Worst Movie You’ve Ever Seen

There are many but listening to Margaux Hemingway shriek “Alby”, who is played by the obnoxious Elliot Gould has to be my #1

R1 looks hideous. The cinematography and production values are atrocious

R2 It used to play on HBO a zillion yrs ago..It was so bad, we would watch it over and over for the unintentional laughs.

It was directed by Menahem Golan who was known for dreck back then

Cybill Shepherd’s remake of The Lady Vanishes.

I mention this one because I watched it recently, so it's on my mind.

It was actress Olive Borden's final film. (She died in poverty in 1947, but that's another thread.). It also features Georgette Harvey, who appeared in the original production of Porgy and Bess.

I have to imagine that, even by 1934 standards, this film was incredibly offensive:

[quote]A low-budget Southern drama about a light skinned woman who was raised in the swamps who wishes to avenge her black father's lynching. She falls in love with Wade Carson, a white man who works for Col. Gordon, who orchestrated the lynching. Later she discovers that Col. Gordon is actually her father.

I didn’t even have to think about my response. Worst. Movie. EVER.

North

I liked Secrets and Lies.

I’m not alone.

Brenda Blethyn was nominated for an Academy Award for Secrets & Lies.

Secrets & Lies is one of my favorite movies and one of Britain's best films of the last few decades. It won the 1996 Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or, as well as the Best Actress award for Blethyn. She also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama for her portrayal. At the 50th British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA), the film received seven nominations, winning both Best British Film and Best Original Screenplay. It also received five Oscar nominations at the 69th Academy Awards ceremony.

Very odd pick for "worst movie ever seen:" since to most people, it's one of the best.

Boxing Helena

Exorcist II: The Hairytick

"Sextette" with Mae West. One reviewer wrote: "Mae West's swan song to cinema at age 86 is one of the world's all-time worst movies, but that doesn't detract at all from its immense charm and lewd fascination." It does have camp value.

I get "Secrets and Lies" mixed up with "Whispers and Cries."

This tripe. Because when efficient Germans seize control from the lazy and undisciplined, everything works out great.

OP. Don’t hold it in. It’s not healthy. Tell us how you really feel.

Many people love Baghdad Café

Gotti with Ms. Travolta.

These 2 films have been mentioned before by countless DL'ers& now by me. The English Patient& Out of Africa...Boring, Dull Crap!! Right b4 the pandemic, I attended a screening of Out of Africa with a very attractive co-worker in London, asleep in 20 minutes.

Siskel and Ebert raved about it, because of course they would, but I hated "My Dinner With Andre" more than any other movie I've ever seen.

Batman & Robin

R16 Many people love Cracker Barrel.

Nah, I like My Dinner with Andre, but I was a weird teen. Made me want to move to NYC.

Joe vs. the Volcano

Armageddon

Utter shit.

“Battle: Los Angeles”. It felt like a propaganda recruit movie for the military. It creeped me out.

If Secrets and Lies is the worst film you've ever seen then you should consider yourself lucky that you've never seen any truly bad movies

Independence Day and Forrest Gump. Walked out of both. Same with Mamma Mia.

This was terrible

OP has interesting taste if Secrets and Lies was the worst. Good grief.

The Saturday Night Fever sequel "Stayin' Alive was an abomination.

Cabin Boy

I don't even remember why I saw it, but I didn't even smile once the entire time.

PS I Love You.

I liked Secrets And Lies mainky for the performances but it did start tipping the balance between being worthy and exploitative of common people at times.

All Or Nothing was horrendously bleak, Oh look at how what dreadful lives the working classes have! And Mr Turner was fucking awful. Just awful.

Peterloo was like a Victoria Wood Christmas special. There were people laughing at the trailer in the cinema.

Prometheus

R20 I love The English Patient, and Out of Africa, but they are "chick flicks" so to speak, and I meet the criteria. They are slow burners for sure so you're not wrong in that it takes time for the story to develop.

R36 Prometheus is a great Alien origin story, if you're a fan of the series. I like that and Alien: Covenant, its sequel.

I used to think the worst was Chronicles of Riddick. Then I saw Ultraviolet. But the most unwatchable movie, ever to me was Mother! utter, complete crap. Aronofsky shit the bed.

Any of the movies lampooned on Mystery Science Theater 3000

Nomadland, what a YAWN

There are several I've seen a few moments of.

The very worst.

so OP why didn't you walk out or stop watching as I did with The Towering Inferno, Black Panther, Friday the 13th, Reds, Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills, Titanic, Funny Girl, Cleopatra, Dick (1999), Heredity and countless others?

Worst movie I ever saw was Disney’s “Babes in Toyland” (1961). So cute and sugary, made worse by the overacting of coy Annette Funicello and jittery Tommy Sands. At least it had Ray Bolger as the villain, but he was too busy chewing up the scenery.

I hated it then and I was only 12. My opinion hasn’t changed.

R41 I'm so glad I'm not the only one who hated Black Panther. It's so utterly stupid. A hidden country? That the rest of the world doesn't know about but is somehow more advanced than the rest with rare materials, and no one has figured out how to Imperialize it (ha!) I can't figure out what Black Panther is supposed to do that's a superhero besides sneak around and move fast. The whole thing was just so... pandering.

I was going to post a certain musical. But Gary talked me out of it.

I remember seeing a movie called Chandler in 1971. It started Warren Oates and Leslie Caron. It was impossible to follow the plot. Even now, if my old friends from back then tell me the saw a bad movie, I always ask if it is as bad as Chandler.

