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

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.

The fuck happened u man

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.

the perfect storm is the actual worst movie

requiem for a dream was like being beaten with a large book entitled "ADDICTION IS BAD" for two hours

and i mean it is, but...

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).

I'm afraid to step in here.

I'm sure this point's been made already: "worst film" is only interesting (to me, at least) when applied to something you had hopes for. On that count, I was probably as repelled by Grand Budapest Hotel as anything I can remember.

Based on the trailer, The Misery Brothers aimed for over-the-top, miscalculated its trajectory, left the troposphere and suffered irreversible hypoxic brain damage.

Sliver a thing about creepy surveillance in an NYC apartment building that I sat right through wondering when it was actually going to start.

Waterworld bad Mad Max on water. I walked out of this before the end. Only saw the end years later on tv. & it's extremely corny throughout. the presence of Dennis Hopper as the chief of the Smokers was just dumb. I saw something else he was in on the same day, used to go several different films in different places on the same day, think it was Paris Trout and he's good in that so surprising how ham he was in this.

The Postman. Kevin Costner's other great sci fi disaster, or are there more?
I used to live in a house with a guy who used to watch this regularly along with Dune.
THinks it's deep but is absolutely vacuous.

Battlefield Earth, though I think I went to see taht knowing how bad it was reputed to be.
Think it was right at the time that Travolta was being rehabilitated by appearances in Tarrantino and Elmore Leonard films.
Surprised he survived thisi. & it was a vanity project for him wasn't it?
I nearly bought a copy of Dianetics in a charity shop today to see how bad that was.

Other than that I think most of the ones I've seen that are horrendous are semi aware of it.
Or are famously inept

boondock saints i think

can anyone explain or link to something that explains why 'crash' is so bad? it's been a while since i've seen it but i remember it being mostly harmless oscar bait

the perfect storm is the actual worst movie

― sleepingbag, Monday, March 13, 2017 6:26 PM (twenty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Found out why it has so many loose ends on reading the book. It tried to make a straight narrative out of a book based on a couple of thousand years' worth of related anecdotes.
THink i came across a couple of other films taht try the same thing with somewaht similar results to a degree.

But thought it was ok when it could be coherent.

sometimes i still get misty-eyed thinking about Marky Mark treading water somewhere in the Atlantic

Waterworld was such a preordained disaster that I was inclined to give it a shot in the theater. I remember thinking it certainly wasn't the worst movie ever made but it is really, really not good.

Boondock Saints is a pretty good pick, for being the actual worst cult movie that its acolytes sincerely think is both good and is a source of considerable wisdom.

Has to be some mid/late 90s hitman movie.

I'll go with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albino_Alligator

Worst movie ever in relation to its cast, for sure.

Matt Dillon as Dova
Faye Dunaway as Janet Boudreaux
Gary Sinise as Milo
William Fichtner as Law
Viggo Mortensen as Guy Foucard
John Spencer as Jack
Skeet Ulrich as Danny Boudreaux
Frankie Faison as ATF Agent Marv Rose
Melinda McGraw as Jenny Ferguson
Joe Mantegna as A.T.F. Agent G.D. Browning
M. Emmet Walsh as Dino
Jeff Hoffman as Jenny's Cameraman

Directed by Kevin Spacey

I'm sure this point's been made already: "worst film" is only interesting (to me, at least) when applied to something you had hopes for. On that count, I was probably as repelled by Grand Budapest Hotel as anything I can remember.

― clemenza, Monday, 13 March 2017 18:39

What were you hoping for? Had you seen Wes Anderson films before? I don't like his films but I was really impressed by the designs of this one.

Yes--Rushmore is one of my favorite films ever.

Cops & Robbersons

yeah I think the real dud in the Wes Anderson catalogue is The Darjeeling Limited, which felt like a really long, unfunny parody of Anderson films.

The best thing about Rushmore, and the only acceptable thing about the Postman, are the same thing (the appearance of Olivia Williams)

Would say the same, but The Life Aquatic,

Specifics aside, I think a big part of really, really hating something is often rooted in caring about something the director had done previously.

Film I hate most that I've never seen: Suicide Squad. Amazed so many of you gave it a chance.

Most disappointing film I've never seen: Ma Mere. Was hoping for a more straightforward incest fantasy but I've heard she never has sex with her son and there's violent depressing stuff (Georges Bataille, no thanks).

Ma Mere scratched its itch.

What's the one with viggo looking to avoid Ed Harris?

Turned it off. Performances and script were absolutely embarrassing.

I was going to bring up I Accidentally Domed Your Son again but after that last RAG post I think I will instead quietly bow out of this thread.

xposts I don't know if I agree, clemenza. I tend to be more forgiving of a favored director's terrible movies (what up, O.C. and Stiggs) because I'm able to see them as failed attempts within the context of a larger body of solid work.

Oh, you know what was fucking terrible? Track 29. Which invalidates somewhat the point I made thirty seconds ago because I sought it out based on how much I adored Walkabout.

Always willing to cut more slack to bad films that are also sex positive than I ought to.

Not that Ma Mere is that movie, ftr.

Movies I watched in the cinema and hated instantly:

The World Is Not Enough (joyless, naff)
Arlington Road (the ultimate "do you SEE sheeple?????" movie)
Liar (Tim Roth crime thriller, nuff said)
Dogma (no explanation needed)

But my alltime is still Very Bad Things as mentioned upthread.

Albino Alligator has a great soundtrack by Lanois associate Michael Brook.

Am guessing my image answer early on in the thread was The Sunshine Boys, tho the correct answer is Crash.

Sorry DJP.

Do any of you get particularly offended about how much a film costs if it's a bad film?

boondock saints was the first movie enthusiastically forced on me by friends that i thought was total horseshit lol. great answer to this thread imo

So.many bonds it's hard to pick one but if i had to pick one i guess I'd pick American beauty also fuck Sam mendes

Old Lunch: that's another way to approach it (the auteurist view, basically). And I'm probably close to there when I'm somewhere in the middle on a film--I think I'm more forgiving of something like Buffalo Bill and the Indians, say, or Casino. But when I flat-out dislike something, the thought that "This is the same director who made _____________?" just makes things worse.

I had no idea people were out there that actually thought Boondock Saints was an all-time great movie, rather than a very entertaining one (if I'm being incredibly generous)

all y'all naming it have clearly never seen Boondock Saints 2, cuz damn

Always willing to cut more slack to bad films that are also sex positive than I ought to.

― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Monday, March 13, 2017 3:29 PM (twenty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

have you seen 9 songs?

it is .... bad

Would rather see 9 Thongs.

What's the one with viggo looking to avoid Ed Harris?

Turned it off. Performances and script were absolutely embarrassing.

― brat_stuntin (darraghmac), Monday, March 13, 2017 3:20 PM (forty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dmac you missed an all-time great William Hurt one-scene-wonder, no joke.

He calls Viggo a "broheem," worth the price of admission.

southy starring donnie wahlberg.

looking italian starring matt leblanc.

jane austen's mafia (lloyd bridges last film).

― tell it to my arse (jim in glasgow), Monday, February 4, 2013 7:17 PM (four years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

these are still my picks.

altho it's lookin' italian iirc

I can't think of any individual films that were sorely disappointing so much as later careers and subgenres being a huge letdown. Dario Argento, Tobe Hooper, Peter Jackson, Tim Burton, so few genuinely great gothic horrors, Hong Kong action films going to shit.

Ok Phil I'm an open minded fella