[Closed] So, what's the worst film you've watched recently?

Christ what a miserable thread, bunch of grumpy old men. Only one I agree with is the Happening, ironically named that one.

Harry Potter films - pick one.

All drivel.

Anything on Netflix. Trying to think of an exception...

Only watched Sicario one and two last week on Netflix. They were really good especially two.

I've scrolled through all of these and amazed no one mentioned "Downsizing" with Matt Damon. I've never watched a film to the end that was so bad. It was awful!

Film4 had some variation of the xxx franchise on last night, "xxx: warmed up corpse" probably.

I can only describe the plot as: 50 year old Joe Exotic's husband tribute act rides a skateboard and everywhere he goes, girls at most half his age want to have sex with him.

The creepiness levels were off the chart. It was like something out of Prince Andrew's Pornhub searches repackaged for an R rating.

Watched a recording last night of the Bladerunner sequel and found it an indulgent,glacial borefest.
Can't remember watching a decent film since The Departed.Yes,grumpy old t---.

Watched a recording last night of the Bladerunner sequel and found it an indulgent,glacial borefest.

Theres a real lack of talking. Really important characters meet and have barely anything to say to each other. The sets and environments are lovely but you only really notice them so much because you're bored of what the people in those environments are doing.

Moon. – Sam Rockwell is effing amazing in every film apart from this one. Incomprehensible

Absolutely no way. ‘Moon’ was one of the very few sci-fi films of the last two decades that didn’t suck big logs. And it was British 🇬🇧!

Can’t we do best films instead? Here’s a starter:

Moon - Sam Rockwell, is effing amazing. Comprehensibly chilling journey through a fascinating parable.

Watched Doolittle with the kids last night. Trying to be Pirates of the Caribbean but just ended up a total chaotic mess.

Also, had high hopes for Ad Astra and really wanted to like it but it was nonsense.

But the crown for the biggest disappointment in all my film watching days goes to Prometheus. Unbelievably bad in every way and I was willing to give it a metric tonne of doubt but what a wasted opportunity.

Edit: Totally agree about Moon - fantastic. Another one of the few recent  scifi films that doesn't suck is Ex Machina.

Started watching Uncut Gems a couple of weeks ago having heard a positive review from (normally very reliable) Mark Kermode. Had to turn it off after about half an hour - something about it just made it virtually unwatchable.

Prometheus

Reminds me that Alien Covenant was on the other night. Holy shit they let them do it twice.

Agreed on Alien Covenant.

"Kingsman - Golden Circle" was a real crock of shite and only served to enhance my dislike of Elton John. Shame as I enjoyed the first one.

6 Underground was pretty awful too. The least said the better.

Knives Out whilst not being a terrible film was a real formulaic who-dunnit with the main suspect obviously exonerated near the start of the film. As I said, not the worst I've seen but really don't get the hype at all.

Moon – Sam Rockwell, is effing amazing. Comprehensibly chilling journey through a fascinating parable.

Agreed, a real gem of a film. Directed by David Bowie's son.

Sorry no Moon was boring af... I can do slow paced films quite happily, but just didn't like Moon at all.

Also, had high hopes for Ad Astra and really wanted to like it but it was nonsense.

Agreed. Nothing happens!

Hunger Games: Mockingjay (Part 2). Utter rubbish. this franchise started OK, but went downhill with every film. A waste of a seriously talented actress.

And Moon is one of the best sci-fi films ever made.

We re-watched The Stuff a few days ago.

Midnight Special. Kind of felt like it had some potential, but jeez the ending/reveal to it...

Can’t remember watching a decent film since The Departed.

Ah the pointless western remake of Infernal Affairs.

Moon and Ex Machina are both really great proper sci-fi. Upgrade, whilst not in the same league, is worth a watch too.

Don’t get me started on Prometheus and Alien “You blow and I’ll do the fingering” terrible films.

Also, had high hopes for Ad Astra and really wanted to like it but it was nonsense.

Which just goes to show, i suppose, that one shouldn't go looking at 19th a-holes (Joseph Conrad) to be the source material for your film, guilty parties:Roeg, Coppola, Grey, Scott (all white middle aged film school grads) It's a shit book, it should come as no surprise that it's makes for a shit film...

