What's the Worst Movie You've Ever Seen?
 

I'm sure this has been repeated before, but I'm new, so I didn't get to see the results.

In my opinion, the worst movie ever is Drop Dead Gorgeous. For those of you who have been lucky enough not to see it, let me give you a quick synopsis. A very "country" town has an annual beauty pageant. The winner of the pageant can compete at the state level, and then at the national level if she wins that. Kirstie Alley plays the mother who would do anything to see her daughter win the pageant. The two conspire and come up with an evil plan. This includes shooting one girl's potential boyfriend in the head. They also blow up the tractor another competitor is riding on. Finally, a huge beam falls on yet another candidate who is on stage.

Of course, Kirstie Alley's daughter wins the pageant, but, as she is riding on a float in the parade, the float catches on fire and she dies. Bad karma, eh? The float being super-flammable had something to do with Kirstie Alley having ordered it from Mexico.

Soooo...the girl whose potential boyfriend was killed ends up receiving the local title after the other girl's death. She competes at the state level and wins because all of the other contestants end up with food poisoning. So, finally, the poor girl makes it to the national contest...only to learn that it has been discontinued. The sponsor is bankrupt or some such.

This movie SUCKED. I've see bad movies, but this reached levels previously unheard of.

With that said, what is the worst movie that you ever saw and ended up watching the whole thing anyway?

I have a vast collection of incredibly bad movies I've seen all the way through.

A few highlights from my personal video stash:

Percy: British Comedy from the early 70s about the first successful penis transplant.

The Stuff: A tasty desert takes over the world. Michael Moriarity and Paul Sorvino were cast for Law and Order despite their appearances in this film. Garrett Morris obviously needed to pay the drug bill that month.

Mars Needs Women: Classic 60s SciFi romp. The title really gives away the plot, though. I love the scene at the planetarium where the tape breaks and Tommy Kirk gives the lecture about Mars. Why didn't Yvonne Craig catch on to his nefarious plans then??

Santa Claus vs. the Martians: Mere words can not express the badness

Edit to add: for a worst double feature, you can't beat The Abominable Dr. Phibes and Dr. Phibes Rises Again

Santa Claus Vs the Martians was saved by MST3K---HILARIOUS!

My vote is for Sleepaway Camp. When my friend told me about this movie, i thought she was making it up. She wasn't. It's about this camp where everyone gets killed and they are being killed by a girl who ends up having a penis at the end... www.sleepawaycampmovies.com - yes, there is more than one sleepaway camp movie. In 2 & 3, the penis is gone but the killing continues.

It's a horrible movie, but if you watch it with some good friends who have good senses of humor, it is a GREAT laugh!

passenger 57. *shudder*

Never Been Kissed.

The movie whose moral is, "It's never too late to be popular with the in-crowd. Keep trying!" UGH.

About Schmidt

Kathy Bates nude... :greenface

Since I am truly fond of the genre of bad SciFi movies of the 50s and 60s ... there are many films that were done by MST3K that I saw beforehand. I had clean copies of The Brain The Wouldn't Die and War of the Colossal Beast.

For example, I was very disappointed by MST3K the movie, because I knew without checking that scenes were deleted from This Island Earth (which is actually not a suck-movie) to fit what was probably a studio designated running time.

I really LIKE that scene with the cat. It's even a plot point ...

I saw a DVD of Percy a month or two ago at a flea market. Passed on it.

The Phibes movies are high camp just for Price's relentless scenery-chewing.

Worst I've seen in many a year: Superstar. My wife talked me into watching this with her, and there was one (1) laugh in the entire film, based around a gratuitous f-bomb that came out of nowhere.

That dethroned Spy Hard (which couldn't even be saved by the casting of Andy Griffith as an insane Middle Eastern dictator) as my all-time stinker comedy.

I have not had the heart to watch Baby Geniuses, but the fact that they actually made a sequel sends a chill down my spine.

Gigli and Cool World. I'm still going to counselling for those two.

Broken Arrow- Look just because you are Travolta and Woo and it is easy to raise money for a movie, you don't necessarily have to make the film.

Battlefield Earth. Just because you're a scientologist doesn't mean you have to make a movie out of the master's book.

I had to walk out of a movie with Kevin Kline (sp?) where he was supposed to have a french accent. His accent careened wildly from french to bronx to german. It was so distracting I had to walk out after about fifteen minutes. I think it was "French Kiss" or something like that.

You'd think that if they had the coin to pay him and Meg Ryan, they could come up with the scratch for an accent coach.

