For me the shape of water was the worst film I’ve ever seen because the whole story was just so weird and ridiculous… An alien and a woman getting together.
The worst part about it is that critics at the time were praising the film…
For me the shape of water was the worst film I’ve ever seen because the whole story was just so weird and ridiculous… An alien and a woman getting together.
The worst part about it is that critics at the time were praising the film…
The thing is that you kind of have to define “worst” and “film” in order for the answer to make sense.
Like, you’ve got movies like the 2019 Cats where it was a pervasively horrible movie in multiple different ways, but it was absolutely not boring, and I kind of think everyone should see it. See also The Super Mario Brothers Movie with Bob Hoskins, or Star Crash from 1978.
And then you’ve got things that barely qualify as movies. Things like Manos: The Hands of Fate, or Troll 2, or Death Bed: The Bed That Eats, where, yeah, they hired actors and a director said “Action!” but… like…is it really a movie?
There’s different categories for bad movies. There’s “Mainstream Piece of Shit that Should Have Been Better,” there’s “Insane Microbudget Fever Dream,” there’s an axis from Boring to Glorious Trainwreck. All of these complicate the question and merit their own consideration.
All that said… it’s the Star Wars Holiday Special. It’s a totally fucking brutal experience. There is virtually no good reason to ever watch it, except to say that you have, and I don’t necessarily think it’s worth the time. It’s irredeemable.
Even when discussing bad movies I’ve never seen someone else mention Death Bed before, it’s really bad! At least it has some humor and a lot of wierdness to it. The worst I’ve ever seen that just feels like lost time is Ax 'em / The Weekend it Lives. You basically can’t see or hear what’s going on most of the time because the camera work is so bad
Well, I don’t think Carrie Fisher was wearing a bra during her brief apperance in the Star Wars special, so that was something.
A foreshadowing of the conflict she had with them, it’s a shame one would eventually strangle her to death.
Insane Microbudget Fever Dream has at least one success story: Primer.
Arguably also The Blair Witch Project.