Worst movie of all time?

[VANFLAMESFAN]

How Nicolas Cage picks his movies....NSFW for mild language.

[Yamer]

So who is the bigger hollywood whore, Samuel L Jackson or Nicholas Cage?

[Gozer]

Anyone ever see "Teeth" ?

[Stumptown]

Originally Posted by Captain_Obvious

This is far and away the worst movie I've ever seen:




There is scenes near the end where you can blatantly see it's a guy in a bear suit in some of the shots. Just awful.

Ha ha ha, Grizzly Rage - a feature-length SUV ad. My husband and my dad have a running thing where they send each other DVDs of terrible movies, and this was the latest. It all started with the pathetic re-make of Carrie that my dad bought by accident thinking it was the De Palma one...

For me, if a movie is made with vision, heart and a sense of fun, no matter how inept in other ways, I can enjoy it. It's the movies that are simply made to feed their own marketing machines that I can't stand. I'd rather watch a bunch of Ed Wood movies than a single contemporary rom-com or Michael Bay film.

[SportsJunky]

Many deserving choices in this thread but I agree with the OP, Blair Witch is the worst film I've ever seen. It still bothers me that we got caught up in the hype for this piece of trash when we went and saw it in the theatre. I was more offended that I fell for the marketing of this movie than the fact that it robbed me of my time and money to sit through it.

[VANFLAMESFAN]

Originally Posted by Yamer

So who is the bigger hollywood whore, Samuel L Jackson or Nicholas Cage?

I think it has to be Cage. Especially in the last few years.

Cage used to be a fav actor of mine, but now with the amount of crap he's put out, it's really hard to respect him.

Lord of War, Adaptation and Matchstick Men are the only movies I have enjoyed in the last 10 years or so with him. Kick Ass was good, but not because of him.

Samuel Jackson has slipped a little bit in recent years, but he was on a tear of releasing movies in the mid 2000's. He's got lots of credits lately on his IMDB page, but lots of those are for voice work or cameos.

[Jing]

The last air bender was a whole lot of fail.

[Hockey]

I just watched My Soul to take. I really wish I hadn't.

[CaramonLS]

Originally Posted by BigBrodieFan

I haven't read 10,000 BC anywhere on this thread. That was hands down the worst movie I've ever seen in my life. And I've seen some pretty bad ones!

Oh god.

I understand it isn't supposed to be a complete rendition of history, but they had iron-forged swords, phalanx formations and aliens in the movie - set in 10,000 BC!!

It was awful, just awful.

[OilKiller]

Couple votes from me, they've already been mentioned but The Happening was atrocious and should have ended Shyamalan's career and White Chicks.

For those who mentioned Pulp Fiction and Fargo...are your freakin' kidding me?

[Dion]

Originally Posted by OilKiller

Couple votes from me, they've already been mentioned but The Happening was atrocious and should have ended Shyamalan's career and White Chicks.

For those who mentioned Pulp Fiction and Fargo...are your freakin' kidding me?

For me, Shyamalan's career ended with "The Village"

[OilKiller]

Originally Posted by Dion

For me, Shyamalan's career ended with "The Sixth Sense"

fyp

[calgaryred]

worst movie

asked for money back at the theatre just 20 minutes in, and they did

[pylon]

Originally Posted by Methanolic

Are you kidding me?

I always quote that as one of the great little known films I have ever seen. The thing absolutely wreaks havoc with your melon, and leaves the viewer to try and determine what actually happened. FWIW I think it was an elaborate dream he was having as he was dying.

I love movies like that though where you are trying to figure out what is real, and what is the creation of someones mind.

Vanilla Sky is another movie like this I really like.

[Dion]

[schteve_d]

While I still stand for my vote for Capote as very realistically worst ever, I forgot about "Smart People" which came very, very close.

[pylon]

Originally Posted by Gozer

Anyone ever see "Teeth" ?

Yup.

Felt very uneasy and awkward watching it, but it was still an OK movie. Definitely not for everyone though.

[V]

Originally Posted by VANFLAMESFAN

A couple more nearly un-watchable movies. I seriously would want cash to sit thru these again. I saw these in the theatres for christ's sakes!!

Top 5 movie of all time for me. I love that movie.

[Itse]

Personally I tend to approach something by coming up with a list criteria which to take into account. Here's some that come to mind.

- Length. For example, Ed Wood's films are actually pretty easy to watch because they're pretty short. (BTW, for those who want to see a really BAD film by Ed Wood, try to get your hands on "Glen or Glenda." Whoah...) 90+ minutes is I think a minimum.
- Originality. There needs to be none. If there's even a single somewhat good idea in the film, you're automatically disqualified. There's just so many movies that have none of this.
- Incoherence. By this I mean that the film keeps breaking it's own sets of rules. Irritating as hell, and this is a pretty clear sign of bad storytelling.
- Bad script
- Bad acting
- Stupid/bad/disgusting moral viewpoints
- Not thoughtprovoking
- Not entertaining

For example, Battlefield Earth manages to tick off just about all these boxes, based on what I've heard. A film that comes to my mind is The Aviator, but the basic story was interesting enough that it was at least a little entertaining, even though it was mutilated to a point where it had at times very little to do with known facts.

"The Crash" by David Cronenberg was I think one of the worst movies I've ever seen, ticking just about every box on this list (except for acting and coherence). It was also rather extremely unpleasant to watch.

"Daredevil" starring Ben Affleck was extremely bad too. I also agree on Ultraviolet being notably bad.

But, I also watch a lot of indie/B-movies for various reasons, and there's some really unbelievably bad movies there too, although for other reasons. (I mostly watch them because those movies are much more likely to have original ideas in them than the major productions.)

Some really bad ones that come to mind:
- Ilsa-films, especially "Harem-Keeper of the Oil-Sheiks" (since I though it was the most boring one). I think you could mostly call it torture-porn-exploitation with fetish flavourings, excepts there's not that much sex of any kind really, and mostly they're just disgusting and boring at the same time.
- "Forest Warrior" starring Chuck Norris. Definite camp-value though.

And then there's movie's like "Pinata Survival Island".

In any case, anyone interested in really bad movies, check out Head Injury Theater. The guy reviews some FANTASTIC stuff. (Here's an example of that Pinata film: http://www.headinjurytheater.com/article89.htm)

[Reaper]

Originally Posted by calumniate

K-Pax was the worst for me in terms of sitting down and trying to watch a movie.. omg.

If you're up for a laugh Hard Ticket to Hawaii is awesome in it's own lame way..

LOL... My dad rented this movie when we were kids.

It resulted in my dad losing his ability to pick movie rentals independently.