Worst film you have ever seen with a slight twist

[The Funslinger]

Drop Dead Fred.

A guy whose intellect I respected recommended it.

It's so bad I actually lost some respect for the guy.

Mayhaps it was a clever ruse?

OT: I'm really not sure. I'm not one to actively seek out films I'm not sure I'll like. I'm not really adventurous when it comes to them. I mean I'm sure I've watched some bad stuff.

I should explain, what happens with me is if I end up watching or playing something really bad it depresses me and I feel trapped. It's very much like if your parents have busy lives and you have to stay with your boring/cruel relative or your douchebag friend until they get back. Then I remember I can just turn it off and it actually cheers me up and gives me a surge of relief and happiness. I do so, walk away with a smile on my face and forget the whole incident ever occurred within five minutes. The rest of my day is usually spent relaxing and doing very little (was my way of recovering from the douchebag friend thing as a kid) happy in the knowledge I got away from that depressingly shit piece of cinema.

Unless it's shitty acting in which case, I laugh endlessly and love it.

Edit: That whole friend thing basically boiled down to me being miserable, bored and hungry, just sat there while he played on the computer.

 

[Drakmeire]

The unborn.
God, It was bad but the trailer is still creepy and actually better than the movie. SOMEONE EXPLAIN THAT ONE!!!
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It's actually scarier in trailer form

 

[Drakmeire]

The worst film I have ever had to watch is easily eraserhead. I didnt understand anything going on why is that baby full of porridge? why has the guys head fallen off? why are they now making pencils out of it? whats the point of the salad scene? whats the point of this film? admittedly I was having trouble concentrating on the `plot` as it was so bad, the acting certainly didnt help matters.

On the bright side it made other films look awesome in comparison, although if I was ever forced to watch `modern times forever` start to finish I am almost certain it would become my most hated film cant say worst because I dont know anything about it except its 240 hours long how any sane person could watch that in one go I dont know it should be a series not a film.

How dare you, The movie doesn't have a purpose on it's own but the audience gives it a purpose and since there is no way to tell which interpretation is correct, it can be about anything.
it's the perfect arthouse film. it's unintelligible and assaults your mind allowing you to think deeply about what David Lynch's true goal with this movie was. I'd like to think that he had a nightmare, only remembered half of it and said, "screw it, We're making a movie"

 

[Blueruler182]

The Last Airbender. Without a doubt, The Last Airbender. The source material is so good, the concept is so simple, the expected value is so little There is literally no way they could have messed up as much as they did. And yet, they did worse than anything I'd seen before. The camera angles sucked, there was no connection between the Benders and the Bending, the story was rushed, the names were mispronounced (which pissed me off to no end), the ending blew (to put it in scientific terms), and the only times it tried to catch the mood of the tv show, IE humorous, it's so jarring and confusing that the actors don't seem to know what's going on.

Just... Just gah.

 

[Saltyk]

No Battlefield Earth? It wasn't too bad when I first watched it(I saw it as a stupid action flick), but after reading the book and seeing just how much they ruined it, I can't ever watch it again.

It only covered half the book, but not even that. Turned half the characters into idiots (they were like caricatures of their book characters). Had just stupid moments that never happened ("Where are the lines on the ground like on the map?"). Seriously, it was like they skimmed the cliff notes to write it.

 

[dimensional]

The worst film I have ever had to watch is easily eraserhead. I didnt understand anything going on why is that baby full of porridge? why has the guys head fallen off? why are they now making pencils out of it? whats the point of the salad scene? whats the point of this film? admittedly I was having trouble concentrating on the `plot` as it was so bad, the acting certainly didnt help matters.

On the bright side it made other films look awesome in comparison, although if I was ever forced to watch `modern times forever` start to finish I am almost certain it would become my most hated film cant say worst because I dont know anything about it except its 240 hours long how any sane person could watch that in one go I dont know it should be a series not a film.

How dare you, The movie doesn't have a purpose on it's own but the audience gives it a purpose and since there is no way to tell which interpretation is correct, it can be about anything.
it's the perfect arthouse film. it's unintelligible and assaults your mind allowing you to think deeply about what David Lynch's true goal with this movie was. I'd like to think that he had a nightmare, only remembered half of it and said, "screw it, We're making a movie"

I have had the same sort of thing said to me a couple of times before so im sure some must draw some purpose from it but then again people draw purpose from anything if they are that way inclined. The only conclusion I drew from it was I have just lost a part of my life watching this tripe.
to paraphrase futurama
Whats it about?
Its whatever youre imagination wants it to be.
Oh but what is it really?
Thats not for you to know and I dont know.
As for it being unintelligible and assaulting your mind I would agree 100% but it didnt allow me to think deeply about David Lynch`s true goal with the film rather than reflect deeply on why the hell I am being forced to watch this complete cowpat of a film when I could be doing something more constructive and less painful like removing my fingernails with a pair of pliers.
If this is arthouse then screw arthouse.

 

[Rawne1980]

I'm going to go with the obvious answer and say m. night shyamalan's The Village.

OMG they're in the present!!! "Nooo, really? I totally didn't guess that within the first half of the movie when I heard the fucking train!"

Got to agree with this.

The Village is quite possibly one of the worst movies i've had to force myself to sit through.

 

[Tanis]

No nods to 'Catwomen'?