I thought he was great in "A fish called wanda",

The Wind and the Lion.

You should really see this movie, if for no other reason than to hear Sean Connery play the Khalif of Saudia Arabia with a scottish brogue.

"Firebirds" with Nicholas Cage and some other people. *The Worst (tm)* dialogue ever written.

Nearly any film made by William Castle or Roger Corman.

I say this with love, incidentally.

Campy horror flicks and wolf are two things that go together like Peanut Butter and Honey.

Existenz. I wouldn't even use the DVD as a drinks coaster...

Excepting MST3K treatments, of which I've seen all of 'em.

"Beyond the Valley of the Dolls", by Russ Meyer, screenplay by Roger Ebert

"Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me" by David Lynch

"Young Einstein"

"Robin Hood: Men in Tights". Mel Brooks proves he's lost it

Best worst: Motel Hell, Scream Bloody Murder, Clash of the Titans
Worst worst: In the Bedroom, Last Temptation of Christ

Existenz. I wouldn't even use the DVD as a drinks coaster...

Seriously?! I loved that movie. It was silly, sure, but I enjoyed it for what it was.

Independance day and that thing with Bruce Willis where an asteroid is about to hit the earth both compete for worst movie for me. .....Most of the famously bad movies are really quite enjoyable......with the possible exception of Cannibal Holocaust

The original "Little Shop of Horrors" is one of the best worst films ever made!

*sputters*---But, but---that's a GREAT movie!

Ok, I'll shift Existenz down the ranks a bit. How about My Little Eye. That really did smell of wee.

Ishtar...I'm surprised that it hasn't been mentioned already.

Goddamn you! You made me remember!!!!


(comment posted for humorous effect only. I never saw the movie, nor do I intend to. I haven't seen Heaven's Gate either, which prior to Ishtar held the title for worst possible movie.)

I have been greedily hoarding my $6.00 DVD copy of "Plan 9 From Outer Space", waiting for just the right circumstances to watch it. Unfortunately, I no longer get stinking drunk nor do I use drugs, so who knows when that will be.

The one movie which had the greatest overall negative effect on my life was Star Wars Episode One. It was like watching George Lucas piss all over something which had brought joy to so many. I haven't watched the original Star Wars trilogy at all since then.

Also awful was Event Horizon, mostly because it could have been good, it had some potential... but it wasn't. At all. Another one is Hercules in New York, one of Arnold Schwartzaneggar's early performances, and dubbed over by an unaccented fellow, to pitiful-yet-humorous effect. And Star Trek 5.... yikes.

There are many movies which are clearly about as enjoyable as a cheese grater to the face, which I have not seen: Gigli, Kazaam, Glitter, From Justin to Kelly... ugh. I thank the stars that I have been spared from wasting valuable brain real estate on those abominations.

Here are the 100 lowest rated movies on IMDB.com.

Plan 9 From Outer Space was amazingly, mind-blowingly bad. It went straight through campy. It's so bad it's not even funny anymore. I have to buy a copy.

If you're into blaxploitation and/or Quentin Tarentino(sp?) films, Dolemite is a must-see. It's hilariously bad, but I think parts of it were supposed to be, and you can really see where it would've influenced Tarentino a lot (some of the lines are just sickeningly cool).

Also on the list, though not as well known, is El Chupacabra. Named after the spanish demon/lizard/bat/thing that apparently sucks the blood of goats (its name translates to "goat-sucker"), this movie is what happens when you give a rapper (whose name I forget and can't be bothered to look up) a movie camera and a $7 budget. Awesomely bad.

Dinosaurus! This movie is a synonym for 'atrocity'.

I wrote an article about the Star Trek film series on the occasion of the release of the first NG movie. I subtitled ST 5 "Never Let William Shatner Write or Direct."

Would this be a good time to bring "Robot Jox" into the fray?

Also, has any one else seen the other Dead Man Walking? Not the classy flick with Suzanne Sarandon and whats his face, but the other one...the really really sucky one with Wings Hauser and Jeffrey Combs. I mean.....i am a huge Jeffrey Combs fan but not even his presence could rescue that film from the deepest depths of suckiness

The Sixth Sense. My father bought the tickets while me and my brother found the parking spot, right? Afterwards, my brother proceeded directly to the ATM and paid him back on the premise that no one should have to pay for someone else to see something that bad.

Probably after the next election (if we have one) and if gwb again manages to rig it so he, ahem, wins.

That is to say, it is an occasion to get stinking drunk and use drugs, or move to outer space...

