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I would have to say eyes wide shut.......
     
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Jan 15, 2006, 12:00 AM
 
Well great movies are great (duh!). Really really bad movies are also fun to watch. So for one I just really didn't like I would go with that "dumb or dumber" movie. God that was horrible.
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Jan 15, 2006, 11:16 AM
 
Originally Posted by Cadaver
I'll watch anything with a naked Nicole Kidman.
He said it. A movie with that much nudity, including full-frontal shots of Nicole Kidman, can't be bad. It's a rule.

In my mind Eyes Wide Shut strikes a good balance between trashy soft-core porn and a real movie with a real plot.
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Jan 16, 2006, 02:11 AM
 
I only managed to read three pages of people's picks, but Street Fighter (with Van Damme)... that was really bad. Some of the other movies people have posted I thought were pretty decent...

Armageddon
Waterworld (Don't ask, I just like it)
Spider Man 1 and 2
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Jan 16, 2006, 02:28 AM
 
Originally Posted by torsoboy
I only managed to read three pages of people's picks, but Street Fighter (with Van Damme)... that was really bad. Some of the other movies people have posted I thought were pretty decent...

Armageddon
Waterworld (Don't ask, I just like it)
Spider Man 1 and 2
Police Academy
Waterworld isn't half as bad as people say. I think people just like to pick on it cuz it cost a ton and the sets sank.

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Jan 16, 2006, 03:50 AM
 
Anybody seen Demolishon University with Cory Haim, I bought the DVD for like 5 dollars from a barain bin, it's so bad it's funny..

     
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Jan 16, 2006, 04:48 AM
 
I liked Earnest Goes to Camp.
     
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Jan 16, 2006, 12:29 PM
 
I have seen very few movies that I felt were truly BAD. Most "bad" movies seem to be amusing in their badness. Take for example the Power Rangers movie (from what was it, 10 years ago?) It was actually well made, with pretty good production values and some funny stuff even for adults ("I'm a frog..."). And if you have to see the stuff with your kid all the time at home, you already don't get too offended by what you're supposed to suspend disbelief about.

Ok, now for the absolutely, most truly awful movie of all time: "Starship Troopers" by Paul Verhoven. Take a science fiction classic about duty, honor, and real patriotism that has very little actual combat in it and strip away EVERYTHING that gave the story relevance or purpose. Now throw in as much gore as you possibly can. Now make the military tactics used look no better than a 6th grade playground scuffle (boy did he do some incredibly DUMB things with those so-called soldiers). Add in the sketchiest of excuses for female nudity, where there were very few female characters at all in the original story. And finally, TAKE OUT THE COOLEST MILITARY IDEA EVER WRITTEN-THE POWER ARMOR SUITS. Now you have a masterpiece of bad. So bad that it transcends bad, with no real redeeming points whatsoever. (Ok, Dina Meyer looks good naked, but you get mere seconds of this view and the rest of the two hours is spent with people getting bitten in two...that more than counteracts her naked screen time.)

Heinlein's name was removed from the production once Ginny found out how entirely horrible the final story really was. Verhoven is on record as saying that pretty much all he wanted to to was make a "bug hunt" movie. So why did he have to crap all over a classic?

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Jan 16, 2006, 12:32 PM
 
But it's still not as bad as Freddie Got Fingered.

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Jan 16, 2006, 12:48 PM
 
Originally Posted by Veronica
I believe you, it's bad. So why would I want to see it???
So people can know what a bad movie is. I'm seeing all sorts of nominations, nearly all of them I've seen at one point or another. None of them compare to Troll 2. Yes, even Starship Troopers 2 which I thought was pertty bad. I'd give it a VERY distant Runner's Up. You have to apprecaite the "We don't got dem der fancy computer types, so we'll just say the aliens looke like peoples!"
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Jan 16, 2006, 01:10 PM
 
I loved Starship troopers. So campy and the effects are awesome.

Part 2 was beyond horrible though.

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Jan 16, 2006, 10:26 PM
 
Have to admit never seeing a lot of the trashy B-movies (and C and D-movies) that seem to garnering most of the votes.