R29 Oh fuck, I forgot about Mamma Mia.

I loved Secrets and Lies.

I walked out of Six Days & Seven Nights early because the lead characters were screaming at each other and I couldn't take it. Maybe it got better.

Neon Bible Dogville Opening Night Breaking the Waves

Moonstruck.

The English Patient is wretched treacle. But I recognize it is that kind of orange-filter "high class" treacle that seduced and pleased tacky middlebrow fraus and homos.

The Betsy

Couldn't disagree more with OP.Secrets and Lies is one of my favourite films and is a showcase of brilliant acting. Agree with The Betsy, that is DIRE.

Pretty much 90% of the movies that Adam Sandler was in, I haven't seen that many because I just don't want to see him. The worst movies for me were ones that I have to endure in a movie theatre, on TV or video don't count because I could just turn it off or watch something else. Also someone mentioned Breaking The Waves, I know that it's highly regarded but I found to be so depressing and incredibly difficult to watch (even with male nudity). Von Triers' moves are often like that, he likes to punish the audience on some level. I recall liking Secrets and Lies, some of it was hilarious some tragic but I thought that it was good and Brenda was amazing. I wonder if OP enjoyed the movie Naked , by the same director as Secrets and Lies.

When Time Ran Out I think the bridge scene alone ran half an hour.

I walked out of Caligula. It was being shown at one of the campus venues at the U of Mich in the late 80s. About an hour in someone shouted, "Why are we watching this." And I decided he was right and left.

I also walked out of Porky's 3.

Meet the Spartans

Gummo.

I think it's probably the only movie I've ever walked out on in a theater. I felt complete disgust and revulsion

(... WTF - 73% favorable audience score on Rotten Tomatoes?!)

OP, you’re crazy. I still think Brenda Blethyn deserved an Oscar win over Frances McDormand (even though Fargo has become one of my favorite films).

A movie I hated through and through was This Is the End.

r24 I liked My Dinner with Andre too.

Think I'll rewatch it this weekend.

I don't think Gummo is a bad film, r57. Just suffocatingly nihilistic.

Some really odd choices for “worst movie ever”. Secrets and Lies? Out of Africa? Moonstruck?

Did none of you see movies like Sleepaway Camp or Zombeavers?

For me, Mother! So pointless & stupid.

"Babes in Toyland" at least has Tommy Sands showing off his bouncy ass in some old-fashioned tight britches.

The worst film I've ever seen is "John Goldfarb, Please Come Home" (1965). For some reason, I was determined to watch the whole thing and I remember groaning as it went on and on - so stupid!

There aren't many movies I bother with, so I've missed a lot of "worsts" that way. It's 90% crap now.

Two that did get through, though, that I did not like at all were Breaking the Waves, which made me want to hand that poor woman a drink, a pill, a razor blade; and Brazil, which, well, I have no idea why it was any sort of critical darling. My friend hated it as much as I did, thankfully, and we left within 45 minutes.

John Hustons' The Dead. My friends and I still use it as a measure of how bad something is.

Yellowbeard.

R65 The Dead is one of my favourite movies. It has a great atmosphere. There was a "making of" documentary about it years ago but I can't find it anywhere. Anyway I have it on DVD, the only problem is that the studio that released the DVD did a shit job with the cover art and actually left out a chunk of the movie by mistake.

I HATED Forrest Gump!

It wasn't even over yet and I wanted to scream profanities.

The Ralph Bakshi rotoscope "Lord of the Rings" was the most boring movie I've ever seen.

For all around cringe, the Hollywood movie with a decent budget that was just totally inept at every turn was easily "The Mirror Has Two Faces"! Such bougie nonsense!

"Jude" was relentlessly depressing.

I am a big Mst3k fan so I've seen my share of turd bombs, but " The Wild Wild World of Batwoman" has to take the cake. As one reviewer said "Watching this film is like drinking an entire bottle of cough syrup and then listening to a Ventures album while paging through an old copy of 'Argosy' men's adventure magazine. It'll make you vaguely queasy, vaguely horny, and somewhat ashamed of yourself.'

When I was a teenager I walked out of The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, don't know if I would find it funny as an adult.

I also love "My Dinner with Andre"—just attended a screening last week where Andre Gregory did a Q&A afterwards. He's still sharp and looking great at 88! A very lovely, very odd, very earnest man.

[quote] “Battle: Los Angeles”.

Not that I would ever pay to see it, but it was on TV and the monsters were fun. Kinda like Independence Day with this terror in the sky.

I might have said "Elevator Girls in Bondage," which put me to sleep in the theatre. But it's final scene was brilliant...Carrie-esque before Carrie.

Birdemic - it's only possible to get through by watching the RiffTrax version.

Slumdog Millionaire.

Tacky, bombastic, bad acting, no chemistry between the romantic leads.

But to suggest it's bad is racist and Islmaphobic.

Because I am SO not a fan of Isabelle Adjani, it is with great enthusiasm I say the worst movie I've ever seen is Possession:

This thread inspired me to rewatch My Dinner with Andre tonight.

I'd say I still consider it a great film.

It's interesting to watch it in 2022.

So many of the posters here have baby tastes in movies the way some have food baby tastes.

I'm sure there's a Golden Girls episode on somewhere for them.

All I knew about Andre Gregory was what I learned in the movie, but he wrote a memoir a couple of years ago which is short and quite interesting. His family was insanely wealthy, so he had a lot of freedom to explore his passions and travel, which is what he's done from an early age into his 80s.

thank you for Birdemic r75 The wire hangers had me expecting a flock of harpies with the head of Joan Crawford ! Even without Joan it had me chuckling through the clip.

