What is the worst movie you've ever seen?

[nielsty]

I've said it once before but Reptilicus is the worst Danish film ever! It's so bad it's funny. And it has been dubbed to English so you can see how bad it is here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDftrF4yn0s

And the worst thing is that it was some of the best actors from that period of Danish Cinema - it's from 1961.

[Steve Rotramel]

"Pay Up or Die" starring Rotunda, the fat chick with the hoagie (seriously) and Bossman with the inexhaustible cigarette. And I'll watch anything.

I watched "Flight of the Phoenix" (the new one) right after reading the book.

OUCH!

[Writer2011]

Pet Sematary--I walked out along with half of the theater.

[dgl]

I take back my previous films. They were bad, but not nearly so egregiously bad as "Inspector Gadget" with Matthew Broderick. It's one of the few films I've ever actually walked out on.

[triceretops]

Raptor Red on the Sci-Fi channel was just...I can't even put it into words.

Tri

[Hollow]

I take back my previous films. They were bad, but not nearly so egregiously bad as "Inspector Gadget" with Matthew Broderick. It's one of the few films I've ever actually walked out on.

My sister watched that yesterday. It made me cringe.

[NikeeGoddess]

dp wrote:
Mind you, I was talking about characters in a film, not real life family relationships.
i know this but it still made me think of this one. but, what about Hotel New Hampshire - the unlike bro and sis love affair w/Rob Lowe and Jodi Foster - ewww!!!

[Writer2011]

One word: Frankenfish :)

[Writer2011]

I take back my previous films. They were bad, but not nearly so egregiously bad as "Inspector Gadget" with Matthew Broderick. It's one of the few films I've ever actually walked out on.
There was even a sequel :)

[Hollow]

Flightplan. Borish plot and predictable to me. And Freedomland.

[WarrenP]

How are you folks defining worst movie? Many of the movies listed here might not have the best plot or story elements, but they have good productions, lighting, decent camera work, adequate effects, etc...

Is this just worst movie, based on story?

Take a movie like the The Cave (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0402901/). Obvious plot holes, and stretches the imagination a bit too far. However, the underwater cave camera work was good, the dark environment lighting was pretty good, the audio work was good, etc...

I'd go with a movie like Plan 9 from Outer Space. In this flick, you can see "shadows" on the sets from the "spaceships", you can see strings holding flying objects, boom mikes are visible, night and day are flipped in the same scenes, and so on...

[Inkdaub]

Pet Sematary--I walked out along with half of the theater.

Sometimes walking out is better.

[xhouseboy]

LOL I liked that movie... it was odd... I like that. Plus I love Bruce Willis. Brad Pitt was hilarious as well. With his dead eye and all.

Father: You're INSANE!
Pitt: .... No I'm not

Pimp: I'm the victim here. I've just been attacked by a coked-up whore and a psychotic dentist (I'm quoting from memory).

12 Monkeys was a decent, thought-provoking movie.

[zeprosnepsid]

Coming to this thread a bit late, but I'm pretty horrified by a lot of people's choices. If some of these listed are the worst movies you've ever seen then you are some very lucky people!! Needless to say, I like a lot of the movies listed perfectly fine.

The worst movie I've ever see is THE STORY OF US starring Bruce Willis and Michelle Pfeiffer, directed by Rob Reiner. It's scenes from a marriage and in every scene they fight. It's just fight, 2 years later - fight, 4 years later - fight and then in the end they get back together and they love each other. It's terrible. Divorce was created for these two people. And who wants to watch parents fight for 2 hours? Who wants to watch two parents fight ever? I really think it's the worst.

[Writer2011]

That movie Derailed with Jennifer Aniston ranks right up there as one of the worst..

[Devil Ledbetter]

Cube.

[Red Robin]

Battle Field Earth-

This was the most ridiculous and ill conceived mess anywhere, anytime. But it ended up being an unintentional comedy, so not the worst of all time.

