Really shitty movies with a very talented cast

[Yavin4]

What if I told that a movie had the following cast:

Robin Williams
Ed Norton
Danny DeVito
Catherine Keener
Jon Stewart
Harvey Fierstein

You would be excited to see it? No? That's the cast list to Death to Smoochy, a terrible, awful movie.

List some others.

[eShirl]

1. hook

I actually liked Death to Smoochy, but then again I wasn't expecting much.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

23. DTS has a following

A similar love-it-or-hate-it clown movie is "Shakes The Clown" with Bobcat Goldthwait

[GeorgeGist]

2. Winter's Tale.

Colin Firth
Russell Crowe
John Hurt
Will Smith

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. That was one of the worst movies I've ever seen.

I'd rented the DVD and couldn't get through to the end - about 2/3 through it I just gave up. Excellent cast, horrible movie. Even Robin Williams couldn't make it funny.

[KamaAina]

4. Ishtar

Dustin Hoffman, Warren Beatty, and Charles Grodin's talents all wasted.

[DFW]

12. That would have been my choice too!!

GMTA

[Algernon Moncrieff]

24. I remember a party game from about 20 years ago

You'd get guests into a room and put "Ishtar" on the TV. Prizes would be given for those who would remain in the room the longest.

[LostInAnomie]

5. Dick Tracy

Warren Beatty
Al Pacino
Dustin Hoffman
Kathy Bates
James Caan
William Forsythe
Charles Durning
Mandy Patinkin
Madonna

[Yavin4]

14. That's a good one.

Saw that crap in the theater as well.

[LynneSin]

30. Didn't Al Pacino still get an Oscar nomination from that movie

He was really really good in that movie but the rest of it stank

[sharp_stick]

6. The Avengers (1998)

I looked forward to seeing this for days before it came out. It was a movie that I actually went to on opening weekend because I wanted to see it so badly.

It sucked, it blew, it stunk the room out. I should have known when they bumped the release to late summer and didn't screen it for critics but I held out hope. It's 90 minutes that I would rather have spent in the fetal position listening to Zamfir albums.

Ralph Fiennes
Uma Thurman
Jim Broadbent
Sean Connery

[myrna minx]

13. Eddie Izzard was the only saving grace of that stinker. I couldn't believe how horrible it was!

Finnes and Thurman had *no* chemistry. It was so awful it almost made me angry. Ha

[sharp_stick]

7. My wife just reminded me of this piece of shit

I mentioned how nice it was back in the old days when we could go and see a crappy movie like The Avengers (1998) and just blow it off as a waste of time because we didn't have kids.

Jump forward to 2006 and we have a baby, we're a long way from home so free babysitting doesn't come often. Grandma comes to visit and that gives us a free night...Time to go see a sure "Oscar Contender" and get dinner. Off we go to see:

All The Kings Men with a fantastic cast
Sean Penn
Jude Law
Kate Winslet
Anthony Hopkins
James Gandolfini
Patricia Clarkson
Mark Ruffalo

We still went to dinner after seeing it and had a great time basically tearing it apart.

[Paladin]

9. Yet another re-make that didn't measure up to the original.

Broderick Crawford over Sean Penn? Hey, shit happens......

[sharp_stick]

11. I didn't see the original

but I read the book years earlier and loved it. It's one of the reasons I really wanted to see the movie and with that cast I thought it would be a no brainer.

This movie was bad from the top to the bottom. Writing, direction, acting. I think my wife even managed to get a dig or two in at the sound editing and wardrobe during dinner.

[Paladin]

16. The original movie is worthwhile. (nt)

[pinboy3niner]

8. That was the first one that came to mind, lol

In Norton's case, I read somewhere that in order to get a role in a certain good movie, he'd had to commit to a 2-picture deal. The unspecified second pic turned out to be Smoochy.

[chrisa]

10. Epic Movie (2007); Stuck on You (2003); This is the End (2013); Battlefield Earth (2000)

[LostInAnomie]

15. Ocean's 12

I liked Ocean's 11&13 but 12 was nothing but a steaming pile of a vanity project. It had a hell of a cast though:
Brad Pitt
George Clooney
Julia Roberts
Catherine Zeta Jones
Matt Damon
Andy Garcia
Casey Affleck
Scott Caan
Don Cheadle
Bernie Mack
Carl Reiner
Elliot Gould
Robbie Coltrane
Vincent Cassel
Eddie Izzard
Topher Grace
Bruce Willis

[LynneSin]

29. Ocean 12 was great up until they had Julia Roberts play a character playing a fake Julia Roberts

Then it just lost it from there.

That scene alone ruined the entire movie for it.

[GoCubsGo]

47. Yeah, that part was stupid.

Otherwise, I enjoyed it.

