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

I'd say shitty J-Lo thriller Enough ...

This is my go-to answer for this question.

Hudson Hawk is awesome

In high school i got in that phase of "Let's watch a terrible movie! So bad it's GOOD lmfao" that most onion a/v club commenters apparantly never grew out of

Anyway, I watched 'Bio-Dome' and it was just UNCOMFORTABLE with the things it thought were "jokes." It was just depressing,

For me it has to be a made-for-a-tv-movie. I remember a friend buying a bundle of 20 or so DVDs for £10 I think. I love the idea that he thought that was a bargain. The Shark Attack trilogy was included but I only saw the first two films.

Mutant/Forbidden Planet is mind-bogglingly bad but I also really enjoyed it

bio-dome is awesome

some of my worsts:

Crash ('05)
The Dark Knight
Forrest Gump
Mrs Doubtfire

dave kehr made a case for 'gump' being sadder and more complex than its reputation, but i've never really felt like revisiting it.

Stephen King's Thinner is a perfect storm of grotesque racism, horrifying misogyny and sheer, unbridled incompetence.

it's sad alright

'fatal attraction' is right down there with the worst for me -- misogynistic shit.

oh god, remember Disclosure?

In high school i got in that phase of "Let's watch a terrible movie! So bad it's GOOD lmfao" that most onion a/v club commenters apparantly never grew out of

the only mainstream comedy that this really works for is Zoolander

lol Disclosure

I actually saw Disclosure in a dollar theater with my friend. I don't remember any of it.

there was definitely a weird trend for a while of movies about glum, well-meaning guys getting their lives ruined by evil sex-crazy harpies.

most of which starred Michael Douglas.

super dumb challops itt

― katz itt (cozen), Wednesday, January 30, 2013 2:29 PM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Most of the ops on display aren't chall enough imo

was hoping The Dark Knight would be

entirely too many things for me to list, but the most recent film I paid money to see in a theater that I should have walked out on was Cosmopolis

The Help was grotesque.

okay lol

the thirteenth warrior. just how do you screw up a "vikings" film?
face / off. nnnnng. 2 prize hams robbed of their cheesiness by po faced direction.
into the wild. dull film about a whingeing self indulgent tosspot who doesn't even phone his sister with edie flipin vedder doin his macho-pirate-folk-music "hurrr". who could resist?
dark city. brainless drivel city.

i don't think anybody's being v. challopy, and i swear we've had this conversation 50 times before, but for most peeps "worst" isn't going to mean "most technically inept" but more like "quite technically ept but featuring elements that made me despair of humanity and the film-making process and outraged and hurt that i'd just spent 2 hours waiting for this POS to pay off in the worst conceivable way"

are we actually listing genuinely terrible movies or mostly competent middlebrow fare that we have axes to grind against, because if the latter is the case I could happily rant about Magnolia, Eyes Wide Shut and The Hours but I am actually aware enough to know that there are so many things out there that are so much worse

you forget the terrible on every level movies, but you remember the things that passed themselves off as legitimate mainstream entertainment only to turn out to be a sack of shit to the face

Oh shit. I know what mine actually is. Island Girl. I have an abiding love of shonky amateurishness and unintentional comedy, sometimes from a "so bad it's good lol" perspective, sometimes just because people can accidentally create something beautiful out of getting-it-wrong. So sitting down to watch this gem from Poundland I was expecting it to be at least somewhat amusingly bad. It was horrible, unfunny, glaringly racist, boring, contemptible in every way. It's kind of funny to talk about it now, but the actual experience was awful, and we couldn't make it all the way through. Really the worst.

Magnolia, Eyes Wide Shut and The Hours -- superb candidates for shit-thrown-in-face movies.

mr and mrs smith

just crystallizes banal hollywood for me

yugh

I have only seen MST3K versions but I very vividly remember Eegah!, Overdrawn at the Memory Bank, The Wild World of Batwoman, The Girl with the Golden Boots and The Final Sacrifice. Also, I attempted to watch I Accidentally Domed Your Son, which is in fact the most embarrassing, inept thing I have ever tried to watch, to the point where I was feeling physical discomfort trying to make myself watch it.

If I had to list the real, honest to goodness, most-inept-on-every-conceivable-level movie I've ever seen and can remember, it would be Birdemic.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51kRRsUxl5L._SX500_.jpg

the worst i can recall having paid to see

oh god, I really enjoyed that movie

Yeah, the true worst are the movies that are technically good enough to bring their aesthetic failures to full life. The last in this category that comes to mind is Curse of the Golden Flower.

Well the problem is that most people's aesthetic preferences are objectively wrong. It's.not Hudson Hawk's fault if someone doesn't like it. We have a responsibility to appreciate masterpieces and we are morally bankrupt if we dismiss them.

otherwise, almost certainly manos: the hands of fate

also really enjoyed The Saint, which shockingly does not hold up at all to repeat viewings aside from the 90 second scene of the car zooming around Moscow blasting "Pearl's Girl"

Just saw Birdemic for the first time a couple of weeks ago and it was GREAT. I love being boggled.

Were you hangin' out with the family, havin' yourselves a party?

Forgot about this fest-only monstrosity I saw a couple years back. And yes, that is Jodorowsky.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6Q7T5ix9TM

I believe I was having some sensual work time.

xp

I was going to list Manos too but bailed at the last minute because all I really remember is a bunch of women dazedly dancing in their nightgowns, which isn't that bad a memory

fair

well actually I remember Torgo, so I should have listed it

i have certainly seen some jess franco films that boldly redefined our notions of what constitutes 'good' filmmaking

really there's nothing worse than a laughless, smileless comedy.

anything that is a "biting satire about HOLLYWOOD".
(a) shooting fish in a barrel
(b) fuck off

I'd love to pretend that Jess Franco is always interesting even when the films are objectively bad, but it's not quite true. That's the peril of making a film every four weeks for fifty years i suppose.

saw a biopic of Nostradamus in 1994 directed by the guy who went onto direct Battlefield Earth that might be the worst thing i've ever seen in a cinema, wd have walked out but was supposed to review it.

oh and i've just remembered Garfield 2 and Horrid Henry, guess we shd rule out kids films