For me, it's Copying Beethoven. Bear in mind that I saw House Bunny over the summer and actually enjoyed it, because I expected it to be stupid fun. It had no other pretensions beyond that. But, geez, Copying Beethoven was terrible.

My Tivo picked up this monstrosity as a suggestion, and I watched it this morning since I'm home sick from work. I kept waiting for it to be better, but eventually it turned into a sort of cinematic car wreck at which one cannot help but stare. Rambling plot, historical inaccuracies, implausible character development, delusions of grandeur, blatant robbery of better films like it to whose greatness (or even goodness) it aspires, such as Amadeus and even Beethoven Lives Upstairs.....my heavens, I could go on and on. It was awful. But what was worst was that the plot turns that hinged on musical works and events were clearly not vetted by musicians before they were finalized into the script. A vital event has Beethoven's young, attractive copyist (who has, inexplicably, copied all parts to the Ninth Symphony with less than four days to the premiere--when did they rehearse?) conducting from a hole in the floor, unnoticed, within the orchestra while he follows her beat for the entire duration. Oh, puh-leeze.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424908/

The NY Times review, linked here, makes an effort to see the best in the movie, talking about the cinematography which was indeed lovely.

What's the worst movie you've seen lately?

"Clerks II." Gave the (great) first one a bad name.

Oh, and I wasn't crazy about "The Dark Knight" either (duck and cover!) I'm sure that for its genre it was great. It's just that I hate the genre -- explosion-laden, special-effects driven Hollywood Product.

Yeah, yeah, I know; Heath Ledger was good in it, OK.

Any movie that is shown on the Sci-Fi Network

Nuff said

Several weeks ago, we rented "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story" which I guess parodies "Walk the Line". It was so awful, words can't describe it. Very nearly de-throned Borat as the worst movie I've ever seen. And we saw several stinkers this summer, using free codes from Red Box.

And the very worst film I saw on the Sci Fi channel is "A Sound of Thunder." It looked like Ed Wood came back to life to direct it. Cheap, cheap, cheap. You could actually see the white ceiling of the set in the prehistoric forest scenes.

Does Borat still count? If so, I'll name that one. (I didn't see it until a few months ago.)

Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette.

I don't see how anything in this train wreck of a movie could have won an Oscar. But it did win for costume design.

It was an orgiastic indulgence by an immature mind that didn't deserve to be projected on a screen.

I just saw a really bad other one called "Sasquatch Mountain"... why I do not know, "I was in a state of vegetation" and didn't feel like changing the channel since I was tired after working out. Man, the camera work was all over the play and the sasquatch monster looked like he was wearing a gorilla costume!

The Sci-Fi Network has a plethora of bad films. Their t.v. shows are no better as well! LOL!!!

Mando, darling, I have found the perfect movie for you! Atomic Dog

LOL!!!!

I wonder if the theme song is by George Clinton? LOL!!!!!!!

a Japanese flick called The Machine Girl (netflix) I would have watched it to the bitter end, but my husband ranted so
much I couldn't take it anymore ---- and stopped the viewing. I tried to get him to leave the room, but that didn't
work either ;-)

MAMA MIA! (getting ready to duck now... )

I remember several years ago, my husband and I were sitting on the couch watching the USA movie on cable and they were advertising upcoming movies and they said, "The USA World Premiere Movie: "Atomic Dog", and it showed this German shepherd type creature barking and we just started laughing.

Oh, that makes me think of another really Bad Sci-Fi flick that came out a few years back "Franken-Fish"! LOL!!!! Phil and I were like "WTF?!!!!" LOL!!!

I know there's a film called "Franken-Hooker" I have never watched it but I don't need to, with a name like that, "what person with a brain should take much time pondering it as an evening's movie selection to watch?!"

Franken-Fish! WAAAAAAAAHAAAAA!!!!!! LOL!!!

Anything genetically altered, such as "Tremors" is bad news, LOL, Shudder, Yuck!

Yep there's an actual film called this. I couldn't tell you who was in it but does it really matter with such a storyline! LOL!!!!!!!

Not lately, but definitely the worst: La Moustache. It's about a man who shaves off his moustache because he wants to see if anyone he knows will notice. Ninety minutes of my life that I want back!!

I haven't seen the movie because other people said it was lousy, but I liked the book by Emmanuel Carrere. It's a very entertaining, metaphysical horror story. Oh well!

