having watched Grand Budapest Hotel I've come to the conclusion Wes Anderson and his self-conscious kookiness doesn't sit well with me at all. the only one I found mildly tolerable was Darjeeling Unlimited. I wouldn't call his films the worst, but they do make me feel uncomfortable and despondent when I watch them. people are very surprised to hear this from me because i think they assume I'd love this sort of stuff - and it's true, I do like that sort of stuff, just not that stuff.
― Scary Darey (dog latin), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 10:29 (nine years ago) link
It's very difficult getting that sort of stuff right to the satisfaction of those who are into that sort of stuff, in my experience.
― Alba, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 11:22 (nine years ago) link
Sometimes things can be so closely pitched to your own sensibilities that they don't appeal at all - it's something I find happens quite a lot actually and I wonder if it's a matter for a new thread as I feel the same way about the music of Nick Cave.
― Scary Darey (dog latin), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 11:30 (nine years ago) link
Yeah. Maybe it's something to do with the narcissism of small differences, or maybe it's just that adjectives like "quirky" are just a bit useless.
I can see what you might be getting at with Nick Cave, but I do think it applies in particular to humour.
cf Simpsons good, Family Guy awful.
― Alba, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 11:45 (nine years ago) link
been over a year, many terrible movies under my belt, Vulgar still holds the crown
― Everyone is awful except you. Wait, no, you are also awful. (jjjusten), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 17:08 (nine years ago) link
Nominations for the excellent America's sweethearts still nonsense itt
― brat_stuntin (darraghmac), Monday, 13 March 2017 12:53 (seven years ago) link
I'd maybe allow that the graduate is now my nomination here btw
― brat_stuntin (darraghmac), Monday, 13 March 2017 12:55 (seven years ago) link
The recent Poltergeist remake is a heck of a contender.
― Lauren Schumer Donor (Phil D.), Monday, 13 March 2017 13:30 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEcArMzmeM0
― scott seward, Monday, 13 March 2017 13:58 (seven years ago) link
Miami Connection (1987). I know that it has a cult following as an entertainingly bad film, but it didn't provide me with distraction, let alone entertainment.
― Diana Fire (j.lu), Monday, 13 March 2017 14:03 (seven years ago) link
Meet Joe Black, for me.
― may all your memes be dank (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 13 March 2017 14:16 (seven years ago) link
i always say hook just because it was made by someone talented with a lot of money and pretty much everything about it is wrong or tone-deaf or written badly or acted badly or miscast. though its actually hard to say if its the worst robin williams movie. definitely the worst spielberg. all the kids in it are like sub-thunderdome acting-wise and appeal-wise. which is also weird for spielberg.
obviously there are tons of horrible no-name and no-budget movies. the bad sundance movies usually offend me more than the bad genre ones though.
― scott seward, Monday, 13 March 2017 14:28 (seven years ago) link
there should be a worst big-budget thread. not just for flops but just the worst movies that cost a zillion dollars.
― scott seward, Monday, 13 March 2017 14:31 (seven years ago) link
Surely "Jack" is the consensus worst Robin Williams movie?
― Lauren Schumer Donor (Phil D.), Monday, 13 March 2017 14:32 (seven years ago) link
some would say patch adams. i dunno, there is a lot to choose from. try and sit through Toys. i mean the WHOLE movie with no cheating.
― scott seward, Monday, 13 March 2017 14:38 (seven years ago) link
Robin Adams, yknow, sad and all, yknow, but fuck me what an awful presence.
― brat_stuntin (darraghmac), Monday, 13 March 2017 14:40 (seven years ago) link
i always thought mrs. doubtfire was a nightmare and should be remade as the terrifying horror film that it is.
― scott seward, Monday, 13 March 2017 14:40 (seven years ago) link
Not quite Chevy chase, Steve Martin, rodney Dangerfield 'america made these people rich on the basis of their being funny?' awful but then those ppl never pretended to be actors
― brat_stuntin (darraghmac), Monday, 13 March 2017 14:41 (seven years ago) link
it's so weird that robin williams movies mimic that arduous and strenuous and sweaty energy he had. they are such a trudge. even stuff like jumanji and the fisher king which aren't really terrible are like oh my god is this movie over yet? bicentennial man and what dreams may come are both six hours long.
