Worst Film Ever

Sweepy the Cat

No, not guilty pleasures, just bad films, no matter how popular which film (Or films) do you hate most. Mine are the Pirates Of The Carribean films. They are childish, the characters are stupid, the music's annoying and they go on way too long. What about you?

Honey Rider

I don't really have one, but the third Pirates Of The Carribean film would certanly be a contender in my book. It never ended, and to make matters worse, it set up another sequel.

Sweepy the Cat

Yes, for the first time in my life I've found another hater of the POTC franchise!!! {[]

Honey Rider

Sweepy the Cat wrote:

Yes, for the first time in my life I've found another hater of the POTC franchise!!! {[]

The second and third films certainly. I didn't mind the first film.

Sweepy the Cat

Yeah, the first one was bearable but then it just got boring. It's not much of an old-style swahbuckling adventure as it say's it is. It's a huge, childish, hollywood, special effects show.

Krassno Granitski

Laserblast (1978)

Now this movie sucks, terrible in every way. Acting, story, direction, special effects. Makes the films above look like Casablanca and Lawrence of Arabia.

Sweepy the Cat

Never seen it. Sounds a bit like Flash Gordon which for me is a guilty pleasure. Jusging by the way you list the bond films you, like me, prefer the darker ones but deep down we all secretly love DAF. Just looked up Laserlight and it does look VERY chhesy. (Cheesier than the FYEO score)

General_Ourumov

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)


~ Any of you guys ever catch that one?

John Drake

Bullseye

Roger Moore and Michael Caine should never have made friends with Michael Winner. If they'd avoided that prat, they wouldn't have found themselves starring in this rubbish. Dreadful.

CasinoChris75

I did not like the first Pirates of the Caribbean, so I never saw the sequels.

My choice for the worst movie ever made is Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1978-some sources say 1980). The tomatoes were simply boring; if there are any interesting moments it is those that have nothing to do with the tomatoes. It fails misreably as a parody, and I think it would have worked well had it been done as a serious horror film. The best thing about the movie is its title, which isn't as bland as Attack of the Clones.

My choice for the second worst movie ever made is Cannonball Run II (1984). Couldn't they have made an interesting road trip? Would it have been wrong for the characters to have made it past the Nevada/Arizona deserts? The first Cannonball is a guilty pleasure only because of Moore, but the second is so bad it could never be a guilty pleasure.

Sir Hillary Bray

The worst movie I ever saw was Teachers, a 1980's film with Nick Nolte, JoBeth Williams, Crispin Glover and Ralph Macchio. Every character is a shallow cliche, and the movie tries to be a "message film" but fails miserably. It also has the single most gratuitous and ridiculous nude scene in the history of film.

Napoleon Plural

Good choices so far. Yes, Bullseye is appalling. Dreadful. Jonathan Ross says he went to the premiere with loads of people all happy and excited... soon they were like that Man Ray classic photograph of cinemagoers watching a movie with 3D glasses on:




all watching aghast, while Winner himself was killing himself laughing at his own jokes up on screen. Lowlight: when the crooks get girl dogs to distract the watchdogs or something, and we watch them shagging on screen...

Tank Girl is another one.

CasinoChris75

Another one of the worst movies I have ever laid my eyes on is Police Academy 4: Citizens On Patrol (1987). For anyone interested in screenwriting, PA 4 is essential viewing because it is a good lesson on what not to do as a writer. It is one of the most poorly written films imaginable. None of the Police Academy films are good as everyone already knows, but #4 is the ultimate in badness. It is my choice for the third worst movie ever made.

Sweepy the Cat

I think the first 4 were good but after that it went crap. Actually I would have preffered just the one.

Barry Nelson

The Night Porter - A movie from the mid-70's where Thirteen years after WWII a concentration camp survivor Charlotte Rampling and her tormentor, currently the night porter at a Vienna hotel, meet again and fall back into their sado-masochistic relationship.

Utter garbage.

BTW - I love the Pirates movies.

John Drake

Barry Nelson wrote:

The Night Porter - A movie from the mid-70's where Thirteen years after WWII a concentration camp survivor Charlotte Rampling and her tormentor, currently the night porter at a Vienna hotel, meet again and fall back into their sado-masochistic relationship.

Utter garbage.

This is a great thread. Kudos to Sweepy for starting it. It's interesting to see how people's tastes differ. The Night Porter is one of my favourite films, so I'm a little saddened to see that somebody hates it.

Sweepy the Cat

I'm saddened about a certain somebody's hatred of The Cannonball Run

Krassno Granitski

Barry Nelson wrote:

BTW - I love the Pirates movies.

I agree. No matter what your tastes are the special effects alone place this above Worst Ever. Not to mention Depp's acting

CasinoChris75

Sweepy the Cat wrote:

I'm saddened about a certain somebody's hatred of The Cannonball Run

I like the first Cannonball Run as a guilty pleasure. I rented it after I got out of school last summer and I enjoyed it.

It is Cannonball Run II that's the turkey.

Check out Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert's review of the film available on You Tube. They are right too.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLyJ_zICzIo

Monique

Hostel.

Just the worst of the worst.. I am still traumatized and completely creeped out by this disgusting scare fest. Don't see it..trust me!

John Drake

Monique wrote:

Hostel.

