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Should anyone want to watch the worst film ever made and/or deliberately waste an hour of their lives....

316 replies

Talonz · 01/03/2025 15:04

....then it has just started on Film 4.

Enemy Mine. About an astronaut and a male alien who collide in space and crash land on a planet. The male alien turns out to be pregnant and they co-exist on some hostile planet or other.

Really shite.

OP posts:
TourangaLeila · 01/03/2025 18:48

Deedeesharpwhatkindoflady · 01/03/2025 16:16

Waterworld..think mad max but on water.
It was a pure turkey.

You take that back!

ScruffMuffin · 01/03/2025 18:48

Urgh.

I raise you Top Cat, and Signs. My husband wandered out of the cinema to do the weekly shop halfway through Top Cat, and I became irrationally jealous. I had to stay with the DCs.

Many years ago, both of us walked out of Cruel Intentions, about a third of the way through.

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 01/03/2025 18:49

SuperLemonCrush · 01/03/2025 17:57

I would like to add Aguirre, the Wrath of God into the mix…conquistadores, rainforest, strange diseases, paranoia and a “cosmic rock” soundtrack….the most depressing and just horrible film I have ever watched!

It is weird, but it's a Werner Herzog film and it stars Klaus Kinski, two big pluses. I'm in no hurry to see it again, mind you.

HazelBite · 01/03/2025 18:49

Gone with the wind, was, in my opinion pretty dreadful and it was so long and never really went anywhere!

HeadNorth · 01/03/2025 18:53

I can’t believe no one has said Sex and the City 2. The first film was bad, but the second was horrible, offensive, unmitigated dross. The worst film I’ve ever seen, I can’t believe I’ll ever see worse.

PuppyMonkey · 01/03/2025 18:53

JellyQuivvers · 01/03/2025 18:34

I went to the cinema to watch Wolf in 1994, a film starring Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer and Christopher Plummer - amongst others. The description reads: "After being bitten by a wolf, former senior editor Will Randall finds himself a changed man. Now full of vigour and youth, he fights to regain his job and also woos his former employer's daughter." 😬

It was so bad the audience laughed throughout, and cheered when it ended 😂. I've NEVER heard of it since (or seen it on TV) so it's definitely been tossed aside

God I also remember going to see that and everyone in our cinema ended up laughing too. I’d blocked the whole thing out until now. Grin

Deedeesharpwhatkindoflady · 01/03/2025 18:56

TourangaLeila · 01/03/2025 18:48

You take that back!

No 🤣🤣🤣
Have a nice Saturday evening Tourangaleila 👍😁

CharlotteLightandDark · 01/03/2025 18:57

EineReiseDurchDieZeit · 01/03/2025 16:08

I offer The Lighthouse and Tenet

Tenet I walked out of

The Lighthouse I'm still not sure what I watched

I also hated Roma and The Shape Of Water which were Oscar Nominated

The Lighthouse is a masterpiece!

it’s based on the myth of Prometheus and other Greco Roman gods but also psychoanalysis and jungian archetypes.

thats not everyone’s thing of course but i liked it a lot!

sprigatito · 01/03/2025 18:57

The only films I've ever actually abandoned at the cinema are Wayne's World 2 (not my choice, I was taking some boarding school kids out at the weekend and drew the short straw) and The Idiots ( it was just so utterly offensive).

I won't have a word said against Howard the Duck though Shock it's a cult classic!

Overthinking22 · 01/03/2025 19:00

Dogville with Nicole Kidman WTF

If I wanted to see a play I would go to the theatre.

Moonlightstars · 01/03/2025 19:00

whatnooow · 01/03/2025 16:12

Kinda pregnant on Netflix is possibly the worst film I've seen

That was perfect to watch when I was so ill I couldn't even remember my name. It was truly shite

NotaRealHousewife · 01/03/2025 19:01

Grease 2

Elderflower14 · 01/03/2025 19:01

I have walked out of three films.
Evil Dead 2. Walked out before I was thrown out for screaming.
Remake of the Pink Panther... An insult to the memory of the wonderful Peter Sellers.
Remake of True Grit... Was watching in the village hall. Got sick and tired of Jeff Bridges mumbling. We had a break halfway through the film and I left. A neighbour and also a friend both left at the same time. They both said they wouldn't have dared if I hadn't!! 🤣 🤣

Rummly · 01/03/2025 19:02

sprigatito · 01/03/2025 18:57

The only films I've ever actually abandoned at the cinema are Wayne's World 2 (not my choice, I was taking some boarding school kids out at the weekend and drew the short straw) and The Idiots ( it was just so utterly offensive).

I won't have a word said against Howard the Duck though Shock it's a cult classic!

The Idiots is a masterpiece, IMHO.

CrystalSingerFan · 01/03/2025 19:02

Thanks, OP! I have been inspired to track down a German film I saw at least 40 years ago, Celeste, about Marcel Proust's housekeeper. It was projected onto a sheet at the local Buddhist vegetarian cafe that was identifying as an arts centre. The protagonist spent most of the film sitting silently on a chair, staring at the audience. Quite dreadful, although one IMDB reviewer disagrees:

"The silencefor there is little talking in the movie, and much relentless ticking of clocksis hypnotic and, if one is prepared to yield to it, nearly irresistible."

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082225/

FKAT · 01/03/2025 19:02

Love The Idiots and Dogville.

Lilylovetulips · 01/03/2025 19:03

Sherararara · 01/03/2025 16:46

Sorry but I fond memories of Enemy Mine as a kid in the eighties. Admittedly haven’t seen it in years but would always watch it when it was on.

Me too, absolutely loved that film as a kid!!

TourangaLeila · 01/03/2025 19:04

My contribution - Yoga Hosers

I don't know what came over Kev

Pinkandgreentrousers · 01/03/2025 19:07

BeyondMyWits · 01/03/2025 16:55

Where the wild things are. A 40 page picture book for kids made into 101 neverending minutes of crap. We PAID to watch it at the cinema. Really awful.

God yes it was awful.

TooBigForMyBoots · 01/03/2025 19:07

thefirstmrsrochester · 01/03/2025 18:07

Seconding Eraserhead.

Still get angry decades later about the time I will never get back.

I tried explaining Eraserhead to teenage DS but gave up and handed it over to Wiki and IMDB to explain it for me.

His response was scathing.😂

WilmaFlintstone1 · 01/03/2025 19:07

None of you have suffered the Moshi Monsters movie ….now that really was 90-120mind of dire cinema o won’t get back. Unfortunately it was DS’s 10th or 11th birthday and he wanted to see it. Like a good Mum ie cured it…he’s 22 now and I still remind him that he owes me many mugs of coffee for enduring such rubbish.

CharlotteLightandDark · 01/03/2025 19:08

Busydoinnuthin · 01/03/2025 17:02

Has anyone seen the greasy strangler?

It’s my guilty pleasure, if there is such a thing

disgusting and hilarious and bat shit crazy

BULLSHIT ARTIST!

ohyesido · 01/03/2025 19:08

It can't be worse than Yeti: curse of the Snow Demon. That is a terrible film

Rummly · 01/03/2025 19:14

Some of the films mentioned on here were made to be bad. The old ones (like Plan 9 From Outer Space) were made and marketed as a form of showmanship. MANT! was a fun look at those days.

AlwaysTheRenegade · 01/03/2025 19:14

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