What's the worst movie you ever saw?

[red dog 1]

Hotel New Hampshire was pretty bad, imo

[FrankfurtCat]

1. It was pretty hard to watch, that's for sure.

Now you are the only person I know other than myself and my ex-husband who admits to watching it. (Or who has watched it)

[red dog 1]

16. Yeah, I rented it back in the 1980s, and watched the entire movie,

Jodie Foster looked 10 years older than Rob Lowe, yet she played his YOUNGER sister?

[FrankfurtCat]

33. And Matthew Modine played such a louse!

But I loved Beau Bridges as their Father-and Seth Green played their strange little brother.
And Sorrow floats. I'll never forget that, but of course that came from the book.
That and "Keep passing the open windows."

[MrPurple]

165. Saw it and read the book when it was in theaters - not good, but not the worst

In terms of worst movies, things can get worse than a John Irving adaptation with Natassia Kinski.

[lastlib]

43. Zardoz.

WORST. Waste. of Film. EVER. Hands down. End of Discussion.

[FrankfurtCat]

47. Of course, I couldn't resist finding it and confirming your assessment: Looks horrible!

Hard to believe the same director, John Boorman, also directed Excalibur.

[FrankfurtCat]

48. What??? Sean Connery plays Zed?

[Hassin Bin Sober]

134. Zed's dead baby

[lunatica]

143. He's the only bit of eye candy in the movie

All else sucked!

[hatrack]

173. Maybe - but you can't just dismiss Charlotte Rampling like THAT!!

[First Speaker]

53. Totally disagree...

...I think it's one of the most brilliant SF films ever made. It was way ahead of its time, and way over the heads of the reviewers at the time. It's subtle, clever, and has a terrific joke at the end. Real science fiction, as opposed to "sci fi".

[hunter]

56. No, it's awesome.

I respect filmmakers who try to do something different.

What I hate is movies that are sordid and dark just to be sordid and dark. "Comedies" with a lot of blood and gore and violence don't appeal to me either. Nope, why would I want to watch something like Pulp Fiction? I've seen more than enough blood and gore in real life, no thanks.

The Zardoz vision of a stagnant human future was interesting, a take on what might happen with increasing disparities of wealth, and it's still relevant today.

[nolabear]

98. I LOVED Zardoz!

Oh yeah, it was awful but in a wonderful way. And Sean Connery in a braid, bikini and boots...rrRROWRrrr...

[MrScorpio]

67. I love Zardoz

You have to get into the spirit of it.

[FrankfurtCat]

2. Battlefield Earth, with John Travolta and Kelly Preston was pretty bad,

but somehow it was fun to watch!
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[hunter]

6. Almost so bad it was good, but not quite.

Something to laugh at, not with.

I loved how they started up jet fighters that had been unused for centuries and just flew off in them.

It was like the Volkswagen scene in Woody Allen's Sleeper but it wasn't meant to be funny.

[FrankfurtCat]

7. I remember my son laughing about the unused jet fighters...Here are some more laughs...

[SeattleVet]

28. "Battlefield Earth"...

"Based on a small part of the cover illustration of a book by L. Ron Hubbard"

[milestogo]

34. I left after 15 minutes wondering what the hell

was John Travolta thinking.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

101. Pretty sure he was thinking.....

"Don't blackmail me, Miscavige. I'll put out your shitty movie."

[sharp_stick]

55. I saw it in the theater

I took an afternoon off because I was afraid it wouldn't last another weekend. When I handed the guy my ticket he looked at me like I had two heads...Just sort of a "seriously...WTF" look. I told him that I heard it was the worst movie ever made and he said "then you likely won't be disappointed".

I was the only guy in the theater and the ticket taker checked in at least twice to see if I was still there. When it was over he complimented me on my gag reflex.

It was so bad on so many levels.

[FrankfurtCat]

59. Maybe they should remake it with...

...Tom Cruise? Any other Scientologist ready and willing to put their founder's ideas out there?

[LongTomH]

137. Please, God...Nooooo!!!!!

[FrankfurtCat]

140. I see your point!

[TexasBushwhacker]

182. I'm sure Kirstie Alley could use a gig n/t

[JCMach1]

150. Made the novel look like a timeless classic

Awful awful film

[NobodyHere]

152. I never saw the movie

But I did like the book

[FrankfurtCat]

157. I haven't read the book yet, though I have read some of his other books...

...both fiction and non-fiction. He was an enigmatic writer. Now I'll have to find and read the book.

