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

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.

HAHAHA. Brilliant!

i mean seriously guys seriously

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.

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

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.

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

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.

So bad, I listed it twice.

I Heart Huckabees was fucking awful.

And quit doggin' on the French artsploitation.

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.

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

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.

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

Top Gun = so bad it's great

oh and theres a "light show" at the end! i was half expecting pink floyd to start murdering my ears!

and a giant baby at the end! wtf? kubrick's totally ripping off that simpsons episode when homer goes to space!

People are dissing a lot of mediocre and flawed movies but missing out the real dreck, such as:

Batman & Robin (Arnie: "they won't put me in the cooler")
The General's Daughter (another godawful Travolta thing)
An Alan Smithee Movie
K-Pax (Spacey smugfest that even Jeff Bridged couldn't redeem)
Beaches
Mrs Doubtfire (travesty of a fine kids book. Anne Fine was not happy)

I was going to include The John Denver Story but it's actually quite funny for the relentlessly chirpy lead actor and his hair.