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I ran across an old post of yours regarding films you particularly liked; for the sake of symmetry, if nothing else, I'd be interested in knowing which films you particularly disliked, to a degree worthy of mention

I've seen a lot of really bad horror movies, like a lot a lot, and most of my lowest-rated films are in that category, stuff with titles like Raptor Island and Scarecrow Slayer. There are also some of the classic worst films of all time, like Troll 2, The Room, and Manos (Manos is actually that low for being so unfathomably boring, it's not even an entertaining funny-bad watch with the MST3K commentary track). There's also Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan, famous for Jason not really being in Manhattan for almost all of the movie, instead being on a boat.

Once you get all the obvious stuff out of the way, here are my more interesting most hated films (in no order):

Digimon: The Movie. Because I've seen so many bad movies, I generally want a movie to be uniquely bad to single it out as a worst-ever candidate. This movie is uniquely bad. It is bad in a way no other movie has ever been, or likely ever will be, on account of its Frankensteinian construction, where the localizers stitched three completely different movies together and tried to pretend there was a cohesive plot. The story opens with the immaculate one-two punch of the Angela Anaconda short into the "Digirap" and it ends with All Star by Smash Mouth. (Fun fact, the Angela Anaconda short, which is my only exposure to Angela Anaconda, had a major influence on the character of Tate Wintermute, whose Frenchiness I modeled on Angela Anaconda's rival.) You also get this gem:

Part of what makes this film so astonishing is how the central core, the Our War Games segment, is so obviously part of the auteur oeuvre of Mamoru Hosoda, with the plot basically the exact same as his later Summer Wars. Meanwhile the first part of the film is basically a more nicely-animated episode of the show and the third part is so truncated as to be completely incomprehensible. Most unforgivably, the best characters from the show, Mimi and Joe, have a combined 10 seconds of screen time.

Hannibal. I've only seen this movie once and it was a million years ago, unlike Digimon which I've seen about 5 times since it's so funny. This movie is misery. It is, somehow, only 2 hours 10 minutes, but it feels like 3 hours. I actually just really hate the character of Hannibal Lecter. He is insufferable, and I hate especially how all content that involves him seems to treat him as a sort of antihero, the brutal serial killer who is cool because everyone he kills is even more of a piece of shit than he is. Even in Silence of the Lambs (a film I find just okay), he's obnoxious, but he's barely in that film so it's not so bad. As the title of this one suggests, it's the Hannibal show, and he's up to all his stupid bullshit interminably. I hope I never have to watch this again.

Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. I probably have nothing to say about this film that RedLetterMedia didn't already. This film is just insanely boring, every actor is completely wooden if not actively atrocious, all the special effects look like dogshit, the tone is all over the place, and even the podracing scene people seem to like I think goes on way too long. I hate this worse than the other two prequels, which tend to have at least a couple more interesting setpieces and a (only slightly) less bad actor for Anakin.

Only Lovers Left Alive. I saw this film knowing nothing about its director and was floored by how bad it was, how a film could possibly be so smugly convinced of its intelligence when that intelligence was at the level of Reddit (dude! Isn't Tesla so much better than Edison??). Since watching this film I have come to understand that the director, Jim Jarmusch, is just like this always, and is somehow able to rope tons of notable actors into these turgid projects. The Dead Don't Die, another more recent effort, is nearly as bad.

Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2. Another film on this list that has a reference to it in 1 Over X (DIS-EM-BOWLED JEFFREY!), and like Digimon (and unlike the previous three films) less insufferable and more insanely unique in how it accomplishes being bad. This is a film, released barely a year after the original (one of the best horror films of all time), that is about the film itself rather than anything that happens in the plot, and also about the film in a way that seems to hate the film, despite being a sequel to it. Despite being a horror film, it's shot like a sitcom, with most of the action taking place in a single really big room with a bunch of static shots. The director was a documentary director, this was their first fictional film project. (They also wrote the script.) Honestly just click the DISEMBOWELED link, that scene really sells what this film is all about.

Rubber. Yeah this is another insufferable film that thinks it is way smarter than it is. That's kind of a pattern here huh?

The Master of Disguise. Maybe this film doesn't really deserve to be here, but honestly it probably does. I still say "Am I not turtley enough for the turtle club" from time to time. Unlike the other films, this is a comedy that is bad because it fails to be funny, rather than a horror movie or a serious film that becomes funny by being bad. The reason I'm so lukewarm on it is that it doesn't feel worthy of actually being hated. There are probably a bunch of shitty Adam Sandler or Mike Myers comedies just as bad that I haven't seen.

Burn After Reading. This film's not as bad as the others I listed but I do still hate it. I'm not a fan of the Coen Bros. in general and this film is the perfect nexus of what I don't like about many of their stories, the sort of shrugging "Wow a bunch of weird, violent, pointless stuff happened. Wasn't that pointless?" The point, of course, is the pointlessness of it, but I've always found that obnoxious.

The Imitation Game. This is the film I hated so much it got me to write my first Letterboxd review. You can read the review here. This is easily the worst movie I've ever seen that got nominated for the Best Picture Oscar. I hate these low effort biopics set during WW2 or later (so you don't have to do anything elaborate for costume or set design), and this is the worst, though as I mention in my review honorable mention to Argo, Hidden Figures, and The King's Speech, which also suck.

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"Are you paying attention? Good. If you are not listening carefully, you will miss things. Important things. I will not pause, I will not repeat myself, and you will not interrupt me. You think that because you're sitting where you are, and I am sitting where I am, that you are in control of what is about to happen. You're mistaken. I am in control, because I know things that you do not know."

-Alan Turing, The Imitation Game (2014)