Worst Movies?

[eisforelectronic]

Buckeroo Banzia: OK, I admit it, I liked this one. Shoot me.

Buckaroo Banzai has at least some cult status with me.
"No matter where you go, there you are"

[Worf101]

These are so vile, so low, so excreable as to defy imagination...

"Soul Plane" - Good God man have you no shame? This movie could set back race relations 20 years.

"Pootie Tang" - Good God man have you no shame? This movie DID set back race relations 20 years.

Wow... so bad I almost threw up. Have never been able to finish either. Now the subject matter in both could've been handled and made funny like in "Undercover Brother" which I was was smart and funny. But these two, good Lord how low can you go to be in a movie. Doing Porn is almost more respectable that this crap.

Da Worfster

[LEAFS264]

I think all you guys forgot about the WORST MOVIE EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FARGO


Jay.

[eisforelectronic]

I think all you guys forgot about the WORST MOVIE EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FARGO


Jay.

I gotta admit I really disliked that movie a lot, although I probably wouldn't have put it on my worst movies list.

[RGA]

Fargo -- Worst Movie? Give your head a shake. It got better on subsequent viewing - it's a small classic. I'd have it ahead of the LOTR trilogy

[Feanor]

Is that you actually when to these flicks in the first place. I had a premonition in each case.

Smokey used to do one of these about every 6 months on the "old board". I won't give you my "worst of all times" but here's some of my recent I hate you's worse than deaths...

1. "Catwoman" - The most uninteligible, excremental movie ever made. May single handedly end the recent superhero trend.

2. "The Grudge" - Proof positive that you can't raid every Japanese film and find gold.

3. "Gods and Generals" - Re-written history aside.. the worst 3 hours spent of my entire life.

4. "White Chicks" - After all the beat down at the Oscars I had to rent it. I'm now almost legally blind. Two guys in drag that look like Michael Jacksons long lost twin sisters.

5. "The Core" - So bad you almost want the world to end...

6. "Aliens Versus Predator" - A double header, how to kill two dying franchises at once.

7. "Terminator 3" - Another done franchise finally bites the dust.

That's just off the top of my head....

Da Worfster

[MomurdA]

Cant think of my all time list, but here are some recent ones.

The Village. Horrible, i predicted the entire movie after watching the first 2 minutes. Just horrible.
South of Heaven, West of Hell. Possibly the worst western ever made. Couldnt even finish it.
Anaconda. Havent they made like 5 of these in the last 2 years?
DeathWish IV. Standard 80's war on drugs propaganda movie.
Catwoman (Havent seen it, but Im surse it belongs here)

Episode 3 had better not be on my lists in 8 weeks.

[Sir Terrence the Terrible]

If you weren't a Knight Errant, Moderator and overall Laird of the Manor.... I could take quite a dislikings to you... As it is, since I do NOT want to be banished from the realm... I'll put up with the less than Christian tenet of both posts. How could you even form the words "Catwoman 2" in your mind without your tongue catching fire?

Da Worfster

I said Catwoman and my tougue caught on fire, I am not even going to try and say Catwoman 2 for fear my whole face will catch on fire.

Now Worfster, how could you dislike the most loveable rican this side of the Mississippi?
You see, I grew up in Manhattan which makes me very used to non sugar coated, very direct opinions. Living here in California, I am suffering from diabetes from all of the sugar coated crap I have to hear. Your posts give me my daily diet of straightoutness that I really appreciate. If you actually spoke what you post, I could just see the facial expressions and body langauge that went with it.

[Woochifer]

Good news for fans of "worst" movies -- Leonard Part 6 is coming to DVD! This movie is an absolute disaster. Sad thing is that Bill Cosby made this flick while he was king of prime time in the 80s with The Cosby Show! Those of you who nominated other movies on your worst list should withhold judgment until you get a load of THIS crap!

Some pretty funny predictions about what the upcoming DVD release means in the cosmic scheme of things.

http://www.dvd-dweeb.com/cgi-bin/yab...num=1108491680

Other movies that been on my personal sh*tlist for a while are listed below:

Naked - this is probably the most pointless and overrated bullsh*t movie I've ever seen. Director Mike Leigh BRAGGED that he filmed without a finished script, yet if this approach is used with a Hollywood production, the critics get ready to skewer the final product before it even screens. Believe me, it very much showed that the movie was done without a script, and that's not something worth bragging about. But, because it's a British flick, the critics and pompous art house mavens fawn all over themselves to praise that approach as something innovative, or actor friendly, or spontaneous. Actually, I just prefer to view it as disorganized, pointless, pretentious, and idiotic.

