What was the WORST movie you've ever seen?

[iansales]

The Warrior's Way? The one where the Chinese assassin goes to the Wild West and defends a town full of circus people against a gang of ex-Cavalry? That was a good film, that was.

 

[Overread]

I think the film that stands out for me has to be The Golden Compass. Not just because of what they did to the original writing to fit their idea (so many US films are guilty of that - Dawn Tredder was a terrible film when compared to the story its supposed to be telling) but because its one of the few films I've seen where - for what ever reason - its managed to make the lead character so unmemorable.

I honestly can't even remember what she did in the film least of call recall if Pan made more than a few passing comments and the only parts that stand out in my mind are the very ending (only because it was so poor).

 

[Starbeast]

Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (still #1 worst film I've seen)

More Bad Cinema
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Trail of the Pink Panther
Son of the Pink Panther
Americathon
Little Miss Sunshine
Supernova
Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold
Waterworld
Scorpion King
The Dark
Road to Hong Kong
The Outsiders
Raw Deal
Little Big Man
Highlander 2
Tang & Cash
Legal Eagles
The Bee Movie
Aladdin 2
Green Hornet
Rising Sun
Over the Top
The Color of Money
Ratboy
Godfather 3
Stroker Ace
Cannonball Run 2
X-Files 2
Batteries Not Included
Thunderbirds
Cat Woman
The Road to El Dorado
The Quest
Smokey and the Bandit 2 & 3

That's enough for now, I'm getting a headache.

 

[PTeppic]

I walked out of "America Pie 3: The Wedding" (or whatever it was called) about half-way through and "Rules of Attraction" almost at the start. Got up to walk out of "Hostel" (about 2/3 way through) but sat back down and "glad" I did as the end made it slightly more worthwhile.

NB. Thought "The Ousiders" was considered a zeitgeist classic.

 

[Starbeast]

SB. Thought "The Outsiders" was considered a zeitgeist classic.

I know there are people who love that film, but it just bored me into a coma. We all have different tastes, for example Little Miss Sunshine was enjoyed by others (especially critics), but for me it was a sickening nightmare. Then there's movies I really enjoy, like Zontar:The Thing From Venus (B-movie from 1968), and some people wouldn't even bother watching it.

Another bad film - Exorcist 2

 

[FireDragon-16]

I'd have to say that Night at the Museum 2: Battle at the Smithsonian was up there on my not happy list.

I loved the first one but the second one kind of let me down...the only reason my parents and I didn't walk out was because we were hoping that it might redeem itself...

 

[monsterchic]

Eragon. Loved the books, but OMG! the movie sucked!

 

[clovis-man]

NB. Thought "The Ousiders" was considered a zeitgeist classic.

My granddaughter loves it. She's 14. Maybe it's a "Catcher in the Rye" sort of phenomenon.

My vote for all-time worst is Robot Monster (1953). A gorilla with a space helmet living in a cave using some Good Will furniture and seemingly having a difficult time tracking down a group of humans living in a hole in the ground.

Even MST3K couldn't liven this one up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq9IKsH9BXg

That said, I do own a copy. I'm just sick that way.

 

[Dave]

I'll admit it, I did not go through all 61 pages to see if this is a repeat thread. Forgive me if it is.

It was a very old one and the search function here isn't very good, but I thought I'd merge them anyway so that you now have 12 pages of replies to read!!

I think there's a big difference between a film i didn't like and a bad film.

I agree, and the replies seem here ambiguous. Too many films I dislike. Very few that are truly bad, and some of those are so poor that paradoxically I quite liked them. Wasn't that the whole premise of MST3K?

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Ok, this is a damaging moment in my childhood; 3 big bros went to see Battlestar galitica, I went to see Watership down; mum got lost, dad didn't, we got there late and didn't get in and I had to sit through Battlestar Galatica, with same said big brothers.

I'd love to say this gave me a lifelong love of sci-fi, but that came later; I wanted to see rabbits. Hear Bright eyes.

Traumatised tears.

So, I'm afraid I can't watch Battlestar Galatica, any time.

 

[Huttman]

It was a very old one and the search function here isn't very good, but I thought I'd merge them anyway so that you now have 12 pages of replies to read!!

Thank you Dave! I did use the search and thank you for being so kind about it.

So I read the first post in this thread and their choice for worst film was The Perils of Gwendolyn. OK, I agree that was a bad movie, but.....that movie had one redeemable feature (actually a lot of them) for this then 13 year old boy. The only movie I ever walked out of was Robin Williams' What Dreams May Come. It did nothing to capture me and I really liked Robin Williams.

 

[Connavar]

The Warrior's Way? The one where the Chinese assassin goes to the Wild West and defends a town full of circus people against a gang of ex-Cavalry? That was a good film, that was.

Yeah it was good, fun for what it was. Visually stunning effects.

I think people in this thread are talking most films that didnt meet the expectations.

I mean sure Warrior's Way was bad if i compared it best Jackie film or something.

The truly worst films that films that are cheap and look like that. Even big hollywood blockbusters have some quality that doesnt make them worst ever seen.

 

[JunkMonkey]

Not the worst film I have ever seen (how do you define that anyway?) but the film I have actively hated the most and got all the way through (as opposed to getting bored or irritated enough to abandon it) is In The Cut - a 2003 arty serial killer mystery directed by Jane Campion.

