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theres always stuff like 'crappest film ever' threads etxc buit what is the worst film you've eve sat all the way through. (toilet breaks permitted of course - thats even worse if you LEFT the ncame back).
Mines got to be Down To Earth with that black American comedian. Only watched it all cos I was relying on a mate who I went to the cinema with to give me a lift home. I wanted to watch something else... though I can't recall what...
In the cinema - GODZILLA
At home - SCREAM 3
Shingster
04-11-2001, 23:23
Cthulu Mansion (http://us.imdb.com/Details?0100108)
Crow 2 was pretty crap as well, but nothing beats Cthulu Mansion!
SqueakyG
04-11-2001, 23:27
I have hardly ever switched off or left the cinema once I've started watching a film. I don't know why. I guess to get my money's worth. Unless it's on TV, in which case I'm probably not paying full attention to the movie anyway. So... cinema or rented video movies I have watched all the way through even though I seriously didn't want to:
Spawn
Batman & Robin
Scream 2 (just been on TV... why oh why did I watch again...)
Vinyl-Pants
05-11-2001, 00:03
Steel Dawn...
silverpenguin7
05-11-2001, 00:16
JEEPERS CREEPERS
Batman & Robin
Spawn
All had me close to tears (or walking out/switching off).
Charlie's Angels - unbelievably bad
Stargate - pretty dreadful
a star trek movie - the one with McDowell in it
Sliding doors - :brickwall
OK and one I'm going to get flamed for:
Aliens - the quintessential proof that sequels are a very bad idea indeed.
APPRIA40WR
05-11-2001, 00:23
Silence of the Lambs -So bad I laughed out loud!
Ben Martin
05-11-2001, 00:37
at the cinema, desperate measures (christ, that was awful!), stuart little and down to you were the worst, in that order. how i sat through that lot, or more more importantly why i even went to see them in the first place (!), i'll never know. although if we were going by sheer degree of tedium ever induced by a film then i'd have to nominate the english patient as well.
problem child was easily the worst movie i've ever watched on TV, though i feel that if i'd stuck with rutger hauer's omega doom it would easily have been usurped.
on video/dvd, and it has to be mystery men for me. so disappointed. so bad. i hated it. but again, it would have been the finest hour (rob lowe), but second only to armageddon it is the most laughably bad film i've ever seen, so there was a great deal of entertainment derived! if this doesn't reduce anyone who rents it to tears then i'll refund your rental fee myself! :)
pompeyfan
05-11-2001, 00:53
Originally posted by jamesking420
theres always stuff like 'crappest film ever' threads etxc buit what is the worst film you've eve sat all the way through. (toilet breaks permitted of course - thats even worse if you LEFT the ncame back).
Mines got to be Down To Earth with that black American comedian. Only watched it all cos I was relying on a mate who I went to the cinema with to give me a lift home. I wanted to watch something else... though I can't recall what...
Moonwalker, and I had to stick with it for the same reason as you:(
Davester
05-11-2001, 01:06
Meet the parents, The green mile, The seige, MI2 and I'll soon think of others.
nothing can compare to 'My dinner with Andre'. My mate fell asleep and I think that I may have done too for a short while. Even though it was free to watch, it was absolutely dire.
Anyone else seen this and want to elaborate?
Lenny Nero
05-11-2001, 01:26
Perfecta, what is wrong with you? Daaaamn :eek:.
The real worst 2 films I sat through were:
Alan Smithee's Burn Hollywood Burn
Dude, Where's my Car?
Cinema - Mike Basset: England Manager
Home - Scream 3
camino_real
05-11-2001, 08:30
Recent cinema : American Pie 2. I thought this would never end, unlikeable characters and obvious jokes.
Recent TV : The Mummy. I usually love a bit of mindless escapism but this was so tedious and unthrilling give me Boris anyday!
AndyWilson
05-11-2001, 08:31
Without a doubt Scary Movie
I would have left but I was on a 747 at the time...
charlie angel
05-11-2001, 08:34
Titanic & Pearl Harbor in the cinema - glutton for punishment!
Magnolia. I was hypnotised by its awfulness.
On a plane - Bicentennial Man
In a cinema - Mr Holland's Opus
At home - No idea as I have sat through some unbelieveable trash so nothing specifc springs to mind
dangermouse
05-11-2001, 09:29
PEARL HARBOR - without a doubt the most boring, mind numbing tedium that I have ever had the painful experience of watching.
Although Deep Impact is close behind in second place with Scream 3 filling third position :brickwall
You've Got Mail (at the cinema) - it was soooo boring and not funny. i was with a lovely girl though so it wasn't all bad :p and she thought the film sucked too.
Dan Druff
05-11-2001, 10:17
Cinema: Highlander 2
Home: Batman and Robin
Muriels Wedding !
Missus made me see it at the cinema, it was her turn to choose....first and last choice she ever made :D (I wish !)
Jenz @ Bullets n Babes
05-11-2001, 10:33
Wes Craven Presents: Mind Ripper
It felt like mine was after that terror :(
Deep Blue Sea. All I can remember is how they made a big deal about how high some fences were
"how high are those fences"
"30 feet"
"those fences are 30 feet high?"
"that's right, 30 foot high fences"
"incredible, those fences are really high!..."
...
...
(Was this ever relevent to the story???)
The whole thing bored me stiff, and although I kinda switched off, I did sit there until it was over. I was with lots of friends, and by the end, not one of them was still paying attention. dire.
Andy Gray
05-11-2001, 10:45
Spawn. I wanted to leave my mate insited on staying. That was painful.
Mine has to be this gambling movie about 3 years ago - with my housemate and his girlfriend. It had the guy from Good Will Hunting and was a card movie (wow how interesting!), and I fell asleep half way through! First film in a cinema where I have nodded off!
Can't even remember the name - that shocking! Think it might have been Rounders???
Actually - Final Fantasy film in the summer!
My mates liked it and I was stuck in the middle so they would not let me leave! What a massive disappointment - possibly the WORST film of 2001 (and I have seen Freddy Got Fingered and Dude, Where's my Car!)
Originally posted by Flyte
Mine has to be this gambling movie about 3 years ago - with my housemate and his girlfriend. It had the guy from Good Will Hunting and was a card movie (wow how interesting!), and I fell asleep half way through! First film in a cinema where I have nodded off!
Can't even remember the name - that shocking! Think it might have been Rounders???
Definately Rounders and I thought it was a pretty good film although you'd probably need to enjoy a sopt of poker to get the best out of it.
Creamstick
05-11-2001, 11:04
At the cinema : The Mummy Returns
While travelling : Sister Act
At home : The Thirsty Dead (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0073801) I own this on video - it takes pride of place in the cupboard of shame!!!!
DVD: Battlefield Earth
Cinema: MI2 and Sphere:rolleyes:
Oh and lets not forget Mummy Returns!! :o :)
At the cinema:
Pearl Harbor - Rubbish overlong film.
At home:
An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn - It is mind-numbingly unfunny, boring and a stupid movie. I was extremely glad when this abomination finished.
Titanic - Urgggghhh! Horrible.
Kevin And Perry Go Large - When I saw this at the cinema (I saw it twice), I really liked it. When I got the DVD, I thought it was boring, not funny and very predictable. It was too short as well, clocking in at 70 minutes without credits. But in this case, it's a blessing.
Arch Stanton
05-11-2001, 11:22
At the cinema, without a doubt it's Batman and Robin.
At home, far too many to mention.
From recently I'd have to say Mike Bassett, I couldn't exactly walk out as I was driving 2 other people about although I've never (and I doubt I'll ever) walk out of a film at the cinema anyway.
