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But I really don't like LOTR and The Hobbit films. Just so much boring nonsense
To describe Ratatouille as a bad film is something that needs to be addressed FACE TO FACE.
PM me for a meet.
Baggsie sloppy seconds! But,
The Courier, on Netflix.
At least it was short.
In the woods. I win
Greyhound, my oh my oh my. Absolute cringeworthy drivel.
Synecdoche.
I’d managed to blot it from my mind but it just popped back a few days after reading this thread. Like a malodorous bubble of methane working it’s way out of the well rotted swamp of my mind.
I can’t even start on how bad it is. Also - just in case you were wondering, it does not get a date off to a good start.
Sitting all the way through Highlander 2 was like one of those Japanese “endurance” game shows that Clive James used to feature, but there was no prize at the end. I’ve never seen so many people leave a cinema during a film.
I actually sat through it; pretty much as Cougar said, like watching a car crash lasting about two hours, partly hoping it might get better, partly wanting to see just how much worse it can get. Again, as Cougar said, it’s just riddled with continuity errors*, so, along with all the aliens come to Earth crap, renders it incomprehensible.
Fortunately, the next Highlander film behaved as if #2 had never existed and kept proper continuity, and was a lot more fun.
Not that either is Citizen Kane or The Colour Purple, but they’re just entertaining fun.
*One was a fight, I think, in some sort of circular room, with a horizontal fan, IIRC, and at the end one of the Immortals/aliens leaves his sword stuck upright in the concrete, then shortly afterwards has the same sword in his hand!
how many other Kevin Smith films have you seen?
Had to look up who he was. I've seen bits of dare devil but didnt get into it.
I love Synecdoche, one of my favourites, but I get it's not for all.
No, the worst film...
Hudson Hawk
...watch it..no, wait, dont
J&SB is for the fans! It’s not meant for you lol. Surprised you even sat through it - must’ve made next to no sense whatsoever 🤣Had to look up who he was. I’ve seen bits of dare devil but didnt get into it.
I remembered going to see it when it was released. Obviously no well enough because i saw it again recently.
Ooops.
The Counselor was a waste of my effort and the people involved in making it.
Once upon a time in Mexico - just horrifyingly bad.
Kick Ass 2.
Any of the Pirates films after the 1st one and the 1st one is too long.
I’d blotted this one out, Ned Kelly starring Mick Jagger.
Shortly after Channel 4 started broadcasting they did a list of the worst films ever. Which of course we had to watch. The Wild Women of Wongo and They Saved Hitler's Brain take some beating as the worst movies, even nearly 40 years later with all that's been made since.
A new contender has arisen.
Ju Jitsu.
Imagine a low budget attempt to rip off Predator. Imagine martial arts sequences that have even me thinking I could look better than the stunt guys. Going back to the low budget notice how a lot of the combatants are wearing balaclavas and facemasks to try to stop you realising only two of the guys can kick higher than knee height.
Now imaging trying to gain cred by having Nicholas Cage turn up and do a performance he could have phoned in.
God only knows how they persuaded Frank Grillo to get involved. I though he had some kind of standards.
I'm going to try to find Fatman later. If you've seen Pratchett's The Hogfather it seems to have a similar premise. But with guns. They even refer to Santa as The Fatman in Hogfather...
Merry Christmas Tiny Tim.
Highlander 2 blows goats
This, highlander 2 is so bad it ruined highlander.
Other examples of this are Beverley Hills Cop 3. WTAF? was EM on crack at the time? (answer probably yes). 2 hrs of no plot, no jokes and EM effing and jeffing his way round set. Terrible.
Last weekend watched "In Fabric" - a ahem, horror film about a haunted... dress. Unbelievably bad. Between the utterly laughable "scary" bits, it was really just plain boring.
That is what you call a bad film.
Obviously not the worst film ever, but the worst in have ever seen in a cinema was hostiles with Christian Bale. So dull i fell asleep.
After seeing it on the telly last week, Red Sparrow is pretty dreadful. Fairly standard spy caper with the addition of an absolutely gratuitous, completely unnecessary "horrible rapey sex school for spies" sub plot.
The Wild Women of Wongo sounds like a contender.
Black panther is terrible
Agree, Black Panther is poor, but it’s extremely far from the thread title.
I may have been a bit premature judging Fatman
Helvellyn
After sitting through all 2 hours 30 minutes
War of the worlds.Tom cruises massively annoying kids version!
Alien Covenant is just as bad
I didn't but this is the only film that made me want to walk out the cinema, let's do away with any decent plot and creative writing and make everyone really stupid. "Oh it's an alien egg I should probably take a look inside."
Buuuutttt, the answer to the big question is Polar, a soulless vacuous heap of dung with no redeeming qualities.
