Worst Big Budget Hollywood Movies of All Time--Nominate Three

Waterworld
Heavens Gate
T3

how big is big budget?

Man I loved T3. In many ways better than the too-family-friendly T2, and with a *spoiler* bleak ending.

Well, to be honest I don't even know the budgets of the three movies I nominated, so....very loose with that terminology.

So, ie, not Terminator, but yes Terminator 2....use the term 'big budget' as loosely as you wish!

i liked t3 for being unabashedly stupid and LOLly, arnold was practically grinning through the whole thing. it only sucks when the main guy gets to brooding or whatever.

Congo is one my favourite bad movies ever. I wouldn't call it worst, there's so much unintentional hilarity.

Congo is incredibly entertaining.

Batman and Robin is an obvious answer

Batman Forever I kind of like despite it/myself

I've come around on Armegeddon now, I think I like it.

I think Godzilla might be a winner

of this thread, not "a winner" as in "good film"

Planet of the Apes remake

The Island
Armageddon
...pick any other Michael Bay abortion.

Lost in Space.

i used to hate michael bay movies, but i think i appreciate them now.

charlie's angels
mission impossible 2

Michael Bay movies are flashy and fun, but they are so full of ridiculous plot holes (and I'm not usually a big stickler about that stuff) that they just fall apart for me. Plus, everything not related to the action is completely ham-handed and retarded.

I mean, why did "the last group of humans to survive the apocalypse" (The Island) need fucking Puma-branded sneakers?

i think you're rejecting them for the wrong reasons

The Lost World

I hope yr talking about the JP sequel

http://www.collider.com/uploads/imageGallery/National_Treasure_2/national_treasure_2_book_of_secrets_movie_image.jpg

Which means you've seen it, which means YOU HAVE TO SHARE

i liked the first nt:-/

but yeah, ned's right, spill the beans man!

i need to try to sleep.

Fuck sleep. It is an alien concept out to eat your brain. (It's already eaten mine.)

Fantastic Four. So forgettable - the week after I watched it, I was planning to see another movie and it took me about 20 mins to remember what the hell I watched the week before.

Van Helsing
Batman and Robin

If suckitude = ratio of budget/acclaim/success to actual quality then the runaway winner is the big pile of oscar winning balls that is Gladiator.

Godzilla remake (budget: $130M)
The Phantom Menace ($115M)
Battlefield Earth ($73M)

Wild Wild West: budget $170,000,000

I nominate this even though I haven't seen it. We all know it's a contender.

aliens vs predator

is my first nomination

planet of the apes is a definite nomination for me

i dunno, i'd vote wild wild west, but it almost seems too easy- like maybe i can't judge the success of something that was obviously a kids movie.

what was the budget of about schmidt? i assume nicholson's salary put it into the megamillions. so that.

the guy ritchie movie with madonna, cast away, was it? drivel.

i tend not to watch movies that i'm fairly certian will be toss, but i'd no doubt agree with 90% of the other nominations.

Streetfighter, is my second

maybe that wasn't so big a budget. forget that one then.

The Bond movie before the Daniel Craig one

"You only have one licence forever tomorrow, never dies" or whatev

and finally King Kong. i hated it.

"Titanic" still the worst film I've ever seen, "Phantom Menace" relentlessly stupid. Can't think of another one off the top of my head - generally tend to avoid these films @ the moment. Burned too many times by rotten big budget CGI extravaganza.

Pirates of the Carribean 2 and 3

Fantastic Four and Van Helsing are great films!

if you could nominate the worst movie that you never bothered your arse going to see, then 'king kong' would rock my world, with the pirate sequels probably shoring up.

oh, that peter jackson!

the second matrix movie, anyone?

i was going to say a matrix movie, but couldn't decide between the second or the third one

i'd say that expectations had dropped enough for the third one to seem better, and anyway it had a lot more kickass steampunk action

phantom menace is a good one, i'd forgotten about the SW films. But I'd go more with Attack of the Clones

nu-Planet of the Apes ftw
Catwoman ($85m!!)
Super Mario Bros. ($42m was big budget in 93 i think)

noodles is 100 % rong

I'd go with Tomorrow Never Dies as the worst Brosnan Bond. Although Die Another Day had the most extreme advertising overload. (is it the one where bond drives a minivan?)

The worst I've seen from this list ...

Batman Begins
The Matrix Revolutions
Lethal Weapon 4

I'm sure there are worse, I've just avoided them.

I thought Lethal Weapon 4 was surprisingly good, almost as entertaining as the first one. The laughing gas scene alone should lift it above awfulness.

