The worst movie ever made

...and I'm not talking about Ed Wood's catalog or Attack of the Killer Tomatoes or stuff that was knowingly / intentionally bad. I'm talking about movies that people honestly thought would be good, or at least successful.

My nomination: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Peter Frampton, the Bee Gees, George Burns, and a whole host of other people who should have known better. I mean, seriously, click here and see all the musicians who performed in the finale ("Our Guests in Heartland"). I remember getting dragged to see this in the theater by a friend of mine when I was 13.

I thought it was stupid then, and though I still remembered parts of it after 37 years, I had repressed the full agony of the sheer stupefying horribleness of it. Then I happened to be flipping across channels and saw that it was just starting on AXStv, so I thought I would introduce it to my wife, knowing she was a Peter Frampton fan back when she was a 14-year-old girl. We lasted half an hour before running away screaming - unfortunately not long enough to make it to the only part with even a shred of redeeming quality, namely, Aerosmith's fairly credible cover of Come Together.

This steaming pile of flamboyant crap was produced by Robert Stigwood, the same guy who had previously done Saturday Night Fever and Grease. Say what you will about musicals - personally I hate them - but those were successful, popular movies with some endurance. Stigwood, the execs who greenlighted it, and everybody who agreed to be in it must have been A) zonked on coke, B) convinced it couldn't miss, and/or C) desperate for a paycheck.

So, what are your nominations?

I don't think I'm going out on a limb saying quite a few movies from the 70's were green-lighted due to heavy drug use.

The Mack. Pretty damn bad.

Rocky Horror Picture Show.

There, I said it.

That movie is plain awful, 2 hours of my life I'll never get back.

The Room.

/Thread.

Spice World

That first post's gonna be hard to beat...but I'd nominate Gigli, an especially bad chick flick made to cash in on the fact that Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez were in a relationship at the time. Even my mom admitted it was awful, after sitting through the entire thing. In chick flick terms, that's the equivalent of putting on an awful monster truck show.

The Thin Red Line.

Awesome cast, interesting concept. Just terrible movie.

The worst?

Star Wars (seriously, Mark Hamill is the worst actor to ever appear in a big film)

(ducking to avoid thrown tomatoes)

Ok, maybe not the worst, but I'd say the most over-rated.

The Spirit.

Amazing on the first watch. Mind-bleach thereafter. Battlefield Earth has better lasting power. I've never been so disappointed by a DVD purchase after seeing it in theaters and loving it.

I dunno, I've watced some bad B movie sci-fi crap, but Oblivion takes the cake for newish movies. Only movie I've paid to see and walked out on. Looks liek they wanted a sci-fi western success, but fails on every level.

And runner up (I didn't pay for it), Octaman. Probably knew it was bad as they were making it, though. Scenes like 5 minutes of walking around in a pitch black cave (I mean, the screen was pure black for 5 minutes) with almost no conversation...

Breaker Breaker. Chuck Norris' truck drivin brother gets kidnapped in a speed trap for no discernable reason. Mr Norris then has to drive into town in his muraled up van and kung-fu the berkeley out of the bad guys and bang the only chick in town who isnt a bad guy. There is lots of talking on cb radios. At the end the town gets demolished by a convoy of truckers, even that wasnt fun to watch.

Chris_V wrote: I dunno, I've watced some bad B movie sci-fi crap, but Oblivion takes the cake for newish movies. Only movie I've paid to see and walked out on. Looks liek they wanted a sci-fi western success, but fails on every level.

Whaaaaat

I thought that was a great movie, maybe the best sci-fi movie of 2014.

I would say Fury Road, but I've been counseled that I would be wrong if I said that, and besides, I haven't actually seen the movie.

You people aren't even close, that honor goes to Conan the Barbarian.

GameboyRMH wrote:

Chris_V wrote: I dunno, I've watced some bad B movie sci-fi crap, but Oblivion takes the cake for newish movies. Only movie I've paid to see and walked out on. Looks liek they wanted a sci-fi western success, but fails on every level.

Whaaaaat I thought that was a great movie, maybe the best sci-fi movie of 2014.

Oblivion, the 1994 movie, not the new one. THe 1994 movie was a sci fi western with George Takai in it: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110706/?ref_=fn_al_tt_3

In reply to Joe, Arnold makes Mark Hamill look like a multiple Oscar winner!

T.J. wrote: I would say Fury Road, but I've been counseled that I would be wrong if I said that, and besides, I haven't actually seen the movie.

This was my first thought.

However, I am gonna go with Fear and Loathing in L.V.

Chris_V wrote: Oblivion, the 1994 movie, not the new one. THe 1994 movie was a sci fi western with George Takai in it: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110706/?ref_=fn_al_tt_3

Oh, well 19 years old isn't "newish"

When the middle school boys get up and walk out, saying "this sucks" you know it's bad.

I don't think I am alone here, no less than Disney thought that this was going to be HUGE. It did suck HUGE.

foxtrapper wrote: When the middle school boys get up and walk out, saying "this sucks" you know it's bad.

I think this movie has some hilarious moments but overall it's just OK. If you don't like "stupid" comedy...or Seth Macfarlane's style of humor dialed up to 11...or if a movie that opens with a nasty crack at Christianity and keeps them coming would offend you...then this movie is your worst enemy.

pinchvalve wrote: I don't think I am alone here, no less than Disney thought that this was going to be HUGE. It did suck HUGE.

Yep, if this thread is about ambition vs result quality, then this movie HAS to win the thread.

Duke wrote: This steaming pile of flamboyant crap was produced by Robert Stigwood, the same guy who had previously done *Saturday Night Fever* and *Grease*.

Try watching the sequel to Saturday Night Fever, Staying Alive. The one thing that sticks in my mind (before I changed the channel) was seeing Kurtwood Smith (Red Foreman from That 70s Show) playing a mincing choreographer.

Eraserhead was probably the worst thing I have ever watched. I did so because, at the time, all the intelligentsia were absolutely enamored of it. Whatever; I guess I'm too stupid to get the point. It was freakin' AWFUL. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074486/ I don't care what its IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes rankings are; to me it's painfully obvious that the people rating it are afraid if they don't rank it highly they won't be seen as 'deep' or 'intelligent' or whatever you care to call it.

Right behind that was Event Horizon. I'd like to have that part of my brain wiped, please.

Next was Alien Resurrection. If I were Sigourney Weaver, I'd remove any trace of being any part of that piece of crap.

racerdave600 wrote: In reply to Joe, Arnold makes Mark Hamill look like a multiple Oscar winner!

True, but at least he doesn't spend the whole movie trying to bang his sister.