"Baby Mama".
I can't believe I even "rented" this one via VOD...or am admitting to it.
If there was anything remotely funny or amusing in it...it was in the thirty second commercial for it.
I would rather see something that is childishly slapstick (and I don't care for that kind of humour!) than something which was apparently thought to be clever and trendy when it was merely pathetically uninispired, derivative, and badly delivered.

I'm sure top A-list actors were in this production, LOL!!!!




That sounds really dumb, LOL!

That is strange that that would be a horror story. I mean, once my husband shaved off his mustache and I didn't notice until the next day and he was kind of disappointed but he didn't take a meat ax to me!

BORAT and DEWEY COX were watchable for me... if only as huge examples of raunchy bad taste... but bad taste with a self-aware wink. Which makes all the difference. To me, a movie is bad when it does not KNOW it's bad.


So, in that spirit, I'd have to say SEX AND THE CITY. About 40 minutes of it was all I could handle. But then, we've had this discussion already....

I also think ZOHAN, the latest Adam Sandler vehicle, was abysmally bad.

Funny you should mention that one, my oldest DS, a middle-schooler, saw this with a friend this summer, and agrees with your assessment. He thought it was horrible. When there's too much bad language and private parts jokes for a pre-teen boy, then you know it's bad!

It was more of a Kafka-esque horror story. No axes, just plain, simple insanity.

I rented "Mrs and Mrs Smith" with "lips" and Brad. I got so sick of them and all the shooting I just could not believe they were both such bad shots! Enough already - please shoot someone dead and finish the movie.

Oh - then there is "Swept Away" and "Evita" , the latter nearly drove my Mum and I crazy in the movies (we paid - we were not going to leave) until we noticed it sort of got funny waiting for Antonio Bendover to pop around a corner and start singing. We had to muffle our laughing.

OK - Mads fans - start throwing the rocks!

It's so hard for me to answer questions about today's movies; I hardly ever watch any. I didn't care for Amadeus, which I explained in the discussion thread. I think it was a cop-out. I don't believe that having an actor tell you something in a costume gets the message across. You have to do a little more than that to convince me.

Over last Christmas, staying in a hotel, I saw one of the Bourne movies. The story was so unmemorable to me I can't even remember which one it was. They are correct, however, in calling it an action movie. I think a better title would have been Running and Jumping Somehwere in Europe.

We just sat through (and it was an effort!) Walk Hard. Another 90 minutes I can't get back. I sort of liked Talledega Nights but Walk Hard was pretty stupid.

I didn't care much for Borat- some of my DH's friends found it hysterical, but I didn't really like it.

August Rush was horrible, really bad acting all around - Jonathan Rhys-Meyers and Robin Williams couldn't save it from being bad. I also didn't like any of the Pirates of the Carribbean movies (the last two were so bad!) or
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium was also pretty disappointing (it felt unfinished/underplotted) and so was The Spiderwick Chronicles - too much CGI. I guess I don't really like Freddie Highmore as a child actor.

Lol!!

Don't forget that great horror classic, "Monsturd"...

I looked this up. Now I have seen it all!

Madge ought to just stick to marketing and singing , ruining a mans career is not way to start a marriage , as a Guy fan I felt obliged to sit through it , I did , and have yet to fully recover and still have not stopped grieving for the time lost I shall never have back.

We Own the Night starring Joaquin Phoenix, Eva Mendes, Mark Wahlberg. Lordy it was a stinker. I only saw it because I love me some Markie Mark.

Fools Gold with Matthew McConnaghey and Kate Hudson. Beyond dumb.

The Other Boleyn Girl. I felt like I was watching a bad Lifetime for Women thing on TV.


And as much as I love Madonna...I didn't bother seeing Swept Away because I knew it was rotten.

Velvet, I almost went to see We Own the Night because I love Joaquin Phoenix so much. I'm glad I didn't. And good to know about the Boleyn Girl movie.

Another vote for Mama Mia. I love Meryl Streep, but this was like watching Martha Stewart starring in A Chorus Line - some people should not cross genres!

That movie is the cure for insomnia. I have tried to watch it multiple times, determined not to fall asleep on it, because I love Natalie Portman. I have not made it to the end of the movie once. *SNORE*

I reeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaly hated Zohan. It was awful!

Marie Antoinette... and I had purposely had low/no expectations to begin with.

It was a NetFlix rental, and so I was not sad when the video stilled and froze midway through... I had been forcing myself to finish it, and fate intervened.

