Worst movie you have ever watched?

[Brooke]

Starship troopers followed closely by battlefield earth.

I thought Startship Troopers was awesome.  It had so many excellent parts:  Doogie Howser as an SS officer, the excellent propaganda adds.  It was a hoot!  Nothing like the novel, but that doesn't make it bad.

Battlefield Earth was, I hear, truly horrible, but I didn't see it.

[Brooke]

don't know about anyone else but i could fill a blockbuster with the worst movies of all time starting with megashark and team america.   

You didn't like Team America:  World Police?  Yikes, man!

[Plazus]

Independence day

  Independence Day is a classic! One of my all time favorites. You're the first person I ever met who does not like that movie.

The movie Skyline ranks up there amongst the worse I've seen.

[BoilerDown]

I thought Startship Troopers was awesome.  It had so many excellent parts:  Doogie Howser as an SS officer, the excellent propaganda adds.  It was a hoot!  Nothing like the novel, but that doesn't make it bad.

I completely agree, and with your next post as well.  I still listen to the Starship Troopers soundtrack frequently, too.  

But any movie that was previously a book is going to have a bunch of vocal haters.  I know people that hated the LotR movies, not because they didn't like elves and swords and fantasy stuff, which I can at least understand if its not your thing, but the opposite: the movies weren't authentic enough for them (i.e. not enough songs, took out that one crazy guy, switched lines of dialog around, etc).  I have a female friend who hates The Music Man because the actual live-action play automatically is better.  I looked it up and the movie (the original one) is about as authentic to the original musical as possible, automatically moreso than any modern musical adaptation.  I seriously just have to roll my eyes at those people.

[Brooke]

The first 'Transformers' was so bad that I drove back to the store at 3am to give it back and have refused to watch any of the sequels.

It was bad.  I would never watch any of the others, either.  (Not as bad as Cujo, though.)

However -- the "making of" feature on it is pretty interesting.  There is one part that was hilarious (to me, anyway, having grown up near Detroit). I was assuming the various cars being flung around were all computer animation.  But in the making of, they show real cars hooked by cable to hydraulic rams that are flinging them around through the air.  In one part, they are on a city street somewhere with 2-3 story buildings lining the street.  "Action!" -- and, zoom!, a car goes sailing out of the frame about 2 stories up.  "Jeez," say I, "That couldn't have turned out well."  Folks are laughing, and the camera pulls back to show the car embedded in one of the buildings about 2 stories up.  Turns out it was filmed in Detroit (which has many abandonned sections where you could actually do such a thing and not worry about it).

[xbrit]

Tried to watch this when it was new, never made it past the first 15 minutes.

[Brooke]

Independence Day is a classic! One of my all time favorites. You're the first person I ever met who does not like that movie.

Now you have met two.  Independence Day is a stinkeroo, just chock full of dopey Hollywoodisms.  (Still, nowhere near as bad as Cujo.)

[skorpion]

im suprised nobody said "alvin and the chipmunks"

that movie SUCKED so hard paris hilton said "damn. that sucked." after watching it.

[gyrene81]

You didn't like Team America:  World Police?  Yikes, man!

nnnnooooo dude!!! i got suckered into watching it with the promise of a marinated t-bone steak and all the tequila i could drink...the tequila didn't make the movie any better. i'd rather have been subjected to all the highlander movies.

Now you have met two.  Independence Day is a stinkeroo, just chock full of dopey Hollywoodisms.  (Still, nowhere near as bad as Cujo.)

bah, independence day was for geek sci-fi action lovers, i like it. i won't argue about cujo, but it still wasn't as bad as team america.

[Brooke]

OK, here's another one that apparently a lot of people thought was horrible that I thought was excellent and hilarious:  Land of the Lost (the Will Ferrell one, not the original series, which is craptastic).

[skorpion]

OK, here's another one that apparently a lot of people thought was horrible that I thought was excellent and hilarious:  Land of the Lost (the Will Ferrell one, not the original series, which is craptastic).

that movie was hilarious. i cant believe some people thought it was bad, freaking gold right there.

[Brooke]

nnnnooooo dude!!! i got suckered into watching it with the promise of a marinated t-bone steak and all the tequila i could drink...the tequila didn't make the movie any better. i'd rather have been subjected to all the highlander movies.

You weren't watching it with the correct crowd, I say!   It had so many hilarious parts.

bah, independence day was for geek sci-fi action lovers, i like it. i won't argue about cujo, but it still wasn't as bad as team america.

I am a lover of science fiction.  But good science fiction such as Twelve Monkeys, Babylon 5, Firefly, Farscape, the original Star Wars, The Wrath of Khan, Cowboy Beebop, Gattaca, A Boy and His Dog, Darkstar, Appleseed, Zardoz, Barbarella, A Scanner Darkly, Brazil, City of Lost Children, Dark City, the Sci-Fi Channel's Dune series -- and Starship Troopers.  (There are undoubtedly a bunch I am not recalling off the top of my head.)  I'm not including fantasy, which I also love.

For action science fiction, have you seen Appleseed?  It's got the most-amazing sci-fi military action -- jaw dropping.  I watched it and immediately watched the opening again.

[AKKuya]

Nicholas Cage's movie Kiss of Death was terrible also for a mafia film.

[MachFly]

The Men Who Stare at Goats?  I loved that movie -- it was hilarious and awesome.

How much did you drink before you watched it? 

 

[allaire]

You just committed a faux pas Brooke.  You mentioned anime.  I liked Appleseed but I'm sorry Zardoz had one of the scariest costumes in a movie.