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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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Chatillon · 02/05/2023 08:44

Any film with fantasy action heroes: Spiderman, The Avengers, Batman, etc. All that genre are made for 20-30 year old men who are emotionally still 9. (ps I know this will not be popular).

Beeswood · 03/05/2023 01:49

The remake of 'The Women'.
The original film from the 1939 is one of my favourite films.
The remake, however, I found unwatchable.

Catsmere · 03/05/2023 03:53

RobertsRadio · 21/03/2023 01:03

Moulin Rouge was pretty dire, but the absolute worst film I've ever seen is an Australian film called Monkey Grip released in the early eighties, apparently from a book of the same name. The story and the acting was dire.

I can well believe it, I was supposed to read the book for school and didn’t get more than a few pages in, it was absolute crap!

Catsmere · 03/05/2023 03:56

If you count a film so dire you gave up within twenty minutes - Dogma. I was SO disappointed, I’d wanted to see Alan Rickman, but I couldn’t put up with it that long. Unlikeable storyline, unlikeable characters played by actors who all looked alike.

Catsmere · 03/05/2023 04:01

Oh, and Rope. Saw it thirty years ago and thought it was SO overrated.

Furrybutts · 03/05/2023 04:05

Another vote here for Mother.
It was diabolical.
I wanted to leave the cinema after 20 mins, but my friend insisted it would get better.
Spoiler - it didn't!

Catsmere · 03/05/2023 04:14

Unsure33 · 21/03/2023 07:49

2001 a space oddesey .

Oh god yes! Most boring film ever made.

Shout out to Don’t Look Now, too. Tedious, pretentious shite (but I couldn’t stand the book, either).

JamSandle · 03/05/2023 04:14

Oceans Twelve.

Catsmere · 03/05/2023 04:17

User135644 · 21/03/2023 18:10

Absolute puerile bag of shite that film.

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Yup, another loathsome one I couldn’t sit through!

Hated Meaning of Life, too. Such a letdown after Python’s previous films.

Pootle40 · 03/05/2023 12:32

Mulholland Drive

SquirrelSoShiny · 03/05/2023 12:54

This thread is amusing me because it names films I absolutely love. Especially Zoolander! What's wrong with you, Zoolander haters?! 😂

BigMandsTattooPortfolio · 03/05/2023 14:32

Same here. Some of my favourite films mentioned here!

SmugglersHaunt · 03/05/2023 19:00

I thought Last Night in Soho was atrocious. It actually made me angry! I just don't understand why it was so lauded when the story was ridiculous, the acting terrible and the script appalling.

Oysterbabe · 03/05/2023 19:07

Zoolander is amazing.

Marchintospring · 20/06/2023 21:15

Yes to Mother. Not cool. Just a twatty slasher film dressed up.

Men. Such promise. Creepy as fuck for minutes. Amazing. And then just utter nonsense.

Yalta · 04/08/2023 19:37

Many years ago dh and I were holidaying in Florida and we went to see Kelly Monteith

Part of his stand up routine was about a film he had just started in.

He made reference to it being so atrocious that it was career finishing.

We actually rented it when we got back home and that was by far the worse
movie I have ever seen.

Never heard of Kelly Monteith again

HRTQueen · 04/08/2023 19:42

Brighton

its terrible. It could have been good the acting is awful the script cringy just awful

Brighton is nostalgic for me as it is for many and the film is supposed to be about nostalgia but it was just a pile of utter💩

BebbanburgIsMine · 10/08/2023 14:49

Total Recall

My XH made me go and see it with him, I knew it wasn't my thing but oh god, I was beyond bored!

I counted the indent pattern thingy on the ceiling over and over again, ex was not happy with me! 😂

Catsmere · 11/08/2023 08:13

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Shitfather · 11/08/2023 08:38

The Whale. I still regret I forked out on a cinema ticket. It’s grim.

CharlotteStreetW1 · 11/08/2023 08:41

Rinkydinkydoodle · 21/03/2023 00:38

Saw a Gerard Butler film where he plays a successful prosecution attorney. A criminal takes revenge by killing literally everyone GB has ever met. It got to the point where if you’d sold him a book of stamps in 1998, you’d be fucked. So bad I don’t want to name it in case someone is tempted to watch it.

also…

Mamma Mia. Can’t get over it. Watched from between my fingers.

I first saw Mamma Mia on a pirate DVD so it was like I was watching it through someone else's fingers.

KonTikki · 11/08/2023 08:50

Speilburg's AI.
He did make good, very watchable films, though many are too long (he seems to struggle in knowing when to stop), and his enthusiasm for oversize American flags and "Americana" can be tedious, but AI. I actually did walk out of the cinema before the end.

Dramatic · 11/08/2023 08:55

WhoAmIWhoAmI24601 · 21/03/2023 06:12

I’m Thinking of Ending Things
The Father
the Lost Daughter
The Duke

I'm thinking of ending things was the single worst film I've ever watched. It was extremely creepy but for no good reason, didn't make any sense. Hated the entire 2 hours.

WhoAmIWhoAmI24601 · 11/08/2023 20:16

Dramatic · 11/08/2023 08:55

I'm thinking of ending things was the single worst film I've ever watched. It was extremely creepy but for no good reason, didn't make any sense. Hated the entire 2 hours.

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You’d think that I would have learned my lesson after watching I’m Thinking of Ending Things. I watched another Jessie Buckley film on a flight recently called Men. Rory Kinnear plays all of the male characters. She’s a fantastic actress but my word she picks some weird films. If you’re a glutton for punishment it’s on Prime.

Rinkydinkydoodle · 11/08/2023 23:49

Hahaha @CharlotteStreetW1 Had never seen a pirate until The Number 23. Found it surprisingly avante garde and oddly disturbing, all the cracking, ghostly voices and random shapes moving around the periphery. Took me far too long to realise they were Glaswegian voices…