Worst Films List
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Last Updated: 5/5/25
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It's simple and straightforward: the worst of the worst in cinema history. In order to be considered, the film
must have received a rating of '1' from me.
Multiple parts (i.e. duology, trilogy, etc.) can be put together as one if there's a continuation in the narrative.
Films by the same director can be grouped together as well. Miniseries and telefilms are fair game, but
documentaries are excluded. Anything made after the year 2000 will not be mentioned because of the
unbelievable avalanche of truly bad films that persists.
Approximately 200 films have made the cut because they have shown awfulness in most, if not all, aspects: acting,
characters, screenplay, plot, direction, editing, cinematography, and so on. They must also be "culturally,
historically, or aesthetically insignificant."
This list is based on what I have seen so far and is limited to the top 100 with 10 dishonorable mentions in
that order.
This is for the 37 short films (which are listed all the way bottom of this page) that Chaplin made for
various studios from 1914 to 1919. Marlon Brando once said in his autobiography that Charlie Chaplin was
the "most sadistic" person he had ever met. Every second spent watching his bullshit pictures is like
being in the middle of Dante's Inferno. Nothing beats his stuff when it comes to being depressed and having
suicidal thoughts.
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is one of the worst pictures made. It's trash beyond trash and so poorly
directed and edited that I had nightmares afterwards. The acting is across-the-board atrocious. Pure
nonsense is the dialogue that's written by none other than the moron sock puppet named Roger Ebert. It's the
single number one reason why I never read his reviews or believe any of the shit he says about cinema.
Every time Tim Curry shows up, I just want to punch him in the face. He's so grating that I've never liked him
in anything else. The first ten minutes was going okay, and then the movie fell apart at the seams, making it
hard for me to survive for more than five minutes at a time.
The Fifth Element is a headache-inducing sci-fi movie with performances that range from corny to
excruciatingly bad. At the beginning, I thought I could stomach it all the way to the end, but when Chris Tucker
entered into the picture, my eyes just couldn't take the torture anymore. As bad as he is, the special effects
are horrible by the 90's standards. I mean it was released during the same year as Titanic. Now, what
the fuck is that on Gary Oldman's head? It looks like a condom.
Phantom of the Paradise is one of the worst, dumbest, and stupidest movies ever made. What the fuck am
I seeing? It's a terrifically bad remake of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. I hate all of the characters.
I hate the story. I hate everything. I fucking hate, hate, hate everything about the film. Everybody had way
too much cocaine when they made it.
Crooklyn represents everything that's fundamentally wrong with Spike Lee. The story is god-awful, hitting
the bottom point in terms of moral values while reaffirming the fact that many black children don't behave or
speak properly like their white counterparts. The film's worst line is: "I hope we don't have to dress up for
mommy's funeral." No wonder why she died. Wake the fuck up, Spike. This is not the 60's when he can pretend
to be the Malcolm X of his race nowadays. What a fucking idiot he is.
Whoever did the editing for 2001: A Space Travesty is a fucking nut job. It's impossible to make any
scene to register in my mind because they're all moving so fast that I have no idea what just happened. The
back of the DVD cover claims the film is a "hilarious comedy that dares to spoof where no one's spoofed before:
on another planet." Um, didn't Spaceballs do that already?
It doesn't take me long to label Eraserhead as one of the ten or fifteen worst films I've ever seen in
my life. Making something abstract is one thing, but making it coherent is another thing. You just can't have
the first one without the other. In fact, Eraserhead is the perfect kind of picture to attract idiot
film students. The loud screeching noises coming from it was bothering my dog so much that I had to mute the TV.
What the fuck was going on in Gus Van Sant's head when he agreed to plagiarize Psycho? Not only Gus
did that abominable piece of shit, but he also went an extra step further to insult Alfred Hitchcock by including
a masturbation scene which is unexplainable. Everybody who was part of the remake should be shamed, and Vince
Vaughn will burn forever in cinema hell for what he did.
One of the cameramen forgot a box of lenses prior to the cruise trip, and they filmed the whole thing with
the wrong ones because everybody had to stay on the cruise from New Orleans to Cancun. Adam Sandler has publicly
disowned the film ever since and is reportedly embarrassed for being associated with it. A rumor has circulated
around the internet that he smeared a bed mattress with his feces during the filming. Now, I know what it's
like to be seasick.
Congratulations to Jean Renoir for landing on my Worst Directors list. Boudu sauvé des eaux
(Boudu Saved from Drowning) is among the worst movies I've ever seen. Reminding me of Charles Chaplin,
Boudu is one of the most despicable, useless characters I've ever laid my eyes on. He should've been thrown
into prison for various sexual offenses and rape.
