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The Worst Movie of the Aughts


An Afternoon Comment Diversion / Dustin Rowles

Comment Diversions | March 11, 2009 | Comments (173)


Today is the last of our Aughts comment diversions, and soon enough, we’ll be rolling out full-length reviews of our Best and Worst of the Decade. But the compilation of this list holds a special place in our hearts — the worst tends to bring out the best in us. Again, we’ll take your nominations into consideration when putting our final list together. But keep in mind for the Worst Movie of the Aughts, that expectations do count. Cast, director, and hype should be taken into consideration.

So, look back on your theatergoing experiences over the past decade, and offer up your worst, folks. Your very worst.

To get you started, he’s a sample selection of my own:

Aeon Flux
Gigli
Disaster Movie
Glitter
The Matrix Reloaded
Battlefield Earth
Big Momma’s House II
Norbit
Scooby Doo
Good Luck Chuck


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Comments

I second Battlefield Earth and The Matrix Reloaded (though I really do prefer to pretend that that one doesn't exist and that I never saw it).

I would add:
Spy Kids 3D
The first two new Star Wars movies (could not bring myself to see the third, though I've heard it is actually the best of the three.)
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Maid in Manhattan

There are others, but I can't think of them just yet.

Posted by: tamatha at March 11, 2009 3:37 PM

I Know Who Killed Me, for its overuse of BLUE.

Posted by: Julie at March 11, 2009 3:38 PM

Gigli?

Posted by: WD at March 11, 2009 3:38 PM

The Love Guru.

An absolute abomination.

Posted by: Helen at March 11, 2009 3:39 PM

House of 1000 Corpses. I fucking hated that movie. That was one movie that I vehemently demanded no one I know try to watch. Also, Rob Zombie's piss poor Halloween fuck-up/remake.

Apart from those two shining examples of suck, my brain is conveniently blocking out other cinematic disappointments. Lemme think...

Posted by: Dangle McGee at March 11, 2009 3:40 PM

Waiting
Black Snake Moan
I Know Who Killed Me
I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
The Wicker Man

Those are just a few, I could go on and on. There really are very few excellent movies.

Posted by: Jadine at March 11, 2009 3:40 PM

Bloodrayne. You have to feel sorry for poor Ben Kingsley.

Posted by: reilly at March 11, 2009 3:42 PM

Good list, they all suck.

Adding to that:

Lost in Translation - My hatred for this movie knows no bounds...I love Bill Murray, but holy shit did this movie make me want to kick babies. It would have been different had the end not been so...absolutely underwhelming, but it is what it is.

Posted by: Smokin at March 11, 2009 3:42 PM

Oh, and don't forget every movie Jessica Alba has ever made.

Posted by: Jadine at March 11, 2009 3:43 PM

Borat (which I admit gets funnier as I get drunker)

Daredevil (which is funny just because it exists)

Cloverfield (I hate handheld camera horror films, so I'll also include

Day of the Dead (just ugh)

and

The Love Guru (which was not funny as much as it was horrifying)

I'll probably think of ten more after I hit the post comment, but these were the first that came to mind.

Posted by: Alexandra at March 11, 2009 3:45 PM

Note: Twilight is not on the list because it's a great comedy.

Employee of the Month
Good Luck Chuck
Mamma Mia
The House Bunny
City by the Sea
Revolutionary Road
Farce of the Penguins
Juno

...and plenty others I've probably railed on in the past.

Posted by: Mike R. at March 11, 2009 3:47 PM

Am I the only one who thought Reloaded was substantially better than Revolutions? At least it had the freeway chase.

And as for the worst I nominate The Hottie and the Nottie sight unseen. I can only assume that is why it hasn't yet been mentioned, no could get drunk enough to actually go see it.

Posted by: ed newman at March 11, 2009 3:47 PM

House of the Dead
Kill Bill v1 & 2
X-Men 3
Anything by M Shyamalan
Men in Black 2
Both Fantastic 4 films


Posted by: Keith at March 11, 2009 3:47 PM

Any movie with with "Movie" in the title...Epic Movie, Disaster Movie, Date Movie...need I go on?

Any movie Lindsay Lohan has appeared in

Any movie Jessica Alba has appeared in

Any movie Dane Cook has appeared in

Any movie Jessica Simpson has appeared in

Posted by: dammitjanet at March 11, 2009 3:48 PM

Oh god, Aeon Flux without a doubt. I think 'inability to live up to 1/100 of the original work' adds a couple of points there.

So League of Extrordinary Gentlemen too. Not just bad but above and beyond.

So yeah, Wicker Man too, although that might be worth it for Mega Wicker Man.

... and Tamatha, don't bother. The only reason #3 is better than number #1 and #2 is that even Lucas isn't a hack enough director to kill 100% of the drama of slaughtering Jedi children.

Posted by: twig at March 11, 2009 3:48 PM

Ooh ooh, I would also like to add The Happening. Because there were moments of visual brilliance in that movie that had me and my brother screaming over how they were wasted in such a piece of shit film with a terrible plot and abominable pacing, acting, and dialogue.

Stupid god damed movie, making me stabby all over again.

Posted by: Julie at March 11, 2009 3:48 PM

Revolutions had the really cool Smith/Neo battle at the end. Plus it ended the whole mess cold in its tracks, so you have to give it credit for that. Personally, I didn't think the sequels were that bad. They aren't on the same plain as the first, but they weren't abysmal.

Posted by: Mike R. at March 11, 2009 3:48 PM

Van Helsing was so bad I breathed a sigh of relief when the power in the movie theatre went out 15 minutes into the showing.

Posted by: Kolby at March 11, 2009 3:49 PM

AI

Posted by: anikitty at March 11, 2009 3:51 PM

License to Wed, Son of the Mask, BANGKOK DANGEROUS, S. Darko, Catwoman, Riddick Movie, Superhero Movie, The Marine, THE WICKER MAN, Dan in Real Life, NEXT, GHOST RIDER, THE WEATHER MAN...

hmmmm...

Posted by: annoyingmouse at March 11, 2009 3:52 PM

I'll throw PS I Love You into the mix. Usually I can forgive the romcoms for their cheesiness and be mildly entertained, but this movie pissed me the f*ck off. Who loves/grieves like that? Who believes Hilary Swank as a romcom heroine? It was just all kinds of wrong.

Posted by: Agente Provocatrice at March 11, 2009 3:52 PM

15 minutes.

Posted by: DRE at March 11, 2009 3:52 PM

*deep breath*

The Hottie and the Nottie, The Adventure of Pluto Nash, SuperBabies: Baby Geniuses 2, Little Man, Son of the Mask, From Justin to Kelly, Norbit, Daddy Day Camp, Taxi,and Freddy Got Fingered.

Thank you. This experience has helped my mouth and brain understand what my butthole goes through when I get the runs.

Posted by: branded at March 11, 2009 3:53 PM

Good to know!
And thousands of sincere and serious tall people I met on
___T a l l m i n g l e . C om___ are the most amazing people I ever met! they care nothing but real love and chemistry! that's what we are looking for in today's world! :-)

Posted by: oliver at March 11, 2009 3:53 PM

The Lady in the Water
the Mummy movies
both Matrix sequels
Freddy Got Fingered

Posted by: Melissa at March 11, 2009 3:53 PM

The Hottie and the Nottie
Ocean's 12
Crossroads
27 Dresses
From Justin to Kelly, With Love
Gigli
Catwoman
Crash
Employee of the Month
The Happening

Posted by: boo at March 11, 2009 3:54 PM

Posted by: annoyingmouse at March 11, 2009 3:52 PM

Annoyingmouse, you sly dog you...you're trying to show us there's a pattern in those movies you typed in caps aren't you? Well, I'm on to your plan, and I'm "hip" to your "groove"...those titles have a lot of E's and T's, and in some cases R's in there. Yeah, I decoded your little message...kinda like that new movie KNOWING, starring Nic Cage. I tell ya, when he stops making good movies I'll stop seein' them, am I right? *Enthusiastically offers high five*

Posted by: Mike R. at March 11, 2009 3:57 PM

Kolby I so agree on Van Helsing. I have never walked out of a movie in my life, but Mr. Siege and I would definitely have walked out of that one...had we not fallen asleep. Between the ludicrous plot (Vampire babies in pods and you have to run electricity through them to activate the blood-sucking baby pods!) and Kate Beckinsale's unbelievably terrible accent...dear God. Even Hugh Jackman looked bad in that. The only thing in it worth seeing was that guy who played Faradir in Lord of the Rings.