You really wanna test ypour pain threshold? Sit through "Hush Little Baby, Welcome to the Family". The minutes will fly by like hours.

The first Doctor Strange. Never walked out of a movie except for that shit show

Ben & Arthur

A friend and I walked out of Nuts. She wasn't nuts she was obnoxious.

THE SHINING with two of the most atrocious performances ever captured on film.

[quote] I love The English Patient, and Out of Africa, but they are "chick flicks"

They are more like elegant lady flicks.

Gaspar Noe's Enter the Void. This film was like an acid trip without the drugs. And much too long.

It also 'starred' one of the world's worst 'actresses' Paz de la Huerta.

I never hated a movie as much as "The Hotel New Hampshire". I just remember having this visceral reaction to it, and thinking it was repulsive. I was really tempted to ask for my money back.

[R15] Well, Cries and Whispers is an even better film than the excellent Secrets and Lies.

Thighs & Whispers, Semen & Lies, Laving Ryan's Privates, too many to list.

Inland Empire and I usually like David Lynch films.

The Tree of Life is the most pretentious, convoluted crap-fest I’ve ever seen.

Magnolia. A depressing mess.

Every title above is a masterpiece compared to the stunningly inept KISS ME, MONSTER (1969) but the unbelievably incompetent Jesus Franco.

Another vote for Stayin Alive. Beyond contrived. Horrific. I thought it was the end of movies.

The Master was BOOORRRIIINNNGG...Zzzzzzzz. Walked out. Not a single redeeming quality. Oh, and the New Yorker, among others, loved it. Inexplicable.

My contenders:

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994) Highlander II: The Quickening (1991) Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) Sucker Punch (2011) The Suicide Squad (2021) Interstellar (2014) C.C. and Company (1970)

KISS ME, MONSTER looks like something Mystery Science Theater should have featured.

Hate Crime

The Goodbye Girl

Marsha Mason attempting to be adorable and cute.

Richard Dreyfuss so horrible he won an Oscar.

A child actor making sassy a reason for child abuse.

All of this scripted by Neil Simon.

This movie alone shows that the human species was a catastrophic disaster that would eventually destroy the planet.

RV

So bad

New York New York is the only film I walked out on. Maybe I had higher expectations - but not only bad bit utterly annoying characters and actors.

Jaws3 was pretty fucking hilariously bad. But I had red kitten heels and I looked fabulous.

Ay, so you don't like me movie, pet?

Do ya think you could do betta, love?

R71 I also bailed on Buckaroo Bonsai when I was a teen! It's one of the very few movies I've ever walked out of. I just thought it was the stupidest shit I'd ever seen. Maybe I should revisit it now that I've seen so much more dumb shit.

I loved Buckaroo Bonsai- that gorgeous actor and the always funny John Lithgow.

Andy Warhol's movies are unwatchably bad.

To R107, You have to be REALLY HIGH!!

R76 We walked out of Slumdog Millionaire. Danny Boyle is a shit shoveler and that's all he is.

Face/Off.

I walked out of Spielberg's Lincoln after about 30 minutes of sheer boredom.

I rarely walk out on a film. I knew the run time was 2 1/2 hours. I could not envision wasting another 2 hours of my life on a film that was this boring.

[quote]Andy Warhol's movies are unwatchably bad.

The very hot Joe Dallesandro's amazing body, and perfect cock, was always a nice distraction from the bad acting.

I don’t understand Slumdog millionaire. Two hours of human abuse followed by a flashy production number. What?

Pret-A-Porter.

I HATED that movie. The satire fell flat. It was tedious, dull and irritating. The filmed dragged on and on with its monotony. I had a headache during and after I watched it.

Slumdog Millionaire is very much a Danny Boyle film, more style than substance. Trainspotting is a great film of his, but it suffers under the weight of its frenetic self-reverence.

But to some degree, Slumdog is supposed to be a rags to riches story, as well as an ode to Bollywood films, in its presentation and late stage musical number. I'm surprised some folks here don't get that.

[quote]But to some degree, Slumdog is supposed to be a rags to riches story, as well as an ode to Bollywood films, in its presentation and late stage musical number. I'm surprised some folks here don't get that.

Maybe because its execution was shitty?

I posted before about hating John Hustons' The Dead. I still hate it.

That said, I remember taking a posh British friend to see Best in Show. I loved it and she hated it.

To each his own I guess.

[quote]So many of the posters here have baby tastes in movies the way some have food baby tastes.

And other posters view themselves as sophisticated because they're easily impressed by pretentious twaddle.

R80 - thanks for that great book suggestion!

I just bought the memoir on Audible after I saw that Gregory himself was the narrator

Pearl Harbor. I laughed so hard at the death scene at the end of the movie (or whenever it was). Does anyone even remember this movie? It's not talked about nearly as much nowadays as Titanic.

The Life Of David Gale. Supposedly anti-death penalty but if someone's going to frame himself to be executed it doesn't prove anything.

Tuff Turf- I heard about it soooo many times when Kim was on RHOBH, being a fan of cheesy 80s movies, this pieces of schlock legitimately made me want my time back.

It made Flashdance look like like serious film.

^ Oh, Dearing my own post^ bc it's butchered but I still want that time back and not trying to waste any more time on that POS movie.

