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.

There are some ridiculous answers on this thread – surely people can differentiate between films they didn’t enjoy, and worst films of all time! Is it mild trolling? Or ignorance?

I don’t want to single people out, but there have been some seriously popular and/or critically acclaimed films mentioned.

I mean, there are films where I’ve walked out of the cinema (Sunshine on Leith and A Star is Born spring to mind) but there’s no way I’d ever categorise them as worst of all time, just not for me.

Perhaps I’m taking it too seriously

Mandy.

The Human Centipede, Hostel or any other “body horror” or torture film.

Why would anyone think that was entertaining?

Why are people listing AAA movies? Even the shit ones have great effects, acting

Yeah, thread has become a pointless read of films people don’t like or are expecting to be documentaries about war, when they are merely entertainment. Some people clearly have only seen about 6 films in their lives.

After the Goddard film above I have nominate the stunningly crap ‘Performancek with Jagger and James Fox.

Chas is an East London thug who works for gangster Harry Flowers and his associates (although they don’t use the word gangster to describe themselves). Chas is generally sadistic in his nature and thus revels in his work. But his sadistic nature also pervades his personal life. As such, he will work on his own personal agenda outside of the work for Harry. It is in this vein that an encounter with Joey Maddocks, a man with whom Chas has a history, leads to Chas needing to hide out from Harry and his associates. Ultimately Chas feels he needs to clandestinely leave the country. In the meantime, he, based solely on a private conversation he overhears between strangers, manages to take refuge in the basement of a Notting Hill flat owned by a man named Turner, who lives there with two female companions named Pherber and Lucy. Chas considers their lifestyle bohemian and one of free love, which is outside of his mentality. Turner is an ex-rock musician who has lost his “demon” and thus his desire to be a performer. As Chas makes arrangements for his departure out of England, he gets caught up in Turner’s lifestyle, Turner who is working on his own agenda in spending time with Chas.

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The Mist

WHaaat?! It’s great, in a B-movie, ratcheting up the tension plus rubbery monsters type way. And the final scene is just epic

He’d probably see that as a welcome boost to his circumstances right now.

I knew that. #ireallyneedtokeepupwithcelebrityobituaries

Otherwise, exactly what perchypanther said.

The Mist was OK but the last scene really ratcheted it up.

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.

I found the same failings in it but it was beautifully shot and had some moments of real tension.

The worst film of all time is “The Whales of August”. Its about two elderly sisters who live together overlooking the sea. One is blind and not very pleasant, the sighted nicer sister wants a window putting in their house so she can look at the whales, the blind sister does not….

I reckon if you’ve actually watched the whole film, you can’t say its the worst of anything.

The only film I can remember walking out of is Darkest Hour but I’m not going to claim it’s the worst ever, I just didn’t like it. Normally I’m a fan of that sort of dialogue based film but it seemed like they’d forgotten to write the dialogue.

The absolute worst movie I can remember is The Ridiculous 6. There was very little to redeem it. I’ve not seen Mrs Brown’s Boys at all. So that maybe worse.

A.I.

Truly awful.

The problem here is, I’m not sure that the worst film ever actually is the worst film ever.

Consider ‘Birdemic’ or ‘The Room’ (probably the two worst movies I’ve seen). Both were diabolical, BUT, I was entertained by the awfulness of everything about them. In fact, they taught me a lot about what makes a good movie good – things you just don’t notice when you watch something even half decent.

I propose that the movie rating scale is actually a sort of inverse bell curve – with ‘goodness’ on the x axis and ‘entertainment’ on the y. Something really good or really bad will be worth a watch, while the worst viewing experience will actually lie in the middle – sunk to the bottom of the curve and festering in a pool of mediocrity.

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.

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword directed by Guy Ritchie is by a distance the worst film that I have seen at the cinema. Dreadful mockney accents but the thing that really got my goat was that somehow Arthur has become a Saxon hero who ended the film shouting “This is Engalaaaand!” like some drunken football yob.

Anyone with a passing knowledge of British history will be aware that  Arthur was a Celtic hero who purportedly fought successfully against the Saxons and other invaders during the Dark Ages.

The film was meant to be the first of a series of six movies – mercifully the sequels were cancelled.

The fact that this dross made it to the screen is staggering when there is a fantastic Authurian trilogy written by Bernard Cornwell which could have been a great basis for a series of films.

Thank god someone’s mentioned Showgirls, what a steaming pile of crap that was. It’s up there with the first of the Star Wars prequels (the Jar Jar Binks one) – lots of hype, big budget, and terrible.

Plunkett & McLean

Black Sheep – truly awful

Birds of Prey – could be awful or I could be missing something given I’m not a fan of the current DC films

I take your Plunkett and MacLeane, and raise you Sex Lives of the Potato Men.

I think we should apply a weighting system though – Big budget/massively hyped and better casted movies are allowed to be technically better than straight to DVD stuff, while actually being rated worse.

Anyone for Sex in the City II? No? I thought not.
How about Superman IV: The Quest for Peace…
Any of the Hobbit films. As a massive LOTR fan, I’ve never managed to sit through a whole one.

John Wick 3 – it’s pointless
Mamma Mia – it’s just awful
All off the Transformers Movies.
And most of the DC/ Marvel comic offerings.
Godfather III – it’s gash …
The Star Wars prequels …
Truly, madly, deeply. Everyone involved with such a smug offering should hide there heads in shame

I’ve got a couple that ‘filmy’ folk like to rave about as being excellent.

One was called Lone Star (mid 90s) and was critically acclaimed at the time (and still is to some extent). Nothing happens in the film for so long that it just got switched off in the end.

The other one is The Revenant. After about the third ridiculously overdone “I can’t believe he is not dead” bit of nastiness it just becomes utterly meh.

Oh and I have to mention ‘On Chesil Beach’ too. Again, nothing happens, loads of posturing, pouting and awkwardness and there is obviously an elephant in the room from the start. But it got switched off before we found out what it was because it was just too dull and preposterous in equal measure.

Movie 43

Had to walk out of that one💩

Obviously everybody will have their own opinions but for me not necessarily the worst films ever but the films that were massively hyped and therefor were a massive disappointment when I saw them were Gangs of New York , The Revenant and Dunkirk are three that really stand out for me . Probably not as bad as any of the aforementioned films but in terms of being a let down simply unbeatable .

I’m glad someone said Van Helsing, the only film I’ve ever walked out of a cinema on (I WOULD have walked out of the goddawful Unbearable Lightness of Being if it hadn’t been for the attractive blonde I’d gone to see it with).

Films from this thread I could watch time and time again:

The Revenant

The Witch

No country for old men

Gangs of New York

Shawshank Redemption

The Revenant (dull)

The Witch (meh)

No country for old men (loved it)

Gangs of New York (amusing tosh)

Shawshank Redemption (great, apart from the extra bit tacked on the end)

But is any of them the worst film ever? Of course not…

Howard the Duck
Battlefield Earth

I am unable to articulate how truly awful I found these films.

Anything involving Jason Statham or Mark Wahlberg.

Many years ago my wife let me pick the film. I picked Daredevil and have had my film decisions questioned ever since.