Oct 22, 2010
What’s the worst movie you’ve ever seen?
It’s kinda fun poking around the awfulness that is IMDB’s bottom 100 movies.
What’s the worst movie you’ve seen–or, slightly different question: What movie do you hate the most?–and is it on IMDB’s list?
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Oh man, there are so many. Just off the top of my head:
Twilight
Captain America (the 80s one)
Twilight
Funny when certain movies make the worst and best list. Twilight is one of my fave’s. :)
Armageddon. I don’t see it on the list. I guess I’m thankful I haven’t watched any of their bottom 100.
Armageddon is pure awesomeness. I don’t know what you were smoking.
Yes, I do have a problem (thankfully it’s not weed/crack/etc) :) I’m a dork when it comes to science/space stuff. There were just too many things I had to try to overlook in that movie to enjoy the fun stuff (the blowing things up and what not). I did enjoy 2012….does that help?
Different strokes, different strokes.
Couldn’t stand 2012. I still cry when Harry Stamper blows up that rock.
ok – I just watched the clip of the ending again. What struck me most was that William Fichtner is in the movie–I might have to redact my submission of this movie as one I don’t like just based on that alone. :)
I think “Autumn in New York” is pretty much horrible… I think i would rather go to the dentist while getting a full body cavity search than sit through that movie again.
Also, “The Swarm” is an awful movie. But at least its so cheesy its entertaining.
A.I. & Pumpkin…too close to call
A.I., Jeepers Creepers, Vanilla Sky are the ones I really dislike.
ok, confession, I kind of liked the first 2/3rds of Jeepers Creepers but I think it’s because I had not heard of it and I saw it on late night tv and was pleasantly surprised. the end was stupid though.
ok, i know i don’t know you, but from pictures you’ve posted of your son, Orison, i think the kid on the right is him…
HAHAHAHAHA!!! There is a striking resemblance in the mischevious-I-know-everything grin.
Magnolia…
Not only was it offensive on multiple levels AND really long, but it was like the writers didn’t know how to actually achieve a goal of interweaving seemingly random characters, so they just threw in an outlandish event and then ended the movie.
The first minute and a half was pretty good, I remember. And then after that it kept going downhill.
i actually liked this. great music. and if i remember correctly, it was depicting someone (tom cruise’s character, right?) who was offensive, but it wasn’t an flippantly offensive. i want to see it again.
Land of the Lost with Will Ferrell. Completely awful.
Agreed. I don’t think I laughed once.
Agreed.
I laughed…. :)
I saw this while on a flight. Pure torture.
Anything with Will Ferrell…
- Killjoy(hands down), and Dude, where’s my car?
The Day After Tomorrow
Battlefield Earth was a lousy movie and thankfully a really bad Scientology recruitment video.
Pumaman and Manos: The Hands of Fate I remember from Mystery Science Theater 3000 – Pumaman is actually one of my favorite MST3K sendups. Wouldn’t watch it straight, though.
Also, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians is a favorite cheesy holiday movie of a good friend of mine.
The worst I’ve seen? The 2003 Hulk – not even worth seeing for free.
I am so with you there on “Manos” and Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. Without MST3K’s set-up, those would just be downright unbearable. I’ll have to check out Pumaman though.
Vulgar:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120467/
Low budget junk that they slapped Kevin Smith’s name on (distributed by View Askew) that featured a clown in fishnets and a corset being violated by a man and his two sons, who went on to have a successful local kids show before his tormentors blackmail him with tape of the event.
Anyone ever catch Killer Klowns from Outer Space on a Sunday afternoon sometime in the 90s? Seems like I saw snippets of this way too often.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095444/
Was that the one where they shot popcorn out of their mouth at people? I have a vague memory of it.
Noooo . . . it is a really bad movie. But I love to watch it because it is soooo bad.
Haha, Glitter is on their list, a hilariously BAD movie. One of the worst I’ve ever seen is Stephen King’s, The Mist. Horrible ending. Horrible. It’s so bad, it’s almost worth seeing just because of that fact.
Laser Hawk.
Hands down.
A.I. ~ The movie had like 6 endings! This is the one movie I would have actually walked out of the theatre for (and wish I had). I will now consider walking out of a theatre, where I wouldn’t have before seeing this movie.
I couldn’t think of one until I saw your choice and I am sorry to say that would be one I would choose. I was so dissappointed in it. I love Steven Spielberg’s work but this was just bizarre, creepy and super depressing. I wish I had walked out too.
