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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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courgettigreensadwater · 30/09/2022 12:36

Druyhbf · 30/09/2022 08:14

Sharknado.

Haha. I thought this was hilarious 😆

Always4Brenner · 30/09/2022 12:37

decafsoyaflatwhite · 30/09/2022 08:38

I was so excited to watch that from seeing the trailer, and then so disappointed when I actually saw it. KS was good and the clothes were beautiful, but everything else was awful.

Mine is Mulholland Drive. I get quite angry just thinking about it.

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So disappointed in it just didn’t work for me. I’ve never watched since.

mam0918 · 30/09/2022 12:37

PopsicleHustler · 30/09/2022 09:44

The one with Mel Gibson, who had to hide in his basement from aliens. And in the end all they had to do was chuck glasses of water over the alien that broke into the house and stuck its fingernails into a young boys chest as he had an asthma attack. Very bizarre and ridiculous. They had random glasses of water around the lounge and everyone just started picking them up and throwing them over the alien, until he died or something.

The human caterpillar. A really sicko film. Who thinks that up, sewing peoples mouths to bottoms and forcing them to poo and eat dog food.....

The village. Apparently set in like the late 1800s, Where, whatever her name is, goes in search of medicine for Joaquin Phoenix through the woods, and she is blind BTW to be told the reason why they never are allowed to leave the village is because there are monsters , that live in the forest so we cannot go past the forest to other towns. Anyway she decides she loves Joaquin so much , even blind she will go through the woods to get him medicine after he was stabbed by another guy who loves the girl also , where it turns out there are no Monsters. And it is actually the elders of the village, dressed up in a costume and a cloak, to scare anyone from leaving as they want to keep everyone else there. She managed to scramble over a massive hedge and wall where she flags down a park ranger in a car, who takes her to a cabin, and let's her have the medicine. And its like 2006. Silly film.

Also hate films with detailed rape and sex scenes are also gross and brutal violence and so on , who even thinks these up.

The maze runner, first film was quite good. The other two, absolutely terrible.

I quite like the green mile but some scenes are extremely hard to watch.

I would strongly suggest you never watch 'Nude nuns with big guns' I can handle exploitation style films but even I found that too much, the fact that someone even came up with some of those rape seens speaks to a pretty sick mind.

Cookie79 · 30/09/2022 12:38

Inception- watched it sober, watched it slightly pissed. Still none the wiser.

Ab fab movie - I really loved it back in the day, I so wanted it to be good 😞

Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind - couple of hours I’ll never get back.

mam0918 · 30/09/2022 12:43

CeratopsofthePharoahs · 30/09/2022 08:57

Birdemic, hands down. It's just so sooo bad. I really can't imagine the director watching the final cut and saying "Yes, this is exactly what I intended!"

@OnTheRunWithMannyMontana I watched half of Doomsday on Netflix and gave up because it was just so awful. Every now and again it comes up in my "Continue Watching" list and nope. Just nope. You can't viciously murder Sean Pertwee like that and expect me to continue watching!

Birdemic is undoubtibly universially shite... thats why its so famous and great, it failed so badly that its attemp in itself is awkwardly funny.

Its the 'arts and crafts' of film, everyone involved had zero talent but gave it a good DIY go anyway and made something thats like those memes of home cooked cakes that look nothing like the original.

Its indearing in its terribleness.

Angelofthenortheast · 30/09/2022 12:44

@mrsDracoMalfoy omg I was coming on to say OLD. wtaf! Writers just clearly sacked of the last day of scriptwriting and said "err...OK the coral is magical. Boom. The end, let's get drinks"

Pinkywoo · 30/09/2022 12:45

Saving Private Ryan, the only film I've ever fallen asleep in the cinema to.

The worst film that's so bad it's good was Mongolian Death Worms on the horror channel, a complete rip off of Tremors but with a £5 budget and terrible actors, I loved it!

Always4Brenner · 30/09/2022 12:46

Bored me to death I’ll be lynched I know
the Shining
pulp fiction
a film about Miles Davis
Joker
Spencer disappointed with it
any music biography (except Beethoven that sort of thing )

MadeInChorley · 30/09/2022 13:00

Phantom Thread. Absolute pretentious twaddle. It won an Oscar in 2018 and the film and Daniel Day-Lewis we’re nominated for Oscars. I sat through it at a mother and baby screening with newborn DC3. I only stayed because he was asleep or breast feeding nicely.

