The search has come to an end - The Worst Movie of All Time

[matt819]

The Fountain with Hugh Jackman. What were they thinking? The story, such as it is, is bad. The acting is bad. The lighting is bad. The dialogue, where there is dialog is bad and almost invariably spoken in a whisper. The special effects are idiotic. Sure, there have been bad movies before - the worst movie of all time before this was Escape From L.A. And you have to discount the deliberately bad movies (Nightmare on Elm Street, Scary Movie, etc.) The Fountain is appalling.

[wildhorses]

1. was this the one with

kate winslet?

[ghostsofgiants]

14. Nope.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0414993/

[Lautremont]

2. There's already a new one:

The, ahem, "Fantastic" Four Silver Surfer movie. Stinks on ice.

[Orrex]

4. How did it compare to the first one? Did you like the first one?

[Lautremont]

16. I haven't actually seen the first one.

But if it's anything like this one, watch out!

I go to a mindless Hollywood movie with my dad every Father's Day; this year, that one was it. Blah! Last year it was the pirate movie, which was also pretty bad. The closest the Fantastic Four has to a redeeming feature is that it's only 92 minutes long. This year's pirate movie is apparently three hours. No way!

[Hippo_Tron]

22. The first and third Pirates movie are supposed to be better than the second

I slept through the first one and was told by all of my friends that the first one was a lot better and that the second one sucked because its only purpose was to set up the third one.

[Orrex]

32. I liked the second one just fine

I mean, did anyone go into it with the expectation that all questions would be answered and all conflicts resolved? Pretty much any second-of-three films suffer the same problem.

Even The Empire Strikes Back left more questions open than it settled, but (for a host of reasons) it's still widely regarded as the best of the three (oh wait... six) films.

Maybe the problem is that POTC2 doesn't really hold up as a standalone film, but that doesn't bother me because I wasn't expecting it to.

[Hippo_Tron]

36. Empire Strikes Back developed the plot A LOT more than POTC2

I think the criticism of POTC2 is that it was just nonstop action and was made to appeal mostly to little kids. Don't get me wrong, it was an enjoyable film, especially for the music and special effects, but I don't think the trilogy would be very popular if that had been peoples' first impression.

Empire Strikes Back has the least action and the most plot development all three of them. When I was a little kid, it was by far my least favorite. I got bored during the scenes where Yoda was training Luke. And lets face it, the scenes where Vader is chasing Leia and Han aren't as exciting as when they break onto the Death Star in Episode IV. I only liked it after things picked up when they get to cloud city.

[DS1]

33. The Third one was an unweildy poorly-edited snorefest

The second one was much better than three.

Fantastic 4 Part 2 wasn't too bad, but if I'd taken a girl there on a first date I'd be embarrassed to have suggested it.

[Orrex]

3. Have you seen Boat Trip with Oscar-winner Cuba Gooding, Jr.?

That, I suggest, is the worst movie of all time.

Worse even than a Kevin Costner film.

Worse than The Matrix: Revolutions.

[LibraLiz1973]

7. The Matrix: Revolutions was a waste of film

A fucking disgrace that almost ruined the awesomeness of the first 2.

[El Fuego]

37. That one gets my vote.

Pure cinematic torment.

[Radio_Lady]

21. Y'know, I kind of liked "Boat Trip" -- although it was a one-gag movie.

Kevin Costner's "Waterworld" would make my list of the TEN Worst Movies.

I hated all of the "Matrix" movies, too.

I walked out of "Total Recall" with a headache.

And then, there's that movie with all the still pictures and terrible music which I always forget -- part of a trilogy -- the worst of the worst. I'll try to come up with that name sounds like "Natsoykatsu" or something. It was disgusting.

[Richardo]

31. "Koyaanisqatsi"?

Surely not. :-|

On edit: I see the last of the trilogy was 'Naqoyqatsi' which I have not seen. I'm guessing this is what you're referring to. :)

[Radio_Lady]

48. Yes, that's the one from 2002 -- 'Naqoyqatsi' -- I wanted to vomit after I screened that film.

Maybe I'm not the target audience for his films! I looked for the name on IMDB last night, but finally signed off without success. Thanks for refreshing my memory.

