Worst films and why

BuilderPlumber

Aviana Yummy Scrabble wrote: »

Yeah I know what you mean, I hate Inception, even though I can appreciate the things that are good about it, just because of the hype and defensiveness around it and because it takes itself so very, very seriously. It'd be further up my list of "Films I hate" than other films which are probably worse but which are more craic.

The problem with low expectations is that the so-bad-it's-good issue though, you get into the area of cult films and Barthes and postmodernism. Very bad horrors and action films can be hilarious to watch and rewatch, so they're good films but in unintended ways?

A thread on films that are so bad they're good would be interesting!!

Un Croissant

I think the Hobbit suffered from the actors involved. Two in particular.

Martin Freeman. He is too big. And when you watched it you were watching Martin Freeman, not Bilbo.

And why it HAD to be Billy Connolly I dont know. Why they couldn't get someone who didn't require 100% CGI is beyond me. But him being there took me right out.

The same can't be said with Ian McKellen or any of the gang in the first trilogy. Barring maybe Hugo Weaving. When you watch Gandalf, you're watching Gandalf. Well in my mind anyway.

I just kept thinking 'God he was great in the office'.

jimmytwotimes 2013

Cellular..

TerrorFirmer

jimmytwotimes 2013 wrote: »

Cellular..

With Chris Evans? That wasn't so bad. Not particularly great either but surely you've seen worse than that.

anothernight

Tusk, without a doubt. I was invited to the UK premiere but couldn't go. Thank god for that. I would have had to walk out.:o It's honestly the worst film I have ever attempted to watch. Haley Joel Osment, how low you've fallen..

TerrorFirmer

anothernight wrote: »

Tusk, without a doubt. I was invited to the UK premiere but couldn't go. Thank god for that. I would have had to walk out.:o It's honestly the worst film I have ever attempted to watch. Haley Joel Osment, how low you've fallen..

That was a terrible film alright. Tried to be too many things and fell flat as a pancake. I never expected Kevin Smith to put out something utterly devoid of any merit.

north_star_33

13 pages ..and no one said it..

FREDDIE GOT FINGERED...with tom green

absolutely the stupidest most hideous 2 hours of manure smelling garbage ive ever watched

jimmytwotimes 2013

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

With Chris Evans? That wasn't so bad. Not particularly great either but surely you've seen worse than that.

Thought twas absolutely shocking

donegal_man

Two "classic" movies that I cannot watch are "The Quiet Man" and "Dumb And Dumber". The first is a collection of all the worst paddywhackery ever committed to celluloid and the second is just rehash of much funnier old black and white comedies from the likes of Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy etc.

Kylo Ren

I haven't seen everything film has to offer and I tend to not watch films I believe will be bad or worse.

With that being said, two films that spring to mind that I have least enjoyed in recent memory are 'Spring Breakers' and 'Only God Gorgives'.

I'm not saying they're the worst films ever made. In fact I'm certain cinema has produced far worse. But they are bad. Really bad.

Right Turn Clyde

donegal_man wrote: »

Two "classic" movies that I cannot watch are "The Quiet Man" and "Dumb And Dumber". The first is a collection of all the worst paddywhackery ever committed to celluloid and the second is just rehash of much funnier old black and white comedies from the likes of Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy etc.

Can you elaborate on the second point there? What exactly reminded you of those old comedies? That's an honest question by the way. I can't see the influence myself.

PeteFalk78

Keno wrote: »

With that being said, two films that spring to mind that I have least enjoyed in recent memory are 'Spring Breakers' and 'Only God Gorgives'.

Yep anything directed by Nicolas Winding Refn. I hated Drive with an absolute passion.

BuilderPlumber

donegal_man wrote: »

Two "classic" movies that I cannot watch are "The Quiet Man" and "Dumb And Dumber". The first is a collection of all the worst paddywhackery ever committed to celluloid and the second is just rehash of much funnier old black and white comedies from the likes of Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy etc.

The Quiet Man is just something one has to laugh at. It is so paddywhackery and stage Irish that it is funny. Good to watch on Paddy's day with some Guinness!

