the worst movies of all time

[frankenstein73]

Exorsist 2.
Texas chainsaw massacre (the mathew mconaghy renee zelwigger abomination)
Eraserhead

[Zardoz]

Hey I liked Eraserhead did'nt understand a second of it maybe thats why !   David Lynch went on to do some really great things .    (Twin Peaks, Dune, Blue Velvet,)  Eraserhead has to be the strangest movie I have ever seen and I have always looked for movies off the beaten path It was right up my alley But again it was totally sinceless Maybe thats why alot of people did'nt like it. because they could'nt relate to a single micro-second of it.

[charp13]

Whew!! I clutched my heart when I saw - under GENERAL DISCUSSION- Zardoz in RE: worst movies of all time
Oh, it's just you, Zardoz! I thought someone listed one of my favorite Sean Connery movies in this catagory!  Carry on....

[Zardoz]

Whatzupp !!!
While I'm here I might as well go ahead and cast another film or group of films into the worst catagory
It will probally make someone mad I know it makes my father-in-law mad. well here goes.
Any and all John Wayne movies and or Roy Rogers movies

[creaturerevenge]

I'm sitting here trying to think of some really terrible movies but most of what I am coming up with go more into the disappointing category... like they could have been good, but alas, they were not:

Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes (I love Burton and I LOVE planet of the apes, but that film... good lord was it awful)
Jurassic Park 3 (Joe Johnston... you let me down my man! although the aviary scene was pretty sweet)
Keanu Reeves Day The Earth Stood Still (the original is my favorite sci-fi film of all time... so a remake being made was on thin ice with me, but I figured hey, maybe it will be good and introduce a new generation to this amazing story with amazing characters... then they cast Keanu Reeves, and all my hopes died)
The Friday the 13th "reboot" from a few years back (a smart, well made reboot in the vein of Texas Chainsaw? Nope! More of the same from Jason... not that that's bad, but it was disappointing, it could have been something new and well told, but it wasn't)

[UndeadLegend]

Killjoy 1, 2, & 3.
My Soul to Take.

[neonnoodle]

Yeah, I was not really crazy about that F13 reboot either.  Although I did try to get what enjoyment I could out of it!  It reminded me of eating a dry orange with very little juice in it, you ever get those?

[Scatter]

   

  Well 'Attack Of The Crab Monsters' may not be high class sci-fi, but I like that Corman film.  Fifties and Sixties sci-fi B movies rock, just my humble opinion of course.

An opinion you know I share bruddah.

[creaturerevenge]

Amen to that! I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a person on these boards that doesn't like his or her share of classic 50's and 60's sci-fi flicks!

[marsattacks666]

I'm going to go with......... Halloween II(2009) I am a Rob Zombie fan, just a fan of his direction of H2.

[creaturerevenge]

I haven't seen it yet but I heard that from a lot of people. I'm a big Zombie fan too but something didn't sit right with me on that one from the get go... seemed like he didn't really want to do it and there was a lot of studio pressure on it. I do kinda want to see it out of curiosity but I'm afraid too...

[marsattacks666]

I'm going to go with......... Halloween II(2009) I am a Rob Zombie fan, just a fan of his direction of H2.

.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   I didn't proof-read my last post..........NOT a fan of Rob Z's H2

[mjaycox]

I had to separate these out. It wasn't fair to put Blood Feast on the same list as "Showgirls." Keep in mind, some of these were competently made, but morally repugnant in their messages. Hence their inclusion

Bottom Worst Mainstream Movies (I use the term loosely):

