worst movies ever!

[ilovestrategy]

I always thought the worst movie ever made was an old 50's movie. It was a sci fi flick. I cannot right now remember the whole title, it had something to do with "Planet 9". I'm gonna have to google and see if I can come up with the whole title.
I read that the actor died half way through the movie and it had cardboard sets.
You guys are pretty smart, one of you has got to know what I'm talking about! [&o]

[lancerunolfsson]

Two Potential nominees I tried watching last night

Anzio, in spite of having Peter Falk and Arthur Kennedy, the song on the credit roll was so bad I had to fast forward. I only made it through about 2 minutes of dialogue before ejecting it and putting on

THE BIG RED 1, I actually have watched this movie before many years ago when I first got a VHS mqachine. This time I only made it to the part where they take Tunis.

Finally Put in SALVADOR, not as good as I remember it. But it has given me the idea that maybe I will put the Letters TV in masking tape on my windshield. My truck already looks like one of the Technicals from BLACK HAWK DOWN except I ain't get a .50 or a recoilless rifle on the back. So the masking tape would be cheaper. Then I could start yelling "Jounalista!!!" and waving a fake press card whenever I get pulled over by the cops. It seemed to work for James Woods.

[Doggie]

You guys are pretty smart, one of you has got to know what I'm talking about!

 
 
That would be Plan 9 from Outer Space by the glorious Ed Wood.  Bela Lugosi's last screen appearance.
 
There's also a movie about Ed Wood, titled Ed Wood

[freeboy]

ok, are we talking worst or stupid worst? like a list worst?
how about barberella? omfw that is hands down funny bad terrible

[MrBoats]

For ilovestrategy:

You may be thinking of "Plan 9 From Outer Space" by Ed Wood. Wood's films are in a class by themselves. They're actually a lot of fun to watch, but for all the wrong reasons. Wood's earnestness is what makes them so good while being so bad. "Glen or Glenda" is my favorite.

As for war films, there are so many to choose from. "Catch 22" was awful. To believe Hollywood of the 70's (even somewhat today) every officer was a buffoon and every GI a crook. Them there was the film from '42, I think, about the heroic Soviets defending their farms against the Nazis -- I can't remember the title but it had Walter Huston and Dana Andrews in it. Pure pro-Stalin propoganda. I don't mean to insult the valiant soldiers of the Red Army, but the movie was crap. And I still have a problem with Donald Sutherland's hippie character in "Kelly's Heroes" but I know I'm gonna get bombarded for saying it. Fire away! [:'(]

[Doggie]

ORIGINAL: morvwilson



Now, doggie
Are you going to try to tell me that "Independence Day" was worse than "Pearl Harbor" or "Wind Talkers"?

Well, yeah.

There was Jeff Goldblum hacking into the alien's intergalactic super computer with an Apple IIc and an acoustic coupler.[8|] They jump into a fifty year old model T version of a flying saucer and none of the aliens notice. You got pilots whinging about how they can't "get a tone" on a target the size of Greenland. And they're firing sidewinders with a five pound warheard.

It did have it moments, like all the moonbats gathering to send love vibes on top of a skyscraper and getting vaporized for their trouble.[:)]

[morvwilson]

To Doggie,
Ok, good points there. I did not like that movie much either.
 
To Mr Boats,
I think I remember the movie you are talking about from 1942. But didn't it have a very young Gregory Peck? (I felt the bile rise quite a few times during that flick!)
 
Maybe I made a mistake. Asking for the worst movie ever may have been a little too broad. Especially considering we are talking about hollywood.
The irritating part is hollywood can turn out good movies when they want to. IE Band of Brothers, We Were Soldiers.
Anyway, nominees for worst war movies would be:
Wind Talkers
Pearl Harbor
Thin Red Line(new entry I just remembered here)
Nominees for Sci Fi would be:
Plan 9
Barbarella
Independence day
 
What are we missing?
Personally I can forgive bad effects if the story line is good. Dr Who for example had good story lines but when you only have $40 for your budget...

[Gil R.]

I've never seen this movie, but it might count. A few months ago, Ravinhood's avatar got me to do some web-reading on Veronica Lake, and I found that her final movie was called "Flesh Feast" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065727/). Here's a website with a summary and screenshots: http://www.bleedingskull.com/dvd/fleshfeast.html. And here's Wikipedia's summary: "Flesh Feast (released in 1970, though shot in 1967) is an American horror film that features Veronica Lake in her final screen performance. Lake plays Dr. Elaine Frederick, a mad scientist working on developing maggots that prefer human flesh, while her services are used to make a clone of Adolf Hitler. She cooperates with the plan to resurrect Hitler as a way of exacting revenge for the death of her parents, political prisoners executed in a concentration camp. While convincing everyone the flesh-eating maggots are for regeneration research, she simply wants to throw them in the resurrected Hitler's face, which she does."