I’m encouraged that so many chose Twilight. Still, my vote goes to Jumper (2008).
amen, julia. i can’t believe i even watched it since i hate hayden christianson as an actor. but, friends wanted to watch it, so…
Deterrence: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0158583/
So bad, I still remember it eleven years later.
The Tailor of Panama.
The Last Airbender.
I realize this puts me in a very small minority, but I can’t stand “The Princess Bride”.
I can stand it, but I have never, ever understood the cult following it gets. I don’t think I laughed when I watched it.
However, I did appreciate finally being able to understand my friends’ incessant quotes from it.
I LOVE that movie!!
me too! have never understood that one.
It’s hard for me to think of movies like “Plan 9 From Outer Space” and your typical MST3K fare as “bad” movies. Sure, they’re often ineptly made, with poor acting, dialog, effects, etc. However, I often find that they have a certain goofy charm to them. They have their hearts in the right places, so to speak.
That being said, here are a few of my top “bad” movies.
Dirty Dancing
Grease
Dan in Real Life
Spider-Man 3
Gunblast Vodka (one of the few movies I’ve turned off partway through)
24 Hours in London
The Day The Earth Stood Still (the 2008 version; the 1951 version is a favorite of mine)
War of the Worlds (the 2005 version)
How can you lump “Dan in Real Life” with those bad movies. That movie was great
Rather than re-type it all, I’ll just link to something I posted on my site after watching “Dan In Real Life”.
http://opus.fm/s/3868/
totally with you on spiderman 3. when tobey maguire started that song and dance bit i wanted to throw something heavy at the tv. or better yet at tobey maguire.
The Fountain
That one was SOOOO bad!!!
I’m embarrassed to say I paid money to see these terrible, terrible films in the theater. (I’m gonna be sick)
Year One (2009)
Ultraviolet (2006)
When in Rome.
Muriel’s Wedding
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110598/
blasphemy! ;)
Burn After Reading. I was fooled into watching this movie because of the cast. Waste of time.
I thought that was an okay movie, but I felt unnerved by the end of it, which has happened more than once to me with a Cohen (Coen?) Brothers film.
Yeah, I think I only laughed once. Not the best Coen Bros.
I’m sure there are worse movies that I’ve successfully managed to forget, but some that come to mind are actually quite popular:
- P.S. I love you – I didn’t even finish watching that one. I so intensely disliked the main characters that I didn’t want to know any more about their oh so romantic story.
- The Time Traveler’s Wife. I kept thinking, “Am I the only one who finds it incredibly creepy that this naked guy keeps appearing behind bushes to talk to a little girl???”
Never mind that she’s his future wife, I just found it disturbing.
Maybe in both these reading the book would make it all better (as it usually does), but the movies were pretty bad.
* in both these cases. And I thought I’d proof-read the comment.
August Rush
that was a bad movie.
Praise Band
http://praisebandmovie.com/trailer.htm
YES!!!
A.I. – Artificial Intelligence. I’m actually surprised to see it mentioned so many times so far, but yes, worst. movie. ever.
I just sorted through our DVD collection last night and threw away a bunch of movies, A.I. was the first to go. Last year we bought it at a yard sale for a euro, then my wife and I watched about 15 minutes of it and then turned it off, never even considered watching the rest of it.
march of the penguins… love penguins, but it was a boring movie…
On another note, I was so happy to have found my long lost copy of March of the Penguins! I love that movie. I nearly got a penguin tattoo because of it!
(mostly because of the devotion and protection that the father penguins show to their children)
Men Who Stare At Goats!
Oh, I second that one!
AVATAR! I fell asleep.
- Eclipse. The third Twilight movie… I saw it to blog about it and had a really hard time taking it seriously because it was so awful.
- Wrong Turn. Really?
- Night of the Comet. 1984 zombie/alien apocalypse movie– valley girls are the only survivors. So bad it’s good. (trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rYDF1adago)Bonus points cause there’s a zombie that looks just like Joel Osteen.
The Day After Tomorrow.
