What is the worst movie ever?

[SirManchester]

Anchorman, and The 40 year old Virgin among some of the worst I've ever seen.

[Iceblink]

Anyone remember Valkenvania? It had Chevy Chase, Demi Moore, Dan Akroyd and John Candy. Awful, awful and to this day I wonder how I got suckered into watching it.

Was just coming to post this movie as the worst ever. Although I remember it being called Nothing but Trouble.

I also despised the movie Gone Fishin'['i] which had Joe Pesci and Danny Glover in it. I walked out of that one.

There was a movie with Cuba Gooding, Jr. called [i]A Murder of Crows which I found horrible.

[MeridianFC]

Man talk about dragging a thread back from the dead. In any case

Lost in Translation
Princess Bride
Harold & Maude

Should not even been mentioned in this thread. Even if you're not partial to them they are so far from "Worst Film Ever" as to make this laughable. I'm very partial to "Lost in Translation" but can understand its criticism. "Princess Bride" is pure brilliance. "Harold & Maude" is very good if dated.

Anchorman
40 Year Old Virgin

They certainly aren't good, could easily be considered very bad, but they're really not "Worst Ever" material.

[Claymore]

Liquid Sky. I was 17 at the time, and I remember walking out of the theater (I think it was a midnight showing) and thinking "what the ******** was that?!" The only reason I didn't walk out is that I was putting in time with this boho chick. It wasn't worth it (the movie or her).

[Ringo]

not sure if they were on the list the first time, but I'd nominate the lord of the rings trilogy. wait, I can't really do that.
the first one I walked out of with about 30 minutes left
the second one I fell asleep about 30 minutes in and couldn't stomach it on two other viewings (all watched on a borrowed DVD)
never bothered with the third.

so I can't say the trilogy was bad, because I never saw the third. but if the first two were any indication ....

oh, and the second matrix movie blew. of course, I assume the third could've been just as bad but I wasn't brave enough to watch it.

:)

[cleansheetbsc]

"The Firm"

To screw up such a good book, with such a good cast (Wilfred Brimley aside) I thought would be impossible. But they did.

[Unorthodox Yank]

Guys, c'mon.

Troll 2. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105643/)
Disco Godfather. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074412/)
Voodoo Black Exorcist. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070893/)
It's Alive. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071675/)

Bar none, the 4 worst movies I have ever seen.

[BenReilly]

In terms of failing to live up to expectations and given the resources available, I'd rank Star Wars: The Phantom Menace as the "worst movie" or at least most disappointing.

[BenReilly]

Lost in Translation.
--smug, smirking Bill Murray
--a complete lack of writing, i.e. not one memorable line
--stupidest ending ever filmed
--unbelievably racist.

I think it was a pretty good movie, but definitely a candidate for the Hall of the Overrated (your post notwishstanding). ***

[Via_Chicago]

Anchorman, and The 40 year old Virgin among some of the worst I've ever seen.

Wow, I'm generally surprised at how much some in this thread dislike The 40 Year-Old Virgin, which I found to be one of the very best comedies of 2005, and certainly one of the best, if not the best examples of its genre (the "gross-out" comedy) ever made. Certainly, I can understand why people would hate this movie if they don't like movies of this genre to begin with (including such films as diverse as There's Something About Mary and Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle). However, while cinematically the film is nothing special, with mediocre mise-en-scene and some sloppy editing, its writing is so smart, its performances from Carell and Keener so tender and warm, and its gags so funny, it's hard for me to hate it. While I can understand the aversion to it, I'd like to read why you lot seem to rate it as one of "the worst movies ever."

I agree that Anchorman is pretty much a stinker though.

[SirManchester]

Wow, I'm generally surprised at how much some in this thread dislike The 40 Year-Old Virgin, which I found to be one of the very best comedies of 2005, and certainly one of the best, if not the best examples of its genre (the "gross-out" comedy) ever made. Certainly, I can understand why people would hate this movie if they don't like movies of this genre to begin with (including such films as diverse as There's Something About Mary and Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle). However, while cinematically the film is nothing special, with mediocre mise-en-scene and some sloppy editing, its writing is so smart, its performances from Carell and Keener so tender and warm, and its gags so funny, it's hard for me to hate it. While I can understand the aversion to it, I'd like to read why you lot seem to rate it as one of "the worst movies ever."

