..."worst film" is only interesting (to me, at least) when applied to something you had hopes for.
― clemenza, Monday, March 13, 2017 11:39 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Specifics aside, I think a big part of really, really hating something is often rooted in caring about something the director had done previously.
― clemenza, Monday, March 13, 2017 12:14 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I don't know if I'd nail it so specifically the director, but yeah, dashed hopes definitely salt the wound. When a film that seemed likely to be bad turns out to be terrible, it hardly registers. But a near miss can really sting if you've got enough invested.
That said, for me, it's less about hope than a sense of betrayal or dishonesty. I'd probably have hated Requiem for a Dream less if others (and the film itself) had insisted a bit less strenuously on its greatness. It's not like I was all that hopeful, but the bullshit INTENSITY of it all eventually drove me to fury.
Also, I remember finding Track 29 pretty "interesting", but it's been ages...
― Not raving but drooling (contenderizer), Monday, 13 March 2017 20:36 (seven years ago) link
I can't think of any individual films that were sorely disappointing so much as later careers and subgenres being a huge letdown. Dario Argento, Tobe Hooper, Peter Jackson, Tim Burton, so few genuinely great gothic horrors, Hong Kong action films going to shit.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, March 13, 2017 1:10 PM (twenty-six minutes ago)
Argento is particularly baffling to me. Wtf happened, man? You at least used to have style...
― Not raving but drooling (contenderizer), Monday, 13 March 2017 20:39 (seven years ago) link
It's getting awfully hard to make the argument for late-career masterpieces these days from anyone who got their start in the '70s onward (with notable exceptions).
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Monday, 13 March 2017 20:44 (seven years ago) link
Walked out of Desperate Hours remake.
Starring Mickey RourkeAnthony HopkinsMimi RogersLindsay CrouseKelly Lynch
Directed by Michael Cimino
― who even are those other cats (Eazy), Monday, 13 March 2017 20:51 (seven years ago) link
a sense of betrayal or dishonesty.
Yes--that's part of why I hate Grand Budapest Hotel so much, the feeling of someone making a film specifically for his most devoted claque, with everything that seemed so new and alive in Rushmore now having moved past mannerism into self-parody. I realize that someone who likes the film is going to say something closer to Old Lunch above.
― clemenza, Monday, 13 March 2017 20:52 (seven years ago) link
I'd probably have hated Requiem for a Dream less if others (and the film itself) had insisted a bit less strenuously on its greatness. It's not like I was all that hopeful, but the bullshit INTENSITY of it all eventually drove me to fury.
basically how I feel about all Gaspar Noe films
― frogbs, Monday, 13 March 2017 20:56 (seven years ago) link
I thought Grand Budapest Hotel was about as amusing as hanging out with the Brodie sock on ilx who yearned to be a bellboy. I notice a lot of ilxors enjoyed that, even if they were only mildly amused at the premise. It passed the time.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Monday, 13 March 2017 20:57 (seven years ago) link
Time passed, that's for sure.
― clemenza, Monday, 13 March 2017 20:58 (seven years ago) link
I would like to choose Ted too, but as I couldn't make even ten minutes into the torture I feel it wouldn't be a valid choice.
Instead I'll say "Joysticks"
― PressAnarchyToContinue (Ste), Monday, 13 March 2017 21:12 (seven years ago) link
Contenderizer- some say Argento fell out of love with film and is just doing it for the money now.
Don't really know what happened to Peter Jackson.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 13 March 2017 21:20 (seven years ago) link
the first 10 minutes of Ted was the GOOD part
its amazing that the final third of the movie about the pot-smoking teddy bear does not seem to attempt a single joke, it's insane
― frogbs, Monday, 13 March 2017 21:21 (seven years ago) link
Lady in the water, no contest― kinder, Friday, February 1, 2013 4:43 PM (four years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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Lady In The Waterlock thread― kinder, Thursday, August 21, 2014 12:01 PM (two years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― kinder, Thursday, August 21, 2014 12:01 PM (two years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
haha.My vote this year goes to Love Actually. I hated it before everyone else.
