To my bad movie bretheren, Maxim has complied a list to the worst, s**t smelling, suicide inducing movies. Some, you'll agree (like I do for #1 whole heartedly), and some, you'll say "what the f**k?" If you have the mag, great. If you got the website, good for you. If you've been unfortunate with both, I took the liberty of giving you all 50 entries (also, I got a lot of time in my hands).
50. Can't Stop The Music ('80)
49. Harley Davidson &The Malboro Man ('91)
48. Erin Brockovich ('00)
47. Blues Brothers 2000 ('98)
46. A View to a Kill ('85)
45. Battle for the Planets of the Apes ('73)
44. The Sound of Music ('65)
43. A Gnome Named Gnorm ('94)
42. Soul Man ('86)
41. Exit to Eden ('94)
40. Zardoz ('74)
39. Rhinestone ('84)
38. Battlefield Earth ('00)*
37. Seed 2: Cruise Control ('97)
36. Under the Cherry Tree ('86)
35.Junior ('94)
34. Mandingo ('75)
33. Cobra ('86)
32. Scene From a Mall ('91)
31. Spice World ('97)
30. Xanadu ('80)
29. Cocktail ('88)
28. Cool as Ice ('91)
27. Clambake ('67)
26. Godzilla ('98)
25. Howard the Duck ('86)
24. Double Team ('97)
23. Heartbeeps ('81)
22. Psycho ('98)
21. Hook ('91)
20. Dune ('84)
19. The Last Movie ('71)
18. Moment By Moment ('78)*
17. Gymkata ('85)
16. The Thin Red Line ('98)
15. Moulin Rouge! ('01)
14. Nell ('94)
13. The Godfather Part III ('90)
12. Cutthroat Island ('95)
11. Dirty Dancing ('87)
10. Little Nicky ('00)
9. When Harry Met Sally/Sleepless in Seattle (guess why)
8. It's Pat: The Movie ('94)
7. The English Patient ('96)
6. The Postman ('97)
5. Staying Alive ('83)*
4. Armegeddon ('98)
3. Patch Adams ('98)
2. Steel Magnolias ('89)
1. Batman & Robin ('97) **
* John Travolta alert
** Oh! What a surprised (not!)
Talk amongs your friends.air out your gripes and b***hes
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Glad someone else feels the way I do about THE THIN RED LINE.
I think it's UNDER THE CHERRY MOON, not UNDER THE CHERRY TREE.
Which isn't reviewing movies.
A brief sampling of my thoughts here, in case you cared.
50. Can't Stop The Music ('80) -- Why the hell is this one placed so low? Because it's a nearly forgotten flick, perhaps? I haven't seen it, it might be a GREAT movie, but I haven't here one good thing about it. Not one.
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49. Harley Davidson &The Malboro Man ('91) - I've always liked this movie and I can't tell you why. Sad, really.
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Erin Brockovich ('00), The Sound of Music ('65), Moulin Rouge! ('01), Dirty Dancing ('87), The English Patient ('96), When Harry Met Sally/Sleepless in Seattle (guess why), Steel Magnolias ('89) - A men's magazine panning movies aimed at the female set. Is this a surprise? I'm sorry, but I can think of plenty of movies that are FAR worse than these. FAR worse. Somebody was forced into watching these babies and is a wee bit bitter, I think.
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Blues Brothers 2000 ('98), A View to a Kill ('85), Battle for the Planets of the Apes ('73), Speed 2: Cruise Control ('97) - With the exception of the last flick, I've seen all of these films, and none of them are that great. But the worst of all time? No. They here because their sequels to better movies, and the good movies make their stench worse. They’re little parasites feeding off the fame of their siblings. Parasites don't need praise of any kind, even if it is back handed like this list.
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38. Battlefield Earth ('00) - No brainer. But 38? Are they actually telling us that this movie is better than a Coppola film? Even if the film in question is "The Godfather III?"
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26. Godzilla ('98) - This is a better movie than "Battlefield: Earth." I'm sorry. (Of course, I wouldn't have put it on my list of worst movies, but still...)
