The Worst Movie You've Ever Seen?

Dune.

Deadpool.

Howard the Duck

OP - Isn't there a weird incest angle to the Goop/Huey duet? City of Angels

A Christmas Story, torture.

Satan's Cheerleaders.

Cujo.

Problem Child 2 is my personal shit standard.

I Heart Huckabees, worse than being waterboarded with a Chinese hot mustard douche being administered simultaneously.

Braveheart

Whispers in the Dark was so bad. I saw it because I was in love with John Leguizamo at the time and he wore leather pants in the movie. Alan Alda was the killer!

Stakeout.

The new Fahrenheit 451. It's so shit.

Jerry Maguire.

2004 Oscar award winner "Crash."

Galaxina. Not only did it suck, the main actress was murdered in real life by her then husband/manager shortly after the movie was shot. It was such B shit to start with they didn't bother to pull it. It came out years after Star Wars and yet the effects looked so bad it was laughable even back then. And no, it was not supposed to be intentional Camp even though it would be by today's standards.

Trance

A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)

I didn't think you could make Freddy Krueger boring, but somehow they managed. Even the worst movies from the original series were still fun to watch. This movie almost puts the viewers to sleep. Rooney Mara acted like she'd rather be anywhere else in the world than filming that movie. And I can see why. Freddy was the only character in the movie with any personality whatsoever.

All Nic Cage movies in the last decade or so.

Cider House Rules

Citizen Kane. I walked out.

Elysium

too many to choose just one. anything halle berry stars in is guaranteed to be a dud. derailed starring jennifer anniston and clive owen is terrible, clive owen could barely keep a straight face during his scenes with anniston.

Although I've never walked out of a theater, I have stopped watching a rented movie.

The two that come to mind are "You Don't Mess with the Zohan" and "The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas".

Cherry 2000. That was the movie that finally made me understand the expression, "____ hours of my life I'll never get back." It was a complete flat line from beginning to end.

One Magic Christmas - the worst and most mean-spirited Christmas movie evah! Apparently the best way to make someone regain Christmas spirit is to make that person believe her entire family was killed.

Titanic. It was so cheesy, I turned it off. And I was captive on a transoceanic flight at the time.

The Duelists.

Calligua.

Madge’s Swept Away. She owes plant earth an apology for that stinker.

The Counselor, there really are no other words to describe it, especially considering the director, the screewriter and the cast.

Ferzan Ozpetek's latest Napoli Velata. I want the time I wasted watching it.

Dreamgirls Snatched xXx

Fucking formatting ^^

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It's a hard question to answer because great movies are all great in more or less the same way, but each terrible movie is uniquely terrible. For instance, which one is worse, a movie that is terribly shot, stupidly written and boring, or a movie that might be decently shot and written but either has a terrible message or completely fails to do what it set out to do?

I'll give examples.

Possibly the worst movie ever made -- some candidates would be "Plan 9 from Outer Space," "Night Train to Mundo Fine" (aka "Red Zone Cuba"), "The Starfighters," or "Manos the Hands of Fate." All are just to terrible in all respects that they can actually cause mental illness in the viewer. (Plan 9 is at least unintentionally amusing, sometimes hilariously so, so perhaps should not be on the list.) We could add any of Coleman Francis's other films to the list in fact.

But is that worse than a movie like, say, "The Nice Guys," which has good talent (including the breakout actress Angourie Rice -- a very talented Australian actress), and is competently shot, yet is such a dud in terms of humor and storytelling that in the end it's not much different from suffering through a Coleman Francis movie?

The Love Guru with Mike Myers.

Blindness in 2008 was complete torture to sit through.

You "walked out" of Citizen Kane, r21? What were the dinosaurs like?

Star Wars.

Adaptation. I get violent thoughts when I think about it.

Anything with Madonna.

Voodoo Devil Doll From Hell, it's the movie where Tyler Perry sold his soul to...the devil!

Please do enjoy the preview.

Frances

Shape of Water

BLACK devil doll.

Bad and funny.

transandence with johnny depp.

what a load of shite

SEXETTE a late seventies abomination that I watched when i was smoking a spliff. Imagine my mind frame after witnessing a vaselined lens for Mae West and it swapping to normal resolution when panning on any other character in the same scene. Worse of all, because I was on the puff, I had my pseudo director head on and for a hot minute thought that the vaselined lens signified Our Mae being wistful and this added some strange pathos ( for me) to the schlock of it all. It was only afterwards that I remembered that by the 70s, Mae West was very "up in age" and that the vaselined lens signified her vanity.

Any Steven Segal film. He was always a stiffy miffy, not given to physical flexibility even in his prime. But , nah; the gall of having him fighting off twenty Asian men using technique invented by their culture AND in their country, sporting a widow's peep, dyed black hair and just using his not very reachable arms without any kicks..........he's rude!

[quote]Any Steven Segal film.

I could tell without actually seeing one of them.

If you know anything about British history, Braveheart is so full of shit, it's hilarious.

I watched Gigli to be ironic in college. It was so soul-suckingly bad though that it was hard to enjoy it even in that context.

Joan Rivers' theatrical abortion -Rabbit Test

Well, there are big budget bombs (usually bad acting and nonsensical plots). And then there are low budget, Z-grade movies, that are just awful in every category- often because they had no money (or talent) to work with.

A big-budget turkey bomb is "mother!"- just awful, miscast, laughable and embarrassing. A low-budget one would be "Zontar The Thing From Venus" (1966).

Toss up between Money Train and Mr. Brooks

La La Land

Multiplicity with Michael Keaton

The disgusting and pretentious “Salo” and the smug, pseudo-hip “Get Shorty” come immediately to mind.

r47, it's widow's PEAK.

wid·ow's peak noun unpunctuated: widows peak a V-shaped growth of hair toward the center of the forehead, especially one left by a receding hairline in a man.

Old Dogs. Robin Williams and John Travolta should be arrested for this crime on celluloid.

[quote]If you know anything about British history, Braveheart is so full of shit, it's hilarious.

The depiction of Wallace is so ludicrous. The war paint and the kilt, lol. He was a Scottish nobleman. He was a vassal of the Stewarts and as such he was probably an Anglo-Norman just like the knights he was fighting against on the English side (although we don't know for sure, it seems very unlikely that a nobleman holding a fief from the Stewarts would have been anything other than an Anglo-Norman noble).

Also Braveheart was a reference to the heart of a dead Robert the Bruce, not William bloody Wallace!

Doctor Strange. Walked out after thirty minutes.

Batman & Robin

Is that image in r58 really Travolta's face, or is it photoshop? Because that looks like a scary demon, or an alien.

The remake of CARRIE. That stumpy looking changeling with the three names should have a fatwa out on her for thinking she could fill those dramatic shoes!

The Darjeeling Limited

R39 He may have seen Citizen Kane in a theater that shows classic films.

The Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie is my choice for worst of all time. Although I enjoy the TV show, the movie sucked beyond belief.

The Main Event which is even worse than Plan 9 From Outer Space.

I couldn't leave. I was in a state of shock.

Jaws :The Revenge

"Dawson's 51-Load Weekend."

Sequels suck.

Performance with Nick Jagger. So pretentious.

I don't know if it's the worst but it's the first that comes to mind: Ralph Bakshi's animated "Lord of the Rings". I don't think I've ever been more bored or had gotten a more searing headache while watching a movie. It got to the point where I was looking at exit signs, fantasizing about other patrons in the theater; anything to avoid looking at the screen. The reason I didn't leave was because I was with a friend and her niece, who she was baby-sitting, (and I drove).

A few after-effects:

1) I was an avid movie-goer and it went against my grain to ever walk out of any movie. I changed after seeing Rings. Although I didn't walk out of Rings, I walked out of many movies since.

2) Because of the hideous memory, I could never bring myself to see any of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy that became huge years later. The third one is the only Best Picture I've never seen since Patton back in 1970. (also, have to admit, it's just not my genre).

Out of Africa. Maudlin crap.

Legends of the Fall. Self important THEEEEE-ATRE acting.

Whatever the fuck that "if you build it they will come" Kevin Costner shit stain was called.

"Under the Brooklyn Bridge" with Margo Hemingway and Elliot Gould

R71, R70 here. So funny you posted 2 of those three are movies I walked out of, (Africa and Legends). I wish I had walked out of Field of Dreams, (but my date was really enjoying it).

"Godzilla," 1998, with Matthew Broderick. My boyfriend and I walked out of the theater on that film. It was boring and stupid.

People love Field of Dreams.

But it's really sentimental and cloying about baseball right? I would hate it.

[quote][R39] He may have seen Citizen Kane in a theater that shows classic films.

THAT IS NOT WHAT HE MEANT!

The Bodyguard with Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston. Watched part of it on a plane in the days when there was one in-flight movie for everybody; took off the headphones and pulled out a book long before the end. I'm sure there are worse movies in the world, but I usually avoid them.

[quote] The Love Guru with Mike Myers

LOL. Back in the day, a friend's boyfriend worked with Myers on his movies. The bf invited several other friends and me to a live workshop at which Myers presented sketches featuring the Love Guru character to get audience feedback. We all hated the character and found the sketches painfully unfunny and as far as I could tell, most of the other audience members were similarly unimpressed. Apparently, Myers chose not to take the feedback seriously and went ahead with that terrible movie pretty much as originally planned.

Running With Scissors.

Unbelievably awful .

Probably some boring, low-budget horror movie. They all just coalesce in my mind, so I can’t think of a specific one.

But I do enjoy some “bad” movies because they are so exuberant in their awfulness: Showgirls, Dungeons & Dragons, Troll 2, and The Room etc.

"The Fat Spy"

Deadpool is the best super hero movie ever made.

R2 is just a virgin. There's a place for you at the very END of the Human Centipede, which you like more than Deadpool.

How is r2 going to explain away the rave reviews that both Deadpool movies got?

Girls trip. Unwatchable.

Heavy Metal.

Oh, and Vinterberg’s “experimental” Claire Danes/Joaquin Phoenix vehicle It's All About Love along with a Canadian experimental film called Carpark. Where just a car park was filmed for an hour. No cars or people came; no cars or people left. Like Warhol’s Couch but even worse.