YIKES!!!!!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0145937/

[Radio_Lady]

50. From 2002 "WISH I'D STAYED HOME LIST" (instead of going to these movies):

WISH I’D STAYED HOME list

Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (Wych Kaosayananda) Antonio Banderas, Lucy Liu 3.7

Blood Work (Clint Eastwood) Clint Eastwood (He’s about as old as you can get and still not be a mummy) 6.4

Collateral Damage (Andrew Davis) Arnold Schwarzenegger (Delayed several months because of Sept. 11th. The movie should have been sent right to VHS) 5.4

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (Kevin Smith) (PLEASE… doing the dishes would be better than this!) 7.2

Jonah: A Veggie Tales Movie (Mike Nawrocki, Phil Vischer) Animated 5.7 (went with granddaughter)

Naqoyqatsi (Godfrey Reggio) (Just a lot of pictures without continuity… Emperor’s New Clothes effect) 6.7

Reign of Fire (Rob Bowman) Matthew McConaughey (Matthew cleans up so well… but this was such a dumb movie…) 6.0

The Rules of Attraction (Roger Avary) 7.3 (Hated this movie from start to finish; parents of college age children, stay away!)

The Scorpion King (Chuck Russell) Dwayne Johnson, as The Rock 5.5 (Later, pleased to find out that The Rock, alias Dwayne Johnson, – from a Samoan father and an African/American mother, is a graduate of the University of Miami, and not too dumb at all.)

Star Wars Episode 2: Attack of the Clones (George Lucas) Hayden Christensen, Natalie Portman, Ewan McGregor, Samuel L. Jackson 7.6

The Time Machine (Simon Wells) Guy Pearce 5.7

The Truth About Charlie (Jonathan Demme) (Poor remake of Charade) 5.5

Undercover Brother (Malcolm D. Lee) (Pretty stupid but funny) 6.5

XXX (Rob Cohen) Vin Diesel (Husband loved it) 6.2

[Scooter24]

5. You must have missed the awesomness known as Gigli...

now THAT was pretty bad.

[Critters2]

6. I dunno. It'd be pretty hard to outdo Demi Moore's version

of The Scarlet Letter. My God, that smelled bad!!

[LibraLiz1973]

8. My vote for one of the worst: The Wicker Man w/ Nic Cage

I actually LEFT THE THEATER!! Which is saying something. I'd taken my mom to see it and we both said F this after 40 mind numbing minutes.

[Robeson]

9. Buffalo Rider.....

...I saw this move many moons ago. And to this day, it has to rank as the worst movie I've ever seen.

[derby378]

10. PLAN NINE FROM OUTER SPACE still drinks them all under the table

"You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! STUPID!" :rofl:

[badgerpup]

15. Klaatu barada nicto...

there's a a qualitative difference between cheap sleazy B-grade movies and big budget, full-of-special-effects flops.

Don't go to movies much anymore, but have to nominate Bela Lugosi in Scared to Death.
Its premise is sooo unbelievable...and the person whodunnit seems to appear magically at the end of the movie in a sort of deus-ex-machina/the butler did it denouement. There's about three seconds earlier in the movie where the killer does pass through and supposedly acquire a motive for killing...but he's in drag, so you not only don't see him, but you don't recognize him.

Really, really awful (cue Dan Akroyd with his Bad Theater schtick).
:popcorn:

[Tyler Durden]

29. That quote is from "The Day the Earth Stood Still."

Actually a tolerably good film for its time, the only problem is the "kid." His acting is so bad it makes you wish the giant android would fry him.

