What's the worst film you've ever seen?

[Backdrifter]

For me - Even Cowgirls Get The Blues.

A tedious, directionless load of ooh-aren't-we-weird-and-whacky tosh.

Closely followed by:

Pretty Woman
Mission Impossible 2
Crocodile Dundee 2
Practical Magic (not even being in love with Nicole Kidman could rescue it)
The Passenger
Little Voice

[unruliejulie]

yes yes yes, the blair witch project!!! scary, yeah right!!!! lol i get more scared watching cbeebies with my 3 year old son!

[BagPussAA]

Worst film I have ever seen would have to be 'Wolf Creek'. Advertised as a brilliant horror and I was bored out of my skull. Kept waiting for the horror part.. or even the story part to begin.

This would have to be followed by Apocalypse Now, Clockwork Orange and Full Metal Jacket.

[robbo82]

I have to disagree about Magnolia and Donnie Darko, both are superb. Also the Bond films, I'm with WM on this one.

[minimonkey]

Signs with Mel 'what are you lookin at sugar t*its' Gibson

[Backdrifter]

julie yes I now see what you mean, though can't share your view at all. I don't mean with regard to the films you mentioned, particularly - I mean, I saw Unbearable Lightness but can remember nothing about it, and have only seen about 15 mins of Magnolia. So this isn't me getting all precious about those films. It's just that if I didn't get a film I might wonder if it was me missing something rather than go straight to condemning it. Thanks for explaining. You're right, different things constitute rubbish to different people. I'm open to a film not having a conventional beginning/middle/end plot - but it has to convince me it works without that structure. It can't just be 'anything goes'.

And on that note - BagPuss, I don't think Wolf Creek was meant to have a story, or be a horror film. It's just an account of some brutal real-life murders. The bloke who allegedly committed them didn't seem to have any reason for it, so without motive you're not going to get a plot as such to hang it on. And I certainly wouldn't class it as a horror film. I would class it as deeply unpleasant!

[Backdrifter]

Yes Signs is terrible. And I hate Gibson.

[minimonkey]

oh and the village

[Quizmonkey]

All just goes to prove "each to his own taste" - although writing something off as rubbish just because you're too thick to understand it is the most facile thing I've ever heard!

Of the many above mentioned, I personally couldn't understand Memento, Magnolia and Donnie Darko being on ANY worst film list (and Live And Let Die for 'check in your brain and just enjoy' reasons). My personal votes for worst would be the overrated Lost In Translation (where everyone looked only marginally less bored and lacklustre than the audience) and Zoolander (where the acting almost stank as high as the script).

But it's all subjective...

[NJOK]

Actually, Backdrifter, Wolf Creek is so loosely based on actual events as to be entirely fictional. They only put that at the start of the film to reel you in. There have been murders of backpackers in the outback, and there are some in the film. That's where any similarity ends!

[-Zorro-]

Zoolander...god forgot about that piece of utter cr@p

Starsky & Hutch remake.....turned telly off half way tho and threw telly out window

[OBonio]

Solaris - the remake with Mr Clooney. God knows how I watched all of it.
Insomnia - though it is probably a good cure for the condition of the same name.
The Family Stone - I should've known, but was trying to keep the wife happy (she liked it).

[leaf]

Withnail and I
I have really tried and I just don't get it!!!

[Stevie]

coyote ugly !!!!! i mean, what was the point ??!!

[jodie1982]

Virgin suicides

[sp1814]

Earlier on, Ward~Minter mentioned Memento...now I have to say, I think of myself as a bit of a film buff. I'm bnot stupid, and I can follow complex plots...but I've seen Memento three times now, and each time I just end up annoyed.

WHY NOT JUST FLIPPING SHOW IT IN THE RIGHT ORDER???

Irritating, irritating, irritating.

Oh, and memo to Guy Pearce...PUT ON SOME WEIGHT. HAVE A KEBAB OR SOMETHING.

Thank you - rant over.

[Llamatron]

House of 1000 corpses.
Dire is not the word.

[sp1814]

Oh...how could I forget:

Pirate Of The Carribean
Van Helsing
The Brothers Grimm

Each film stole two hours of my life...that I want back.

Actually, any film with Kate Beckingsale will probably be cack.

[Nummy]

Lost In Translation

Monster's Ball

Queen of the Damned - just bl00dy awful

Van Helsing

[willa]

I agree with so many here. Thanks to all for taking me down the memory lane of cinematic crapitude.

Also wretch-worthy:
Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills
Desperately Seeking Susan

And, even though it stars the usually entertaining Wallace Shawn:
My Dinner with Andre

Never has so much done so little for so many.