The Clamp
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Shame you didn’t like the French Connection. I think it’s one of my favourite films .
[Film] What is the worst film you have ever seen all the way through?
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The Clamp
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Vacation Friends 2
Grown Ups 2
Both had fairly passable first films. The sequels are those films that don’t make any sense. As if they’ve been edited by mistake.
Characters appear and disappear. Jokes fall flat on their face. No charm or good humour to carry them.
Dreadful films I sat through.
Hmm. Did I? I think I bailed on VF2 actually. It’s so poor, I can’t recall if I finished it or not.
Grown Ups 2
Both had fairly passable first films. The sequels are those films that don’t make any sense. As if they’ve been edited by mistake.
Characters appear and disappear. Jokes fall flat on their face. No charm or good humour to carry them.
Dreadful films I sat through.
Hmm. Did I? I think I bailed on VF2 actually. It’s so poor, I can’t recall if I finished it or not.
Stato
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- Dec 21, 2011
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Another one that's not the worst I've ever sat through, but feels like it is 'Love Actually'. I liked 'Four Weddings...', I quite liked 'The Tall Guy'. 'Notting Hill' seemed like '4 Weddings...' run through the law of diminishing returns. I had little interest after that, but had to sit through it because my wife and kids love it. They watch it every Christmas and I am now cast out of the room whenever it's on, because even my eye rolling ruins their enjoyment of the cobbled together stories of weird stalkers, fat shaming, 'Confessions of' type male fantasies and the horrible treatment of Emma Thompson's character, the only sympathetic person in the whole mess. (Okay, she likes the crap jazz version rather than the original 'Both Sides Now', but that's no reason to do that to her Rickman).
The most annoying thing about it is how shallow everything is. It doesn't feel like a film, but a load of Hallmark cards stapled together.
The most annoying thing about it is how shallow everything is. It doesn't feel like a film, but a load of Hallmark cards stapled together.
US Seagull
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I watched Havoc on Netflix recently. That was god awful. Tom Hardy was dreadful in it. The action scenes where laughable and confusing with multiple groups in multi-way fights. Also, we know action movies have are rather tenuous grip on the idea of how much ammo a gun holds, but this really took the piss. Like firing dozens of rounds from a single pistol in rapid succession.
I think it wanted to be John Wick, but it lacked the balletic rhythm of John Wick, and had characters that were intensely unlikable, and a story that made no sense at all. Like, how was the one group was convinced that these couple of kids had actually done the thing that they were after them for? It was pretty obvious that there's no way they could have done what they thought they'd done.
And to top it all off, apparently the thing was films in Wales, of all places. Heavy and badly done CGI everywhere to make it look like a gritty, dirty American city. Not fooling anybody. Wales doesn't look like that.
I think it wanted to be John Wick, but it lacked the balletic rhythm of John Wick, and had characters that were intensely unlikable, and a story that made no sense at all. Like, how was the one group was convinced that these couple of kids had actually done the thing that they were after them for? It was pretty obvious that there's no way they could have done what they thought they'd done.
And to top it all off, apparently the thing was films in Wales, of all places. Heavy and badly done CGI everywhere to make it look like a gritty, dirty American city. Not fooling anybody. Wales doesn't look like that.
mikeyjh
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Maybe I'll give it another go, I think I had watched if after drinks :-(
Dick Swiveller
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- Sep 9, 2011
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Elf. Can't believe people love it.
The Clamp
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Ha! There’s no obligation to like it. For me, it’s a high point in that 70’s gritty thriller genre that didn’t necessarily have typical leading men in the main role.
Gene Hackman
Rob Scheider
Robert Duvall
Harry Dean Stanton
Donald Sutherland
To name a few.
Hope you enjoy it if you revisit.
The Clamp
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Reversal of Fortune (1990) with Jeremy Irons, based on a true story. Fkn boring and I usually love that genre. Cheating with regard to the OP, I had a catnap mid movie.
The Clamp
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I’m afraid I couldn’t sit through more than 20 mins of that. A very bad film.
Was on a training course for three days in Bracknell back then, with two colleagues who I knew a little but not that well. As there was stuff all else to do in Bracknell, we went to see this. At the end all three of us said we wanted to walk out, but we were all too polite to.
Mustafa II
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I generally don't have the patience to shit through shite films, and will walk out.
However I did sit through the entirety of Avatar.
I only stuck it because it was during the times where 3D cinema was a thing. It was the first and only 3D film I've seen.
...and it was utter garbage.
However I did sit through the entirety of Avatar.
I only stuck it because it was during the times where 3D cinema was a thing. It was the first and only 3D film I've seen.
...and it was utter garbage.
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The last Avatar film, which I had to go to twice having upset mini-Exile by falling asleep for most of it first time around. The second time I promised to stay awake and - I appreciate this is slightly mad - I found myself trying to remember as much as I could about the Conventicle Act of 1664 just to try and keep my brain active instead of shutting down at the absolutely abject nonsense of zero emotional depth being presented on screen. I remember at one point trying to come up with words that rhymed with "conventicle".
I think I'm almost the only person on the planet that thinks Shawshank Redemption is an awful, sentimental, slow, predictable, one-dimensional film too but that'd be in my top 5 worst I've sat through. I also think Daniel Craig is the only decent Bond there's ever been so I fully expect my opinion on films to count for very little.
I think I'm almost the only person on the planet that thinks Shawshank Redemption is an awful, sentimental, slow, predictable, one-dimensional film too but that'd be in my top 5 worst I've sat through. I also think Daniel Craig is the only decent Bond there's ever been so I fully expect my opinion on films to count for very little.
keaton
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I agree, I'm impressed anyone could last till the end
The Clamp
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I agree with all the above.
You could say our taste in films is IDENTICAL.
Oooh good call. I missed it in the cinema, but being a big Python fan I was keen to see it when it came on TV as (at the time) I loved Cleese and Palin.
Jeez what a load of shit. I can't claim it as 'worst film I've sat through' as I didn't make it to the end. Very very disappointing. Tried it twice more (I think) but still couldn't do it.
dolphins
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The missus likes the Avatar films but I find them (ahem) "difficult" to watch. First one I was open minded to, but when they used the word "Unobtainian" that did it for me. It felt like it was a placeholder word for when they worked out something sensible for the mineral or whatever it was (what would have been wrong with Pandorian or something like that?) and never got round to replacing it. It can be little things sometimes that just irritate and ruin films!
Dreading the third one. And he's making a fourth too. Git.
Dreading the third one. And he's making a fourth too. Git.
The Clamp
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It says a lot about people that Avatar is (was?) the highest grossing film of all time.
Just goes to show what hype and marketing power can achieve.
jonny.rainbow
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Eight pages and nobody has mentioned Lawnmower Man Part 2.
I mean the first was garbage but the sequel was a diseased celluloid of brain rot.
Maybe I’m the only person to have watched it?
I mean the first was garbage but the sequel was a diseased celluloid of brain rot.
Maybe I’m the only person to have watched it?
aftershavedave
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Frozen, I took my 3 young lads under pressure. I fell asleep, they had to suffer it, appalling