Batman & Robin will always be the WORST MOVIE EVER MADE.

Worst?

I watched exactly 22 minutes of Chronicles of Riddick tonight before I had to turn it off. I knew it was going to be bad from his very first line "You made 3 mistakes". I generally enjoy action movies more than anything else and can look past plot holes and bad acting, but I don't even think I'd call any of the performances I saw acting (at least the ones in the first 22 minutes).



Stew

Is there any truth behind this movie? --Movie sucked!!

I watched the first 40 or so minutes of Fight Club about 3 years ago. Natural Born Killers is up there as well!

I agree, this movie was teh suck.

On Thursday, I saw a movie that was even worse, Darkness, but at least that movie got terrible reviews from critics.

Try getting 22 minutes out of this one.... Good luck.

This was the only movie I saw twice in theaters this year. One of the top 10 for me. And I bought it the day it came out. I don't understand what you guys are blabbering about.

Just saw it on DVD for the first time. How anyone could think this was the worst movie ever is beyond me. It wasn't perfect, but not a bad movie at all. Guess we all have diff tastes.

My wife and I just rented this today, and we both found it to be a tense flick. I also happened to think the gal in it was pretty hot.

This was a bad movie.
How can anyone compare it to Jaws?

Um, sharks, ocean and chewy people? Why would anyone want to see Jaws Five? This isn't the same kind of movie as Jaws... thankfully it deals with a similar subject in a different way.

The thing that kept bugging me while watching this was the horrible acting by the main actors and the terrible camera angles in the beginning of the movie. Then the last 30min of the movie really dragged and I became really disinterested.

Okay, got to put my $.02 in here.

(1) Worst movie ever? No.

(2) Disappointing movie? Yes.

(A) Terrible acting. I knew from the first three lines that this was going to be a chore to sit through listening to these two.

(B) The characters were boring pieces of dribble. I mean they were written very poorly. I did not care one iota about either of them, and the movie gave me no reason to.

(C) Pacing was way off. Took forever to get to the water. This is not necessarily a bad thing if you have other plot that occurs on land. Unfortunately, this movie did not.

(D) Offered nothing new. This is more of a minor point than the other 3, but with the exception of the very end, this movie was 100% predictable, both on the macro and micro level. After they were in the water for awhile and the girl began to look moody, my friend whispered to me: "Lemme guess, this is where they have a big fight and blame each other." Ta-da!

Despite these criticisms, I did enjoy the final 10 minutes or so. Pretty much everything from the night storm on. However, this was yet another case of too little, too late.

My review? Worth seeing once if you don't have to pay for it (or pay much to rent it), but once you know the ending (which is the best part), this one loses its purpose quickly and, dare I say, goes swimming with the fishes.

My wife and I watched this last night. After it was over, I was thinking "Well, gee, that sucked", but after thinking about it for a while, it was a decent movie. The one thing I think this movie is missing is rewatchability. I don't think I'd ever want to watch it again, as there really isn't much going on in the film.

Same here. Not a great movie by any means, IMO, but I'm recommending it to friends. It is chilling in the sense that the realism in this film is very present.

This movie deserves a special Razzie for Worst Ensemble Acting of 2004. The acting in this thing is absolutely atrocious. From the boat captain to the A-hole who insisted on diving to the stupid yuppie couple, it seemed like these guys were just picked off the street and thrown into a film. Blanchard Ryan and Daniel Travis will never, ever make it in Hollywood after this sorry display of non-talent. Whatever suspense this film may have had was ruined by the ridiculously unconvincing performances from all involved. And the moments of sheer stupidity throughout didn't help matters. Ok, so a bunch of people are taken out into the ocean to go diving......ahem.....ROLL CALL ANYONE???

This movie doesn't end up with half the suspense of, say, The Blair Witch Project let alone Spielberg's masterpiece JAWS which dumps all over this even though the shark in that one now looks like cardboard. A mediocre film in every sense of the word, though Ryan's breasts did look nice so her real talents were put to some use even if for one short scene.

I'm really getting confused in this forum as of late, seems like if it's not spiderman it's not good. I'm not bashing everyone and it did please me to see positive feedback for films like Garden State and Eternal Sunshine recently but what the hell.

I'm not trying to say you should like this film but why the fuck open a thread saying it's the worst film ever, especially when there are multiple threads already open on the same movie? It's also a little weird that a mod didn't do a search (because they already knew there was a thread on this moive anyway) and delete this piece shit of nonsense.

This film was great, it was disturbing and all the actors involved felt like everyday normal people, it had a documentary feel and it took you along for the ride.

And a little note on Jaws, the fucking movie is shit, laughable at best and I never liked the damn movie. So great white sharks eating fucking boats makes for great film? Give me a goddamn break. Also, If you actually watched this flick instead of bitching about no guy flying from bird to bird via spiderweb in the backround, you prob. would have notice that this film is all about playing on your fear and asking yourself what you would do in the same situation.

