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I’ve seen a lot of bad movies on purpose, but I thought this would be good! Reader, it was not. Also, I was stuck in the front row of the theater, and the showing was followed by a Q&A with the director and everyone else in the theater *loved* it. I have never felt so out of touch with society.

I fell asleep midway through, and I still don't know if it was from actual fatigue, or boredom.

Omg this movie was so bad. So, so bad.

Not a good film, but an interesting one, which puts it well ahead of actual bad films for me.

It was never intended to be fine art, so I can't fault them for making it what it was.

This and North (1994) are probably some combination of 1 and 2 for me.

I made plans to see it on a night when Tommy Wiseau was going to appear, but it was like a $30 upcharge just to be in the same room as him. Felt like a much bigger scam than the movie itself.

Oh hi Mark!

I've paid real New Zealand money. Twice. Which probably equates to your one real American money

The "twist" was that everyone with a double-digit IQ knew what the twist was going to be within the first 45 minutes 🤨

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"I have made the same movie numerous times before, but THIS time is different." - MNS Still better than The Happening. Outside of all of it being terrible, having to pretend Mark Wahlberg is a science teacher was painful.

An absolute gold standard shocker

Wait, no, Skinamarink

Yeah but at least Virus had some kick ass monster puppetry.

Ah, yes, also the third matrix movie. My god. Awful.

I didn't think it was terrible, i gather it deviated from the source material, but there was at least the skeleton of a "good" film in there, if you squinted a bit.

You never go ass-to-mouth

Especially the bear attack scene where DiCaprio’s character didn’t know how to leave well enough alone and was mauled a 2nd time by the same bear.

I hate to agree, but, yeah. I just felt sorry for all the actors.

The remake, I presume?

The Haunting.

My wife's answer is Battlefield Earth.

I went into that with high hopes, for some reason. Then he started putting up pictures of his ex-girlfriend in his command-center tent, which should’ve been creepy even for back then.

Oh man, I was so bored and it was before smartphones so I probably just went to sleep

this is the one. still undefeated asher all these years

Fell asleep during this!! Was really close between this and the one I picked.

Hey now, at least the song ruined Kashmir for me forever. My least favorite led Zeppelin song because of this

lol i would love to go see it on a big screen. maybe the dub was better?

I saw this in Times Square while on holiday in NY. Seeing Godzilla trash just outside where we were made this a great film for me!

This implies the existence of people who aren't Tom Green fans. Does not compute.

As a lifelong science geek, i am still angry at everyone who was involved in this. ...tho i still use Steve Buscemi's "it's time to embrace the horror" line way too often.

Can’t begin to describe how angry I got when he berates the astronauts for “not knowin jack about drillin”

A friend said that, for the amount of money Armageddon cost to make, they should’ve hired writers. But I said “no, a plot would’ve just slowed that movie down.”

I should have walked out. Got berated by someone in the theater because my group made a few too many comments about it - like you could hear anything anyone said. Written by JJ Abrams, which explains everything.

The whole movie feels really stilted and completely destroys the magic of the first one. You just feel kinda glum and dirty watching it. That's even before the parallel bars scene or San Diego. You know it's gonna be bad from the scene where we see the kids from the last movie for like 3 seconds.

Spielberg’s explanation of “I just thought it would be cool to see a T. rex rampage through San Diego!” made no sense. What recognizable landmarks are there? May as well have had it in Indianapolis. The only interesting aspect of that movie was the big game hunter.

What pissed me off most about this one was the book! Crichton trying to cash in on the success of the film adaptation of Jurassic Park writes this knowing that most people reading will not have read his book in which Ian Malcolm dies. The only explanation that he didn't is something

Dundee II taught me how to take my bra off without taking off my shirt first

There’s one I haven’t heard of (along with everybody else who didn’t see it).

This played on HBO for awhile in the early 90s so it was my first intro to turturro at 8 years old

The Swan Lake scene was funny. I laughed.

Yeah, Carrington was miserable. Love Mars Attacks though.

I stumbled on that picture on a Saturday morning and watched the whole thing, frozen with my jaw dropped.

Sir that is a masterpiece, along with Braindead and Bad Taste ... I'll never understand why that man was allowed to make LotR, given his previous work

Not deathless cinema, to be sure, but it *does* have one of Keith David's best lines of all time: "Would you look at that? Somebody threw away a perfectly good white boy" 😅

Same.

"cavemen flying thousand-year old F-18s" was, somehow, not the most ridiculous part of that flick 🙄

Travolta gleefully chewing the scenery, & Whitaker looking embarrassed to be taking the paycheck, was almost painful mental whiplash for me.

At least we got a good Nostalgia Critic episode out of it.

Maybe you already know this, but four rooms are four stories directed by four different people. So each story has little to do (not just plot wise) with the previous ones, and the last two stories are way better than the first two.

the worst person you know's favorite movie

I kept waiting for them to get to the point; somebody is gonna be Evil at some point, right?

