A different kind of top 10 list

Signs
Hannibal
Forrest Gump

Those are the only ones that come to mind. I can deal with bad movies, it's movies that are just mediocre in every sense of the word that get me.

-Fight Club
-Pearl Harbor
-Patch Adams
-American History X
-Signs
-Forrest Gump
-Pay It Forward
-Star Wars, Episodes I and II
-The Green Mile/The Majestic
-Mallrats
-The Hours
-Black Hawk Down
-Simon Birch
-Dead Poets Society
-Braveheart
-The Matrix
-Rocky

desert blue
dogma
b. monkey
jawbreaker
falling sky
salo...
my life's in turnaround
riding in cars with boys
happy accidents
mala noche
house of yes
tigerland
the impostors

I even liked the BWP sequel, though I was the only one apparently.

great filmgoing mistakes I have made:

Planet Of The Apes (the Tim Burton one; truly an awful film)

Attack of the Clones

some Andy Warhol film in which Edie Sedgwick plays with her food for five hours

Firsht Knight (admittedly I went to it knowing it would be shite)

The Rock

Best of the Best II
*There's nothing worse than a badly made proto-Fascist fight flick.

Police Academy 6
*Each of the Police Academy flicks is worse than the previous one, so Police Academy 7 would probably be even crappier than this one. Episode 6, however, is where I drew the line, and I was only ten back then.

Bio-Dome
*This flick tries to be a funny "dude" movie in the vein of Bill & Ted and Wayne & Garth, but it fails horribly. There's nothing worse than a bad teen comedy, and Bio-Dome doesn't even have the typical dirty jokes which would give the film at least some redeeming value.

Cobra
*Crime is the Disease. Stallone is the Cure. Need I say more?

Animal House – Shitty, juvenile, mindless, and ultimately hugely depressing.

Cabin Fever – just watched this at a screening the other day. This film was made in the wrong decade – one of the worst pieces of schlock slasher teen shit I’ve ever had the misfortune to sit through. I’m not in the habit of walking out of films but this is the closest I’ve come yet. If anyone has not seen this movie I would urge them to see it, just in order to reacquaint themselves with the depths to which the film industry is capable of plunging. Truly utterly pitifully dreadful.

Star Wars, Episode I – So bad it made Episode II look passable.

Now it's pretty much a given that anything Pauly Shore is in is gonna suck ass, but what surprised me was how truly awful the Blair Witch spoofs were. I usually turn to independent film for a break from the usual crap that Hollywood churns out every week, but man, whoever these people were, let's hope they stay independent forever.

I urge everyone to go to the nearest video rental place and pick up a copy of this, just to see how bad Bad can be. I thought maybe this movie would have the quality of being So Bad it's Good, but no, this is truly terrible stuff. It actually makes Scary Movie look like a masterpiece.

Alice in Wonderland (the 1976 "X-rated" version, brought over my a friend in college for a "laugh")
Battlefield Earth (the only serious defense of this film I've read stated that it was a live-action equivalent of manga. hm, well, i dislike manga anyway.)
Beatrice (the worst kind of arthouse crap, like 100 Miramax previews strung together)
Farewell America (deadening Stalinist propaganda; this is primary evidence of the damage that system did to its finest artists)
Missisippi Burning (Alan Parker is the worst high-profile director on Earth, and this is his most putrid and offensive movie)
A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (I know it's passe to put such exploitation fare on such a list, but this film fails even by the debased standards of the genre)
Pocketful of Miracles (totally half-assed late Capra film; Bette Davis is notably awful. one of the most sexist films ever made, above and beyond the Hollywood norm. the only "classic" on this list.)
September (see "beatrice"--american style)
She's Having a Baby (combines every grotesque aspect of 1980s comedy into one foul, utterly complacent brew; when I saw this at age 11, I felt victimized)
Stepmom (feel-good death porn courtesy Chris Columbus)

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So are you saying that Deconstructing Harry and Top Secret are among the worst films ever made?

I think it's questionable to nominate "any film featuring X", because even bad actors may have appeared in good films.