Saw it on a 'boys night out' (READ: We were all drunk) and it was STILL one of the worse pieces of trash I've ever seen.

 

[Guitarmasterx7]

Napoleon Dynamite, because it TRIED to nail that "so bad it's good" feel intentionally which made it so that's the one thing it couldn't do. Unless I'm giving the directors too much credit and that wasn't the point of that movie, in which case that just makes it worse.

Hands down without a shadow of a doubt the worst movie I've ever seen in my life.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Since The Village is taken I would have to say M Night other film Lady In The Water.
I find it stupid that the people who lived there were convince to help the handyman since it was something like this-

Handyman "Hey the girl who's living with me is some kind of a magical pixie and she need help going back home. It turn out you are the warrior in her fairytale role play story which you can help her."

Resident 1 "Sure ok!"

Seriously in reality I would think he's a wacko and I need to see real evident that this woman is magical.

Don't get me started on the twist about the real truth to these role play peoples.

 

[PsychedelicDiamond]

Definately a Seltzer/Friedberg movie. You know, Epic Movie, Disaster Movie, Meet the spartans. There are movies that try to be serious and end up unintentionally funny. But a movie that is trying to be funny and turns out to be one of the unfunniest things ever is just... sad.

 

[tahrey]

the entire transformers series, someone prove me wrong

You mean "The entire Michael Bay Transformers Reboot series", I think.
It may be cliché to say it, but... original 1986 animated movie? All primary colours, sidelined humans and hair metal? THATS. HOW. YOU. DO. GIANT. ROBOT. BATTLES... and is what I was expecting, just in shiny, well-produced CGI/Live Action when I heard the 2007 film was being made.

Anyway ... for me... The Devil Wears Prada. I was sort of made to watch it and... wow.

I've been known to happily sit through the odd chick flick, or even occasionally watch one on purpose depending what it is... but this just went beyond all normal stereotypical guy-ideas of what goes into one.

It was, quite simply, a nothing movie. It was like Seinfeld on steroids. Almost the entire cast was vaguely dislikable (in a genuine, rather than ironic antihero way) and spent their time being slightly unkind to each other, nothing interesting happened all the way through, and at the end of it all, the protagonist was back exactly where she started, having not progressed in her life, made any changes, new friends or romantic connections, or having really learnt anything. The best you could say is that her career prospects had improved, slightly.

I want my two hours back, there are like 100 better films I haven't yet had chance to watch (probably 20 of them still in cellophane on my shelf) that we could have watched instead. Including "Only Yesterday", which is probably just as girly, but is almost certainly 100x more interesting.

There's probably a couple others which are actually worse, but I can't bring them properly to mind right now, I've either forgotten or blocked them out. TDWP sticks in my mind because even right after it was finished, there was a sense of "...is that it?". It had near-zero entertainment value, but the person hosting the movie night had paid rental on it, and thereby part-funded the studio that spent so much money optioning, screenwriting, making sets and hiring actors/crew and distributing this 2 hour example of utter vapidness. There's not even the "so bad its good" guilty pleasure stuff. Would rather have given the money to charity and played scrabble all evening.

 

[BanicRhys]

Subjectively: Pulp Fiction
Objectively: The Clone Wars movie.

 

[Jakub324]

Goal 3. It had nothing to do with the original characters and had nothing to teach. I felt like I'd wasted almost 2 hours of my life. It's the only film I felt I *lost* something by watching.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

The remake of "Day of the Triffids" was the last one that I switched off.

Even stars Eddie Izzard, but it's just trash. And not even good trash.

The characters are unlikeable, the plot is railroaded, it just sits there on your screen like a squashed fly, almost begging you to put it out of it's misery, yet still too awful to imagine touching.

Just...tainted.

Diary of the Dead was awful as well, but I wasn't expecting much from that.

 

[dfphetteplace]

The worst film I have ever had to watch is easily eraserhead. I didnt understand anything going on why is that baby full of porridge? why has the guys head fallen off? why are they now making pencils out of it? whats the point of the salad scene? whats the point of this film? admittedly I was having trouble concentrating on the `plot` as it was so bad, the acting certainly didnt help matters.

On the bright side it made other films look awesome in comparison, although if I was ever forced to watch `modern times forever` start to finish I am almost certain it would become my most hated film cant say worst because I dont know anything about it except its 240 hours long how any sane person could watch that in one go I dont know it should be a series not a film.

Eraserhead is an incredible movie and seen as one of the best avant garde movies of all time. If you aren't into that, I understand not getting the movie, but the movie itself is brilliant. It took 20 years to make and was based entirely on a dream.

 

[Rack]

The box. That's so bad it's worse.

 

[SammiYin]

Aliens vs Predator: Requiem. No film [except maybe Spiderman 3, a close second] makes me rage more than this terrible movie. I would rather sit through Twilight [my number 3] and tell the world I enjoyed it than watch that horrendous garbage again.

Edit: Let's be a bit controversial, since the above three are far too obvious, So the worst "critically acclaimed films" I have seen, go to the Godfather movies [what a boring, dull, somebody shoot me in the kneecap to make something interesting happen, experience that was"

 

[lazinesslord]

Dragonball Evolution
Just thinking about it pisses me off.

 

[teebeeohh]

i am still going with the room. I was forced to watch because apparently it's so bad it's good. but it isn't. it just sucks big time.