The thing about worst movies is, it's so hard to remember the ones that weren't meant to be blockbusters.
I'm not saying these three are the best movies ever, but they are my favourites, and all pretensions to the contrary, that's all that Channel 4 came up with themselves:
Jurassic Park
I was a huge dinosaur freak in the correct age category when this movie came out. The effects are still spot-on (okay, maybe the dilophosaur is starting to look like a puppet), the plot keeps the entertainment going, and the feel of the movie - the soundtrack, the Brachiosaurus scene - is still terrific. The second movie suffered from some terrible sequelitis (worst legecy of the eighties: sequels set in the big city), and the third movie isn't worth this half-a-sentence I'm devoting to it.
Dogma
Kevin Smith took a break from straightforward gross-out buddie movies to make a gross-out buddie movie with depth. It doesn't criticise religion. It's one big swipe at the massive framework of rules and rituals that the church has built up around it. The only actor who's wasted is Chris Rock, who is one long black-guy-with-a-chip cliché who never really suits the tone of the movie, but otherwise the characters are perfect for their roles in the plot. It's funny and it does make you wonder about just what's important in your faith.
The Wicker Man
I have to admit, I like Pagan symbology. There's just something unsettling about it, it creeps me out, and this movie is stuffed with it. This movie has a raw, honest seventies feel that Hollywood can't even pretend to emulate. The simple folk music and cold Scottish scenery (the movie's set in summer but was filmed in winter) add to the authentic feel of a movie that has absolutely no pretensions about itself. The ending has one of the best plot twists ever.
Worst Movie vote: Battlefield Earth
Some movies are so unbelievable crap that you just have to sit back and enjoy them. Delta Force is one such movie. Hackers is another that has to be seen to be believed, and I recommend that everybody do just that. I do like a good bad movie now and then, but Battlefield Earth isn't one of those. It is unbelievably dull. I've tried to watch it on two occasions, but just couldn't stick with it. I dunno how it ends. I don't care. I can't just turn my brain off and watch like with those others. The movie won't let me. The movie demands my full attention even though it doesn't deserve it in the slightest. It's simply unforgivable useless.