Plot spoiler - I was desperate for her to succeed in killing DD-L with the poisonous mushrooms, but instead he lived and fetishised funghi on toast poisoning, with a kink for agonising stomach aches and vomiting.

spiderlight · 30/09/2022 13:03

Purplecatshopaholic · 30/09/2022 08:22

Royal Tenenbaums was dire, couldn’t finish it.

God, wasn't it awful?! DH loved it! I sat through all of it, but it was just the most tedious, pretentious load of wank I'd ever seen.

overthinkersanonnymus · 30/09/2022 13:04

Druyhbf · 30/09/2022 08:14

Sharknado.

Yep 🤣

Fink · 30/09/2022 13:06

Meet the Fockers. It was supposed to be a comedy, but it was so intensely cringy that I couldn't laugh at all. I don't find second-hand embarrassment funny, at least not when it's taken to such ridiculous extremes that the whole film is based on it, all at the expense of the one character. It just made me squirm.

There were others that have been mentioned on here that I didn't love, but just saw as a bit of a waste of time, e.g. Blair Witch Project - I kept on expecting it to get scary and it never did.

Antarcticant · 30/09/2022 13:06

The human caterpillar. A really sicko film. Who thinks that up, sewing peoples mouths to bottoms and forcing them to poo and eat dog food.....

Do you mean The Human Centipede? If you think that was bad, try watching The Human Centipede 2 😁

Coastalcreeksider · 30/09/2022 13:11

Bells3032 · 30/09/2022 08:19

Of the big movies deff bridesmaids. I honestly don't know why people rave about it.

But the worst ever movie was a horror movie called young demons

I'm with you on Bridesmaids, I hated it and especially that scene in the wedding shop after the Mexican meal, so over the top.

I'd also add The Hours with Nicole Kidman and Meryl Streep. So booooorrrring, I can't believe I didn't fall asleep.

Greensleeves · 30/09/2022 13:12

The Idiots
Wayne's World 2
How To Get Ahead In Advertising

Pashazade · 30/09/2022 13:19

Got to agree with LaLa Land, just dire.
However for oh dear god what am I watching and actually turning it off I give you "Meet the Feebles", your eyeballs will need bleach. To think it was directed by Peter Jackson makes the mind boggle....

the80sweregreat · 30/09/2022 14:13

I liked the ending of la la land.
Worst film was a Jennifer Aniston film I turned off half way through. It was dire but I can't remember its name.

Meseekslookatme · 30/09/2022 14:16

Bill and Ted face the music
I was devastated at how bad it was, the first 2 were amazing

BakedTattie · 30/09/2022 14:32

The latest top gun film. So, so boring.

Also, a film where Sandra bullock and her children have to wear blindfolds or something will kill them?

On that note, the quiet place. Where if you make a noise you get killed by giant grasshoppers.

southlondonerhere · 30/09/2022 14:40

We are the millers. God knows why Jennifer Anniston agreed to be in it

GG1986 · 30/09/2022 14:42

Rubber! Any one else seen it?

Parky04 · 30/09/2022 14:44

Waterworld with Kevin Costner.

Jellybum2019 · 30/09/2022 14:48

Killer klowns from outer space was so terrible I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry

MarieIVanArkleStinks · 30/09/2022 14:54

Coastalcreeksider · 30/09/2022 13:11

I'm with you on Bridesmaids, I hated it and especially that scene in the wedding shop after the Mexican meal, so over the top.

I'd also add The Hours with Nicole Kidman and Meryl Streep. So booooorrrring, I can't believe I didn't fall asleep.

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I can't stand the book The Hours either, despite the fact that it was a Pulitzer Prize winner. For a kick-off, it messes up the trajectory of Virginia Woolf's writing: it was Between the Acts she'd just completed before she committed suicide. I get that this is artistic licence to fit in with the plotline, but to anyone even vaguely familiar with her work it's just annoying. The book also paints her as a feeble little victim who was practically locked up by her husband and doctors. In fact, Leonard Woolf was nothing but supportive of his wife's condition and did everything he could to help her, finding distractions like the setting up of the Hogarth Press. In her last letter to him she tells him herself how happy they had always been together.

The picture of messed up bipolar sufferer/CSA abuse survivor/serious, studious writer is incomplete. The real Virginia Woolf set tongues wagging with her scandalous parties and wild dancing with her sister at Hyde Park Gate, naked skinny dipping with Rupert Brooke in the Cam, waspish sense of humour, and she also happened to write some really witty, funny, amusing works. I hate the way The Hours turns her into a prototype of the repressed, oppressed, suffering woman. YUCK!

That was cathartic (and I'm curiously invested in this thread)!

1982mommaof4 · 30/09/2022 14:55

Midnight meat train awful