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The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made

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I love bad movies, so when i saw there was a documentary out all about ranking the worst movies i thought i'd give it a try.

Don't bother with this DVD. Its 60 minutes long. Now think about that fact. 50 movies, in 60 minutes. Some movies are barely shown for twenty seconds or they use a commercial that reveals little of whats bad in the movie. SO problem number one they don't show enough of the movies. Problem 2 is the bad designs of people booing and throwing popcorn at every movie they talk about. The voice over was also a bit on the annoying side but thats probably the fault of the people who made this.

Its actually very ironic that this being about the worst films is actually a terrible film in itself. Another complaint i have is on what merrits on they ranking these films. FOr a few, it seemed they put their not cause they were the worst movies made but because they were box office flops. I'm not saying Ishtar or Howard the duck were good movies but they shouldn't be placed on a list of the worst. There are alot more terrible films, with acting thats unbelievably bad, mistakes galore, poor lighting, poor directing, poor writing,etc. These were just bad movies that were flops. I'm surprised they didn't throw Heaven's gate in here if they were doing flops.

So i don't get the criteria they were using. A lot of really terrible movies were excluded too for some reason. Manos is sadly missing. Glen or Glenda is alot worse then Plan 9(despite plan 9 having the fame) yet plan 9 got a lower ranking.

I guess the best thing i can say about this DVD is that they did get a list of some very bad movies. Robot Monster and Santa Claus Conquers the Martians are amongst the worst movies you'll ever see. According to the DVD, only Black Belt Jones is a movie so bad its funny but many (If not all) picked are so bad they are funny. I didn't like how they included the movie Troll only because the sequel Troll 2 was so much worse(For heaven's sake, Troll 2 didn't even have trolls in it. it had Goblins. Thats bad!).

So, if you guys want to Watch a List of movies with barely any clips of the films that emphasize there baddness, this a film for you. those of you who don't, heres a breif list of some of their movies.

Snow WHite and the 3 stooges
Greetings
The frozen Dead
They saved Hitler's brain
Black belt Jones
TNT Jackson
The thing with two heads
Howard the Duck
Billy the kid vs. Dracula
Bela Legosi meets a brooklyn Gorilla
Strange Creatures
Bloodsucking freaks
Leonard pt. 6
Attack of the crab monsters
Robot Monster
Santa Claus Conquers the martians
Troll
Trog
Xanadu
The Crippled Masters
I married a Monster from outer space
Teenage Zombie
Ghost and the invisible Bikini
Fat Spy
Plan 9 from outer space
Glen or Glenda
Bride of the monster
The mesa of Lost women
Voodoo Woman
Ishtar
Frankenstein Conquers the world
The Creeping Terror
The great Alligator
Hillbillys in a haunted House
The incredible melting man
Firebird 2015Ad
Dracula Vs. Frankenstein
Smokey and the Bandits Pt 3
The wild woman of Wongo
The ape
Galaxy of terror
The RObot vs. The Aztec Mummy
Snow WHite (German Version)
Creature from the HAunted sea
The swinging CHeerleaders
Trial of billy Jack
Killers from space
Spider baby
The 3 stooges in orbit
The sorceress
The crawling hand
JD's Revenge
Frankenstein meets the space monster
Killer shrews
Great white
The thing with two heads
Eegah!
The incridebly Strange creatures who stopped living and became mixed up zombies.

Certainly far from a definitive list of Worst movies

don't buy this junk,it is nothing more than trailers for 50 movies that the makers have deamed as the "worst". like another review said just look up a list somewere!!!

First of all, a list of the XX best/worst of anything is always subjective, but the fact of the matter is, the films on this seem to have been chosen strictly on the basis of the film's public domain status and/or the availability of a trailer from which to pull royalty free clips. Frankly, if this was just a trailer reel, I'd highly recommend it, but it's edited together like any one of the endless VH1 shows of similar title. The only thing missing is the "funny" pundits waxing poetically on the subject at hand. (Just try not to get tired of the cheesy linking scene of the crowd throwing stuff at a move screen that is repeated after every movie.)

