Worst movie you've ever seen?

stupidmonkey said:

Ghost Ship's opening scene is amazing.

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100% and the best thing about the movie. All down hill from there.

TBT-TheBigToe said:

Like what, oh ye Lord of Edge?

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Napoleon Dynamite

Saw this Friday. I hesitate to even call it a movie.

Otto said:

The Garbage Pail Kids Movie has to be the worst movie I've ever seen. What's even worse is me and my friends spent our own money to go see it. Should've just gone to the arcade.

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That's probably a masterpiece compared to don't go in the woods .

Phazael said:

1) Highlander 2- While Jack and Jill remains the worst movie I ever paid money to see, this one genuinely crushed my soul do to my love of the original and all the hype going into it. It basically sunk the franchise into permanent cable TV show and direct to DVD status forever after. Its so bad, even the people in charge of the IP just pretend it never happened. I was angry after seeing this and skipped the Adrian Paul show on its initial run due to how bad this was.

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This was a while ago so I might have already responded to it, but I'll do it again either way: Highlander: The Source (the fifth and final movie) was somehow even worse than this.

Highlander is such a weird series. The first movie is great, the third and fourth movies are better than people remember, The Series is legitimately fantastic (I'd say it's even the high mark, like the Buffy series). Then you have all the complete assery the same company put out: Highlander 2 and 5 are two of the worst movies I've ever seen, while the Highlander: The Raven spinoff takes one of the show's best characters and ruins her immediately, giving us 20ish episodes of boredom before finally having a couple of good episodes right before the doors closed.

And even The Series, as good as it was, continuously struggled with producers and other folks trying to ruin it. Season 1 they tried to make it a Cop Drama, which were all the rage at the time, with the immortal protagonist helping the local police solve various cases and take out various other immortals who were murderers and whatnot. It was actually pretty rough at first, and for the first 12 episodes or so I could get someone wondering why the hell I talked them into watching this show. Then when it was clearly not working, they turned the reins over to this guy named David Abramowitz who totally fixed the series basically overnight, making it a more foggy and mystical show that focuses on the immortals themselves and their history / struggles. "Band of Brothers" in S1 (ep 13 I think) is the first good episode and it's pretty goddamn good. Show takes off from there.

Funny thing is, they tried again with the "Cop Show" bullshit a few years later with the Raven spinoff, and again it failed. Only this time there wasn't anyone there to bail it out. With a less-likable protagonist that show was DOA. They started copying the main show's formula in the last five or so episodes but it was too late.

Another thing they tried to do a lot of was "post-apocalypse" settings. They were obsessed with cop shows and post-apocalyptic shit. Just having everything be dark and run-down and dystopian, like the terrible second season of War of the Worlds in 1990. So they made a bunch of terrible choices toward the end of Highlander: The Series with the intent of moving the show to a dark dystopian setting going forward. The star of the show balked at all of this and said the fans would hate it, so they dropped the idea, but not before messing things up with The Devil coming to Earth and shit so they could LARP End of Days for a few episodes.

It's pretty clear the Highlander series has some incredibly talented people working for it while also having some terrible producers and "ideas people" behind it.

Chukzombi said:

how dare these bastards try to make anyone laugh!

even the trailer is comedy gold.
"if you only see one movie this year, then you need to get out more!"

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I don't know how anyone can say ANY of the Naked Gun movies are the worst. All three (now four) of them are a fun, irreverent, "nothing is sacred" time. See also the original Hot Shots, which is probably the funniest movie I've ever seen, and basically Naked Gun with military instead of police. Leslie Nielsen stars in that too. Hot Shots 2 is pretty meh, a big step down, never really laughed, kinda like Ghostbusters 2. It has a couple of super hot women as the love interests (that cat-fight over the hero by the end), at least.

DickTrickle said:

I truly hated The Killing of a Sacred Deer. Utterly pretentious and fully devoid of any humanity or worthwhile meaning. There's certainly worse movies in terms of acting and production but this one filled me with visceral disgust.