My wife and I knew we really liked each other when we went to 300 on a date, just so we had a reason to spend time together, then sat all the way through it just in case the other one liked it. We will never watch that film again. Love is... coping with 300.

I've never seen 300, but will always remember a family member describing it as "aggressively mediocre".

Is Brown Bunny the one where Roger Ebert hated it so the director tried putting a hex on him, and then later they made up and the director released a less shitty version of the movie?

i was struggling to think of a good answer here but it’s totally brown bunny

"300" was so egregiously anti-Iran propaganda dressed-up as historical fiction.

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Oh, and Wuthering Heights was godawful. Not quite childhood-destroying levels of bad, but still viscerally unpleasant.

I remember feeling NOTHING after that one. Like it didn't even merit a passionate anger. I feel like when a movie is trying to make you believe they just killed off Chewbacca, I should respond with something more passionate than: "Okay."

There many films I’ve walked out because I become embarrassed for the actors. My wife doesn’t like it, but I just sit in the lobby and wait for her. Several Star Wars movies among that many.

They need to make a figure skating version.

Omg those are my worst ones as well. I remember being so angry about the happening specifically but both super sucked

I watched Godzilla 98 for the first time this year. I never saw it in the theatres even though my friends wanted to see it. I was hoping it would be bad in a funny having a good time kind of way. No it was just bad bad.

The latter I saw being aired on TV one night, and I can only guess they did so because it had ironic appeal.

Actually the sequel , Covenant was much worse .

The first 20 minutes were great and then they landed the spaceship and it got stupid.

That’s one of the only movies that actually made me angry about how bad it was.

I spent two days going "OK, the movie was shit where they lick the alien biology and try to outrace the rolling thingy" but there's an complex underlying story" before admitting the complex underlying story was also shit.

How do you you screw up a Godzilla movie? Try to turn it into Jurassic Park.

this brought back some very disappointing memories. I loved that book as a kid, and was super let down for the same reasons you were

OMG that was an excruciating experience. And from David freaking Lean.

Same.

Any movie by Rifftrax or MST3K is by definition improved a hundred fold

that’s a frontrunner for me too

I saw that on holiday in Hong Kong with Cantonese subtitle as was so hot and the cinema was air conditioned. Poster outside advertised "Mr Bean in Johnny English". Locals loved it, but surreal as no laughing at the jokes until the subtitles were read, so whole film had this off-kilter cadence.

"Peter Pan movie where the pirates sang "Smells Like Teen Spirit" How have I not heard about this? Holy shit.

Folks! with Tom Selleck and Don Ameche.

Let's go outside and fight

The soundtrack whipped tho

As a theater manager, Tron Legacy was a lot of fun. For showtimes, we'd crank the fucking volume. We shook the entire building. People would come out of other auditoriums to complain and we'd just shrug and be like, "Sorry. Disney wants it played at that level." youtu.be/ASYLSQCa97w?...

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Idk maybe it's my fault for going to see a certain franchise's sequel trilogy movie but I feel like at least Tron Legacy had like a story it followed up on even if it was bland, but The Unspecified Sequel Trilogy movie was, seemingly proud to be completely incoherent At least Tron is Just boring

I dunno about that - I love Dana Carvey (and adore "Opportunity Knocks"), but I've never been able to watch more than 10 minutes of "Master of Disguise". Tron: Legacy just had terrible CGI (that they should just fix on the modern cheap and release Blu)

The random cutaway to Michael Sheen doing a Busby Berkeley pose in the middle of a big action scene is easily top 5 worst shots in cinema.

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The original Tron was terrible, so going in it’s not like I expected Shakespeare. It was a popcorn movie where you enjoy the visuals and one of the best soundtracks of all time.

It's not perfect, but the soundtrack and the visuals elevate the movie so much that's very unusual that you rank it below something so horrendous like master of disguise

Oh snap, I forgot about the Peter Pan movie. My wife drug me to that.

It was truly abyssmal.

I mean Tron Legacy at least has music & visual. Story sucks but it's visually something.

May I offer for your consideration, TRON: Ares?

Damn I don't even care for Legacy that much but worse than Master of Disguise???

You and me can no longer be friends. C'mon, it was not worse than Master of Disguise.

Tron: Legacy being as boring and dull as it is is genuinely shocking. They did truly make a completely faithful sequel to Tron, revolutionary awe-inspiring visuals, a groundbreaking electronic music score, and the dullest most poorly paced and meandering movie to hang it all on

I've seen some truly awful films in the theater: Mission to Mars Showgirls Masters of the Universe Those are the worst that come to mind, in that order.

My opinion of legacy "I want both the last two hours and the band width i used to yo ho ho this back."

Tron: Legacy has a nice soundtrack though. I haven't seen it but I cooked dinner while my son watched it and it sounded amazing.

