to think that I have started to watch the worst film ever made?

[Dohee]

It's called Fences.
It's essentially a monologue from Denzel Washington.

Perhaps it's supposed to be a study on social injustices at the time, but I have endured 40 minutes of it and literally can't take one more second!

Please don't tell me that this is some sort of award winning film and that I'm a bit thick or something?

I'd heard the title before which is why I thought it would be good. 40 minutes in, and literally nothing has happened. Except yer man ranting on and fucking on and fucking on.

I love Denzel usually, and his acting is good, but fuck me, the writing is pure and utter unadulterated shite!

Did you give up at 40 mins OP?

Because I feel towards the end there was some explanation as to why he was the way he was and what he had been through. Viola Davis' character also reached a point of offering up an explanation of why she stayed. There was also some violence with his son.

I think that the violence is meant to be jarring in it's absence - we assume it to be there but we never see it apart from a small bit with his son. Maybe that is due to it being a play...and as has been said, it very much sticks out that it is a play that hasn't translated well to film.

I think that you are selling yourself short really. A film to watch for enjoyment it is not IMO and that instantly feels uncomfortable or strange. But you picked up that it might have been a play, you picked up that it was well acted but that the actors were bound to the script, and you also made some inferences about violence and the lack of depth of the main character. It is OK to not like something and it doesn't necessarily mean your tastes are simple.

Try GTA with Jesse from breaking bad in it.

Worst film ever

And the way he talks in it

(Ok I know something that is a film of a computer game is never going to be great)

But still

It’s shite

As is Spanglish with Bennifer

I gave up at 40 minutes in because there were no scene changes, the character appeared unrealistic (to me anyway) and I couldn't listen to him rant on any longer. Maybe I just wasn't in the right frame of mind to watch something that might addle your brain. I was looking for something like a tearjerker or something and had googled 'films about fathers' and that one came up.

@Dohee It's not disliking films I object to - taste is subjective, after all - but unilaterally dismissing them as "shite" just because you (and I mean the collective you as basically everyone on this thread is doing it) don't like them. I didn't like quite a few of the films on this thread but I can still see their artistic merit and appreciate that other people might enjoy them. Just feels like people falling over themselves to smugly demonstrate how non-intellectual they are, in a sort of reverse snobbery. I didn't get The Lobster either, but that doesn't mean I think I'm better than the many people and critics who found value in it.

(Though how anyone can not love The Big Lebowski I don't understand, it's SO GOOD.)

I had watched a film a couple of nights ago, can't remember the name of it, but it had a very famous British actor (also can't remember his name) and there was a little Chinese girl in it who was a genius. I was looking for something similar and instead I got this!

I think 'shite' was unilaterally chosen as the only apt word to describe a certain genre of film by the people who posted in agreement with me. I'm sure anyone who enjoyed the film didn't comment. Or they had the good grace not to tell me I was an uneducated philistine for not liking it which is what I was expecting actually
It's not inverse snobbery at all. I just was reaching out in my time of dire need to find someone else who could tell me that I wasn't an idiot for not liking it.

Surely the worst film made recently is The Greatest Showman. Utterly dreadful, got half way through and gave up, could not work out how anyone could endure the whole film. It may have had some catchy tunes but the story was nonexistent. I would have cheered happily if the entire cast had fallen in to a meet grinder, I cared not a jot for any of them.

Amortentia oh now you've gone too far, treason!!

*meat grinder. I think a meet grinder is something else entirely, although something like that would have livened up the film 😁

@Amortentia Aha! I was going to include that one too! My dd has watched that film several times over (cried the first time), so I tried to watch it. Another one I switched off after about 15 minutes! I actually think I have no taste lol

Does anyone else feel like an utter simpleton when you're talking to someone who appreciates this sort of movie?

Honestly, I think over the last couple of years every film that’s won an Oscar or loads of awards or been incredibly popular I’ve found to be unendurable. Except marvel films, but I’m not watching them for the plot line 😋.

2 stand out, awful films for me are Collateral and Boomdock Saints.

If I'd known I was going to end up with 3 kids and very little time to watch films, I'd have sacked these bastard films off and gone for better ones.

Gosh this thread is a celebration of ignorance

Gosh it's really not though it's lots of people perfectly normally stating films they didn't like regardless of whether others or critics do because film like books and music is a matter of personal taste.

Lots of people have mentioned two films I love Moulin Rouge and A Star Is Born, me loving them and another person thinking they are terrible doesn't make either of us ignorant, HTH.

@BartonHollow Saying you don't like something (subjective) is totally different to saying something is shite (objective). I literally said that it's a matter of taste in my previous post. I have absolutely no problem with anyone saying they didn't like something. But saying a film that was award-nominated and widely praised by critics and public alike is "pure and utter unadulterated shite" is not the same thing.

A good example is the book A Little Life. I absolutely hated it. Could see no merit in it whatsoever. But rather than thinking it's shite, my conclusion is that either it's just not my sort of thing or I didn't get it, because I don't think I'm better than the many, many critics and members of the public who loved it.

For me

Saying "well I thought that was shite"

Is just another way of saying

"I personally didn't like that"

And is a subjective response

The same is true for most people i know

It's not like someone who says "that was shite" thinks for a moment that the thing should be damned for all time upon their say so

The worst film I have ever seen is Birdemic. It's beyond terrible in every way.
I watched Night of the Living Dead hoping for - well scares I suppose. It's supposed to be the first proper zombie movie and is hailed as a cult classic.
It's boring. There's a lot of carpentry and general berating of hysterical women, very little in the way of scares. And then there's a mad American hick type at the end who gleefully tells a journalist all about how he's been beating off zombies. I didn't see any of that, I guess that would have changed the whole movie.

Except marvel films, but I’m not watching them for the plot line 😋.

I watch them for the plot and the men. Chris pratt and Chris Hemsworth, yum

CigarsofthePharoahs

I felt the same about night of the living dead! Supposed to be brilliant, but wow what crap. I guess when it first came out it was good, maybe?

I genuinely thought Infinity War was one of the best films I saw last year and not just for the eye candy, it could've done with an interval though, I thought my bladder was going to explode.

YES OP! This is such a crap film, I endured roughly the same amount as you but had to switch it off - I think that’s only the second time in my life I’ve purposely switched off a movie. I can endure much shite but I thought if I went any further I’d lose all my previous love for Denzel!

Awful, awful, awful. It was like watching a really poorly written, insanely boring play at the theatre. I hated the sexist bullshit too. I know it was trying to depict a previous time but the way he kept talking about sex with his wife was vile.

@BartonHollow But people aren't saying "I thought it was shite". They're saying "it was shite". I could quote every instance but I'm sure you can read the thread.

I do think people lining up to say how terrible something is that is widely lauded as a piece of art is a celebration of ignorance. But honestly, I'd feel the same way if people were saying how shit the Marvel films are or whatever. Millions and millions of people love the Marvel films. They're clearly not shit. If someone doesn't like them for whatever reason, that's fair enough. But calling them shit is nonsense.

It's all intellectual snobbery, just in different directions.

@peachgreen I feel you're talking shite.

Its the same sentiment, obviously and you are taking it pedantically /overly seriously, and it is not intellectual snobbery

Intellectual snobbery is...

"Oh?

You thought Roma was shite?

Well....

I guess it's not for.... EVERYBODY "

@Pernickity1 Yes and yes!
It was all so misplaced somehow!