Lengthy body falls, unexplainable explosions, and unintelligible storyline are among the features of this
inexplicable mess. Larry Semen hogs all of the screen time as he manages to be the queencock of all assholes.
Just looking at him, I can't help but be disgusted enough to beg for mercy. Thankfully, the movie bombed so
badly that he died a few years afterwards.
I hate Dudley Moore, I hate Peter Cook, and they aren't funny. One thing I can guarantee you, Arthur Coyle
Donan would've hated the movie with passion. My displeasure is further worsened by the endless strings of
loquaciousness and disgusting water "jokes." By the time Sherlock Holmes met his mother, the scene killed
any of the momentum, however little there was, it had going. From start to finish, not one single joke worked,
and from start to finish, I yawned ceaselessly.
Yep, this is the worst Superman movie of all time. Nothing works. Every time a subplot occurs, I've
forgotten what happened before that. If a Superman sequel is going to leave out Marlon Brando, Margot
Kidder, Gene Hackman, Ned Beatty, and Valerie Perrine, then it's fair to say the franchise is over. Allowing
Richard Pryor to play a crackhead doesn't help matters any.
The origin of why many Batman movies sucked over the years can be readily traced to this inferior
original with Adam West and Burt Ward which is among the worst ever made. It's so unbelievably boring that
I had to keep stopping the movie every two minutes to take a nap. The fight scenes look more fake than
anything in American Ninja V and are stupid, lame, and corny. The mother of all turkeys, Batman
gives a bad name to the word "camp."
A hybrid between Get Carter and a pick of any Ken Russell films, Performance is a good example that's
a product of its time. Worse, it's an unwatchable mess of self-indulgence. I can hardly make heads or tails of
the plot. In fact, there isn't any to speak of. No wonder why the androgynous-looking Mick Jagger didn't appear in a
major picture again for many years.
Why did Curly Sue have to be made? What an awful film. I hate everything about it, and not for one second
did I laugh throughout. James Belushi and Kelly McGillis are okay, but it's Alisan Porter whom I hate the most. She
never appeared in another major film for the rest of her career. Thank goodness. The excessive amount of sugar
she pours in will have been fatal.
Wow, watching Arthur has left me shocked enough to question how truly stupid the people were in 1981.
Watching Dudley Moore attempt to roll off his feeble "jokes" (which are bad, bad, bad, bad!) while laughing
maniacally, I was like, "Really?" From start to finish, the film is as unfunny as it can be, and I didn't laugh
once. There's nothing comic about an alcoholic or drunk driving.
A Passage to India is one of the worst and most racist pictures ever made. The Indian stereotypes are
appalling. Sickening to watch is the reduction of Dr. Aziz to some sort of caricature. Look at the Indian judge
for the case, and look at the Indian lawyer friend of Dr. Aziz. Why...why...why use Alec Guinness, a white man
doused in makeup, for an Indian? Hundred millions of Indians in the world, and they can't find one to play his
character. Now, what the fuck is that on Alec's lips?
Let's all Do the Right Thing by not letting Spike Lee do any more films. Listening to the constant
profanity, idiot talk, and illogical arguments isn't my cup of tea. All of the characters have third grade
education, and I don't understand why I'm supposed to be interested in their problems. What kind of a moron
muscles his way around to keep the 200 dB music blaring and do nothing productive all day? He, with his stupid
gold, looks like a drug dealer and should be shot dead on the spot for being a fucking idiot.
If Josh said, "Your mother had sex with a robot. That's why you became a robot," Sam will believe it. If he
said, "Your body is made of carbon fiber with a metal brain," Sam will believe it. "You have no penis and...,"
Sam will believe it all the same. They're the most depressing-looking kids, and I wonder if those actors had
a happy childhood or that's how they appear daily. My prediction is Sam will commit suicide within 5 years
while Josh shoots up heroin.
If a criminal feels compelled to use the insanity defense, I won't be surprised if it's centered around seeing
The NeverEnding Story III. In fact, I encourage it. Bastian sucks. Falkor sucks. The rock baby sucks.
The tree trunk character sucks. The little people suck. The sister sucks. Everybody sucks. I feel like pulling
the cord as fast as I can to get my lawn mower revving, so I can get rid of the middle portion of Jack Black's
eyebrows.
To be honest with you, I have no fucking clue what American Buffalo is all about. Effortlessly, the
picture makes its way to my Worst Films list. All I can say to everybody is: slow the fuck down. But no...the
dialogue must be delivered at a rapid machine-gun pace. Who the fuck cares if I can't comprehend any of it?
Just keep going and make up shit. Dustin Hoffman won't shut the fuck up for a second. It's amazing how much
he committed the rubbish bullshit to memory.
