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The absolute worst film you've ever seen

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I don't think this is a topic yet (didn't show up in a search), but if it is, just merge my post into it.

What is the absolute bottom of the barrel film for you, ever? And I don't mean funny bad, I mean literally the worst film you have ever sat through. Share it with others.

Mine was a film my teacher put on for us in middle school: Amazing Grace and Chuck

The stupidest title to go along with the dumbest premise in film history:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazing_Grace_and_Chuck

From the article:
Chuck Murdock (Joshua Zuehlke), a 12-year-old boy from Montana and the son of a military jet pilot, becomes anxious after seeing a Minuteman missile on a school field trip, which is intensified by a nightmare of a fork dropping after being told that the speed and effectivess would be done "before a dropped fork hits the floor". Chuck protests the existence of nuclear weapons by refusing to play baseball, which results in the forfeit of a Little League game by his team.

"Amazing Grace" Smith, a fictional Boston Celtics player (played by NBA star Alex English), catches a blurb about the story in his newspaper and decides to emulate Chuck, saying he will no longer participate in professional basketball unless there are no more nuclear weapons. This gives it nationwide coverage, inspiring more pro athletes to join the protest against nuclear weapons. Smith then moves to Montana to meet with Chuck and buys an old barn, which he and the other athletes renovate into their residence. Smith's agent, Lynn (Jamie Lee Curtis) is unsure about what he hopes to accomplish but decides to support him and Chuck.
 
"Flowers In The Attic". Though technically, I didn't see the whole thing because I left. :lol:
 
I find my patience wears thin with movies that don't end in a satisfying manner, often making me feel like I've wasted time watching them. I'm talking about movies that abruptly end with no real resolution. Or movies that have depressing endings.
 
Martians Go Home--a movie so bad, it didn't even fall into the laughably-bad category. It was the "why the hell did they make this" section.

Nightfall--classic science fiction turned into utter, nonsensical CRAP. It was so bad that my friend and I actually got mad at the film while sitting in the theater.
 
Owain Taggart said:
I find my patience wears thin with movies that don't end in a satisfying manner, often making me feel like I've wasted time watching them. I'm talking about movies that abruptly end with no real resolution. Or movies that have depressing endings.
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What if the overall movie was dark in tone and thus the depressing ending was justified? Still then?

auntiehill said:
Nightfall--classic science fiction turned into utter, nonsensical CRAP. It was so bad that my friend and I actually got mad at the film while sitting in the theater.
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Oh god, Nightfall. I saw this too. My friend and I literally laughed the whole way through, so it was pretty great to us. I recall none of the characters having their own names past their relation to the main character, Aton. Thus the credits were as such:

Aton:
Aton's son:
Aton's wife:
Aton's rival:
Man killed by Aton:
Etc.

Underrated bad movie classic for me.
 
I walked out of the theater halfway through "The Two Jakes." And I even worked at the theater at the time and saw the movie for free.
 
auntiehill said:
Nightfall--classic science fiction turned into utter, nonsensical CRAP. It was so bad that my friend and I actually got mad at the film while sitting in the theater.
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Was this based on the Asimov story? I seem to recall liking the story. I didn't realize they had adapted it into a movie.

Although it sounds like in this case, my ignorance was for the best! :lol:
 
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What if the overall movie was dark in tone and thus the depressing ending was justified? Still then?
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I think the two of those go hand in hand for the most part. If that is their intent, then that's fine. It just means I don't like them. One of the worst I've seen was The House of Sand and Fog. I think Ben Kingsley was in that one. The character he plays kills himself by suffocation by putting a bag over his head, and I think it just ends? I remember seeing that and it hit me pretty hard.

Some movies are just bad by virtue of being sloppily done. One movie I've seen recently is a movie about the Oregon Trail. A shame it wasn't a better movie than it was, as it had potential as it's an interesting point in history. Movie ends just as they find a lone tree when they've trekked pretty much the whole movie in search of a water source. The idea of it ending there wasn't bad being that it was a hint of water nearby. It was its execution; no words said between the characters when they find it, just a shot of the tree and it... ends. Just not very satisfying for having sat through it.
 
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The last Ghostbusters movie. My cousin walked away from it but i stayed and watched it. And It was a bad movie.
 
I really hate Crash. I tried watching it twice and couldn't stand it. There is a movie my mom rented 2-3 times and each time never watched more than 20 minutes. But I can't remember what it was.
 
It's pretty hard to make me hate a movie, even bad ones can at least kill a few hours, Scary Movie 3 was the only movie that made me check the exits.
 
I generally like the famous "so-bad-they're-good" movies, but I couldn't make it more than ten minutes into Birdemic. The terrible, popping, static-laden audio and inconsistent color timing made it sub-student film in quality. Seriously, there were student shorts I sat through in college that we're more watchable than that crap.
 
That I actually somehow managed to sit through: Brazil.

That I walked out of because it was so crap: Shock Treatment.
 
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Jumper and Butterfly Effect were both really terrible movies.

The US remakes of Ring, also really bad.
 
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