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

I would be lying if I said that The Outlaw of Gor was the worst movie I've ever seen, but it's the worst one the name of which I can remember.

Cocaine Cowboys 2 and Tremors 5 are veritable masterpieces in comparison

oh god cat in the hat.

almost worth seeing not because it's so-bad-it's-good, because that implies some kind of jocular pleasure the movie will not provide, but because it's like the entertainment of some alien species with whom we're in a total war for survival. which we probably are.

Coyote Ugly. I came close to walking out, and I was watching it on a plane. (Actually, I had to watch it twice to make sure it was quite as bad as I thought it was.)

The Wedding Date, if only for Dermot Mulroney - I've never seen a more moribund, wooden performance by a leading man, just mind-blowingly bad, and as charismatic as a refuse collection crew hard at work outside yr bedroom window at 6am (and with less jokes).

For an article on the state of the romcom a couple of years ago I had to watch Valentine's Day, which was so grotesquely smug, lazy and insulting that it made Love Actually look like Shakespeare's sonnets.

"The Scarlet Letter" with Demi Moore

Maybe he's just not that into you, while we're listing them

watched New Years Eve a couple nights ago, felt like it was 3+ hours long

The dullest movie I had to watch in the last few years was Pretty Bird, the Billy Crudup jet pack movie.

Oh yeah, Little Man is a good candidate. That was one of those movies that has a really stupid, unbelievable premise, but doubles down on it by having every character act in a manner that is completely illogical and contrary to what an actual person would do. Come to think of it Wild Hogs was the same way. Juwanna Mann too. I don't know why I watch all these movies.

By the way, in Little Man, THE CHARACTER WHO IS SUPPOSED TO BE A BABY HAS A TATTOO.

dancer in the dark. annoying shaky camerawork and mumbled dialog (as i recall) combined with nails-on-chalkboard musical sequences. everyone i went with loved it.

but obv i've seen worse movies on tv/video.

It's not the worst, but Dancer In The Dark is the second movie (after Requiem For A Dream) listed in this thread that I bought sight unseen in that pre-Netflix era because they never came to any of my small town theaters and they seemed like films I would enjoy. DITD I watched once, R4AD I unfortunately watched many times over a weekend as one friend after another came over and wanted to see it. Never had a lick of desire to see either again.

i forget pre-netflix, were people unable to lend videos to friends in those days

geez, where are Jjjjjjusten and Austerity Ponies in this thread? I feel like so many of you just haven't seen really really really bad movies.

Hated Dancer in the Dark so much that I didn't see another Von Trier movie until the (surprisingly excellent) Melancholia.

xp most of us know better than to pay to see third-rate movies?

there's nothing in this thread stipulating that you paid to see the awful movie in question.

i dunno - it's something akin to the dollar bin record buying instinct, where you hope to find some obscure woefully underrated gem - if you do not have this instinct then ...

yeah every one I mentioned outside of Clerks 2 has been on TV

hollow man the worst film i've ever seen -- but only b/c i watched BOTH alien vs. predators films and a stupidly large amount of Uwe Boll joints.

NOT the worst film i've ever seen, i meant to say.

bad movie watching is v v similar to the crate digging motivation, but if you had to listen to all the copies of whipped cream and other delights before you found the white cover fahey jammed in the back imo

that is meant in a totally positive sense fyi

^^ gets it. Dozens of Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers, and only one The Freakmaker

i accidentally domed your son is also pretty bad, and not in an enjoyable way.

amazing amazing title though

Easy answer: Fear dot com

there is a heroic quality to it - like

"If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,"

except instead of pitch-and-toss, it's committing to an hour and a half of Night Train to Terror

i feel like i have to watch at least the first ten minutes of i accidentally domed your son.

they will be the longest ten minutes of your life

oh, you know what was pretty bad? the second harold and kumar movie. what the hell happened there?

they will be the longest ten minutes of your life

^^^

and i blame YOUS, DJP and jjjusten, for mentioning i accidentally domed your son on ILX which led to my renting it.

XD

Is there a thread for amazing movies that are awful? I assume there must be. I bought one of those 10-for-$10 horror movie packs which is mostly straight garbage but which more than justified its price by introducing me to Pieces, Cathy's Curse, and God Told Me To. Which are all, on many levels, really terrible and hugely inept...but also dementedly brilliant and thoroughly entertaining?

Like, I would pay a sizable chunk of change to see that triple bill in a theater. Huge fun.

God Told Me To has a great rep among Larry Cohen/ 70s horror fans.

Is there a thread for amazing movies that are awful? I assume there must be.

STATHAM

xp Cathy's Curse is great!

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Oh, yeah, I have a huge place in my heart for Larry Cohen, as bad as he is. It's Alive 3: Island of the Alive is another favorite that holds absolutely no water as a Good Film.

I LOVE Cathy's Curse. Ed Wood's films seem like the paragon of forethought and intentionality in comparison.

My first thought was Stealth, and I see someone likes it up thread? But then I remember the 20 minutes of my life I would like back from the time I tried to watch Sucker Punch.

my crowning example of why watching purportedly bad movies is a good and healthy endeavor basically comes down to "i had to watch attack of the 4d witch to find my way to spider baby"

ps spider baby unironically totally fucking rules

Attack of the 4d witch has that amazing theme song though!

psyched by the 4d witch cliff notes version featuring theme song now posted in the jj and fb will watch it thread fyi

it doesn't hold a candle to Spider Baby, true, but Psyched by the 4d witch is nowhere near screaping the bottom of the barrel

http://www.overstock.com/Books-Movies-Music-Games/Chilling-Classics-50-Movie-Pack-DVD/1653183/product.html?cid=202290&kid=9553000357392&track=pspla&ef_id=fdVP84iDDQgAAFK0:20130201011513:s

This is the box set that I saw Cathy's Curse on. There are a lot of gems on it, including Bucket of Blood.