Worst movie ever?

[ejr]

If "Troll II" aka "Goblins" wasn't the worst film ever, it sure has the best documentary made about it:

Best Worst Movie - Wikipedia

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And, I'd have to consider anything made by Ed Wood right down there with it.

 

[Yameyo]

If it hasn't got me immersed at the 15 minute mark, I may give it 5 more if I am at home (but if I give it 5 more, I'm really counting the next 5) and it's just not there for me, it's out.
If I am at a movie theater (for me that would be an IMAX, the closest movie theater), if it hasn't grabbed my mind in 15 minutes, I am leaving.

My beloved granddad missed out on Once Upon A Time In The West for this reason. The buildup to the first shootout between Harmonica and the bad guys was too long and didn't feature any dialogue, so he never gave the rest of the film a fair chance!

 

[EJ3]

My beloved granddad missed out on Once Upon A Time In The West for this reason. The buildup to the first shootout between Harmonica and the bad guys was too long and didn't feature any dialogue, so he never gave the rest of the film a fair chance!

A good movie but I've not had an experience with a newer movie like that.
So, there may, of course , be some exceptions (as there are to most rules).

 

[ejr]

When I was an actor, I had the dubious distinction of working on "Ishtar" -- which, at one time, was called the biggest flop in cinematic history. Elaine May's script was brilliant. Anyone would have given it the green light. She wasn't as good a director, though and the casting doomed it from the outset. It's a fundamental rule in comedy (or should be) that if you're going to make fun of a singer, he has to be able to show the audience that he actually can sing, to let them in on the joke. Look how Bette Midler or Barbra Streisand handle material where they're supposed to be "bad" singers. The songs can be ludicrous in their style, but must be musically sound (in every sense of the word). If they replaced Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty with acomplished singers (preferably ones that audiences knew and liked) and hired a better director, the picture wouldn't have bombed as badly as it did. But who gets to do what in the industry is usually out of the hands of most artists and nobody ever really knows what's going to work until its done and audiences make the ultimate decision.

 

[Bookbear]

All your choices are also rans for worst movie ever.

Battlefield Earth starring John Revolta. Adaption of an L. Ron Hubbard novel. Hubbard isn't responsible for how awful it was.

A close second would be Riverworld. The 2003 movie not to be confused with a later one of the same name. Adaptation of a Philip Jose Farmer novel and again Farmer's story isn't the problem.

I would think Constantine is pretty bad too. The above movies regularly make critic's list of worst ever while Constantine with Keanu Reeves does not. In fact they are making a 2nd Constantine out next year.

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YES.... this is the correct answer.

 

[Dr Morbius]

Anyone for “Hobgoblins”?……………………..MST3K did it justice though!

 

[WideEyedToad]

Can't remember much right now, but the last movie I felt ripped off was the Village by M Night. Many people walked out when we realize it's modern times. I stuck it out to the end, but man, it was terrible.
The last few Jurrasic world movies were bad. It felt so forced and not interesting, at all.
Last Godzilla vs Kong, wasn't great, felt like a Marvel movie.

 

[xanalog]

Any movie with Nicolas Cage in it!
Factoid: He learned nothing from his uncle Francis Ford Coppola.

 

[Dr Morbius]

You guys obviously never saw “The Room” ……………………you’ll be wanting to figure out how many ways to end your life well before the movie is over. Tell your worst enemy/Mother in Law go see it, it’s great! You probably won’t see them again……..ever!

 

[Bookbear]

I had a late lunch and watched about an hours worth of The Wild, Wild Planet (1965). Wow, this was bad, has to rank among the worse ever. I'd place Plan 9 from Outer Space above this flick.

High praise, indeed!

 

[EJ3]

My beloved granddad missed out on Once Upon A Time In The West for this reason. The buildup to the first shootout between Harmonica and the bad guys was too long and didn't feature any dialogue, so he never gave the rest of the film a fair chance!

Good movie. But these days, I don't have time to waste, I'm older & closer to death.

 

[pderousse]

Any movie with Nicolas Cage in it!
Factoid: He learned nothing from his uncle Francis Ford Coppola.

Watch Leaving Las Vegas and you will change your mind. He's an outstanding actor.

 

[Philbo King]

Some years ago I saw a British movie called 'How To Succeed In Sales' that involved a guy with a ever-growing boil on his shoulder that eventually grew into a 2nd head with the same face as the first head. Interesting plot to say the least.

 

[Tell]

Any movie with Nicolas Cage in it!
Factoid: He learned nothing from his uncle Francis Ford Coppola.

Lord of War is a very good movie with a great performance from Cage.

 

[marauder64]

No one mentioning the new War of the Worlds?

 

[Doodski]

No one mentioning the new War of the Worlds?

I skipped watching that movie about 35 minutes in. It was not good.

 

[WillBrink]

Eraserhead was a movie I almost walked out of. It's gone on to be viewed a cult classic, I don't care personally, It was truly awful on so many levels. It may be under the "so bad it's good" status at this point, but I'd be happy to have never seen it.

 

[Barrelhouse Solly]

First, I tend to like musically related movies and comedies. A combination of comedy & music is best! (I like The Blues Brothers Movies). I'm not really into horror or action movies. But I do like (and own) a couple of Stephen King movies, Christine and Maximum Overdrive which has AC/CD music. I think Maximum Overdrive is Stephen King's "worst rated" movie so my tastes are out-of-step.

You could fill an encyclopedia with movies I don't even want to ever see! And there lots that I haven't watched all the way through.

I took a film class in high school and I answered Love Story as the worst movie I'd ever seen. ...They foolishly gave us literature credit for that class and I foolishly took advantage of it...

Also many years ago (but long after high school) I went to the theater to see a movie with my girlfriend that she thought was a comedy. I'm not 100% sure, but I think it was Bonfire Of The Vanities. About 20 minutes into it I leaned-over and whispered, "I don't think this is a comedy." (She wasn't trying to trick me. We were both disappointed.)

Hmmm... IMDB lists Bonfire Of The Vanities as comedy/drama/romance. So maybe it was a different movie... Whatever it was, nobody in the theater was laughing...

A friend of mine set me up with a blind date with the sister of the girl he was dating. The 4 of us went to see a movie called "The Cardinal" about a young priest's rise to redness. It had a creaky plot and dialogue that it was impossible to imagine that humans would have ever said. I couldn't help myself and laughed out loud often. My date took the movie seriously. We were not a match.

 

[Barrelhouse Solly]

My favorite bad movies are early John Waters. "Desperate Living," "Female Trouble," the one that had Divine's Cavalcade of Perversion... To be fair, Divine, the Egg Lady, Mink Stole, and some others were good actors. The movies were bad on purpose. I was always ambivalent about Waters' success. On one hand higher production values and more money detracted from the low budget crassness of his earlier movies. On the other hand I was delighted to see him cash in. Also it was great seeing Tab Hunter in a Waters movie.

 

[Axo1989]

I skipped watching that movie about 35 minutes in. It was not good.

I like a good take on the War of the Worlds story (enjoyed a couple of recent series for example) but agree this wasn't that. I think you even lasted longer than I did tbh.