Elizabeth: The Golden Age -- a pointless piece of dumbed-down historical drivel that serves merely as an excuse for beautiful costumes, grand sets and sumptuous cinematography. The rest of it will bore you straight into a veil of tears.

Terrific actors were wasted and history was completely butchered to make room for implausible romances and bloodless intrigue. The original "Elizabeth" from 1998 (same director and lead actors Cate Blanchett & Geoffrey Rush) was far superior.

I laughed my sweet one off watching Walk Hard, then I told my daughter about it. She also said it was the worst movie she had ever seen. I also loved Borat! I have a very odd sense of humor, I know.

Nathan, every thing you say about The Golden Age is true, but, I still enjoyed watching it. I just wish it had been better. I enjoyed the scene where she started slapping Abbie Cornish, LOL!

Elizabeth was too young, the Spanish Infanta was too young, Sir Walter did not marry until several years later, and he wasn't on the ship. Mary's execution was botched in reality. The execution missed the first time and cut into the side of her head, then took another whack to finish her off. I didn't miss that, LOL!

I really, really want to see Elizabeth, but I know that I cannot bear to see the hangings, burnings, torture, severed heads and whatnot. I hate that kind of thing.
I felt more confident in renting The Golden Age, because of the PG 13 rating; I knew the violence would be toned down. I prefer "bloodless intrigue", LOL!

I don't think Elizabeth was 100% historically accurate, either, though, or so I have heard.

I though that these two movies were supposed to be part of a trilogy and the third will show Elizabeth toward the end of her long reign. I haven't found any proof of this however.

I liked Samantha Morton as Mary, Queen of Scots. I liked Ellizabeth in the long red wig and armor riding into battle. I don't know if it was accurate or not. I was surprised to see Elizabeth in the bath, because I don't believe she was a frequent bather.

I just saw the worst film this past weekend on, believe it or not! The SCI FI Channel:

Jason X

Jason of Friday the 13th fame IN SPACE still chopping away at unsuspecting dummies that think it's safe to go into outer space now!

I was extremely disappointed in Elizabeth as well. I was also very disappointed in "The Other Boleyn Girl", but I think that this is because I am such a big fan of The Tudors and have read so many books on the Tudor generation and English historical books.

All the movies that you saw that are not memorable.

It was years ago but I never forgave my best friend for renting it: Italian For Beginners.

Here's a partial one line critique from celebritywonder.com: Six people in a small Danish town are all in such despair over their lives that their only source of happiness is the weekly Italian ...

We watched it for twenty minutes and had to stop the film. I want those twenty minutes back!

Apparently you missed the good part - when the lonely people go to Venice and eat pasta together!

Rebecca, you really should see the original Elizabeth. It's quite gripping, and all the things about The Golden Age that are good are in Elizabeth as well, but the story is better and the performances are better. I remember "Elizabeth" being violent, but not so violent as to be off-putting.

But then, I don't fully remember everything about the Elizabeth movie as I saw it a couple of years ago -- I just remember being surprised at how much I liked it. I'd turned it on as background noise, but then got pulled into the story.

And yes, it was kind of funny when Blanchette started slapping Abbie Cornish in The Golden Age. I was, like, "Okay, enough already with the slapping!" Poor girl probably had bruises for weeks.

ohhh I simply loved that one.. it made me smile and cry at the same time. I touched a whole lot of strings in me . ( And made me realise how boring my life is ;D )I espacially loved.. how the actors seemed to enjoy being a part of it .

back to the subject.. it must be "The good shepherd" ....I just didn´t get it

Causes me great pain to own up to this , cuz I love Mike Meyers and Ben Kingsley , but The Love Guru , while it had it guffaw moments as a whole it was painful to watch.

I agree. It was screamingly boring, filled with the worst cliches imaginable, historically inaccurate, badly acted with a dialogue fit for middle school dropouts. Embarrassing.

Well, the most recent movies we had seen had to with Halloween - of course, they are going to be awful. One was The Re-animator and Black Christmas. With the Re-animator, we were WTF, even though we had seen it before. It was just ridiculous.

I agree with Don't Mess with the Zohan. We have the unrated version. Very close to pronography, in my opinion. The humor was too crude and raw and really pushing the envelop. I was shocked to see the housekeeper from the Facts of Life in this movie.

I agree that seeing "Mrs. Garrett" in a nasty movie would be a shock, kind of like when I saw Shirley Jones in a preview for a comedy in which she was in bed with someone young enough to be her grandson. I told my husband that she must need money badly. Shirley always seemed so classy.