Sorry, we were having fun and I had to scorch the collective groove by getting political.
:(

Event Horizon was AWESOME!

C'mon!!


The worst movie ever was clearly Blue Streak.

Nobody has mentioned "Freddie Got Fingered." Has no one seen it? I certainly haven't, but anecdotal data indicates one foul, unfunny stretch of film.

I notice that no one has mentioned Attack of the Killer Tomatoes either. Parts I or II.

BrianR and I went to see this in a theater when it was released.

Visually striking, short on plot, and I don't think I've watched it since.

It takes a lot for me not to want to see a movie again.

Hell, I've seen "You've Got Mail" at least a half-dozen times all the way through, plus various chunks more often, through the lovely magic of power rotation on cable movie stations.

I remember it having good atmosphere, great visuals, and some decent acting... up to a certain, discernible point. Then it ran full speed, face-first into a brick wall. The mess of the second half of the movie betrayed the quality of the first, and a movie which was on the path to being a decent sci-fi ended up in cheesy-horror land. What a waste.

OMG...I remember years ago when it came on cable. I saw it in the listings, and thought, "Oh that's the movie everyone hated." I watched it, and I now know why they thought that. It was horrid! It wasn't even "good/bad" (like "Clash Of The Titans"). Oooo those special effects...LOL!
;)

How about The Blob? Anyone eat at The Blob diner in Downingtown?

What's the worst movie..
 

What about Flesh Gordon..Does anyone remember that gem.
With the professer sidekick who had an amazing name "prof Flexi jerkoff" :D

Back when it was open ... yes, Kings Kountry Kitchen was the last name I remember.

The Colonial Theater in Phoenixville (where the movie house scene was filmed) does a Blob Festival every year that I keep missing. They have a commemorative "running out into the street from the theater screaming" to reenact the Blob's attack on their location. My boss (crisis, not commitment) attends every year.

Mission to Mars, I so wanted this to be a good movie... it sucked out loud.

Lost in Translation and KUNG POW: ENTER THE FIST. LIT was boring, in my humble opinion, and Kung Pow almost made me lose respect for parodies. The idea was eh, but the execution was horrendous.

Bah! and I say again, Bah!. Lost in Translation was a fantastic film. A well acted, well written , well directed character piece.......and actually, whilst I'm about it, i loved Kung Pow!

"Aiaiaiaiaieieieeee" ( The sign of the Chosen one)

Lost In Translation was good. It was slow paced, but that was the whole point. It wasn't supposed to be an action adventure.

Look for this turkey "2010 AC/DC Attack of the killer cave babes "
I rented this turkey once thinking there would be SOME nudity in it , noppers just a bunch of semi-babes in 50's style bikinies drageing dudes around by their hair .
It truely sucked HIND-ASS !!!!!!!

Some friends and I would every so often all gather, load up on a plethora of movie-watching snax and watch bad movies for the sole purpose of heckling them all the way through. That one sounds like a GOOD candidate for such a gathering.

Napoleon Dynamite. I don't know if it was the overhype I got from my friends, or the fact that they neglected to tell me I had to be on acid in order to find any humor in the film, but I just don't like it. It's actually now supplanted Sixth Sense as my worst movie ever.

HeavyMetal!! Anyone recall that fiasco? You pretty much had to be on 'ludes* to enjoy that one...


*viewer was on 'ludes.

Oh you can't mean the animation-compo Heavy Metal! You just can't! :eek:

Oh, yes, Cyber Wolf, I do indeed mean that one!

It was so freakin' awful even our altered states didn't keep us from gagging.

I am still underwhelmed by the much publicized soundtrack, but that was one terrific movie. I was a regular ready of Heavy Metal at the time the movie came out and was for the most part pleased with the story treatments, although there were other stories that I would have chosen than the one with the sword and sorcery one. Like Druuna, or Airtight Garage, or Champuku.

Are you sure it wasn't the stuff altering you that was making you gag? :p

I'm sure. I was soooooo totally NOT into it.

Kentucky Fried Movie, however, now that was a great movie---but this is the Bad Movie Thread, isn't it?

trueman's world, so far, i only remember this one.It's a great movie

How can you imply that Sixth Sense was the worse movie ever? I know that you said MY and not THE worst movie, but still.

Worst movie ever huh?

Let me think....i'd have to go with Starship Troopers for a couple reasons:

1. It was the cheesiest thing i have ever seen in my life, but i've never been a big fan of Sci-Fi.

2. Heinlein is an amazing author, but the movie wasn't a reflection of that.

Cheesy!!!