History Horrible / LiveActionFilms

** Their first "original" work, '''''Film/BestNightEver''''', was a FoundFootage comedy in the vein of ''Film/ProjectX'', when the subgenre was already earning backlash, ramping up the gross-out humor to compensate for lack of references, and featuring scenes which [[LeaveTheCameraRunning just won't end]] - [[http://www.avclub.com/review/with-best-night-ever-the-directors-of-disaster-mov-200978 the A.V. Club pointed out]] "the movie has more [[{{Padding}} awkward dead space]] than jokes".

# To ensure that the work is judged with a clear mind and the hatred isn't just a knee-jerk reaction, as well as to allow opinions to properly form, '''[[Administrivia/NoRecentExamplesPlease examples should not be added until at least one month after release]]'''.

[[caption-width-right:350:Well, you gotta commend them for one thing: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The title didn't lie.]]]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:Well, you gotta commend them for one thing: The title didn't lie.]]

->''"[='=]''[[Film/TheGarbagePailKidsMovie Garbage Pail Kids]]''[='=]... does the title even '''sound''' like it's going to attempt to be a good movie?"''

->''"[[Film/TheGarbagePailKidsMovie 'Garbage Pail Kids']] ... does the title even '''sound''' like it's going to attempt to be a good movie?"''

** '''''Film/{{Gotti}}''''', a 2018 biopic of [[TheMafia mafia]] boss John Gotti adapted from the memoirs of his son John Angelo "Junior" Gotti, spent seven years in DevelopmentHell, and it shows. A near-two hour attempt to paint a ''mob boss'' as an [[HistoricalHeroUpgrade unambiguous hero and family man]], it's a mostly RandomEventsPlot that jumps between events in Gotti's life with no structure (with overuse of {{stock footage}} as if it's trying to be a docudrama). Only John Travolta as the titular Gotti (and to a certain degree his then-wife, the late Creator/KellyPreston, [[RealLifeRelative as Gotti's wife]]) seems to be [[TookTheBadFilmSeriously acting properly]], as everyone else is horrid. That's not just true for the acting, but the makeup - Spencer Lofranco as Junior Gotti is unconvincingly aged 20 years with glasses and gray hair dye, which makes the cuts to stock footage of the real Junior (who actually looked his age) even more jarring. There's even a rap score by Music/{{Pitbull}} - for a movie that's set largely in the 70s and 80s! The film earned a [[MedalOfDishonor rare 0% critics' score]] on Website/RottenTomatoes, and in a piece of scumminess befitting a mob film, [=MoviePass=] tried to [[AstroTurf artificially inflate]] [[https://theplaylist.net/moviepass-audience-score-gotti-20180620/ the film's audience score]] so they could claim CriticalDissonance and advertise it as a film that [[https://variety.com/2018/film/news/john-travolta-gotti-critics-0-percent-rotten-tomatoes-score-1202850906/ "trolls behind a keyboard" don't want you to see]]. This flopped, as [[BoxOfficeBomb it failed to recoup its $10 million budget]], partially thanks to 40% of cinemagoers getting their tickets free through the [=MoviePass=] service. It was nominated for seven Razzie Awards, including Worst Picture and Worst Director, but won none (losing the first two to ''Film/HolmesAndWatson'', also on this page). WebVideo/RalphTheMovieMaker tears it apart [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZDDbqWze3M here,]] as does [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFpDWvDeLv0 What The Flick?!]], with Christy comparing the film unfavorably to fellow Travolta stinker ''Film/BattlefieldEarth''. ''WebVideo/DoubleToasted'' also covers the film [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBSnx_FaGcs here.]] WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob reviews it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2YXl9-wYuA here.]]

