General movie news thread

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What is the worst movie you watched, thinking it would be okay? Movie theater and DVD. What is the worst movie you have watched intentionally?

 

Since it happened recently and its fresh in my mind - "65," the Adam Driver dinosaur movie. I saw it while it was in theaters. It's an interesting concept, but they go with a wishy-washy middle ground, not committing either to being a fun, campy action movie or a hard sci-fi or dramatic play. And as a reviewer for Polygon dryly pointed out, it's depressing that the movie posits that well-before humanity even existed, on distant planets, that medical debt is still crippling for completely alien species.

 

When I was in high school, a bunch of us went to see “Cool World” in the theater. This was shortly after Roger Rabbit and looking to capitalize on the live action/animation hybrid fad. I don’t remember much about it other than it starred Brad Pitt and was fucking awful.

We left (still the only time I’ve ever done that) and caught the second half of “Boomerang” in the next theater over.

 

Given all the acclaim it received, I thought "Manchester by the Sea," would be good. Instead, I found it one of the worst movies I've ever seen. Just didn't care for it, and even actually nodded off for part of the middle of it. I have never done that during any other movie I've seen in a theater.

 

Everything Everywhere All at Once

It was so boring I stopped trying to keep track of what was going on.

 

I've posted before about my top two answers for the first question — Rubber and Midsommar. The Grudge used to be No. 1 on that list, but is now a distant third behind those two piles of taco-fueled rhino shit.

Worst we went in watching intentionally was Thankskilling. It was shot on a budget of $3,500 and looked every bit of it. The humor wasn't nearly as funny as the people making it thought it was, and the plot is as moronic as you'd expect from a horror movie about a talking killer turkey spouting cheesy one-liners every time he offs someone. The charm of low-budget awfulness can only carry you so far. We powered through it, mostly because it takes an act of Congress to make me turn off a movie, but getting through the last half of its 70-minute run time was quite a chore.

 

Ernest Goes to Camp. In the theater.

Seriously unfunny. Like in your face with how bad it was.

 

HEY VERN!

 

Forrest Gump. I thought all of the people who told me how great it was were playing a joke on me.

 

Who can own a tree? Who can own a rock? Only the Great Spirit.

 

By the time I watched that movie I had read some savage review of it and wasn't thinking much of it. But God, is that an awful movie. It was a patronizing, simplistic mess that a semi-bright third grader would be taken by.