What is the worst movie ever?

[GringoTex]

Originally posted by otterulz

The Thin Red Line


This was the best war movie in the last ten years, and certainly a lot better than "Saving Private Ryan," which was nothing more than poor man's Sam Fuller.

[GringoTex]

Originally posted by nicodemus


I'm all about "new cinematic language" and all that good stuff, but that one just didn't do it for me. I love Tarkovsky and others he mentioned as ground breakers. Musically, I love John Cage, Iannis Xenakis, Tuur, Tan Dun and everyone else turning music upside down and I love visual artists that paint weird crap, so I certainly don't have an issue with stepping out and doing something new. I think I was so bored with the movie because it was almost awesome. I liked a lot of Rosenbaum had to say, I just don't think Kiarostami achieved it.

Fair enough. As long as you like Tarkovsky.

[GringoTex]

Originally posted by Northside Rovers


Yeah. Platoon really sucked.



Platoon didn't really suck- it was just stupid. At first Stone was stupid- then he sucked.

[nicodemus]

Originally posted by GringoTex


Fair enough. As long as you like Tarkovsky.

Heck yeah, I would consider not talking to someone that didn't like Andrei Rublev .

[jmh30]

Originally posted by GringoTex
This was the best war movie in the last ten years, and certainly a lot better than "Saving Private Ryan," which was nothing more than poor man's Sam Fuller. Wuh buh huh? That movie bit. "Hey, I've got a great idea! Let's make a war movie where NOTHING HAPPENS!"

[supersport]

Eyes Wide Shut

[irvine]

Originally posted by B1

Waking Life by Richard Linklatter. I'm a fan of his films, however, this one was just unwatchable. Terrible film, so boring.


No way. The bit on Philip K. Dick alone was worth it.

Battlefield Earth was a terrible book and a worse movie. I can't remember seeing a movie that was meant to be good and turned out so bad.

And doesn't everybody love Tarkovsky?

[zverskiy yobar]

Anything with john travolta.

[mkb3]

I'm turning back the clock, but Caveman was pretty bad. With Ringo Starr and (then?) wife Barbara Bach. Nice cleavage.

On another note, I thought Waking Life was amazing. I guess it all has to do with your mood and what you are expecting from a movie.

I also thought Thin Red Line was a different, and moody, but great war movie.

And Woody Allen rules, but then I think neuroses are kind of fascinating. Probably bec I'm so screwed in the head. :-)

[TrooperBari]

Ah, I was wondering when another one of these threads would emerge. Friends, I love bad movies - the worse they are, the more I enjoy them. The evidence layeth within:

http://www.badmovieplanet.com/3btheater/

The worst of the worst: 'Octaman.' To date it's the only film to ever receive the "18th Amendment" rating on our site. Some choice comments:

"I normally would ferociously defend any film in this genre but once in a while I get a curveball. A nasty surprise that brings my philosophy to its knees sending me into a fetal position, with thumb planted firmly in mouth, to rethink things for a while.

'Octaman' is the biggest knee-buckling curve I’ve ever encountered or endured, topping even 'The Howling VII: New Moon Rising (or as I like to refer to it: Howling VII-No Werewolf in Sight: Honky-Tonk Armageddon.)' 'Octaman' shall be the litmus test for all 18th Amendment films to follow.

Dr. Freex warned us all. He states that the film caught him off guard and should be outlawed by the Geneva Convention. I did a little research, and would you believe it, stuck in the middle of the treatise on the ban of chemical weapons and the regs for what to do with a deposed dictator, a warning scrawled in crayon to avoid Octaman at all costs. (Well, there wasn't, but there is now!)"

That said, here's the best of the worst: 'Robot Monster,' a.k.a. Phil Tucker's magnum opus.
http://www.badmovieplanet.com/3btheater/r/robotmonster.html

"'Robot Monster' is a legend among the B-movie brethren and definitely needs to dethrone 'Plan Nine from Outer Space' as the best B-movie ever. In fact, this is one of my favorite films of all time. Where as 'Plan Nine' grinds to a halt in spots, there are no dull moments as 'Robot Monster' brings the cheese non-stop from start to finish.

