The All-Time Worst Movies

Jim Garten wrote: One thing I forgot when posting above - I cannot leave this thread without defending Tim Burton (a previous posting was extremely scathing...); it's true, he doesn't always hit the mark (Big Fish and Planet Of The Apes come to mind), but when he does (Ed Wood, Edward Scissorhands, The Corpse Bride, Charlie & The Chocolate Factory), he can take dark fantasy/fairy tales to a new level - he gave Johnny Depp his first major break in movies (barring his awful appearance in A Nightmare On Elm Street ), and their collaboration has continued ever since, with Depp going from strength to strength.

He's one of the few contemporary directors with a strong signature, and always manages to create a unique atmosphere in all his films (except for Planet of the Apes). I'm moer than willing to forgive his minor flaws. Ed Wood is fantastic, but my personal favorite is Nightmare Before Christmas. Jack Skellington dramatizes the words a bit like Peter Hammill.

BTW:Forgot a really revoltingly terrible film: Signs. A strong top ten contender for my second list.




Edited by Rocktopus - July 10 2006 at 04:14

memowakeman wrote: Jean Claud Van Damme movies are totally bad, Garfield, Terminator 3, oh man there are so many...

Damn you! I read all through this thread, and nobody had mentioned 'Garfield', then you pipped me to it you swine!

How, in these days of jaw dropping CGI effects' can a major studio (also my employer, he said in muted tones) release a film where the main (CGI generated) character and whole raison d'etre for the film, looks as if somebody has sellotaped it to the screen as an afterthought. Bill Murray (surely the most irritating actor of the modern era, bar none) must have been short of a few dollars to agree to provide the voice over.

As for sequels (Garfield 2 is due to be released later this year ) & TV series adaptations (Starsky & Hutch, Charlie's Angels et al), you don't expect them to be that good, but do they have to be so bad?!?

Rocktopus wrote: To bother to hate a movie, I've had to have some kind of expectations for it to be good, so that leaves out Critters 3, Police Academy and Ninja Turtles etc..Here's my top ten list of overrated stinkers:  1. Life is Beautiful  2. Rekviem For a Dream  3. Magnolia  4. The Double Life of Veronique  5. Blue (Kieslovski)  6. Cinema Paradiso  7. Breathless (Godard)  8. Narnia  9. Eyes Wide Shut 10.Everyone Says I Love You

The Bigger, More expensive List of Overrated Stinkers 2!!
 
  1.Life is Beautiful (Benigni)
  2.Rekviem For a Dream (Aronofsky)
  3.The Double Life of Veronique (Kieslovsky)
  4.Magnolia (Anderson, Paul Thomas)
  5.Blue (Kieslovski)
  6.Cinema Paradiso (Tornatore)
  7.The Royal Tenenbaums (Anderson)
  8.Fried Green Tomatoes (Avnet)
  9.Pillow Book (Greenaway)
10.Raining Stones (Loach)
11.The Chronichles of Narnia (Adamson)
12.Life Under Water With Steve Zissou (Anderson)
13.Moonson Wedding (Nair)
14.Pret a Porter (Altman)
15.Black Cat, White Cat (Kursitca)
16.LA With No Map (Kaurismaki, Mika)
17.Much Ado About Nothing (Branagh)
18.Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick/Spielberg)
19.Bye Bye Lenin (Becker)
20.Hard Boiled (Woo)


Far Worse Than My Not Too High Expectations:

  1.Evolution
  2.Meet the Fockers
  3.Once Upon a Time in Mexico
  4.Analyse That
  5.Shallow Hal
  6.Stuck on You
  7.Wedding Chrashers
  8.Star Wars - The Phantom Menace
  9.From Dusk Till Dawn
10.Jaws IV
11.Bowfinger
12.Hudson Hawk
13.Natural Born Killers
14.Bruce Almighty
15.Hannibal
16.Along Came Polly
17.Four Rooms
18.AI - Artificial Intelligence
19.American Pie 2
20.Broken Arrow

From other people's hate lists: I love Dumb and Dumber and like Donnie Darko.

What? Noone's mentioned The Final Sacrifice, Werewolf, Space Mutiny, Invasion Of The Neptune Men, Reptilicus, or even Manos: The Hands Of Fate? For shame!

All the Austin Power movies were absolutely rotten, never laughed once, and i have a very childish toilet humour.

JrKASperov wrote: Wow two of you didn't like Eyes Wide Shut? You didn't get it?

    
Kubrick is my favorite director, but I didn't like that one too much either. I just didn't find it all that compelling.


With horrible movies, I could make a very long list. I shall then go the route someone else took, and choose based on expectation of some quality.

Titanic - Everybody raved about this. The characters were unintersting. The story is an old formula, and not even punched up at all. There is some considerable acting talent in the cast, but I guess they decided not to use it in this flick.

Chariots of Fire - Just plain dull. "Raiders of the Lost Ark" should have won best picture that year.

Any recent Will Farrell comedies - he's just doing the same thing over and over.

Chris Farley Movies - (see Will Farrell)

Adam Sandler Movies - (see Will Farrell, and Chris Farley)

David Lynch Movies - They start out stong, and then just get stupid. (Dean Stockwell singing with a blue halo, Nicholas Cage turning into Elvis) Although, "Dune" is pretty funny.

Dirty Dancing - Ugh!

I guess that's enough for now.

king of Siam wrote: gee lets see most of the horror films done in the past few years most of the comedies made in the past few years

I totally agree. I honestly can't think of a good, memorable movie of either of these types to come out for a looooong time

Geck0 wrote: One of the worst that critics talk about is that Spielberg one... Waterworld.  I've not actually seen it, but is it really as bad as people say it is? Kung Pow 2: Tongue of Fury seems to have a release date of 2006 on it... fingers crossed!  Oh and it's directed by Jim Carrey... is that good thing?

I others, but my most recent nomination is Mission Impossible 2. I just saw it on TV (at least I didn't pay for it, but it was around 3 hours long), and it makes no sense at all, and I would appreciate it if someone who saw it cleared these things up. I wasn't paying attention in a few parts, so I may have missed something important, and I may have forgotten something from the beginning which was important since the movie was so long, and I'm sorry that I don't remember most of the names. So, why: 

Edited by Ghandi 2 - July 09 2006 at 00:30

gee lets see