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[Bronson]

What films do you think are the worst and why ? This includes films from all the major story genres and from all of film history. What is it about these films that makes them worthy of being in this category of bad movies.  Bad directing ,writing,editing , production values ,not so special effects, diabolical acting.  

Edited by Bronson, 10 January 2012 - 08:28 PM.

[SkynJay]

Did this thread once.

Had to give it some guidelines, otherwise people just copy/paste the wikipedia entry.

[Manhole Eunuchsbane]

Mac and Me. This film is a steaming hot bowl of Joan River's pussy runoff. Basically a 90 minute commercial for McDonalds and Coca-Cola and a blatant E.T. ripoff. Oh yeah, and the alien is a junkie for McDonald's fries.

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=vNjACYfQlbI

[Chise]

if left unchecked I may go on a 3 hour rant... so lemme just grab whats on top of my head right now

Fear-dot-com
Plot holes you can drive a truck thru, and they couldn't even keep the idea of what exactly is scary and how the website ties to anything. Or was that 2 websites and a bad Ringu/Ring parody?
Saw that sucker for FREE and still wanted my money back!

Where the Wild Things Are
a children picture book of barely 20 pages should not become a 3 hour movie!
This movie tries too hard to be DEEP! and indie nostalgic or something.. that just 40 minutes in you just wanna scream "alright already, I GET IT!!" the monsters are a deep bullsh!t metaphor. can we move on now?!? as your fingers search for the fast-forward button

Adventureland
soooooooooo boring!!! Jesse Eisenberg gets his lines out as awkwardly as possible and Kristen Stewart is always on the verge of showing an emotion but never quite gets there. Does one need to be stoned stupid to find it funny?

Moulin Rouge
"seizure in a can"  For something with such lavish costume and set designs, you'd think any shot can stay on it for more than 4 seconds to actually let me SEE THEM! Seriously, the movie gave me motion sickness

Avatar
Yes that one. Its pretty but awful as far as movies go. I don't mind a worn out dumb-as-nails story, but is it really that hard to tell it in more entertaining ways!?! CGI =\= plot
The only interesting & novel ideas about the planet itself (the whole "everyone has USB ports to flora/fauna") gets mercilessly buried under "OMG!! look! SHINY!!! BATTLES! things go boom!! " CGI Which wasn't even all that good... Personally, it made me sick enough to be unable to drive for next hour

Edited by Chise, 11 January 2012 - 02:02 AM.

[Arrogant Bastard]

When in Rome (2010)--Saw this in a cinema class in college where we viewed current releases and talked to director/producer/actors involved in it afterwards. This was just god-awful in about every possible way. Terrible, unfunny jokes mixed with both annoying performances and characters. The producer was on hand to be questioned by the students afterwards, and it was obvious he knew the movie sucked.

Juno--I found the title character and the quirky dialog insufferable.

Hitman--Probably the worst movie I'ver ever paid to see. My friends wanted to see it and I tagged along. Plot had someting to do with the assassination of the Russian president that absolutely no sense, which wouldn't really matter in a good acton movie, but the action scenes sucked and the romance between the hitman and the russian girl was cringeworthy.

The Wicker Man (Nicolas Cage version)--My friend actually recommended this movie, and he went with me and some other friends to see it again. It was awful, but it's almost one of those so bad it's good movies. I certainly laughed more at Nicolas Cage romping around in a bear costume, punching random teenage girls and screaming at everybody than I ever did during When in Rome or other terrible comedies. Includes such great lines as "You little liars! and you're the biggest liar of them all!" when Cage is interrogating a classroom of first grade girls and their teacher, or "killing me won't bring back your goddamn honey!". I've heard the original is actually very good, but I don't think I could watch it without being reminded of this version.

Matrix Revolutions--Definitely not the worst movie, or even in the top 20, but probably the most disappointing. I was excited to see it, and it just didn't come close to my expectations. The battle scenes were boring for the most part and the ending was really cheesy. I still haven't rewatched it since I saw it in theaters.

[Horza]

Zombieland - got bored of the huge 'you are being marketed to' crosshair painted on my neck the whole time.

Fantastic Mr Fox - self-indulgent Clooney wankfest with lazy animation.