There are too many films that I've watched a bit off and then turned off at home to remember tho . The most recent of which would have to be Inspector Gadget.
Creamstick
05-11-2001, 12:45
My vote for worst movie i've ever seen on any format has to go to Blues Brothers 2000.
Even though the Clapton/BB King/ Dr. John et al song is excellent, the rest of the film is so dire, even the blues brothers band themselves, are so bad that it took me 4 attempts to watxh it all the way through.
Oh, and Dr. john and the blues brothers band's version of donovan's Season of the Witch on the soundtrack is very cool.
The Talented Mr Ripley
High Fidelity
Memphis Belle
Why they even bothered wasting the money making these, I just don't know.....
Lenny Nero
05-11-2001, 13:12
Originally posted by Xenole
The Talented Mr Ripley
High Fidelity
Why they even bothered wasting the money making these, I just don't know.....
They both made money, producers bought another Hollywood Hills house for their dog's nanny.
Arch Stanton
05-11-2001, 13:16
and in High Fidelity's case they made a very very good film. :p
Cap'n Al
05-11-2001, 13:22
Probably the unholy quartet of:
Tomb Raider (why this didn't get <i>more</i> criticism I don't know, it's one of the most incoherent, boring and pointless films I've ever seen)
Final Fantasy (a bad, bad idea, and a pretty dire execution)
Speed 2 (why? why? why?)
Batman and Robin (people wonder why Hollywood is homophobic, or allegedly homophobic; I'd venture it's because most studio execs think that gay filmmakers would, if they were permitted, try and make films like this, ignoring the obvious truth that the film fails utterly on every artistic level, with the homoerotic shots of Clooney, O'Donnell and Arnie in tight costumes actually providing momentary distraction from the sheer inept horror that is Schumacher's suicide note to a major career).
Originally posted by Lenny Nero
Perfecta, what is wrong with you? Daaaamn :eek:.
hehe I knew the slating of Aliens would get some response!:cool:
BTW, are you seriously a scientologist? If so, I should feel obliged to ask "What is wrong with you?" and also hope you've got a big stash of cash to keep up with the payments!
Mark Orme
05-11-2001, 13:48
At the cinema maybe Look who's talking too, or my personal unfavourite Awakenings. At home Flesh Gordon 2.
Resource
05-11-2001, 13:56
At the Cinema:
Battle Field Earth
DVD:
Hitman (Jet Li)
Gary A
Meet Joe Black
The Talented Mr Ripley (although it was probably because my friends who I was with at the time wouldn't stop whinging about how bad it was)
BOTH of the Blair Witch movies.
The second one has been dubbed "Owls Through Windows" by my bro and his friends, as it was the most interesting part of it.
Plus many many others.
I watch far too much crap.
Cinema: Waiting to Exhale
Video: Men In White
Without a doubt... 8mm. If I hadn't been with a group of mates I'd have left waaay before it finished.
Ron Hill
05-11-2001, 15:21
At the cinema:
Highlander 2 the sickening.
Blown "propaganda nonsense" Away.
Star Wars: The Fandom Menopause.
The Mummy Returns. SOooooo baaadddd.
On DVD:
Bedazzled. Tedious
Kevin & Perry Go Large. Painfully unfunny.
Preacher
05-11-2001, 15:26
Another Vote for Batman and Robin. It was like watching a car accident.
mikegray
05-11-2001, 17:26
A dead heat - both at the cinema:
Wild Wild West - you just couldn't believe it couldn't get better, but it just didn't.
Meet Joe Black - ten minutes of story told in what seemed like eight weeks.
sidebog7
05-11-2001, 17:48
On DVD: Valentine. What the hell was Jamie Blanks thinking? He might have a lot of knowledge of horror films but this is truly disappointing after a fairly interesting debut (Urban Legends). Valentine turned out to be both predictable yet mind-numbingly confusing. I think I only watched it to the end because I thought it might improve. I figured it probably wouldn't after about an hour but continued to the end anyway:( .
Morpheus2000
05-11-2001, 18:31
Dracula 2001
Jeepers Creepers
The Mummy Returns
Series 7: The Contenders
Vertical Limit
I hated every single minute of the above, they're all complete rubbish.
In the cinema: "Angela's Ashes" - a total write-off in every respect.
At home: much trash when I used to watch every film on TV, but the worst is "Doctor Zhivago", a total and utter disgrace of a film. Big, pompous bad movies are much worse than low budget trash.
Forgot all about Speed 2 - such a bad movie :rolleyes:
Jay Da Feesh
05-11-2001, 20:55
Easily has to be BRASSED OFF. What a pile of crap
My last 3 trips to the cinema have resulted in pure torture. This is also a reason why this has been the worst year of films in my 26 year lifetime - The Mummy Returns, Planet of the Apes and Jeepers Creepers.
Shaun666
06-11-2001, 17:43
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. I like johnny Depp and Terry Gilliam but this film stinks.
They've been said before,
Pearl Harbor and Mummy Returns
for me :(
Michael Mackenzie
06-11-2001, 18:30
Schindler's List.
A close runner up is the South Park movie.
I guess my tastes are just weird, but I think Problem Child, The Mummy Returns, Jeepers Creepers and Scream 3 are great movies. Go figure.
Originally posted by IanMasc
They've been said before,
Pearl Harbor and Mummy Returns
for me :(
I forgot about these 2 especially the mummy returns
I'd just like to say Ben Affleck you da bomb in Pearl Harbor yo :D
oh and I've just watched another film that can be added to my list The Muse :brickwall
A.I. has to be the worst film i've sat all the way through. I've seen some rubbish in my time but this was the only one i've ever contemplated walking out of.
At cinema: MI2 - <u>so</u> close to walking out
At home (rented): 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag (http://uk.imdb.com/Details?0118541) - unspeakably bad film with Joe Pesci (recommended by a friend's father - wait 'til I get hold of him :mad: )
Ghost Dog - way off the mark :D Just absolutely terrible :nuts:
Without doubt, got to be that Oliver Stone stinker U-TURN!
However, Police Academy 7 Mission to Moscow also sucked.
Originally posted by Whiggles
I guess my tastes are just weird, but I think Problem Child, The Mummy Returns, Jeepers Creepers and Scream 3 are great movies. Go figure. [/B]
SCREAM 3 - please see a doctor immediately as you are out of your mind!
Michael Mackenzie
06-11-2001, 20:14
Originally posted by john316
SCREAM 3 - please see a doctor immediately as you are out of your mind! No, I'm the sane one -- the rest of you are all just crazy. :nuts: :nuts:
BTW, what's so wrong with Scream 3 when compared to the other two? Plenty people like the first two but hate the third, and it's something I've never understood. I agree it's not as good, but I don't see why people say it's awful.
Originally posted by DCH
Magnolia. I was hypnotised by its awfulness.
I'm not alone! :confused: :brickwall
Originally posted by Whiggles
No, I'm the sane one -- the rest of you are all just crazy. :nuts: :nuts:
BTW, what's so wrong with Scream 3 when compared to the other two? Plenty people like the first two but hate the third, and it's something I've never understood. I agree it's not as good, but I don't see why people say it's awful.
I cannot put my finger on it - just about the whole movie (bar Jenny McCarthy!!!) is crap. The plot is stupid with so many holes it is like being on an asteroid!, Courtney Cox looks a dog in it, the ending is just stupid and the characters from the Stab 3 (bar the above) are complete knobs! I think that is a good start on why it is crap!
Heres a bad one. Airbourne with Steve Guttenberg, Has anyone else seen that cowpat of a film?
