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Author Topic: The 100 Worst Movies Ever (Orlando Sentinel) Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-10-2008 10:51 PM                        Here's a list of the 100 Worst Movies Ever, as compiled by the Orlando Sentinel. I don't know who compiled the list, but you have to give them props for mostly featuring movies that are REALLY bad as opposed to movies that the critic just thinks are bad. Movie posters and clips (if you must subject yourself) The list, apparently in no particular order: Barbarella Cop and a Half Soylent Green *Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Conqueror (John Wayne) Rabbit Test Smokey & the Bandit 3 Robot Monster Little Nicky Ringmaster *Thank God It's Friday Monkeybone Joe's Apartment Valley of the Dolls Zorro the Gay Blade Mom and Dad Save the World Last Action Hero Flash Gordon (the 1980s one) Dude Where's My Car? Island of Dr. Moreau *Rhinestone *Maverick Corky Romano Reefer Madness The Beastmaster Shanghai Surprise Frogs Basic Instinct 2 *Wild Wild West D. C. Cab Look Who's Talking Now Convoy Toys Striptease Cool as Ice Gymkata Cheaper By The Dozen 2 The Beast of Yucca Flats *Waterworld *Christmas with the Kranks Swamp Thing Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd Joe Vs. the Volcano Who's Your Caddy? *Starship Troopers The Godfather Part III Chairman of the Board (with Carrot Top) Haunted Honeymoon Attack of the 50 Foot Woman Crossroads (Britney Spears' first/last starring role) Troop Beverly Hills Police Adademy 6: Mission to Moscow Americathon Plan 9 from Outer Space Soul Plane Kazaam Over the Top Gigli Cat Women of the Moon Big Bad Mama The Trial of Billy Jack Glitter Hercules in New York Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo Larry the Cable Guy, Health Inspector Ernest Goes to Camp Jaws the Revenge Son of the Pink Panther Barb Wire Ed Can't Stop the Music Anaconda Speed 2: Cruise Control *Xanadu Howard the Duck Showgirls *Snakes on a Plane Spice World Battlefield Earth It's Pat: The Movie Son of the Mask Stop or My Mom Will Shoot Santa With Muscles Ishtar Santa Claus Conquers the Martians The Hottie and the Nottie Grease 2 The Adventures of Pluto Nash Mannequin 2 Catwoman (starring Oscar winner Halle Berry) Epic Movie Swept Away Popeye Caddyshack 2 Krull Leonard part 6 (not a sequel) Surf Ninjas Bio Dome Almost Heroes From Justin to Kelly * = Movies I actually sat and watched  |  IP: Logged Christopher Duvall Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 500 From: Denver, CO Registered: Dec 1999 posted 06-10-2008 11:03 PM                     Most of them are stinkers but I actually like some of those titles.  |  IP: Logged Mike Heenan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1896 From: Scottsdale, AZ, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 06-11-2008 12:02 AM                     Be interesting to see who been in the most of those "worst movies". I count 3 for burt reynolds already  |  IP: Logged Mike Schindler Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1039 From: Oak Park, IL, USA Registered: Jun 2002 posted 06-11-2008 12:06 AM                     I'm suspicious of anyone who doesn't like BARBARELLA.  |  IP: Logged Robert Crabtree Film Handler Posts: 91 From: Largo, FL Registered: May 2008 posted 06-11-2008 12:43 AM                     I've only seen seven of them, and while it's obviously not cinematically a good movie, Snakes on a Plane was a fair success, and a good tongue-in-cheek B movie.  |  IP: Logged Claude S. Ayakawa Film God Posts: 2738 From: Waipahu, Hawaii, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 06-11-2008 12:47 AM                        A lot of people do not like GODFATHER 3 but I enjoyed it very much. It is no way as as good as the first two but it is a very entertaining film and I watched it several times already. I cannot understand why some people would publish a list of movies and call them the worst films ever nade. I agree most of the films are stinkers but there are a couple in addition to GODFATHER 3 that I had enjoyed and do not feel they belong on the list. I agree with Robert about SNAKES ON A PLANE. I enjoyed that movie so much after seeing it in a theatre, I bought the DVD -Claude  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 06-11-2008 12:59 AM                        Al Pacino looked like he was played by a different actor in Godfather 3. Did he get in a massive car wreck or something that altered his looks? And what's up with that white hair?  |  IP: Logged Allison Parsons Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 630 From: East Peoria, IL Registered: Oct 2004 posted 06-11-2008 01:04 AM                        I've showed 28 of those movies at the theaters I've worked at. quote: Mike Blakesley Zorro the Gay Blade What?! Might just have to try to rent that one ha. And I do have a soft spot in my heart for Flash Gordon, what can I say.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 06-11-2008 01:13 AM                        No Heaven's Gate? My nominations would be Dracula A.D. 1972 (Dracula surfaces in Swinging London, complete with long hair and psychotropic substances) and Ma vie sexuelle - before you get too excited, the film consists of 11 reels of some depressed whiner complaining that he doesn't have one. Reefer Madness seems to have made it into the 'so bad it's good' category, but on the subject of exploitation pics with a distinctly unsubtle moral message, One Too Many features a spectacularly awful performance from an actress who once appeared in no less than Citizen Kane (Ruth Warrick). The Lure of Drink is also astonishingly bad, based on a Victorian temperance lantern slide narrative. It was shown at the Nottingham Silent Film Festival a few years ago, and when the lights went up after our hero's grim descent from the gin palace to the workhouse, I heard someone mutter a few rows back that he could do with a beer after being made to sit through that.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-11-2008 01:26 AM                        quote: Mike Heenan Be interesting to see who been in the most of those "worst movies". I count 3 for burt reynolds already There are 3 Stallone movies in the list. I'm surprised none of the "Rocky"s made it. #5 was one of the worst movies I've seen.  |  IP: Logged Justin Hamaker Film God Posts: 2253 From: Lakeport, CA USA Registered: Jan 2004 posted 06-11-2008 01:30 AM                        A few I would add to that list: •Knockoff - Van Dam •The Avengers - perhaps a case study for the argument that great actors can't save a pile of crap •Freddy Got Fingered - I can't believe this isn't at the top of the list  |  IP: Logged Anslem Rayburn Master Film Handler Posts: 476 From: Yuma, AZ, USA Registered: May 2002 posted 06-11-2008 02:06 AM                     quote: quote: Mike Blakesley Zorro the Gay Blade What?! Might just have to try to rent that one ha. One Bit, Two Bits, Three Bits, A Peso All For Zorro, Stand Up And Say So George Hamilton in duel roles, including a peach clad Zorro costume. That movie is fantastic. I can't belive Manos: The Hands of Fate isn't on there. Or Lust in the Dust. Good lord, I have seen 42 of those movies at some point in my life. I actually love Howard the Duck, and like Krull, Waterworld, and Zorro the Gay Blade. Oh well, to each his own, I guess.  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 06-11-2008 02:08 AM                        Most of those are definitely bad enough that, as Michael O'Donahue would've said, they'd have to be re-shot just so they could be thrown away. But there are a few in there where it's obvious somebody just doesn't appreciate trash cinema. Indeed, how could anyone not like Barbarella (unless they don't like Jane Fonda)? Beastmaster - Ran it in both 2D and 3D and enjoyed it both ways. Reefer Madness - Classic cheesy propaganda. Joe's Apartment - All singing, all dancing cockroaches. What's not to like? Swamp Thing - Heh heh, never ran the whole thing, but did run its promo reel at Caesars Palace for the '82 Showest. And if Swamp Thing made the list, where's Humungus? (Another promo reel at the '82 Showest). Plan 9 - The very definition of "so bad it's good."  |  IP: Logged Stephen Brown Film Handler Posts: 91 From: Newcastle, NSW, Australia Registered: Jan 2000 posted 06-11-2008 02:14 AM                     One mans trash is another mans treasure..... Some I like, some I hate. I think though after you've shown Xanadu for the 100th time on 20min reels and carbon arcs you just become numb to the hate and begin to accept. Sort of like a hostage-seige situation.  |  IP: Logged Jaime Tuzzio Film Handler Posts: 50 From: Salem, OR, USA Registered: Apr 2008 posted 06-11-2008 03:45 AM                 I LOVED Xanadu growing up. I still love it. I love Barbarella as well. Thank you to Duran Duran for introducing me to it. I screened just over a dozen features on that list, most of which I was only too happy to know I'd been paid to watch. Thankfully, when a nice chunk of those from the last eight years came out, I was high enough on the ladder to pull rank and get out of having to see them. Though I consider it a misfire that I screened Alexander instead of Christmas with the Kranks.  |  IP: Logged

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