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What's the worst film you've ever watched? Think I just melted my brain...

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Embelline · 20/03/2023 23:38

...by watching Spy Intervention on Prime. It has Drew Van Acker in it of PLL fame and I was looking for something a bit easy, he's pretty (I know, I know, very high brow of me) and dear GOD it was terrible. I may have to burn my own eyes out - was it a romance, was it a comedy? Was it just fucking terrible? yes, yes to the latter.

I can't quite believe I kept watching until the bitter end, I think I was expecting something to happen that would explain why it was so bad?

What's the worst film you've ever watched?

PS: DVA WAS pretty in it. Very. But it still wasn't enough to save it.

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Cattenberg · 21/03/2023 10:39

IsItThough · 21/03/2023 10:29

So dreary, terrible bland acting, no tension at all - its all so subjective right?

I’ll admit the film suffered slightly after Jude Law’s character Dickie, um left. Dickie might have been a spoilt, selfish arse, but he had much of the film’s charisma.

SophiaSW1 · 21/03/2023 10:39

Dude where's my car

Ilovedthe70s · 21/03/2023 10:40

I have seen some real stinkers, a couple of stand outs for me are
Apocalypse Now and Pearl Harbor.
More recently Marlowe with Liam Neeson, gave up about 40 minutes in.

Itsonlyagame · 21/03/2023 10:41

Actually I changed my mind, Bridesmaids was worse than Gravity. Utter, utter drivel.

OrlandointheWilderness · 21/03/2023 10:41

'I bought a vampire motorcycle'.

I shit you not. Neil morrissey.

Itsonlyagame · 21/03/2023 10:43

Andanotherone01 · 21/03/2023 10:21

Dogma - WTF was that even about? Spanglish - boring crap and Tea Leone has zero charisma or likeability.
I also hated WALL-E

I absolutely love Dogma.

Brefugee · 21/03/2023 10:43

also No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood.
Both tedious.

(don't dis Sharknado. Those films know what they're doing)

agree about Jim Carey (and that the Truman Show is the exception) and will add Jack Black (except the remake of Jumanji)

Emotionalsupportviper · 21/03/2023 10:44

I don't watch many films, but of the few I've seen Titanic, Love Actuallyand some bliddy awful cartoon about rabbits - Watership Down! That's the oe.

All effing dreadful in their own special ways.

shockedballoon · 21/03/2023 10:45

Pretty sure I've watched 'worse' films, but my brain is only coming up with Manchester by the Sea. So very boring.

limitedperiodonly · 21/03/2023 10:47

All Martin Scorsese films with the possible exception of Goodfellas. That was okay but I wouldn't watch it again.

I've seen loads, so it's not that I haven't tried. They are all basically about tribes. Special mention for the deeply dull Age Of Innocence - look Daniel Day Lewis, we know you and Michelle Pfeiffer want to shag but are cruelly held apart by rigid social norms but don't make me watch 10 minutes of you in the back of a carriage trying and failing to unbutton her glove.

The Wolf Of Wall Street - was I supposed to hate amoral conspicuous consumption or hate myself for being amused by it in other films; and Gangs of New York where I can't work out whether Daniel Day Lewis's scenery chewing or the failed experiment of trying to convince us that Cameron Diaz could act at all was worse.

WouldAnIdiotDoThat · 21/03/2023 10:48

My list:
Moulin Rouge - and I love musicals so you know this is bad to make my list.
Revenant- boring and I couldn't understand half of what Leo was saying.
The Aviator - felt like it was five hours long.
Into the Wild- pretentious, boring, were we supposed to hate the main character? Because I can't see how anyone could possibly like him or relate to him. I don't have a good word to say about this film. I didn't even think the scenery was enjoyable.

Cattenberg · 21/03/2023 10:48

MrsMoastyToasty · 21/03/2023 08:45

Empire of the Sun. I watched it hoping it would get better. It didn't. That's 2 and a half hours I'll never get back.
Weekend at Bernies. Who thought that pretending a corpse was still alive was a good idea?

