What's the single worst film you've ever seen?

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I was expecting for you to say Cujo or Silver Linings Playbook.
I was going for more popular choices. I understand I'm in a slight minority with Silver Linings Playbook, but especially with Cujo. Saving those for the "Hot Takes" thread.
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Trouble with a capital "T"
The Thin Red Line 1998

The most pretentious, longwinded, and overrated movie ever. Oh God Hollywood marks out for Terrence Malick thinking hes the second coming. Nominating this babbling oppressive drivel for Best Picture was a slap in the face to quality itself. Let the guy go somewhere and be a nature photographer, but please by all means keep him away from a film crew.
I'll have to be tricked or paid into watching another one of his photo exhibit films and I've seen several and a couple of them twice



Trouble with a capital "T"
I was going for more popular choices. I understand I'm in a slight minority with Silver Linings Playbook, but especially with Cujo. Saving those for the "Hot Takes" thread.
What's wrong with Silver Linings Playbook?



junior is terrible, but i'm not even sure it's in the bottom 5 schwarzenegger movies. are you really going to take collateral damage over it.
Haven't seen that one yet, but lord I hope Arnie didn't outdo himself 5 times over from that crime against humanity.



He said he'd be back, he didn't say it would be in a good movie



I'm going to go with "The Dark Knight Rises" though perhaps because I watched it in the cinema (I'm not an avid cinema goer) and I was miserable and bored out of mind for however long that thing lasted.



The Circle (2017) managed to be extremely effective at making me uncomfortable, while also feeling completely inept at storytelling and conveying any kind of comprehensible point of view.



I guess you didn't vote for Musicals for the next countdown, then.
Just a bit of healthy inter-Mofo-forum-thread guerilla campaigning is all.
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What's wrong with Silver Linings Playbook?
I'll tell you what's right instead: Chris Tucker. And the fact that Chris Tucker is the only thing I found worthwhile on a film, should tell you all about how I felt about it.



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I'll tell you what's right instead: Chris Tucker. And the fact that Chris Tucker is the only thing I found worthwhile on a film, should tell you all about how I felt about it.
I hated Silver Linings Playbook and shut it off after 15 minutes. I just wondered if you hated the same things I did, but of course I didn't finish the film so I don't know how it turned out.



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"Worst" is such an arbitrary concept that I don't know what to say. For example, since Allaby brought up Manos: The Hands of Fate, something I've said before is that I have more respect for that film – made by an inexperienced filmmaker with an inexperienced crew and a shoestring budget, and as a result of a bet – than I have for a big budget, nonsensical mess like Transformers, which is made by an "experienced" filmmaker.
Worst is good as an admittedly subjective, personal reaction. It ain't science but used in the right context, it's a worthwhile word because it expresses your reaction to the movie. I know what it means. Some movies ARE the worst, even though the plural there is also a contradiction.

Manos IS the worst, until I think of another one.



Oh, also - Re: Junior

I remember seeing it when it was new and thinking it was entertaining enough. I haven't seen it in a very long time but I'd rather watch it on repeat for 24 hours straight than ever watch The Music Man again.



Honey you be checkin' out my bottom 100 rite this minnit.
I would take: mortal kombat or Jason x or house of the dead, or marmaduke! Off there and slap on the matrix -the higher the better!



I guess you didn't vote for Musicals for the next countdown, then.

Mine is an obvious one: Monster a Go-Go. It's so bad, MST3K struggled to find anything to riff about it and that's saying something. Plus, it has the worst ending I've ever seen. It's not so bad, it's good, either. Just bad.


Suddely... there was no monster....