Starship Troopers 2-

Criticize ST1 all you want, but it had explosions, boobs, lasers, explosions and aliens. No masterwork, but you can enjoy it if you are drunk. ST2 has nothing... just boredom.

[poetinahat]

I might say 'Manhattan Murder Mystery' -- but I turned it off after fifteen minutes. It may be wonderful; I'll take your word for it.

Scene: Her apartment. She and I had just started dating (not married yet, clearly).

She: "I've never seen a Woody Allen film. Let's watch one."

I: "Okay." (rents MMM, plus another film)

(the couple watch MMM... Woody Allen, Alan Alda, Diane Keaton (?), someone else... I manage not to remove my own eyes with a melon baller... fifteen minutes pass)

She: "Can I ask you something?"

I: "Of course."

She: "Would you mind if we watched something else?"

I: "Congratulations. You have now seen every Woody Allen film ever made. We need never speak of it again."

(I remove MMM and play other film. We relax and watch, blissful.)

...and they lived happily ever after.

[DanielD]

Battlefield Earth?
Was that the one starring John Travolta, taken from an L.Ron Hubbard (Scientology) novel?
Daniel.

[dpaterso]

ALEXANDER (Director's Cut)

I just ejected the DVD, I'm not watching any more of this drivel. A thoroughly uneventful storyline plus lackluster performances from all concerned. Piss poor writing and a piss poor interpretation of the legendary figure's life story.

I thought it was really cute how so many Irish accents dominated the film, because the lead actor has an Irish accent. Someone actually came up with that idea and didn't think it would sound really odd. Well there ya go.

And while I'm at it, an honorable mention to TRISTAN & ISOLDE which also got the eject treatment.

-Derek

[jonpiper]

ALEXANDER (Director's Cut)

I just ejected the DVD, I'm not watching any more of this drivel. A thoroughly uneventful storyline plus lackluster performances from all concerned. Piss poor writing and a piss poor interpretation of the legendary figure's life story.

-Derek

Derek, perhaps watching this kind of drivel helps us. While masterpieces show us what is possible, in a positive sense, screenplays and movies like Alexander show us what not to do, what does not work.

It wasn't a complete waste of time. Do you think so?

[dpaterso]

jon, I have to admire your positive outlook, if nothing else. :)

By making the viewer think how scenes, sequences and performances could have been improved, I'd have to say yes, watching such drivel does have value. Unfortunately it's a much more painful process than simply sitting back and enjoying the masterpieces.

-Derek

[Melanie Lane]

I watched Children of the Corn last night. What kind of people drive around with a dead kid in the back of their trunk?

The Haunted Mansion. My favorite non-thrill ride at Disney World. I can recite the whole script to the ride fowards and backwards. But the movie...I think I probably cried.

The Country Bears. Same deal as The Haunted Mansion. WTH?

Gotcha. Some random spy movie. The dialogue and story line weren't plausible. The movie consisted of:
"Woman Spy:Let's have sex.
Random Dude:Okay.
WS: Let's go over the Berlin Wall for no reason and get shot at by the enemy.
RD: Sweet.
WS: I'm not really German.
RD: Are you Russian?
WS: Close.
RD: You're USSRan?"

The Grudge (The Remake). I laughed through that one. Later someone informed me that it wasn't supposed to be a comedy. :Shrug:

The Covenant The best part was the opening credits. But that was just because of the Rob Zombie song.

And last, (and the worst), Napolean Dynamite. The only thing good that came out of it was the T-Shirt reading "Pedro Lacks Political Experience"

[jonpiper]

You're right on that Derek. I think of the old saying: no pain, no gain.

Another positive note. When I see the kinds of movies mentioned in this thread, my confidence is boosted. :)

We should all, in some perverse way, be thankful that c**p gets written and produced.

[Pike]

Had to throw this one in. Doctor/ Butcher, M.D. My friends and I rented this gem about twenty years ago. It opens with a disclaimer, the producers apologizing in advance for how graphic the film is, and when those graphic scenes come, they promised to play a key piece of eerie music so the squeamish can look away.

