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I mean it has real actors, usually found in quality films....but
Thank God someone has mentioned United Passions. I'm more concerned that no-one has gone with Battlefield Earth yet. 🙂
I read all of your suggestions, and bring the thread to a close with ‘Drop Dead Fred’.
Rik Mayall should be in prison for that utter utter shite.
Rik Mayall should be in prison for that utter utter shite.
He'd probably see that as a welcome boost to his circumstances right now.
Just watched Starship Troopers 3. Oh dear! That was terrible. I loved the original but they tried to make a sequel with no budget for special effects.
showgirls and its got naked women
Barry Norman said something about more Mohicans than a Western when he reviewed it!
Once upon a time in Hollywood.
On paper it looks great, Pitt, DiCaprio, Robbie, but it’s just crap, nothing happens until the end and even that’s pants.
Another for most overrated movie is no country for old men
Shawshank Redemption utter drivel.
The worst film I ever walked out of was "Sympathy for the Devil" by Goddard. I'll leave the wikipedia synopsis with you:
Plot
Composing the film's main narrative thread are several long, uninterrupted shots of the Rolling Stones in London's Olympic Studios, recording and re-recording various parts to "Sympathy for the Devil". The dissolution of Stone Brian Jones is vividly portrayed, and the chaos of 1968 is made clear when a line referring to the killing of John F. Kennedy is heard changed to the plural after the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in June.
Interwoven through the movie are outdoor shots of Black Panthers milling about in a junkyard littered with rusting cars heaped upon each other. They read from revolutionary texts (including Amiri Baraka and Eldridge Cleaver) and toss their rifles to each other, from man to man. A group of white women, apparently kidnapped and dressed in white, are brutalized and ultimately shot, off-camera; their bloody bodies are subsequently seen in various tableaus throughout the film.
The rest of the film contains a political message in the form of a voiceover about Marxism, the need for revolution and other topics in which Godard was interested. One scene involves a camera crew following a woman about, played by Anne Wiazemsky in a yellow peasant dress, in an outdoor wildlife setting; questions are asked of her, to which she always answers either "yes" or "no". As can be seen from the chapter heading to the scene, she is supposed to be a personification of democracy, a woman named 'Eve Democracy'.
At least one quarter of the film is devoted to indoor shots of a pornographic bookstore that sells such diverse items as Marvel's Doctor Strange, DC's The Atom, and The Flash comic books, Nazi pamphlets for propaganda, and various men's magazines. Alternating with the shots of comic books, pinup magazines, and Nazi pamphlets, consumers casually enter the bookstore, approach a bookshelf, pick up books or magazines, exchange them for a sheet of paper, and then slap the faces of two Maoist hostages sitting patiently next to a book display. Toward the end of the scene, a small child is admitted for the purpose of buying a pamphlet and slapping the faces of the hostages. After exchanging their purchases and receiving their document, each customer raises his or her right arm in a Nazi salute, and leaves the store. The bookstore owner reads aloud from Mein Kampf.
Mimicking the earlier scene of the camera crew following Eve Democracy is the last scene to the movie where the camera crew mills about on the beach and from afar one man asks another "What are they doing over there?" To which the other answers "I think they're shooting a movie". A large camera crane is positioned on the beach and another woman in white is laid down upon the end of the crane and elevated, along with a motion picture camera, on the platform until she is well above the beach. She doesn't rise up but remains motionless, half-hanging off the crane, one leg dangling.
Dude wheres my car. Even with a 12 year old mindset it was drivel.
There are some ridiculous answers on this thread - surely people can differentiate between films they didn't enjoy, and worst films of all time! Is it mild trolling? Or ignorance?
I don't want to single people out, but there have been some seriously popular and/or critically acclaimed films mentioned.
I mean, there are films where I've walked out of the cinema (Sunshine on Leith and A Star is Born spring to mind) but there's no way I'd ever categorise them as worst of all time, just not for me.
