What film do you call the worst of all?

One of my least favorite movies that I thought would be good before I saw it was Tremors 3. I liked the first two...but in the third, they gave the Graboids walking powers and the ability to fly. I didn't like that. They should of left the moster design alone. The acting was always bad in the trilogy, but that didn't bother me as much.

I loved tremors I II. Heat seeking graboids was great. I didnt seeIII, I couldnt see the first two being topped for an increasingly sophisticatred audience (right)
Worst Movie I saw 3 weeks ago it had to be a strait to video piece of crap called Wendingo.. wooooeey what a stench this load left in this reviewers plate.

Plan 9 was funny with the proper "little helpers" I loved the space ship where everybody came out from behind this curtain to the steering wheel.
The last couple of Segal movies really sucked, as did all of the last Stallone movies since RAMBO... First BloodII

"little helpers"

Way back when, a friend and I smoked a bunch of little helpers and went off to the local small art-house movie theater. Thought we were gonna see 'Tommy'.

We got there on the wrong day. The Short feature was a tourism film produced by the Florida Orange Juice council ca. 1962. Had lots of cheerleaders chanint 'O! J! O! J!' (Kinda wished I had this for the Simpson trial).

The main feature may be on my list of candidates for worst movie ever: 'Even Dwarfs Started Small'. Subtitled prroly from the German. The plot: patients take over an asylum and then the town. The catch? The entire cast was made of midgets and dwarfs.

I am wondering, are there any Segal movies out there that don't have 3 word titles?

dov, indeed I think "Plan 9" was voted the worst movie ever made...sort of a no-brainer, as all of Ed Wood Jr. movies were horrible. For me, the worst movies are those with some talent behind making them, and they still suck....Guy Ritchie's remake of 'Swept Away' with Madonna strikes me as a recent example.

P.S. Speaking of Ed Wood, 'Ed Wood' was indeed a very GOOD movie about a horrid director. Martin Landau as Bela Lugosi is a scene-stealing piece of acting.

"Ed Wood" is one of my favorite films and all the performances are engaging. Johnny Depp does a controlled comedic version of Ed Wood who was, to say the least, a quirky character. "Glenn and Glenda," another Wood opus involving transvestitism (Wood was a cross-dresser) is often on a list of worst films, "Howard the Duck" and "Ishthar" show up often but it's always personal preference (!) Every year has it's bounty of dull, silly or outright burnt offerings so one could post a "Year's Worst Films" for every year! I agree with cavfancier that "Swept Away" has to take the Golden Turkey Award for last year.

Yeppers, lightwizard, although I did enjoy 'Snatch'...he should stick to his specialty...reworking 'Lock, Stock and two Smoking Barrels' over and over...worked for Tarantino and 'Reservoir Dogs'...

I agree. When a director starts out they find their legs with subject matter and style. Once they explore that subject matter, it's a test to go onto treading new waters. Tarentino has yet to prove he isn't a one trick pony with his exploration of gangland (Scorcese had to make that decision and the results are decidedly mixed, although he made a great "Madame Butterfly" and "Raging Bull" isn't exactly a gangland flick although not one of my favorites). Ritchie is saddled down with the same dilemma and it becomes a crossroads for any talented person's career. We know there's no way but up with "Swept Away," a film that was a bogus idea for a remake. One reviewer referred to it as "Schlepped Away."

There are so many bad movies, it is tough to pick just one. I like bad movies that are funny because they are bad-- but the least watchable movie I ever saw was "The Perils of PK" a supposed comedy that was out in the early '80's I think. They had spliced together 20-year old footage from an Argentinian movie that was never finished, with some new comic footage including cameos by Larry Storch and other has-been comedians.

Among 'fun' bad movies I would suggest:
"Robot Monster": they ran out of money and wound up costuming the alien monster in a gorilla suit and space helmet. His high-tech equipment made soap bubbles.

