I dunno about worst, but I fucking hate 300. It tries so hard to insert Snyder's american fetishism in the setting that it quite literraly inverts reality to show the brave, patriot, manly, free,
christian americansSpartans facing the evil, godless, deformed, queer, arabs.Pesonally, I usually can ignore shitty politics when watching a good movie, and sometimes even good slop, but 300 even fails to be a good action movie because it had to add a shitty slow motion effect every time Zack Snyder jerks off to how smart he is
Sausage Party. I felt insulted after finishing the movie. I don’t care if Seth Rogen is otherwise a swell guy—if I ever meet him in real life, I want him to apologize for being involved in that movie.
I’ve watched some movies I consider monstrous, jet-black, and mean-spirited, but Sausage Party feels like it was made by a committee just to fuck with me personally.
Sausage Party is a 2016 movie with racism that feels like it's from 2000, and an approach to adult themes that I find both infantile and disturbing.
I can forgive some horniness if it's done right and fits the movie. I can't forgive racism.
Sausage Party is racist, horny trash. 0/10.
Personally, it's the worst movie I've ever watched in my life.
Fantastic Beasts 3, Secrets of Dumbledore
If you liked Harry Potter before JKR decided to be fucking insane, and enjoy making fun of bad movies, you have to watch this monstrosity. It’s nonsense, the plot is insane, the writing is awful, the effects are bad, the filmmaking is bad, everything about it is awful.
And all of that for the core plot of “Our heroes have to get the magic deer to the Wizard election to ensure Grindelwald doesn’t prevent the Holocaust”
I want to be so clear that I am not exaggerating when I say they ensure the Holocaust isn’t prevented. In the second movie the bad guy shows visions of WW2 and the Holocaust and says “Follow me to prevent these horrors!”
Probably not objectively the worst movie I've seen, but Enemy at the Gates has been taken so literally by so many historically illiterate people that I've grown a burning hatred for the movie for basically slandering the entire Red Army and a few real people who were characters in the story. Kay and Skittles has a really good video on just how bad it is even beyond the "every other person gets a rifle" and "barrier troops gunning down retreating soldiers" shit.
Me and my friends watched Borderlands a few days ago to make fun of it and I think it's one of the biggest actually bad movies I've seen, ever. So many choices made were just bad, and made for not even an entertainingly bad experience, it was just bad, poorly written and established, poorly framed and shot it was wild.
The Made in Abyss movie, which I forced myself to watch for the sake of the review I posted in c/anime (obvious CW for gross and pedo shit, but I avoid explicit details and hide the worst under a spoiler with another warning) last year. It's completely and utterly empty, vile trash that's both nonsensical and repulsive with no real plot or character development other than that the characters keep moving forwards past the hard point of no return in the very end. It is well and truly gratuitous, serving absolutely no purpose other than indulging the author's sick fetishes in a quasi-legitimate form.
Some disgusting late 2000s "rowdy comedy" that started with a scene of a girl giving the main character a blowjob in a school bathroom, except the scene started with a close up of the girl's mouth which had a big-ass pimple on it
I so fuckin furious I snapped the disc in half and delivered it back to the redbox like that, never had a film piss me off to that degree
The last one I can recall genuinely hating most of the way through was Rebuild of Evangelion 4, the plot felt completely incoherent and most of the characters just thrown about randomly with no care given except for genuinely exploitative scenes, with an ending that feels literally only made to be applicable to Anno himself.
Passengers really pissed me off, it takes some real skill to take such a good premise and turn it into whatever the fuck that movie was. Mario movie didn't make me hate
as an actor, it was obvious slop. Passengers did because the premise baited me into watching slop when I was expecting existential horror.E: I would say it made me hate Lawrence as an actress too, but she actually expressed regret for starring in it at least.
Aquaman 2. It's like trying to redo to marvel formula from first principles, but its just so much worse in every way. Its the most boring cringe movie ive ever watched.
