search engine shouldn't pick it up then.

Oh, and the worst movie I've ever seen (that I can recall right now) is Phantom of the Paradise, a BRian DePalma movie with Paul Williams.

still Passenger 57. not one redeeming scene in the whole thing.

I have a good friend in that flick.
He is in two that are worse.
I think it was called Cop & 1/2, he dared me to make it through it and The Punnisher (the newer one).
In the same genre, The Apple. :right:

Worst = Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
2nd worst = Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me

Plebian

I liked it ... largely because I didn't expect to have any of my questions answered.

Ghost

The book was so good I fear the film cannot possibly do it justice.

I heartily agree with jinx's statement.

Furthermore a film that *did* do it justice is not a film I'd be interested in seeing.

As to the thread title, I nominate Meet the Parents. I hate that film and the makers of that film. I continue to mourn that I will never have those two hours of my life back. An utter waste.

The hours burned bitterly in a bad movie are redeemed by watching the same movie again -- on MST3K.

Which is my entry on the TV Shows You Miss thread.

Worst Movie Ever Made, With Special Nod to Incredibly Poor Dialogue:

Firebirds.

Excreble helicopter warfare film. I think Nicholas Cage was in it. Awful, simply awful. I couldn't even enjoy it stoned.

Totally right on.

That movie completely sucked. But I liked the scene in question and KB was courageous.

The new King Kong was pretty bad; long drawn out and boring.

The Master of Disguise - with that guy (Garth) from Wayne's World. I know it was meant to be a "family" movie but it just sucked on so many levels. I didn't make it to the end.

Freddy Got Fingered was bad, but it was "funny-bad", a real train-smash of a movie.

dana carvey?

master of disguise was bad movie, but it had LOTS of quotable lines.

A posting in what DVD are you watching prompted me to recall what has to be the worst film I have ever seen ... Alien Lust.

It's a porn film so terribly, execrably bad that I can't even find any references to it on the internet tonight.

Very bad.

Trees. A Jaws parody with the great white shark replaced with a great white pine.

One of these guys?
Chick BernhardtStunts: Punisher, The (2004)
Stunts: Cop and ½ (1993)
Marc MacaulayActor: Punisher, The (2004)
Actor: Cop and ½ (1993)
Bill ScharpfStunts: Punisher, The (2004)
Stunts: Cop and ½ (1993)

None of them are credited in Paradise.

Home Alone. Couldn't stand that movie. Wanted to shoot stoopid kid.

I wanted to shoot the stupid, self-absorbed parents who really deserved to be dead. I found that movie to be terribly sad.

Plan 9 from Alpha Centauri is so bad as to be good....

next has to be Steve McQueen's 'The Blob'


and for films that entirely miss the point.... the original 50's version of '1984' with Peter Cushing.

I have wanted to see that version of 1984 again for a very long time. I hope that the John Hurt & Richard Burton version is going to be re-released on DVD. The 2003 DVD release is selling for $45 and upwards on amazon.com.

The original version of The Blob starring Steve McQueen (and made right here in SE Pennsylvania) is a work of near brilliance. All of the sequels and remakes have sucked.

Robot Monster.
An alien that is a gorrilla costume with a divers helmet using an intergalactic communication device that blows bubbles?

Psycho - The remake blew dog cock.
The original was a masterpiece.

I thought "The Blair Witch" sucked donkey dick from Hell with AIDS.
Ready To Rumble - WTF?

And I thought "The Passion of the Christ" was a really well thought-out porn comedy, but others disagree.

Interview With the Vampire - my ex sat through it believing I had enjoyed the book (nope) I sat through it because he was a horror fan and I thought he was enjoying it.

In fact both of us would have been happy to walk out of the cinema after 20 minutes - the only time this has happened to me.

But then I enjoyed quite a few of the films nominated on here - I even bought Starship Troopers on DVD.... Maybe I should read the book now?

STARSHIP TROOPERS WAS NOMINATED!?

Great fuckin' movie. The book was a thousand times better, but still, it was a great action/scifi movie.

I wouldn't say Starship Troopers was the worst movie I've ever seen, but it's quite a stretch to call it "great."

