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Worst Films of All Time?

Posted on 01/06/2010 9:42:42 AM PST by ctdonath2

In the spirit of the current thread "Best Films of all Time?", I just have to ask for the other end of the spectrum.

I don't mean "Night of the Lupus", "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes", or other standard bad/forgettable films. I don't mean just box-office flops. I want to see tour-de-force bad.


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To: ctdonath2
II was so bad that, yes, you are mis-remembering it.

Until you reminded me of it I'd successfully blocked it from my memory...oh, the horror!

Now I'm going to have to find a therapist...I hope you're happy.

101 posted on 01/06/2010 10:17:24 AM PST by highlander_UW (There's a storm coming - little kid at a Mexican gas station in The Terminator)
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To: ctdonath2
I liked "Russian Ark." I felt sorry for the guy who had to follow the cameraman around with the giant hard drive on his back, though.

And I liked "Playtime," too. I like the Tati films in general.

102 posted on 01/06/2010 10:17:40 AM PST by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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To: ctdonath2
I have two criteria for what I consider "worst films". 1.) It cost a bundle and was an artistic and/or financial failure. The original Dune fits this category.

2.) Everybody else LOVES it and I feel it is over-rated. A good example of this sort of film is Quentin Tarantino's recent Inglourious Basterds. I just don't see what so many people saw in that film (or, indeed, most of Tarantino's films).

103 posted on 01/06/2010 10:18:06 AM PST by Sans-Culotte ( Pray for Obama- Psalm 109:8)
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To: ctdonath2
Well, this was the absolute WORST movie I have ever seen:

" The plot involves a constantly put-upon young man's discovery of a laser cannon, his ensuing rampage after continual exposure to the weapon's radiation mutates him into a wild, destructive lifeform, and his eventual death at the hands of the aliens who left the cannon behind on Earth in the first place."

104 posted on 01/06/2010 10:18:09 AM PST by An.American.Expatriate (Here's my strategy on the War against Terrorism: We win, they lose. - with apologies to R.R.)
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To: chesley

Just because you didn’t like it doesn’t make it the worst. You need something truly horrible, with horrible script, acting and production values.

Manos: Hands of Fate is a good example. That movie has absolutely no redeeming value. It’s hard to watch even on B-movie night, whereas Plan 9 is bad but fun to watch.

But low budget isn’t the sole reason. The high-budget Battlefield Earth also had no redeeming value, making it among the worst films ever. The plot, script, acting, costumes, makeup, sets, cinematography, all horrible. I even liked the book and like John Travolta as an actor, so it’s not an anti-Scientology thing.


105 posted on 01/06/2010 10:18:09 AM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: ctdonath2

Sister Act. They managed to film a whole movie in a convent without a single utterance of the word “Jesus.” How’d they do that?

Yentl. I almost chewed my foot off, so overbearing it was. Awful.

Spaceballs. Love Mel Brooks, but I walked out after ten minutes.


106 posted on 01/06/2010 10:18:42 AM PST by RightOnTheLeftCoast (Obama: running for re-election in '12 or running for Mahdi now? [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahdi])
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
The ending is the most rotten, ugly, pointless, thoughtless thing I’ve ever seen.

I've not seen the movie, but I've heard that the ending had nothing to do with the book.

The story isn't bad. Good summer afternoon read...sex, monsters, and a plot that doesn't bog you down with a lot of details.

107 posted on 01/06/2010 10:18:58 AM PST by wbill
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To: ctdonath2

I just put it on my Netflix queue last week, but if I remember correctly, even before viewing it again, I nominate “I Spit on Your Grave”.


108 posted on 01/06/2010 10:19:04 AM PST by newbie 10-21-00
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To: agere_contra
I liked DUNE. It broke down half way through, but it's solidly watchable.

Was half way through when whatever drugs you were on wore off?

109 posted on 01/06/2010 10:19:32 AM PST by highlander_UW (There's a storm coming - little kid at a Mexican gas station in The Terminator)
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To: newbie 10-21-00

What about “They Saved Hitler’s Brain.”


110 posted on 01/06/2010 10:19:49 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Straight Vermonter
“'No Country for Old Men' - Worst. Movie. Ever."

Go sit in the corner. An absolute masterpiece.
111 posted on 01/06/2010 10:19:53 AM PST by RightOnTheLeftCoast (Obama: running for re-election in '12 or running for Mahdi now? [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahdi])
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To: ctdonath2

We can’t forget Kevin Costner’s trifecta:
Waterworld,The Postman,and Robin Hood.


112 posted on 01/06/2010 10:20:21 AM PST by massmike (...So this is what happens when OJ's jury elects the president....)
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To: ctdonath2

Ultraviolet. Milo Jovovich couldn’t save this piece of garbage. Has to be in the top 5 of most improbable, asinine movies I’ve ever scene.


113 posted on 01/06/2010 10:20:27 AM PST by Malsua
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To: ctdonath2

Clue

Firestarter

Anything produced by Hallmark


114 posted on 01/06/2010 10:21:10 AM PST by Silly ("Okay, I'm getting just a little sick of this bereaved chicken-widow crap!")
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To: Malsua

Speaking of her, I couldn’t stand “The Fifth Element.”


115 posted on 01/06/2010 10:21:35 AM PST by dfwgator
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116 posted on 01/06/2010 10:21:56 AM PST by moehoward
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To: raybbr

Two words: Alec Baldwin.


117 posted on 01/06/2010 10:21:56 AM PST by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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To: massmike

...and “Last Action Hero”-starring Governor Ahnold!


118 posted on 01/06/2010 10:22:12 AM PST by massmike (...So this is what happens when OJ's jury elects the president....)
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To: ctdonath2

I nominate Last Action Hero with Arnold as the worst big budget movie I ever saw.


119 posted on 01/06/2010 10:22:20 AM PST by Poser (Enjoying Prime Rib for 58 Years!)
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To: wbill

It was a pretty entertaining movie until the ending.

I can’t emphasize how utterly miserable (and moronic) that ending was. It was basically Frank Darabont giving the finger to anyone who bothered to sit through his movie. I don’t think an ending could be any worse than the ending of “The Mist”.


120 posted on 01/06/2010 10:23:08 AM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Some men just want to watch the world burn.)
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