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Just to be controversial I will say 1917.
The stupid way they make it look like 1 scene.
The story is utter bollocks and completely unrealistic.
I've got a real contender here: Mongolian Death Worms!
It's on Amazon prime now. Watched it, well half of it with a kebab last night. Brilliantly terrible.
The greasy strangler anyone?
Nearly 50 replies and no one has said Battleship. I can only assume I’m the only person here to have tried to watch it.
Honourable mention to Kill List. Incomprehensible p!sh.
Dunkirk (the 2017 version).
I think some people are struggling with the concept of "worst film ever".
I'll continue this trend - Blade Runner. Dull, dull, dull.
Blade Runner 2049 just plain boring never watched it to the end just gave up
I think some people are struggling with the concept of “worst film ever”.
Maybe the thread should be ‘The Film I dislike the most’, because as far as I know there aren’t any film critics on here, although happy to be corrected. Just because you or I dislike a film doesn’t make it the worst film ever. (The obvious exception to that is The Manitou, see thread above) 😉
"The Ghost".
All the more notable for being a Roman Polanski film. Whatever you think of the 5-foot Pole you wouldn't touch with a 10-foot pole, he's directed some excellent movies.
This one stars Ewan McGregor as a ghost writer, hired to do the autobiography of an unpopular former Prime Minister (played by Pierce Brosnan, literally doing a bad Tony Blair impression).
The dialogue will make you cringe your own skin off. The audience, watching what is supposed to be a thriller were pissing themselves laughing throughout. The plot makes about as much sense as a one-inch hospital. Ewan McGregor wanders through the whole thing looking like he's suffered a head injury and has to work out what's happening in every scene.
It's almost so bad, it's good, but, regrettably, not quite.
I think some people are struggling with the concept of “worst film ever”.
Yep. Although I think it's extremely good, I can understand people not being into Bladerunner, for example. It's well, made with a very good cast, and the plot makes sense. It's just that many people aren't into that genre of film. I personally think Saving Private Ryan is overrated, the assault on the beach was generally excellent but the rest of it was cliched and predictable. It's not terrible though, just a bit predictable. Truly horrible films (Reefer Madness, for example) are just terrible in every way - ridiculous script, crap acting, nonsensical concept.
Edit. I just remembered that I once rented Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? because it had Dustin Hoffman in it so I assumed it would be a safe bet. My god, WTF were they thinking? Pretty sure that's the worst film I've seen by people who should be able to make a good film.
Attack of the oversexed rugsuckers from Mars?
Anyone?..
I rented it on VHS.
It was as expected. Animation quality that bagpuss creators would be ashamed of.
Crank , but it's probably just me because they did a sequel.
Highlander 2 was a troubled film and this is a complex answer,
I'm expecting revelations about the goats...
Seriously, troubled or not the end product was pish.
As for whoever suggested Troll Hunter, I thought it was great fun.
Watty is right though, lots of people suggesting films they didn't like or just trying to get a rise out of others by suggesting things like Star Wars or 1917.
Snake Eyes.
The Last Unicorn.
Highlander 2.
An eclectic selection unified only by their utter crappness.
I reckon if you’ve actually watched the whole film, you can’t say its the worst of anything. If it’s that bad you either wouldn’t watch it at all (Mrs Brown’s Boys movie)(because you just know its utter crap ) or you wouldn’t make it past the first hour - for me that’s Highlander (1), but I know people like the film, so it’s obviously not the worst ever... or Cake, with Jennifer Anniston, which would be near the top on the list of shite.
I offer no comment on idiotic or trolling suggestions, except The Greasy Strangler, which is awesome. whoever suggested it is clearly a Bullshit Artist!
I reckon if you’ve actually watched the whole film, you can’t say its the worst of anything.
I mostly agree, but then you get nonsense like Harry Kellerman which looks promising until you get to near the end and you realize that it's just pretentious nonsense dressed up as art. Instead of all the bits being individually awful, it's the totality of the thing that is awful. Quite an achievement, really.
Bruce Willis has been responsible for around 5 hours of my life being wasted, herself loves his oeuvre.
Item 1: Armageddon
Item 2: G.I. Joe
Both piles of steaming ordure.
Anyone who goes and sees Mrs Brown in a cinema loses all ability to comment on others film choices (either that or you were on a sure thing). You paid money to see that after so many TV appearances? (A one TV series programme at best).
trying to get a rise out of others by suggesting things like Star Wars or 1917.
Not really.
Although obviously not the "worst film ever" it is IMO, the worst film that has had so much critical acclaim thrust upon it. It presents itself as a historical drama, however, the story at it's core, is complete and utter nonsense. It just does not accurately reflect WW1 military practice at all.
Item 1: Armageddon
Wrong.
Liv Tyler is in it.
obviously not the “worst film ever” it is IMO, the worst film that has had so much critical acclaim thrust upon it.
So, you need the “Most overrated film ever” thread.
(start it! it’ll be a long runner!)
Anyone who goes and sees Mrs Brown in a cinema
Did anyone? would they admit to it?
Most of the films mentioned were hardly a suprise - you don't go to watch Dude wheres my car? without a fair idea its not going to be up there with Shawshank Redemption
But Prometheus...........well that was a suprise
Shit Sci-Fi/fantsy films, TV series like Battleship and Van Helsing I actually enjoy. Someone said above about the Horror channel which seems to have loads of really crappy knock of versions that looked like they were filmed, edited, and CGI from on an iphone that just makes you think why even do it.
