OPO, so what was the worst film you ever saw?

i dunno, avatar sucks but at least in the theater the 3D shit was cool to look at and kept my attention just as a magic trick type thing which i more than i can say about a lot of movies

off the top of my head, Titanic was even worse than I was expecting it to be (and I was expecting it to be pretty awful)

yes i was gonna nom Titanic, too - for some reason i can't 'fathom' now, i went with my two best friends to see it on the opening weekend in Leicester Square, only to find ourselves sitting through this shit sat in the dress circle of a vast, sold out West End cinema, SURROUNDED by weeping couples, families, men, women, children, everywhere we looked. it was only my liberal guilt at being so alienated from the tastes and feeling of the mass audience that made me refrain from nomming it here.

I will agree that Catwoman was one of those odd movies that you expect to be really bad but it winds up even worse than that, to the point where the badness was almost mesmerizing. Ultraviolet was another such movie, not as bad as a whole but one of those movies where the plot and dialogue made almost no sense whatsoever. I remember someone saying "take a coherent script and remove every other line, and that's what Ultraviolet is like".

I think I saw most of the worst movies I've ever seen while I was in high school, usually at the theater. Like Congo and Spawn and Tank Girl and Hellraiser 4. Haggis' Crash is definitely up there.

dunno, avatar sucks but at least in the theater the 3D shit was cool to look at and kept my attention just as a magic trick type thing which i more than i can say about a lot of movies

exactly - if you ignore everything that happens in the movie it's quite a spectacle. i'm a little suspicious of those who say they weren't impressed with the visuals in the least.

I think it has to be Huge, some AWFUL AWFUL AWFUL British comedy. I cannot express how depressingly awful this film is:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1457726/

When this question comes up it's interesting how often people reach for big, successful, Oscar-nominated stuff - Crash, Avatar, Titanic, Forrest Gump, whatever - instead of inept dreck like Rancid Aluminium. I just don't see how on any level you could say Avatar was the worst movie you'd seen unless you'd spent the rest of your movie-watching life working through the Sight & Sound list. Are these movies "worse" because they've had some acclaim?

No, it might actually be Kaboom. Yeah, Kaboom is probably the worst thing I've ever sat through. It actually caused me and my housemate physical pain.

I've only walked out of two movies, Field Of Dreams and Marquis. I can't handle irredeemable treacle or puppet sodomy.

There might be a bit of that, yeah. Also because you're more likely to have seen them at some point - most of the shit I've seen has been stuff that's been on TV a lot and I've decided to give it a go in a moment of boredom. I'm pretty choosy about what I go to the cinema for.

xpost - Marquis is AWESOME, dude, you're crazy.

Oh God, "Crash". A professor showed like the first 10 minutes of that movie in a class once and everyone was like DO YOU SEE??? I took a note to never see the full movie, otherwise i'm sure it would be my worst.

I like plenty of questionable crap but Marquis was boring questionable crap.

IMO this should be a list of worst movies and not "so bad they are good/entertaining" movies. A badly-made film that is compelling in its badness still has value.

EZ, how can you find a film with an animated talking penis boring? I do not understand your brain.

I had to sit through the Upside of Anger once (my dad and his gf wanted to go)

which was awful in its utter banality and unnecessariness - it wasn't horrible on a formal/visual level but it was just such a waste of everyone's time

Cops & Robbersons and In the Army Now, same summer at the cheapie theaters

Before most airlines got on-demand systems installed, in-flight movies were a treasure trove of movie badness. Even so, I can't defend my decision to watch Maid in Manhattan.

I should have liked Marquis, but I felt it tried to hard, didn't succeed, and wasn't well done. Left after about 45 minutes.

xpost to em.

I saw Avatar first on the back of a headrest while flying to New York - the 3D didn't really come across...

emil.y - I might like it more now, but I was 18 and couldn't stand it. And with such a virulent reaction I've never thought to revisit.

Actually, this weird little black and white short thing someone made me watch called The Jetty or something. It's just fucking photos. The plot makes no sense. It seemed cheap as fuck. The narrator sounded bored. At least it was over quickly.