[First Speaker]

17. There's always the ultimate disaster film--Heaven's Gate

...Kristofferson, John Hurt, Sam Waterston...and my God. I'm afraid to take my old video of it out of its container, for fear of radiating the entire county...

[magical thyme]

19. they blew horses up making that piece of shit film

Literally strapped dynamite to their bellies and blew them up.

I didn't know sam Waterston was in that disgusting hateful sick travesty.

[WinkyDink]

18. "Clue." BLEAGH!

[Archae]

20. "The Hindenberg"

George C. Scott led a stellar cast.

When that giant gasbag finally blew up, we cheered.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

21. Actualy, there is a worse Williams movie with a good cast

Robin Williams
Peter O'Toole
Rick Moranis
Jimmy Cliff
Twiggy
Adolph Caesar
Eugene Levy
Joanna Cassidy
Andrea Martin
Brian Doyle-Murray

Club Paradise

[Shrek]

22. Meet The Fockers

Robert De Niro

Barbra Streisand

Dustin Hoffman

Owen Wilson

Blythe Danner

[Tommy_Carcetti]

35. I have no idea why they didn't leave well enough alone and not turn it into a franchise.

Other than the obvious response, that being money.

The first movie was funny and enjoyable. There was no need for a sequel. Or two.

Same could be said about Austin Powers and several other movies that would have been better served as stand alone movies.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

25. The Bonfire of the Vanities

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bonfire_of_the_vanities/

Tom Hanks
Melanie Griffith
Saul Rubinek
Bruce Willis
Kim Cattrall
Morgan Freeman

[NewJeffCT]

43. Didn't see your post

when I was making mine. I agree 100% - loved the book, but the movie was a train wreck.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

45. It was so bad it was worth mentioning twice

So bad that none of Wolfe's other books ever made it to the big screen.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

56. Well, there was The Right Stuff, which was a truly magnificent movie.

But that was made before The Bonfire of the Vanities, so I suppose that ruined it for Wolfe from then on.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

58. TRS was (ostensibly) a work of non-fiction

...although many have questioned the accuracy of certain details of the book

TBOTV is the first of his fictional works. It pretty much ruined the chances of the other novels being filmed, although there was some talk of making "I am Charlotte Simmons" into a film.

[cemaphonic]

26. Red Dragon

Maybe a bit better than shitty, but definitely not good, especially considering this cast:

Anthony Hopkins
Edward Norton
Ralph Fiennes
Harvey Keitel
Emily Watson
Mary-Louise Parker
Philip Seymour Hoffman

[LostInAnomie]

27. Definitely not a great movie...

... but Ralph Fiennes was great in it.

[Tom Kitten]

28. the original Casino Royale

a Spoof of the Bond movies from 1967, the cast includes

Peter Sellers
David Niven
Ursula Andress
Orson Welles
Woody Allen
Deborah Kerr
William Holden
Charles Boyer
John Huston
Jean-Paul Belmondo
among others

But it's a dark, dense incomprehensible mess. Maybe having 5 directors had something to do with it. Also Peter Sellers walked off the film before all his scenes were shot.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

33. That movie had great music though....

Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass did the titles and Burt Bacharach scored the rest.

It also gave us the song "The Look Of Love" through the seduction scene between Ursula Andress and,....








....Peter Sellers (?!).

[Tom Kitten]

34. I thought about that

and mentioning it, and it adds more talent to the fine cast in such a mess of a movie. But you're right, the soundtrack is excellent, in fact audiophiles seek out the original vinyl.

In fact I sort of enjoy the movie as a period piece of what could go wrong in one of those establishment attempts at "let's be hip" in the "swinging 60s"...

I have a small collection of similar themed movies, like Barbarella, Candy, The Party, The Magic Christian, What's New Pussycat, I Love You Alice B. Toklais, etc...interesting how Peter Sellers was in a lot of them!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

36. Back to this movie, there were elements that later turned up in Austin Powers....

Like the fembots with lots of machine guns who can't aim.

[Midwestern Democrat]

49. It was one of those movies that thought they could get away with being silly rather than funny

[tanyev]

31. August Rush

Robin Williams
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Keri Russell
Freddie Highmore
Terrence Howard

Treacly pablum. I think the general concept could have been made into a much better movie.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

32. I recently saw "The Big Wedding"

It starred:

Diane Keaton
Robert Deniro
Susan Sarandon
Robin Williams
Topher Grace
Amanda Seyfried
Katherine Heigl

I don't know whether it qualifies as "really shitty", but it was definitely not very good.

Also, those "Valentine's Day"/"New Years Eve" movies with everyone and anyone in them were pretty horrible.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

37. "Striptease" (1996) with Demi Moore and Burt Reynolds with Robert Patrick.