Also:

1900 - Unwatchable, simplistic, terribly acted, embarrassing to all parties involved. The most excruciating movie-watching experience I've ever had.

Waterworld
Profoundly stupid, witless writing, bad acting, queasy set design.

Matrix Reloaded
Bad writing, dull senseless "action," characters designed as product tie ins (e.g. the albino dread lock twins), delusions of grandeur, new-age pseudo-intellectualism at its worst. Part of the freeway chase scene is well done, and the suggestion that Keanu is a program is sort of cool...but neither is enough to save this bloated piece of crap.

Nukie
At first you think its going to be "so bad its good" perhaps inspiring audience participation (e.g. Glitter or Hercules In New York), or time-specific camp (e.g. Mallrats). Then you realize its made up of about three different shots shown over and over again (a la Teletubbies) with increasingly stilted and nonsensical writing. I challenge you to finish the movie in one sitting.

The Time Machine (the recent remake).
While not a total disaster, the acting and writing made me cringe (Guy is by no means infallible).

The Phantom Menace
CGI + Jar-Jar

Shallow Hal
What's not to hate about this movie?

Battlefield Earth
Another one I watched thinking it would be "so bad its good." Nope.

"Raw Deal" (starring Arnold Schwarnegger as a mobster!) was the kind of movie that was so bad, that it crosses over to become an entertaining movie.

I cannot comprehend (unless you are a communist or a martian) how someone could think that Rocky, Goodfellas, Casino, Animal House, or Forrest Gump (although it ended with a whimper) were bad movies.

Just in case I didn't make myself clear, KEANU REEVES IS THE WORST ACTOR (he's the anti-actor) OF ALL TIME.

I'd like to say The Whole Nine Yards, but I haven't actually seen it...

Nordicskillz, have you seen "Flawless"? It's great. Not flawless, but still a very decent film, and it has excellent performances by Philip Seymour Hoffman and Robert de Niro.

The Usual Suspects - and your point is...?

American Beauty - Spacey usually makes me want to throw up but hes at his worst in this piece of Crap.

The Commitments - don't you just Love the old oirish craic?.... no, actually, i don't.

Shrek
Patch Adams
Mouse Hunt
Poccahontas
The search for one eyed Jimmy
Bug Busters
SFW
A Man Apart (I really hate Gary Grey's directing, but the Italian Job was okay.)
Wag the Dog
The Spanish Prisoner
( I think everything Memet did is just awful, except I did love Ronin)

There may be some others that were so bad that I tried to totally erase from my memory.

Armageddon

its crapola!

North (worst big budget movie ever. The only funny part of the film is Elijah Wood playing Tevye in Fiddler On The Roof. Literally every scene in the film after it is highly offensive and valueless.)

Identity Crisis (worst low budget movie ever - you could probably find ones that are more inept and lethargic, but like North, Identity Crisis puts a lot of visible EFFORT into sucking)

Battlefield Earth (the original cut. the video version, while horrific, is more boring than the cut that appeared in theaters. which I saw twice)

The Jackal & The Saint (ludicrous films capped with the worst examples of disguise mastery ever. I yearn to make a film which would cut to Bruce Willis walking through an airport with a funny moustache on at random moments. Arguably the Jackal is better because Jack Black gets his arm shot off in it)

Screwballs (a Porky's-inspired sex romp that was so filthy that I seriously considered joining a monastery. It made me realize I'm probably not that much of a pervert)

The Story Of Us (Bruce Willis has two good moments in the film - one involving joyous tears and the other involving Riverdance. The rest of the film is the pinnacle of cringe, esp. a shockingly non-satirical montage)

Ruby (aside from a bonkers performance by Arliss Howard, this maybe one of the most unwatchable, boring films I've ever endured. Part of what makes it impossible to sit through is that many of the characters are played more hammily in JFK. The second you see the bright red wig you think "damn, if I was watching JFK I'd get to see Joe Pesci yell about a mystery wrapped inside an engima wrapped inside a mystery and wanting to be a Catholic priest." Any film that makes me pine for the LSD-addled bullshit of Oliver Stone must truly suck)

Erin Brokovitch (while this is not one of the worst films of all time, it's easily one of the worst experiences I've had watching a film. The early scenes have some fine character development but soon the film becomes a gender-switched courtroom cliche-a-thon with Steven Sodenbergh using his skills not to create art but merely to HIDE BULLSHIT. I've rarely been so depressed watching a film progress).

