Worst movie ever?

[Lumpy1106]

I did a search but didn't find this topic - could be a good one. I regularly listen to the "How Did This Get Made" podcast and have discovered some real doozies there. My candidate is TECHNICALLY a Holiday special - EASILY the worst holiday special ever, but at close to 2 hours running time with commercials (1:37 without) - it's a movie. Settle in with your favorite beverage; I submit to you, the Star Wars Holiday Special;

This thing is so cringy! Bad costumes, cheesy "video calls", a dopey Eco-centric "Life Day" celebration, and who can forget the Wookie porn? Free to view in its entirety on YouTube. Enjoy!

 

[LuvOrlando]

Thanks!

It's a special kind of awful LOL

 

[GreatLakes]

I submit Godfather III. It isn't just bad but how bad it is gets highlighted by how good the first two are. It isn't just a terrible movie, it is a terrible sequel to two of the best movies ever made in my opinion.

 

[TeraCuse]

My least favorite movie of all time is "The Mosquito Coast". Aside from Harrison Ford not portraying Han or Indy, a travesty unto itself, this movie pre-dated therapy animals so we needed to deal with movie depression the old fashion way... Ben and Jerry's.

 

[Pyotr]

Jaws 4. The shark is trying to get revenge on the family that killed it and somehow knows they’re vacationing in the Bahamas so it travels there to eat them......

 

[RamblingMad]

This one is so bad it caused a lot of people to start drinking and overpaying for wine.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0375063/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_71

 

[antmaril]

“The Last House on the Left” is the worst movie I‘ve ever seen - about 50 years ago. Ugh.

 

[RamblingMad]

I submit Godfather III. It isn't just bad but how bad it is gets highlighted by how good the first two are. It isn't just a terrible movie, it is a terrible sequel to two of the best movies ever made in my opinion.

The novel is essentially the first two movies in proper chronological order. It's worth reading. No idea where the third one came from.

This reminds me of Game of Thrones. Once they finished off the books, their own creation was a bad D&D adventure.

 

[soccerdad72]

Whenever this topic comes up, the first movie that comes to mind is Dr. T and the Women , the only movie that my wife and I ever got up and left the theater during. It just went nowhere.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

Manos, the Hands of Fate

 

[Jennasis]

Th Thin Red Line
The Happening.

 

[Lumpy1106]

Whenever this topic comes up, the first movie that comes to mind is Dr. T and the Women , the only movie that my wife and I ever got up and left the theater during. It just went nowhere.

Totally agree! I had forgotten about that one. I would have walked out myself but I saw it on a moving bus. I'm going to spoil the ending for you since you did not see it; Dr. T's car gets picked up by a tornado and deposited in front of a mud hut in Mexico. He walks into the mud hut and delivers a REAL LIVE BABY! Yes, they showed the birth. Wow was that an awful movie.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

Showgirls. I saw it with a boyfriend because we thought we were going to see a sexay movay and wound up alternately laughing and going "eew!" throughout, along with the other people in the theater (which wasn't many.) It was so bad because it was taking itself deadly seriously, and Elizabeth Berkeley was so over the top bad in it that she was almost wonderful.

 

[aggiedog]

Trolls World Tour

My whole family watched it on the recommendation of an adult friend. We all decided you needed to be on some sort of drugs to enjoy it.

 

[JoanneAZ]

Leaving Las Vegas. A movie about a man drinking himself to death in Sin City. I know Nic Cage won an academy award for his role but this movie stunk.

 

[neverlandsky]

Jack and Jill. Adam Sandler and his fraternal twin sister (Adam Sandler)

 

[Meriweather]

Napoleon Dynamite

 

[BrianL]

The thing about the Star Wars Holiday Special is that, while it is indeed bad, very, very bad, the amount of joy it brings by it's existence is immeasurable. What a treasure it is to be able to see something so spectacularly insane. Actually, as I often have to remind younger fans, that wasn't even the craziest thing on TV that night! 70's TV was...interesting. I'm actually not quitre old enough to remember, but a lot of that stuff was still around in the early 80's.

The other interesting about the Holiday Special is that it did make contributions to canon. The Mandalorian's disruptor rifle with the forked end comes from there. Also, while they say it wrong, the name of the Wookiee Homeworld is mentioned - they say "Kazook" but Lucas wrote Kashyyk.

 

[RUDisney]

Chariots of Fire is the only movie I've walked out of the theater before it was even halfway through.

My second least favorite is Lawrence of Arabia. How many times could the replay the same scene of him riding the camel through the desert? I only finished watching that because it was for a class in college.

 

[Pyotr]

Jack and Jill. Adam Sandler and his fraternal twin sister (Adam Sandler)

Truly horrible movie.