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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
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C’est une dinguerie frer les vieux sont ravagés
(you awakened the french, billions must die)
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
Totally agree. Eraserhead was dull. Didn’t like Inland Empire either. Loved all his other movies.
I should like Lynch, but I don’t. Lynch-style movies not involving Lynch are things I enjoy. There’s something about his movies that’s off-putting (and not in the way they’re intended). I think it’s the campiness of his films just take me out of them. He goes for dark but it feels too kitsch. They’re also slow. A lot of time spent lingering a few too many seconds on one shot. Those seconds add up and make them longer films than they should be.
He’s not the worst and I wouldn’t even use the term “overrated.” I think I just don’t like him.
You said it better than me. Im not making a claim against the man’s skill, certainly not. In fact i wanted to answer ops question in a different way, a movie i think was successful in its intent but was still the worst experience.
I respect Lynch and hate his work
I respect Lynch and hate his work
This is how I feel about John Waters.
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Eraserhead was one of my favorite movies haha, but not something I’d recommend to most people, I enjoyed the production and sound design
Shit yes just the dinner scene alone was such an overwhelming combination of ‘wrong’ for all the senses that remembering it gives me the willies. Lynch man…
I saw Eraserhead on recommendation from a colleague, however I had just had my first child. It was an experience that hit home pretty hard. I like Lynch, and I think Eraserhead really hit a certain aspect of parenthood on the nose with a shockingly loud concrete newspaper.
The Beast of Yucca Flats. It was so boring even the MST3k guys couldn’t make it worth my while.
flag on the moon
Caught up in the wheels of progress.
Was that the one with the dancing Wise Men puppets on parade and Patton Oswalt wailing “WHAT HAVE WE DONE TO OFFEND THEE?” during an intermission?
Oh, that was Beast of Hollow Mountain or something.
Coleman Francis is a special kind of boring.
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
Ugh, I hated the Superbad-era “coming of age means grossouts, body shaming, kiddie creeping cinematography, misogyny, and le sexy sex” so much.
Yeah Animal House did that shit decades before that, but the resurgence lingered on and on.
Id like to nominate “there’s Something About Mary” which beats out “American pie” by a year as a possible resurgence point.
Oh, fuck that movie too. My high school wouldn’t shut the fuck up about it, teachers included.
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.
Glad to hear that, lots of older folks loved that movie like “tehee so true, le gommunism ahh” and I always suspected it would just be propaganda. Now I know I’ll just avoid it at all cost
Been a while since I saw it but I thought it had at least a couple scenes sympathetic to communism, like not just his mom but the other people her age miss the communist days once they’re gone, an older guy talks about some of the things that were good, and not everything about west Germany is shown as positive.
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.
Free Guy, need I say more?
that movie cemented the fact that I never want to see Ryan Reynold’s shit-eating grin ever again
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I loved this movie as an 8 year old, is it a good hate watch?
Yes
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.
As someone who played the games tho, their props, costumes and set design were dead on. It’s a crime they made a movie that bad with all the attention to detail focused on everything besides the script and casting.
Is Neil Breen posting cheating? Though honestly Breen movies are so beyond bad that they’re an unmissable experience. Please watch Pass Thru, it’s got something to say, but good luck figuring any of it out besides “if Neil Breen was world dictator we’d live in a utopia”.
He’s newer stuff has fallen off
His next film is going to contain major elements that are AI generated, I guarantee it.
Neil Breen the real human bean
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!”
Well… Fuck… Really?
Here’s the rally at the end of the second movie where he shows those visions
Grindelwald is the Hitler analog who is trying to enslave humanity. But he’s the one trying to prevent the Holocaust. It’s insane.
Im going to guess that in the third one he goes too far in an uncharacteristic manner like what happens to a lot of these villains because even if he is ruthless there has to be some extra shit to convince the audience that the guy preventing the deadliest war in human history is the true villain. Even if he is using that for propaganda purposes and is megalomaniac… I mean shit… Its world war 2
IIRC Grindelwald kills a baby in the very first scene he’s in in the first movie, so that’s how they establish that he’s evil.
Its weird but notable that all of JKR’s work in the Potterverse since book seven came out has been about how changing the past is bad. The Cursed Child was all about how going back in time to save Cedric Diggory’s life would somehow cause Voldemort to win, and then there’s this trilogy which explains that the Wizards couldn’t prevent the Holocaust because some unexplained worse thing would have happened.
It’s like JKR saw that “how it should have ended” short where Snape uses the time turner to kill Voldemort with a gun and took it way too seriously.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I want to be so clear that I am not exaggerating when I say they ensure the Holocaust isn’t prevented-
Wow. I am seriously glad you wrote this because i still had to read it twice to be sure. Wow.
The movie’s plot basically is the liberal dream: Hitler rigs an election but then is proved to have cheated so he gets a little mad but then drops out of the election anyway so the pure hearted liberal can be chosen by the voting machine
It’s such a baffling, ridiculous franchise after the first movie. I hate Rowling but I legitimately want them to continue, these were supposed to be a 5 movie series and I want to see how absurd it can get
And in this analogy Hitler is, again, the man who had visions of the Holocaust and nuclear bombs and is trying to prevent WW2
To be fair he’s planning to do this by murdering anyone who can’t use magic
It’s a fucking mess
Honorary mention to Rebel Moon, Zack Snyder’s Temu-brand Star Wars movie.
Things that are bad: Plot, dialogue, acting, direction,
, sets, props, costumes, effects.Things that are good: Robot with a flower crown
I still can not tell you who that movie is for, what it’s “message” was, or why I sat through the whole thing. It was a crossing the rubicon moment for me. I swore off all blockbuster budget fantasy and scifi movies. Should have done this years ago.
“What if Star Wars but about aging dudebro preoccupations with cornfields, breeding, and fantasies of being persecuted by the wokes?”
He did a harvesting scene in slow motion that went on far too long.
Chuds like Snyder really, really like cornfields. Nolan’s “Interstellar” had a lot of that corn-gazing too.
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 was just lamenting my laziness w/ posting on mobile. your comment is so much better
we gotta get u a laptop babe
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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.
