When it was first announced that they were going to be making a sequel to “Manos: Hands of Fate”, I learned that such a title existed as “worst movie ever”. I guess I always thought people were so much more concerned with giving movies awards and patting each other on the back than they were with labeling the movies as being bad. It seems really, to me, like something that shouldn’t have even been recognized by so-called movie critics because it should just stay off of their radar and they can go back to drooling over “Million Dollar Baby” and what not.
Upon doing some research, I found that there exists a label of “worst movie ever” following around “Plan 9 From Outer Space”. What? Who are these people and why do they get to label these movies as such? I would rather sit through Plan 9 (or Manos) than 95% of what is put out in the box office today. So, of course, I thought it only fair for me to decide- in my humble opinion- what the worst movie ever made really should be. I mean, come on, it’s time to update the list anyway, right? Plan 9 is a cult classic. Can you say the same about “Gigli”?
Now what I need to define before I begin is simply this: This is my opinion and my opinion alone of the worst movie ever made (and I’ve seen a lot of movies). To be fair, I am not going to choose a movie “out of my genre” either. It’d be very easy for me to pick off any of those movies based on Nicholas Sparks books, but, you know, not my genre. And just because it doesn’t appeal to me, it does appeal to someone. And then you start getting into this question of whether or not box office success has anything to do with the overall greatness of a movie. Sure, it makes millions its opening weekend, but what’s the longevity for it? Will people know or care about Nicholas Sparks ten years down the line? Again, things that make me appear out of my element, so I won’t even try to touch upon them.
Without further adieu, my vote for worst movie ever made is: Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li. While there exist several extensive websites explaining the casting flaws and plot holes in this movie, I’d like to look at it as being the worst movie ever made for two other huge reasons (Though plot and characters, which can be researched on your own, are valid enough to make my point)
First off, this was a reboot to the franchise, as it is not the first movie made based on the video game. But if only for technology sake, this movie should have been better than the Jean Claude Van Damme version. Sadly, it was not. I’ve watched The Punisher be portrayed by three different people, and each time I liked him a little bit more. How do you make a movie ten years or so after the original, and somehow have it come out worse than the original? The reboot has to be better, because if it’s not then you’re only left asking yourself what the point of the reboot was. For this, and many other reasons, I was left asking myself what the point of this reboot was. In fact, I’m still asking myself that.
The second- and really the biggest reason- why this movie gets the worst movie ever label from me is simply because of the timing and failure. This is the age of the computer nerds. A franchise built on movies based on a video game seems ideal. In fact, Lara Croft and Resident Evil actually both did a pretty good job of proving this. So why can’t we have a Street Fighter franchise? If this movie was really good, it could have spawned a number of sequels. But someone out there had to go and blow it, so this is officially my worst movie ever.
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