On the plus side, I discovered a few movies I'm going to have to look for now. There was some trivia in there I didn't know. I only paid $3 but I'll probably never watch it again.

Very funny and very short 50 worst movies countdown. A Quick overview of movies. I find it a bit comical but short, and certainly there are way more than 50 worst movies.and why is Plan 9 number 4?

When I first saw this show up on my netflix queue, I figured hey- bad movies are awesome. Why not check it out? It'd be worth a few laughs.

I have to say that while I was certainly entertained, I was sort of disappointed by some of the films included in the list. I'm sure that these might be very bad for the people who made the list, but I have to question some of the films that made the list. Howard the Duck is a bad movie but is it really worse than The Final Sacrifice, which wasn't included on the list? My point is that this list seems to be more based on (as another reviewer stated) box office gross & personal preference than actual badness.

This is still good but I recommend this as a rental only. Get it via Netflix before you buy it because this doesn't have a lot of rewatch value.

It's a shame, really...

There have been so many awful movies in the history of cinema and this program barely touches on a few of them. I question the judgment of attempting to review 50 movies in 60 minutes, especially when for half of them, the narrator describes them simply as "bad" or "very bad", or "very very bad." Not to mention, the videos appear to be stock trailers for the movies, rather than any particular movie footage.

Also, who decided which movies were the worst? This program seems to be the results of some undisclosed poll. I'm noticing a strange absence of "Manos". They probably just couldn't get a trailer for it, so they left it off of the list.

One more thing, besides the questionable choice of movies and annoyingly lazy narration, the viewer is treated to a poor computer animation of a movie audience booing and throwing clip-art food at the screen before EVERY one of the 50 entries. Annoying.

If you want poor movies, watch MST3k or anything from the IMDB Bottom 100 (or heck, just read their trivia entries!).

Like VH1's "50 Most Awesomely Bad Songs...Ever," which came out around a similar time, a lot of these were just picked to make the show interesting. Moreso, "MANOS" THE HANDS OF FATE is missing from the list, as are MONSTER A GO GO and RED ZONE CUBA.

I am a longtime lover of cheesy cinema, and go out of my way to discover new grade-Z movies whenever and wherever possible. Given that proclivity, you would think that this DVD would be perfect for me, but I came away unenthusiastic. Don't misunderstand me: there are 50 wretched movies discussed here, but the presentation is cheap, the commentary is middling at best, and the films selected, while definitely poor, are most certainly not the worst 50 films in history.

Obviously any grouping like this is somewhat arbitrary and subjective, but many of these films (e.g. the German version of "Snow White" from 1955) are outclassed in stupefying badness by many other films. Many of the films here are known by virtually everyone interested in B-movies ("Ishtar," "Howard the Duck," "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians," etc.), although some of the films were unknown to me, and for that alone I am giving this DVD three stars. Great films like "Firebird 2015 AD," "The Great Alligator," and "The Three Stooges in Orbit" (simply ghastly) are presented here in all their "glory. For that the DVD can be praised.

Understand that the DVD is 60 minutes long, and features 50 films, so there is not much time devoted to each, and the repetitive linking feature of animated objects being hurled at a movie screen got very old very fast. I have mixed feelings about this project and considered grades of one, two, or three stars, but finally settled on three due to the relatively high number of wretched cinematic morsels that the DVD introduced me to. The concept is good, but the selection of films is questionable, and the execution leaves a lot to be desired. I would find a copy of "The Golden Turkey Awards" by the Medved brothers and use it as a guide before recommending this DVD. If you have exhaustively researched all other outlets of cinematic cheesiness, then by all means go ahead and buy this, it's cheap. Remember though that you get what you pay for.

I liked alot of the things about this dvd. The only complaint I have is that they only show SOME clips of the movie. It would have been even better if they shown more of the movies. Everything else I think is Pretty okay.

Ol' Fortunato has seen shows and then he has seen shows, and after watching THE WORST MOVIES EVER MADE, none of that really matters. This is the DVD that legends are made from. This show RULES hard.

Some of the movies in here you won't believe. This is like Mystery Science Theatre on smack! I laughed my o-ring clean off!