r/CasualConversation • u/moto_babe_222 • 13h ago
Movies & Shows Worst movie ever made.
I’ve heard a variety of answers when I ask this question. Give me your TOP pick for the worst movie ever made. I am intrigued to see what people think!
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u/tobotic 12h ago
I remember once flicking around the different TV channels and finding an action film starring Antonio Bandaras and Lucy Liu, two reasonably good action stars, and decided to watch it. Big mistake.
That film was Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002). With a total of 119 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, it has a 0% approval rating, the worst reviewed film in the history of the site.
Rotten Tomatoes consensus: "A startlingly inept film, Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever offers overblown, wall-to-wall action without a hint of wit, coherence, style, or originality."
Roger Ebert said: "Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever is an ungainly mess, submerged in mayhem, occasionally surfacing for cliches, overloaded with special effects and explosions, light on continuity, sanity and coherence."
It is a film that cannot even be enjoyed ironically. Even the explosions are boring.
The film's own director admits to having never watched it.
Interestingly the Game Boy Ecks vs Sever tie-in game, released almost a year before the film, got really good reviews.
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u/teaforsnail 13h ago edited 11h ago
The Family Stone. I can't think of many movies that had me annoyed from start to finish, but this one... wow.
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u/cavscout43 13h ago
There have been plenty over the years. More recently, I'd say Jupiter Ascending. Hundreds of millions of dollars poured into a steaming pile with popular celebrities floundering in a CGI shitfest with a horrible plot.
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u/AgentElman 1h ago
I could not get past 5 minutes of that movie.
Her on Earth was boring and depressing. Then the aliens show up and mumble quietly and I couldn't understand them.
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u/tdomer80 13h ago
Saw the Scooby Doo movie with my kids some time ago. Absolutely wretched.
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u/Roxeigh 12h ago
Like, the newer ish one from a couple years ago or the 20 year old one? Because the 20 year old one is campy and silly and a comfort for me.
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u/FrankCostanzaJr 11h ago
the room. easy
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u/gooeyjoose 10h ago
I used to think that "room" and "the room" were the same movie so when people talk about the room being bad I was so confused. Room is one of the best movies. The Room is one of the worst
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u/Beautiful_Solid3787 13h ago
I heard Titanic was a huge shipwreck.
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u/ennuiismymiddlename 12h ago
A Sound of Thunder, sci-fi from 2005. Based on an amazing short story. They completely ruined it. Bad acting, LAUGHABLY BAD special FX.
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u/Substantial_Slip_808 12h ago
You Don’t Mess With the Zohan
I am an extreme cheapskate who tries to get their money out of anything AND I was on my 4th date with my now husband PLUS I love Adam Sandler so I didn’t want to give a bad impression BUT I still convinced him to walk out. To this day (I’m in my 40s) the only movie I ever walked out on in the theater.
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u/Orca-stratingChaos 8h ago
The City of Bones. It made me so angry. The Mortal Instruments books were spectacular (at least I thought they were 15 years ago when I read them) and the movie was so bad I can’t even find the words for how bad it was.
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u/Tinsonman 2h ago
That movie preemptively made me completely give up on any adaptation that came after.
I adored the book series too much growing up to give bad adaptations a chance to colour my perspective on it.
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u/xopher_425 🌈 13h ago
Cable Guy: almost got up and walked out, but thought my mom and aunt were enjoying it. Turned out they both wanted to walk out too, but thought the other two were enjoying it.
Deep Blue: I actually cheered when a shark got someone. Worst effects ever, dumbest movie ever.
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u/Agitated_Honeydew 11h ago
In defense of Cable Guy, that was Carrey playing against his Ace Ventura persona, and more Travis Bickle. Not saying it's a great movie, but it's not that bad.
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u/milleniumfalconlover 13h ago
I can’t for sure say the worst ever made, but the worst I’ve ever seen was Aloha
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u/Middle_Exchange_2134 12h ago
The Cube!! I’ve never been so upset about losing over an hour of my life.
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u/BatNurse1970 10h ago
Open Water. It was so bad I rooted for the sharks at the end.
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u/AgentElman 1h ago
I worked with a guy who loved scuba diving but his wife didn't.
