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

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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)

Any Oliver Stone film.

"The prospect of having to sit through another Oliver Stone movie was too much.”
-- Pauline Kael, upon retiring

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 12:53 (twenty-one years ago)

man, i can't believe i forgot about 'Batman and Robin'.

― fsharp (fsharp), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 13:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Most of these aren't that bad.

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Dogville
South Bronx Heroes
Enter The Dragon

― Jay-Kid (Jay-Kid), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Fight Club

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

A RANDOM selection:

'Closer'
'Barbarian Invasions'
'Salo'
'The Good Girl' (unless it improved radically; I switched off early)
'La Peau Douce'

― Henry Miller, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Fight Club OTM

also:
The Sixth Sense
The Others
Underworld (w. Denis Leary)

― Jay-Kid (Jay-Kid), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Pootie Tang
Batman Forever (or whatever the fourth one was called)
Scooby-Doo
The Fifth Element
54 (despite great acting talent)
A Guy Thing (what a cast, but this sucked!)
From Dusk Til Dawn
Austin Powers 3
So I Married An Axe Murderer

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Austin Powers 1, 2 and 3

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

There are so many overhyped movies and so many more incompetent movies. I think a true terrible film has to have some talent involved and still go horribly awry (or intentionally horrible). Like, for example, "Bonfire of the Vanities." But my default "worst film ever," since I first saw it, has been :

"Con Air"

Sub-Michael Bay spaz editing and direction!
Ridiculous script!
Nicolas Cage as a lethal weapon with a mullet!
numerous jokes about rape, and women and children constantly put in needless jeopardy!

Cage, Buscemi, Cusack, Malcovich! Ving Rames! Dave Chapelle! All shit. All the time. It ends with a plane crash landing into a casino, which is as excessive as excess gets.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Con Air fucking rules.

― Henry Miller, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Con Air fucking rules.

seconded, although i always feel a bit uncomfortable when buscemi is left with that little girl. was that really necessary, michael bay?

― Jay-Kid (Jay-Kid), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Simon West, actually! (Whither?)

― Henry Miller, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Simon West went on to do the "Tomb Raider" movies. Yes, he's that good.

"Con Air' Is such a piece of shit, not least for the "will Buscemi molest the little girl?" tea party scene. Oh, the humor! Oh, the drama! Oh, the humanity!

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Independence Day fills me with a great emptiness...

― Canute, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

"Godzilla" is worse than "Independence Day." For God's sake, how do you mess up "giant lizard destroys city?!"

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Battleship Potemkin yo, the storming of the Winter Palace had every cliche in the book.

― Gordy Stevenson, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Arthur 2: On The Rocks

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

I hate it when people nominate stuff from the past 12 months in an ALL-TIME thread, but, seriously, has cinema ever sank as low as A Cinderella Story? Or Tale. Or whatever it was called. Any film that features a three minute interval where the main character tries on a variety of wacky outfits to the soundtrack of a female fronted power pop act whilst the token geek and the token black of the movie stand on looking alternately bemused and horified, really. There's about seven a year.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Any film that features a three minute interval where the main character tries on a variety of wacky outfits to the soundtrack of a female fronted power pop act whilst the token geek and the token black of the movie stand on looking alternately bemused and horified

That's so OTM I can't even believe it. It can also be someone restoring a house or learning to be good at some kind of sport to that power pop song.

― Jay-Kid (Jay-Kid), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

The Matrix 2.

Mind you, I've never seen the Matrix 3. Or Austin Powers.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

footloose.

― Jay-Kid (Jay-Kid), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Baise Moi, The Patriot. Both just bloody awful

― Jason J, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Fight Club OTM
also:
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. How anybody could even THINK about nominating The Others while Quentin Tarrantino still has a career is beyond me.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Sleepless in Seattle

― Joe (Joe), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

power pop montages are the bread and butter of cinematic art.

― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG! I've got it:

HUMAN TRAFFIC!!!

The most condescending, embarassing excuse for film I've ever seen!

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Fight Club is hilarious!

Worst.. True Lies. The Scarlet Letter. (I haven't seen that one, but I am guessing it at least deserves to be voted on here.)

Something by Lars Von Trier?

Pas de repos pour les braves (No Rest for the Brave) was one of the few I've actually walked out of, but it's probably too obscure to be worth the trouble..

― daria g (daria g), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, wait.
I forgot exactly how much I hate Rainman.

― coco, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

28 Days Later

― johno, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

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)

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