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Is it a picture of you reading The Guardian?

Will you two just get a room.

I don't think a bad comedy/action/daft film can ever be as bad as a bad film which takes itself seriously. For that reason I nominate Meet Joe Black.

Too clever for me, I'm afraid. You've lost me. Not difficult really.

Me reading is more.....

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I am both confused and impressed by big words

As others have said I think you need to give low budget films a bit of a pass even if they ended up finding a wider audience.

On the other hand spunking $200 million on a bloated, indulgent, corpulent, flag-waving piece of hackneyed nonsense is less forgivable

Ladies and Gentleman I give you

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Dune. I actually fell asleep in the middle of that, lost about 1/2 hour of it. i don't think I missed much if the rest was anything to go by

Or Pearl Harbor, I was laughing my head off in the cinema and got told off. Serious doo-doo
Edit: about 1 minute too late!

Oh wait, I'd forgotten Pearl Harbour... Definitely that.

Pearl Harbour, watched as a comedy with a few beers is a laugh riot. Anyway.

Tarantino, Resevoir Dogs was an excellent low budget crime thriller. The non linear narrative served the story well. Same for Pulp Fiction actually.

After that (maybe due to success, more editorial control, or lack of Roger Avary) he began to get self indulgent.

Jackie Brown was good, but far too long, to say nothing of Kill Bill. Death Proof again, far too long. It would have been great at 40 minutes or so. I think Rodriguez took him to school there.

Inglorious Basterds again was self indulgent overlong tripe. Django was almost great, but it had one too many endings and really suffered from a lack of editing. 20-30 minutes shorter and it would have been great. Just the fact that Tarantino himself pops up making an awful cameo, exactly where the film runs out of gas tells you all you need to know.

Ooh, ooh, someone has just reminded me of the very Worst Film ever! Worst, so called 'comedy' that is for certain.
For some reason it gets high critical scores all over the place, but I hated it so much, I wanted, nay, [i]needed[/i] to beat the shit out of the main character, the actor who played him, the director and the rest of the cast... god it wound me up. Not only was it not funny, it was quite vile, there wasn't one likeable character in it, it went on for at least an hour too long and I will never watch another Seth Rogan film as long as I live. Yes... you guessed it:
"Knocked Up".

I quite like Blair Witch and Inglorious Basterds. There I've said it.

The thing is, I don't think you could describe either of those as "worst film ever" - overhyped maybe, maybe not wonderful feats of cinematic excellence, maybe even a bit tacky. But given the alternative candidates of utter rubbish on offer on this thread which nobody is standing up for, they're not even on the radar.

I'd tried to block out Pearl Harbour. So that's another vote for it here.

I'm sorry but I can't agree that Jackie Brown, Pulp Fiction, Shawshank, Burn after Reading, Wall E and a few others are "the worst film ever" might not be to people's taste, but definatley not the worst films ever. I think a lot of us are answering "what's the biggest letdown ever after a build up ever"

My contributions are:

The Phantom Menace
The Devil Wears Prada
American Pie

Also, you want a Ker-rant? Watch this....

DezB- I'd quite forgotten I'd ever watched Dancer In The Dark, I just found it relentlessly depressing and manipulative (I know all storytelling is manipulation, but this is something else). The Idiots, by Lars von Trier is even worse. I'd even go so far as to say he's probably the worst director. Sub-GCSE-art-class-giving-it-to-the-squares-god-I'm-so-depressed-guff.

"The patrol". British squaddies in afghan. **** all happens. Zip. Nothing.
How the **** can they make a film about the most intense war we have been involved in for decades and NOTHING HAPPENS?!?!?! It ,ay as well have been abouth the RAF reg in the NAAFI.
In the end the squaddies just say "this ain't our war" and the officer says something like "jolly good. Let's go home"
Total, total turd. A worse film I can't imagine.

I gave up within 20 minutes of the patrol.

This is the worst big budget, high grossing film ever. It makes Pearl Harbour and Titanic look like works of art.

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Barb Wire did have one redeeming feature.

Gun's superb cover of Word Up was in it.

Apart from that, truly awful.

I suspect that this might be applicable to a fair few of the comments on here.

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Also, the worst film ever is Fifty Shades of Grey. I watched it at the cinema with my ex girlfriend (who loves the books) and she was suggesting that we leave 15 minutes in!!

Aliens.
Supergirl.
Grease 2.
The Bodyguard.
Black Rain.
Robin Hood - (The Russell Crowe one).

But, the worst, by far, is City Of Angels.
Especially considering it was a remake of Wings Of Desire, one of the greatest films ever made.

Bruise Willies
Lars von Trier ....... I'd even go so far as to say he's probably the worst director. Sub-GCSE-art-class-giving-it-to-the-squares-god-I'm-so-depressed-guff.

I'm not a fan, but that's a very very silly statement.

Rusty Spanner
Black Rain.

Don't be silly.

Rusty Spanner - Member

Aliens.

Ack. Piss off.

I've seen some corkers! Night shifts flyby!
The Wild Women of Wongo
Eraser Head
Plan 9 From Outer Space
The One Armed Boxer 1 and 2
Iron Sky
The Toxic Avenger
But they are so crap they are hilarious!

Jupiter Rising is the worst film I've seen lately, Jurassic World left me cold as well.

