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Ghost Ship is pretty bad, Southland Tales is much, much worse.
I defy anyone to make it to the end of Jiu Jitsu. Nicholas Cage has turned out yet another turd.
I'd be more shocked if Nicholas Cage released something good nowadays.
I love Southland Tales. It’s an incredibly ambitious concept that Richard Kelly didn’t [i]quite[/i] have the ability or the budget to pull off. It’s also more than just a film, and the main problem is if you haven’t read the other material you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s all just a load of nonsense 😀 (plus the fact the studio made him cut loads of fairly vital explanatory bits out didn’t help!)
Great (and long) interview with the director here https://www.vice.com/en/article/ypp8x5/southland-tales-richard-kelly
From a few years back, explaining his thought process & where it all went wrong!
I’d always wondered if he’d revisit the project, he did in fact announce this year that he was working on something, it’ll be interesting to see what if anything he comes up with. (Although I quite like thinking about the film just in itself though, you can interpret it pretty much any way you like 😂)
I see "Mank" picked up a load of Oscars. Wish I could get past 20 mins without falling asleep.
And wish I could see the visuals that won it best cinematography, but it's all too dark and gloomy.
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I see “Mank” picked up a load of Oscars
Well, it picked up a load of nominations and won 2 so I guess it did OK. They were for Cinematography and Production Design so the Academy obviously thought it looked nice but I've not yet mustered up the enthusiasm to give it a try and tbh you're not helping any!
Central Intelligence. I normally find Dwayne Johnson rather watchable but CI is easily one of the biggest piles of shite I've even seen. Avoid.
The kids downloaded the Keanu Reeves version of The Day The Earth Stood Still.
It was very, very terrible.
I don’t know how they managed to muck up such a good story.
Found MrsMC watching Love.Wedding.Marriage the other night. Wikipedia says the NY Times described it as "punishment for a crime you can’t remember committing" and I think that's being generous.
A lot of people conflate a film they don't like a film that's bad. Having said that I'll offer Tim Vine's Fearmoth (on YouTube)
I really wanted in to be so bad it's good... but lots of missed opportunities for puns and visual jokes, and I found it a bit creepy how young the wives were compared to the male leads.
Maybe I missed the point but I think it would have been better if Tim Vine had played Tim Vine instead of I don't know what. Currently 6.9 on Imdb so someone likes it.
I watched Stowaway on Netflix last night.
Oh dear.
I struggle to remember watching anything as diabolically crap as Jiu Jitsu. Watched it in Netflix the other night and if I hadn’t been doing some work at the same time I would have switched it off after 10 or 15 minutes.
The scene where Nic Cage first appears which highlight was him describing how he made a paper hat as he there was nothing better to do was just weird.
Netflix and sky originals films all seem to be very hit or miss. I find the children’s or family films to be generally a bit better but still lots of stinkers.
Er Hubie Halloween.... 🙂
The Assistant.
Would've been pissed at wasting time watching it. But double pissed as it cost us £6 to watch the most tedious and pointless "film" ever.
Stowaway was fantastic in contrast!
Im sure there was a really bad film, from the late seventies perhaps, which was essentially an earlier Ghost Rider, with the flaming bike flying and burning skull, the hero sold his soul to the devil.
It was rubbish
but what was it called?
Has anyone watched either of the Yin-Yang films on Netflix?
They are tremendous. Really really tremendous in a way that they really weren't designed to be, but are. Highly recommended.
To me a bad film is made worse if there is an expectation that its supposed to be good. A couple from the last year of lockdown film watiching:
JoJo Rabbit - 5* must see movie on Now - I just didnt get it, some of the "humour" meant to be poking fun at the Nazi's just seemed to be offensive.
But special prize to Joker - never felt so let down but a film, boring, highly irritating, trying to spoil what is essentially a cartoon baddie by trying to provide a logical reason why they are bad. Plot a direct copy of Taxi Driver. Made soooo much worse by the comparison with the Dark Knight Trilogy (or even the original Batman film from 1989).
I had the misfortune to attempt to watch Ray & Liz the other week, lauded by the critics & I'm quite a fan of grim reality films but my god what a god forsaken pile of bile that was - or at least the part we managed to stomach.
I made the mistake of watching Without Remorse the other night.
Take a script where you can seriously ask "did all the good screen writers die or something?!"...
And then...
Give the lead role to Michael B. Jordan 🤦♂️🤮
I made the mistake of watching Without Remorse the other night.