My goodness. Noises Off is an abominable, non-comedy picture about a play within the play. Everybody
tries too hard but often comes off as theatrical. I should've known better that it was bound to stink because
Peter Bogdanovich is the director. He hadn't done anything noteworthy since Mask in 1985.
The Trouble with Harry is awful, stupid, unbelievable, and moronic. There's no question that the movie
was made for mental retards. Any reasonable person will know for a fact that a human corpse stinks bad, worse
than any scent imaginable, but it, being dragged around all day, is going to attract people in the vicinity.
Of the cast, I hate everybody, most especially Shirley MacLaine, and I also hate the plot.
Talk about a film that goes from one random scene to another. That's exactly how The Company of Wolves has
been. So, what finally killed it for me? It's the stupid-looking boy with a dopey face. Whoever decided to cast
Angela Lansbury as the grandmother should be fired from his job because that's as idiotic as it gets. When I
saw Terence Stamp in the Rolls Royce, I thought he was going to ask, "Pardon me. Do you have any Grey Poupon?"
One Crazy Summer is an absurdly bad comedy with a set of wretched characters. I hate the story as
equally as I hate everybody. The biggest joke is Bobcat Goldthwait who makes a total mockery out of himself
and is thus embarrassing to watch. His antics makes me wonder if he's mentally retarded. Drop the last two
words in the title One Crazy Summer, and that's the film's rating.
National Lampoon's Animal House, along with sport and campus rape cultures, represents everything that's
wrong with the college scene today. That's why I don't feel sorry for anybody who died from alcohol poisoning or
a stupid fraternity/sorority "prank." WTF is written all over the movie. There's not a single funny moment.
Look at John Belushi. He's a fucking idiot, and he died like a fucking idiot. Good fucking riddance.
Carbon Copy is one of the most racially offensive movies made. Denzel Washington had to take the role
in order to move up the ladder before he would be Denzel Washington as we know him today. To this day, he
won't talk about the film. What's surprising is the year the film was made in. I thought Hollywood was wise
enough to move past the point. Worse yet, it was directed by a black director.
Because Labyrinth was directed by Jim Henson, I figured the movie couldn't be bad. Wrong. It's bad. Not
only that, but it's also boring. Nothing works. The characters are ugly, and I hate them all. Nobody can act.
The plot sucks. It's like being in Waldo's World. Excuse me, is that David Bowie's penis showing through his
extremely tight spandex pants? It looks like he had an erection for appearing in a children's film.
"Catch the excitement. Catch the adventure. Catch the Hawk. Bruce Willis. Hudson Hawk." What'chu talkin'
'bout, Willis? Bruce Willis, with all of his four gold looped earrings, actually thought he could write a
story? Ha, that's a laugh! It's impossible to follow the ridiculous plot or what everybody is doing or saying.
Basically, anything goes in spite of rationality. Oh, yeah. Bruce? Just one thing: wipe that stupid smirk off
your face.
Wow, is Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation the worst ever? In the midst of a dense fog,
Matthew McConaughey constantly screams and loses his shit. It's highly doubtful he was in the right frame of
mind. That stupid mechanical leg of his has to be one of the most bizarre ever conceived in movie history. So
is the moment when a plane came out of nowhere to kill his character. Everybody involved with this crap was
either mentally unstable or on drugs.
The Man Who Fell to Earth is the Zabriskie Point of the sci-fi genre. Watching David Bowie is
like looking at an inanimate marble. In fact, he was high on cocaine throughout the filming. David Bowie
squeezing his tits is considered as profound? He putting the gun's barrel in a glass of wine and then sucking
it is the stuff of brilliance? Hence, I laugh at anybody who thinks The Man Who Fell to Earth is good
or even amazing.
The biggest mistake is the casting of Lee Reyes as the unlikable Hiro. Therefore, the film is about Joe and
Hiro. Joe is always saving Hiro. But why? I don't care about him. When the kid is finally allowed to learn
the secrets of ninjistu, he becomes a ninja overnight and looks adept at it even though he couldn't handle
nunchunks two days before.
Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? And my answer to that
question is: "Who the fuck cares?" What a long title. By the way, that Barbara Harris' Oscar-nominated
performance? It's the very definition of the most fake, hokey acting.
DreamWorks, which is co-run by Steven Spielberg, financed The Love Letter. He's married to Kate Capshaw.
Now, you see how that old hag found work in Hollywood. Of course, this stinker lost over $12 million at the
box office. The back of the DVD cover for The Love Letter claims to feature an all-star cast. Uh...no.
Full of poor characters, unintelligent story, and "yeah, right" moments, Child's Play 2 is a terrible
piece of crap that's a stupid waste of time. Once is enough, but twice is going too far. Why is the doll
remade? What's the significance of that? Oh, yes...to make an ungodly amount of money from the sequels. Guess
what? I still don't believe Andy, either.