Here on Earth (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0195778/) and more recently, You Again (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1414382/).
how about the worst movie i never saw? mom and i went to see “the firm” in the theatre and i fell asleep. i never fall asleep in movies and i was 18, so i never got tired. must have been pretty bad to put me to sleep! still haven’t seen it.
also, before i was saved: threesome. it was so bad, my friend and i turned it off like 30 minutes in. and we would watch anything.
i won’t even start with “so bad it’s good.” that could go on forever.
can’t believe i forgot this one: the matrix revolutions. i actually have problems with reloaded, too, but revolutions really chapped my hide because of the stupid ending. the first movie was so cool, had so much potential for really deep, thought provoking stuff, and in the end those losers made it just another love story. boo.
yeah. i went to see threesome in the theater in high school. it was so bad we (i’m talking me and my public school friends–not my youth group) left in the middle of it. i think it was director by francis ford CRAPPOLA;)
It most certainly was not directed by Francis Ford Coppola. It was written and directed by Andrew Fleming.
i was kidding. dork:)
Easiest question ever.
I hated that movie “Wanted” with Angelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman, more than anything I’ve ever seen. It is the absolute worst abomination of film ever conceived of. I’d rather spend time getting dental work done than watch that again.
I don’t remember all the details, something about a kid trying to find his father and get into an elite group of special assassins who get their missions from a magical loom, interpreted by Morgan Freeman. It was so bad, it makes me angry to even speak of it to this very day.
Typically I like Freeman very much as an actor, but that role cheapened him. I have no idea why in the world he took it. Jolie was, I guess, supposed to be super stylin’, always cool under pressure, sex appeal of the movie but that didn’t work. The whole world of the movie was so ridiculous, no character could rise above it and still be good.
Ugh.
yes. same with “jumper.” why did i even waste my time with that movie? hayden christianson? two hours of my life i can never get back.
Here’s the IMDB link to “Wanted”. Stupid movie. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0493464/
Agreed! Every second was bombastic and obnoxious.
one more: the thing, 1982 version. the original, the thing from outerspace, made in 1951 was AWESOME. but the 1982 version is just too hollywood, too big, too many special effects. the original had so much suspense because of what you didn’t get to see, and the 82 version takes all that away. lame.
My wife, Margaret, submits ‘Babel’, ‘I Heart Huckabees’, and ‘A Serious Man’.
Thanks :)
Wall-E.
Okay, maybe not THE worst, but certainly in recent memory.
WHAT?!?! Philistine!
My 2 worst….
1. Kingdom of Heaven
2. Neverending Story
What!? I loved Neverending Story. Of course I do believe I was around 10 since I last saw it, so i might think differently now.
um. joel. you just lost some cred with me, man. are you SURE you mean Neverending Story?? there’s time for you to change your answer. i mean, maybe you didn’t like it, but there’s NO WAY it could be in the same category as Superbabies, Short Circuit 2, etc.
do you have something against sci-fi? i think we need to explore this…
I saw it 2-3 times as a kid, and thought it was named appropriately, if that makes you feel any better.
I tried again as an adult. About 20 minutes in, I gave up. I like sci-fi, but I don’t like bad movies.
Doctor Giggles.
City of Angels, hands down.
1. C Me Dance. I don’t know what was worse, that it sucked so bad, or that I actually watched it all the way through. Great intentions, just very bad acting and plot development.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1314645/
2. Year One. I never usually stop watching a movie after it’s started (see above reference) but this one was just stupid.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1045778/
3. The Invention of Lying. I expected some sort of light-hearted comedy. Instead, it was mostly an attack on Christianity. Even if it wasn’t, it still sucked very badly.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1058017/
seriously? you saw C Me Dance??? i didn’t think anyone saw that. i saw the trailer that everyone was barfing about, but i thought that’d be the end of it.
I’ll also add Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (2009), and The New World.
I’ll second the New World. That was like stream of consciousness where unconsciousness would be preferable.
The Ugly Truth. Hands down one of the worst movies of all time – vulgar, ugly, poorly written, and (sorry, but it’s true) Katherine Heigl couldn’t act if her life depended on it.
Oh yeah. This movie was disgusting. I actually blocked it from my memory, lol.
I also add the last “Pirates of the Caribbean” movie. Ten minutes in, I was already looking at my watch. Unfortunately, there was another 2.5 hours of incoherent plot and overblown CGI action sequences
Pirates of the Carribean 2 was the most disappointing movie I’ve watched. I’ve seen movies that are worse, but not more disappointing. If you remember the part where they are rolling the huge wheel through the jungle, well, that is the part that made me regret ever buying the ticket.
