Name the first legitimately bad film on IMDB's Top 250

Let's discuss this... I think it's an amazing film personally. First for your concessions: Establishing shots and all the cinematography are some of the best I've ever seen. Not only this but the compositions themselves are really rich and some of them, heck, a lot of them, could be sold as prints that I would proudly hang on my wall. Of course the performances were spot-on. I needn't even mention names here, but even the grunts on Willard's boat were great in their half-cocky, half-scared mentalities.

Its reworking of Heart of Darkness is one of the most creatively genius decisions in a long time. It goes far beyond a critique of the Vietnam war but a horror tale about the nature of mankind itself. The film is amazingly real too. It doesn't go the route of head-on surrealism by dowsing you with impossibilities or paradoxes. The film is entirely rational. Everything about it makes sense within a real context. Nevertheless, it is one of the most disturbingly surreal films for this very reason. There is something much more disturbing about Max Ernst's pedestrian collage period surrealism than Dali's intense, utterly distorted surrealism. You can shake off Dali easily. It's just his idea of a joke, you can say. But Ernst stays with you because though nothing was really out of place, things are still somehow wrong. Here my analogy might teeter a little bit because of Ernst's birdfaces, but I really get the same feeling from the face of Kurtz. Brando isn't quite human in this film, is he? Nothing is really what it is depicted as, and yet there is no Dalian tweaking of reality, only in the specific choices Coppola makes in presenting his subjects. This is his genius, I claim. The eerie yellow cast in the Napalm scene. The hellish bridge under attack that feels like the gate to the underworld. The modern reporter who is more of a savage than any of the natives. Nothing feels as it should here, and that's how the film succeeds in communicating the horrors of war without a great deal of impressionism, though much more disturbingly surreal than its counterparts--The Deer Hunter, Platoon, and Full Metal Jacket. Even the first shot works this way--the helicopter dissolved into the ceiling fan--for neither are what they seem. The helicopters are more like vultures and the ceiling fan is more like a helicopter. There is this horrifying reversal everywhere.

It is a visually stunning, emotionally intensive, and thematically consistent work of 20th century art and certainly among (if not at the top of) Coppola's best.

But the first film that I properly, genuinely think is a bad movie on there is Braveheart. I found this film ridiculous, self-indulgent and offensive and cannot understand its popularity at all.

hence why this scale is insanely useless

But the first film that I properly, genuinely think is a bad movie on there is Braveheart. I found this film ridiculous, self-indulgent and offensive and cannot understand its popularity at all.

You should never dislike a film if it's not historically accurate. I mentioned this elsewhere but I said earlier that History changes almost every year. I didn't mean that Marty McFly flew back in a DeLorean to change it. I meant what evidence we have about what history means changes almost every year with all the new discoveries. Obviously the history of the universe has changed a hell of a lot just since I've been born. I think from 1956 to now (54 years), the Universe has aged at least 10 billion years.

I think from 1956 to now (54 years), the Universe has aged at least 10 billion years.