What's the worst film you ever saw at the cinema?
Discussion
Mcphisto said:
Agreed, It just shows how tastes differ, I have seen all 3 films about 15-20 times (a couple times each in cinema and then the extended versions at home)
In my opinion as you say masterpieces! (unlike the Hobbit which were a let down) but I can see they wouldn't be everyone's cup of tea.
Agreed on both counts, LOTR is never going to be for everyone and the Hobbit trilogy was a real disappointment - Could have been one brilliant film as the book arguably lends itself more to cinema than LOTR but sadly Hollywood just doesn't work that way anymore - Like other franchises where there's a final book in a profitable series being adapted it's inevitable it will be split into two parts to ensure they milk the cow for every last drop.In my opinion as you say masterpieces! (unlike the Hobbit which were a let down) but I can see they wouldn't be everyone's cup of tea.
Oooo, tough one.
Bottom 3:
Blair Witch, caught up in the hype - went to see it at Midnight, on Halloween, in an old rickety Cinema that was built at the end of the 19th century and knocked down about 2 months later (I don't think Blair Witch was the last straw but you never know) - it should have been good, this Cinema was spooky watching comedies let alone "the scariest film since the Exorcist". What followed, well everyone knows. A mate of mine shouted "total b
ks" when the credit started to run and got a small cheer.
Flight plan with Jodie Foster, it was a first date - I hated it, but when asked if I was enjoying, of course I said Yes, asked my Date she of course said "yes" - turns out it was more like a mutual hostage situation, we would have both loved to leave but didn't want the other to think we were bored of each others company.
Ned Kelly, went with a mate of mine, didn't actually plan to see it - went to see The Italian Job, which was terrible, so terrible we felt so short-change we left as soon as it ended and sneaked across the way into a screen at random and sat down just as the trailers were ending - turns out it was Ned Kelly, sadly it was worse than The Italian Job.
Bottom 3:
Blair Witch, caught up in the hype - went to see it at Midnight, on Halloween, in an old rickety Cinema that was built at the end of the 19th century and knocked down about 2 months later (I don't think Blair Witch was the last straw but you never know) - it should have been good, this Cinema was spooky watching comedies let alone "the scariest film since the Exorcist". What followed, well everyone knows. A mate of mine shouted "total b
ks" when the credit started to run and got a small cheer.Flight plan with Jodie Foster, it was a first date - I hated it, but when asked if I was enjoying, of course I said Yes, asked my Date she of course said "yes" - turns out it was more like a mutual hostage situation, we would have both loved to leave but didn't want the other to think we were bored of each others company.
Ned Kelly, went with a mate of mine, didn't actually plan to see it - went to see The Italian Job, which was terrible, so terrible we felt so short-change we left as soon as it ended and sneaked across the way into a screen at random and sat down just as the trailers were ending - turns out it was Ned Kelly, sadly it was worse than The Italian Job.
SGirl said:
Arrival.
I'd gone to see it on my birthday while our son was at a footie match. I realised I probably wasn't going to like it when the woman, whatever her name is, was an expert in Arabic and Mandarin and loads of other languages. (As a translator, it's hard to suspend disbelief that far!)
Anyway. I thought I'd give it a go despite the linguistic nonsense. Half an hour in, I was wondering when anything exciting was going to happen. People around me were starting to yawn.
An hour in, and everyone in the place was yawning. A few got up and walked out. Not me though - I'd paid to see the film, so I was jolly well going to see it! Anyway, I had nowhere to go because I had to wait for the footie match to finish.
Never been so glad to see the end of a film. I don't quite understand why so many of the reviews were so overwhelmingly positive about the film, I thought it was dull and pretentious and a complete waste of £11 or however much I paid to get in. And as for whatshername's linguistic skills - yeah, right!
I am afraid you're wrong. I'd gone to see it on my birthday while our son was at a footie match. I realised I probably wasn't going to like it when the woman, whatever her name is, was an expert in Arabic and Mandarin and loads of other languages. (As a translator, it's hard to suspend disbelief that far!)
Anyway. I thought I'd give it a go despite the linguistic nonsense. Half an hour in, I was wondering when anything exciting was going to happen. People around me were starting to yawn.
An hour in, and everyone in the place was yawning. A few got up and walked out. Not me though - I'd paid to see the film, so I was jolly well going to see it! Anyway, I had nowhere to go because I had to wait for the footie match to finish.
Never been so glad to see the end of a film. I don't quite understand why so many of the reviews were so overwhelmingly positive about the film, I thought it was dull and pretentious and a complete waste of £11 or however much I paid to get in. And as for whatshername's linguistic skills - yeah, right!
I'm interested to know why you didn't believe that the woman was a language expert?
'Intersection'.
I was dragged by my girlfriend to watch 2 hours of this complete and utter arse back in the 90s. Through brief moments of consciousness it seemed to involve Richard Gere picking up chicks at antique fairs and having deep conversations with them over dinner. I was ready to gouge my own eyes out with a Haagen Dazs spoon after 10 minutes.
It was even worse than Batman & Robin, Cadillac Man, *Batteries Not Included or Cocoon. All of which were, err, complete pish.
I was dragged by my girlfriend to watch 2 hours of this complete and utter arse back in the 90s. Through brief moments of consciousness it seemed to involve Richard Gere picking up chicks at antique fairs and having deep conversations with them over dinner. I was ready to gouge my own eyes out with a Haagen Dazs spoon after 10 minutes.