Really, really, really, really...awful! There's no saving this unintelligent piece of shit that's called
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. The dialogue is terrible with little horror. Instead, I'm treated to
many long camera shots. There's no way the killers' hideout would've been cleaned up in a matter of hours.
Speaking of the littered bodies, they must emit a foul smell that'll radiate all over the great state of Texas.
Clueless is another mindless dud in Alicia Silverstone's résumé. Totally clueless, Amy Heckerling cannot
direct. Now outdated, the film is about fake people whom I don't give two shits about. My mind started to melt
ten minutes into it, and by the time the show ended, it was already dead from a nuclear holocaust.
"Quick, Watson...the hypodermic needle! For I need to shoot myself up with cocaine." It's what the real
Sherlock Holmes would say if he saw this. At least, the film isn't as dreadful as The Hound of Baskerville
with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. Yet it's billed as a comedy, so where are the jokes? What exactly do people
see in Gene Wilder? When has he ever been funny? I suppose they like him groping women's breasts all the time.
Did they blatantly rip off the idea from A Hard Day's Night featuring the Beatles? The problem with the five
females is they're virtually indistinguishable, at least from a personality standpoint. Not only that, but the
editor also has to make rapid cuts by going from one character to another, therefore making for a disorientating
film. As a result, it has been a madcap of pure nonsense.
Whoever thought Ryan Phillippe could act needs to have his head examined. Mixing Dangerous Liaisons with
high school setting is inappropriate. That much is evident by the hard-to-swallow dialogue. You're better off
seeing the cinematic version of Choderlos de Laclos' epistolary novel starring John Malkovich and Glenn Close.
Great balls of fire, what the hell was the poor man thinking? I can't believe that John Travolta still defends
his work to this day. Apart from the money, the only reason for doing the film is that he, a long-time
Scientologist, wanted to make a film that's based on a novel by L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology.
At any rate, Battlefield Earth deserves a place in cinema hell as one of the most famous bad movies ever made.
The British voted The Italian Job as one of the best movies made, and that tells me a lot about their
intelligence. It's so boring that I have dozed off many times. Hence, the movie should be called
The Doze Job. The plot is retarded and predictable. If Michael Caine's character plans to rob a huge
sum amount of money, why does he hire idiots? Poor jokes are in abundance throughout the film, and many of
them have me constantly saying, "I don't get it."
Oh, my goodness...Duck Soup is a stupid movie. No wonder why pseudo-intellectuals who haven't the
foggiest idea what humor is love this one. Unsurprisingly, Duck Soup was a box-office failure in 1933,
almost bankrupting Paramount, because the moviegoing public knew better to avoid it.
Proclaimed as the best Sherlock Holmes film ever made, Murder by Decree is a fraud. I read all of
the stories penned by Arthur Conan Doyle, and I know what Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are. That wasn't either
in the movie. Christopher Plummer needs to give it up and read the book for real. James Mason should've
retired from acting altogether.
It's finally over. Seven Police Academy movies. That's too many. Save for Captain Harris' makeup while
pretending to be a ballet dancer, nothing works in Police Academy: Mission to Moscow. According to IMDb,
"Ron Perlman (Konstantine Konali) considered his work on this movie 'a public service' by shutting down the
Police Academy movies for over two decades. Perlman said, 'I'm not going to apologize. I did that
piece of shit.'"
All the more reason to hate Wes Craven, The Serpent and the Rainbow is another failure in his oeuvre.
I mean, what was that? An anthropologist going to Haiti in an attempt to procure a medicine that'll work wonders
on zombies, and this is based on a true story? This movie is more like a seminar for the alchemists.
If you need a reason to make the statement that "Chick Flicks Suck," look no further than Stool Boognolias.
Instead of one, there are six prima donnas in the cast: Julia Roberts, Olympia Dukakis, Sally Field, Dolly
Parton, Daryl Hannah, and Shirley MacLaine. Each has a string behind her back, and one single pull has her
screaming, "Look at me! Look at me! I am the Queen of the South!" again, again, and again.
If there's an easy candidate for the most overrated picture ever, it's Dr. Strangelove. I saw the film
a long time ago and hated it, and trying again, I wasn't sure if I was not intelligent enough to "get" the
movie. Well, it's true: Dr. Strangelove is that overrated. Advertised as a comedy picture, it's not. I
don't feel like I've missed any cue as every attempt at humor falls flat.
Army of Darkness is the third film of The Evil Dead trilogy and is the silliest of them all.