[mdiehl]

ID was better than Pearl Harbor. Yeah, the whole "plausibility" thing of Goldblum's Mac hacking the mothership was dubious, but if you got as far as "spacecraft with energy shields that deflect ballistic objects" then you already abandoned plausbility.

Pearl Harbor is certainly among the worst movies ever made. I remember sitting in the theater when one of the two flyboys faced the camera (the audience) and pedantically explained that the Zero is faster than the P-40 but the P-40 is more maneuverable. If one's gonna be pedantic, it helps to not be completely wrong on both counts.

Gods and Generals may be the worst though. Where NewLine gave us tens of thousands of goblins in Moria a year before G n G came out, Turner Films gave us an Oil on Canvas background of Fredericksburg, cannons that were obviously wooden props, a laughable scene where Stonewall Jackson has a politically correct discourse with a slave, and almost enough extras to fill a ballroom for scenes that allegedly depicted 170,000 guys fighting.

U-571 was also a stinker. A bunch of US army commandoes commandeer and then crew (include operating it in combat) a stolen Uboat.

With respect, Plan 9 from Outer Space wasn't a "Hollywood" movie. It was an Ed Wood movie. Ed Wood was to Hollywood as an eight year old building his first plastic model is to Lockheed.

[mdiehl]

And, of course, one must never forget Zardoz. I can't believe Sean Connery was up for that stinker.

[ilovestrategy]

ORIGINAL: Doggie

You guys are pretty smart, one of you has got to know what I'm talking about!

That would be Plan 9 from Outer Space by the glorious Ed Wood.  Bela Lugosi's last screen appearance.

There's also a movie about Ed Wood, titled Ed Wood

Thats the one! Thanks!

Oh yeah, I cant believe I wached all of Zardoz. I must have been nuts

[AcePylut]

Worst war movie ever?

Won't answer that. Too many of them quality... so I'm going to stick with "worst war movie in recent memory"... and hands down that goes to "The Thin Red Line"

[MrBoats]

I found the film I referred to in a earlier post: "The North Star." I recall it showed a happy Ukranian village suddenly under attack by the Wermacht, and the reaction of the villagers. Of course, no mention was made of the millions starved to death in the 30's nor the constant terror of life under Stalin's rule. "Mission to Moscow," also with Walter Huston" was made the same year, 1943, and was another film produced to glorify the USSR. How tragic it was that we had to support one vile totalitarian regime in order to defeat another.

[ORANGE]

I Am Omega.   I thought this was going to be like I Am Legend and it was like I Am The Crappiest Movie Ever.
 
Lions Gate seems to put out some pretty low budget crappy movies as well.

[Stridor]

ORIGINAL: freeboy

omg, Master and Commander may be the BEST movie in its genre, Why? The relationships between the officers, the junior officers men of the gun crews, and the MAster and sergion are developed in greeat detail, with a great score and riviting drama.. just to show U to each his own lol!!!

I especially like how real the scenes are as my house shakes under the subwoofers roar of cannon!

freeboy I am with you there, one of the best movies to test your sub and surround setup on. Great movie to boot.

[hadberz]

I was gonna say Iron Eagle, but then they made Iron Eagle 2 and Iron Eagle 3 [:D]

[Brigz]

I'll offer two that everyone should agree are near the top of the Worst Movie list:

Spielberg's "1941" and Lucas' "Howard the Duck". Honestly, two of the worst movies ever made. So I take back what I said. "The Battle of the Bulge" was a bad movie, but not the worst. These are much, much worse. Really bad. El Stinko.

[06 Maestro]

Anyone ever see Mega Force? That was the only movie that I observerd being filmed. The actors seemed really quite stupid; it took many "takes" to do some really simple scenes. I still was looking forward to its release at the theaters-thinking that it was a good action movie. It was shockingly bad-the acting and the whole story. It was made in '81.

[TAIL GUNNER]

No worst movie list is complete without mentioning Battlefield: Earth.
 
Jet planes that fire right up after sitting idle for 1000 years and are expertly piloted by a rag-tag group of ignorant subhumans with just a few hours training....[8|]
 
Need I say more?

[JudgeDredd]

I liked U571. Watched it the other night and I thought it was ok...certainly not the worst film I'd seen.

What about Flash Gordon? "Flash, Flash, I love you, but we only have fourteen hours to save the Earth"