[badgerpup]

39. Oops...my bad.

:blush:
I've tried to remember those words though...just in case, you understand...:crazy:

[begin_within]

18. I love the wobbling tombstones, the rapid shifts between day/night, the pie-plate UFOs, etc.

[Heidi]

23. Nah. Plan Nine is so bad that it's good.

I lovelovelove it. :)

[Dr. Strange]

35. Me too--Love it!

Perhaps, on your way home, someone will pass you in the dark, and you will never know it... for they will be from outer space.

:rofl:

Even so, I don't think it's the worst movie of all time, or even the worst movie from Ed Wood: that "distinction" would probably go to "Glen or Glenda" for his creative use of stock footage.

[Glorfindel]

11. I dunno...Madonna's version of "Swept Away" is uniquely ghastly

n/t

[Fire Walk With Me]

20. Holy krep... The noisy one did a remake of "Swept Away"?

I'm shocked. And appalled. I'm shocked and appalled.

And pish-tosh, The Fountain is terrific. Showgirls is dreck. Z movies such as Manos the Hands of Fate and Santa Claus versus the Martians tip the scale even further...

[krispos42]

24. I watched the MST3k version of "Manos" last weekend

It was pretty bad. :puke: :puke:

"Attack of the Eye Creatures" is pretty terrible. The filmed the night scenes in daylight, with a heavy filter on the camera. So the cars look like they have votive candles for headlights. And the 'eye creatures' apparently wear slacks and tennis shoes from the waist down. :puke:

[no name no slogan]

12. No love for Ishtar?

That movie (other than Plan 9, as mentioned earlier) is the biggest turd in Hollywood's punchbowl. Huge budget, big-name cast, crap movie.

[ghostsofgiants]

13. I completely beg to differ. I thought it was a great film.

Not the best I've ever seen, but still quite good.

For me, worst film ever goes to The Doom Generation. I've never wanted to murder a movie as an entity more in my life.

[begin_within]

17. The worst movie of all time is "Cycle Vixens," a.k.a. "Young Cycle Girls" (1978)

At least "Plan 9 From Outer Space" has campy entertainment value. For my money, "Young Cycle Girls" is the worst thing ever committed to film... but I guess bad films are a matter of personal taste.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079018/

[Writer]

19. Holy fucking god - I watched that this weekend and can't agree more!

It was trying to be esoteric and philosophical with no purpose. It was an interesting concept that suffered terribly from one of the worst constructed plots since "Strange Days." Terrible all around.

[Richard Steele]

25. Every truly BAD movie is "truly bad" in its own unique way.

You can't COMPARE and RANK them- it just doesn't work that way.

You want BAD? I paid MONEY to see "Hands of Steel" in an actual THEATER.
Damn few of you can say the same.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/hands_of_steel/

[Major Hogwash]

26. Have you seen "Johnny Guitar"? It was on again lately, but I don't know why.

The plot is the worst part, but Joan Crawford is so bad in this movie it almost made me throw my popcorn at the tv.

Sterling Hayden is Johnny Guitar, and this movie was probably why he didn't make any more Westerns.

[Lautremont]

30. I have to say, I love that movie.

Not in a camp or ironic way, either. It's a Nick Ray movie, for pete's sake! Not that I'm trying to argue you into liking it, or would even if I thought I could.

But I'll quote from the Time Out review of the movie, which sums up quite well what I like about it: "Ray plays havoc with Western conventions, revelling in sexual role-reversals... Love and hate, prostitution and frustration, domination and humiliation are woven into a hypnotic Freudian web of shifting relationships, illuminated by the director's precise, symbolic use of colour, and strung together with an unerring sense of pace. The whole thing is weird, hysterical, and quite unlike anything else in the history of the cowboy film... Tuffaut called the film 'the Beauty and the Beast of the Western,' a description which perfectly sums up Ray's magical, dreamlike emotionalism."

Great movie!

[Random_Australian]

27. Leprechaun 4: Space Platoon. All your badness are belong to us.

I win.

[Tyler Durden]

28. Sorry. I have to vote for the all time CLASSIC terrible film:

Plan 9 from Outer Space.

If you have not seen it then, in the words of Jame Gumb, "YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT PAIN IS!!!"

