Worst Movie Ever? Batman & Robin, Says Empire
George Clooney once admitted Batman & Robin, the schlocky 1997 superhero movie that jump-started the actor’s career, was crap. Now director Joel Schumacher’s steaming heap of cinematic dung has been voted the worst film ever by readers of Empire magazine.
Nabbing nearly three times as many votes as the No. 2 movie (Battlefield Earth), Schumacher’s heinous offense to Bat-fandom was the “runaway loser,” according to the magazine feature, “The 50 Worst Movies Ever.”
As horrible as it is, is Batman & Robin really the worst film of all time? Like Battlefield Earth, the Scientology-fi onion that still elicits tears wherever it goes, Batman & Robin is still watchable — as a comedy.
Let us know your selection for the worst movie ever in the comments section below. Who knows? We may just put together a reader-generated list of our own that puts Batman & Robin in its proper place.
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Worst movie: Napoleon Dynamite. Runner up: Bio-dome.
Ack, correction! I meant “Game Over”, not “The Game”.
The Game (the Max Payne movie (NOT the most recent one)). For a while, I thought it had a plot; I was wrong.
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To give you an idea, it’s about a character switching between different video games at random. It’s told, and shot, from the first person. Atrocious.
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The “Star Trek” reboot (J.J. Abrams) was the worst sci-fi movie ever (yes, even worse than “Plan 9″) for its impossible coincidences, improbably consequences, and (”Nemesis” wasn’t bad enough?) yet again, a rogue Romulan with a secret super weapon. Only this time, even folks unfamiliar with the franchise could recognize that Klingons are mere villains, while the Romulans get to be the universe’s deus ex machina.
Oh yeah, Highlander 2 — good call on that one. We were out of the theater 15 minutes in.
Gigli, Ishtar (well maybe circa the ’80s), Waterworld (that has to be up there). Yes, Battlefield Earth was straight-up sensory torture for me. Lethal Weapon III or IV– walked out of the theater on one of those. Alien Resurrection — I’m like how do f up something like Alien/Aliens with this crap? Terminator 3&4 — (yack) not the worst but annoying enough to be mentioned here.
B&R was at least familiar if not good.
holy crap dudes, try the Highlander on for size, phew-eeee!!!
Bio-Dome starring Pauly Shore
These are all terrible movies, but how about “The Room”? Anyone who sits through this thing once knows what I’m saying – if you sit through it more than once, you’re either brain-damaged or some sort of art-poser.
I would rate Breaking the Waves as my least favorite movie of all time. Freddy Got Fingered would get honorable mention, even though it was clearly designed to do nothing other than offend so maybe it shouldn’t be in the running. Much of Andy Warhol’s output is basically unwatchable as well.
Hands down, Dungeon’s & Dragons (2000). I honestly think the script may have been written verbatim from a game that a bunch of 12-year-olds actually played. Thinking about it makes me want to roll a dice then punch myself in the face.
“Pete’s Dragon.” Hands-down, that’s the worst movie ever made. “Reign of Fire” and “King Arthur” (the one with Clive Owen) are eternally struggling with each other for second place.
Hardly. Yes, it was a terrible movie, but not even in the bottom third. Anyone that voted this movie as the worst hasn’t been watching any movies – particularly from Hollywood these days. I’ll thow out Precious and Transformers 2 as two recent films that are total junk.
nothing will ever top “Plan 9″…it is the most well know ultra horrible movie in cinematic history
B&R isn’t even close to the worse. Manos: The Hands of Fate is so unwatchable, even the MS3K treatment couldn’t even save it.
Any movie starring Owen Wilson, but if I had to pick, Shanghai Noon/Knights
As bad as the nipple-on-the-costume Batman and Robin was, it can’t hold a candle to “The Core” or “Reign of Fire”.