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Mercury Rising, thank you for posting rules. I hope everyone abides by them.

Well hang on a second. I saw the movie once a long time ago before I read Romeo and Juliet and I thought it was comical, but still stupid. But then I watched it again a few years later, after I had read the book, and this time it was tolorable, and definitely not the WORST movie I've ever seen. There was a reason behind using the original script yet making the setting modern; it draws parrellelisms with the universality of the themes between the fueding families, and... I'm just going to stop there. There's no reason I should bring analysis that belongs in my IB English class into the Chief Delphi forums. But yeah, it wasnt exactly the best of movies, but perhaps the word "abomination" is too harsh. People are allowed to have different interpretations of Shakespeare, and Romeo + Juliet was just that.

To put my 2-cents in for the worst movie I've ever seen, it would have to be Event Horizon. I rented it looking for something interesting, and when I saw the title I figured it had something to do with the event horizon in astrophysics terms (you know, the point of no return when you're entering a black hole, theoretically). It turned into a psychological suspence mystery extreme horror film with waaaay too much blood and gore in the end, to the point where it was just incoherent. I have a friend who watched it with me and said it was the biggest waste of his time ever. I have another friend who is terrified of the movie; its the only one that gives him nightmares. I guess I'm somewhere inbetween. But anyways, it all depends on the person.

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Not sure if this has been said before, though The Wicker Man was possibly the mosth horrible movie I've seen. Ever.

I saw this movie based on the preview, which portrayed the movie as being 'not so bad', in my view.

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It turned out to be a no plot movie, with our good friend Mr. Cage running around screaming at people. It turns out he just dies at the end of the movie. I'd have to say the best part of that movie was the credits... But that's just me.

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A few recommendations:

Nacho Libre (as much as I didn't like Napoleon Dynamite, this one was so much worse, even though I love Jack Black)

The Transporter (at least Crank was supposed to be ridiculous!)

Anything by John Carpenter, unless it stars Kurt Russell. I felt so cheated after seeing Ghosts of Mars, and I never paid a cent for it!

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oh almost forgot to say, idk if anybody else said it yet but i absolutely HATED Taledaga Nights. (i really dont like any will farrell movies)

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This is ironic. I just watched this movie about an hour ago for the first time. I second... it was pretty bad.

Jacob

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I agree with Napolian Dynomite, but have any of you seen either the toxic avenger or death race 2000? Those were real winners too.....

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Haven't even finished it yet, but my worst would DEFINITELY be the MTV version of Wuthering Heights- my English class is taught by a 23-year-old, so she's really fun like that. She found it on Netflix, got it, found it was hilariously bad, and so we're watching it. It's so terribly over-modernized, and none of my class thinks anyone will understand it if they haven't read the book.

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Napoleon Dynamite? TERRIBLE FILM!!! I was having trouble identifying which parts were supposed to be funny!

Mommie Dearest: horrible! Faye Dunaway's performance (which I enjoyed, but won her a Razzie) actually almost makes it worthwhile.

But, The Hitcher (2007 version) takes the cake. Bad writing, directing, acting. It was just... :( :( :ahh: :eek: :o You know what I mean?

Hmm... best movie ever: Little Miss Sunshine. (Ok, ok, so I've never seen any of the classics. Citizen Kane isn't exactly always on, all right?) I loved Little Miss Sunshine, though. Go see it.

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Well.. I think the Best (only because of the Bikes/Cars) And two worst movies (awful acting/plot lines) are:

The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
Torque

Both amazing movies for the stunt driving, and Torque rocks only because of so.. many.. bikes.. :D

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My friends convinced me to go see Premonition with Sandra Bullock, they are no longer my friends.

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The Lord of the Flies movie was horrible. I liked the book but the movie was just abysmal. Half the time it seemed like there wasn't any good acting at all. My English class watched it and found it really cheesy and b-grade, not to mention rather funny (at parts that were supposed to be tragic, ironically)

Also, the documentary Jesus Camp was terrible, not because of the acting/work done on it but because of the way the sect of Christianity shown in the film works (kids are practically being forced to be Christians). I'm not an atheist but that movie was definitely scary in more than one way.

