Worst film ever?

I'm putting Sex and the City 2 up there. I had the misfortune to be in the same room as a TV this was playing on this week and just felt that I needed to get this off my chest.

Previously I would have had Titanic at the top of my list but this has surpassed it on every single measure that I can possibly dream of. I haven't seen 50 shades of grey.

There, it's all over, breathe out.....

Nah, it's got to be Inception

Hugo. Next discussion.

'Raptor'...terrible and with a nearly unfathomable storyline. Only some years later did I discover that it's two films (poorly) stitched together. Cue horrendous continuity errors and scenes that make little sense.

Actually, on the basis that I watched to the end it's still better than Mamma Mia...

Eraserhead.

50 Shades of Grey I turned off (and deleted the file!) after 15 mins due to the laughable dialogue and amatuer acting. But what I saw of it was still better than Eraserhead.

Peters Friends or Grey Owl...or any Austin Powers film....

To be honest I'm probably being a bit unfair on Titanic. I watched it on a long haul flight once where I was desperate to get some sleep as I was straight into a full days work on arrival. I never sleep well on long flights so I thought Titanic would be the ideal choice to bore me to sleep.

How wrong I was, trying to get to sleep reminded me of

and the image has never gone away.

Blast from the past... Silver Dream Racer, with David Essex - As a biker many years ago, I and a few mates though a film about bike racing would be an entertaining way to spend a couple of hours and a few quid

Should have realised when we were the only four people in the cinema - we stuck it out for half an hour and then went to the pub - utterly dire storyline and even worse acting - needs to be preserved for ever as an example of why non-actors shouldn't act....

High praise indeed, might be worth a watch then.

David Lynch would be on the list of my favourite directors although the likes of Wild at Heart would be the reasons for that. I just remember Eraserhead as odd and never revisited it a second time.

The worst film in the world is without a doubt Plan 9 From Outer Space, but it's so bad it's almost good. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes gives it a good run for its money, mind...

You're all just skimming the surface. Until you've seen Left Behind you've no idea just how bad film can get.

"Chasing The Deer" .... the horror, the horror

I've never seen a really bad movie. Because they always get turned off before the end and usually this is in conjunction with some swearing at the TV.

I've seen some B movies till the end, but in this case I knew they would be crap and stuck it out. Amazingly, they were so bad they came good!

A recent one springs to mind called Deathgasm - About some guys selling their soul to the devil to become rock gods. So bad it was good.

Shivers - meant to be horror, but the only shivers you actually get are from the shyte production and crap story

Jurassic city.
£9 in hmv as my youngest is Dino mad. What a pile of crap, later looking on the net rotten tomatoes gave it 6%....

Aliens 3 is up there. Mr Turner was dire too and a real disappointment given the producer and cast. The latest Superman, and any Marvel production made beyond 2012. The last Star Trek was dire too, time travel and meeting yourself never works and ruins the rest of the fanchise. Lair of the White Worm may get AndrewR out of retirement

You're putting that one up for best film ever aren't you...

Another one, for a host of reasons, Human Centipede series of films......

^^ I thought the first one was OK , then again I thought Shivers was great so I clearly have no taste.

Or I don't

Contact, Executive Decision, Inside Out.

Try as I might, I can't decide which is the worst of the three.

Cannon and Ball - The Boys in Blue.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0186896/reviews?start=0

If you even suspect it might not be the worst film ever made, you have not watched it.

The A-team total rubbish .

What!

Was flying a tank going too far do you think

Starsky and Hutch Utter tripe.

American Mary is up there, or should that be down there?

Sex Lives of the potato men gets a terrible rating, I loved it, but that was with the knowledge of expecting it to be dire.

I had to google that.

But Johnny Vegas doing soft porn?

Soft porn it is not, and it's not a lot of other things too. Adrian Chiles is in it for starters!

Yes, I saw Adrian Chiles was in it too.

This is one of the comments I read: "One of the few positive reviews for Sex Lives of the Potato Men came from Mark Adams in the Sunday Mirror, who stated "Vegas and Crook are a sleazy dream-team and brilliantly cast as the soft-core spud men... After several pints and a curry it could be the lads’ film of the year."

Ok so, arguably, soft core and soft porn are not totally synonymous, but pretty close.

Perhaps Mark Adams exaggerated for his Sunday Mirror readers.

No, just no. Pixar don't make bad films.

Have you watched it? Perhaps calling it a bad film is too harsh, but I would call it an emotionally devastating kids film.

But in this case, boy did they make an exception. Billed by no less a film guru than Mark Kermode as a potential Best Picture Oscar winner (I kid you not), I found it to be the most trite, stereotype-reinforcing load of codswallop I've seen since... Hugo.

Good call Jim!

Well perhaps I'm a little biased as I have a soft spot for Pixar. Up! would be in my top 10 all time films.

Everyone sees things differently, of course, but most critics/review websites rank it very highly indeed.

