only the happiest of actors would eat
this scenery welcome to watchmojo.com
and today we’re counting down our picks
for the top ten worst movie sets for
this list we’re taking a look at the
laziest cheesiest and most unattractive
handmade sets in motion pictures these
are those sets that take you completely
out of the movie watching experience and
make you wonder if the filmmakers kids
built them number 10 the whole movie
Mortal Kombat annihilation this is not
good although Mortal Kombat annihilation
had almost double the budget of its 1995
predecessor somehow everything got a
major downgrade including the sets if
this were a student film or a theme park
stunt show the various temples here
would look pretty impressive
as a multimillion-dollar motion picture
though this is one butt-ugly experience
with bleak colors and dilapidated
unimaginative set pieces I don’t have
time for these stupid games you know
you’re in trouble when the video games
16-bit backgrounds look more glorious
than the movies art direction it’s a
fatality on the eyes but fortunately
well for audiences at least these sets
were destroyed during Hurricane Katrina
so we won’t have to put up with them
ever again
number 9 the not Mushroom Kingdom
Super Mario Brothers last name Mario yet
another video game movie that failed to
live up to expectations Super Mario
Brothers will have you contemplating if
the filmmakers ever even picked up a
Nintendo controller Goomba
when you think of Mario’s world what
comes to mind Greenhills welcoming
clouds and mushrooms the size of
skyscrapers you can go ahead and choke
this little Mushroom Kingdom all you
want because I’m already here
that is the complete opposite of this
films dark dank dystopian parallel
dimension this city looks like table
scraps of Blade Runner with no blocks
green pipes are castles anywhere in
sight almost like it was built in an old
cement factory in accuracy to the game
aside the sets are still explosively
overblown number 8 the Goblin King’s
throne room labyrinth what’s sad is Jim
Henson was truly one of the most
influential visionaries who ever lived
much of his creative genius shines
through in labyrinth although this
particular set piece looks pretty lame
and dated go back to your room
play with your toys and your costumes
forget about the baby but then the same
could be said about David Bowie’s random
totally unnecessary musical number magic
dance while the song is admittedly kind
of fun in its absurdity Bowie’s
bombastic flamboyant musical stylings
don’t really match the cramped dreary
environment his throne room isn’t
especially fun whimsical or magical
diminishing our desire to get up and
dance
number seven planet fidos Mighty Morphin
Power Rangers the movie what power
very dangerous
while the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
TV series was never known for
groundbreaking visuals or exotic
locations the Rangers first theatrical
outing does arguably up the ante but
barely leave fade off before it’s too
late
despite the theatrical treatment the
film falls short of its ambitions to
appear epic case in point Planet fidos
with obviously fake mountains obviously
fake backdrops and just an obviously
fake atmosphere all around this set
wouldn’t even cut it for old-school Star
Trek get your hands off of him Spock or
an episode of Xena Warrior Princess
devoid of anything resembling creativity
inventiveness or originality the art
direction is a failure on all fronts
number six alaskan neighborhood north
welcome to Juneau Alaska please remain
seated until the plane comes to a
complete stop in Anchorage Alaska
we apologize on Rob Reiner z– behalf to
any Alaskans that sat through this movie
on a quest to find nicer parents young
North travels north to an Inuit village
who’s that North this is your new
grandfather what he discovers there is
so stereotypical inaccurate and
offensive but the audience might think
they’re watching a racist cartoon you
know like those offensive pieces of
animated propaganda from the war
landscape sure is beautiful up here
snow white picket fences igloos with
garage doors and ice flow lines next
come on let’s go are you kidding us it’d
be one thing if these visual gags were
clever and funny or you know actually
worked but they’re about is
uncomfortable to look at as the rest of
North if your mother says don’t make a
face because it could freeze in that
position you better take her seriously
number five Mexico sunset three amigos
yet another movie that didn’t exactly
strive for authenticity three amigos
shot exactly none of its scenes in
Mexico unlike North however this film’s
unrealistic sets do amount to some good
humor
season there’s an especially fun salute
to Technicolor backdrops from classic
westerns as our bumbling heroes sing
around a campfire while the Sun goes
down from the sky
that being said the scenery is about as
believable as what you’d see on a
Saturday Night Live sketch or at a
museum exhibit it’s still technically
cheesy but at least it’s lovingly cheesy
number four the rooftop the room
okay daddy named we assumed for the
film’s main set much of the room is
staged like a play but we’re not sure
which elementary school is responsible
for this production the film was
primarily shot on a soundstage with the
most blatantly clear instance being the
rooftop scenes where San Francisco is
green screened poorly into the
background no who do you think you
are
despite the fact the director Tommy
Wiseau had access to an actual San
Francisco rooftop gotta tell you about
something
shoot Danny but instead of using it why
Zoe’s spared no expense setting up fake
ass bricks a patio set and the shed