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This one was up there for me. What the fuck was wrong with that movie? Nobody talked like a real person, I didn't find anyone remotely relatable or likeable, and I wanted my money back. It got good reviews too IIRC, not sure why else I would go see it. The main kid in that movie, an inexplicably frequently-cast actor, was also in The Eternals, probably the MCU's shittiest movie.

Arbitrary said:

The film I hate the most I'm pretty sure is Star Trek : Nemesis. Mean-spirited, violent, gory, grimdark trash that heralded all the bad shit to come for that franchise.

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I like Nemesis, but mostly because it was the final Star Trek movie of the original canon, and also because Enterprise-E versus Scimitar is a hell of a battle (first good space battle in several movies IIRC). Was cool to see the Romulans finally get a Negh'Var type super-ship that could outgun Starfleet's biggest new ship.

Rest of the movie was mean-spirited, and a portent of things to come, yes. Seeing Picard walking around with a laser rifle and getting into arguments with other characters just felt so off.

Worst movie for me is a pretty easy one. "Movie 43", a bunch of terrible skits stringed together, written by people like James Gunn and Elizabeth Banks. Hugh Jackman was in it and had balls hanging off his chin for some reason, which his date had to pretend not to see. Aside from that part at least being memorable, most of the movie is incredibly unfunny and mean-spirited and I felt like I needed to be hosed down after watching it.

Chanur said:

100% and the best thing about the movie. All down hill from there.

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Valarien in the City of 1000 Worlds was exactly this. That opening sequence with Rutger Hauer narrating and Space Oddity playing was one of if not the best openings to a movie I have ever seen. Then nothing but frothing shit followed for two hours. If they had made the opening five minutes the entire movie and rolled credits, I would have been ok with the movie probably and it certainly would have been a massive improvement.

Cad said:

Battlefield Earth?

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That movie was fucking hilarious.

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I liked how cavemen could pilot 1000 year old harriers after spending a few hours in still working and powered simulators.

Oh and nuclear bombs also still worked and they got ahold of them somehow.

Rajaah said:

Highlander: The Raven spinoff takes one of the show's best characters and ruins her immediately,

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Hold on now, you're wrong on a couple of counts. First off, amanda was not one of the best characters. She was one of the characters. The spinoff didn't ruin her, she was always a cunt. It just didn't play as well when she was the lead. Second, The Raven was pretty good. I found it a few years ago and loved every episode. All 22 of them. It was from back when they made proper seasons. The show failed because they never marketed it. I was a huge highlander fan back then. I followed a couple of fan groups on usenet and I heard about the possible amanda spinoff but never heard they had actually made the show until a few years ago. The rumors are that they canceled it (and didn't advertise it) because amanda was a cunt IRL too and no one wanted to work with her.

Rajaah said:

Worst movie for me is a pretty easy one. "Movie 43"

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So many people saying this is terrible is just making me want to see it.

Hoss said:

Hold on now, you're wrong on a couple of counts. First off, amanda was not one of the best characters. She was one of the characters. The spinoff didn't ruin her, she was always a cunt. It just didn't play as well when she was the lead. Second, The Raven was pretty good. I found it a few years ago and loved every episode. All 22 of them. It was from back when they made proper seasons. The show failed because they never marketed it. I was a huge highlander fan back then. I followed a couple of fan groups on usenet and I heard about the possible amanda spinoff but never heard they had actually made the show until a few years ago. The rumors are that they canceled it (and didn't advertise it) because amanda was a cunt IRL too and no one wanted to work with her.



So many people saying this is terrible is just making me want to see it.

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It’s not funny, it’s just bad and boring and awkward. It’s unpleasant and not in the good way like a torture porn movie. It’s like watching a really bad stand up routine where even the hecklers are bored.

TBT-TheBigToe said:

It’s not funny, it’s just bad and boring and awkward. It’s unpleasant and not in the good way like a torture porn movie. It’s like watching a really bad stand up routine where even the hecklers are bored.

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So you're saying I should save it for a night when I'm drinking.

Gotcha and I can do that.