― kinder, Monday, 13 March 2017 21:21 (seven years ago) link
it's a bad one, for sure
it might have been hampered by the bad sound in a cheap college town theater, but one of my worst moviegoing experiences is "Enigma":http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0157583/?ref_=nv_sr_1
it was completely devoid of charisma despite a decent cast and I thought I was going to die of boredom
― mh 😏, Monday, 13 March 2017 21:47 (seven years ago) link
"The Scarlet Letter" (the one with Demi Moore and Gary Oldman) is the worst movie I saw in a cinema
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Monday, 13 March 2017 22:20 (seven years ago) link
Blast from the Past is perfectly fine. What an odd choice
― Number None, Monday, 13 March 2017 22:29 (seven years ago) link
Yeah people talking rubbish here
― brat_stuntin (darraghmac), Monday, 13 March 2017 22:29 (seven years ago) link
Ok.
The worst movie I've ever seen in its entirety regardless of expectations or budget or message or whatever.....hmm
― brat_stuntin (darraghmac), Monday, 13 March 2017 22:31 (seven years ago) link
Oh yeah blade 2
Blade 2 is really really bad but just in case, it's got one boondock saint and one bros that's the kind of ill-fated sickness in the genes that you don't overcome by having a highwaymen mumble in the corner so it's not
― brat_stuntin (darraghmac), Monday, 13 March 2017 22:33 (seven years ago) link
Wait tho
Queen of the damned? Was there a queen of the damned?
Blade 2 is fine
― mh 😏, Monday, 13 March 2017 22:40 (seven years ago) link
yeah, i don't see how it's any worse than a million other crap horror sequels. hell, it's better than most. at least it has great monsters and some comedy would-be-coolness (mostly down to ws).
― Not raving but drooling (contenderizer), Monday, 13 March 2017 22:46 (seven years ago) link
i always liked track 29. depp wonka is an abomination a la hook. profoundly unfunny and uncool. which brings me to the cat in the hat.
― scott seward, Monday, 13 March 2017 22:54 (seven years ago) link
I see I already ragged on Animal House ITT. An alternative, which is a bit shady because it's in the form of an MST3K episode, is Beast of Yucca Flats, which I found remarkable for its almost complete lack of film-like features. Obviously the edit for MST3K would skew it but nothing else I've ever watched failed to resemble a film so utterly.
― softie (silby), Monday, 13 March 2017 23:25 (seven years ago) link
Probably "Howard The Duck"
― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Monday, 13 March 2017 23:27 (seven years ago) link
On the other hand, I'd probably gladly watch that again, or even the un-MSTed version, whereas you couldn't pay me to sit through Animal House or Airplane again
― softie (silby), Monday, 13 March 2017 23:28 (seven years ago) link
self-xp
I think maybe U-Turn was the worst movie I've ever seen. I'm only counting movies I sat all the way through, so there are many terrible films that are possibly worse than that, of which I only watched maybe 20-30 minutes (including Lady In The Water).
A few months ago I finally watched Clerks II. Whew, that was really terrible! So that's the worst movie I've seen recently.
As for Gaspar Noe, I watched all of Irreversible once and I really wish I hadn't.
― Frobisher, Monday, 13 March 2017 23:53 (seven years ago) link
queen of the damned is great
― mark s, Monday, 13 March 2017 23:54 (seven years ago) link
xps silby, I was just thinking about the Coleman Francis trilogy and how they're such all-around misanthropic failures to the point of being anti-films that it makes them strangely compelling.
― Frobisher, Monday, 13 March 2017 23:58 (seven years ago) link
Clerks two, right, is better than clerks
― brat_stuntin (darraghmac), Monday, 13 March 2017 23:59 (seven years ago) link
U-Turn's a good pick--only a couple of films away from Nixon and JFK, so I still went to an Oliver Stone film with anticipation. It was so egregiously ugly.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 14 March 2017 00:04 (seven years ago) link
which brings me to the cat in the hat.
