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The Ice Cube War of The Worlds on Amazon Prime is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. It almost has to be seen to be believed. Ice Cube's performance is atrocious, but hilarious. His facial expressions and the way he delivers the lines like he's reading off a piece of paper are comedy gold. The CGI is SyFy Channel in 2001 levels of bad. It also has the most insane product placement I've ever seen. Amazon gets mentioned like 25 times and multiple Amazon products are big plot points.

This is the most fun I've had at watching a bad movie since Gotti and Serenity.
 
'One of the worst movies I've ever seen' might as well be the tagline for the film at this point as I've lost count of the number of times I've heard that said about this film. I'm really tempted to watch it but I just don't think I could sit through it.
 
I recommend at least twenty minutes to see Ice Cube staring in confusion at his computer screen.

I'm sure some youtube megamix will come out with Ice Cube's best line deliveries. It's such a pile of shit, but it didn't make me as angry as Fool's Paradise or that Jerry Seinfeld poptart movie from last year.
 
"War of the Worlds"-can this even be called a movie? Because whatever this is feels like the direct antithesis of one. It doesn't even feel like some kind of oddity that needs to be seen to be believed IMO. It's just really fucking boring.
 
I watched it. It certainly qualifies for worst movie of the year/decade/ever discussion, if it's actually a movie. But I'm not really sure if it is. It's something though, that's for sure.
 
Smues said:
I watched it. It certainly qualifies for worst movie of the year/decade/ever discussion, if it's actually a movie. But I'm not really sure if it is. It's something though, that's for sure.
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I mean, there's movies I think are worse (everything in "Battlefield Earth" without John Travolta, "The Underground Comedy Movie" and "Loqueesha" (remember that one?), but it's easily the worst of the year. It's certainly up there with the worst.

It's also a reminder that there are three kinds of bad movie (which sometimes are two or all three at the same time)-those that are so bad they are good/must be seen to be believed ("The Room", "Mac and Me" and "Samurai Cop" for example), those that are complete brain melters/oddities that must be seen to be believed (the filmography of Neil Breen, several films released on Blu by boutique labels such as Vinegar Syndrome and American Genre Film Archive, "The Exorcist II"...honestly I could go on with this one) and those that are just painful to watch ("Wild Wild West", "House of the Dead" and "Movie 43" for example). "War of the Worlds" is a movie that on paper seems like a mix of so bad it's good and incredibly weird, but at the end of the day is just bad in a painful way. The only weird thing about it is the fact it exists at all.

*I was 17 at the time
 
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I can't see something topping it. But for me I'll take some horrible serious slop like War Of The Worlds over a really bad and objectively unfunny comedy like Fool's Paradise from 2023 or Unfrosted from last year. Like I'll gladly take Ice Cube starring at a computer screen and conversing with Sandra Nasa over Ken Jeong's performance in Fool's Paradise or Jerry Seinfeld trying to act.
 
Brocklock said:
I can't see something topping it. But for me I'll take some horrible serious slop like War Of The Worlds over a really bad and objectively unfunny comedy like Fool's Paradise from 2023 or Unfrosted from last year. Like I'll gladly take Ice Cube starring at a computer screen and conversing with Sandra Nasa over Ken Jeong's performance in Fool's Paradise or Jerry Seinfeld trying to act.
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I do think objectively bad comedy movies are usually the worst kind there is. There might be a few exceptions ("Super Soul Brother", which is from the 70s and one of the most bizarre examples of Blaxploitation ever made-that one is definitely in the "must be seen to be believed" list), but something that's supposed to be funny but isn't doesn't hold up to other kinds of bad movies you can laugh at/be dumbfounded by.
 
Saw some new "thriller" called Trust over the weekend that is right in line with the worst of the year for sure. I swear this movie was written by AI because it had storyline jumps all over the place and nonsensical pivots a plenty. The film also fell into some sleazy creepy vibe too probably within a half hour of it that made me question how a subsidiary studio of Paramount could have been a part of this.

