Worst Big-Budget Movie

[Lazy]

After having recently worked my way through the Avatar: The Last Airbender series (great show btw) I decided that I may as well give the movie a go. I knew going in it'd be bad and figured it might be good for a few laughs, but I underestimated its incredible crapness. I don't think I've ever seen a big-budget film be this incompetent on so many levels.

I won't bore you with rants about how they stray from the source material, because a) it's not that big of a deal to me and b) The Last Airbender is terrible enough on its own merits. It's a miscast, awfully acted, awkwardly written, weakly choreographed, unevenly paced and poorly directed pile of shit.

The water effects looked decent, though.

So, TOPIC: What's the worst big-budget movie you've ever seen?

 

[Iyon]

Battleship springs to mind. I don't necessarily think it's the worst, but it bugged me more than any other movie I've seen recently. It was full of awful characters, awful dialogue, awful characters, and don't even get me started on the plot holes and massive side stepping of anything resembling logic or sense. I was legitimately rooting for the aliens in that movie.

Avatar: The Last Airbender is a good example too though. Off the top of my head I can't think of another big-budget movie I've seen with worse acting.

 

[DoPo]

Well, I'll be original: The Last Airbender. Although, I kind of enjoyed it. I mean, I wouldn't be comparing it with the series any time soon, for fear what would happen, but on it's own it wasn't that bad. OK, it still the worst big budget movie I've seen, one of the worst ever even, but still not as bad as people make it out to be.

 

[FalloutJack]

Battleship

I question the criticizing of a movie based on a boardgame, knowing going in that this kind of a stretch really hasn't been perpetrated since Clue, and Clue had more to work with on top of being a comedy. HOWEVER, I rather enjoyed Battleship no matter how ridiculous it was. It deserves cult status for having the balls to push the envelope that far. It's a 'flick', but as a flick I'm not complaining. Yes, of course it's silly. You can't make a battleship turn with a sudden drop of the anchor. They're not built for that. But I don't care. It's got rule of cool, baby.

Now, much to my disappointment, GIJOE didn't really deliver. Much more to work with and not much to show for it.

 

[hotdogoctopus]

NEED I SAY MORE?

 

[DJ_DEnM]

I'd have to say The Expendables. It had pretty bad effects.

 

[Hollyday]

Transformers. Not a particularly original choice, but it's just bad. Very very bad. Please no more!

 

[Iyon]

Battleship

I question the criticizing of a movie based on a boardgame, knowing going in that this kind of a stretch really hasn't been perpetrated since Clue, and Clue had more to work with on top of being a comedy. HOWEVER, I rather enjoyed Battleship no matter how ridiculous it was. It deserves cult status for having the balls to push the envelope that far. It's a 'flick', but as a flick I'm not complaining. Yes, of course it's silly. You can't make a battleship turn with a sudden drop of the anchor. They're not built for that. But I don't care. It's got rule of cool, baby.

Now, much to my disappointment, GIJOE didn't really deliver. Much more to work with and not much to show for it.

That's funny because I'm one of the few people who actually maybe-could-have-kind-of enjoyed GI JOE... Not that it was a good movie by any means but, like you and Battleship, I was able to have a good time despite its ridiculousness.

Maybe I just wasn't in the mood for that kind of movie when I watched Battleship but for whatever reason it just bugged me. Kind of like how I've been enjoying a marathon of crappy shark movies all week, but by the time it got to Sharktopus I could hardly get through it.

Poor Sharktopus, I never gave you a fair chance!

 

[SckizoBoy]

Transformers. Not a particularly original choice, but it's just bad. Very very bad. Please no more!

Yeah, I'll go with that... the fact that each film gets progressively worse (in and of themselves and as a series as well, if that's even possible) just wants me to put a picture of Shia laBoeuf on my punchbag and kicking the living daylights out of it.

In addition... ehm... Pearl Harbour... *sigh*

 

[Casual Shinji]

John Carter

The most boring, uneventful fantasy movie ever. I'd take Transformers and Sucker Punch over JC in a heart beat. They were dogshit, but atleast they were memorable dogshit. I can look back at those movies and think, "God, that was fucking terrible."

John Carter is absolutely nothing happening for 2 and a half hours, with an art direction that seems to come straight out of Xena: Warrior Princess. It made Avatar look like Ben-Hur.

250 billion dollars well spent.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

In terms of box office flops, wasn't Cutthroat Island one of the biggest bombs in movie history?

It isn't a bad movie, just mediocre, but it killed Geena Davis' career.

 

[Lazy]

In terms of box office flops, wasn't Cutthroat Island one of the biggest bombs in movie history?

