The Absolute Worst Films of All Time!

[Daemonia]

Originally Posted by mr 420

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Fight Club is one of biggest piles of pretentious pish that I have ever had the misfortune to sit (or should that be squirm?) through. I'd rather bite my own balls off than watch that ever again.

Don't hold back - tell us what you really think!

Funnily enough, I watched this again recently just to give it a reappraisal (as I do with films from time-to-time) and it hasn't aged well. I like the anarchic nature of the themes in the film and the ending was quite a shock at the time. Not a great film, but I don't think it's all bad either. It's definitely very misanthropic, but I like that about it.

[nosferatu42]

Has anyone mentioned Halle berry as 'Catwoman' yet, i've been trying to forget but this thread has just triggered a bad movie flashback.
Totally screwed up the character and was just plain wrong.

I'm gonna have to go look at pictures of Pfeiffer's kinky cat to recover.
Then lie down in a dark room to recover from that.

[InDogWeTrust]

Originally Posted by nosferatu42

Has anyone mentioned Halle berry as 'Catwoman' yet, i've been trying to forget but this thread has just triggered a bad movie flashback.
Totally screwed up the character and was just plain wrong.

I'm gonna have to go look at pictures of Pfeiffer's kinky cat to recover.
Then lie down in a dark room to recover from that.

[Rik]

Catwoman is atrocious, but I happen to like Fight Club

[nosferatu42]

I rest my case.

[mr 420]

Originally Posted by Stephen@Cult Labs

So you didn't like it then?

It's one of the few films that really wind me up, Stephen. Considering the cast and crew, it could of been something good.

[InDogWeTrust]

Originally Posted by InDogWeTrust

'HOURS'

Starring: Paul Walker, Genesis Rodriguez.

WARING:THIS REVIEW CONTAINs SPOILERS...BUT WHO CARES BECAUSE THIS MOVIE SUCKS!

I checked out Hours tonight.
I caught the trailer for this some time last year and I was intrigued, It looked like an entertaining little flick.

Paul Walker plays a guy who's pregnant wife goes into labor prematurely during Hurricane Katrina. The wife dies during the birth and the child has to be placed in an incubator (Don't worry, No spoilers. This is all in the trailer and first 10 minutes of the film). As the storm gets worse and worse, the hospital is evacuated and of course the incubator isn't portable so Paul Walker is left to look over his baby and keep her safe.

Oh wait, This is a hurricane, There goes the power! So what's next? PW, Quickly rushing around in search of some sort of generator to keep the incubator running to keep his newborn daughter alive. Of course there's a conveniently placed maintenance room, which he mysteriously accesses without a key or breaking in the door...Oh look what's in the room, A windup generator. Oh no! The generator only powers the battery in the incubator for 3 minutes! Now the rest of the movie is basically spent with PW winding this generator every few minutes.

Of course there's a few other things thrown in there, Like having to scavenger for food, Trying various radio's and telephones to try call for help, all of which are useless and some looters towards the end of the film. From the trailer, I was expecting an action packed, fast paced drama where a guy has to fight off gun toting hospital looters while keeping his infant child alive. No, Not like this at all. The film was really slow and mostly boring. Although there were some very short attention capturing scenes, like when the looters do finally come along and when PW finds his wife's lifeless body on the morgue floor, It wasn't enough to make the film enjoyable.

Bad dialogue and just atrocious acting from Paul Walker. Does anyone else feel like Paul Walker just never has any emotion!? This guy should be on an emotional roller coaster, but no he is just in mutual mode throughout basically the whole entire film. This made me not be able to become attached to the character in any way which really just takes away from the whole movie.

Oh and don't even get me started on the flashback scenes! The whole thing is scattered with random flashbacks of how Paul Walker and his now deceased wife (played by Genesis Rodriguez) first met, got married and got pregnant. All of which are so overly stupid, Especially the story of how they came to meet. They both stopped a bank robbery then fell in love? Really!? Come on, Don't do this to me!
All of these flashbacks by the way, have these really awful faded, vignette, out of focus edging filter smacked over the top of them and it looks horrible! Especially considering half the time Paul and Genesis aren't even centered in the frame so they're just out of focus.

This movie is just bad! I like the whole concept and if it was done differently, For example if certain scenes were written differently, It was dramatized a little more, Had a faster pace and had different actors, I think it could have really worked! I mean the overall synopsis of the film "A father struggles to keep his infant daughter alive in the wake of Hurricane Katrina." - IMDB That could be a really good, strong, entertaining movie!
Unfortunately, Hours just didn't work for me.

I don't want to badmouth Paul Walker too much, Since he has now passed away and although he wasn't the greatest actor, It is still a tragedy to lose such a young person. I just wish maybe he could have left us with 1 mind blowing performance before his passing and I feel like this could have been his chance, But it really had nothing.

Overall, 1 out of 5.

[ArgentoFan1987]

Originally Posted by mr 420

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Fight Club is one of biggest piles of pretentious pish that I have ever had the misfortune to sit (or should that be squirm?) through. I'd rather bite my own balls off than watch that ever again.

My thoughts exactly !

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Rik

Catwoman is atrocious

Elektra isn't much better. Both were extremely disappointing, not by being bad films as such, just boring and missing the point of the titular character.

[Maxsimmus]

Would like to add Pain and Gain to my list of worst films,thought it was awful.