What was the WORST movie you've ever seen?

[psychotick]

Hi,

Haven't seen the Dark Knight Rises yet, and will wait till it comes out on dvd. I liked the first of dark knight trilogy, but the second just annoyed me. Perhaps Heath's charm simply did not work on me.

But the main thing I got peeved about was that his Joker character is claiming on the one hand to never plan anything, he hates planners and planning, and on the other he simply expects me to believe that such a twisted and detailed plot with traps within traps simply happened on the spur of the moment? That idea simply derailed the movie for me.

Cheers, Greg.

 

[biodroid]

...I doubt if I will bother going to see Dark Knight Rises anyway.

Your loss, it has the same calibre as TDK but more of a Batman Begins feel. The problem with reviewers is they dig too deep into a movie instead of enjoying for what it is and not how bad the Bane is compared to the Joker. Its not about comparing the two movies, its about how well the trilogy works as a whole. It wraps up the story very well with a bit of an open ended ending.

I stopped digging too deep into movies because then I realised there wont be any good movies to watch, why, because every movie is flawed in some way or another, there is no such thing as a perfect movie.

Yes I do think TDKR has flaws but its still worth watching to finish the story.

 

[Venusian Broon]

Ah, so many bad movies out there.

My new nomination for the monith is Lesbian Vampire Killers. Which I had the misfortune of catching on telly recently. However I couldn't make it to the end, so perhaps it had a sapphic blood drenched climax that made up for the evil smelling turd of the first 2/3rds*

But I really really doubt it.



* 1) I can't justify how I got that far - my best excuse is that I was on the laptop at the same time doing other stuff
2) Is that a record for that film? Or are there people out there that have sat through it all?

 

[JunkMonkey]

I stopped digging too deep into movies because then I realised there wont be any good movies to watch, why, because every movie is flawed in some way or another, there is no such thing as a perfect movie.

The Platonic Movie! I like it. No, you're right, there is no such thing as the perfect film, but the whole point is that if the film falls to bits as you are watching it, then there is something seriously wrong.

I regularly become so engrossed in a film that my critical faculties vanish for the duration. They may come back after the film has finished when my logic centres will start pointing out logic inconsistencies - and that's fine. If they are silent during the movie it means the film makers have flim flammed me for 90 minutes into believing their story. I want all films to do that to me. That's all anyone can really ask. If my critical inner nitpicker is chipping in during the film. Then the fault is either with me - for choosing the wrong film - or the film-makers for not having done their jobs well enough.

 

[Huttman]

Star Wars Episode I,II and III were a travesty.

Episodes 1,2 & 3 made 1.3 billion dollars in ticket sales alone...domestically. I should think all directors who make so called travesty movies would hope to make that kind of money.

In all actuality, those movies were far from a travesty. I grew up with the originals and I know plenty of people younger, my age and older who quite enjoyed the prequels. The haters of these movies just seem to scream louder than the ones who liked them.

 

[TheDustyZebra]

Well, it would almost have to be that one with Chris Farley and David Spade. Yeah, that one. Or, wait, maybe it was that one with Jim Carrey, you know the one? No, no, it would have to be that one with Rodney Dangerfield.

On the other hand, Dune put me to sleep about halfway through. I couldn't stand more than half of The Big Lebowski or Glengarry Glen Ross. And I had to give up on Reservoir Dogs at the point where they doused the cop in gasoline and set him on fire, which wasn't anywhere near the middle, and have steadfastly refused to try any more of those. So the real winner here would have to be that one by Quentin Tarantino.

 

[Venusian Broon]

Episodes 1,2 & 3 made 1.3 billion dollars in ticket sales alone...domestically. I should think all directors who make so called travesty movies would hope to make that kind of money.

That's the cash he made from crushing and wringing the goodwill and expectations, choking, from the shocked mouths of the hundreds upon hundreds of million people. Burning years and years of eager excitment.

In all actuality, those movies were far from a travesty. I grew up with the originals and I know plenty of people younger, my age and older who quite enjoyed the prequels. The haters of these movies just seem to scream louder than the ones who liked them.