[Paladin]

3. None of the movies from John Irving's novels measure up.

That's particularly true of "The World According To Garp" which is just a pale shadow of Irving's brilliant book. Similarly, with that piece-of-shit "Simon Birch" film they did on the glorious "A Prayer For Owen Meany."

Worst movie I ever saw, you ask? That would be the crappy film version of "Myra Breckenridge," back in the 70's. That's the only film I ever went to, where the people who just saw the previous showing begged and pleaded with us not to waste our time on it, and get our money back. I should have taken their advice; it sucked out loud.......

[Laffy Kat]

21. I remember one of my mother's neighbor friends giving her a copy of "Myra Breckenridge".

This had to be the early 70s, so I was twelve years old or so. Anyway, I remember overhearing my mother tell another friend over the phone that she only read the first chapter then put it in a brown paper bag and threw it in the garbage. Recently I told my older sister that story and we both died laughing. You'd have to know our mom!

[Paladin]

46. Yet again, Gore Vidal's novel was infinitely better than the movie. (nt)

[hunter]

4. Worst in what way? I hate horror films.

I have a brother who likes them. He once convinced me to go with him to see, oh, I don't know what, it was something in the late 'seventies and maybe dead people were hanging on meat hooks.

My problem is the horror film that's always running in my head. I've had nightmares that would kill less experienced people, hell, they've almost killed me once or twice.

I take meds for that.

Back before I met my wife and had a habit of dating women who were even more afflicted and twisted by the darkness than I am, I was invited to see Blue Velvet, and holy crap, now that I think about it, it was a U.S. premiere, she got tickets, and it was supposed to be special. I mean I dressed up in uncomfortable clothes and polished shoes, and I NEVER do that. I don't even own a pair of shoes that can be polished anymore.

God I hated that movie.

[red dog 1]

9. I never saw Blue Velvet, and I don't think I want to, after clicking on your link,

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..however, it does have one of my favorite actors in it..Dennis Hopper.

Apparently, most film critics raved about the film, and director David Lynch did get nominated for an Academy Award, as I'm sure you already know.

[Laffy Kat]

22. You know, I was so surprised to learn how right wing Hopper is.

You'd think after starring in "Easy Rider" he'd be more, well, laid back. Guess you just can't tell. Remember "The Year of Living Dangerously" and a new, young actor named Mel Gibson?

[Wounded Bear]

41. Sure you guys don't mean Dennis Hopper?

He was in a lot of loser flicks.

[red dog 1]

75. You're right!

I meant Dennis Hopper -He played Frank Booth in Blue Velvet.

I like Laura Dern too - She played Sandy

[red dog 1]

80. Well, apparently he did donate $2,000 to the RNC in 2004 and 2005, however,

he supported Barack Obama for President in 2008, saying that he didn't vote Republican that year because Sarah Palin was the VP candidate.

He died April 29, 2010 of prostate cancer.

He was married 5 times.
His 2nd wife was Michelle Phillips who he married October 31, 1970, and divorced only days later on November 8, 1970.
(That's the shortest Hollywood marriage I ever heard of!)

More weirdness came after his death in November, 1970, when it came out that his children had re-written his estate plan in order to leave Hopper's 5th wife Victoria Duffy and her child, Galen, (Hopper's youngest child) destitute.
However, in the end, Galen was awarded the proceeds of 40% of his estate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Hopper

[ailsagirl]

5. I don't watch movies anymore because, generally, they're lousy

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I saw "Lincoln" and "The King's Speech" and was engrossed by both. But there aren't many of that caliber around, IMO.

[hunter]

8. Oh, I remember another: 1984.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four_%28film%29

I saw it in a big ornate Art Deco theater. There were only a handful of people in the theater when the movie started and I was the only one left when the movie ended.

It's not like I had anywhere to go at the time, I was couch surfing and somebody had given me the ticket.

[red dog 1]

10. I never saw 1984

but I've read & reread George Orwell's novel many times.

The critics seemed to agree that John Hurt was pretty good as Winston Smith.

[milestogo]

35. The one made in 1984 is well done

but its a really really depressing movie. Its almost more painful than the book.

[hatrack]

11. It's a tie - "Harley Davidson And The Marlboro Man" vs. "Rising Sun"

The former features Mickey Rourke doing his best impression of an unwashed ashtray, and the latter features Sean Connery doing his best impression of somebody trying to act like somebody speaking Japanese.

And yet, I couldn't . . . stop . . . watching . . .

[red dog 1]

14. They both sound so bad...

...like slowly driving by the scene of a bad accident and trying NOT take a look.

[Codeine]

170. I saw Rising Sun in the theater.

It was definitely one of those "What the fuck are we doing here?" moments.

