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

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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 (nineteen years ago) link

Independence Day fills me with a great emptiness...

― Canute, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 15:31 (nineteen years ago) link

"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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― Gordy Stevenson, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 15:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Arthur 2: On The Rocks

― coco, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 15:56 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

footloose.

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

Baise Moi, The Patriot. Both just bloody awful

― Jason J, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 16:38 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

Sleepless in Seattle

― Joe (Joe), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 16:40 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 16:41 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― coco, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 16:49 (nineteen years ago) link

28 Days Later

― johno, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 16:50 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― billstevejim, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 17:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Garfield
Alien vs Predator

― billstevejim, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 17:12 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 17:28 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

funny how all of these were made in the last decade

― a banana (alanbanana), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:27 (nineteen years ago) link

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the original.

― David Merryweather (DavidM), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:36 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― Joe (Joe), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:36 (nineteen years ago) link

How about Araki's The Doom Generation?

― Joe (Joe), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:37 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

Warriors of Virtue

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:54 (nineteen years ago) link

The Neverending Story, Pt. II

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:55 (nineteen years ago) link

True Lies was hilarious!!

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 21:14 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

LOST IN TRANSLATION

― latebloomer: HE WHOM DUELS THE DRAFGON IN ENDLESS DANCE (latebloomer), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 21:19 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

DC Cab

― daria g (daria g), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 21:44 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― billstevejim, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 22:06 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― sleep (sleep), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 22:06 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

or 71 even!

― sleep (sleep), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 22:08 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

Falling Down

― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 00:23 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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