What is the worst movie you ever saw?

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"Rocket to the Moon" (1967) was an unfunny comedy based on Jules Verne's novel "From the Earth to the Moon" which tried to cash in on the success of "Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines" (which also starred Gert Fröbe). When the rocket took off, the movie ended. "Alphaville" by Jean-Luc Godard is said to be one of the best science-fiction movies ever, but I found it godawful. "Gemini - The Twin Stars" was a cheap Swiss production that never even made into the cinema. "The Running Man" was an inferior rip-off of the French movie "Le prix du danger" (1982) and would have been much better had it stuck to the Richard Bachman (aka Stephen King) novel it was supposedly based on. Like "2010: The Year We Make Contact", "Pet Sematary" was proof that writers should not turn their own novels into screenplays - they are so eager to please Hollywood that they throw out everything that was good about the novel.

Ahh, I see. I knew Running Man was from a story.

From what I recall, Stephen King retains a great deal of executive control over films of his works. Some of the newer films have been much better than the earlier ones, so perhaps Mr King is getting the hang of what to keep and what to throw away. A lot of films from the 80s, especially Horror-style ones, suffered from the same problem though. The effects were never up to the standards of what your own imagination can throw at you. Most King films, Hellraiser, Elm Street, Halloween and Friday The !3th.. they all have that issue. They went for very up front monsters, which makes it easier to "see the wires". Compare this to say, Alien.. where the only real shot we get of the whole beast is at the end..and THEN it looks daft. Previous to that, its merely hints and flashes.. No wires. Aliens also manages this feat rather well, as with clever filming, the aliens seem much more lifelike. Then look at Alien3.. the creature looks shite, is shite, and we get to see all of it most of the time.

Consider "Dog Soldiers" as well. This uses a similar technique as Alien.. clever angles and limited visiblity. Without that talent, if you actually see the werewolves, they look like that comedy thing they had in one of the later Howling Movies.. the one with the circus. IE guy on stilts with fur.

This problem seems to be getting solved, as now film makers are getting over the amazing abuse of CGI, and starting to use it in a more subtle fashion. So, in your average "creature feature", even a low budget monster can be made to seem more lifelike. Combine clever use of CGI with clever use of angles, and you can get some genuinely good things going on.

Question is.. what is it that makes a movie "bad"? (other than having Colin farrel in it?) Someone mentioned Plan 9 from Outer Space earlier, and that is recognised as one of the worst movies ever made. Yet in some ways it is truly great. The biopic of the director.. Ed Wood (with Johnny Deppe) is genius though. (Its also the last film Bela Lugosi ever made, and he was dead for the greater part of the filming. If thats not clever filming, I dont know what is.)

Date Movie. Ugh... It quit being funny after the first 10 minutes.

Also, I think the entire Full Metal Jacket movie should've ended after Leonard killed himself.

"The Lady in the water" I went to our local cinema with my sister to see it. It was the WORST 2 hours of my life I was bored out my brain and was praying for it to end
Worst Movie ever

The whole combat portion of the movie was gruesome and boring.

Tim

I still want to see the Larry the Cable Guy movie.

Tim

Yes, I thought "Marie-Antoinette" was bad . It was just terminally dull. Perhaps that's the point , Coppola is into portraying terminal dullnesses; but " The Virgin Suicides" wasn't.

"Scoop" ABYSMAL, embarrassing , feeble dribblings.
"The Hills have Eyes" boring revolting offensive junk.
" Slevin" Didn't even make it to the end, not even to halfway.
Me too I can't think what the all time worst is, but these are JUST from this years viewing!

Then there's
" Amelie" and " The Lost City of Children" by same team ( or half of it). Didn't get past first 15 minutes of Amelie; was vomiting too much. I LOATHE. Gag gag regurge. Sickly . Repulsive syrup.
" The Village" like someone else said. I still love " Sixth Sense" and quite enjoy "invincible" ( english name?)BUT "the village" was so naive , and clunky and pseudo deep , and obvious, and non-credible , and ham acted , and patronising, that for a while I thought there must be more to it, something I hadn't got , even tho I had been VERY bored.
But one that left a horrible taste in my mouth , while thinking it was "serious art" ( I sometimes take a while to realise I've been conned ) , was " The Baby of Macon". Luckily I saw " The Piano" the next day and realised immediately where Greenaways rubbish had been most pretentious ; rape does not have quite the power over a woman's innermost being that Greenaways sentimental "horror" pretends. Destroying her creativity and means to express herself by chopping off a prime piano-playing finger ,yes, but not that parade of glorified abuse.

PS: can't agree about " American Beauty" . It was almost the first film in original version that I saw about 3 years after becoming a mother , and I came out of the cinema crying. I felt seen. Perhaps it works best for people who are parents and had post-natal deprssion and are feeling alone in a foreign country. But I still love it tho' no longer so convinced by any apparent depths. It's rare to see the americans shown in such a miserable way.

Most amusing part of The Vilage? "Those we do not speak of.." hom they speak about in almost EVERY SCENE. Made me giggle. Its like the Knights who say Ni scene.. transpose "It" with "Those we do not speak of" and its almost the same.

Godzilla- How many times do we have to see him kill that lizard?!
The Avengers - Just plain lamearse
Eragon...........

The old Transformers movie, Megatron actully killed Prime and made the movie flat without having a leader during the rest of the movie.

Boring as in not a lot of plot? Suits me. I hate films that consist of almost nothing but plot.

Marie Antoinette must be my least favourite film of hers, but I liked the other three. I think she's the director I can relate to most because her films do not try to impress, which is what I hate about most films. Films that try to please.

One of the best cases of this must be Three Musketeers. I thought the film was hilarious because it had absolutely no point. Just the kind of film that suits modern times. Blockbuster cinema.

Napoleon Dynamite

Crappy, crappy movie. Enough said.

I absolutely loathed the last "Twilight" film. It was boring and the plot, more than that of the films before that, was very... um... how to say it nicely? Controversial. ^^

I have seen quite a lot of really bad films. But most of the time I still find something to like about them.

I also didn't like the re-make of "The Day The Earth Stood Still". At all. Some films were bad enough for their official trailers alone.

I never watched all of "Pearl Harbor". The first 30 minutes were too dreadful. Omg, it was SO American. Not in a good way. It was... I can't even say anything nice about it. It was clearly 100% patriotic without any reflection. Sure enough, the real events were terrifying, but the way it was made into picture... just... ugh...

Not even My Bloody Valentine? Or The Jesus and Mary Chain? I love both bands endlessly.

(I loved everything about the film. I could write endless paragraphs why...)


Yeah, I know... I don't like most typecast actors. I don't like Vin Diesel either because he ONLY stars in movies that need testosterone.


Omg, I LOVE Hugh Grant. XD And I can totally understand why people hate him so much. I have interesting dilemmas, I know. ^^


I want to watch it. Because of... the cast. And because of Michel Gondry.

One that contains an overpaid and overly good looking Hollywood actor.

Shoot 'Em Up and Wanted. I cannot stand these movies!

I've been shooting guns as long as I can remember. I LOVE targetshooting as a sport. I got my sharpshooter certification in the airforce.

I know they're movies, but I can't stand the things they do with guns in these movies! (curving bullets ect....)