100 Years, 100 Stinkers: The Worst Films of the 20th Century

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100 Years, 100 Stinkers: The Worst Films of the 20th Century is a list of the 100 worst movies (in actuality 102, which lumped franchises into slots for a grand total of 133) of the 20th century, as determined by the Stinkers Bad Movie Awards.

Background[edit]

Announced in 1998, it was conceived as a parody of AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies list of the best movies of the century. To determine the list, anyone who visited the Stinkers' website could suggest a worthy candidate; eventually, the 300 most popular choices were placed on a list for visitors to vote on[1] followed by a ten-week period where votes for a ranked list of the 20 worst films were cast.

Conclusion[edit]

The final results were revealed in 2001 as each entry was also given a descriptive paragraph in alphabetical order.[2][3][4] Battlefield Earth topped the list of "dishonored" films beating out cult classics Plan 9 from Outer Space, Showgirls, Waterworld and Howard the Duck.[5]

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References[edit]

  1. ^ "The Worst Films of the 20th Century". Archived from the original on 2001-06-27.
  2. ^ "The Worst Films of the 20th Century". Archived from the original on 2001-10-23.
  3. ^ Dominguez, Robert (January 21, 2006). "Tarnished Silver". New York Daily News. Retrieved 2013-03-31.
  4. ^ Vice, Jeff (December 27, 1998). "What's that stench? Group set to name 100 worst movies". Deseret News. Retrieved 2013-03-31.
  5. ^ ‘Battlefield Earth’ sweeps the Stinkers - Deseret News