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When I first read this thread I was thinking that I hadn't been to watch many bad films because I tend to look at reviews first, but the ore I think about it, it's probably because I'm blocking them out of my mind!
Some more shockers I've thought of:
Jaws 4: The revenge. Travel halfway across the world to avoid a shark, only to live on the coast! Really felt sorry for Michael Caine. Thankfully he found some better projects to work on soon after.
I once stumbled upon a version of The Pink Panther starring Steve Martin on tv one night. Unbelievably bad - I mean - why!?
Its easy to make a shit film when you have a budget of $1.50
I find it hard to really condemn all the low budget dross that finds its way on to the Sci-Fi or Horror channel.
But proper studio films that end up rubbish despite the budget and "talent" involved are worth calling out.
The worst film I have ever sat through at the cinema was "Daylight" starring Sly Stallone, it was dreadful, but I laughed most of the way through it.
Then you get properly hyped stuff from name directors, someone mentioned Prometheus. Despite looking amazing, it really made no sense. Watching it was like letting Ridley Scott take a shit in your brain. So in a way it was worse then Daylight
Really felt sorry for Michael Caine.
Don't. His quote about it:
"I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific.
Four pages in and i am still reeling that someone thought The Kill List was rubbish!
Its great - think again.
I find it hard to really condemn all the low budget dross that finds its way on to the Sci-Fi or Horror channel.
But proper studio films that end up rubbish despite the budget and “talent” involved are worth calling out.
Yup,it's mad.
After Earth
Rotten Tomatoes ->>> After Earth is a dull, ploddingly paced exercise in sentimental sci-fi -- and the latest setback for director M. Night Shyamalan's once-promising career.
....and still,it made a profit 🙁
After Earth? Travolta as an alien and essentially stone age Earth natives learning how to fly Harriers after a couple of hours in a flight simulator? Yeah, that was pretty shit.
“I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific.
Yep, I've read that before. I guess I didn't really mean I felt sorry for Michael Caine as much as felt sorry for myself watching Michael Caine do it 🙂
After Earth? Travolta as an alien and essentially stone age Earth natives learning how to fly Harriers after a couple of hours in a flight simulator? Yeah, that was pretty shit.
willard,you are thinking of Battlefield Earth.
Thanks for the warning ,it looks a belter 🙂
After Earth was shite too, don't worry.
Prometheus. Despite looking amazing, it really made no sense. Watching it was like letting Ridley Scott take a shit in your brain.
That’s the best review of Prometheus I’ve ever read. My biggest annoyance with that travesty of a film is the fact that the fella they find in Alien is roughly four million times bigger than the one in Prometheus. At least watch the original film again Ridley FFS.
Alien Covenant is just as bad. Redeemed by the comedy gold of “You blow and I’ll do the fingering”
Cloverfield - premise of the film is okay if a little Godzilla but the fact that the monster changes size from scene to scene is just infuriating
Charlie's Angels 2: Full Throttle - walked out after 15 minutes, utter bilge. Tried it again on Netflix recently, same result.
The Last Airbender - annoyingly not called Avatar because there was already a film called Avatar even though this is based on a cartoon called Avatar. Anyway, the cartoons were pretty good, characters were likable fairly good story. Movie is beyond shite, crap actors, storyline written by someone that has had the cartoon described to them 54th hand from someone else that's never seen it. Just unbelievably bad.
I offer up "Give my Regards to Broad Street".
Written by Paul McCartney,
Soundtrack by Paul McCartney,
Starring Paul McCartney and his mates.
One of the worst examples of a vanity project.
That’s how Black Adder Goes Forth ended up being used to teach WW1 history.
Which is a shame, as it is, a terrible travesty of the actual history of WW1, but at least they play it for laughs, and don't pretend it's supposed to be accurate. If we're doing a list of over-rated films, than obviously The Shawshank Redemption leaps it's way to the number one spot.
I don't think I've ever walked out of a movie though. too cheap!
Which is a shame, as it is, a terrible travesty of the actual history of WW1, but at least they play it for laughs, and don’t pretend it’s supposed to be accurate.
Right the way up to the final scene of the last episode when we see the probable death of people you’ve got to like.
@eddiebaby,well obvs that's a feature of any war, but again, by late 1917 (when Blackadder ends) the BEF aren't doing those sorts of "over the top walking/running at the enemy" sorts of attack, so it's not even particularly accurate there either...But's it's probs for a different thread.
Probs. But certainly a moment in TV that pulled me up and made think WTF!? Maybe that sense of shock is what we are trying to reach people. I dunno! Don’t even know what parts if the series are being used in the syllabus.
I watched Hubie Halloween the other night. Don’t judge me! I was bored, stressed out, couldn’t sleep and needed something to distract me. Even by Sandler standards it is atrocious. The man seems to think that playing an adult with a speech impediment and arrested development is the height of comedy. He’s wrong. I still find it difficult to dislike him though.
@funkmasterp I had to watch it as the GF is a massive Sandler fan for some reason. It’s absolute dog shit, really boring as basically nothing happens, plus the majority of the “jokes” revolve around his character with learning difficulties being bullied which is lazy and pretty offensive tbh. I actually wonder if he’s not involved in some kind of meta-joke just seeing how many shit films with the same character he can make 😀 It’s not like he’s got no talent - you’ve only got to watch Punch Drunk Love - but I guess this kind of film is very quick & cheap to make, pays well, plus probably quite fun just hanging out with largely the same group of mates messing around for the duration!