Cheers, Steve

Really enjoyed Jurassic World, I wasn't expecting very much from it, but it was much better than I expected.
I'm rarely disappointed by a film, I go purely to be entertained, and I mostly am.
However, Highlander 2 really is the worst film I've ever seen, an execrable heap of utter garbage, that failed in every way the basic principle of a sequel; continuity.
Aliens is a superb film in its own right, and a proper sequel as well.
Wall-E is just wonderful.
Dog Soldiers was just B-Movie fun, done as well as it could be on a budget that might have bought a decent car.
I did walk out of a film once, a double-billing of Electraglide In Blue/Midnight Cowboy. Actually, there were four of us, me and a mate and our girlfriends, who were really, [i]really[/i] not enjoying the cinematic experience provided by our local emporium.
Can't say I was very much, either. 😐

Tree of Life with Brad Pitt is one of the worst films I have seen, particularly after a friend had said it was one of the best films he had ever seen. Two hours of my life I won't get back 😥

Barb Wire did have one redeeming feature.

Gun's superb cover of Word Up was in it.

Apart from that, truly awful.

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I completely accept that Barb Wire was risible, badly acted, strangely-plotted (something about a retina?!), exploitative nonsense which deservedly met with no critical acclaim whatsoever. But I cannot help thinking that a film which casts a gigantic pair of tanned pneumatic norks straining against a skimpy leather corset in a leading role is not actually going to hold its own in the "Worst Film Ever" category.

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Any film the relies on fake plastic norks strapped to what appears to be a cheap sex doll to distract you from how bad it is needs to be on the list. There must be a large amount of pron with better acting and plot.

Worst film ever- Alexander. Just how they thought Alexander the Great had an Irish Accent is beyond me.

Lucy.

monkeysfeet

Worst film ever- Alexander. Just how they thought Alexander the Great had an Irish Accent is beyond me.

And yet you wouldn't bat an eyelid if they'd have had some generic british accent. Of all the things wrong with that film, accents weren't one of them.

Lucy.

Worst film I've attempted to watch recently, that's for sure. Risible.

Fifty Shades

Whoever said Pearl Harbour has earned a pint from me.

A truly awful film, not because it ever set out to be offensive, but the sheer laziness and ineptitude of the script and production are staggering to behold.

The faults are legion and to unpick them all will take me hours, so I'll focus on the faux pas I found most offensive.

1) The Spitfires.

As any schoolboy will tell you, a Rolls-Royce Merlin has a unique and enchanting sound that cannot fail to draw small boys and grown men outside to point enthusiastically at the sky, jump up and down and exclaim "It's a bloody [i]Spitfire![/i]".

The wonderful, soulful sound of not one but TWO Merlin-engined fighters (the stand in for the Me 109 was a Rolls Royce powered Spanish Buchon) dogfighting over the English Channel played through a cinema sound system should be a joy to behold, right?

Wrong.

The bastards dubbed the sound of the Merlins with an Allison engine instead. As an act of Hollywood storyline savagery, it's worse than crediting an American submarine crew with capturing an enigma machine, or giving William Wallace a mid-atlantic accent. Its aural vandalism at it's most crass.

2) "I beg you ma-am, don't take my wings"

Whoever committed that line to the script deserves to be gaffer taped to an office chair and repeatedly slapped around the face with a large, wet fish.

It's bum-clenchingly embarrassing. Upon viewing the DVD, I rewound just to make sure that some tortured part of my imagination didn't conjure that line from my subconscious, but no...even Ben Affleck looks embarrassed delivering that line.

And so he should.

Spitfires at Pearl Harbour?????

From the bit where Ben Afleck is posted to England to fight in the Battle of Britain.
It is a dreadful film that just keeps on trucking. I doubt if anyone has ever seen the end. It's so long and so dreadfully dull I know I haven't.

Ah sorry never seen the start of it, I have seen the end and that is a travesty 😆

Birdman - completely pointless beyond backslapping their way to Oscar nominations.

Birdman - completely pointless beyond backslapping their way to Oscar nominations.

As I live and breathe, unless you have walked on stage to the roar of a crowd and smelt the greasepaint ,darling,you will never understand 😉

Hmm, how can people list Crash, Eraserhead, Lost In Translation, which are obviously wrong, and not mention Fabulous Baker Boys, which is bad even by the standards of "films with Jeff Bridges".

However, Highlander 2 really is the worst film I've ever seen, an execrable heap of utter garbage, that failed in every way the basic principle of a sequel; continuity.

Highlander II was a very troubled film. Aside from the fact that "there should have been only one," it was dogged with problems throughout including interference from the insurance company and the country they were filming in going bust. There's a later director's cut ("renegade edition") where Mulcahy tried to salvage it, turning it into a merely poor film instead of an outright car crash.

But yeah, in terms of "biggest movie disappointments," H2 is up there with Alien 3 and Escape From LA for me.

About as sexy as watching a dinner lady whip up a vat of instant mashed potato.

I have the strangest...

Has anyone mentioned TopGun? Because that is a dreadful dreadful waste of precious time.

Battleship.

Only film I've contemplating walking out of. Main reason I stayed was my lift home appeared to be enjoying it.

Has anyone mentioned TopGun? Because that is a dreadful dreadful waste of precious time.

But falls into the 'so bad it's actually good' field.

And also, not liking it is homophobic.

I agree entirely with PJM1974. the only good thing about Pearl Harbor was the money it put into various UK based organisations such as the Shuttleworth Trust for the hire of their aircraft and pilots.

[i]and not mention Fabulous Baker Boys[/i]..

Er, that, my friend is bleedin obvious.

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I'm going with The Fountain - great director but physics-defying in its ability to stretch time into skin-crawling tedium.

Oh and I also hated the Three Burials of something or other - some cowboy plodding around with a decomposing dead body. Puzzlingly well reviewed iirc.

EDIT:The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada - that's the little stinker

Debbie does...

Seven.