Perhaps I'm taking it too seriously
Mandy.
The Human Centipede, Hostel or any other “body horror” or torture film.
Why would anyone think that was entertaining?
Why are people listing AAA movies? Even the shit ones have great effects, acting
Yeah, thread has become a pointless read of films people don't like or are expecting to be documentaries about war, when they are merely entertainment. Some people clearly have only seen about 6 films in their lives.
After the Goddard film above I have nominate the stunningly crap ‘Performancek with Jagger and James Fox.
Chas is an East London thug who works for gangster Harry Flowers and his associates (although they don't use the word gangster to describe themselves). Chas is generally sadistic in his nature and thus revels in his work. But his sadistic nature also pervades his personal life. As such, he will work on his own personal agenda outside of the work for Harry. It is in this vein that an encounter with Joey Maddocks, a man with whom Chas has a history, leads to Chas needing to hide out from Harry and his associates. Ultimately Chas feels he needs to clandestinely leave the country. In the meantime, he, based solely on a private conversation he overhears between strangers, manages to take refuge in the basement of a Notting Hill flat owned by a man named Turner, who lives there with two female companions named Pherber and Lucy. Chas considers their lifestyle bohemian and one of free love, which is outside of his mentality. Turner is an ex-rock musician who has lost his "demon" and thus his desire to be a performer. As Chas makes arrangements for his departure out of England, he gets caught up in Turner's lifestyle, Turner who is working on his own agenda in spending time with Chas.
white101
Full MemberThe Mist
WHaaat?! It's great, in a B-movie, ratcheting up the tension plus rubbery monsters type way. And the final scene is just epic
He’d probably see that as a welcome boost to his circumstances right now.
I knew that. #ireallyneedtokeepupwithcelebrityobituaries
Otherwise, exactly what perchypanther said.
The Mist was OK but the last scene really ratcheted it up.
Although obviously not the “worst film ever” it is IMO, the worst film that has had so much critical acclaim thrust upon it. It presents itself as a historical drama, however, the story at it’s core, is complete and utter nonsense. It just does not accurately reflect WW1 military practice at all.
I found the same failings in it but it was beautifully shot and had some moments of real tension.
The worst film of all time is "The Whales of August". Its about two elderly sisters who live together overlooking the sea. One is blind and not very pleasant, the sighted nicer sister wants a window putting in their house so she can look at the whales, the blind sister does not....
I reckon if you’ve actually watched the whole film, you can’t say its the worst of anything.
The only film I can remember walking out of is Darkest Hour but I'm not going to claim it's the worst ever, I just didn't like it. Normally I'm a fan of that sort of dialogue based film but it seemed like they'd forgotten to write the dialogue.
The absolute worst movie I can remember is The Ridiculous 6. There was very little to redeem it. I've not seen Mrs Brown's Boys at all. So that maybe worse.
A.I.
Truly awful.
The problem here is, I'm not sure that the worst film ever actually is the worst film ever.
Consider 'Birdemic' or 'The Room' (probably the two worst movies I've seen). Both were diabolical, BUT, I was entertained by the awfulness of everything about them. In fact, they taught me a lot about what makes a good movie good - things you just don't notice when you watch something even half decent.
I propose that the movie rating scale is actually a sort of inverse bell curve - with 'goodness' on the x axis and 'entertainment' on the y. Something really good or really bad will be worth a watch, while the worst viewing experience will actually lie in the middle - sunk to the bottom of the curve and festering in a pool of mediocrity.
Sitting all the way through Highlander 2 was like one of those Japanese "endurance" game shows that Clive James used to feature, but there was no prize at the end. I've never seen so many people leave a cinema during a film.
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword directed by Guy Ritchie is by a distance the worst film that I have seen at the cinema. Dreadful mockney accents but the thing that really got my goat was that somehow Arthur has become a Saxon hero who ended the film shouting "This is Engalaaaand!" like some drunken football yob.
