best of the WORST films according to this Wikipedia listicle

Assuming Ishtar will run away with this in this crowd

The Apple is dope

I enjoyed the Incredibly Strange Creatures...

The Babe Ruth Story is the one I'm most excited to watch. I wish biopics were more like this - fantastical, nonsensical bullshit only tangentially related to the subject, instead of Wikipedia articles with dramatic embellishments.

like it'd be like if, years from now, The Lebron James Story comes out, and he gets mugged in an alley at age 9 but he kills his attacker with a basketball and begins to play immediately after that

Things is a really remarkable experience, never seen anything quite like it.

I think I've seen part of Highlander II when it played on TV sometime in the 90s, seemed ok. I watched maybe 15 minutes of Caligula when I stumbled upon it on a streaming service years ago, did not like. I have a still unopened DVD of Reefer Madness which I bought for something like 3$ ~20 years ago. The rest I've not seen.

has ANYBODY seen the Uma Thurman Avengers?

An American Hippie in Israel very relevant right now

I've only seen like four of these: Reefer Madness (my parents took me and my brother to a drive-in that was showing this on a double feature with Up In Smoke, and I saw it again as a teenager), Caligula, Mommie Dearest (it was on HBO a lot when I was at a babysitter's house as a kid) and Highlander II.

I in fact own Maniac and it is...something.

Exorcist II the heretic

need a list of the ones which had a butthole cut

Caligula probably had one

The Apple is dope

― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal), Thursday, May 2, 2024 3:46 PM (twenty-five minutes ago)

Robot Monster, The Apple, Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam/The Man Who Saves the World/Turkish Star Wars, and Things are probably objectively terrible but I kind of love them all. As JoeStork notes, Things in particular is so unlike any other film I've ever seen that it's basically outsider art and therefore brilliant, actually.

has ANYBODY seen the Uma Thurman Avengers?

― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal), Thursday, May 2, 2024 11:03 AM

Yeah, when it came out. I remember it being bad and forgettable, not so bad it was memorable.

i can enjoy The Conqueror but it's not good

I don’t have any big problem with Ishtar which has some lols, or with Mommie Dearest tbh.

having lots of theater friends, they used to have Mommie Dearest watch parties

Ah damn I voted Ishtar before seeing the Apple was on the list, definitely would have voted for that. But my wife makes a case that the first 20 minutes or so of Ishtar is CLASSIC and the rest is only medium-bad, I think she has a point. The set-up and intro of their characters and partnership could have been the start of a much better movie before '80s Hollywood happened to it.

I really do not get the disdain for The Apple. If you vibe with the slew of weird-ass musicals released in the late '70s/early '80s, there's no reason you shouldn't be able to find a spot in your heart for 90 minutes of Menahem Golan's coke psychosis.

It's great! I mean, it's a legitimately bonkers artistic vision. Almost outsider art.

The Babe Ruth Story is the one I'm most excited to watch. I wish biopics were more like this - fantastical, nonsensical bullshit only tangentially related to the subject, instead of Wikipedia articles with dramatic embellishments.

― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal), Thursday, May 2, 2024 10:56 AM (fifty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

that's that the Weird Al movie did and it was actually really funny for doing it

yeah I did enjoy that one a lot

I liked this Guardian article about Sex Lives of the Potato Men 20 years on. Maybe it's ready to be rediscovered as a lost Real England masterpiece (NB I have never seen it)

Though still set in Birmingham, due to budget constraints, shooting would mostly be confined to Hayes and Chigwell. If you want to know what London’s orbital edgelands looked like on an overcast weekday in the Blair years, watch this film.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/feb/20/the-worst-film-ever-made-how-sex-lives-of-the-potato-men-broke-british-cinema

The films audiences love to hate can become hilarious and compulsive, but Sex Lives is not one of those films. With its relentlessly tawdry sex jokes and grubby, downcast visuals, the effect is largely queasy and depressive. Across 82 minutes, Crook becomes locked in a barely consensual tryst with his mother-in-law. There’s a misogynistic running joke about fish paste. Gatiss’s character gives up stalking his ex when he finds romance with Julia Davis, culminating in a sequence of the latter picking up dog excrement with her bare hands. Adrian Chiles – who Humphries knew from the BBC – makes a cameo performance as a towel-clad swinger.

