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What's the worst ACTUAL movie you've ever seen? (hexbear.net)
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As in like, I get there's really terrible B-movies and shit like Neil Breen's work that ends up on BOTW, but what's the worst movie that actually had a decent sized budget and was made by an actual movie studio and maybe even had some somewhat well known actors in it?

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[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 31 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

Battlefield Earth is bad beyond belief. It's my favorite bad movie. There isn't even a close second including shitty b-movies. It's in a class by itself.

Battlefield Earth is a 2000 American science fiction film based on the 1982 novel by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. It's set in the year 3000 and follows a human rebellion against the "Psychlos", a tyrannical alien species that has ruled Earth for a thousand years. John Travolta, who produced the film, stars as main antagonist Terl alongside Barry Pepper and Forest Whitaker.

Budget: $44 million

Battlefield Earth is like taking a bus trip with someone who has needed a bath for a long time. It's not merely bad; it's unpleasant in a hostile way ... I watched it in mounting gloom, realizing I was witnessing something historic, a film that for decades to come will be the punch line of jokes about bad movies.

- Roger Ebert

[–] JustSo@hexbear.net 13 points 4 days ago

tfw you unironically like battlefield earth and didn't learn it's a "bad movie" until years later. Kevin Smith was right about critics. angry-hex

[–] MiraculousMM@hexbear.net 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

All the fucking dutch angles made me nauseous

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 6 points 4 days ago

If you took a shot every time you saw one - you'd get alcohol poisoning. There must be at least two dozen Dutch angles if not three dozen.

[–] someone@hexbear.net 4 points 4 days ago

We should watch it on the hextube sometime on a slop night.