Worst Movie of all time?

[jack merchant]

Originally posted by Mojotronica
Another one that deserves scorn is "Showgirls." I thought it would AT LEAST include some hot action, but it was actually very tame. And really truly awful.

To be fair to Verhoeven* though, he did at least have the decency to go pick up his Razzies at the award ceremony Also, Showgirls is merely hilariously bad - other films *cough*The Patriot*cough* are unapologetically vomit-inducingly bad.

* Slight disclosure here: Verhoeven was a classmate of my mom in high school and even with all his fame he still shows up at reunions. My mom says he's a very nice guy.

 

[Zcylen]

I didnt like those movies, dont ask me why but I just felt dissapointed when I saw them.
of course there are other bad movies but IMO these movies are very bad also were the first which came ti my mind.
besides, Tom Hanks, Dicaprio, Will Smith and again Tom Hanks are guys I apreciate too much

 

[xghost]

Worst movie of all time? I can't really say, considering time isn't finished yet and neither are all the bad movies. However, the worst movie I've seen up until now would propably have to be either 'Pluto Nash' or 'Corky Romano'. I even like Murphy and Katan, but they were just horrible in those movies! Horrible!

 

[thestonesfan]

Originally posted by jack merchant


To be fair to Verhoeven* though, he did at least have the decency to go pick up his Razzies at the award ceremony Also, Showgirls is merely hilariously bad - other films *cough*The Patriot*cough* are unapologetically vomit-inducingly bad.

Come on! "Patriot" was not that bad! Historical inaccuracies do not mean it doesn't serve well as a movie!

There seems to be some kind of misconception about the meaning of the "worst" movie. It's not a matter of personal preference here. Mel Gibson alone keeps it from being the worst movie ever. There are some seriously bad movies out there that you people just aren't seeing!

 

[Mojotronica]

Jack --

I'm sure Voerhoeven is very cool... he was entitled to a mis-step.

It's just one of those movies where you wonder how it could have ended up so terrible?

 

[thestonesfan]

Heck, the massive cleavage of Gibson's wife in "Patriot" got me hotter than all of "Showgirls".

 

[jack merchant]

I didn't mind the historical inaccuracies in The Patriot - instead, I had a problem with the wanton and gratuitous violence in that movie. Violence has its place in movies if there is any taste or purpose at all to showing it. There wasn't in The Patriot.

And mostly that made it the worst movie I've ever seen in my opinion, and since I can only contribute to this discussion on the basis of the movies I've seen, that makes it the worst movie ever in my opinion. I don't see how we can judge movies otherwise.

 

[thestonesfan]

Originally posted by jack merchant
I didn't mind the historical inaccuracies in The Patriot - instead, I had a problem with the wanton and gratuitous violence in that movie. Violence has its place in movies if there is any taste or purpose at all to showing it. There wasn't in The Patriot.

Dude, it was a war movie!!

 

[xghost]

Originally posted by jack merchant
I didn't mind the historical inaccuracies in The Patriot - instead, I had a problem with the wanton and gratuitous violence in that movie. Violence has its place in movies if there is any taste or purpose at all to showing it. There wasn't in The Patriot.

I actually liked the patriot, even if it was historically inaccurate. But what the #%#!$# do you mean by there was no place for violence? The whole movie was about the violence between Britain and America!!!

 

[jack merchant]

Well, that just goes to show that it's possible to distastefully portray violence in war movies !

Do you really think a scene like the burning of the town population in the locked-up church served any purpose at all ?
Yeah, war is hell, then show all of it and make it the purpose of the movie to show it. Don't put in a movie which is basically a heroic epic to prove some sort of point (4 culture/turn ! ).

 

[thestonesfan]

I don't even remember it being particularly violent.

I like some movies because of the gratuitous blood and gore. Would "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" or "The Re-Animator" be the classics they are without it? I think not!

 

[jack merchant]

Well, it's obviously unreal there. And bear in mind, I did like Natural Born Killers !

Maybe I just thought it particularly tasteless and gross in The Patriot - good people can disagree on that, of course.

