The 1998 testosterone-fest “Armageddon” was called “a 2 hour movie trailer” by Roger Ebert. (Photo: YouTube)
Halle Berry as “Catwoman,” sour milk for comic book fans. (Photo: Twitter)
If the world didn’t end in 2012, it’s because God wants us to keep seeing bad movies. (Photo: YouTube)
“Battle of the Bulge” – many stars, total artistic flop in 1965. (Photo: Archive)
“Rocky IV” was sold to fans as another underdog boxing movie, but instead they were given a corny Cold War cartoon. (Photo: YouTube)
“The Matrix: Revolutions” let down critics with an indecipherable plot and over-drawn fight sequences. (Photo: YouTube)
Water, water everywhere and nary a penny of profit in 1995. (Photo: YouTube)
Even Queen and George Clinton couldn’t save 1998 lump of coal “Super Mario Brothers.”
1998’s “Godzilla” was an atomic flop. (Photo: YouTube)
“Pearl Harbor” – a surprise attack on film-goers’ taste. (Photo: Wikipedia)
“Episode II: Attack of the Clones” was lampooned for its “soft and smooth” romantic dialogue. (Photo: YouTube)
“Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace” was ridiculed for its Jar Jar Binks character. But could Jar Jar have been the Menace? (Photo: YouTube)
“Speed 2: Cruise Control” was a bad idea with a worse love scene. (Photo: YouTube)
“Battlefield Earth” was a terrible Y2K effort written by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. (Photo: Twitter)
A bomb. A refrigerator. Enough said. (Photo: IMDB)
“Superman IV: The Quest for Peace” was the worst kind of 80s schlock – and suffered from late budget issues. (Photo: Wikimedia)
“Rocky V” attempted to mine performances out of Tommy Morrison (the boxer) and an aging Sly Stallone. (Photo: IMDB)
“I walked out when the stock characters walked in.” – Janeane Garofalo on “Jurassic Park III.” (Photo: Wiki)
The mega-budget 2001 remake of “Planet of the Apes” replaced Charlton Heston with…Marky Mark. (Photo: YouTube)
“The Da Vinci Code.” If you read every 3rd letter of the script backwards, it spells out “bad.” (Photo: YouTube)
“Alien vs Predator” is another Anderson onion. (Photo: Wikipedia)
“Resident Evil” was directed by Paul Anderson – a far cry from genius auteur Paul _Thomas_ Anderson. (Photo: YouTube)
Released in 2008, “Twilight” and the resulting series of sequels has been called “badly acted tosh” by critics. (Photo: Facebook)
Paul Verhoven’s 1995 “Showgirls” was a universal critical flop. (Photo: YouTube)
“So I went to the movies to see “Wild Wild West.” And halfway through, I’m thinking good God, this is a piece of ****.” – Kevin Smith (Photo: Facebook)
In a Simpsons parody of Star Wars releases, obese comic-book salesman Jeffrey whines “Weeerst Cosmic Wars ever! I’m only gonna see it three more times. Today.”
Hollywood blockbusters maintain the power to draw us to the box office, even while we know so many will turn out to be clunkers. But hardcore fan disappointment doesn’t necessary mean that a movie is “the weerst.” Here’s a list of 25 of the actual worst big-budget films ever.