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What's the worst film you have seen?

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Msgrieves · 30/09/2022 07:44

No idea why it popped into my head, but I searched online for ages looking for rik mayalls last film one by one, it really really awful. I was so disappointed lol.

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Blimeyitschilly · 30/09/2022 20:00

Agree with La La Land, just didn't get it. Mama Mia, the singing was so cringe worthy it was unwatchable, but worse so much worse than these, was Into the Woods. Stuffed with stars but absolutely dreadful. Johnny Depp as the Wolf gave off seriously creepy vibes. I walked out.

Titsflyingsouth · 30/09/2022 20:49

The Talented Mr Ripley. Endless and meandering for no godly reason...

Coffeetree · 30/09/2022 20:54

Titsflyingsouth · 30/09/2022 20:49

The Talented Mr Ripley. Endless and meandering for no godly reason...

No way! I love that one. The 90s version and the 50s version. A slow burner plot.

gnilliwdog · 30/09/2022 20:59

Titsflyingsouth · 30/09/2022 20:49

The Talented Mr Ripley. Endless and meandering for no godly reason...

I loved it too. Gorgeous scenery, great story, Jude Law and Matt Damon, fab. I loved Highsmith's book too, though it's a cold hearted masterpiece.

MurderAtTheBeautyPageant · 30/09/2022 21:01

I loved The Talented Mr Ripley too. So chilling. And so beautifully shot.

MorganSeventh · 30/09/2022 21:43

Recently it was Tenet the 2020 Christopher Nolan film. A friend got free tickets, which should have been a sign. Basically, it's Nolan, so you know it's going to have one big concept but limited characterisation, and this time he doubles down on that by having a Protagonist literally called 'the Protagonist' who has to save the world. The majority of the film seems to be a series of longass, drawn out, martial arts fight sequences, shot with the kind of speeded up/slowed down special effects which would have probably looked super-cool in the 1990s before we'd all the seen The Matrix, but now just look very old hat.

And then, without wanting to spoil it for you, it turns out the big concept is a time flip (hence the title Tenet - it's a palindrome - geddit?). So we had to sit through the same longass, drawn out martial arts fight sequences again, only backwards.

Added to that there's very few women in it, and those that are there aren't given much to do, which is a film-making choice I'm over in the 2020s, and in all, it was 2.5 hours of my life I will never get back.

That said, I have liked a number of films mentioned on this thread, including The Royal Tenenbaums, Lost in Translation and Lala land, where arguably not a lot happens. So it may be I have a higher tolerance for character stuff with limited plot than plot stuff with limited character.

DavesSpareDeckChair · 01/10/2022 13:57

ParentallyUnprepared · 30/09/2022 18:57

Or that puppet police film. I forget the name.

Or pretty much anything with Sasha Baron Cohen.

Team America: World Police ?

DavesSpareDeckChair · 01/10/2022 13:59

gnilliwdog · 30/09/2022 19:33

I accidentally watched a Spanish short as a kid, in the late 70s I think. It was announced as a comedy. A man goes into a phone box, then he can't get out. Passers by try to open the door but nobody can. Eventually a truck rolls up and puts the entire phone box on the back. They offload the phone box in some kind of depot, completely ignoring the man inside. He looks around and sees a body or skeleton in every phone box. The end. So, for the next 20 years or so, whenever I used a payphone, I had to wedge my foot in the door to stop it closing.

La Cabina.
Surprised to see it was announced as a comedy, I always thought it was classified as horror!

AuntSalli · 01/10/2022 14:22

Days of thunder 🚗 ⛈

the80sweregreat · 01/10/2022 14:51

Ia cabina is a classic movie.
Foreign language films are rarely on Normal tv

pimlicoanna · 01/10/2022 14:59

Dude where my car

ZaphodDent · 01/10/2022 15:03

The worst film of all time, hands down, is Battlefield Earth.