[hatrack]

172. I paid for it - whether the theater or a video rental, can't remember, but . . . .

When the end finally came, my friend looked over and, explosively and expressively, came out with "Well, that SUCKED!".

The irony - we were living in Japan at the time.

[sarge43]

12. Damnation Alley "Killer cockroaches!"

#2: Battlefield Earth

[Yurovsky]

13. Godfather 3...

I rarely mention it by name... it is a steaming pile of crap 💩, and should not be allowed to use the word "Godfather" in the title, which should be reserved solely for I & II (possibly the 2 greatest films of all time).

[red dog 1]

15. I agree 100%

Godfather 3 should never have even been made

[TexasBushwhacker]

19. Only redemption was Andy Garcia

He was hot

[OrwellwasRight]

58. Agree.

I saw nothing else redeeming during that interminably bad movie. Nothing.

[NewJeffCT]

45. I don't mention Godfather 3, either

Agree - the original two movies were two of the 5 or 10 greatest movies ever. Great acting, great direction, great cinematography, great score, etc. If Godfather 3 was a stand alone organized crime drama with a cast of nobodies, it might have been okay...

[Hassin Bin Sober]

69. I'm a big Godfather fan.

When I watched 3 when it first came out I thought it sucked.

But I just watched it again and it grew on me.

I think you are spot on about being a stand alone. That may be why it aged a little better with me. I wasn't expecting a classic.

The Coppola kid still can't act.

[Zorro]

17. The Handmaid's Tale

[lunatica]

144. They're remaking that one

I like the premise quite a bit. But I agree that the original movie was totally uninteresting.

[Mr.Bill]

18. The Corsican Brothers with Cheech and Chong.

I was a big C & C fan back then and I never even grinned once during the entire film.

[red dog 1]

78. I agree!

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That movie was a piece of crap!

In fact, the only 2 Cheech & Chong movies I ever liked were the first 2,
"Up in Smoke" & "Cheech & Chong's Next Movie" (which was hilarious, imo)

[Initech]

20. Blair Witch Project

Family Guy sums it up nicely:

[TexasBushwhacker]

32. I had forgotten about that one. Definitely a POS n/t

[mopinko]

62. i laughed at that movie. i kept saying-

oh my, site specific found object art in the woods. isnt that cool?

[Callmecrazy]

23. Baby Geniuses...

Worst movie ever.

[Angleae]

36. So bad yet they made a sequel anyway.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0270846/?ref_=nv_sr_2

[Laffy Kat]

24. Any of the "Alien" franchise ...

After "Aliens". They just couldn't leave well-enough alone.

[bluedigger]

25. CHUD

Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers.

[Kennah]

26. Iron Sky

Nazis on the moon. Yes, it was as bad as it sounds.

[Orrex]

70. Hard to believe

How could a movie featuring a dinosaur-riding Sarah Palin not be awesome?

[Kennah]

135. I didn't know about the Sarah Palin spoof beforehand

That only added to the horror of it. Although, it looked SO BAD in previews, that I knew I HAD to see it.

[hibbing]

27. Sgt Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band

Bee Gees, no Beatles. I thought it was horrid.

Peace

[Kennah]

38. My Dad, my brother and I were among the 11 people who saw it in the theater (n/t)

[Wolf Frankula]

65. I Sent a Letter to George Burns Saying

"George, be ashamed of yourself!"

Wolf

[HughBeaumont]

155. I saw it in the theater. My defense is "I was 9".

You watch it years later and are like "DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN this is shit-awful."

[UTUSN]

29. Barefoot in the Park, by Neill SIMON, starring Jane FONDA/RobtREDFORD

It was on my ship in Vietnam and I walked out with all the shrieking. And, no, she wasn't "Hanoi Jane".

[PennyK]

30. August Rush

I don't know where to begin. It was the hokiest story you can even imagine. When I criticized it somewhere, i was told i had no heart and didn't understand anything about human emotion. Lame lame lame.

[Generic Brad]

31. Worst worst or best worst?

Worst worst was "Battlefield Earth". Best worst was "Hobo With a Shotgun" (That one I enjoyed)..

[red dog 1]

84. My nomination for "Best Worst" has to be "Blindman"....

..a western about a blind gunfighter...it's not supposed to be funny, but it's hilarious!

[First Speaker]

37. Monsignor

...hate to say it...it had Chris Reeve, after all...but by God. This makes battlefield Earth look like Citizen Kane. Harlan Ellison gave a famous hatchet job of this film once, and he understated the case...

[Kennah]

39. ffolkes

Story should have been amazing--group of determined criminals takes over a North Sea oil platform and threaten to blow it up if they aren't paid.

