The worst movies of all time?

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AnonymouseUser

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ThanksKilling
I'm quite fond of really bad horror movies. The campier the better. I loved Rubber. I helped to fund the Mano: The Hands of Fate HD restoration. But ThanksKilling is just bad. It has been a while since I could not sit through a movie, but this one made me turn off the TV and leave the room.

I forgot about ThanksKilling. Try Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead. Let me know how far you get. I got ~30 minutes.
 
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Beauty is the the eyes of a beholder.

I thought it was horrible.

I'm by no means an award-show guy, but IMO the fact that a movie wins Best Picture should probably exempt it from inclusion on anyone's "worst movies of all time" list. Pretty much every critic and the overwhelming majority of the viewing public (including me) considered this film a masterpiece. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, which you have also listed, is great too (albeit not AS great).
 

Vdubchaos

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I'm by no means an award-show guy, but IMO the fact that a movie wins Best Picture should probably exempt it from inclusion on anyone's "worst movies of all time" list. Pretty much every critic and the overwhelming majority of the viewing public (including me) considered this film a masterpiece. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, which you have also listed, is great too (albeit not AS great).

I don't agree. But my opinion always seems to go against the herd.

Critic/public opinion means nothing to me. If anything it makes me more skeptical about the particular movie.

Toyota Camry was the best selling car # of years and won just about any award you can think of, does it make it "the best car"? Far from it, it's still an appliance if you ask me.

You can apply the same logic to Apple products, but at the end of the day I will never buy any of their products either way.

You will not change my mind, they were both horrible movies in my book.
 
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I don't agree. But my opinion always seems to go against the herd.

Critic/public opinion means nothing to me. If anything it makes me more skeptical about the particular movie.

Toyota Camry was the best selling car # of years and won just about any award you can think of, does it make it "the best car"? Far from it, it's still an appliance if you ask me.

You can apply the same logic to Apple products, but at the end of the day I will never buy any of their products either way.

You will not change my mind, they were both horrible movies in my book.

In fairness there's a difference between critical acclaim and commercial popularity. Most critics agree that Adam Sandler movies are dreck, but they make gazillions of dollars, and thus have something in common with the Camry. No Country For Old Men is a Ferrari 458 - universally acclaimed but of relatively little commercial relevance.

You sound like you're mostly just being contrary to be contrary.
 
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I will start off by proclaiming this film i found on netflix called"rubber" as the worst movie of all time,a killer car tire and a plot and story that makes zero sense...15 minutes of this suffering and you end up in the hospital.

Came to post this. /thread with OP.
 

dank69

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I know this topic is pretty subjective, but since the OP is asking for the worst movies of all time and not just bad movies, you people really need to filter your selections a lot better. Before posting a movie title you didn't like, first ask yourself this question: Was it better or worse than Glitter? If you can't honestly say that the movie was worse than Glitter then it has no business being posted in this thread.

Take Battlefield Earth for example. I know this film has generated a lot of hate, but there is no fucking way you can make a case for why you think Glitter is better than it. Being a horrible adaptation of a book isn't good enough by itself, because there are thousands of horrible adaptations out there.
 

Oyeve

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IMO, Scarface (1983) Has to be in the top ten really bad movies of all time. It is soooo fucking overexagerrated crap. I cant believe people love this. Everything about this movie is really corny. Robert Loggia really must be embarrased by his role.
 

Cogman

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I know this topic is pretty subjective, but since the OP is asking for the worst movies of all time and not just bad movies, you people really need to filter your selections a lot better. Before posting a movie title you didn't like, first ask yourself this question: Was it better or worse than Glitter? If you can't honestly say that the movie was worse than Glitter then it has no business being posted in this thread.

Take Battlefield Earth for example. I know this film has generated a lot of hate, but there is no fucking way you can make a case for why you think Glitter is better than it. Being a horrible adaptation of a book isn't good enough by itself, because there are thousands of horrible adaptations out there.

Good point, but I still want to throw the last air bender out there. It wasn't even a book adaptation, it was a tv series adaptation. I mean, shamalamadingdong was given superb characters to work with. He was given EVERYTHING. The story, the character's, the background, everything.