More likely he never watched it, just wrote a contrary review based on what others had said

Absolutely right. I'm only speaking for myself - and I was very surprised, given the universally positive reviews (apart from Jim, obviously!)

Hmmm .. having been badly misled by the title of another thread (Crap Jokes), which actually started to include some rather good ones, I need to put out a reality check on this one.

If I say ....

"Captain Corelli's mandolin"

is anyone still there??

Better not show this thread to Mrs Wishy, they'll be sparks flying as she loves that film! To be fair it's probably more due to liking Kefalonia having been there and also having read the book.

Looks like I dodged a bullet only to be smacked in the face with a shovel during last summer as we only only just missed out on going to see Inside Out. We went to see Pixels instead which was woeful (although probably not bad enough to be on this list). I couldn't believe how someone had managed to make a film revolving around around retro video games which I love so uninvolving......
On second thoughts, Adam Sandler is in it, no further explanation necessary.

I'm going to add Adam Sandler's entire filmography to this list.

+1

+2

I feel all warm and fuzzy inside now. It has always astounded me how someone with so little talent in their chosen field can make such a good career out of it.

Paradoxically, I'd also class Nicholas Cage and Keanu Reeves as being pretty mediocre actors but they've both been in great films. Mr. Sandler doesn't even have that to redeem himself.

Jim Carrey (Truman Show and Man on the Moon aside. Oh, and The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was good, too).

+3 (and + 4 for the wife)

It's not out yet, but if the trailer is anything to go by, then superman vs batman could be in with a shout.

Jason Statham.

Although, I must say I gained a little respect for him after hearing him interviewed a little while back.

He said something along the lines of, "look, my films are never going to win an Oscar. But they keep paying me [very well] to be this one dimensional action hero. Why would I say no?"

Jason Statham gave his defining performance in Lock, Stock. But for his (and Jude Law's) redemption, I recommend Spy.

I might have to look Spy up then. I have to say that a film with those two AND Miranda Hart (who I believe to be as funny as Adam Sandler is talented) would not normally get to the "lets watch this for 5 minutes because there's nothing else on" stage in this house.

This thread is actually giving me ideas of stuff to watch!

I fully concur. However, I was pleasantly surprised by Spy. Law and Statham in self-mocking mode and Miranda Hart manages not to ruin it. Nice Alfa Spider, too.

Err... isn't think meant to be the worst film thread, not it's a reasonable film to watch?

Correct. Apologies to Wishy!

No apology needed, this section has a long history of threads veering off track and long may it continue.

Seen loads of shite, but I'll chuck in a classic film everyone appears to rave about. Life of Brian. So shite I fell asleep through it in the cinema.

You're a very naughty boy.

Hugo... inside Out.... both brilliant films

Salo 120 days of Soddom.. now there's a seriously bad film.

Huh? Wha?

LotWW is, of course, brilliant...as is Eraserhead. I think I'd vote for 'Pearl Harbour', that's pretty dreadful.

Another vote for Pearl Harbour.

Somehow, it's worse when it's Pearl Harbor.

The Guardian - Terrible but has a 6.8 imdb rating

Those dissing Adam Sandler have obviously not seen Happy Gilmour. Travesty that is was never nominated for an Oscar.

I'd be intrigued to know which category said travesty would be in?

Is there a great movies to watch thread?

+1, stated exceptions acknowledged. I was flicking through for something to watch last night and seeing as Hotel Transylvania includes the aforementioned Mr. Sandler I thought I'd see if Ace Ventura had any redeeming features as I've never actually watched it.

It didn't and I only lasted 5 minutes.

There's this old one:

http://www.fiatcoupeclub.org/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=1087224&page=1

Seven words for you.

Nazis at the Center of the Earth.

Iron Sky. Just... don't.

Surely it has to be Sharknado. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwsqFR5bh6Q

Ah, but Sharknado had sequels... which were worse.

True. There's also Zombeavers .. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2784512/

I liked this quote:

Mario Farkas 10 months ago
I watched this movie on an airplain and people still walked out...

revenge of billy the kid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-jXKDnjlGk

you are going to love this

But those deliberately bad films don't count as they are self knowingly bad.

Unlike any film with Nicolas Cage....

Or bicentennial man....

Exactly.

Proper budget with Nic Cage, Left Behind is the worst. Its not just badly made with terrible performances - through the whole film Cage looks like he has a massive dental bill looming - but the core message, the rapture, is the biggest stinker in a big stinky barrel of stink.

I'm led to believe that Entourage was pretty woeful in message and execution.

"Best Defence" with Eddie Murphy and Dudley Moore. Woeful!

To be fair, he has been in some great movies like Red Rock West + Leaving Las Vegas. And some good ones, Matchstick Men, Knowing, Joe, Kick-Ass to name a few.

Are you having a laugh Graham? Thought that was a terrible film.

Lord of War was a good Nic Cage film.

Kick Ass was entertaining but anyone could have played his part and it wouldn't have been any different.

Haha, nope, I liked it.

Starship Troopers 2 and 3. Both stink!

