It's really hard paring a list down to just five entries, as there are so many movies deserving of ridicule. As a result, I felt it necessary to develop an Honorable Mention List. Any of these movies could occupy the fifth or sixth spot in the listing.
HONORABLE MENTION
Superman
IV: Quest for Peace
The movie that made us stop
caring about Superman and made us look forward to Batman. This film is
a good example of why actors shouldn't write.
Star
Trek V: The Final Frontier
After wrapping up the whole
killing Spock, finding
Spock and going home
trilogy, someone decided it was time to do some heavy drinking in front
of the typewriter. The end result is this pile of drivel. With Star Trek
movies, you don't go in with expectations set very high. No matter how
low you set the bar, you'll still limbo under it quite easily. In these
movies, you want to see some cool special effects and maybe some alien
lesbian action. What we got was a poorly written snoozefest that was so
bad that Bill Shatner
has been banned from being behind a camera ever again!
Stuart
Saves His Family
Horrible. Simply horrible.
Another SNL skit gone horribly wrong.
Random
Hearts
Between this film and Six
Days Seven Nights it's shocking that Harrison
Ford's phone isn't ringing off the hook for more him to star in more
chick flicks. Here's a clue pal, you can't act, so stick to blowing
things up and saving the world from terrorists. When I first saw this movie
(paying $8 no less!), it soared to about the number three spot on the list.
Cooler heads prevailed and I think you'll agree that the movies ahead of
it are more deserving of my permanent disdain.
28
Days
Sandra
Bullock has the rare distinction of joining Charles
S. Dutton in appearing in two movies that I consider to be the among
the worst things committed to video. She gets the crown though because
she's the lead in both of her nominations. Watching this tired, predictable
movie makes me want to hurt someone.
Now that I've gotten the
also-rans off my chest, it is with great contempt and personal disgust,
I present to you...
The Five Worst Movies
of All Time
5. Speed
II: Cruise Control
A near carbon copy of the
original, this movie had all the excitement of watching hot dogs thaw in
the sink without the payoff at the end. I don't know about you, but I was
praying that Jason Patric's
character really would drown underneath the ship. No such luck. Keanu
Reeves somehow must have known that this voyage was going to be a Titanic
failure at the box office and wisely steered clear.
4. It's
Pat: The Movie
Okay, let's be honest here.
Other than the first class of Saturday Night Live alums, haven't all the
skit-based movies blown chunks since? This movie is particularly painful
to sit through. Has anyone noticed that comedies seem to have gotten shorter
and dramas longer in running time. Perhaps the g-ds are smiling on us a
little bit in that this train-wreck of a film only drains 77 minutes of
your time, which could be better spent cleaning your navel.
3. Showgirls
How can something with so
much nudity be so awful? I'm quite confident that you can find porno movies
with better plots and acting. Even when she's prancing around naked, Elizabeth
Berkley's character just wouldn't shut up. You probably have
never met a man that has turned off a movie when there is a naked woman
on screen. Hello... I'm Louis Stone and it's nice to meet you. That was
precisely the point when the movie hit the pinnacle of stupidity and I
could take no more. Lightning may strike twice for Berkley
and I can only hope that next time, Joe
Eszterhas (the writer), is standing next to her when it happens.
2. Cookie's
Fortune
It can be argued that this
film is a mood movie. Meaning, if you aren't in the mood for this type
of film, then you aren't going to like it. I tend to enjoy quirky movies,
but the only redeeming feature in this film was the ending credits. This
movie was trying from the outset to be a film for intellectual appreciation.
The problem is that it could only be interesting to people who think
they're intellectual. Anyone with two brain cells to rub together would
dismiss this film as rubbish in the first 20 minutes. 1999 was a bad year
for Charles S. Dutton.
Aside from this unfortunate pile of manure, he also had a role in the Harrison
Ford career killer,
Random Hearts.
1. Sweet
November
How is it that Keanu
Reeves was smart enough to pass on the Speed sequel, but didn't know
to steer clear from this complete and total waste of celluloid? His acting
was the best part of the movie and that's like saying that you kinda enjoy
the endorphin rush after getting hit on the head by a hammer. This movie
certifies that Charlize
Theron has absolutely no business doing anything that involves a speaking
part. She would be fine as Lady on Street #2, but to reward her by giving
her a leading role in another film would be a travesty of justice. I had
to do this movie in two sittings. The first hour was so horrible that I
had to get up and do something else. I only watched the second half out
of morbid curiosity. As expected, it went from bad to worse. The plot,
the writing, and the alleged acting all add up to make the worst film ever
created. I lost two hours of my life watching this cr*pfest and I want
them back!