Daft Punk's soundtrack for Tron Legacy alone is worth the price of admission. And Michael Sheen as David Bowie as whatever his character was called was fun. But yeah, there aren't many redeeming qualities beyond that.

All I recall of it is Fiennes and Thurman muttering to each other. And Sean Connery wandering through a warehouse wearing a bear suit.

You're the guy who saw it in the theatre?!?

Why did you watch the Melania movie?

Blair Witch Project. One of the worst.

my brain read this as a real ‘sinker’

THANK YOU! I ended up sitting in the lobby for the last 45 minutes so I wouldn't ruin everyone's experience with my snarky asides.

That’s what happens when you let your kid write the script 🤦‍♀️

Your date was ashamed that you were laughing at a comedic movie? I hope there wasn't another date after that. 😅

It's NOT the worst, it's hysterical

That sounds like when I went to see Pitch Perfect 3 Halfway through I realized two things: 1. I was laughing more than anyone else in the theatre 2. I was the only man in the theatre

to this day I still say "work hard and stay in school!" whenever anyone asks me for advice. great movie. sorry about your date.

Why?

I enjoyed it in the theatre, then bought it and realised it was awful and I had forgotten how fucked up Frank Miller is.

Thought I memory-holed that one. Once the novelty of the imagery wore off like 10 minutes in I really started hating every moment… including the novelty imagery

I really should have left the theatre during that one.

I have learned not to go and see movies on sunny days, because I keep thinking “is this movie better than going and sitting in a park?”. I’ve walked out of a few movies that couldn’t meet that standard.

Or maybe The Love Guru

The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (Fay Weldon) is a terrific book, though

I'm here from your future to tell you She-Devil is even less funny now than it was when you were 13.

Well said. I think this is my pick too

Worst movie ever for this reason. Side by side ‘Skywalker’ objectively worse, but with context, ‘Menace’ wins

i was disappointed in TPM, but AotC is what made me give up on the prequels. Keep hearing "but #3 is good." Don't fucking care. He becomes Vader. yay DO NOT CARE. Just amazing how far up his own ass Lucas had to have been. They could have been good & fun instead.....trash.

And five minute of watching your friend play a racing video game.

I was only 6 but I saw it happen to my Dad. He used to put the OT VHS tapes on as background noise since before I was born and he was so excited and made his disappointment known. Personally I just found it off-putting and kind of boring and felt bad for dad.

Yep. THIS was the worst movie I saw in the theater, and I saw Leonard Part 6 and Showgirls in the theater too.

I love the soullessness of obligatory, committee-written sequels like this. See also: Speed 2

The fact that I cant settle on one thing or another to skeet in concurrence belies how many bad things there are about this movie.

Somehow, the undead emperor pulled 3,000 star destroyers out of his ass?

Ooooh I had completely forgotten about Battlefield Earth! Not sure that counts though, I only watched it with a friend for a dare after the first *dreadful* reviews were out and we laughed our way through it. The bit with the cow remains the only time someone has shushed me in a movie theatre.

What's Waterworld doing here? Yes, it's bollocks, but just enjoy Dennis Hopper eating all the scenery

I gave up on Tommy on TV, but Lisztomania is probably the worst movie I can remember seeing in a cinema.

Highlander 1 is really awful on rewatch.

Aliens

True story: we're in the theater, the movie starts, and the opening line: "We're going to make history..." and my friend leans over and says "This movie's gonna suuuuuck." 😂 And I'm like: 'What? What? How do you know? How do you know already?!?' Yeah he was right!

How dare you disrespect Highlander 2: Electric Boogaloo, oops, I mean the Quickening? That said, Beastmaster 2: Pig in the City (not it's real name, but one that totally makes sense) is awesome.

Oof that was terrible. I was ready to walk out within 20 mins.

It was so bad

If that's the worst movie you've seen in a theater, count yourself blessed! 😄

I liked disclosure day well enough, but at one point Josh O'Conner's character says "I don't know what's happening!" and the guy next to me in the theater said "man, me neither"

Fifteen minutes into that movie I wanted to punch everyone in it, and it didn't get any better from there. Absolutely trash.

It is worth finding the special edition of this movie because the commentary track is one of the funniest things I've ever heard. The studio apparently just leaned in.

It’s so bad, it’s good!

Elaine, that you?

My favorite movie!

That is totally my answer. Awful movie and my sister and I fight over whose idea it was to go (hers).

My mom took me to the first one. That one is also trash. I swear, modern comedies took my sense of humor, and I want it back…

I did a double feature one day, seeing both Kalifornia and Boxing Helena.

Too young to have seen the prequels in theater?

Didn't bother with it after Last Jedi.

Twice! Back to back! Because we'd loved TLJ and regretted not going again so we bought two sets of tickets up front, and then we were so shocked about how bad it was we used the second tickets anyhow just assuming after the shock wore off we'd find something salvageable. We did not.