One of the first scenes, when the eerie music kicks in, and the good Doctor is in some person's home, for what I can't remember, he begins to cut off their arm, and it is SO obvious that it belongs to a department store mannequin. We returned it and promptly picked up some porn to redeem ourselves.

Pike

[El Mariachi]

Any movie with Pauly Shore. I defy anyone to prove me otherwise.

[mario_c]

Petey Wheatstraw: The Devil's Son In Law. Starring the late, great Rudy Ray Moore, words can't describe how bad this is from the horrible "humor" and the half witted attempts at kung fu action to the idiotic end.

[thethinker42]

feardotcom - It just...everything...it...what? How the? Wait...what??? Yeah, I hated it.

Female Perversions - Well, the title sounded good...but the movie didn't make any sense. At all. It was just random crap. Nothing. Made. Sense. (And the female perversions were few and far between.)

[bison]

Some of you guys watch really strange movies!
How about Hamlet with Mel Gibson?

[MaryMumsy]

I admit to not having read the whole thread, but agree there are a lot of crap movies out there. Back in the late sixties my then boyfriend hauled me to a whole raft of totally worthless slasher films. Hey, it was an excuse to go to the drive-in! I forgave him, we've been married 36 years. The worst film I actually remember was the orginal version of 'Casino Royale'. The only movie I've ever walked out of, and I was on a date.

MM

[Billingsgate]

"Wanted" is by far the worst movie ever made. AWFUL script. Absolutely no plot, no personality to any of the characters, no content, no tension, no surprises, and a lukewarm and clumsy ripoff of the hokey psuedo-philosophy from "The Matrix". The special effects were of the "gee whiz see what I c'n do" sort, the cinematography was un-outstanding. Morgan Freeman sleepwalked through his perpetual role as the wise old dude. The worst part was that when Angelina Jolie briefly appeared nude, it was only from the back!

I mean, if they're going to make a completely pointless, witless, ugly movie, at least let's have some reasonable T&A!

[loquax]

Ocean's 12

[HeronW]

Alien Apocalypse with Renee O'Connor (Gabrielle from Xena) and Bruce Campbell (Autolycus, Ash from Evil Dead). She's done some theatre and Indy shorts and is very good but this was such a dog. When the mantis alien creatures were going to flog her--I was, yeah, do it cuz this movie sux!

[red hawk]

At the top of my list is...

Sky Captain and the world of Tomorrow ( should have been called the world of stupidity)
(Was there ever a plot to this film?)

Wing Commander (If you want to know how to make shit up as you go along, this is the one to watch)(Well besides bad acting and sudden plot revealing throughout)

Both do a huge disservice to Sci-fi.

[nmstevens]

Signs


Now we're getting competitive -- because M. Night Shyamalan is one-man "worst movie of all time" factory.

Signs is unbelievable trash. Watching it, one can hardly believe that it would be possible to follow it up with anything even close in terms of sheer unmitigated awfulness.

But then comes "The Village" -- a movie with dumbness imprinted on every frame.

After that -- Lady in the Water -- sorry -- don't know how bad it was. After watching the trailer, I couldn't bring myself to see it, but I suspect it was well in the trench.

And now, M. Night has proven that he hasn't lost any of his edge in terms of putting out complete and utter dreck -- "The Happening" -- plants drive people to commit bad acting and then mass suicide.

I think M. Night Shyamalan is like Uwe Boll with a patina of class -- so that nobody seems to notice just how bad his movies are.

NMS

[Blind Writer]

Okay, I'm pretty easily satisfied in movies. I"m a huge critic of movies, but for entertainment value, it doesn't take much. I"ll admit that I've loved many movies that I knew to be crap, but I hated, HATED "Just My Luck" with LIndsay Lohan. I like Lohan someitmes, even. Mean Girls is gold, but "Just My Luck" made me want to cry--and it's a comedy.

[nmstevens]

How are you folks defining worst movie? Many of the movies listed here might not have the best plot or story elements, but they have good productions, lighting, decent camera work, adequate effects, etc...

