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List of films considered the worst
The romantic comedy The Hottie and the Nottie starring Paris Hilton , Joel Moore , Christine Lakin , and The Greg Wilson opened to poor box - office takings and strongly negative reviews with a 4 % rating on Rotten Tomatoes . The British newspaper The People , reviewing The Hottie and the Nottie , claimed `` Paris Hilton is the world 's worst actress and she 's starring in the worst movie ever made . '' Nathan Lee of The Village Voice called it `` crass , shrill , disingenuous , tawdry , mean - spirited , vulgar , idiotic , boring , slapdash , half - assed , and very , very unfunny '' . Online film critic James Berardinelli described the film 's comedy as `` about as funny as the anal rape scene in The War Zone '' . Richard Roeper called it `` excruciatingly , painfully , horribly , terribly awful '' , and argued that `` nobody in this movie really should have a career in movies '' . Connie Ogle in the Miami Herald described The Hottie and the Nottie thus : `` Imagine the worst movie you 've ever seen . Got it ? Now try to think of something worse . That something is this movie -- wretched , embarrassing and a waste of the time and energy of everyone involved . '' The film appears on Metacritic 's list of the all - time lowest - scoring films , and the MRQE 's 50 Worst Movies list .
Peninsular War
An Anglo - Portuguese army led by the British Marshal William Beresford and a Spanish army led by the Spanish generals Joaquín Blake and Francisco Castaños , attempted to retake Badajoz by laying siege to the French garrison Soult had left behind . Soult regathered his army and marched to relieve the siege . Beresford lifted the siege and his army intercepted the marching French . Part of Wellington 's army had besieged Badajoz until Soult forced it to retire after the Battle of Albuera . Soult outmaneuvered Beresford but could not win the battle , writing later that he had never seen `` so desperate and bloody a conflict '' and commenting on the steadfastness of the British troops : `` There is no beating these troops ... I had turned their right , pierced their centre and everywhere victory was mine -- but they did not know how to run ! '' He retired his army to Seville .
British Empire
When Russia invaded the Turkish Balkans in 1853 , fears of Russian dominance in the Mediterranean and Middle East led Britain and France to invade the Crimean Peninsula to destroy Russian naval capabilities . The ensuing Crimean War ( 1854 -- 56 ) , which involved new techniques of modern warfare , was the only global war fought between Britain and another imperial power during the Pax Britannica and was a resounding defeat for Russia . The situation remained unresolved in Central Asia for two more decades , with Britain annexing Baluchistan in 1876 and Russia annexing Kirghizia , Kazakhstan , and Turkmenistan . For a while it appeared that another war would be inevitable , but the two countries reached an agreement on their respective spheres of influence in the region in 1878 and on all outstanding matters in 1907 with the signing of the Anglo - Russian Entente . The destruction of the Russian Navy by the Japanese at the Battle of Port Arthur during the Russo - Japanese War of 1904 -- 05 also limited its threat to the British .
Results of the War of 1812
In the Southeast , Andrew Jackson 's destruction of Britain 's allies , the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in 1814 , ended the threat of Native American hostilities in that region . It opened vast areas in Georgia and Alabama for settlement as plantations and farmlands . The U.S. occupied all of West Florida during the war and in 1819 purchased the rest of Florida from Spain , thus closing the base of weapons for hostile tribes . Creek Indians who escaped to Spanish Florida joined the Seminoles there , and put up a long resistance known as the Seminole Wars .
Greco-Persian Wars
Towards the end of the conflict with Persia , the process by which the Delian League became the Athenian Empire reached its conclusion . The allies of Athens were not released from their obligations to provide either money or ships , despite the cessation of hostilities . In Greece , the First Peloponnesian War between the power - blocs of Athens and Sparta , which had continued on / off since 460 BC , finally ended in 445 BC , with the agreement of a thirty - year truce . However , the growing enmity between Sparta and Athens would lead , just 14 years later , into the outbreak of the Second Peloponnesian War . This disastrous conflict , which dragged on for 27 years , would eventually result in the utter destruction of Athenian power , the dismemberment of the Athenian empire , and the establishment of a Spartan hegemony over Greece . However , not just Athens suffered -- the conflict would significantly weaken the whole of Greece .