Bear in mind I LIKE experimental film.

Manhattan

Gravity. Just ugh. I had to see what all the fuss was, even though I HATE Sandra whatever the fuck her last name is.

I would have walked out of Punch Drunk Love, but the person I was with wanted to stay.

So I got a bit tray of nachos from the concession stand and ate them loudly throughout the rest of the film.

*big tray

Sex And The City 2..

R62 That was fucking hiLARious.

OP, Goop singing makes me want to poke hot sharpened pencils into my ears and eyes. When she closes her eyes, I wished for an aneurysm. She really thought she was going to be a pop star.

I walked out of Out of Africa and Leaving Las Vegas. . Unwatchable. La La Land was crap.

Another one for Deadpool.

That movie where Casper Van Dien fought giant bugs.

I don't think I've ever seen a movie with Meryl Streep.

R92 Oh god I forgot about Leaving Las Vegas. Torture.

four way tie:

Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn (1983) I had no option, I was a kid on vacation and the majority of my cousins wanted to see this, or it was a compromise.

The Road to Wellville: Walked out, asked for money back. Never did that before nor since.

The Terror of Tiny Town: Singing little people in a western. Funny for three minutes.

Rat Pfink a Boo Boo: Ray Dennis Streckler spoof on Batman and Robin. Only noteworthy for the 1960s Los Angeles backdrop.

Director John Landis had a funny comment about how viewers will sit through any movie regardless of how shitty it is. If you weren’t enjoying yourself, leave the theater and get a refund. All theaters have refund policies. Usually they will give you a ticket that is good to come back anytime. But if you sit through movie that you hate, then that is on you. You don’t get any points in life for suffering through movie or book you’re not enjoying.

That said, I sat through the Darren Aronofsky movie mother because I was convinced that there would be some sort of twist or clarification as to what was going on. The first act appeared to exist in reality, the second act became an escalating series of unclear and absurdist biblical references, And I was very curious what Aronofsky was trying to do even though I was bored out of my mind. Turns out there was no shoe left to drop and there was nothing resembling a third act

But unless there’s some reason that you can’t leave the theater, such as a spouse who loves the movie and is sitting next to you, get the fuck out of the theater. No movie ever gets better as it goes on.

Also for the person who hated problem child 2, The original and the sequel were written by the amazingly talented writers who gave us Ed wood and the people versus Larry Flint.

I knew La La Land was going to suck after that spectacularly charmless opening number but soldiered on for another 30 minutes or so. It never got any better so I walked out and got my ticket transferred to something else.

Up until that point, I think Wild Wild West with Will Smith was the worst movie I'd ever seen. Just horrible and ridiculous.

Sophie's Choice. When the Nazi asked her to choose between her two children and she didn't push them BOTH forward, I walked out in disgust.

Waterworld. Terrible script AND Kevin Costner.

Caligula is quite shitty. Also, Beaches. Also a couple REAL stinkers by Godard and Pasolini who could also make good movies.

I walked out of Evita.

Synechdoche, New York. Dull, pretentious crap.

Smokey and the Bandit

I hated I heart huckabees too- ah! forgot about that one.

Battlefield Earth Tarzan the Ape Man with Bo Derek

Dinner for Schmucks. Just awful.

Last really bad movie was some Michael Cimino disaster in London where I fell asleep. I hated hulk., cheap looking fake green beast. I realized I would get up and walk as soon as something boring happened in a movie so I don’t go to the movies anymore. At$30 a pop! That’s ridiculous.

Oh and that Titanic movie, if they screamed “JACK” “ROSE” one more time, I wanted to throw my shoes at the screen. I guess I’m no fun. Toooooo many CGI effects in Lord of the rings and then a semi-orgy at the end. I bet Ian McKellan had a hard on the whole time.

R56, yes. I frigging HATE Salo. That movie keeps being passed off as art house full of symbolism and meaning when it was nothing but an excuse for a scat, pedophile and torture fetishist to film his disgusting fantasies for the benefit of himself and other sociopaths like him to wack off to. That's all it was. I would never wish ill on anyone or express glee over someone's demise, but the director got what was coming to him.

Every theatrical abortion that Tom Green has starred in.

Somewhere directed by Sofia Coppola.....pretentious af.

Low-budget" "The Creeping Terror", where the monster is basically a shag carpet with people underneath it to move it around. What REALLY makes it bad is that most of the soundtrack was lost, so they had to get a narrator to tell you what everyone is saying.

Big-budget: "Magnolia", the single most pretentious piece of shit in movie history.

[R110] Salo was actually based off a novel by Marquis de Sade called "100 Days of Sodom". I actually think the movie is beautifully made and scary as hell. If you know some of the cultural history of the dying embers of pre-Fascist Italy it might come off as more interesting.

[R112] Lost in Translation was a snooze fest. One of the only times I disagreed with Roger Ebert.

I have a friend who I thought could sit through anything twisted or repugnant(unlike me) but he found he had to turn Salo off.

I thought wow it must be something.

"Captain Corelli's Mandolin." It went on for so long I was rooting for the Nazis so it would be over sooner.

R70. Haha. In Out of Africa, the opening voice over: "I HAAAAAD A FAHM IN AAAAAFRICA.....". I laughed out loud in theatre. People shsh'd me.

In Field of Dreams when the ghost dad "has a catch" w Costner and the wife smiles as if to say "aww, one more is ok, though it's getting late" I wanted to chuck my giant Coca Cola at the screen.

I knew from reading reviews (peripherally) that I would hate many of the movies y'all're condemning in this thread. SO I STAYED HOME.

The human centipede 2

[quote]Salo was actually based off a novel by Marquis de Sade called "100 Days of Sodom". I actually think the movie is beautifully made and scary as hell. If you know some of the cultural history of the dying embers of pre-Fascist Italy it might come off as more interesting.

Just because Pasolini said the movie was based on a novel and about Fascism doesn't mean that it also wasn't a poor excuse for a film. If a filmmaker made a movie about a man who was unfairly imprisoned for two decades for stealing a piece of bread, escapes from prison, rescues a young girl, then starts screwing her at the age of 8--complete with gratuitous softcore scenes--he could say all he wanted that the movie is based in Les Miserables and about Nazism (and be as sincere as a heart attack about it). But it would still be pedophile apologia and borderline child porn created by someone using the film to indulge himself.

[quote]2004 Oscar award winner "Crash."

Aww...still upset that it beat “Brokeback Mountain.” HA

Lala Land owns this thread.

[quote]Low-budget" "The Creeping Terror", where the monster is basically a shag carpet with people underneath it to move it around.

I'm not someone who's into the hate watching phenomenon. (I usually find bad movies too boring or annoying to find funny). But that movie is so bad, it's hilarious! That's the movie where the victims crawl into the monster's mouth because they couldn't figure out a way to have it eat them convincingly.

Haha Now I must watch the creeping terror....

The Happening, with the one Wahlberg. Plants?

Ah...you mean "The Crappening" with Wahlberg and a pre-New Girl/She and Him Deschanel

Margot at the Wedding. Yikes! The low point comes courtesy of Nicole Kidman shitting herself and then removing her shit stained panties and leaving them in the woods. Plus the always tic happy Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jack Black at his most annoying.

Six Days and Seven Nights

I agree with La La Land, mainly because it won all those Oscars and didn't deserve it. At least you go in not expecting anything with movies like Human Centipede 2.

I'm horrible with movie names, but that one with Gene Hackman that came out circa 2002. Something about some stupid family. That was awful.

[quote] Margot at the Wedding. Yikes! The low point comes courtesy of Nicole Kidman shitting herself and then removing her shit stained panties and leaving them in the woods.

Too bad Danny Thomas and Chuck Berry didn't live to see it.

C'mon, girls! A hundred and thirty-one posts before we get to . . .

Someone brought an early animated POS film by the guy who did the "Lord of The Rings" to a movie night, and it was the vilest, most violent animated film I've ever seen. It was called "Meet the Feebles". Yuck.

R133 Meet The feebles is Puppets ya Muppet. Glad to see lotsa PT Anderson, Wes Anderson films here, overrated shit

Men in Black

Well it was total puppet shit.

"This is It"

I'm actually not sure if I can call "This is It" a movie - but it was in theaters and I did have to pay for it. It wasn't even edited to be cohesive. It was just a pile of rehearsals and miscellaneous crap to capitalize on Michael Jackson's death.

The movie with that guy and what's her name.

I'll never forget the review of Six Days,Seven Nights that said Harrison Ford having sex with Anne Heche looked like a bum scrambling for loose change on a sidewalk.

that new blade runner movie, it was sooooo shit!!! and SLOW!

R139 I'm pretty sure that's my worst movie, too, but I can't be sure. Maybe it was one of the best.

Only good thing about Margot At The Wedding was when the lights came on and I realized I was sitting right next to Jennifer Jason Leigh and her Jew director boyfriend who wrote and directed that piece of shit movie

A Serbian Film

Angel at My Table. Bleughh.

Re Margot at the Wedding. It was JJL who shit her pants, not Nicole. I normally hate JJL - Georgia! - but Margot has one of her bearable performances.

Blood Beach

Though I should have known as Danny DeVito was one of the 'stars'.

Gwyneth looks like her fug brother in op header. No wonder she's a desperate somatic narc.

Margot At The Wedding seems to be winning by a landslide!

Bringing up Baby with Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn followed by Paranormal 1 with the Jew parade

passion of the christ

Iron Man, the one with green people in forest, Hugh Jackson movie with the blade hands.

Movie with John Travolta as fireman.

Cloverfeld. Old Jewish man monster by jj abrams.

R36, you Aspies, you!

If you guys knew the truth about WWII and the "Holocaust", you would say Schindler's List.

Can you say you have seen a movie if you walked out? Seems to me you have only part of it. I was once a film critic and was hating Speechless, a painfully unfunny romantic comedy with Michael Keaton and Geena Davis, but I couldn't leave because if was my job to watch it all.

Vanilla Sky. I sat through the whole film thinking something would happen that would pull thus mess together.

Recently I would agree with Mother! I watched it all, praying that Michelle would return, but she never did. But then I hated Aronofsky's other movies too.

