I haven't seen GI Joe, but I doubt it's the worst movie ever made. That title probably has to go to something made by Jennifer Lynch (Boxing Helena, anybody? -A guy fancies a woman and she rejects him so he chops her limbs off and keeps her prisoner and eventually she returns his affections. And Surveillance was sick too.) You could also try watching Zardoz. And I'd be surprised if GI Joe was worse than AOTC and ROTS.

And I wish people would stop railing about blockbusters and summer movies. Sure there's plenty stupid ones, but they're not all bad, while there's a shitload of awful movies that aren't blockbusters/summer movies, often worse than them. It's sort of a tired cliche to rail about blockbusters in general. And no, films have not been getting worse and worse over the years. There's been plenty good films in recent years and there were plenty horrible films way back. The problem is that once something is designated a classic people don't question that status enough. Too many "classics" are just crap. While some of the films that are self-satisfiedly passed off as bad nowadays aren't so bad or are even good, sometimes very good.

Not that GI Joe is likely to be much good, but it doesn't have Hayden playing a great hero and powerful dark lord and it doesn't have latter-day Lucas romance or jackrabbit Yoda and I doubt it's especially sick or twisted like some movies out there.

There's been some very interesting films out there in recent times if you just look around, not just in films done way back. Over the past decade we've had Fight Club, Wonderland http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0335563/ , Bronson and Pan's Labyrinth. Those are just a few examples.