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was also extremely bad.

Posted by: Siege at March 11, 2009 3:59 PM

Transformers. Can't forget to list that childhood destroying turd.

Posted by: reilly at March 11, 2009 3:59 PM

Phat Girlz
Zoom
Redline
From Justin to Kelly
BloodRayne
Because I Said So
Crossover
In the Mix
Step Up
Son of the Mask

I could go on, but these ones I saw and have yet to blackout from my memory.

*makes gun with fingers* *point at head* *Kablamoo!*

Posted by: Jim at March 11, 2009 3:59 PM

Gee annoyingmouse, I'm trying hard to see what you DID THERE with the NICOLAS CAGE movies. Hehehe.

Posted by: Snath at March 11, 2009 4:00 PM

Oh wait, fucking Troy! The only movie I ever walked out of!

Posted by: twig at March 11, 2009 4:01 PM

Faradir...if I didn't know he was an LOTR character, I would have thought he was a Marx Brother punchline.

"Where is he?"

"Where's who?"

"Where's my fiance?"

"I believe he's in the next room."

"That's not him, that's Faradir."

"Far-a-dear, but no closer to your heart."

Posted by: Mike R. at March 11, 2009 4:02 PM

Wild Hogs
Hancock
The Grudge I, II, and Eleventy-Ninety
Spider-Man 3

Posted by: Dangle McGee at March 11, 2009 4:04 PM

Just going off ones that I saw in theaters...
GHOST RIDER
NATIONAL TREASURE 2
The Spirit
Van Helsing.
And Mike Rowe, how can you say Juno is the worst of the aughts? Really? You might not like it but really? In the same caliber as any of the "- Movie" Movies?
Has anyone said Wild Hogs yet?

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at March 11, 2009 4:05 PM

I don't know, Melissa, I thought the first Mummy was pretty damn entertaining. The other two were complete shit, though.

Posted by: Kolby at March 11, 2009 4:06 PM

If we're going groupings, by actor/actress, then: Beverly Hills Chihuahua, Fever Pitch, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, Charlie's Angels.

Posted by: branded at March 11, 2009 4:09 PM

Optimus - I say Juno is one of the worst because it was hyped as an "awards picture" and it turned out to be an act of despairation on the Academy's behalf to seem relevant and with today's times. That, and it was a steaming pile of half baked drama, overwhelmingly negative (except for the father) male characters, and above all atrocious dialogue. When it comes to Oscar pictures, it's more like "Crash" and "Around the World in 80 Days"...you know, the ones that get nominated because they needed to fill the "dark horse" slot. (Which is fitting, considering Crash's subject matter.)

Posted by: Mike R. at March 11, 2009 4:09 PM

The Sweetest Thing
Seemed like the whole thing was ad-libbed, and shittily at that. Furthermore, I... IT WAS ON CABLE AND I WAS SICK, THAT'S WHY! LIKE I'D FUCKING PAY MONEY TO SEE IT! JESUS... you know me better than that... Anyhow, the movie sucked stale ass. Even the goofy whatchamafrick during the credits was reta...I WATCHED IT BECAUSE I FUCKING FELT LIKE IT, THAT'S WHY! I RECEIVED NO PLEASURE FROM IT! COME ON!

Fifteen Minutes
Awful. Absolutely God-awful. Everything about this movie sucked. Edward Burns sucked, De Niro sucked, Frasier sucked, the Czechoslovakians super-sucked, etc...

Gummo
I don't give a shit - it's three years out of the running, but it deserves mention. Gummo is a piece of shit. The movie needs to have it's plot woven into the DNA of a test-tubed baby smoothie consisting of Sean Hannity's conservative spunk and whatever Ann Coulter has flopping around in her uterine abyss, go through a rapid-aging process and then shot in the face via shotgun on Harmony Korine's front yard... Fuck Gummo. Worst movie this decade, last decade, forever and ever, amen. Period.

Posted by: Skitz at March 11, 2009 4:09 PM

Cat in the Hat. This was the last Mike Meyer movie I will ever see.

Posted by: grinder at March 11, 2009 4:10 PM

I'd thought that it was Battlefield Earth, hands down, until I had the misfortune of catching BloodRayne on Sci-Fi a few months ago. It was like I was caught in some obsessive-sado-masochistic loop--I'd watch for about five minutes, be so disgusted that I'd turn the channel, but then switch back again after another couple of minutes. I watched the entire movie this way. My husband was considering having me committed, especially because I kept protesting, "No, this is seriously the worst movie I have ever seen. It HAS to get better."

Posted by: sherry at March 11, 2009 4:10 PM

I'm surprised Dustin, that you didn't mention Captivity. I'll assume that you experience a momentary blackout whenever it's referenced and add it to my own list :)

Posted by: Julie at March 11, 2009 4:16 PM

dammitjanet - I have to disagree on all Lindsey Lohan films, as Mean Girls came out in 2004, and I genuinely liked that one.

And Mike R. I had forgotten about Employee of the Month and I kind of wish you hadn't reminded me that I wasted, not only my valuable money, but also time, to see that crap in the theatre. I plead complete and total ignorance and a moment of absolute weakness for why I thought, even for a second, I should see that movie.

Posted by: tamatha at March 11, 2009 4:16 PM

10,000 B.C.

Seriously, I watched it with a friend, and we couldn't even get through the opening naration. My friend kept pausing the movie to go outside and smoke so we wouldn't have to watch it, and about 15 minutes in, she turned to me and said, "Can we just make fun of this now?"

I sat there and watched the whole thing with her, but we talked over all the dialogue, so I'm not completely positive of everything that happened in that movie, only that I almost broke a rib laughing by the time we got to the mammoths being used to build the pyramids.

Posted by: Tyburn Blossom at March 11, 2009 4:16 PM

I again second Aeon Flux, my god that movie was asinine. Actually, I second everything on Dustin's list.

Also, don't forget Deuce Bigallow: European Gigalo "The Greatest Film of our Generation". In addition, I'd like to second some of the Eloquent's nominations:

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Spy Kids 3D
Little Man
Daddy Day Camp
Bangkok Dangerous
From Justin To Kelly
27 Dresses
Both Fantastic 4 films
Farce of the Penguins
The Love Guru

These next nominations are all my own:

Anything made by Uwe Boll
All the Movie Movies
The upcoming Not Another Not Another Movie
Pokemon: The Movie 2000 (Yes, that did get a theatrical release. Yes, I did take my parents to see that, I was 9, how could I resist.)
The Heartbreak Kid
The Covenant
Delta Farce
Balls of Fury
Cats and Dogs
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
Shark Tale
Home on the Range
The Santa Clause 3
The Benchwarmers

How many films are going to be on the Worst of the Aught's list? Can there be a seperate list for most disappointing films? Here are some nominees:

Transformers 1 and 2
The Pirates of the Caribbean sequels
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Atlantis: The Lost Empire

Sorry I carried on for so long, but a lot of shit has come out this decade in addition to the gems. My only request is that more kids movies are on the Worst of the Aught's list. Some real shit is made for kids.

Posted by: George at March 11, 2009 4:17 PM

Aeon Flux and Catwoman would be my votes.

Posted by: David McTaintwaffle at March 11, 2009 4:19 PM

Pearl Harbor needs to be up near the top as well. Can't believe I almost forgot that one. I'm digging back through years of repressed nights here.

Posted by: branded at March 11, 2009 4:20 PM

Thank you branded! I was shocked that we had gotten this far and no one had mentioned Pearl Harbor, especially since we are taking hype into account. Awful, awful, awful.

Posted by: tbean at March 11, 2009 4:24 PM

Derailed

Posted by: Nimue at March 11, 2009 4:25 PM

I'm gonna second Juno, more for the gigantic disparity between the hype and my enjoyment of it than actual soul-sucking horribleness.

I don't see many awful movies, but I did see one of the Movie Movies in the theater, and whichever one it was, it was one of the worst experiences of my life.