** '''''Film/ATalkingCat''''' (also known as ''Duffy the Talking Cat''): The story has more holes than a beehive, the "drama" is [[ConflictBall forced and inexplicable]], the acting is [[DullSurprise wooden]], and the characters are [[{{Jerkass}} unlikable]], moronic {{Captain Obvious}}es. It also has [[SpecialEffectFailure god-awful special effects]] (the cat's mouth is an MS Paint circle!), a setting that's all over the place, and framing that looks like a [=YouTube=] video. Creator/EricRoberts ''literally'' phoned in his lines as the title character in 15 minutes, and the rest of the cast doesn't act much better - most of them are [[BleachedUnderpants porn veterans]], as is [=DeCoteau=] (under the pseudonym of [[AlanSmithee Mary Crawford]]). The laser pointer and cat treats used to "direct" the titular cat are clearly visible several times in the movie. For a movie that seems to have been intended as a family-friendly fantasy film, there's also virtually no humor to interest the kids [[AudienceAlienatingPremise (or anything to interest anyone else, either)]]. It has an [=IMDb=] score of 3/10. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m76z5mgv5_A JonTron]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0j8Jd8ipWY the Cinema Snob]] provide reviews, and Podcast/{{Rifftrax}} [[https://youtu.be/IpNKl9s2ddE gave it their typical treatment]].

** Based on [[Literature/BattlefieldEarth the controversial pulp]] Sci-Fi {{Doorstopper}} written by Creator/LRonHubbard, '''''Film/BattlefieldEarth''''' effectively [[CreatorKiller killed the Franchise Pictures company]] and mostly undid Creator/JohnTravolta's CareerResurrection. Although the film was supposed to be the adaptation of the ''first half'' of the book, it made numerous errors in the structure and the pacing of the plot, as seen by [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0185183/trivia?tab=gf this list]] compiled by Website/IMDb users, and changed it in such a way that all the characters have to act like morons in order for it to work. Combined with laughable costumes, [[SpecialEffectsFailure weak special effects]], acting that is either wooden or [[ChewingTheScenery ridiculously hammy]], clueless direction, and gratuitous overuse of {{Dutch Angle}}s and you get a film that deserved its 3% on Website/RottenTomatoes, 9 on Metacritic, and 2.5 rating on [=IMDb=]. These flaws didn't appeal to audiences either, as it only grossed $23,725,663 out of its $73 million dollar budget. Not only did this perfect storm of critical and commercial fail [[StillbornFranchise ruin Franchise Pictures' plans for a sequel based on the 2nd half of the book]], ''Battlefield Earth'' became the punchline for the 2001 UsefulNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward as it won all but the Worst Actress and Worst Remake/Sequel awards for that year. Afterwards, it held on to the reputation of having the most Razzie awards won for more than a ''decade'' until Creator/AdamSandler's ''Film/JackAndJill'' bested it by winning all of the awards in the 2012 Razzies. The film also won the Worst Film of the Decade Award at the 2010 Razzies for movies that premiered between 2000 and 2009. With the film being ranked #27 on Rotten Tomatoes's Worst of the Worst 2009, it is no wonder why it served as the subject of [[http://channelawesome.com/nostalgia-critic-battlefield-earth/ the Nostalgia Critic's 100th video review]]. Website/SFDebris also has a [[http://sfdebris.com/videos/films/battlefieldearth.php few words]] to say about the film. To top it off, it consistently goes on lists for worst movies ever made, with it being placed at #1 on [=WatchMojo=]'s 2016 video of "Top 10 Worst Movies of All Time."

** '''''Film/JackAndJill''''', a 2011 film that stars Creator/AdamSandler [[ActingForTwo as a set of estranged twins]]. The premise concerns Jack Sadelstein, a commercial director, who is visited by his annoying identical twin sister Jill. During the Thanksgiving holidays, Jill is wooed by Creator/AlPacino, much to Jack's annoyance since he sought out Pacino for [[ProductPlacement his Dunkin' Donuts commercial]]. Like ''Bucky Larson'', the film's plot is essentially a bad ''SNL'' sketch stretched to feature length. Worse still, the gags are all lowbrow and derivative of Sandler's earlier works, there are a multitude of negative implications regarding its depiction of Mexicans, the cameos from celebrities such as Drew Carey, Shaquille O'Neal, and John [=McEnroe=] are wasted, and the direction is hopelessly careless. The film got a 3% on Website/RottenTomatoes, a Metacritic score of 23, and a 3.5 on Website/IMDb. It also won a Razzie in ''every category'' of 2011, resulting in a record of 10 awards. Director Dennis Dugan's career was tarnished by this film and has only helmed ''Grown Ups 2'', the sequel to his ''Film/GrownUps'', since. If you have a lot of time to kill, ''WebVideo/HalfInTheBag'' takes a look at it [[http://redlettermedia.com/half-in-the-bag-jack-and-jill/ here,]] extensively detailing Sandler's scam-like laziness in making his films, [[WebVideo/BadMovieBeatdown Film Brain]] has his own review of it [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x386bhj here,]] [[WebVideo/CinematicExcrement Smeghead]] gives his opinion [[https://vimeo.com/112611999 here,]] and Creator/MarkKermode shares his thoughts about it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySKXQ0vKxpk here.]] WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic tears this movie a new one [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djIIs2dkaX0 here.]] Even fictional review shows like the [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2013-03-29 one]] in ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' use it as an [[https://www.egscomics.com/?date=2012-08-13 example]] of a [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2012-08-15 horrible movie]].

