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

I'd maybe allow that the graduate is now my nomination here btw

The recent Poltergeist remake is a heck of a contender.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEcArMzmeM0

Miami Connection (1987). I know that it has a cult following as an entertainingly bad film, but it didn't provide me with distraction, let alone entertainment.

Meet Joe Black, for me.

i always say hook just because it was made by someone talented with a lot of money and pretty much everything about it is wrong or tone-deaf or written badly or acted badly or miscast. though its actually hard to say if its the worst robin williams movie. definitely the worst spielberg. all the kids in it are like sub-thunderdome acting-wise and appeal-wise. which is also weird for spielberg.

obviously there are tons of horrible no-name and no-budget movies. the bad sundance movies usually offend me more than the bad genre ones though.

there should be a worst big-budget thread. not just for flops but just the worst movies that cost a zillion dollars.

Surely "Jack" is the consensus worst Robin Williams movie?

some would say patch adams. i dunno, there is a lot to choose from. try and sit through Toys. i mean the WHOLE movie with no cheating.

Robin Adams, yknow, sad and all, yknow, but fuck me what an awful presence.

i always thought mrs. doubtfire was a nightmare and should be remade as the terrifying horror film that it is.

Not quite Chevy chase, Steve Martin, rodney Dangerfield 'america made these people rich on the basis of their being funny?' awful but then those ppl never pretended to be actors

it's so weird that robin williams movies mimic that arduous and strenuous and sweaty energy he had. they are such a trudge. even stuff like jumanji and the fisher king which aren't really terrible are like oh my god is this movie over yet? bicentennial man and what dreams may come are both six hours long.

In recent memory it's this:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7e/BlastFromThePast.jpg/215px-BlastFromThePast.jpg

We were staying with my partner's aunt in a teensy caravan in Donegal, she introduces it as one of her favourite movies and makes us watch it, so I had to pretend to think it was OK.

Kind of an OK concept, and Brendan Fraser gives a game performance, but just a terrible terrible screenplay, perhaps the most incompetent I've experienced in a Hollywood movie with actual movie stars.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTQ0OTE1MTk4N15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMDM5OTk5NjE@._V1_SY1000_CR0,0,640,1000_AL_.jpg

watched this on a plane, which might have heightened the effect, but at the time I felt this was the most spiritually and morally vacant thing I had ever seen

Sticking with many of my earlier choices but in categories

((highly accomplished in many ways but annoying or boring))
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
The Matrix
In The Mood For Love (sorry)
Tokyo Tribe (I generally like Sono)
Hero (Jet Li)
Wes Anderson films

((bad and extremely overrated but not unwatchable))
Battle Royale

((just incredibly boring))
300: Rise Of An Empire
Satanic Rites Of Dracula
Scared To Death
Ape Man
Black Dragons
Japanese Hell (Teruo Ishii)
The Beast (Borowczyk)

((lowbrow crap but far from the worst))
Sex Drive
ABCs Of Death 2 (some of the segments are okay)
Meet The Parents series
Starsky & Hutch (Stiller & Wilson)
Hot Tub Time Machine
Scream 3

((the overwhelming stench of a Family Guy fan convention, incompetence and offensive sensibilities all around))
GayN***ers From Outer Space
Little Man
Zombie Women Of Satan
2001 Maniacs

most of that stuff is REALLY avoidable. i mean you would have to go out of your way to watch them at all. but i don't doubt that there is terrible stuff there.

i don't mind seeing wes anderson movies once for the art direction/design/props/etc. but then i never need to see them again. kinda like tarantino. i mean they feel like events in a tarantino-esque way and then i forget about them. though i think i am done with tarantino for good. had absolutely no desire to see his leonardo slave movie or the snow one. as much as i love JJL.

ha i liked Blast From the Past when I saw it, i thought it was a pretty smart dumb movie.

i have liked or loved every Wes Anderson film I've seen, i admire his adherence to his particular thing. total OTT goofy action movie shit combined w/really dark emotional plot turns. obviously not for everyone.