I cant believe no ones mentioned Jacob's Ladder. I made such a thing about picking it out I had to watch the whole movie. I still dont understand what the fuck it was about.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

I must be going insane. Some of my favorite films are mentioned on this thread.

Racists hate Secrets and Lies.

Three Amigos is the worst movie ever made. Zero redeeming value. Unfunny trash! Starring ugly people.

^I'd rather sit through Soul Man 20 times than ever see Three Amigos again.

I walked out of Gothika.

Last weekend I watched the “Are You Being Served” movie from 1977. Love the show, love the later show “Are You Being Served Again” from the early 90’s. The movie was SO bad! The plot, the lighting, even the makeup…garbage.

[quote]I cant believe no ones mentioned Jacob's Ladder. I made such a thing about picking it out I had to watch the whole movie. I still dont understand what the fuck it was about.

I felt the same way and then a few years ago I was wondering if maybe I was just too young at the time to have understood the movie (I was about 14 yrs old when it came out). I watched it again. And it was a whole lot weirder than I remembered. I can't even remember how it ended.

That bastard Jacob owes me for 3 hours of my life I'll never get back

This bullshit

Interstellar. Piece of shit.

Dunkirk. Same director.

The real worst movie of all time was Flubber. My brother and I were uncool twenty-somethings who had moved back in with mom in NJ. We decided it was our year to see the ball drop in NYC (maybe my brother was working there, and I took the train in to meet him after work). It was one of those really cold New Years Eves, so we didn't stay outside. We went in to TGI Fridays to have a drink, but NYC drinks were more expensive than we were used to, and we were too cheap to stay long. So we went to see a movie. We saw Flubber. I can't remember much. Was it Robin Williams? I dislike him anyway. Some bouncy green stuff? We got out of the movie and of course it was too late to get anywhere near enough to see the ball drop, but at least we kind of tried.

GHOSTS OF WAR.

I paid to see this and remember the audience sucked their teeth at the ending. It is a rip off of the film, Marnie.

Anything by Hack Snyder. Any movie he touches he brings a million mistakes.

I am R134. As for recent really bad movies, I've seen many. I have kids who are now teens, but you can't imagine how many bad children's movies are made. They make total garbage because they know people like me will take my kids and their friends to see it. So maybe five years ago there was this claymation type movie called Early Man. The preview looked funny. I ended up taking my son and one of my daughter's little friends to see it (daughter opted out and stayed home with my husband. She was in a phase where she was semi scared of movies. This movie was bad as hell. I think it revolved around stone age claymation people playing soccer, but I'm not sure. Worse was that I think there was only one other guy in the theater with us. Maybe there was one other couple, not sure. But the guy sat right next to me. My son and the girl were on the other side of me. The guy put his feet up, he was wearing Crocs. My purse strap must have fallen over the arm rest, and he moved it. He touched my bag. I was eating candy with wrappers, and he kept sighing like I was bothering him with too much noise.

I really agree R61. Just because you didn’t like a movie doesn’t make it a bad move. Even if you find The English Patient long, tortuous, and boring (and I’m right there with ya), the film was beautifully shot.

Armageddon Was what it was meant to be - a popcorn movie with big explosions.

I personally find Meet the Spartans hysterical R56, but I know it isn’t for everyone. Movies like Airplane, Scary Movie, etc. can be funny but wear thin quickly.

Dunkirk was an amazing technical achievement and engrossing.

Tiger Rabbit was also entertaining and a masterful piece of directing/editing.

Yeah, r138. I don't have patience to see movies in the theater anymore.

It's hard to single out one movie as worst of all time, but John Travolta's Battlefield Earth is just appallingly bad.

[quote]I was eating candy with wrappers, and he kept sighing like I was bothering him with too much noise.

You had my sympathy but lost it immediately as soon as you mentioned the candy with wrappers.

Yeah, "Jacob's Ladder" was so completely awful, I recall telling anyone who'd listen how shitty it was for about a week after seeing it.

I like many others hate Tim Robbins.

No doubt about it.

"Interiors."

Much too pathetic, bathetic and slickly shallow like the sheen of an oily puddle as seen by a color-blind Putz.

Two movies stick out as abominations. "A Chorus Line" and "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil." Their only redeeming qualities were that I had low expectations for both of them.

I had very low expectations for "A Chorus Line" and it still failed to meet them.

I sometimes think it was a bad dream, but around 1980 I saw and walked out of a wretched pile of dreck called The First Family. It starred Bob Newhart as the president, Madeline Kahn as the drunk first lady and Gilda Radner as their nymphomaniac daughter. With all this talent and Buck Henry as the writer, it should have been at least watchable. It was torture.

R61 whose idea was it to make a 21/2-hour National Geographic movie about Karen Blixen? Redford was out of his depth and he and Streep went together like a jackhammer and a hangover. Pretty pictures do not a movie make, and it seemed interminable. That it won Best Picture certifies its pointless mediocrity.

"The Fat Spy" (1965). Just no redeeming value. Not even good-bad.

August Rush

Jenny (1970) Marlo Thomas as an unwed mother and Allan Alda as a pothead who wants to avoid the draft and you can figure out the rest. Very amateurish looking film for a theatrical release and it explains why the THAT GIRL star relied on nepotism. She's noticeably filmed through filters in the outdoor scenes.

"Light Sleeper" Ugh.

I like Light Sleeper for the nostalgia of 1990s NYC. I hate the music used in it.