[CottonBear]

41. I saw that on a double bill with "They Stole Hitler's Brain."

:rofl: OMG! Hitler's mute but live head is being kept on life support in a bell jar.

Oh! It is so bad. So bad. :(

[underpants]

34. Teens trapped on an island are haunted by a demon hidden inside...a pinata.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0201844/

[skygazer]

38. Worse than "Hook?"

God, what a terrible movie that was! Truly like watching a train wreck.

Costner's Robin Hood is right up there, too. I'm not sure which is worse now and I've got a low-grade headache just from thinking about it. x(

[matt819]

43. Fair enough, but Costner can't act

Really, now, does he have more than one emotion or tone of voice? You kind of expect his movies to suck - Waterworld comes to mind. And when they don't suck, you're pleasantly surprised. But still, suck is a far cry from worst movie ever - and we're talking Keystone Kops from the 1920s. Hell, The Fountain couldn't hold a candle to that 1899 classic of the moving train or the bullet being fired from a gun. I'd watch those for 90 minutes before putting The Fountain back in the DVD player.

[Taverner]

40. Worst worst or Worst Best?

Do you mean so bad its good? Like Plan 9 From Outer Space?

Or just bad on all accounts?

[matt819]

42. Good distinction

This one was so bad it was bad, not so bad it was good. We're not talking kitschy here. We're not talking cult classic. Even on large amounts of drugs, this couldn't possibly be good. I don't feel like going onto IMDB at the moment, but the lead actress was actually pretty good in another movie recently, but in this she was appalling, and they managed to make her look like a troll. Which was fine, I suppose, becaugh Hugh Jackman was troll-like as well. Bald for no apparent reason, then a conquistador, also for no apparent reason. From a no-hair day to a bad hair day. And, get this, they even managed to screw up his ears. Yes, his ears. I'm convinced they were prop ears that made him look like Mr. Spock or Yoda after sticking their ears in a blender.

So, no, this was not Plan 9 or The Blob, or even The Rocky Horror Picture Show. And while there are certainly some challengers proposed by other posters on this thread, I still have to nominate this one. It was so bad it would lose the annual Razzies. I mean, did someone actually read this script and say, "hey, we've got a winner here!"? If I were Hugh Jackman, after seeing the final product I would have insisted they take my name off the credits and pixelate my image throughout the movie and make my paycheck payable to cash so that there was absolutely no association with this bomb.

[Lisa]

44. have you seen DC 9/11 yet?

I beg you, don't cast your vote yet until you see what passes for Bush administration propaganda. The scene where a fatherly, strong George W. is reassuring a confused, bumbling Dick Cheney ...

And to make matters even worse, if possible, the commentary track on the DVD is filled with self-congratulation by the right-wing filmmakers. I actually felt sorry for poor Timothy Bottoms, who only took the job to help put his kids through college ... he was reduced to talking about the skin rash he experienced during filming.

[jobycom]

45. Can't be worse than Ferris Buehler or Lord of the Rings.

Unless it 136 hours long and still unable to put together a coherent plot or any excitement despite hours of formulaic battle scenes with bad computer graphics.

[TK421]

46. No, no, no...the worst movie of all time would have to be "Manos, The Hands of Fate"

anything on MST3K would deserve this honor, but this movie stands out above the rest:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060666/

I posted the IMDB link because I think it expresses just how bad this movie was...although it does have a cult following!

[electricmonk]

47. I used to give the honors to Manos too

Then I saw this turd of a movie. The Starfighters Even Mike and the Bots couldn't save it. Manos at least had some action in the form of girl on girl wrestling plus Torgo. The Starfighters has absolutely nothing. Well it does have a young Bob Dornan so that even adds to the level of awfulness.

[Presidentcokedupfratboy]

49. I take it you have never seen "Battlefield Earth"

Bad script, wooden acting, awful art decoration, ridiculous makeup, and based on an L. Ron Hubbard Novel....Wow.

Max Bialystock wouldn't have produced this movie. That's how bad it was.....