 

[xghost]

Originally posted by jack merchant
Well, that just goes to show that it's possible to distastefully portray violence in war movies !

Do you really think a scene like the burning of the town population in the locked-up church served any purpose at all ?
Yeah, war is hell, then show all of it and make it the purpose of the movie to show it. Don't put in a movie which is basically a heroic epic to prove some sort of point (4 culture/turn ! ).

The scene where all the townspeople were locked up by the big bad British and then burned? Sure, that had a point...to make you hate the bad guys even more! Otherwise, when the good guy kills them, you might actually feel sorry for them and nobody wants to feel sorry for an evil guy, do we?

 

[Mojotronica]

I have some friends who interpreted the Patriot's church-burning scene as a reference to the burning of the Branch Dravidian compound in Waco.

A parable for big gov't censorship of religious freedom.

 

[xghost]

MJ, your friends are either super eccentric, or too smart for there own good. But I think they're wrong, considering the people who made the patriot propably didn't even know about that, or if they did, would have the common sense to not put something as all confusing as all that. I didn't even get what you wrote until about the tenth time around.

 

[Mojotronica]

xghost --

My friends are pretty weird, but often in radically different ways.

I can't have a single party for all my friends because many of them can't stand each other. The liberals argue w/ the conservatives. The athiests argue w/ the religious. The irreverent argue w/ the earnest. It's like CFC, but in real-life. I fit right in.

***

Another pair of terrible movies --

Species and Species 2.

I can't believe my friend convinced me to go to the sequel. But he said, "If nothing else, you're paying matinee prices to see Natasha Henstrich run around nekkid."

So I went -- and it was NOT WORTH IT.

 

[Cunobelin]

"Toxic Avenger"

Nuff said.

 

[xghost]

Originally posted by Mojotronica

Species and Species 2.

I can't believe my friend convinced me to go to the sequel. But he said, "If nothing else, you're paying matinee prices to see Natasha Henstrich run around nekkid."

So I went -- and it was NOT WORTH IT.

No amount of nekkidness in a movie would ever get me to see one of those stupid Alien-Needs-To-Reproduce-In-Order-To-Live movies. God, whoever came up with that idea should be forced to reproduce with one of their own creations.

 

[MadScot]

Two options, one mainstream and one art house:

The Lawnmower Man
When Steven King launches a lawsuit to have his name excised from all publicity for a movie based on his book, that ought to be fair warning. But I saw it anyway. The worst 'mainstream' movie I have ever sat through. Usually the trashiest movie at least meets certain minimum standards of entertainment - you can usually laugh at the movie if nothing else.

I am unable to comment on "The Lawnmower Man 2" as my temporary insanity had passed by the time they released that particular turkey. It may have been worse than the original, for all I know. AFAIK the space-time continuum is still intact, so that does seem unlikely.

That last remark just reminded me - page five and no-one has mentioned William Shatner yet?

Butterfly Kiss
LM was bad, but at least it had Hollywood production values, sort-of. Butterfly Kiss was a piece of British arty garbage. The intelluctual power can be deduced from the names of the two main characters - Eunice, and Mimi (I think - I try to forget). The point was that they used nicknames - "You" and "Me" - I bet they burned the midnight oil coming up with that piece of genius. I don't think I've ever cared so little about any characters, ever. I diodn't hate them - that would have required some form of emotional connection. I genuinely did not care one iota about anything in the movie.

What I did care about was finding the colleague who had arranged the trip to see this (and then mysteriously failed to show up). After about 10 minutes we were convinced we were victims of some monstrous practical joke. When the torture eventually ended we found he had turned up, and had genuinely thought the movie would be entertaining. Strangely enough, I never saw another movie on his recommendation.

 

[RedWolf]

Originally posted by hbdragon88
9 dollars? Wow - it's only maybe five where I go to the theaters.

Harry Potter was crap - they duplicated the scenes well but failed to capture the spirit of the book. Might not be the worst, but it ranks low in my ratings.

Yes but you're talking Greenbacks and I'm talking Loonies.