The Wicker Man (2006) is a work of Art and has no place in this thread.

[Howdyphillip]

Sleepy Hollow Never, for any reason what so ever... Never, never, never, do you show the Headless Horseman with a head. Even if it is a creepy Christopher Walkin. When Tim Burton decided to do this, he gave a face to the scariest story of my entire life, and completely took away the reason it was so scary. The fear lies in not understanding if you were dealing with the supernatural, or a very real human monster. The fear, lies in not knowing what happened to Ichabod Crane. He told a completely different story which was not at all as good as the original, and had the gumption to sell it as a classic.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Tim Burton's remake of this film had absolutely none of the merriment and wonder that the book contained. Everything in this movie was just gothic and creepy. I walked out of the theatre feeling violated.

Alice in Wonderland Who the hell do you think you are Tim Burton? Do you fancy yourself a better writer than Lewis Carrol? You sold me a ticket to watch Alice in Wonderland, and then gave me a poorly written pile of dung that had nothing to do with the book other than the character names. Shame on you.

Planet of the Apes Directed by Tim Burton.... Are we sensing a pattern here?.... Did he even watch a Planet of the Apes movie before he filmed this? The story had nothing to do with what made the original movies so gripping and remembered.



Now... all of that said

Big Fish

which Tim Burton wrote and directed was one of my favorite movies of all time.

Edited by Howdyphillip, 11 January 2012 - 10:14 AM.

[Tormund Midgetsbane]

Sleepy Hollow was the tits dude.  Get out of here.


Oh Hi Mark

[matt b]

The Spirit (aka "People Talking in front of a Green Screen"). I think this one all came down to directing, Frank Miller's co-director credit on Sin City apparently made some people think he had actually directed the movie, so they trusted him to do this steaming pile by himself. I imagine the direction he gave the actors probably went something like this: "Alright guys, you know what to do here, right? You're actors, we're making a movie, get up there and act!"

[Howdyphillip]

Tormund Midgetsbane, on 11 January 2012 - 10:23 AM, said:

Sleepy Hollow was the tits dude.  Get out of here.
Oh Hi Mark

I am truly glad you enjoyed the movie. I can even see why you liked it. As a story in and of itself, it was pretty solid. The casting was absolutely inspired. If you are going to cast an undead being bent on murderous rage, then who better than Christopher Walken to play the role. Johnny Depp was great portraying the timidness of Ichabod Crane, and Christina Ricci was perfect for her role as well.There was a lot to like about this movie.

I probably would have liked the movie if it would have been called anything other than Sleepy Hollow. Burton missed the entire point of the story. The story is based on fear of the unknown, and by defining what exactly the Headless Horseman was, he gave it limitations. By giving it limitations, he took the fear out of the story, and it bacame an action movie. I like action movies, but when I go to a movie called Sleepy Hollow, I am looking to be frightend. I am not looking for someone to give me an interpretation, I am looking for a representaion of a story that has been beloved since 1820. It is the absolute hight of arogance to think that you can rewrite a story that has been around for almost 200 years and then give your story the exact same name.

[Greywolf2375]

Tormund Midgetsbane, on 11 January 2012 - 10:23 AM, said:

Sleepy Hollow was the tits dude.  Get out of here.

that's because Christina Ricci was in it.

(not sure what the vid link you had was - can't see it at work)

[Tormund Midgetsbane]

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(not sure what the vid link you had was - can't see it at work)

Completely unrelated link to some of the worst acting and film making of all time - Tommy Wiseau's "The Room".

[Øystein Bjaanes Lemvik]

Aliens vs Predator - Requiem

How can you screw up this film? You've got aliens. Predators. You can't go wrong, can you? Oh, yes you can. Let the brothers Strause show you just how horrible you can make a movie.

Not even fit for my garbage can.

[QuickTidal]

Howdyphillip, on 11 January 2012 - 10:11 AM, said:

Sleepy Hollow Never, for any reason what so ever... Never, never, never, do you show the Headless Horseman with a head. Even if it is a creepy Christopher Walkin. When Tim Burton decided to do this, he gave a face to the scariest story of my entire life, and completely took away the reason it was so scary. The fear lies in not understanding if you were dealing with the supernatural, or a very real human monster. The fear, lies in not knowing what happened to Ichabod Crane. He told a completely different story which was not at all as good as the original, and had the gumption to sell it as a classic.