Anyone with a passing knowledge of British history will be aware that Arthur was a Celtic hero who purportedly fought successfully against the Saxons and other invaders during the Dark Ages.
The film was meant to be the first of a series of six movies - mercifully the sequels were cancelled.
The fact that this dross made it to the screen is staggering when there is a fantastic Authurian trilogy written by Bernard Cornwell which could have been a great basis for a series of films.
Thank god someone's mentioned Showgirls, what a steaming pile of crap that was. It's up there with the first of the Star Wars prequels (the Jar Jar Binks one) - lots of hype, big budget, and terrible.
Plunkett & McLean
Black Sheep - truly awful
Birds of Prey - could be awful or I could be missing something given I'm not a fan of the current DC films
I take your Plunkett and MacLeane, and raise you Sex Lives of the Potato Men.
I think we should apply a weighting system though - Big budget/massively hyped and better casted movies are allowed to be technically better than straight to DVD stuff, while actually being rated worse.
Anyone for Sex in the City II? No? I thought not.
How about Superman IV: The Quest for Peace...
Any of the Hobbit films. As a massive LOTR fan, I've never managed to sit through a whole one.
John Wick 3 - it’s pointless
Mamma Mia - it’s just awful
All off the Transformers Movies.
And most of the DC/ Marvel comic offerings.
Godfather III - it’s gash ...
The Star Wars prequels ...
Truly, madly, deeply. Everyone involved with such a smug offering should hide there heads in shame
I've got a couple that 'filmy' folk like to rave about as being excellent.
One was called Lone Star (mid 90s) and was critically acclaimed at the time (and still is to some extent). Nothing happens in the film for so long that it just got switched off in the end.
The other one is The Revenant. After about the third ridiculously overdone "I can't believe he is not dead" bit of nastiness it just becomes utterly meh.
Oh and I have to mention 'On Chesil Beach' too. Again, nothing happens, loads of posturing, pouting and awkwardness and there is obviously an elephant in the room from the start. But it got switched off before we found out what it was because it was just too dull and preposterous in equal measure.
Movie 43
Had to walk out of that one💩
Obviously everybody will have their own opinions but for me not necessarily the worst films ever but the films that were massively hyped and therefor were a massive disappointment when I saw them were Gangs of New York , The Revenant and Dunkirk are three that really stand out for me . Probably not as bad as any of the aforementioned films but in terms of being a let down simply unbeatable .
I'm glad someone said Van Helsing, the only film I've ever walked out of a cinema on (I WOULD have walked out of the goddawful Unbearable Lightness of Being if it hadn't been for the attractive blonde I'd gone to see it with).
Films from this thread I could watch time and time again:
The Revenant
The Witch
No country for old men
Gangs of New York
Shawshank Redemption
The Revenant (dull)
The Witch (meh)
No country for old men (loved it)
Gangs of New York (amusing tosh)
Shawshank Redemption (great, apart from the extra bit tacked on the end)
But is any of them the worst film ever? Of course not...
Howard the Duck
Battlefield Earth
I am unable to articulate how truly awful I found these films.
Anything involving Jason Statham or Mark Wahlberg.
Many years ago my wife let me pick the film. I picked Daredevil and have had my film decisions questioned ever since.
I remember going to watch Highlander 2 at the Showcase Bradford.
The 9:00 showing was sold out, so we just waited around 2h5mins for the next one.
That's got to be be the most disappointing film experience of mine.
As someone said, it tried to completely ruin the first one. Thankfully I've managed to forget it and rewatch the first one with my boys and thoroughly enjoyed it anew.
As someone said, it tried to completely ruin the first one.
Didn't Highlander 2 basically contradict every main plot point from Highlander?
In particular, the whole thing about "The Quickening"?
Yeah, thread has become a pointless read of films people don’t like or are expecting to be documentaries about war, when they are merely entertainment.
