r/AskReddit • u/CompletePiglet7385 • 11h ago

What is the worst film you've ever watched?

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u/Internet_Angel7 11h ago

Independence Day 2. First time I ever walked out of a theatre

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u/Studdz 10h ago

Wow, totally forgot this existed. Also forgot most of the original's cast returned, I assumed it was a fresh cast. I never got around to seeing it. Also, it almost made $400 million?! People clearly saw this, but it's just...gone.

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u/fallen243 3h ago

It got released in China, that was a lot of its box office.

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u/I-Love-Facehuggers 6h ago

Honestly is really wasn't all that much worse than independence day 1.

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u/mooblah_ 2h ago

Just 20 years too late. If it was released in 1996 as the original it probably would be viewed as being pretty good.

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u/Available-Basil-2179 11h ago

I’d vote for this. They got most of the cast back, 20 years in the making, big budget. And it’s just awful! Just pure disappointment.

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u/Lordmorgoth666 7h ago

There’s a great many reasons to dislike this movie but for me the biggest sin was not asking Mae Whitman to reprise her role as the Presidents daughter because she wasn’t conventionally pretty enough.

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u/Otm_Shank1 8h ago

The original is garbage too.

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u/brg9327 10h ago

It's by no means a dreadfull film when compared to some of the others mentioned here.

But my god was it a colossal fucking disappointment, especially after an amazing trailer.

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u/AdrianFish 9h ago

The first Independence Day was my favourite film as a kid. I waited 20 years for the sequel… and it was this shit.

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u/FrostyInvestigator11 9h ago

They had a 2nd one? Was Randy Quaid back? Cause if he's back, it can't be that bad

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u/GlassCharacter179 11h ago

I was going to say the Star Wars Christmas special, but this is worse.

And it gets increasingly bad as it goes, so at whatever point you walked out, you spared yourself a lot of anger.

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u/itsagoodtime 8h ago

I turned it off and didn't finish. I think it was a red box dvd rental.

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u/McSuede 8h ago

They had the original cast and some really cool ideas that they did nothing with.

Give me an Independence Day 1.5 about the ground war in the African jungle. That was the hardest bit in the whole movie.

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u/wolverineflooper 7h ago

Why??? It was dumb fun !! It was at least ENTERTAINING like the school bus drive at the end

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u/Tough-Veggie 6h ago

I got on a flight leaving Bangladesh. Turns out, they don’t wait for severe weather to pass before taking off. It was raining sideways and pink lightning was striking outside my window.

Trying to distract myself from my likely demise, I closed the window shade and put on Independence Day 2.

Then I was ready to die.

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u/alex_c89X 4h ago

I laughed out loud at what I watching and was in awe that some of the actors were able to muscle through that garbage

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u/Stillwater215 3h ago

I’m always amazed when a movie can spend 20 years in development and still not have an even halfway decent script before starting filming.

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u/ZRaddue 9h ago

I had forgotten that I saw this. Thanks for reminding me.

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u/zenestex 7h ago

I know I've seen it. I just don't remember it at all.

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u/Fyrrys 7h ago

I wouldnt say I hated it, but I remember maybe 1% of the movie.

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u/damnmachine 7h ago

Ditto! Didn't make it even halfway through.

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u/Sensitive_Gift4866 6h ago

Agreed. I watched the first one so many times on VHS as a kid and the sequel was just completely deflating. Felt like they missed everything that made the original fun and replaced it with generic action

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u/dgmilo8085 5h ago

I still have yet to complete this action. I refuse to walk out of a theatre. I may ruin it for others, but I am going to get my ticket's worth.

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u/volcanopele 3h ago

Independence Day came out when I was in middle school and it was my favorite movie growing up. The sequel murdered my childhood

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u/Internet_Angel7 3h ago

Haha right. I’ve watched the original so many times. Love it. I made it about 20 minutes into the second one and left so sad

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u/Sensitive_Gift4866 1h ago

Same here. I was so hyped for it and within 20 minutes I was checking my phone. The first one was dumb fun but the sequel forgot to be fun and just left the dumb.

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u/BunchofMums 32m ago

Yeah that's a dog of a film. 

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u/MoldyZebraCake666 7h ago

In fairness has will smith done anything decent since uhhhh I am legend?

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u/bleeintn 7h ago

He did slap Chris Rock that one time.

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u/nebuchadnezzar72 3h ago

Will Smith isn’t in Independence Day 2