All new ILE movies poll: THE WORST FILM OF ALL TIME, EVER, WITHOUT ANY QUALIFICATION. Nominations thread.

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The only Fight Club that matters:

Fight Club 1910 (A Masterpiece Theatre/Merchant and Ivory Production)

Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Thirteen
Elephant
Baby Geniuses
The Faculty
10 Things I Hate About You

billstevejim, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Garfield
Alien vs Predator

billstevejim, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)

HUMAN TRAFFIC!!!
I liked that one! V. entertaining!

True Lies
This one should be in the finals, too.

Something by Lars Von Trier?
Yeah, I mentioned 'Dogville' upthread.

Fight Club
The Sixth Sense
The Others
What, are you MAD? Fight Club may be pretty over-rated but WORST MOVIE EVAH?!?!? And as for the other two, I suspect you're just trying to be controversial.

No, I really, really dislike that trend in movies that these three films represent: In the late 90ies / early 00's every godamn movie had to have this stupid-ass ending that turned the whole thing around in a really pathetic and aren't we surprised??? manner. And after 'The Sixth Sense, anyway, everybody had guessed that this was one of those movies (if it was) after 5 mins. 'The Life Of David Gale' firts into that category, too. Luckily, this seems to be largely over by now.

Jay-Kid (Jay-Kid), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

This thread has continued to mention films that I enjoy unapologetically since my last post.

polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Am I the only one who thinks Donnie Darko is RIDICULOUSLY overrated?

Anyway, as far as worst movie evah goes:
From Hell
Gigli
Envy
Armageddon
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (I saw this in the theater with my younger brother and we both walked out--he was around 8 at the time)

I'm personally a fan of "laughably bad" movies (Showgirls, Resident Evil, Blade Trinity was a LAUGH RIOT), but the above mentioned were just torture.

Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Not even the worst of these movies is as bad as the ILX 1990s poll... or any collective tabulation of ballots, for that matter.

Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't believe I'm this far down in the thread and Highlander 2 hasn't been mentioned.

brandon larson, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

funny how all of these were made in the last decade

a banana (alanbanana), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the original.

David Merryweather (DavidM), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, the last decade ain't exactly the Golden Age of Cinema...

Joe (Joe), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:36 (twenty-one years ago)

How about Araki's The Doom Generation?

Joe (Joe), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I pissed blood for a week after watching "Love Actually", so I'll second that choice.

darin (darin), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Boat Trip
The Matrix 3
What Women Want (noted for excessive trying-on-outfits scene)
Wild Wild West

jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Warriors of Virtue

Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:54 (twenty-one years ago)

The Neverending Story, Pt. II

n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

True Lies was hilarious!!

Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 21:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Battleship Potemkin yo, the storming of the Winter Palace had every cliche in the book.
-- Gordy Stevenson (sonofsteve...), February 15th, 2005.


HAHAHA. Brilliant!

Francisco Monar (fmonar), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 21:15 (twenty-one years ago)

LOST IN TRANSLATION

latebloomer: HE WHOM DUELS THE DRAFGON IN ENDLESS DANCE (latebloomer), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 21:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Would this be a good time to mention that Leonard, Part 6 is finally coming out on DVD in April?

Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)

DC Cab

daria g (daria g), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 21:44 (twenty-one years ago)

please people these movies are all better than those you voted for in the ILE "best of" poll

i mean seriously guys seriously

Riot Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 21:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Am I the only one who thinks Donnie Darko is RIDICULOUSLY overrated?

Metacritic says:
Video: Donnie Darko (2001) 71
Film: Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut (2004) 88

So, no.


LOST IN TRANSLATION

No.


american beauty

No.

I'm usually pretty good at avoiding terrible movies altogether. I don't know if I'd call this the worst, but it's horrible and it hasn't been mentioned:

Star Wars Episode 1, 2.

sleep (sleep), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Donnie Darko IS overrated, but it's also really good.

billstevejim, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 22:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Re: Donnie Darko - I meant "so, no, I don't think it's overrated".

sleep (sleep), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 22:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean, personally I've never heard anyone raving about it or anything, so all I have to go on is the metacritic scores as a rule of thumb. And if I had to attribute a numeric score to that film (the original, I haven't seen the director's cut), it would be higher than 77.

sleep (sleep), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 22:08 (twenty-one years ago)

or 71 even!

sleep (sleep), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 22:08 (twenty-one years ago)

From the past 15 years or so:

1. Irreversible
2. Groove
3. Duplex
4. Glitter
5. Baise Moi
6. 8mm
7. Fat Girl
8. Sweet Home Alabama
9. About Schmidt
10. Monster's Ball

Runner's up:

The Patriot
The Phantom of the Opera
Prospero's Books
Anger Management
Reindeer Games
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Sleepless in Seattle
Bringing Down the House
Cabin Fever
Paparazzi
National Lampoon's Gold Diggers
Now You Know
Lovely & Amazing
Duct Tape Forever
Hollow Man
Igby Goes Down
The Anniversary Party
Kicking and Screaming
3000 Miles to Graceland
Ali
Chaplin
One Hour Photo
Road to Perdition
40 Days and 40 Nights
Crime and Punishment in Suburbia
Edgeplay: A Film About the Runaways
Flight of the Phoenix
Full Frontal
Garfield: The Movie
Sleepless in Seattle
Pay It Forward
The Ladykillers
King Arthur
Imaginary Heroes
All the Real Girls

Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 00:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I actually own Donnie Darko, and like it less every time I watch it. After it came out on DVD a lot of people at my high school and now in my dorm are OBSESSED with it and think it's just the greatest! movie! ever! while I think there are better time travel movies (12 Monkeys) and just better movies period. Unfortunately I have no knowledge of Metacritic's rating system, so the numbers mean nuffin to me. ;p

Oh, and Star Wars Episode 2 seriously almost made me cry. It was like watching a childhood pet being brutally raped.

