Worst movie ever?

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Entertainment was pretty great in 2002. We had singer Jennifer Lopez, footballer David Beckham, pop girl group Las Ketchup, young Brad Pitt. But perhaps it ought to be remembered for a big flop, headlined by familiar blockbuster stars Antonio Banderas and Lucy Liu. Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002) might be the worst movie ever made, according to critics.

100 percent of the experts on Rotten Tomatoes rated Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever as “rotten.”


That’s right: 115 out of 115 critics — let’s be honest, a pretty huge sample size — would take back the 90 minutes stolen from them, rating the film a green splat rather than a well-rounded tomato. Critics, when asked to rate it out of 10, gave it a measly 2.6, and general audiences gave it an even lower 2.2. “Sometimes it’s surprising how stupid moviemakers think we are,” John Wilson, founder of the Razzie Awards, which celebrates the worst movies every year, says. Representatives of Ballistic’s director, Wych Kaosayananda, did not respond to a request for comment.

Lucky for Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever, it has some company in the zero-percent club. There’s Orgy of the Dead, Return to the Blue Lagoon and National Lampoon’s Gold Diggers. But these other movies have far fewer critics weighing in, so the criticism of Ballistic has more oomph … more than any of its explosions. Full reviews skewered it more specifically: for plot holes, trying unsuccessfully to be like The Matrix, incoherent writing, clichéd tropes and difficult-to-follow storytelling. “It was one bad surprise after another,” critic Nell Minow says, looking back. Personally, we couldn’t hold it together every time the intense background music started up in a fight scene.

Today we live in a kind of golden age for cult movies, where ironic love of cinematic failures from the past can bring people to late-night movie screenings and yield book deals years later to rehash the disastrous experience on set. Bad-movies aficionado Emer Prevost, who runs the YouTube channel “Reaction & Review,” says that Ballistic won’t cut it, though, as a cult movie. It takes a special kind of bad to also be entertaining. “I took the DVD down to a local shop the next day. They said they could give me 60 cents for it. I said, ‘Good. Take it,’” Prevost says.

Of course, Ballistic probably won’t get to keep its place in bad movie history forever. Every year, the Razzies choose new terrible movies. Look back through time and the epitome of worst movie has changed as consistently as Ballistic’s characters’ motivations. Tastes differ on what’s not just bad but horrendous: Some say The Room is the worst; others, Plan 9 From Outer Space. And in all fairness, not everyone despises it. Critic Michelle Alexandria says, “I don’t watch action films for story or even acting. A good action film only has to deliver on the action for me.” So maybe make that 115 out of 116 critics. Ballistic: Alexandria vs. Critics.
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and I thought the answer was The Sound of Music.
 
daveza said:
You thought a movie with 5 Oscars, a Golden Globe and a Bafta was the worst movie ever ?
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Depends what it won the awards for.

You can very easily have a "best actor/actress" award in an otherwise terrible movie.

There Will Be Blood comes to mind, one of the worst movies I have ever seen but Daniel Day Lewis won an (well deserved) Oscar for it.

It's why I only ever look at the Best Picture awards as they rate a movie on the movie itself and not it's underlying facets.
 
No ways...!

I present these 3 recent gems:

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daveza said:
It won Best Picture.
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Erm,that kinda settles the discussion :D

SauRoNZA said:
Aah okay. Bit different then.

Though I've never found myself deeply agreeing with the Oscars.

Film critics and normal people are two very different species.
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Agreed but winning an oscar generally means the film is not dog turd in anyones (even biased oscar voters) eyes

I nominate Battlefield Earth.
 
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Elizabethtown has been nominated by many.

But Kirsten Dunst looked quite cool, wouldn't rate it that badly :D
 
I absolutely hated War of the Worlds, the "Tom Cruise" version, because I couldn't see any resemblance to the original story. We had the double album (LP) and I listened to it a few times while growing up.

My other worst movie ever as Jack and Jill with Adam Sandler :sick:
 
theratman said:
Erm,that kinda settles the discussion :D



Agreed but winning an oscar generally means the film is not dog turd in anyones (even biased oscar voters) eyes

I nominate Battlefield Earth.
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I'd rather watch Battlefield Earth 100 times, than endure 10 minutes of the Sound of Music.
 
I think the worst movies are the ones that try to be good but end up horribly bad.

Battlefield Earth, Movie 43, Catwoman, Gigli had so called experts in the industry at the helm and still flopped.
 
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