It is interesting as well that the Razzies didn’t see fit to come into existence until 1980.įurthermore, Wikipedia’s list, separated as it is by decade, only gains in the numbers of films with each subsequent ten-year period. ![]() It is also noteworthy that Wikipedia’s entry on the “Worst Films of All Time” doesn’t include any films made before 1953. ![]() ![]() In Harry and Michael Medved’s early tome to bad movies, The Golden Turkey Awards, from 1980, their appendix of the 200 worst film “achievements” of all time lists only four titles from before 1950 ( The Big Noise, The Kissing Bandit, The Return of Dr. And every decade since then has only brought with it more and more disastrous big screen bombs. Suddenly, around 1950, after 50 years of movie making, instead of getting better at it, we got worse. ![]() Surely they date as far back as cinema itself as soon as you have more than one of anything, you run the risk of one being “better” than the other.Īnd certainly early American film history is littered with some pretty pungent cinema stinkers-the hyperbolic Reefer Madness came out in 1938 the notorious flop I Take This Woman, with Spencer Tracy and Hedy Lamarr, emerged in 1940 and the nadir of Bette Davis’s career, Beyond the Forest, was unleashed in 1949.īut something seemed to have happened in the middle of the last century.
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