Listal's 100 Films to Avoid at All Costs

We've had a couple of lists of films to watch before we die, I figured we should have a list of films to absolutely avoid as a guide to the rest of the world. There's plenty of strong opinions on this site, so it might be fun to see what everyone can (sort of) agree on.

Simple format: You can nominate up to 10 movies, back an unlimited number. I'm going to run for a week before posting initial results to a list.

Here are my nominations. I've stuck to better known movies, a mix of the universally derided and the massively overrated (in my opinion).

1. Batman & Robin - I love the Batman character and this descent into outright camp was appalling.

2. Desperado - Director Robert Rodriguez delivers several scenes with lots of guns blazing for hours on end, with some dialogue and story in-between.

3. Deuce Bigelow: Male Gigolo - Oh dear, where do I begin with this one? I'd rather not.

4. Species II - The first Species movies was reasonable B-grade sci-fi, but this sequel really ups the ante for trashiness.

5. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me - All the funny bits were in the trailer, the rest was garbage.

6. Street Fighter - In the mid 90s, Van Damme incomprehensibly became a star on the back of such garbage as this movie.

7. The Patriot - Mel Gibson was never one for historical accuracy but this unmitigated piece of garbage sets the bar pretty low.

8. Sherlock Holmes - It's difficult to believe that Robert Downey Jr could end up on this list, but here it is. Has to be the worst Sherlock Holmes adaptation ever.

9. Octopussy - I loved how in the opening sequence the helicopter flies through three different Indian states in the matter of mere seconds, downhill from there.

10. Pearl Harbor - Historical inaccuracies aside (can't believe I said that), this was a unbelievably poorly scripted, directed and acted movie.

This list would be very relative, just the mere fact of appointing a generally good movie a movie to avoid because you (in general) don't like it would make this a very poor list.

Ha, agreeing with Veed. If such a list is to be made, it can't really be based on how much you liked a movie, because that's too relative. It would have to be the makings of the movie, like obviously poor acting, writing, cinematography, etc.

Even that is pretty relative...

Hmmm...well, I'll play along.

1. House of the Dead - The only Uwe Boll film I've suffered through & general consensus tells me that it's best I continue avoiding his crap.
2. Mortal Kombat: Annihilation - At least the first film had a couple of decent fight scenes. I can't even recall any specifics of this one, beyond that I watched it and it sucked.
3. The Crow: City of Angels - There's only one Crow movie, and that's the first one. I refuse to speak of any so-called sequels.
4. The Spirit - It's not often I walk out on a movie & demand my money back. This is one of the few.
5. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor - Die.
6. Observe and Report - See PvtCaboose91's review.
7. Indiana Jones & the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - Completely unnecessary.
8. Godzilla (1998) - Thanks Roland Emmerich for ruining one of my favorite childhood monsters. Dick.
9. Armageddon - Had I not had 2 of my best friends to make fun of this with while watching, I would never have sat through it. And as much fun as we had, we should never have even bought tickets.
10. Spawn - I loved the comic books. I dug the cartoon series. But I hated every moment of this.

@Veed, McKenzie : That's how I made the list. I do think these films have some combination of poor acting, story, direction or other skill.

Why not ? I want to be involved!

1. Cool as ice (the worst movie ever made)
2. Street Fighter
3. Bean
4. My little pony: the movie
5. Thomas and the magic railroad
6. Taxi (1998)
7. Raise your voice
8. Ballistic : Ecks vs ever
9. Alone in the dark
10. Plan 9 from outer space

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01. King Midas - Damn, where do I even began. First off this movie may be possible reason that America is at war. 'Nuff said.

02. Mortal Kombat: Annihilation - What happened the previous film was actually decent considering all of the obstacles when filming video game to film.

03. House of the Dead - Uwe Boll...

04. Blood Rayne - ...again

05. Sharktopus - Actually, consider watching this film. Sometimes it has that "it's-so-bad-it's-good" thing going then...you know what...avoid at all costs!

06. Hood Angels - The concept is exactly as the title sounds. Sadly, I wish that I was making this up.

07. Taxi - I can let the Queen get away with Beauty Shop, but has desperation led you to co-star in a movie...with...Falon...*sigh*

08. Killer Clowns from Outer Space - (spoiler) Just shoot them [clowns] in the fu**ing nose already and get that shit over with.

09. Belly - Many people consider this a 'hood classic. Right up there with some of the Martin Scorcese stuff. Really?

10. Fred:The Movie - I had utterly no idea how annoying [this Fred character] could just quite be until my kid asked me to watch the movie on Netflix. After a grueling 90 minutes, I sent my kid to bed, called the 800 Netflix customer and threatened to sue for pain and suffering...

1. Transformers- Revenge of the Fallen (Awful, awful, awful.)

2. Prom Night (Remake)

3. Imagination (Eric Leiser)

4. Step Brothers

I've got about five off the top of my head. Of course these are personal choices

5. Ghost Rider
4. The Day the Earth Stood Still (remake) - not only was it a bastardization of a great film but it was simply terrible in its own right.
3. Windtalkers
2. Mr. Magoo - was my #1 least favorite film of all time for years
1. Excalibur - Until this one replaced it.