The problem I have with films like 1917, Dunkirk, Darkest Hour and the Imitation Game, is that they do not put themselves forward as "merely entertainment" but present as historically accurate, when they are not. What is even more annoying, with the last 3 on the list, there is still an incredible story to tell, even if they had told the actual story.
That's how Black Adder Goes Forth ended up being used to teach WW1 history.
Why are people listing AAA movies?
Because how else would we know how edgy they are?
The problem I have with films like 1917, Dunkirk, Darkest Hour and the Imitation Game, is that they do not put themselves forward as “merely entertainment” but present as historically accurate, when they are not
That's a bit of a catch 22 though isn't it? If you're going to make a film set in a specific era then you need to take the time and effort to make it look and feel right. And it seems like the more accurate it is in look and feel the more some people take the hump when it's inaccurate in other ways.
Why are people listing a battery of AAA movies?
FIFY.
Anything involving Jason Statham
No, not at all! I grant you that they are mostly utter cheese fests but there is something gloriously entertaining about most of them. As other shave said, many on this thread don't seem to comprehend the concept of worst film ever made. It comes across as a weird case of "right on" credentials setting. I get that you may not like the film and you may have had issues with some of factual accuracy of them but to describe them as the worst film ever? Yeah, right.
Have seen plenty of (to me) awful films. One of the first I remember seeing was Beetlejuice. To me that was just plain awful. Most Steven Seagal films are pretty awful. Under Siege was actually alight but then he seed to go and put on 100 pounds and then try and carry off credible martial arts moves in largely plotless stories. Most of them utter drivel. Found Blade Runner 2049 interminably dull. I wouldn't describe it as the worst film ever made but I found it so dull I actually went to sleep in the cinema, after running out of resolve to will it to end. Spongebob Squarepants the movie was also a cinematic low point (the things we do for kids sometimes).
Most Steven Seagal films are pretty awful.
You are actually right in that statement. Other than Nico they are all shit and even worse as he has gotten older.
Under Siege was actually alight but then he seemed to go and put on 100,000 pounds and started pulling the bad guys in to his gravity well
FIFY
88 Minutes starring Al Pacino
I think Al Pacino has got to be one of the most overrated actors ever.
I got persuaded to take my young kids to the cinema to see the Moshi Monsters movie. That was awful on a level that I have not got words to describe.
Just watched independence Day resurrection. Wow. Pretty bad. Not battleship bad but pretty close.
I've only ever walked out of 2 films at the cinema.
Blade Trinity
Troy
And they were both on the same night!
Just watched independence Day resurrection. Wow. Pretty bad
A sequel to a crap film was crap? Surprises abound!
cubist
Full MemberI got persuaded to take my young kids to the cinema to see the Moshi Monsters movie. That was awful on a level that I have not got words to describe.
A lot of kids films are dross, Gnomeo and Juliet was one of the worst though.
The people who make these movies seem to think that putting a bunch of famous people as voice actors is a good substitute for enjoyment.
When I first read this thread I was thinking that I hadn't been to watch many bad films because I tend to look at reviews first, but the ore I think about it, it's probably because I'm blocking them out of my mind!
Some more shockers I've thought of:
Jaws 4: The revenge. Travel halfway across the world to avoid a shark, only to live on the coast! Really felt sorry for Michael Caine. Thankfully he found some better projects to work on soon after.
I once stumbled upon a version of The Pink Panther starring Steve Martin on tv one night. Unbelievably bad - I mean - why!?
Its easy to make a shit film when you have a budget of $1.50
I find it hard to really condemn all the low budget dross that finds its way on to the Sci-Fi or Horror channel.
But proper studio films that end up rubbish despite the budget and "talent" involved are worth calling out.
The worst film I have ever sat through at the cinema was "Daylight" starring Sly Stallone, it was dreadful, but I laughed most of the way through it.
Then you get properly hyped stuff from name directors, someone mentioned Prometheus. Despite looking amazing, it really made no sense. Watching it was like letting Ridley Scott take a shit in your brain. So in a way it was worse then Daylight
Really felt sorry for Michael Caine.
