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

yeah it may be a highly personal thing. somehow it felt pretty smug to me this time. didn't help that i had just seen silver linings playbook.

I<3H is a thing I really like but I can see it annoying people who know a lot more than I do about existentialism

oh it's not so much the content--more like the hectoring tone. it's a movie that makes a big show of being humble and "searching" when it doesn't really come across that way to me anymore. like someone who just entered therapy and thinks they're cured already.

but entirely possible i see too much of my younger self in there and need some distance and age to appreciate it again.

yeah i can mostly see it annoying people who look at russell's writing and see it as him taking the whole idea of existentialism very seriously and/or trying to come off as smart about it

but his characters are so simplistic about it and every line exists for laffs, for me it's always a question of whether russell pities the characters, rolls his eyes at them or both

like there are points where schwarzman is a huge asshole and i like to think that the script is aware of them, and if i didn't have that optimism i wouldn't like it as much

That's a good read on it, and maybe a level i missed entirely

I'm surprised by all the huckabees love. I felt the same about huckabees as I did garden state.

I remember spending all of Huckabees waiting for it to get good.

i haven't seen huckabees in years but i like the tone it's pitched at, everyone is frantic and yelling literally all the time and then jude law has a negative epiphany and pukes in his hand

that doesn't make it sound enjoyable but it feels to me like a much more accurate rendition of being bereft than garden state

also nihilistic isabelle huppert. "listen! listen! zis is your mother!"

like i get they are both Quirky and #whiteppl and kinda full of themselves but garden state is 100% bullshit and huckabees at least has real pain+panic

but then so does

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20101006160035/disneyvillains/images/2/2f/Pain-Panic.jpg

My man takeaway from huckabees was "huh, they got jude law to play jay mohr"

Ppl saying the box needs to be watched with the sound off are forgetting i) how entertaining terrible southern accents can be and ii) the excellent score. The only thing I'm really mad at richard kelly for is that keira knightley/mickey rourke action movie thing, that was fucking terrible.

uh, my main takeaway :-\

I saw that movie and it didn't strike me as particularly 'bad' any more than just meh.

ii) the excellent score.

this is true! it basically works best if you just watch it slack-jawed without giving it any credit for being about stuff.

everyone is frantic and yelling literally all the time and then jude law has a negative epiphany and pukes in his hand

yeah basically! we're not made to sympathize or relate to or love any one character, they're all pathetic and they all get their chance to be sympathetic, even if it all happens at an unrealistic pace and it gets to a point where the epiphanies happen so often that the philosophy is totally shat upon, which i love. also gets to a point where jude law escapes the detectives by forcing them into an existential question loop which renders them useless, which is also amazing

tbh i support any movie that downgrades existentialism to therapy, which is basically what it is anyway

The worst movies are often more meh than barf. Bad movies you can dismiss, or enjoy as bad. Totally meh movies are just so ... disappointing. Dispiriting. Depressing.

Oh I just remembered another one

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/53/Due_Date_Poster.jpg/220px-Due_Date_Poster.jpg

It was bad enough as it was, let alone with all the lingering shots of dog genitalia

*barf*

ii) the excellent score.

this is true!

<3 <3

lol I was trying not to be arse-kissy but yeah I kept thinking throughout the film "this is really good" and then the credits went up & I was like "oh that explains that"

iirc there's also a scott walker track in one scene for no particular reason & I missed most of what was going on cause I just zoned out & listened to the scptt song

Huckabees did have one great exchange that still makes me laugh:

Vivian Jaffe: And your girlfriend, the voice of Huckabees, is dressing like an Amish bag lady.
Brad Stand: Okay, I get it.
Bernard Jaffe: You know, Brad, suddenly, your star isn't rising anymore. It's sinking.
Brad Stand: Okay. I said I get it, Bernie. Relax.
Bernard Jaffe: Passive-aggressive.
Brad Stand: Shut up.
Bernard Jaffe: Aggressive-aggressive.

lol I was trying not to be arse-kissy but yeah I kept thinking throughout the film "this is really good" and then the credits went up & I was like "oh that explains that"

ha i just had to look up who did the score. had no idea!

but yes that DOES explain it!

