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

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21 Grams

― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 02:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Grease
The English Patient

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 02:44 (twenty-one years ago)

3000 Miles to Graceland

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 02:48 (twenty-one years ago)

life is beautiful

― chris andrews (fraew), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 02:53 (twenty-one years ago)

it's "sphere" or "outbreak"
both starring dustin hoffman
inexplicably

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:16 (twenty-one years ago)

200 Cigarettes

― rainbowelf, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Garden State

― JD from CDepot, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, it probably is Volcano.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I think you're forgetting that Volcano had a volcano and therefore it had fire. There are several other films listed here that did not.

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:35 (twenty-one years ago)

i'd say "kate and leopold" but i never saw it, and neither did you.

― f--gg (gcannon), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Armageddon

MISSION TO MARS

― latebloomer: HE WHOM DUELS THE DRAFGON IN ENDLESS DANCE (latebloomer), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Conspiracy Theory and possibly irrationally, School of Rock

― Aaron A., Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:42 (twenty-one years ago)

"i'd say "kate and leopold" but i never saw it, and neither did you"

I saw it! It wasn't as bad as Pay It Forward.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Reality Bites.

― mike a, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:44 (twenty-one years ago)

i liked Signs. i thought it was a great piece of hokey X-filesishness, i thought the fake looking lizard men were GREAT!

i liked the atmosphere of the film...cornfields and things that jump!

― latebloomer: HE WHOM DUELS THE DRAFGON IN ENDLESS DANCE (latebloomer), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:44 (twenty-one years ago)

american beauty

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Conspiracy Theory seconded...I HATE TAHT FUCKIN MOVIE BECAUSE IT COULD'VE BEEN GOOD IF THERE WERE NO STARS AND RICHARD DONNER ATTACHED.

― latebloomer: HE WHOM DUELS THE DRAFGON IN ENDLESS DANCE (latebloomer), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Papparazi was pretty dire...though quite hilarious!

― latebloomer: HE WHOM DUELS THE DRAFGON IN ENDLESS DANCE (latebloomer), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:48 (twenty-one years ago)

oh shit, Reality Bites! How could I forget?

Defend the Indefensible: "Reality Bites"

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Come on, Cookie's Fortune was waaaaaaay worse than Reality Bites, and Cookie's Fortune was nowhere near as bad as Pay It Forward.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:52 (twenty-one years ago)

team america. i can't believe i got talked into seeing this atrocity.

― stirmonster, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:53 (twenty-one years ago)

The Lost World: Jurassic Park

Godzilla

― latebloomer: HE WHOM DUELS THE DRAFGON IN ENDLESS DANCE (latebloomer), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:54 (twenty-one years ago)

that Neil LaBute one with Rachel Weisz, what the fuck was that called? God, was that excruciatingly horrible. 10 times worse than Volcano!!! I'd watch Volcano any day of the week.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:54 (twenty-one years ago)

The Shape of Things! Neil Labute is a fucker, too.

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Bulletproof, the one with Adam Sandler and Damon Wayans as buddy cops.

― a banana (alanbanana), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 04:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Birth of A Nation. I think that Griffith's agenda was to make a film so overlong and horrible that audiences would find themselves rooting for the Kl4n so that the film would end sooner.

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 04:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Singles. The Core. 21 grams. gone in 60 seconds.

― Star Cauliflower (Star Cauliflower), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 04:29 (twenty-one years ago)

21 Grams would definitely make a strong showing.

The Shape of Things was good! (Gretchen Mol+Rachel Weisz=yaaaaay)

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 04:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Slacker (the one with Jason Schwartzman, not the pluralized Linklater film)
Jurassic Park 3

― mike h. (mike h.), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 04:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Spun (the one with Jason Schwartzmann that was so bad I nearly walked out the cinema for the first time in my life)

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 04:46 (twenty-one years ago)

"gone in 60 seconds."

OTFM

"Slacker (the one with Jason Schwartzman, not the pluralized Linklater film)"

OTFM

"Jurassic Park 3"

i liked it better than the second JP movie! it was simple and stupid rather than just plain stupid like The Lost World.

― latebloomer: HE WHOM DUELS THE DRAFGON IN ENDLESS DANCE (latebloomer), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 04:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Slacker (the one with Jason Schwartzman, not the pluralized Linklater film)

you mixed the titles up

― a banana (alanbanana), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 05:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Street Fighter

― Lingbertt, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 05:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Bram Stoker's Dracula

― Bumfluff, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 06:25 (twenty-one years ago)

No, that had style. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, though -- that was shit of the bull.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 06:31 (twenty-one years ago)

ooh, Bram Stoker's Dracula is a good one.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 06:35 (twenty-one years ago)

(good choice, not good movie)

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 06:35 (twenty-one years ago)

John Carpenter's 'Vampires': GRRRRRRR!!!!! On the bright side, it instilled in me a life-long hatred of James Woods, so there's that.

'Saw': To date, the biggest damn waste of my time despite being led to believe otherwise. PE speaketh the truth: Don't Believe The Hype. Or as my husband says: sheeple are stupid.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 06:49 (twenty-one years ago)

reclamation project: School of Rock is tops! and I kind of liked Cookie's Fortune

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 07:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Seconded: School Of Rock is great!

