worst film ever …….

Cougar
There were three (human) survivors on the Sulaco; Ripley, Hicks and Newt. Why on Fiorina Earth they didn’t run with an grown-up Newt as a character I have no idea.

P-Jay

Yeah Alien 3 bawlsed the whole franchise up, it literally killed the whole cast (bar the Aliens of course) meaning the whole clone element in the 4th one.

During it’s development Sigourney Weaver was suing Fox over royalties for Aliens and was steadfastly refusing to have anything to do with Alien 3, hence they were developing concepts without her, or indeed other Aliens characters.

The film went through at least three entirely separate versions, radically different concepts and three different directors. Fincher was brought in at the last minute to salvage something. The film was getting re-written on a daily basis and according to reports had “more producers on set than crew”.

I am not alone! Hallelujah!

No, but you are weird! 😉

Hey, just thought of another one I had the displeasure to sit through recently:
“Ted”. What an unfunny pile of pathetic rubbish. How the hell did they get to make Ted 2??

a few more to throw in the mix, all that i walked out of –

the Great Gatsby (the newish one). Drivel
Irreversible. Just felt attention-seeking
The Bourne Identity – i walked out when i twigged it wasn’t a spoof (was a bit stoned, got a good laugh out of it first)
Blair Witch Project (might’ve enjoyed it if it hadn’t been hyped to the heavens)

I am not alone! Hallelujah!

No, but you are weird!

No he’s not, they’re crap.

The Core

It would appear from your inability to answer a simple question, or at least by the clumsy but slightly comical way in which you’re avoiding it, that you just struggle with anything different from how you think films ‘should’ be. The ‘plot’ in Elephant is so stunningly obvious – it even gets repeated and cross-referenced, what, three, four times? – that one would would have to have been looking elsewhere to miss it.

If you don’t like something, or don’t understand it, then just say so. Saying it is awful just makes you look like a fool. Elephant, whilst no Citizen Kane, is a solid piece of cinema. It’s an unconventional view and depiction of an incident that most people only ever saw from the distorted and glamorised perspective and prejudice of the mainstream media. I guess some folk struggle to get on with things when they aren’t being told how to experience them.

Thanks very much for your audition piece for Newsnight Review. Unfortunately, even by our usual standards, which make normal people want to hacksaw their own ears off rather than listen to another pompous, self-important word of it, due mainly to the absolutely unbearablly smug, patronising and superior air of our panelists, you tipped the condescension scales just a tad too far. We wish you luck in your future career as a reviewer.

Oh… Inside Out was really good. Obviously its mainly aimed at children and morons, too thick to deal with complicated plot twists that would make you adjust your rimless glasses and thoughtfully scratch your chin, but I enjoyed it

*wanders off to find colouring book and crayons*

RE: Blair Witch – IMO it’s not a bad film for what it is – a micro budget ($35K), indie filmed over 8 days.

It’s problem was that it was actually, much, much better than it should have been given the above – someone paid them $1m for the rights, spent another $750k padding it out and then $25m promoting it – the first people who saw it, were told it was all real, which of course makes it far more interesting than if it was fiction and the ‘found footage’ angle made it very believable.

By the time it got it’s general release everyone knew it was ‘fake’ and audiences expecting a slickly made Hollywood big budget blockbuster which befitted a $25m promotional job, saw a $35k indie with $750k’s worth of padding and hated it.

I actually quite enjoyed it, but by the time I saw it, the back-lash had started and I wasn’t expecting much – I also enjoyed Prometheus, I didn’t see it until it came out on Blu-ray and by then everyone was screaming how crap it was – they were expecting a brilliant Alien prequel, I was expecting a slightly shit Sci-Fi shocker.

“Intolerable Cruelty” – a film whose title doubles up neatly as a review.

The thing that annoys me are endless franchises and remakes – I agree that lone ranger was shite, basically pratts of the carribean on dry land .
I hate it when you get a good film and it gets remade with a holiwood glitz and obvious ending for the thickies , ie vanilla sky .
They’re making a fRom of the man from uncle FFS .Kina get the idea that films are made by committee now with amore of an eye to budget than content.

And nobody has mentioned Calligula ,biggest stinker in film history .

I didn’t think the original Stargate was a bad film TBH, I quite enjoyed it. Same with Blair Witch, for what it was, I thought it was smart and pretty ground breaking (how many films have used the “found footage” angle since?)

I feel a bit sorry for people who don’t get Tarantino films. The pleasure and entertainment I’ve had from his stuff can’t be matched by any other films.
Even an odd-ball like Death Proof, there’s so much to it and no other films are like it.

I feel a bit sorry for people who don’t get Tarantino films.

🙄 No need to feel sorry for anyone, it’s okay for people to appreciate different things. BTW I’m a big Tarantino fan.

I feel a bit sorry for people who don’t get Tarantino films.

I get them, I don’t like them.

*EDIT* They’re too ‘knowingly clever’, which irritates the crap out of me. See, also, Birdman.

JOHN CARTER

As yet, the only film I’ve turned off before the end. A chunder bus full of Disney diarrhea. I would sooner crap in my hands than watch one frame of that skid stained movie again.

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The Core

Aaron Eckhart.

I rest my case.

*EDIT* They’re too ‘knowingly clever’, which irritates the crap out of me. See, also, Birdman.

Hmm

likes birdman and most tarantino films, dislikes lazy shit like hangover 1-100 etc.

barb wire

Thanks very much for your audition piece…

Nice flounce, buttercup. You even managed a pirouette as you launched yourself from the stage. Classy…

We seem to have different ideas of what a flounce entails, but whatevs….

Any other suggestions for films I’m too intellectually deficient to pretend to enjoy?

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…..

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

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, needed 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.

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.