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22. Psycho ('98) - Why? Not "Why is is this on the list?" Just "Why?"
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Hook ('91), Armegeddon ('98), Patch Adams ('98), Batman & Robin ('97) - These movies don't belong on any list of bad movies. I'm serious. They should be locked away some place and never thought about. Ever. Besides, the acting's too good in them to consider them real bad movies.
I'm serious.
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And finally, 10. Little Nicky ('00) - God I hate this movie. It's only redeeming quality is that it ends. I keep hearing about over commercialism in movies whenever a pop can pops into view. What about the damn ad for Popeye's Chicken in this? "Our Chicken's So Good, Demons Convert." Gah.
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I get the feeling that the guy who made this list has no idea what a bad movie is. Where's "Sextette" or "R.O.T.O.R" or "Touch of Satan?" Hell's teeth, "Manos: Hand of Fate" and "Plan Nine from Out Space" aren't up there, either.
And he no doubt got paid for that list, too. Makes me weep, it does.
Unless, of course, it was a poll of some kind. Then the voters are ignorant of what true pain is.
Lucky bastards.
Rank amateurs. I could eat all of those for breakfast.
Nathan
Not one true B-movie in the list. Obviously not written by a true pain buff. Lets let this lug sit through Sextett without a bottle of Jack Danials to numb the torment, and lets see his list then!
If this is the official AFI-style Bad Movies Of All Time List,why isn't "Showgirls" Number 2,and "Freddy Got Fingered" Number One?!
Guess they got too caught up in their Julia Roberts/"Ya Ya Sisterhood"-esque movies list to largely take notice.
Well I like Zardoz, even have it on DVD. Sure it's incomprehensible, but that's what staying up late with a few beers is for. Throw that yaya sisterhood thing up instead. (I'm staying away from the movie theaters this weekend. don't want to go anywhere near such chickflicknish)
Yeah he doesn't list some extremely awful ones just mostly main stream movies that for the most part do suck.
What I think is that like everything else, it's all based on one (or one's) opinion. I haven't seen most of the movies listed in this article, but for those that I have seen is this.
First and foremost, I agree 100% that Batman & Robin is the worst movie ever for the fact that The whole story was wrong, the characters and there story were all wrong (Why Batgirl is Alfred's niece is still beyond me), and I don't know if the movie was suppose to be funny with Schwartzenagger's lame one-liners.
Blues Brothers 2000. The only thing that was good was the music.
I liked Armegeddon, even if the story was over the top (a world on the brink of doom is depending on a bunch of oil diggers in space to blow up a meteor? yeah right!!) And I liked the '98 Godzilla. I kind of like the updated version other than the man in the costume version. I put those two under the catergory "mindless fun".
Cobra is also mindless fun. Bloody, mindless fun. More likely a "bud" movie. Meaning, it's best seen with a couple of Budweisers and a couple of friends.
I was also thinking they would have other crapfests like Mortal Kombat: Abomina--I mean Annihilation, Super Mario Bros., Edward Scissorhands. But instead of 50, it would be 100 +.
But like I said, this list is based on an opinion and like a dick and a p***y everyone has one (or two, ain't that right, Hermie). If it were up to us, we would have entries like R.O.T.O.R or Teenage Catgirls in Heat. But, alas, we do not work for Maxim.
what suprises me is thet picked Armageddon over Deep Impact
both were meteorites coming to crash in to earth movies that came out around the same time and Armageddon was alot more succesful,I could personally care less about either one.
I think if anything this list was made to pick out maybe 5-10 movies that really deserve to be on there and 40 others were put on their so readers could right in and b***h about how this or that is their favorite movie or whatever and it should never be on a bad movie list
a list to generate feedback is about all it is
>I was also thinking they would have other crapfests like Mortal Kombat: Abomina
>--I mean Annihilation, Super Mario Bros., Edward Scissorhands.
I agree about Mortal Kombat: Abomination, and Super Mario Brothers was stupid, but mildly entertaining.
On the other hand, I though Edward Scissorhands was great.
I liked mandingo. Very raw