Worst films from each decade

[Grouchy]

Completely non-sequitur, here are the worst films from each decade according to me:

'00s - Meet the Spartans (seen: 687 films)
'90s - Practical Magic (seen: 270 films)
'80s - Curse of the Pink Panther (seen: 186 films)
'70s - Blood for Dracula (seen: 187 films)
'60s - Valley of the Dolls (seen: 147 films)
'50s - Bus Stop (seen: 102 films)

[Dukefrukem]

Completely non-sequitur, here are the worst films from each decade according to me:

'00s - Meet the Spartans (seen: 687 films)
'90s - Practical Magic (seen: 270 films)
'80s - Curse of the Pink Panther (seen: 186 films)
'70s - Blood for Dracula (seen: 187 films)
'60s - Valley of the Dolls (seen: 147 films)
'50s - Bus Stop (seen: 102 films)

I recently started organizing my movies in a spread sheet so I could keep statistics like this. How do you keep records?

[Grouchy]

I recently started organizing my movies in a spread sheet so I could keep statistics like this. How do you keep records?
Addicted to www.criticker.com

[Mysterious Dude]

Completely non-sequitur, here are the worst films from each decade according to me:

My turn!

1920's - The Wizard of Oz (1925)
1930's - Tomorrow's Youth (1935)
1940's - Tomorrow, the World! (1944)
1950's - Glen or Glenda (1953)
1960's - Week End (1967)
1970's - Pink Flamingos (1972)
1980's - Over the Top (1987)
1990's - Patch Adams (1998)
2000's - Freddy Got Fingered (2001)

That was harder than I thought it would be. Sometimes, I think the zero-star movies might be better than the two-star movies. I mean, they're terrible, but they're usually memorable. Some of the two-star movies I don't remember at all.

I feel bad giving the 50's prize to Glen or Glenda, but looking at the other movies from that decade that I gave the same score to (Project Moonbase, Killers from Space, Prince of Space, Plan 9 from Outer Space, Teenagers from Outer Space), I actually enjoyed all of them more than many other movies I've seen from the 50's. Maybe it just takes a special kind of movie to earn such a low score.

Edit: and I'm sorry for doing this in your thread, jamaul.

[Dukefrukem]

Addicted to www.criticker.com

Awesome!!

[Spinal]

00s: A Comedy of Power
90s: War is Menstrual Envy
80s: Meet the Feebles
70s: The Beast
60s: Modesty Blaise
50s: Beat the Devil

Oddly, I don't have any movies prior to the 50s ranked under two stars.

[Qrazy]

Addicted to www.criticker.com

How comprehensive is it? Is it imdb level?

[BuffaloWilder]

I'd put it on the same level as IMDb, maybe a smidgen higher - it's on the opposite end of the annoying spectrum. Everybody there is like a mini-Baby Doll who can't spell as well as he (or she) can.

Also, probably the wrong place for it, but I really don't like the reviewers from All Movie Guide.

[Qrazy]

No I mean how many films do they have for one to rate. Does it have a large database?

[B-side]

My turn!

1960's - Week End (1967)
1990's - Patch Adams (1998)
2000's - Freddy Got Fingered (2001)

I like these 3.

[lovejuice]

thank to this website, now i know for sure my birth year is a disappointing movie year! :evil:

[Grouchy]

No I mean how many films do they have for one to rate. Does it have a large database?
Definitively not as large as IMDb, but it's easy to add films yourself (I have to do it every once in a while) and they put them in pretty quickly.

[Grouchy]

80s: Meet the Feebles
70s: The Beast
50s: Beat the Devil
Unacceptable.

[Adam]

This is impossible for me to do since I don't really have a system for tracking every film I've seen, but I do know THE worst full-length movie I've inexplicably watched in its entirety. It's Dead Fish. And I just threw up in my mouth a little thinking about that steaming pile

http://images.blockbuster.com/is/amg/dvd/cov150/dru500/u556/u55600bf7hs.jpg

[Boner M]

I like these 3.
Err... Patch fuckin Adams?!?

[monolith94]

Bus Stop? Really? I kind of enjoyed that one.

My least favorites?

