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What's the worst film you have seen?

294 replies

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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isitfridayyet22 · 02/10/2022 12:47

Cloud Atlas

KnottyKnitting · 02/10/2022 12:57

I would agree about " Troy" Brad Pitts acting was more wooden than the horse...

TheSummerPalace · 02/10/2022 13:41

Dunkirk (the recent one) - a series of scenes of soldiers trapped down below, in a boat rapidly filling up with water! 😩

SeaWitchly · 02/10/2022 14:04

Without a doubt - 'Love Actually'
I severely judge anyone who tells me they enjoyed this utter piece of complete tosh.

JJsdadisatwat · 02/10/2022 14:46

SeaWitchly · 02/10/2022 14:04

Without a doubt - 'Love Actually'
I severely judge anyone who tells me they enjoyed this utter piece of complete tosh.

Oh, it’s fucking dire, isn’t it? Absolutely awful.

PunkrockerGirl59 · 02/10/2022 14:50

Mama Mia without a doubt . Utter shite.

Lovegossip · 02/10/2022 15:04

Sinkhole, I quite like action disaster movies but this was ruined by the awful special effects and the group of teenagers that hated each other, I actually threw the dvd away lol

TwoBlondes · 02/10/2022 15:04

PS I Love You
2001 A Space Odyssey
Last Christmas

Sudename · 02/10/2022 15:22

Far and Away with Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman and hookey Oirish accents!

Children of men - even Clive Owen couldn't save that one

In Time - Justin Timberlake lives in a society which uses time from one's lifespan as a form of currency. Everyone has a clock on their arm that shows how much time they have left. Drivel

madnessitellyou · 02/10/2022 16:55

@Sudename I'd forgotten about Children of Men. Dh and I paid money to see that in the cinema. It was terrible!

Kinsters · 02/10/2022 17:02

Some terrible sci-fi where a woman gets raped by an alien if I remember correctly. It was horrendous. I was on a date and can't remember whether I walked out or just wanted to walk out.

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 02/10/2022 17:12

The Blair Witch Project.

The only time I gave ever walked out of the cinema in disgust.

Piggypiggyoinkoink · 02/10/2022 17:25

Black Robe. Wanted to be Dancing With Wolves. Was not. Only film I have ever walked out of.

The American. Not a clue what the plot was supposed to be, strongly suspect I fell asleep for bits of it.

mam0918 · 03/10/2022 11:09

madnessitellyou · 02/10/2022 12:45

Two spring to mind.

One is Frozen. Not the Disney Frozen, a different film of the same name that climaxes in people being eaten by wolves on a mountain having been stuck on a ski lift. My colleague thought that the Frozen all the pre schoolers went mad for was that Frozen and thought there were some very sick and twisted parents out there Grin.

The other is Wolf Creek. It's horrendous.

Actually, there's another I cannot stand: Pirates of the Caribbean.

Yeah frozen was irratating... mainly because wolves dont actually exist where its set (pretty big plot hole in a film abut being killed by wolves) and secondly the whole guy sacraficing himself for her crap was irratating.

Her boyfriend, stupid but maybe made sense slightly but his friend who didnt even like her dying for her... no. (and he was the one slightly likable charater, he should have been the one to survive).

mam0918 · 03/10/2022 11:11

Sudename · 02/10/2022 15:22

Far and Away with Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman and hookey Oirish accents!

Children of men - even Clive Owen couldn't save that one

In Time - Justin Timberlake lives in a society which uses time from one's lifespan as a form of currency. Everyone has a clock on their arm that shows how much time they have left. Drivel

Sounds like the red dwarf episode where you pay with part of your life span if you run out of money. So a glass of water = 3 minutes off your life etc..

RollerCoaster2020 · 21/11/2022 12:44

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.

What was so bad about it? Can't find it anywhere. Loved Rik mayall in Blackadder and the prime minister thing.

mam0918 · 21/11/2022 12:55

RollerCoaster2020 · 21/11/2022 12:44

What was so bad about it? Can't find it anywhere. Loved Rik mayall in Blackadder and the prime minister thing.

according to IMDB his last film was called 'The Escape' and he filmed it a week before dying. Its sat at 5.7 on IMDB so not a terrible rating but Ive never seen it so dont know.

MarieIVanArkleStinks · 21/11/2022 13:07

Laughingravy · 30/09/2022 11:15

I'll second that. There's only so much looking up a snotty nose I can cope with. Though for a final year project at film school it was a good effort.

And more recently I watched 'The Girl in the Spiders Web'. I loved the original Swedish versions of the Stig Larsson trilogy but this missed in every single respect and messed with the back story to add insult to injury.

I quite liked The Blair Witch Project. But it did reflect the briefest snapshot in time shortly following its release, following which it couldn't work. The 'found footage' concept was a simple but then-novel idea. I was never under the smallest impression that what I was viewing in the cinema was anything other than fiction, and was surprised that the disingenuous marketing campaign apparently convinced so many impressionable people that it was.

The film was good as to the power of suggestion. The idea of being terrorized by some intangible evil is scarier to me than Freddy Krueger pounding after Nancy up the stairs. It's really a film about the complexities of group dynamics, the question surrounding whether someone had knowledge the others didn't, and of three people coming apart at the seams as a result of relentless fear and trauma. I thought the actors captured the psychological pressure and group dynamics pretty well, helped by the fact that the 'script' was mostly improvised. I liked that the mystery was never solved and the answers never provided.

The whole 'found footage' thing is so overdone these days that I could re-watch it now and find it had little effect.

MarieIVanArkleStinks · 21/11/2022 13:10

NB. I wasn't trying to imply that the PP REALLY thought Blair Witch was a student film project! But the distributors apparently marketed it that way and people got sucked in, only to be pissed when they realized they'd been conned. Apparently it royally stuffed the actors' careers because their real names were used for their characters and people genuinely believed they were dead.

Cuckoo!

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