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The Bad:
Babel (blah blah blah...2+ hours of wasted culture shocks)
A Scanner Darkly (I liked it, but to the average watcher it was hard to follow)
Hollywoodland (wow, Adrian Brodie good...movie sucked)
Miami Vice (T..E..R..R..I..B..L..E)
Nacho Libre (nothing beats JB dancing in tights...oh wait, yes there is)
Rocky Balboa (cmon, seriously...Stalone almost needed a walker and geritol to get in the ring)
The Matador (Peirce Brosnan is a slimebag, perfect role for this movie...but just too simple)
Harry Potter(s) (I think anything with the name "hogwarts" should be condemned)
Grease (I just never liked it at all)
Flags of our Fathers (good movie but the scenes were too "jumpy" I had a hard time following along)
Go (I have this dvd, and wish it stayed on the shelf)
Island of Dr. Moreau (this piece of garbage scared the crap out of me for a long time)
Wizard of Oz (never liked it, the monkeys scared me)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (both new & old)
Anything with Hugh Grant (because he's in the SAME role in every movie)
Likewise with Richard Gere (two words, "pretty woman")
And also Russel Crowe (except in a beautiful mind)

The Good:
300 (get up right now and go see it, A-mazing)
The Number 23 (so it got bad reviews, I thought it was a very good look into psychosis of the 23 enigma)
Little Miss Sunshine (I think this movie will be remembered for a while)
Tenacious-D: The Pick Of Destiny (this is a cult CLASSIC-to-be)
The Departed (A++)
The Guardian (good flick)
The Marine (ok, it was cheap and cheesy, but it's a total DUDE movie)
Stranger than Fiction (FINALLY, a role Will Ferrell pulls off without making it stupid)
The Pursuit of Happyness (Saw this opening night, great movie...truley inspiring)
Beerfest (great great great! *however I don't encourage drinking*)
Clerks 2 (great sequel to the first)
Crank (I LOVE JASON STATHAM!)
Click (FINALLY, Adam Sandler is doing serious movies *see Reign over me*)
Gridiron Gang (fantastic movie, I was suprised)
The longest Yard (hysterical)
Lucky Number Slevin (good "who-dun-it" movie)
MI:3 (supringly made the list, but it was decent)
Night at the Museum (this was just a good. clean, fun movie...plus Dick Van-Dyke is in it!)

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I rented Man of the Year
thinking it would be hillarious... and what do you know.. I waited 30 mins to laugh before turing it off..

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I know a lot of you are young and to be forgiven for not yet testing the true depths of movie badness. A really bad movie has to be bad in all areas: acting, script, lighting, editing, story line, art direction, costumes and sound. It helps if it features bad acting from otherwise decent actors. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Nightfall, a film adaptation (and I only use the term because I can't think of one that actually applies) of the classic eponymous science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. Link on IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095738/.

It features ravens pecking out the eyes of living people. It features weird editing jumps that make no sense. The script is tedious, the acting wooden, the lighting muddy, and the soundtrack indescribably bad. Really, really awful. I wrote this review in IMDB in 1999:

"I actually paid money to see this in its mercifully brief theatrical release in 1988. The (tiny) audience had fun ad libbing dialogue that was much better than that provided the hapless actors. The film is bad in so many ways that it is difficult to pick out the worst element. Was it the art direction? The acting? The dialogue? The cinematography? The costumes? The plot? The editing? The music? In the end I think the worst thing is that it will probably insure that no decent film will ever be made of Asimov's Nightfall.

"The good doctor wrote that he had never seen the movie, and that he had nothing to do with it. This probably added a couple of years to Asimov's life.

"I can only say that the other reviewers here at IMDb have been far too generous. This film is worse than you can imagine."

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WaterWorld?

I actually didn't mind this movie, but it appears that many people did.

Jacob