I have not had the perverse pleasure of seeing many of the films listed here and I appreciate the heads up many of you are providing.

Battlefield Earth is indeed a stinker. Produced as an effort at reproducing some of the god awfulness of the book. The book was bad...the movie was far worse.

However Fahrenheit 451 was a terrific book and I feel as though the movie was made with little to no effort put into its translation from book to screen. The acting was horrendous; stilted at best, with no character development. The story was mutilated in an effort to fit a workable time frame and I feel as though the movie was produced with the plan of riding the book's coattails.

Whereas Battlefield Earth was a horrendous movie based on a bad book by a mediocre author, F451 was a horrendous abomination based on a classic book by an acclaimed author.

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Originally posted by Ironbutt:
Bridges of Madison County.

My wife drug me to see this when it came out years ago. I figured, hell, Clint Eastwood's in it, so how bad can it be.

I sat there patiently for hours waiting for something to happen. When it was over & the credits started rolling, I looked at my wife & said, "W-T-F was that about?"

I agree. It was terrible. I listed it in this thread as well:Clint Eastwood's worst movies. I'm a big Eastwood fan but couldn't stand it.

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Originally posted by rsbolo:
I have not had the perverse pleasure of seeing many of the films listed here and I appreciate the heads up many of you are providing.

Battlefield Earth is indeed a stinker. Produced as an effort at reproducing some of the god awfulness of the book. The book was bad...the movie was far worse.

However Fahrenheit 451 was a terrific book and I feel as though the movie was made with little to no effort put into its translation from book to screen. The acting was horrendous; stilted at best, with no character development. The story was mutilated in an effort to fit a workable time frame and I feel as though the movie was produced with the plan of riding the book's coattails.

Whereas Battlefield Earth was a horrendous movie based on a bad book by a mediocre author, F451 was a horrendous abomination based on a classic book by an acclaimed author.

I have suffered through Battlefield Earth and it is indeed Lucifers Hemmorrhoid.

I haven’t seen Fahrenheit 451 In years but I cannot in good conscience pan Oskar Werner as Guy Montag. He radiated a naive likeability.

Most of the films listed would be Oscar winners (yes even Stallone) compared to this one. I am embarrassed to even say I saw it. Pink Flamingos

I was visiting a friend attending New England College (early 74), in the quaint little town of Henniker NH, and they had it on campus for a weekend movie showing. I had no idea what I was getting into by going. What an absolute piece of gutter rot garbage, there are not enough pejoratives to describe it. Looking back there had to be a commie pinko fag on the faculty that brought it in. No doubt enlightened liberal arts universities being one of the few places that would show it.

Having purged my mind of this trash - life was back to normal, until 1989 when Disney released The Little Mermaid and Ursula the Sea Witch was "inspired" from the main character in PF. WTF Disney. Anyways PF trash-o-la.

Darby O'Gill and the little People with Sean
Connery?

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I'll throw one in...

Born Losers... The first Billy Jack movie....

B.E. was definitely a stinker. But Dune was the one that immediately came to mind. Maybe because I liked the book so much.

A lot of dogs listed in this thread. But also a few that I thought were okay if not pretty good. Oh well...

Hook

Not even being rip-roaring drunk could fix that movie for me...

Tommy Wiseau’s “The Room”.

John Waters would be flattered by your review.
You’d love Multiple Maniacs, Divine collapses on a couch and is raped by a giant lobster.

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Originally posted by 2012BOSS302:
Most of the films listed would be Oscar winners (yes even Stallone) compared to this one. I am embarrassed to even say I saw it. Pink Flamingos

I was visiting a friend attending New England College (early 74), in the quaint little town of Henniker NH, and they had it on campus for a weekend movie showing. I had no idea what I was getting into by going. What an absolute piece of gutter rot garbage, there are not enough pejoratives to describe it. Looking back there had to be a commie pinko fag on the faculty that brought it in. No doubt enlightened liberal arts universities being one of the few places that would show it.

Having purged my mind of this trash - life was back to normal, until 1989 when Disney released The Little Mermaid and Ursula the Sea Witch was "inspired" from the main character in PF. WTF Disney. Anyways PF trash-o-la.

I don't know if it's already been mentioned, but my wife and I watched Highlander a few nights ago. We agreed that it was probably the worst movie we'd ever actually made it all the way through, bar none.

I've heard the sequels are even worse. That's difficult to imagine.

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Originally posted by ensigmatic:
I don't know if it's already been mentioned, but my wife and I watched Highlander a few nights ago. We agreed that it was probably the worst movie we'd ever actually made it all the way through, bar none.

I've heard the sequels are even worse. That's difficult to imagine.

The original wasn't bad. Movie about quasi-immortals engaging in sword fights that begins at a wrestling match with the Fabulous Freebirds. Soundtrack (by Queen IIRC) was pretty good. Was well acted, with Sean Connery playing a Spaniard. The first sequel was stupid, but the third one was freebasing the stupid sauce.

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Originally posted by George43:
Darby O'Gill and the little People with Sean O'Conner?

Anybody mention Seán Connery wearing an oversize diaper in 'Zardos'?

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Originally posted by ensigmatic:
I don't know if it's already been mentioned, but my wife and I watched Highlander a few nights ago. We agreed that it was probably the worst movie we'd ever actually made it all the way through, bar none.

I've heard the sequels are even worse. That's difficult to imagine.

You mean you haven't seen'Revenge of the Nazi Nun Surf-Zombies from Mars meet Highlander' yet?

I've got to ask ~ what would compel one to sit through the "worst movie of all time" long enough to rate them which would indicate that person have done this more than once?

Re: Highlander (the original)

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Originally posted by XinTX:
The original wasn't bad.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I guess

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Originally posted by XinTX:
Was well acted, with Sean Connery playing a Spaniard.

Well-acted??? My Lord. That was probably the most poorly-acted, poorly-directed, poorly-scripted movie I've ever seen that we didn't turn off w/in the first fifteen minutes. Aimless running-about during sword fights. Women that screamed incessantly "just because." A "Spaniard" with a distinctly non-Spanish accent. Lame attempts at Sergio Leone-style intense facial close-ups. Cartoon character cops. And those are just the high low points.

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Originally posted by smschulz:
I've got to ask ~ what would compel one to sit through the "worst movie of all time" long enough to rate them which would indicate that person have done this more than once?

We normally do not. Usually we dump them at fifteen minutes in or so.

In the case of Highlander we started out waiting to see when Sean Connery would appear. I guess assuming it would have to get better at that point. It did not. His appearance mainly led us to wonder what ever moved him to lend his name to such an abomination.

By that point it was more horrified fascination that kept us watching than anything else.

Big Fish. There was so much praise for this movie but my wife and I thought it was a giant turd. Should have been called Big Brown Trout.

For me it was Fellini's 8 1/2. I went with a group of friends when I was a freshman and spent the entire movie staring at my watch, willing time to speed up so the movie would end sooner.

I absolutely hated these two. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and Six Degrees of Separation.

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Originally posted by Bigbuck5:
I absolutely hated ... The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.

Oh well, we definitely can't be friends now.