thing come on let’s go to completely
replicate the San Fran experience anyway
how’s your sex life anyway how is your
sex life number three skeletor’s throne
room Masters of the Universe with so
many other nostalgic 80s cartoons
getting the live action cinematic
treatment as of late
he-man and the Masters of the Universe
could use a reboot will drop right into
the throne room fight off two or three
thousand of skeletor’s crack troops
break into the force field and free the
sorceress right it couldn’t possibly
look any worse than this 1987 feature oh
yeah
Skeletor where skeletor’s throne room in
the cartoon series was sufficiently
nightmarishly badass this one seems
confused
does it want to be mystical high-tech
hellish or just silly in any case the
overlord of evil should really fire his
interior decorator he’s not white
Skeletor
it might have been the largest set in
decades but Skeletor deserves better
than this
and so does Frank Langella and so do we
it’s over yo number two the mountaintop
the Princess Bride but only say will not
give you until you reach the top there’s
no doubt about it
the Princess Bride is a perennial
classic that’s perfect in every way you
could read a little bit more if you want
that being said part of the film’s charm
does derive from the fact that it’s so
corny my name is Inigo Montoya you
killed my father prepare to die
much of that corniness leaks out from
the film sets which occasionally look
about as real as something out of a
fairy tale
the most evident example being the
summit of the cliffs of insanity while
the scene will have you smiling all the
way through there is no denying that the
set backdrop and props are inconceivably
fake before we unveil our number one
pick here are some honorable or in this
case dishonorable mentions
we’d better clean you up before the
Flies get grave-robbers will be shot
good thing we’re not grave robbers
number one the graveyard plan 9 from
outer space that was incidents in the
graveyard these past few days just got
me wearing plan 9 from outer space has
been hailed as the worst movie ever made
and you can understand why based on this
horrendously campy graveyard but from
the blast arose the moving figure of the
dead old man this set is obviously phony
like did Ed Wood seriously think the
audience wouldn’t notice that cardboard
headstone tipping over
filmmaking maybe about the big picture
but absolutely nothing in this
particular picture is even remotely
convincing the set is so shamelessly
low-rent half-assed and passionately
sucky however that it isn’t surprising
plan nine is also often considered the
best worst movie ever made
do you agree with our list what do you
think is the worst movie set ever
constructed for more entertaining top
10s published every day be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com
this scenery welcome to watchmojo.com
and today we’re counting down our picks
for the top ten worst movie sets for
this list we’re taking a look at the
laziest cheesiest and most unattractive
handmade sets in motion pictures these
are those sets that take you completely
out of the movie watching experience and
make you wonder if the filmmakers kids
built them number 10 the whole movie
Mortal Kombat annihilation this is not
good although Mortal Kombat annihilation
had almost double the budget of its 1995
predecessor somehow everything got a
major downgrade including the sets if
this were a student film or a theme park
stunt show the various temples here
would look pretty impressive
as a multimillion-dollar motion picture
though this is one butt-ugly experience
with bleak colors and dilapidated
unimaginative set pieces I don’t have
time for these stupid games you know
you’re in trouble when the video games
16-bit backgrounds look more glorious
than the movies art direction it’s a
fatality on the eyes but fortunately
well for audiences at least these sets
were destroyed during Hurricane Katrina
so we won’t have to put up with them
ever again
number 9 the not Mushroom Kingdom
Super Mario Brothers last name Mario yet
another video game movie that failed to
live up to expectations Super Mario
Brothers will have you contemplating if
the filmmakers ever even picked up a
Nintendo controller Goomba
when you think of Mario’s world what
comes to mind Greenhills welcoming
clouds and mushrooms the size of
skyscrapers you can go ahead and choke
this little Mushroom Kingdom all you
want because I’m already here
that is the complete opposite of this
films dark dank dystopian parallel
dimension this city looks like table
scraps of Blade Runner with no blocks
green pipes are castles anywhere in
sight almost like it was built in an old
cement factory in accuracy to the game
aside the sets are still explosively
overblown number 8 the Goblin King’s
throne room labyrinth what’s sad is Jim
Henson was truly one of the most
influential visionaries who ever lived
much of his creative genius shines
through in labyrinth although this
particular set piece looks pretty lame
and dated go back to your room
play with your toys and your costumes
forget about the baby but then the same
could be said about David Bowie’s random
totally unnecessary musical number magic
dance while the song is admittedly kind
of fun in its absurdity Bowie’s
bombastic flamboyant musical stylings
don’t really match the cramped dreary
environment his throne room isn’t
especially fun whimsical or magical
diminishing our desire to get up and
dance
number seven planet fidos Mighty Morphin
Power Rangers the movie what power
very dangerous
while the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
TV series was never known for
groundbreaking visuals or exotic
