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You thought The Favourite was bad, try the director’s other films! 😂
(I liked The Favourite)
I didn’t make 15 minutes through Marriage Story.
Roma is beyond me. Just the dullest thing I have ever tried to sit through. And I love an arty foreign drama, me.
Single worst film I’ve tried to watch lately though is Rough Night. The cast is superb! The script is a bag of shit.
Last straw for me, about 15-20 mins in, they’re in an airport, one of them pops a champagne bottle. Everyone in the airport dives for cover. The next line “er that sounded like a gun. And we’re in an airport”. wtf. If you want a “comedy” that exercises your frown muscles, give it a go.
Watched The Phantom Menace with the 6yr old forgot how crap it was, even the special effects were pretty rubbish, even the little one wanted it turned off and watched a 1952 Robin hood film instead!
I was once lent a copy of Idiocracy by a well-meaning friend. It lasted all of 10 minutes.
Been watching the Star Wars films with my eldest and come to the conclusion that they’re all a bit shit apart from Empire and Rogue One. Prequels and new ones especially so. The cartoons and The Mandalorian are better.
If you’ve got half an eye for old serialised westerns, Firefly or Shogun Assassin then I fail to see how you can dislike The Mandalorian.
I watched The Rise Of Skywalker the other night, that was drivel and unforgivably long.
I must say though, a lot of people on this thread have certainly got their hate on for some perfectly reasonable films.
Cats. I was coerced into seeing it. It really was spectacularly dreadful. I was physically in pain with the want for it to end.
A Quiet Place. Much as I like a bit of Emily Blunt, it was....a bit meh.
Villain 1971. Crap film and Richard Burton was terrible
A Quiet Place totally bored me. I put that up there with The Happening with Mark Wahlberg
I thought Foxcatcher, which was on the box the other night, was pretty terrible, but reviews suggest I'm in a minority.
John Wick. How anyone stuck it out to John Wick 3 is beyond me.
Cos I’ve just watched Wonder Woman
Holy crap, absolutely dreadful. Like, awful.
You're obviously not the target audience (eight-year old girls).
The latest Charlie's Angels. Wife wanted to watch it. What a load of rubbish!
The latest Charlie’s Angels
Were the previous ones any better?
The latest Charlie’s Angels. Wife wanted to watch it. What a load of rubbish!
Oh yeah, I forgot that one. I made it to about half way before binning it. Kirsten Stewart just looked embarrassed, and rightly so.
I watched Wonder Woman. I'd watch Gal Gadot doing the ironing.
Anything by Michael Bay doesn’t make any sense apart from Pain and Gain. Which was ace. I’ve yet to make any sense of any of the Transformer films.
There’s plenty of rubbish on Netflix but nothing compares to the Expendables
I’ll second Once Apon A Time In Hollywood.
I’ve never been so disappointed in a film in my life. Utter shite...and I love Tarantino films.
Mamma Mia. God awful. Especially Pierce Brosnan ‘singing’, they really should have overdubbed him
Robin Hood. No, not the Costner or Bergin films, a very recent (probably Netflix) remake. Starts with what you might expect a Gulf War firefight to feel like, other than the bullets replaced by arrows & crossbow bolts. And gets worse
a lot of what has been mentioned plus Star Wars - all of them.
The Grey. One film too many Liam.
Citizen Kane is alomost invariably in the top 5 best films in lists compiled by film critics. I watched it waiting for the story to start or something af any interest to happen, it didn't.
The new Markie Mark offering on Netflix, whatever it was called. It really was crap but switching the old brain off for a couple of hours wasn't a bad idea.
Bad Boys for Life for me.
I’d switched off mentally after about 20 mins and the my wife woke me up towards the end.
Sharknado is the biggest pile of poo I have ever seen
I’ve yet to make any sense of any of the Transformer films.
The first one has a plot you can follow and Bumblebee is actually good. The rest I agree on though. Not a clue what’s happening on screen beyond robots smash!
Some of you clearly haven’t seen any really shit films. Shark ado is supposed to be a bad film. Wonder Woman and Black Panther both pretty much do what they intend to and do it relatively well. Try Justice League, now there’s a shit superhero film.
Rocky V
I was having a movie marathon earlier. Enjoyed I-IV but V put a stop to it. Balboa, Creed and Creed II will have to wait for another day.
Sharknado is the biggest pile of poo I have ever seen
What? That's fantastic. And the sequels.