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 07:18 (twenty-one years ago)

School of Rock is among a few movies mentioned in this thread that I like quite a bit.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 08:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Grease WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!!!

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 10:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't remember which one the worst Madonna film was, but that would be my vote.

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 10:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Churchill: The Hollywood Years
Powder
Unbreakable

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 10:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I rather liked PhoneBooth but it works better on the small screen I think.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 10:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Grease 2.

― The Horse of Babylon (the pirate king), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 10:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't remember which one the worst Madonna film was, but that would be my vote.

THe one with Griffin Dunne (sp?). I can't remember the title. "Who's That Girl"?

― stevie nixed (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 10:52 (twenty-one years ago)

recently: Van Helsing - everything loathsome about contemporary movies - stupid, incoherent, exhausting, excessively cartoonish, loads of CGI effects ladled on with sledgehammer force

in the nineties : Reality Bites - a middle-aged studio executive's vision of "Generation X". Winona Ryder says things like "I'm just trying to be myself, but i don't who that is anymore" and ends up in the arms of Ethan Hawk's repugnant, snobby, 24 hour-a-day taste fascist. Yuck.

― Neil FC (Neil FC), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 11:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Titanic. Forever.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 11:56 (twenty-one years ago)

i found a film in my local indie video place called 'Karate Ghostbusters'. it should have been fantastic with a name like that, but incredibly, it sucked all of the ass in a mile radius.

otherwise, i'd say 'Croupier'. that dumb voice-over still haunts me.

― fsharp (fsharp), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 12:38 (twenty-one years ago)

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Not even the worst of these movies is as bad as the ILX 1990s poll
these movies are all better than those you voted for in the ILE "best of" poll
I think there are more good films in this thread than the ILE Best of the '90s.

Dumb point taken!

― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 22:51 (twenty-one years ago)

anything directed by Schumaker

--Tigerland?

or Zemeckis

--Back to the Future? Cast Away?

or Kevin Smith

--Clerks?

Any Oliver Stone film

--Salvador? Born on the Fourth of July? Talk Radio?

― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 22:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Bicentennial Man

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 23:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Mrs Doubtfire
yeah, and the one where that schmuck is playing a robot with human feelings, too!

― Jay-Kid (Jay-Kid), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 23:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Super Fuzz
Cannonball Run 2

― shookout (shookout), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 23:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Not even the worst of these movies is as bad as the ILX 1990s poll
these movies are all better than those you voted for in the ILE "best of" poll
I think there are more good films in this thread than the ILE Best of the '90s.

Dumb point taken!

I only said it once, for the record, but I'm glad I'm not alone... except for romantically.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 17 February 2005 01:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Funny Farm -- This is a terrible, unfunny comedy starring Chevy Chase and worse yet directed by George Roy Hill, who made quite a few really good movies at one point. It is the worse movie I ever actually paid to see.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Thursday, 17 February 2005 02:52 (twenty-one years ago)

All of those Fear/The Babysitter/Poison Ivy 2 movies from the early 90s are pretty atrocious.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 17 February 2005 21:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Total Eclipse (feat. Leonardo DiCaprio & David Thewlis)

― nader (nader), Thursday, 17 February 2005 22:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Scanners,
or
Naked Lunch.

Cronenbourg is a genius? Only if genius means rubbish.

― dmun, Friday, 18 February 2005 00:04 (twenty-one years ago)

you can die.

― latebloomer: HE WHOM DUELS THE DRAFGON IN ENDLESS DANCE (latebloomer), Friday, 18 February 2005 00:07 (twenty-one years ago)

http://movies.infinitecoolness.com/21/scan04.jpg

plus you mispelled his name!

― latebloomer: HE WHOM DUELS THE DRAFGON IN ENDLESS DANCE (latebloomer), Friday, 18 February 2005 00:09 (twenty-one years ago)

No-one mentioned "Sliver" yet? In that case, I will.

― Si Carter (Si Carter), Friday, 18 February 2005 00:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, sorry i spelt his name wrong, but Cronenbourg or Cronenberg, he's still made the same dire films.

― dmun, Friday, 18 February 2005 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

How the heck did I forget Star Wars Episode i? That might be worse than anything else on this thread.

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 18 February 2005 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Does The Star Wars Holiday Special count as a movie? If so, it's a dead cert.

― Huey (Huey), Friday, 18 February 2005 16:38 (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!

Aw, c'mon - they weren't cliches in fucking 1924!

But that's my only comment regarding the dozen-or-so above films that I like. My choice for worst:

"Crash" (wurst movie I ever paid money to see!) may have turned me off Cronenberg (& R. Arquette for that matter) forever - and I liked everything previous. Never woulda believed that any film could be repellent, unbelievable and deadly dull all at once - a near-impossible combination! - so at least I'll give him credit for that.
2nd würst $ layout: "Howard The Duck", and in fact EVERYTHING w/George Lucas's name on it after, oh, 1981 is a contenda. And every movie in which Michael Douglas plays an executive. And the aforementioned "Con Air" - Has there ever been a worse film w/as many usually dependable actors? (No.)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 18 February 2005 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Search party required for Myonga Von Bontee's sense of humour!

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 18 February 2005 22:55 (twenty-one years ago)

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