Worst movie ever?

[High_Jumbllama]

Star Trek V

Star Trek V completely sucked. The book was a hundred times better but thats not saying much.

[ravalox]

Hah! You really have to have _nothing better to do_ if you've ever watched "Escape from DS3". I think it's the first flick Bubba Smith was ever in, the lead character was a horrifying Ronald Reagan impression, and it's entire budget amounted to about a week's worth of groceries.

You gotta check it out.

[James_D]

Originally posted by Evildead666
yup, plan 9 has become a classic and has achieved cult status i'm afraid.

Moonraker isn't that bad, i mean worst movie of all time bad?
Worst bond, maybe, but they all have their cheezy bits, and they had no special effects really apart from toilet rolls and fairy liquid bottles...

I have seen Tetsuo: The Iron Man, who seems to be obsessed with knobbing people, and also becomes part cyborg, by mixing with metal. Guess which part becomes metal, and no, its nowt to do with pron this, just plain weird.
There was a Tetsuo II....

Yep The second is in Colors... And not as good as the first...

James.

[redgreenbluex3]

Titanic

[SitFlyer]

Re: Star Trek V

Originally posted by High_Jumbllama
Star Trek V completely sucked. The book was a hundred times better but thats not saying much.

Star Trek: Nemesis sucked more

[KvHagedorn]

I don't know about the WORST ever, but Dungeons and Dragons is certainly among the bottom 10%

[James_D]

Originally posted by KvHagedorn
I don't know about the WORST ever, but Dungeons and Dragons is certainly among the bottom 10%

Oh.. yes that was a tacky film...

But also Wing Commander was a pretty BAD Movie... at least compared to the games... WC4 has better cinematics than the film... heheh..


James.

[SitFlyer]

Check out some reviews here .

[Jammrock]

I've never seen it, but I hear "Manos Hands of Fate" is the worse. It was so bad that the people of Mystery Science Theater 3000 apologized for showing it.

Jammrock

[Gurm]

Hey, Wing Commander 4 had real stars. Second-string stars like Mark Hamill (sp?) and Ginger Lynn Allen, but stars nonetheless.

Wing Commander, the movie, had... err... Freddy Prinze, Jr.

- Gurm

[Kooldino]

Bed of Roses. Chick flick. WORST MOVIE, EVER.

My ex conned me into watching it years ago. She had a knack for picking terrible movies.

[KRSESQ]

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Originally posted by High_Jumbllama
Star Trek V completely sucked. The book was a hundred times better but thats not saying much.
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Star Trek: Nemesis sucked more""

Sorry, gotta take issue. Nemisis might have been a bit boring, but it wasn't in the same bad calibre as The Final Frontier, which was a continuous Bill Shatner "look at me, I'm directing! Look how clever and witty I am!" fest.

Yeah, Star Trek V really bit the big one.

Kevin

[Ajax]

- Driving Miss Daisy. I can't believe it won so many awards.

[agallag]

Ok, here's my vote for the best negative review I've ever read. I haven't seen the offending movie, but I'm not very upset about that

Travolta's vanity project so bad it's not even funny

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Battlefield Earth PG

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Starring John Travolta, Barry Pepper and Forest Whitaker. Directed by Roger Christian. At Famous Players., Cineplex Odeon and AMC theatres.
Zero stars




By Peter Howell
Toronto Star Movie Critic

Here it is only May, and already we have a serious candidate for the worst movie of the year.

Battlefield Earth is a bloated sci-fi monstrosity starring John Travolta as a leering buffoon in dreadlocks who battles sweaty savages for control of a scorched world. No, it is not Wrestlemania.

Let all challengers take heed: Anyone hoping to surpass these Olympian heights of badness will have to do something drastic, such as rolling blank film through the projector. Or maybe shooting the projectionist.

Blank film would actually be an improvement over this two-hour eyesore, which is so ineptly written, directed, acted and photographed it seems as if it were made by circus chimps.

It took the Planet Of The Apes series, which this film resembles in all the worst ways, a full five instalments of increasingly convoluted plots to approach this level of idiocy. Battlefield Earth does it right off the top, which is something of an achievement, I suppose.

It's hard to single out one scene to illustrate how bad this movie is, but try on the one I'm calling The Miracle of the Instant Airmen: A group of loinclothed brutes in the year 3000, struggling to defend Earth against evil alien invaders called Psychlos, teach themselves to fly Harrier jets that have been mothballed for 1,000 years.

They learn to do this by using an U.S. Air Force flight simulator that has also been left lying around for a millennium. They may be illiterate ``man-animals,'' as the Psychlos call them, but they're quick studies and a credit to American ingenuity (even if most of them are Canadian actors, since this was filmed in Montreal).

The post-Apocalyptic landscape of the film, which is rendered as dark mudpiles and industrial wastelands bathed in bilious tints of blue and green, works as a metaphor for the scorched careers of everyone involved in it.

It's easily Travolta's worst movie ever, and that's saying something for a resumé that includes such atomic bombs as Moment By Moment and Staying Alive. He has no one to blame but himself, because he also co-produced the picture and snapped up the rights to the 1982 novel by L. Ron Hubbard, the leader of the Scientology movement of which Travolta claims adherence.

Travolta plays Terl, the security chief for the goonish, poison-gas-sucking Psychlos who are enslaving Earthlings in the next millenium. It's a role that is meant to be villainous, but Terl's irritating laugh and furrball costume make it seem that Travolta was really auditioning for the role of Rum Tum Tugger in the movie version of Cats.

He is not the only thespian casualty of this Battlefield. Barry Pepper, the ace shooter of Saving Private Ryan and trusty jailer of The Green Mile, dons Tarzan attire and ashes to essay the role of jungle hero Jonnie Goodboy Tyler, but he has the acting range of Cheetah. A series of nostril flares and intense stares does not qualify as acting, Mr. Pepper.

And what exactly was Forest Whitaker thinking? He was so good recently in Jim Jarmusch's Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai, but here he's reduced to doing a bad imitation of Michael Dorf's hirsute Klingon from Star Trek in his role as Travolta's stooge.

All of these actors have done superlative work under strong directors, so the blame for Battlefield Earth must lie squarely on the sagging shoulders of production designer-turned-director Roger Christian, who should get back to arranging props and cease having anything to do behind a camera.

As he proved with Masterminds, the worst movie of 1997, Christian likes to keep his camera in constant motion but cares not if it leads anywhere. The wheel is spinning but the hamster is dead.

Battlefield Earth is lit up by exploding bombs, heads and planets, but it all looks like the fakery of computer screens and model miniatures.

Originality is in such short supply here thatChristian resorts to stealing ideas from Star Wars (for which he worked as set decorator in better days), including using warrior spacecraft modelled on Darth Vader's TIE bombers.

The story is credited in the main to first-time screenwriter Corey Mandell, who manages to pen not a single memorable line. The writing isn't even bad enough to be funny, as in the Kevin Costner howler The Postman. Battlefield Earth is as relentlessly grim as it is artless, and Elia Cmiral's bombastic score also makes it painful to listen to.

There is just one redeeming feature of Battlefield Earth. We are now spared the sleepless nights of wondering which gobbler will dominate the next Razzie Awards for worst turkey of the year.

[knirfie]

I vote for like every Spielberg movie out there