A vanity movie for Demi Moore trying to break the typecasting after "Ghost".

Wikipedia describes it as a "comedy-drama erotic film" and it misses on all three.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

38. Also based on a novel written by Carl Hiaasen.

Who's hilarious, but yet they failed to capture the essence of his work on screen.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

39. They failed to capture any talent either.

[NewJeffCT]

41. Moore was too intense for the role

They really needed somebody that could pull off a comedic role better than her.

Also had Armand Assante and Ving Rhames.

I love Hiaasen's work, but the movie just did not capture the essence of his books.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

40. Another one: "Catwoman" with Halle Berry....

She had just won an Oscar for "Monster's Ball" and picked up her Razzie personally so she could do an acceptance speech.

"First of all, I want to thank Warner Brothers. Thank you for putting me in a piece of shit, god-awful movie... It was just what my career needed."

[NewJeffCT]

42. Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, Morgan Freeman

Kim Cattrall, Saul Rubinek, Kirsten Dunst and a few others...

Bonfire of the Vanities. Loved the book, but the movie was a train wreck

[NewJeffCT]

44. Michael Caine, Henry Fonda, Olivia DeHavilland, Katherine Ross

Richard Widmark, Richard Chamberlin, Patty Duke, Jose Ferrer, Fred MacMurray, Slim Pickens...

The Swarm
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078350/?ref_=nv_sr_1

[Joe Shlabotnik]

53. I saw that at the theatre when I was about 7 years old.

I was terrified of bees afterwards, but I guess scaring a 7 year old is a pretty low bar. Nowadays I love cheesy old movies like that.

[NewJeffCT]

54. I think i was about 10 when it came out

so, I was probably in the same boat as you... still, it's a big fall for Henry Fonda from The Grapes of Wrath and 12 Angry Men to The Swarm.

[Sancho]

46. One of my favorites for parties with beer!

Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Rory Calhoun, and DeForest Kelley.

Night of the Lepus!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Lepus

Night of the Lepus, also known as Rabbits, is a 1972 American science fiction horror film based on the 1964 science fiction novel The Year of the Angry Rabbit.

Released theatrically on October 4, 1972, it focuses on members of a small Arizona town who battle thousands of mutated, carnivorous killer rabbits. The film was the first science fiction work for producer A. C. Lyles and for director William F. Claxton, both of whom came from Western film backgrounds. Character actors from Westerns the pair had worked on were brought in to star in the Night of the Lepus, including Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Rory Calhoun, and DeForest Kelley.

Shot in Arizona, Night of the Lepus used domestic rabbits filmed against miniature models and actors dressed in rabbit costumes for the attack scenes.

Before its release, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) renamed the film from its original name of Rabbits and avoided including rabbits in most promotional materials to try to keep the featured mutant creatures a secret. However, the studio itself broke the secret by issuing rabbit's foot-themed promotional materials before the release. Widely panned by critics for its premise, bad directing, stilted acting and laughable special effects, the film's biggest failure was considered to be the inability to make the rabbits seem scary. Night of the Lepus has gained cult status for its poor quality and was released to home video for the first time in October 2005 when it was released to Region 1 DVD. It was also recently featured in Rifftrax, the comedy troupe of Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett, former members of the "Mystery Science Theater 3000" ensemble.

[Nevada Blue]

48. Spaceballs

worst Mel Brooks ever.

Mel Brooks
John Candy
Rick Moranis
Bill Pullman
John Hurt
Joan Rivers
Dick Van Patten

Almost went with Three Amigos (Martin, Short, Chase) - then I remembered Spaceballs.

[Odin2005]

51. Spaceballs was SUPPOSED to be shitty.

It's a Star Wars parody.

[NewJeffCT]

55. a good parody

Doesn't mean it's shitty. There are plenty of crappy monster movies, but Young Frankenstein was awesome. And, a lot of crappy westerns, but Blazing saddles was a classic.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

50. Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw, Telly Savalas, Robert Ryan, Charles Bronson

all flopped horribly in the Battle of the Bulge (1965). For a great cast with a historical story so rich, it unfolded in an entirely wrong setting and climaxed with a tiger tank catching on fire...... epic facepalm. From Wiki "President Eisenhower came out of retirement and held a press conference to denounce the film for what he considered its gross historical inaccuracy."

I'm honestly surprised a real Battle of Bulge movie hasn't been re-done.

[Odin2005]

52. Wow, a war movie so bad Ike had to speak up about it!

[reflection]

57. MOVIE 43

Sorry about the all caps, but that would have been the most godawful piece of shit ever conceived even without the stellar cast. When you take the star power into account, it's even more unbelievable. The movie currently holds a 4% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/movie_43/