What was the WORST movie you've ever seen?

[BAYLOR]

Has anyone seen The Queen From Outer Space ?

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Has anyone seen The Queen From Outer Space ?

Sure. And those other "male astronauts wind up on a planet or moon inhabited by beautiful young women" movies.

Fire Maidens from Outer Space AKA Fire Maidens of Outer Space

Cat-Women of the Moon

Missile to the Moon (a remake [!] of the above film)

Queen of Outer Space (pardon my pedantic correction) is actually the least bad (although not good) of these. The story goes it was intended as a spoof, but didn't come out that way. Contrary to popular belief, first billed Zsa Zsa Gabor does not play the title role, but one of the Queen's minions.

Amazon Women on the Moon contains segments that are an excellent pastiche of this subgenre. (The film also contains many segments that have nothing to do with it, and it's a very mixed bag.) The pastiche is so accurate, in fact, that it's not really a spoof, but more of an affectionate tribute.

 

[Toby Frost]

I think it depends how you define "worst". I suppose there are tons of cheap SF films from the 50s and 60s which are just low-quality in every way. But they feel like forgettable pap to me. Then there are pretentious films like Bad Lieutenant (unintentionally comical, IIRC) or New Rose Hotel (an apparently improvised SF film where nobody seems to have bothered much). But even these can be entertaining to watch.

I've got a particular loathing for overblown tough-guy junk like 300, which might as well be a man with serious issues yelling "I love Spartans and I'm not gay!" in your face for two hours. "Yeah, Sparta! Spartans! Yeah! Men in pants! Big oiled men in pants! Hell yeah!"

 

[Venusian Broon]

I don't know if this film has been mentioned before, (I searched Chrons and I don't think it came up in this thread) but I saw Screen Rant's Honest Trailer of Gymkata. Surely a contender for worst film. Although this might be in the 'so bad, it's good' category.

 

[BAYLOR]

I don't know if this film has been mentioned before, (I searched Chrons and I don't think it came up in this thread) but I saw Screen Rant's Honest Trailer of Gymkata. Surely a contender for worst film. Although this might be in the 'so bad, it's good' category.

Yipes !

Bad no question. Bu for t really really. really bad the 1930 science Fiction musical Just Imagine. a movie that people who commit crimes should be forced to watch as part of their punishment.

 

[Toby Frost]

I'm disappointed that Gymkata isn't about a pony who has a secret life as a ninja. I think they missed a trick there.

 

[BAYLOR]

I'm disappointed that Gymkata isn't about a pony who has a secret life as a ninja. I think they missed a trick there.

It's the story of a mild mannered and uninteresting man named Gym K. Atta who is looking for thrills, chills and spills and excitement in his otherwise dull and boring life as an average Kung Fu groupie .

 

[paranoid marvin]

There are many awful films, and most have been made in the last 25 years. We had a century of film making experience, we had the technology to make realistic sets, travel the globe or use state of the art CGI.

And we end up making crap like 'The Battle of the Five Armies', 'Phantom Menace' and 'Crystal Skull'.

There is no longer any invention or imagination in cinema, and it's little wonder that most have changed to video games and subscription channels for their entertainment.

Give me any cliched 50s sci-fi 'creature feature' over 95% of today's cinematic output.

 

[JunkMonkey]

There are many awful films, and most have been made in the last 25 years. We had a century of film making experience, we had the technology to make realistic sets, travel the globe or use state of the art CGI.

And we end up making crap like 'The Battle of the Five Armies', 'Phantom Menace' and 'Crystal Skull'.

There is no longer any invention or imagination in cinema, and it's little wonder that most have changed to video games and subscription channels for their entertainment.

Give me any cliched 50s sci-fi 'creature feature' over 95% of today's cinematic output.

90% of everything is crud. Always. No less true now that it was then. (Whichever 'then' it was you care to name.)

 

[paranoid marvin]

90% of everything is crud. Always. No less true now that it was then. (Whichever 'then' it was you care to name.)

True, but it has less excuses today.

