Haaaaaaaaaaa,What In Your Personal Opinion Is The Worst Movie-Ever?

Ha! Ran across this one over the weekend on Amazon Prime. Yea, awful, but there are thousands of low-budget flicks like it out there. I don't expect them to be anything but terrible and they're fun watching as historical curios.

Speaking of "out there" did you know Jerry Lewis and Morgan Freeman starred in a dramatic made-for-TV movie together in 1987? I did not until Amazon suggested it to me.

If you watch the version with the hardcore porn, at least you'll have something to hold onto for a few minutes

I never read the Dune books and found the movie endless and uninvolving. Sadly, I had dragged my younger brother (huge nerd fan of the books) to Grauman's Chinese to watch it with me as a treat. I don't think he's ever forgiven me

 

Nothing can prepare you for this

 

Caligula is one of those films that's so over the top that you can't stop watching it. The
unrated version is heavy on the gore and violence, and the hardcore nudity and sex is uncomfortable,
but at least you get a young Helen Mirren in the all together.....

 

I do not have one...I don't watch movies that I am not interested in. ; )

 

double price of admission alone...

 

Death Proof

I wake up in the middle of the night with night terrors that those chicks are still blabbering on and on.

 

I have a couple of contenders:

Excalibur. Bad, bad piece of crap. Including some extreme overacting by a then-unknown Patrick Stewart.

and,

The Shape Of Things To Come. This is a cheap Canadian sci-fi movie that came out in the wake of the first Star Wars movie, when studios were jumping on the bandwagon by putting out anything with spaceships, no matter how bad. This one starred Jack Palance and Barry Morse, had what looked like a 3 figure budget, and made the Buck Rogers TV series look like Citizen Kane in comparison.

 

I don't put a movie down because of low budget production issues.
When a movie has financial muscle behind it , noted actors and a worthy director and still is crap then that to me is a bad movie.
I had a thread going about the King Kong movies. Reading the responses made me decide to again watch Peter Jackson' s remake which I had only seen once shortly after it came out.
This movie is terrible. I had almost forgotten how dull and uninvolving the first hour is and how poorly paced.
Jack Black is unbelievably bad in his role ( sorry , Jack...I like you in lots of other things ). Naomi Watts is awful too. And there is zero chemistry between her and Adrien Brody who looks like he wants to be anywhere else but in this film.
The effects are OK but this movie just goes nowhere slowly over its overlong three hours.

 

I used to read Video Watchdog magazine back in the day, and their recommendations could be very hit and miss. The worst I can recall was this absolute bottom feeder euro trash horror called The Reincarnation of Isabel. It was abysmal in every possible way.

 

You have never watched a film you were interested in and thought it was terrible? Charmed life LOL

 

ain't I lucky! yea...and no, not enough to bail...there may have been 1 or 2 but they escape me...LOL...and I have a charmed life with a great wife...; )

 

As I posted in a similar thread, I think you need a bit of categorization. Manos, Hands Of Fate is a terrible movie, but it was made by a fertilizer salesman. North is a terrible movie, and it was made by Rob Reiner, whose previous movie was A Few Good Men.

My personal vote would probably be for North, or maybe Hope Floats. I've seen some really bad movies, but usually the directors are trying to do something *interesting* These two movies are DULL. Nothing interesting happens at all.

 

...there’s just no excuse for your bad opinion, either.

 

I hear you loud and clear about this.

 

My answer every time this topic comes up:

Highway of Heartache. This godawful Canadian movie (which dealt with the hard life and loves of a hopeful female country singer) tried so hard to be ultra-kitschy and offensive, being full of fake sets, drag queens, and songs about such charming topics as having one's interracial baby kidnapped. And it just ended up being embarassingly awful, the kind of movie that you watch through your fingers not because of gore or nudity, but because it's so horrible and you start feeling so embarassed for all involved. But like a car wreck, I could not look away, although I should have. I think even John Waters would have qualms over this piece of dreck.

 

I slept through a midnight showing.

 

I agree Peter Jackson's King Kong was a bad movie. Too many endless action sequences that get boring quickly. Manipulative "excitement" with the opposite effect. He also laid a big egg in the 3rd Hobbit movie for the same reason. Contrived action sequences that go on and on forever, CGI'd to death. That's something a lot of superhero movies fall prey to as well, though KK was the first time I remember being outright bored by action and the last Hobbit movie was the worst case of it that I can recall.

 

"Like anyone could even know that."

this thread makes me think of this

 

LOL...

 

you must have been really tired! : )

 

"The Love Guru" came to mind immediately when I saw this thread, and I didn't even make it halfway through the film. Like staring at a train wreck, I almost want to go back and watch the rest......almost.

 

Man, those made a great leading trio. Not my favorite Tarantino, but I liked Death Proof quite a lot and couldn't get my head round people disliking it that much.

(Well, yes, most of the dialogue is pretty pointless. I guess that's one of the main criticisms and I can see that.)

 

Exactly.

I could go with any of these three, it's a very close competition

"North" (already mentioned)
"Elizabethtown"
"Baby Geniuses" (probably should just go ahead and give it the crown)

 

Trim that damn yakking down to a minute or two and the movie's fine.