Ah the pointless western remake of Infernal Affairs.

Remake, whatever.. still one of my favourite films.

Remake, whatever.. still one of my favourite films.

The Departed or Infernal Affairs? 😉

It’s alright, but has Mark Wahlberg in it.

Prometheus

Reminds me that Alien Covenant was on the other night. Holy shit they let them do it twice.

I as recall from reading trashy film sites at the time it went a bit like this:

Hollywood pitch meeting

'Alien and Aliens are very, very good, largely because of one of the best Baddies in film history, you think it would be impossible to screw up an Aliens film, but somehow pretty much every time we've tried, we've made a right royal mess of it, but reboots and sequels are the only films being funded at the moment, let's go right back to the start and ask Ridley Scott to make it.'

'Ridley hates sequels and the whole reboot thing, he wont do it'

'Ah, but he wants to make another film that doesn't stand a chance because it's not a sequel or super hero thing, tell him he can make that, if he makes Alien 5'

'Okay, I've spoken to him, he'll make a prequel not a sequel because he doesn't want to be tied by Aliens etc and he wants full artistic control'

'Sounds great'

First script draft meeting

'Erm, Ridley, are there any Aliens in this?

'Nope, it's a prequel about the Universe Alien exists and the planet they're first found, not the Alien'

'You didn't want to make an Alien film did you?'

'Nope, told you so'

What followed was a year old battle between the studio trying to cram in more Alien and Ridley trying to make another film and the end result was the mess we saw.

The real crime was Alien Covenant, again he still didn't want to make another Alien film, but sort of made half of one, and then because he *might* have another go at it, they shot down Neill Blomkamps Alien 5 film, but that might also have been because he's starting to look a bit like a one-hit-wonder.

Ah the pointless western remake of Infernal Affairs.

See, I've seen Infernal Affairs, just my opinion but everyone I've met in real life who say it's better, it lying to seem cool. 😉

I’m lying to wind people up. So not the same 😀

Not a fan of Scorsese though.

@nickc

Not really Conrad's fault. Apocalypse Now is a superb film and so was 2001. Combining them was a feasible idea but obviously it needs a proper script, decent acting and good directing.

Sharknado - except for the last two minutes which are so hilariously bad that they are almost genius.

I tried Year One - switched off after 20 minutes. Utter tripe,

It’s alright, but has Mark Wahlberg in it.

His one and only perfect role 😊

Reminds me that Alien Covenant was on the other night. Holy shit they let them do it twice.

I watched all 6 alien films last weekend and enjoyed all of them.

Hunger Games: Mockingjay (Part 2). Utter rubbish. this franchise started OK, but went downhill with every film.

Sounds exactly like the source material. Never wanted to punch a main character so hard, I must have been going through some sort of masochistic streak to read all of them.

I watched all 6 alien films last weekend and enjoyed all of them.

6? What about AVP 1&2? Got to be 8.

Godzilla II: King of the Monsters, now I do like some brainless monster action but this is way too bad. My goal is to watch it before this corona thing is over and it has taken four days already.

2012.
Absolutely ridiculous. Was on channel 5 on Sunday, I turned it off but then went back to it on +1 to see if it really was that bad and to see how it ended. Why money gets given to make films like that I have no idea.

Battle of the bulge how can a film with so many great actors be that bad ?,overacting on an epic scale.

I watched all 6 alien films last weekend and enjoyed all of them.

Could rank them in order...
Aliens
Alien
the rest (all crap)

That last one (Covenant?) was hilarious. Was there a flute playing alien guy? Or did I dream that?? (must've).. Utter garbage.

Doom: Annihilation.

I loved Doom back in the day but this was utterly, utterly, utterly dire....

Straight to video was too good for it!

I think I’ve fallen for some clever trick, or like an arty 21st century joke... I watched “Bait”... 100% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes. Erm, the bits I managed to keep my eyes open through, were like some 6th form art project. Kid got his mates in to try to act. Got his 12 year old sister to edit it and presented it as some arthouse classic. Ha! You can’t fool me you sneaky bastards!

Moon was excellent. Prometheus sucked.

Suicide Squad. What a load of shite. I was staying with friends so no choice. I wanted to pull out a gun and shoot the TV every time Harley Quinn simpered in wearing her undies, and started squeaking like a five year old.