I now have to see Margot at the Wedding.

How Do You Know starring Reese Witherspoon and Owen Wilson.

Happy Death Day.

Don’t do it R160.

I like Margot at the Wedding but I like the films of Noah Baumbach. It's one of the few films I like Nicole Kidman in too without being distracted by her face and hair.

Good choice, R161. Painfully stupid movie. Typical dialogue: How do you know you're in love? Because you use a condom with the OTHER girls.

 [italic]Apocalypse Now.[/italic] Jesus, that movie was loud! And overacted and badly written. I was dragged to see it by a friend, so I couldn't walk out. To amuse myself I started counting how many times the word "fuck" was said. After it reached over 100, I decided to give up, close my eyes and grab a quick nap, but the movie was SO loud I couldn't even do that. I was never so happy to see a movie end.

 [italic]Titanic.[/italic] It might have made a moderately entertaining half-hour TV show, but it was way, WAY too long and deadly dull as a feature-length movie that dragged on for hours (plural).

 [italic]Sideways[/italic] — but with a caveat. I found the characters so detestable that I stopped watching the movie after about 20 minutes, writing it off as completely socially unredeemable. I felt that way about it for a couple of years, but then one day happened to turn it on about 20 minutes from the end—right at the point where Sandra Oh kicks the living shit out of Thomas Hayden Church. That completely saved the movie. But even that couldn't make up for the absolutely terrible story line and hambone acting.

The Counselor, Epic Movie, Naco Libre and Year One

Meet the Spartans. Dumb, dumb, dumb.

Walked out of Back to the Future III and The Flintstones after 15 minutes and I had free passes for both. Not that I was expecting much but both are horrible humorless films.

Out of Africa and The English Patient are better than Ambien.

My Dinner With Andre. I lost my appetite.

R169, I've never seen such a divide as reaction to The English Patient. People either love it or hate it.

The English Patient has the visual and emotional depth of a can of Orangina.

Last night I saw a movie on cable. Diane Keaton, Kevin Kline, Sam Shepard, Dianne Wiest from 2012. Darling Companion. It’s about a lost dog. I can’t even...

After Earth with Will and Jaden. Generally like sci-fi but couldn't finish this one.

I love movies. Even a bad movie can be fun.... But the worst movie I've seen in a looooooong time is I Feel Pretty. It was so boring and unfunny and long and cheap looking and terrible and dull and annoying and ugggghhhhhh I really wanted to walk out it was so bad and I've never felt that way

Independence Day

Natural Born Killers

Napoleon Dynamite

Momma Mia.

I Love You, Phillip Morris. It was like an extended "In Living Color" skit, with Jim Carrey mugging for two hours.

Moonrise Kingdom.

[quote]Probably some boring, low-budget horror movie. They all just coalesce in my mind, so I can’t think of a specific one.

Let me help you out on that, so you don't have to suffer through it.

Happiness by Todd Solondz. Inexecrable.

I slept through The English Patient. I woke up when they were in a cave. I felt very safe being with who I was with. I wish I could find him. We both moved away. His name was Lyn. Or maybe Lynn. Not a T. Just a boy with a girl's name.

r180 Does "inexecrable" mean it pushes itself back in?

Shakespeare in love....watched for 20 minutes or so,horrible. what a joke.

Titanic....fell asleep multiple times.

House of Flying Daggers (or something like that)...sooooo long and the protagonist was about to die so many times it became laughable she kept standing up.

Justice League....trashed it after 30 minutes. This trash cannot be for real.

Noah by Darren Aronofsky.....holy shit lol what a mess.

Macbeth with Fass...the acting was terrible and all the slow motion was pointless.

worst movies which are the most boring I've ever seen.

inexecrable adj thoroughly execrable; deserving of being cursed or execrated

"Execrable" is enough. "INexecrable" must be one of those "millennials got it wrong so often, we gave it to them" words.

"Inexecrable ... that's what ... you are ...."

Typing inexecrable causes the squiggly red line to appear. Typing execrable does not.

Irregardless of that, inexecrable is a word!

I disagree about Happiness. I actually think it has one of P S Hoffman's best performances.

I expected every post to be Mame and it didn't come up once.

Where I used to live, the newspaper would have a "predict the Oscars contest" every year and the winners would get invited to a screening of a movie not yet released. Inevitably, the movie would suck...but you hoped every year. One year the sneak was for Oscar-winner Cuba Gooding Jr in Boat Trip.

Worst

Movie

Ever

The one with Mrs Patrick Campbell writhing on an orange shag carpet, squealing at homeless men: "More fudge, Daddy! More fudge!"

Pasolini's Medea. Another one I almost erased from my memory.

The Spirit of the Beehive (El espíritu de la colmena). I must be a total philistine, because it's a highly regarded film, but Jesus Christ. I have never. Been. So. Bored.

Armageddon

Mame.

What number are you calling?

Medea was a succes d'estime.

R198 eh go tell 14 yo me watching that during religion class. Bored to tears. Poor Callas lol

Salmonberries with k. d. Lang

Alexander. La Jolie had the same accent as Gary Oldman in Dracula. The whole 3+ hr flick was a hysterical mess. It ruined Colin Farrells career.

The Big Cube. Lana Turners final movie role. She died shortly after it was released. From shame & embarrassment.

The sequel to Valley of the Dolls.

Torn Curtain with Paul Newman & Julie Andrews. Unintentionally campy & laughable, esp the crazed Polish actress looking for a sponsor.

Of course, Mame.

Have to disagree with R162. I don't know why I feel so passionately about this, but "Happy Death Day" was a pleasant surprise!

I walked in expecting a cheap, forgettable riff on "Groundhog Day" and "Final Destination" that would be entertaining enough for two hours. But the plot had surprising depth. The main character learned how to a be a better, more caring person living the same day over and over again. She severed her allegiance to her shallow sorority sisters, reconciled with her estranged father, stopped sleeping with her married professor, and started dating a nice guy to whom she previously would not have given the time of day.

She looked nothing like a college student, but Jessica Rothe really gave it all in the lead performance. I thought the twists (the use of the black-out in the timing of her final confrontation with the killer, and the last-minute switcheroo with the killer's identity) were kind of clever.

The love story was sweet, and it had a happy ending, which is rare for horror movies.

While writing this post, I checked IMDb, and one of the trivia items is interesting. Apparently, the original ending was much darker. However, it says: "The test audiences reacted furiously to [the original] ending, feeling betrayed that the protagonist, after becoming a better person, could not break free."

I swear I'm not affiliated with this movie (or personally know anyone who is), but...I liked it a lot. Like a lot of the flops on this thread, it didn't take itself too seriously, but it was a lot better than it needed to be.

Alien: Covenant

A piece of shit.

Event Horizon. Beyond awful.

Wow, R197, this is some subtle acting ! What film is that though ?

R205 - John Waters' Desperate Living

Thanks R206. So it is willingly over the top.

R204 whaaat? EH is a masterpiece.

Great thread. Hard to answer, as a movie can be bad in so many ways.

The films that I hate the most, that other people like/liked a great deal would have to be

Love Actually and Jerry Maguire. Both offend me in various ways.

I remember walking out on the movie "Phaedra" with a young Tony Perkins and Melina Mercouri.

Since the age of home video, I have stopped watching too many movies to count...the latest one being "Frozen."

The English Patient

Recently, Tom Cruise's The Mummy

R211, I didn't like The English Patient either!

The entire of Ken Loach's output, post 1969.

Pasolini made many boring stink bombs, true.

When I saw the movie "Carrie" back in the 1970s, I thought it was the biggest piece of shit I had ever seen.

Was quite surprised later to read that it was a film of some acclaim.

I liked Happy Death Day, too. It was a pleasantly fun surprise. They'll probably ruin it with a sequel, but oh well - wouldn't be the first time.

Carrie? Seriously? You must live a pretty fabulous life if Carrie is the worst movie you've ever seen. I bet you're fun at parties.

For me, it's impossible to really call out a worst movie ever, but I'll say the remake of The Fog is the only movie I've ever walked out of before it ended. It just kept adding offense to offense for an hour until I finally couldn't take it anymore and had to get the fuck out.

Personally, I'd rather see an amazingly bad movie than a movie that's simply mediocre. At least I'll remember the bad ones and have a laugh or two about them, but the mediocre ones disappear from your brain during the walk to the parking lot after the movie. That's clearly worse. There have been movies I've put on before when they're on HBO or something and, 20 minutes in, I'll be like "Wait! I saw this. At the theater!" I'm always surprised by how unmemorable they were.

Until you people have seen Ax 'Em, you have NO idea how bad a movie can get. This movie is so bad it turns into a literal fever dream.

Ben and Arthur is no prize either.

R216, thanks. You're a real sport. To be more precise, Carrie is one of the movies I hated that are generally acclaimed by most people and by the film industry.

Obviously I have seen worse cheapo B movies.

Troll 2

R220 I actually own Troll 2 on DVD. A Meisterwerk with an hilarious unintentional gay subplot.

Martin Short as a 10-year-old in "Clifford." It sat on the shelf for a couple of years. It should have been left there.

Lala land

Saving Private Ryan

Was too graphic for me. I had to fast forward through a number of scenes.

R224, "The Deer Hunter" was a great film, I think. My mom made us walk out due to the graphic violence.

Here is a really bad movie:

Miami Rhapsody with S. J. Parker (pre Carrie, obvs) , Antonio Banderas, and Mia Farrow.

A Woody Allen wannabe movie. AB is gorgeous, but the movie is nonsensical.

The first movie that comes to mind strongly is "The Family Stone."

I actually loathe that movie.

"The Last Song" with Miley Cyrus really sucked.

It has the intimation of attempted rape, yet it is rated PG.

I saw a movie once called "Une Chambre En Ville" directed by the (normally) acclaimed Jacques Demy.

It may have gone over my head, but I really hated it.

Titanic is one of the worst I have seen. Many won't agree, but it's proof that popular movies aren't always good ones. Bad acting, awful dialogue, and a cheesy script. The ending was dreck.

OMG. I saw the premiere of "American Dreamer" with Jo Beth Williams (fresh off of her success in The Big Chill)

I kept waiting for the boring stuff to go away, and for the movie to get good, but it never happened.