It was even worse than Batman & Robin, Cadillac Man, *Batteries Not Included or Cocoon. All of which were, err, complete pish.
SGirl said:
Arrival.
I'd gone to see it on my birthday while our son was at a footie match. I realised I probably wasn't going to like it when the woman, whatever her name is, was an expert in Arabic and Mandarin and loads of other languages. (As a translator, it's hard to suspend disbelief that far!)
Anyway. I thought I'd give it a go despite the linguistic nonsense. Half an hour in, I was wondering when anything exciting was going to happen. People around me were starting to yawn.
An hour in, and everyone in the place was yawning. A few got up and walked out. Not me though - I'd paid to see the film, so I was jolly well going to see it! Anyway, I had nowhere to go because I had to wait for the footie match to finish.
Never been so glad to see the end of a film. I don't quite understand why so many of the reviews were so overwhelmingly positive about the film, I thought it was dull and pretentious and a complete waste of £11 or however much I paid to get in. And as for whatshername's linguistic skills - yeah, right!
I'd have been gutted aswell if I'd gone to the cinema to watch that and I felt mugged off watching it on dvd, I was shocked at the good reviews it got and it does show how we all like different things because I thought it was crap from start to finish. I'd gone to see it on my birthday while our son was at a footie match. I realised I probably wasn't going to like it when the woman, whatever her name is, was an expert in Arabic and Mandarin and loads of other languages. (As a translator, it's hard to suspend disbelief that far!)
Anyway. I thought I'd give it a go despite the linguistic nonsense. Half an hour in, I was wondering when anything exciting was going to happen. People around me were starting to yawn.
An hour in, and everyone in the place was yawning. A few got up and walked out. Not me though - I'd paid to see the film, so I was jolly well going to see it! Anyway, I had nowhere to go because I had to wait for the footie match to finish.
Never been so glad to see the end of a film. I don't quite understand why so many of the reviews were so overwhelmingly positive about the film, I thought it was dull and pretentious and a complete waste of £11 or however much I paid to get in. And as for whatshername's linguistic skills - yeah, right!
The Happening.. Wife wanted to see it because Marky Mark was in it and because it was the day before our wedding anniversary it was her choice (
). Oh man what a waste of a couple of hours. It wasn't even laughably bad, because that can be kind of good, it was just crap.
To cap it off I'd already ordered some flowers to be delivered to her the following day too - fine signal that sent out.
Mind you, it's only slightly ahead of 'Knowing' that we saw a year later or so. Never seen so many people walk out of a movie as that one. Wish we had. Fecking aliens indeed.
). Oh man what a waste of a couple of hours. It wasn't even laughably bad, because that can be kind of good, it was just crap.To cap it off I'd already ordered some flowers to be delivered to her the following day too - fine signal that sent out.
Mind you, it's only slightly ahead of 'Knowing' that we saw a year later or so. Never seen so many people walk out of a movie as that one. Wish we had. Fecking aliens indeed.
Ozone said:
I'm sure I went to see a film called Space Truckers in the 80's with Mel Smith, Griff and Jimmy Nail which was utterly dire. Can't seem to find it on Google so I may have got the title wrong - just don't bother watching it
Probably Morons From Outer Space - I think I saw that at the cinema too. Not goodhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089622/?ref_=nm_flmg_...
Christ, 32 years ago.
WCZ said:
hahahaha, I think the film relied on you to actually believe it was real to be scary (which I did at the time)
I really like The Blair Witch Project, and still think it's an original and effective horror film - A lot of my friends share the opinion of many on this thread though. As you say I think when I saw it the lines were a little blurry around if it was real or not, which probably added to my appreciation of it - Though i've since watched it several times safe in the knowledge it's total fiction and I still think it works.
Inspector Gadget, quite possibly the worst film I ever saw at the cinema.
I once lived in Luxembourg and went to a mystery movie night, it was a a showing of a movie called Blueberry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blueberry_(film)), it's on par with Inspector Gadget for being bad, really bad.
In fact there was one scene in the middle of the desert where people wanted to leave the search party, the leader turned around and asked if anyone else wanted to leave, at that point around 20 of us stood up and walked out, to much laughter from the rest of the cinema
I once lived in Luxembourg and went to a mystery movie night, it was a a showing of a movie called Blueberry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blueberry_(film)), it's on par with Inspector Gadget for being bad, really bad.
In fact there was one scene in the middle of the desert where people wanted to leave the search party, the leader turned around and asked if anyone else wanted to leave, at that point around 20 of us stood up and walked out, to much laughter from the rest of the cinema
alfaben said:
The Producers (2005), I wanted to walk out but my friend insisted we had paid and should see the end. I haven't seen it since and I never went to another film with said friend...
There are two "Producers" - the original 1968 version with Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel directed by Mel Brookes and the musical version from 2005 - which is, in turn, based on the hit stage musical version.Edited by alfaben on Wednesday 26th July 14:42
I was in a stage production of the musical version and I absolutely loved it.
As ever, these threads turn into "films I didn't like" - which is not quite what I would define as "worst film". To fall into that category I think you are looking at poor production values, bad acting, clonky and silly scripts etc. In fact, a really BAD film can sometimes have a charm all its own - such as "Plan 9 From Outer Space".
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