I sat through Prometheus too, had blocked that out, lasted about ten minutes of alien covenant.

And Moon is a great film! Try watching it again, sober this time!

Aquaman and Snowpiercer both watched on the same flight. I was just about ready to open the door and jump out.

I wanted to pull out a gun and shoot the TV every time Harley Quinn simpered in wearing her undies

I could only manage it once

That last one (Covenant?) was hilarious. Was there a flute playing alien guy? Or did I dream that?? (must’ve).. Utter garbage

No, he was a flute playing robot guy who just loved the aliens so much he wanted to wipe out people.

It was indeed a turd of a film.

I imagine the pitch went largely

studio "every other alien film bar the first two has been pretentious, or rubbish, or pretentious and rubbish, so what we want is a scene by scene remake of the first one, or the second one, at a push".

ridley "can I do the first one, but put dr frankenstein in it? I really like dr frankenstein"

studio "will the rest of it be exactly like the first one?"

ridley "I have this great idea. The first half will be exactly like the first one, and the second half will be exactly like the second one. But with dr frankenstein."

studio "will you put an alien in it"

ridley "yes"

studio "good"

We watched The Hunted last evening. I know films aren't supposed to be actually real, but Tommy Lee Cooper fighting, chasing people, tracking through cities, falling down waterfalls with terrible CGI...

Thought of this thread about 15 minutes in, and nothing about the rest of the film stopped me thinking about posting this, this morning....

We watched The Hunted last evening. I know films aren’t supposed to be actually real, but Tommy Lee Cooper fighting, chasing people, tracking through cities, falling down waterfalls with terrible CGI…

Sounds like you should have watched The Fugitive or US Marshals instead. ( I did like the Tommy Lee Cooper joke though 🙂 ).

Was he wearing denim jeans and a fez ? 😀

Taking liberties here as it wasn't the worst film I've seen , nor was it particularly recent , and I know others liked it , but certainly the biggest disappointment ever at the cinema for me given how it was hyped up was Dunkirk . Spectacularly over rated .

Well I have just gone through four pages or movies,most of which I haven't heard of. Iam glad to say that my 3 out of a 4 part series doesn't feature. I assume these must be better that the Hollywood Block Busters

Part 1 :

Part 2 :

Part 3 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcT3z9_Htxo&t=14s

Critical reviews expected but please watch all three before commenting. Part 4 to be filmed when the Home Delivery arrives

Yep agree with Dunkirk being terrible.

But then It had Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy and Harry Styles as the main characters so it was never going to be much more than a film equivalent of the Next catalogue.

...and we have a new winner folks

Straight in at number 1 is Call of the Wild. Even Harrison Ford couldn't save this one. Disney comprehensively screws up my favourite childhood book good and proper.

I think I'm watching it right now. Punisher: War Zone on Film4. No Thomas Jayne, no style, no story, no script. Have made it to the first ad break but I think that's it for me.

Just to mention, Channel 4 10:55 ... Scarlett Johansson, Zoe Kravitz, Ilana Glazer, Kate McKinnon and Demi Moore! In! Rough Night. It’s shit, see how far you can get through it! 😂

Hustle, turns out it’s a remake of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels without any of the wit. And whilst we’re here can anyone explain Rebel Wilson to me.

Get A Job. Made in 2012 but didn’t get released until 2016 - probably because the studio didn’t want to be associated with it.

Even the very aesthetically pleasing Anna Kendrick can’t make up for the dire story and shockingly poor attempts at humour. Felt like an idea dragged from the 80s.

can anyone explain Rebel Wilson to me

IMO unfunny australian comedian. Yet to see her in anything where she is actually funny.

The Wandering Earth

One of these new huge budget, huge SFX Chinese productions that are just decades behind Hollywood stuff in storytelling.

As always with the Chinese though, they will catch up fast.

Doh

Life of Brian. Never seen it before, didn't raise a smile let alone a laugh. Complete tosh.

Life of Brian. Never seen it before, didn’t raise a smile let alone a laugh. Complete tosh.

Blasphemy, stone him.

mrhoppy
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Aquaman and Snowpiercer

Heresy!

Showpiercer is superb. I think it will be like Bladerunner, unappreciated in its time but gain huge cult following.