Posted by: SaBrina at March 11, 2009 4:25 PM

Holy GOD Pearl Harbor was bad. I had to hide my best friend's car keys, lest he jam them into his carotid.

Posted by: Julie at March 11, 2009 4:26 PM

Dragon Wars

Nuff said.

Posted by: malikvlc at March 11, 2009 4:26 PM

George, why in the fuck did you go see all those movies? No wonder you're so down on current cinema!

I'm choosy and generally like everything I go to see in one way or another. I only saw "Battlefield Earth" much later and through the Rifftrax filter but that is one impressively misguided movie. Wow. It really deserves applause for its achievement.

Posted by: Jay at March 11, 2009 4:26 PM

So really you're just bashing it based on the hype rather then the merits of the movie itself. And You Outed yourself as Mike Rowe! I knew it! Right into my trap, Mr. Controversy! Or should I say Mr. Dirty Jobs!

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at March 11, 2009 4:27 PM

Superhero Movie. I'm pretty sure that was the one I was brutally forced into seeing.

Posted by: SaBrina at March 11, 2009 4:28 PM

Daredevil
Witless Protection
Dukes of Hazard
Spider-Man 2 (Because some fool decided that what Spider-Man needed was more Kirsten Dunst and her snaggle tooth.)
Tyler Perry's . . . (Tyler Perry has made one film a dozen times and they're all equally infuriating)
Dragon Wars
The Longest Yard
The Condemned (Steve Austin can't even play Steve Austin convincingly)

Posted by: Tracer Bullet at March 11, 2009 4:28 PM

Black Snake Moan? Sure it has its flaws, but one of the worst? I mean, even if the rest of the movie completely sucked, that soundtrack... yowza.

Posted by: Eep at March 11, 2009 4:31 PM

No, Optimus, I'm bashing it because I didn't like it. I'll admit, when I saw the first trailer for Juno, it looked pretty funny. It serious looked like the fresh comedic voice everyone would go on to herald from the pen of Diablo Cody. Then I actually saw the movie, and like Dreiberg himself my expectations went limp. From the opening credits and their "hey, we're indie, we're featuring hand drawings that look like our kids made them", I knew I was in for Hell. As the film finished, I wished I'd never seen it. I hate it not because of the media perception, but because I endured it myself.

Posted by: Mike R. at March 11, 2009 4:32 PM

I second Optimus Rhyme nominations of Ghost Rider and Wild Hogs. I've seen Ghost Rider, which is the worst superhero movie and Nicholas Cage movie ever made; but I haven't seen Wild Hogs. I actually kind of want to see it, because it looks like the worst movie of all time.

I've also seen Van Helsing, which was awesome when I saw it, but it really doesn' take much to entertain a 12 year old. If I saw it now, I'd probably laugh my ass off, so I'll go ahead and second it. I now realize the idiocy of Frankenstein, the Wolfman, Dr. Jeckel, and Dracula
suffering from poorly done CGI in the same movie.
One person has seen it, Optimus. John Williams, a critic for this site. It really deserves a spot.

I'd also like to second my own nomination of The Heartbreak Kid, which features Ben Stiller in another romantic gross out that has an actual queef in the middle of the film, and Carlos Mencia as a supporting actor. I'd also like to bring up Kangaroo Jack. It's the worst movie Christopher Walken has ever been in, even worse than Balls of Fury.

Oh, and for those of you curious, Home on the Range is a Disney movie starring Rosanne as a talking cow. It get's worse from there.

Posted by: George at March 11, 2009 4:33 PM

number 23 (the number of times I tried killing myself while watching the movie).

1408 (scarries part of movie was when Samuel did NOT swear and scream).

The Spirit (I unconsciously sold my soul to keep my eyes from bleeding out during this movie).

Stroke of Genius (called so cuz it puts you to sleep so fast you FEEL like you had a stroke).

Lord of the Rings I, II, and III (all they did was walk and have weird hobbit sex the ENTIRE FREAKIN MOVIE, if I wanted to see that I would have rented the Gods Must be Crazy).

Posted by: Nico at March 11, 2009 4:34 PM

Yes, Tracer. I also missed Witless Protection.

Let's not forget the sparkliest of movierrhea, Twilight.

Posted by: branded at March 11, 2009 4:34 PM

I was old enough to know Van Helsing blew when I saw it the first time. I must've been in High School. My favorite part is when you can see the boom mike when Frankenstein is introduced. The CGI Frankenstein. It doesn't even make sense but you can see it bob into frame.

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at March 11, 2009 4:35 PM

OMG.

How could I forget

THE BUCKET LIST???

*removes katana from sheath...*

Posted by: boo at March 11, 2009 4:40 PM

Posted by: branded at March 11, 2009 4:34 PM

Hey...you leave Twilight alone. It's not nice to pick on the "special" kids, and besides it was perfectly servicable comedy.

Posted by: Mike R. at March 11, 2009 4:40 PM

I nominate:

-An American Carol
-Star Wars Episode II
-Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
-Talledega Nights
-Syriana
-The Assassination of Jesse James
-Meet the Spartans
-Lady in the Water
-Poseidon

Posted by: alphawhiskey at March 11, 2009 4:45 PM

Holy shit, alphawhiskey! I had totally forgotten about Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the...Aliens? Really? Okay. It should be near the top of the worst list, if not number one.

Posted by: Dangle McGee at March 11, 2009 4:48 PM

Can I still nominate [i]Bicentennial Man[/i], even though it missed by a year?

The last two Star Wars movies are a shoe-in. I mean, they almost had to get better after the first one, but then they just. Kept. Getting. Worse.

Posted by: Seth L at March 11, 2009 4:50 PM

An American Carol
Get Carter (may never forgive anyone connected w/this POS don't have to forgive Stallone, but fuck Mickey Rourke and Alan Cumming, ok maybe a pass to Caine he still makesso many films he may never read a script until he arrives on location)
All things Sandler
All things Eddie Murphy (Bowfinger excepted)
All things Ice Cube
All things Brendan Fraser
Bagger Vance
All films w/Bride in the title
OK....... I feel better now thanks Dustin

Posted by: jaf at March 11, 2009 4:52 PM

Here's a few:
27 Dresses
Alex and Emma (saw this twice...ugh)
Evan Almighty
Spiderman 3

Posted by: kelsy at March 11, 2009 4:53 PM

Moulin Rouge. My roomate owns it and I am sickened by it's very presence in my living room.

Posted by: Lauren at March 11, 2009 4:53 PM

Meet the Spartans
Dragon Wars
Spiderman 3
The Mummy 3
Christmas with the Kranks (I didn't even watch it, I just huddled in the corner with my laptop while my mother watched, and I still went blind in my right eye)
Bloodrayne
Resident Evil 3
Chronicles of Riddick (Really? No one has mentioned this yet?)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
And that one movie with Karl Urban as an Indian fighting Vikings, I can't remember the name but it was fucking ridiculous.

And let me go ahead and add on the live-action dragonball movie, because I already know that it'll induce spontaneous abortions all around America by fetuses too ashamed to be raised by the fuckwit mother who paid to see it.

Posted by: Jaci at March 11, 2009 4:55 PM

speed racer.

Posted by: matty blue at March 11, 2009 4:56 PM

I think I covered this during the best movies of the aught. Shit. Well, that's why God invented Copy-Paste.

Worst

5. Bratz
4. The Hottie and the Nottie
3. Epic Movie
2. Witless Protection
1. Norbit

Yay for Ctrl + C! And Ctrl + V!

Posted by: Jeremy Feist at March 11, 2009 5:00 PM

"Elizabethtown" for crapping all over "Come Pick Me Up" and other Ryan Adams songs. Seriously, Kirsten Dunst and Orlando Bloom? I nearly jabbed my eyes out so I would not associate the visual with the audio.

Posted by: raindog at March 11, 2009 5:01 PM

Yay for Ctrl + C! And Ctrl + V!

Whereas Godtopus invented Alt + F4.

Posted by: branded at March 11, 2009 5:02 PM

XXX - I felt dumber when that movie was over.
Farce of the Penguines.

Too bad Formula 51 just missed the mark. It could have been the Sam L. trifecta of the aughts. Although, I guess if you count the XXX sequel or any of the Star Wars Prequels, he is still in really good standing.

