Really bad films!

[Dave2002]

Just watching Armaggedon which has to be one of the worst films I've ever seen. Amazingly it gets a rating of 6.4 on IMDb. What a load of rubbish.

[Flay]

Just watching Armaggedon which has to be one of the worst films I've ever seen. Amazingly it gets a rating of 6.4 on IMDb. What a load of rubbish.

How did they manage to get gravity on that Russian space station?

[Demetrius]

6.4 is not a good rating

http://www.imdb.com/search/title?at=0&num_votes=1000,&sort=year,desc&user_rating=6.4,6.4

6.4 for the most part seems to indicate films that are somewhat entertaining if you manage not to think while watching. (Maybe there is a gem somewhere that gets a 6.4 due to many finding it boring, but mostly its your standard dumb middling Hollywood stuff)

Thing is, there is stuff out that is a lot worse

say, Santa with Muscles staring Hulk Hogan. It's so bad, its good. (and gets a whopping 2.2 out of ten)

if Armaggedon gets the 3-4 out of 10 it deserves, these trash films would fall of the scale.

good Movies that are older than say 5 years usually net a 8.0 or higer on imdb.

[MrGongGong]

Night of the Lepus the classic giant bunnys terrorise Australia movie gets 3.9

Ok , it's not Tarkovsky but hugely enjoyable rubbish all the same ...........

[teamsaint]

Pokemon the movie 2.

Honestly, It's not all that good .

[Pabmusic]

Of course there are many 'cult' films that fall into this category - Plan 9 From Outer Space being perhaps the most famous - but here's a few bigish-budget films that are truly dreadful:

Escape From L.A.
The Day After Tomorrow
Conan the Barbarian
The Transporter
Kindegarten Cop
Beethoven
Clash of the Titans (1981 and 2010)
Beowulf
Love Actually
Troy

[MrGongGong]

One of my nephews is studying zoology and had an assignment that asked the students to provide evidence why the world in Starship Troopers was impossible

good to see crap movies being put to use

(another relative teaches computer science and uses the "Witch drowning" scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail as an example of a specific type of logic that can be applied to programming )

[Flay]

(another relative teaches computer science and uses the "Witch drowning" scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail as an example of a specific type of logic that can be applied to programming )

That was not a bad film though!

The reference is too good to miss:

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zrzMhU_4m-g

[Thropplenoggin]

Mrs. T and I watched Skyfall last night. Yet more proof that in a post-Jason Bourne world, James Bond just looks silly. This isn't how spying is done now and isn't how James Bond was done in the early Connery films. Re-watching those this winter, they can seem almost pedestrian by comparison - spy work as a dull slog searching for bugs in his room, etc. It doesn't help that Daniel Craig has no charisma. He pulls the same sulky face ("I mean business!") in every scene, and when he tries to crack wise, it falls flat.

An hour in, the film came to life with Javier Bardem - always an engaging presence on screen, but there were just too many laughable (for the wrong reasons) or childish, almost pantomime aspects to make us even care who lived and died at the end, including:

1) Those silly blue contact lenses
2) James Bond looking like a member of The Village People when he dresses as a chauffeur in Shanghai
3) Spending half his time half-dressed, just to show off his six-pack.
4) 18th Century duelling pistols having impossible accuracy
5) the Komodo dragons
6) cartoonish 'bad guy' with disfigurement, because that's how villainy works
7) spying as elite lifestyle choice: swish hotels, casinos that still have a dinner jacket dress policy, etc.
8) one minute he's under a frozen lake, the next he's almost completely dry and without a hint of hypothermia about him
9) Running out of locations: Shanghai, again? The rooftops of Istanbul again? A trail bike through a third-world city again? (this was done in the last two Bournes)

and so on.

Compare this to The Bourne Ultimatum, the last in the trilogy featuring Matt Damon, and there is no comparison: that CIA paranoia and global IT pre-eminence felt realistic, uncomfortably so. Damon also felt real as a trained assassin. Kudos to Paul Greengrass for that one.

Casino Royale seemed to be based on this model, and was a promising debut for a more physical, modern Bond, but it's been diminishing returns ever since.

[gurnemanz]

Worst currently showing movies appear to be the star-laden Movie 43 ("Once you see it you can't unsee it,") and Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters.

[Resurrection Man]

Mrs. T and I watched Skyfall last night. Yet more proof that in a post-Jason Bourne world, James Bond just looks silly. .....

Sorry can't agree with you there. Sounds to me as if you are expecting a spy documentary! Skyfall is one of, if not THE best, Bond films.

Pabmusic - I agree with your list apart from Love Actually which I think is rather good.

My bête-noires are :

anything with Richard Gere in
anything with Sylvester Stallone
anything that is a spin-off from a computer game.

[aeolium]

The Day After Tomorrow

I agree that this is pretty bad, but if one completely ignores any pretensions to scientific accuracy and treats it as a science fiction/disaster film it's not the worst. I liked the variation on the Hollywood trope of heroes running away from enveloping flames/explosions to have people running away from a fast-moving river of ice

[Mr Pee]

Mrs. T and I watched Skyfall last night. Yet more proof that in a post-Jason Bourne world, James Bond just looks silly. This isn't how spying is done now and isn't how James Bond was done in the early Connery films. Re-watching those this winter, they can seem almost pedestrian by comparison - spy work as a dull slog searching for bugs in his room, etc. It doesn't help that Daniel Craig has no charisma. He pulls the same sulky face ("I mean business!") in every scene, and when he tries to crack wise, it falls flat.

An hour in, the film came to life with Javier Bardem - always an engaging presence on screen, but there were just too many laughable (for the wrong reasons) or childish, almost pantomime aspects to make us even care who lived and died at the end, including:

1) Those silly blue contact lenses
2) James Bond looking like a member of The Village People when he dresses as a chauffeur in Shanghai
3) Spending half his time half-dressed, just to show off his six-pack.
4) 18th Century duelling pistols having impossible accuracy
5) the Komodo dragons
6) cartoonish 'bad guy' with disfigurement, because that's how villainy works
7) spying as elite lifestyle choice: swish hotels, casinos that still have a dinner jacket dress policy, etc.

and so on.

Compare this to The Bourne Ultimatum, the last in the trilogy featuring Matt Damon, and there is no comparison: that CIA paranoia and global IT pre-eminence felt realistic, uncomfortably so. Damon also felt real as a trained assassin. Kudos to Paul Greengrass for that one.

Casino Royale seemed to be based on this model, and was a promising debut for a more physical, modern Bond, but it's been diminishing returns ever since.

Of course it's not how real spying is done, and neither are the Bourne films.

Craig is the best Bond yet, and Skyfall the best Bond movie since From Russia With Love.

[Richard Tarleton]

Kudos to Paul Greengrass for that one.

You left "rubbish theme song" off your list Throppers. My first big-screen Bond experience was Goldfinger, erm, 50-ish years ago. My favourite from the canon will probably cause consternation and ridicule in equal measure but is nevertheless Live And Let Die, the first Roger Moore outing - I saw it first in the Odeon Marble Arch, which helped. Beginning with a driving theme song from P Macartney (the other best apart from Goldfinger), it combined great locations, hilarious villains, alligators, New Orleans jazz funerals, Tarot cards, Jane Seymour, voodoo, the boat chase through the Everglades, with the speedboat crashing into the wedding cake...a kitsch delight from start to finish.

[Pabmusic]

...Pabmusic - I agree with your list apart from Love Actually which I think is rather good...

You may have a point; I'm perhaps being a little hard. Replace it with Anaconda!