Balkan Wars
The First Balkan War began when the League member states attacked the Ottoman Empire on 8 October 1912 and ended eight months later with the signing of the Treaty of London on 30 May 1913 . The Second Balkan War began on 16 June 1913 . Both Serbia and Greece , utilizing the argument that the war had been prolonged , repudiated important particulars of the pre-war treaty and retained occupation of all the conquered districts in their possession , which were to be divided according to specific predefined boundaries . Seeing the treaty as trampled , Bulgaria was dissatisfied over the division of the spoils in Macedonia ( made in secret by its former allies , Serbia and Greece ) and commenced military action against them . The more numerous combined Serbian and Greek armies repelled the Bulgarian offensive and counter-attacked into Bulgaria from the west and the south . Romania , having taken no part in the conflict , had intact armies to strike with , invaded Bulgaria from the north in violation of a peace treaty between the two states . The Ottoman Empire also attacked Bulgaria and advanced in Thrace regaining Adrianople . In the resulting Treaty of Bucharest , Bulgaria lost most of the territories it had gained in the First Balkan War in addition to being forced to cede the ex-Ottoman south - third of Dobroudja province to Romania . Germany
Korean War
In China , the war is officially called the `` War to Resist America and Aid Korea '' ( simplified Chinese : 抗美援朝 战争 ; traditional Chinese : 抗美援朝 戰爭 ; pinyin : Kàngměi Yuáncháo Zhànzhēng ) , although the term `` Chaoxian ( Korean ) War '' ( simplified Chinese : 朝鲜 战争 ; traditional Chinese : 朝鮮 戰爭 ; pinyin : Cháoxiǎn Zhànzhēng ) is also used in unofficial contexts , along with the term `` Han ( Korean ) War '' ( simplified Chinese : 韩 战 ; traditional Chinese : 韓 戰 ; pinyin : Hán Zhàn ) more commonly used in regions such as Hong Kong and Macau .
Peninsular War
In the opinion of Charles Esdaile , the Peninsular War was of far greater significance in Spain and Portugal than it was in the Napoleonic Wars . Although Esdaile notes that this is not recognized in the classic tradition , as Napoleon said of the conflict , `` It was ( the Spanish war ) that overthrew me . All my disasters can be traced back to this fatal knot '' . By intervening in Spain and Portugal , Napoleon involved himself in a struggle that would have been difficult to win at the best of times : so intense was the national spirit of these two countries , the French armies were confronted by a veritable people 's war . The Grande Armée that campaigned in Russia in 1812 was not short of troops . Rather , what was lacking was the ability to make use of troops , the communications , transport and supply arrangements of the army all proving desperately short for the needs even of the numbers that Napoleon did take with him . Two years later , heartened by French difficulties in Spain , both Russia and Prussia considered going to war against Napoleon ; in Prussia leaders of the reform movement such as August von Gneisenau added to the pressure by painting pictures of people 's war a la español . Once he had been beaten in Germany in 1813 , Napoleon 's only hope of survival -- other than accepting the compromise peace that at this point was on offer -- was to mobilise France for total war in the hope that resistance might be prolonged long enough for the divisions between the Allies to undermine its commitment to their common cause .
World War I
Much of the combat involved trench warfare , in which hundreds often died for each metre gained . Many of the deadliest battles in history occurred during World War I. Such battles include Ypres , the Marne , Cambrai , the Somme , Verdun , and Gallipoli . The Germans employed the Haber process of nitrogen fixation to provide their forces with a constant supply of gunpowder despite the British naval blockade . Artillery was responsible for the largest number of casualties and consumed vast quantities of explosives . The large number of head wounds caused by exploding shells and fragmentation forced the combatant nations to develop the modern steel helmet , led by the French , who introduced the Adrian helmet in 1915 . It was quickly followed by the Brodie helmet , worn by British Imperial and US troops , and in 1916 by the distinctive German Stahlhelm , a design , with improvements , still in use today .