And there's a reason why many people are turning away from cinema and looking at alternatives. I haven't gone to the pictures in years, and that's because hardly anything looks worth watching. And anything that does, usually ends up not being.

When I was ypunger, there was a movie worth watching most of the time. Ghostbusters, Rocky, Rambo, Terminator, Jaws, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Superman, Gremlins, Back to the Future, Exorcist, Halloween, Die Hard, Mad Max, Predator, Total Recall, Alien etc etc And even most of the sequels were pretty good too. In my opinion, there's nothing in today's cinema that comes even remotely close (especially if you discount reboots and sequels/prequels

 

[JunkMonkey]

True, but it has less excuses today.

And there's a reason why many people are turning away from cinema and looking at alternatives. I haven't gone to the pictures in years, and that's because hardly anything looks worth watching. And anything that does, usually ends up not being.

When I was ypunger, there was a movie worth watching most of the time. Ghostbusters, Rocky, Rambo, Terminator, Jaws, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Superman, Gremlins, Back to the Future, Exorcist, Halloween, Die Hard, Mad Max, Predator, Total Recall, Alien etc etc And even most of the sequels were pretty good too. In my opinion, there's nothing in today's cinema that comes even remotely close (especially if you discount reboots and sequels/prequels

I am diagnosing a slight case of galloping nostalgia. I have a huge collection of Photoplay Film Magazines from the seventies and eighties (collecting them was a passing, all-consuming passion that I will one day get round to completing) and the letter columns from 50 years ago are full of moaning about the state of films 'these days': These are from a quick skim through the first three bound volumes (sad obsessive that I am) that came to hand:

"I am sick of people saying that they don't make films like they used to... " Julie Beevers May '76

"So many gruesome nasty horror movies these days . My friends tell me they're supposed to be comedies..." T Burton Aug '81

"Where is the romance in films today? Where are the romantic teams, the successors to Gable and Lombard, Tracy and Hepburn... " M E Scully July '81

"I find it amazing that in these times of recession the majority of film producers keep aiming their films at the adult market..." R Oates May '83

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose ; what is yer actual French for it's exactly the same today - only the names and dates are different.

 

[Toby Frost]

Surprised to see Tim Burton saying that.

 

[Dave]

Surprised to see Tim Burton saying that.

Yeah, what a hypocrite!

 

[J Riff]

Hacked my way through The Revenge of Dr. X last night, it is very shabby and features quite a goofy plant monster.

 

[BAYLOR]

There are an awful lot of awful films .

 

[BAYLOR]

Sure. And those other "male astronauts wind up on a planet or moon inhabited by beautiful young women" movies.

Fire Maidens from Outer Space AKA Fire Maidens of Outer Space

Abysmal

Cat-Women of the Moon

Abysmal and unintentionally funny

Missile to the Moon (a remake [!] of the above film)

With Red Rock Canyon California a standing in for the Lunar Surface. This film most memorable line " Gary Stay out of the Sun!"

Queen of Outer Space (pardon my pedantic correction) is actually the least bad (although not good) of these. The story goes it was intended as a spoof, but didn't come out that way. Contrary to popular belief, first billed Zsa Zsa Gabor does not play the title role, but one of the Queen's minions.

Bad at so many levels.

Amazon Women on the Moon contains segments that are an excellent pastiche of this subgenre. (The film also contains many segments that have nothing to do with it, and it's a very mixed bag.) The pastiche is so accurate, in fact, that it's not really a spoof, but more of an affectionate tribute.

It look like thye They actually used two of the uniforms from the Forbidden Planet in this one.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Yipes !

Bad no question. Bu for t really really. really bad the 1930 science Fiction musical Just Imagine. a movie that people who commit crimes should be forced to watch as part of their punishment.

Granted, the "comedy" antics of the guy zapped into the future are excruciating. And the songs aren't anything to write home about.

But the very fact that the first sound science fiction film was a musical comedy is interesting, as is the fact that the movie is basically the musical comedy version of Metropolis (with some nifty visuals.)

 

[tde44]

Rollergator - 1996

 

[BAYLOR]

Rollergator - 1996

It didn't get one mention on Oscar night.

 

[KGeo777]

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