The Road
Eyes Wide Shut. Only time ive walked out of a cinema.
With the exception of Top Gun all films with Tom Cruise in are near the top of my list
So, you need the “Most overrated film ever” thread.
(start it! it’ll be a long runner!)
Not quite.
It's because the storyline is absolute horseshit!
I don't mean in a "Saving Private Ryan - there were no Tiger Tanks in Normandy until later" kind of way or a "Fury - They would of just called in an airstrike on the SS Division", it's the worse than that.
The Blair’s Witch Project is probably the worst film I have seen at the cinema.
With the exception of Top Gun all films with Tom Cruise in are near the top of my list
He has done some rubbish, but his best movies were pretty decent. , Jerry Maguire, Born on the Fourth of July, Magnolia, Minority Report were pretty solid.
Why are people listing AAA movies? Even the shit ones have great effects, acting, cinematography or something else that saves them.
Real crap films are a whole different level.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CkNB0w1fYKk
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e25D4XJ8AKM
I think the closest films with an actual budget get to being truly bad are Adam Sandler’s Netflix films. He’s actually turned his career in to that scene from South Park.
Accepting the points above, then ignoring them - any Terminator film after T2
We watched Dark Fate last night and despite it looking and sounding great, the underlying message has been milked to death.
How many times can time be re-written and all the lines from the first movie be used.
Clearly loads but I wonder if they could have done something different with the Terminator franchise as an evolution.
Early 80's watching straight to video. You've seen everything else and are forced to the low end titles.
Really, where to begin ? 😆
1.Chuck Norris.
Chuck Norris movies (at least the ones I've seen) aren't terrible movies, they're B-movies. They're entertaining enough if you're into that sort of mindless action stuff, they're not meant to compete with Kubrick etc.
showgirls and its got naked women in it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I mean it has real actors, usually found in quality films....but
Thank God someone has mentioned United Passions. I'm more concerned that no-one has gone with Battlefield Earth yet. 🙂
I read all of your suggestions, and bring the thread to a close with ‘Drop Dead Fred’.
Rik Mayall should be in prison for that utter utter shite.
Rik Mayall should be in prison for that utter utter shite.
He'd probably see that as a welcome boost to his circumstances right now.
Just watched Starship Troopers 3. Oh dear! That was terrible. I loved the original but they tried to make a sequel with no budget for special effects.
showgirls and its got naked women
Barry Norman said something about more Mohicans than a Western when he reviewed it!
Once upon a time in Hollywood.
On paper it looks great, Pitt, DiCaprio, Robbie, but it’s just crap, nothing happens until the end and even that’s pants.
Another for most overrated movie is no country for old men
Shawshank Redemption utter drivel.
The worst film I ever walked out of was "Sympathy for the Devil" by Goddard. I'll leave the wikipedia synopsis with you:
Plot
Composing the film's main narrative thread are several long, uninterrupted shots of the Rolling Stones in London's Olympic Studios, recording and re-recording various parts to "Sympathy for the Devil". The dissolution of Stone Brian Jones is vividly portrayed, and the chaos of 1968 is made clear when a line referring to the killing of John F. Kennedy is heard changed to the plural after the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in June.
Interwoven through the movie are outdoor shots of Black Panthers milling about in a junkyard littered with rusting cars heaped upon each other. They read from revolutionary texts (including Amiri Baraka and Eldridge Cleaver) and toss their rifles to each other, from man to man. A group of white women, apparently kidnapped and dressed in white, are brutalized and ultimately shot, off-camera; their bloody bodies are subsequently seen in various tableaus throughout the film.
The rest of the film contains a political message in the form of a voiceover about Marxism, the need for revolution and other topics in which Godard was interested. One scene involves a camera crew following a woman about, played by Anne Wiazemsky in a yellow peasant dress, in an outdoor wildlife setting; questions are asked of her, to which she always answers either "yes" or "no". As can be seen from the chapter heading to the scene, she is supposed to be a personification of democracy, a woman named 'Eve Democracy'.
At least one quarter of the film is devoted to indoor shots of a pornographic bookstore that sells such diverse items as Marvel's Doctor Strange, DC's The Atom, and The Flash comic books, Nazi pamphlets for propaganda, and various men's magazines. Alternating with the shots of comic books, pinup magazines, and Nazi pamphlets, consumers casually enter the bookstore, approach a bookshelf, pick up books or magazines, exchange them for a sheet of paper, and then slap the faces of two Maoist hostages sitting patiently next to a book display. Toward the end of the scene, a small child is admitted for the purpose of buying a pamphlet and slapping the faces of the hostages. After exchanging their purchases and receiving their document, each customer raises his or her right arm in a Nazi salute, and leaves the store. The bookstore owner reads aloud from Mein Kampf.
Mimicking the earlier scene of the camera crew following Eve Democracy is the last scene to the movie where the camera crew mills about on the beach and from afar one man asks another "What are they doing over there?" To which the other answers "I think they're shooting a movie". A large camera crane is positioned on the beach and another woman in white is laid down upon the end of the crane and elevated, along with a motion picture camera, on the platform until she is well above the beach. She doesn't rise up but remains motionless, half-hanging off the crane, one leg dangling.
Dude wheres my car. Even with a 12 year old mindset it was drivel.