Terms of Endearment - maybe I'm just not in touch with my feminine side, but this was one of the most reprehensibly manipulative tearjerking pieces of melodramatic excrement that I've ever seen. Other films have been more shameless about those aspirations, but how his film made it all the way to Best Picture is all the proof you need of rampant abuse of psychoactive prescriptions in Hollywood. It's on my worst list because it beat out The Right Stuff, which was a far superior movie in every facet. The Right Stuff has rightfully gone on to make various lists of the best movies from that decade, while Terms of Endearment has largely been forgotten (and I hope deep sixed, so that no self-respecting members of the male persuasion have to endure this torture test).

The Buddy System - Love Richard Dreyfus and Susan Sarandon. Hated this movie.

Battlefield Earth - admittedly all too easy a target. Now, we know that this is John Travolta's ode to all things L.Ron Hubbard, but you would think that someone who actually likes the guy would want to make a decent movie, right? Is this movie bad? Yes. Is it as bad as everybody says it is? Oh yes, after watching this I would think that Travolta got excommunicated from the Scientology circle and needed to get back at them!

Now, I haven't seen Catwoman and experienced all of those bizarre otherworldly phenomena that Terrence and Worf talked about (mouth catching on fire, that's pretty kewl). But, I gotta tell 'ya, after watching Battlefield Earth, I suddenly felt this urge to go out and purchase 100 copies of Dianetics, fly out to Broadway and watch a Bernadette Peters production, listen to Chick Corea and Al Jarreau's albums backwards, and replay Tom Cruise's dance in his tighty whities from Risky Business over and over. I mean, this is just normal response to a bad movie, and not all this other paranoid conspiracy stuff about subminimal Scientology messages, right?

[Woochifer]

Buckeroo Banzia: OK, I admit it, I liked this one. Shoot me

Buckeroo Banzai was actually one of the first movies that flopped big time at the box office, but went on to become a huge hit on home video. This is one of the more prominent cult movies out there, and a long-time staple on the "midnight movie" circuit at revival houses. Any movie with Peter Weller as a brain surgeon/rock musician/intergalactic adventurer/rescuer of the universe and John Lithgow as an evil space alien has got to have some redeeming value to it. The DVD release on this movie is genius, with the supplemental feature done as if the movie was a documentary rather than a fictional work.

[Kam]

Buckeroo Banzai was actually one of the first movies that flopped big time at the box office, but went on to become a huge hit on home video. This is one of the more prominent cult movies out there, and a long-time staple on the "midnight movie" circuit at revival houses. Any movie with Peter Weller as a brain surgeon/rock musician/intergalactic adventurer/rescuer of the universe and John Lithgow as an evil space alien has got to have some redeeming value to it. The DVD release on this movie is genius, with the supplemental feature done as if the movie was a documentary rather than a fictional work.

Don't forget, Buckeroo was also a samurai.

And here's a long awaited sequel i'm surprised hollywood hasn't made along with History of the World Part 2. I wanna see Buckeroo take on the World Crime League! hmmm... maybe i have my next movie idea....

peace
k2

[topspeed]

And here's a long awaited sequel i'm surprised hollywood hasn't made along with History of the World Part 2. I wanna see Buckeroo take on the World Crime League! hmmm... maybe i have my next movie idea....
peace
k2

Roman Orgy Tonite: First served, first come

I'm waiting for that one too.

[eisforelectronic]

Don't forget, Buckeroo was also a samurai.

And here's a long awaited sequel i'm surprised hollywood hasn't made along with History of the World Part 2. I wanna see Buckeroo take on the World Crime League! hmmm... maybe i have my next movie idea....

peace
k2

I remember waiting for that to come out for sooo long before I realized Buckaroo was a bad movie and there wouldn't be a sequel.

[Woochifer]

Don't forget, Buckeroo was also a samurai.