Terror of tiny town is basically a b western with midgets. It’s fine. Incredibly strange creatures is enjoyable but not as awesome as the one with tom baker and donald pleasance making hybrid human-plants.

I saw Caligula in its entirety… it’s fine. A bit tedious in parts iirc. Voted Cats.

If you vibe with the slew of weird-ass musicals released in the late '70s/early '80s

This is a pretty big "if".

the Catwoman movie really was remarkably bad. I caught it on TV once and just could not figure who the target audience was supposed to be. it seemed like it wasn't written for women who liked superhero movies, it was written for women who watched stuff like Sex and the City. they made the main villain the CEO of a cosmetics company! on the other hand, Halle Barry in the Catwoman suit....

The Apple has enough wild musical numbers to be worth seeing, though honestly I started feeling pretty uncomfortable in the last half when you start to realize that all the evil characters are black/gay/gender-non-conforming and the only pure characters are the straight Aryan types.

There's no way Fatal Deviation should be on this list. It's a tiny film made for about twenty quid by an Irish martial artist, shot on location in a small Irish town. Also it rules.

has ANYBODY seen the Uma Thurman Avengers?

― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal), Thursday, May 2, 2024 11:03 AM

Yeah, when it came out. I remember it being bad and forgettable, not so bad it was memorable.

― Ippei's on a bummer now (WmC), Thursday, May 2, 2024 5:29 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

It has one good visual gag and Uma Thurman and Ralph Fiennes both look pretty hot in it, but that's all it has going for it, as far as I remember.

I liked this Guardian article about Sex Lives of the Potato Men 20 years on. Maybe it's ready to be rediscovered as a lost Real England masterpiece (NB I have never seen it)

I've seen it and it's utter fucking garbage.

An American Hippie in Israel very relevant right now

American Werewolf in London prequel?

I've seen it and it's utter fucking garbage.

maybe it just needs to be seen in the right context - double feature with the live action Fat Slags movie (also 2004)

I've seen most of these and there's a lot of low-hanging inept and goofy movies here, but by far North is the most aggressively overstuffed and hateful p.o.s. ever. It's even worse than Inchon

This titbit from the Guardian article has piqued my interest in ‘Sex Lives of the Potato Men’.

Adrian Chiles – who Humphries knew from the BBC – makes a cameo performance as a towel-clad swinger.

Missed that soref highlighted the same bit!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GAGlk4fXUAApGiJ?format=jpg&name=medium

Gotta go with The Apple, that is one weirdass movie

I’ve read a few reviews of Bat Pussy and it sounds like the experience of watching it would drain me of my will to live.

The Apple has enough wild musical numbers to be worth seeing, though honestly I started feeling pretty uncomfortable in the last half when you start to realize that all the evil characters are black/gay/gender-non-conforming and the only pure characters are the straight Aryan types.

― JoeStork, Thursday, 2 May 2024 17:01 (two hours ago)

Also, the dude who actually sings the title song and is a minion of Mr. Bim is a Chris Atkins-curly haired white dude, so.

by far North is the most aggressively overstuffed and hateful p.o.s. ever

There was never anything to tempt me about this film in any way but I've read the Wikipedia entry once or twice and always think something like "From Spinal Tap to this, eh Rob?"

In an interview during production [of Inchon], Sir Laurence Olivier explained why he agreed to be in the cast:

"People ask me why I'm playing in this picture. The answer is simple; money, dear boy. I'm like a vintage wine. You have to drink me quickly before I turn sour. I'm almost used up now, and I can feel the end coming. That's why I'm taking money now. I've got nothing to leave my family, but the money I can make from films. Nothing is beneath me if it pays well. I've earned the right to damn well grab whatever I can in the time I've got left."

If I saw Highlander II (and will have to check), it’s the only one of these movies I’ve ever seen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvq-fnjCyeo

This looks like some way out stuff.