Just to balance this statement, I was of the generation that 1977 and Starwars was the seminal cinema moment, mile long queues around the blocks to get in, feverish excitement, multiple viewings, a great film and experience. BUT I don't know anyone at all young or old that enjoyed the prequels. The likers (love is too strong a word I feel for these movies) of these movies are either non-existent, ashamed or embarrassed.


ok, ok I'm being a bit harsh for effect, so before you take a pop at me , fair enough if you liked them, each to his own. I'd never fallen asleep at the cinema until I tried to watch Episode II, which is by far the worst movie of the three by a long shot. But by some strange symmetry I thought episode III was actually reasonable within it's own faults, which made up for the Ewoks at the end of episode VI in some sort of bizzare mirror-sense.

Personally if I have been George, I'd have done one prequel only, showing the birth of Vader and ditching the first two chapters , then done a series of sequels so that the audience didn't know where the story was going.

 

[MemoryTale]

I think Episode 1 would ahve been OK if they'd ditched most/all of the comedy elements. Episode 2 was alright in the second half, but I agree the first was possibly the most boring hour ever commited to ceulluloid. Episode 3 was pretty good, I just felt that Anakin went from "What have I done?" to remorselessly killing children WAY too easily.

 

[Metryq]

SKYLINE—a completely plot-less movie. I've seen pinball games that were deeper than this.

 

[Huttman]

Personally if I have been George, I'd have done one prequel only, showing the birth of Vader and ditching the first two chapters , then done a series of sequels so that the audience didn't know where the story was going.

That is a good idea. I think he was trying to follow a formula he set back in 1977-83 to tell the story of Anakin's generation. Perhaps it was the same but too different for most...not sure if that makes sense or not. Do you mean sequels after Return of the Jedi or sequels to Anakin's fall and him hunting Jedi and Empire building, because I think that is what you meant. After all, the story does end after the Sith become no more with Palpatine dying and Vader turning to the light side. Hopefully the live action show (if it ever gets made) will fill that gap.

Metryq, I also agree it was too quickly paced for certain events to unfold. I don't fault the pace myself, but also understand Lucas was using the same formula I mentioned above to make these movies resulting that certain sacrifices were made to tell that story because [the story] had grown so immensely. In the original movies, I always thought Luke's training time with Obi-Wan and Yoda were far too short. Perhaps the Force had trained Luke the rest of the time?

 

[Metryq]

Metryq, I also agree it was too quickly paced for certain events to unfold.

Huh? I wasn't commenting on any of the STAR WARS movies, Huttman. I was warning others away from a movie called SKYLINE.

But since you brought it up...

The "first" STAR WARS trilogy ("Hope", "Empire" and "Jedi") was good entertainment, but suffered under the burden of its own success towards the end. Making the prequels was a mistake only because everyone already knew what was going to happen. A good writer or writers might have pulled off such a stunt. Since "Hope" had already been subtitled "Episode IV," the temptation was just too great. George succumbed to the Dark Side—"quicker, easier, more seductive."

And so the prequel trilogy became a geek-fest, fulfilling everything the otaku fans already knew and catering to the five-year-old toy-buying crowd with more filler crap than a cheap hotdog. George cannot resist constantly vandalizing the first trilogy, either.

He should have gone forward, or done something else.

 

[Huttman]

Oops...my bad, Metryq. Sorry. I meant that as a comment on MemoryTales statement

 

[clovis-man]

Personally if I have been George, I'd have done one prequel only, showing the birth of Vader and ditching the first two chapters , then done a series of sequels so that the audience didn't know where the story was going.

I think he just tried to do what he said he would do. In a Rolling Stone article published the year that the first SW movie was released, he said that there would be 9 movies. Episodes 4 thru 6 and then 3 prequel episodes followed by 3 sequels. The only characters that would appear in all 9 would be the two droids. Obviously time and tide have ruled out the last three. And slavishly doing all 3 of the prequels may not have been the best decision. But we're only human, after all.