It isn't a bad movie, just mediocre, but it killed Geena Davis' career.

It's at the top of Wikipedia's list of box office bombs, so I guess so.

 

[yuval152]

Transformers. Not a particularly original choice, but it's just bad. Very very bad. Please no more!

Yeah, I'll go with that... the fact that each film gets progressively worse (in and of themselves and as a series as well, if that's even possible) just wants me to put a picture of Shia laBoeuf on my punchbag and kicking the living daylights out of it.

In addition... ehm... Pearl Harbour... *sigh*

Yeah i gotta say transformers the whole hauling ass with a girl is getting old the only good thing about them is the special effects, and how the hell is it possible that shia dated magen fox & the british chick in the movies i can understand that transformers is a science fiction but it isn't fantasy.

 

[Swyftstar]

I was thinking the last two Transformer movies or the second Pirates of the Carribean movie but even they had some redeeming qualities. While they were bad movies there were a few points of interest, stunts, staged events, pretty women to look at and/or a drop of humor (sometimes unintentional but I still laughed) in them. I can't say the same about The Last Airbender. I have never had a worse time in the theater. I actually felt as if the movie drained some of my very soul and replaced it with a small pocket of misery that I now must carry with me til the end of my days.

 

[eimatshya]

I'd have to say Alexander. The non-combat moments of that movie bored me to tears (or to sleep is more like it). Bad acting, soporific dialogue, and ridiculous fake accents. And it was long. And it felt even longer than it actually was, which is pretty long. And then a battle scene would come up, and I'd think, well at least a fight scene should be kind of fun. But no. The battle scenes were awful too. They kept doing that damn shaky camera thing to recreate the chaos of battle. But all it did was make it impossible to tell what the hell was going on. You'd think having a nude scene with Rosario Dawson would at least make things kind of interesting, but the scene was kind of rapy, which ruined any enjoyment I might have otherwise gotten out of it. I would say that including the gay romance subplot was a nice touch for promoting the acceptance of homosexuality, but the whole thing was so boring that I'm not sure that it even did that.

The only thing I can say that worked well in the movie was the aerial shots from the eagle's perspective (or whatever kind of bird that was; I really can't remember). Those were kind of neat. Other than that, the movie was one of the most tedious things I've ever sat through. Except I didn't sit through it, because after two+ hours of that garbage my then girlfriend was even more bored than I was and wanted to leave. So we did. I felt like we should have pulled a Moleman and told the theater that they had wasted two hours of our lives and we wanted them back.

 

[HardkorSB]

NEED I SAY MORE?

Because Inidiana Jones has been known for all the realism:


For me, a movie isn't really bad as long as it's interesting. What I hate the most are the blockbusters that are boring:

Mission Impossible III
Clash of the Titans (the one with Sam Worthington)
The English Patient (I'm not religious but MY GOD is that movie boring)
Sleepy Hollow
Gladiator (it's pretty and the acting is ok but aside from that, pretty much everything else isn't)
The Beach (it almost ruined DiCaprio's career)
Pearl Harbor
Pirates of the Caribbean 3 (at rock's bottom or however it's called)
The Three musketeers (the new one, it fails on so many levels)

That's all I can think of right now.

Given the marketing ive seen for it, im lax to award this to anything other than Expendables 2 at the moment.

I don't know about the marketing but the movie kicks ass.

 

[Tuesday Night Fever]

I usually have a pretty good eye for movies that are going to be terrible, and opt not to see them in theaters. It's actually cheaper to wait until they come out on DVD, wait the month or two it takes for them to drop into the $10 bargain bin, buy the DVD (since that's cheaper than buying tickets to the theater here), watch it, then trade it back into the store for a few dollars as a used copy if the movie turns out to be as shitty as expected.

I did however have the dubious honor of getting to see "Waterworld" (1995) in the theater. I was dragged to see it by a friend who (for some reason?) really liked Kevin Costner. If I remember correctly, that movie had a fairly massive budget for its time - and bombed horribly (deservedly so).

 

[gigastar]

Given the marketing ive seen for it, im lax to award this to anything other than Expendables 2 at the moment.

 

[cerebus23]

star wars epi 1 and 2.

istar wasn't that at the time the biggest costing box office bomb?

 

[hotdogoctopus]

NEED I SAY MORE?

Because Inidiana Jones has been known for all the realism:


Good thing no one said, "Put in a movie that is the avatar of misguided realism". Crystal Skull = Still worst.

Given the marketing ive seen for it, im lax to award this to anything other than Expendables 2 at the moment.

I don't know about the marketing but the movie kicks ass.