films that are utter shit

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following up from this thread

re-watching the 'old' star wars films...
oh god, they are shite. not even indiana jones harrison ford can make up for the shiteness.

Precisely @IgiveupallthenamesIwantedareg0 - I can't believe someone has said Cats when they've only seen the trailer 😂😂

An old colleague saw Slumsof Millionaire when it was at the cinema and I asked what she thought. "Awful, so depressing". I asked her if she thought the end was depressing? She never got to the end, she walked out half way through because she didn't like the poverty shown

I think Labyrinth is shit too and David Bowie is creepy AF In it. And Jennifer Conelly's character was so annoying and spoilt I wished she stayed trapped in the bloody Labyrinth

The Sweetest Thing. Was the worst movie ever. The plot was just so far fetched, and it just didn't work. I was embarrased for Cameron Diaz and Christina Applegate. I'm guessing they owed their agents a favour and had to appear in it.
Forrest Gump. Sooo overated. Tom Hanks' voice was annoying (in fact Tom Hanks was annoying) and all the sayings and GIFs that are still around (So many people still post that stupid 'run forrest' gif and I want to stab them).

I think the problem with downsizing was the trailers/premise made it seem like it was going to be a silly comedy, which it wasn’t, so people went in with the wrong mindset. I didn’t think it was a terrible film, maybe a bad one but not all time worst levels of bad.

The original Pirates of the Caribbean is pretty universally agreed to be a solid, funny adventure comedy-type film when JD’s character was still new and pirates as a while hadn’t been done for years. Some of the sequels though I agree plumbed unbelievable depths of awfulness

Pirates of the Caribbean has to be one of the worst films I’ve ever seen, I never understood the hype surrounding it at all.

The first one? Have you seen the sequels? Or any other bad film ever?!

The first one got a score of 79% critic score on rotten tomatoes (aggregate of 219 critics) and 86% from 33 million audience scores. 8/10 total score on IMDB. Those are decent numbers.

I don’t love it, but to call it one or the worst films ever is a stretch given some of the dross which has been mentioned previously on this thread.

Oh yes. A previous poster mentioned anything with Hamiel Day-Lewis. Critics lived 'There Will Be Blood' and it got loads of awards. Another one where we got a babysitter for a rare night out and we're so angry. We stayed til the end hoping it would get better or make sense. Neither happened.

Last Christmas.

Utter, utter cobblers. And I love a good rom com.

Completely cynical use of the song, London in the snow, zero chemistry between the leads, ridiculous plot line, really racist interpretation of eastern European old parents, and saw the twist coming a mile away.

Excruciating.

Did I mention I hated it?

Mr Banks
Mama Mia

My Own Private Idaho.
Blue Velvet.
Bringing Out The Dead.

Baffling, the lot of 'em.

Playing with fire.

The most dreadful crap I have ever had to sit through. DC also shared my opinions.

The Invisible Man (the new one). Absolutely shite.

@hopelessbusiness, Mulholland Drive is like that! I was just at the end! It's also David Lynch (Blue Velvet), so it's clearly his 'thing' to make shit films.

I hated truly madly deeply the female just grizzled through the whole film.

Coralie - well creepy.

Happy Feet - oh look, we'd better save the planet, 'cos there's a cute creature that can entertain us.

Black Swan - I hardly know where to begin.

The Bodyguard - way too long .

gone with the wind...

Ooof, I've always thought that Truly Madly Deeply probably wasn't as bad as I thought, because I watched it with two people who'd been going on about how brilliant it was for ages. And I hated AR's moustache so that really didn't help.

I enjoy the Star Trek films, but ooooooh myyyyyy gooooodness the start of the first one drags so much. Twenty minutes in and they're still circling round the ship in the dock.

A few weeks later we watched the first of the new ones, and as the opening credits came up I said "THAT'S how you start a Star Trek film!"

Superman: Man of Steel was pretty dire. Not, however, as bad as one we went to the cinema to see:

Shazam!

The Terminal
The Dad's Army film (not the series obvs)
50 shades

Revolver
Brokeback mountain
Vanilla sky

La La Land
Mama Mia
A Star is Born (the most recent one)

@NoWordforFluffy

@hopelessbusiness, Mulholland Drive is like that! I was just confused at the end! It's also David Lynch (Blue Velvet), so it's clearly his 'thing' to make shit films.

As someone who really likes both of those films I would be curious to know what you would consider a non 'shit film'.

And more generally - what's wrong with coming out of a film unsure as to what you had just watched? Why does everything have to have a happy wrapped up Producer's ending? Personally I like great swathes of ambiguity in my films. Did Butch and Sundance live? What was Eraserhead about - I've seen it 5 times and I'm still not sure. WTF did THX1138 find out there? What were Benjamin and Elaine actually thinking at the end of The Graduate? Did Bill Murray's character find his son in Broken Flowers?

All great films. They would have all been shit to mediocre films if they'd had happily wrapped up, Happy-ever-after endings nailed on.

The Room

Legends of the fall

@TheSandman, taste is subjective. I don't like Mulholland Drive, that's all there is to it. I don't care that you do - or why - and I'm not going to explain further because it's not worth my time or energy, frankly.

Starship Troopers. Awful drivel.