There's this one component of the plot that is so devoid of credulity that I had to cover my eyes--the British Government has no elite military unit to deal with the situation, so they hire a freelance mercenary team.

[MrScorpio]

68. What, the SAS and the SBS were out to lunch?

FDT.

[oasis]

40. Rocky lll thru 27.

[Wounded Bear]

42. I vaguely remember an old slasher flick...

this would have been in the 70's. IIRC, it was one of those companion flicks they would pair up with a real movie for a double feature. Anyway, I think the title was something like "Don't go in the Woods." Basic violence porn with no real plot, just some college age kids who wander out in the forest and get sliced and diced by the usual redneck maniacs living out there.

The kicker is that it is the only time that I heard people in the audience actually cheer when the film broke and melted, as we watched. Unfortunately, the projectionist just keyed it back up, and we were all kind of stuck, because of course it was on first and we all had to stay through it to see the "real" movie it was paired with. I don't even remember what that one was.

[pinboy3niner]

44. 1981

I sort of remember it, though many slasher flicks tend to blur together after a while. Wiki has a good, short plot summary and selected slam comments from reviewers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_Go_in_the_Woods_(1981_film)

A sentimental fave is 'Black Christmas' (1974), which has been popping up lately on cable TV along with a 2006 remake I didn't know about. The original, starring Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea, Margot Kidder, and John Saxon, features slasher killings in a sorority house at Christmas. I have a soft spot for it for the stars and because it survived religious outrage and protests, though it was run with a different title for a while.

[Coventina]

107. John Saxon!?!? I'm in!!

[TexasBushwhacker]

183. He was also in BLOOD BEACH!

"Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water....you can't get to it."

He's 81 and still acting.

[Bucky]

49. This last Star Trek movie was pretty bad... like fan fiction bad.

I sat thru it because it had great CGI, but even while watching it I was like "the real Captain Kirk would never be this dumb". Idiot walked right into a trap and got his damn ship blowed up. Shatner never would've been that naive

[Coventina]

108. Hey now! Some fan fiction isn't bad!!

Yes, the vast majority of it is, but I have read some quality pieces.

I did hear the last Star Trek movie was bad, though.

I didn't see it, but I blame lack of Benedict Cumberbatch.

[Bucky]

118. Actually the second movie had several fatal flaws too

Cumberbunny made it fun to watch, but the movies are still getting by on visual razzmatazz. The plots just don't make much sense and the characterizations are all weak and random.

[Coventina]

119. I agree with you, I think the whole "rebooted" Star Trek franchise is pretty weak.

Zachary Quinto makes a great Spock, and I love Simon Pegg as Scotty.

But, other than that, a pretty dreary remake, IMHO.

[Bucky]

120. It's interesting which characters work & which don't

Quinto is playing Spock, but playing him more clueless than Nimoy. He seems more like Data to me.
The new Kirk has no command presense. The new McCoy is a parody.

Nu Uhura and Nu Scotty are interesting, but because they're being played as entirely new characters, not as tributes to the originals.

[Coventina]

121. Totally agree with you on new Kirk.

He is just simply NOT believable as a captain. Not even close.
I wouldn't follow him into a grocery store, much less into battle.

Good point about Quinto's Spock. Nimoy's Spock had much more maturity and insight.
It's almost as if we see Spock as a child or very young teenager. The mannerisms are spot-on, though. And, I find the character endearing.

But, ever since I fell in love with Sherlock Holmes at age 12, I've had a thing for brainy, emotionally unavailable men. It's caused quite a bit of havoc in my personal life, as such characters are cute in stories, but very difficult to actually live with.

[frogmarch]

50. The Atticus Institute

B O R I N G !

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3280916/

[OriginalGeek]

51. Here's how bad the original Blair Witch Project was:

I saw it in an art-house theater that serves food and craft beer and it STILL made me mad that I spent money. I would have been mad had they paid me to see it. They could have given me ten dollars AND free craft beer and I would have left feeling cheated.

After having heard such wonderful reviews I was awaiting a revelation but all I got was some dopes wandering around the woods.

And I think my nachos had cat meat in them.


by any standards, Star Crystal was probably a worse movie but I wasn't nearly as mad about wasting my time because nobody thought it would be good. With BWP I was hoodwinked.

[Boomerproud]

115. Yep. Proof that the right marketing stragegy can sell anything.

Two hours of pure waste.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

52. Starring Arnold Strong!

[FrankfurtCat]

71. Here's the "Shitcase Cinema Review" of this one:

[LanternWaste]

54. The Matrix.

The Matrix.

