My 99 Cents


SuperBad!
January 13, 2007, 5:55 pm
Filed under: movies

The Golden Globe Awards are coming up, and soon after that the holiest day in the CelebrityLand calendar – Oscar night – will be upon us.

This can only mean one thing – it’s time to celebrate the worst movies ever made.

I personally enjoyed Maxim mag’s 50 worst-of-all-time movie list, a funny rundown of the awful, the pointless and the inept.

But before we begin, a digression. Maxim’s eclectic editorial content includes offerings such as: Girls, Sports, Games, Sex, Entertainment, Stupid Fun [See 'Entertainment'?], Hotties [see also 'Girls'?], Gear, Shop [see also 'Gear'?], and, well, you get the idea. Loads of pix ‘n fashion. Like Cosmo, I guess, but for boys.

Nonetheless, their bad-movie list is funny, comprehensive, and Patch Adams is # 3.

And here’s Wikipedia’s excellent list of the terrible.

The real connoisseur’s task, though, is picking the Single Worst Movie Ever Made. Could the world ever come together and agree on one movie so risible, so vile, so howlingly implausible that it merits this distinction?

What’s your vote for worst of the worst in the history of the truly bad?

[UPDATE]: re: Marno’s choice of worst of the worst, I remind her of “Star Odyssey” starring Yanti Sommer and Gianni Garko ( a double dose of charisma!). Here’s a tribute page, for a glimpse of badness for the ages.


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Well, yer askin’ a tough question, but I’m gonna hafta say that An Inconvenent Truth is probly the worst movie ever made. It’s so bad that I haven’t even seen it.

As fer the best movies, well that’s gotta be The Passion of the Christ and The Wizard of Oz, ’cause of, y’know, the realism.

Comment by Dubya

I have to say, the film that filled me with the most rage of all time was “Simon Birch”, a 1998 horror of a film about a kid with stunted growth who nevertheless was able to see the beauty in everything and everyone, inspiring a whole town, fuck, the world! to overcome its shortcomings and see the fukkin inner beauty ANYWAY I’m almost inspired to rent it again so I can tap into the energy from the fury I felt upon watching every drippy sweet sappy second of it before I went screaming off to bed…OK next stop Netflix…

Comment by Erica Ferencik

OK, I know I just cast my vote but there’s so much more: the shocking lack of story in American film culture which promulgates this endless stream of juvenalia:
http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=spiderman
which we as a culture seem to eat with a spoon when there is just frankly so much more out there that’s great. I mean: stare at Toby Maguire’s quivering mug for two hours in and out of his spidey suit as he confronts his inner demons?Observe as Kirsten Dunst pretends she’s in love with her wimpy arachnid guy? Both of them drowning any trace of intelligence in their eyes as they hope for smarter roles while taking it all the way to the bank…

Comment by Erica Ferencik

Now I don’t know what to think of “Simon Birch”! Christian Spotlight On The Movies had this to say (http://www.christiananswers.net/spotlight/movies/
pre2000/i-simonbirch.html).

“…Unequivocally, Simon Birch is the best film I have seen in the last two years. Simple, heartfelt, fantastic without losing its reality. Simon Birch took me from laughter to tears and made me examine my own faith in the same breath. …An oscar caliber film through and through.”

Would they steer me wrong??

Comment by whatsleft

Dubya

Don’t you mean “An Incontinent Truth”?

Comment by whatsleft

You’re opening up a pretty big can of worms here, but I have to pay homage to one of the great masters: Oliver Stone.

There’s always a moment in a bad movie that stays with you forever for it’s unbelievable artlessness — the masterpiece is of course, The Doors, which is just ade up of moment after moment of perfectness. The image of Kyle MacLachlan in a fright wig is pretty special.

And Wall Street has maybe one of the best/worst moments I can remember — when we learn that Charlie Sheen is having an identity crisis because he utters aloud the words “Who am I?” It doesn’t get any better than that.

Comment by Likes It Warm

Cannonball Run II anyone? With Foster Brooks, Dom DeLuise, MASH’s Jamie Farr as, hold your breath, The Sheik? I dare you to sit through it.

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