Balkan Wars
On 29 ( 16 ) June 1913 , General Savov , under direct orders of Tsar Ferdinand I , issued attacking orders against both Greece and Serbia without consulting the Bulgarian government and without any official declaration of war . During the night of 30 ( 17 ) June 1913 , they attacked the Serbian army at Bregalnica river and then the Greek army in Nigrita . The Serbian army resisted the sudden night attack , while most of soldiers did not even know who they were fighting with , as Bulgarian camps were located next to Serbs and were considered allies . Montenegro 's forces were just a few kilometers away and also rushed to the battle . The Bulgarian attack was halted .
List of films considered the worst
Produced and co-directed by Peter Farrelly among others , Movie 43 is a comedy film consisting of several vignettes each by a different director and a sizable cast of recognizable actors and actresses including Dennis Quaid , Greg Kinnear , Hugh Jackman , Kate Winslet , Liev Schreiber , Naomi Watts , Anna Faris , Emma Stone , Richard Gere , Uma Thurman , Chloë Grace Moretz , Gerard Butler , Halle Berry , Stephen Merchant , Kristen Bell , Terrence Howard , Elizabeth Banks , and Julianne Moore . Several critics have called it one of the worst films ever made , including Peter Howell of the Toronto Star , who said `` There 's just one use for Movie 43 , apart from it being ground into the landfill that it deserves to become sooner rather than later . It provides me with a handy new answer to a question I 'm often asked : ' What 's the worst film you 've ever seen ? ' '' Elizabeth Weitzman of the New York Daily News also considered it the worst movie she ever saw . Brady Murphy of Murphy Reviews wrote , `` A world where a film like this can exist only reminds me of the other contemptible acts performed by human kind since the dawn of time , and is rather eye - opening in that respect . That probably was n't intentional , though '' ; he went on to say that `` The idea that anyone could think that this would be in any way humorous is simply unbelievable . '' He concluded his review by saying the movie `` had no heart '' , and gave it the site 's first zero out of ten rating . Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun - Times voiced similar hatred , calling it `` aggressively tasteless '' and `` the Citizen Kane of awful '' . Lou Lumenick of the New York Post stated , `` If you mashed - up the worst parts of the infamous Howard the Duck , Gigli , Ishtar and every other awful movie I 've seen since I started reviewing professionally in 1981 , it would n't begin to approach the sheer soul - sucking badness of the cringe - inducing Movie 43 . '' Movie 43 is on the MRQE 's 50 Worst Movies list .
Punic Wars
With the end of the Macedonian Wars -- which ran concurrently with the Punic Wars -- and the defeat of the Seleucid King Antiochus III the Great in the Roman -- Seleucid War ( Treaty of Apamea , 188 BC ) in the eastern sea , Rome emerged as the dominant Mediterranean power and one of the most powerful cities in classical antiquity . The Roman victories over Carthage in these wars gave Rome a preeminent status it would retain until the 5th century AD .
Peninsular War
The British troops escaped to the sea after fending off a strong French attack at the Battle of Corunna , in which Moore was killed . Some 26,000 troops reached Britain , with 7,000 men lost over the course of the expedition . With Moore dead , over a fifth of his army missing and several thousand more sick or wounded , the British intervention had ended in humiliation and disaster . The retreat looked like a rout ; although the army had saved all its guns it had lost much of its baggage and had been forced to kill almost all the horses that had reached La Coruna . Hundreds more men were lost in winter storms in the Bay of Biscay and the English Channel . Immense quantities of material , including 4,000 barrels of powder blown up on 13 January , had been lost and the French had occupied the most populated region in Spain , including the important towns of Lugo and La Corunna . Worse than the physical losses suffered by the Allies , immense damage had been done to Anglo - Spanish relations . Misled by journalists who had claimed that Moore 's army was actually much larger than it was and had represented Sahagun as a victory , the Spanish were shocked by the British retreat . This was worsened by the angry accounts of the Marques de la Romana and other observers , who accused Moore of betrayal and bad faith .
Latin American wars of independence
Evolving from the wars that Revolutionary France fought with the rest of Europe , the Napoleonic Wars were a series of wars fought between France ( led by Napoleon Bonaparte ) and alliances involving Britain , Prussia , Spain , Portugal , Russia and Austria at different times , from 1799 to 1815 .
