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Originally Posted by InCoGnEtO
this dicussion begins and ends with Battlefield Earth
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I couldn't have said it better. Partially because it was bad AND parsimonious. I think of it as the movie that killed Barry Pepper's career--now he appears in movies about Willie Mays made by ESPN and terrible stuff like that. In fact, along with Panic Room, Battlefield Earth may have killed Forest Whitaker's career too....
I agree with a lot of the films that have been mentioned--and some people's worst films are movies that I quite like. But here are some gems that are on my list:
- Titanic. Surprised no-one's mentioned this one. Truly, truly bad--and to top it off, about 3.5 hours too long.
- The Faculty. IIRC, this was Josh Hartnett's first film--though I haven't followed his career, and so I could be wrong. If it was, then he's lucky it didn't end his acting career right there.
- Phenomenon--with John Travolta
- A Beautiful Mind. Not a good movie at all--in fact, no movie that tells mentally ill people to go off their meds and use "logic" to solve their problems CAN be good. That's a no-no.
There was a brief mention earlier in the thread of how improbable the denouement to
War of the Worlds was. In their defense, this is exactly how the 1899 book by H.G. Wells ends. If they'd changed it, the H.G. Wells fan club would have been up in arms. It IS pretty improbable, but decent for the nineteenth century. I agree that the movie was bad, though.