Even the poster on right is equally ridiculous. There's neither sense nor sanity throughout the picture,
forcing me to say to myself every ten minutes: "What the fuck?" The plot only borders on the idea of Ash
taking Book of Dead without saying the words. So, think about it: if the book is right there, should the
Deadites take it as easily in the first place, thus avoiding the entire mess?
No...no...no...the horror. Nothing works in The Bad News Bears Go to Japan. It's a train wreck of a picture.
What the hell was Tony Curtis thinking when he agreed to appear in this steaming pile of crap? I've been clueless
as to why the team had earned the privilege to travel to Japan to play a meaningless game with tons of dollars
wasted to make it happen.
Imagine my surprise when I came across a VHS copy of An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn at a flea
market. It was like finding plutonium in the middle of a godforsaken desert. The comments "Hilarious!",
"Outrageous!", and "One of the funniest movies in ages!" are splattered all over the cover. What the fuck
are they talking about? It's nothing but a soporific dreck that revolves around the missing reel of an
upcoming crappy Hollywood blockbuster.
Dang...how bad is Clue? It's about a fine board game that's shamed to smithereens. In fact, the title
should be changed to The Colleen Camp's Breasts Show because that's what the movie has been. Sadly, the
filmmakers forgot the board game was meant to be family fun by opting for the overly sexist tone.
A lot of people like Gene Wilder, but to be honest with you, I've never thought of him funny. Therefore, Gene
Wilder has always been an overrated comedian. Haunted Honeymoon is proof positive because he wrote
the screenplay, directed the movie, and starred in it. So...where's the comedy? What a stupid idiot. Instead
of finding out whether his tie is straight or not, he should've asked, "Does my movie suck?"
The 80's was a decade of countless awful, corny films that were filled with bad fashion, retarded ADHD
mannerisms, chopped-up hairstyles, mindless music numbers, and loud colors. Teen Witch is no exception.
It's also one of the worst, cheesiest pictures I've seen. The idea of drinking a glass of hydrogen peroxide
and dealing with the Poison Control Center afterwards is more exciting than going through this film again.
Snow Falling on Cedars was so pretentious that I kept falling asleep after five to ten minutes every
single time, and I finally finished the film a month later. Hence, the appropriate title should be
Sleep Falling on Eyelids. No wonder why I had never heard of the movie until spotting it at the library
due to Ethan Hawke. Years later, he recalled his time as "not a great acting experience."
It's not that Re-Animator is offensive and tasteless but is rather an unintelligent picture. To add more
to my misery, it's a boring movie to sit through. There are so many unethical moments that I'm supposed to
believe they commonly occur to those who work in the medical field. For starters, Herbert West probably killed
a doctor somewhere in Europe, but why wasn't he prosecuted for it? How could he be admitted to a medical
school afterwards?
The formula is in. I repeat, the formula is in for the franchise. Find an annoying young boy and designate him
as the cult leader. Make sure there are a lot of cornstalks around. Let the children follow the leader while
he spews out some of the most ridiculous religious lines ever. Finally, the plan goes up in flames by the time
the leader is ready to cross the Rubicon for the glory of it all. At the end, of course...nothing bad ever happens.
The biggest WTF moment of The Prophecy 3: The Ascent is when Christopher Walken was driving a convertible
car with no windshield while playing the trumpet. My sole thought during that moment was: "Why is he wasting
his time with this trash?"
My head still shakes in disbelief, befuddlement, and shock all rolled into one. Marlon Brando was a sex
symbol in A Streetcar Named Desire and then reaffirmed it in On the Waterfront. Fast-forward to
The Island of Dr. Moreau forty years later, he's a 500-pound indescribable vat of Larry Drake ugliness.
Not only that, but Brando has also lost his mind for good.
The title of Frogs for Snakes says it all. Who the hell thought Amos Poe could direct? Every time
somebody did a monologue from a film, I would end up cringing so hard. When John Leguizamo, after listening
to Barbara Hershey, said it was the most beautiful thing he had ever heard, I just wanted to shoot him in
the head right there.
The 6th Man is a hard picture to watch because it says cheating is okay as long as nobody is hurt
in the process and doesn't teach moral lessons, either. The movie also depicts selfish individuals who make
me sick to my stomach. Things are worse, given between five and ten million spectators for NCAA basketball,
there's not a single skeptic pointing out how everything looks out of place.
Does anybody realize Grosse Pointe, Michigan, is a notorious sundown town? So, why make a movie that takes
place there? Anyway, the trouble with John Cusack is that he plays the same character over and over. He also
has no versatility and tends to rely on his blank stare which are piss-holes in the snow (thanks for that,
Michael Caine).