I got about a third of the way through that, turned it off. Then tried to come back to it and lasted about another 15 mins. Total crap.
Even with low expectations I was impressed with how terrible Ghost Rider is
I think Easy Rider has to be one of the most overrated films in cinematic history. Dull and boring.
Downsizing with Matt Damon is awful, anything in last 5 years with Liam Neeson
If you mean "so bad it's good" worst then I highly recommend "The Velocipastor" about a catholic priest who rubs some ancient artefact and turns into a dinosaur to fight evil.
Anything with Chuck Norris in it.
Velocipastor sounds amazing, thank you.
Velocipastor just got recommended to a friend in Berlin, thank you.
Without Remorse is indeed terrible. I remember the book being decent and made better by the main character being mostly fleshed out by the time his origin story got told. This film just, well, totally screwed all of that over with some bullshit story and a cast that genuinely looked like they could not give a shit.
I watched it, but only to fully immerse myself in the wallowing pile of garbage that it was.
I think we have a new contender...
Halloween Kills, I knew it would be utter shite but for some reason I still watched it.
Jay and silent bob ..
Dual. With Karen Gillan. Do not approach this movie.
Years ago when C4 was new and didn't show house shows etc 24 7 there was a film about Amy Johnson. It was made by a lesbian collective and was dull beyond belief and the only flying shots were a model plane moving over a map in an unsteady fashion.
It remains the worst film I have ever seen.
GRAVITY
My goodness….
GRAVITY
My goodness….
I know, how flipping good was that film at in 3d at the IMAX, like I could give a fly **** about the reality of it, the film was excellent fun. Trying to re-watch it on the tele... yeah I'd struggle with that
Nicolas Cage has been in some shockers.. but Left Behind stands like a shining beacon of dog crap among the meerly bad films..
The worst film I can recall watching was Sonny, which was Nic Cage's directing debut, starring James Franco. Good God, it was ****ing terrible.
Problem I have with this is I'd quickly dump a film I didn't like so wouldn't watch it. But you may watch something that is considered a masterpiece and hate it. But does that make it bad?
I've recorded Citizen Kane shown the other day and plan to watch it, as it's commonly held to one of the greats.
"Where the Crawdads Sing" has to be a contender! OMG, what a soggy Kleenex Ultra-soft of a film. I went expecting Chinatown crossed with Deliverance, I got a daytime Channel 5 made-for-TV offering. I don't know what happened at the end.
AVOID!
Honestly all these films posted so far are pretty bad, but worst film ever?
Has to be
The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living And Became Mixed Up Zombies
"Jerry falls in love with a stripper he meets at a carnival. Little does he know that she is the sister of a gypsy fortune teller whose predictions he had scoffed at earlier. The gypsy turns him into a zombie and he goes on a killing spree."
Get through 80 minutes of this and pretty much anything else will seem like potential Oscar fodder.
Problem I have with this is I’d quickly dump a film I didn’t like so wouldn’t watch it. But you may watch something that is considered a masterpiece and hate it. But does that make it bad?
There are some shocking things that I have turned off.
For me, the stand out is Walk the Line, the dramatised biopic of Johnny Cash.
Attempting to watch that film remains the only time beyond infanthood where I have managed to fall asleep on a plane - something I normally cannot do even when trying.
“Where the Crawdads Sing” has to be a contender!
My daughter read the book not so long ago, and gave me a running commentary on how disappointed she was with it. My only contribution was that crawdads can't sing because they are crayfish. I've never heard of singing crayfish - maybe I'm wrong! Anyway, I couldn't watch it anymore than I could watch a film titled 'Where The Lobsters Fly' or 'Where The Cuttlefish Smoke Fags'.
I watched the new Matrix over the weekend. It's quite meta, but tries to take itself both seriously and not at the same time, and fails to manage either, which is quite and achievement.
Get through 80 minutes of this and pretty much anything else will seem like potential Oscar fodder.
Thing is though - I wouldn't even start with trash like that*
So I can only judge films I've actually seen.
*Ok, I watched Butt Boy. It was terrible. (It was for a laugh with a mate, honest)
"... [i]Chip, becomes the main suspect in his investigation of a missing kid. Fox also starts to believe that people are disappearing up Chip's butt[/i]"
Oh it was better than Crawdads though. Much much better.
“Where the Crawdads Sing” has to be a contender!
I read an article about the author, who sounds like a nutter, and wondered to myself, "Who reads/watches garbage like this?"
Now I know. Thanks.
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