Empire of the Sun was depressing as hell, but it seemed very realistic and I thought 13-year-old Christian Bale was excellent.

CitizenofMoronia · 21/03/2023 10:52

I win this by several miles, the film is
Seven Samurai - 1954
3.5 hours of black and white, Japanese language snore-fest.

JackiePlace · 21/03/2023 10:52

Heaven's Gate. Couldn't get through it.

JackiePlace · 21/03/2023 10:53

some bliddy awful cartoon about rabbits - Watership Down!

Ooh, @Emotionalsupportviper … sacrilege!

JohnPrescottsPyjamas · 21/03/2023 10:54

I’m going to be hated, but Love Actually and Four Weddings and a Funeral were SO boring.

All the best mildly amusing lines were in the trailers so I’d already seen them by the time I watched the films. Plus, I get very irritated by Hugh Grant playing these awkward, hesitant, anally retentive characters. Just put your cards on the table and bloody tell her what your feelings are.

Also:
Inglorious basterds
Moulin Rouge
Con Air
Lincoln. I was looking forward to this on a long haul flight. A character and period of history that should be so interesting and maybe it was the screening was watching it on, but it was so dark plus I couldn’t get past Daniel Day-Lewis’s American accent and SO boring.

Unfortunately, it seems going by past experiences that any film highly Oscar nominated is more than likely going to be a load of pretentious junk.

LooseGoose22 · 21/03/2023 10:56

Top Gun Maverick.

A really shit remake of Top Gun.

Emotionalsupportviper · 21/03/2023 10:56

JackiePlace · 21/03/2023 10:53

some bliddy awful cartoon about rabbits - Watership Down!

Ooh, @Emotionalsupportviper … sacrilege!

I think they may have re-made it.

The version I saw was umpteen decades ago and it was badly drawn, poorly animated bunny bollox.

I was praying for a myxomatosis epidemic after the first 3 minutes.

LooseGoose22 · 21/03/2023 10:57

Alexander.

And I love historicals

limitedperiodonly · 21/03/2023 10:59

99victoria · 21/03/2023 10:37

The Turner film with Timothy Spall (Mr Turner?). God it was dull - I kept waiting for something to happen and it never did 😴
I mean, obviously the guy was a very talented artist, but my god, he lived a boring life 🤪

I hate all Mike Leigh films. He has that middle class intellectual man's way of examining working class people, and particularly working class women, like white rats in his personal lab and dividing us into people Mike Leigh thinks are stupid but worthy of his pity (Vera Drake) and dreadful people who have the temerity to be what Mike Leigh despises (Abigail's Party).

And then there are things with a self-congratulatory ensemble cast of Mike Leigh acolytes like Mr Turner and Topsy-Turvy.

Virgo1958 · 21/03/2023 11:00

Noah with Russell Crowe. Awful

Emotionalsupportviper · 21/03/2023 11:01

I wasn't impressed with the most recent version of "Emma", either, and I love costume drama and Jane Austen - I thought it was pretentious arty-farty sh*te.

The only scene I thought was even vaguely authentic for the period it was set in (and which wasn't in the book, but was a nice touch) was when she came in from the cold, stood in front of the fire and hocked up her frock at the back to warm her naked *rse. A nice concession to a knickerless era!

👌

AngelicaSchuylerAndHerSisters · 21/03/2023 11:01

Avatar, Titanic, Moulin Rouge and Lego Ninjago are the worst films I have seen

DesdamonasHandkerchief · 21/03/2023 11:01

Greydogs123 · 21/03/2023 06:22

Shark boy and lava girl (in 3d). I was an au pair and took my charges to see it. It’s a terrible film, but made much worse for me by the fact that the 3d glasses didn’t work with my regular glasses, so I couldn’t even see it properly.

Agreed, my son picked this for his 7th birthday party cinema/meal treat.
Hands down the worst pile of drivel I've ever had to sit through.
The writer/director said it was based on a dream his young child had and my god it showed.
The kids seemed to enjoy it though.

BringItBackBruno · 21/03/2023 11:01

Made in America - Ted Danson. Only time I've walked out of a cinema.

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