The Worst Films I Have Ever Seen, Part One

[fera_festiva]

Apropos of nothing (although inspired partly by a discussion over on my Twitter a couple of months ago), I have decided to make a post (actually two posts; it got long) about the worst films I have ever seen

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[verasteine]

Love, Actually was extremely disappointing, agreed. Definitely annoying. And I made the mistake, years after the fact, to actually watch Titanic and well... I laughed at very inappropriate moments because it was really kind of a comedy?

As for Slumdog Millionaire, the idea has always made me intensely uncomfortable and I'll note what you said about it and continue not to watch it. Grease, as you rightly point out, is about nothing. I got to see it when I was about 16 and basically didn't get it. I knew the songs and now they had (weird) context and that was it. My experience was miles from theirs and while I didn't share your confusion over the actors' age (that must have been a hilarious viewing) I spent a long time confused before realising it was set in a different era.

Forrest Gump Yeah. I saw that, and thought about it a bit, and then thought, ...well, that's kinda dumb... and never watched it again. One pet peeve, though: the names on the paper? Nuh uh, not everywhere in the world :).

[fera_festiva]

Haha - OK, I'll let the bit of paper in the chocolates go. I'll assume either that they don't have them in the time and place where the film is set, or else that he can't read them.

It's really interesting about the era Grease is set in, because I don't think I really understood it either, although I didn't realise it until you said. I guess it's because the costumes are 50s but the filming style and at least some of the music is 70s, and the whole thing is so incoherently stuck together...

(If you want an actually good film about that time period, I recommend American Graffiti.)

Glad to hear Titanic is funny in retrospect. Sometimes I get together with friends and watch shit films (like Hercules In New York) - I wonder if it would stand up to a viewing in that context? :D

[verasteine]

He can't read them! This is now canon for me ;).

Point about the costumes, and yet, at that age I had no clue about the difference between eras and everything was basically "before me" and I thought it very strange. But I had that with a lot of American films b/c their culture is so different from the one I grew up in.

(Noting that.)

It is a hoot! Especially when you get to the bit where the ship starts sinking. There should be a drinking game for, "... by now they should be dead; that killed them, surely?" (Also fantastic for this type viewing: Die Hard, The Transporter, etc.)

[fera_festiva]

I feel I need to speak in defence of Die Hard, which is a genuinely brilliant film IMO. XD But yes - the "why isn't he dead yet?" game would be perfect for that film. As a bonus, I feel like it could be used as a way to make Home Alone a significantly better movie.