I read movie reviews so I can avoid seeing bad movies. If a movie is really panned, I avoid seeing it. But there are some movies that critics like that are shit. I went to see "Moonrise Kingdom" because critics seemed to like it. I thought it would be amusing; Ed Norton certainly looked funny in a scout uniform. But it sucked, a movie about two mentally disturbed children who fall in love and run away to get "married" in a mock wedding ceremony. It was not funny, not amusing, none of the characters in it were al all likeable or sympathetic (including the two children) and everyone in the movie spoke in a deadpan monotone, including the children. I walked out of the theater nauseous and with a splitting headache. I later discovered this film was a Wes Anderson movie. I vowed back then NEVER to see another Wes Anderson movie again. And I've kept my vow.

"Year of the Dog" sucked rocks.

There's Something About Mary. Absolute POS.

"Oh, is that hair gel?"

Trainspotting, I wanted to throw up the entire time. There was another one that I walked out of, kind of an early date with someone new, and he was shocked. I remember, Nocturnal Animals. Aaron Taylor Johnson was not hot enough to overcome the sickening plot.

R30: You might enjoy "Legend," another adaptation of the Kray twins' saga and starring Tom Hardy in the dual role.

Gargoyles

Inspector Gadget

Superman IV The Quest for Peace is the most amateurish major motion picture I recall seeing. It was a poorly written, directed, shot and edited piece of shit.

I rmemeber seeing this in the theater when it came out. I thought the theater had forgotten to play a reel or two during the film. It was horrible.

Superman III was crappy too, but this was just junk.

Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The country Western parody by Seth MacFarlane ( I can't recall the name but it was so bad). All execrable.

My favorite bad movie…but so bad that it’s entertaining.

BLOOD FEAST!

[quote]"Jude" was relentlessly depressing.

Yes, grim and harrowing, but the "worst movie you've ever seen"? Lucky you, then. Christopher Eccleston's performance is exceptionally good, even for Christopher Eccleston, and there are other fine performances, the cinematography is beautiful, etc. But it's a Thomas Hardy story, so it's, as you say, relentlessly depressing.

I can barely recall any offhand, though there are loads of candidates. It's very rare that I watch a terribly bad film through. I'll leave or do something else, so there are many films I know to be awful from having seen a few minutes or even not, just some combination of producer, director, writer, actors and storyline that are unsalvageable.

Offhand, Wes Anderson films. I hate everything about them: the story, the pacing, the painful drawn out quirkiness, the pauses, the #wesandersonaesthetic (and other Instagrammable "looks" of his films.) It's too fucking self-consciously "Are you looking at me? Still looking at me?" cute all the time, And I hate cute unless it's a basket of puppies or kittens.

R18 Bumbling negro saved by superior white woman. Vile garbage for racist fraus.

D.C. Cab

All Tim Burton movies except Pee Wee.

Al John Hughes movies except Vacation.

Why did John Hughes get such critical love? He wasn't that talented.

Uncle Buck was ok. At least it wasn’t about upper middle class white teenagers with no actual problems.

R169 Agreed. I hated Hughes movies. He was a fucking geek. How could he speak for any normal men?

Wag The Dog.

Many of those Reese Witherspoon romantic comedies.

TERMS OF ENDEARMENT

THE LARS VON TRIER BJORK MOVIE.

Both are films which miserably bad weather prevented me from just getting up and walking home from. Incomprehensibly sentimental drivel.

Any of the last 5 Marvel movies

This was awful, not one funny line or scene. Just when you think they no longer greenlight excrement... Bad movies 4-ever!

Will Ferrell is funny - for television.

Anything with Adam Sandler.

Anything by:

PTA

Wes Anderson

Tarantino

The worst movie I've ever seen is "The Curse of Bigfoot" (1975 or -6). It ran on tv when I was 13 and remains the worst I've ever seen. It has little or no camp value; it's just a cheap, amateurish movie. There isn't even any bigfoot in it.

This one was surreally uncomfortable to sit through. It was depressing to feel the clammy quicksand of its across-the-board-ineptitude pull you under.

Dismally amateur.

The Da Vinci Code The Bad News Bears breaking training the bad news bears go to Japan

[quote]This one was surreally uncomfortable to sit through. It was depressing to feel the clammy quicksand of its across-the-board-ineptitude pull you under.

With stars like Antonio Sabato Jr. and Anna Nicole Smith, how could it miss?

Those could be entertaining performers to watch - they became known for a reason. And Jason London is a perfectly fine actor. But the direction, writing and editing are miserably blank.

Another one that comes to mind is Paul Schrader’s The Comfort of Strangers. Has anyone else seen this? Boring, nonsensical, etc. A fucking mess!!

Babel. The worst. Interminable. Ending was good because that meant this disaster was OVER!

[quote] Al John Hughes movies except Vacation.

I'm no fan of John Hughes movies. Most are godawful. But I did like "Planes, Trains and Automobiles." I think that's a comedy classic.

“Starship Troopers”. And don’t tell me it’s hilarious satire. It’s a fascism-glorifying piece of shit.

I nominate Jaw 3, it is mindless, boring and your hardly see the shark or any attacks. I kept waiting for the movie to start. Jaws 4 - the Revenge was terrible aswell, but it did not look like an 80s videogame gone wrong.

A Different Story with Perry King and another actress, as the story of a gay and lesbian who fall in love is as wrong (and unfunny) as it sounds.

Having said this, the movies that made me madder in a movie theater were Forrest Gump and Titanic.

[quote]R188 A Different Story with Perry King and another actress

Meg Foster - the original and soon-to-be-fired Christine Cagney.

A little RESPECT!