There are so many bad movies out there that it's hard to pick one as the worst. I will say though that I think Law Abiding Citizen is an astoundingly horrible movie. Everything about it. Horrible acting, horrible aesthetics and completely confused about what it actually wants to say to the audience. It's a nasty obnoxious movie, and tedious to boot.

Oh was that that Gerard Butler revenge-porn thing?

Yeah that was terrible.

i didn't see it but lakeview terrace looked remarkably bad from the trailers

GB may have the single worst filmography running.

I went through a phase where I basically watched one Z-grade horror film after another. The two that stood out as the worst movies I'd ever seen were Population 436: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0462482/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1, about a town that must have 436 people living there at all times (also: stars Fred Durst), and Mr. Jingles: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0810743/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1, the set of which I'm p sure was an apartment I used to hang out in.

Oh I just remembered another one

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/53/Due_Date_Poster.jpg/220px-Due_Date_Poster.jpg

It was bad enough as it was, let alone with all the lingering shots of dog genitalia

*barf*

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, February 5, 2013 11:58 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The co-opting of amazing actors into the comedy douche-iverse is always depressing, sometimes an actor I really admire shows up in one of these and it's a little depressing.

tiptoes

SPOILER ALERT its ranked #1 here:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/features/special/2007/wotw/
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Monday, February 4, 2013 8:08 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

is it a normal thing if i haven't seen any of these 100 movies?

i'm gonna put some serious thought into "worst movie" and report back. good question.

i think at least half of these movies are fascinating:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_considered_the_worst

THE TREE OF LIFE

^^ playing this thread correctly

all those movies on the RT list are boring choices

movies that are so inept that they're pointless are just that, they bounce off your brain and fly away forever in their weightlessness. they're fun to hate. i'm only going to invest my searing hatred into movies borne from the minds of individual self-obsessed shitheads that inexplicably manage to convince audiences of their great importance

also guessing ~20% of those movies are secret masterpieces

i'm not remotely trolling or hyperbolising, i've seen plenty of badly-acted, amateur or just plain shoddy films and the tree of life is easily worse than all of them

oooh shit, have we all seen the Fred Durst directed 'The Education of Charlie Banks'? that has to be down/up there with the worst films ever.

Good shout on Law Abiding Citizen. I'd wiped that two hours of my life from my mind entirely.

i'm not remotely trolling or hyperbolising

Good one. You almost got me there.

Feel like the only place this thread can go from here is a full-blown ballot poll a la the recent genre ones

Also I didn't hate due date as much as I'd planned to, considering zach g is the most unpleasant man in film and "PT&A with the heart cut out" is such an offensive premise to me

I've seen hundreds of movies - hundreds! - and "Tree of Life" is easily the worst. I have never seen a movie worse than "Tree of Life," and can't imagine a worse movie released this year, let alone probably, oh, this week. It just does absolutely nothing right and is not even pretty to look at.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uZ0j_HxXuPE/UL8zlxYqzWI/AAAAAAAABdQ/SnB1GJbCjnY/s1600/Sad+Christmas+Trees+%283%29.jpg

That dog has the right idea. "Tree of Life" is really that terrible, and deserves to be at the top of any worst movies ever list. Seriously. I've seen it. It is really that bad. And it's over two hours long!

Wait, I may be confusing "Tree of Life" with something else. Is that the one where Rob Schneider is trying not to get raped in prison?

Man, I love 'supposed worst film ever of its time' Myra Breckenridge, and think if Gore and Rex has been like "it's a cool film gfy" it'd never have gained its bad reputation

If there was ever a film that should have been directed by Russ Meyer instead, Myra Breckenridge is it.