Blasphemy, stone him.

Why? He didn't even say Jehovah!

Showpiercer is superb. I think it will be like Bladerunner, unappreciated in its time but gain huge cult following

Dream on, it’s an utter mess! 😂

i had to sit through a remake of Lady and the Tramp (live action with CGI dogs mouths that do the talking) with the kids, it is painful.

recently as in last couple of weeks?

1917.

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Bladerunner

Dull as dishwater.

6 underground and Coffee & Kareem on Netflix - good grief.

The worst film I have seen in the last few years is Manchester by Sea. A remake of a mid afternoon channel five straight to TV movie with an actor who mumbles his lines to sound like Brando in apocalypse now, to show he’s acting. Utter pretentious sh*te.

Other movies might be bad as viewed against films with high ambitions, but this is a high ambition film that in reality is really poor in concept and formulaic in execution.

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Poopscoop
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Bladerunner

Dull as dishwater

In mediaeval times id be cheering as they set fire to you at the stake, heresy I tell you!

Thought Dunkirk was ok.

The Guardian slaughtered it for not showing the Germans and not giving context by showing politicians and generals behind the scenes etc but thats what every war film does so liked it for trying to do something different. After all, if you're a soldier in a war you probably don't see much of the enemy, only bits of hot metal flying at you. Thought the sound design was really good too.

Agree with battle of the Bulge though, looked more like it was shot in Morocco than the Ardennes.

Polar. Quite a new film on Netlifx at the moment.

Hitman working for a shadowy organisation is about retire a very wealthy man. But the organisation seems to kill off its agents as they retire. So you get an aging hitman being hunted by a young band of ruthless whippersnapper hitmen and women.

I struggled through the first half hour, then there's a scene where he's gone to his cabin in the mountains. But lone behold, a new attractive young woman (not a hitwomen) has taken up residence in the next chalet. There's a scene with her fumbling about with an axe trying to cut wood. He sorts her woodpile for her. Swoon.

Polar. Quite a new film on Netlifx at the moment.

Hitman working for a shadowy organisation is about retire a very wealthy man. But the organisation seems to kill off its agents as they retire. So you get an aging hitman being hunted by a young band of ruthless whippersnapper hitmen and women.

I think you got it mixed up with Gemini Man, which was a pretty stupid film, but not as stupid as John Wick.

Personal Shopper. First third of the movie - slow. Second third - slow. Final third - shite.

Personal Shopper. First third of the movie – slow. Second third – slow. Final third – shite.

But the plot synopsis holds so much promise.

Personal Shopper is a 2016 supernatural psychological thriller film written and directed by Olivier Assayas.[2] The film stars Kristen Stewart as a young American woman in Paris who works as a personal shopper for a celebrity and tries to communicate with her deceased twin brother.

Polar. Quite a new film on Netlifx at the moment.

There was a thread about this film about a year ago. Regretfully, I watched the pile of shite, probably the worst action film I’ve ever sat through. (my post usually followed, as predictable as the plot of Polar, by Drac sayng how much he liked it 🤪)

I rank 'Moon' nearly as highly as 'Silent Running' - great sci-fi. I liked 'Bladerunner 2049' and 'Ad-astra' too, mostly for the beautiful cinematography.

I've learnt through bitter experience not to let Michael Bay steal hours of my life, but didn't realise that '6 underground' was one of his steaming turds until 10 minutes in I realised the formula of senseless and improbable action and googled it, there after turning it off to gouge out my eyeballs in preference.

However, by comparison, Guy Richie's 'King Arthur' is so bad that I actually watched all of it to see how far down the stinking shitto-meter scale it could actually go, and then, not content with halving my IQ in the time it took to watch that, I watched 'Robin Hood' with Taron Edgerton, the likes of which were so confusing, bewildering and down right nonsensical, I thought I had descended into some kind of waking nightmare induced by the guilt of inflicting 4 hours of suffering upon myself.

The shit telly trap is just so difficult to avoid sometimes.

I watched the irishman last night and thought it was totally predictable and drawn out.
Over 3 hours of de niro talking out of the side of his mouth was two hours to long.

Yes, The Irishman was pretty weak.

I may add Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade to the list - great laugh but utter nonsense