That movie sucked!

The Ghostbusters remake

There is a movie called "Private School" which is one of those 1980s sex comedies.

I saw it on HBO and was dumbfounded that such a crass and inane film could feature so many decent actors... (Matthew Modine, Phoebe Cates, Ray Walston, okay, whatever.)

Guess everyone needs a paycheck.

Agree with Happiness by Todd Solondz. I would have walked out but i was with friends, so i had to sit there and watch it through. God awful

Actually i hate just about everything by that hack Solodz

I expected to like "Rain Man" but it was dreck, to borrow R230's expression.

Have any Dlers seen the 1961's classic "Last Year at Marienbad" by Alain Resnais?

Not easy (or fun) to sit through.

1)Mother! and 2)The execrable Beautiful Boy- one of the most beautifully shot messes of a film in the history of filmmaking in Both the silent and sound eras of film!!!!

"Last Year at Marienbad" is pretentious claptrap. Yes, I sat through it.

R166- SIDEWAYS!!?? REALLY??? Virginia Madsen was WONDERFUL in it and I think you saw a different film. Very elegant and solid film. Reminded me of Five Easy Pieces or some 70's classic.

"Jamon, Jamon" starred P. Cruz and J. Bardem at the height of each one's respective beauty.

It sucks beyond belief.

"Sweet Home Alabama" with Reese Witherspoon has contains every tired rom-com cliche you never want to see.

Pretty sure I didn't finish it, or FF'd to the end.

"Priceless" with the adorable Audrey Tautou is quasi-offensive and really dull.

JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL.

You can't even imagine how bad it was. The whole theater was emptying out fifteen minutes in.

The English Patient. I usually love long winded highbrow movies,but halfway through I wanted to kill myself. Same with Jacobs Ladder,Out of Africa,Australia etc,etc,etc.

Luchino Visconti's "The Damned" with DL fave Dirk Bogarde. Terrible piece of Eurotrash.

Never did see "Bruno" by S.B. Cohen, but I imagine that that one qualifies as one of the worst ever.

Did see "Borat" and what a piece of shit that was.

Ferris Bueller

I LOATHED that movie.

I made it through "Out of Africa" thanks to the FF button of the remote.

R247, yeah, same. Loathed Matthew Broderick in that one.

There are a few. One in particular stands out but I can't remember the name of it. It was a musical take on a Shakespearean play starring Alicia silverstone. I believe it was released in the early 2000s, I'll google later on.

Hated Bruno.

You guys have to believe me, Anatomy of Hell is awful and truly vomit inducing.

Read the article in the link below to get what i mean (just the thumbnail is gross)

It stars a very handsome Italian male porn star and you get to see his big erect dick, but the things he does with it is gag worthy.

And no it is not porno, it’s a French feminist film. Years ago when i rented it, the Lesbo video clerk was like “OMG this is such an important film, your going to be amazed”. No i got sick.

Rushmore. That instilled a life long hatred for Wes Cunt Fuck Anderson.

MAMMA MIA!! What an absolute piece of excrement. Actually walked out of that one.

R252 here ^^open link at your own risk^^

Ken Russell's Lisztomania

Ken Russell's Lisztomania. Has to be seen to be believed. But don't waste your time!

[quote] It was a musical take on a Shakespearean play starring Alicia Silverstone.

"Love's Labours Lost," directed by Kenneth Branagh.

I could not get through "Dancer in the Dark."

The hand held camera-work was making me dizzy.

And Bjork looked like she needed a shower.

Last Year at Marienbad is very boring but beautifully shot. It was/still is a major influence on fashion photography and fashion/music videos.

R257 Haha yes that was it. I think I must have blocked the title out.

Movie 43

I couldn’t watch Dancer in the Dark as well. The film’s shakey camera work made me nauseous

[quote]meet the Spartans

Yeah but that lead actor is sex on a stick.

"Blame It On Rio" has to be one of the stupidest films ever made.

I was embarrassed for the cast.

Garden State - I groaned all the time through

I hated the paranormal activity sequels. I had no sympathy for those smug, smirking yuppies and I'm sick of found footage.

Crank What a disgusting piece of shit

"Meet the Spartans" - I actually walked out and was refunded my money!

Supposed to be a parody, but made on the cheap by people with no wit.

OP, I loved Duet's soundtrack. I remember my boyfriend at that time would put [bold]Cruising[/bold] when it was his time to wash the dishes.

"Commando" was one of A. Schwarzenegger's stupider efforts.

Alyssa Milano played his daughter and showed herself to be a very limited actress.

Wild Hogs.

It was blazing hot that day so I bought a ticket mostly to get out of the heat. I put my earbuds in about 20 minutes in and listened to my iPod till it was over.

"To Live and Die in L.A." - hated that movie. One of Willem Defoe's earlier efforts.

“The Room” by Tommy Wiseau

It is so bad it has become a cult film just for how ludicrous the plot is and how full of himself the director/actor is

This is not a thread about literally the worst movie you've ever seen. This is just a thread in which we trash movies that annoyed us. Let's admit that most movies in that category are probably made with at least some worksmanship.

If we are literally talking about the worst movie ever, well, all one has to do is watch any of the films of Coleman Francis. "Commando" is "Citizen Kane" compared to, say, "The Beast of Yucca Flats."

Seriously, watch this film and you can then say, with sublime confidence, that you have watched the worst movie ever made.

R273 The room is indeed terrible but I highly recommend The Disaster Artist, which follows the making of the film. It's a ton of fun.

I walked out on THIS IS 40.

By the way, if you can find it, "Red Zone Cuba" by Coleman Francis is even worse than "The Beast of Yucca Flats." But don't watch the MST3K version. That makes it fun. No, watch the straight film, no edits, no jokes. It's a soul-destroying enterprise, to be sure.

r274

I can watch "Beast of Yucca Flats" over and over and say it's not the worst film ever made because it entertains me, even if for the wrong reasons.

I will never watch 'The Family Stone" again because it is one of the worst pieces of garbage I've ever seen. No, nothing about that movie entertained me.

I also agree with whoever named Mama Mia. That's a close second for me. I love ABBA's music. I hated what that movie did to it.

156- troll- and you do?

Every now and then I see a film I kind of did not intend to- otherwise I just don't go to poorly reviewed flicks- but a movie Demi Moore and Robert Redford made (with whatshisname from Cheers) about a millionnaire paying a guys girlfriend for a night- I walked out. I also walked out of Purple Rain although I love Prince's music.

In general, I just don't go to lousy films. Sometimes catch the odd film on Pay per View or Netflix- like La La Land- not real bad, but please don't insult audience with actors who can neither sing nor dance. And practically every super hero film made these days is rot. TV commercials have more imagination, plot and just as good effects.

Brokeback Mountain

OKay, here is a film that really did have not redeeming value:

"Wisdom" from 1987, starring D. Moore and Emilio Estevez and directed by Estevez.

I doubt it played in theaters for very long, and I am sure it is not to be found on DVD.

A truly ludicrous film.

r120 I mean it' based on a novel by the Marquis the SADE, the violently misogynist murderer the term sadism is named after. It was always meant to be torture child porn for de Sade and other perverts like him to wank off too. The sick stuff wasn't randomly made up by Passolini, just for clarification.

Would never watch that film, unless I got paid a million for the pleasure.

*de Sade the first time too LOL "The Sade" It was spellcheck!!

That movie where Julie Andrews shows her titties: SOB.

You have to admit, that picture really sucked.

I just saw “The Boy Who Would Be King”. I suppose if you’re 12 it would be ok. It’s not for adults, though.

Also, one of John Water’s movies.

In both cases, I would have left, but I was with someone.

Paul Blart: Mall Cop

Ballistics: Ecks Vs Sever

Um, don't ask lol

This Yiddish language film, "Mothers of Today" is truly the worst movie I have ever seen.

It looks like it was filmed in someone's apartment.

The subtitles only translate about half of the dialogue.

The editing is atrocious; the continuity non-existent.

If memory serves me correctly, sometimes an actor will flub a line, and just correct himself.

Torch Song. Joan Crawford's big number--all singing , all dancing--is done in black face. She will never be Governor of Virginia

Torch Song. Joan Crawford's big number--all singing , all dancing--is done in black face. She will never be Governor of Virginia

HATED Leaving Las Vegas

One of those Transformer pieces of shit.

Forrest Gump...awful...hate it! It's about an idiot.

Sometimes movies just don't age well.

"Bull Durham" with S. Sarandon and K. Costner would fall under this category. Was just on the other day, and I was embarrassed for Susan.

[quote]HATED Leaving Las Vegas

That makes two of us.

"Back to School" with Rodney Dangerfield is ever so tedious.

It features, though, a young Robert Downey Jr. in a comedic role, and RKJ steals the show.

Just try to sit through "Hail Mary" ("Je vous salue, Marie" by Jean-Luc Godard!

Another Godard film that is painful to watch is "Weekend."

Having said that, I liked 'Breathless" very much.

Don't try to watch the straight to video Mary Kate and Ashley movies, especially the one where they go to Paris.

They are insultingly bad. Made on the cheap!

"Margot at the Wedding" really is a great indie and I love Kidman's work in it. Very odd to see it mentioned so many times in this thread.

A Star is Born

It's quite a wide net that takes in both Jean-Luc Godard's "Weekend" and a Mary Kaye and Ashley straight-to-video cheapie.

^^Mary Kate^^

This is deservedly obscure, but "Used Innocence." It's a late-80s documentary defending murderess Bambi Bembenek, directed by some pathetic, smitten incel who probably thought Bambi would be taken with his m'lady-ing and fedora tipping, and send him a pair of "used panties." The director narrated the entire thing in a monotone. I particularly remember long, long sequences of highway driving through flat and featureless landscapes, narrated in a monotone. And long, long sequences of prisoners silkscreening signs, narrated in a monotone.

For critical response versus actual enjoyment, American Hustle is way up there. It’s shit, and I am being told it’s great. Not ok, guys.

The Big Chill. Bullshit about a bunch of self absorbed boomers who think the world revolves around them. The only redeeming thing is the soundtrack, and I can listen to that without ever seeing the movie again.