The first twenty minutes of Fury forced me to turn off the TV four times. It was so bad, corny, and
saccharine that I couldn't stop rolling my eyes. There are so many leaps in logic that the entire story is
farfetched to be believable. The court case incenses me, hence the title Fury. It has nothing to do
with the facts or how I felt about either side. It's just that my intelligence was being insulted constantly,
no matter what.
Judgment at Nuremberg is a misleading film in many ways. At first, I thought it was going to be
semi-documentary based on the actual events, but it turns out to be a fictional account of the actual trial.
Second, I thought it was going to be about the trial of twenty-two famous Nazi defendants including Hermann
Göring. Alas, it's not. Rather, the movie is about the trial of the judges of the Third Reich. How boring.
Boy, Julia Roberts...if her character is the one who's instead dying young, I'll have said, "Good! Let her."
She's incapable of displaying anything that's human through her face. Only two possible acting techniques she has
in her very tiny repertoire are a sarcastic look and a feigned concern. I wonder who thinks Julia Roberts is an
attractive-looking woman. Please, she's far from it.
Robin Wright Penn is bad as in Julianne Moore/Sandra Bullock/Nicole Kidman bad. Speaking of gross, I can't
believe how much her character poisoned her fetus with so much alcohol, tobacco, and drugs. Then, I'm insulted
when it turns out to be a healthy baby. Uh, uh...that never happens in real life as she should've had full-blown
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
After finishing Mo' Better Blues, the first thought that came to my mind is: "No mo' films from Spike
Lee ever again." There's nothing to like about it which has no story and is too long. I can think of at least
ten films per decade that have touched the same topics. Most of all, I'm tired of Spike Lee pulling out the
race card. Enough already.
*yawn* Um, check please. I have a good sense of humor, knowing what's funny and what's not. But
Life of Brian isn't what I call a funny movie. After I started playing it, I waited for a long time
to laugh. At the half-hour mark, I fell asleep. At the hour mark, I was gasping for air. At the 70th minute
mark, I was counting sheep. At the 80th minute mark, my mind died from the medieval torture. At the 90th
minute mark, I was left practically dead.
Alphabet City represents everything that's wrong with an 80's film. What I see instead is lights,
lights, and more lights. It has been purple, pink, green, orange, purple, pink, yellow, orange, purple, pink,
green, orange, purple, pink, yellow, purple, pink, green, orange, purple, pink, and yellow. These lights
are so distractingly bright that they have to be right in the center for every shot.
The Principal is one of the sorriest films made. Filled with many useless scenes and hokey dialogue,
the plot is improbable, and the principal should've died on the first day of his new job after pulling off
the illegal stunts. Additionally, his behavior is so inappropriate that it's grounds enough for termination.
One reviewer remarked all of the characters were underdeveloped which is true.
That's the last of the crap. RoboCop 3 has left me brain-dead at the end. It's hard to believe this
is the same guy who did The Monster Squad: Fred Dekker. Unsurprisingly, he never directed again
afterwards. Frank Miller needs to stay away from movies altogether because all he does is produce works of
shit. To paraphrase the titular character in Oliver!: "Please sir, I want no more."
Whatever you do, don't ever watch Lethal Weapon 4. You'll end up hating it with passion. I noticed
something else: characters who survived the previous film would stay on for the next one and also for the
duration of the franchise. In Lethal Weapon 4, the cast has gotten so bloated that Richard Donner is
still addicted to having more on board. Even the movie poster on right looks crowded.
Paraphrasing Leonard Matlin, Petulia is "one of the decade's worst films." To be honest with you, I
haven't the foggiest clue what the plot is about. It appears to be about the problems that plague the
superficial, pretentious rich folks. Julie Christie, the über whore of the 60's, fails to capture my
interest. As always, her acting leaves a lot to be desired. And what's George C. Scott doing in this? It's
a true waste of his talent.
Rubbish and stupid, Big Trouble in Little China is a schlock film by John Carpenter's standards with
Kurt Russell giving the worst performance ever. The lead star should be embarrassed of himself for playing
a fake character. The thespians speak their lines one by one in an orderly fashion as if they're in a
staged play. It grows worse and worse over time, cementing this crapfest as a trashy Oriental wannabe
fantasy-comedy flick.
Quick! What's the first thing that comes to your mind about Batman & Robin? If you said, "Nipples,"
then yep...you are correct. Fans of the franchise have universally voted Batman & Robin as the worst
Batman movie of all time. Joel Schumacher goes overboard with the use of colors. I can imagine him
trying to decide: "What color should I use? Is red good? Or yellow? How about a pitch of orange and some
purple? I feel blue. No! Yes! No! More green! No! More yellow!"