I can only go with the movies that I physically walked out of or wanted to leave but was restrained by circumstance.
  • A.I. --3 hours of "are you my mommy?"; total pile of steaming shyte
  • Matrix 2 -- succeeded in undoing most of what was engaging and interesting in the first movie
  • Matrix 3 -- erased the memory of the original and has the distinction of being a sequel in which one wonders if the writers/directors actually watched the first movie since they managed to incorporate material that makes absolutely no freaking sense in the context of what came previously. Since it was made/written by the same people, one can only assume total incompetence or the final stages of lunacy.
  • Thin Red Line -- movie ceased to be about anything other than wasting time/money/celluloid after the first 30 minutes
  • Mission Impossible 2 --I walked out somewhere after the time Cruise manages to perform endo-360's on a motorcycle with one hand while firing a gun. I will never watch another Woo film. Suspension of disbelief does not entail suspension of physics unless you're making sci-fi/fantasy. Also, why stage elaborate action sequences if you're going to edit them beyond the ability of the human eye to see them?
  • The Bourne Supremacy -- someone please buy the director a tri-pod. Filming an entire feature film with an epileptic hand-held camera induces vomiting and seizures. Again, why choreograph a realistic fight sequence if you're not going to show it, but rather strap a web-cam to a cat and throw it around the room?
  • Secret of NIMH -- yes, i know its an animation classic but for someone who adored the book it was a travesty and an outrage. I was a child at the time and I *still* walked out and waited by the car.
  • All of the last 3 Star Wars films -- at one point, don't remember which film, I noticed the man in the full-storm-trooper regalia next to me (who had stood in line for 4 hours behind me) check his watch. Nuff said.
  • The Big Blue -- 18 hours of men holding their breath? Then he swims off into a sunset while she says "go, swim my love!!" like it isn't a punchline? This film is a crime.
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Jan 16, 2006, 10:52 PM
 
Ok I have seen 3 HORRIBLE movies in 48 hours.

Add Sahara to the list.

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Jan 17, 2006, 03:23 AM
 
I'd have to say "Code 46" was pretty sucky!
     
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Jan 17, 2006, 05:10 AM
 
Starship Troopers 2 was so bad... from what I read they reused CGI and battle footage.

How about The Postman. Waterworld grows on you. Postman makes small children cry.
     
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Jan 17, 2006, 10:32 AM
 
Originally Posted by JoshuaZ
Starship Troopers 2 was so bad... from what I read they reused CGI and battle footage.
I don't think so. Phil Tippet, who created the effects for the original, directed ST2; why reuse footage when he could get his company paid for making new stuff.

SWF, Starship Troopers could have been "so campily bad it was good" if they'd not used ANY of Heinlein's stuff-characters, names of ships, "the Federation" and so on. As it was, the WORST part was that they violently raped a book that a lot of people think is beyond classic. I'm one of them.

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Jan 26, 2006, 01:45 AM
 
Originally Posted by thunderous_funker
[*]Thin Red Line -- movie ceased to be about anything other than wasting time/money/celluloid after the first 30 minutes
That is probably my favorite movie of all time.
     
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Feb 9, 2006, 08:51 PM
 
The Brothers Grimm. What in the name of hell was that all about? I thought it was a kids movie, but it was gore. Turns out it was supposed to be a comedy.

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Everyone, please watch Stephen King's Dreamcatcher. I beg of you. Please.
     
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Feb 9, 2006, 11:14 PM
 
Originally Posted by flabasha
Everyone, please watch Stephen King's Dreamcatcher. I beg of you. Please.
Oh ya, if I didn't mention that one already, it is in the Top 5 of all time bad.

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Feb 9, 2006, 11:36 PM
 
the only movie I was really really disappointed by was Lost in Space, I wanted so badly to walk out but I was with other people... who, as it turns out, also wanted to walk out.

I didn't see any of the latest SW movies in theaters, so I don't feel as ripped off... but I did fast forward thru some of them.
     
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Feb 9, 2006, 11:41 PM
 
Originally Posted by JoshuaZ
Starship Troopers 2 was so bad... from what I read they reused CGI and battle footage.

How about The Postman. Waterworld grows on you. Postman makes small children cry.
I had posted Postman (no pun intended) earlier in the thread, but it really is worth repeating [over and over again] how bad it is.
     
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Feb 9, 2006, 11:43 PM
 
Originally Posted by Cubeoid
That is probably my favorite movie of all time.
I really enjoy it, too. Whenever it comes on, I manage to find the three hours to sit and watch it.
     
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Feb 9, 2006, 11:49 PM
 
Originally Posted by porieux
Oh yeah. Walked out during Chronicles of Narnia. What a pantload that was.
Chronicles of Narnia was pretty bad, although I wouldn't put it up in the worst films ever made. It was a weird mix of being really boring, being out-right bad, but it had a few okay parts.

The little girl's acting was good in a way, but it was way too bloody grown-up for her age so it seemed very off. The White Witch was good, but all the others were pretty bad. The CG was treadful, and it made me cringe watching the sleigh or when they were on the ice. The final battle was painful to sit through minus the polar bears pulling the chariot which was pretty bad-ass...