Year Of The Dragon (The ENJOYABLY reprehensible part of the film involves Mickey Rourke as a psychotic, racist cop/Oliver Stone stand-in determined to win Vietnam in Chinatown. Unfortunately the lurid cartoon fantasy gets bogged down with endless, worthless drug negotiations between the Chinese mob families).

Nixon (I could note the film is indulgent, actor-wasting, cartoonish, simple-minded, obvious, ludicrous, reprehensible, misleading, endless, shameful and depraved, but Directed by Oliver Stone should cover all that. The most embarassingly obvious and artless metaphors ever, a mind-numbing determination to reaffirm reaffirm reaffirm and reaffirm again that Nixon was a worthless pathetic roach filled with hate and fear - there's only two scenes in the film Nixon doesn't appear in, and in both characters state Oliver's thesis. The Oliver Stone patented film-stock-switchin' is more artless and arbitrary than ever. Possibly the most humiliating aspect is that Oliver's final summation, given in narration by himself, appears OVER THE CREDITS, as if the film is trying to finish before he's done).

School Daze (though much less than perfect, this is not one of the worst films ever. However, the final scene may be the most painfully embarassing and corny ending NOT in an Oliver Stone or student film ever).

My condolences.

The Jackal & The Saint (ludicrous films capped with the worst examples of disguise mastery ever. I yearn to make a film which would cut to Bruce Willis walking through an airport with a funny moustache on at random moments.

*cough* Twelvemonkeys *cough* (I cough in italics? Cool.)

Erin Brokovitch (while this is not one of the worst films of all time, it's easily one of the worst experiences I've had watching a film. The early scenes have some fine character development but soon the film becomes a gender-switched courtroom cliche-a-thon with Steven Sodenbergh using his skills not to create art but merely to HIDE BULLSHIT. I've rarely been so depressed watching a film progress).

Amen! And this pretty much sums up everything of Soderbergh post-Limey.

Year Of The Dragon (The ENJOYABLY reprehensible part of the film involves Mickey Rourke as a psychotic, racist cop/Oliver Stone stand-in determined to win Vietnam in Chinatown. Unfortunately the lurid cartoon fantasy gets bogged down with endless, worthless drug negotiations between the Chinese mob families).

I thoroughly enjoyed Year of the Dragon...Cimino...Rourke...mmm...I love the smell of excess in the morning.

Nixon (I could note the film is indulgent, actor-wasting, cartoonish, simple-minded, obvious, ludicrous, reprehensible, misleading, endless, shameful and depraved, but Directed by Oliver Stone should cover all that. The most embarassingly obvious and artless metaphors ever, a mind-numbing determination to reaffirm reaffirm reaffirm and reaffirm again that Nixon was a worthless pathetic roach filled with hate and fear - there's only two scenes in the film Nixon doesn't appear in, and in both characters state Oliver's thesis. The Oliver Stone patented film-stock-switchin' is more artless and arbitrary than ever. Possibly the most humiliating aspect is that Oliver's final summation, given in narration by himself, appears OVER THE CREDITS, as if the film is trying to finish before he's done).

I'm sorry, but I'm a big Oliver Stone fan. Does he have his flaws? Certainly. Can the historical "ideas" become too crazy for their own good. Sure. Does the film stock switching get annoying. Sometimes. But overall, I find them to be all-and-all totally pleasurable experiences of *ahhh* "pure cinema" - a thing very rare in commercial American entertainment industry. And while some of the editing technique falls flat on its face, admittedly, some of his other experiments are, at least in my para-editor eyes, revelatory.

etc.