I can't pick one so I'll rattle off some names:
Without a Paddle: Shitty 2000s comedy with Seth Green and two other guys where they have a lame adventure trying to find BD Cooper's stolen fortune or whatever.
Superman Returns: I remember watching it multiple times in a row when I got it on DVD because I kept forgetting I had just watched it minutes before, that's how boring it was.
American Haunting: Another 2000s movie, this could have been a passable ghost movie with a decent setting (colonial US, suitably dour for a horror setting and appreciably novel at the time), but fell for the old trap of psychological horror / metaphor monster that horror movies sometimes do.
Don't Mess with the Zohan:
Good Bye, Lenin!
a movie i was forced to watch in my german language class. a teenage boy protagonist's mom (a member of the east german communist party) has a heart attack (from seeing her son being beaten by the eeeeebil east german police during an anti-government demonstration) right before the berlin wall falls, she wakes up in a coma with the doctors saying not to shock her, and the boy protagonist has to pretend like east germany never fell by wearing old clothes, replacing labels on groceries and creating fake news broadcasts for his mom. his dad had 'abandoned his family for a western woman' but it ackshually turns out he was fleeing the east because he refused to join the communist party and planned to bring his family with him.
one of the dumbest movies i've ever watched (not in a good way) and emblematic of the constant un-subtle anti-communist propaganda american students are exposed to, especially when they seek understanding of other cultures. idiot high school me wanted to learn to read Marx, all i learned was how to order food and buy clothes and hate east germany.
For a person that used to host Bad Movie Nights, this question has always stumped me. The kiss of death for any film is it to be boring. Feardotcom might be my nomination for "worst", because i can never really get through it from sheer boredom, and that sets it apart from other movies that simply faded from memory.
If you want to go the opposite of boring and enter into "would rather take a cheese grater to my skin" in reaction, that goes to Son of the Mask. Loud, obnoxious, unfunny, and just plain unnecessary. It never needed to be made, but it was, and now it's cursed to haunt the bottom of gas station 5 dollar movie bins forever more.
There's good bad and bad bad, sometimes which category a movie falls into is very mood and context based. Off the top of my head, Sound of Freedom was bad in a not enjoyable way, although I enjoyed podcasts discussing it.
There's also "incredulously bad", which are movies/shows that are terrible but have good ratings and reviews. Like you can't understand why they're generally considered good. West Wing is probably a good example of a show in this category.
One problem is arguably the worst thing a film can do is be forgettable, so I probably don't even remember the worst ones I've seen.
I like to use this question as an ice breaker when meeting new people, it's simple but it has a lot to it and learning learning what someone considers to be "bad" is just as interesting as their media preferences.
So yeah the worst movie I've ever seen was Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012). It was based off of a 2010 novel by Seth Grahame-Smith that retells the life of Abraham Lincoln as if his sole motivation was vengeance against vampires (one of whom killed his mom). Its a fun story and the author utilizes the premise wonderfully. While its not an allegory by any means it gives a glimpse into the worldview of white USAian liberals in the post-Obama era as the book seems to be centered on the belief that white supremacy is not systemic, but a bad habit propped up by a small group of evil racist people.
So anyways I read that book and I got my whole family to read the book because "wtf why is this actually good" and everyone liked it so we got hyped for the movie and we get there and we are the only ones in the theatre. It was a total piece of shit.
The premise was the only point of commonality with the novel. It was a lot more like Blade, if Blade was white and also the 16th president of the united states. Bad CGI, bad actors, and it was little more than a series of scenes of violence interspersed with vaguely historical scenes followed by time skips, I remember it being boring too. I hold a personal grudge against this film because it has overtaken the novel in the collective memory and that is a crime I cannot ever forgive.
i never had a worst movie before this one, but dragged across concrete.
watching it feels like being dragged across concrete and i have no idea how this ever got released. its not so much a movie as a laundry list of complaints about wokeness and minorities written by a nazi. it has no plot and very little in the way of characters beyond racial stereotypes. i didn’t seed on principle.
the file was corrupted a few minutes before the end, and it could not have come sooner. i can’t believe we managed to get so far through it.
it’s kind of interesting, you can see how the director gradually goes off the rails throughout his movies. the previous 2 are not good movies, and they’re pretty bad in terms of reactionary BS. but they were movies. the mask was still on. but dragged across concrete is simply not a movie.