 

[CyBeR]

SKYLINE—a completely plot-less movie. I've seen pinball games that were deeper than this.

Skyline felt more like a special effect advertisement piece rather than a film. It was a film that I honestly couldn't enjoy, as the acting was so bad and the whole story such a ridiculous mess.

 

[Sapha]

I'm also going to go with Skyline as being the worst film I have subjected my eyes and mind to. There are no words to describe the lameness of this flick. I want my 94 minutes of life back.

 

[Galacticdefender]

Episodes 1,2 & 3 made 1.3 billion dollars in ticket sales alone...domestically. I should think all directors who make so called travesty movies would hope to make that kind of money.

In all actuality, those movies were far from a travesty. I grew up with the originals and I know plenty of people younger, my age and older who quite enjoyed the prequels. The haters of these movies just seem to scream louder than the ones who liked them.

They were good movies, but nowhere near as good as the originals. Episode 3 was alright though, probably better than the first two prequels combined.

Worst recent film I saw was The Dictator. That movie just... Sucked all around.

 

[Cayal]

I just felt that Anakin went from "What have I done?" to remorselessly killing children WAY too easily.

Yeah. The Clones Wars series helps this a bit but the transition was quick.

Though it is hard to do in the space of 2 movies.

 

[Gramm838]

I've not read every post, but I'd like to present the following as the worst film I've seen:

Jonny Mnemonic

Starring the featureless (has he no muscles in his face?) Keanu Reeves...I was so let down by the film as the short story it was based on was written by one of my favourite authors - William Gibson (who had a small part in the film I think)

The idea was great but it was such a low budget production that the story was never done justice.

 

[AE35Unit]

I've not read every post, but I'd like to present the following as the worst film I've seen:

Jonny Mnemonic

Starring the featureless (has he no muscles in his face?) Keanu Reeves...I was so let down by the film as the short story it was based on was written by one of my favourite authors - William Gibson (who had a small part in the film I think)

The idea was great but it was such a low budget production that the story was never done justice.

Never seen it but want to.

 

[JunkMonkey]

] I just felt that Anakin went from "What have I done?" to remorselessly killing children WAY too easily.

Yeah. The Clones Wars series helps this a bit but the transition was quick.

Though it is hard to do in the space of 2 movies.

Two whole movies! Luxury! Anakin is just Macbeth with a light sabre. And I've seen Macbeth performed in less than two hours. There's nothing new or thematically difficult about his seduction to Evil / The Dark Side. "Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, And falls on th'other," is the same in medieval Scotland, in a galaxy far far away, or in the corridors of the White House, Downing Street, or the Kremlin. It's not a new story. It's just Lucas is such a ponderous film-maker he can't fit all the material into a decent run time. Faced with a four hour rough cut he then chops out dialogue stuff with psychological depth and character development (just go look at the deleted scenes on the last couple of films) and leaves in all the tedious establishing shots of spacecraft arriving at YET ANOTHER planet we have never heard of before in order to squeeze in another commercial for Toys R Us pleasing sets of action figures. I mean that giant lizard that suddenly appeared from nowhere for Ewan Mcgregor to ride about on for a bit. You could almost hear the cash registers in Mattel's* offices ringing when that one appeared in the storyboards.

And I never understood why, if everyone has instantaneous pan-galactic communication** didn't Princess Layercake just send the plans of the Death Star over the phone before the start of 'Episode IV'. That would have saved a lot of hassle. But maybe the instantaneous pan-galactic communication system was down that day. Or only does voice. Who knows. Who cares? I know I didn't by the end of Episode !!! .

Star Wars was a fun little film in it's day. The more Lucas has added to it the less it has become.


I didn't think Jonny Mnemonic was THAT bad. I saw it for the first time earlier this year. I don't rate Willam Gibson as much as some do but he threw a fair few ideas at the screen which is always good in an SF film.



*or whoever.

** eg Ewan McGregor endlessly checking in with Jedi HQ in real time and The Emperor telling the clones to kill everyone as he did in the last film.