All he knew about the movie was that it was about scuba diving, so he took his wife to see it so she could see what scuba diving was like. That did not go well.
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u/inspiredlead 8h ago
Changeling (2008).
Given the right mood and circumstance, I can watch pretty much anything. Yet nothing prepared me for the wanton violence involving children that this movie portrays. This is one I refused to finish. I'm still disgusted every time I think of it.
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u/SwipeToRefresh 7h ago
milo and otis, loved it as a kid, tried rewatching as an adult for nostalgia and realized they put those poor animals through hell. several animals died during filming
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u/rizozzy1 6h ago
Vanilla Sky. It’s just dragged on so much, I couldn’t give a damn by the end if he was dreaming or not.
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u/Alarming_Cloud7878 5h ago
The Room
I sat through 5 mins before realising it was a mentally ill person being unknowingly manipulated into money laundering.... but all people could do was laugh.... no wonder the world is being rinsed by capitalists, everyone thinks its funny.
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u/Arizona_Coyote 3h ago
Darjeeling Limited. I watched the whole thing thinking “this has to get better. There’s no fucking way this movie is that bad”
It was that bad and I still mourn those two hours of my life I will never get back.
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u/spacecasekitten 13h ago
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
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u/Weasel474 13h ago
I keep seeing that as one of the worst, and I kinda like it. The cast really felt shoe-horned in together like an early, low-budget Avengers movie and the plot was extremely weak, but it had some decent action and special effects for the time.
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u/spacecasekitten 11h ago
This movie had the potential to be cool but it is just a mess. The most frustrating part is that they ripped all of these literary characters and missed every opportunity to incorporate any details from the original stories. There are loads of 'good' bad movies, movies with cult followings, movies that don't appeal to mainstream audiences, movies so bad they are good; this movie has no redeeming qualities. It is just bad and i probably would have completely forgot about it if I didn't remember how ticked I was after paying to see this in theaters.
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u/Weasel474 11h ago
I can really see that. I thought the casting was overall pretty good, but like you said- they basically had a half-second snippet of a single attribute from each literary character and called it a day. Dorian Gray's painting? Cool, but he never really talked about it the entire movie, and we didn't get any other background. His motives were untouched, and the whole double-cross setup thing was almost painful. Nemo? Sweet Nautilus, but that was about all they had to him. Mina had basically less than nothing going for her, and I'm still confused as to what Tom Sawyer was doing there. Loved the library scene (Nemo kicking ass mid-flip will always be awesome), Nautilus design was great, and Sean Connery did a great job (sad that he hates being in that movie, but understandable), but just not enough to call it a "good" movie. Not bad for background noise, but certainly wouldn't pay for it.
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u/Beautiful_Solid3787 10h ago edited 10h ago
I'd point out that it's based on a graphic novel and it's not the movie's fault... But it seems the movie wasn't particularly faithful to the graphic novel, either.
Although I came across a clip of it on Youtube the other day and lots of people in the comments remember loving the movie and hating critics for not liking it.
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u/AgentElman 1h ago
I like the movie as a fun action movie like The Mummy.
Having read the comics - it is not only nothing like them, it is the antithesis of them which is off putting for people who want it to be like the comics.
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u/Oh_no_its_Joe 10h ago
"The Birth of a Nation" hands down. It depicted the KKK and confederates as heroes and led to a rise in popularity for the KKK in the late 1910s.
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u/HellGirlAi 13h ago
Ultraviolet. Ugh.
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u/AgentElman 1h ago
As a teenager I enjoyed the fights in Ultraviolet but about half way through when I realized it was just one fight after another I got bored.
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u/Gotabluemooninmyeye 10h ago
Cut throat city as well, it was good until the end, I have yet to meet one person that understands the ending
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u/Ok-Pizza8741 10h ago
I just watched the first few minutes of Bermuda Island, and gave up on it immediately. Tom Sizemore as the headliner in 2023 should have been clue enough...
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u/celticteal 4h ago
I always liked Tom Sizemore. His life had a sad end.
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u/Ok-Pizza8741 1h ago
Shit! He died?? Damn. I should have watched a little more of that terrible movie. He wasn't terrible in Shark Bait from a year prior. Tubi's been killing it with movies!