Is this just worst movie, based on story?

Take a movie like the The Cave (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0402901/). Obvious plot holes, and stretches the imagination a bit too far. However, the underwater cave camera work was good, the dark environment lighting was pretty good, the audio work was good, etc...

I'd go with a movie like Plan 9 from Outer Space. In this flick, you can see "shadows" on the sets from the "spaceships", you can see strings holding flying objects, boom mikes are visible, night and day are flipped in the same scenes, and so on...


That may be true but there's an another side to that coin -- which is that when I go to what's obviously a high budget "A" picture, I go in with a much higher level of expectation.

If they're spending 75 or 100 million dollars on the effects and lighting and sets and stunts -- I want them to spend a few bucks on the script.

I'm much less forgiving when a big budget movie turns out to be "Stealth" -- which, literally every time I come across when I'm channel surfing, I can't watch more than around three minutes of before its sheer dumbness drives me to change the channel.

On the other hand, I've watched Plan 9 a bunch of times. Sure, it's dumb -- but unlike Stealth, it's watchably dumb.

There are a whole bunch of very low budget movies that were shot in the fifties like that. Robot Monster is watchable. From Hell it Came is watchable.

And despite claims to the contrary -- I think Reptilicus is definitely watchable.

There are scenes in all of these movies, cheaply made and goofy though they are, that are really cool.

There's a scene in Reptilicus where a fleeing crowd is making for a big drawbridge and the guy whose operating the bridge panics and flips the switch -- and opens the bridge -- and the crowd keeps coming and dozens of people are pushed off the edge and fall what looks to be around sixty feet into the river (I think it's a river) below.

And this is no effect -- they just did it. Real draw bridge. Real crowd -- they all really fell.

And that's the thing about movies like this -- these startling and memorably effective moments will sometimes pop up.

When Tor Johnson comes up out of the grave in Plan 9 -- and it's lit from below -- the light coming up from within the grave -- that's an effective moment.

The fact is, given a choice between watching Plan 9 and watching Stealth -- or anything directed by M. Night Shyamalan -- I'd pick Plan 9 in a heartbeat.

NMS

[Rainy Night]

Indiana Jones 4

Go ahead send me hate mail... I love Indy, but for me this movie just sucked, probably for the reason MNS mentioned above. I really expected more.

[Sarpedon]

I saw this really lousy movie once. It was about gangsters of some sort. Whats worse than a bad movie is a bad movie that tricks you into thinking it might be a good movie. And one way they do that is by getting good people to act in them. This movie had the following:

Jeff goldblum
Gabriel Byrne
Richard Dreyfuss

Its called "Trigger Happy" or, confusingly "Mad Dog Time." for some reason. It was utterly horrible.

[ricetalks]

Twister.
Pearl Harbour.

[yolt13]

HOWLING II: YOUR SISTER IS A WEREWOLF.

It stars Reb "CAPTAIN AMERICA/YOR, HUNTER FROM THE FUTURE" Brown. It has werewolves which make the masks left in the Halloween clearance aisle at Target on November 3rd seem realistic and terrifying. It has the great Christopher Lee phoning in a performance to pick up a paycheck, during his sad cheesy mustache/"Will work for a credit!" period. It has an obnoxious rock theme song that will haunt your nightmares. The only positive thing it has going for it is a gratuitous topless shot of Sybil Danning... and the filmmakers even ruin that bit of adolescent pandering by replaying the shot ad nauseum in the closing montage!

I'm a franchise horror fan, the kind of guy who can find the good in even the weakest of fright film sequels. But I couldn't defend HOWLING II if I tried. The best I could say in its defense is that at least it doesn't take itself as seriously as the abysmal EXORCIST II.

[gophergrrrl]

Poultrygeist.

Why? Well, 1.) Troma made it. 2.) Not only is it distasteful, uncouth and caused me to feel as though I were undoubtably going to hell just for watching it, it's poorly written.