Ah, Virginia, but the story of Shakespeare in Love takes place in 1593 and the colony didn't exist
until 1607. Ah, Shakespeare is single and in love with a rich lady, but the real playwright had a wife and
three kids. If you ask me to name some of the worst Best Picture winners ever, Shakespeare in Love
immediately comes to my mind. It's that bad. Hence, Saving Private Ryan should've won.
Tralala yells to everybody within earshot that she has the "best tits in the western world!" This was a
scene from Last Exit to Brooklyn. What a terrible film. All of the characters are so unlikeable
that I've quickly lost interest. Whatever the crap they were doing, I was having none of it and couldn't
wait for the movie to end. Where was police the entire time? It's unrealistic.
If I thought Alien 3 was that bad, Alien: Resurrection is infinitely worse. Nothing works.
Setting the record for having an ensemble of the worst thespians alive (Dan Hedaya, Brad Dourif, Ron Perlman,
and Winona Ryder) in the same film is too much. Did Sigourney Weaver come back for the money? Is that the
reason why? The idea of cloning her character from the dead by blood is ludicrous.
Ivan the Terrible, Part Two (Ivan Groznyy II: Boyarsky zagovor) is beyond terrible. Not only
is the movie impossibly incomprehensible, but it's also impossibly and incomprehensibly boring! The editing
is clumsy, the acting is laughable, and the material is poorly put together. It's like watching a silent
film but with sound. I kept yearning for the end of it all for the love of humanity.
There's a long dragged-out sequence of ridiculousness and pointlessness in Zabriskie Point with the
last ten minutes of stuff being repeatedly blown up in a slow-motion at different angles before closing out
with a sunset. I had been wondering the whole time: was Michelangelo Antonioni mentally retarded? Also, did
he watch 2001: A Space Odyssey and Easy Rider too many times and try to emulate them?
There's no plot to speak of. The crazy nun angle is too far left-field to believe. Undeveloped characters
come out of nowhere and then disappear for good. Casting Jean Simmons, an Anglo-Saxon, as the whitewashed
Indian is a racist gimmick. Even her character is a farce to watch. One billion Indians, and the producers
can't find somebody to take her role?
I knew a kid in middle school who liked to make figures out of aluminum foil, and when I saw his finished
products, I had no idea what the hell they were supposed to be. But in his mind, he saw something that was
fascinating. So, I figured he was on another planet. It's exactly how I felt about Nightbreed.
Looking at the title Forces of Nature on the DVD cover and then up to see who the stars are, the
disclaimer "Caveat Lector" should've been inserted right in the middle of these two. Then, at below, a
critic called it: "Outrageously funny!" Oh, really? Then, my middle finger is very extended at his face to
show him what I think of the movie.
Masterpieces, I have seen. Good films, I have seen. Turkeys, I have seen. But when it comes to Blue Steel,
there's no explanation. Hands down, Blue Steel is one of the worst, stupidest pictures I've seen in
my life. The movie reeks of horrid...I mean really, really horrid...acting. Jamie Lee Curtis fails the eye
test miserably for a female in blue. Ron Silver...wow, he gets my vote as the most annoying, unattractive,
schizophrenic psycho with hideous-looking teeth.
Now now now, what...the hell...is this? Absolutely bored to tears while watching The Smokers, I
stretched out my arms like they had never been stretched before. It has no story only to depend on a gimmicky
feel that chicks with guns are chic. Attempting to trigger a fire alarm, one girl holds a lighter to the
smoke detector before falling down and is thus trapped in the bathroom. But stuck how? Many of the scenes
don't connect or flow well; all I see is the characters' worthlessness.
Damn...Charlie the Idiot was at it again: making more junk films. The Great Dictator is one of them.
I can imagine after surviving the Holocaust, the Jews grabbed some beers and laughed uproariously at
The Great Dictator. Of course, Charlie said he made the film to create awareness. Well, it didn't
do anything for world peace or whatever the hell it was he was trying to accomplish. So...an epic fail!
I honestly can't stand Federico Fellini. Here's a trivia taken from IMDb for 8½: "All of a sudden,
during the celebration, he [Fellini] got a new idea: his film would have told about a film-director who was
going to direct a film, but he forgot what it was about." Exactly...exactly... 8½ is strictly for
the pseudo-intellectuals.
Let's play a game. Take the word "blue." What is a homophone of it? The word is "blew" which is the past
tense of "blow." What rhymes with "blow"? Of course, it's "slow." Hence, Trois couleurs: Bleu is just
that. Let me save you the suspense: nothing—absolutely nothing—ever happens in the film. Zero.
Zilch. Zippo. "Mysterious...Sexy!" *yawn* Yeah, sure...