Written by L Ron Hubbard, starring celebrity Scientologist John Travolta.

The best thing about the movie are the reviews. Roger Ebert said it was "like taking a bus trip with someone who has needed a bath for a long time. It's not merely bad; it's unpleasant in a hostile way".

Other reviewers criticized the acting, direction, lack of originality, cinematography, screenplay, special effects, musical score, lack of character development, art direction, and plot holes.

AnaglyptaBandersnatch · 01/10/2022 15:05

The Revenant.

Leonardo DiCaprio grunting. We were so bored we had to watch it over two sittings. Absolutely not worth it.

Chikapu · 01/10/2022 16:14

DavesSpareDeckChair · 01/10/2022 13:57

Team America: World Police ?

The Happytime Murders?

mam0918 · 01/10/2022 16:54

DavesSpareDeckChair · 01/10/2022 13:57

Team America: World Police ?

I was thinking she meant 'happy time murders'.

gnilliwdog · 01/10/2022 17:03

DavesSpareDeckChair · 01/10/2022 13:59

La Cabina.
Surprised to see it was announced as a comedy, I always thought it was classified as horror!

Aha! Must have been around 1978 I saw it. Back before the watershed of 9pm was introduced on the TV. I do remember the announcer saying it was some sort of comedy, a dark one perhaps, but maybe they had it wrong. Amazed someone has heard of it. I never watched it again since I was 6 or 7 or so, but remember it to this day. Many thanks for the info.

Draughtycatflapreturns · 01/10/2022 17:03

The skin I live in. Plastic surgeon Antonio Banderas believes his beautiful wife was unwittingly killed by a young man. So he kidnaps him and uses his surgeon skills to recreate his wife and eventually shags him.

Err okay…

gnilliwdog · 01/10/2022 17:04

the80sweregreat · 01/10/2022 14:51

Ia cabina is a classic movie.
Foreign language films are rarely on Normal tv

Ah, thank you. That was back in the 70s days. I don't remember what channels we had then, but I think it must have been made around that time.

Mrsjayy · 01/10/2022 17:31

Draughtycatflapreturns · 01/10/2022 17:03

The skin I live in. Plastic surgeon Antonio Banderas believes his beautiful wife was unwittingly killed by a young man. So he kidnaps him and uses his surgeon skills to recreate his wife and eventually shags him.

Err okay…

I tried to watch the spainish version of this also with Antonio It was terrible I then tried the English version still terrible 😃 put me right off Antonio

Nschotschi · 01/10/2022 17:44

Babel
Pan's Labyrinth
The Counselor

cakeorwine · 01/10/2022 17:58

Left Behind

Starring Nicolas Cage

It is bad. So bad. But you have to watch it to just appreciate how bad it is.

Suddenly, in a flash, half the world's population vanish. Passengers (and pilots) on a plane, neighbours, children. But just half.

And the ones that are left. Well, they aren't good. Or religious. Or Christian.

It is bad

Left Behind was nominated for three Razzies at the 35th Golden Raspberry Awards, for Worst Picture, Worst Screenplay, and Worst Actor for Nicolas Cage. It lost in all three categories to Saving Christmas, starring Kirk Cameron, who coincidentally starred in the original Left Behind film franchise

cakeorwine · 01/10/2022 18:10

Watched one recently about a plane that had been hijacked.

But turns out that one of the passengers was a vampire. And she got shot but that doesn't bother vampires. Rather handy to have a vampire on your side in a hijack ,

She just wants to protect her son. And stay out of the sun.

Blood Red Sky. On Netflix

ParentallyUnprepared · 01/10/2022 20:27

@DavesSpareDeckChair yes! Oh god, it's really awful.

@mam0918 there's more than one puppet police film??

Afonavon · 01/10/2022 20:35

Hellboy (2019) was so incredibly awful.

MissyCooperismyShero · 01/10/2022 21:01

The Shape of Water

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