[creativexec]

MR. MIKE'S MONDO VIDEO &
WHAT DREAMS MAY COME

:e2hammer:

[stuckupmyownera]

Chasing Amy. I like most Kevin Smith movies but I thought this was atrocious; little more than a series of debates between characters I didn't care about, and worse, the debates didn't actually say anything new or surprising. Utter dross, but sadly even when I'm itching to switch a film off, I just keep on hoping it's going to get better. What a waste of two hours!

[nmstevens]

HOWLING II: YOUR SISTER IS A WEREWOLF.

It stars Reb "CAPTAIN AMERICA/YOR, HUNTER FROM THE FUTURE" Brown. It has werewolves which make the masks left in the Halloween clearance aisle at Target on November 3rd seem realistic and terrifying. It has the great Christopher Lee phoning in a performance to pick up a paycheck, during his sad cheesy mustache/"Will work for a credit!" period. It has an obnoxious rock theme song that will haunt your nightmares. The only positive thing it has going for it is a gratuitous topless shot of Sybil Danning... and the filmmakers even ruin that bit of adolescent pandering by replaying the shot ad nauseum in the closing montage!

I'm a franchise horror fan, the kind of guy who can find the good in even the weakest of fright film sequels. But I couldn't defend HOWLING II if I tried. The best I could say in its defense is that at least it doesn't take itself as seriously as the abysmal EXORCIST II.


There's only one kind of person who considers "The Howling Part II" to be the worst movie ever made -- and that's the kind of person who hasn't seen "The Howling Part III" -- which I unofficially call, "The Howling Down Under".

Yes -- werewolves with Kangaroo style pouches.

NMS

[yolt13]

There's only one kind of person who considers "The Howling Part II" to be the worst movie ever made -- and that's the kind of person who hasn't seen "The Howling Part III" -- which I unofficially call, "The Howling Down Under".

Yes -- werewolves with Kangaroo style pouches.

NMS

HOWLING III is indeed awful. But I believe when dealing with sequels, the degree of dropoff in quality from the previous film must be considered. On some levels, I suppose H3 is worse than H2. On the other hand, it is just goofy enough (for the reason you mentioned, plus the Hitchcock knockoff character) to make it an enjoyable bad movie. H2, on the other hand, is so much worse than its predecessor that watching it is tantamount to getting punched in the groin with brass knuckles by the person you love most in the world. Worse, it is NOT an enjoyable bad movie in any way whatsoever (save, perhaps, the aforementioned "talents" of Sybil Danning - which can be seen in many other, far more entertaining films). I can chuckle at H3, and admire the nerve of the filmmakers for doing something even they had to know was ludicrous. H2 just makes me wonder if motion pictures should ever have been invented in the first place.

[Blondchen]

Rachel Getting Married.

And yes, I know who made it. And yes, I know who's in it. And it was still the worst, most painful, most long-winded film I've ever had to sit through.

[8thSamurai]

Are we talking big budget movies that ended up being not so great, or the sea of total schlock?

I've seen a LOT of really bad movies that blow blockbusters out of the water in terms of sheer awful.

Terror Toons.

Deafula. In theory, it was kind of cool - every character speaks in sign language. In practice - oh dear god, did they just spend fifteen minutes talking about PEANUTS?

[saulsx]

Indiana Jones 4

Go ahead send me hate mail... I love Indy, but for me this movie just sucked, probably for the reason MNS mentioned above. I really expected more.

You're not alone in hating Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Not the worst movie I've ever seen, but one of the dumbest and definitely one of the worst of the year.

One movie that comes to mind is Happy Feet. That has to be at least in the top 10 worst movies of all time.

[nmstevens]

Any movie with Pauly Shore. I defy anyone to prove me otherwise.

Pauly Shore would have improve "The Happening" -- you would have been able to see him commit suicide.

NMS

[mario_c]

Pauly Shore would have improve "The Happening" -- you would have been able to see him commit suicide.

NMS
Are we talking about Pauly Shore Is Dead?

[Vandal]

Transylvania 6-5000

Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis

Horrendous

[perfectisafault]

The Twilight movie. After that, it would be either Star Wars Episode I or The Devil Wears Prada.