I hatewatched Eraserhead and im still very angry about it. I don't think it would qualify as "worst" in the sense that you asked but i almost always hate lynch because his movies are designed to make the audience uncomfortable and he's a master.
To destroy my argument i present mulholland drive, one of my favorite movies.
K fuck eraserhead though, forever! I watched you once to say that i had and i hate youuuuuuu
I've watched a lot of "bad" movies I enjoyed because it's fun to crack jokes and stuff. MST3K taught me how to enjoy a good riff session. Sometimes I just finish a movie I don't care for because there's some creative world building or neat effects or camera work. Something to hold onto while finishing the ride, you know?
The one movie I fully watched that I just couldn't stand was A History of Violence. I hated that fucking movie. Watched it in theaters. Absolutely loathed it. I hated the pacing. The sub plots like the kid beating up a bully were awkward. The sex scene was awful and made me feel like i was watching an unnecessarily long sex scene with my parents when I was a teenager. The score was by Howard Shore right after Lord of the Rings and it had notes of The Shire woven through it i couldn't unhear. I think William Hurt is a bad actor who. Always. Talks. Like this. When. Being dramatic. With flat. Vocal. Inflection. Went there with buddies so I had to stay because we carpooled.
There are like 60 seconds of that movie I enjoyed:
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when Aragorn smashes a coffee pot into a guys face and shoots him in the mouth and it cuts to his ruined face. Shocking depiction of brutality. Nicely done, Cronenberg.
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when Aragorn fucks up one of William Hurt's goons and escapes and the goon is lying on the ground and for 2.5 seconds William Hurt actually uses acting to deliver the line "how do you fuck that up?" with frustrated incredulity and shoots his own goon. I laughed out loud at the sudden absurdity. I identified with that tiny slice of cinema. I saw myself shooting that fuckup failure of a film for wasting my time and money.
I generally like Cronenberg and love Eastern Promises. So I don't get it. But I fucking hate A History of Violence.
I did recently try to rewatch The Mask and got like 10 minutes in before turning it off. Bury that one in a lead lined casket along with Adam Sandler's comedy albums and other shit I thought was funny when I was 12.
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kinda cheaty & petty cuz the file was corrupted & we were thankfully saved from the last third, BUT i'm gonna say dragged across concrete as it's fresh on my mind. n*zi boomer soapboxing & cop-asshole-licking feat. Meltdown Gibson. check out bone tomahawk -> brawl in cellblock 99 -> this if you want to witness the downward spiral of one man's
I don't think it's technically the worst film I've ever seen, nor even the film I enjoyed watching the least, but I would like to mention the local film The Monkey and The Mouth (NO: Adjø Montebello, lit. "Adieu, Montebello").
I don't know the extent to which I didn't enjoy that film because it was "bad" versus because I was just being forced to watch it, because The Monkey and The Mouth is in a number of ways creative and unique, and tries to tackle multiple important issues, and it shows promise for what local films can be... But I just didn't enjoy it. At the time, in fact, this was when I was a teenager, I described the film as something to the effect of "a bunch of pretentious drivel whose sole purpose was to serve as a tax write-off and a justification for the film crew to take a probably state-funded vacation in the Bahamas". Nowadays I might call a film like The Monkey and The Mouth "awardmat", i.e. it's a "film festival" movie, you know the kind, the kind where its tackling of societal issues just feels kind of shallow, like the film is more focused on the appearance of having a message than actually being meaningful. But it's been many years since I saw this film, I don't remember it too well, maybe if I rewatched it I'd have more positive things to say.
