Worst movie(s) you have ever seen?
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is that you Kyle?.....theSteamSupported said:
I never even knew movies like trash humpers existed...or could be considered advant garde
OT: the best movies to "hate on" are the ones that arent awful, but take themselfs seriously when they arent good enough to be taken seriously
Limiting myself to ones I've actually personally seen, rather than just heard about or seen reviews of, I might have to go with Inglorius Basterds. A confused and poorly written mess that doesn't know what its trying to do or say.
I saw half of Napoleon Dynamite before getting bored and ignoring the rest so that probably counts as well, though the active dislike towards Basterds trumps it
I saw half of Napoleon Dynamite before getting bored and ignoring the rest so that probably counts as well, though the active dislike towards Basterds trumps it
House at the End of the Street. It was a very non-scary horror movie with horrible dialog, stupid characters, it's poorly written and the shaky cam... My GOD the shaky cam! I know the movie was low-budget, but really? Could not afford at least one fucking tripod? Or maybe they were trying to use shaky cam, throughout the ENTIRE movie(no seriously, not exaggerating, the entire movie is endless shaky cam), as a stylistic effect, but all it was was annoying. First movie I ever walked out of.
There's also Stranger Than Fiction. I think what hit me most was that it was advertised as a comedy but it just wasn't. It wasn't funny at all. All the remotely funny stuff was in the trailer. Maybe it's just because I really don't like Will Ferrell in general. It had an interesting and unique premise, and the actors were really good for their roles, but even when I just decided to try and look at it from a dramatic perspective it was just boring and all over the place.
There's also Stranger Than Fiction. I think what hit me most was that it was advertised as a comedy but it just wasn't. It wasn't funny at all. All the remotely funny stuff was in the trailer. Maybe it's just because I really don't like Will Ferrell in general. It had an interesting and unique premise, and the actors were really good for their roles, but even when I just decided to try and look at it from a dramatic perspective it was just boring and all over the place.
Worst made? One of the standard go-to's, I suppose: Plan 9, Birdemic, Troll 2, or The Room. There's a zombie fick called "Flesheater" I have that is also pretty terrible. Hand held cameras (the home-video kind) and weekend actors.
One I hated most? Terminator Salvation.
Terminator 1 & 2 were some of the most perfect Sci-Fi/Action pieces in existence, T3 was lesser but harmless... how did you guys fuck this up so bad?
Tell me when and where in a post-apocalyptic, war-ravaged, killer-machine-infested, bleak and hopeless wasteland would a woman find the time or motivation to keep her teeth sparkling white... tell me, dammit! You can't, cuz it's beyond stupid. Oh, and CGI Arnold.... CGI anything is bad enough... but an actual human being?... in a live action movie?... awe fuck. And that stupid bro-nod at the end. And Christian Bale being all "I know what you are." (then at the end of the same scene) "WHAT ARE YOU?!?!?!?!". The shitty remix of the original theme in the opening credits. And the whole time, the whole time (!!!), boooooooooring. The final insult: they dedicate the thing to Stan Winston - might as well shit on his grave while you're at it, hopefully his spinning sends a few chunks back your way.
I'm still disappointed in myself for not walking out on that one, then asking for my money back, then punching everyone who worked at the theatre for supporting the system, then lighting fire to said theatre, and then scooping my own eyes out and tossing them into a volcano. Damn this curiosity.
One I hated most? Terminator Salvation.
Terminator 1 & 2 were some of the most perfect Sci-Fi/Action pieces in existence, T3 was lesser but harmless... how did you guys fuck this up so bad?
Tell me when and where in a post-apocalyptic, war-ravaged, killer-machine-infested, bleak and hopeless wasteland would a woman find the time or motivation to keep her teeth sparkling white... tell me, dammit! You can't, cuz it's beyond stupid. Oh, and CGI Arnold.... CGI anything is bad enough... but an actual human being?... in a live action movie?... awe fuck. And that stupid bro-nod at the end. And Christian Bale being all "I know what you are." (then at the end of the same scene) "WHAT ARE YOU?!?!?!?!". The shitty remix of the original theme in the opening credits. And the whole time, the whole time (!!!), boooooooooring. The final insult: they dedicate the thing to Stan Winston - might as well shit on his grave while you're at it, hopefully his spinning sends a few chunks back your way.
I'm still disappointed in myself for not walking out on that one, then asking for my money back, then punching everyone who worked at the theatre for supporting the system, then lighting fire to said theatre, and then scooping my own eyes out and tossing them into a volcano. Damn this curiosity.
Starship Troopers 2
The 1st is a cult classic (and an amazing movie). The sequel was by comparison, dog shit. It's so bad that I haven't even brought myself to watch the 3rd (and 4th?). To me, there is only 1 Starship Troopers and it is directed by Paul Verhoeven. A film-making genius.
