Worst Films of All Time?

[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.

[HospiceNurse]

I bought “Sideways” on DVD and was surprised to find out that the main characters didn't turn out to be gay. I think they changed the ending.

[Poser]

Sting: “I will kill him!”

Worst acting of all time.

[highlander_UW]

“Lost in Space”

Oh, now that's a bad one. Consider this...the point in time they go back to is AFTER Dr. Smith is infected, and then they return to earth. The logical conclusion is that they've taken a force back to earth that will destroy it. Nice going guys, you get home and wipe out the planet.

[Notary Sojac]

True, but the Ry Cooder score is just pure-D awesome.

[OldMissileer]

Back in the late 80s my wife and I went to a movie with my best friend and his, then, girlfriend.

The women made us see “The Promise.”

I almost gouged my eyes out and actually went to use the bathroom for a half hour just to get away.

[Peter W. Kessler]

http://www.bmoviecentral.com/bmc/reviews/113-robot-monster-1953-62-minutes.html - every other movie mentioned here is a cinematic MASTERPIECE in comparison.

[Maverick68]

BEEEEF!!!!!!

[texmexis best]

Rocky Horror Picture Show is one of those movies that is so bad it is good.

[luckystarmom]

Didn’t see your post, so I posted the same movie. I just hated this movie.

I’m from Dallas, and they did not portray Dallas women accurately. It was stupid, boring,and bad acting. Nothing good to say about this movie.

[luckystarmom]

Didn’t see your post, so I posted the same movie. I just hated this movie.

I’m from Dallas, and they did not portray Dallas women accurately. It was stupid, boring,and bad acting. Nothing good to say about this movie.

[HospiceNurse]

The worst rendition of a book to movie that I've seen is Dune

Yes. Star Wars was a more entertaining ripoff of Dune

[dfwgator]

Rocky Horror Picture Show is one of those movies that is so bad it is good.

Has anyone ever watched it sober?

[highlander_UW]

The De Laurentiis version of Dune overly compressed a lengthy and complex story, with bad acting even from good actors. The more fundamental problem was the shifting narrative voices. The novel frequently shifted from third person to first person and made it work. As Dune proved, that rarely works on film because it slows the action and confuses the audience.

Yup, which is why it's my offering for worst movie. It's easy to pick a movie that had no cast and no budget as bad but a movie that had big name actors, a top notch story and big budget and it was still unwatchable. That's bad.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

I'd argue that the worst movie is simply the most boring. A lot of "bad" movies are at least successful in keeping your attention, if only to wonder to what depth it will sink next. But a film that simply puts you to sleep is the true failure. And there are lots of those.

In the "So bad it's good" category, I'd nominate the weird musical "The Apple," It's one of those movies where, just when you think your jaw can't drop any further, something else comes along that proves you wrong. it ends with God coming to earth in his gold Oldsmobile to save the hippies from the world dictator record producer/devil.

[massmike]

Another two movies that I hated:

The Fisher King-starring Robin Williams

and

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

[nathanbedford]

LOL

That is exactly what I had in mind.

But you know, the mood of that 1941 film is not so irrational if one considers that penicillin is only just coming into general use. As a matter of fact a few years later it would save my life from rheumatic fever. Of course, there was no pill either so sex was a much more serious business.

I've always been intrigued how the upper classes of the Victorian era simply ignored the physical and medical implications of sex before the pill and before penicillin. Winston Churchill's father for example, is supposed to have died from syphilis and his mother was a notorious Sadie Hawkins, even participating in a relationship with the Prince of Wales. It seems that only the middle classes took the realities and dangers to a heart, at least as compared with the classes which bracketed them.

[antiRepublicrat]

Followed closely by virtually any Susan Surrandan, Glenn Close, or Barbara Streisand film.

I disagree. Susan Sarandon was in the The Client and In the Valley of Elah, both with Tommy Lee Jones. Anything with Tommy Lee Jones is by definition an at least acceptable movie for me. He even managed to make Under Siege bearable.

[Peter W. Kessler]

I should have read your entire post, but “Robot Monster” transcends the worst of the worst of the worst.

By the way, it was released in 3-D. When I bought the VHS tape, it came with six pair of 3-D glasses. My wife cracked up, saying “There’s NO WAY you could ever find five other people to watch this movie.”

She was right.

[nathanbedford]

LOL

That is exactly what I had in mind.

But you know, the mood of that 1941 film is not so irrational if one considers that penicillin is only just coming into general use. As a matter of fact a few years later it would save my life from rheumatic fever. Of course, there was no pill either so sex was a much more serious business.

I've always been intrigued how the upper classes of the Victorian era simply ignored the physical and medical implications of sex before the pill and before penicillin. Winston Churchill's father for example, is supposed to have died from syphilis and his mother was a notorious Sadie Hawkins, even participating in a relationship with the Prince of Wales. It seems that only the middle classes took the realities and dangers to a heart, at least as compared with the classes which bracketed them.

[ssaftler]

Followed closely by virtually any Susan Surrandan

I whole-heartedly agree. In spite of what people say, I think that "Bull Durham" is the most overrated Baseball-themed movie EVER! It took "Field of Dreams" for Kevin Costner to make amends to the Baseball Gods for that piece of tripe.

I'd also include any film Bill Murray has made since 2000, or any film associated with Jason Schwartzman or Sofia Coppola. Jason and Sofia are proof positive that good acting skills do NOT run in families!