Not a fan of John Ford films generally (they tend to be tame and on the comedic/light side for the most part). But the Quiet Man is worth a laugh. So bad it's good

adox

Someone mentioning Little Miss Sunshine in this thread makes me sad.

RobbingBandit

The Godfather 3. Andy Garcia was completely miscast as the bastard nephew he should have been cast as Al Pacinos son, Sofia Coppola destroyed all hope of an acting career with a performance only her cousin Nic Cage could beat. The plot was dumb and that ending ridiculous beyond belief.

Chain Smoker

I've never seen it, but the total apathy which greets Ballistic: Ecks vs Sever always intrigues me, have never heard of anyone saying it's at all good bad or anything. $70 million budget too.

I'm not really someone who'll just sit in front of anything and I rarely come across things that don't have some element of merit* but Life is Beautiful absolutely blew me away in all the wrong ways. Honestly felt like the world was playing some kind of joke on me that anyone would think it was anything other than a horribly ill conceived idea executed terribly.



* I'm not including documentaries, have seen tons of documentaries which manage to completely blow very solid premises.

Kylo Ren

PeteFalk78 wrote: »

Yep anything directed by Nicolas Winding Refn. I hated Drive with an absolute passion.

I absolutely loved 'Drive' :P

People who just say a movie, but don't offer an explanation as to why, which is essentially the whole idea behind this thread, should be treated with a pinch of salt.

AMKC

Battlefield Earth, Honest, Bridesmaids its not even funny oh and that spice girls film Spiceworld all utter trash.

If want a funny film that is good watch The Hangover or Last Vegas both brilliant and funny.

micar

PeteFalk78 wrote: »

Yep anything directed by Nicolas Winding Refn. I hated Drive with an absolute passion.

Keno wrote: »

I absolutely loved 'Drive' :P

I love drive. You have this caring and quiet character who without any change in emotion changes into a complete physcopath.

The Adversary

Anchorman (or just about anything with that gob****e Will Ferrell) awful rubbish.

tipparetops

funny people with adam sandler.
they really were not funny - dreadful stuff to watch.

american history x - the change of the main character in prison was beyond believable.

Faith+1

north_star_33 wrote: »

13 pages ..and no one said it..

FREDDIE GOT FINGERED...with tom green

absolutely the stupidest most hideous 2 hours of manure smelling garbage ive ever watched

EoghanIRL

I know I said the road was the worst movie I have ever seen.

After some consideration I have changed my mind.
Cloverfield is my replacement. I don't even know where to begin with this one.

EoghanIRL

EoghanIRL wrote: »

I know I said the road was the worst movie I have ever seen.

After some consideration I have changed my mind.
Cloverfield is my replacement. I don't even know where to begin with this one.

I actually don't get the hate that Cloverfield gets, I found it to be one of the most realistic creature features, which in itself is an oxymoron, I know. It was tense, some fantastic set pieces, and I actually quite enjoy endings in which

the ultimate outcome is unknown

BuilderPlumber

Never heard of Cloverfield ...

BuilderPlumber

The Adversary wrote: »

Anchorman (or just about anything with that gob****e Will Ferrell) awful rubbish.

I think Anchorman (2004) is just ok and did not watch the overhyped sequel of whenever it was (last year or 2013?). Tubridy had some of its stars on IIRC and again was overhyping what is probably just a run of the mill sequel not as good as the just ok original.

Sometimes it is more the overhype in the media - especially the likes of Tubridy - than the films themselves that annoy me most. I have seen not many really good films being promoted by Tubridy's show interestingly enough.

BuilderPlumber

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_with_a_0%25_rating_on_Rotten_Tomatoes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_considered_the_worst

These ones are officially or popularly regarded as the worst. And of the ones I heard of, I agree. Yes, some of the Police Academy sequels are there as is that Superman Quest for Peace, Batman and Robin and, of course, one I forgot all about: Catwoman!!

quickbeam

I have two. Firstly Inland Empire. Now I like a good quirky, surrealist film generally, and have liked previous David Lynch efforts, but by god, this was a torturous overlong nonsensical chore to sit through.