Just realised I was a bit quick to mention guava island as did actuality stick it through to the end. Can't say the same for "uncut gems" however. Awful music. Awful characters. Gave up after twenty minutes. And it came recommended from by a STWer.
Once upon a time in Hollywood. What was Tarantino thinking? I can only assume it was a bet to see if he could get people to watch such garbage after all his other good films. There’s literally nothing to it, utter dross.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes!
Nothing happens. It's just awful. Emperor's new clothes in cinema form.
Also, Black Panther. We're all supposed to love it, like it's some piece of cinematic magnificence. It's an OK superhero popcorn film, to pass a few hours on a flight. Nothing more.
(Disclaimer- most of the films I watch on flights are utter poo. Hell, I even watched the Point Break remake once. Not even the aperitif, wine list and spirits list could save that one!)
If Sharknado is in play I'm wheeling out Iron Sky
Spenser Confidential.
****ing Awful.
Polar, could have been so good, was pretty poor.
6 Underground, probably the worst I’ve seen in a good while. I love cars, lots of the ingredients should have worked but it just didn’t, in fact I found it mildly offensive.
Love films, have a fairly large collection of dvds I can’t part with but what is it about many of the latest ones? Or have lots always been like this? I’m probably too old and clearly not the target audience for most of the modern stuff.
Do not watch Coffee & Kareem on Netflix. Taraji P Henderson should be ashamed for taking part in such hateful dross.
Spenser Confidential.
Boooo! I liked that.
Is Netflix Funding/support/encouragement a film killer ? And while I remember
Mortal Engines, we all really enjoyed the books, great series with one of my all time favourite endings but BUT the film... oh dear it was sad...how could they? All that effort, expertise, expense and to produce that.
John Wick. How anyone stuck it out to John Wick 3 is beyond me.
The only cerebral element to John Wick are the bits he externalises with whatever weapon he has to hand. Its a Keanu Reeves film, temper your expectations. I actually enjoyed them all.
6 Underground was shit but enjoyably so, we watched it for that express purpose.
Never bothered with Hellboy after the previous sequel ruined it all. And Atomic Blonde was good!
Honestly, the worst film I think I've seen recently was Ready Player One. It was never going to be anything brilliant but they butchered what there was and turned it into a Nickelodeon special.
Christ what a miserable thread, bunch of grumpy old men. Only one I agree with is the Happening, ironically named that one.
Harry Potter films - pick one.
All drivel.
Anything on Netflix. Trying to think of an exception...
Only watched Sicario one and two last week on Netflix. They were really good especially two.
I've scrolled through all of these and amazed no one mentioned "Downsizing" with Matt Damon. I've never watched a film to the end that was so bad. It was awful!
Film4 had some variation of the xxx franchise on last night, "xxx: warmed up corpse" probably.
I can only describe the plot as: 50 year old Joe Exotic's husband tribute act rides a skateboard and everywhere he goes, girls at most half his age want to have sex with him.
The creepiness levels were off the chart. It was like something out of Prince Andrew's Pornhub searches repackaged for an R rating.
Watched a recording last night of the Bladerunner sequel and found it an indulgent,glacial borefest.
Can't remember watching a decent film since The Departed.Yes,grumpy old t---.
Watched a recording last night of the Bladerunner sequel and found it an indulgent,glacial borefest.
Theres a real lack of talking. Really important characters meet and have barely anything to say to each other. The sets and environments are lovely but you only really notice them so much because you're bored of what the people in those environments are doing.
Moon. – Sam Rockwell is effing amazing in every film apart from this one. Incomprehensible
Absolutely no way. ‘Moon’ was one of the very few sci-fi films of the last two decades that didn’t suck big logs. And it was British 🇬🇧!
Can’t we do best films instead? Here’s a starter:
Moon - Sam Rockwell, is effing amazing. Comprehensibly chilling journey through a fascinating parable.
Watched Doolittle with the kids last night. Trying to be Pirates of the Caribbean but just ended up a total chaotic mess.
Also, had high hopes for Ad Astra and really wanted to like it but it was nonsense.
But the crown for the biggest disappointment in all my film watching days goes to Prometheus. Unbelievably bad in every way and I was willing to give it a metric tonne of doubt but what a wasted opportunity.
Edit: Totally agree about Moon - fantastic. Another one of the few recent scifi films that doesn't suck is Ex Machina.