00s: View From the Top
90s: The Phantom Menace
80s: Stranger Than Paradise
70s: Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
60s: It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
50s: Glen or Glenda (with Mr. Hulot's Holiday following close behind)
40s: Meet Me In St. Louis
30s: Reefer Madness
20s: Blood and Sand

[B-side]

Err... Patch fuckin Adams?!?

Heh. It has nostalgic value for me, and I can't really seem to hate it, even nowadays. It has way too much heart, and I love it when Robin Williams gets serious.

[Derek]

40s: Arsenic and Old Lace (Frank Capra)
50s: An Affair to Remember (Leo McCarey)
60s: Charade (Stanley Donen)
70s: Pink Flamingos (John Waters)
80s: Over the Top (Menahem Golan)
90s: Batman & Robin (Joel Schumacher)
00s: Pearl Harbor (Michael Bay)

[Derek]

Patch Adams is fucking awful. A clear contender for worst of that decade and probably would be my choice if only Schumacher hadn't created such an absolute debacle.

[Derek]

80s: Stranger Than Paradise

Really?


40s: Meet Me In St. Louis

Really? Really??

[Boner M]

Really?



Really? Really??
Head to FDT and 'splain the 40-points-too-high rating for that horrid LaBute film, plz.

[soitgoes...]

00's - The Master of Disguise
90's - Mr. Nanny
80's - She-Devil (Jaws: The Revenge shouldn't be ignored)
70's - Caligula
60's - Barbarella
50's - The Giant Claw (probably the worst movie I've seen)
40's - Wake Island
30's - Reefer Madness
20's - The Mysterious island

[balmakboor]

My least favorites?

00s: View From the Top
90s: The Phantom Menace
80s: Stranger Than Paradise
70s: Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
60s: It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
50s: Glen or Glenda (with Mr. Hulot's Holiday following close behind)
40s: Meet Me In St. Louis
30s: Reefer Madness
20s: Blood and Sand

I call your bluff. These are all far too good to be "worst of the decade:"

90s: The Phantom Menace
80s: Stranger Than Paradise
60s: It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
50s: Glen or Glenda (with Mr. Hulot's Holiday following close behind)
40s: Meet Me In St. Louis

Mr. Hulot's Holiday is a masterpiece. So is Meet Me In St. Louis.

The worst things I've ever sat through (that come immediately to mind) are:

Timecop (1994)
Staying Alive (1983)

[StanleyK]

I've only seen 14 1-star films in my life.

00's: Twilight
2. Rollerball
3. Jurassic Park III
4. Troy
5. Pearl Harbor
6. Lady in the Water
90's: Batman & Robin/Godzilla
80's: Rocky IV
2. Jaws 3-D
3.Staying Alive
4. Airplane II: The Sequel
70's: Animal House/Grease

[Raiders]

I'm going skip a couple way obvious choices (like Manos for the '60s)...

1920s: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
1930s: Reefer Madness
1940s: For Whom the Bell Tolls
1950s: Gidget
1960s: The Green Berets
1970s: Love Story
1980s: The House by the Cemetery
1990s: Bio-Dome
2000s: K-PAX

[Spinal]

Reefer Madness is a good choice for the 30s. I've seen it, but didn't bother to rate it because I felt like I was rating the cult following rather than the film which was not originally created for entertainment purposes.

At any rate, I found its supposed comedic value to be vastly overstated.

[MadMan]

1940s: The Seventh Victim
1950s: The Unearthly
1960s: Manos: The Hands of Fate (my less obvious choice being The Sound of Music)
1970s: I Spit on Your Grave (but Faces of Death also qualifies)
1980s: Jaws: The Revenge
1990s: Stepmom (Stuart Little and Batman and Robin being HM's)
2000s: Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (HM: Cheaper By The Dozen)

I'm sure that there are far worse movies in the 1940s than The Seventh Victim, but I have not seen them. The same could be said for almost all of the other decades, except for the fact that Manos and I Spit On Your Grave are indeed the worst movies from their respective decades. There might be another movie that was worse than Jaws: The Revenge when it comes to the 80s, but luckily I have not seen it.
Also one of these days I'll have a worst movie for the 1910s, 20s, and 30s, as I've seen too little from those decades.