The one time I told myself all three critics I read were wrong before I went to the theater to watch it. Nope.... they were right, the movie sucked all entertainment out of what could have been an original treatment of Poe's Dream Within a Dream but wasn't. Nice effects, good set design, decent acting (except as always, for Reeves who for reasons unknown, isn't doing summer stock in Poughkeepsie to keep gas in the Dodge), but story-arc and concept are both dramatically lacking.

[OrwellwasRight]

57. Tie: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and An Affair To Remember

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The first tried so hard to be funny, but it was just painfully bad. We gave it a good 30 minutes and turned it off because otherwise we were afraid we might lose brain cells.

The second, I kept waiting for the good part, but it was just boring, boring, boring, boring all the way through. I would have turned it off but all the accolades made me force myself to keep going in hopes it would get better.

Honorable Mentions:
The Thin Red Line
Showgirls

[TexasBushwhacker]

66. I loved KKBB! n/t

[hatrack]

174. Showgirls - still on my "Must See Some Day Shitty Movie" List - worth it?

I've heard it's idiotically over-the-top - but worth an evening of my time? Please, I must know!

[OrwellwasRight]

175. I'd say yes.

It's one of those things where it is so hard to look away. It's like an extra bad version of Flashdance, in which the music, the dancing, the plot, and the acting are all worse.

[NobodyHere]

60. The Starfighters

[FrankfurtCat]

61. I can't wait to watch it!

[ghostsinthemachine]

63. Any given Sunday

Loud, profane, miscast actors. Only time I ever left a movie.

[beaglelover]

64. The Counselor

[PRETZEL]

72. Godzilla

starring Mathew Brodderick.

That was the only movie I ever walked out of.

[edhopper]

87. It was better than

the ponderous new one last year.

The Broderick one was kinda fun.

[NobodyHere]

153. Be glad you walked away

Not everyone can claim they walked away from a Matthew Broderick wreck.

[Paladin]

73. No mention of "The English Patient"? What the hell, people?

I mean, "The English Patient" always makes the Most Gawd-Awful, Hated, Piece-Of Shit Movies threads that turn up on DU with some regularity.

And just for the record, I thought "The English Patient" was a very good flick. The novel is excellent, as well.

[TexasBushwhacker]

74. Funny, I didn't like EP

I wouldn't say it was the worst I've ever seen, but I just don't like movies that portray adulterers as sympathetic characters. I'm old fashioned that way. I thought the romance between the nurse (Juliette Binoch) and the Indian soldier was more interesting. I actually like Ralph Fiennes a lot, so I really wanted to like the movie.

Another movie about adulterers I didn't like was The Bridges of Madison County. I went with gal pal and we both were cracking up over some of the hokey dialogue. My favorite:

"This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime."

Yeah, people talk like that ALL the time.

[Paladin]

76. Trust me, you've got plenty of fellow "EP" loathers here at DU.

As for "The Bridges Of Madison County," that one means a lot to me for personal reasons---but it isn't on my Top Ten Movies Of All Time list, by any means.

[ailsagirl]

82. I hated The English Patient!!!

And I was stuck sitting through over three hours of major boredom!

Yet everyone gushed over it.

Don't get it

[Paladin]

85. Now that's more like it!

[ailsagirl]

91. ....

[spiderpig]

93. I only saw 2 eps of Seinfeld, and TEP was the subject of one

It was hilarious watching Julia Louis-Dreyfuss flopping in her theater seat, rolling her eyes, etc. as she was forced to sit through the movie while all around her were rapt over its depth and insight.

[Paladin]

94. She's a pretty good actress, considering she's a billionaire.

Seriously though, I like her in "Veep."

[edhopper]

88. Hated that movie

[Paladin]

89. There ya go! (nt)

[mentalsolstice]

77. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

[jmowreader]

79. One that the rest of you are going to claim is the best movie you ever saw

The Graduate.

Sucks.

Never watch this movie.

I REALLY wanted to like this movie when I got it. Everyone says it's great. What I saw is the tale of a man who won't get a job, won't sign up for grad school, and gets bullied by everyone he meets - including his dad's business partner's wife, who taunted him out of his clothes. This movie worked in the 1960s. It's not then anymore.

I've seen quite a few bad movies, but never before have I seen one that's "supposed" to be great.

[red dog 1]

83. I loved The Graduate!

I saw it in theaters many times back in the days before VCRs & rented movies.