But to top it all off, it just seemed to carry the Disney stamp, and I really hate the ol' Disney stamp on movies.

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Feb 9, 2006, 11:55 PM
 
Ya my sister was also telling me how bad Chronicles of Narnia was.

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Feb 10, 2006, 06:25 PM
 
The Sheltering Sky - long and very boring.

The English Patient - long and very boring.

And there is another one which I cannot remember the title, God it was so bad that I walk out of the theatre half way through.
     
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Feb 10, 2006, 06:49 PM
 
'Starship Troopers' was 10lbs. of Suck in a 5lb. bag. The guy next to me fell asleep 20 after the film started.

Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Saw this back in '79, was so bored I kept getting up every 5 minutes to go to the lobby and prayed that something interesting would happen on the screen by the time I got back.

All four Batman flicks (B.Begins was good).

I tried to watch Waterworld when they aired it on NBC one time. The commercial breaks were more entertaining.

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I really don't understand people who say a movie sucks because it was nothing like the book it was based on. It's fine to rip on a movie for not being like the book, but that doesn't mean it sucks in and of itself. Starship Troopers (the movie) was an ok sci-fi mindless action film, and yes, it may have been an insult to the author of the book, but who cares. Had decent effects and action. Judge it on that.

It's really hard to say what is the worst movie ever because there are so many low budget movies most people have never seen. The only movie I ever just stopped watching was Lawnmower Man 2.
     
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Originally Posted by jedi2187
'Starship Troopers' was 10lbs. of Suck in a 5lb. bag. The guy next to me fell asleep 20 after the film started.

Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Saw this back in '79, was so bored I kept getting up every 5 minutes to go to the lobby and prayed that something interesting would happen on the screen by the time I got back.

All four Batman flicks (B.Begins was good).

I tried to watch Waterworld when they aired it on NBC one time. The commercial breaks were more entertaining.

Anything with Steve Segal.
I think you nailed "Starship Troopers" pretty well, except that I'd expect to be able to burn 10 pounds of Suck in a 5 pound bag. That would at least get it out of our hair...

ST:TMP was awesome! Too awesome, of course. It was slow because most of the time they were filming they didn't have an ending to aim for. I LOVED watching it the weekend it came out, but since then it's been hard to watch. I do watch it from time to time, but I seriously recommend the relatively recently released director's cut. One big issue they had while making the film was that Paramount wanted to wow the pants off the Star Trek fan base, but they didn't want to risk too much money doing it. Unfortunately they managed to commit to a lot of stuff that couldn't be done properly at that time with the existing technology, so they had to "drop back ten and punt." This caused most of the really confusing visuals (like flying through Vger and going "ooo, ahhh" at the "stunning images." Robert Wise, along with some of the best CGI effects houses in Hollywood, recreated certain key sequences and added stuff they couldn't do in '77 and '78 to make the film somewhat longer, but MUCH more understandable and watchable.

The first "Batman" with Michael Keaton was great, particularly the way they worked in how the Joker got to be that way. But I think a lot of people who saw it in the theater were turned off by the idiots who brought their little kids to see it. This was NOT a kids' movie.

Never even tried to see "Waterworld," and I don't think I've missed anything. I just didn't like the premise to start with, so I would not have felt good trying to suspend disbelief. And how can ANYONE suspend disbelief when Steven Segal is on screen?

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Feb 10, 2006, 07:48 PM
 
Originally Posted by porieux
Fifth Element comes immediately to mind...
There are lots of 'worst' movies, but I actually had the unfortunate experience of watching that one..
Funny, I love that movie. It doesn't seem to take itself seriously, and I like that in a movie.

Recent awful movies. Narnia and Hostel (what a waste of time). Hostel was beyond terrible, not even salvagable. It ends terribly, it begins terribly, and it barely even shows the "gruesome scenes of torture" whatever. Seven gave me nightmares, this movie blew.
     
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Feb 10, 2006, 10:12 PM
 
I heard an NPR interview a year or so ago with an Iraqi insurgent who claimed he loved The Postman so much, he showed it to fellow insurgents as an inspiration to fight. I'm not kidding.

I don't think the reporter had the guts to tell him how ridiculously horrible it was.
     
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Feb 17, 2006, 02:27 PM
 
National Treasure. Ok, it wasn't the worst but it was incredibly retarded. I think Nice Cage is one of the least attractive men on this planet especially with those fake teeth. I cringed for the girl that he kissed in it. Well she was sorta annoying so perhaps she deserved it.

