How long did you last? Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for those movies that are truly difficult to sit through in their entirety.
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00:00I have a Gumby cat in mind. Her name is Jenny and he darts.
00:09Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for those movies that are truly difficult to sit through in their entirety,
00:15either due to terrible quality, the cringe factor, disturbing content, or even just being plain old boring.
00:21Billy Zane. It's been years.
00:31Number 20. The Emoji Movie. The Emoji Movie is classified as an animated comedy. Well, that's half right.
00:38This film is definitely animated, we aren't arguing with that. But comedy? That's pushing the definition of the term.
00:45Mary, I think we're being followed. But don't overreact.
00:50Unless that term refers to the hysterical amount of obvious and cringe product placements, because in that case, the Emoji Movie was perfect.
00:57But if we're talking actual funny stuff, allow us to quote Alonzo Doraldi of The Wrap, who called the film soul-crushing.
01:11If there was an unwatchable emoji, that's the one we would be using right now.
01:16Number 19. Collateral Beauty. How could a movie starring Will Smith, Edward Norton, Keira Knightley, Kate Winslet, and Helen Mirren be unwatchable?
01:25It's not easy, but 2016's Collateral Beauty managed to do it.
01:30I don't care about time. This is a prison sentence! I don't want your death!
01:38After tragedy strikes Will Smith's character, he writes letters to love, time, and death in an attempt to find answers and an understanding of the universe.
01:46This could either be deep and powerful, or emotionally manipulative. Guess which one it was.
01:51Well, what if I get a restraining order?
01:53Well, I don't think you're going to be able to do that.
01:55Well, I'll get mom to pay for it.
01:56Well, for your information, they're free.
01:58Well, then I'll get you to pay for it.
01:59Sitting through Collateral Beauty means feeling the obvious and superficial jerking of your tears.
02:04We love a good movie cry as much as the next person, but we don't when it feels like it's being forced out of us to cover up poor writing.
02:11Number 18. The Snowman. With Michael Fassbender in the lead role and promising source material, The Snowman could have been 100% watchable.
02:19This psychological thriller is about a police inspector chasing a serial killer who leaves snowmen in his crime scenes.
02:25Sounds simple enough, right?
02:27Wrong!
02:34Sit down, Harry.
02:35As critics pointed out, the film's plot was all over the place and kind of hard to comprehend.
02:40This takes us back to that 100% comment we made earlier.
02:43You see, according to director Thomas Alfredson, due to the short pre-production schedule and budget issues during production, 10 to 15% of the script didn't get shot.
02:56Number 17. Fantastic Four.
03:01To some, superhero movies are like pizza.
03:04Even the bad ones are still pretty good, but we have yet to experience a pizza we didn't finish.
03:162015's Fantastic Four is a superhero movie we just can't get through.
03:20Given the film's 9% Rotten Tomatoes score, we aren't alone.
03:24Not that the 2005 Fantastic Four film was anything great, but it was better than this one.
03:39Acting, directing, editing, the 2015 reboot failed on all levels.
03:44Let's hope the planned reboot finally puts the Fantastic back into Fantastic Four.
03:48In any case, it doesn't get worse than this.
03:53How about the big brain and her neurons?
03:55How about two guys, a girl, and the thing that nobody wanted?
03:58Number 16. A Thousand Words.
04:01We could use a thousand words to tell you why this 2012 film is utterly unwatchable, but all we need is one.
04:07Unfunny.
04:09The author's marketing commitments to this project.
04:12No, thank you, Jack. I'm on Atkins.
04:14But I really don't see any reason why we shouldn't go ahead and sign this right now so we can all move forward together as one professional team.
04:22Given his early work, we don't use the word unfunny lightly about anything Eddie Murphy does.
04:26But when it comes to A Thousand Words, it's unwatchably true.
04:29To be fair, the uber-talented actor and comedian isn't working with anything here.
04:33Not to mention the fact that the film is all about Murphy having to stop talking, thus taking away the man's greatest comedic strength.
04:40Mmm.
04:41Minty triple shot iced latte.
04:46Extra milk?
04:48Number 15. Soul Man.
04:50A white student pretends to be black to get a scholarship to university.
04:54Are you cringing yet?
04:55Okay, so I misplaced my license. What the hell are you gonna do, arrest me?
05:01Okay, wait for it.
05:03To complete his ruse, the guy uses a massive amount of tanning pills to look darker.
05:08Let the cringing begin!
05:10While the filmmakers may have had the best of intentions to explore racism in American society,
05:14those intentions were very much not fulfilled.
05:17Instead, the blackface-esque makeup was widely criticized.
05:21Even beyond that, the movie was a well-intentioned mess that, as one critic put it,
05:25approached the topic on the level of a dim-witted sitcom.
05:29Sir, wait a sec-
05:36Number 14. Gotti.