R120 Pearl Harbour was utter shit. Laughably so. I think I knew how bad it was going to be as I bought us a load of Japanese beer and we were loudly toasting the worst acting by Affleck et al. Luckily majority of audience also hated it.

A number of people have mentioned Wes Anderson - oversaturated palettes and obtuse dialogue do not make you an auteur.

[quote]Meg Foster - the original and soon-to-be-fired Christine Cagney.

Actually, Loretta Swit was the original Christine Cagney.

"La La Land." White guy explains jazz to Black jazz musicians. Bad actress inexplicably becomes a star. Why did it win awards? Because Hollywood likes to jerk itself off.

I used to think that Last Year at Marienbad and Belly of an Architect were the worst films I had ever seen. There's nothing worse than something trying to be extremely high brow in a bad way.

Now I think LYaM is a horror film and BoaA was some kind of attempt at satire.

Last Year at Marienbad is actually my FAVORITE movie. I can watch it over and over again and I have it on DVD. The music, the setting, the acting, everything is exquisite.

The French film "Betty Blue" was truly rotten, yet every woman I know LOVES it beyond all reason.

It really made me insane how much I hated it.

I love that photo at r189. It looks like Meg Foster is receiving instructions from outer space.

The number of very intelligent movies on this thread (like "Secrets & Lies" and "Bagdad Cafe") is depressing but not surprising. Almost all gay men know what kinds of movies they're [italic]supposed[/italic] to like, but many of us often don't actually like them because they don't like having to think too much about them.

"You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think." -- Dorothy Parker

Steel Magnolias is unwatchable to me.

Vanilla Sky.

How and why I sat through the entire film in a movie theater is a mystery to me to this day.

Jesus of Montreal

Also Hail Mary, as someone on this thread has mentioned.

Jim Jarmusch movies.

Forgot to mention Motherhood with Uma Thurman

[quote] I cant believe no ones mentioned Jacob's Ladder.

I can't believe you mentioned Jacob's Ladder. I think it's one of the best Hollywood horror movies of the past 35 years or so. Very effective movie. And I don't think it's particularly complicated?

Adding my vote to some CRINGEworthy films already mentioned and a few others starring Streisand (“The Way We Were“ and “The Mirror Has Two Faces“), Kidman (“Cold Mountain” and “Out of Africa”), and Keaton (“Something’s Gotta Give” and "Book Club”).

Long Shot with charlize Theron and Seth rogen. Just so unfunny and I just didn’t get it. It really wanted to be a Hepburn/Tracy movie but it just failed miserably.

This one made me lose my appetite.

Time Bandits was horrid

Ghosts Can't Do It with Anthony Quinn and Bo Derek

Night of Dark Shadows (1971) Must be the most boring haunted house movie ever. Roger Ebert gave it 1⭐ 'made by people who take no joy in their work' and the NY Times referred to it as a 'dour adventure' It must have seemed deadly on the big screen.

[quote]Why did John Hughes get such critical love? He wasn't that talented.

I do consider him somewhat overrated...not so much by critics as by people who (like me) grew up in the '80s. It's easy to see why, though. You have to put yourself in that time, the early to mid-'80s, and remember what kind of movies were being made about teenagers. They were either Porky's and its sequels and many rip-offs (and Porky's was itself a younger hand-me-down version of Animal House), or they were slasher films.

Hughes was at least making an attempt to write complicated, interesting teenagers and really get into their heads, and he had an ear for the way teens of that time talked. Yeah, his characters sometimes were driven by sexual desire just like the Porky's boys (Sixteen Candles, Weird Science), but they always had some inner life beyond that.

However, there were better "Hughes-adjacent" films about young people in the '80s. I'd put Rob Reiner's The Sure Thing and (toward the end of the decade) Cameron Crowe's Say Anything above anything in the Hughes canon. And more recently we've had small films like Bo Burnham's Eighth Grade...a better movie about a teen girl than Sixteen Candles or Pretty in Pink, IMO.

[quote]Ghosts Can't Do It with Anthony Quinn and Bo Derek

Let's not forget Bo's incomparable "Tarzan, the Ape Man."

How can you skip over Bolero? Bo Derek is the worst actress I've ever seen. She could ruin any film just by opening her mouth.

John and Bo Derek’s Trilogy of Shit (Tarzan, Bolero, Ghosts Can’t Do It) are definitely some of the worst movies I’ve ever seen …. But at least they make me laugh.

r211, 10 is the first movie I ever walked out on.

Marguerite Duras' "India Song" (1975) is the worst movie I've ever seen, or at least the first 40 minutes was, which is all I could manage, in three viewings. The soundtrack is annoying and the characters just lie on the floor or stand around doing nothing. It's supposed to be an "important film", but it's just terrible.

I have never been able to sit through an entire Bo Derek film, other than looking perfect she's not interesting. Bolero is a strange, strange film.

if you are in an empty theater and someone chooses to sit near you, move to another seat.

This one.

Dishonorable mention to INTERVAL, starring one of the DL’s least favorite golden age actresses and her much younger boyfriend Robert Wolders. I can’t believe that no one was able to tell her that this movie was shit.

Shit, there's a movie that belongs here that I have forgotten the name of.

It was done a few years back, semi black&white sepia toned, weird indie type marketing and the first 30 minutes of the film is a backview of some dimly lit person smoking in a chair. That's it. No expressions, no characterization. Just an attempt to frustrate the audience into self hypnotizing or dissassociation.

Any drama or comedy with Tom Cruise. Which is why he sticks to Action now.