And here's a long awaited sequel i'm surprised hollywood hasn't made along with History of the World Part 2. I wanna see Buckeroo take on the World Crime League! hmmm... maybe i have my next movie idea....

peace
k2

Sheez, how could I forget that! Amazing how much a true renaissance man can make perfection seem so easy.

I remember that Buckaroo Banzai was made with the goal of creating a franchise, but the movie flopped worse at the box office than anyone had predicted. By the time the movie became a hit on home video and cable, the stars of the movie had already gone onto bigger and better things (Peter Weller made Robocop a couple of years later, while John Lithgow, Ellen Barkin, and Jeff Goldblum all graduated to bigger projects), which would make the cost of a sequel more expensive than it's worth.

Well, one movie I WON'T be waiting for is Leonard, Part 7 or parts 1 through 5 for that matter!

[skypilot]

My pick..."Howard the Duck"..period...they should of shot this character with a 12 guage shotgun and saved patrons their $6.00.

[20to20K]

Can't believe all the hate for Fargo...one of my all-time favs. Buscemi is da' man and McDormand continues to show she can do any character you throw at her. Everything Macy does is speacial. I'm a big Coen brothers fan and I know a lot of people (mostly John Q. Popcorn movie fans) can't get into their bizarre movies...but I love them. Miller's Crossing is another of my fav.

Now onto flicks that REALLY do suck!

Someone mentioned Leonard part 6...yes a stinker, but Cosby actually had two stinkers in the same year with the equally bad "Ghost Dad". Yes "Soul Plane" was so bad it made me cringe...but c'mon...Snoop Dog? Tom Arnold? You couldn't have been expecting Igmar Bergman from this cast!

What really annoys me is when a film gets tons of accolades from critics, you go to see it and you have to be woken up three times before the credits roll. Can you say "The English Patient"? Or an action movie with no action. Can you say "The Incredible Hulk"?.
Or a character based drama where you don't care about any of the characters...can you say "The Big Chill"? Not a big fan of the generic cookie cutter good against evil extravganzas like Star Wars and Lord of the Rings either.

I thought 3 of the 5 Oscar nominees for best picture this year where all overrated. Sideways, Ray, and Aviator were all DECENT movies...but none of them great.
I thought Million Dollar baby was excellent and I didn't see Neverland, but I thought Hotel Rowanda or The Passion were easily better than the other three.

[RGA]

20-20

Agreed Fargo perhaps was overrated but it wasn't bad -- but it is back comedy which not everyone is going to like -- there are different shades of back comedy too of course alla Pulp Fiction which many hated. I thought it was the best film of 1994.

I actually very much liked the English patient which did a supurb job of sidestepping the novel and taking it from a different angle. It was a mix of Casablanca and Lawrence of Arabia. I watched it three times in the theaters. But yes most people I know had the fall asleep reaction.