Secondly is Vanilla Sky. This more falls in to the "most disappointed" rather than "worst" film. I loved Cameron Crowe's previous films, Say Anything, Jerry Maguire, and most especially of all Almost Famous which was then and still is one of my favourite films of all time. So I was expecting good things from Vanilla Sky. It kept me somewhat intrigued throughout as I kept wondering how it would resolve itself. And then it just ended - nothing seemed to get resolved at all. What a let down!

AndyBoBandy

BuilderPlumber wrote: »

I think Anchorman (2004) is just ok and did not watch the overhyped sequel of whenever it was (last year or 2013?).

I got about 30 minutes into Anchorman 2 and had to turn to herself and ask if it was just me, or was it really that bad, 30 minutes, and not 1 moment made me laugh, not even a smile!! Suffice to say we could not watch anymore.

As you say, the first one was just marginally ok, and that's me being generous.
Could not understand the creaming that went on over both these movies!!!
I've had funnier poo's

Saralee4

quickbeam wrote: »

I have two. Firstly Inland Empire. Now I like a good quirky, surrealist film generally, and have liked previous David Lynch efforts, but by god, this was a torturous overlong nonsensical chore to sit through.

Secondly is Vanilla Sky. This more falls in to the "most disappointed" rather than "worst" film. I loved Cameron Crowe's previous films, Say Anything, Jerry Maguire, and most especially of all Almost Famous which was then and still is one of my favourite films of all time. So I was expecting good things from Vanilla Sky. It kept me somewhat intrigued throughout as I kept wondering how it would resolve itself. And then it just ended - nothing seemed to get resolved at all. What a let down!

I liked vanilla sky. It made some good points on vanity and ego, whats real and whats not. I thought it was one of cameron diaz better roles and not such a typical choice for her and i liked tom cruise annoying spoilt self centerdness.

Dirty Dingus McGee

I believe Vanilla Sky is a remake of a Spanish film Called "Abre Los Ojos" (Open Your Eyes).Which is an absolutely brilliant film and one of my all time favourites it completely blew me away.

Anyone mention how bad the total Recall remake is?
It was never ****ing needed in the first place

rockatansky

Terminator 3. As a massive fan of the first 2, even typing it makes my blood boil. Criminal charges should be brought against every single person involved in the Production of the film, including James Cameron.

shazzerman

rockatansky wrote: »

Terminator 3. As a massive fan of the first 2, even typing it makes my blood boil. Criminal charges should be brought against every single person involved in the Production of the film, including James Cameron.

Not the special effects dept., though: that fire-engine chase is as convincing as the post-Galleria chase in T2.

Ipso

quickbeam wrote: »

I have two. Firstly Inland Empire. Now I like a good quirky, surrealist film generally, and have liked previous David Lynch efforts, but by god, this was a torturous overlong nonsensical chore to sit through.

More so than Mulholland Drive?

kingtiger

May not be the worst, but a major disappointment lately has to be Interstellar


From the fecking dust in his daughters bedroom being binary code which he discovers after about two mins with Michael Caine, who then decides he's the man for the job

Then McConaughey spends the whole movie trying to get back to Murph just to spend about three minutes with her and then fecks off to save Dr Bland on another planet, and won't even mention the bloody bookcase

Don't know how it is so highly rated, the only good thing was the Robot

No_Comply

How on earth are people mentioned 'Man of Steel' without mentioning the infinitely more awful Superman Returns FFS!