@ DL for me, it's not a direct result of "AND it was critically acclaimed!" so much as a) there was a moment of cultural inescapability around those three movies, b) I saw all three in the theatre, c) lots of money+effort+time poured into all three, and d), most importantly, at their heart, neither of my three movies I named necessarily suffer from a bad script, edit, score or performances, but they all are afflicted with a sickness of existence, like they never should've even festered on past a brainstorming process, and that every well-executed shot, every million dollars made, ever award bestowed, ever poster put on a kid's wall just goes to reinforce and make these dark offerings stronger. "Howard the Duck" makes me feel like George Lucas is a bad filmmaker. "Crash" makes me wish for human existinction

Ha

Xp

*extinction, but "existinction" is interesting too

I would think the worst film would have to be really amateur but then you'd excuse amateurishness for effort or enthusiasm (as re-created in Ed Wood, I haven't seen one by the guy). A Hollywood film would perhaps never fail a meeting of basic film-making standards: Catwoman or Titanic don't, as bad as both might be (sat through bits of either on TV and couldn't finish but not because it was failing a competency test).

I think a film that would qualify would be something utterly dishonest in intent by most concerned, or one where no one was trying in anyway make something 'good', something really utterly cynical (and I'm cynical myself albeit retain mild optimism).

All of which is to say I can't think of anything right now.

"Howard the Duck" gets so much crap. I remember loving it as a kid and then later as an intoxicated adult.

cute, Scik M

loooool @ SM

xp Ha. That's kind of what I suspected. So I present to you The Boondock Saints - fundamental incompetence AND sickness of existence.

Leaving Las Vegas

or Crash

I remember being seriously weirded out by Howard the Duck on telly. I must have been around 9 or 10 and it was too much for my tiny mind. Really want to revisit it now.

i guess you haven't seen Boondock Saints 2

It's in my Netflix queue, obvs

I have a beautiful new username thanks to this thread.

I loved Howard the Duck as a kid.

The part in Howard the Duck where the dude starts morphing into an alien in the car and everyone is just losing their shit is hilarious and insane and actually pretty terrifying.

Hudson Hawke probably

Actually I probably hated "Howard" more than necessary because I was basically forced to see it instead of "Back To School", as I hinted upthread.

"Titanic" I still enjoy as a disaster-movie (if only Maureen McGovern sang the Celine song)

Avatar was awesome, I don't want to argue through it again but just fyi there is an ilxor (me) who holds this opinion, kthxbye

Beware the Blob is really quite unbelievable

america's sweethearts
sorority boys
mister lonely
bruno
revenge of the nerds

I would think the worst film would have to be really amateur

Oh heavens no! People who don't know what they're doing or who have nothing to lose often make some fascinating stuff. It's the people with money/comfort/connections/reputations who often half-ass their way through a creative endeavor that has no reason to exist.

Lost in Space

xpost you mean Beware! The Blob

Honestly guys most movies mentioned on this thread are at worst just really mediocre. Try harder.

super dumb challops itt

Oh heavens no! People who don't know what they're doing or who have nothing to lose often make some fascinating stuff.

As I said amateurs basically get an E, for effort.

I don't agree with the rest of your statement. Nothing cultural needs a 'reason to exist'.

Burt Reynolds ...
'Wacky' Jacky Jackson

oh, Thinner as well

― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Monday, March 13, 2017 9:36 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ah ha ha. Emulating that lead actor's weird mugging throughout the movie is one of my imitations that's guaranteed to get a laugh out of my sister (alongside Judge Reinhold's expressions of childlike whimsical wonder in Vice Versa, the weird kid who played Omri in Indian in the Cupboard, and the doubly weird kid who played the younger brother in Teen Witch).

Was that dude ever in anything else? He is fascinatingly bad. They might as well have just cast Stephen King.

boondock saints is genuinely a profoundly awful movie on every level but without it we wouldn't have the accompanying documentary overnight which goes a long way to redeeming it. troy duffy is way more entertaining in front of the camera

Clerks two, right, is better than clerks

being punched in the neck, right, is better than being punched in the kidney

i watched death wish 3 for the first time recently and i was taken aback by how batshit and poisonous its portrayal of inner-city life was

michael winner in 'being a right-wing shithead' shocker i know, but it ended up bothering me for days afterwards, possibly because it made me wonder exactly how much of donald trump's thinking about crime is shaped by similarly deranged 80s action movies

The Purge was great, wtf

Was that dude ever in anything else?

He co-starred in Hal Hartley's No Such Thing!

worst movie i ever saw was "Get Hard" which played at the drive-in just before "Fury Road". the last thing a world needs is a movie sympathizing with rich criminals that are so afraid of going to prison they become a racist stereotype and then at the end of the day they don't have to go to prison bc lol of course not they are rich.

which brings me to the cat in the hat.

oof, the heavy artillery

― Not raving but drooling (contenderizer), Monday, March 13, 2017 8:06 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"Cat in the Hat" is not a film, it is a heroin withdrawl nightmare of the genie from Aladdin.

I'm blaming this thread for my dream last night in which I was asked to name Englands worst ever striker

bomber harris iirc

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