I did and still do like Karpe's music and their music videos, but I guess it just didn't work for me when stretched out to 100 minutes.
I'm a Mystery Science Theater 3000 enjoyer, so digging up from that would be unfair.
Of big budget movies that I saw in theaters? FUCK "Scary Movie" and every steaming heap of "it's so bad it's good popcorn film watch the train wreck" excuse to make credulous irony-poisoned people keep watching lazy derivative trash in a way that kept getting more of that trash churned out year after year.
I don't think any movie has infuriated me more than Little Man. The main character seems nice enough but every joke is on him, it's so unnecessarily mean-spirited, and worse for a comedy, not very funny. I saw it when I was young, and it was still too juvenile for me. Not to mention (I haven't seen it since then, but I imagine) it's pretty offensive against people with dwarfism. Man, I hate that movie so much, even after all these years lol.
More recently, Fanf4stic was absolutely atrocious. It had some cool concepts with the characters and transformations, and then just ended all of a sudden. It's like they ran out of budget halfway through. And way too long of an introduction, way too boring.
Fantastic Four, I suppose. I've seen worse, but it's got the shitty tropes that talk down to its audience (a la heist movies). Seriously, even as a kid I was weirded out how the male "hero" of the story starts off sexually harassing someone. I may be mixng up my 2000s superhero movies, but they were the same brand of shit unless it was some Image character like Hellboy or something.
Rumba (2008)
SeeFood, a english-dubbed malaysian finding nemo knock-off someone chose for movie night with a bunch of kids with no shared languages. Apart from some kind of implied cannibalism at the start, the only thing I remember is sitting at the back of the room complaining under my breath about its complete incoherence.
Kids loved it. No idea why.just wanted to boost the "bad movies are fun actually" signal
i don't wanna be doing it every day, but there are times when you just wanna howl at / roast something mega goofy. italian horror is kind of a gold mine for this 
terrible schlock is always better viewed w/ company :3They're talking about taking another crack at Jerry Lewis's "The Day The Clown Cried" so I'm reserving judgement until that project moves forward.
Lewis wanted to adapt the screenplay about a circus clown who entertains kids in a Nazi concentration camp. The idea was pure Oscar bait so Jerry Lewis could be seen as a legitimate actor, but the movie was so legendarily bad that it was never released and to this day only a few people in Hollywood have claimed to have seen a scene or two.
Geronimo (1993)
Not only is the plot dogshit but they choose to equate the struggle for Indigenous people to get their land back to The Confederacy's need to maintain the institution of slavery.
I think "Blood, Guts, Bullets, and High Octane" from 1998? is one of the worst movies I've seen. I'm not sure if that's the exact movie I saw. I only remember it was some indie flick about a car dealership with tons of swearing. My mom's boyfriend rented it after it was recommended by the store clerk. Movie was unwatchable. Characters talked like "Fuckity fuck-fuck, shit fuck the car piss." The swearing didn't bother me, just that it was incomprehensible. There was no plot and we made it about 30 minutes in before turning it off.
The actual worst movie I've seen that serves as my "This is what a 1 out of 10 stars looks like" is Hooking Up (2009). I was binging shitty teen sex comedies and came upon this one. There's nothing good about it. There's no cinematography. It looks like it was shot on a VHS recorder from 1994. The sound cuts in and out. There's no jokes, just awkward dialog and bizarre lines. If you've seen porn about step siblings fooling around, you've seen better acting than this movie. But it gets worse.
Not only is the plot nonsensical and seems like it was an excuse to get young women naked for the cast and crew to ogle and grope, it's downright mean. There's a girl who gets involved with an older man and he's abusive towards her. It's meant to be funny but it's really not. This character is in high school and she gets hit by a man twice her age. It felt more like "holy shit am I watching #metoo court case footage?" than anything that could be interpreted as a joke. And it just ends. Nothing is resolved. There's no revenge on the shitty boyfriend. There's not even "and then these two became official boyfriend/girlfriend after realizing they have genuine feelings for one another."
