What's your all-time worst movie?

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Time was when I would I have to think about this one. I'd have to choose between 'Batman and Robin' (you know, the one with George Clooney), 'Notting Hill' perhaps, 'Titanic' maybe, any Coen brothers movie I'd seen, etc.

That time has passed. I can, without hesitation, say that the worst film I've ever seen is 'The Hulk'. There wasn't a single good thing about it. It started off really boring for about three quarters of an hour and then it just got stupid. I assume that the Hulk was generated using state-of-the-art computer graphics, which means that they must have worked from a plasticine model - a muppet would have been more convincing. The way he bounced around the landscape was ridiculous without being funny. The action sequences failed to excite me, the dialogue was risible, I couldn't have cared less about any of the characters and I had no interest in seeing how the story worked out. Remember that scene where the Hulk has a heart-to-heart with his dad and they're sat between two death rays so that they can be destroyed at the first sign of hulkiness? That's the point at which I left the cinema. I'd wanted to leave an hour earlier but my wife was willing to give it a chance. Finally she relented. The director, Ang Lee, is well respected. I can only assume that he fancied the challenge of making a worse film than 'Batman and Robin'.

So what are your all time most hated films? Please nominate "proper" films, not ghastly 1950s low-budget horror or straight-to-video releases starring Jean-Claude Van Damme.

 

A three way toss up between 'Wing Commander' 'Battlefield Earth' and 'Eye of the Beholder!!!' They were terrible!!!

 

Pokemon: The First Movie (the others are probably as bad). Don't know why I ever went to see this - maybe I was bored. Some people at the back of the cinema all stood up and clapped at the end (they were also dressed as pokemon) - I couldn't believe they'd been watching the same movie as me.

 

"Ishtar", "Batteries Not Included" and "Howard the Duck" are terrible films.

But, the worst film ever made - so bad that it is also the funniest movie ever made - is Ed Wood's "Plan 9 From Outerspace"

[ December 04, 2003, 20:35: Message edited by: Blackhawk ]

 

I saw some film about Ed Wood with Johnny Depp in recently. I really want to see Plan 9 from Outer Space just to see how bad it actually is. Surely it can't be worse than Pokemon...

 

Queen of the Damned
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
Batman & Robin
Street Fighter
Wing Commander
Dungeons & Dragons
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

...anyone notice a pattern here?

 

Hmm, I did specify no ghastly 50s horror movies. 'Plan 9' is, of course, notoriously awful but it's rather more entertaining than most of the movies that have been mentioned so far.

Oh dear, I've been wanting to see that. Is it really so very bad?

That one really did stink, didn't it? Even more so than any Mortal Kombat movie I think. It must have been the presence of Jean-Claude Van Damme. Mind you, the presence of Kylie Minogue looking most fetching throughout did compensate somewhat.

 

Vercingetorix starring Cristopher Lambert was one of those movies that are so bad they are funny. Why do movie people insist on doing extremely bad history/fantasy/sci-fi movies? Is it not possible to do a great historical/fantasy/sci-fi movie without a LotR like budget?

One of the most overrated movies I have ever seen must be "Crouching tiger hidden dragon", talk about generic asiatic kung-fu flick with some added money spent on special FX. That movie had nothing special whatsoever. I cringe when I hear people talk about its "innate poetry and beauty" and such BS.

 

The presence of Christopher Lambert almost guarantees a bad film, doesn't it? I'm not sure that I can name a decent film that he's appeared in while there have been plenty of absolute stinkers (e.g. the entire 'Highlander' series).

 

Me, Myself and Irene starring Jim Carey.
I can usually tolerate "toilet" humour, but this one was just plain offensive. I don't think I laughed once during the whole movie.

 

Another vote for "Battlefield Earth" here. Before the release of this movie the worst movies for me were "Mortal Combat" and "Friday the 13th" series but "Battlefield Earth" managed to supersede them.

 

Me, Myself and Irene, offensive?

Whatever floats yer boat! I was creasing almost the entire way through it, lol.

Titanic is a film I really detest with a scary vigor. Its boring, drawn out, unentertaining crap .

 

Oh, can I jump on the Jim Carey bashing bandwagon? I would easily nominate either of the Ace Ventura films for the least enjoyable film that I have ever had the misfortune of watching. I don't know about Me, Myself, and Irene as I have never watched it but I have little difficulty imagining that it is equally as bad.

I probably would have selected either Titanic or Forrest Gump but I was never able to sit through more than five minutes of either one of them.

Plan 9 from Outer Space is a truly bad film but it is bad in a highly entertaining way. My personal favourite in the so bad that you risk rupturing internal organs while laughing catagory would have to be Revenge Of The Teenage Vixens From Outer Space. The plot involved a teen magazine being delivered to a planet populated solely by female aliens who come to earth to seduce teenage males and when spurned turn them into giant muppet like vegetables, many of which had giant plastic googly eyes on them.

Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat 2 and others of that sort are certainly bad films but I generally find them amusing.

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is certainly not a great film, or even a good film for that matter, but I wouldn't say it deserves to be ranked as one of the worst films of all time.

 

freddy got fingered
Gigli
Glitter
the Avengers

 

Time Bandits, or this little gem called Based on an Untrue Story. Untrue Story though was one of those so unbelievably stupid movies that seeing it is a life changing experience. I'd definitely have to agree with Ace Ventura. Absolute trash. Or how about House of 1000 Corpses. That was just nasty.

At the risk of being declared anathema here, I'll say that I honestly would put LoTR on here. Well, at least Two Towers. Seriously, I was bored the whole way through last time I saw it.

 

I'd have to go with any LotR movie, and all of the Matixs. By the way, before I get ripped apart, limb from limb, and banned, THIS IS A JOKE! Do not take this seriously at all! On a serious note, I dunno what the worst movie I've seen is.

 

The Fan with Wesley Snipes and DeNiro. You could drive a truck through the holes in the plot. Really disappointing.

 

For ME it was Dungeons and Dragons simply because (like most of us on this board) I know alot about Dungeons and Dragons.

The movie failed by the title being an advertisment, there had to be dungeons and dragons in this movie. So they chucked in a pointless dungon and included a few thousand dragons. Screw the acting! The Wizards of the Cost liscene will make this good!

Lots of special effects combined with idiot plot, pathetic acting, insulting a liscience and the 'worst' combat scenes I've ever seen (two guys pointlessly clashing swords above their head) make this the worst movie for me...

 

For me, it's a difficult choice between Glitter (yes, I've seen it I'm ashamed to say), Battlefield Earth and The Stupids.
Though I'd probably have to say The Stupids because the other 2 I actually sat through all of both, whereas I only managed to get through about half an hour or so of The Stupids. Even with Christopher Lee in it.