The world's worst movies
 

I don't see a thread here...
I'm not a huge movie fan, but I have seen some awful ones. I'd be interested in your views on
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For me, I have to ask why Jodie Foster got herself involved in this pile of crap? The plot is terrible, so full of holes you could indeed fly a 747 through it, and any sense of drama or tension is just completely destroyed by an ending which must surely qualify as the worst in any movie. Ever.

Anyone else see this? Agree, disagree?

I saw it when I was about 13 and enjoyed it. However, as with many things I liked at 13, it probably wouldn't stand up to my more discerning tastes now.

What were some of the plot holes? Jog my memory.

I saw that a few years ago and liked it well enough. It wasn't the best or most memorable movie I've ever seen but I thought it was fairly enjoyable.

Bad movies normally start with bad ideas. One of the worst is this.

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I never saw the Movie you detailed TH.

GIGLI
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I heard so much about Gigli before I seen the move - all of it negative - that it sorta piqued my curiosity about it. There are a couple of scenes in the movie that make my skin crawl. I thought dialogue the writers gave to a character who is mentally challenged and the situations they put him in were just wrong. It stars Jennifer Lopez, & Ben Affleck, and has Christopher Walkins & Al Pacino as minor characters. And it's the movie that launched Bennifer couple.

Wanderlust is the worst movie I've seen this year. I expected a bunch of laughs considering it was a David Wain movie (Wet Hot American Summer) but all I got was boredom and ONE good laugh. That laugh was just because Paul Rudd is a funny person.

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Oh god yes. Me and a friend of mine watched that thinking it would be so bad it's funny, but it was just awful and boring.

I thought that was a pretty good little movie, with much more depth than I was expecting.

Are we talking "So Bad It's Good" or "So Bad It's Awful" here? For the former, it's between The Room and Plan 9. For the latter I'd probably cop out and just say Gigli like most people do.

Does the 1983 remake of Hercules starring Lou Ferrigno count as a "so bad it's good" or a "so bad it's bad" movie?

Oh dear, you've got me going now! :laughing:
Well let's see. There's
a) the fact that a hospital backed up the claims about her husband being in an accident or something (can't recall what exactly), when they had no connection to the terrorist at all.

b) the fact that no-one remembered Jodie's daughter being on the plane, despite everyone seeing her boarding and the fact that she was hardly quiet

c) the fact that they were both able to just wander around in the plane, wherever they wanted, ending up, if I recall, somewhere near the undercarriage or in the cargo hold?

d) god I can't remember more. It was such a terribly badly-written movie it kind of refuses to come out of the dark corners of my mind, cowering there, afraid to be seen. To slightly paraphrase Krusty: I could have pulled a better plotline out of my ahhhh hey there kids! :rolleyes:

Oh yeah, and why was it called "Flightplan"? Other than the fact that every aircraft has to file one, there was no reference to it, it had no significance at all.

Without question, one of the very worst movies I have ever seen (and I saw Jurassic Park III!), and a total waste of whatever it was, 2 hours or whatever. The only consolation is that I didn't have to pay to see it, as it was on TV, otherwise I would have definitely considered demanding a refund.

And to answer the other question, the thread is meant to be about movies that are so bad they're bad, not ones that are so bad they're good. I hated this movie, and pitied Jodie for ending up attached to it.

So bad it's good! Particularly for the scene where he fights the bear and throws it into outer space.

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Also, I like to add that I actually saw this movie in the theater. :laughing:

There are tons of movies that fall into the "so bad it's good" category for me so I can't include those. If we're talking about just straight-up bad movies, I think my absolute worst one would be Xanadu. That was absolute torture to sit through. I don't remember where or why I watched it, but it did happen for some reason.

Yeah, I thought it was a disapointment considering it had Ricky Gervais. Considering his other work in a way I think he's mean to Karl Pilkington.

I couldn't fathom why anyone from the screen writer to director to the movie execs think "hey this is ok to put on film!"

Do you mean Plan 9 from Outer Space?
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^ Yeah, by Ed Wood. Considered the worst movie ever! And for my worst movie, I'll say 'The Tourist'- The Tourist (2010) - IMDb

Really the worst movie I have ever seen, and I've seen a lot.

I worked at a cinema and have seen lots of complete bombs, but I think this definitely qualifies is the worst movie I've ever seen...

Beware: Children at Play (1989) - IMDb

It's about some guy camping in the woods and his son becomes a cannibal.

I could film better s hit than this in my own backyard.

I didn't think it was that bad either.

Does Dirty Dancing count? because that is just a crock of **** AND I watched it objectively but it was still awful.

This is truly atrocious:
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A student of Dr Banner comes across the Hammer of Thor and can summon him at will. Even for a TV movie and a nostalgic love of The Hulk T.V series as a kid cannot hide this from even my generous love of crap movies.

There are lots of films such as Horror Hospital, Psychomania and 2019 : After the Fall of New York that I love that could be put in here though. It's all swings and roundabouts.

Another film by Ed Wood was Glen or Glenda that is chalked up as one of the worst. I thought the movie "Ed Wood" with the Johnny Depp made up for them being so bad.

Freddy Got Fingered.

I couldn't watch it through, some scenes were simply too horrible.

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I thought Freddy Got Fingered was one of the worst movies to ever exist. I don't give a f*ck about how many catch-phrases it may have contained. There is absolutely nothing to be gained from that movie but a general feeling of having wasted time uncomfortably.

I think this is my number one.