"Santa Claus Conquers the Martians": admittedly it was made for children, but even so, it is a classic of bad movie-making.

"They Saved Hitler's Brain": Need I say more?

"Glen or Glenda": Ed Wood (Plan 9)'s first movie. He stars as a transvestite who doesn't know if his girlfriend will let him wear her
angora sweater.

"Monster Beach Party": Fakey rubber sea creatures eat teenage girls; many of them several times.

Full Moon Entertainment has been making some excellent 'bad movie' direct-to-video features in recent years, like "Head of the Family" about a family of mutants run by a giant head.

But you have to admit that Japan leads the world in bad-film making with those Godzilla and giant-monster films. My favorite bad Japanese movie is "Gorath" (1960's?) about a giant asteroid on a collision course with Earth. Scientists build rocket boosters on Antarctica and move the Earth out of the way.

Picking on some schnook director who doesn't have a clue about good movie making leaves me cold.

Francis Ford Copolla directed two of the greatest movies ever made in Godfather and Godfather II (I also thought Apocalypse Now was terrific).

But Godfather III was an abomination. And while it probably was not the worst film ever made -- considering expectations and talent -- it should be nominated in this thread.

Nothing is worse than Mexican "Z" movies but, since that's too much of a handicap in my favor, this is the list of my worst "international" movies:

Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
Alfie Darling (not to be confused with the Michael Caine Alfie)
Christopher Columbus: the Discovery
Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster
Peccato Veniale
The Silver Chalice
The Twilight People
Z.P.G

spielberg (technically brilliant, head full of schlock) should be drawn and quartered for a.i.

folks putting the li'l movies in their heads on celluloid for pennies have done nothing to draw my ire. i hope nobody comes and sits outside my house and excoriates me for the way i play the piano. but the the bloat and the expense of that atrocity (and others of similar bloat and expense -- hello, gladiator) are crimes against humanity. (i may be guilty of some small degree of hyperbole here.)

Remember a movie called "Waterworld" by Kevin Costner ?? One of the very few movies I actually walked out half way through

Hey, now, G, it's not okay to pick on the mentally handicapped. Kevin's doing the best he can.

Waterworld was memorable. I walked out of Titanic too (i'm flyin, I'm flying- smack her with a heavy pot or a pan on her head I say!)

And, the worstest of the worst: Me, myself and Irene with Jim Carrey. That was some jaw-dropping tasteless crap.

You got it completely backwards on Titanic. You're supposed to walk in halfway through the movie, not out...

Ahhhh. I think I will leave it alone though, let somebody else try, see if it works.

Titanic
Jaws
Cromwell (even though it was one of my favorites)


Anything with steven Segal. I hate how he is always "a peaceful man... forced to violence"

At age 16 dumb action movies started to insult my intelligence and Steven Segal's are the worst. Plus he is the all time worst dresser.

patiodog, even though I think A.I has too many endings (the newer one always worse than the former one), it's a movie I appreciate a lot. One of Spielberg's best, IMHO.

As for pretentious or expensive movies I found terrible, my choices are:

Airport
Casino Royale
Jésus de Montréal
Where Eagles Dare
Fatale
Battle Hymn
Godspell
Vivre pour vivre

My hands-down least tolerated movie: The Postman, featuring Kevin Costner.

I would have walked out on this three hour bore, but I'd promised my partner that I would go to a movie of his choice if he'd come to one of my picks. I selected "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", which we both enjoyed immensely. Of course it was particularly-funny to anyone who lived through the 70's as a young adult and a reader of Hunter Thompson. But then, my tastes led me to enjoy the Ed Wood movie, Glen or Glenda, AND Plan 9, ha ha! At any rate, following the horrid Postman experience, I recinded my offer of trading movie-going selection. Now, I will no longer attend any movie that I have a strong visceral negative response to. Unfortunately, this policy over the last 6 years leads to comments such as "Don't you ever GO to a mainstream film?"