[Cyia]

Poseidan (kind of a given that it would suck, but I hoped for the best.)

Mr. Winter (or Mr. North?) some cheesy Jeff Goldblum movie where he was Satan or the Antichrist or something. I dunno, he talked to flies so maybe it was Ba'alzebub.

After Crystal Skull, I think a certain producer should return his Oscar...

Fantastic 4 (both of them. It's NOT always worthwhile to use a free movie pass)

Hidden Window

This lousy zombie movie I watched when I was like 12 called My Boyfriend's Back.

Ed and his Dead Mother

Reindeer Games with Ben Affleck (the first of a long list with him...)

Snake Eyes with Nicolas Cage

Wanted

High Spirits with Liam Neeson

Any movie Brad Pitt is in that isn't animated

[GigiZ]

Agree with Billingsgate about Wanted. Wanted was the biggest piece of exploitative misogynist trash I've seen in a long time and not only for production, style and script problems. I mean, slo-mo bullets going through peoples' heads to get laughs? I walked out thinking, this is the end of western civilization but then again Western civilization is already over.

Also, the recent Stepford Wives.

And hey, look, I just turned on the TV and Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is on!!

[Alexandra Little]

Manos: the Hands of Fate. Brought to me courtesy of Mystery Science Theater 3000. Available on youtube.

*laughs and shutters simultaneously*

[Snowstorm]

"The Crow," and "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly". Those are the only movies I ever stopped watching. Too many assaults or rapes. Disgusting and offensive.

[mario_c]

Manos: the Hands of Fate. Brought to me courtesy of Mystery Science Theater 3000. Available on youtube.

*laughs and shutters simultaneously*Get the DVD. Your mind can't imagine the horror that is the uncut print.
Weird facts: the actors who played Torgo the slave, and the panicking wife in distress, both committed suicide a few years after filming. Yes, they were lovers. Yeah, sad - I know you're a terrible actor but there's OPTIONS.
The guy who played the useless dad was the writer, director, producer and auteur; he was a fertilizer salesman in El Paso.

[Yvettesgonefishing]

The Mangler--Stephen King's short story adapted to film. If you're ever offered the choice between watching this movie and having your head slammed repeatedly in the refrigerator door, skip the movie. It's profoundly bad. There's just no good way to have as your antagonist a demon-possessed antique laundry folding machine--especially when it comes alive and chases the protagonist. In order to enjoy the movie on even the most basic level, you have to be able to suspend not only belief, but good taste.

Harpies--One of the Baldwin brothers stars in this cinematic train wreck. Hopefully his agent has since discouraged him from accepting any more roles while recovering from a bender.

[FTL]

"The Crow," and "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly". Those are the only movies I ever stopped watching. Too many assaults or rapes. Disgusting and offensive.


I find this post offensive. haha jk

[cool_st_elizabeth]

"The Sixth Sense" or anything else directed by M. Night Shyamalan ... heavy-handed, cheesy, and obvious.

"The Man Who Wasn't There" is a blatant ripoff of James M. Cain's Double Indemnity, even down to using the character names Diedrickson and Nirdlinger.

"Highlander," rented it but couldn't make myself watch.

[Jerry B. Flory]

Equinox.
Finally a movie so bad even Ed Wood could laugh and say wow, this movie sucks!

[Alexandra Little]

Get the DVD. Your mind can't imagine the horror that is the uncut print.
Weird facts: the actors who played Torgo the slave, and the panicking wife in distress, both committed suicide a few years after filming. Yes, they were lovers. Yeah, sad - I know you're a terrible actor but there's OPTIONS.
The guy who played the useless dad was the writer, director, producer and auteur; he was a fertilizer salesman in El Paso.

I knew about Torgo--there was a tribute to him or something. Didn't know about the wife character.

[brad_b]

Alexandra has it right, MST 3000 had a parade of the worst movies I've ever seen, though what passes for Hollywood entertainment these days is a close second.