Jean claude van dammes - "Knock Off" is a close second *shivers*
jonorigin
07-11-2001, 09:00
The worst film I ever had to sit through in the cinema was RANCID ALUMINIUM! What a steaming pile! It was like a bad episode of Sunset Beach, but no-one told the actors not to take it seriously!
I've watched Plan 9 From Outer Space all the way through more times than you can shake a stick at. Does it count?
la_te_ra_lus_2003
07-11-2001, 09:53
home - godzilla, batman & robin
cinema - runaway bride (went to see with parents...didnt havge a choice'
For me it has to be the abomination that is The Avengers.
I have never, ever seen anything quite so bad.
The one draw it had for me was seeing Uma Thurman in a tight-fitting leather cat suit, and that was for about 10 seconds screen time.
I felt doubly bad when I forced a couple of friends to see it with me. I boght dinner that night...
Shriek if you know what i did last halloween!!!!! Its got to be the worst film ever made. Avoid this like the plague think scary movie 2 is bad then you've seen nothing compared to this. i started to fall asleep in it at 2.00pm. Its not funny its just a scary movie 1 wannabe. No one is actually killed in the film they all die because its there own fault. The Killer is totally ****** can't even kill anyone.
BAN THIS FILM NOW
only watched all the way through cause i spent £15.00 on it and waited three weeks for it to come from DVDBoxoffice. At the end they say they will make a sequel.
We can only pray that they don't
Cinema - A.I. Quite a few others left after the first part but I stuck it out. Masochism rules.
Yet it could have been so good if the boy AI had been developed into a junior Terminator and the plot had diverged a bit - well, quite a lot - after the second Act. Could have been the genesis for Terminator 3 or something, tho' Arnie probably couldn't have handled the motivation for his character.
Home on DVD - In too deep. Deeply derivative and unoriginal, unredeemed by decent acting or action.
'Recent' (last 12-18 months) Cinema:
1. Jeepers Creepers - Very run of the mill. Definitely not 'americas best horror movie in the last 10 years'
2. Unbreakable - more dissapointing than rubbish. It was well made but finished just as it seemed to get going.
3. That Arnie film about cloning, 6th Day or watever it was called. I seriously doubt 'he'll be back'.
All time cinema hates:
1. Showgirls - still at least there was nudity in it!
2. Thin Red Line had me bored rigid (but was popular with others)
All time hated film:
1. Frankie and Johnny - I think it was called that. Boy meets girl, um, zzzzzzz. Perhaps a film for the ladies!
Vinyl-Pants
07-11-2001, 16:31
remembered a few more;
Flash Gorden
Beastmaster
Dick Tracy
X-Men
The Mask
Running Man
Last Action Hero
Hook
anything with Julia Roberts in it...
At the Cinema - Annie (I was with my girlfriend at the time otherwise I would have walked)
At Home - Shining Through (no excuses this time)
I think Under Seige counts for me - I sat all the way through it in the cinema, but I did fall asleep after about 30 min for about an hour. Don't think I missed much though. Was utterly terrible. I must second Thin Red Line as being very tedious, which surprised me as I adore intelligent war films, and it would go on my top 5 cinema crap list.
Idle Child
07-11-2001, 19:57
@ cinema: down to earth - what a bore!
on home TV: no idea, there's enough crap movies on TV to loose count.
from my DVD collection: Armour of God. Awful Jackie chan flick i mistakingly bought.
Meet the parents, The green mile, The seige, MI2 and I'll soon think of others.
the green mile? are you mad man?, this is one of the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mr Majestik
20-04-2007, 21:56
Blimey this thread's come back from the dead.
Someone on the first page suggested 'Birth of a nation'.
Recently "The Black Dahlia". I nearly slashed my wrists watching that one.
But nothing beats "Solaris" for pure boredom.
Great cure for insomnia though.
Niceguygeoff
20-04-2007, 22:38
The Myth (Jackie Chan) is the worst movie I've watched ALL THE WAY THROUGH in a looooong time, maybe ever, although Daredevil runs it mighty close.
unrealnils
20-04-2007, 22:43
Swordfish for me, truly awfull
Blimey this thread's come back from the dead.
Someone on the first page suggested 'Birth of a nation'.
6 years man, 6 YEARS!!!!!!11111
It's had many a post in many a thread but for me, when you take into account the huge budget, quality of director, quality of cast it HAS to be Superman Returns!
Just goes to show you can have all the right ingredients but if you xxxx up the recipe..................
sleep4ever
20-04-2007, 23:22
Dudley Doright
The worst of a multitude of bombs
For 77 minutes of absolute torture, that barely qualifies as entertainment, it just was the worst thing I have ever had the misfortune to sit through
I've never walked out of a film at the cinema, or turned a film off before the end but Dudley Doright was a huge test of patience
No amount of exaggeration would cover its sheer awfulness.
the thing with no name
20-04-2007, 23:28
The Mangler - for me - luckily i only paid 1p at a cinema birthday celebration to see it
the_edge30
20-04-2007, 23:36
Eyes Wide Shut - awful awful awful film, hated every single moment of this painfully dull excuse for a movie, in the cinema aswell, terrible!
Open Water - Absolute waste of time, thank god I went watching Anchorman straight after!
FightForTheRight
20-04-2007, 23:50
Open Water was such an anti-climax, that's for sure.
I don't think I've ever sat all the way through a truely terrible film though.
"Soul Plane" gets my vote. But I had no choice but to sit all the way through it. I used to work as a cinema projectionist and this was the last film I viewed before it got shown to the public. That was two and a half years ago - and it still gives me nightmares.
jimmy.hanson
21-04-2007, 07:11
a Chorus Line:gag: :gag:
walked out half way through
abarthman
21-04-2007, 07:18
Going to have to be a toss up between:
1. Mouse Hunt : I had to sit through it, because it was an in-flight film, but I detested every second of this annoying dross. It combines the two things that I hate- slapstick humour and Lee Evans.
2. A Cock and Bull Story : I know some of the intellectual types loved this, but I honestly thought it was dire beyond belief. I sat through it, because the cast should have made it a funny film and I kept waiting for it to pick up, but it never did. I should have joined the multitude of people who had the foresight to walk out shortly after the opening credits. As we left the cinema, my partner and I were actually stunned, because it was so unbelievably atrocious.
Donnie Darko
Phantom Menace (I really wanted to leave the cinema but my mate didn't)
Inland Empire - I wish I'd checked the running time before I went in, otherwise I'd have left at the two hour mark and not suffered a further hour of torture. And this is coming from someone who loves Mulholland Drive!
a Chorus Line:gag: :gag:
walked out half way through
You appear to have misunderstood the title of this thread.. ;)
Anyway, last one I can remember was Streetfighter. That was a long, long time ago..
cjanderson
21-04-2007, 12:33
broken flowers
boring boring boring.
carpettile
21-04-2007, 13:04
Worst one for me- Revolver, carried on watching it because i thought to myself, this film has got to get a little better, it didnt
At the cinema, Hook, everything else I've seen has had some sort of redeeming feature.
On video (waaay before DVD), Liquid Sky (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085852/plotsummary)
DeadKenny
21-04-2007, 13:35
At the cinema: Highlander 2
Only film at the cinema I've really been tempted to walk out of, but I stayed in the hope it might get better. It didn't.
SIMON ADEBISI
21-04-2007, 13:46
Stigmata. Piece of ****.
Reign of Fire - what a disappointment.
Reign of Fire - what a disappointment.
I completely agree with you on this, I surprised myself by actually managing to get through it but boy was it poor.
anephric
21-04-2007, 14:27
Recently, The Fountain. An utterly dull, cheap-looking disappointment of a film. Impossible to follow or care about.
staffyman
21-04-2007, 14:27
Hollywood Homicide... *shudders*
robbiez666
21-04-2007, 14:36
Dead Mans Shoes-utterly dreadful.