Yet in the very first scene, you have to question whether or not he even watched the series. I mean, come on, he changed the name of the main character. Why the hell would you do that? There was absolutely no reason to do it. The audience knows the correct pronunciation of the main characters name, they have heard it 100 times in the series.

He took something that was playful, funny, and sometimes serious and turned it into bad acting and special effects (Transformers?).

I get that glitter is bad, but honestly, did anyone expect it to be good? I mean, it is the show about a whiny white girl "in the hood", It doesn't really had no chance to be good.

The last air bender, on the other hand, was an awesome tv series that has so -much potential to be awesome and it was turned into a shit tastic movie that is just as bad as glitter. That, IMO is what makes it worse than glitter.
 

BrokenVisage

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Attack of the Killer Tomatoes

It was intentionally made to be awful, and that's why it's so good. It's a great movie, because it's the most god-awful movie in existence.

Yeah it was bad, but at least the cartoon was... only slightly worse.
 

dank69

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Good point, but I still want to throw the last air bender out there. It wasn't even a book adaptation, it was a tv series adaptation. I mean, shamalamadingdong was given superb characters to work with. He was given EVERYTHING. The story, the character's, the background, everything.

Yet in the very first scene, you have to question whether or not he even watched the series. I mean, come on, he changed the name of the main character. Why the hell would you do that? There was absolutely no reason to do it. The audience knows the correct pronunciation of the main characters name, they have heard it 100 times in the series.

He took something that was playful, funny, and sometimes serious and turned it into bad acting and special effects (Transformers?).

I get that glitter is bad, but honestly, did anyone expect it to be good? I mean, it is the show about a whiny white girl "in the hood", It doesn't really had no chance to be good.

The last air bender, on the other hand, was an awesome tv series that has so -much potential to be awesome and it was turned into a shit tastic movie that is just as bad as glitter. That, IMO is what makes it worse than glitter.
I totally understand where you are coming from but hear me out.

I don't think being a disappointment is enough to qualify a movie as "worst ever" the same as I don't think a movie gets a free pass just because nobody thinks it will be good. Sure, Airbender sucked to people that were fans of the tv series, but to people that have never seen the tv series it might seem like a perfectly normal movie.

Glitter, however, is painful to watch for anyone who isn't a diehard Mariah Carrey fan. It is painful because you know the movie isn't a joke, they actually thought it was good when they were making it.

I just think a movie needs to stand on its own when determining which is worst. :\
 

BrokenVisage

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As an aside, this isn't the "worst" movie by far but True Romance gets SOOOOO much praise by some people, and even though the cast is star-studded and Tarantino/Tony Scott is/was great, it's just not a good movie to me and actually kind of hard to watch. Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette are just obnoxious together and take away from anything good the movie has to offer. And that's all I have to say about that.
 

sactoking

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I'm by no means an award-show guy, but IMO the fact that a movie wins Best Picture should probably exempt it from inclusion on anyone's "worst movies of all time" list. Pretty much every critic and the overwhelming majority of the viewing public (including me) considered this film a masterpiece. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, which you have also listed, is great too (albeit not AS great).

I don't know, I thought The Hurt Locker was one of the worst movies I've seen, and it won Best Picture.
 

smitbret

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I raise you with Nothing But Trouble.

Yep, that movie has long held the title of worst film for me. Such a promising cast at the time but the whole thing is just a bad joke on acid.

1 - Nothing But Trouble
2 - Eight Crazy Nights (Bad, even for Adam Sandler)
3 - Star Wars - The Phantom Menace

I've never understood why the technology was more advanced in EP 1,2,3. The ships are shinier and more stylish and the characters are more stilted and annoying. Did the empire kind of enter the dark ages after the clone wars?
 

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i second that. it was supposed to be this great camp gem but turned out to be deadly boring. (it's The Advevtures of Buckaroo Banzai we're talking about).

lately, i thought Melancholia was absolutely horrible.

now i'm thinking about making a thread called "Films which you know suck, but *you* enjoyed".

And who could forget Rocky Horror Picutre Show?
 
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