"SEVEN again...MAGNIFICENT again!" What in the Sam Hill are they talking about? I only see Yul. Not only is
Return of the Seven one of the worst sequels, but it's also one of the worst films made. The title is
misleading because only one is actually back, prompting a sensible change in the title:
Return of a Seventh of the Seven. When Chris Adams said the name Vin, I, putting a cupped hand to
my forehead, was like, "Where? I don't see Steve."
The description of Les paumées du petit matin (The Escapees) reads: "After escaping from an
insane asylum, two women fall in with a troupe of erotic dancers and embark on a surreal journey full of sex
and violence." It sounds cool, huh? Well, no. More of a film school art project, it has the worst of everything:
acting, dialogue, plot (which is zero anyway), pace, direction, characters, and scenes, among others.
Well, talk about having great instincts. George Clooney appeared in the first ten minutes of
Return to Horror High and walked out of the set forever, leaving behind his character to be killed
off. The rest of the film fell into an indescribable mess. Nothing makes sense. It's just one random scene
to another, resembling the worst of Plan 9 from Outer Space. In fact, Return to Horror High
is probably the Plan 10 from outer space.
Do you ever get the feeling of working on a jigsaw puzzle with none of the pieces fitting together? That's what
happened in The January Man. It's not the kind of film that's "so bad that it's so good" or "so bad that
it's bad" but rather "so stupid that it's so ridiculous." Indeed it is. The bizarre murdery mystery plot has to
be seen to believe.
File John Carpenter under "What the Heck Happened to Him?" He used to churn out the best stuff during the late
70's and most of the 80's and then fell off the map. Finally, John resurfaces with a crappy film that's nowhere
near his usual standard, and it's Village of the Damned. As a matter of fact, I prefer this title:
Village of Jor-El's Damned Children.
If the title is The Curse of the Cat People, then I must ask this question: where are the cats? The sequel
has nothing to do with the original and is more of a remake than a continuation. Speaking of tragedy, how about
Oliver? Some Father of the Year he is. The ending is the final nail in the coffin when Oliver lied to his daughter
that he saw her imaginary friend. By the way, the old woman needs to shut the hell up, drink a lot more liquor,
and pass out for good.
The Innocents is a snoozefest that's filled with bad acting, lame storyline, and annoying children. I
couldn't wait for it to end which took me an entire week with lots of pauses when the sheer amount of boredom was
getting to me. All Deborah Kerr (can you say...old?!?) can do is keep her mouth and eyes wide open. And she calls
it "acting"? O...kay.
The Don't Fuck With Chuck series continues, and this time, it's Invasion U.S.A. which is one of
the most brain-dead action films I've seen. It goes without saying the thespians were at the nadir of their
careers when they agreed to do this. When I saw the number of men coming out from the boats, I laughed and was
like, "Are you fucking serious?" Does the movie expect me believe a good thousand of men can conquer the United
States of America whose population was two hundred something million during the middle 80's?
Instead of going on a camping trek to document a local legend, the three characters argue among themselves like
fucking crybabies who haven't a goddamn clue about camping. They bitch, moan, and whine about the conditions and
being lost in the woods. I was like, "Can you just calm down and shut the fuck up?" Most of the time, I had been
wishing for them to die horribly by the manner of Deliverance.
*face palm* There's a small concept called "story." If it doesn't exist, there's no movie. Apparently, everybody
associated with City Dragon hadn't heard of it. Instead, I'm treated to 100 minutes of rapping dialogue,
soft porn, and a lot of nothing. Oh, yeah...there's martial arts stuff thrown into the mix, but it's few and far
between.
Dishonorable Mentions:
True Stories (1986),
Outrageous Fortune (1987),
Powder (1995),
The Brides of Dracula (1960),
Permanent Vacation (1980),
Waxwork II: Lost in Time (1992),
House on Haunted Hill (1999),
Possession (1981),
Suture (1993),
and
Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000)
Charlie Chaplin's Movies:
Laffing Gas (1914), The Landlady's Pet (1914), Mabel's Married Life (1914),
The Masquerader (1914), Musical Tramp (1914), The New Janitor (1914), Recreation (1914),
The Rival Mashers (1914), The Rounders (1914), A Burlesque on Carmen (1915),
By the Sea (1915), The Champion (1915), His New Job (1915), In the Park (1915),
A Night in the Show (1915), A Night Out (1915), Shanghaied (1915), The Tramp (1915),
A Woman (1915), Work (1915), Behind the Screen (1916), The Count (1916),
The Fireman (1916), The Floorwalker (1916), One A.M. (1916), The Pawnshop (1916),
The Rink (1916), The Vagabond (1916), The Adventurer (1917), The Cure (1917),
Easy Street (1917), The Immigrant (1917), The Bond (1918), Shoulder Arms (1918),
Triple Trouble (1918), A Day's Pleasure (1919), and Sunnyside (1919)