Oh, and I just remembered the atrocity that was Swordfish. And then I blacked out for five minutes.

Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 00:14 (twenty-one years ago)

If you see it in a used bookstore, The 50 Worst Films of All Time is actually a very entertaining read. But it leaves off in the '70s...

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0445041390/ref%3Dnosim/thestinketheulti/103-1692983-7487002

Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 00:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Falling Down

Stupornaut (natepatrin), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 00:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Well I mean, I can understand if everyone around you was obsessed with it and wouldn't shut up about it. Overexposure changes things of course, and I'm the same way with music. Personally I just saw Donnie Darko recently having never really heard of it. It's one of my favorite films I've discovered within the past year or so.

Metacritic scores are out of 100, and they're basically a weighted average of the reviews of a bunch of different major/respected publications/critics. So it gives a rough idea of general critical consensus.

sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 00:58 (twenty-one years ago)

what's funny about SW: Ep 2 is that I thought it some some sequences that were really quite good (much of that opening chase scene business, Ewan McGregor travelling to that water world) surrounded by appalling crap.

Riot Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 02:06 (twenty-one years ago)

oh and Road to Perdition is almost unbearably awful, you're right. The sort of movie that tries to trick people into thinking it's good. Fucking terrible.

Riot Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 02:07 (twenty-one years ago)

people: Million Dollar Baby

Aaron A., Wednesday, 16 February 2005 02:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Sleepless in Seattle

So bad, I listed it twice.

Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 03:02 (twenty-one years ago)

The most thought-provoking comment ever made about Sleepless in Seattle was when someone pointed out to me that if Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks' characters swapped places, it wouldn't be a cute love story, it would be stalking.

Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 03:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Attack of the Clones.
D Darko -- overated, but good.

I Heart Huckabees was fucking awful.

Star Cauliflower (Star Cauliflower), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 04:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Titus is the only movie I ever walked out of.
Third for Love Actually.
Moulin Rouge makes me violent- not just for the movie itself, which is fucking horrific, but for the obnoxiousness of the people I know who tried to convince me it was wonderful.

TayBridgeCatastrophe (TayBridge), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 04:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Scary Movie 2 might be the worst movie I have ever seen.

sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 04:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I liked Moulin Rouge and Love Actually. And I'm a guy. Does that mean I'm gay?

Star Cauliflower (Star Cauliflower), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 04:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry, but the Medved brothers book is the duddest of duds. And not just because I think Ivan the Terrible is one of the two handfuls of the greatest of great. Mostly because it's like MST3K without the funny and with the snark hostility turned up to a super-entitled degree.

And quit doggin' on the French artsploitation.

Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 08:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Falling Down

What!? This is one of the classics of the 1990ies! It works on so many levels, even though it's spelling things out for us at times. Robert Duvall is such a fine actor. I just love to see watch him on the screen. He doesn't really have to do much, just run around and talk a little.

Jay-Kid (Jay-Kid), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 09:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Starship Troopers 2.

it wins handsdown. Pack up your bags and go home - nothing to see here.

Anko Painting (Anko2), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 10:08 (twenty-one years ago)

The most thought-provoking comment ever made about Sleepless in Seattle was when someone pointed out to me that if Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks' characters swapped places, it wouldn't be a cute love story, it would be stalking.

I'm not a big fan of romantic comedies in general, though can understand their 'place' in the movie/life rubric and why people would want to see them. But there's something about Sleepless in Seattle particularly that really pushes my buttons, I can't really put my finger completely on it. It reaches beyond Hanks' mewling for his departed wife (usually, they at least try to be more subtle about that level of audience-manipulation factor in the scripts) and even moreso that annoying little kid who instinctively just...knows!!! who is right for his dad and will sabotage anything/anyone that doesn't fit The Plan...to unite his Dad with a woman from some other part of the country whom neither has met.

It's not just that I find the movie's sentiment exceptionally false, even for a romantic comedy, but more that what it's holding up as an ideal for a relationship...that you should "just know" (by instinct or fate or "magic") who the right person is that's "meant for you", and that forming a healthy relationship doesn't require work, trial and error, and substantial emotional investment and constant communication to maintain once you think you have found the right person...it seems to me a rather harmful message. I find it mind-boggling that anyone would be *touched* by the story after having seen it rather than insulted and slightly disturbed.

Joe (Joe), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, Falling Down is pretty good.

billstevejim, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Holy crap, Top Gun isn't on here.

billstevejim, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

HUMAN TRAFFIC

monia.l (monia.l), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never been so bored and shocked by how bad a film has been

monia.l (monia.l), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I think there are more good films in this thread than the ILE Best of the '90s.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6300268624.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)


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