Worst movies ever

[The Dreaming]

Speaking of drugs and/or inebriation, I still wonder what substances John Boorman was under the influence of when he made Zardoz, one of the most inane films I've ever seen. People love to slam Kubrick for being pretentious, but Boorman is the guy who gives pretention a bad name. How did Zardoz ever get green-lit? (Oh I know, because Boorman had made Deliverance earlier, a genuinely good film.)

Oh my god, I forgot about Zardoz, what a piece of crap. The first 5 minutes is worth watching for how god-awful ridiculous it is. The goofy thing is, Boorman is a *good* director. What the hell happened? It has to be the single worst movie by a good director ever made. (1941 and Jack ain't got nothin on it.)

Edit: Just IMDBd Boorman, I couldn't for the life of me think of something he had made since Excalibur... Hes doing a new Wizard of Oz movie...

I would say that the Wizard of Oz might be the movie most desperately in need of a remake. (Non-musical, more closely follows the book.) My fantasy was for Burton to do it, and he's been doing projects that come tantalizingly close. (New Charlie and the Chocolate factory, Alice in Wonderland...) Boorman though? I'm kind of scared. I might feel safer with Lynch doing it! (For the record, I adore all of Baum's Oz novels, I have loved them since childhood)

[Earthfriend]

Star Wars II

I'm sure you meant Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones

Just for clarification.

Yes, that's the one I meant. (Of course I was always going to go and see the three new ones, but ye Gods how I wish I didn't!)

Caught the tail end of Excalibur the other night on one of the free to air channels. Still couldn't take my eyes off it. But I do have some more for the list:

Dejavu
Armageddon
Xanadu (unless it's already been mentioned.)

[Cail]

For me, the worst movie -- and the only movie that I have ever walked out on -- and at a dollar theater in the middle of a blistering summer, no less -- is Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Pass on this one unless you think you want to see Johnny Depp give his best Thurston Howell III impression. It is agonizing, it makes no sense, and though it is about drugs, I don't think even drugs would help.
Watching this movie just makes you want to wipe and flush.

Good summation. It's a great book, but an awful movie.

[Cagliostro]

For me, the worst movie -- and the only movie that I have ever walked out on -- and at a dollar theater in the middle of a blistering summer, no less -- is Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Pass on this one unless you think you want to see Johnny Depp give his best Thurston Howell III impression. It is agonizing, it makes no sense, and though it is about drugs, I don't think even drugs would help.
Watching this movie just makes you want to wipe and flush.

dw

I agree with that 100%. Wipe and flush - a perfect description!

/gasp! Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas isn't about doing drugs and not making sense...it was about the death of a generation. The movers and shakers of the sixties feeling lost between the prim-and-proper fifties and the sell-out the hippies made in the seventies and eighties for the mortgage, the 2 cars, the 2.5 kids, the white picket fence. Hunter S. Thompson dares to ask, "What are the consequences of this?" I highly recommend the book. Thompson is one of the most brilliant writers and political commentators.

But....the movie may have focused too much on drugs. =/ I'll give you that.

Jeez - I won't. I felt it was especially faithful to the book. It focused on exactly what the book did. Maybe seeing it rather than reading about it drove it home a bit more. I think it hit all the right notes and was a brilliant adaptation to an especially difficult to adapt book.

And as for the Thurston Howell III comment, watch some footage of Hunter Thompson and you'll see how close he came to emulating him.

[jacob Raver, sinTempter]

For me, the worst movie -- and the only movie that I have ever walked out on -- and at a dollar theater in the middle of a blistering summer, no less -- is Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Pass on this one unless you think you want to see Johnny Depp give his best Thurston Howell III impression. It is agonizing, it makes no sense, and though it is about drugs, I don't think even drugs would help.
Watching this movie just makes you want to wipe and flush.

I used to think of FaLiLV much as I did of Pulp Fiction, mediocre film with some great scenes. But...umm, seeing this film, urm, geeked is a far, far better experience, as is Friday.

[Mr. Broken]

Naked Lunch, the Life Aquatic, Dragon Wars, and Dream a Little Dream all the worst movies ever made.

[Cail]

I enjoyed Naked Lunch. With the exception of Rushmore, I think all of Wes Anderson's movies are overrated schlock.

[Usivius]

Naked Lunch is astoundingly brilliant. No Burroughs novel has been so marvelously 'translated' to the screen as this one.

[Cail]

Naked Lunch is astoundingly brilliant. No Burroughs novel has been so marvelously 'translated' to the screen as this one.

I agree. I don't understand the dislike of this film. It's odd, but it's supposed to be. Peter Weller is phenomenal in it.

[Loredoctor]

It's a very good movie.

[Kaydene]

I love Wes Anderson. =/ A lot.

[Cail]

I love Wes Anderson. =/ A lot.

I loved Rushmore. But after that, everything's been a "look at my quirky characters in my quirky film" sorta thing.

[Kaydene]

I thought the point was that they're over-personified aspects of our own personalities/problems/challenges. That the surface is droll, but the depth underneath of it is very real.