What Are the Worst Movies You Have Seen?

[Borek]

Alien 4 anyone?

 

[Huckleberry]

Alien 4 anyone?

I thought that one was ok. Alien 3, however, was a bomb.

 

[MATLABdude]

Man I've never heard of this Uwe Boll guy but how hte hell does one go about making so many horrendously reviewed movies and... not only refrain from shooting himself, but actually continue to make movies!

German tax write-offs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uwe_boll#Financing

I don't understand him. He's got a Ph.D. in literature (so he should be able to tell a good story, or at least recognize one) yet produces movies based off of video games. He apparently loves what he does (movie making), and yet produces, well, what he ends up producing.

Maybe he's actually a misunderstood genius ahead of his time?

 

[BobG]

Though I don't consider it a bad movie, 'On the Beach' was probably the most dismally depressing work I have ever seen.

That's pretty much staying true to the book. Both the movie and the book are classics, but, yes, they are very depressing - but so is the aftermath of nuclear war.

On the "depressing" scale, neither come close to Polish or Russian stories of World War II. In fact, "Johnny Got His Gun", a story about a guy that lost all of his arms and legs and his face in the war, can't come close to Polish or Russian stories about World War II.

 

[david90]

kung pow and 10000 bc

 

[Tibarn]

Highlander 2, Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, and Superman IV are pretty bad. Caligula is a bit...excessive.

I haven't seen it, but Battlefield Earth has a reputation as being simply horrendous.

 

[AUMathTutor]

Vertical Limit... I think was the title.

A.I. with Haley Joel Osmond, was it?

2001: A Space Odyssey (I think Robot Chicken said it best... stuff floating through space set to classical music?)

Night at the Museum (1st and I suspect 2nd but haven't seen it)

Any movie like Crank, or more specifically, any movie with that f*(@ing actor in it.

 

[AUMathTutor]

Battlefield Earth is so bad it's good. And it was written by L. Ron Hubbard.

 

[Huckleberry]

A.I. with Haley Joel Osmond, was it?

2001: A Space Odyssey (I think Robot Chicken said it best... stuff floating through space set to classical music?)

Any movie like Crank, or more specifically, any movie with that f*(@ing actor in it.

These are some of my favorite movies. The actor in 'Crank' is Jason Statham, and I like almost all of his action movies, especially 'Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels'. For a nonstop action shoot-em up movie 'Crank' is pretty hard to beat.

Battlefield Earth is so bad it's good. And it was written by L. Ron Hubbard.

The author's reputation could be responsible for the public opinion of this movie. It's not great by any means, but I didn't see it as strikingly bad either.

 

[jostpuur]

Space Odyssey is among the best movies every made!

Battlefield Earth is so bad it's good. And it was written by L. Ron Hubbard.

I've heard some people saying "it's so bad that it's actually funny" out of some things. So I came up with a description "not even funny" to describe Uwe Boll's movies.

 

[Chi Meson]

OVERALL WORST: The Core. Excruciatingly horrific.

yeah The Core was extremely awful, elementary school students were questioning its scientific accuracy.

I have seen The Core about 20 times by now. I have been showing it in my physics classes for the past several years. The idea is that I stop the video when an egregious error is made (eg. sonic boom several seconds before the space shuttle flies over the baseball stadium) and the video does not resume until the mistake is identified and corrected by a student. Trouble is, I have to stop the video every 45 seconds.

 

[colonelcrayon]

I have seen The Core about 20 times by now. I have been showing it in my physics classes for the past several years. The idea is that I stop the video when an egregious error is made (eg. sonic boom several seconds before the space shuttle flies over the baseball stadium) and the video does not resume until the mistake is identified and corrected by a student. Trouble is, I have to stop the video every 45 seconds.

Nice idea :)

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

On a totally different note, the movie I saw where most people left was Irréversible

A friend of mine had me watch the first half of it. It seemed to be trying really hard to shock and disgust its audience. The idea in general was not so bad though. I never watched the whole thing through uninterupted.

The Spirit was a complete abomination. It had some great names from 300, Sin City, and The Matrix trilogy. Yet the movie was slow, Cinematography was unimpressive, and the acting was horrid. I want to know who I can contact about getting my money back and my wasted time.

I recently watched this and thought it was pretty neat. The absolutely horrible cheesiness and bad acting was intentional I am fairly certain. It was meant to imitate old school comic books which were really cheesy with bad dialog. They just seemed to go a bit overboard and went beyond kitch to actually being pretty bad.