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...
Shape of Water? Really?
I know the top comments are bringing the usual boring answers, but man, I'll take them over pretending that is anywhere close to being bad. There's way too much shit out there worth recognizing, like, the latest stinker is Five Nights at Freddy's.
If someone wants a bottom 30 contender, I suggest looking up A Fish Called Wanda. It has two jokes: Long winded rants and Homophobia. Laugh. I made the delivery better.
The Shape of Water is a movie made by a guy obsessed with old movies. If you're not into the aesthetic of old monster movies and old movie musicals, I can see why you wouldn't enjoy it much.
I thought Ready Player One was pretty bad, especially considering that it had a large budget and an incredibly experienced director at the helm. The source material was just too sparse to pull out anything besides
I tried to read the book. Made it about 50 pages before I DNF'd. The protagonist is just such a snobby condescending little shit. He whines about being ostracized and bullied but he constantly talks down to everyone at every opportunity. It felt like a power fantasy for the people who think other people don't like them because they're nerds, but really it's because they're just assholes.
The movie adds in a fundamental misunderstanding of Mobile Suit Gundam (because they couldn't get Ultraman) and The Iron Giant lmao
The movie adds in a fundamental misunderstanding
The movie had blue curtained takes on the already blue curtained takes of the book. It was at its roots a masturbatory power fantasy of treat consumption and nothing more.
I don't know how you walked away from The Shape of Water with such a shallow reading, but eh, not everyone's taste in films is the same.
I have a great dislike for the sorts of horror films where horror is conveyed entirely by long drawn out tension into a jumpscare. It bores me and then I stop caring about what's going on in the film. The Woman in Black is one that immediately springs to my mind, ironically because of how bland I thought it was. It's what you'd get if you told chatGPT to write the script for a horror movie. Just a bloke stumbling 'round a house at night being scared by random shit punctuated by daytime exposition scenes. I know it was trying to trying to say something about grief but I just couldn't care enough about it after the spooky violin lead up to the protagonist being startled by a tap making a loud noise when he turned it on.
"the whole story was just so weird and ridiculous... An alien and a woman getting together"
???
I will never see a movie worse than Freddy Got Fingered. IYKYK. If you don't, you're lucky.
i dont understand why people dislike that movie so much. from what i vaguely remember, it was stupid, but not bad. it wasnt the prestige or that other one, the one with the dreams and the BWAAAAAAAAAM.
It was the final nail in the coffin for Tom Green's career
Year One. I can't stand Jack Black nor Michael Cera after wasting 90 minutes of my life watching that trash.
A parody of a parody no less. When will I see the likes of Airplane or Hotshots again?
Kull the Conqueror.
Only movie I ever walked out on, leaving my friends, and waiting outside. Ten minutes later, they walked out too.
The newest fantastic 4 movie. Every character in that one is just contagiously miserable and toxic for some reason. It's totally humorless but doesn't justify it. I powered through because I'm not the type to quit a movie, but had a headache after. Most of the time when I dislike a movie I can come up with some reason that it's not so bad, "oh that one scene was kind of cool", "I liked so-and-so's character", "EXPLOSIONS!". I can't think of anything for this one. It was hard to watch yet meaningless and forgettable.
Being so bad that it makes Silver Surfer look good and Jessica Alba an acceptable casting is... something.
The 5th wave.
Wanted some easy sci-fi to kill time. Got something so ridiculously bad that i had to turn it off midway through.
That stretch of studios trying to make the "new Hunger Games" by adapting other dystopian YA scifi was rough lol
This is on my list to watch. Sounds like I'm in for a time.
