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The worst films you have ever seen

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LadyHonoriaDedlock Tue 28-Mar-23 16:09:49

I'm inspired to ask by another thread.

Restricting myself to those I sat right through and didn't turn off/walk out of, I'd like to start the roll of shame with

Braveheart
Pretty Woman
The Postman Always Rings Twice (the Jack Nicholson/Jessica Lange remake not the original)
Top Gun
Beetlejuice

MrsKen33 Tue 28-Mar-23 18:36:38

Saw a film on Netflix last week. ‘Four Scandalous People’ I have never seen anything so bad. Laughable in its awfulness. You have been warned

AskAlice Tue 28-Mar-23 18:20:00

Without a doubt Blue Velvet. Closely followed by Shampoo and Withnail and I.

Patsy70 Tue 28-Mar-23 18:16:58

Allelujah has got to be one of them!

Wheniwasyourage Tue 28-Mar-23 18:12:12

Kate1949

Wheniwasyourage The Way We Were is my favourite film of all time. Just shows how different we all are!

Yes, that's what makes a thread like this so interesting! We saw TWWW when we weren't long married, thinking we would love it as we do What's Up Doc? (probably our favourite film of all time) but found it very depressing. Anyway, I'm glad you like it so that it isn't friendless, poor film! smile

merlotgran Tue 28-Mar-23 18:09:43

Lost in Translation
The Greatest Showman
La La Land

Twotontessy Tue 28-Mar-23 18:09:23

Where the crawdads sing

Casdon Tue 28-Mar-23 18:07:58

The Life of Pi.

Kate1949 Tue 28-Mar-23 17:59:43

Wheniwasyourage The Way We Were is my favourite film of all time. Just shows how different we all are!

Nell8 Tue 28-Mar-23 17:55:12

Two beauties from the fifties ...

It Came From Beneath The Sea
The Abominable Snowman

Scarred for life! shockshockshock

Wheniwasyourage Tue 28-Mar-23 17:54:12

Frozen
Lost in Translation
Ghostbusters
The Way We Were
Citizen Kane

Galaxy Tue 28-Mar-23 17:52:25

Waiting to Exhale ( I think early nineties), Pretty Woman and Lost in Translation. So bad.

BlueBelle Tue 28-Mar-23 17:51:46

I hated the greatest showman Grannygravey couldn’t wait to get home
I didn’t enjoy clockwork orange either Yangtze

GrannyGravy13 Tue 28-Mar-23 17:48:25

I forgot about The Greatest Showman, I just cannot see what all the hype was about.

Sago Tue 28-Mar-23 17:35:12

The Banshees of Inisherin, I thought it would reconnect me with my Irish roots😬.
It was dreadful IMHO.

Grammaretto Tue 28-Mar-23 17:33:32

Some of these you mentioned I liked but not wolf of wall street
David Bowie movie ( a let down)
I went to see a movie called the Summit hoping it would be like Everest and mountain climbing.

It wasn't.

Kate1949 Tue 28-Mar-23 17:31:57

I would add most Rom Coms, Bridget Jones and the like.
Also The Bridges of Madison County.

gulligranny Tue 28-Mar-23 17:29:00

The remake of Psycho with Vince Vaughan - can't believe they made it, can't believe I sat through it.

Mulholland Drive, which seems to get raves but which I thought was pretentious and incomprehensible. Likewise American Beauty.

The remake of Little Women with Florence Pugh et al - abysmal casting of several roles, and who on earth thought that Timothee Chalamet could ever be Laurie?

Granmarderby10 Tue 28-Mar-23 17:26:03

Sorry accidentally deleted 1917 when editing.
It was truly one of the most anticlimactic films.
Where-as Doctor Doolittle was merely tiresome.

Kate1949 Tue 28-Mar-23 17:24:22

La La Land
2001 A Space Odyssey
Les Miserables

Spring to mind.

MaizieD Tue 28-Mar-23 17:23:22

Phantom of the Opera.

It wasn't my choice. Music very boring and the sets looked so cheap.

Kim19 Tue 28-Mar-23 17:21:54

'Crouching Tiger, hidden Dragon' and Julie Christie's 'Darling' rush to mind.

Granmarderby10 Tue 28-Mar-23 17:19:52

Gangs of New York - got so far…

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Doctor Doolittle (original)1917 - anticlimactic

The Favourite ( NOT!)

Most 80s macho man type crap eg Arnie, Tom Cruise,

Sylvester Stalone. ( loved Twins though)

Kramer v Kramer ( just nauseating)

Medicine Man ( Sean Connery) I actually nodded off in the cinema.

Judy54 Tue 28-Mar-23 17:00:01

Gone with the wind. So much hype and an utter let down.

Yangste1007 Tue 28-Mar-23 16:45:09

District 9
Braveheart
A Clockwork Orange
The Exorcist
The Favourite

TwiceAsNice Tue 28-Mar-23 16:34:53

I love Pretty Woman, Braveheart and Topgun

My worst are:
Anything with Will Farrell in especially Elf

The Batman movies

Any slapstick ( I hate it!)

Bridget Jones ( both daughters howled with laughter when the first one came out, I was bored out of my mind)