* '''Craig Moss''' is a director that somehow gets Creator/SeltzerAndFriedberg's formula of {{Narrow|Parody}} and ShallowParody films and makes them ''even less'' funny, and he uses a ''lot'' of vulgar humor. Away from his parody efforts he's actually proven to be a somewhat capable action director, as evidenced by his ''Film/{{Bad Ass|2012}}'' films with Creator/DannyTrejo, but comedy is definitely ''not'' his forte.

** '''''Film/BabyGeniuses''''' has garnered an insidious reputation as one of the very worst family films to ever be made, and it makes zero effort to hide this: putting aside the rather AudienceAlienatingPremise that the title gives away, the writing is beyond puerile apart from occasionally humorous banter between two side characters, ''gaping'' {{Plot Hole}}s, almost nonexistent lip syncing, the grandest of SpecialEffectFailure all piled on top of a blithering IdiotPlot. [[WebVideo/ReactionAndReview Emer Prevost]] endured the film in his review [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Vt2eKA1MgM here,]] while a coma-stricken WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic reviews it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lcCqU09ZCA here.]]

** Based on [[Literature/BattlefieldEarth the controversial pulp]] Sci-Fi {{Doorstopper}} written by Creator/LRonHubbard, '''''Film/BattlefieldEarth''''' effectively [[CreatorKiller killed the Franchise Pictures company]] and mostly undid Creator/JohnTravolta's CareerResurrection. Although the film was supposed to be the adaptation of the ''first half'' of the book, it made numerous errors in the structure and the pacing of the plot, as seen by [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0185183/trivia?tab=gf this list]] compiled by Website/IMDb users, and changed it in such a way that all the characters have to act like morons in order for it to work. Combined with laughable costumes, [[SpecialEffectsFailure weak special effects]], acting that is either wooden or [[ChewingTheScenery ridiculously hammy]], clueless direction, and gratuitous overuse of {{Dutch Angle}}s and you get a film that deserved its 3% on Website/RottenTomatoes, 9 on Metacritic, and 2.5 rating on [=IMDb=]. These flaws didn't appeal to audiences either, as it only grossed $23,725,663 out of its $73 million dollar budget. Not only did this perfect storm of critical and commercial fail [[StillbornFranchise ruin Franchise Pictures' plans for a sequel based on the 2nd half of the book]], ''Battlefield Earth'' became the punchline for the 2001 UsefulNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward as it won all but the Worst Actress and Worst Remake/Sequel awards for that year. Afterwards, it held on to the reputation of having the most Razzie awards won for more than a ''decade'' until Creator/AdamSandler's ''Film/JackAndJill'' bested it by winning all of the awards in the 2012 Razzies. The film also won the Worst Film of the Decade Award at the 2010 Razzies for movies that premiered between 2000 and 2009. With the film being ranked #27 on Rotten Tomatoes's Worst of the Worst 2009, it is no wonder why it served as the subject of [[http://channelawesome.com/nostalgia-critic-battlefield-earth/ the Nostalgia Critic's 100th video review]]. Website/SFDebris also has a [[http://sfdebris.com/videos/films/battlefieldearth.php few words]] to say about the film. To top it off, it consistently goes on lists for worst movies ever made, with it being placed at #1 on WebVideo/WatchMojo's 2016 video of "Top 10 Worst Movies of All Time."

