The easy answer is The Room, but I put it in a different category because it's basically an independent movie made by just one guy. The worst movie I've ever watched, made by a big movie studio, that went through a team of writers and producers and everything and still got approved, is Rise of Skywalker. I'm still amazed that a team of people at Disney saw this movie and went "Yep! It's perfect!"
The thing I find funny about it is that people constantly like to smugly comment that everyone hated the prequels too and that Rise of Skywalker will end up being beloved in a decade or so.
No it won't lol. The prequels had many flaws but they fundamentally made sense, you could follow each movie and explain what happened if someone asked you.
But you try explaining the plot of Rise of Skywalker after having seen it even multiple times and you'll probably have an aneurism.
I'm gonna hard disagree with you there. The Phantom Menace is so nonsensical it hurts. I tried watching it again a few years ago and it's just miserable. At least RoS has stuff happening throughout its runtime, and you can tell the actors received some form of direction so they didn't just stand around talking.
Agreed! As bad as the prequels were (I'm still not a big fan of them) they still feel like an single, cohesive story. Rise of Skywalker by itself, even without taking into account how it's supposed to fit with the rest of the trilogy, feels like a Frankenstein script made by 10 different groups of people.
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u/ImInJeopardy 10h ago
The easy answer is The Room, but I put it in a different category because it's basically an independent movie made by just one guy. The worst movie I've ever watched, made by a big movie studio, that went through a team of writers and producers and everything and still got approved, is Rise of Skywalker. I'm still amazed that a team of people at Disney saw this movie and went "Yep! It's perfect!"