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

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.

the first five minutes of happy gilmore before i turned it way the fuck off

totally ruined 'tuesday's gone' too you fuckers

other'n'that...idk, swordfish? nil by mouth? sin city? oh wait FUCK it's sin city. it's sin city. it has to be.

Happy Gilmore's pretty good.

nil by mouth srsly?

Wow, either I'm incredibly easy to please or you're all bizarre snobs. Some of the choices here are baffling. Some of em are among my FAVE films (Mulholland drive, RFAD).

For a literal "visceral horror such that I almost walked out and I never EVER want to see this again" version of bad, I'm voting for Passolini's "Salo".

And from the "how is it possible this film is as lacking in sense and any acting skill" POV it has to be the Room - but that makes it good!

nil by mouth, as said elsewhere, is a well-made, well-acted movie that acted as vicious and abominable propaganda against the part of the world I live in and I'm from - it was a personal reaction - the movie simply depressed and enraged me as a well-dressed moral and spiritual antagonist would

nowhere near as morally fucking atrocious, as emptily brutal as sin city, but few movies are

have you seen Farewell Uncle Tom?

no...

you probably don't want to

yeah i don't think that film reflects on south london so much as a very miserable area thereof in which might as well have been a hundred other places except that oldman grew up in that one

in which

probably that pet shop boys film "it couldn't happen here". if it had a plot it completely went over my head

let's not forget about kate bush's the line, the cross and the curve.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Line,_the_Cross_and_the_Curve

seconding the, um, second harold and kumar movie. don't know why i went to see it as it's not really my bag but it really wasn't good. i told the guy at the ticket desk afterward and he offered to give me a refund which surprised me. has anyone got a refund on a seen-movie?

(i wasn't complaining, just mentioned the movie was bad and making a joke of it. i didn't take the money.)

fair enough nilmar - i just saw it as a rather pointed logical-extension of the saddest excesses and hyperbolisms of british kitchen-sink misery, with a shiv to the guts of se london and its drunken goodfornothing proles into the bargain

make no mistake though - the real enemy is sin city

my contenders are:

american beauty - I was in a rage for days after seeing that POS
jury duty - ah youth. my friend and I loved Pauly Shore, we thought it would be fun. *fart.wav*
Vampires (John Carpenter) - Escape from LA wasn't enough to convince me. I had to go BACK to the theater to see James Woods drag women into the sun and laugh as they burst into flames. That was when Carpenter and I broke up and I threw his clothes onto the street, and when James Woods and I could no longer be friends.
500 days of summer - i felt like I was being marketed to, it was gross. and so many people saying 'oh YOU will LOVE it' which left me wondering why they thought I was THAT fucking idiot.
The Help - good christ what a steaming pile of garbage

I think the winner is American Beauty. I still get annoyed when I think about it.

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

http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1347/1068403934_4155ef2df0.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy5W0UZdrAg

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-pdvYxsAM8

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

Let it not be said that I don't appreciate abstract film in general, nor that I don't appreciate Brakhage's films specifically. A cursory glace at my list of favorite films will quickly dispel such notions. However, I have to be blunt about this: Dog Star man is mind-numbingly boring! It takes far, far too long and reveals only material that is either sub-par or plain ugly. It is both his most ambitious film and his least accomplished one. That smells like pretentiousness.

oh ee the lads

Probably the most overrated movie of all time. I'm usually a fan of classics and cherished films such as these. My reasons for hating this movie are all legitimate. I don't hate this movie because of its age, or lack of color or whatever other immature crap I'm forgetting

I'm not someone who's easily bored when it comes to movies - I love The Godfather, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Scarface, Goodfellas; all very long movies that many consider to be boring, but I consider them all to be entertaining.

I love The Godfather, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Scarface, Goodfellas; all very long movies that many consider to be boring

what's the character limit for DNs again?