Don't. His quote about it:
"I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific.
Four pages in and i am still reeling that someone thought The Kill List was rubbish!
Its great - think again.
I find it hard to really condemn all the low budget dross that finds its way on to the Sci-Fi or Horror channel.
But proper studio films that end up rubbish despite the budget and “talent” involved are worth calling out.
Yup,it's mad.
After Earth
Rotten Tomatoes ->>> After Earth is a dull, ploddingly paced exercise in sentimental sci-fi -- and the latest setback for director M. Night Shyamalan's once-promising career.
....and still,it made a profit 🙁
After Earth? Travolta as an alien and essentially stone age Earth natives learning how to fly Harriers after a couple of hours in a flight simulator? Yeah, that was pretty shit.
“I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific.
Yep, I've read that before. I guess I didn't really mean I felt sorry for Michael Caine as much as felt sorry for myself watching Michael Caine do it 🙂
After Earth? Travolta as an alien and essentially stone age Earth natives learning how to fly Harriers after a couple of hours in a flight simulator? Yeah, that was pretty shit.
willard,you are thinking of Battlefield Earth.
Thanks for the warning ,it looks a belter 🙂
After Earth was shite too, don't worry.
Prometheus. Despite looking amazing, it really made no sense. Watching it was like letting Ridley Scott take a shit in your brain.
That’s the best review of Prometheus I’ve ever read. My biggest annoyance with that travesty of a film is the fact that the fella they find in Alien is roughly four million times bigger than the one in Prometheus. At least watch the original film again Ridley FFS.
Alien Covenant is just as bad. Redeemed by the comedy gold of “You blow and I’ll do the fingering”
Cloverfield - premise of the film is okay if a little Godzilla but the fact that the monster changes size from scene to scene is just infuriating
Charlie's Angels 2: Full Throttle - walked out after 15 minutes, utter bilge. Tried it again on Netflix recently, same result.
The Last Airbender - annoyingly not called Avatar because there was already a film called Avatar even though this is based on a cartoon called Avatar. Anyway, the cartoons were pretty good, characters were likable fairly good story. Movie is beyond shite, crap actors, storyline written by someone that has had the cartoon described to them 54th hand from someone else that's never seen it. Just unbelievably bad.
I offer up "Give my Regards to Broad Street".
Written by Paul McCartney,
Soundtrack by Paul McCartney,
Starring Paul McCartney and his mates.
One of the worst examples of a vanity project.
That’s how Black Adder Goes Forth ended up being used to teach WW1 history.
Which is a shame, as it is, a terrible travesty of the actual history of WW1, but at least they play it for laughs, and don't pretend it's supposed to be accurate. If we're doing a list of over-rated films, than obviously The Shawshank Redemption leaps it's way to the number one spot.
I don't think I've ever walked out of a movie though. too cheap!
Which is a shame, as it is, a terrible travesty of the actual history of WW1, but at least they play it for laughs, and don’t pretend it’s supposed to be accurate.
Right the way up to the final scene of the last episode when we see the probable death of people you’ve got to like.
@eddiebaby,well obvs that's a feature of any war, but again, by late 1917 (when Blackadder ends) the BEF aren't doing those sorts of "over the top walking/running at the enemy" sorts of attack, so it's not even particularly accurate there either...But's it's probs for a different thread.
Probs. But certainly a moment in TV that pulled me up and made think WTF!? Maybe that sense of shock is what we are trying to reach people. I dunno! Don’t even know what parts if the series are being used in the syllabus.
I watched Hubie Halloween the other night. Don’t judge me! I was bored, stressed out, couldn’t sleep and needed something to distract me. Even by Sandler standards it is atrocious. The man seems to think that playing an adult with a speech impediment and arrested development is the height of comedy. He’s wrong. I still find it difficult to dislike him though.