It's like if you took all the problematic shit in American Pie and condensed it into one film, slapped a "cheap as hell" filter over it, and shipped it out to audiences, you'd get Hooking Up. I finished hate watching it just so I could tell people how bad it is. It's contribution to the human race and culture is to be an example of how not to make a movie and to serve as the floor where the bottom of the barrel sits. I haven't even seen stuff things like August Underground, A Serbian Film, or Human Centipede, and I know they are better films. At least they're fictional stories meant to horrify. There's zero merit to a """comedy""" that plays domestic violence and statutory rape for laughs.
The Avengers. No, not the marvel slop. The one with Uma Thurman and Sean Connery. Absolutely unwatchable
Jurassic World was really up there. Otherwise the new Harry Potter movies, Fantastic Beastiality or whatever. Anything with "Millenial" storytelling and characterization, like Castlevania or Promare
The final two installments of the Unbreakable trilogy—Split and Glass—absolutely diarrhea'd all over the original and were some of the absolute worst, cringe movies I've ever watched that were trying to be taken seriously. There are probably worse movies I've watched but those were the worst in recent history by far.
Twilight was also terrible but at least it was funny, thus fun, to watch.
Moonfall. Started it on a plane 10 minutes too late to see the whole thing, came home and immediately pirated it to get closure on that garbage.
Unfinished Business (2015). The title is a reflection of the script.
One of the worst movies I've ever seen was called Megiddo The Omega Code. It preserved itself as some action/sci-fi thing but in reality it was an adaptation of the book of revelations made by insane fundamentalist burger Christians. There were two brothers, one is the hero and he goes on to be the president of the US of A. The other guy is literally Satan and becomes president of the godless EU. In the eve they fight it out on some plain in occupied Palestine. It was very moronic and off-putting.
In the "so bad it's good" I would put Reptilicus, the 1960's Danish attempt at a Godzilla-type movie. Never since has a "giant monster destroys city" scene been more obviously just a guy in a costume knocking over cardboard boxes.
The greatest fall from grace goes to Lars von Trier. In 1994 he made the TV series Kingdom Hospital that was a very well-made parody of the arrogance and megalomania of the medical profession told through a cheesy ghost story at a hospital. It was extremely well-written with relatable characters that supported eachother brilliantly. The jokes were crisp, relevant and are funny to this day. In 1996 a sequel was made which was just as good. Then stuff happened, the national broadcaster decided to spend their money on other projects, key actors died and that was the end of it.
Or so we thought. In 2022 a third season was released with mostly new actors playing mostly new roles. It was amazingly bad and unfunny. Where 1994-Trier had sharp points to make about the intersection between science and the supernatural, 2022-Trier was just a boring old boomer making literal "Hurr Durr! Im Sweden you get cancelled if you have sex without written consent!" jokes. Where the characters of the two first seasons had been ridiculous but relatable the characters in 2022 were just annoying idiots. The jokes were stale and overdone. It is as if 2022-Trier was performing cargo cult rituals imitating 1994-Trier without understanding why the first two seasons worked as well as they did.
Tusk
I've probably seen some much worse movies from an ideological standpoint, but just from an entertainment point of view it's Bloodsport IV. There are no redeeming qualities, it couldn't even be an MST3K episode because there's nothing to even riff on.
This one is going to be a bit esoteric because it's a very "local" movie but I'm gonna try my best to explain.