Ditto. Exact same spot.
Pretty sure you still owe me $ for that movie ticket…no joke. Especially since I hated that movie so much, too.
Sarah, being an awesome brother isn’t payment enough?!?
Not in this economy.
I’m sure I’m forgetting a bunch, and surer that I’m dating my old self, but “Short Circuit” and “Joe vs. the Volcano” come to mind.
Neither appears to be on “the list.”
Beth, Joe vs. the Volcano was one of the first movies that popped in my head. Horrible!
The other movie that came to mind was “The Road to Wellville”.
That’s a tough call, but here’s mine:
“It Takes Two”
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113442/
Starring: Kirstie Alley, Steve Guttenberg, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen.
“The Tower”
If I remember correctly, a building has a state-of-the-art security system that goes haywire and begins killing off its occupants. The hero escapes and then decides to go back in.
It made me cringe.
Dude, where’s my car?
Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus. Some say it’s one of those “so bad it’s good” movies, but they are wrong. It’s too bad to be so bad it’s good. It’s just painfully bad.
Patch Adams.
Dead Poet’s Society.
Why do you hate Robin Williams? :(
I used to like him better, and I don’t hate everything he does. His particular comedic skills are amazing. But his career has gone too far into embarrassingly schlocky manipulative sentimentality. Patch Adams is the most offensive, unwatchable example of this that I’ve seen in his work. Granted, with that script, no one could have made the movie actually good, but his performance took it firmly and intolerably into the realm of barfaricious.
In my humble opinion. ;-)
Half Baked
Grease 2
Excess Baggage
Land of the Lost
Merlin’s Apprentice (mini-series).
Pauly Shore Is Dead
House of 1000 Corpses.
I’ll second Manos: the Hands of Fate. It was so bad that even MST3K couldn’t help it. Fortunately I watched it with friends so my sanity was saved.
The Bounty Hunter…HORRIBLE!! PATHETIC! Embarressed to admit I watched it.
Ice Pirates 1984
“Dungeons and Dragons” was an offense to all RPG nerds like myself.
Any of the new Star Wars movies, plus any of the classic trilogy that has been altered from it’s original Han-Shot-First state.
Then there was the MST3K smackdown of “Mitchell”…which was so painfully bad that the cast actually had a hard time tearing it apart. It was one of the only MST episodes I’d actually avoid. I think they stopped showing non-sic-fi movies after that steaming cinematic turd.
Also:
Short Circuit 2
Titanic (the one with Leo DiCaprio)
And every part of the movie Dragonheart except for the dragon himself.
I loathed Titanic in a way I loathe few other movies. I thought the dialogue was terrible, there was no suspense (we know from the opening scene that Rose lives and suspect that Jack dies), and totally gratuitous smut. I really lost it, though, when the guy is trying to kill them ON A SINKING SHIP. And then I REALLY really lost it when, to escape said guy trying to kill them, they run below deck–ON A SINKING SHIP. My friend and I both actually groaned when Rose jumped back on board.
I’ll agree to Manos: The Hands of Fate. While I normally wouldn’t even consider MST3K fodder, since it’s in the bad-enough-to-laugh-at category, even watching it be riffed to shreds didn’t ease the pain much.
The last Matrix movie. Blech.
The Hulk (2003), P.S. I Love You, A.I., The Village, The Happening
So basically if it starts with ‘The’ or an acronym? lol jk
Anything where Shia LaBeouf is running top speed and screaming, “OPTIMUS!!!”
I remember as a child actually really enjoying Superbabies 1. I think I may have even watched it twice!
As for bad movies – I have a special fondness for ‘so bad it’s good’ fare, and my most recent ones are “Pet Sematary 2″ and “SS Doomtrooper” – that last one is really something special!
As for genuinely, un-enjoyable bad: Knowing (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448011/). I should’ve known better than to pay money to see a Nicholas Cage film.
Good Burger. My kids forced me to take them. This was 13 years ago and I’m still not over it.
Welcome to Good Burger Home of the Good Burger, can I take your order?
Chasing Liberty.
Percy Jackson.
Praise Band.
Also, whatever the 2nd Twilight was. New Moon? And Pirates of the Caribbean 2. And The Notebook. (gasp).
Nights in Rodanthe. At least for now. Just watched it with my wife so its fresh on the mind.
Obligatory XKCD reference: http://xkcd.com/653/