Another one would have to be 'Spawn' (1997)
Words cannot describe the amount of suck this movie is...in fact the special effects are so bad I thought I was watching someone play a shitty low-budget N64 game.
The 1st is a cult classic (and an amazing movie). The sequel was by comparison, dog shit. It's so bad that I haven't even brought myself to watch the 3rd (and 4th?). To me, there is only 1 Starship Troopers and it is directed by Paul Verhoeven. A film-making genius.
Another one would have to be 'Spawn' (1997)
Words cannot describe the amount of suck this movie is...in fact the special effects are so bad I thought I was watching someone play a shitty low-budget N64 game.
"Manos":The Hands of Fate is by the far the worst movie I've ever seen and perhaps the worst movie ever. It "Manos" (yes, that is exactly how the title is written) was made on a bet by a manure salesman. The camera used to film it could only shoot for 30 seconds at a time and had no sound. The cast of about a dozen was dubbed over with maybe three people, so there are scenes where characters are basically talking to themselves. There are huge gaps where no one talks and nothing happens. The sound is so bad that it can be impossible to tell what the characters are saying. The plot is nonsensical and the score (when there is one) sounds like a drum set that was pushed down a hill.
My second choice for worst movie would be Monster A Go Go, which is actually two unfinished movies spliced together with narration. Because the movie was never really finished it doesn't really have an ending, it just stops and has some bullshit narration. The budget for this movie was so low that at one point a phone is ringing and it is clearly just some guy off camera going "brrring."
My second choice for worst movie would be Monster A Go Go, which is actually two unfinished movies spliced together with narration. Because the movie was never really finished it doesn't really have an ending, it just stops and has some bullshit narration. The budget for this movie was so low that at one point a phone is ringing and it is clearly just some guy off camera going "brrring."
I second this, especially with the second one. That movie made me so infuriated that I was ready to torch anything and anyone on the spot. Anyone who's seen my previous posts will know exactly why.Marter said:
First of all, no, I'm just a fan of his. (He's funnier and more appealing than NC)Vault101 said:
Secondly, never hate a movie.
I think you owe him an apology. And perhaps electroshock therapy so he forgets everything.Ralen-Sharr said:
My winners are Battlefield Earth, a 3 hour epic by Dianetics guru L. Ron Hubbard, and Ultraviolet, an 87 minute movie about nonsense that felt like it was 3 hours long.
The runner-ups are Hoodlum and Killing Zoe. They were so bad and so dull that we needed to stop watching during the film.
2 was almost redeemable and then the ending began with a whole bunch of racist and ludicrously inconsiderate actions on the part of the women.Hannibal942 said:
I still throw up a little bit in my mouth when I remember M Night's Last Airbender... My sister dragged me to see it, she said she liked it but I just laughed in her face. The acting was just so bad, the writing was horrendous, I can never look at the animated series the same way again.
Going off memory, I've got to say that the newer Conan the Barbarian movie (not the one with Arnold of course, the other one).
I don't know why exactly, I just did not like it. Got talked into seeing the 3D version which was a waste of money. No 3D in the entire film. Plus Conan was just so angry all the time. (Dude, chill out. Look! Pretty ladies!). All in all, just a lacklustre film.
The Eragon movie was also a great disappointment. Loved the books but the movie is something I try really hard to forget happened.
I don't know why exactly, I just did not like it. Got talked into seeing the 3D version which was a waste of money. No 3D in the entire film. Plus Conan was just so angry all the time. (Dude, chill out. Look! Pretty ladies!). All in all, just a lacklustre film.
The Eragon movie was also a great disappointment. Loved the books but the movie is something I try really hard to forget happened.
Birdemic: for it's overall technical/editing problems.
Southland Tales: The Story make almost no sense and is completely stupid.
Southland Tales: The Story make almost no sense and is completely stupid.
Flame shield on...
Naw... forget it, I don't even want a flame shield.
Flame shield off.
Inception.
Yeah you heard right, Inception.
Not the most over rated movie, or the most mediocre movie. It was the worst movie I've ever seen.
It's a movie that can't get over how good it's supposed to be. It's a 10 premise squeezed out by a 1 execution.
The script spends 30% of the time explaining technology behind the inception process, 60% of the time repeating its self and 10% of the time over complicating the plot without ever making us care about what's going on.
And in case listening to Ellen Page paraphrase what Leo DiCaprio just got done repeating from Dileep Rao for the umpteenth time made you completely tune out the plot is pretty much: Fugitive misses his kids. What's he convicted of? Killing his wife. How does he resolve this conflict? By doing a shady favor for a Chinese man.
