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

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.

If there was ever a film that should have been directed by Russ Meyer instead, The Tree of Life is it.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/52/Big_Stan_Poster.png

that wiki list is pure bullshit because troll 2 is one of the most amazing viewing experiences of all time.

Armegeddon

the only time in my life I saw a film for free and wanted my money back

try it when you're drunk - it's a much more enjoyable experience :)

actually that's a poll -- which of these terrible movies would NOT be any better watched while drunk

tiptoes

― vote! (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, February 5, 2013 10:46 PM (Yesterday)

tiptoes is fucking awesome

I've gotta go w/ The Shipping News, just b/c: (01) it sucks, (02) plodding fucking boring, (03) urgh Kevin Spacey, (04) having the nerve to go and piss all over a perfectly good Annie Proulx novel, (05) such smug fucking Oscar bait

Lex hardly the first person to list a movie here tbf

let me restate mulholland drive

xpost yeah I loved the book so much and the trailers looked godawful I decided to stay well away from it

OMG, speaking of Kevin Spacey: "David Gale!"

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20030221/REVIEWS/302210304/1023

let me rep for the hilarious 'the shipping news' again

― goole, Tuesday, October 25, 2011 1:59 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

seriously, i think it's one of the funniest movies i've ever seen. i was dragged to see it in the theater. real talk it's the only time a movie has been immediately 'so bad it's good' w/o a layer of distance or audience knowingness; everything is just so badly done. iirc we were suppressing laughter thru the whole thing: dead cate blanchett with lolling tongue, spacey saying indignantly "i will not have pirate treasure in this house!!"

(spoilers)

oh wait has no one mentioned "Bless the Child" with Kim Basinger yet because wow