Peninsular War
By May 1809 , the French armies were victorious almost everywhere in Spain . Victor advanced on Badajoz , defeating Cuesta at the Battle of Medellín . The whole Spanish army fled south across the plain in disorder and the French cavalry pursued them , inflicting appalling casualties . Lasalle claimed that the ' disgusting Spaniards ' lost 14,000 men at Medellín . By the time a thunderstorm ended the carnage , at least 8,000 Spanish were dead and another 2,000 taken prisoner . Victor 's soldiers carried off nine standards and twenty guns . Estimates of the French losses range between 300 and 2,000 men .
God of War (2005 video game)
God of War is a third - person single player action - adventure video game with hack and slash elements , viewed from a fixed camera perspective . The player controls the character Kratos in combo - based combat , platforming , and puzzle game elements , and battles foes who primarily stem from Greek mythology , including undead soldiers , harpies , minotaurs , Medusa and her Gorgons , cyclopes , wraiths , Sirens , satyrs , centaurs , cerberuses , and boss opponents -- the Hydra and a giant minotaur known as Pandora 's Guardian . Platforming elements require the player to climb walls and ladders , jump across chasms , swing on ropes , and balance across beams to proceed through sections of the game . Some puzzles are simple , such as moving a box so that the player can use it as a jumping - off point to access a pathway unreachable with normal jumping , but others are more complex , such as finding several items across different areas of the game to unlock one door .
Punic Wars
The main cause of the Punic Wars was the conflicts of interest between the existing Carthaginian Empire and the expanding Roman Republic . The Romans were initially interested in expansion via Sicily ( which at that time was a cultural melting pot ) , part of which lay under Carthaginian control . At the start of the First Punic War ( 264 - 241 BC ) , Carthage was the dominant power of the Western Mediterranean , with an extensive maritime empire . Rome was a rapidly ascending power in Italy , but it lacked the naval power of Carthage . The Second Punic War ( 218 - 201 BC ) witnessed Hannibal 's crossing of the Alps in 218 BC , followed by a prolonged but ultimately failed campaign of Carthage 's Hannibal in mainland Italy . By the end of the Third Punic War ( 149 - 146 BC ) , after more than a hundred years and the loss of many hundreds of thousands of soldiers from both sides , Rome had conquered Carthage 's empire , completely destroyed the city , and became the most powerful state of the Western Mediterranean .
American Indian Wars
A number of wars occurred in the wake of the Oregon Treaty of 1846 and the creation of Oregon Territory and Washington Territory . Among the causes of conflict were a sudden immigration to the region and a series of gold rushes throughout the Pacific Northwest . The Whitman massacre of 1847 triggered the Cayuse War , which saw fighting from the Cascade Range to the Rocky Mountains . The Cayuse were defeated in 1855 , but by then the conflict had expanded and continued in what became known as the Yakima War , 1855 -- 1858 . One of the triggers of the Yakima War was the creation of Washington Territory and the effort of its first governor , Isaac Stevens , to compel tribes to sign treaties ceding land and establishing reservations . The Yakama signed one of the treaties negotiated during the Walla Walla Council of 1855 , and the Yakama Indian Reservation was established . The treaties were poorly received by the native peoples and served mainly to intensify hostilities . Gold discoveries near Fort Colville resulted in many miners crossing Yakama lands via Naches Pass , and conflicts rapidly escalated into violence . It took several years for the US Army to defeat the Yakama , during which time war spread to the Puget Sound region west of the Cascades . The Puget Sound War of 1855 -- 1856 was triggered in part by the Yakima War and in part by the use of intimidation to compel tribes to sign land cession treaties . The Treaty of Medicine Creek , signed in 1855 , established an unrealistically small reservation on poor land for the Nisqually and Puyallup people . Violence broke out in the White River valley , along the route to Naches Pass , which connected Nisqually and Yakama lands . Although limited in its magnitude , territorial impact and losses in terms of lives , the Puget Sound War is often remembered in connection with the 1856 Battle of Seattle and the execution of a central figure of the war , Nisqually Chief Leschi .
Balkan Wars
The Ottoman Empire was unable to reform itself , govern satisfactorily , or deal with the rising ethnic nationalism of its diverse peoples . The Great Powers quarreled amongst themselves and failed to ensure that the Ottomans would carry out the needed reforms . This led the Balkan states to impose their own solution . Most importantly , the Balkan League had been formed , and its members were confident that it could defeat the Turks .