Another vote for the awful Moonrise Kingdom.

Lambada: The Forbidden Dance. Starring Laura Herring, who can't dance.

All those low budget, amateurish Billy Jack movies.

The Avengers with Uma Thurman. God, that movie was bad. THe first time I had seen so many people walking out of a movie.

Partners with Ryan O'Neal and John Hurt. Homophobic and racist, with every stereotype in the fucking book.

R223 I forgot about that one. Yes, it was horrible and embarrassing.

The only good part of it was a brief glimpse of Ryan's bare ass.

virtually anything with Eddie Murphy who is a good example of somewhat who scores with a few moderately entertaining films and then goes on to a lifetime of dreck Dolemite is MY Name, Mr. Church, Tower Heist, Daddy Day Care, Norbit, The Golden Child, Vampire in Brooklyn. Harlem Nights, The Haunted Mansion. The Adventures of Pluto Nash, Beverly Hills Cop 2&3 and undoubtedly 4, Imagine That, Meet Dave, Life, A Thousand Words. Holy Man ...holy shit!

[quote] The French film "Betty Blue" was truly rotten, yet every woman I know LOVES it beyond all reason.

I saw it a long time ago. I liked it. The sex scene at the beginning of the movie was infamous; so realistic seeming that a lot of people thought the actor and actress were actually fucking (they weren't). There's also a scene where the male lead goes down on Betty Blue. That seemed very realistic, too.

Karla

Megaforce

Laserblast

Star Wars: Return of the Jedi

R224-I knew one of the actors in Partners. He and O'Neal shared the same coke dealer.

R228 Which actor?

[quote] I posted before about hating John Hustons' The Dead. I still hate it.

Wow, I love it. I think it’s the only movie I’ve seen that’s as good as the book.

[quote]Meg Foster - the original and soon-to-be-fired Christine Cagney.

I don't know her.

Harold Raimis directed Vacation. John Hughes just wrote the original awful story it was based on.

Also, John Hughes wrote his eighties teenagers from the perspective of someone who grew up in the fifties.

R229-Honey, if you have to ask, he certainly never shared with you.

Illegally Yours, starring Rob Lowe, Colleen Camp, and Dorothy Stratten's younger sister (credited as L.B. Straten). Directed by Peter Bogdanovich, this movie is wildly frenetic and mind-numbingly boring at the same time. It's almost as if Bogdanovich tried to capture the lighting he achieved with What's Up, Doc? (even Kenneth Mars is in this crappy movie), but ended up with vomit on the floor.

Just go to Tubi and take your pick. I swear they go to people and ask if they have any movies that they filmed in their backyard over the weekend.

"Return to Boggy Creek" (1977) starring Dawn Wells(!) and Dana Plato(!!), closely followed by "Corrina, Corrina" (1994) featuring Ray Liotta and Whoopi Goldberg. Oh, and then probably "The Swarm" (1978), with an astonishingly wasted cast including Michael Caine, Richard Widmark, Slim Pickens, Fred MacMurray, José Ferrer, Richard Chamberlain, Olivia de Havilland, Katharine Ross, Irwin Allen, and Patty Duke.

R236 made me laugh aloud.

Oops, Irwin Allen directed and produced The Swarm; he wasn't in the cast. But add Henry Fonda and Lee Grant to the list of actors in that dog of a film.

"The Swarm" is a DL fave, largely because of Olivia.

Person who was sat next to in an empty theater while watching Early Man here. So yes, I am a woman. Of course I have told this story to everyone under the sun. The girl who came with us' grandfather said that to me ("you should have got up and moved"). I can't remember if my husband said we should have moved seats. He was more trying to look into the psychology of it. He thought maybe this guy was the type who always has to have the same seat.

Clearly I should have moved, but I guess this shows how stupid women like me are socialized. I would have felt kind of mean to get up and move. Also I would have had to move the kids. Also I was a little scared and freaked out. Yes, it was stupid. No, he didn't touch me, just my purse. He was sitting in the seat right next to me, not a few seats over. Next to me.

Thinking logically, if there are 150 seats in an empty movie theater and someone just decides to sit right next to you something is wrong. Same in an empty subway car.

Hudson Hawk. Worst movie ever made.

Thirteen Monkeys. I defy anyone to make sense of it.

And Memento. The beauty of seeing it on dvd was being able to go back and see all the illogical errors. Christopher Nolan is a hack.

Leaving Las Vegas

Out of Africa

LaLaLand

I hate them more when they're supposed to be great and are horrible.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Too bad Beth Jarrett wasn't his mother.

Ferris is in no way cool. Just a smug little twerp.

I couldn't agree with you more on "Leaving Las Vegas," R245. One of the most overrated movies I've ever seen. Nicolas Cage got an Oscar for playing a falling-down drunk. It was like giving an Oscar to Foster Brooks.

I couldn't agree with you more about "Leaving Las Vegas," R245. It's one of the most overrated movies I've ever seen. Nicolas Cage got an Oscar for playing a falling-down drunk. It was like giving an Oscar to Foster Brooks.

Just saw this one on Showtime the other night. Two hours of my life wasted (except for the one scene with the guy with the nice cock).

I just watched this movie last week. It has Lorraine Bracco and Paul Sorvino. I thought it would be a decent movie. It totally sucked! Add to it the fact that a croaky-voiced Val Kilmer was in it and you have everything you need for a shitty movie. I'm guessing the movie was really badly edited. I had to read about it afterwards to understand what I'd just seen!

