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What is the benchmark for the worst film you’ve ever seen?

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Soubriquet · 20/06/2023 20:58

Whenever you get a film that’s been rated poorly, what is the film you say “well it can’t be as bad as xxx”

Ours is Beaster Bunny. Not even my type of film. It’s one of dh’s million dollar movie craps. Except it was so bad he insisted I had to watch some of it, just so I can see how bad it was.

And it was baaaad. Like how on earth did this get released let alone even made bad.

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tregunamekoidestrecorumsatisdee · 21/06/2023 17:41

Lincoln
The Paper Tigers

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Soubriquet · 21/06/2023 17:46

I keep seeing Mama Mia being mentioned. That’s one of my favourite films Blush

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cassiatwenty · 21/06/2023 18:03

Booklover40 · 21/06/2023 08:50

Oh, il rephrase that: I cannot STAND Ryan Gosling🤣

I can’t stand RR either!

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Speaking of Ryan Gosling, I can't possibly imagine new Barbie movie being good

cassiatwenty · 21/06/2023 18:05

My heart breaks seeing some h8ers on here hating on Oscar-material movie Spice Wirld. Have you no heart? 😹

cassiatwenty · 21/06/2023 18:06

cassiatwenty · 21/06/2023 18:05

My heart breaks seeing some h8ers on here hating on Oscar-material movie Spice Wirld. Have you no heart? 😹

W o r l d 🌟 not wirld haha

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 21/06/2023 18:37

The Blair Witch Project. The one and only time I've ever walked out of the cinema in disgust mid-film. God, it was shit.

Wereisit · 21/06/2023 19:02

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 21/06/2023 18:37

The Blair Witch Project. The one and only time I've ever walked out of the cinema in disgust mid-film. God, it was shit.

I thought it was brilliant!

CathyorClaire · 21/06/2023 21:20

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 21/06/2023 18:37

The Blair Witch Project. The one and only time I've ever walked out of the cinema in disgust mid-film. God, it was shit.

Took me a couple of watches to properly get it but the ending is one of the most chilling I've seen.

You left too soon.

CathyorClaire · 21/06/2023 21:31

I'm also probably the only person in the world who finds Bill Murray unappealing (Groundhog Day being an honourable exception.)

I think he peaked in the original Ghostbusters.

Groundhog Day is on my tedious shite list but Broken Flowers nearly surpassed it.

Not a fan.

LlynTegid · 21/06/2023 21:37

The benchmark of awfulness for me is a film that should never have been made, and indeed the tv series that inspired it. Mrs Brown's Boys.

Seeing the trailer was enough.

DomingoinLittleOakley · 21/06/2023 21:47

285 replies, and NOBODY has said Mr & Mrs Smith?

DemonicCaveMaggot · 21/06/2023 21:49

The Godzilla remake with Mathew Broderick. I gave up caring about any of the characters about 30 minutes in, then actively wanted Godzilla to eat the characters, then I wished Godzilla would come through the screen and eat me.

That movie literally made me feel suicidal.

I also fail to see the point of Natural Born Killers.

I really like Blair Witch Project, Prometheus, Mongolian Death Worm, Five Headed Shark, and Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus so it isn't as if I have particularly precious cinematic tastes either.

beetlebrain · 21/06/2023 21:54

Can't believe no-one has mentioned Breaking the Bank- released about 5 or so years ago. Excellent cast but such a lame film.

cassiatwenty · 22/06/2023 00:15

I forgot more Oscar/Bafta worthy movies

What is the benchmark for the worst film you’ve ever seen?
TomPinch · 22/06/2023 01:06

ArmWrestlingWithChasNDave · 21/06/2023 11:31

Oh I can't do that; there are bad film reviews of The Royal Tenenbaums and Lost in Translation and you've clarified that those aren't bad films. You're the only one who can decide - please get the list to us ASAP.

I'll say just this much to guide you. Taste is subjective. Quality is more objective (for example, lots of British films have straight out bad acting and cheap sets.)

But most importantly 'who made you expert' is the easiest argument for someone who doesn't actually have one.

Ohmylordnotagain · 22/06/2023 01:18

The lobster I was being arty it was absolute shit I have never lived it down.