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Originally Posted by porieux
Fifth Element
Gosh- I loved it. Someone mentioned the Big Blue as well- I enjoyed that quite a bit. Perhaps I've got a soft spot for artsy French directors.

I also enjoyed the original Star Trek and the original Batman- if they released it with the dopey Prince musical numbers edited out, it would be a classic.

I thought Narnia was decidedly "not bad." It's probably being judged too harshly compared to TLOTR. However if you take the source material in to account, it explains a lot.

And someone excuses Eyes Wide Shut for it's full-frontal of Nicole Kidman. It ain't there. If you want to see her bits, rent Billy Bathgate- the first Disney produced movie with full-frontal BTW.

I also have to take some issue with Glenn's criticism of SST. Let me be clear that I thought it blew big dead bear, but I thought it did capture one of the major themes of the book- the quasi-facist, ultra-patirotic gung-ho spirit which prompted Rico to join up. Arguably Heinlen's major theme was the satire of military "camaraderie" and nationalism.

So while he screwed with the story, the money body armor, and most everything else, I think he at least tried to nail this- and kind of succeeded.

But that being said, the movie did suck and was a major disappointment to fans of the book.
     
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Originally Posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker
National Treasure. Ok, it wasn't the worst but it was incredibly retarded. I think Nice Cage is one of the least attractive men on this planet especially with those fake teeth. I cringed for the girl that he kissed in it. Well she was sorta annoying so perhaps she deserved it.
Nicholas Cage's career is a complete mystery to me. In my mind, he had one great role- Raising Arizona- and it was legendary. And somehow he managed to parley into acceptance as a serious actor and a pretty good career. When he plays variations on the role- the clueless sad-sack, he's pretty good. Right now I'm thinking "Adaptation." But like Keanu, who was brilliant in Bill and Ted, he keeps getting roles and playing parts that to me are an embarrassment.
     
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I thought I had it pegged -- Christmas with the Kranks. My wife and I put that thing in and couldn't believe how difficult it was to watch. After 20 minutes we honestly began yelling "Turn it off!" at each other and scrambling for the remote.

But then I saw someone mentioned The Postman. The only reason The Postman is worse is because the cinematography and story lead you to believe the film will eventually get somewhere. Somewhere better than the ass it is currently feasting on. Somewhere beyond the brown, nutty residue clogging your senses. But no...you sit there and watch helplessly as your ability to reason leaves you, and you suddenly find you cannot cry for help because your body has already shut down to protest the insane delusion that its pain will end.

"You're our savior!!!" cries out the old lady, obviously crazy from months of sexless mountain living.

Big painful pause, and the camera zooms in on Costner.

"No ma'am...I'm j-just...the Postman." Delivered with such gravity as to make the Postmaster general weep, and anyone else wish that all postmen would throw themselves onto the nearest fencepost.
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Just your daily reminder that the worst movie is still, infact, Troll 2. Thanks.
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Santa Claus Conquers the Martians with Pia Zadora is the worst movie!

Amazon Women on the Moon was the best.
     
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Certainly on of the best titles, that's for sure.
     
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Super Mario Bros.
     
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Originally Posted by Daveecee
Super Mario Bros.
No way!

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Way. Oh yes, WAY. Combine a great cast and lavish effects budget with a lame-o story line and poor writing and you still get crud. So Bob Hoskins and Dennis Hopper had no chance to make Super Mario Brothers anything but a cartoon with live actors. I don't think Peter Jackson could have un-lamed this one.

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Feb 17, 2006, 09:24 PM
 
Your post reminded me of my pick for most unwatchable film ever:

Moulin Rouge

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hordes of people loved it. Whatever.

Personally, I cannot abide the new trend in hyperactive, music video style editing. Not only is it completely physically disorienting, it disrupts all the things that make Great movies great: performances, mood, character, story development, mood, and timing.

The thing is so damned frenetic, so hideously cobbled and jumbled together that no amount of Kidman posing or Ewan crooning can make me give a damn about any of it.

Why spend a bajillion dollars on sets and costumes if the camera won't focus on any single object for more than 3 nanoseconds? Why hire all-star actors and then rush them through some flimsy clap-trap script at a breakneck pace as if the theater was on fire?

Horrific. Simply horrific and utterly unwatchable.
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Feb 17, 2006, 11:39 PM
 
Brothers Grimm is the worst piece of sh*t in recent memory. Horrible in every way possible.
Lemme see..
Lost in Translation
The Royal Tenenbaums
Donnie Darko
those are some flicks people seem to think the world of and I thought they were complete and utter trash.
     
 
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