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

506 replies

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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BlindMedusa · 21/03/2023 06:28

On a serious note, Dead Poets Society. The worst film I've ever ever ever seen.

On a different note all together Magic Mike. I went to see a film about men stripping not a film about drugs.

sorcerersapprentice · 21/03/2023 06:28
  • pre-teen not pre-term (eek!)
forgotmyusername1 · 21/03/2023 06:32

Speedweed · 21/03/2023 06:19

Sex and the City 2.

Lindy West said it best in her review 'if this is modern womanhood, just stick me in a burka and sew up all my holes'.

Someone I went to school with was in that film so I went to watch it 'she played the nanny' - agree it was terrible

SertralineAndTherapy · 21/03/2023 06:33

PretzelKnot · 21/03/2023 00:25

A three-way tie between The Age of Innocence, No Country for Old Men and Avatar.

The Age of Innocence is one of my favourite films! Strange how tastes differ.

My worst was probably something I watched in a film club with some friends: "The Saddest Music in the World." That, or "Eraserhead."

Pootle40 · 21/03/2023 06:36

Mulholland Drive
Inception

cornflakesandtea · 21/03/2023 06:43

Men.

DP said I'm not allowed to pick films at the cinema anymore after that particular gem.

The Lighthouse was a runner up.

MrJollyLivesNextDoor · 21/03/2023 06:43

AI

It went on and on and on and on

OhSnakesandBastards · 21/03/2023 06:45

Eyes wide shut. Actually walked out of the cinema half way through as we couldn't stand it anymore.

PoseyFlump · 21/03/2023 06:51

Life is too short to watch shit films. This wouldn't have even made the grade for me because it rates as 3.9 out of 10 on IMDb.

Having said that, I do take reviews with a pinch of salt as some people think any film without a car chase is boring. I prefer proper acting, slice of life, independent type films.

Oysterbabe · 21/03/2023 06:53

I watched RIPD, I think it's called because I fancy Ryan Reynolds. Turned it off.

Sex and the City 2 is the worst film ever made though.

ememem84 · 21/03/2023 06:56

Eat pray love

Didgerydoo · 21/03/2023 06:58

XDownwiththissortofthingX · 21/03/2023 00:28

Apologies

Technically 'Pearl Harbor', because there's apparently a centuries long shortage of vowels in the States.

🤣🤣🤣

sweetheartyparty · 21/03/2023 06:59

I hated 'the hateful eight'. It was just horrible with no redeeming character

Didgerydoo · 21/03/2023 07:01

Apocalypse Now
The latest Jane's Bond whatever it's called, tho should be called Woke Numfest. Actually feel asleep about 20 mins in.

LadyWithLapdog · 21/03/2023 07:01

Everything, Everwhere… What a waste of a fine evening.

Whitewolf2 · 21/03/2023 07:09

The Beach, saw as a teenager who loved Leonardo di caprio. The marketing and All Saints song made it seem like a very different film! I tried watching it again recently but no it’s still awful.

WonderingWanda · 21/03/2023 07:14

Under The Skin with Scarlett Johansson. It was appalling. She was some sort of murdering alien killing of white van men in Scotland

JadeSeahorse · 21/03/2023 07:14

Grease
Mamma Mia (only managed 10 mins of this.🙄)

Total cringefest, both of them!

PoseyFlump · 21/03/2023 07:19

WonderingWanda · 21/03/2023 07:14

Under The Skin with Scarlett Johansson. It was appalling. She was some sort of murdering alien killing of white van men in Scotland

This is based on a book. The book was excellent and was more of a mystery.

Iwanttoquitthegym · 21/03/2023 07:22

Memoria.

I saw it at baby cinema as I watched anything they showed. But wow, we all turned to each other at then end and said what was that? It did star Tilda Swinton so I should have guessed it would be odd. It had won loads of awards though!

DysonBison · 21/03/2023 07:26

He's All That.

DSD was going through a bad patch and spending a lot of time on the sofa under a blanket watching very, very low emotional friction Netflix fodder. I joined her halfway through He's All That, just to keep her company, and by the end we were both boggle-eyed with disbelief at its awfulness.

It turned out to have been written by a middle-aged bloke which kind of explained a lot.

HereIfYouNeedMe · 21/03/2023 07:28

Without a doubt 'the ninth gate'

littlestrawberryhat · 21/03/2023 07:30

everything everywhere all at once

Kassandra7 · 21/03/2023 07:35

The Revenant - 3 hours of my life I'll never get back.

Eat Pray Love - ugh, ugh, ugh. Just awful.

I loved La La Land!

C1N1C · 21/03/2023 07:44

Donnie Darko for me. There are so many films that try to be clever and for me that ine just fell flat.

I also never ever got into The Godfather! I'm a 40(ish) male and to not get wrapped up in it is akin to blasphemy apparently but no...

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