Posted by: cmoody at March 11, 2009 5:05 PM

I'm only listing the ones I've seen. There is plenty of repugnant shit that most likely is worse than this list but I just can't bring myself to waste 90-120 minutes to find out.

Hostel
Gothika
Battlefield Earth (but this is truly one of the funniest movies ever made)
Jeepers Creepers 1 and 2
Cabin Fever
Spider-Man 3
X-Men 3
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Blade Trinity
Shark Tale
Mystic River
The Day After Tomorrow
Alone in the Dark (also pretty damn funny)
Hostel (so awful it's on here twice)

Man, looking over the lists some of you truly sit through some atrocious shit. I thought my list was bad but I can't even compete with some of this offal.

Posted by: TylerDFC at March 11, 2009 5:07 PM

Lots of strong opinions here... Lots of okay movies getting bandied about as if they were execrable cinematic abortions... This is for the worst move of the decade, people, and I think we can all agree that, though some movies may elicit strong negative reactions from a particular set of viewers, there is certainly a much shorter list of films that have absolutely no meritorious value at all.

For example: Ghostrider.

Seriously, that ****** movie can **** my **** ******* **** until ***** ******* spews and it ******** and **** in the eye.

Posted by: Macafee at March 11, 2009 5:08 PM

Yeah 'Twilight' will go down in history as the most unintentionally hilarious movie of all time.

Posted by: figgy at March 11, 2009 5:11 PM

The new Wicker Man for besmirching the name of the original.

Troy for destroying the Illiad. Achilles and Patroclus were lovers, not cousins. The point of Homer's epic was that through his arrogance Achilles killed the one person he loved above all else. Removing this vital relationship is like trying to do Hamlet without Ophelia--it makes no damn sense.

Signs for being incredibly stupid. A species that's allergic to water comes to a planet that's over three quarters water to hunt a species that's over ninety percent water? And none of them thought to wear protective clothing? How did aliens that dumb master space flight?

Posted by: Inaras at March 11, 2009 5:12 PM

Swordfish

Posted by: Dangle McGee at March 11, 2009 5:12 PM

You know a great place to gather the perfect list? Most succesful box-office hits of the last 10 years. That list is so full of shit it's barely redeemable, and it'll certainly make you angry enough:

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/

Start there and look through every year, pick the worst of the worst, and you get a great list of the most egregious offenders of the last 10 years. It's easy to make a list of just really horrible movies that most people ignored, but that are mostly harmless. The horrible ones that made money? that's a worse offense in my book. So here's my list, narrowed down as much as I could:


In no particular order:
1. Catwoman
2. Fantastic Four 2
3. I Know Who Killed Me
4. Cat in the Hat
5. Swept Away [fuck you, Madonna]
6. Pirates of the Caribbean, both 2 and 3 because I can't decide between shit and a turd.
7. Pearl Harbor
8. Meet the Fockers [the cast list for this makes me want to sob]
9. Planet of the Apes
10. The Wedding Planner [first movie I've ever walked out on.]
11. The Matrix sequels
12. Apocalypto Passion of the Christ [much worse]
13. Star Wars Episode 2: Attack of the Clones [worst. dialogue. EVER.]
14. Daredevil
15. Lost in Translation [my hate for this movie KNOWS NO LIMIT]

Posted by: figgy at March 11, 2009 5:15 PM

You know what would be a good list?

Most Depressing movies of the aughts.

If you're going with 'most [whatever] of the aughts' it would be cool to do something like the AFI did with it's 100 lists. Best comedies, best romances, etc.

Posted by: figgy at March 11, 2009 5:19 PM

In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale, because:

Jason Statham
Leelee Sobieski
John Rhys-Davies
Ron Perlman
Claire Forlani
Kristanna Loken
Matthew Lillard
Ray Liotta
Burt Reynolds

and UWE BOLL.

Posted by: Clee Shay at March 11, 2009 5:26 PM

Alone in the Dark - Tara Reid as an archaeologist. A bad ass protagonist whose apartment looks like page 32 of the Pier 1 catalog. Uh-huh.
Glitter - OH MY GOD HATE
I Know Who Killed Me - played like someone had just figured out that there were crazy filters he could use in Final Cut and then decided to USE THEM ALL.
Snakes on a Plane - Wasn't nearly as fun-bad as it wanted to be. Just bad.
Mamma Mia! - I'm already predisposed to hating movies with exclamation points in their titles, but this was just offensive to all the actors involved. And I guess it was also offensive to humans.

Not to nullify my comment, but was I the only one who thought Aeon Flux wasn't half bad? A mess, for sure, but at least an interesting mess.

Posted by: whatBENwatches at March 11, 2009 5:28 PM

branded: The sad fact is, as soon as I read that, my first instinct was to try it.

Me: Ooooo, wonder what that does?

(Hit Alt + F4, window closes)

Me: Well fuck.

Posted by: Jeremy Feist at March 11, 2009 5:29 PM

Good to know!
And thousands of sincere and serious tall people I met on
___T a l l m i n g l e . C om___ are the most amazing people I ever met! they care nothing but real love and chemistry! that's what we are looking for in today's world! :-)

Posted by: owen at March 11, 2009 5:32 PM

Jeremy, as the kids would say: you've been OWNED. Well played, branded.

Posted by: figgy at March 11, 2009 5:36 PM

I can't fully participate, because I make a point of not watching bad films. Every once in a while one will sneak in front of me for whatever reason, but I don't see enough of them to offer any authoritative list. Hell, Catwoman was one of the most fun times I've ever had at a theater for its unintentional hilarity. We MST3Ked the hell out of that thing. (We had permission from the only other few people in the theater.)

That said, I'll go ahead and nominate Tideland. I'm a Terry Gilliam fan, and I suppose I recognize some artistic merits, but that was one of the most painful viewing experiences of my life.

I'll also go with Transformers, the movie about robots battling each other that only had about fifteen minutes of robots battling each other in its two-hours-plus running time. The rest was devoted to flat characters and inane humor.

3000 Miles To Graceland was absolutely horrid, but I watched that on TBS, so I don't know if I reveled in its crappy glory.

I understand that expectations are allowed to be factored in, but it really does not make much sense to me to ignore that some artistry and attention to detail went into Attack of the Clones and just lump that in with something like The Love Guru. (And, yes, I was disappointed in Attack of the Clones.)

I'd like to subtract one vote above from The Matrix Reloaded, if that's allowed. Better than the original. It's the third one that ruined the series.

One other thing for Inaras: I've defended Signs against this argument many times and I dislike the ending myself for other reasons, but in that movie it wasn't simply the case that the aliens were allergic to water. M. Night was also going for some sort of religious metaphor that justified their defeat (i.e., the power of faith), which you might think is just as dumb.

Posted by: DarthCorleone at March 11, 2009 5:38 PM

I'm sure there are worse movies out there, but for my money I'm going to have to go with just the movies I was Dumb enough to watch.

Van-Helsing
Underworld Evolution (how do you make werewolves fighting vampires so boring and shitty?)
Miss Congeniality 2
Australia
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (so much wasted potential)

and I only saw about 3 minutes of it, but god was Mama Mia bad.

Posted by: Peter at March 11, 2009 5:38 PM

I also nominate First Daughter. That film is worth seeing for the laughably amateur use of a miniature model for shots of the White House.

Posted by: whatBENwatches at March 11, 2009 5:40 PM

Ugh, Nicholas Cage. I freakin' love the Ghost Rider comic, so when I heard a movie was being made I was excited. Then I heard Cage was going to be in it. I didn't even know who he would be playing at that point, but decided I would never, ever see the movie. My mother gave me the DVD (she got it for free at something work-related). I let my dog eat it (well, not do much eat it as chew it up, because I didn't want to hurt my dog).

Posted by: Nadha at March 11, 2009 5:44 PM

What!?! No Eragon?? That show was S.H.I.T.T.Y!!! It was a waste of two excellent actors! I wanna know who blackmailed Malkovich and Jeremy Irons to be in that movie! Who?

Toss in King Arthur and Fantastic 4 (both parts!)
And just out of pure bad mind Freddy vs Jason and Alien vs Predator...and 30 Days of Night.

