Worst. Movie. Ever.

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I saw Noah in the theater, and I still haven’t forgiven Darren Aronofsky for that garbage. He totally destroyed all the good will I had built up for him for all of his previous movies. I even liked The Fountain for crying out loud! But Noah was just so freaking awful. I refuse to see that movie he did with Jennifer Lawrence because it’s clearly also just more of his self indulgent pretentious bullshit. Never again dude, never again.

[Babycakes]

Sept 9, 2019 11:37:07 GMT -4 @roisin54 said:

I saw Noah in the theater, and I still haven’t forgiven Darren Aronofsky for that garbage. He totally destroyed all the good will I had built up for him for all of his previous movies. I even liked The Fountain for crying out loud! But Noah was just so freaking awful. I refuse to see that movie he did with Jennifer Lawrence because it’s clearly also just more of his self indulgent pretentious bullshit. Never again dude, never again.

I was shocked when his name came up in the credits. I thought I was hallucinating when I saw that. I must have suppressed the info on that previously. How do you make Black Swan, and then Noah. I had heard hilarious things about the movie (rock monsters, cgi babies) and went in for the lulz. But I kept getting so distracted by the modern haircuts/grooming, inconsistent accents, and just randomness in general. I was flipping and eventually forgot about it. It's not something I'll seek out again, but wow, what a mess. His movie Mother! seems to be in the same vein if not even worse than Noah. I have only seen clips, and read the synopsis, and it also sounds like a hot mess.

[FiggyPudding]

I read the synopsis for Mother!, too, and based on that alone it sounds like the worst movie ever.

I find it amusing that during it’s press run, he was dating Jennifer Lawrence, but (reportedly) when he returned to their hotel he’d spend most of the time complaining to her about it’s negative reception. Dude, seriously? She thinks you’re a genius, but that’s gonna fade, you can’t think of anything better to do with your time than bemoan how you’re misunderstood?

[ElleCee]

Not seeing it but I guess there's a new Mel Gibson movie coming out called Force of Nature. He's basically some corrupt, sexist, racist garbage can of a cop. The movie takes place in Puerto Rico during Hurricane Maria and all the bad guys are Puerto Ricans. Cherry on top, his partner is Emile Hirsch who choked out some female film exec at Sundance in 2015. Read the fucking room. Can't Gibson stay cancelled? I hate that asshole.

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I did see headlines a few days ago that Gibson was fired from a Netflix movie after a recent Winona Ryder interview where she reiterated some homophobic and anti-Semitic remarks he allegedly said to her and a friend at a party back in, like, 1996. (For the record, I do believe her. The quotes she attributed to him sound exactly like the kind of thing he'd have said.)
So, there's that, at least....

[Ladybug]

I recently watched one of the worst movies I have ever seen - Knock Knock. This caught my attention on Netflix because it starred Keanu Reeves and Ana de Armas. I should've turned it off as soon as I saw "Directed by Eli Roth" but . . . Keanu. He plays a husband and father who's at home alone for the weekend. Ana de Armas and her friend (who I learned through IMDB is married to Eli Roth) knock on the door during a rainstorm after they get lost on their way to a party (yeah, right). He stupidly lets them in to use the internet and that's when the fun/trouble begins. He eventually hooks up with both of them, then the next morning they won't leave. They're pigs and they trash his house. They also tell him they're underage and he completely freaks out. He finally gets them out of the house and spends the rest of the day cleaning up and fixing things so his wife doesn't find out. That night, they come back and this time he's pissed and wants them gone. They terrorize him, tie him up, trash the house again, including his wife's art. He's totally freaking out because he's got to fix all this so his wife doesn't find out. At the end you find out that they're grown women who play this twisted "game" with married men to set them up and ruin their lives because men are bad. The movie was so stupid, don't waste your time on it.

[Mouse]

Phantom Thread. What a dull, unpleasant movie. Hated the main characters. They were both loathsome. I can’t believe Daniel Day-Lewis chose to go out like that.

[Karrit]

Nov 29, 2020 11:46:42 GMT -4 Mouse said:

Phantom Thread. What a dull, unpleasant movie. Hated the main characters. They were both loathsome. I can’t believe Daniel Day-Lewis chose to go out like that.

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE DDL. But Phantom Thread was awful. It seems to be an unpopular opinion among my friends who saw it. They think I didn’t get it. 🤔

[cremetangerine82]

Jun 28, 2020 21:41:08 GMT -4 @stargirl said:

I did see headlines a few days ago that Gibson was fired from a Netflix movie after a recent Winona Ryder interview where she reiterated some homophobic and anti-Semitic remarks he allegedly said to her and a friend at a party back in, like, 1996. (For the record, I do believe her. The quotes she attributed to him sound exactly like the kind of thing he'd have said.)
So, there's that, at least....

Winona may like a five-finger discount, but I don’t doubt Mel Gibson called her “an oven dodger”, why did Hollywood allow his ass back?

My vote for “Worst Movie Ever” is After Last Season (trailer). How did this cost $5 million?!?

[Ginger]

I've been catching up on some old Kenneth Branagh movies lately. Many of them are turkeys but boy, his musical version of Love's Labour's Lost deserved every terrible review it got.

It requires the actors to be able to deliver Shakespearean dialogue, carry a tune, and dance choreographed routines. And the actors almost all fail spectacularly in at least two of the three categories, including Branagh himself. I'm tempted to rewatch it just to see if I can spy one of the actors being competent. It would probably be Natascha McElhone.

I'm tempted to think that Branagh's decision to cast Matthew Lillard and Alicia Silverstone was to prove he could turn two sow's ears into silk purses.

I also watched Branagh's Frankenstein and won't even go into how poorly directed that was. At one point, Helena Bonham Carter's character was supposed to be writing a letter, and her quill was visibly an inch away from the paper and moving four times as fast as anyone could write. It was like how people write letters in SNL sketches, except worse and funnier.