locations the Rangers first theatrical
outing does arguably up the ante but
barely leave fade off before it’s too
late
despite the theatrical treatment the
film falls short of its ambitions to
appear epic case in point Planet fidos
with obviously fake mountains obviously
fake backdrops and just an obviously
fake atmosphere all around this set
wouldn’t even cut it for old-school Star
Trek get your hands off of him Spock or
an episode of Xena Warrior Princess
devoid of anything resembling creativity
inventiveness or originality the art
direction is a failure on all fronts
number six alaskan neighborhood north
welcome to Juneau Alaska please remain
seated until the plane comes to a
complete stop in Anchorage Alaska
we apologize on Rob Reiner z– behalf to
any Alaskans that sat through this movie
on a quest to find nicer parents young
North travels north to an Inuit village
who’s that North this is your new
grandfather what he discovers there is
so stereotypical inaccurate and
offensive but the audience might think
they’re watching a racist cartoon you
know like those offensive pieces of
animated propaganda from the war
landscape sure is beautiful up here
snow white picket fences igloos with
garage doors and ice flow lines next
come on let’s go are you kidding us it’d
be one thing if these visual gags were
clever and funny or you know actually
worked but they’re about is
uncomfortable to look at as the rest of
North if your mother says don’t make a
face because it could freeze in that
position you better take her seriously
number five Mexico sunset three amigos
yet another movie that didn’t exactly
strive for authenticity three amigos
shot exactly none of its scenes in
Mexico unlike North however this film’s
unrealistic sets do amount to some good
humor
season there’s an especially fun salute
to Technicolor backdrops from classic
westerns as our bumbling heroes sing
around a campfire while the Sun goes
down from the sky
that being said the scenery is about as
believable as what you’d see on a
Saturday Night Live sketch or at a
museum exhibit it’s still technically
cheesy but at least it’s lovingly cheesy
number four the rooftop the room
okay daddy named we assumed for the
film’s main set much of the room is
staged like a play but we’re not sure
which elementary school is responsible
for this production the film was
primarily shot on a soundstage with the
most blatantly clear instance being the
rooftop scenes where San Francisco is
green screened poorly into the
background no who do you think you
are
despite the fact the director Tommy
Wiseau had access to an actual San
Francisco rooftop gotta tell you about
something
shoot Danny but instead of using it why
Zoe’s spared no expense setting up fake
ass bricks a patio set and the shed
thing come on let’s go to completely
replicate the San Fran experience anyway
how’s your sex life anyway how is your
sex life number three skeletor’s throne
room Masters of the Universe with so
many other nostalgic 80s cartoons
getting the live action cinematic
treatment as of late
he-man and the Masters of the Universe
could use a reboot will drop right into
the throne room fight off two or three
thousand of skeletor’s crack troops
break into the force field and free the
sorceress right it couldn’t possibly
look any worse than this 1987 feature oh
yeah
Skeletor where skeletor’s throne room in
the cartoon series was sufficiently
nightmarishly badass this one seems
confused
does it want to be mystical high-tech
hellish or just silly in any case the
overlord of evil should really fire his
interior decorator he’s not white
Skeletor
it might have been the largest set in
decades but Skeletor deserves better
than this
and so does Frank Langella and so do we
it’s over yo number two the mountaintop
the Princess Bride but only say will not
give you until you reach the top there’s
no doubt about it
the Princess Bride is a perennial
classic that’s perfect in every way you
could read a little bit more if you want
that being said part of the film’s charm
does derive from the fact that it’s so
corny my name is Inigo Montoya you
killed my father prepare to die
much of that corniness leaks out from
the film sets which occasionally look
about as real as something out of a
fairy tale
the most evident example being the
summit of the cliffs of insanity while
the scene will have you smiling all the
way through there is no denying that the
set backdrop and props are inconceivably
fake before we unveil our number one
pick here are some honorable or in this
case dishonorable mentions
we’d better clean you up before the
Flies get grave-robbers will be shot
good thing we’re not grave robbers
number one the graveyard plan 9 from
outer space that was incidents in the
graveyard these past few days just got
me wearing plan 9 from outer space has
been hailed as the worst movie ever made
and you can understand why based on this
horrendously campy graveyard but from
the blast arose the moving figure of the
dead old man this set is obviously phony
like did Ed Wood seriously think the
audience wouldn’t notice that cardboard
headstone tipping over
filmmaking maybe about the big picture
but absolutely nothing in this
particular picture is even remotely
convincing the set is so shamelessly
low-rent half-assed and passionately
sucky however that it isn’t surprising
plan nine is also often considered the
best worst movie ever made
do you agree with our list what do you
think is the worst movie set ever
constructed for more entertaining top
10s published every day be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com
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