Worst movie you have ever seen in your life.

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A few come to mind:

The Deer Hunter - I had only ever seen the Vietnam Russian roulette scene before and so I got it from Netflix back around 2007 and watched it. The first 45 minutes are the most depressing, gray, boring Russian wedding in some miserable Pennsylvania steel town. Then you have like 15 minutes of good movie during the Vietnam scenes, then another 45 minutes of depressing, miserable post-Vietnam Pennsylvania scenes. Literally bored out of my mind.

The Deer Hunter won the Academy Award for best picture, and although it's controversial most people from the day seem to still think of it as a quality movie (check the IMDB reviews and ratings).

I was born in 1970 and the film came out in 1978, so I was too young to understand what was going on at the time (I don't know that all 7/8 year olds wouldn't understand, but I didn't) but I saw it recently and I largely agree with this.  It's certainly one of the worst if not the worst best picture winner of all time.

Having been alive in the 1970s though, I think I understand why it was so highly regarded then. First, the movie studio was apparently the first to use 'Oscar buzz' marketing to sell basically a completely un-mainstream film to become a pretty big hit, so I don't think anybody wanted to admit they were taken in by the hype (though I don't know if that was a big deal.)

I think there were two things going on:
1.The film, being partially about Vietnam and partially about its effects (what today is called PTSD) was part of the time.  Outside of the context, even with the more general and abstract understanding of the cost of war today, I don't think that part is fully appreciated.

2.I think the even bigger part though, is that the film fit in to the art around the time, especially the music (although it came out a couple years after this type of music was popular.) The movie strikes me as very similar to the seemingly endless and improvised guitar solos (or other musical instruments) that were in so many songs from the early to the mid to late 1970s.  Indeed, each scene in the movie seems to be written to be as long as possible and, frequently, as random as possible.

I consider the film to be like those long guitar solos, often boring, sometimes interesting, but ultimately just indulgent.

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No point picking on little known films and these films, both generally highly regarded, are actually the two films that are the worst I've ever seen.

1.It's a Mad Mad Mad World.  It's a bad bad bad movie.  The movie is overly long, very noisy, violent (the first half anyway.  Cartoons to me can get away with this violence, but not live action) unremittingly cynical and negative and worst of all, not funny.  The first two scenes are the exceptions.  In the first scene, a dead guy, when experiencing rigamortis literally kicks a bucket.  I thought that was a clever site gag.  In the second scene, the 'gang' tries to negotiate over something that I thought was a fairly clever use of 'game theory' which wasn't even a 'known' concept at the time.

2.Close Encounters of the Third Kind.  I can't understand why people like it.  I consider it nothing more than two hours of "how can we embarrass Richard Dreyfus in this scene?"  By far the two worst scenes are when Dreyfus plays with his mashed potatoes and then the scene after when he plays with a pile of leaves.