Polish Wedding with Gabriel Byrne and Claire Danes. Saw it on HBO. It was so bad I walked out of my living room.

R304, now I quite enjoyed "The Big Chill." Sure, if you think about it too much, it's ridiculous, but it's an entertaining film, on the whole.

"Vicky Christina Barcelona" by the Woody Allen.

Great cast, offensively stupid story.

August: Osage County

Has anyone seen the 1992 French movie "Savage Nights" directed by the late Cyril Collard.

I wanted to like it, but the story suffered from severe implausibility, and I couldn't take it.

R309 here again..

"Savage Nigihts" ("Les nuits fauves") was very favorable reviewed in France. Its lead actor/director died of AIDS. Don't think it was shown much in the States.

I'd be interested in hearing others' takes on it.

A movie doesn't have to be talentless and made with no artistry or budget, to be in"the worst movie" category. Movies like The English Patient are exceptionally shitty because there is NO EXCUSE. Pasolini, Visconti, Godard, etc, same deal. They could make SHIT, deliberately trolling their audiences.

R310, I saw Savage Nights in an art house cinema in the U.S. back when it came out. It was so-so. But back then, you were just glad to see any gay-themed film playing at a theater.

Yep, R 311, agreed.

Was also very disappointed in Woody Allen's "Melinda and Melinda." Extremely appealing cast, but the plot was all over the place. Will Ferrell had one funny line that made me laugh.

Dick Tracy

Made

Babel

Suburbicon

Children Of Men

Grand Prize: La La Land

Second Prize: Les Miserable (the remake with Hugh Jackman)

Third Prize: Three Billboards etc. etc. etc.

Honourable Mention: Black Panther

Okay, if we are going to talk about non-singers messing up musicals, then I have to mention the film version of "Man of La Mancha."

This musical contains but one female singing lead, and Sophia Loren CANNOT sing!

Burn After Reading (Coen Brothers movie)

I need to add "Crimson Peak" to my list.

R316

The English Patient Save the Last Dance Masters of the Universe

The worst movie I’ve seen is The Book of Henry. Imagine a Wes Anderson film hijacked by the idiots behind Christian glurge films like “God’s Not Dead”. That is The Book of Henry. It should be used in film schools as instruction on how NOT to make a movie.

Speaking of the Coen Brothers:

Barton Fink

And, signing on to The English Patient here.

R321 - "Heaven is Real" should be added to that category. Don't ask me why I even ended up in the seat . . .

Ive only seen The English Patient once when it came on tv late night and I remember liking it, mind you I was stoned. I was around 19 or 20, so it wouldn't surprise now if I have a different opinion about it.

Everyone went ape shot over 3 Billboards last year. It was vulgar and stupid.

I cannot stand anything by Steven Spielberg.

I am just hyper aware that "this movie is directed by Steven Fricking Spielberg" and it is fricking awesome!

I can't pay attention to the movie and end up hating it.

Boogie Nights

I loathe "Pretty Woman."

It sells itself as a Cinderella story rom-com, yet it is about a street-walking Whore!

No, just no!!

R327, while we are on the subject of Richard "I Can't Act" Gere, "American Gigolo" is a frighteningly stupid movie.

Although the theme song by Blondie, "Call Me" is pretty good.

I love ALL of Judy Garland's movies.

With one exception....THE PIRATE....

Gene Kelly's utter hamminess just makes me want to throw up.

R324 - Mess of a narrative and script. It's always the writing that ruins films but it's the last thing anyone cares about, because of so much emphasis on "visuals" and production values.

The Guardian gave "Crimson Peak" four stars for its over the top production values and because they love del Toro - the script was so bad that in the theatre I saw it in people were laughing at the ghosts.

You can't go wrong with a good narrative and you get anything else right without one. But no one cares about writing these days.

*can't get anything right without one

R330

Miss Congeniality 2 (and I did like the first one.)

St. Elmo's Fire and The Breakfast Club.

Must be that Judd Nelson and his nostrils.

And I normally like Molly Ringwald, but Breakfast Club was just a shit show.

R333 here again.

Ok, Judd Nelson's nostrils have their own Facebook page. And you all liked Daphne Zuniga's nostrils!

Does a mini-series count? I just watched Homecoming on Amazon, and now I know what it feels like to be waterboarded.

More on Woody Allen:

If you like Woody Allen movies, you will hate "Stardust Memories."

It's Woody's middle finger to his fans.

How could I forget?

I hated, but hated "Love Me If You Dare" (in French: "Jeux d'enfants" with Marion Cotillard.

It was pointless, and it made me ill. I had to stop watching it, although I was curious about the ending, and fastforwarded to the end.

This is a bit ambiguous OP. Do you mean “by my personal metric of taste, quality & enjoyment”, or “objectively-speaking, probably” the ‘worst’ we have seen?

The only movie I disliked enough to walk out of the theater midway through is Cameron’s AVATAR, and my loved ones know well the hatred I espouse of TITANIC.

As for objective worsts, I have seen some shit. If there were a Heaven I’d likely be kicked out of it for agreeing to watch and even slightly enjoying deservedly-forgotten turkeys like NATIONAL LAMPOON’S LAST RESORT or THE COVENANT or 200 CIGARETTES or that CROW movie with Tara Reid & David Boreanaz (I forget the title).

Not the worst I've ever seen but the recent Han Solo film is unbelievably bad. Alden Ehrenreich completely missed the mark as a young Han and the rest of the cast didn't fare much better. I only made it about 30 minutes before I gave up on it.

That series LEFT BEHIND which Kirk Cameron fronts, based on shitty novela about The Rapture that fundies believe will come for us on Judgement Day or whatever.

Part II has fire-breathing Pharisees ash a mugger, I shit you not. It’s also nicknamed TRIB FORCE by adorable Xtian fans which as a lesbian cracks me up no end.

Another vote for Borat here

R311, YES! It's sometimes worse when they have millions of dollars, a brilliant cast, and a well-liked team making the film and it turns out to be shit. That's much more of a kick in the gut than realizing the made for video Christian movie you picked up from Redbox is awful. Of course it is.

I think someone else said on here that they'd rather see a truly awful film where every choice is questionable from dialogue to character arc to performance to set design to music to editing. At least those have the potential to be fall into that beautiful category of "so bad, it's good." I've seen many films that are legitimately terrible, but compulsively watchable. Give me a truly terrible, but entertaining film over a well made, but passionless mediocre movie that I'll forget I saw a week later. To me, THOSE are the true bad movies.

I also hate when people try to manufacture a camp classic. You can't do that. Those are born by accident. You have to have a talented cast and crew giving their all to a truly terrible script for something to be camp. This is why I hate the Mamma Mia movies. They try so hard to be campy and they fail miserably, because everyone's in on the joke. You can see it on the actor's face. "Oh, isn't this just so silly?" The only time it truly approached camp was when Meryl did The Winner Takes It All like she's performing Rose's Turn. It's so gloriously overwrought.

Normally I like the Christopher Guest "mock-umentaries."

However, I could not get through 2006's "For Your Consideration." All I could think was, Chris Guest is a misanthrope, and his shtick is getting tiresome. That film actually makes me like his previous stuff like "A Mighty Wind" a little bit less.

#Horror

I hate it when hipster directors try to infuse hipness and "art" into horror. Their movies usually end up unscary and pretentious.

I didn't care for what Miss Streisand did to my novella "Yentl."

R71, "if you build it, he will come" was "Field of Dreams."

I fount it to be a snoozefest, though lots of folks loved it.

R344 the worst scary comedy I've seen is cabin in the woods but critics loved it . I fucking hated that smug, self referential piece of shit.

"New York New York" with L. Minnelli and R. De Niro gave me one big headache.

I know Pauline Kael didn't like it either!

[quote] The entire of Ken Loach's output, post 1969.

I’m halfway through ‘My Name is Joe’ and really enjoying it. Massive crush on Peter Mullan which helps.

!! children of men, one of the best films ive seen!

R350, That's cool. I don't mind if others like it. For me, it just hit one false note after another.

clive owen is one of the few masculine actors working. his masculinity is attractive

I will agree that Clive Owen is hot.

Many years ago, I was dying to see the classic film "A Clockwork Orange."

In order to see "Clockwork" I had to sit through "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" first.

I know "Chainsaw" is now considered a classic, but I thoroughly hated it. And it ruined "Clockwork" for me, I think.

torture porn doesnt do it for me, not entertaining

Worst: Naked Lunch

Best: Ben Hur (1959)

Passion of the Christ

I just watched a movie called 'The Switch' with Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman. It's now my new worst film.

Vanilla Sky

R359, interesting. I did not much care for "Abre Los Ojos" the Spanish film of which "Vanilla Sky" is a remake.

I actually still do not understand it

#Horror really is awful. Beautifully shot and has a great cast and production design, but the script is terrible. The worst thing about it is the potential. There's so much potential to tell an interesting story about today's social media obsessed kids, but they do nothing with the premise. How do movies like that get made? It looked like it had a decent budget, so who read the script and thought "THIS! I want to put all my money into this masterpiece."

beautiful boy.

Elysium

Strange Magic, Song One, Burlesque, The Wiz

Almost every movie about Jesus Christ, except Mel Gibsin’s movie. All the others are so afraid of having Jesus say anything that isn’t in the King James Bible that he comes off sounding like a zombie. Gibson’s movie may be the exception because I can’t recall him saying anything at all.

The man must have been charismatic. I imagine him being funny, and fun to be around. Everybody would compete to sit next to him at dinner. And smart, but able to turn on and off his smarts, depending on his audience.

Voodoo Academy. Pretty much anything directed by David DeCoteau. Half ass "gay" horror that doesn't deliver the goods even The Covenant with Sebastian Stan had a man-on-man kiss.

Voodoo Academy was just plain awful and cringy but I couldn't stop watching it. Oh yeah, the hot guys in boxer briefs touching themselves.

Thank you r r315 for the Children of Men hate. How disappointing. I was sure I'd like it and it would be an explanation why everyone is up Cuaron's butt. But no, he is just the worst in general and couldn't tell an actual story if he was hit over the head with it.