American Indian Wars
In the period after the American Revolution , 1783 - 1812 , British merchants and government agents supplied weapons to Indians living in the United States , in the hope that if a war broke out the Indians would fight with them . The British planned to set up an Indian nation in what is now the Ohio - Wisconsin area to block further American expansion . The U.S. protested and finally , in 1812 , went to war . Most Indian tribes , especially those allied with Tecumseh , supported the British and were ultimately defeated by General William Henry Harrison . The War of 1812 became caught up in internal Native American rivalries as well ; the Creek War was in part an internal conflict as well as one in which some of the nation allied with the United States and other bands allied with the British . The latter were defeated by General Andrew Jackson .
Peninsular War
Because of the crippling social and political tensions caused by the rebellion , the Spanish social fabric decayed , the patriots were divided on every question and their war effort suffered . With the fall of the monarchy , constitutional power devolved to local juntas , which interfered with the army and the business of war , undermined the tentative central government forming in Madrid , and proved almost as dangerous to each other as to the French . According to Chandler , `` the particular interests of the provincial delegates made the pretense of centralised government a travesty '' . The British army in Portugal , itself immobilized by logistical problems and mired in administrative disputes , did not move .
American Indian Wars
In American history books , the Indian Wars have often been treated as a relatively minor part of the military history of the United States and were long treated from the point of view of the United States . After 1970 younger historians took the Indian point of view in their writings about the wars , dealing more harshly with the U.S. government 's failures and emphasizing the impact of the wars on native peoples and their cultures . An influential book in popular history was Dee Brown 's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee ( 1970 ) . In academic history , Francis Jennings 's The Invasion of America : Indians , Colonialism , and the Cant of Conquest ( New York : Norton , 1975 ) was notable for strong attacks on the Puritans and rejection of traditional portrayal of the wars between the indigenous peoples and colonists .
Hundred Years' War
Historians commonly divide the war into three phases separated by truces : the Edwardian War ( 1337 -- 1360 ) ; the Caroline War ( 1369 -- 1389 ) ; and the Lancastrian War ( 1415 -- 1453 ) . Local conflicts in neighbouring areas , which were contemporarily related to the war , including the War of the Breton Succession ( 1341 -- 1365 ) , the Castilian Civil War ( 1366 -- 1369 ) , the War of the Two Peters ( 1356 -- 1369 ) in Aragon , and the 1383 -- 1385 succession crisis in Portugal , were availed by the parties to advance their agendas . Later historians adopted the term `` Hundred Years ' War '' as a historiography periodization to encompass all of these events , thus constructing the longest military conflict in European history .
Human sacrifice in Aztec culture
According to Diego Durán 's History of the Indies of New Spain , and a few other sources that are also based on the Crónica X , the Flower Wars were an act of ritual between the cities of Aztec Triple Alliance and Tlaxcala , Huexotzingo and Cholula . This form of ritual was motivated by the Mesoamerican cultures in 1450 after a series of droughts and famine caused many deaths within the Mexican highlands . The droughts and damage to the crops were believed to be punishment by the gods for feeling disvalued instead of being honored properly . Therefore , the Flower Wars became a way to obtain human sacrifices in a very structured and ceremonial manner which were then used as offerings .
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
By 1857 , tensions had again escalated between Mormons and other Americans , largely as a result of accusations involving polygamy and the theocratic rule of the Utah Territory by Young . The Utah Mormon War ensued from 1857 to 1858 , which resulted in the relatively peaceful invasion of Utah by the United States Army , after which Young agreed to step down from power and be replaced by a non-Mormon territorial governor , Alfred Cumming . Nevertheless , the LDS Church still wielded significant political power in the Utah Territory .
God of War (2005 video game)
God of War was critically acclaimed , with aggregate scores of 93.69 % from GameRankings and 94 out of 100 from Metacritic , who describe their score as `` universal acclaim '' . Tom Lane of CNN wrote , `` God of War is the type of game that makes you remember why you play games in the first place . '' He said it is addictive and the action is balanced with a modest amount of puzzle and platforming elements . He praised how quickly it progresses and said it `` is one of the most violent ( games ) on the market '' .