I watched the latest Robin Hood the other night. Don’t judge me! I couldn’t sleep and have pretty much seen everything that’s worth watching on Netflix. It was dire and pointless. I don’t understand why a good Robin Hood film can’t be made. All the elements are already in place, but we’ve never had a solid Hood movie.
Holmes and Watson. Yup I’ve read the reviews, but it popped up on Netflix yesterday. been out for a long ride, few beers on board and feeling like I fancied some brain out entertainment stuck it, after all how bad could it be?!
Very. I lasted 10 minutes, and only because I was out the room for 5 of them
The watchmen. Worst comedy ever. Then someone told me it’s not a comedy which made me wonder what it was supposed to be.
What comedies do you watch? I once got convinced to watch Man Bites Dog as a comedy, that was similarly uncomfortable.
The 1989 Tim Burton Batman movie (and its sequels). Just, Plain. Terrible.
Wash your mouth out! There was only one sequel (by Burton) as well, the other two were Joel Schumacher, both of which were utter pish and not much better than the effort by Zack Snyder for that matter.
Cougars description of Highlander 2 could well be Alien 3, same sad story.
Harlem Nights - 20 minutes in I was in the pub round the corner.
Happy Feet
Worst seasonal film by a country mile is Nativity 2.
Harlem Nights – 20 minutes in I was in the pub round the corner.
Are you me? You've just triggered a long-erased memory of doing exactly the same thing. 🙂
Holmes and Watson. Yup I’ve read the reviews, but it popped up on Netflix yesterday. been out for a long ride, few beers on board and feeling like I fancied some brain out entertainment stuck it, after all how bad could it be?!
Very. I lasted 10 minutes, and only because I was out the room for 5 of them
Seconded. I like bad films. I enjoyed Talladega Nights. This was so dire I didn't make it more than 10 minutes in.
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
I watched that on advice ofa work colleague.
Not scary. Just odd. Silly odd.
Like, why did the headless woman just float up into the tree house at the end?
At no point did that move fit in or make sense.
Odd.
DrP
Yesterday I sat on the couch after consuming a massive roast dinner and put on "Mad Max - Beyond the Thunderdome"
This was the first time I would of watched it since its original release when I was probably about 10. I remember a stylish, dark, edgy film set in a post apocalyptic world. What I actually got was a camp, silly dose of nonsense that was so dire I fell asleep after half an hour.
Harlem Nights – 20 minutes in I was in the pub round the corner.
I won't watch it again, but I remember watching it, probably too young when I was a young Teenager than I thought it was great. I'm sure it's not.
When i was younger i always liked the Kickboxer film starring Jean Claude Van Dame
Last night i was flicking through some films to watch and came across Kickboxer 4 The Agressor.
Holy shit, this was the worst film i have ever seen in storyline, acting, fight scenes and makeup.
Tong Po looked like his face had melted
The River Wild with Meryl Streep.
Cliffhanger with Stallone as a climber - really?
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Liked the book. Tried to watch film three times now and no matter how many awards it won, I can’t get past 30 mins before falling asleep!
Anything with Dwayne ‘the Rock’ Johnson. Total knucklehead, steroid mutant cheesy CGI drivel. Makes Statham seem classy!
Anything with Dwayne ‘the Rock’ Johnson.
He wouldn't be my go to for quality acting but there's nothing wrong with either Moana or Jumanji.
Alien3
Its kind of the poster child for "development hell" There is a good film in there somewhere, but definitely not up on the screen.
I think the chances of a film being any good are inversely proportion to the number of writers involved raised to the power of the number of directors who have been linked to the "project"
Holmes and Watson.
Third vote for this. I made it as far as the courtroom bit, so about eight minutes in. I’ll watch any old shite too.
Alien3
Its kind of the poster child for “development hell” There is a good film in there somewhere, but definitely not up on the screen.
I think the chances of a film being any good are inversely proportion to the number of writers involved raised to the power of the number of directors who have been linked to the “project”
I've often thought that the Alien 'character' / formula is so good, it's one of those thing it seems almost impossible to make a bad film from, but somehow it's had a lot more misses than hits.
Development Hell as you say certainly is a part of it, and 'too many cooks'. I doubt that there will ever be another good Alien film. It's actually a great franchise for a reboot as the 'star' is the Monster, not the Human characters per-se, as good as Ripley was.
What it needs though is restraint, the Xenomorph is scariest when it's shown in shadow, hidden in the sort organic/technology hybrid claustrophobic environment it builds, not when it's running around in broad daylight.
Perhaps not the worst ever, but for highly over-rated schmaltzy thoroughly predictable pish, see Shawshank Redemption, or better still, don't see it.
Brawl in cell block 99
Vince Vaughn , truly awful
for highly over-rated schmaltzy thoroughly predictable pish, see Shawshank Redemption, or better still, don’t see it
How odd
Black panther is terrible
Some movies are more than just movies. i will leave it at that.