― scott seward, Monday, 13 March 2017 14:46 (seven years ago) link
In recent memory it's this:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7e/BlastFromThePast.jpg/215px-BlastFromThePast.jpg
We were staying with my partner's aunt in a teensy caravan in Donegal, she introduces it as one of her favourite movies and makes us watch it, so I had to pretend to think it was OK.
Kind of an OK concept, and Brendan Fraser gives a game performance, but just a terrible terrible screenplay, perhaps the most incompetent I've experienced in a Hollywood movie with actual movie stars.
― chap, Monday, 13 March 2017 14:51 (seven years ago) link
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTQ0OTE1MTk4N15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMDM5OTk5NjE@._V1_SY1000_CR0,0,640,1000_AL_.jpg
watched this on a plane, which might have heightened the effect, but at the time I felt this was the most spiritually and morally vacant thing I had ever seen
― flopson, Monday, 13 March 2017 15:02 (seven years ago) link
Sticking with many of my earlier choices but in categories
((highly accomplished in many ways but annoying or boring))Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless MindThe MatrixIn The Mood For Love (sorry)Tokyo Tribe (I generally like Sono)Hero (Jet Li)Wes Anderson films
((bad and extremely overrated but not unwatchable))Battle Royale
((just incredibly boring))300: Rise Of An EmpireSatanic Rites Of DraculaScared To DeathApe ManBlack DragonsJapanese Hell (Teruo Ishii)The Beast (Borowczyk)
((lowbrow crap but far from the worst))Sex DriveABCs Of Death 2 (some of the segments are okay)Meet The Parents seriesStarsky & Hutch (Stiller & Wilson)Hot Tub Time MachineScream 3
((the overwhelming stench of a Family Guy fan convention, incompetence and offensive sensibilities all around))GayN***ers From Outer SpaceLittle ManZombie Women Of Satan2001 Maniacs
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 13 March 2017 15:18 (seven years ago) link
most of that stuff is REALLY avoidable. i mean you would have to go out of your way to watch them at all. but i don't doubt that there is terrible stuff there.
i don't mind seeing wes anderson movies once for the art direction/design/props/etc. but then i never need to see them again. kinda like tarantino. i mean they feel like events in a tarantino-esque way and then i forget about them. though i think i am done with tarantino for good. had absolutely no desire to see his leonardo slave movie or the snow one. as much as i love JJL.
― scott seward, Monday, 13 March 2017 15:48 (seven years ago) link
ha i liked Blast From the Past when I saw it, i thought it was a pretty smart dumb movie.
i have liked or loved every Wes Anderson film I've seen, i admire his adherence to his particular thing. total OTT goofy action movie shit combined w/really dark emotional plot turns. obviously not for everyone.
I saw Django Unchained and jeez...well, it was the first Tarantino movie that felt genuinely bloated. actually thought the performances were overall a plus (Waltz was really outstanding, DiCaprio was really good, Foxx was...well through no fault of his own he was actually forgettable and the role was underwritten...QT gave the white guys juiciest bits in a movie about a black hero...) Definitely his worst film, I think. I don't think it was "bad" but it felt insignificant. His career trajectory is really weird to me, starting off with his three most "adult" movies and devolving from there.
― nomar, Monday, 13 March 2017 15:58 (seven years ago) link
i dare you guys to watch this entire TRAILER, let alone the movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w00GXmJ8KA
― scott seward, Monday, 13 March 2017 16:01 (seven years ago) link
that music they play at the end of that trailer. they really need to take it out back and shoot it in the head. i still hear it all the time.
― scott seward, Monday, 13 March 2017 16:02 (seven years ago) link
Clerks 2, easy
― frogbs, Monday, 13 March 2017 16:06 (seven years ago) link
I think Blast from the Past is a good bad movie. Breaking the Waves is a bad good movie.