The Crossing Guard. Boring as hell. Jack Nicholson and Robin Wright were in it and that's all I remember about it.

The Remake of THE STEPFORD WIVES. Excruciatingly bad.

TITANIC!!

What, no Troop Beverly Hills?

A really boring schlock horror film called The Baby. just....no.

R343 For Your Consideration has some really good characters, but yes, Christopher Guest’s part in it is pretty awful. But some of the other characters, played by Catherine O’Hara, Eugene Levy as the awful agent with the foot spray and rancid bagel, and Jane Lynch does a version of a Mary Hart-like entertainment reporter who is mean. It’s uneven but better than Waiting for Guffman.

R369 - Second that, and the original was such a tidy piece of work.

Which puts in me in mind of two other travesties of remakes of far superior originals: Cape Fear (shame on Scorsese!), and Sabrina.

RIght - Harrison Ford, Greg Kinnear, and Julia Ormond replacing William Holden, Bogart, and a young Audrey Hepburn.

Pulp Fiction. It has not aged well.

Agreed r374. Cape Fear was violent, needlessly so, although I loved Ileana Douglas in it. And Sabrina was painful to watch. or one simply lacked the panache and gamine sensuality that Hepburn had. Although Bogart leering after her was creepy. They kept pairing Audrey with ancient leading men for some reason...

I walked out of Moulin Rouge! and Once Upon a Time in Mexico. I wanted to walk out of From Dusk til Dawn, but the entire audience hated it, was yelling at the screen and it made the experience fun. The third Pirates of the Caribbean and the third Pitch Perfect were both howlingly awful

R376 - The irony was that Hepburn was having an affair with Holden during the film and reported that Bogart was rude and condescending and difficult. The other one was also Billy Wilder, and earlier: Love in the Afternoon with Gary Cooper, who admitted later he was just too old by then. The two films tell us more about Billy Wilder's fantasies (hardly are amongst aging film directors) than anything else.

The other pairing with an older man that I remember was Grant in "Charade" - and they made her character the sexual aggressor to diminish the creepiness, although by then she was in her early thirties, so at least a grown woman with a husband (abeit a dead one) and not a dewy young virgin.

*hardly rare

[quote]I will never watch 'The Family Stone" again because it is one of the worst pieces of garbage I've ever seen.

Oh come on! Admit you're doing exactly what I first commented on. You were disappointed by The Family Stone so you're saying it's the worst movie you've ever seen. It's "The Godfather" compared to "The Skydivers."

Tidying Up with Marie Kondo on Netflix.

I just can't get into foreign-language films.

I had a creepy depressive blue-hair fake-lesbian ‘writer’ dorm-mate in my freshman year of College who one quiet evening sat me down in front of ‘Funny Games’ (The garbage US remake with Michael Pitt£ with the preemptive comment that she felt it was the best psych-thriller ever made. I watched it through, and after it was over made a point to distance myself from her and side-eye her critical opinions. She also begged that I watch and appreciate BATTLE ROYALE, which was not a fun evening.

That was not to be the final nail in the coffin of our friendly acquaintanceship, though. Out of desperation and lack of money I later shared a house with her and discovered her secret affinity for shitty movie-musicals, the charmless slick 21st C. ones like MOULIN ROUGE & the Zellweger CHICAGO. She knew nothing of the classic MGM musicale, and when pressed could not tell me who was a Wim Wenders or an Alexander Sokurov. She was a damn film & literature student yet with awful taste.

You sound exhausting, r382.

R382 I strongly disliked funny games but the early scene where the preppy blonde psycho keeps breaking the eggs was one of the most genuinely creepy and unnerving things I have ever seen on screen.

[R380]

"Skydivers" is "The Godfather" compared to "The Family Stone," but I will admit "Skydivers" is no "Beast of Yucca Flats."

Pearl Harbor

The Shining

Garbo Talks or The Producers (the musical version)

The US remake of "Breathless" with Richard Gere!

I think Richard shows his weenie, but the movie is laughably bad!

Donnie Darko

The Darjeeling Limited

The Neon Demon.

Not even so-bad-it's good.

Nicolas Winding Refn is a poseur. We've been duped.

Deconstructing Harry. I love some Woody Allen movies (Radio Days, Hannah & Her Sisters) and don't mind others. This one was beyond hateful and inept to boot.

And while I have your attention -- Down with Love, which thought it was smarter and hipper than Pillow Talk, the film it was satirizing. It wasn't. You have to work really hard to be this unfunny.

dude where's my car, that's life, swimming pool, vanilla sky, fight club, scarlett, rent:live, grease:live,the sound of music live, call me by your name, johns, drop dead fred, empire records, looking, black panther, basic instinct 2, wild things, test.

R394, I agree with most of yours, but Basic Instinct 2 is a guilty pleasure.

^^^i love the first one so much. i wanted to love 2. i recently went back to watch part 2 to give it a second chance but ended up turning it off. her haircut alone. ugh.

Bob Fosse's All That Jazz.

I wasn't bored, but I still hated it.

Roy Scheider is a most unappealing actor.

there's something about Roy that bothers me too.

R398, I think it's that he was big in the 70s when "natural" faces were in style.

He has the face of a character actor, but played leading man roles. That can be annoying! (Frankly, it bothered me a lot about M when she first started out.)

R394 have you no sense of fun? EMPIRE RECORDS is sweet & incredibly charming.

Eye Of The Beholder with Ewan MacGregor and Ashley Judd is high on my list. The movie makes little sense, to the point where the audience in the theater I saw it in was laughing out loud. Also, K. D. Lang's performance in it may be one of the worst I have witnessed in a non-amateur film.

R375 interestung how many overrated films age badly. Some 1980’s films have aged miserably, like Baby Boom and Working Girl.

That’s meant to spell “Interesting”

Pretty sure its been mentioned but I will add Aeon Flux. Did she not learn anything from Halle Berry? Yeesh.

Snatched (the Amy Schumer movie).

Painfully bad.

Saving Ryan’s Private’s

The Road to Wellville

It was so terrible that I went and got my money back at the cinema’s box office.

Working Girl seems in good shape, to me.

Nell. It was unintentionally hilarious.

R409 yes!

I liked Snatch...hmmph! then again I was pretty buzzed.

R408 Sigourney Weaver and Joan Cusack buoy that film’s overall quality.

R406 - And how. That was one of the worst scripts EVER.

i liked SNATCHED too but then again I was on a flight coming back from Italy. R400 I LOVED Empire Records as a teenager. I went back recently to watch for the nostalgia and oh my goodness. I couldn't. the music and vibe was still nostalgic but I couldn't take it. the storyline was so unrealistic and I thought everyone was so obnoxious. the thief becomes their buddy? the manager never calls the cops on the worker who spent the deposit. stupid girl drama. the secret love story with the boy. I shut it off. anyway, HAPPY REX MANNING DAY!!!

20th Century Women. Mike Mills is probably the worst screenwriter alive.

And speaking of women...

that god-awful remake of The Women with Meg Ryan.

HORRID!

Hanging Up (2000) the now with Kudrow, meg, and Keaton. Diane directed this dreck, didn't know that til now.

I think Alexander moves into highly watchable camp. Beautiful, but also Jolie's three dollar accent and incongruous plastic surgery.

Anything Apatow.

Because they SUCK but mostly because he lets that cunt wife of his Leslie FUCKING Mann “act” in them.

Not the worst movie but I consider D0WNSIZING the film where Alexander Payne's head went up his own ass. And R415 is so right, 20th Century Women is shit. It's one special precious turd collectively shat by Mike Mills, Annette Bening, Greta Godawful, Billy Crudup, etc.

Pennies from Heaven, the '81 horror flick that killed off movie musicals and made Fred Astaire cry.

Fred Astaire: "I have never spent two more miserable hours in my life. Every scene was cheap and vulgar. They don't realize that the thirties were a very innocent age, and that [the film] should have been set in the eighties - it was just froth; it makes you cry it's so distasteful."

R421 That’s fascinating. I remember trying to watch part of Pennies From Heaven and it was pretty awful. Steve Martin’s films are pretty uneven overall.

Eating Raoul.

(This is a great thread)

R421, interesting that Fred Astaire described the 30s as an "innocent" age.

Pre-code movies (prior to 1934) can be pretty racy!

Two of Fred's movies with Ginger, The Gay Divorcee and Flying Down to Rio were pre-code.

But 1930s "racy" means clever innuendo, not rampant vulgarity.

R424, agreed!

There are so many bad movies I've seen, but one stands out for me because it came so highly recommended by a TV reviewer in London so I took his word and went to see it and it was SO FUCKING AWFUL. I HATED IT.

The TV reviewer was fired soon after I'm glad to say.

He said something like it was the funniest movie he'd ever seen or something like that.

Also, it starred Joseph Fiennes who I loathed.

[quote]Another Godard film that is painful to watch is "Weekend."

Talking of which that terrible gay movie of the same name.

Two fugly gay guys meet.

Here they are >

In total agreement of the Stepford Wives.

But the Shining???

A CLASSIC FILM!

The Stepford Wives is a feminist novel (written by a man) and a feminist film (directed by a man).

The remake got rid of the icky feminist theme, why bother remaking the film?

The original had no budget and was filmed on location and is 1000000 times better than a silly CGI film made with 200000000 the budget.

Proves Kidman only worked because she knew (blew) Harvey!

"Great movies are all great in more or less the same way, but each terrible movie is uniquely terrible" -- isn't that Anna Karenina? Anyway, I saw a film on local NYC TV at one time that was called "Bad Brain." It was about a high school kid who goes mad and kills people. He had dark hair and glasses. I don't remember much more about that -- well, maybe a brain in a jar or something. Does anyone have any idea what other name this film might be going under?

The Wicked Lady, starring the one and only Fade Dunaway, and Enchanted April, a piece of by-the-numbers twee treacle about personal renewal, that's so predictable, cliched, and sickening, it requires insulin injections.

Prometheus.

Armageddon.

Southland Tales.

Most movies by gay independent film makers that are hailed as breakthrough: e.g. anything by Gregg Araki.

R407, that movie had promise. It had potential. But it went on for fucking EVER and never really had a point, and by the end I hated it.

