[pabianice]

This is just my initial list. I'm sure others can add many more as we help celebrate the end of Hollywood...

[Busywhiskers]

You should add Catagory 4--Movies that are so bad that they are fascinating in the same sense that a bad car wreck is fascinating.

[AgentEcho]

Class one: Army of Darkness, Joe's Apartment, Flash Gordon

Class two: The Royal Tannenbaums, Kung Fu Hustle,

Class three: Lost in Translation, Babes in Toyland, Mars Attacks, Rollerball (remake), Transylvania 6-5000, Gone Fishing

[Exeter]

Nowadays with DVD's hitting the stores a few months after theatrical release, I rate first-run movies a little differently;

1. Gotta see it at the theatre-I'm willing to pay $15-20 (ticket and snacks) because it's a movie that has to be seen on the big screen. eg. The first Star Wars,

2. I can wait for it to come out on DVD. This includes the vast majority of movies spewing forth from Hollywood these days,

3. I'll wait till it's shown on HBO. See #2,

4. I'll catch it one night on WTBS,and

5. Joel and the robots will tear it to pieces on MST3K one day.

There's also a rule of thumb re:your average flick these days. A mediocre movie can be made more tolerable with vast amounts of gratuitous nudity and sex. If it can't, you've got a REAL bad movie. eg. Showgirls, so bad Bobby and I yanked it out of the player and watched To Wong Foo...instead.

[rlmorel]

#1

AUTUMN IN NEW YORK

I still have no arms from chewing them off to escape.

[BossLady]

Class 4 Felony (Orginally released in theatres but saw it on late night TV):

"The Lonely Lady" with Pia Zadora

[najida]

1. Blair Witch Project....
I giggled my butt off until I realized that the stupid group of kids freaking out in the WOODS (ooooh, scary--NOT) was supposed to be a serious movie.

OK, yeah. Sure.

2. I rarely go to or pay for movies, so I can't think of one that I was sorry I went to....HOWEVER, add "Van Helsing" to the "I laughed because it was so bad" catagory.

3. The Missing has got to be THE worst movie I have EVER EVER seen. I knew I hated it because near the end, when it looked like the heroine might die, I was happy...cuz it meant it was about over!

Lastly, I'll have to admit that all the "Room With a View", "Chariots of Fire" etc kind of movies are just my cup of tea. Can watch them over and over.

HOWEVER, I hate nothing more than a 'Godfather' or that type of genre' movie. I just don't get what about that crap is entertaining.

[Spiff]

I enjoyed WOTW (2005). Saw it twice with my son. It's a roller coaster ride.

[Petronski]

Class 2. A really bad movie you force yourself to watch because, darn it, you paid for it!

Waterworld

[Petronski]

What about a fourth category: Films you watch on cable because they got such bad reviews when released in theaters.

My nomination: Gigli

[Windsong]

The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, & Revenge of the Sith..all because NO ONE can tell Fat Georgie no.

[MplsSteve]

'Gods and Generals' was a miserable experience. The movie just didn't click like 'Gettysburg' did.

Stephen Lang did a very credible job of portraying Stonewall Jackson and should have received an Oscar nomination at the very least.

[Windsong]

Those last five gratuitous words by a screenwriter clueless about the military instantly makes Caffee guilty of disrespect towards a superior officer (a court martial offense) and lower him to Jessup’s level

I thought that he had said it at only a level only Jessup could hear? Ah well, no matter. The rest of the film was decent, if a bit unrealistic.

[Skooz]

Worst movie of all time:

"The Trial of Billy Jack."

This stinker set a new standard for crappy production, lousy cinematography, stilted acting, cardboard cutout characters, absurd dialogue, and self-congratulatory preachiness wrapped in a package of obsessively self-absorbed manufactured emotion and futile attempts at pensive manipulation.

Anyone who disagrees that that is the worst movie ever, is just wrong.

[filbert]

We need MST3K . . . now more than ever . . .

[dynachrome]

All right! Bad movie time! My pick for worst movie ever:

THE DARK BACKWARDS
Staring: Lara Flynn Boyle, Judd Nelson, Rob Lowe, and Wayne Newton. (Yes, THE Wayne Newton) I Don't think it even made it to the theaters. Considering it is about a bad stand-up comic who grows a third arm from the middle of his back and has a necrophiliac gabageman scene,no one booked it. It does show up on cable fairly often, rated hard "R", and I believe large quanities of booze are required to watch it. What were these actors thinking?

[auto power]

....bad movies = bad actors.....bad actors = bad movies.....

[Artemis Webb]

Class 1: Iron Eagle, Prizzi's Honor, Chinatown

Class 2: American Anthem, Rambo III, Rocky IV, Terror Train and everything with Steven Segal.

I'm sure there are more...but you can only focus on wasted time in your life for so long.

[Artemis Webb]

Oh...for the special catagory John Wayne's Red River. A great movie and a great performance (as a villain!) ruined by the studio in the very end.

[manwiththehands]

Class 1: Tadpole. I was on a date.
Class 2: Primer. I'm not stupid but this movie didn't make any sense.
Class 3: Punch Drunk Love. Again, I was on a date. Dumb and dumber gets the dumbest with Adam Sandler.

[kevkrom]

BTW... is there yet another category for movies you knew were bad, would never admit to anyone that you watched it, but you secretly enjoyed it?