Mike Nichols deserved the Academy Award he won for Best Director, and it was great to see "Rat Pack" member Norman Fell as the landlord of the rooming house.
(Buck Henry also had a small tole as a desk clerk)

I loved the songs Paul Simon wrote & sang with Art Garfunkel for the soundtrack, especially "Sounds of Silence"

[NightWatcher]

81. Requiem for a Dream (or something like that)

I was ready to open a vein and take the eternal dirt nap after that. It was too depressing.

[MrPurple]

166. Tough movie to watch, but amazingly made

[WinkyDink]

86. "Time Bandits." Walked out early. SO unfunny. Runners-up: "Clue" & "Casino Royale (1967)."

[OrwellwasRight]

109. I loved Time Bandits.

Liked Clue.

Could never get through Casino Royale.

[WinkyDink]

128. Glad someone liked "TB," as I'm a yuuuge John Cleese fan, and will meet him on the 15th!

[OrwellwasRight]

132. Wow!

I'm jealous!

[spiderpig]

90. The Tree of Life

I tried to stay awake. Over and over and over. After all, it was an Important Film made by an Important Director.

Each time I forced myself awake I thought it couldn't get more excruciating.

Wrong.

[lunatica]

145. Ditto to infinity

What the hell was it about anyway? I know a little bit about Metaphysics, but I was in a total state of puzzlement on the this movie.

[spiderpig]

167. Wish I could help you there.

I asked Mr. pig what was going on while we were watching, but he was asleep too.

[LandrosT]

92. Speed 2 was horrid

Any of Uwe Boll's films are also garbage.

[PassingFair]

95. Fellini's Casanova

I just couldn't watch it.
Only movie I ever actually walked out on.

[Shrek]

96. Krull

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085811/?ref_=nv_sr_1

[nolabear]

97. I like good-bad, but BAD bad? The Beguiled.

Might have been in part because I was on a horrific date, but Clint Eastwood as a Yankee being tortured in a Confederate girl's school because they were all jealous and willing to amputate stuff to keep him there gave me a case of the willies that I have to this day. It was creeeeeeepy, and not in a good way.

[Fix The Stupid]

99. "In the Bedroom"...

Seriously.

I was told about a "yuge" twist in the movie...

I figured it out 15 minutes in...

So, the whole rest of the movie I'm thinking, "OK, this must be where the twist is..."...

There wasn't even anything to figure out...you knew how it was going to end very early on...

[skypilot]

160. Wasn't a fan.

I was looking forward to seeing that one. The reviews made it seems as though Sissy Spacek would be the equivalent of Mary Tyler Moore in "Ordinary People". I really wanted to see her do a kind of villainous role. As it turned out, she was probably the most sympathetic character in the movie. She quite rightly doesn't approve of this relationship her teenage son is having with a recently divorced woman whose hot-head ex-husband is still lurking around, but the movie seems to want us to think that she is cold and controlling or something. It was a really inappropriate relationship--legal but inappropriate--that could only have ended badly for someone. And it did. This was the mother's fear and we were supposed to dislike her for it. Didn't get this movie at all.

[TexasBushwhacker]

185. Hot head ex-husband is Tom Cruise's cousin

/revision/latest?cb=20060816213652

William Mapother

[Tommy_Carcetti]

100. I didn't watch the entire way, but "Ghosts Can't Do It" starring Bo Derek....

...and co-starring one 45th President of the United States, along with what has to be some sort of blackmailed performance from Anthony Quinn, sounds bad. I mean atrociously bad. I mean defies all belief how bad this movie sounds. It really comes off as something incredibly awful.

Bootleg versions of the entire film are available online, but for a better experience and one third of the time, I'd simply suggest watching this hilarious recap of the entire movie and every single thing that is wrong with it:

[progressoid]

102. Oh dear god, that looks awful.

[47of74]

103. It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time

I saw it on sale one day at Target bundled with Find The Lady, I think maybe for about $8 so I bought it thinking it was going to be a John Candy flick and it turned out he had maybe two minutes of screen time.

Manos: The Hands of Fate is pretty unwatchable without the MST3K track or the commentary track from Jackey Neyman Jones or the late Tom Neyman on the BluRay version.

[progressoid]

104. In a theater? It's a tie between 'Ishtar' and 'Give My Regards to Broad Street'

Although Ishtar did have the redeeming quality of being shown in an air conditioned theater on a really hot day.

[tblue37]

188. I loved "Ishtar." nt

[FrankfurtCat]

105. "The Animal"-starring Rob Scneider

This movie is actually very funny-IMO

[Coventina]

106. I win with this one: "The Rapture" with David Duchovny and Mimi Rogers

Worst.Film.Ever.

