What are some of the most awful movies you have seen and why?

Mine are A Clockwork Orange and No Country for Old Men because of the gratuitous violence and American Beauty because it was just stupid.

"teeth" enough said

For my "awful" list, I would have to reduce the films to a certain category, as awful films continue to spread like poppy fields in Afghanistan under American occupation. So, these were publicly well received films that were so bad, I either walked out of the film, turned it off, or just vomitted continuously:

West Side Story; Star Wars; Dead Poet's Society; Reds; Dogville; The Color Purple; The Breakfast Club; Avatar; District 9

Are you referring to Star Wars 1, SW2, SW3, SW4, SW5, SW6, SW7, SW8 or SW9?

My goodness, is it that many! I have no idea whether you're joking or not. I know they had sequels, but I don't pay attention to how many. The one I saw was the 1977 George Lucas garbage. I was at a friends house, smoking, and he put it on. About an hour or so into it, I was shocked at how bad it was. It didn't matter if he was cute, I was high, or it was free, I got up and left. An awful children's film that has been overhyped to ridiculous proportions!

Awful movie I would not want to see again: "In a Glass Cage".

Awful movie I might see again: "Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama".

Awful movie I definitely will see again: "Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death" -- paired with "Apocalypse Now" for a good measure.

OMG! Here is the description for "In a glass cage":

"A former Nazi doctor-turned-pedophile, paralyzed from the neck down after a suicide attempt, is forced to accept a boy as his nurse under threat of blackmail: the boy secretly witnessed the doctor's torture and murder of another boy, and possesses the man's diary, which details his wartime experiments and his subsequent descent into pedophilia and murder. Before long, the boy displays his ambition to follow in the older man's footsteps."

LegoPirateSenior, I think you can go to the pharmacy and get a prescription for anti-depressants by just showing your ticket stub to that film!

And unlimited refills after showing a stub to "Viva la muerte;" however, this one did not qualify for mentioning in this thread -- my (very vague) recollection of the latter is rather positive (but then I was heavily into surrealism).

Plan 9 From Outer Space

Awful, awful, awful . . .

Yet somehow strangely awesome.

I couldn't bear watching District 9...it was so awful I stopped watching after 30 minutes or so...

Yeah, No Country for Old Men and American Beauty were Academy Award winners too...

I thought Titananic was horrible. I really like Di Caprio in every other movie I've seen him in, but I just wanted him to hurry up and drown so I could go home.

I was 17 when Star Wars first came out. I went to see it with friends, and after it was over they were raving about how great it was. I thought it boring.

Titanic was horrible! I agree.   I suppose I was thinking more along the lines of movies that have been deemed as praiseworthy as in my examples.  Yes, there are lots of really bad movies but I don't think Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-A-Rama would have been up for an Academy Award lol.

Trysts, I am wondering why you hated Dead Poet's Society?

I know this word is controversial lately, DPenn, but I found it nauseatingly pretentious

I think "pi" was the most awful movie I have ever watched to the end. It was like a looong long bad joke. A lame prank. Unfortunately though, it's a cult, and finding out this unfortunate fact made a significant mark on my general observatios on us human beings. I believe it has the highest ratio of popularity/quality ever in the entire movie history.

Well that makes two of us that thought "pi" was bad. You are the only other person I know of that has said that

Hey! Dogville is a masterpiece!

Finally! Someone! (catches some breath)

"Requiem for a dream" is crap as well