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What is the worst movie you ever watched?

Some truly awful movies in this thread and so sad that I know that.
It's a tricky one though because sometimes when a movie is so bad, you start to enjoy the fact that it's so absolutely terrible and begin to laugh at it so you end up enjoying it for all the wrong reasons.
Godzilla versus the smog monster for instance. So absolutely horrendous you end up laughing yourself silly.
Who can ever forget that song?

We have cobalt it's full of mercury
Too many fumes in our oxygen

But I also saw 'Interiors' by Woody Allen in the cinema when he'd just decided he wasn't going to be funny any more. My girlfriend made us watch it to the end and the place was packed when it started but literally about 6 people by the end. Really awful

PS I think Avatar was successful at the box office because it was in 3D and it was a novelty, not because it was a good film.
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Every so often you see a film that you want so bad to be good, but in the end, it just isn't. For me, I usually have grand expectations built on by childhood memories and years of fandom. Then when the movie ends up being just average, it's almost more of a let down then if it had been a "rotten" film.

For some, it was the Star Wars films.

For me, it was the "toy movies" - G.I. Joe and Transformers. I wanted those movies to be made by folks who loved the toys as much as I did when they were 8 years old. Alas, it wasn't to be. Probably not terrible films in and of themselves, but not what my childhood wanted or deserved.
 
Moonlight.

This is the only movie in my life that I hated so much that I had to watch another movie right after this one just to uplift my spirit.

The thing is, usually I find movies boring, or stupid, etc, but I almost never hated them. But I really HATED this one. And I knew straight away this would get an Oscar.

Basically, this movie is just Oscar-bait. Oh look, here is a kid! And he is getting bullied at shool! And he is from a poor family! And he's black! And he doesn't know how to socialise! And he's gay! And - hey Jimmy, do you think this is enough for an Oscar? No? Two more? Okay, and his father is a drug dealer, and he's being taken to jail, there you do!

And the worst part is, the main hero had ZEEERO perosnality throughout the whole movie! He had another gut who he admired in the childhood, so I thought he would grow up like that guy. But no, he copies that guy ONE TO ONE! He had golden teeth - now our protagonist has them. He had a certain car - now the hero has the same car!

Damn it, I started to boil inside just by writing about it.
 
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Eauboy said:
A.I. Artificial Intelligence. Dear lord it was AWFUL!

Star Wars episodes I, II, and III

Kids. Disgusting film. Watching it you just want everyone in it to be crushed by a building somehow.
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Kids was a great movie. Check out Gummo.

anything with Chevy Chase. I hate the national lampoons movies. Worst ever
 
Aqua Teen Hunger Force:Movie Film For Theatres For Dvd (2007).

The only dvd I have which I have never watched (stopped after about 20mins).
 
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I just watched I Love You Daddy, the movie by Louis CK that was pulled from release when his JO scandal happened. It is horrible beyond belief. Just a completely tone deaf move. Horribly written and directed, even the music was bad. One of the worst movies I’ve ever seen.
 
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When I briefly lived in LA in the early 90's, I got a pass to see an advance screening of "Splitting Heirs" a movie with Eric Idle, John Cleese, and others. I'm a huge Monty Python fan so I was very excited.

It was horrible. It has an 8% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
 
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I don't remember the name but it was a Chuck Norris film. I lasted about 15 minutes in the theater. Really flat acting. I've seen him do better in other movies. But this one was bad.
 
There was a period in the late 1990s when I went to the cinema almost every week. My picks for the worst films I saw at the cinema in the late 1990s are:

- Beavis and Butthead Do America, The Core, and Sphere, all of which I can remember seeing, but I can't remember a thing about them. I've even read the novel of Sphere, but again I only remember the basic outline of the plot. I learn from Wikipedia that Michael Crichton came up with the setup in the 1960s but didn't finish the novel until the 1980s, when presumably publishers would sell anything with Crichton's name on it. Did he really die twelve years ago? He was only 66. He was five years older than Tom Clancy, I always assumed he was younger.

- Spawn, which felt like a television film; awful, awful CGI and endless scenes of characters talking. It's interesting to compare it with Blade, which had a similar budget and also felt like a b-movie, but Blade was well-made and the fights were exciting. All I remember of Spawn is John Leguizamo mocking Michael Jai White in an alleyway.

- Batman and Robin, which was full of frantic action but felt meaningless. It had all the faults of Batman Forever, but without Tommy Lee Jones or Jim Carry to enliven things. Again, I can remember that it had Alicia Silverstone in it as Batgirl, but I can't remember what she did. And it had a 20th Anniversary Macintosh, which makes me wonder if Gil Amelio was given masses of Batman and Robin memorabilia, and if so what did he do with it?

- Die Another Day, which was very similar - I remember that the opening action sequence on the hovercraft just felt off, as if I was watching a disjointed set of clips from different films. It was powerfully generic and a complete waste of Pierce Brosnan, Rosamund Pike, Halle Berry, and Judy Dench.

I also saw Battlefield: Earth in a theatre with about six other people, but although it was dreadful it was at least pacy. I felt sorry for Barry Pepper, because he had been stereotyped as intense military men, and it was his chance to have a lead role as a hero, but it was a massive flop and he went back to playing disturbed snipers again.

I remember that Lost in Space was passable, but when Matt LeBlanc made his grand heroic entrance the cinema started laughing at him because he looked dumb. Also Mimi Rogers looked nice in a space suit.

The Fifth Element is one of those films that's terrible on a narrative level, but visually inspired, and the actors all seemed to be having fun, so it gets a pass. It's a bit like Flash Gordon in that respect - awful on a rational level, but it compensates with masses of charm.
 
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