On Edit:

Other films I hated:

War of the Roses
Heat
The Crying Game
Citizen Kane (yeah, I know, I'm a Philistine)

[TexasBushwhacker]

147. Funny, I liked The Rapture and I'm not religious

it was an interesting "what if?"

Loved "The Crying Game"
Liked "Heat"
Didn't like "War of the Roses" (black comedy is hard to do well)

I've never been able to get into Citizen Kane.

[ProfessorGAC]

110. Nobody Said Titanic?

What a piece of crap that was! Overwrought, overacted, and way too long! My wife and I were laughing out loud and could not wait for it to end
We would have left but we went with another couple and it was their car.

[red dog 1]

111. I liked Titanic.

Wasn't that Leo's first starring role?

[ProfessorGAC]

114. Don't Care

I disliked it that much I haven't interest in any details

[sl8]

129. Even the President has some issues with Titantic.

[red dog 1]

130. Who cares?

[sl8]

131. Not I.

Just a small ( very small) joke.

[auntAgonist]

148. You obviously care enough to keep commenting. n/t

[smirkymonkey]

112. Everyone's Christmas favorite, "Love Actually".

I hated that movie!

[Oneironaut]

113. "Epic Movie." I wanted to die.

And this was from someone who really enjoyed all of the Scary Movie movies.

Usually I find bad movies hilarious, but this was the opposite. It was supposed to be funny and left me wanting to kill the writers.

[Va Lefty]

116. Barton Fink

Usually like the Coen Brothers but not this time. Bought it on ppv and turned off after about 20 mins.

[OriginalGeek]

117. it's been a while but

I remember liking Barton Fink. But then, you can pretty much just point a camera at John Turturro and I'll send you money.

John Turturro could have saved Blair Witch project.

[red dog 1]

123. I loved Barton Fink...

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..and I've seen it many times.

Could be John Goodman's finest acting role ever, imo.

John Turturro was also great!

[kwassa]

122. Eyes Wide Shut

A remarkable achievement, making a film full of beautiful naked women so dull and devoid of suspense or eroticism as to induce sleep.

Kubrick's worst film.

[ProfessorGAC]

124. Oh, That's A Good One

My wife and i couldn't get through it. We didn't see it in the theater, but tried to watch it on cable. Dreadful!

[mainer]

142. Worst film score ever, too

A single piano note. Played over and over. Like Chinese water torture.

[lunatica]

146. It was excruciating!!

[OrwellwasRight]

176. I kept waiting for it to get more interesting . . . .

I'm still waiting.

[HughBeaumont]

154. Not even Kubrick could make Tom Ron Hubbard watchable.

Beautiful scenes and cinematography . . . and noottttt much else.

[DFW]

125. Tie between ISHTAR and Last Year at Marienbad

I can't believe someone had a budget big enough to hire both Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty and still managed to make one of the worst two movies I have ever seen.

[red dog 1]

126. Another vote for Ishtar

If this were a poll..Ishtar would be in the lead

[DFW]

127. Odds on favorite for sure! n/t

[Ken Burch]

133. The Moon In The Gutter.

French film with Gerard Depardieu and Natassja Kinski, by the director of DIVA(which was one of my favorite films of all time).

Won't even try to describe it...just soul-corroding and ugly at heart.

[3catwoman3]

136. When I was a college freshman in 1969, my art appreciation...

...teacher assigned everyone in the class to go see a movie being shown on campus called Blowup. I don't really remember much about it other than it was boring as hell.

The art appreciation instructor was a real weirdo. Long limp hair, nerdy glasses, cardigan sweaters and Hush Puppy shoes. He didn't give letter grades - he gave dots. 3 dots was good, 2 dots medium, and 1 dot was bad. One of his assignmnets was to compare and contrast a silk serigraph with a bulldozer. WTF? He was the only one who was impressed with his unorthodox approach to teaching.

I also detested The Deer Hunter, Forest Gump, and Terms of Endearment.

[red dog 1]

138. I loved "Blow Up"

It's one of the best films I've ever seen!
It was directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and is the highest grossing "art film" in cinema history.
In 1967, It was chosen as Best Film of the Year by the National Society of Film Critics, and it received two Academy Award nominations (Best Director & Best Screenplay)

I also loved The Deer Hunter, which won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture & Best Director.

Terms of Endearment, directed by James L. Brooks, also won five Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress (Shirley Maclaine) & Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Jack Nicholson)

As far as your art appreciation teacher....I agree with you that he "was a real weirdo" but not for his looks....In my opinion, he was a weirdo for not giving letter grades.