Evilbones
21-04-2007, 15:05
Roller Blade 7 - The Worst Film of ALL damn time
Gang of New York - I actually cried i hated it so
Quincunx
21-04-2007, 15:14
Cheaper By The Dozen. It made me want to drown things.
SIMON ADEBISI
21-04-2007, 15:45
Dead Mans Shoes-utterly dreadful.
Madness.
But each to their own.
Crank - horrible on every level.
jroadley
21-04-2007, 17:29
Dead Mans Shoes-utterly dreadful.
:eek:
LIGHTRAY
21-04-2007, 17:41
At the cinema :Chain Reaction
At home: xXx
Johnny Vodka
21-04-2007, 17:56
Ones that immediately spring to mind: Funny Games and The Passion Of The Christ.
nwgarratt
21-04-2007, 18:30
Casino Royale 2006
The Village (although it took me two attempts due to falling asleep from boredom)
ryonhilluk
21-04-2007, 20:43
Around the world in 80 days with coogan and co.
Fell asleep for a few minutes.
Casino Royale?? you crazy? :D
nwgarratt
21-04-2007, 21:00
Casino Royale?? you crazy? :D
Nope it was a crap Bond film.
Severance can also be added to the list.
robbiez666
21-04-2007, 21:22
Madness.
But each to their own.
the funny moments were people reading personal adds out of a porn mag....
it was set in Matlock which maybe put he off but I thought it represented everything thats bad about British films. I hate all Meadow's later films.
although Hole runs it close.
When I started reading through this thread, I was thinking to myself "I've not seen that many bad movies", and then like some traumatic childhood experience recovered in psychotherapy, I started to remember:
The Day After Tomorrow - I saw this at the cinema, it was free and I did laugh (at unintended moments) but this was still a festering pile of poo. No comments really needed to explain how bad this is
The Core - watched this all the way through on DVD. Admittedly, it was hilarious ("but what if we could..." being the whole premise for the film)
300 - I'm sorry, but this was literally the worst film I have ever ever ever ever seen. The acting was appalling, the main guy suddenly slipped into a Scottish accent whenever he thought he needed authority, the action scenes were like a mixture of LotR and those old side scrolling beat em ups like Streets of Rage, the 8ft tall transsexual ruler of Iran - the list could go on forever!
Requiem for a Dream - my God, this was plain awful. Who writes a 2 hour film about the guy from South Park saying "drugs are bad, mmkay"? Aronofsky is possible the least talented "auteur" I've had had the displeasure of seeing the filmic excrement of, as other people's nomination of The Fountain goes some way to validating. "Look," he says "they're so desperate for drugs that two previously respectable girls will start putting on a show with a double-headed dildo for a bunch of stockbrokers - it's not exploitative, it's showing the real horror of the situation" - NO ARONOFSKY, IT'S NOT, IT'S JUST SLOPPY, TITILLATING CINEMA!!!! (my friends are bored of hearing my rants about this film!)
The Matrix Reloaded/Revolutions - "hey, transvestite brother, trilogies are popular now and people really liked our lazy attempts at referencing Baudrillard - it makes them feel clever" "you're right, non-transvestite brother - but we only have enough material for one film - what shall we do?" "I know, let's make 2 films and pad it with loads of references to things like The Bible - that'll make us look clever, just like that Aronofsky guy" "ok" "but we need to keep using loads of special effects - perhaps we could just keep moving the camera round the people for like half an hour?" "sweet - let's do that" "we are gonna make so much money" "i know" "super sweet"
Oooh, last minute addition: Die Another Day - "space laser", planes that fly despite being hit by said space laser, guys with diamonds in their face....
Ol' Blue Eyes
21-04-2007, 22:08
The Sweetest Thing, starring Cameron Diaz. I watched it through my fingers, so embarassed was I by it. Absolutely appalling in every way - and I like all the actors in it. When they started singing "the penis song", I wanted the earth to open up and swallow me.
anephric
21-04-2007, 22:36
Requiem for a Dream - my God, this was plain awful. Who writes a 2 hour film about the guy from South Park saying "drugs are bad, mmkay"? Aronofsky is possible the least talented "auteur" I've had had the displeasure of seeing the filmic excrement of, as other people's nomination of The Fountain goes some way to validating. "Look," he says "they're so desperate for drugs that two previously respectable girls will start putting on a show with a double-headed dildo for a bunch of stockbrokers - it's not exploitative, it's showing the real horror of the situation" - NO ARONOFSKY, IT'S NOT, IT'S JUST SLOPPY, TITILLATING CINEMA!!!! (my friends are bored of hearing my rants about this film!)
I agree it's like a Fisher Price My First Drugs film, and the moralising is trite, but you have to admit it you can just let yourself be entranced by the style of it (even if Aronofsky gets carried away with his (pill)box of tricks).
Which is why, as I nominated myself (and I don't care what the apologists say about it not being Aronofsky's cut etc) The Fountain is the most disappointing film I've seen in an age, and I normally like car-crash disaster sort of film events. At least there's normally something of interest in there - The Fountain however is like a procession of dull conversational moments from a series of very dull, not vaguely interconnected films with some cheap, insular sets.
Fever Dawg
22-04-2007, 08:02
Lost in Space.
The last time the missus ever got to choose what we watched at the cinema.
brendonw
22-04-2007, 08:07
Chain Reaction
One of the few films I've ever fallen asleep at the cinema while watching from boredom - not tiredness :D
Gary Couzens
22-04-2007, 08:11
A toss-up between Look Who's Talking Too and Street Fighter. At least with major-studio films you should expect a baseline level of technical competence, but even this was in question.
When I started reading through this thread, I was thinking to myself "I've not seen that many bad movies", and then like some traumatic childhood experience recovered in psychotherapy, I started to remember:
The Day After Tomorrow - I saw this at the cinema, it was free and I did laugh (at unintended moments) but this was still a festering pile of poo. No comments really needed to explain how bad this is
The Core - watched this all the way through on DVD. Admittedly, it was hilarious ("but what if we could..." being the whole premise for the film)
300 - I'm sorry, but this was literally the worst film I have ever ever ever ever seen. The acting was appalling, the main guy suddenly slipped into a Scottish accent whenever he thought he needed authority, the action scenes were like a mixture of LotR and those old side scrolling beat em ups like Streets of Rage, the 8ft tall transsexual ruler of Iran - the list could go on forever!
Requiem for a Dream - my God, this was plain awful. Who writes a 2 hour film about the guy from South Park saying "drugs are bad, mmkay"? Aronofsky is possible the least talented "auteur" I've had had the displeasure of seeing the filmic excrement of, as other people's nomination of The Fountain goes some way to validating. "Look," he says "they're so desperate for drugs that two previously respectable girls will start putting on a show with a double-headed dildo for a bunch of stockbrokers - it's not exploitative, it's showing the real horror of the situation" - NO ARONOFSKY, IT'S NOT, IT'S JUST SLOPPY, TITILLATING CINEMA!!!! (my friends are bored of hearing my rants about this film!)
The Matrix Reloaded/Revolutions - "hey, transvestite brother, trilogies are popular now and people really liked our lazy attempts at referencing Baudrillard - it makes them feel clever" "you're right, non-transvestite brother - but we only have enough material for one film - what shall we do?" "I know, let's make 2 films and pad it with loads of references to things like The Bible - that'll make us look clever, just like that Aronofsky guy" "ok" "but we need to keep using loads of special effects - perhaps we could just keep moving the camera round the people for like half an hour?" "sweet - let's do that" "we are gonna make so much money" "i know" "super sweet"
Oooh, last minute addition: Die Another Day - "space laser", planes that fly despite being hit by said space laser, guys with diamonds in their face....