I just had to F&F R280 out of principle.

I love Eating Raul

Most boring movie experience?

Lawrence of Arabia.

Who fucking takes a 10-year-old to see that shit? 3hrs and 45mins of it.

My friend's grandmother, that's who.

r401

A rip off of "Marnie", poorly conceived.

dreadful.

Withnail and I.

a title like voodoo academy sets you up to know the film will be bad.

One unfortunately has to agree with Brokeback Mountain. A bewilderingly tedious piece of work. Went with a group of gay friends to the screening, and we were ready to walk out half way through from boredom, but stuck it out to the grisly end, including the scene with the distractingly awful aging makeup.

Robert Altman's Beyond Therapy. The play was one of the funniest nights in the theatre. He managed to destroyed it utterly, turning it into a witless farce.

Pennies from Heaven should have served as a warning for Chazelle.

And again de mortuis and all that but . . . Eyes Wide Shut, Kubrick's last.

And to be honest, I found Kubrick's 1968 2001: A Space Odyssey, as Henry Higgins might have said, deadly the dull.

a time machine to the 1980s, doesnt hold up.

very dated but Keaton makes me laugh.

R431 The Wicked Lady is delicious - so FUCK YOU , YOU FETID CUNT!

It's got great costumes and locations and Dunaway and Prunella Scales bitching at each other is wonderful.

Plus you've got the great topless whipping scene with Faye and Martina Sirtis plus throw in Alan Bates, John Geilgud, Denholm Elliot and the beautiful naked ass of Oliver Tobias.

So there!

R27 a screening of "Titanic" on a transoceanic flight?

^ Marina

ALL the Star Wars Movies.

[quote]The Darjeeling Limited

A great example of how quirk, as brought to you by Madison Avenue, sucks. Someone else mentioned Downsizing, another perfect example.

Quirk can work. Little Miss Sunshine is actually pretty good. But more often, no.

Once Upon a Time in America and its teenboy misogyny.

The Happening. So, so, so bad.

I thought Saturday Night Fever was pretty ghastly.

I never liked him and I didn't like the rest of them.

R441, I have to F&F you too then. Because holy fuck, what is wrong with you. It's a beautiful amazing movie.

I guess you're too fucking stupid and can't handle a movie without car-chases and fast-cut editing. You're what's wrong with the world.

Go die in a grease fire.

The Human Centipede and any of the Saw iterations. I grew up on classic horror in the seventies and eighties amd think John Carpenter and Dario Argento are 2 of the greatest filmmakers of all time, but anyone who digs loving closeups of torture and gore is a sick fuck, end of story. People who are genuinely entertained by this shit probably have soundproof rooms in their basements for murdering hookers.

The Happening is unintentionally hilarious.

The happening sounds like a hippie movie

Roma....yawn

Star Trek: The Motion Picture is the only movie I seriously contemplated walking out on. It was beyond dreadful.

R445 I liked that film. then again I was waking up and it was on...and hungover while drinking tea and smoking pot.

[R430]

Is this the movie you're thinking of?

I saw it on TV back in the 70s under the title "Twisted Brain."

It was originally filmed under the title "Horror High."

Dunkirk. No plot. No dialogue. All bore. Of the little dialogue there is, you can’t hear any of it. The worst is fanboys defending it saying it doesn’t matter if you can’t hear the dialogue because that’s not what’s important. Bullshit. Why bother writing dialogue if it’s not meant to be heard?

Ralph Bakshi's "Lord of the Rings" (1978). Worst movie ever.

Into The Woods

The Road

I was hoping the kid and his dad would be murdered.

It's probably not the worst film I've seen, but I absolutely hated Dead Ringers w/Jeremy Irons.

War Of The Worlds

I walked out of Commando starring Arnold Schwarzenegger when I was 12. It just didn't appeal to my aesthetic sensibility.

Also Mentl, the story of a 48 year old woman going back to schul by impersonating a 15 year old boy, accompanied by refrains of the SAME FUCKING SONG at least 30 times on the soundtrack.

I love you, I love you not. I watched it because Jude Law was hot back then. What a piece of crap. Even that movie where Clint Eastwood keeps telling those damn kids to get off his lawn was better.

God's Not Dead.

R469, also 'my blueberry night's'

"Watchmen" was absolutely painful to me, and I thought it was never, never going to end.

The very worst is probably "Wanted" with Jolie. What a disgusting pile of shit.

Most of Jolie’s movies are terrible—The Tourist, A Mighty Heart, Salt, The Changeling. She’s a really bad actress.

I've been looking at this thread for a while and decided that the reason why I can't think of an answer to the subject line question is that I tend to walk out of/turn off movies that I don't like. Sometimes I revisit films that I had a bad first impression of and find something to like about them.

Jolie is not a bad actor but her talent and looks are greatly overrated.

Yes, most of the films she has starred in are bad.

“The Russia House” with Michelle Pfeiffer and Sean Connery. So boring and dated.

“Hail, Caesar!” MAJOR disappointment.

R468, lol on Mentl.

I only just watched it, and so could somewhat appreciate it. Had I watched it in the 1980s, I know I would have hated it!

R475, fair point.

I had to watch "Bless the Beasts and the Children" with Bill Mumy when I was young.

It went completely over my head, and the film seemed interminable.

I thought that night would never end.

R9, I have never seen the film I Heart Huckabees, but I quite enjoy the vid of Lily Tomlin trying to set a world record of most uses of the eff word, with Dustin Hoffman trying to calm her down, and Isabelle Huppert checking her makeup in the mirror.

R477, Michelle Pfeiffer is pretty, but she has made a lot of shite.

"Raw Deal" is also one of Arnold's crappier efforts.

But, Sharon Stone dies in like the first ten minutes, so, there's that.

Probably the worst movie which ever creeped me out was "Naked Lunch" where Julian Sands, so handsome in "A Room With a View", is a predator for underage male prostitutes who turns out to be a preying mantis. I had nightmares over the rape scene for months, as well as over other insects utilized to represent sexual desire.

R484 here again., my bad. Not Sharon Stone. Blanche Baker.

R468, one more thing about Yentl......

I read that Isaac Bashevis Singer was extremely disappointed with Madam Streisand's version of his short story.

And rather than gloating at his criticism of Babs, I find myself saying , "Mr. Singer, she is Barbra Freaking Streisand. What did you think she was going to come up with ?"

"I Hate Valentines Day" with Nia Vardalos is, apparently, a real turkey.

I can't believe another human being has seen Ax 'Em and lived to tell the tale. I remember discovering it during my middle school "I'll rent any horror movie" phase and it was easily the worst thing I've ever seen. You can't hear anything the characters are saying and most of the film is comprised of a bunch of black college students just shooting the shit, having rap contests, and telling "yo' mama" jokes. I'm not even kidding. There are several points where you can hear the director saying "action!" before a shot. It must be seen to believed and gives hope to filmmakers everywhere that there's an audience for anything.

Night Train To Terror is pretty awful, but if you're in the right mood, it can be an absolute blast. It's an "anthology", but the stories were clearly not made with the intention of being 20/30 minute stories, but full feature films. Each film has been cut down to accommodate the format, which leaves HUGE plot holes and leaps in logic. It's got that strange, low budget horror dreamlike feel because of it. It's certainly never boring, so there's that.

Any movie about a possessed hand like Demonoid or The Hand deserves to be mentioned. Who the fuck thought anyone would take either of those films seriously? At least Demonoid is kinda campy and fun, whereas The Hand takes itself SO seriously to the point of tedium.

R490

The Hand does deserve a mention.

The funniest scene for me was the disembodied hand moving to the sound of heavy breathing.

The hand was obviously a heavy smoker.

Bump

The Wicker Man with Nicholas Cage 2006

Sideways. I still want to microwave it.

mother!

THE FUCKING WORST.

Eat, Pray, Love.

Disney’s “Babes in Toyland.” Dismal treacle.

R472 I believe I lasted five to ten minutes of Watchmen even though I’d read the graphic novel and found it fine (not great, but OK).

There’s a scene early on where someone gets their arm broken and it was clearly presented as violence porn, and that was me out.

10

Without a doubt.... The Cat in the Hat.

If not for my 4 yr old nephew, I would have left.

It was pure torture.

Maybe not the worst, but the most disappointing compared to the reviews and everyone cumming all over it every time they talked about it:

The French Connection

or

2001: a Space Odyssey

The Avengers

cherry 2000, shockingly bad.

so bad, it fascinates

"Betty Blue" is infuriatingly awful unless you're a frau.

I've seen it twice because every woman I know loves it.

I've never seen "Eat Pray Love", but I'm sure it is a trial!

Those two awful movies M made last year should be in any discerning filmgoer’s Bottom 10 list.

R505, I have seen Betty Blue. Hard to watch. Male and female frontal nudity.

You just reminded me of another French movie I detested, "The Moon in the Gutter" with G. Depardieu and N. Kinski.

Captain Marvel

mother!

GARBAGE.

I have watched "Abre los ojos," the original Spanish film on which "Vanilla Sky" is based, about three times.

I still don't understand it.

Modern Problems with Chevy Chase. My earliest bad filmgoing experience. My parents took me so I couldn't leave.

Armageddon

Instinct with Anthony Hopkins and Cuba Gooding, Jr. Awful awful awful awful. And also awful. I went to a free screening, so I didn't pay for it. But sweet Jesus it was bad. Supposed to be this meaningful message movie, but it was complete crap. In the final scene, Cuba's character is getting out of a car in the pouring rain. At first he tries to shield himself, but then he just stands there and gets soaking wet because Anthony Hopkins' psycho (but not really psycho?!) gorilla loving wildman character has taught him to break free and LIVE!!!

The same writer came up with a movie called The Forgotten that was also pretty craptastic. Even Julianne Moore couldn't help it. Seriously.

Chuckie was a terrible film, but it had that camp quality that the audience I was with recognized and before long the entire theatre was laughing hysterically and yelling at the screen. The most fun time I've ever had at the movies.

R430, did the kid in question work in a lab or something like that?

I have this memory of a horror movie I saw on TV in the 70s, and a young man/teen has killed someone in a blackout. When he comes to, he cleans up the trashed lab and I think he puts the victim in a vat of acid. Kind of a Jekyll/Hyde thing going on.