I saw Django Unchained and jeez...well, it was the first Tarantino movie that felt genuinely bloated. actually thought the performances were overall a plus (Waltz was really outstanding, DiCaprio was really good, Foxx was...well through no fault of his own he was actually forgettable and the role was underwritten...QT gave the white guys juiciest bits in a movie about a black hero...) Definitely his worst film, I think. I don't think it was "bad" but it felt insignificant. His career trajectory is really weird to me, starting off with his three most "adult" movies and devolving from there.

i dare you guys to watch this entire TRAILER, let alone the movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w00GXmJ8KA

that music they play at the end of that trailer. they really need to take it out back and shoot it in the head. i still hear it all the time.

Clerks 2, easy

I think Blast from the Past is a good bad movie. Breaking the Waves is a bad good movie.

The Legend of 1900

This is probably even worse than the S Blatter vanity pic Roth also starred in, it is ridiculous garbage given something of a respectable sheen with a Morricone soundtrack, decent production values/actors etc and a 8+ imdb rating. I think the director also did Cinema Paradiso which I also thought was overrated + unwatchable dogshit.

The Misery Brothers looks like it could be the worst movie ever made but I've never worked up the nerve to actually watch it because I think I might die.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHMqyMtKnL0

most of that stuff is REALLY avoidable. i mean you would have to go out of your way to watch them at all.

― scott seward, Monday, 13 March 2017 15:48

Most films are really easy to avoid. But the Iron Man and Die Hard series have become extremely annoying on uk television because they are endlessly repeated. I didn't finish several of the films I listed because they were so nauseating, so I half avoiding them but they were bad enough to leave scars.

Old Lunch has delivered with Misery Brothers. That looks properly obnoxious.

I imagine watching the Fred Movie trilogy would be a real challenge.

there were THREE of those??

Movies I gave a 1/10 on imdb, including 3 oscar best picture winners. Also lots of shit I watched as a kid in the 90s.

Mrs. Miniver (1942)
The Mummy's Ghost (1944)
Robot Monster (1953)
Santa Claus (1959)
The Beast of Yucca Flats (1961)
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964)
Monster a-Go Go (1965)
The Wild World of Batwoman (1966)
Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966)
Warrior of the Lost World (1983)
Troll 2 (1990)
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)
Star Trek: Generations (1994)
Baby's Day Out (1994)
Natural Born Killers (1994)
Car 54, Where Are You? (1994)
D2: The Mighty Ducks (1994)
Braveheart (1995)
Money Train (1995)
Operation Dumbo Drop (1995)
Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home (1995)
Theodore Rex (1995)
Bulletproof (1996)
D3: The Mighty Ducks (1996)
Gone Fishin' (1997)
Mr. Magoo (1997)
Jungle 2 Jungle (1997)
Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997)
Patch Adams (1998)
Mercury Rising (1998)
Jack Frost (1998)
Jane Austen's Mafia! (1998)
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
Frailty (2001)
Rush Hour 2 (2001)
Baadasssss! (2003)
Crash (2004)
Meet the Fockers (2004)
The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
Double Down (2005)
Passchendaele (2008)
I Am Here... Now (2009)
Birdemic: Shock and Terror (2010)
Fateful Findings (2013)

fight club IMO

if we can consider 'worst movie' and 'least favorite movie of all time' to be synonymous

GTFO with your Robot Monster hate, that movie is delightful.

My IMDB movies rated 1 star, in ascending order of how different my rating was from that of the average voter:

Title	Year	IMDB Rating	# Of Ratings
Manos: The Hands of Fate	1966	1.9	31,177
The Touch of Satan	1971	2.1	2,407
Monster a-Go Go	1965	2.3	6,303
The Beast of Yucca Flats	1961	2.4	6,655
Night Train to Mundo Fine	1966	2.6	5,909
Creepshow 3	2006	3	3,650
Don't Go in the Woods	1981	3.6	2,006
Batman & Robin	1997	3.7	196,427
The Rage: Carrie 2	1999	4.6	13,386
The Flintstones	1994	4.8	62,831
Nothing But Trouble	1991	4.9	18,060
Hellraiser: Bloodline	1996	5.1	15,015
Maximum Overdrive	1986	5.4	24,057
Jingle All the Way	1996	5.5	72,649
Poltergeist II: The Other Side	1986	5.7	20,008
Thinner	1996	5.7	21,113
Not Another Teen Movie	2001	5.7	82,860
54	1998	5.8	28,318
Dracula: Dead and Loving It	1995	5.8	31,596
3 Men and a Baby	1987	5.9	38,263
The Shining	1997	6.1	12,369
Cat's Eye	1985	6.2	17,496
The Amityville Horror	1979	6.2	28,702
The Santa Clause	1994	6.4	70,108
The Prophecy	1995	6.6	25,103
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me	1999	6.6	186,700
My Big Fat Greek Wedding	2002	6.6	105,789
Lethal Weapon 4	1998	6.6	131,778
Ghosts of Mississippi	1996	6.7	8,780
Event Horizon	1997	6.7	126,066
Con Air	1997	6.8	232,648
Dirty Dancing	1987	6.9	148,736
Fallen	1998	7	60,975
Monster's Ball	2001	7.1	73,187
The Rock	1996	7.4	267,535
A Time to Kill	1996	7.4	104,480
The Bucket List	2007	7.4	192,170
Blow	2001	7.6	204,967
Little Children	2006	7.6	94,693
Crash	2004	7.8	371,668
The Goonies	1985	7.8	186,771
Awakenings	1990	7.8	96,899
The Notebook	2004	7.9	416,292
The Blues Brothers	1980	7.9	148,432
Shrek	2001	7.9	489,063
Braveheart	1995	8.4	776,287
The Lion King	1994	8.5	687,709
The Green Mile	1999	8.5	838,130
The Shawshank Redemption	1994	9.3	1,784,884

The Shining, really?

Oh wait, 1997.

Jack Frost was really cringeworthy

I saw it on the last day of a closing cinema.

Zero Dark Thirty

worst - i dunno, probably some homemade gore flick like gut-pile or bone sickness

most hated - requiem for a dream

I also wanna name Ted here, though I've heard Ted 2 is much worse, so IDK

Not that I exactly had a lot of confidence in Seth MacFarlane, but I kinda figured he was at least gonna subvert the tropes of these sort of movies a little and not turn into a shittier Judd Apatow. The tone of that movie is all over the place.

The fuck happened u man

i guess requiem for a dream is pretty divisive. i thought it was cool. and remarkably faithful to the book which surprised me at the time because the book is pretty fucked up.

the perfect storm is the actual worst movie

requiem for a dream was like being beaten with a large book entitled "ADDICTION IS BAD" for two hours

and i mean it is, but...

Somebody loaned me Requiem For A Dream and I was so bored with it that I turned it off before the nasty stuff happened (which I wasn't aware of until years later but never saw).

I'm afraid to step in here.

I'm sure this point's been made already: "worst film" is only interesting (to me, at least) when applied to something you had hopes for. On that count, I was probably as repelled by Grand Budapest Hotel as anything I can remember.

Based on the trailer, The Misery Brothers aimed for over-the-top, miscalculated its trajectory, left the troposphere and suffered irreversible hypoxic brain damage.

Sliver a thing about creepy surveillance in an NYC apartment building that I sat right through wondering when it was actually going to start.

Waterworld bad Mad Max on water. I walked out of this before the end. Only saw the end years later on tv. & it's extremely corny throughout. the presence of Dennis Hopper as the chief of the Smokers was just dumb. I saw something else he was in on the same day, used to go several different films in different places on the same day, think it was Paris Trout and he's good in that so surprising how ham he was in this.

The Postman. Kevin Costner's other great sci fi disaster, or are there more?
I used to live in a house with a guy who used to watch this regularly along with Dune.
THinks it's deep but is absolutely vacuous.

Battlefield Earth, though I think I went to see taht knowing how bad it was reputed to be.
Think it was right at the time that Travolta was being rehabilitated by appearances in Tarrantino and Elmore Leonard films.
Surprised he survived thisi. & it was a vanity project for him wasn't it?
I nearly bought a copy of Dianetics in a charity shop today to see how bad that was.

Other than that I think most of the ones I've seen that are horrendous are semi aware of it.
Or are famously inept

boondock saints i think

can anyone explain or link to something that explains why 'crash' is so bad? it's been a while since i've seen it but i remember it being mostly harmless oscar bait