Wow..are you receiving counselling?
SIMON ADEBISI
22-04-2007, 09:29
:lol: There was a lot of pent up rage in that post alright.
At the cinema - Natural Born killers- This was at the odeon on a weekday matinee. With GF and her sister, there were four other people in and they had all left before the middle. Gf and sister were bored rigid but I insisted we stopped until the end.. God it was utter rubbish and to be honest I dont think Ive got over the trauma of the three of us sitting there watchig that crap. Has to be the worst film ever made. I even enjoyed Highlander 2 at the cinema better than this, and that was garbage too.
At home - recently probably Blade 3- could get away with the vampire myth, but not when old Drac himself turned up. What a stinker. Kept falling asleeep on the sofa at intermittent points thru the film.
anephric
22-04-2007, 11:42
A toss-up between Look Who's Talking Too and Street Fighter.
But... but... at the end of Street Fighter they do their victory poses from the game in freeze frame! It's like a geek's wet dream!
Air Force One, Van Helsing, Right at Your Door and Face/Off, Now I know lots of people love Face/Off but I just thought it was awful
BeauBrummie
22-04-2007, 19:14
I hated American Psycho ...... it was just so damn awful and I wasn't that enamered with Fight Club ..... thought it was boring .....
:lol: There was a lot of pent up rage in that post alright.
Haha - I'm not a huge fan of (current) Hollywood films and am pleasantly surprised when I find one I like. While The Core and Day After Tomorrow were undoubtedly awful pieces of cinema, they were at least fun - Van Helsing was the same. It just annoys me when what are clearly just fun movies suddenly start to take themselves seriously as 'art', hence my intense hatred of Requiem and the Matrix sequels. And 300 - that film really was bad! I honestly hadn't thought Hollywood cinema had sunk so low, especially as it's nominally the 150th best film ever made according to IMDB
dco_chris
22-04-2007, 21:07
Lord of the Flies (1963): Ok I know it's hailed as some kind of classic, but on the single viewing of this film I had at school I absolutely hated it. Getting a bunch of kids who could not act (supposedly to get more natural reactions) and then making them act doesn't seem too smart to me. Their general lack of acting ability totally destroyed much of the films atmosphere and any sympathy that could be felt for some of the characters.
Out for a Kill: Seagal's more recent film's may not have been cinematic masterpieces, but at least they are mainly somewhat watchable. Not this one though. Amateurish direction, incoherent plot, crap special effects, blatant stunt doubling (Seagal has never done flying kicks even in his early films), eastern Europe doubling for virtually every country in the world (badly), utterly crap bad guy, etc. Not even bad in a funny way, just bloody awful.
cjanderson
22-04-2007, 21:12
i;ve been watching the top 100 imdb movies for the challenge on the forums and i've had to switch some of them off, they have totally bored me.
But i can do that as its on dvd or i have recorded it off sky, if i was at the cinema i'd probably sit there hoping it would get better but too embarrassed to walk out "of a classic"
stuff like requiem for a dream i though pretentious tosh, but the cinematics made it worth watching. stuff like charlie chaplins work just bored the pants fof me and clearly wasn't going anywhere so i turned it off.
oh, i thought babel was total guff, luckily it was a free screening, and my date thought it Such a worthy piece of filmmaking, with so much to say, i didn't see him again.
I walked out of the cinema just once, but off the top of my head I can't actually remember what the film was.
I did fall asleep during the Phantom Menace though - that was truly gash. It that was the first ever star wars film, I doubt a sequel would ever have materialised.
On DVD, I switched off this crappy soderbergh film once that was going absolutely nowhere, and contained nothing of any merit whatsoever. Again, i've forgotten the name.
How about the worst film that you bought (and for some reason still own) on DVD?
Lord of the Flies (1963): Ok I know it's hailed as some kind of classic, but on the single viewing of this film I had at school I absolutely hated it. Getting a bunch of kids who could not act (supposedly to get more natural reactions) and then making them act doesn't seem too smart to me. Their general lack of acting ability totally destroyed much of the films atmosphere and any sympathy that could be felt for some of the characters.
Heck I'll second that - force fed at school and nearly died of boredom.
Would add Brief Encounter which I find one of the most nauseating films ever :gag:
Have also suffered through E.T, Titanic, Pearl Harbour and Withnail and I :cry:
Fantasia - boring with a crap story line!
ascender
22-04-2007, 22:17
The Devil Wears Prada. Truly awful film but the girls in the room wouldn't switch it off as they reckoned there had to be something good about it. They were sadly wrong.
murph200140
22-04-2007, 22:29
At the cinema - The Break Up - Vince vaughn shouting his lines for 90 minutes , slightly redeemed by Jens bum :n0rty: . But the film hardly raised a titter in a packed screening .
Miami Vice -another film putting style over content , Jamie Foxx and Colin Farrell talk absolute **** for two hours . I think it was the first time that I wished an english speaking movie had sub-titles .As for the steamy sex scenes I've seen more raunch in an episode of neighbours
Love Actually - what can I say about this film .I think that this movie is one of the few movies that just sends me into a blind rage . it must be the most miscast, sentimental piles of crap ever .Hugh grant as the Prime minister dancing in his underwear :gag: .Liam neeson trying to teach his creepy ten year old to pick up a girl :brickwall
jimmy.hanson
22-04-2007, 22:30
You appear to have misunderstood the title of this thread.. ;)
Anyway, last one I can remember was Streetfighter. That was a long, long time ago..
no understood the title of the thread...came back after spending half an hour at refreshments to collect the wife and see the best part...the end:thumbs:
jimmy.hanson
22-04-2007, 23:03
Out of Africa
what a bum stinger:lol:
no understood the title of the thread...came back after spending half an hour at refreshments to collect the wife and see the best part...the end:thumbs:
Exactly - so you didn't sit all the way through it did you. :D
I think the point is you have to endure the pain.. :) Hence the reason I went for streetfighter, as there has been a few i've skipped out of partway in (mainly film festival fodder, where the selection is a little more random and unpredictable.. as i'm normally good at selecting individual films).
Uncle Nick
23-04-2007, 08:31
In the cinema I once sat through Legally Blonde 2, and that was on a freebie so I can't even use the "fininacial interest" defence.
I think its gotta be B*A*P*S
http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0118663/
Wow and i even bought it blind on video and i think still in my attic.
DrZarkov
23-04-2007, 08:34
At the cinema - 'The Last Kiss'...I was promised it would be really good as "it has that funny guy from scrubs in it":razz:
At home - 'Revolver'....Watched this because of Snatch and Lock Stock. It truly was a complete dog turd of a film!
MonkeyboyUK
23-04-2007, 08:37
Hole in my Heart - pretentious, say-nothing twaddle.
Scream 3 - an insult to paying audiences. :razz:
Erm....
Batman and Robin (PPV) - just.... why?
Battlefield Earth (Cinema) - SO bad its... terrible
Notting Hill (Cinema) - Boring in the extreme, and Hugh Grant AND Julia Roberts, my two most despised 'actors' were in it.
Titanic (Video) - Only good point was DeCaprio dying at the end. I rewound that bit and rewatched it a few times.
jimmy.hanson
23-04-2007, 09:00
Exactly - so you didn't sit all the way through it did you. :D
whatever you say Boss:p
Barney_Tabasco
23-04-2007, 09:10
Without a doubt Batman & Robin. I do actually have the ability to find the good in most things and have sat through some real crap thinking things such as 'Well at least the scenerys nice' or 'Cool soundtrack' but B&R just would NOT end. It was dire.