Posted by: Four Eyes at March 11, 2009 5:55 PM

This is like asking which piece of refuse on the garbage heap is the stinkiest. There may be a couple of items that don't have that rotting smell to them, but for the most part, everything reeks! How do you begin to choose?

Posted by: tt_marie at March 11, 2009 6:00 PM

figgy: Indeed, I have been "pwnd". I feel great shame. CURSE YOU, BRANDED!

Posted by: Jeremy Feist at March 11, 2009 6:02 PM

Wicker Man is actually pretty enjoyable as an unintentional comedy. I've heard Twilight is pretty good for the same reason, but will never know because if I see it, I will have to turn in my man license.

But yeah - worst movie? Indiana Jones 4. Took one of the greatest franchises of all time and completely fucked it up. And it was directed by Spielberg - he can do so much better than that!

Posted by: Joe the Plumber at March 11, 2009 6:04 PM

How has no one mentioned Domino yet? I know that there are very few people that actually saw it, but man, that movie sucked and sucked hard.

Posted by: battgirl at March 11, 2009 6:14 PM

Kevin & Perry Go Large.

If you don't know what that is, consider yourself lucky.

Posted by: FabMax at March 11, 2009 6:30 PM

what was that uwe boll movie that made stephen dorff unfuckingfuckable? remember, tara reid was smart because she wore glasses? that one.

Posted by: gp at March 11, 2009 6:46 PM

I'm with TT_Marie, it's so hard to wallow through all that shittiness and try to elevate some of it above the rest. Anywho, Indiana Jones 4 definitely earns a spot. Also anything starring Will Farrell post-Anchorman. He is so through. Although I am probably in a minority on this one.

I also try to avoid bad movies when possible, which means I don't really watch too many movies anymore.

Posted by: iheartlasagne at March 11, 2009 6:54 PM

*blink*

I'm not even sure why I read through that entire thread...there couldn't have been more than a couple of movies (Juno, Crash) named that I've seen, and like Jay I'm choosy and try to do my research before investing time -- never mind the money -- in a flick. Yeah, there's the occasional abomination foisted upon me by someone else (The House Bunny -- there, I have my very own nominee), but I think I'll join tt_marie in simply stepping around the cesspool rather than wading into it to find the ripest turd...

Posted by: Che Grovera at March 11, 2009 7:11 PM

If expectations count then nothing since Star Wars I comes close to the bone crushing let down that was Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

Posted by: EricD at March 11, 2009 7:16 PM

Al of you people listing several movies, if you can not narrow your pick to one movie it's obviously not the worst of the Aughts.

Posted by: EricD at March 11, 2009 7:19 PM

Bad movies that think they're good are worse than straight up bad movies. Therefore, my two worst movies of the aughts (both from 2001, incidentally) are:

AI: Artificial Intelligence
Vanilla Sky

There are worse movies out there, but at least when it stars Paris Hilton you know it will suck.

Posted by: sarah b at March 11, 2009 7:31 PM

You know what would be another good list?

Movies that pissed you off the most of the aughts.

Anyway, Ergon gets my vote as the only movie that I have been eternally grateful that a little kid talked all through it, because I quickly realized he was more entertaining than the damn movie.

Posted by: shake at March 11, 2009 7:40 PM

Shadow Boxer, especially the director's cut. It's like they were making a dumb box-office film, then thought, "hey, let's make a great film," but the director knows shit about making a great film, and the film still needs to pander to the audience to make money, so instead they make a movie that is actually retarded when it thinks it is being artistic, and instead of being gratuitous in an in anyway entertaining fashion, it is gratuitous in an unwatchably bad fashion.

Seriously, it's so bad that it goes right past enjoyably awful to "watching the entire cast and crew drowning in their own shit" awful.

Posted by: NF at March 11, 2009 7:42 PM

Matrix Revolutions
Catwoman
Meet The Spartans
Another Gay Movie
Doom
House Of Wax
Elektra
Bad Boys 2
Dumb and Dumberer
Boat Trip
The Country Bears
Ballistic Ecks Vs Sever
Whats The Worst That Could Happen
Haunted Castle (IMAX)

Posted by: returnofthesmith at March 11, 2009 7:42 PM

"America's Sweethearts".

Nothing about the movie rang true. Zeta-Jones and John Cusack weren't remotely believable -- and they were playing fucking movie stars! Do they have that little self awareness that they don't even know how the act 99% of their own waking lives? The jokes were a horrible mismash of outdated 70's sitcom stereotypes (Hollywood people are phony! And they say different things behind your back than they do to your face!), dated pop culture references (oh, look! A Blair Witch Project Reference!) and pathetic stabs at gross out comedy. Seriously, a dog giving Billy Crystal a blowjob? And him liking it? And this is our main protagonist? And as far as John Cusack's character goes -- anyone who acts as pathetic as him doesn't come off as sympathetic, they come off as creepy. And a subplot about John Cusack exposing himself didn't help. And,seriously, Billy Crystal got a blowjob from a dog? The hell?

Posted by: Laughner at March 11, 2009 7:46 PM

All of the above movies definitely make me want to poke my fucking eyes out with a Bic pen. But I thought we all agreed on the worst movie of the Aughts by now, weather we've seen it or not (I for one haven't):

Paul motherfucking Blart

Posted by: krza at March 11, 2009 7:58 PM

I caught Battlefield Earth on basic cable a few years back and had fun wallowing in its jaw-dropping wretchedness. Matrix Reloaded is not even fun to watch, just boring. I was so turned off by it never even bothered to see Revolutions.

My list:

Spider-Man 3

Cabin Fever-fuck Eli Roth with a chainsaw...though he'd probably make a movie about it

A.I.

Hannibal

The Village

Van "Fucking" Helsing

Day After Tomorrow

Chronicles of Riddick

Kill Bill, Vol. 1 & 2-QT's self-indulgent monkeyspank

Transformers

King Kong-AH Peter Jackson, how can ya do us like this?

Pay it Forward

Punisher (2004)

The last half hour of Watchmen

Posted by: stryker1121 at March 11, 2009 8:03 PM

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Future War
Star Wars 1-3

Posted by: The Ross Sea Party at March 11, 2009 8:13 PM

"Cast, director, and hype should be taken into consideration."

If that's the case then my three worst are:

Mystic River
Juno
Million Dollar Baby

Posted by: Matt at March 11, 2009 8:17 PM

Totally forgot about "King Kong"!!!!!! Definately a piece o' shit!

Posted by: returnofthesmith at March 11, 2009 8:32 PM

oh and Ghost Rider, sorry!

Posted by: returnofthesmith at March 11, 2009 8:46 PM

You're a big man for fessing up to falling for it, Jeremy. I found out about it originally by getting tricked myself. The cycle of life continues. Now I owe you some spooning time.

My small sample size for the top spot would be between Battlefield Earth for horrendous acting and dialogue combined with source material penned by the engineer of the crazy train, L Ron Hubbard, and Phantom Menace for Lucas' part in not even beginning to approach the admittedly engorged expectations of the Star Wars fans.

Posted by: branded at March 11, 2009 8:47 PM

Running Scared- 2006 movie with Paul Walker.

It was after this movie that I finally learned my lesson about movie reviewers in my local newspaper (ie, that they suck). And that only Pajiba should be trusted when it comes to movie reviews.

Dear lord that movie was awful. And not in the way that you know, going into this thing, that it's gonna be awful and therefore, splendidly good-awful.

Posted by: Be Adequite! at March 11, 2009 9:11 PM

Christ. Talk about Sophie's Choice.

Captivity

There. I said it. Closest I've come to a 1/10 in the 00's.

Posted by: Robert at March 11, 2009 9:26 PM

I saw Battlefield Earth on cable the other day and found its blend of off-the-wall ideas and batshit insanity quite entertaining.
I don't know if anyone responded to Skittimus but just the trailer to Gummo messed me up.
Laughner, I'm very happy I don't know what you're talking about.

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at March 11, 2009 9:40 PM

The Hottie & the Nottie

Posted by: Mick J at March 11, 2009 10:21 PM

The Wrong Man (at least that's what it was called here in Australia. I think it was originally 'Lucky Number Slevin' or some such garbage).