I can't recall the last time I left a movie halfway through but it happened here. Every character was the equivalent of human idiocy unintentionally so there was some so goddamn brutal ya had to laugh a bit but then the film took a few turns into more just overt pretentious stupidity that made absolutely no sense. It got to the point where I had no desire to even see how further off the rails it would go....I just wanted out!

Might be a fun absurd viewing once it inevitably hits streaming but I kind of get the vibe the studio is trying to even low key hide they made this by the limited marketing and I think I read it was absolutely not screened ahead of time to critics
 
Him looks really stupid and kind of entertaining. I can't buy Marlon in this role and his menacing yelling had me laughing in the trailer.
 
The definition of a movie that is literally riding "You like this actor doing his/her schtick? Here we go" *holds hands out with silver platter* but for Jack Black, Paul Rudd, and Steve Zahn.
 
Jack Black might be my least favorite actor working today and I loved him in the 2000's and early 10's. Just so fake and annoying at this point. It's so tired. People talk about how tired they are of like Kevin Hart or Dwayne, but I'm much more sick of stupid ass Jables and his fat guy song and dance shit.

Paul Rudd redeemed himself with his role in Friendship earlier this year, but I was getting sick of him too.
 
This looks terrible but on the other hand, we always go to a movie at Xmas time and I would 1000x rather see this than another Avatar movie.
 
cobainwasmurdered said:
This looks terrible but on the other hand, we always go to a movie at Xmas time and I would 1000x rather see this than another Avatar movie.
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At least "Avatar" is good to look at and feels like an actual movie. This just looks like the worst shit imaginable.
 
it's also over 3 and half hours of super pretentious bullshit to try and justify CGI Porn. I agree it's technically "better" than this, I just can't handle another one.
 
Brocklock said:
Jack Black might be my least favorite actor working today and I loved him in the 2000's and early 10's. Just so fake and annoying at this point. It's so tired. People talk about how tired they are of like Kevin Hart or Dwayne, but I'm much more sick of stupid ass Jables and his fat guy song and dance shit.
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Jack Black’s whole deal where he’s always gotta be on is so goddamn tiresome. He just never comes off like a real human being any time you see him now.

After Robin Williams passed he got nothing but love from everyone. Rightfully so. But it seemed like around that time people were getting tired of him for the same reason.
 
"Honey, Don't!"-I like the acting outside of whatever Chris Evans is doing, but otherwise this is fucking awful. I didn't hate "Drive Away Dolls", as that actually felt like it had a plot and consequences. This? Outside of the fact Joel Coen and his wife wanted to make a series of queer centric genre movies, I have no idea why this was made or greenlit.
 
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After a few weeks of movies that either got good reviews ("28 Years Later: The Bone Temple", "Primate" and "We Bury the Dead") to at least not the worst ("Greenland 2"), we get the first two "Fuck you, it's January" movies of the month in Mercy (aka "Christ Pratt vs AI") and Return to Silent Hill. Of them, "Mercy" is the first time since either "Argyle" that the existence of a January movie has annoyed me (and the existence of certain movies rarely makes me feel that way nowadays). Like, who is the audience for this shit? (same goes for "Return to Silent Hill", but its existence is more of a shoulder shrug IMO)

Also, next week we get a Melania Trump documentary.
 
This week's biggest dud is Psycho Killer, which currently sits at 0% and according to one review, was shot 3 years ago and is now just being dumped into theaters. How to Make a Killing isn't setting the world on fire either, nor are two other horror films in This is Not a Test and The Dreadful.

edit: more on "Psycho Killer" from this review

The saga of PSYCHO KILLER’s long and winding road to the screen might make a more compelling movie than PSYCHO KILLER itself. The screenplay by SE7EN’s Andrew Kevin Walker dates back two decades, and was first going to go before the cameras in 2009 with Fred Durst, of all people, at the helm. He was replaced the following year by Gavin Polone, a producer with credits including the Walker-scripted 8MM, making his feature directorial debut, and Eli Roth as part of the producing team. The movie finally lensed under Polone in 2023, got its R rating in April 2024 and has been on the shelf since then, until its release this weekend with no critics’ screenings.
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Kind of insane this is playing in theaters, especially in a time where this sort of trouble production with a smaller budget tends to go direct to streaming.
 
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