I agree that Anchorman is pretty much a stinker though.

Well, I suppose I was wrong to put those two in the "wrost movie" ever category. I've seen worse from what I can remember, but I included these two because they have been among the worst of the past six years, at least in my opinion. Anchorman felt forced, nothing about it was flowing, and I personally didn't find one good joke in it. I generally found The 40 year old Virgin to be the same. I couldn't find Carrel's performance funny because it was scripted and again, seemed very inorganic for the lack of a better word.

[Ringo]

Wow, I'm generally surprised at how much some in this thread dislike The 40 Year-Old Virgin, which I found to be one of the very best comedies of 2005, and certainly one of the best, if not the best examples of its genre (the "gross-out" comedy) ever made.

I agree that Anchorman is pretty much a stinker though.


interestingly (or not) ... I kinda like anchorman. not loved it, but thought it was OK. but I thought Virgin was terrible. to each their own. :)

[spejic]

The revival of this thread could not be better timed. It is the herald to a rebirth of the vile.

Yes, man is a noble species. When faced with calamity and horror, we overcome it with strength and ingenuity, just like the ending to an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. However, once evil has been banished to its stygian crypt, it is man's lot to forget its very existence. For how can one live in peace knowing that such things exist somewhere? But the blissful respite carries the seeds of its own destruction. For some clod will eventually find the hidden, entombed evil and - unknowing! - bring it back into the light again! Just the like the beginning to an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

So it is with the movie Shock Treatment, which will be released on DVD a week from now. Ah, the foolishness. Yes, this movie will once again be crushed, but at what cost? How many souls must be forever tainted before it is once again forgotten? Too many, friend. Too many.

[Garcia]

I'd suggest these:

Blues Brothers 2000

Loose Canons

Both have Dan Aykroyd.

[Toon³]

Napoleon Dynamite.

It still remains the only movie I've ever walked out on and I've sat through Gigli. It wasn't that it was terrible acting, script, actors or anything like that (all 3 of which Gigli had by the bucket load) it was that nothing happened! Some mumbling Mexican and that ginger kid who you'd love to smack the moment he opened his mouth. The "story" was that the mexican wanted to become class president, I didn't know this until I read a review. It's garbage and how the hell it won anything instead of being blasted into the sun escapes me.

[royalstilton]

Napoleon Dynamite.

It still remains the only movie I've ever walked out on and I've sat through Gigli. It wasn't that it was terrible acting, script, actors or anything like that (all 3 of which Gigli had by the bucket load) it was that nothing happened! Some mumbling Mexican and that ginger kid who you'd love to smack the moment he opened his mouth. The "story" was that the mexican wanted to become class president, I didn't know this until I read a review. It's garbage and how the hell it won anything instead of being blasted into the sun escapes me.
here's a thought:

not everyone is as cool as you. some people recognize that there is a little bit of Napoleon in them, the same awkwardness, the same inability to keep our mouths shut, the same dreary family...

some of us liked Napoleon for the wrong reasons, though. we got to be smuggly critical of Napoleon, and even if he can dance better than we can, a lot better, it must be said, we don't think a dork with disco moves is anything more than a big joke, anyway.

ND is an Ugly Duckling movie, where the UD never gets completely redeemed. he's not a swan. he's still an ugly duckling,

so are we.

do you like the British version of The Office?

[Claymore]

Napoleon Dynamite.

It still remains the only movie I've ever walked out on and I've sat through Gigli. It wasn't that it was terrible acting, script, actors or anything like that (all 3 of which Gigli had by the bucket load) it was that nothing happened! Some mumbling Mexican and that ginger kid who you'd love to smack the moment he opened his mouth. The "story" was that the mexican wanted to become class president, I didn't know this until I read a review. It's garbage and how the hell it won anything instead of being blasted into the sun escapes me.
The movie really doesn't translate to audiences outside the US. My Scots cousins hated it as well.

[Ringo]

though it hasn't come out yet, i'd like to be the first to nominate Paris Hilton's new movie (legitimate movie, not home-shot).
yeah, that one's gonna blow (heh-heh. I couldn't resist).

:)

[cleansheetbsc]

The movie really doesn't translate to audiences outside the US. My Scots cousins hated it as well.

I guess the same could be said about "The Full Monty" here. blech.

[ForeverRed]

Guy Ritchie's last movie "Revolver" was aweful!