^^ Sorry, I fucked up the link.

Downsizing was like two movies put into one with no editing. It started out kind of light and funny, and then just changed gears in a really dreadful way!

Battlefield Earth is pretty fucking awful and I had no idea what was happening from scene to scene. It's one thing to be bad, but to be bad and confusing, it's just too much.

Sex and the City 2 was pretty godawful as well and it had the balls to be 2 1/2 hours. Why? There wasn't enough story in that movie for a half hour episode.

Ben & Arthur and other shoestring budgeted movies like that are a totally different kind of bad. When a big budget Hollywood movie is bad, it's usually because it's boring and no one involved has any passion to tell the story. Low budget movies almost always have 1000% more passion which at least makes them more watchable. I'll take something like Blood Feast over Mamma Mia any day of the week.

The Spanish Prisoner has a fatal flaw in one scene and if you catch it, it ruins the entire plot.

This was a hit. I can never sit through the entire film due to the female lead. I dislike the film maker's work.

Milla Jovovich is gorgeous in that, and dressed by Jean-Paul Gaultier.

Legends of the Fall was pretty atrocious

Dreamcatcher.

A Stephen King adaptation.

Tacky. Gross. Stupid.

I still get pissed off I paid full price, for two people for this shit. My date wanted to see it. I should have put my foot down.

R259, most of the bad movies I've seen is because a date wanted to see them. They include Straw Dogs (remake), Super 8, Atomic Blonde, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

R255 what's the flaw?

Bros

[quote] Blood Feast

A true howler. Herschel Gordon Lewis was a heterosexual John Waters.

[quote]Kidman (“Cold Mountain” and “Out of Africa”)

Huh?

R240 and don't forget DL's favorite Patty Duke

Nine

R261-It involves the switched suitcase.

[quote] Kidman (“Cold Mountain” and “Out of Africa”) Huh?

R264 I must have had "Out of Africa" on the brain when I meant to say "Australia." Thanks for catching that, mate.

Most things directed by Godard after the mid 60’s

^^ that really was pretty awful. Especially Kate Hudson’s useless number.

^^ in response to r266

[quote]Nine

Anything directed by Anthony Minghella. Thank God he's dead.

Kate Hudson - I cannot think of an actress that I fell out of love with quicker than her.

To R273, tHAT'S BEAUSE SHE'S A WHORE...FUCKING SLUT

A couple years ago I tried watching Love Actually (on Netflix, I guess?) because I kept seeing references to it on the Internet and how great of a movie it is.

Turned it off after 20 minutes. Awful. Tried so hard to be cute and edgy the whole thing was cringey.

R275 I hated that movie. All my friends love it and I can't understand why.

This is a wonderfully honest review of the movie.

Damn you 2 havent got a romantic bone in your bloated bodies ! I think Love Actually is a wonderful movie and watch it every year during the holidays.

R277 It's a ridiculous piece of shit.

For me, it's a toss up between "Hereditary" and "Midsommar."

Ari Aster is one sick fuck.

The Zapruder film.

Forget the name. Saw it at the theater with my mom around 10 years ago.

Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin.

Rich people and fake problems. Steve Martin looked shockingly bad, his skin red and raw.

Funnily enough, R281, that was also the worst movie I've ever seen.

Baby Mama. Perhaps if Tina Fey had been allowed to contribute to the writing (like all of it) it would have been really good.

I find it so strange when people think a movie is the worst thing they've ever seen because it disturbed them. Maybe that just means it did its job. I'd rather a movie disturb me than leave me feeling nothing like so many big studio movies.

Has THE THIRTEENTH FLOOR been mentioned?

Bertolucci's La Luna. Though Bertolucci's The Sheltering Sky was crap too.

R281 are you thinking of "It's Complicated" that came out in 2009?

R287 Yes! Thanks

Just Married. Horrible.

A friend made me go see one of those Tyler Perry Madea movies in the theater about 10 years ago. I still haven't forgiven him.

The Nightmare on Elm Street remake.

One, two Freddy's coming for...

I want my money back!

[quote]I find it so strange when people think a movie is the worst thing they've ever seen because it disturbed them. Maybe that just means it did its job. I'd rather a movie disturb me than leave me feeling nothing like so many big studio movies.

You missed the point. If all a movie does is disturb you and make you feel sick, it has not done its job.

Certain movies are not supposed to solely be about shock value and seeing repulsive images. That's never made any movie better.

A case in point, the original Wicker Man was excellent, the sense of dread was accomplished without disturbing images, Midsommar, which was a total rip-off of the Wicker Man, was visually disturbing, simply for the shock value, putting the body inside the dead bear was absurd and ridiculous. The old man throwing himself off the hill, then showing his dead bloody body, also disturbing and not needed.

Pretty much anyone who saw Wicker Man knew what the outcome would be of the college kids in Midsommar would be, Hereditary was yet more ridiculous unnecessary gore.

Yes, and that crucifix scene in The Exorcist was completely over the line. Those people should never be allowed to make another film again because it was so disturbing.

Spare me!

R292 Brain dead cunt logic there. Like saying: if a girl gets raped for dressing up like a 5 dollar whore, then make up and slutty dresses have done its job. Fucking moron.

Carrie remake

Ron Howard's remake of How the Grinch Stole Christmas. He takes a poetically simple story and turns it into a glaringly loud, bombastic, frenetic technicolor mess.

Oh….wtf….Yes. The Cat in the Hat with the Austin Powers guy.

Sorry…I’m stoned. 🥴