Ohmylordnotagain · 22/06/2023 01:21

Also a space odyssey 2001 I feel asleep when they were docking I think had a nap woke up still not docked, the most bor8ng pretentious film ever so bad.

TomPinch · 22/06/2023 01:22

EarringsandLipstick · 21/06/2023 12:02

Just about every person here is just naming films they don't like.

I think you are right, in part. It's a very individual thing - a movie I love someone else will hate and vice versa. When you hate it, it is based on individual criteria that each of us set, and the movie fails on those. So we deem it a 'bad' movie.

However, there are lots and lots of films I hate (or would hate) e.g. anything violent or horror, anything intentionally cruel to children. So I really 'hate' Schindler's List and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - I have only watched parts of the latter, and only watched the former late one night as it came on TV and I knew it was regarded as a superb film, so made myself watch it. I felt so upset and traumatised afterwards that for me, I 'hated' it, but of course, those are natural reactions to the film and its content and doesn't reflect its quality.

So I think most responses here are citing films posters hated as they deemed it really poor quality-wise, not just ones they don't like, inter alia

Thank you for an unsupercillious reply :-)

I agree that these things aren't absolute but I don't think it follows that they're completely subjective either. I've watched films that I hated (Once were Warriors or anything by Ken Loach) but I wouldn't say they are bad films: they are well-acted, well-produced, and brutal to make a point. I'm not a Royal Tenenbaums fanatic either - but I completely by chance watched it twice and second time round 'got' it. Regardless of that it's a well made film in terms of acting etc. None of us are such geniuses that if a film doesn't please it must be rubbish.

HRTQueen · 22/06/2023 01:31

Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them

2hr 13min. I took ds and his friend. Da was bored too but his friend loved it, told me on the way home he wanted to see it for a third time turns out he has seen it the day before

Deer Hunter. The first scene at the wedding is so long feels like a film in itself. Yes I know it’s a classic but I find it boring

Mumtobabyhavoc · 22/06/2023 06:22

Maybe not the worst, but a recent hyped film I hated was Baz Luhrmann's, Elvis.
Moulin Rouge, on the other hand, was brilliant. The opening sequence, in particular, was stunning.

MoleAtTheCounter · 22/06/2023 06:47

Cannibals and Carpet Fitters.

Crunchymum · 22/06/2023 06:52

Boomdock Saints waa the worst film we've ever seen for many years but it was recently superseded by Fatman. Awful, awful, terrible film.

ladygindiva · 24/06/2023 21:11

Just rehashed this thread to mention "mothering Sunday"
Steaming pile of pretentious turd .

WhispersOfWickedness · 26/06/2023 08:25

LaMarschallin · 20/06/2023 21:38

WhispersOfWickedness

Cloud Atlas, three hours later and I was still none the wiser as to what it was about. Either that or Sausage Party 🤷‍♀️

Oh God, yes - "Sausage Party".
Utterly atrocious, not funny, not even so-bad-it's-funny funny... dire!

Worst thing was, you'd think we'd have watched it at DH's instigation due to him having a beer-mediated, wannabe frat boy moment, but no! I'd read good reviews about it, including in both the Guardian and the Times - and they seem to have a pact to hate the films the other one likes. But they both loved SP!

So bad that other films I thought were bad became just meh: Titanic; Pokemon the Movie; Forrest Gump; Zombeavers (yes, really).

Mind you, I haven't seen Cloud Atlas, but if you can't decide between that and SP... I don't think I'll ever risk it.

Ah, you see I love Titanic and Forrest Gump so maybe we're not on the same page film-wise after all 🤣🤣

WhispersOfWickedness · 26/06/2023 08:36

MoreRainbowsPlease · 20/06/2023 22:23

Existenz and AI. Both Dp's choices. Luckily I had his mate to laugh with at Existenz which got us through as DP enjoyed it! AI we both kept thinking would get better, plus we didn't have much money in those days so we weren't going to leave the cinema without watching the whole film. By the end we wished we had.

Oh my, Existenz!!!! I had forgotten about this one, I snogged my way through it at the back of a cinema as a teenager, so my fondness for it has very little to do with its cinematic merit Grin