** Based on [[Literature/BattlefieldEarth the controversial pulp]] Sci-Fi {{Doorstopper}} written by Creator/LRonHubbard, '''''Film/BattlefieldEarth''''' effectively [[CreatorKiller killed the Franchise Pictures company]] and mostly undid Creator/JohnTravolta's CareerResurrection. Although the film was supposed to be the adaptation of the ''first half'' of the book, it made numerous errors in the structure and the pacing of the plot, as seen by [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0185183/trivia?tab=gf this list]] compiled by Website/IMDb users, and changed it in such a way that all the characters have to act like morons in order for it to work. Combined with laughable costumes, [[SpecialEffectsFailure weak special effects]], acting that is either wooden or [[ChewingTheScenery ridiculously hammy]], clueless direction, and gratuitous overuse of {{Dutch Angle}}s and you get a film that deserved its 3% on Website/RottenTomatoes, 9 on Metacritic, and 2.5 rating on [=IMDb=]. These flaws didn't appeal to audiences either, as it only grossed $23,725,663 out of its $73 million dollar budget. Not only did this perfect storm of critical and commercial fail [[StillbornFranchise ruin Franchise Pictures' plans for a sequel based on the 2nd half of the book]], ''Battlefield Earth'' became the punchline for the 2001 UsefulNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward as it won all but the Worst Actress and Worst Remake/Sequel awards for that year. Afterwards, it held on to the reputation of having the most Razzie awards won for more than a ''decade'' until Creator/AdamSandler's ''Film/JackAndJill'' bested it by winning all of the awards in the 2012 Razzies. The film also won the Worst Film of the Decade Award at the 2010 Razzies for movies that premiered between 2000 and 2009. With the film being ranked #27 on Rotten Tomatoes's Worst of the Worst 2009, it is no wonder why it served as the subject of [[http://channelawesome.com/nostalgia-critic-battlefield-earth/ the Nostalgia Critic's 100th video review]]. Website/SFDebris also has a [[http://sfdebris.com/videos/films/battlefieldearth.php few words]] to say about the film. To top it off, it consistently goes on lists for worst movies ever made, with it being placed at #1 on WatchMojo's 2016 video of "Top 10 Worst Movies of All Time."

** Based on [[Literature/BattlefieldEarth the controversial pulp]] Sci-Fi {{Doorstopper}} written by Creator/LRonHubbard, '''''Film/BattlefieldEarth''''' effectively [[CreatorKiller killed the Franchise Pictures company]] and mostly undid Creator/JohnTravolta's CareerResurrection. Although the film was supposed to be the adaptation of the ''first half'' of the book, it made numerous errors in the structure and the pacing of the plot, as seen by [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0185183/trivia?tab=gf this list]] compiled by Website/IMDb users, and changed it in such a way that all the characters have to act like morons in order for it to work. Combined with laughable costumes, weak special effects, acting that is either wooden or [[ChewingTheScenery ridiculously hammy]], clueless direction, and gratuitous overuse of {{Dutch Angle}}s and you get a film that deserved its 2% on Website/RottenTomatoes, 9 on Metacritic, and 2.4 rating on [=IMDb=]. These flaws didn't appeal to audiences either, as it only grossed $23,725,663 out of its $73 million dollar budget. Not only did this perfect storm of critical and commercial fail [[StillbornFranchise ruin Franchise Pictures' plans for a sequel based on the 2nd half of the book]], ''Battlefield Earth'' became the punchline for the 2001 UsefulNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward as it won all but the Worst Actress and Worst Remake/Sequel awards for that year. Afterwards, it held on to the reputation of having the most Razzie awards won for more than a ''decade'' until Creator/AdamSandler's ''Film/JackAndJill'' bested it by winning all of the awards in the 2012 Razzies. The film also won the Worst Film of the Decade Award at the 2010 Razzies for movies that premiered between 2000 and 2009. With the film being ranked #27 on Rotten Tomatoes's Worst of the Worst 2009, it is no wonder why it served as the subject of [[http://channelawesome.com/nostalgia-critic-battlefield-earth/ the Nostalgia Critic's 100th video review.]] Website/SFDebris also has a [[http://sfdebris.com/videos/films/battlefieldearth.php few words]] to say about the film.