[Grouchy]

Bus Stop? Really? I kind of enjoyed that one.
I wanted to forcibly castrate and execute every character.

I actually had to fight myself not to put Sound of Music as worst of the '60s. It's bad, but technically, it's not as inept or brain-cell-destroying as Valley of the Dolls.

[megladon8]

Raiders, The House By the Cemetery seems like something you'd like.

Jen and I both really like it.

[Raiders]

Raiders, The House By the Cemetery seems like something you'd like.

Jen and I both really like it.


... really? I hate Fulci's films with a passion. I know he's popular with some, but I just find them incomprehensible, silly and fugly.

[megladon8]

... really? I hate Fulci's films with a passion. I know he's popular with some, but I just find them incomprehensible, silly and fugly.


Fair enough. I just remember having discussions with you and Rowland about other Italian horror directors, so I assumed you must like (at least some of) Fulci's work as well.

[Qrazy]

... really? I hate Fulci's films with a passion. I know he's popular with some, but I just find them incomprehensible, silly and fugly.

Speaking of filmmakers you hate with a passion did you watch The Defiant Ones yet?

[Derek]

... really? I hate Fulci's films with a passion. I know he's popular with some, but I just find them incomprehensible, silly and fugly.

I'm assuming you've seen Zombie 2 as well then? I thought it was godawful, yet a lot of people actually seem to think it's good. Even the notorious zombi/shark scene was incredibly underwhelming. But yeah, your adjectives pretty much sum up my limited experience with him.

[Mara]

40s: Arsenic and Old Lace (Frank Capra)

Wow. I love this film, and I've never before met anyone who didn't like it.


Charade (Stanley Donen)

This one's okay.

I don't have it organized by decade, but the worst film I've ever seen was Mascara (1987). It's one of those films I had to watch all the way to the end because I couldn't believe it could maintain such a precise and insane level of suckitude.

A distant second is Russell's The Lair of the White Worm (1988).

[Derek]

Wow. I love this film, and I've never before met anyone who didn't like it.

You've met KurosawaFan and he hates it as well. In fact, his hatred for this film is one of the things that keeps us bonded during our many disagreements. :)

[Mara]

You've met KurosawaFan and he hates it as well. In fact, his hatred for this film is one of the things that keeps us bonded during our many disagreements. :)

I'm not sure I can handle this, emotionally.

[Boner M]

What in god's name could anyone possibly loathe about Charade? I can understand finding it merely slight and unedifying, but 'worst of the decade' seems quite a stretch.

[MadMan]

I actually had to fight myself not to put Sound of Music as worst of the '60s. It's bad, but technically, it's not as inept or brain-cell-destroying as Valley of the Dolls.Haven't seen Valley of the Dolls, but I agree fully with you on The Sound of Music being awful :pritch:

And Charade is awesome. One of the best Hitchcock films not directed by Hitchcock in existence.

[Mysterious Dude]

I found Arsenic and Old Lace really sickening. I kept wondering, 'Why is Cary Grant protecting these horrible women?' If I found out my aunt was a serial killer, I don't think I would spend any time protecting her.

Apparently, Cary Grant hated the movie, too.

[Derek]

What in god's name could anyone possibly loathe about Charade? I can understand finding it merely slight and unedifying, but 'worst of the decade' seems quite a stretch.

Post yer own worst-of's or GTFO!

[Rowland]

30s: The Mask of Fu Manchu
40s: The Lodger
50s: Invisible Invaders
60s: Blood Feast
70s: The Red Queen Kills Seven Times
80s: My Best Friend Is a Vampire
90s: Mr. Magoo
00s: Ticker

[Boner M]

Post yer own worst-of's or GTFO!
I'm perfectly content with nitpicking others' lists. And your recent ratings. :P

00's: 2:37
90's: Empire Records
80's: Cannibal Holocaust
70's: Salon Kitty
60's: The Angry Breed
50's: Plan 9 From Outer Space
40's: Meditation on Violence
30's: Reefer Madness
20's and earlier: *shrug*

I feel bad for having to list a weak Deren for the 40's, but that's only really because of the paucity of stuff I've seen from then.