Here are my worst movies getting *1/2 / ***** or less

Children Of The Corn
Jaws 3
Lock Up
Milk Money
Prophecy, The
Return Of The Living Dead Part II
Two Jakes, The
Vegas Vacation
Young Guns II
Zero Tolerance
Beavis And Butt-Head Do America
Golden Child, The
Last Starfighter, The
Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves
Sniper
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Toy, The
Under Suspicion
Bachelor Party
Blue Velvet
Cadillac Man
Good Son, The
Howling V-The Rebirth
Striking Distance
Alien 3
Batman Returns
Friday The 13th, Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
Man's Best Friend
Meatballs
Multiplicity
Scanners 3: The Takeover
Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes
Creepers
Medicine Man
Outsiders, The
Earthquake
Good Mother, The
Stealing Home
Tango And Cash
Bad Boys
Diabolique
Langoliers, The
Out To Sea
Beverly Hills Cop II
Candyman
Larger Than Life
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Crocodile Dundee II
Eye For An Eye, An
Mars Attacks!
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
Predator 2
Bad Moon
Bordello of Blood
Cowboy Way, The
Day After, The
Excalibur
Great Expectations (1998)
John Carpenter's Vampires
Leviathan
Major League II
Santa Clause, The
Scanner Cop
Avengers, The
Best Defense
Independence Day
Patriot, The (2000(
Armed And Dangerous
Batman & Robin
Friday The 13th, Part VII: The New Blood
Halloween III: Season Of The Witch
Jackal, The (1997)
Volcano
Before And After
By Dawn's Early Light
Night Of The Living Dead (1990)
Trigger Effect, The
Loose Cannons
Dune
Friday The 13th
Halloween V: The Revenge Of Michael Myers
Jurassic Park III
Quick And The Dead
Robocop 2
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Blob, The (1958)
Punisher, The
Rocky V
Superman IV: The Quest For Peace
Chopping Mall
Entity, The
Maximum Overdrive
Poltergeist II: The Other Side
Cannonball Run II
Juror, The
Pelican Brief, The
Scorpion King, The
Supergirl
Traces Of Red
Beastmaster, The
Nightmare On Elm Street 2, A: Freddy's Revenge
Peacemaker, The
Anaconda
Chain Reaction
Evil Dead, The
Final Conflict, The
Halloween IV: The Return Of Michael Myers
Raising Cain
Scanners 2: The New Order
Canadian Bacon
Ghost And The Darkness, The
Sphere
Bad Company
Daylight
F/X 2: The Deadly Art Of Illusion
Robocop 3
Striptease
Thinner
Boxing Helena
Deepstar Six
Pet Sematary
Substitute, The
Crow: City Of Angels, The
Crush, The
Hard Rain
Lifepod
Cannibal Woman In The Avocado Jungle Of Death
Exorcist II: The Heretic
Haunted Honeymoon
Surviving The Game
Terror In The Aisles
Brain, The
Escape From L.A.
Friday The 13th, Part VI: Jason Lives
Death Wish II
Fire Down Below
High School High
Bees, The
Friday The 13th-The Final Chapter
Police Academy II: Their First Assignment
Problem Child
Firewalker
Hell Night
Wes Craven's Wishmaster
Baby--Secret Of The Lost Legend
Bad Girls
Congo
Hellmaster
Police Academy 4: Citizens On Patrol
Speed 2: Cruise Control
Swarm, The
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
Friday The 13th, Part V-A New Beginning
Lightning Jack
Stay Tuned
Airheads
Crash
Halloween: The Curse Of Michael Myers
Jaws: The Revenge
On Deadly Ground
Barb Wire
Friday The 13th, Part II
Friday The 13th, Part III
Ghost In The Machine
Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday
Showgirls
Flesh Gordon
Oasis Of The Zombies
Black Sheep


And some of you wonder why I am in a bad mood -- a lot of hours I'll never get back have been deleted from my life -- and what's worse -- some of them I watched a second time to try and be fair.

[paul_pci]

RGA, how dare you include Armed and Dangerous on your list. That was John Candy, Eugene Levy, and Meg Ryan at their best. Not only that, but since the 80s was without a doubt the most absolute best decade this planet been through (aside from deteriorating the ozone from all the hairspray), I demand that all 80s films be exempt from your otherwise insightful list.

[RGA]

"That was John Candy, Eugene Levy, and Meg Ryan at their best"

Umm yeah LOL hell I don't even remember Meg Ryan and she's hard to forget.

I liked Splash better -- it had the first two...and if it's any consolation Planes, Trains, and Automobiles I would have as one of the best films of the 1980s.

I have nto updated my list for a few years and some of thsoe in the first half I might bump to **

There are a number of others I should add -- Suspect Zero with the very good Ben Kingsley was dreadful.

[Worf101]

20-20

Agreed Fargo perhaps was overrated but it wasn't bad -- but it is back comedy which not everyone is going to like -- there are different shades of back comedy too of course alla Pulp Fiction which many hated. I thought it was the best film of 1994.

It's "BLACK" comedy not "BACK"... Come ere ya cretin... 3 knuckle raps wit da ruler!

Da Worfster

[Worf101]

Sniper

Blue Velvet

Outsiders, The

Candyman

Bram Stoker's Dracula

Excalibur

Independence Day

Blob, The (1958)

Evil Dead, The

Pet Sematary
.

Ahem the above were/are NOT bad movies. Don't know what crack you're smokin' but these movies were a lot of "fun"!!! Remember the word?? Fun, eat popcorn, watch movie, jump or scream or laugh?

Da Worfster

[RGA]

No Dr. Who is fun -- those movies were boring dregs. The Evil Dead is downright mean spirited bad taste and Keanu Reeves well that's always tough to defend whatever he's in - Excalibur was excrutiating to sit through - Candyman has zero originality or scares and Independance Day was probably the best waste of good effects during the decade - though I did like Brent Spiner's cameo.