That's one of the scenes that plunged it into awfulness.

i lkinda liked lethal weapon4.

batman begins was awful, true, but i don't think it deserves top be in anybody's top three.

i thought of one that's gonna get me pounded, but that 3:10 to yuma was absolute bollocks, mainly because it thought it was great.

batman begins, really? i wasnt the world's biggest fan but are you people fuckin nuts

matrix reloaded
star wars phantom menace
bad boys 2

Sliver
Poison Ivy
The Cell

apparently I've avoided all the real stinkers on that Wiki list, the ones I've seen are mediocre at worst. I might go with Attack of the Clones, except that has a nifty last 20 minutes.

so Batman Begins.

no hate for Liz's Cleopatra?

Actually I kind of want to see Sliver again now, I might like it

I need to make sure I FF past Billy Baldwin standing there naked with a giant erection though

well I guess I'll see that now.

my brain wiped bad boys II, otherwise definitely. worst piece of crap movie ever

hahaha CRAWL INTO MY WEB SAID THE SPIDER TO THE FLY

Titanic may be the worst film ever. It used to be that that the mere mention of this film would start me ranting. I've mellowed since.
Batman and Robin is one of the two films I've ever considered walking out of, along with...
Speed 2: Cruise Control which is so bad that everybody involved with it - including those of us that actually saw it - should have been executed.

Evan Almighty. Bicentennial Man. A.I.

Spider-Man 3
Attack of the Clones
Planet of the Apes

anyone saying Batman Begins = RONG

i kind of love aliens vs predator, unironically

street fighter is hilarious!

Tom Skeritt is perfect as the brooding, wounded husband, who feels abandoned by a wife who has given up on living. This fact makes him easy prey for Ivy as well, whose desire to become a part of this family soon escalates to a disturbing level. Sara Gilbert is likewise perfectly cast as the shy but intelligent Sylvie.

The plot is this: in a future world, where advanced technology can allow human beings to " walk through the mind of another" by sending them to sleep and connecting their brains. It is proved useful when a masochistic serial killer who drowns his victims in a glass container, has a seizure and goes into a coma.

Someone is able to see what is going on in the apartments, and this person even has videotapes of some of the action. In addition to whoever this person is, Carly is also spying on people after someone gave her a telescope. Specifically, the couple having sex in a nearby building.

Carly's boss Alex won't give her a raise. He does take her to lunch, where they meet Jack Lansford, author of 'Flesh and Blood', which Carly has never read.

did you guys walk into these movies expecting them to be good? even when you were 13?

The Jungle Book
Hook
The Phantom Menace
the bits of Cutthroat Island I've seen.

Poseidon in TKO knockout.

no mention for Pearl Harbor? God, that was awwwful. I can't even believe I saw it.... I think I went in a group or something in high school. Incredibly expensive, too, there's like a 40-minute CGI bombing sequence.

Waterworld is a very obvious contender, too.

I mean, why did "the last group of humans to survive the apocalypse" (The Island) need fucking Puma-branded sneakers?

I kind of think that if you can't follow an easy-to-grasp plot point, you really aren't in a position to criticize a movie.

Bad Boys II seconded!

half of these movies are just aggressively mediocre, not truly abysmal.

another quarter are actually secretly awesome

wing commander
transformers
matrix revolutions

matrix revolutions is the worst

van helsing
godzilla
super mario brothers (if we're counting it as big budget)

and yes, i've seen all three. interesting side note: hallucinogens actually made super mario brothers worse, i think.

wing commander was not as bad as expected!

(memories are hazy though)

wasn't this supposed to be really bad? i didn't watch it because it looked unwatchable.

http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/33/MPW-16885

it would seem from this thread that quite a few of hollywood's more expensive offerings are quite poor!!

I think Godzilla might be the winner here. Many of these are not awful - mediocre or entertaining, some pretty good, but Godzilla was pretty crappy.

i'd be curious to see an opposite thread - hollywood's best expensive offering.

because they all suck; apparently.

I would like to mention that horripillificatingly bad John Belushi follow-on to the Blues Brothers movie: 1941.

Oh good Grief people! Have you forgotten the utterly forgettable
"Day After Tomorrow"? I nominate it times 3.

"Next" is the winner in my book.
Nicholas Cage as a Vegas magician who can see 3 minutes into the future.
Bad, bad, horribly bad, evilly awfully not even laughably bad.

The Invisible - suckiest movie to ever suck. Don't know how big of a budget it had, but big enough to know better.

Live Free Or Die Hard - wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't hitching a ride on the greatness that was Die Hard. This is not that movie.

no hate for Liz's Cleopatra?

I refuse to hate one of the best over-the-top creations EVER.

Live Free Or Die Hard 2- wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't hitching a ride on the greatness that was Die Hard. This is not that movie.