― may all your memes be dank (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 13 March 2017 16:15 (seven years ago) link
The Legend of 1900
This is probably even worse than the S Blatter vanity pic Roth also starred in, it is ridiculous garbage given something of a respectable sheen with a Morricone soundtrack, decent production values/actors etc and a 8+ imdb rating. I think the director also did Cinema Paradiso which I also thought was overrated + unwatchable dogshit.
― calzino, Monday, 13 March 2017 16:19 (seven years ago) link
The Misery Brothers looks like it could be the worst movie ever made but I've never worked up the nerve to actually watch it because I think I might die.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHMqyMtKnL0
― Milkwalker's World (Old Lunch), Monday, 13 March 2017 16:21 (seven years ago) link
most of that stuff is REALLY avoidable. i mean you would have to go out of your way to watch them at all.
― scott seward, Monday, 13 March 2017 15:48
Most films are really easy to avoid. But the Iron Man and Die Hard series have become extremely annoying on uk television because they are endlessly repeated. I didn't finish several of the films I listed because they were so nauseating, so I half avoiding them but they were bad enough to leave scars.
Old Lunch has delivered with Misery Brothers. That looks properly obnoxious.
I imagine watching the Fred Movie trilogy would be a real challenge.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 13 March 2017 16:46 (seven years ago) link
there were THREE of those??
― nomar, Monday, 13 March 2017 16:47 (seven years ago) link
Movies I gave a 1/10 on imdb, including 3 oscar best picture winners. Also lots of shit I watched as a kid in the 90s.
Mrs. Miniver (1942)The Mummy's Ghost (1944)Robot Monster (1953)Santa Claus (1959)The Beast of Yucca Flats (1961)Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964)Monster a-Go Go (1965)The Wild World of Batwoman (1966)Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966)Warrior of the Lost World (1983)Troll 2 (1990)Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)Star Trek: Generations (1994)Baby's Day Out (1994)Natural Born Killers (1994)Car 54, Where Are You? (1994)D2: The Mighty Ducks (1994)Braveheart (1995)Money Train (1995)Operation Dumbo Drop (1995)Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home (1995)Theodore Rex (1995)Bulletproof (1996)D3: The Mighty Ducks (1996)Gone Fishin' (1997)Mr. Magoo (1997)Jungle 2 Jungle (1997)Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997)Patch Adams (1998)Mercury Rising (1998)Jack Frost (1998)Jane Austen's Mafia! (1998)Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)Frailty (2001)Rush Hour 2 (2001)Baadasssss! (2003)Crash (2004)Meet the Fockers (2004)The Manchurian Candidate (2004)Double Down (2005)Passchendaele (2008)I Am Here... Now (2009)Birdemic: Shock and Terror (2010)Fateful Findings (2013)
― Einstein, Kazanga, Sitar (abanana), Monday, 13 March 2017 17:34 (seven years ago) link
fight club IMO
― chip n dale recuse rangers (Jon not Jon), Monday, 13 March 2017 17:38 (seven years ago) link
if we can consider 'worst movie' and 'least favorite movie of all time' to be synonymous
― chip n dale recuse rangers (Jon not Jon), Monday, 13 March 2017 17:39 (seven years ago) link
GTFO with your Robot Monster hate, that movie is delightful.