Sniper and Pet Semetary -- man how could they ruin Stephen King's book so badly -- actually another film not there but should be is Thinner. Uggh.

[cam]

I'm a little late to the party but I will mention 2 movies I paid full price at the theater and when it was over I swear I was going to throw that projector guy down from the top floor. "The Avengers" (i'm still pissed) and "Lara Croft The Cradle Of Life" which was part 2. Part 1 was entertaining but the second, P-lease, the only good thing about the second one was that Angelina Jolie is eye candy, that's it.

[RGA]

I loved the tv show of the Avengers -- then when I heard the cast I was SOOO excited -- That was a film I was really waiting for Ralph Fiennes, Uma Thurman and Sean Connery...three people who usually to that point anyway picked good films -- Fiennes was recently off of two oscar nominations..

Then I heard Americans were making it and my heart began to sink -- then I heard one writer left and there were a team of writers -- I began to lose faith. Then I heard they were re-shooting 40 minutes of the film to save it --- OH NO!! then the Stars didn;t go to the screening nor did they release it to film critics.

You know how excited I was because in spite of all that I still paisd full price grasping at straws.

The sad thing is what really killed this was and no offense -- The Brits should have made that film not the Americans. The accountants got involved.

The Avengers had the chance to be better than any James Bond film because you have not one but TWO secret agents who play off each other in a sly sexual tension way -- but without the follow through -- that's the point -- not to have them marry at the end.

Uma was not in the suit enough and that whole plot line was dreadful -- as were the bear suits. What was that. You can't just have weird bad guys and weird sets -- The Avengrs was always a show where things were not quite what they seemed -- mysterious sexy sly smart and witty -- the film had exactly none of that.

And it goes to show that no matter how great the acting talent --- nothing can save a bad script. Conversely a great script can save terrible actors like Keanu Reeves. Imagine what The Matrix could have been with a decent actor or the Devil's Advocate.

[Woochifer]

Can't believe all the hate for Fargo...one of my all-time favs. Buscemi is da' man and McDormand continues to show she can do any character you throw at her. Everything Macy does is speacial. I'm a big Coen brothers fan and I know a lot of people (mostly John Q. Popcorn movie fans) can't get into their bizarre movies...but I love them. Miller's Crossing is another of my fav.

Surprising to me as well given that almost every film buff I know loved that movie. I liked it on first viewing, but grew to appreciate it a lot more after I roomed with a guy from Minnesota whose brother went to high school with one of the Coens. A lot of the jokes in Fargo are the inside variety, and my roommate pointed a lot of these quirks out. I "got" more of the movie later on when I visited the Twin Cities a few years ago and experienced all that "Minnesota nice" for myself. As an outsider, I appreciate the quirkiness of Fargo, but for native of that region, these references and characters are true to life. Sort of like how I view L.A.-centric movies like Swingers and Pulp Fiction from the vantage point of someone who was born and raised there. You have to have spent some time in SoCal to fully understand how effectively the filmmakers captured L.A. in those movies.

Someone mentioned Leonard part 6...yes a stinker, but Cosby actually had two stinkers in the same year with the equally bad "Ghost Dad". Yes "Soul Plane" was so bad it made me cringe...but c'mon...Snoop Dog? Tom Arnold? You couldn't have been expecting Igmar Bergman from this cast!

You're right in that Ghost Dad was bad, but I don't think it flamed out nearly as spectacularly as Leonard, Part 6. The former just had a bad plot with lame jokes, but the latter was mixed in with even worse special effects and very little of it made any logical sense. BTW, this classic of schlock comes to DVD on Tuesday!

What really annoys me is when a film gets tons of accolades from critics, you go to see it and you have to be woken up three times before the credits roll. Can you say "The English Patient"? Or an action movie with no action. Can you say "The Incredible Hulk"?.

I put the Merchant-Ivory flicks at the top of that boring critical favorites category. The stuff of theirs that I've seen is slow as molasses, and booooooooooorrrrrrrinnnnnggg. Can you say "GET TO THE FRIGGIN' POINT ALREADY!" Kinda like when I saw Terms of Endearment at the theater and was tempted to scream at the Debra Winger character, "GOOD GAWD, HURRY UP AND DIE WILL 'YA!"