[Derek]

I'm perfectly content with nitpicking others' lists. And your recent ratings. :P

I hear ya. :)


90's: Empire Records

Really? I'm not a fan, but in a decade with Batman & Robin, Boondock Saints and Patch Adams, I just can't see hating that one more.

As for Charade, I found its coyness incredibly grating and a riffing on Hitchcock juvenile and stupid. Honestly, I just haven't seen that many films I hate in the 60s, so in another 5 or 10 years, I'm sure it won't be that low.

[Boner M]

Really? I'm not a fan, but in a decade with Batman & Robin, Boondock Saints and Patch Adams, I just can't see hating that one more.
I haven't seen B&R. The other two are horrible, but I've been subjected to ER repeatedly by friends over the years, and its endless nails-on-chalkboard posturing and horribly cloying characters and dialogue have been etched onto my brain. Aside from how hot Liv Tyler was back then, it's a black hole.

[B-side]

I feel bad for having to list a weak Deren for the 40's, but that's only really because of the paucity of stuff I've seen from then.

Easily her weakest film, but still good.

[Rowland]

Anyone else see Mr. Magoo? So bad... so, so bad.

[Adam]

Tell you what, Mr Magoo is lame, that's undeniable. But it really has nothing on most of the hot zoo garbage Leslie Nielsen's been in the past twenty or so years. 2001: A Space Travesty, man. Ninety excruciating minutes of your life that are never, ever coming back

[Rowland]

Tell you what, Mr Magoo is lame, that's undeniable. But it really has nothing on most of the hot zoo garbage Leslie Nielsen's been in the past twenty or so years. 2001: A Space Travesty, man. Ninety excruciating minutes of your life that are never, ever coming backI've thankfully dodged the rest of those bullets... with the exception, come to think of it, of Spy Hard, which I also recall being abominable.

[balmakboor]

Wow. I love this film, and I've never before met anyone who didn't like it.

Arsenic and Old Lace and Raising Arizona are my wife's two favorite movies.

[Mara]

I found Arsenic and Old Lace really sickening. I kept wondering, 'Why is Cary Grant protecting these horrible women?' If I found out my aunt was a serial killer, I don't think I would spend any time protecting her.

But... they're charming! And charming old serial-killing spinster women are funny!

[kuehnepips]

Bus Stop? Really? I kind of enjoyed that one.




Same here.

[Kurosawa Fan]

But... they're charming! And charming old serial-killing spinster women are funny!

I've never seen a more annoying film. Ever. I'm sorry if this is crushing news for you, but it's true. I hate that film with every fiber of my being.

[Mara]

I've never seen a more annoying film. Ever. I'm sorry if this is crushing news for you, but it's true. I hate that film with every fiber of my being.

Given our strong history and great personal virtues, I think we may be able to work through this. I'm not saying it will be easy. There's a lot of trust and respect issues that we'll both need to work on.

[Raiders]

I am rather indifferent to Arsenic and Old Lace. Don't find it very funny and certainly annoying, but honestly Capra has at least two or three other even worse films from the 30s and 40s.

However, I know KF also hates Bringing Up Baby which is simply inexcusable.

[Kurosawa Fan]

Given our strong history and great personal virtues, I think we may be able to work through this. I'm not saying it will be easy. There's a lot of trust and respect issues that we'll both need to work on.

I understand. I'll willing to do my part. So long as it doesn't involve Arsenic and Old Lace.

[kuehnepips]

However, I know KF also hates Bringing Up Baby which is simply inexcusable.

What? What's next? Hating Duck Soup?

[Yxklyx]

30s: Feet First (Clyde Bruckman)
40s: The White Gorilla (Harry L. Fraser)
50s: Return of the Fly (Edward Bernds)
60s: Manos: The Hands of Fate (Hal Warren)
70s: Satanic Rites of Dracula (Alan Gibson)
80s: Mystic Pizza (Donald Petrie)
90s: Wild Things (John McNaughton)
00s: House of Wax (Jaume Collet-Serra)

[Kurosawa Fan]

What? What's next? Hating Duck Soup?

*shifty eyes*

*whistles while walking away*

[Mara]

I don't have it organized by decade, but the worst film I've ever seen was Mascara (1987). It's one of those films I had to watch all the way to the end because I couldn't believe it could maintain such a precise and insane level of suckitude.

