Worst movie ever?

[Dialectic]

My Dinner With Andre

 

[Titurel]

La La Land

I tried twice, couldn't get past the first 15 minutes. Sure there are worse films, like The Human Centipede, but at least the performers don't try to sing and dance. Watch "Waiting for Guffman," instead "Red While and Blaine" is a far better musical.

 

[Petrushka]

My Dinner With Andre

Never go up against a Sicilian where food is involved.

 

[Honken]

My Dinner With Andre

Is a fantastic movie indeed.

 

[Axo1989]

Sure there are worse films, like The Human Centipede, but at least the performers don't try to sing and dance.

So, you didn't watch the sequels?

 

[Titurel]

So, you didn't watch the sequels?

Nope. You mean there's singing and dancing? That's disappointing, but I can't imagine it's any worse than La La Land.

BTW, I just watched "Waiting for Guffman." Still good.

 

[Axo1989]

Nope. You mean there's singing and dancing? That's disappointing ...

The words you used were "try to sing and dance". But I won't spoil either of those fine films for you.

 

[MatrixS2000]

My submission is: The Shape of Water.

Worst movie ever, a woman falls in love with a fish. Watched it years ago and I still want my 2 hrs back.

 

[Tell]

Unsurprisingly, it is nominated for 13 Oscars: Emilia Pérez

Martin

Yeah the Academy lost all credibility with that one, and especially since both Dune and Nosferatu where snubbed on so many nominations.

 

[Mart68]

My submission is: The Shape of Water.

Worst movie ever, a woman falls in love with a fish. Watched it years ago and I still want my 2 hrs back.

I remember seeing the trailers for that and thinking that it could possibly be the worst thing ever.

 

[WillBrink]

I didn't make it past 15-20 mins of Death Proof. I understood what we he was going for, it was just too stupid for me. I'd watch an original movie of the era if need classic 70s ere cheese. I find Tarantino wildly overrate as a rule. I like a few of his movies, most I really don't.

 

[WillBrink]

Yeah the Academy lost all credibility with that one, and especially since both Dune and Nosferatu where snubbed on so many nominations.

The have not had any credibility in decades.

 

[WillBrink]

I remember seeing the trailers for that and thinking that it could possibly be the worst thing ever.

It was not a bad movie. May not have been a movie that appealed to a wide audience, it was not a bad movie.

 

[EJ3]

I find Tarantino wildly overrate as a rule. I like a few of his movies, most I really don't.

Maybe 2, possibly 3 (not worth re-watching it to say yes or no). But HIGHLY in agreement with you.

 

[GK.]

Mad Max Fury Road.


Not the worst movie ever made, but deserves special mention because of the almost universal critical acclaim.
They filmed a car chase scene that dragged on for two damn hours and then called it a movie.
An utterly forgettable load of crap.

 

[Cogito]

A tie between Parasite 3D (1982) and Jaws 3-D (1983). Horrible Horrible movies.

 

[Open Mind Audio]

I agree with you, in that I believe the 1995 (Langton, dir) is somewhat over-rated and the 2005 (Wright, dir) was unfairly pilloried. I think the Janites fell in love with Firth and Ehle so profoundly, they couldn't imagine anyone being better. Then there was that irrational, knee-jerk hatred of Keira Knightly going back to Doctor Zhivago. (Okay, she's no Eleanora Duse, but who is?)

I own four (or five*) different realizations of P&P and enjoy all of them, though not always for the same reasons. Top to bottom, the 2005 feature film cast is better than the 1995 series. (If only Keira and Rosamund hadn't adopted Sutherland's tooth covering stik.) Ehle and FIrth are perfectly adequate in the 1995 series, but these are not my favorite performance from either. (Ehle's Lizzie is just too clutch and stagger for my tastes, and monotonously haughty can get Firth only so far.) In the 2005 film, Brenda Blethyn, Tom Hollander, Claudie Blakley, Jena Malone, and Simon Wood are absolute standouts, Hollander especially. Finally, you have Dario Marianelli's score, which is added value, not just filler.

BTW, the 1980 P&P mini-series is also worth seeing. It's even more bookish than the 1995 and it includes a dinner scene (late in the story) omitted from all the other versions. As for the 1940 film. I'll never pass on an Edna Mae Oliver film and Frieda Inescort get to deliver one of the greatest bitchy lines in film history.

* The fifth being the Anglo-Bollywood "Bride and Prejudice."

+4-5 on this assessment. Agree on all counts.

And if you want still more Austen, don't overlook Whit Stillman's Love and Friendship with Kate Beckinsale. Excellent adaptation IMHO.

 

[Honken]

Maybe 2, possibly 3 (not worth re-watching it to say yes or no). But HIGHLY in agreement with you.

Fortunately, opinions are subjective. Personally, I find Tarantino to be one of the best directors and writers around, and I hope he has it in him to create a few more movies before he calls it quits. I personally find that Once upon a time in Hollywood is one of the finest pieces of kino made in the past decade, others will disagree I am sure, but I personally hope that Tarantino sticks with it. I personally love the slow dialogue, the camera work, the... feeling. All that jazz that subjective audio rags wax poetic about, I personally find in his latest movie.

If you feel otherwise, there are plenty of other movies being made that one could watch instead. It's not like Tarantino is flooding the market, nor is he having a huge impact on other movie makers (lest I'd find that others are satisfying the same itch that 'Tino is fulfilling - and most aren't).

Mad Max Fury Road.


Not the worst movie ever made, but deserves special mention because of the almost universal critical acclaim.
They filmed a car chase scene that dragged on for two damn hours and then called it a movie.
An utterly forgettable load of crap.

And once again I am happy that tastes differ. Fury Road is one of the finest pices of action cinema made, in my opinion. Yes it is a long car chase if you distill it to its bare components, but in my opinion it's a darn fine car chase. As far as recent action movies go, this is amongst my favorite ones. I've not see Furiosa yet, but I am very much looking forward to doing so.

 

[pablolie]

The English Patient. 20 minutes into it I was asking the nurse to overdose that completely pretentious a**hole. 1 hour into it *I* was begging for the morphine overdose. My GF at the time loved it. We didn't last much longer.

 

[EJ3]

Fortunately, opinions are subjective. Personally, I find Tarantino to be one of the best directors and writers around, and I hope he has it in him to create a few more movies before he calls it quits. I personally find that Once upon a time in Hollywood is one of the finest pieces of kino made in the past decade, others will disagree I am sure, but I personally hope that Tarantino sticks with it. I personally love the slow dialogue, the camera work, the... feeling. All that jazz that subjective audio rags wax poetic about, I personally find in his latest movie.

If you feel otherwise, there are plenty of other movies being made that one could watch instead. It's not like Tarantino is flooding the market, nor is he having a huge impact on other movie makers (lest I'd find that others are satisfying the same itch that 'Tino is fulfilling - and most aren't).


And once again I am happy that tastes differ. Fury Road is one of the finest pices of action cinema made, in my opinion. Yes it is a long car chase if you distill it to its bare components, but in my opinion it's a darn fine car chase. As far as recent action movies go, this is amongst my favorite ones. I've not see Furiosa yet, but I am very much looking forward to doing so.

I think that I may have seen 8 movies since 2001.
Once I was on islands & atolls in the Indian Ocean & Western Pacific Ocean (in both cases near the equator) living in a tropical paradise took precedence over movies, TV's (haven't had a TV since 2007) and other things that I was not in direct contact with.