1) American Beauty (Why in movies is every military person a raging homicidal homophobe? Why is materialism not okay, but the prospect of statuatory rape is?)
2) Showgirls (natch)
3) Caligula
4) Birth of a Nation (yes I know how important it was)
5) Pretty Woman ( So corporate rape and ruining thousands of lives with dubious business practices is morally equivalent to having sex for money? because that is the buried message of this stuipid movie.)
6) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ( I expect heat on this one. Performances are all great. Jack is great, but I firmly believe that this was the movie that started the execrable trend of having the mentally handicaped in movies be portrayed as misunderstood misfits who just need to get along. Yeah, I know it's supposed to be allegorical, but the allegory is weak. If the sum of the allegory is to "be non-conformist.").
7) The Passage (although Malcolm McDowell as a crazy Nazi is pretty awesome, he must have been pretty coked up)
8.  ) Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves. (the greatest adventure story in English Lit, IMO, is given its worst treatment yet.
9) Natural Born Killers (The worst movie ever made by a natural born filmmaker. Only a truly talented person could make a movie this incredibly bad. Oliver Stone has made great movies, and I expect he will again. But an incredibly violent movie with an anti-violence theme explaining why it's bad that we are all so extremely violent? There's holding a mirror up to society, and then there' just plain being half-baked )
10) The Breakfast Club (every stereotype of kid in High School is represented. No scratch that-- every stereotyped kid in a wealthy North Chicago suburb high school. Except for one: where was the Goth kid, dammit? Because it wasn't Ally Sheedy. And why is every adult a sell-out? God I hate this movie. This is the sort of lazy, but impassioned writing that turns up in Summer creative lit seminars... but why does it have to be a movie. In the John Hughes canon, Pretty in Pink is so much more entertaining [probably because of James Spader and his great lines], and, of course Ferris Bueller.  But no, BF is the continualy lauded one...
11) The Passion of the Christ (A torture porn movie is given solemnity with excellent production values, and drapes itself in the dubious cloak of religious/historical verisimilitude to make itself bulletproof from attack. Much was made at the time of the anti-semitism. Personally, I don't see it in the film. Mel Gibson is clearly an anti-semite, but I don't see it here. This film exists for one purpose-- to sublimate some weird MG desire to see someone brutally tortured)

Genre (Horror/Fantasy/Sci Fi) Movies Worst:

1) I Spit on Your Grave (both versions)
2) Hostel (watching this Eli Roth film, I felt like the guy Eli Roth beats with the baseball bat in "Inglorious Basterds")
3) Blood Feast
4) Planet of the Apes (remake)
5) The Mother of Tears (God, this one's bad)
6) Cannibal Holocaust (Why do people twist themselves in intellectual knots to find value in this film? So what if it has 'documentary realism'? So does Pasolini's great "The Gospel According to St Matthew", but I don't usually find lovers of Cannibal Holocaust rushing to praise THAT amazing film... but frequently they express admiration for another Pasolini film: the next film on the list--)
7) Salo: 100 days of Sodom (As close to a snuff film as ever I hope to see. If you thought Isabella Roselini  was emotionally raped by David Lynch in 'Blue Velvet' [as I do--I mean th actress, not the character she plays], then you're really in for something when you see this ugly, banal movie)
8.  ) Twilight--all of them. Vampires don't sparkle.
9) Howling II: Your sister is a werewolf. (And this movie is a dog).
10) Queen of the Damned (This mess had direct to video writen all over it, but got a theatrical release because of the death of Aaliyah. The first film progressive enough to portray an Egyptian queen as black chooses not to go with any of our excellent classically-trained African American actresses, but yet another undertrained pop star, and then shamelessly cashes in on her increased poist-mortem cache' with a theaterical release).

[creaturerevenge]

Good horror list, but I have to say I disagree with you on a good 80% of the other films! Especially Caligula and Cuckoo's Nest. Caligula is just a great film. What was cool about Caligula was it was the first film about ancient Rome that wasn't just a typical sword and sandal epic. Nothing against those, they are one of my favorite genres... but Caligula did a great job of depicting what life was like in that corner of history and how mentally and morally screwed up a lot of Roman politicians, especially Caligula himself, really was. Plus it's just a really well made film. I think that film gave birth to a lot of the more realistic, open, and gritty storytelling styles we have in films today. Cuckoo's Nest is just a great film all around... I don't think anything else needs to be said on that one!

[Paul L]

Mjaycox: love your lists, & I'm in agreement on most of your mainstream choices, Cuckoo's Nest being an exception, & I've never seen Caligula. They have their moments, but Oliver Stone & Julia Roberts (among others) are terribly overrated. I don't know where to begin w/O. Stone. I literally love or hate his films. As for Passion: suffice it to say I'm not a fan of it or MG. I don't favor censorship in any form, however I wouldn't gripe if Birth of a Nation would quietly vanish from public memory.
Planet of the Apes brings me to Tim Burton. Like O. Stone, I love or intensely dislike his films. His originals (Nightmare Before Xmas, Big Fish) are great, but this man should absolutely STOP w/the remakes.