Yes, the book was amazing, but the movie? That slime trailing bloated rat-fuck gastropod of a movie was *anything* but great. I'll give it a point or two for decent CGI, but otherwise, that thing just made me want to vomit. I'd rather roll around in a vat of feral porcupines than see that, that...

ugh, excuse me. I have to stop now...

Mom and Dad Save the Universe, or something like that. An idiotic flick about some flying car that takes people to planet Spango. I don't really remember much, it's been a while since I saw it and vowed to never watch it again.

"Mom and Dad Save The Universe" IDIOTIC!?!

HOW DARE YOU!

HOW FUCKING DARE YOU!

How can any movie with a flying car and John Lovitz be...

Flying car...

John Lovitz...

John...

Lovitz...

Oh God, my brain is melting...

Please kill me...

Maybe you have a point, PizzaMonkey.

Kevin Costner post-apocalyptic vehicle The Postman.

'Til There Was You (this one, since there are actually several movies by that title.)

SOOO painfully boring. At least when I'm seeing a movie I hate, I can get into actively hating it. This movie just gave me a headache.

although his first post apocalyptic flick, A boy and his dog was pretty campy and despite the long build up to a cheap pun at the end, I found it enjoyable. I may have been eating shrooms though...

Wasn't that Don Johnson?

Other than a KICK ASS soundtrack, and Liz Hurley looking shag-a-delic, yes it was pretty bad. :rolleyes:

Dohh! you're right.

I have them lumped together in my memory, sort of like mental compression of a file, you lose some data, but you gain a lot of space that is useful for other things like remembering how to breathe and stuff...

OH OH OH!:idea: Don Johnson in The Dentist. Horrible.

Wait, that was Corbin Bernsen...even worse!

Yes, it was, and based on a damn fine Harlan Ellison Novella, too.

They cast the wrong dog.

Magnolia

"Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS"

My boyfriend took me to a drive-in to see this, circa 1977, with the idea that we'd get all hot watching it. It was soooo awful, with such vile acts against women, that I burst into tears and demanded that we leave! Ack, it was garbage....just horrible.

Since then....

"Annie" Saw this with my Mom and Grandma; Grandma swore in Italian and walked out just as Punjab unwound his turban to save the girl....my Mom and I laughed so hard we were shrieking out loud and had to follow her out, with everyone "Shushing" us, lol!

"Vanilla Sky" WHAT crap! With an afterthought ending tacked on, even more lame than the ending of the book "The Story Of O".

"My Life as a House" Pedophilia and a variety of other personal quirks can be cured by community projects! Awwwww....

Okay...I'll stop being ugly now....

Did you know that there is a whole series of Ilsa films? I haven't been able to bring myself to watch any of them.

Fat Albert was so horrible that it pissed me off. I probably should have known better than to have high expectations for a live action movie based on a beloved cartoon (it has worked occasionally), but there you go.

SWMBO was permanently scarred by watching Ilsa, she wolf etc. as a teen. I can't imagine, it must have been bad. Hello parents?

I can certainly understand why; I was perhaps 18 myself. Its images remained with me for years. And I saw it at a DRIVE-IN! Can you imagine???

Considering the era in which it was made, I cannot imagine the targeted audience, you know? If it were made now.....even NOW I cannot imagine....it was not merely sadistic, it was all torture, murder, mutilation....sooooo vile. I have never mustered the courage to do a Search on it, to see who the devil made this thing - and WHY!

(shudders)

Allow me!

No one you have ever heard of, I'm betting. Here's the Director's curriculum vitae. The most legitimate thing he ever did was act in a few episodes of "Hunter". It all goes downhill from there.

Ended his career on a high note, I see. :rolleyes:

Jesus Christ, Superstar was terrible.

Yes, if you mean the Ted Neely version.

A couple of years ago a new director did a made-for-TV version that was very good, IMHO.

I disagree. I played the soundtrack to death in school, and the movie is a faithful, if not perfect reproduction of that pleasant memory. Like watching a concert movie where the songs are ones you originally loved as studio tracks.