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

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.

Am guessing my image answer early on in the thread was The Sunshine Boys, tho the correct answer is Crash.

Sorry DJP.

Do any of you get particularly offended about how much a film costs if it's a bad film?

boondock saints was the first movie enthusiastically forced on me by friends that i thought was total horseshit lol. great answer to this thread imo

So.many bonds it's hard to pick one but if i had to pick one i guess I'd pick American beauty also fuck Sam mendes

Old Lunch: that's another way to approach it (the auteurist view, basically). And I'm probably close to there when I'm somewhere in the middle on a film--I think I'm more forgiving of something like Buffalo Bill and the Indians, say, or Casino. But when I flat-out dislike something, the thought that "This is the same director who made _____________?" just makes things worse.

I had no idea people were out there that actually thought Boondock Saints was an all-time great movie, rather than a very entertaining one (if I'm being incredibly generous)

all y'all naming it have clearly never seen Boondock Saints 2, cuz damn

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

― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Monday, March 13, 2017 3:29 PM (twenty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

have you seen 9 songs?

it is .... bad

Would rather see 9 Thongs.

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

Turned it off. Performances and script were absolutely embarrassing.

― brat_stuntin (darraghmac), Monday, March 13, 2017 3:20 PM (forty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dmac you missed an all-time great William Hurt one-scene-wonder, no joke.

He calls Viggo a "broheem," worth the price of admission.

southy starring donnie wahlberg.

looking italian starring matt leblanc.

jane austen's mafia (lloyd bridges last film).

― tell it to my arse (jim in glasgow), Monday, February 4, 2013 7:17 PM (four years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

these are still my picks.

altho it's lookin' italian iirc

I can't think of any individual films that were sorely disappointing so much as later careers and subgenres being a huge letdown. Dario Argento, Tobe Hooper, Peter Jackson, Tim Burton, so few genuinely great gothic horrors, Hong Kong action films going to shit.

Ok Phil I'm an open minded fella

..."worst film" is only interesting (to me, at least) when applied to something you had hopes for.

― clemenza, Monday, March 13, 2017 11:39 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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

― clemenza, Monday, March 13, 2017 12:14 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't know if I'd nail it so specifically the director, but yeah, dashed hopes definitely salt the wound. When a film that seemed likely to be bad turns out to be terrible, it hardly registers. But a near miss can really sting if you've got enough invested.

That said, for me, it's less about hope than a sense of betrayal or dishonesty. I'd probably have hated Requiem for a Dream less if others (and the film itself) had insisted a bit less strenuously on its greatness. It's not like I was all that hopeful, but the bullshit INTENSITY of it all eventually drove me to fury.

Also, I remember finding Track 29 pretty "interesting", but it's been ages...

I can't think of any individual films that were sorely disappointing so much as later careers and subgenres being a huge letdown. Dario Argento, Tobe Hooper, Peter Jackson, Tim Burton, so few genuinely great gothic horrors, Hong Kong action films going to shit.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, March 13, 2017 1:10 PM (twenty-six minutes ago)

Argento is particularly baffling to me. Wtf happened, man? You at least used to have style...

It's getting awfully hard to make the argument for late-career masterpieces these days from anyone who got their start in the '70s onward (with notable exceptions).

Walked out of Desperate Hours remake.

Starring
Mickey Rourke
Anthony Hopkins
Mimi Rogers
Lindsay Crouse
Kelly Lynch

Directed by Michael Cimino

a sense of betrayal or dishonesty.

Yes--that's part of why I hate Grand Budapest Hotel so much, the feeling of someone making a film specifically for his most devoted claque, with everything that seemed so new and alive in Rushmore now having moved past mannerism into self-parody. I realize that someone who likes the film is going to say something closer to Old Lunch above.

I'd probably have hated Requiem for a Dream less if others (and the film itself) had insisted a bit less strenuously on its greatness. It's not like I was all that hopeful, but the bullshit INTENSITY of it all eventually drove me to fury.

basically how I feel about all Gaspar Noe films

I thought Grand Budapest Hotel was about as amusing as hanging out with the Brodie sock on ilx who yearned to be a bellboy. I notice a lot of ilxors enjoyed that, even if they were only mildly amused at the premise. It passed the time.

Time passed, that's for sure.

I would like to choose Ted too, but as I couldn't make even ten minutes into the torture I feel it wouldn't be a valid choice.

Instead I'll say "Joysticks"

Contenderizer- some say Argento fell out of love with film and is just doing it for the money now.

Don't really know what happened to Peter Jackson.

the first 10 minutes of Ted was the GOOD part

its amazing that the final third of the movie about the pot-smoking teddy bear does not seem to attempt a single joke, it's insane

Lady in the water, no contest

― kinder, Friday, February 1, 2013 4:43 PM (four years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Lady In The Water
lock thread

― kinder, Thursday, August 21, 2014 12:01 PM (two years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha.
My vote this year goes to Love Actually. I hated it before everyone else.

it's a bad one, for sure

it might have been hampered by the bad sound in a cheap college town theater, but one of my worst moviegoing experiences is "Enigma":
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0157583/?ref_=nv_sr_1

it was completely devoid of charisma despite a decent cast and I thought I was going to die of boredom