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

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

the perfect storm is the actual worst movie

― sleepingbag, Monday, March 13, 2017 6:26 PM (twenty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Found out why it has so many loose ends on reading the book. It tried to make a straight narrative out of a book based on a couple of thousand years' worth of related anecdotes.
THink i came across a couple of other films taht try the same thing with somewaht similar results to a degree.

But thought it was ok when it could be coherent.

sometimes i still get misty-eyed thinking about Marky Mark treading water somewhere in the Atlantic

Waterworld was such a preordained disaster that I was inclined to give it a shot in the theater. I remember thinking it certainly wasn't the worst movie ever made but it is really, really not good.

Boondock Saints is a pretty good pick, for being the actual worst cult movie that its acolytes sincerely think is both good and is a source of considerable wisdom.

Has to be some mid/late 90s hitman movie.

I'll go with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albino_Alligator

Worst movie ever in relation to its cast, for sure.

Matt Dillon as Dova
Faye Dunaway as Janet Boudreaux
Gary Sinise as Milo
William Fichtner as Law
Viggo Mortensen as Guy Foucard
John Spencer as Jack
Skeet Ulrich as Danny Boudreaux
Frankie Faison as ATF Agent Marv Rose
Melinda McGraw as Jenny Ferguson
Joe Mantegna as A.T.F. Agent G.D. Browning
M. Emmet Walsh as Dino
Jeff Hoffman as Jenny's Cameraman

Directed by Kevin Spacey

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.

― clemenza, Monday, 13 March 2017 18:39

What were you hoping for? Had you seen Wes Anderson films before? I don't like his films but I was really impressed by the designs of this one.

Yes--Rushmore is one of my favorite films ever.

Cops & Robbersons

yeah I think the real dud in the Wes Anderson catalogue is The Darjeeling Limited, which felt like a really long, unfunny parody of Anderson films.

The best thing about Rushmore, and the only acceptable thing about the Postman, are the same thing (the appearance of Olivia Williams)

Would say the same, but The Life Aquatic,

Specifics aside, I think a big part of really, really hating something is often rooted in caring about something the director had done previously.

Film I hate most that I've never seen: Suicide Squad. Amazed so many of you gave it a chance.

Most disappointing film I've never seen: Ma Mere. Was hoping for a more straightforward incest fantasy but I've heard she never has sex with her son and there's violent depressing stuff (Georges Bataille, no thanks).

Ma Mere scratched its itch.

What's the one with viggo looking to avoid Ed Harris?

Turned it off. Performances and script were absolutely embarrassing.

I was going to bring up I Accidentally Domed Your Son again but after that last RAG post I think I will instead quietly bow out of this thread.

xposts I don't know if I agree, clemenza. I tend to be more forgiving of a favored director's terrible movies (what up, O.C. and Stiggs) because I'm able to see them as failed attempts within the context of a larger body of solid work.

Oh, you know what was fucking terrible? Track 29. Which invalidates somewhat the point I made thirty seconds ago because I sought it out based on how much I adored Walkabout.

Always willing to cut more slack to bad films that are also sex positive than I ought to.

Not that Ma Mere is that movie, ftr.

Movies I watched in the cinema and hated instantly:

The World Is Not Enough (joyless, naff)
Arlington Road (the ultimate "do you SEE sheeple?????" movie)
Liar (Tim Roth crime thriller, nuff said)
Dogma (no explanation needed)

But my alltime is still Very Bad Things as mentioned upthread.

Albino Alligator has a great soundtrack by Lanois associate Michael Brook.