oof, the heavy artillery
― Not raving but drooling (contenderizer), Tuesday, 14 March 2017 00:06 (seven years ago) link
Reviewer: Scott Oakes (see more about me) from Brooklyn, NY United StatesOf the 3 films in the MVP trilogy, I think MXP might be the best. I watched this one with a few friends beforegoing out on a Saturday night. The comic hijinks of Jack and the other monkeys, as wells as the completealoofness of every adult in the movie who fails to see Jack climbing trees, eating food, and sneaking ontoairplanes dressed in a sombrero and pancho is incredible. This film sells itself. 1 monkey + 1 snowboard =awesome. Is MXS (Most Extreme Surfer) next? I hope so.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 14 March 2017 00:08 (seven years ago) link
i liked u-turn! maybe i was drunk. it had j-lo in it, right? say no more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9vL7nYT1VY
― scott seward, Tuesday, 14 March 2017 00:11 (seven years ago) link
U-Turn is profoundly ugly and nasty but I remember it being pretty good, but it was a long time ago I saw it.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 14 March 2017 00:37 (seven years ago) link
on a board with above-average levels of "the pictures are not on trial" i think we may have hit peak "the pictures are not on trial"
― Pengest Khan (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 14 March 2017 01:25 (seven years ago) link
I genuinely did not like Drive. Two character-free blonds staring at each other over stylised 80s music for two hours and I just don't get why that's supposed to be good?
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Tuesday, 14 March 2017 01:35 (seven years ago) link
Felt the same way about it pretty much but no way is it the worst movie. Vacuous but entertaining at least. Opening scene and music throughout was great.
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Tuesday, 14 March 2017 01:42 (seven years ago) link
at the time I felt like that whole aesthetic had been well and truly ploughed through in other areas of pop culture and Drive was playing catch-up. It was just a really uninteresting film and I was surprised at how impressed people were with it. Maybe not the worst film, but definitely the most perplexing and disappointing.
the only film I've walked out of was Pineapple Express, and I had quite enjoyed some of Apatow's comedies up until then. It's hard to get stoner movies that bad but he pulled it off
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Tuesday, 14 March 2017 02:02 (seven years ago) link
oh god, no
― frogbs, Tuesday, 14 March 2017 02:26 (seven years ago) link
this movie Lazer Team that was a Youtube film or something that made it to the big screen in select theatres.
idk wtf it was going for but it missed wildly
― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 14 March 2017 02:28 (seven years ago) link
Oh, you know what was fucking terrible? Track 29.
I always used to say this was the worst film I'd ever seen but that was years and years ago and I'm sure I've seen many worse since, I still think Gary Oldman is absolutely fucking dreadful and indefensible though. I think the last film I hated with a vengeance was "Grand Budapest Hotel" but it's not even close to being the worst film I've ever seen tbf.
― Return of the Flustered Bootle Native (Tom D.), Tuesday, 14 March 2017 02:35 (seven years ago) link
oh, Thinner as well
― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 14 March 2017 02:36 (seven years ago) link
I watched it on mushrooms and liked it afaicr. Other mushroom movies were "Elf" (wtf, why?!?!??), "Guns of San Sebastian" (a faux Spaghetti Western, which we found hilarious), that Before Sunrise or Beyond Sunset or whatever thing w/ Julie Delpy, a film called "Once a Thief" with Alain Delon as some sort of Croatian and Van Heflin playing his brother (?!?!?) or was it Jack Palance? Anyway Ann-Margret was in it too.... er... what are we talking about again?
― Return of the Flustered Bootle Native (Tom D.), Tuesday, 14 March 2017 02:45 (seven years ago) link
I watched thinner last night
― samovars are trying to steep (wins), Tuesday, 14 March 2017 06:20 (seven years ago) link
The purge deserves mention
― brat_stuntin (darraghmac), Tuesday, 14 March 2017 08:21 (seven years ago) link
Death in Sarajevo won the Jury Grand Prix at Berlin, and has been said to be Altman-like, but it's pure crap. A lot of different stories, but none of them interesting, and then when they begin to fit together it's completely pointless. That's perhaps the worst film I've seen since The Congress, which I've already mentioned several times in this thread...
Of course, that's not true. I watched Suicide Squad. But you all know how crap that is.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 14 March 2017 09:19 (seven years ago) link
Mad Dog Time (aka Trigger Happy) is pretty bad considering the cast: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116953/
― nashwan, Tuesday, 14 March 2017 10:44 (seven years ago) link