Hannibal Rising

Twilight

Ghost Rider

Starship Troopers 2

Posted by: nickleby at March 11, 2009 10:25 PM

Maybe I'm just too visually oriented, but I find it hard to second some of these choices, even when the movie is truly bad, when said movies at least look interesting and have consistent action/movement to keep my attention (sufficient sex, violence, etc.)

So, by those standards, Chronicles of Riddick, Matrix Revolutions, Aeon Flux, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and Speed Racer pass muster, because I find them watchable, despite being godawful messes.

But Catwoman, yeah, among the worst, for being too boring and stupid to make a scantily clad martial arts wielding Halle Berry interesting enough to at least watch.

Love Guru...a comedy with no laughs and no sense.

And Kingdom of the Crystal Skull for having virtually no entertainment and being an anchor to drag down an otherwise solid franchise.

Posted by: Deacon Blue at March 11, 2009 10:42 PM

Come on, people.

Saving Silverman.

Tomcats.

Sex And The (Fucking) City.

Posted by: Ed at March 11, 2009 10:43 PM

The last half hour of Watchmen

stryker1121, high five for sure on that sentiment. Although, I cannot begin to agree with you about Kill Bill vols 1 & 2.

and Sex And The (Fucking) City. How the hell did I not think of that one. Easily the worst piece of shit in the fucking history of cinema- if only for the faux glamorous bullshit that movie seems to infect in the minds of women everywhere. Oh yeah, and I'm going to assume that every aspect of the film making was complete garbage.

And Sarah Jessica Parker looks like a horse. Who in the hippie hell decided she was supposed to be even a little attractive?

Posted by: krza at March 11, 2009 11:06 PM

branded: Yay! Spooning!

Posted by: Jeremy Feist at March 11, 2009 11:07 PM

As other posters mentioned, I veer away from anything starring Hilton, Lohan etc, directed by Bay & Boll, don’t bother with the entire torture porn genre* nor anything ending in …Movie, so it’s hard to nominate a film that genuinely deserves to be called the worst. I also have an aversion to films of the “so bad it’s hilarious” variety, hence I never saw Battlefield Earth and others of it’s ilk. Basically that leaves films of semi respectable production quality that, while a cut above the excreta mentioned above, failed to live up to expectations or even made me actively angry.

So:
SW prequels 1 and 2 (3 at least attempted to achieve the levels of tragic pathos I’m sure Lucas envisioned but mostly failed to capture).
Matrix 2 and 3: followed up the arresting premise of the original (and it’s terroristic overtones) with 5 hours of self indulgent meh. I keep trying to tell myself the films were the result of a GWOT-enforced rewrite, but everything the Wachowskis have done since has convinced me they are just pompous windbags with an fx budget.
Lost in Translation. Caught the hype, saw the film… and spent 2 hours wondering when the genius was going to kick in.
Spidey 3- 1 and 2 did good business, so why then the fuck did the producers think they could “improve” it with MORE VILLIANS, MORE LAUGHS, MORE FIGHTS!!! A bigger sausage isn’t better when you bulk it out with sawdust
Van Helsing. Set itself up as a dumb movie to begin with, yet still managed to underestimate the intelligence of it’s audience
But if I had to nominate one, “what the FUCK are you doing!!?!?!??!” film, it has to be Deathproof. One awesome chase and a decent soundtrack does not compensate for a cast full of aggressively irritating one-note characters telling endless stories of marginal relevance to the plot, then screeching variations on the word “fuck” at each other for the rest of the time. I don’t care if it made QT nostalgic for the stick floored rat-holes he used to watch b-grade cinema in, he was preaching to a very small choir.

*With one exception: High/Haute Tension, the movie that killed the TP genre before it got underway. A grinding study in pointless sadism, dumb-fantasy psychology and dodgy gender politics, gosh-darn blinking buggeryfuck I hated that film

Posted by: Dave Shepherd at March 11, 2009 11:47 PM

Also Beowulf. Laughable.

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at March 12, 2009 12:23 AM

UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH, so late to the game. I fucking hate being a lawyer sometimes. It totally gets in the way of my Pajiba posting.

Here are my additions/seconds:

1. Little Man. Fucking awful.
2. Norbit. Also fucking awful.
3. Forgetting Sarah Marshall. For one moment, it almost made me forget how much I love Kristen Bell. I was more entertained by the couple who was actually fucking a few rows behind us in the almost empty theatre.
4. The Royal Tenenbaums. Pretentious, overhyped, and hated even more for the laud bestowed upon it by the kind of guys who wear scarves in warm weather. And I fucking hate Ben Stiller.
5. The Passion of the Christ. God, what a downer.
6. America's Sweethearts. Quite possibly one of the worst movies ever made and an example of why bestiality just isn't that funny.
7. Pinata: Survival Island. This almost makes the "so bad, it's good" list. Why, Nicholas Brendon, why?
8. Feardotcom. I don't even have words.
9. Signs and The Village. The only person I hate more than M. Night Shamalamadingdong is Mel Gibson, so I had to call this one a tie.
10. Le Divorce. Le depressing.

Mind you, I have many, many more, but I know no one reads past 10. And I couldn't even count I Heart Huckabees or Blades of Glory, since I felt I should only include movies I watched more than 10 minutes of before turning it off to watch paint dry.

Posted by: The Pink Hulk at March 12, 2009 12:30 AM

No time to read all these, 'pologies if it's been mentioned 1,000 times but here's 1,001:

"Crash"

Thank you.

Posted by: bucdaddy at March 12, 2009 12:41 AM

_______ Movie, repeated as neccessary...

No need to overthink it. Drop 'em on a flag pole and hoist each page of each script up on barbed wire.

Posted by: boyuc at March 12, 2009 12:58 AM

Oooh, a second on feardotcom. I stared in gape-mouthed incomprehension.

Since the last 30 minutes of The Watchmen was mentioned, I'll say the first hour and a half (before I walked out) was also dull and pointless. That leaves about 40 minutes of potentially good movie unspoken for....

Also:

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Perfect Stranger (Halle Berry as a muckraker? erm, no)

Posted by: sansho1 at March 12, 2009 1:03 AM

The Benchwarmers: Oh holy God JESUS CHRIST.

Posted by: mere at March 12, 2009 1:20 AM

I also nominate First Daughter. That film is worth seeing for the laughably amateur use of a miniature model for shots of the White House.

Oh my god, I would second this, except for one line that made it all worthwhile. Katie Holmes speaking wistfully to her mother and some random White House people about her sad love life: "Harvard has a class on everything... yet it doesn't have a class about LOVE."

Kind of the same reason I can't say anything about From Justin to Kelly. That movie was HILARIOUS.

Posted by: SaBrina at March 12, 2009 1:39 AM

I don't really disagree with what ya'll have put up on the board, but Lady in the Water was just about as close as I'll ever get to eating an honest to goodness triple decker shit sandwich. The dill pickle wedge on the side and the chips in the middle were hardly distracting enough from the fact that you didn't have to just take a bite, no no no, you had to eat the entire entree and pick the bits out of your teeth with the frilly toothpick. The faces of the people walking out of the theater was a mixture of bewilderment and bemusement. Like they were saying "Did we just bend over and let that little smarmy assnozzle take turns drilling us?"

I know Battlefield Earth is a festering pus filled boil on all of our collective movie loving asses. But M. Night couldn't be more full of shit than the outhouse pit after Memorial Day. Giamatti was so fucked in that movie, you could just see it in his face - 'Dear Jesus, am I really saying these things?' After that little Smeagal clone yelled 'Cut' Giamatti must have fell to his knees like a skater who'd just been craned in the knee - 'WHY, WHY WHY?!?!?!'

Posted by: bucslim at March 12, 2009 1:40 AM

So many good (bad?) movies for consideration. I guess I'll just second most things, since I'm late.