I remember as a kid feeling bad for the boy murderer because he seemed like a nice guy who didn't mean to kill anyone, if that makes sense.

Serenity starring DL faves AnnE and McBongo. Horrible. Wretched. Tedious. The worst. And the film was awful, too.

I found " Angels in America " to be tedious

my least favorite film of all time is the Tim Burton/Johnny Depp debacle "Dark Shadows"

I have seen detergents leave a better film than that

[italic]The Last Married Couple in America[/italic] was so tediously unfunny I shut it off after 30 minutes. A lot of these late 1970s hetero sex comedies were trash even then.

R501 wins the thread. I fucking hate that goddamn movie so much. Dr. Seuss’s widow belongs in Hell for enabling that trash. And the fact that they put homophobe Alec Baldwin with professional Uncle Tom Sean Hayes is just one of many examples of what a soul-crushingly bad movie it is.

[quote]Disney’s “Babes in Toyland.” Dismal treacle.

The 1986 Keanu Reeves/Drew Barrymore version makes this look like a masterpiece by comparison. But only by comparison.

[quote]Every theatrical abortion that Tom Green has starred in.

It’s too bad you can’t send him to jail for the way [italic]Freddy Got Fingered[/italic] degraded Julie Hagerty.

Good-bye Cruel World with Dick Shawn. Here is a user's review on imdb:

A complete waste of celluloid. Literally all the funny parts of this movie were in the trailer. Too stupid and pointless for even MST3K to tackle. One can only hope that all extant copies, plus the negatives, have been destroyed.

Sorceresses.

It was the 80s. I blame cocaine.

Anything "mumblecore", the world's most tedious movie genre.

Love Actually and The Breakfast Club are two films that I loathe that others find "classic" whatever that means.

I think citizen Kane is one of the most overrated movies ever. Its dull and pretensious. The acting is awful especially welles who couldn't act at all. Also the films flashbacks are badly done. It's a bad movie.

Also The Grapes of Wrath is sentimental bullshit where the oakies are portrayed as dummies and simpletons. It's disgusting. It's dated beyond belief and Henry fonda is terrible too saccharine

Lets just agree, there’s a lot of garbage out there.

That said, Kevin Smith owns this thread. Terrible actors stand around reading very long, completely unnatural speeches to each other, then the movie ends.

R525 - I hated Clerks. But Zack and Miri Make a Porno is a guilty pleasure.

Citizen kane is one of the worst just terrible acting

R522 I despised Love Actually. I only saw it last year and could not believe anyone liked that movie much less that it was a classic.

I think we all agree citizen Kane is really bad.

I agree R528 . Its cheesy and crass. That scene where the ugly British guy goes to New York just to pick up American sluts was terrible. Of course they all get wet over him just cause of his accent. Then at the end he comes back to England with one for his buddy, like he'd just got him a souvineer. How is this film ok with women it's blatantly sexist. I thought people got offended by this kind of crap nowadays? But most fraus seem to love it??

People are mainly pc when others are around. In private, not so much.

I feel pretty. Painfully unfunny. Cheap. Almost unwatchable

Maybe people don't notice sexism in current movies. They think it's all in the old movies

eXistenZ (1999), one of David Cronenberg’s worst movie. Absolute torture to get through.

R528, R530, Love Actually has an amazing cast.

But each plot line is stupider than the next....and I agree the one with the British nerd going to America is about the worst of the lot.

I do love Emma Thompson in this movie though.

R528 I also hate Love Actually. I paid to see it in the theater and instantly began to hate it during the wedding scene. When the bride is walking down the aisle and the band pops up? JFC so cheesy and cringy and just bad.

Love Actually haters, if you want to laugh, check this out.

Citizen Kane or any other random critically acclaimed movie.

The Avengers or almost any other lame Marvel CGI fest .

Richard Curtis movies are usually cheesy messes. Hated Notting Hill and Four Weddings and a Funeral. They are chocolate box romantic movies about British people made specifically for the American market.

R535 Emma was the one redeeming thing about the film, but her storyline was underdeveloped. As they all were. I got irrationally angry at Hugh Grant once again playing the only decent person in his story. Much prefer him as a cad.

The script was just so bad

Preta a Porta (Ready to Wear) was disaster.

I’m watching A Wrinkle in Time at the moment and whilst not the worst film I’ve m ever seen, it’s certainly the worst I’ve seen in the last few months, perhaps the last year or so. Dreadful setup, acting, and most of all direction. The direction is completely lacking in any taste and flair whatsoever and this pains me because I want to support a black female director but she’s done such a terrible job here that I’m aghast.

"Deuce Bigalow, European Gigolo" was a real piece of shit.

Rob Schneider was funny on SNL, but these movies just don't cut it.

R540, loved "Four Weddings" the first time I saw it.

It only starts to displease with repeated viewings.

Didn't care for "Knotting Hill" except for Hugh's Welsh roommate.

WHERE THE BOYS ARE 84

MUSIC & LYRICS

"Motherhood"

The Family Stone.

Only sheep use the word “contrarian” in a derogatory context, and in doing so are actually saying “conform or die.”

Anything by Robert Altman or Alan Rudolph. How Rudolph especially got ANY work is beyond comprehension.

Don't take any kid to see the Lego 2 movie.

It's horrendously bad.

Previews showed that a Toy Story 4 coming out in the summer.

I think you're alone in hating the Lego 2 movie, R551.

It's 86% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.

Of the past year, mainstream releases: Mary, queen of Scots

All time: Silent hill (only watched it to connect with some guy who was into that shit)

Worst movie I ever watched, of anything: done piece of shit on Amazon (in 2007, so this was very early) called One Crazy Night. Made for what seemed like $20, some Datalounge queen lives out their dreams of being in the big screen and finances their movie about a gay love story, but is at least savvy enough to market it as a potential indie gem. There really are no words.

Virtuosity

This is it! Apparently he even financed his own sequel!

Amelie

I hope this doesn't count as hijacking a thread but a genre that I have grown to despise is the comic book/graphic novel films i.e. marvel and all the rest.

I am at least a decade past being tired of Batman, Superman, Spiderman etc.

Lady in the water and moonlight mile were awful.

I forgot about Lady In The Water with the "Narf" and the "Jerk-off Arm".

Think again. Awful is an understatement.

Good Burger

200 Cigarettes

The Fountain is unwatchable to me.

"The Chosen One: Legend of the Raven," starring Carmen Electra. I was in the mood for something so bad that it was good (like Chesty Morgan's "Deadly Weapons"). Carmen did not deliver. Even worse than "Battlefield Earth."

THE FRUIT MACHINE

I had never heard of 'mumblecore' but it seems the annoying Anna Kendrick stars in a lot of those movies.

Featuring the dramatic stylings of Cher.

Her hair deserved a Best Supporting Actress Oscar.

R556, I can understand that Amelie might not be everyone's cup of tea, but you can't say it's the worst film you've ever seen.

As a horror fan, I have to say that you don't really know bad until you reach the bottom of the barrel of the horror section of a video store (R.I.P.) I discovered some real gems there. Someone above mentioned Ax 'Em and that's a great example of the kind of shot on video garbage that's out there. When I'd watch movies like that, I became convinced that any horror film could get distribution. As long as there's a bit of blood and some decent artwork, it's got a shot. It's no wonder so many great filmmakers have gotten their start in the horror genre.

But yes, I'd say Ax 'Em, Manos, Pieces, and Demented are among some of the worst I've seen. Granted, some of those (like Pieces) are incredibly fun if you're in the right mood.

I can’t believe two of my faves, Donnie Darko and Rushmore, got mentioned. Die in a grease fire!

Titanic and Love Actually are unwatchable frau bait.

Yea I HATE Titanic and Love Actually is just ridiculous. I'm also gonna say THE SKINNY starring jussie "not without my sandwich" smullet.

MY FRIEND DAHMER

Nell

The Next Best Thing.

A lot of you haven't seen nearly enough bad movies.

R575, I haven't seen that one, but with the exception of "Desperately Seeking Susan" a lot of Madonna's movies suck.

A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN was pretty good. I was obsessed with that movie at age 12 when it came out.

Penny Marshall should have gotten some kind of award for that movie if she could make both Madonna and Rosie O’Donnell tolerable.

This is not the worst movie I've ever seen, but we watched "Bridget Jones Baby" last night on Netflix.

I have never seen such contrived frau bait.

A not-so-attractive middle age woman has sex with two handsome men -- and they are both FIGHTING each other for the chance to be saddled with her brat. Girl, please.

And, of course, it ends with a wedding.

That Cruising song is extremely dirty, highly sexual. It is proof that Goop's dad's desire to fuck his daughter was strong. How else can you explain such a highly sexual song about his daughter just before he went tits up from cancer.

Your prolapsed anus was also glad to come out.

La La Land was pretty close.

R581, I can't speak for Goop's dad, but I believe "Cruising" was written by Smokey Robinson, the originator of "Quiet Storm" music.

That movie with John Travolta and Lily Tomlin was among the worst I've ever seen.

La La Land was fucking terrible.

The Invasion (2007) I don't remember much though, thank goodness!

Based on the trailer, I think this is a contender.

Clue

R587, I don't know, Nicole Kidman seems like she'd be quite believable as a soulless automaton.

Señorita Justice ranks up there pretty high.

Happiness by Todd Solonz. Or however you spell the name.

Nicole Kidman’s misfired remake of THE STEPFORD WIVES. Awful from beginning to end. A massive waste of talent too. The gay subplot was beyond ridiculous too.

R593 - Second that - it was a travesty of the original into the bargain, an Ira Levin Special.

Another vote for Stepford Wives remake. PIECE. OF. SHIT.

Cherry 2000

Pootie Tang

R592 That movie was great.

“Tommy Boy.”

I HATED it!

Prometheus is easily the worst.

THE DIRT, the Motley Crue biopic written by Nikki Sixx. Didn't think I could hate Crue any more, but there was another level.

The only thing that made it worth seeing was the sexual tension between Vince & Nikki, and Dougie Booth's pretty face and ass.