Still can't bring myself to walk out of a film though no matter how bad.
Johnny Vodka
23-04-2007, 09:13
Scream 3 - an insult to paying audiences. :razz:
Oh aye, Scream 2 dragged. Bloody awful film and way too long. Needless to say, I haven't botherd with number 3. ;)
Jungle Ted
23-04-2007, 09:16
The English Patient gets my vote. I only watched it because I believed the hype at the time and brought the video.
Soldier with Kurt Russell - I'd heard that it wasn't that good, but watched it anyway
terrible, and Vic Mackay with hair was just about the icing on the cake
Hole in my Heart - pretentious, say-nothing twaddle.
Hmm, yeh - that was a somewhat grating flick. I like Moodysoon, but I did not get what he was trying to achieve with Hole In My Heart. Saw that at the cinema too.
Raigmore
23-04-2007, 09:38
Spielberg's Minority Report would have to be a worthy candidate. The most meaningless, nauseating, godawful tripe that I have seen for a long time.
The Avengers and Space truckers
sparkyrob
23-04-2007, 09:42
Toss-up between:
Troy
Batman and Robin
Blair Witch Project (the camerawork made me feel ill after this)
Godzilla (so exciting, I fell asleep)
Final Fantasy (as above)
I think Troy has to top it though.
Sunshine is the most recent one I can think of.
Prior to that, "Closer".
Seen some bad ones but nothing comes close to either of those for a full viewing.
Have switched off "Date Movie" and "Hard Candy" after a few minutes though as these were unbearable to watch.
SpaceCoyote
23-04-2007, 11:23
Don't know why, but I thought "Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer" would be better than it was - still watched it to the end.
I very rarely turn stuff off, but my wife and I absolutely hated Serenity - turned that off about 20 minutes - terrible.
Mark Orme
23-04-2007, 11:32
At the cinema maybe Look who's talking too, or my personal unfavourite Awakenings. At home Flesh Gordon 2.
Reading through these has reminded me of another...
I must have been one of the few who watched 'Rancid Aluminium' at the cinema. Loved the book, but it really seemd like they'd taken every good element out of the book, and everything added that wasn't in the original story was cack.
Mr.The.Spoon
23-04-2007, 11:41
Blair Witch Project
Without a doubt the worst thing I've seen in the cinema. I'd heard all the positive hype, some of the negative hype. Three of us decided to go and decide for ourselves. The only reasons we stay until the end was not wanting to have wasted the money and the tiny glimmer of hope something would happen.
Nothing did.
I still don't understand what people saw in that film. Complete tripe.
Blair Witch Project
Original Sin (even with Angelina Jolie in the buff!!!!) A godawful film...
jacquesbrel
23-04-2007, 11:43
recently, most painful bum-numbing cinema experience probably LOTR: Return of the King
for home viewing, award goes to Exorcist 2: The Heretic
Pret-a-porter (ready to wear), utter rubbish.
sparkyrob
23-04-2007, 12:09
Only given up on two films once started. Luckily they weren't at the cinema so didn't waste any cash:
Timecode - managed 45 minutes.
Shark Tale - didn't get past the 25 minute mark.
SIMON ADEBISI
23-04-2007, 12:12
Rancid Aluminium
:gag:
Love, Honour And Obey was another one.
bonsaiguy
23-04-2007, 12:33
I would have to go with The Big Bounce with Owen Wilson, Charlie Sheen and Morgan Freeman phoning in their performances. Presumably they were coerced into doing the movie by the studio, well I hope so anyway.
Easily these two are the WORST EVER!!:
Life or Something Like It, and National Lampoons Pledge This! - LOSLI was a torturous trapped-on-a-plane-with-nothing-else-to-watch movie, and I subjected myself to Pledge This!
MetalGearAl
23-04-2007, 15:41
I could have sworn I posted in this thread, but it doesn't appear to be here.
Anyway, I've never walked out of the cinema during a film. Perhaps I should change my policy as this means I sat through both Battlefield Earth and eXistenZ - both utter rubbish.
anephric
23-04-2007, 15:48
Death to the demon MetalGearAl. Death to eXistenZ!
wong fei hong
23-04-2007, 16:20
Electra hurt me bad, but I'm not sure I'd place it over such nauseating cinema visits as Three Fugitives and Splitting Heirs.
The Assassination of Richard Nixon - http://www.zen82603.zen.co.uk/smilie/sleep.gif http://www.zen82603.zen.co.uk/smilie/sleep.gif http://www.zen82603.zen.co.uk/smilie/sleep.gif
Nicky Ray
23-04-2007, 16:46
I just sat through 'The Holiday' and wish I hadn't. While not the worst film I've ever seen, it was quite bad.
Ol' Blue Eyes
23-04-2007, 17:07
for home viewing, award goes to Exorcist 2: The Heretic
I saw that recently and my god, it is terrible. It has the worst acting of any film I've ever watched including pornos. The script is worse than the acting. The direction seems determined to make the special effects and the sets look as fake as can be. I don't think today this would even get released. You look at the talent involved, like John Boorman for god's sake and it beggars belief.
Blair Witch Project
The Skulls
Valentine (went with the other half - we'd paid so i was determined not to leave, but that's a TERRIBLE film)
Family Man (Nicolas Cage) - see above
Summerisle
25-04-2007, 12:50
Return of the Jedi. Three years of expectations blown away for nothing a tired retread of "Episode IV" which in turn is now just a tired collection of second and third hand ideas from other movies and stories. God, sitting there listening to idiots munching down on every dumb morsel of "U" certificate humour and the Ewoks. From the point the first flint-knapped spearpoint stabs in from screen left you thought it's got to get better but each proceeding scene of cretinous Ewok humour, like torpedo's piercing a crippled battleship below the water line, it just gets worse. In retrospect I have watched it since and do wonder why; probably in the hope that one day it will be good as you wanted it to be that one day in 1983.
DjSatansfury
25-04-2007, 13:03
Enough with Jennifer Lopez in it. Only saw it because the tickets were cheap and film we wanted to see wasnt on. Steamy pile!
the two that spring immediately to mind are:
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (I was a big fan of the tv show, but this was just incoherent ********)
&
Soul Survivors: The Killer Cut (Hey, let's get Eliza Dushku in our film, have her and some other attractive girl get covered in paint and then have them both take a shower together - but let's have them keep ALL THEIR CLOTHES ON. In the shower. I'll say that again. Eliza Dushku & another attractive female. Showering together. Fully clothed. :brickwall :doh: )
I sat through both of those, screaming "MAKE SOME ******* SENSE!!!!" at the tv. :wave:
animatedude
25-04-2007, 13:17
Miami Vice
nwgarratt
25-04-2007, 13:28
Two more I forgot - Lawnmower Man 2 and Robocop 3. I think LM is worse just by a bit. Robocop 3 could have beeen a good film story wise if they hadn't turn a 18 certificate series of films into a TV series which is now a PG.
Mr Flibble
25-04-2007, 13:31
Random Hearts, god it was so bad :(
Niceguygeoff
25-04-2007, 13:45
Scream 3 - an insult to paying audiences. :razz:
Damn. I'd actually forgotten about that one. I love the first two Scream movies, but #3 finally turns into the parody that the series was always threatening to produce. I still can't believe how shoddy it was.