The Hottie & The Nottie
Norbit
Repo: The Genetic Opera
Glitter
Gigli
Havoc (started my hatred for Anne Hathaway)

Posted by: Clifford at March 12, 2009 1:49 AM

Ghostrider
Captivity
Crash
Norbit
Little Man
Gigli
Love Guru
Indy IV
Kill Bill Vol I
Phantom Menace

the new Wicker Man is infinitly more entertaining than the original ... it's worth watch watching just for the "OH NO. NOT THE BEEES! MY EYEEEEESSS!!! NOT THE BEEEEEES!" scene, but Cage is hammier than ham and bacon sandwich made with 2 porkchops throughout.

same with Battlefield Earth, between the awful writing, the laughable acting, inexplicable makeup and costumes, nausea-inducing camera angles, and general all-around insanity, only a person with no soul could fail to love the hell out of that ridiculous train wreck.

but the movies above? ugh. venal, vile products of the hollywood machine, souless, crass, ignorant and greedy.

Posted by: Soylent Green is Sheeple at March 12, 2009 2:04 AM

X-Men 3. Fuck it up the ass. And Secondhand Lions can suck my dick.

Posted by: Lucas at March 12, 2009 2:24 AM

If by Faradir you mean Faramir, he was also in my only nominee for the title,
since it was so bad it counts as a whole top 5: Australia.

Posted by: Irina at March 12, 2009 2:54 AM

Let's see what's in the lead, the number in parenthesis is the nomination estimate found using Ctrl-f, some films got bumped up a vote due to my seconding all of Dustin's nominees:

The Movie Movies, since they're all the same. (14)
Battlefield Earth (12)
All Uwe Boll Movies (10)
The Matrix Sequels (9)
All the M. Night Shyamalan Movies (9)
Norbit (7)
The Love Guru (6)
Van Helsing (6)
Twilight (6)
I Know Who Killed Me (6)
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (6)
Ghost Rider (6)
Wicker Man (6)

This would be the Top 10 cutoff, 13 here due to a seven way tie, but these next films were frequently mentioned too.

From Justin to Kelly (5)
All the Dane Cook Movies (5)
Aeon Flux (5)
Gigli (5)
Little Man (4)
Hottie and the Nottie (4)
All of the Larry the Cable Guy Movies (4)
The Fantastic 4 Movies (4)

Here are some highly nominated films I disagree with due to there redeeming qualities:

The Star Wars Prequels (8)
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (5)
Juno (3)

Come on, is Juno really one of the worst? Sure, it can be pretty hipstery, but it's a great god damn movie. And the Star Wars prequels and Indiana Jones films were merely victims of overhype, they're not Matrix bad.

Anyone else think some films aren't high enough? Deuce Bigallow: European Gigolo was nominated once, Ben Stiller may have been nominated twice, and Crash was nominated 3 times, but get's bumped up to 4 because I second it. Plus, there really aren't enough terrible kids movies mentioned. Agent Bedhead will hear about this.

Holy hell, this is a long comment. I hope someone finds my insomnia of use.

Posted by: George at March 12, 2009 4:12 AM


Find Me Guilty (Okay, so maybe the expectations were low, but I had to sit through the entire thing and I WILL HAVE MY VENGEANCE)

300 (An ode to fascism if there ever was one)

Van Helsing (no explanation needed)

Identity (I went into it with no strong expectations, started to get into the story, and then suddenly it's all happening in some guy's head. It makes me want to cut a bitch just thinking about it)

The Matrix sequels (obviously)

Children of Men (partly because of the hype, but, seriously, WTF was that?)

Chronicles of Riddick (wow, it's only the second Vin Diesel movie on the list)

Pearl Harbor (so bad I've managed to completely repress it! Yay!)

I'm sure there were lots more that I didn't watch, thankfully.

Posted by: Elfrieda at March 12, 2009 4:45 AM

Again, George, did you really watch all of those? Why?

Posted by: Jay at March 12, 2009 7:26 AM

The little remembered Ben Stiller/Jennifer Aniston vehicle "Along Came Polly" comes straight to mind. I had the misfortune of catching that on a transatlantic flight. I nearly gouged my eyes out.

Also, "Whipped," with Amanda Peet. Worst. Movie. EVER!

Posted by: Armando at March 12, 2009 8:00 AM

Wow, I have seen so very few of these movies. I guess I should thank you guys for keeping me safe.

Although whoever said LOTR was just a bunch of hobbits walking must have fallen asleep during the ten thousand kick-ass battle sequences. Would you rather they had just stayed in one place and talked for the whole film? I can see that maybe fantasy movies aren't your thing, but LOTR sure as hell wasn't BAD (except for TreeBeard).

The "Pirates" and "Matrix" sequels were bad. They took a fun, entertaining concept and destroyed them utterly.

Am I sick for liking Tideland? Some parts were hard to take, but mostly I found it interesting. The worst thing a filmmaker can do is bore me.

Posted by: DeadBessie at March 12, 2009 8:46 AM

Shall We Dance? No. Shall we slap Susan Sarandon for appearing in this? Yes.

A Lot Like Love

Transporter 3

...and worst Pajiba rec of the decade?

August Rush, without a shadow of a doubt. I recently picked this one up on dvd on the strength of the review here and was absolutely staggered how bad it was on every single level. I really like Keri Russell, thought the kid was great in Finding Neverland and don't even mind Robin Williams but hot damn, this was the biggest piece of badly acted, poorly written sap I have ever had the misfortune of sitting though. And don't even get me STARTED on the ending -

*SPOILER!*

He spends the whole stupid film looking for his parents and it ends with them just staring at him (among a crowd of thousands) as he performs on stage, and he stops, and he "sees them", and "just knows." I assume. As it ends then. GAH.

Posted by: Anna at March 12, 2009 9:01 AM

It's got to be Good Luck Chuck(what utter garbage) and What Happens in Vegas(that stupid chase to the marriage counselor. Seriously!!!).

Posted by: Jean at March 12, 2009 9:34 AM

I'll watch almost anything. TBS is especially good for this.
But a movie I sought out to watch and abso-fucking-lutely hated was Closer. It was two hours of suck, and not in a good way, like Con Air.

Posted by: Manther the Panther at March 12, 2009 10:13 AM

No, don't worry Jay, I didn't see all those cinematic abortions. That's not what I wish I could say, but at least I can put the ones I have seen to good use. Those are just the films that, so far, have the most votes for being the worst of the year.

The only ones of those films I've seen are Epic Movie, 40 excruciating minutes of Uwe Boll's In the Name of the King, Aeon Flux, Little Man, Ghost Rider, and Van Helsing. Like everyone, I saw the prequels and Juno, but those are not the worst of the year, especially Juno. I saw a lot more of the films in my original list, but I won't mention those here, that would be too long.

I mostly saw them because of satellite, movie theaters, and boredom. When you have nothing to do in August, Balls of Fury looks like it could capture the spirit of the hilarious Dodgeball, it didn't, in fact, it blew. I've also seen Kangaroo Jack, my god that movie sucked, and I ate it up. My poor father had to sit through that shitsickle, he's a good man.

For those of you who want to calculate the further nominations, just copy all of the comments below that to Microsoft Word, and tally up the rest with Ctrl-f.

Posted by: George at March 12, 2009 10:21 AM

Spidey 3 was the biggest disappointment of the decade IMO. #3 dumped the pathos and emotion of the first two movies and turned the franchise into a Universal Studios ride. You can boil down my disdain for the film to one scene-- Apropos of nothing, Venom and Sandman randomly meet in an alley, and agree to form a tag team to kill Spider-Man. That's just lazy...

Posted by: stryker1121 at March 12, 2009 10:38 AM

WHAT? Manther the Panther? You didn't like Closer? What? How? Why? I thought it was a brilliant study in how absolutely wrong relationships can be. When Julia Roberts tells Clive Owen that Jude Law's cum tastes just like his, only sweeter, I seriously wanted to shrink back into my movie seat, because I felt like the audience was being let in on such an intensely personal fight to which no one beyond the immediate couple should be privvy. I thought it was brilliantly cast and brilliantly acted. It's one of the rare movies I saw in the theatre and took home with me in my head to cry about later.

Posted by: The Pink Hulk at March 12, 2009 10:39 AM

Come on, is Juno really one of the worst? Sure, it can be pretty hipstery, but it's a great god damn movie.

IT WAS NOT GREAT. See, that's why I seconded it, because everyone and their unborn fetus went around saying how amaaaazing it was and how much I would like it. So when I finally got around to watching it, I thought I would like it. I wanted to like it. And I hated it. I didn't even want to finish. I didn't laugh, I didn't emotionally connect with the characters, and I didn't care what happened, so what was the freaking point? At least with Superhero Movie I knew what I was getting into.