The ONLY reason I can think of that anyone would want to watch In The Cut is if you have some some prurient desire to see Meg Ryan naked*. I've seen some pretty rubbish films this year; Troll 2, Blood of the Man Beast, The Rats Are Coming! The Werewolves Are Here!, all three Matrix films etc. None of them come close to being as loathsome as this piece of ****.


*Full frontal nudity at the 42 minute mark - don't blink.
This has been a public service announcement.

 

[Rodders]

At the risk of sounding cliché, i'm going to say that the Star Wars Prequel movies were bad films. (Not as bad as others though.) It had that awfully poor love story, where we were told that Anakin and Padme fell in love but we couldn't believe it. There were too many vehicles/characters introduced so that there would be more toys to buys. The light sabre fight at the end of Revenge of the Sith was dumb. OK, it may have been fast and exciting, but what was all that sabre spinning all about? It's a fight to the death guys!!!

Don't get me wrong, i enjoyed them and still do, but objectively, they're a bad movies.

 

[williamjm]

Onward...I've seen movies that were so bad they were good, but my pick for all time worst has to be Wing Commander. It had no story, bad acting and special effects that commercials blew away. My friend and I kept waiting for anything to redeem the movie before the closing credits, a cool explosion, awesome bad guy death, unnecessary gratuitous *ahem* scene or something, anything. But nothing.

There's a lot of competition, but I think the film is definitely in contention for the worst misuse of science in a Hollywood blockbuster. Many films have made the mistake of having sound in space, and normally that doesn't bother me, but Wing Commander went further by having their spaceships use sonar to try to find enemy spaceships leading to a brilliant scene where they all have to be really quiet on their spaceship and talk in whispers, otherwise the enemy might be able to find them.

For extra nonsensical science, there is also the way their faster-than-light travel works by flying through pulsars, including the one in the solar system somewhere near Mars that presumably our astronomers haven't noticed yet.

I think the film that stands out for me has to be The Golden Compass. Not just because of what they did to the original writing to fit their idea (so many US films are guilty of that - Dawn Tredder was a terrible film when compared to the story its supposed to be telling) but because its one of the few films I've seen where - for what ever reason - its managed to make the lead character so unmemorable.

I honestly can't even remember what she did in the film least of call recall if Pan made more than a few passing comments and the only parts that stand out in my mind are the very ending (only because it was so poor).

It was a pretty poor film overall, but I did think they did a good job of portraying the daemons, I thought they did a good job of giving them a reasonably amount of personality rather than just having them be cute CGI animals. I thought the actress playing Lyra did a decent job as well, I thought she was a better character than the protagonists in many of the other films mentioned in this thread. The supporting characters seemed a bit weaker, it appeared that some of them were included because they were in the book even though the film-makers had no idea what to do with them. I agree that changing the ending of the book from tragedy into a cheesy happy ending that made a hero out of a character who was a child murderer in the book was atrocious.

 

[JunkMonkey]

Many films have made the mistake of having sound in space, and normally that doesn't bother me, but Wing Commander went further by having their spaceships use sonar to try to find enemy spaceships leading to a brilliant scene where they all have to be really quiet on their spaceship and talk in whispers, otherwise the enemy might be able to find them.

I have a sudden and overwhelming urge to see this now.

 

[Starbeast]

Superman Returns - Mr "Goodie two shoes" Clark Kent has a child out of wedlock, eek.

The Antichrist - devil worshippers smooch goats, sick!

 

[FireDragon-16]

I also have seen movies that are actually pretty good but then then end just sends the whole thing down the tubes. It's like the creators/producers were trying to figure out a quick way to wrap things up but weren't really sure how to do it...

Examples include:

Rogue (2007): A movie set in Australia about a tour group that ends up stuck on an island that slowly getting smaller as the tide rises and they have to deal with a giant croc...again, pretty good right up until the end (highlight to see) where he killed the gator in it's lair by sticking it with a large stick when it tried to eat him

Daybreakers (2009): Pretty good as far as vampire movies go, but personally I think it would have been better if they'd all died at the end instead of the couple people surviving and walking away...if you've seen the movie let me know if you agree

 

[JunkMonkey]

aybreakers (2009): Pretty good as far as vampire movies go, but personally I think it would have been better if they'd all died at the end instead of the couple people surviving and walking away...if you've seen the movie let me know if you agree

I'll have to agree with you on Daybreakers. They spent so much time on the world building they forgot to construct a decent story to put in it. The ending was so bad. Riding off into the sunset like that - I seem to remember a Voice Over at that point promising that their work would continue - and the whole thing just turned into the ending of a Made for TV Movie/pilot episode.

 

[biodroid]

Say you disliked those movies but really have you not seen terrible dvd films like Uwe Boll ?

Warrior's Way was no Jet Li, Jackie Chan hero but it did have some good action. There must be worse films you cant remember right now.

Ok, the action was good but that's not what makes a movie and Kate Bosworth gave her worst performance there, I think Geoffrey Rush played his part well. I have not seen an Uwe Boll movie yet, I heard he is bad, maybe you can list the movies he "directed"

Here is another list:

Legion

Battlefield Earth (aliens on platform shoes)

freddie got fingered (the name doesn't deserve to be in capitals thats how bad this movie was)

Zombieland (I know it's supposed to be good but the first 10 minutes had zombies then nothing really happens and Bill Murray acts like a zombie and then real zombies in the last 10 minutes of the movie)

Skyline (the only SF movie where cabin fever sets in for no reason and curtains keep falling off the rails)

Hereafter (I like Clint Eastwood directed movies but I have seen paint in slowmo dry quicker than this movies story unfolding)