Worst movies you've ever seen?

Now, now. You're not Roger Ebert. You really should watch the movie before critiqueing it.

Across the Universe was an interesting musical, using Beatles songs to construct a fictional story of the era. Maybe you have to have been there to appreciate it.

Or maybe you have to use one of my tag lines "I enjoy bad movies."

From this list there seems to be no uniform agreement on what is a bad movie, and like me, each person judges it on totally personal subjective reasons.

 

I have to agree with Heywood Floyd on Empire Records. To me it was a Bizarre Multiple faked orgasm of cliches. They didn't even spread them out. Within the first 15 minutes you have one kid doing everything he's told not to do when the boss leaves ala Risky Buisness. Liv Tyler getting excepted to Harvard. The other kid secretly pining for Liv Tyler. An Liv Tyler announcing that she is going to lose her virginity to the big rockstar dude who turns out to be an epic douche. That is just the first 15 minutes of cliche ridden bullshit. Chances are if you've seen any movies between 1980 and 1996 you can piece them together and make Empire Records.

Peace Out,
Rev J

 

From this thread I have seen a lot of bad flicks mentioned that I have never seen, like Empire Records.

Maybe there is some intuitive part of me that saves me from that fate.

(However, I did see and enjoy The Last Song yesterday, which was almost universally panned. Hmm, did I say, "I enjoy bad movies?")

 

Cannibal Ferox

 

I really did not like Drag Me to Hell at all. Not a movie I would have ever gone to see on my own. I think it traumatized me for life.

 

Hah, I thought it was pretty priceless

I hate a few. I have never been able to sit through Adam Sandlers 'Going Overboard', and I recently saw the remake of the classic 'Rollerball'. The latter was utterly awful.

 

The Wackness and The Devil Wears Prada. Two of the worst movies I have ever seen.

 

Empire Records is a great movie.


I was wondering, what movies you don't like.

I think you enjoy bad movies, but critics (in general) are idiots, so if a movie is panned it doesn't matter much =P

 

I thought it was different. But when I see films like this, it gets me all interested in voodoo and stuff.... so probably not a wise idea.

 

Love it.

 

I respectfully disagree. I saw Cannibal Ferox as being an alegorical retelling of early American history. Christopher Columbus came to North America in 1492 looking for spices. He saw the native children playing with what to them were useless gold trinkets. The natives were immediately trusting of this stranger and promised to give him more gold. Since he wasn't meeting his gold quota he became convinced that they had a secret stash and started to torture the natives to find it.

In Cannibal Ferox you had the main villain who had gone into the jungle of Columbia to get Cocaine (instead of spices). While he was there he found that the natives had Emeralds (instead of Gold) that were useless to them. When the character got greedy and paranoid (like Columbus) he started to believe that the natives were holding out on him and had a secret stash that he started torturing them for.

We have a romanticized view of what Colombus did. But it was probably historically closer to Cannibal Ferox, with the rapes, castration, torture etc.

Peace Out,
Rev J

 

Actually, I usually find something positive in a movie, even if I'm not ecstatic about it, but there are some that I really didn't like. I didn't put them in this Worst Movie thread because as I said, my opinion of a movie is quite subjective (as is EVERYONE'S shown by this thread).

I did not like:

The Science of Sleep, (Stupid, even tho I love Gael Garcia Bernal)
Things We Lost in the Fire (Too melodramatic & phony drug addict)
Ghosts of Goya (Not much about Goya actually)
Beowulf (Grendyl's mama in high heels?)
Lady Chatterley (Whose idea to take English lit and make it French?)
Marie Antoinette (Didn't care for the music)

And, to illustrate my point of not liking movies that others think are so good, I did not care at all for The Dark Knight, which got a 94% good reviews. I much prefer Batman Begins, and saw both vids last week and confirmed my opinion.

 

Street Kings
Solaris
Snakes on a Plane
V for Vendetta

 

The christmas Starwars special by far the worst movie EVER!!!!!!!

 

I love The Science of Sleep but hated it the first time I saw it.

I love the pacing of the plot in the Dark Knight, but I should love the whole movie, so the Nolans and Goyers failed (major Batman fan)

Of the others I've seen, I agree with all of them.


I believe strongly in objective quality. Everything a human thinks is subjective - but the ability to reach out to humans in general or a specific sort of human is the true scale of a movie's worth. =)

 

bridge to terabithia

 

I just saw Star Trek: Of Gods and Men.

Curse my eyes!

As bad as it gets. Even for an internet movie.

 

That movie "Precious" that everyone thought was so amazing....it was awful!

 

I thought Bogart's acting in The Maltese Falcon was embarrassingly
bad and the plot too predictable.
The Birds ended about 15 minutes before it should have, skipped all the
messy tying up of loose ends that would have been nice.
What Happens in Vegas, give me a friggin' break! How many of the 'two people who have no business together but will have to fall in love' romantic comedy cowpies do we need?!
From Dusk till Dawn, I really like vampire movies but this thing sucked (sorry bad pun) so big that I turned it off about 20 minutes or so into it figuring the vampires got everybody including the writers, producers, agents of the actors, everybody.
blech!
peace
Delfynasa

 

one cannot forget "plan 9 from outer space" yeah it does suck but it sucks less when you watch it while smoking one he he he