Allowances: I kind of connected with Bateman until he turned creepy like I was hoping he wouldn't, and Juno's parents had one or two good lines.

expectations do count. Cast, director, and hype should be taken into consideration.

Posted by: SaBrina at March 12, 2009 10:50 AM

I gotta make sure we're all staying empirical here!


I didn't think it was a terrible movie, but "Be Kind, Rewind" is the last movie I can remember leaving a theater really displeased with.

Posted by: Jay at March 12, 2009 11:27 AM

xXx

I hated that fucking movie!

Posted by: Carolina Girl at March 12, 2009 11:50 AM

I'm with Julie. I can't believe there are so few mentions of Captivity in this comment section. I counted only three. Mediocre comic-book movies were worse? Really? I do not believe you.

I suppose there are different opinions on what criteria we are using for badness, though. Is it the concept? In that case, I nominate Captivity and the Movie series. Indiana Jones would also fall under this category, I think.

A lot of the other movies fall under the "poor execution" camp of bad movie, though. Maybe this is more insidious, since people can look at the movie description and think it will be good, and then be horribly disappointed.

I think the concept movies carry more weight, since their execution is immaterial; even if it were executed flawlessly, it would still be a horrible movie due to the very premise.

Posted by: Phaeolus at March 12, 2009 1:00 PM

even if it were executed flawlessly, it would still be a horrible movie due to the very premise.

And there's no one else to blame if you give it your time.

Posted by: Jay at March 12, 2009 1:04 PM

Rachel Getting Married.

Aside from Anne Hathaway's performance, the movie was dull and grating.

Posted by: JH at March 12, 2009 1:15 PM

I keep looking at that picture and saying "Lee-verage!" in my head. Along with the Rifftrax guys a very enjoyable aspect of the movie was a friend saying "I'm sorry" for Forest Whitaker every time the camera cut to him.

Posted by: Jay at March 12, 2009 1:24 PM

When you write "Employee of the Month," I assume you're referencing the Dane Cook turd, not the Matt Dillon, Steve Zahn, Christina Applegate flick from 2004, right? I would hope so.

Posted by: Hoof Hearted at March 12, 2009 1:45 PM

I can't believe there are so few mentions of Captivity in this comment section.

I think that's an excellent indication of the intelligence, sophistication and good taste of this crowd.

Posted by: DeadBessie at March 12, 2009 2:29 PM

How High; that horrible college flick with Redman & Method Man. I was angry at the cast. I was angry with my boyfriend for taking me. I was angry at the world.

Pearl Harbor; the reasons have been said. What a piece of soapy garbage.

The Other Boleyn Girl. Although I was glad that Natalie Portman got her head chopped off in the end.

Closer. Ooh, Julia Roberts just said "cunt!" How daring! Seriously, who gave a damn? I wanted them all to get eaten by wolves.

The Family Stone. I truly hate this movie. What manipulative, awful, trash. I never thought I would see a movie where I would loathe Rachel McAdams & Diane Keaton, and cheer for Sarah Jessica Parker. I hated them all with such a passion that I refuse to watch the movie to this day.

Stepford Wives. Nicole, what the hell were you thinking? And Matthew Broderick, your Ferris Beuhler pass expired a long time ago.

My Baby's Daddy. I'm just grateful that I didn't see this atrocity in theaters.

Sin City. I will never understand the hype. The dialog is pathetic, and I don't need to see Bruce Willis tearing some yellow dude's nuts apart.

The Village, Lady in the Water, and anything else with Bryce Dallas Howard's overrated ass.

Children of Men. I almost got emotional when they finally showed the baby, until they announced it was a CGI baby. Then I wept for real.

The Good Shepherd. I fell asleep. Twice. I tried to stick it out, but someone started playing the mournful cello and Matt Damon's stupid ass son peed himself and I could take no more.

Epic Movie, Date Movie. Straight up garbage.

Posted by: Brie at March 12, 2009 2:57 PM

Agree with much of what has been said already and I am feeling grateful that I have seen so few of the movies mentioned.

Where I got caught was in fulfilling my fatherly duty to see crap films with my daughter. I submit:

Barnyard (They made a damned show on Nickelodeon out of that?)
The Shaggy Dog remake starring whats-his-name, the "men are apes" guy that I ten-fold hate.

Posted by: imk at March 12, 2009 2:57 PM

Also, confusing Will Farrell's Kicking and Screaming with the Baumbach movie of the same name from the 90s would not be a mistake that you would not make twice. Man, that movie was sheer pain.

Posted by: imk at March 12, 2009 3:02 PM

Indiana Jones 4

Posted by: Woody at March 12, 2009 5:13 PM

Watchmen

Posted by: Woody at March 12, 2009 5:14 PM

I agree with this list for sure:
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Spy Kids 3D
Little Man
Bangkok Dangerous
From Justin To Kelly
27 Dresses
Both Fantastic 4 films
Farce of the Penguins
The Love Guru

Although the one on here I think that gets a hard time is Daddy Day Camp. It was made for 5 million direct to video originally which ended up going theatrical at the last minute. You can't stack up a tiny 5 million dollar movie to the big budget flops like Little Man and LXG. Kids movies are hard to bag on cause they usually are all bad!

Posted by: Robbie B at March 12, 2009 5:25 PM

That still doesn't excuse the sheer volume of shitty kids flicks pumped out for the purposes of a quick buck. I really hope at least one kids flick makes it on the list. Besides Robbie, the film Daddy Day Camp was a testament to just how far Cuba Gooding Jr. has fallen.

It probably won't make it thought, Dustin only made it through a half hour of that atrocity, and films critics walk out on that early aren't really high on their radar, but he made a hilarious review out of the experience.

Posted by: George at March 12, 2009 5:44 PM

Vanilla Sky

Posted by: samantha t at March 12, 2009 6:18 PM

The Matrix movies were great!

Posted by: Steve at March 12, 2009 6:19 PM

Hulk (1st one)

Lost in Translation

Godzilla 2000

Posted by: candeep at March 12, 2009 6:46 PM

Surely you mean Godzilla 1998.

Posted by: Jay at March 12, 2009 10:58 PM

Come on everyone! Take a stand against *****y torture porn.

Captivity
I Know Who Killed Me
Anything Nic Cage
Anything M Night Shamalamadingdong
(Blank) Movie
Pretty much any remake ever

I do not envy your job. Good luck narrowing it down!

Posted by: suicidecircle at March 13, 2009 1:46 AM

"Expectations do count"?


You guys -- well, WE -- spend our free hours trolling on movie review sites, GATHERING OPINIONS, and that's somehow the movie's fault?


Look, I love these sites as much as anyone, but I have to admit that in a way, they're dangerous because they come between you and the movie. Go watch a film, in person, without ever hearing anything about it: whatever you come away with, THAT is what the movie is responsible for. Not that you spent six hours looking it up, reading other people's thoughts on it.

Posted by: karstark at March 13, 2009 8:42 PM

The Core. That movie is as hard to watch as the "Unobtanium?!" the goddamn ship in the movie is made of. Nuclear weapons will save the Earth...yeah!

Posted by: Mr. Rotinaj at March 14, 2009 7:56 AM

I personally liked CROSSROADS for wisely using pregnancy-via-date-rape to establish and develop character in a movie pitched toward young girls, and then maturely resolving the fact that the baby is unwanted by throwing the pregnant character down a flight of stairs to induce miscarriage.

genius.

Posted by: djfox at March 16, 2009 12:50 PM

Sorry Folks, but, HANDS DOWN, the worst of the decade was Grudge. What an abomination. Sarah Michelle Geller lost huge life points by appearing (note I did not say acting) in that pathetic excuse for ... well frankly there IS no excuse for it.

I felt like suing the producers for stealing 2 hours of my life I can never get back!

Super hyped and just as plain pathetic. The sheer awfulness of the movie gives me the creeps the movie failed to generate. I still have nightmares that I actually paid money to see it.. (shudder)

I have to constantly tell my wife I love her, because, after taking her to that pile of dung, she naturally assumed I had come to despise her.

Posted by: TLC at March 16, 2009 7:22 PM