The best I've seen from the same wikipedia list are Titanic, War of the Worlds and Miami Vice.

xpost. True. They should have just stopped with the first one.

oh g-d, yes, Eric. I forgot about WOTW and Miami Mice. Yeech. And yep, gotta agree that Titanic was quite a clinker. The three or so older versions weren't half as bad!

Most pix should have stopped with the first. Fore example Alien. (But I do love the Terminator movies, no matter how sucky they are, the time twist thingy gets me every time I am "sucked in" by it.)

I am a junky for any time travel thing, journeyman now on TV (really bad, but I like it anyway) Back to the future, HG wells the time machine, A Wrinkle in Time (old kids book). Time after time (tear jerker with Jane Seymour and Chris Reeves).

Jeez, I am such a "girl" sometimes.

oh g-d, yes, Eric. I forgot about WOTW and Miami Mice. Yeech. And yep, gotta agree that Titanic was quite a clinker.

Haha ... OK.

haha

"Day After Tomorrow"

Surely we have a winner now

Most pix should have stopped with the first. Fore example Alien.

Nutz. "In space, no one can here you snore."

Nicholas Cage as a Vegas magician who can see 3 minutes into the future.

WAHT

i read that as Vegan magician

North
Stealth
Superman Returns

oh man i forgot all about Stealth. i really need to rent that.

Conspiracy Theory -- worst movie I've seen that I didn't walk out on

Elijah Wood is irresistible as little North, a young boy who decides to venture out and find new parents after his two bickering ones (Julia Louis-Dreyfuss and Jason Alexander) pay no attention to him. Bruce Willis is great as a man who reappears and offers valuable advice everywhere North goes, and the rest of the movie is dotted with familiar faces, too. While this film is by no means an Oscar winner, it's lighthearted and certainly enjoyable for a family to watch (no major cursing, no nudity, etc).

North seemed to be designed as an educational tool for children who don't know what stereotypes are yet.

"In Africa they swing on vines!"

my grandparents used to judge movies by how much or how little cursing there was in them - no cursing, it was a very good movie; lots of cursing, it was a bad one

national treasure is really really fun, and is a horrible choice here!

so Transformers 2 takes the cake here, agreed?

Ended up just deleting the pirate one I download - realised I'd never ever watch it.

national treasure is really really fun, and is a horrible

fixed.

I saw Alexander fairly recently, and it was really horrible

V for Vendetta and Battlefield Earth are the worst films I've ever subjected myself to.

jeez battlefield earth? you couldn't see that coming? i'd reserve my two votes for movies that took me by surprise by being utter shit.

that said, does 'the avengers' qualify as big budget?

The Hulk
Matrix Revolution

I thought I saw it coming. I was ready to watch it, drink and throw popcorn at the TV, but I wasn't expecting the headache-inducing camera angles. xp

Spiderman 3 was pretty crappy, but in a totally expected, generic way ... Alexander was awful like a trainwreck ... an excrutiatingly long, nonsensical, meaningless trainwreck. It made Troy look like Lawrence of Arabia.

I really can't think of any blockbuster movies I haven't enjoyed on some level. maybe this will change when Avatar comes out. but I'll probably love the 3D effects.

if you're expecting awfulness, i'd rather it was a trainwreck for entertainment purposes (hello nick cage). of course, if you aren't then it's a bit of a kick in the teeth.

Was Forrest Gump big-budget? How much did it cost?

i guess... matrix 2, star wars 1, transformers 2?

really too many to chose from here.

Battlefield Earth is hilarious! So is Congo!

did alfred seriously nominate the disney jungle book as one of the worst? insane.

no mention for Pearl Harbor? - seconded. just, ugh.. no lols to make for good camp, either, save for a priceless sequence showing Japanese "war strategists" mystically poking paper boats around a shallow pool w/ long bamboo sticks & one of them actually says "I think we may have awoken a sleeping giant," or some close variation thereof.

Now You See Me was on HBO last night -- good LORD what a hot pile of garbage! How did they get such a decent cast to do such a horrendous film?

I watched that on a plane and rather enjoyed it in a turn your brain off way.

I'm sure I haven't seen the three worst. Will leave it up to someone else to figure out of The Green Hornet qualifies.

Looking upthread, ultraviolet was really, really bad

Thread makes me wonder, when we know a film cost a lot to make, do we expect it to be good? Do we expect to at least be a good example of its genre?

Spiderman 3 is the best of the Tobey Maguire Spiderman films imo. I haven't seen most of the other films mentioned in the thread

I watched that on a plane and rather enjoyed it in a turn your brain off way.

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It seems like an airplane kind of film. The plot was on the level of a saturday morning cartoon.

surely one of those early 70s megamusicals belongs here

i have to admit i think heaven's gate is 85% garbage

i know it's before the era of the 200 million+ budget but it's a mad, etc. world belongs here