Just goes to show what these threads are really about...

anothernight

kingtiger wrote: »

May not be the worst, but a major disappointment lately has to be Interstellar


From the fecking dust in his daughters bedroom being binary code which he discovers after about two mins with Michael Caine, who then decides he's the man for the job

Then McConaughey spends the whole movie trying to get back to Murph just to spend about three minutes with her and then fecks off to save Dr Bland on another planet, and won't even mention the bloody bookcase

Don't know how it is so highly rated, the only good thing was the Robot

Oh God yes. And people still have the cheek of saying that the science was accurate. Ugh. As a woman, listening to Anne Hathaway talking about the power of love (!) really made me cringe. :mad:

johnnybmac

I like what i like whether critically acclaimed or not (I.E. I'm no movie buff)

But, I remember once seeing a movie starring Bruce Willis called Last Man Standing, and it truly was, the worst piece of sh**e that I have ever seen...

quickbeam

Ipso wrote: »

More so than Mulholland Drive?

I liked Mulholland Drive.

hidinginthebush

kingtiger wrote: »

May not be the worst, but a major disappointment lately has to be Interstellar


From the fecking dust in his daughters bedroom being binary code which he discovers after about two mins with Michael Caine, who then decides he's the man for the job

Then McConaughey spends the whole movie trying to get back to Murph just to spend about three minutes with her and then fecks off to save Dr Bland on another planet, and won't even mention the bloody bookcase

Don't know how it is so highly rated, the only good thing was the Robot

If you watch interstellar and stop it just as Cobb

is floating before Saturn, with the blinking lights in the distance

, it's amazing. I get the impression that Nolan felt he had to give full closure after the furore about the end of inception with the spinning top. Which is a shame really. You have this very interesting and enjoyable space film that goes through time travel , and then decide to spend the last twenty minutes hammering into the audience the ending like they're a bunch of idiots that can't form their own opinion.

Edit: full disclosure I LOVE interstellar. Probably seen it about 7 times at this stage. Ending it like I said above improves it immensely.

dr.fuzzenstein

Excuse me? WTF is WRONG with you people that this hasn't been mentioned in the FIRST post?!:
Fast & Furious
Fast & Furious 2
Fast & Furious 3
Fast & Furious 4
Fast & Furious 5
Fast & Furious 6
Fast & Furious 7
Just keep adding them as they are being spewed forth. Soon there will have to be a separate top ten of worst movies ever just for Fast & Furious. I have never seen a movie (or franchise) that could be the entire top ten of worst movies ever made.
I watched the first one with my mouth open as to how such garbage could ever have been made and the sort of mouthbreathing imbeciles who lap up that kind of sh*t. Seriously Battleship is Citizen Fcuking Kane compared to any of them.

Other that that:
Any sequel of these:
Highlander
Robocop
Matrix

Un Croissant, you will have to do 10 rounds round the block with your backpack held over your head for saying that about The Big Lebowski!
It is my favourite thing in the world, if I had to watch only one movie for the rest of time, it would have to be this.

Smiles35

Heheh. Highlander 2. I was a sponge, I didnt really register the space hoverboards. But I did notice the quirky, happy music during the fights and dramatic music playing over some lighter moments.

Major ganja smoked in that editing room. It's the only explanation for that. The ganjas great for creativity but polishing the turd just highlighted what they were up to.

e_e

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

the sort of mouthbreathing imbeciles who lap up that kind of sh*t.

I love my Kubrick, Bresson, Antonioni, Tarkovsky, Kieslowski, Kiarostami, Ozu, Bergman etc etc and yet Fast 5 - Fast 7 are among my favorite blockbusters of the past 5 years. The fifth film in particular is pretty outstanding in its genre.

shamrock55

District 9 is crap, as are most already pointed out so far
one movie that disapointed me after i heard so much about it was the big labowski, i honestly thought it was a load of ****e

Wedwood

Exorcist 2 - The Heretic. Incomprehensible nonsense. How did Richard Burton allow himself be in this ?

Zardoz - Sean Connery's worst film by a mile.

K.Flyer

M!Ck^ wrote: »

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It was never ****ing needed in the first place

In reality most remakes are not needed, nor as good as the originals. (imo)

shamrock55

K.Flyer wrote: »

In reality most remakes are not needed, nor as good as the originals. (imo)

Bttf 2 says otherwise;)

Pocoyo

Sharknado



Who doesnt like tornado's and sharks,I expected great things but i was left deflated.