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

i recently rewatched donnie darko (not the LOL director's cut) ... it's fine, but it also hasn't aged well & i do feel a bit silly having to defend it (such as it is).

the echo and the bunnymen part is pretty good

Looking back, Hudson Hawke really is not a good answer for me. I'm not sure if I have seen any truly horrible films! I also hated Storytelling but oftentimes I think my enjoyment of films is contextual/situational and maybe (like music) it's about an optimal viewing (listening) situation/environment/mood/frame of mind.

I really quite like Donnie Darko. But I can see how the director's cut is a slap in the face, explaining all the shit that was fun to work out on one's own. Who needs that? (I havent seen the directors cut for this reason)

I still maintain that for me, horrible films are ones which you couldnt sit thru/couldnt stand to watch again, and Salo is up there for me.

Worst I've seen is probably some shit I rented as a kid. D3: The Mighty Ducks, maybe.

I couldn't finish watching Airplane!, so my vote is cast for Animal House, which I watched all of and is terrible.

(I don't find myself watching many things that are terrible but I watched all of Animal House and it wasn't good or funny or anything.)

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^^ would rather watch 90 minutes of shorts created with CrazyTalk 7 than watch Animal House again

silby you dont like Airplane, wtf? We call that film "flying high" here (nfi why the diff title) but cmon its an awesome visual jokefest trashy hilarity!

silby, yes! i despise airplane too which i watched because it placed (won maybe?) in the ilx comedy poll. what a fucking disappointment. just plain shit through and through.

The worst film I have seen is The Legend of 1900. It is from the director who made Cinema Paradiso and it is the zenith of tedium. Tim Roth is a dreadful actor who does a lot of crap and this is his lowest standard of acting allied to some terrible writing. The story is the worst .. an orphan child covertly brought up in the engine room of a steam liner and he is a musical savant who has never left the boat... aaarrgh Fuck Off!

Animal House is far, far from the worst movie I've ever seen, but yeah, it's way overrated and not very funny.

kinda in "so bad it's entertaining" territory: mae west's "sextette"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoCRgcKqb8M

it's fine, but it also hasn't aged well

^politician

For me it's gotta be Juno. It is the nadir of the early to mid 00's quirky, post-Andersen, post-Amelie, "indie" whimsical serious comedy. It's consistently lazy. It has the most irritating use of trying-too-hard-to-be-cool self-conscious lingo in a film since, I dunno, Mallrats maybe. The entire first half of it is basically lazy musical montages. And it fundamentally betrays a mawkish sentimentality. It is as if it was made by the world's most annoying 14 year old inspired by the worst parts of Garden State and Knocked Up.

i thought about putting "Amelie" on this list, i strongly disliked it and was unable to keep my mouth shut about it at the time. which resulted in acquaintances @ study abroad program getting quite upset with me like "why are you such a jerk?" ugh. it's a magical fairy tale paris which is the cutest place on earth and coincidentally almost totally whitewashed and i didn't like it. i mean, we are right here, does it not bother you that this vision of ideal paris is no longer multicultural at all? why are YOU such a jerk?

Aliens

Ameliens

Bridesmaids. I only made it through about half of it though. Also terrible Travolta/Samuel L Jackson drama Basic, which made ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE.

Gummo

Celebrity

Either the Pest (Leguizamo comedy) or Haggard which is like Gummo meets Jackass. Featuring the Jackass crew.

Krull is pretty terrible too.

Oh god, Sextet! Keith Moon's acting was the best in the film!

LOL @ The Pest. My brothers memorized the opening song to that.

the two worst movies i have ever seen are :

• Finishing the Game: The Search for a New Bruce Lee, which attempts to be a retro mockumentary and is so joyless and offensivley unfunny
• Internet Dating which is double-painful when you consider that Katt Williams wants to "do movies instead of stand-up"

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Does anyone remember 51st state with Robert Carlyle and Samuel L Jackson? Because that.

Oh god, Sextet! Keith Moon's acting was the best in the film!

― Mark G, Saturday, February 2, 2013 5:12 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Been meaning to see it for that reason alone. Despite his reputation as a flailing madman, Moon had an incredible sense of comic timing and, surprisingly, restraint.

Daisy Diamond, 2007 dannish film. Saw it at a festival and it will never forget how terrible it was. Film is avaible on youtube.

Me and You and Everyone We Know taught me to loathe that whole whimsical vaguey 'meaningful' indie genre

i hated that film.

worst film i ever saw was a rom-com so entirely featureless that I forgot everything about it almost the second I walked out of the cinema. It had a curiously unattached feeling, as if it had just 'picked up' at the beginning and 'left off' at the end, so that it felt like a midweek doldrums soap episode. I should say I used to go and see rom-coms a LOT, so was perfectly prepared for the probable absence of any likable 'rom' and definitely prepared for the absence of any 'com'.

I'm kind of excluding films like Ocean's 13 and IJ and the Crystal Skull from this for being so execrably mystifyingly bad that they feel like something else, other than film, other even than bad film - a genre where the pained incredulous horror with which you view them is entirely the point of going to see them.

Cocktail. Tom Cruise is the shiny-toothed anus of the universe, and seeing him shrieking "Addicted To Love" is a nightmare that has stayed with me for years.

Been meaning to see it for that reason alone. Despite his reputation as a flailing madman, Moon had an incredible sense of comic timing and, surprisingly, restraint.

― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Saturday, February 2, 2013 4:55 PM (Yesterday)

ya, he is the best part of the movie

I may be alone in having actually preferred the Director's Cut of Donnie Darko. Perhaps it's just because I saw it first (but I also think INXS works much better for that opening scene than Echo and the Bunnymen!). I used to love this movie but I'm not sure what I'd think now. Thinking back on it, it does seem like there were some untied loose ends.

I enjoyed director's cut as well. But i probably saw both versions once and that's it. Cool movie, don't need to think too much about it!

Crystal Skull at least has the part where Indy is looking at a mushroom cloud, which sort of justifies the entire rest of the film.

Until I saw he directors cut, I'd always assumed the use of "the killing moon" was intended as a joke (bunny men, get it!?), though the directors cut revealed that a lot of what was good about DD was accidental. Kelley's next two movies only proved it.

heh i loved southland tales but hated donnie darko

Southland Tales has its fans, which I guess I can sorta understand without at all being able to sympathize. I doubt The Box has many.

Bad Boys 2 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Southland Tales

It has to be "Very Bad Things" -- just a horrible splooge of self-satisfied cynicism and misogyny. Also maybe "Duplicity" -- not a truly terrible movie, but smugness of the freaking scale. Also recently that second Sherlock movie was just such an aggressive and wilful misunderstanding of the source material -- unforgivable.

Oooh I have to see "Very Bad Things" again. I loved "Southland Tales". Apparently "The Box" does have its defenders but they are in Europe and saw the movie with subtitles, presumably with an entirely new script and/or plot

Just Ctrl-F'd "Huckabees" and came up blank. Just me then.

this guy liked it

I watched it just recently & was impressed at how he managed to take such a simple richard matheson story and turn it into the matrix reloaded

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lock thread

i am friendly w/ someone who had a hand in making that but have never seen it.

what makes it so much worse than your typical lazy action film?

i don't see many action films because i don't like them so that one sticks out in my head whenever i'm asked about the worst movie ever. tbh i remember nothing about it except that it was bad.

if it had a less terrible title you'd probably have forgotten it

SPOILER ALERT its ranked #1 here:

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/features/special/2007/wotw/