** '''''Film/DisasterMovie''''' is considered the absolute worst of all their "movies", as it goes ''even further'' on all of the expected. It manages to be more aggressively unfunny, more pandering, more vapid, and [[SpecialEffectFailure even cheaper-looking]] than the films before it. The film shot up (or down?) to the #1 spot on Website/IMDb's worst film list in less than a day ([[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1213644/?ref_=chtbtm_t_86 having a 1.9 rating to date) and bombed in theaters. This film was so bad that Website/RottenTomatoes' critics' consensus states that "Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer have produced what is arguably their worst ''Movie'' yet" and ''Pajiba'' [[http://www.pajiba.com/film_reviews/disaster-movie.php "[refused] to dignify [their] movie with a new review"]] instead composing their review of the film from bits from reviews of their previous films. ''USA Today'' film critic Louis Fehrey, in his review, said that ''Disaster Movie'' was an insult to the intelligence of him and his fellow Americans and an insult to cinema. He subsequently published an article in ''USA Today'' summing up all the reviews of the film, which were near-universally negative. It was part of WebVideo/IHateEverything's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIWpKPCGy54 trilogy Movie review]] alongside ''Date'', ''Epic'', and ''Disaster Movie'', noting that ''Disaster'' was the worst film he's ever seen (at the time of his video), noting how disrespectful the professionals involved are over other amateur projects that might look worse on the surface, as well as how the film would be only half an hour long without the insane amount of references, and how the longest amount of time the film went without one was 4 minutes and 20 seconds. Korey and the Co Host 3000 of WebAnimation/{{Spill}} suffered greatly [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iT9riVhGdM after watching the movie.]]

** '''''Film/DisasterMovie''''' is considered the absolute worst of all their "movies", as it goes ''even further'' on all of the expected. It manages to be more aggressively unfunny, more pandering, more vapid, and [[SpecialEffectFailure even cheaper-looking]] than the films before it. The film shot up (or down?) to the #1 spot on Website/IMDb's worst film list in less than a day and bombed in theaters. This film was so bad that Website/RottenTomatoes' critics' consensus states that "Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer have produced what is arguably their worst ''Movie'' yet" and ''Pajiba'' [[http://www.pajiba.com/film_reviews/disaster-movie.php "[refused] to dignify [their] movie with a new review"]] instead composing their review of the film from bits from reviews of their previous films. ''USA Today'' film critic Louis Fehrey, in his review, said that ''Disaster Movie'' was an insult to the intelligence of him and his fellow Americans and an insult to cinema. He subsequently published an article in ''USA Today'' summing up all the reviews of the film, which were near-universally negative. It was part of WebVideo/IHateEverything's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIWpKPCGy54 trilogy Movie review]] alongside ''Date'', ''Epic'', and ''Disaster Movie'', noting that ''Disaster'' was the worst film he's ever seen (at the time of his video), noting how disrespectful the professionals involved are over other amateur projects that might look worse on the surface, as well as how the film would be only half an hour long without the insane amount of references, and how the longest amount of time the film went without one was 4 minutes and 20 seconds. Korey and the Co Host 3000 of WebAnimation/{{Spill}} suffered greatly [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iT9riVhGdM after watching the movie.]]

** '''''Monster''''', a ''Film/{{Cloverfield}}'' mockbuster, is The Asylum's most obscure film, and for good reasons. It has obnoxious camera work which is inexcusable even for FoundFootageFilms, a garbled and focusless plot, and overacting awful characters. The titular "monster" never fully shows up: it's supposed to be a giant squid, but when it attacks, it only shows a tentacle and the camera defocuses just to (not) let you know it's there. The most pathetic part is the film was rushed (and it shows) to be released a week before ''Cloverfield'', hoping that unattentive moviegoers would watch their film instead of the latter. For added 'quality,' the film is supposed to take place in Tokyo, Japan- but is very obviously filmed in LA's Chinatown district. And despite the premise that the city is being destroyed and everyone is evacuaring, they didn't even bother to dub out the background noise, which audibly includes traffic sounds and ''children playing happily just off camera!''