― Milkwalker's World (Old Lunch), Monday, 13 March 2017 17:40 (seven years ago) link
My IMDB movies rated 1 star, in ascending order of how different my rating was from that of the average voter:
Title Year IMDB Rating # Of RatingsManos: The Hands of Fate 1966 1.9 31,177The Touch of Satan 1971 2.1 2,407Monster a-Go Go 1965 2.3 6,303The Beast of Yucca Flats 1961 2.4 6,655Night Train to Mundo Fine 1966 2.6 5,909Creepshow 3 2006 3 3,650Don't Go in the Woods 1981 3.6 2,006Batman & Robin 1997 3.7 196,427The Rage: Carrie 2 1999 4.6 13,386The Flintstones 1994 4.8 62,831Nothing But Trouble 1991 4.9 18,060Hellraiser: Bloodline 1996 5.1 15,015Maximum Overdrive 1986 5.4 24,057Jingle All the Way 1996 5.5 72,649Poltergeist II: The Other Side 1986 5.7 20,008Thinner 1996 5.7 21,113Not Another Teen Movie 2001 5.7 82,86054 1998 5.8 28,318Dracula: Dead and Loving It 1995 5.8 31,5963 Men and a Baby 1987 5.9 38,263The Shining 1997 6.1 12,369Cat's Eye 1985 6.2 17,496The Amityville Horror 1979 6.2 28,702The Santa Clause 1994 6.4 70,108The Prophecy 1995 6.6 25,103Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me 1999 6.6 186,700My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2002 6.6 105,789Lethal Weapon 4 1998 6.6 131,778Ghosts of Mississippi 1996 6.7 8,780Event Horizon 1997 6.7 126,066Con Air 1997 6.8 232,648Dirty Dancing 1987 6.9 148,736Fallen 1998 7 60,975Monster's Ball 2001 7.1 73,187The Rock 1996 7.4 267,535A Time to Kill 1996 7.4 104,480The Bucket List 2007 7.4 192,170Blow 2001 7.6 204,967Little Children 2006 7.6 94,693Crash 2004 7.8 371,668The Goonies 1985 7.8 186,771Awakenings 1990 7.8 96,899The Notebook 2004 7.9 416,292The Blues Brothers 1980 7.9 148,432Shrek 2001 7.9 489,063Braveheart 1995 8.4 776,287The Lion King 1994 8.5 687,709The Green Mile 1999 8.5 838,130The Shawshank Redemption 1994 9.3 1,784,884
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Monday, 13 March 2017 17:47 (seven years ago) link
The Shining, really?
― jmm, Monday, 13 March 2017 17:55 (seven years ago) link
Oh wait, 1997.
― jmm, Monday, 13 March 2017 17:56 (seven years ago) link
Jack Frost was really cringeworthy
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 13 March 2017 17:59 (seven years ago) link
I saw it on the last day of a closing cinema.
Zero Dark Thirty
― flappy bird, Monday, 13 March 2017 18:00 (seven years ago) link
worst - i dunno, probably some homemade gore flick like gut-pile or bone sickness
most hated - requiem for a dream
― Not raving but drooling (contenderizer), Monday, 13 March 2017 18:03 (seven years ago) link
I also wanna name Ted here, though I've heard Ted 2 is much worse, so IDK
Not that I exactly had a lot of confidence in Seth MacFarlane, but I kinda figured he was at least gonna subvert the tropes of these sort of movies a little and not turn into a shittier Judd Apatow. The tone of that movie is all over the place.
― frogbs, Monday, 13 March 2017 18:05 (seven years ago) link
The fuck happened u man
― brat_stuntin (darraghmac), Monday, 13 March 2017 18:09 (seven years ago) link
i guess requiem for a dream is pretty divisive. i thought it was cool. and remarkably faithful to the book which surprised me at the time because the book is pretty fucked up.
― scott seward, Monday, 13 March 2017 18:24 (seven years ago) link
the perfect storm is the actual worst movie
― sleepingbag, Monday, 13 March 2017 18:26 (seven years ago) link
requiem for a dream was like being beaten with a large book entitled "ADDICTION IS BAD" for two hours
― Not raving but drooling (contenderizer), Monday, 13 March 2017 18:34 (seven years ago) link
and i mean it is, but...
― Not raving but drooling (contenderizer), Monday, 13 March 2017 18:35 (seven years ago) link
Somebody loaned me Requiem For A Dream and I was so bored with it that I turned it off before the nasty stuff happened (which I wasn't aware of until years later but never saw).
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 13 March 2017 18:38 (seven years ago) link