Has anyone else seen this? I could use some commiseration.

[monolith94]

I call your bluff. These are all far too good to be "worst of the decade:"

90s: The Phantom Menace
80s: Stranger Than Paradise
60s: It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
50s: Glen or Glenda (with Mr. Hulot's Holiday following close behind)
40s: Meet Me In St. Louis

Mr. Hulot's Holiday is a masterpiece. So is Meet Me In St. Louis.


Admittedly, there are nice things about those two movies. But I still didn't like them. The story of MMISL is sappy, the male romantic interest totally bland, the songs unmemorable, and the whole concoction just annoying. Mr. Hulot's Holiday is boring and unfunny, two traits horrible for a comedy. Stranger Than Paradise I consider a waste of film: just a big fat nothing. It's a MMMM World is just everything I don't like about my nation's culture made incarnate: shrill, obnoxious, and stupid.

Are all these movies "the worst of the decade"? No, probably not. But they are my least favorites, considering what movies I've seen. I genuinely, genuinely dislike them all.

[monolith94]

I forgot about Blood Freak. That's probably the single worst film of the seventies.

[Spun Lepton]

Anyone else see Mr. Magoo? So bad... so, so bad.

Yes.

(*glares at bac0n*)

[MadMan]

*shifty eyes*

*whistles while walking away*GET HIM! *Grabs tourch and pitchfork*

[balmakboor]

I imagine my disdain will wear off a bit, but right now I'm inclined to say:

2000s
The Men Who Stare at Goats

[Lazlo]

2000s - Riding in Cars With Boys (2001)
1990s - Bats (1999)
1980s - Transformers: The Movie (1986)
1970s - Caligula (1979)
1960s - Ocean's 11 (1960)
1950s - Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959)

[Spun Lepton]

I imagine my disdain will wear off a bit, but right now I'm inclined to say:

2000s
The Men Who Stare at Goats

Disaster Movie would like to have a word with you.

[Gizmo]

00s: Master of Disguise
90s: Runaway Bride
80s: The Adventures of Milo and Otis
70s: Pink Flamingos
60s: Manos: The Hands of Fate(I wanted to not put this, but I just haven't seen anything else even in the ballpark to this bad in the 60s)

[MadMan]

I imagine my disdain will wear off a bit, but right now I'm inclined to say:

2000s
The Men Who Stare at GoatsReally? Nah. I liked it.

[Derek]

Really? Nah. I liked it.

I didn't, but if it's your worst of the decade, I'd wager you've left the bottom third of the barrel completely unexplored. You have to be careful down there though. It's almost like those terrifying deep sea creatures (http://www.sumedh.info/pictures/deep-sea/hairy-angler.png) (your Epic Movie's and Cat in the Hat's) that are so horrifying and bizarre, you could never imagine they exist until you see them for yourself. And others are just so bad, they're funny (http://www.bountyfishing.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/oceana-ecard_blobfish.jpg) (your Wicker Man's, etc.). Goats is far too innocuous to render decade-worst hate, at least in a decade where you should've seen hundreds of films.

[B-side]

As much as I hesitate to give Derek any sort of accolades, I had to rep him for this last post.

[Derek]

As much as I hesitate to give Derek any sort of accolades, I had to rep him for this last post.

:| Because I didn't want to get into yet another rating scale discussion?

[B-side]

:| Because I didn't want to get into yet another rating scale discussion?

Haha, no. I was just messing around.:P

[B-side]

I refuse to apologize for my immaculate sense of humor.

[balmakboor]

Disaster Movie would like to have a word with you.

I haven't seen that. But your mentioning it does beg a question. Is it worthwhile for a film buff to intentionally mix some really bad movies into his diet? Is it helpful to truly know on a scale of 1 to 10 what a 1 really looks like?

[Grouchy]

I haven't seen that. But your mentioning it does beg a question. Is it worthwhile for a film buff to intentionally mix some really bad movies into his diet? Is it helpful to truly know on a scale of 1 to 10 what a 1 really looks like?
My answer is yes, and if in addition to being a film buff you have creative intentions of your own, it's indispensable. You learn more film directing from a terrible movie than from a good one.