I was with you until this. Jaws is a masterpiece. A classic. One of the best films of the 70's. One of the few cases where the movie is superior to the book it's based on. A perfect amalgam of top-notch writing, expert direction, effective thrills, suspense and fully-realized characters. What everyone remembers first are the characters Hooper, Quint and Chief Brody....and then the fact that there's a great white shark in this story. I seriously doubt anyone will remember Daniel and Susan 30 years from now. End of story.

What does this crapfest "Open Water" have to do with "Garden State" and "Eternal Sunshine"?

I wish a mod could delete this film.

As for you 'Jaws' comment; I have to agree with Rivero.

I'm not bashing you for liking it, but I found the movie to be in the bottom five for the year.

So I'm not the biggest fan of Jaws, that's just me, look past it. After reading what I wrote, looks like I should of added: "but I still see why so many people love it" so now that I've calmed down, I apologize for not adding that but in my own defense from what I wrote, I still stick to my original comments on it.

Basically, my post stands as to why the hell the thread was active in the first place. It is possible some idiot may come along and bash Jaws in a single thread and while most people won't give a shit they're still using a thread for their own purpose instead of the forum as a whole.

I'm not perfect and I prob. fuck up a lot, but hell, at least I try to do things right.

EDIT: I have to admit, I'm still prob. not making any sense from being so pissed of at the OP from 2002 who wrote this:

"This movie was absolutely awful. How in the world this got pretty good reviews is unbelievable. No suspense, terrible acting..yes i know this was an indie film but...Dont bother even attempting to rent this."

Guess it's a good idea to shut the hell up now, I already know this is going to turn into a "how dare you hate Jaws!!" situation.

Maybe it's believable that they were left behind because those moments of sheer stupidity really happened. Not quite like it's shown in the film but it happened. Of course, everything that happened to them after they were left behind is unknown and nothing but speculation or guesses or perhaps just the story the film makers decided to make. Given that so much of what is known was changed (in fact if not in spirit) and what was not known was made up I think it would have been better for them to have said "inspired by a true story" rather than "based on true events" as they did.

As for the acting, I agree it wasn't good. But to me that didn't detract from the tension, suspense and sense of dread I felt. They seemed like real people and I kept thinking of the horror of being in their situation.

Of course it pales as a film next to Jaws. But other than the fact that both movies have sharks and people and a lot of water, there is no reason to compare them (I know you were not the first to do so). I think it was about as good as The Blair Witch Project which many people hated. That's a better comparison from the standpoint of their low budgets. And I liked them both. And I haven't seen the Blair Witch actors making it big either. A glance on IMDb shows pretty thin filmographies.

I just watched the DVD of this movie. To be honest, I feel it is quite boring. However, as you said, this is indie movie. So it is quite good in terms of the indie. And also it was based on a true story. perhaps you should regard it as a documentary movie rather than a horror movie.

For someone who wants to learn to make an indie movie, this movie might be a good lesson.

I watched Open Water tonight on DVD, and then I came here to this thread. I read every single post in this thread, and I was getting ready to say the exact same thing as you DVD Smurf, but then right as I was about finished with reading all of the posts, I see that you have already said it, heh. Very odd, but I'm happy that I'm not alone.

Here are a few random thoughts from me:

-How someone can say that Blanchard Ryan is fat, or whatever, really confuses me. She has what I like to call "an absolute perfect ideal body". It's fine if you don't find her attractive, but to call her, and women like her, FAT, is simply f'd up.

-While the acting, camera work, etc... in the film was lacking, I thought it fit this picture. I may be wrong, but what this film looks like to me is something that went out there, and purposely did much of what everyone is hating on, on purpose. The camera work to me looks like it is as it is simply to make it seem more real, something like a documentary shoot. The acting seems a bit off because instead of wanting to look like "acting", it's going more for a real feel, how people might really act and talk.

-The scene during the storm at night is one of the all time greatest, most perfect, most outstanding examples of tension, fear, and everything else of the sort that I've ever seen in my life. As I watched this in the room with all of the lights off, with the volume turned way up, it just hit me like a ton of bricks. I can't remember the last time that a film, A FILM, caused me to actually break out into a cold sweat because I was feeling so much tension from a scene.

-The ending is perfection, I couldn't have thought of anything better to add there at the end. As Susan went under the water, and the surface joined together leaving only the waves, it was as if her tomb, as well as Daniel's, had been sealed. It was as if the solid stone tablet had been placed over them both, sealing their respective fates. The shot of them both just fading away, disappearing, leaving nothing but the water and their remaining belongings said more to me than most films do over a period of two hours.

-After Susan lets go of Daniel, and allows him to float away and then sink, the shots of the sharks under the water was just, well, I don't really know how to put it. It was chilling, heartbreaking, and just so much more. You see the top of the water, the camera goes under but not totally, so you don't see anything. It goes back up, then goes under a bit more, and that continues for a while. Then finally it goes back up, then under just enough so you can see just how many sharks are involved now.

Wow.

Like I said, to me it was a documentary, a very chilling, telling, emotional trip through one of the worst nightmares of all time.

well the current commercials for it compare it to Jaws
I can't remember the exact wording but something like "the best shark movie since jaws"

Name a better shark movie since Jaws then. I can't think of any.

Jaws 2

Deep Blue Sea was so-so (well it was bad, but still better than this one).