I've been recommended countless time by the gen X of
a movie called "Le Père Noël est une Ordure" (Santa Claus is a Bastard) which is a 80's comedy that ticks all the boxes for garbage conservative humour except for some reason everyone above their 40's seem to think it's really really funny.It's deeply misogynistic with extreme domestic abuse used as a plot device and running gag, as well as general contempt for women. It's outright mocking poor people, shows disdain for white collar workers, while poking fun very respectfully at the bourgeoisie. The richer the less degrading. I'm pretty sure it has some racism but I don't care to remember. And the most egregious of all is how massively transphobic the movie is. There's a trans woman character, she's an asshole, she's creepy, and being trans is mostly what's expected to be the actual joke.
I'm not even sure it has genuine comedy at some point, the cringe makes it hard to remember anything
I want to give a (dis)honorable mention to the very long and very boring writer vacation period known as the "serial killer genius that predicted our every move" genre. It's amazingly lazy to just have people go anywhere and say "the serial killer is so smart that they planned for that too!"
Piranha 3DD, the
direct-to-videosequel to Piranha 3D - which is pure schlock in its own right but at least its pretty fun schlock. The sequel was just so cheaply made, looks like it was filmed on a shitty digital camcorder they bought at Best Buy and the CGI is significantly worse than the previous movie, shoulda been called Piranha 2D because the fish look like crappy cardboard cutouts. The title references boobs and frankly the boobs weren't even good. Oh, and David Hasselhoff is in it, playing himself.edit: oh god it was actually released in theaters, I just assumed direct-to-video because it looks so bad
bad as in i wanted to hit the director after i saw it? eyes wide shut, prestige.
I get the impression that Cabin Boy (1994) was supposed to establish Chris Elliott (Groundhog Day, There's Something About Mary, recurring spot on Letterman) as the next Jim Carrey-tier leading comedy actor and screenwriter, but instead it was more of a deadpan surrealist love letter to Harryhausen creature features. Viewed on its own merits, it has a certain sense of comedic timing and a few classic bits ("maybe cooking oil is nature's sunblock"). However, what it has in comedic timing, it lacks in overall pacing. One can't help but be reminded of such films as Dumb and Dumber, Billy Madison, or even Animal House, and other films that bear the mantle of so-called summer comedies. This movie speaks less to the heart, and more to the sphincter.
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Real answer is probably Dark Star (1974) or From Dusk Till Dawn 2 (1999), but only because I haven't been able to finish Morbius or Troll 2, and I haven't subjected myself to The Last Airbender yet because I'm just not that into self-harm.
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Amityville Death Toilet is the worst movie I have ever sat the whole way through. It's about 5 minutes of hilarious toilet comedy and about 60 minutes of a 50 year old realtor walking around a house. The movie has less than no budget.
At one point I was just going through a local DVD store and renting basically anything horror related to watch and encountered a movie called (Bloodz vs Wolves?) which was an indie movie on like.....the lowest end of the indie scale; damn that movie was so bad. Literally the movies made by the nostalgia critic gang were infinitely better. After that, it became really difficult to find a movie I consider to be bad; it made me patient with tons of really bad movies because of just how uniquely awful it was.
Then I saw 'Pooh: Blood and honey', and while still not as bad, it's my new go-to for comparing just how bad a movie can be with bottom of the barrel fare. Seriously, this movie was terrible in every possible way: the dialogue was bad, the plot was bad, the acting was bad, the lighting was bad, the costumes were bad, etc.
The Breakfast Club
Personally I've gotta go with Paranormal Activity. So much of the movie is literally just watching people do normal day-to-day stuff, which is supposed to "build suspense," but I just found it incredibly boring. Nothing happens at all for literally half the movie. The plot is the same unimaginative slop of haunted house evil ghost of every generic horror movie of that era. I also hate the whole, "found footage" shakeycam stuff because to me it completely breaks immersion and suspension of disbelief. Does that do it for people who actually believe in ghosts or something?
There's literally not a single interesting thing about the movie, and not even anything fun to critique or make fun of, it's just boring. If you're thinking about watching this movie, instead, go out and watch an empty pool for an hour, then watch the trailer, and you'll have seen everything that the movie has to offer.
, sets, props, costumes, effects.