The 50 Worst Movies of All Time

Maxim | 7-02 | n/a

[jz638]

Where's "Breakin'"? or "Breakin' 2"? This list is terrible.

... and for the record, Zardoz is a great movie.

[LurkerNoMore!]

Thank goodness Tremors was spared.

[HairOfTheDog]

The Sound of Music should not be on this list...

Cocktail and Steel Magnolias are great movies! PooPoo on some of these choices!

[LurkerNoMore!]

oph, that's a Bronson Classic!

[Jhensy]

This is always a subjective question (most lists usually have "Plan 9 From Outer Space" as champ), but I submit to you...

"Manos" The Hands of Fate.

If anyone has seen this, it was probably on the famous Mystery Science Theater episode. You can't imagine how impossibly bad a movie that actually got released in theaters can be. It looks like your Uncle Walter's Super 8 family films from the early 60's. In fact, it was a Texas fertilizer salesman's one and only effort in cinema. Look it up on IMDB.

It is also perhaps the ONLY film in existence that NO ONE can be linked to Kevin Bacon, in even a million steps.

[BluesDuke]

Hey, I like Sleepless in Seattle, though When Harry Met Sally left too much to be desired - like a good stiff drink after about the first fifteen minutes, and my own still after the first hour. I've got a few celluloid stinkers of my own to list...and remember, a sacred cow is worth but one thing: steak...

Rocky and Bullwinkle - It was bad enough that the original television cartoon legitimised terrible animation. The movie tried to legitimise bad computer animation. Fortunately, it failed.

The Babe - One of these years, someone will make the film Babe Ruth (warts and all) deserves. This one wasn't it.

Xanadu - You say you haven't heard of this one? Don't feel bad: Olivia Newton-John's been trying to forget this one for years. So would you, if you'd actually pulled down a paycheck playing a disco-skating cross between Tinkerbell and Gidget...on speed.

Ed Wood - The only film I can think of that could have made the real Ed Wood's films look good would have to have been a film made of his life. And I wasn't disappointed, either.

The Crying Game - I couldn't believe this one got all those Oscar nominations. How can you nominate something that puts you to such a deep sleep you can't honestly say you saw it? Even I'm not sure I really saw it, and I did see it.

Damn near everything Elvis made after he got out of the Army - If I have to explain, you probably had to be there. And should be glad you weren't.

Jaws III - This fish story was a turkey.

Wayne's World - Should have been nuked while it was ahead (like in the opening credits, for example)...

Valley Girl - Grody to the max.

The Money Pit - No, the pits.

[LurkerNoMore!]

Apparently, the author has never watched the Lifetime Movie Network.

[LurkerNoMore!]

Yeah, but the Japanese sex-slave angle made up for that.

[HairOfTheDog]

You hated The Money Pit? - That is also a great movie... you must never have remodeled an old house!

[Jagdgewehr]

This has got to be #51, right?

[BluesDuke]

You hated The Money Pit? - That is also a great movie... you must never have remodeled an old house!

I never played major league baseball, either, but I still knew The Babe was a stinker. And so was The Money Pit.

[Ladybug1]

A BIG stinker.

[Indrid Cold]

Heh--I remember seeing it in the theater like 10 years ago and laughing when the boom mike came into view in several scenes. I don't remember the plot and dialogue as the worst, that would probably be "Along Came a Spider", but as far as editing....pheeeeew.

[Corin Stormhands]

Glad to see you over here (gee, talking about a movie). You're right The Sound of Music does not belong on this list. There are several others that also do not belong on the list. IMHO, I'd take these off the list:

Godzilla - not a great movie, but not one of the worst.
Hook - my family loves that movie
Dirty Dancing - just cause it was filmed (partly) in my home county
When Harry Got Mail in Seattle - cute combo of the names, but I liked all three...
Steel Magnolias - I'm a Dolly fan (but Rhinestone did stink...)

Based on reviews, I'd probably take some others off the list, but I haven't seen them so I won't.

These lists are really rather stupid. So this guy (or these guys) didn't like these movies. But these movies made a lot of money for somebody. Maybe they're not "classics" (a couple are), but they're hardly the 50 worst movies of all time.

For cryin' out loud, where's Ishtar? Where's The Attack of the Killer Tomatoes?

I'd leave Exit to Eden on the list. It stank, but it has one of my all time favorite lines, even if it was said by Rosie O'Donnell: "You want to fulfill my fantasy? Paint my house..."

[BluesDuke]

The trouble was, Videodrome was an interesting idea and could have been a good film, but the writing was pretty wooden and James Woods and Deborah Harry simply did not work...

[lainie]

Hey. They stole the FR "caption this" tradition:

http://www.maximonline.com/stupid_fun/captions/