The Worstest Movie of All Time

[Lemur]

Gonna keep this short and sweet, just five choices:

Manos: the Hands of Fate

Showgirls

Troll 2

The Room

Plan 9 From Outer Space

And just to further discussion, here's the Wiki entry for worst movies ever made. It's sad how many of those films I've seen.

[jabarto]

I take it you're an MST3K/Rifftrax fan?

There was a 1961 film adaptation of Hamlet that was on MST3K once. It gets my vote because the production is so horrible I just couldn't watch it. I sat through Manos, I sat through Troll 2, I sat through Invasion of the Neptune men, but Hamlet was just too much.

But if you mean the worst out of those five, I'd say Manos.

[Crazed Rabbit]

Just five? And no Werewolf or Hobgoblins?

Werewolf:

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Hobgoblins:

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MST3k commentary because those were the only clips I could find.

I might have to go with Troll 2 from your choices. Truly horrible and whatever Ed Wood's faults at least he tried.

CR

[Fragony]

Terrible movies can be incredibly fun, Troll 2 is awesome, as is Killer Clowns from Outer Space, Evil Dead, etc, pure camp. So I take a movie that tries to be good, Blindness, incredibly bad. Truly terrible.

[drone]

The B-movies you can't really include. Low budget, cheesy special effects, bad acting, they are what they are. When talking about bad movies, you have to go with the ones people put real time and effort into. Showgirls, Battlefield Earth, Gigli, any Tom Green movie, etc.

[Sarmatian]

Wing Commander gets my vote. What a way to ruin a great game series (and your company while we're at it).

[Pannonian]

Corporate music, bad films. Lemur, where does your masochist streak come from?

[tibilicus]

The Wicker Man remake.

[PanzerJaeger]

The Conqueror (1956)
A Howard Hughes-funded box-office bomb featuring John Wayne as Genghis Khan and the redheaded Susan Hayward as a Tartar princess. The movie was filmed near St. George, Utah, downwind from a nuclear testing range in Nevada, and is often blamed for the cancer deaths of many of the cast and crew, including Hayward, Wayne, Agnes Moorehead, Mexican actor Pedro Armendáriz, and director Dick Powell.[56] The film made the 10-worst list in The Book of Lists, appears in Michael Sauter's book The Worst Movies of All Time, and was one of the films listed in Michael Medved's book The Fifty Worst Films of All Time. Hughes thought the movie was so bad that he bought up every copy (which cost him about $12 million),[dubious – discuss] and he refused to distribute the film until 1974, when Paramount reached a deal with him. This was the last film that Hughes produced.

Very interesting history behind that one.

[seireikhaan]

Alexander, directed by Oliver Stone. To this day, I cannot fathom how I made it through that entire thing. A four-something hour long movie that felt like nine.

[jabarto]

Say what you want about The Wicker Man, but having Nicholas Cage punch a woman while wearing a bear suit was one of the greatest moments in movie history.

EDIT: NOT THE BEEEES ARGGLARRHH

[Zradha Pahlavan]

Battlefield Earth takes the cake.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

Of the poll choices, I only saw Plan Nine From Outer Space - with the MST3K guys in theaters, it was awesome. Wickerman is terrible but enjoyable. I had a lot of fun with Battlefield Earth because a bunch of my friends and I essentially MST3K'd it ourselves. The worst movie, that I couldn't sit through, even with Riff Trax, was Twilight (how very cliche, right). Brain meltingly bad dialogue and delivery.

[A Nerd]

I voted for Showgirls. It ruined the career of that girl from Saved by the Bell.

MST3K was a great show. I used to watch it weekly.

[Louis VI the Fat]

I'm proud to say I haven't seen any of the poll movies.


Worstest movies should be about high profile movies, pretentious movies, box-office hits and the like, that are in contrast to any of these elements artisitically a real piece of crock.
Or else the worstest movie should be that elaborate movie set-up I had installed in my bedroom, cool lighting and multiple cameras to boot, to film me and my girlfriend 'playing twister', only for the stunt performer refusing to play along, despite prolonged attempts by the lead actress to convince him.



My worstest:

Independence Day. I had seen 'Deep Impact', the other 'meteor to destroy earth' movie of the same year. This was a really good movie, so I figured that maybe the reviews of ID had been unfair. Unfair they were indeed, for they should've read simply 'avoid like the plague'.
Troy. Well I like me a good historical movie, and I didn't think Gladiator was all that bad. Even with the worst of plots, one gets to see some nice CGI bringing ancient worlds to life, which was exciting several years ago. What a complete waste of time the movie was though.
Alexander. Well I like me a good historical movie, and I didn't think Gladiator was all that bad. Even with the worst of plots, one gets to see some nice CGI bringing ancient worlds to life, which was exciting several years ago. What a complete waste of time the movie was though.
The Adventures of JarJar Binks and His Froggy Friends. Or whatever part I was called again.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

Ep1 is definitely better than Ep2 and I'd argue better than Ep3.

[Secura]

Alone In The Dark.

Actually, just about anything directed by Uwe Boll, including BloodRayne and House of the Dead; there's a reason Konami told him there's no way they'd let him direct an MGS movie. xD

[G. Septimus]

I'm proud to say I haven't seen any of the poll movies.

yeah, me too

[pevergreen]

yeah, me too

Thirded, and I worked in a video store for two years.

[naut]

I voted for Showgirls. It ruined the career of that girl from Saved by the Bell.

Now there's a phrase you don't see every day.

[Lemur]

Corporate music, bad films. Lemur, where does your masochist streak come from?

I don't know if I'd call it masochistic, but I definitely have a "thing" for exquisite badness. Did you miss my tribute to bad tea party music in the Backroom? Or my gleeful celebration of Microsoft Songsmith in the Hard & Software sub-forum?

I voted for Showgirls. It ruined the career of that girl from Saved by the Bell.

Here's the thing about Showgirls -- unlike a lot of bad films, it manages to have something utterly, hilariously wrong in every scene. From an awfulness perspective, it never lets up. Whenever a new scene begins, you can honestly ask, "What will they ruin now?" I'm not aware of another bad film that achieves this level of consistency.

Very interesting history behind [The Conqueror].

Yeah, that's a pretty horrible film, but it does have an outstanding redeeming moment: John Wayne, in fright wig and droop mustache, drawling, "Ya know, yer beautiful in yer wrath."