I was all ready to jump on this, but that is BY FAR the most sensible reason I've ever heard to dislike the film. So kudos on that.

And yeah, I can't stand those other Burton flicks you mentioned either.

Worst film I have ever seen.

GUMMO

Seriously, If you want to see the worst film ever made... it is absolutey, and easly GUMMO.

[Chelly]

Øystein Bjaanes Lemvik, on 11 January 2012 - 12:08 PM, said:

Aliens vs Predator - Requiem

How can you screw up this film? You've got aliens. Predators. You can't go wrong, can you? Oh, yes you can. Let the brothers Strause show you just how horrible you can make a movie.

Not even fit for my garbage can.

This. Seriously! How can you screw up a movie that both Aliens! and Predators! Right away, this should have been a recipe for awesome, but all we got was a steaming pile of poo.

Skyline is probably the worst movie I payed to see ever!! I'm still pissed I paid full movie price to see this abysmal piece of shit. http://www.youtube.c...h?v=m0DjXh_EB7w
Everything is wrong with this movie! Acting, story, characters, direction.
I would also say Dragon Wars, http://youtu.be/MAwm-dRRv6M, but I saw that at a matinee and only payed $1.50 and I knew it was going to be laughably bad, but we were bored and there was nothing else to see...

As for the popular ones, I will never be able to scrub my brain clean of the traumatizing, nightmare candy, utterly stupid and preposterous excretion that is Splice. I didn't even pay to see it. I saw the damn thing on bootleg and I still feel like I WANT MY MONEY BACK! The acting was very good, so I will give it that, plus it had a really good premise, but everything else was just awful.
Since I watched it in bootleg, you know THE SCENE...

Spoiler

where Adrien Brody bangs the cow/squirrel/alien/monster thing who he has been treating as his DAUGHTER the whole time

You can actually hear the audience in the theater laughing!!! FAIL! Don't even get me started on the ending because I might lose my breakfast all over my keyboard.

[KiDisaster]

Any of the "______ Movie" movies (Date Movie, Superhero Movie etc.). All of them are absolutely horrible.

And, I'll probably catch a lot of hate for this one, Donnie Darko. It's not so much the movie itself that makes me hate it. It wasn't good, but it isn't just that. It was more how everyone I knew in high school (and quite a few people I know now) seemed to be obsessed with it and made it out to be like the best movie ever. I guess to me it seemed like it tried way too hard to be deep and failed miserably. I just don't see the appeal.

Edited by KiDisaster, 11 January 2012 - 01:24 PM.

[Jaimeisnotazombie]

when a strager calls - ssuper boring and, so dumb you start to root for the bad guy.

some crap artsy film called Martyrs  is by far the worst movie i have ever seen. i started off good though then just, tryed to hard and became shit. the ending scene was so fake it was laughable, plus there is a span of about 30 mins without a word being said.

[QuickTidal]

KiDisaster, on 11 January 2012 - 01:22 PM, said:

Any of the "______ Movie" movies (Date Movie, Superhero Movie etc.). All of them are absolutely horrible.

And, I'll probably catch a lot of hate for this one, Donnie Darko. It's not so much the movie itself that makes me hate it. It wasn't good, but it isn't just that. It was more how everyone I knew in high school (and quite a few people I know now) seemed to be obsessed with it and made it out to be like the best movie ever. I guess to me it seemed like it tried way too hard to be deep and failed miserably. I just don't see the appeal.

Spoiler

Teenager lives a time stream he wasn't supposed to and it causes the breakdown of ALL the lives around him as a result...ending with him deciding to accept his fate and die under the engine of a 747 crash so that all those people's lives will continue. You don't see how that is such a good film? To me that's fairly poetic and deep...but I 'spose we are different people.

[Manhole Eunuchsbane]

None of these (with the possible exception of GUMMO, which I haven't seen) can even begin to approach Mac and Me.

[Yana]

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - I mean, really, WTF?

also

The American - where do I start? Horrible story, horrible directing, horrible acting. The story has neither the beginning nor the end and watching George Clooney trying to do some method acting is just painful. Stick to what you know, dude...