That’s what he seems to do. Take holidays with his friends and make a film whilst doing so. He can clearly act as you say. Punch Drunk Love, Uncut Gems and Reign Over Me are all proof of that. He did threaten to make the worst film he could if he didn’t get a nomination for Uncut Gems 🤔
"How it ends" available on Netflix, go on, I dare you, it basically just fizzles out after 2 hours of various "serious" things happening and people doing stuff and not a lot of sense being made but then more things happening...really should be retitled "Why did they bother? for that matter , Why did I bother?"
Im right there with anyone who mentioned "Highlander 2", a film that with the epic line: Christopher Lambert: "What is it? Magic?"
Sean Connery:"A kind of..."
And thus jumps the shark so high it goes nearly into orbit.
Pretty much anything released under the Canon Golan/Gomez banner in the mid "80's...
The 1989 Tim Burton Batman movie (and its sequels). Just, Plain. Terrible.
However,"Plan 9 from outer Space", widely described as the worst movie ever made is rather charming...but its still pretty bad.
Without a paddle. I accused our close group of friends of being easily pleased after they actually laughed at the telegraphed puerile dross masquerading as comedy.
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.
Sorry, I forgot about this. I've posted about this before and was going to link back to an old post till I realised it was about eight years ago!
Basically, anything that could go wrong with production did. Front and centre was the country they were filming in - Argentina - essentially went bust, their economy collapsed.
Maybe relating to that, I'm not sure, the film went over-budget to a degree where insurers had to step in. So the production company were under huge pressure to just release something in order to recoup costs. Director (of both Highlander and H2) Russell Mulcahy's creative control went out of the window and it was the studio calling the shots. Apocryphally perhaps, Mulcahy walked out of the premiere 15 minutes into the showing and the only reason Lambert didn't bin it halfway through filming was because he'd be in breach of contract. The result is an utter car crash of a film. It was even worse here, the gorgonzola ending of the UK theatrical release where Connor and, erm, Mrs Connor get beamed up to Zeist was an 'alternate ending' and was considered lost for years.
Mulcahy hated it so much that a couple of years later he tried to fix it and made a director's cut essentially from the cutting room floor. This is the 'Renegade Edition' and whilst still not a great movie it's exponentially better than the original. Notably it shitcans all the 'aliens' twaddle and fixes a bunch of continuity issues (there was one fight scene originally stitched together from two entirely different scenes that was a hot mess, I can't remember what else now).
It was revisited again years later and a Special Edition was created. I don't know much about this as I've not seen it but I believe it's basically Mulcahy's Renegade Edition with some reshot CGI and minor tweaks. I might see if I can track it down somewhere, I'm at a loose end tonight.
But yeah, as I wrote eight years ago:
the theatrical release of Highlander 2 is right up there on my “crushing disappointments in cinema” list, just above Escape From LA.
No idea about the goats though. Sorry.
Gnomeo and Juliet was one of the worst though.
Maybe it's my childish sense of humour but I love that film. Sorry.
Agree about Adam Sandler films, with the exception of Grown Ups - maybe it just struck a slushy sentimental chord note as we were at that kind of 30 something with kids stage, maybe it was cos I have a real thing for Salma Hayek
The golden compass. Awful and pointless. However, I really never did understand the hype behind fight club. Just thought it was very average.
Watched bloodshot on sky cinema the other day, Vin Diesel certainly has been rolling out the films with that one character for a while now, god awful movie that made no sense, and i mean that even when you suspend belief due to the sci fi stuff!
+1 Highlander 2
There are others technically worse but they're so bad they're kind of fun. Highlander 2 was nearest I came to walking out of a cinema and really wish I had.
A Serious Man - it's supposed to be good but after a few "wtf is going on" moments I had to turn it off
A Serious Man – it’s supposed to be good but after a few “wtf is going on” moments I had to turn it off
Was that the first Cohen brothers film you'd ever seen?
(sic) ‘St Trinians’ (2007) ?
I can’t even get through 10 seconds of the trailer.
I rented "The Punisher" twice. Both times I fell asleep during it and have no idea what happened. I can't even remember which version it was. Twice. I paid good money for that. Wsted.
The worst film I ever walked out of was “Sympathy for the Devil” by Goddard.
Your mistake - you weren't watching it while high.
Was that the first Cohen brothers film you’d ever seen?
Nope, big fan of their films in general and whilst there's a lot of 'out there' moments in most of their stuff it's still watchable and easy to follow, I just didn't find that with A Serious Man
The watchmen. Worst comedy ever. Then someone told me it's not a comedy which made me wonder what it was supposed to be.
Godfather. Just boring.
Jay and silent Bob. Dont get it.
Star Wars. Over hyped and boring.
Avengers Assemble. Over complicated with no character profiles.
how many other Kevin Smith films have you seen?Jay and silent Bob. Dont get it.
Watched Hereditary for the 1st time tonight. That's a strong candidate. Utter shit. What's the point in a horror film that isn't scary, creepy or unsettling
Probs already been mentioned but Drive Angry, on the telly now. Redeemed slightly by Amber Heard in hotpants and Dodge Charger though.
Watched Hereditary for the 1st time tonight. That’s a strong candidate. Utter shit. What’s the point in a horror film that isn’t scary, creepy or unsettling
Another one I love and have watched several times. Scary, creepy and unsettling! Maybe you should avoid Ari Aster's other one Midsommar , as I loved that too.
Brilliant film.
2012.
This isn't just a bad film, it's actually very annoying.
I can remember getting mad watching it.
Hereditary is utter shite.
Midsomer is brilliant.
Deadpool. Dirty Harry's final run out is also tripe.
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To describe Ratatouille as a bad film is something that needs to be addressed FACE TO FACE.
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