@funkmasterp I had to watch it as the GF is a massive Sandler fan for some reason. It’s absolute dog shit, really boring as basically nothing happens, plus the majority of the “jokes” revolve around his character with learning difficulties being bullied which is lazy and pretty offensive tbh. I actually wonder if he’s not involved in some kind of meta-joke just seeing how many shit films with the same character he can make 😀 It’s not like he’s got no talent - you’ve only got to watch Punch Drunk Love - but I guess this kind of film is very quick & cheap to make, pays well, plus probably quite fun just hanging out with largely the same group of mates messing around for the duration!
That’s what he seems to do. Take holidays with his friends and make a film whilst doing so. He can clearly act as you say. Punch Drunk Love, Uncut Gems and Reign Over Me are all proof of that. He did threaten to make the worst film he could if he didn’t get a nomination for Uncut Gems 🤔
"How it ends" available on Netflix, go on, I dare you, it basically just fizzles out after 2 hours of various "serious" things happening and people doing stuff and not a lot of sense being made but then more things happening...really should be retitled "Why did they bother? for that matter , Why did I bother?"
Im right there with anyone who mentioned "Highlander 2", a film that with the epic line: Christopher Lambert: "What is it? Magic?"
Sean Connery:"A kind of..."
And thus jumps the shark so high it goes nearly into orbit.
Pretty much anything released under the Canon Golan/Gomez banner in the mid "80's...
The 1989 Tim Burton Batman movie (and its sequels). Just, Plain. Terrible.
However,"Plan 9 from outer Space", widely described as the worst movie ever made is rather charming...but its still pretty bad.
Without a paddle. I accused our close group of friends of being easily pleased after they actually laughed at the telegraphed puerile dross masquerading as comedy.
Highlander 2 was a troubled film and this is a complex answer,
I’m expecting revelations about the goats…
Seriously, troubled or not the end product was pish.
Sorry, I forgot about this. I've posted about this before and was going to link back to an old post till I realised it was about eight years ago!
Basically, anything that could go wrong with production did. Front and centre was the country they were filming in - Argentina - essentially went bust, their economy collapsed.
Maybe relating to that, I'm not sure, the film went over-budget to a degree where insurers had to step in. So the production company were under huge pressure to just release something in order to recoup costs. Director (of both Highlander and H2) Russell Mulcahy's creative control went out of the window and it was the studio calling the shots. Apocryphally perhaps, Mulcahy walked out of the premiere 15 minutes into the showing and the only reason Lambert didn't bin it halfway through filming was because he'd be in breach of contract. The result is an utter car crash of a film. It was even worse here, the gorgonzola ending of the UK theatrical release where Connor and, erm, Mrs Connor get beamed up to Zeist was an 'alternate ending' and was considered lost for years.
Mulcahy hated it so much that a couple of years later he tried to fix it and made a director's cut essentially from the cutting room floor. This is the 'Renegade Edition' and whilst still not a great movie it's exponentially better than the original. Notably it shitcans all the 'aliens' twaddle and fixes a bunch of continuity issues (there was one fight scene originally stitched together from two entirely different scenes that was a hot mess, I can't remember what else now).
It was revisited again years later and a Special Edition was created. I don't know much about this as I've not seen it but I believe it's basically Mulcahy's Renegade Edition with some reshot CGI and minor tweaks. I might see if I can track it down somewhere, I'm at a loose end tonight.
But yeah, as I wrote eight years ago:
the theatrical release of Highlander 2 is right up there on my “crushing disappointments in cinema” list, just above Escape From LA.
No idea about the goats though. Sorry.
Gnomeo and Juliet was one of the worst though.
Maybe it's my childish sense of humour but I love that film. Sorry.
Agree about Adam Sandler films, with the exception of Grown Ups - maybe it just struck a slushy sentimental chord note as we were at that kind of 30 something with kids stage, maybe it was cos I have a real thing for Salma Hayek
The golden compass. Awful and pointless. However, I really never did understand the hype behind fight club. Just thought it was very average.