Of director Phil Tucker I can only paraphrase Dan Aykroyd’s character Dr. Ray Stantz in 'Ghostbusters;' Either the director was a genius or a certified wacko._

Tucker couldn’t afford a real robot costume so he hired George Barrows and his gorilla suit. (He played every other gorilla that Bob Burns didn’t play.) Despite this and all other budgetary limitations Tucker produced himself a wonderful sci-fi epic. This film deserves its cult status and is no where near as bad as its reputation. It is bad but it’s bad in all the right ways - unlike 'Octaman' or 'Pigs' that give B-movies the bad rep they don't deserve."

[Daniel from Montréal]

The Royal Tenenbaums

Not the worst by far, but rather very very not good, considering the high praise it received. My bro, my mom and I saw it separately and we all came to the same conclusion: the parts that are supposed to be funny just aren't, but people are confused because the movie comes over as "quirky" and "sophisticated".

A good review for my POV: ign.filmforce.com; it's there somewhere.

[Khansingh]

Originally posted by nicodemus
Titanic

Pearl Harbor

and any movie where weather is the main character.

You're Goddamn right! Basically anything from Cameron and ********heimer goes on this list. But to further the list:

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Con Air
Enemy of the State
Bad Boys
True Lies
Shakespeare in Love
Four Rooms
Erin Brockovich
Spiderman
Wing Commander
Armageddon
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

[kenntomasch]

Originally posted by spejic
> Anything by Oliver Stone

The Untouchables was a pretty good popcorn action flic,

Except Stone didn't direct it. Brian DePalma did.

The worst two movies I have ever seen (and I have no idea why to this day, except that I think my then-wife wanted to see them) were Mad House which had John Larrouquette and Kirstie Alley in it, they bought some house and things went from bad to worse (like they do), and Funny Farm, which had, as its only redeeming quality, the lovely Madolyn Smith (from Urban Cowboy). But Chevy Chase (who was last funny in Fletch) was horrible, and so was the film.

I never walk out of movies, but I wanted to walk out of the former, and should have walked out of the latter.

Dana Carvey's new one, The Master of Disguise, appears to have a chance to be one of the worst ever.

[geordienation]

Any discussion that doesn't include Autumn in New York is just wrong.

Maybe the single biggest waste of resources in the history of film.

[phats_away]

Originally posted by GringoTex



Anything by Jeunet, especially "Amelie" which is a French film for Americans who hate French films.

i'm sorry, but your 'tastes' have been put on my sh1tlist. a truely wonderful movie

[listentobobmarley]

Bagdad Cafe


4 words:
Fat Naked German Woman

[monster]

The Piano
My Father, the Hero
Speed 2

[AllStarBCS]

Billy Elliot.

[Dr. Wankler]

Originally posted by kenntomasch
Dana Carvey's new one, The Master of Disguise, appears to have a chance to be one of the worst ever.

I almost feel bad for him, having his flick open at the same time as the new Austin Powers movie. But then I see the ads featuring the Turtle imitation, and come to the conclusion he's bringing his ill-fortune on himself.

No one had mentioned Con-Air yet. That was awful.

My all-time least-favorite flick... Titanic, though I have to say, I enjoyed watching it when it first came out: I was in Toronto because my wife had a conference to attend. One afternoon, I walked into a theater for a $2 (Canadian) matinee. I think I was the only one there who consistantly sleeps under the same roof. It was great listening to these folks rip on the movie, laughing when Cameron was trying to be profound (and failing), and cheering when the iceberg made its first appearance.

Which is a point that needs to be made: in the proper environment, even bad movies can be enjoyable.

[minorthreat]

With regard to Waking Life, I wouldn't say it was one of the worst movies ever. Visually impressive? Yes. Incredibly and insufferably pretentious? Yes. But it wasn't -that- bad.

Now, Manos: the Hands of Fate, on the other hand... even WITH the MST3K commentary, it's almost unwatchable.