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

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.

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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

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.

― goole, Wednesday, February 6, 2013 10:21 AM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I just opened this thread and have idea what movie yr talking abt but this is how I felt about OC and Stiggs

I really hated OC and Stiggs. Lots of buddies stanning for this at the time. This is an Altman miss and plus FUCK NATIONAL LAMPOON

I saw K-Pax in a theater when it came out. It was extremely weak.

It felt like the kind of movie that gets played when your teacher is sick and there is a sub and you just sleep for an hour while it's on in the background.

Oh shiiiit bless the child is legit hilarious

i now remember that i was also dragged to "bubba ho-tep" and it was really bad.

i now remember that i was also dragged to "bubba ho-tep" and it was really bad.

crazy talk!

Actually... I see some terrible stuff for work, and Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married Too takes some beating.

Avatar, no challops intended. It's just a really, really bad script.

Avatar is one of the dumbest movies ever made but, aside from the 3D headache it gave me, I loved the shit out of it.

(not enough to paint myself blue and go live in a tree, mind you)

What the #$*! Do We (K)now!? is the first that comes to mind. just infuriating like few others

that may not count but damn

I have a new contender. In fact, not even a contender, a clear and obvious winner so far ahead of the field that the other bad films I've ever seen have given up and gone back to the barn.

http://youtu.be/RTWwZT96gZY

Like, if I told you this film features an indie-rocker in actual blackface and that still wasn't even the most o_0 part of the film, would that give you some idea? I'm half convinced this isn't even supposed to be a real film, and just a parody entry for "Germany's most disturbing home videos."

can't remember if I nominated Amadeus up thread but amadeus

Hard to choose bwteeen The Doom Generation, The Mirror Has Two Faces, or the first Transformers film

some bad films are bad in a charming or at least fairly objectionable way

i can't really hate on any film i watch at home b/c if i keep watching it it's my own damn fault--so easy to change the channel or hit the stop button.

the one recent film (by recent i simply mean, my memory of it is still acute) i've seen in the theater that was irredeemably bad was "away we go"

i also hated joseph losey's "these are the damned"-- though at least that had the saving grace of strangeness

fairly UNobjectionable i mean

Still angry about Drive.

The Losey is a very odd film (in every sense) to pick on! I'm not saying you would like it any better, but 'These Are The Damned' is actually the severely truncated American edit of 'The Damned'.

Amadeus is vaguely enjoyable if you treat it as nothing more than pure fiction.

i like amadeus. f murray abraham, jeffrey jones, cleavage. smug sure and pretty deluded abt the artistic process but fun. upthread however dmac nominated DOWN PERISCOPE, which i had totally repressed and which all came back at once.

THE WIZARD, the fred savage/jenny lewis nintendo commercial (that never uses the word nintendo!) was for years my favorite incompetent movie. creates its own unique reality, rly has that "aliens made this after only cursory study of humans" vibe. prob nowhere near as hilarious now that i'm not a teenager tho.

movie that made me angriest remains WHATEVER WORKS.

Who the hell hates Amadeus? How can anyone have hate for such schlocky, campy fun?

that one scene of the non-mozart pantomime show he decides to write the magic flute at goes on SO intolerably long i sort of admire it, like, making us sit here for 20 mins midstream to Absorb don giovanni is just middlebrow i guess but when the longest performance scene is a guy in a horse costume pooping you've got something.

How can a film with a pantomime horse ~pooping~ in it possibly be bad?

amadeus is HUGELY enjoyable if you treat it as nothing more than pure fiction. but i liked drive, too, so my calibration may be off.

most infuriating film i've ever seen has to be requiem for a dream: loudmouthed, ham-handed, sanctimonious garbage. god, i hated that movie. can't call it inept, though.

it's hard to get too deeply upset at the merely misbegotten. some hackjob studio castoff or technically inept student film turns out crap, well, what did you expect? it's no great loss or betrayal. the very worst of them often acquire a perverse charm, as with so many MST3K honorees. the experience of being completely alienated or repulsed by some celebrated cultural juggernaut, however, can be uniquely infuriating. this is, i suspect, why so many people go for the likes of crash, the titanic and avatar when asked this question. sure, those movies are better made than that achingly unfunny comedy you walked out on after half an hour, but complete failure seldom inspires more than mild irritation at the time & money wasted.

I got the DVD of "Gonks go Beat" a while ago. The film is so ineptly made, it's 75% terrible but every so often it's really not bad. (Basically, it's teenage "Ballad" gang (woeful) vs teenage "rock" gang (better, but not great), but Ginger Baker and band pops up and is quite good)

For me there are bad films like Transmorphers or whatever which are just straight terrible and laughably so. Then there are critically and publicly acclaimed movies which when I get round to watching them make me wonder whether I am missing some part of my brain. Drive was like that. I don't understand why people went so mad for two hours of blonde, characterless people staring at each other. The whole thing was mean spirited through and through - so many unsympathetic characters. Am I wrong in thinking we're supposed to believe Ryan Gosling's character is a major dickhead? So why is he the hero of the film? I don't get it. And then so much was made of the violent scenes - or scene - someone got a kicking towards the end IIRC, but was it any more graphic than the average Game of Thrones episode?

contendo OTM, worst movie ever

OK, I probably revived the wrong thread, in that that C.ZAR film I posted, after a day or two of reflection my o_0 reaction is not so much "wow, bad art film is seriously bad" because many low budget art films are terrible, as much as it is "no one noticed the blackface? really?" but it's not so much outrage as wondering why some things provoke reactions and others don't.

(No, but really. Amadeus is "so over the top it's great". "So bad it's good" rather than truly terrible in any sense.)

Then there are critically and publicly acclaimed movies which when I get round to watching them make me wonder whether I am missing some part of my brain.

For me one of these that springs to mind is Jerry Maguire.

Then there are critically and publicly acclaimed movies which when I get round to watching them make me wonder whether I am missing some part of my brain. Drive was like that. I don't understand why people went so mad for two hours of blonde, characterless people staring at each other. The whole thing was mean spirited through and through - so many unsympathetic characters. Am I wrong in thinking we're supposed to believe Ryan Gosling's character is a major dickhead?

i liked drive a lot at the time, but i do wonder how well it'll age. very much the product of its fashion moment. personally, i liked the surfaces: stylish, atmospheric, slick as all hell in the manner of michael mann, but also weirdly disconnected. both inviting and repellent in a way that made it difficult to parse directorial/artistic intent. is the movie supposed to feel so disconcertingly alien? was ryan gosling consciously chosen because there's always a similarly disturbing vacancy in his performances? is the fascination with masculine power, lethality and stoicism supposed to seem so sexual? i'd guess yes in all cases, but i'm not sure, and it's hard to say to what end refn is making his choices.