Just the worst of the worst.. I am still traumatized and completely creeped out by this disgusting scare fest. Don't see it..trust me!

{[] Right there with you Monique. And Hostel 2 is just as pathetic.

walther p99

probably Citizen Kane.........just kidding:p

Monique

John Drake wrote:

Right there with you Monique. And Hostel 2 is just as pathetic.

Good Lord. I had no idea there was a second one! No one survived to be in it! ) Thanks for the warning!

jetsetwilly

Barry Nelson wrote:

The Night Porter - A movie from the mid-70's where Thirteen years after WWII a concentration camp survivor Charlotte Rampling and her tormentor, currently the night porter at a Vienna hotel, meet again and fall back into their sado-masochistic relationship.

The legendary Joe Queenan once described the Night Porter as "more tasteless than the war than inspired it" )

Dan Same

Barry Nelson wrote:

The Night Porter - A movie from the mid-70's where Thirteen years after WWII a concentration camp survivor Charlotte Rampling and her tormentor, currently the night porter at a Vienna hotel, meet again and fall back into their sado-masochistic relationship.

Utter garbage.

I loved this film. Perverse, sadistic, tasteless, I think it's a fantastic film.

Barry Nelson wrote:

BTW - I love the Pirates movies.

I really liked the first one, and the second one wasn't so bad either, but the third film went on and on and on and on....

Monique wrote:

Hostel.

Just the worst of the worst.. I am still traumatized and completely creeped out by this disgusting scare fest. Don't see it..trust me!

I'm not a huge fan of torture porn, but I quite liked this film. I felt that its political pretext was very interesting. JD is right about the second film; it is really horrible.

TonyDP

Monique wrote:

John Drake wrote:

Right there with you Monique. And Hostel 2 is just as pathetic.

Good Lord. I had no idea there was a second one! No one survived to be in it! ) Thanks for the warning!

Happily, I think we've seen the last of Roth. Hostel II did nothing at the box office and Roth took his ire out on the moviegoing public, basically berating them for not supporting his film and thus bringing about the apparent death of the torture porn genre.

As for me, the first film that pops into my mind is the remake of The Fly with Jeff Goldblum, one of the grossest, most disgusting movies I've ever witnessed. Cronenberg is known for piling on the gore, but he really gets carried away here. Lowlights include Goldblum vomiting corrosive saliva over a man's hand and later having his flesh literally fall off him to reveal a 6 foot mutated fly beneath. Yuck!!!

John Drake

TonyDP wrote:

As for me, the first film that pops into my mind is the remake of The Fly with Jeff Goldblum, one of the grossest, most disgusting movies I've ever witnessed. Cronenberg is known for piling on the gore, but he really gets carried away here. Lowlights include Goldblum vomiting corrosive saliva over a man's hand and later having his flesh literally fall off him to reveal a 6 foot mutated fly beneath. Yuck!!!

I liked The Fly, though it is really gross. Does this mean since our opinions differ on this movie Tony, that I might actually enjoy Highlander: The Source? )

Hardyboy

Unless I overlooked it, I'm surprised no one has mentioned Battlefield Earth. Granted, it has its campy laugh value, thanks to Travolta's mustache-twirling space villain and the overall filmed-it-in-the-town-dump look; but the fact it's a thinly-disguised commercial for a certain sect that will sue me if I mention it makes the movie truly loathsome.

Alex

Probably Pulp Fiction. An overly-long, grand-standing bore, with a pretentious and ham-fisted philosophy. It's importance is extremely exaggerated.

I enjoyed PP in the day but the older I become, the more I realize how annoying and pompous this film really is.

(the score still rocks)

TonyDP

John Drake wrote:

I liked The Fly, though it is really gross. Does this mean since our opinions differ on this movie Tony, that I might actually enjoy Highlander: The Source? )

) ) Well if the inverse rule holds true, then it should end up being one of your favorite movies.

Alex wrote:

Probably Pulp Fiction. An overly-long, grand-standing bore, with a pretentious and ham-fisted philosophy. It's importance is extremely exaggerated.

I enjoyed PP in the day but the older I become, the more I realize how annoying and pompous this film really is.

(the score still rocks)

I've always felt that Tarantino was a no talent hack who just happened to be at the right place at the right time and his movies - especially Pulp Fiction - were really overrated. Not a popular opinion, I know, but I'm sticking to it.

Alex

TonyDP wrote:

John Drake wrote:

I liked The Fly, though it is really gross. Does this mean since our opinions differ on this movie Tony, that I might actually enjoy Highlander: The Source? )

) ) Well if the inverse rule holds true, then it should end up being one of your favorite movies.

Alex wrote:

Probably Pulp Fiction. An overly-long, grand-standing bore, with a pretentious and ham-fisted philosophy. It's importance is extremely exaggerated.

I enjoyed PP in the day but the older I become, the more I realize how annoying and pompous this film really is.

(the score still rocks)

I've always felt that Tarantino was a no talent hack who just happened to be at the right place at the right time and his movies - and especially Pulp Fiction - were really overrated. Not a popular opinion, I know, but I'm sticking to it.

Bless you Tony

It's not a popular public view, but I'm afraid I'm sticking to my guns as well. I think Tarantino is an arrogant one trick pony. With the exception of Jackie Brown, which I very much admired, I can go without his films.