I had to sell my treasured Scream Trilogy R1 boxset because it had that movie in it - I just couldn't bear to have it stinking up my collection. :mad:
Return of the Jedi. Three years of expectations blown away for nothing a tired retread of "Episode IV" which in turn is now just a tired collection of second and third hand ideas from other movies and stories. God, sitting there listening to idiots munching down on every dumb morsel of "U" certificate humour and the Ewoks. From the point the first flint-knapped spearpoint stabs in from screen left you thought it's got to get better but each proceeding scene of cretinous Ewok humour, like torpedo's piercing a crippled battleship below the water line, it just gets worse. In retrospect I have watched it since and do wonder why; probably in the hope that one day it will be good as you wanted it to be that one day in 1983.
are you Simon Pegg?
brainwaster
25-04-2007, 17:40
Magnolia and To Die For
forgot about Magnolia
Sat all the way through that expecting it to get better. It just went on, and on, and on. Rubbish.
Plenty of dodgy martial arts pap i've sat through to review it.
Worst one might be "Kick Fighter" with the usually reliable Richard Norton and Benny the Jet Urquidez
Let me through in something controversial - 2001: A Space Odyssey
I love Kubrick's work, love Sci Fi but this was the only film that I have started to look at the timer to see if it was almost over. I have never watched a movie with characters so devoid of character and combine this with such a slow pace made me feel quite sad afterwards! Maybe I need to approach it with a different frame of mind but it won't be any time soon!
Some other films that were utter garbage IMO:
- Blair Witch Project as mentioned before
- War of the Worlds (Cruise/Speilberg remake)
- Kill Bill Volume 1, never bothered to see Volume 2
- Dreamcatcher
Greemie666
26-04-2007, 05:17
Definately Mars Attacks, I would've walked 20 minutes in but was there with friends. I thought this film was a massive steaming pile of cack.
deftone666
26-04-2007, 06:26
Alpha Dog springs to mind out of the recent films I've seen.
Home - Vanilla Sky (I kept watching as I thought/hoped it would get better!)
Cinema - You Got Mail - awful!:gag:
Home - The Tigger Effect
Cinema - Phantom Menace
misskittyfantastic
26-04-2007, 10:33
Definitely Magnolia. It could have been so good, but they built all the storylines up and nothing bloody happened at the end!!!
Big Big let down.
Films I chose to watch:
Showgirls (a couple of good points though).
Freddy Got Fingered - seems to be a bit marmite (love it or hate it).
Films the Mrs made me watch:
The Horse Whisperer
Franky and Johnny
at home : chicago and the thin red line
cinema : batman and robin
i'd add the english patient in there too but i kept walking out of that one and magnolia got the skip treatment
cinema-- eyes wide shut and lost in space
home--- submerged or something like that steve segal flick i never managed it all it was just so bad, sometimes i can take bad films for what they are but this was just painful.
and dreamcatcher really like the first 25 mins or so which as it turned out bad just made it worse.
the thing with no name
26-04-2007, 12:42
I love the fact that two or three or my fav films of all time have appeared on this last page :D :thumbs: :lol:
Probably Stormbreaker. I still have no idea why I bothered to watch it.
LooNaTiK
26-04-2007, 16:28
51st State
Thunderbirds
Alien vs Predator
There are probably more...
LooN
Cinema: Phantom Menace
Home: Fantom Killer 2
Friend's place: The City of Lost Children & Delicatessen double bill
edit: I should say that the friend who showed me the latter two movies was also the one who lent me Fantom Killer 2.... "naah, keep watching, it gets hilarious". Some films are so bad they're good but this was just bad. I wasted my time but he wasted his money ;)
LooNaTiK
26-04-2007, 18:27
Oh, yeah... How could I forget Granny (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0225899/)!! A mate made me watch this... "It gets better! honest!". It was terrible.
The same 'mate' made me sit through A Snake of June (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0330904/) and Tetsuo (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096251/). Also pretty bad...
I don't see him that much anymore...
:nuts:
LooN
The German
26-04-2007, 18:56
"The Dreamers" ..... my girlfriend insisted we watch a film she wanted to watch so we sat in an audience of 8 that by half way was just us two. I tried to use this as an example of what happens if she chooses the film but she still insists occaisionally.
Son of Mask - I saw it completely because i didn`t wanted to waste money i spent already
cardinal biggles
27-04-2007, 08:46
Jackass 2
degeneration
27-04-2007, 08:52
Starship Troopers 2
Scary Movie 2 (SM3 didn't even get past 8 minutes before the eject button was hit)
For some bizarre reason I have watched / half dozed through <i>Return of the King</i> which is one of the most tedious films I've ever seen. Admittedly, having suffered through the previous two, I only had myself to blame.
On the other hand, many of the films mentioned above are favourites of mine, especially the majestic <i>Exorcist II: The Heretic</i> which gets better every time I see it (Over 85 times now :))
There are some very bad films I've sat through but enjoyed so I won't count those - <i>Breeder, War of the Colossal Beast</i> and <i>The Spider</i> spring to mind.
Scratch my earlier one, I've just thought of the biggest pile of dross I ever sat through, and its name is Cube.
Abysmal acting, terrible dialogue, witless script - everything about it was terrible. Emptiness dressed up as profundity. Without doubt the worst film I've ever seen. It's worse than Bird On A Wire.
jacquesbrel
27-04-2007, 09:56
For some bizarre reason I have watched / half dozed through <i>Return of the King</i> which is one of the most tedious films I've ever seen. Admittedly, having suffered through the previous two, I only had myself to blame.
On the other hand, many of the films mentioned above are favourites of mine, especially the majestic <i>Exorcist II: The Heretic</i> which gets better every time I see it (Over 85 times now :))
I was with you at the start of your post, then you threw in the wrong 'un. You must either have something extra in your brain, a gene the rest of us are missing, or you are deficient yourself, if you like Exorcist 2 at all, let alone THAT much ;)
The Break Up
Was it just me, or should there not have been some sort of twist? If not, then why make us sit for like 2 hours whilst completely summing the movie up in the title.
The same 'mate' made me sit through A Snake of June (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0330904/) and Tetsuo (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096251/). Also pretty bad...
I don't see him that much anymore...
:nuts:
Sounds like his gain - both excellent films IMO.
You must either have something extra in your brain, a gene the rest of us are missing, or you are deficient yourself, if you like Exorcist 2 at all, let alone THAT much
I must be deficient then. Still, I'm very happy and I'll be watching it again at the weekend, on this occasion to enjoy the way Richard Burton says "Eeeeevillllll" and relish the cinematography in the scene of Regan on the roof.
Cinema - The nightmare before Christmas
Home - Spaceballs
For me probably
Twister and Speed 2
hmmm, both "directed" by Jan de Bont! :suspect:
(The first Speed was such a fluke!)
Deep Impact comes close but it's saved by the tidal wave wiping out Téa Leoni as she sobs "Daddy!" :lol:
BeauBrummie
27-04-2007, 14:24
Just seen Straightheads .... Don't do it ....
sleep4ever
27-04-2007, 16:21
Son of Mask - I saw it completely because i didn`t wanted to waste money i spent already
A shockingly bad film
I did consider stopping it, but I got through to the end just to see if it could get possibly worse (it did)
At Cinema:
Spawn - not even Martin Sheen can save this one
XXX - kept falling asleep for extended periods and very time I woke up I got angry that it was still going
King Kong (2007) - bored from start to finish
The Prestige - too many gaping plot holes and nowhere near as clever as it thinks it is
Collateral Damage - where do I start?
At Home:
The Cell
Exorcist II: The Heretic
Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist
Scary Movie
i went to the premiere of eyes wide shut. it was just the worst film i have ever seen.
the only saving grace was getting to meet stanley kubrick briefly while the film was being filmed.
