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What is the worst movie you ever watched?

Downsizing hands down and I'm an easy critic.

The trailer highlighted the best parts of the movie and also depicted a completely different storyline. Sometimes I come across a movie that's so bad it's entertaining but this movie left me really searching the internet for an explanation on why this movie wasn't getting roasted everywhere.
 
rhett7660 said:
Which one, I am assuming the one that revolves around sex and car crashes...
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Funny, my immediate guess would have been the one directed by Paul Haggis. While certainly not the worst film I've seen, it also certainly didn't deserve the attention it got at the time.

Now Cronenberg's Crash on the other hand? That one's an actually interesting and challenging film. But YMMV, of course.
 
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I don’t remember which ones were bad, but this topic always reminds me of walking out of The Gods Must be Crazy, 35 years ago. Only to watch it again a few years later to find it very delightful.

 
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Mefisto said:
Funny, my immediate guess would have been the one directed by Paul Haggis. While certainly not the worst film I've seen, it also certainly didn't deserve the attention it got at the time.

Now Cronenberg's Crash on the other hand? That one's an actually interesting and challenging film. But YMMV, of course.
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I liked them both... but Cronenberg's... boy oh boy... what ride that one is.
 
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Tomorrow said:
Years ago I watched The Ring 2, and I stuck it out until the end, hoping it would get better.

SPOILER ALERT: it didn't.

More recently, I tried to watch Zombieland, and I couldn't get through it - I turned it off. Same thing with This Is Spinal Tap. It was unwatchable.

Hope Floats - my first wife loved that movie, but she cried through the whole thing. I cried on the inside, mostly over the time I wasted sitting through it.

Birdbox - for all the hype, I expected it to be a whole lot better than it was. What a waste of what should have been an interesting premise.
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I thought the original Ring was scary, I liked it. I honestly can’t say if I saw v2.
 
rhett7660 said:
I liked them both... but Cronenberg's... boy oh boy... what ride that one is.
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Yeah, a can't really say it's a film I frequently return to or perhaps even enjoy watching in particular, but I can't deny that it really packs a punch and does an interesting job in exploring the inner workings of a pretty particular group of fetishists.
 
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eyeseeyou said:
Downsizing hands down and I'm an easy critic.

The trailer highlighted the best parts of the movie and also depicted a completely different storyline. Sometimes I come across a movie that's so bad it's entertaining but this movie left me really searching the internet for an explanation on why this movie wasn't getting roasted everywhere.
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Yeah its pretty bad- shockingly bad from someone like Alexander Payne who typically can do a lot with just a few characters and conflict but not here! Aimless and bland. Hong Chau was pretty great though.
 
rdowty said:
Eyes Wide Shut
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I thought all those gorgeous naked women saved that one!! :D
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Gutwrench said:
I don’t remember which ones were bad, but this topic always reminds me of walking out of The Gods Must be Crazy, 35 years ago. Only to watch it again a few years later to find it very delightful.

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You had to be really Stoned for that one.
 
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Just thinking about movies I’ve seen in theaters, because the disappointment is greater if you went through the trouble of going there, the one where I actually wanted to walk out was Noah with Emma Watson. I still cringe when thinking of it, despite having forgotten most of the plot.

First and only time I went to the movies spontaneously without having a clue what they were showing, having to pick a movie at random by title.
 
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