I'd add Wild at Heart to that list of good films with Nicholas Cage in but it doesn't mean that I think he's a good actor.

Cage is just dreadful. On the list with Tom Hanks, Robin Williams, Keanu Reeves and Jim Carey.... awful, absolutely awful.

Once in a while they appear is a watchable film, but throw enough scripts in the mix, once or twice they'll accidentally stumble into something.

And Zombeavers is on my watch list for the weekend.


On a related not, Megapython vs Gateroid is worth it just for the bit where Tiffany and Debbie Gibson share the lines:
T : "I think we're alone now"
DG : "There doesn't seem to be anyone around"

I'm genuinely astonished someone else has seen it.

I saw it years ago.....I seem to remember it being weird, rather than crap.

I love Eraserhead, saw it several times - David Lynch doing weird as only he can.

Have actually seen it twice. First time on VHS around 1990 back when I was heavily into tape trading of underground/horror stuff, thought it was the most over-rated trash I'd ever seen and that was really saying something considering some of the weird no budget stuff from back then. Watched it again about 5 years ago from an HD version just in case I was being unfair but had exactly the same opinion second time around.

The only David Lynch movie I actually liked enough to own a copy of is The Straight Story. For beautiful/weirdness I always preferred stuff like The Reflecting Skin, to me that's the kinda movie David Lynch wishes he could make.

That's interesting, Graham, I really liked Eraserhead when it came out and Wild at Heart, Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks, too. But Mulholland Drive and Lost Highway were very disappointing. I liked the Straight Story, but I'm not as big a fan as you!

I guess living in France may have played a role in liking his stuff: he is revered as a god of cinema there.

Check out The Reflecting Skin , you'll likely appreciate that if you're a fan of Lynch. It's been a favourite of mine for a long time but has just been released in the UK for the first time, on DVD and Blu-ray. Before that I had the original Canadian VHS and then a Japanese DVD, it was always a tricky one to see until very recently.

Strongly disagree with that, Tom Hanks in my opinion is a fantastic actor.

Forrest Gump, Road to Perdition, Captain Phillips, Castaway, Saving Private Ryan, Green mile the list goes on

Worst film ever...

Snakes on a plane!

Forrest Gump - dreadful...Castaway - out-acted by the ball....

Add to that The Man with one Red Shoe, The Money Pit, Big, Turner & Hooch, The Da Vinci Code.... *shudder*

Nope sorry, You're wrong

Oh I am sure of that!

Not defending the Cage though!!

Die Hard 5 - A Good Day to Die Hard. What a stinker!

District 9......awful

I actually quite liked District 9. However, what followed - Chappie - was so bad it makes my buttocks clench.

I liked them both. District 9 was the better of the two though, by far.

Same guy made Elysium in-between those two. Fittingly, it was between them in quality too.

I liked District 9 too. Just putting it out there......

Me too and I'm going to giving Zombeavers a whirl this week at some point.

I have 'Wrestlers vs Zombies' to watch in the next week or so...the title alone suggests it'll be a fantastic film!

Just finished watching Zombeavers, doesn't deserve to be on this thread.
I should probably clarify that it doesn't belong in the best film ever thread either. As a Troma meets Evil Dead bit of daft however, albeit with better quality cameras and slightly better acting, it was fun.
The Toxic Avenger would be proud (maybe).

I can confirm Zombeavers IS cinematic genius!

Worth it for the poster strapline alone.

You'll all be dammed!

After yesterday........ The Dad's Army film. What a steaming pile of poo.

I've not seen it but I wonder if the capacity to enjoy the film depends on whether you remember watching and enjoying the original TV series?

I'm old enough to have seen the wonderful TV series. Believe me, the film is absolutely rubbish.

Shouldn't that opinion end with the line "...carry on Wilson"

Just checking the thread - so it was you who induced me to watch this pile of sh1te all the way through!!

The beavers are hilarious, though, I have to admit.

I was forced to watch the fast and the furious 7 by my youngest.

Words fail me on how truly terrible this was

My only consolation was knowing that I have not had to suffer through any of the previous 6 (I'm assuming that they were all similarly crap)

......... and no doubt no 8 will be the same so something for you to look forward to Tony

I thought F&F 1 and 2 were okay movies actually. No complaints with them.

Just been reminded of another one that belongs here, Thir13en Ghosts.

Con Air is on telly right now.

"Why didn't you just put the bunny back in the box?"

Can't believe Cage didn't at least get a nomination for that role.

Con Air is worth watching just to see John Malkovich and Steve Buscemi

And............... It did receive 2 Oscar Nominations! (Obviously not for Cage's acting).

+1

Tomorrow never dies? (ITV4 now)
3 men and a little lady (officially the worst film ever) would be a welcome alternative to this tedious POS.

Hasn't come out yet, but will chuck it out there. Kindergarden Cop 2 with Dolph Lundgren

Speed 1, total marine propulsion shocker...

But a work of genius compared to Speed 2

Sex and The City 2.