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From what remember, Jodie Foster's character wasn't just some passenger, she was the person who designed the plane.

It's a movie about a conspiracy onboard an airplane. The title is a play on words.

Doesn't mean she was free to wander around anywhere she liked when the plane was in flight!!
Bah. :(

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It's very, very hard to name the single worst thing about this movie, but I think the scene when a wave bigger than the Himalayas carrying the Air Force One airplane crashes into the arks made my brain hurt the most.
What were they thinking ?
Honorable mention goes to SyFy's "Morlocks", a spin on the classic "Time machine" story by Wells, here the morlocks come from the future to eat people and blow **** up, apparently. I started watching this because I like David Hewlett's Dr McCay from the Stargate series (don't hate) so I was hoping he'd bring some character into this... instead I got a headache from screaming "WTF" at the tv. Describing this as science fiction is a slap in the face of science. I usually don't do this, but I actually texted several of my friends to watch it too and tell me I was wrong. I wasn't.

I dunno, while 2012 is in all rights a pretty stupid movie, it's at least skillfully directed and stays away from many of the annoying things you find in most big budget blockbuster movies. Also lets face it, the only reason you're watching a movie like this is to watch wide scale destruction of famous landmarks, I mean you're expecting to see the White House get destroyed by something, you're aching for improbable pet survival and a camper van outrunning an Earthquake, so complaining about it is like complaining about there being horses in a cowboy movie. At least Emmerich knows the basic building blocks of cinematography and knows how to stack the blocks, and doesn't resort to using many of the annoying trends I see in a lot of action movies these days like unnecessary shakey cam, genre defining coloring, and fucking lens flares.

I thought 2012 was a bad movie but I kind of agree with Pete that you have to temper your expectations due to what kind of movie it was.

A good example of a blockbuster movie that had absolutely no redeeming qualities for me would be 10,000 B.C. That was just awful on all accounts.

Or anything with Michael Bay's name on it.

I liked The Island, but he can shove The Transformers up his ass if it were up to me.

Ultraviolet. And the one like ultraviolet but one of the chicks had hands.

It is up to you.

And so it will be. With no lube.

Can we re name this thread to "two boring dudes debate about a Jodi Foster movie"? ;)

It light of this thread and coupled with a parallel interest of late in bad movies I started to watch some AWFUL B-movies on Netflix. I think one or two sentence reviews will do these gems well...

The Stuff - "Well, sometimes you gotta eat shaving cream sometimes." That's an actual quote.

Terrorvision - Swinging parents, 12 color 80s hair wigs, crazy nam grandpas, and aliens make this amazing.

Children of the Corn - That Issaic kid was 22 went this film was made. That's hysterical.

We could, but people would be disappointed by the lack of Jodie Foster debate in the thread.

So bad that it's hilarious under the right circumstances.


I love the classic B-Films, Exploitation/Grindhouse flicks, Drive In shows, and Late Night Horror-thons.

I even have tons of notes about many of the Distribution companies of the 60's and 70's as well. A huge interest, along with Martial Arts spectacles.

A Worst Movie has to be boring, soulless, and very cut and paste. Most of the stuff I watch is at least jaw dropping crazy.

Well I don't know. I enjoyed all parts of Toxic Avenger, laughed at "Sgt Kabuki Man, NYPD" but 2012 made my brain hurt. I like movies that are so bad they are good, but this one is just plain awful. Emotional crap, no logic and a the writers took a huge steaming dump on physics in general.
Come to think of it, remember the one where they drilled to the center of the earth to plant a bomb that will stop whatever was going to end civilization ? Or the one when it suddenly got so cold helicopters for once didn't blow up mid air and simply fell down ? I feel physical pain when I watch crap like this, but it might be just me.
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Yeah but I think of movies like that as more mediocre, and I think that's an even worse sin than being bad. Like I have no problem admitting that Troll 2 is a bad movie, but despite that the actors tough it out and that gives it an enduring quality, couple that with the hilarious dialog and acting and you have a pretty watchable movie. Conversely, take a movie like Transformers 1, 2 or 3 and you have a watchable movie, but it's incredibly soulless, littered with product placements, and very generic. I think this is why people can be so hard on those types of movies, because they have the financial backing to be interesting movies, but in an attempt to appeal to the widest possible audience, the film is robbed of anything to say because it's been so diluted.

I dunno, I mean I can see how comparing Troll 2 to Transformers: Take Your Pick is kind of a strawman's argument, but I strongly feel that, while both movies are awful, at least Troll 2 is memorable in its horribleness, whereas the latter is just... totally forgetful, to the point where I stopped thinking about it the moment I left the theater.

Has anyone else seen The Room? I can't stop laughing after seeing it for the first time.



Oh hai Mark!

^ Yep. DC even made this thread about it.

The flower shop scene is my fave. "Hi doggie"

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In the so bad that it's good category. I have to nominate Flash Gordon. I definitely need to re-watch it but from what I remember when I was younger. I loved it but probably for different reasons that I would today. It is definitely a campfest.

Inception and here is why:

it's a dream within a dream within a dream.

i call that overreaching.

The Green Lantern was also pretty awful and so was Angels & Demons.
Tom hank's haircut looks so weird and the plot is the same as the Davinci code only with more conspiracies..

I disagree on Inception and Angels and Demons. Both very well done movies.

Green Lantern was a steamy pile of dung, that we can agree on.

Yeah that is crazy to slag off Inception. You may not personally like it but to objectively say it is one of the worst movies ever gtfo.