Wathed Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and thought this was the perfect thread for it really.
A complete and utter **** hole of a movie which was one of the most painful and boring experiences I have had to endure.
SIMON ADEBISI
29-12-2008, 16:07
The Day The Earth Stood Still is a contender. Bad movie. Baaaaad movie.
barrynorton
29-12-2008, 16:21
Napolean Dynamite & Donnie Darko
Ravenger
29-12-2008, 17:53
The Bee Movie. My son really wanted to watch this, but I nearly fell asleep during the performance it was so boring.
That and The Mummy Returns. I loved the first one, but the second was completely silly. It should have been cut by 1/3, removing the Magi battles, the rocket powered dirigible and the stupid jungle section at the end.
Recently sat through the Paris Hilton film 'The Hottie & The Nottie'.
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0804492/
Yes, it was as bad as it looks!
the_daddy
29-12-2008, 21:50
Forrest Gump @ the cinema YAWN
Sheepking
29-12-2008, 22:15
Forrest Gump @ the cinema YAWN
:oh-hum: Forrest Gump is awesome!
Magnolia is the biggest pile of ***** i've had the misfortune of siting all the way through.
That and The Mummy Returns. I loved the first one, but the second was completely silly. It should have been cut by 1/3, removing the Magi battles, the rocket powered dirigible and the stupid jungle section at the end.
If you think the second one was bad, wait until you see the third one.;)
Forrest Gump @ the cinema YAWN
I didn't make it all the way through that. :lol:
Worst film I've watched to the end at the cinema is Chicago, but I would have walked out if I'd not been with others. The Eddie Murphy version of The Nutty Professor is a close second (once again, would have walked out if I was on my own).
downhillbiker
30-12-2008, 01:50
Rush Hour 3 - I don't think I laughed at all...
In recent times I'm going to go with "P.S I Love You" (and no, I'm not a Nuts reader, it's just crap), and "Evan Almighty"!
Jaws the Revenge as a kid.
As an adult, Phantom Menace or M:I 2.
gavinhanly
30-12-2008, 09:57
Parting Shots (it was a preview, but still sat through it). And no - it's really not a "so bad, it's good" movie...
wow ! thread from 2001 ! is this a record ??
Cinema
Baby Boom (Diane Keaton) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092605/ - embarrassingly bad
King Solomon's Mines (Richard Chamberlain) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089421/ - awful Indie wannabe
Home
The Wicker Man remake (Nick Cage) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0450345/ - watch in disbelief at how bad it is !
George vader
30-12-2008, 10:41
From the Cinema the only one's that spring to mind were films that I was dragged along to by the same girlfriend at the time,
"Adams Family Values" and "Star Trek: Generations".
M:I 2
I wanted to leave but my then wife was laughing so much at it that she wanted to stay for the comedy value.
Adam Thirnis
30-12-2008, 10:50
Star Wars Phantom Menace
Harry Potter Prisoner of whatever
George vader
30-12-2008, 10:56
Doh, just remembered, I probably posted this earlier in the thread but "Oceans 12", loved 11 (and later 13) but this is the only film I have EVER walked out of, I have never been so bored in the cinema!!
SIMON ADEBISI
30-12-2008, 10:59
Oceans 12 was crap alright. So smug and up its own arse. I rented it out but made it about 15 mins in before i decided life was too short.
HYPOBOXER
30-12-2008, 11:24
Cinema- King Ralph..snuck a half bottle of vodka in with my wife (then girlfriend and fell asleep 40 mins in and snored for the rest of the film.
At home - The Island. Awful film with the most annoying continuous clickity clack soundtrack completely wooden acting and Michael Bay moving camera. Wont get those two hours back.
LordoftheDance
30-12-2008, 11:32
The only time I ever fell asleep at the cinema was while watching The Piano. Yawntastic.
I normally like Adam Sandler, but sat stony-faced throughout the entirety of The Waterboy.
Ravenger
30-12-2008, 11:34
If you think the second one was bad, wait until you see the third one.;)
I don't think I'll bother. :oh-hum: ;)
I think I'd have to go for the second Pirates of the Caribbean film; it was absolutely diabolically poor, with an abysmal, nonsensical script, gaping plot holes...it was an appalling load of ********, basically. Mind you, the "new" Star Wars films run it pretty close in terms of appallingness.
EDIT:
Oh yeah, and Cube, a prattishly crap sci-fi fantasy thing. Everyone connected with it ought to be killed immediately.
LouBarlow
30-12-2008, 14:53
Somehow I managed to avoid it all these years, which is weird as I loved 1 and 3, but watched 'The Lost World' last night, and it stunk the place out.
How the hell do you have a film about dinosaurs, eating a cast consisting of legends such as Julianne Moore, Vince Vaughan (in his thinner days) Pete Postelthwaite and erm...Jeff Goldblum, directed by another legend in Steven Spielberg, suck such gigantic balls?
I mean Jeff Goldblum's daughter is black! WTF?
Just a horrible film.
SIMON ADEBISI
30-12-2008, 14:56
I cringe thinking out the raptor owned by gymnastics scene.
LouBarlow
30-12-2008, 15:26
That was such a massive leap from the first film, I wasn't convinced they actually were veloceraptors (sp?) at first. The first film really created an atmosphere of menace around them - the second made them kinda like wimpy.
They should have had the raptors invading San Diego and made it an 18.
Also how the **** did the T-Rex kill everyone on the ship when it was locked below deck?
Arghhh horrible. horrible.
splobber
30-12-2008, 15:34
Transformers 2
Lorne the Professional
SIMON ADEBISI
30-12-2008, 15:46
Professional beggars? Nonsense.
I think I'd have to go for the second Pirates of the Caribbean film; it was absolutely diabolically poor, with an abysmal, nonsensical script, gaping plot holes...it was an appalling load of ********, basically. Mind you, the "new" Star Wars films run it pretty close in terms of appallingness.
EDIT:
Oh yeah, and Cube, a prattishly crap sci-fi fantasy thing. Everyone connected with it ought to be killed immediately.
Have to agree with you there. I had to switch it off after half an hour. Was **** poor.
Johnny Depp's not doing well for me what with Fear and Loathing and Pirates.
As for the cinema, well it has to be Lost in Space, the only film where I actually fell asleep at the cinema. What a waste of time and utterly boring.
sleep4ever
30-12-2008, 21:52
Hot Rod was the worst film I saw this year...loathed it with a passion.
Looking at the almost universal praise it got on here, I was surprised.
Really dont find Danny McBride funny (but havent seen Pineapple Express yet)
GProject
31-12-2008, 00:07
Hot Rod was the worst film I saw this year...loathed it with a passion.
Looking at the almost universal praise it got on here, I was surprised.
Really dont find Danny McBride funny (but havent seen Pineapple Express yet)
Pineapple Express probably won't help (on the McBride front, anyway). Neither will Tropic Thunder. Or Drillbit Taylor.
Hot Rod is a weird one - there's a very specific style of humour in the Lonely Island stuff and this film reflects that. It can get a bit cult-esque: People who like it, often really like it; others are just lost.
I don't get the love for the Bourne films. They are just very average thrillers that look like straight to video things to me. I sat through all three, and although the third had one good moment, they bored me to tears as a whole. Is this what passes for action cinema these days?
How To Lose Friends and Alienate People is the worst film I have sat through this year. Terrible, terrible film.
BeauBrummie
31-12-2008, 10:13
I bought the missus Noel as saw it cheap in WHSmith's and thought "it's a Christmas film - and she'll give it a watch" - boy was that one hell of a dull film ...... although Cruz is always eye candy of the best sort .......
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