Seems like the simplest thing in the world to write. Wife is dead, Kids are kids, Chinese man is shady, all the writer has to make us do is care about one character and you have an entire plot in the bag. But far from making us care about this character the script completely fails to humanize him in any way.
and through the whole dream dynamic you get to spend a lot of time with the wife and see just how inhuman she is too. (They're perfect for each other. But that still doesn't help the audience get attached)
So maybe this isn't a character drama, maybe we need to look at it like an exploration of the fictional technology. It would make sense dam near 90% of the dialog is strait out of an instruction manual anyway. But there in lies the problem. If you're following the technobabbal (Which is really fucking easy since they repeat everything ad nauseum in increasingly shorter words) you'll notice just how many rules they tend to make up on the stop. If the dreamer loses gravity the dream loses gravity, seems simple enough. But it doesn't stack, so if there's a dreamer inside a dream that loses gravity their dream is unaffected, and there's no mention of or explanation for this phenomenon. Which is infuriating because every other thing that happens never gets dropped. (There's a five minute scene where they explain how exponents work 3 times)
It's easily Christopher Nolan's least visually interesting movie. Lots of that lies with the sloppiness of the writing. How do we direct 7 people in a car? You don't. It necessitates tight angles whip-pans or an over abundance of cuts per shot all 3 of which are directorial no-no's if done in excess. and the entire movie is far too many people in far too small a space saying way to much.
Chris Nolan also has this habit of showing you the end of the movie in the first shot which he can make work if there's some message or overall point to the story being told like in The Prestige, but in Inception it just doesn't mean anything (That shot doesn't have any meaning at the end of the movie either but still.)
Naw... forget it, I don't even want a flame shield.
Flame shield off.
Inception.
Yeah you heard right, Inception.
Not the most over rated movie, or the most mediocre movie. It was the worst movie I've ever seen.
It's a movie that can't get over how good it's supposed to be. It's a 10 premise squeezed out by a 1 execution.
The script spends 30% of the time explaining technology behind the inception process, 60% of the time repeating its self and 10% of the time over complicating the plot without ever making us care about what's going on.
And in case listening to Ellen Page paraphrase what Leo DiCaprio just got done repeating from Dileep Rao for the umpteenth time made you completely tune out the plot is pretty much: Fugitive misses his kids. What's he convicted of? Killing his wife. How does he resolve this conflict? By doing a shady favor for a Chinese man.
Seems like the simplest thing in the world to write. Wife is dead, Kids are kids, Chinese man is shady, all the writer has to make us do is care about one character and you have an entire plot in the bag. But far from making us care about this character the script completely fails to humanize him in any way.
and through the whole dream dynamic you get to spend a lot of time with the wife and see just how inhuman she is too. (They're perfect for each other. But that still doesn't help the audience get attached)
So maybe this isn't a character drama, maybe we need to look at it like an exploration of the fictional technology. It would make sense dam near 90% of the dialog is strait out of an instruction manual anyway. But there in lies the problem. If you're following the technobabbal (Which is really fucking easy since they repeat everything ad nauseum in increasingly shorter words) you'll notice just how many rules they tend to make up on the stop. If the dreamer loses gravity the dream loses gravity, seems simple enough. But it doesn't stack, so if there's a dreamer inside a dream that loses gravity their dream is unaffected, and there's no mention of or explanation for this phenomenon. Which is infuriating because every other thing that happens never gets dropped. (There's a five minute scene where they explain how exponents work 3 times)
It's easily Christopher Nolan's least visually interesting movie. Lots of that lies with the sloppiness of the writing. How do we direct 7 people in a car? You don't. It necessitates tight angles whip-pans or an over abundance of cuts per shot all 3 of which are directorial no-no's if done in excess. and the entire movie is far too many people in far too small a space saying way to much.
Chris Nolan also has this habit of showing you the end of the movie in the first shot which he can make work if there's some message or overall point to the story being told like in The Prestige, but in Inception it just doesn't mean anything (That shot doesn't have any meaning at the end of the movie either but still.)
Alexander followed by Date Movie.
The first... man, that movie did not know when to END and was so over indulgent and poorly cast... I have never wanted to leave a theater so badly in my entire movie going life. The worst part of it was my girlfriend at the time HAD to watch it for a class, so we couldn't leave! It was torture!
As for Date Movie... just... so terrible, I would not have seen it had it not been free.
The first... man, that movie did not know when to END and was so over indulgent and poorly cast... I have never wanted to leave a theater so badly in my entire movie going life. The worst part of it was my girlfriend at the time HAD to watch it for a class, so we couldn't leave! It was torture!
As for Date Movie... just... so terrible, I would not have seen it had it not been free.
Worst film I've seen all the way though, has got to be the Second Starship Troopers movie. It's the only movie that ever had me screaming at the actors on screen.
Worst film ever though is XXX: State of the Union. I had to stop watching it when they got into a tank chase on an aircraft carrier. Ungh.
Worst film ever though is XXX: State of the Union. I had to stop watching it when they got into a tank chase on an aircraft carrier. Ungh.