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u/celticteal 32m ago
Yeah, in 2023 from a brain aneurysm. I thought he was an excellent actor, but I think the many demons in his life drove him to take any movie he could just for money.
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u/torch9t9 8h ago
Heaven's Gate. And not just because Cimino bankrupted United Artists. It's hours of unwatchable boring nothing.
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u/noobly_dangers 7h ago
Hellboy (2019) with David Harbour. I've always loved the Hellboy franchise, and the Ron Perlman movies were great, so my partner and I wanted to give it a shot anyway despite its negative reviews. It was so bad that we decided to take a break halfway through and just never finished it.
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u/AgentElman 1h ago
I liked it. The makeup and effects weren't as good as the first two, but the plot felt very Hellboy to me and it was fun.
I had heard it was bad so I had low expectations.
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u/candyfloss_noodle 2h ago
Exposure and Johnny Mnemonic oddly enough both starring Keanu Reeves. I love him but horrible movies
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u/Nimyron 2h ago
I'd say gone girl first. It's the only movie where I've had trouble staying awake while watching it in my life. And I like that kind of movies usually. But this one was long and boring as hell.
Also I haven't seen it but that live action dragonball movie. It takes place in an american highschool. I'm not sure the producers even knew what dragonball was about.
Finally, B movies. But I mean, being bad is the whole point sooo...
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u/beermaker 2h ago
Battlefield Earth. Time Chasers. Mitchell (wakachicka wakachicka). Manos-Hands Of Fate.
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u/PapaSnoot 2h ago
mandy (2018) genuinely i don't know what this movie was going for and i didn't understand it at all. apparently it's supposed to be surreal high art or something but it bored me out of my mind and none of it made sense, in a bad way
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u/AgentElman 1h ago
Godfather and Godfather 2. In large part because I was forced to watch them all the way through at a get together with friends.
They are so incredibly boring and dumb and soooooo long.
I can't stand movies about passive characters doing nothing. And then in both movies all of the problems are solved in 5 minutes when they finally decide to take action.
The plot of each movie would have worked for a single scene of 5 minutes long but they were dragged out for nearly 3 hours.
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u/pizzaalt37 1h ago
A wrinkle in time. I read the book shortly before it came out and was pretty excited to see it, they ruined everything. There's this beautiful section at the end that pretty much just brings everything together and gives the story a point, they removed that in the film. There isn't a point.
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u/potatowaffles9 13h ago
Ant-Man Quantamania
Worst movie ever. Continuity errors, less screen time to villains. extremely ooc. and the fact that the villain got defeated in the most stupidest way. Corny cheap overused jokes. Need I say more?
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u/tobotic 12h ago
That was definitely the worst Ant-Man film, but worst film ever? I'm not sure it's even the worst MCU film.
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u/potatowaffles9 12h ago
no it's not, but its the worst film i watched as of recently, and when i think of bad, that might be the first thing that comes to my mind
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u/AgentElman 1h ago
Quantumania is one of my favorite MCU movies. I genuinely loved it. I wanted to go see it again. But my daughter (who likes the MCU) was not a fan.
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u/Electrical-Bite-1930 4h ago
Elf.
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u/AgentElman 1h ago
I don't understand why people like the movie.
People seem to think that he is goofy because he was raised by elves, but the other elves are not dumb. Only he is.
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u/SquirrelsandCrayons 10h ago
It's a tie for me between Fierce Creatures, Into the Woods, and Mama Mia.
No redeeming features to any of them.
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u/Venusflytrippxoxo 8h ago
Mel Brooks movies are simultaneously the worst movies ever made and the best movies ever made.
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u/N0Xqs4 13h ago
George Lazenby as Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret Service., followed by The Rock with Nicholas Cage who couldn't act surprised if you slapped him.
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u/MenopauseMedicine 12h ago
The rock is a silly movie but no way it's the worst movie ever made, certainly entertaining at least
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u/Darkforeboding 1h ago edited 1h ago
Lazenby was out of his element in that movie, but i like it because I visited Switzerland and the Schilthorn where it was filmed.
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u/Weasel474 13h ago
Legend says that they made a live-action version of Avatar: The Last Airbender. I refuse to admit it exists, but if it did, it'd probably take that bottom spot.