[3catwoman3]

139. I confess to what some would consider pedestrian tastes.

I prefer sweeter white wines over dry reds, which taste like Robitussin to me. Milk chocolate over dark, and I even like white chocolate.

For the cinematic world, make mine musicals or romantic comedies with happy endings.

Some years ago there was a book that received considerable praise - The Oldest Living Confederate Widow. That sucked so bad I threw it away when I finished it, which I wish I had not bothered to waste time doing. After reading 3 different selections from Oprah's book club, I decided no more of that - the topics were too grim. She's Come Undone made me want to throw something at the female protagonist.

The proverbial different strokes...

[red dog 1]

158. I forgot to mention that I didn't particularly like "Blow Up" the 1st time I saw it..

..but after seeing it a second time, I realized that there was more to it than I originally thought.
The first time I saw it, I hated the lead character, a "goofy" photographer who liked to take photos of young girls...who seemed to worship him
But the more times I saw it, the more I began to like it...and now, after seeing it at least 10 times, I love it.

I also have to admit that "Terms of Endearment" is "not my cup of tea" either.

(Different strokes..)

[LWolf]

141. I can't remember.

If it was the "worst," it joined the many I didn't finish watching, and/or tossed into the dustbin of "never think of this again."

[bullsnarfle]

149. I'll probably get torched, but...

Rocky --- Hated, hated, hated it. Hated the characters, and hate boxing. Ack.

Also, The Evil Dead. I'm a sucker for horror & sci-fi movies, even not-so-good ones, but this was just plain awful.

[Calista241]

151. Point Break. The remade one. n/t

[HughBeaumont]

156. Setting aside "So bad they're good"s and low-budget POS movies . . . .

. . . if we're talking mainstream ones -

Tie between Howard the Duck and The Phantom Menace.

Both were so cringe-inducing awful, I felt like burning the screen . . . and it's not like you're talking to an amateur when it comes to bad cinema.

What sucked is that I was looking forward to Howard the Duck and it was like taking every quirky and likable aspect of the comic, beating it to death and setting the remains on fire. Just FUCK-ING awful.

[Act_of_Reparation]

159. Killer Shrews

[TexasBushwhacker]

186. Good idea but poor execution

Shrews have the highest metabolic rate of all animals, everln higher than hummingbirds. They have to eat almost their body weight in food every day.

[tblue37]

189. I actually think I saw that one. Were the shrews very large and venomous? nt

[Mister Midnight]

161. It's a Tie

between every Adam Sandler film.

[boston bean]

162. Nothing beats Joe and the Volcano.

[kairos12]

168. I think Mr. Hanks is trying to buy every existing copy and throw them into a volcano.

[tblue37]

190. That one had its moments. nt

[akbacchus_BC]

163. Lunch box! Pretty fascinating movie but a weird ending!

[MrPurple]

164. DC Cab

One of my roommates in college wanted to see it. Walked out after 20 minutes to watch the Clint Eastwood movie that was on another screen instead.

[TeamPooka]

169. DUNE is up there for me.

[OrwellwasRight]

177. The feature film?

I loved it.

[lunatica]

178. I did too, but I read the book so I understood it

If I hadn't it simply wouldn't have made any sense to me.

I sat my young teenage boys down and made them watch the movie but I gave them lots of backstory from the book. They loved it too.

[OrwellwasRight]

179. I actually had not read the book, but

my boyfriend at the time was a gigantic fan and told me how great it was and dragged me to the film, so maybe I was prepped to enjoy it. In any case, I loved it so much I went out and bought the book, and read it, and loved that too.

Anyway, I understand that it is deeply unpopular, but I'm often a contrarian.

[Codeine]

171. Manos: The Hands of Fate.

Excruciating even when being roasted on MST3k, I can only imagine what it must have been like straight up.

[Stuart G]

180. Plan 9 from Outer Space....

You got to see it to believe it....yes....!!!!!!!!............and here is the trailer...

[Mendocino]

181. National Lampoons Class Reunion

The only passably funny bit was the two stoner buds, Hendrix and Clapton.

[jack69]

184. Every third one

that I have ever seen in my life.

[tblue37]

187. "40 Carats" with Liv Ullman and Eddie Albert, Jf. Only movie I ever walked out on

part way through.

[Sid Fishes]

191. Paranormal Activity

With the already-mentioned Blair Witch Project as a strong #2.

[kairos12]

192. Star Wars

Not really. Just wanted to give you a break from Drumpt for a second.

[cloudbase]

193. Howard the Duck.

I got the double whammy. It was shown on a flight from Chicago to Tokyo, then again on the flight from Tokyo to Singapore.