05:38John Gotti was one of the most famous New York mob bosses of all time.
05:41His life was filled with drama, crime, and intrigue.
05:45Perfect for a Hollywood movie.
05:46However, when it comes to the 2018 biopic about the man,
05:50well, let's just say it should have been whacked before it ever saw the light of day.
05:54What are you talking about? We've been doing this for 20 years.
05:57Let me ask you something. You're gonna put these good people in jail because they're proud of their country?
06:01Is that right?
06:02The film went through years of development, with multiple directors coming on and getting out.
06:06Maybe they read the script and jumped ship since the writing was a main point of contention for many critics.
06:11Speaking of critics, we're talking 0% on Rotten Tomatoes,
06:15and we assume that's only the ones that made it through the entire film.
06:18You'll be strong.
06:22Okay?
06:24Promise?
06:25I promise.
06:27Number 13, Empire.
06:29Andy Warhol is a pop art god, and one of the most influential artists of the 20th century.
06:34However, his 1965 film, Empire, had to make this list.
06:38Not because it wasn't an avant-garde masterpiece that explored our concepts of time,
06:42but because it is 8 hours and 5 minutes long.
06:46Yep, that's right.
06:47The film is a slow-mo view of the Empire State Building for 8 hours and 5 minutes.
06:53We're not sure if Warhol intended for people to sit there for all 29,100 seconds,
06:58but let us know if you could.
07:00Number 12, The Love Guru.
07:02From Wayne's World to Austin Powers to Shrek,
07:05Mike Myers had an amazing run of comedic success in the 90s and early aughts.
07:09Then in 2008 came The Love Guru, one of the most unfunny comedies of the century so far.
07:15I'd like to thank the academy.
07:17Wow, these things are heavy.
07:19Yeah.
07:20This Razzie Award winner for worst picture was so bad and so panned by both audiences and critics
07:25that Myers' career almost came to a screeching halt.
07:28He hasn't written another film or been the star of a non-animated movie since then.
07:33It probably would have been better for him if nobody had watched it.
07:37Number 11, Gummo.
07:40Harmony Coren burst onto the scene with his script for the controversial coming-of-age film Kids in 1995.
07:46For his next film, he wrote the screenplay and got behind the camera to direct.
07:50That movie was Gummo, an experimental and disturbing film about...
07:54well, that's hard to say.
07:56Hold your shoulders.
07:59You miss your dad?
08:01I do.
08:02Come on, hold that tummy in.
08:04The movie incorporates vignette and non-narrative storytelling
08:07along with graphic content to make for a very different movie,
08:10one that people generally have strong emotions about.
08:12They love it or they hate it,
08:14with more falling into the latter category
08:16and many of those probably finding it unwatchable as well.
08:25Number 10, Son of the Mask.
08:29When Jim Carrey turned down $10 million to make a sequel to his hit 1994 film The Mask,
08:34that should have been the end of it.
08:36But when the studios have a hit movie,
08:38they have a hard time letting go of the idea of sucking every last possible penny from the property.
08:42That's how you get things like Son of the Mask.
08:49Instead of Jim Carrey, you have Jamie Kennedy.
08:52Instead of top-notch physical comedy,
08:54you have an over-reliance on special effects.
08:56Instead of a lot of laughs, you have very, very, very few.
09:00Richard Roper called it the closest he'd come to walking out halfway through the film.
09:04Agreed.
09:09Number 9, Alone in the Dark.
09:11Director Uwe Boll made a name for himself in the 2000s.
09:14Unfortunately for him, that name was synonymous with making really bad movies.
09:27Often adaptations of video games,
09:29the gold standard people always point to is Alone in the Dark.
09:33With a 1% Rotten Tomatoes rating,
09:35and a CinemaScore audience grade of F,
09:37this thing is purely awful.
09:40Acting, directing, writing,
09:42this film fails on all levels.
09:44You'd be better off literally sitting alone in the dark
09:47than subjecting your eyes to even a few minutes of this film's 96 minutes.
09:57Number 8, Zoolander 2.
09:59Hey, if you're looking for celebrity cameos,
10:01then Zoolander 2 might be one of the most watchable movies of all time.
10:04The problem is that a celebrity's presence alone isn't automatically funny.
10:09You have to write them jokes!
10:11Moo!
10:18There are only so many cameos and blue steel faces they can throw at us
10:22before we realize we haven't lulled in a while.
10:25Remember, living up to the audience's expectations after the first film was going to be hard.
10:29But you know what you do if you can't make a good sequel?
10:31Just don't make it!
10:33Everybody loves you guys again.
10:35Did you hear that? We did it!
10:37Number 7, Titicut Follies.
10:39While the term unwatchable is generally associated with a bad product,
10:43that isn't always the case.
10:45As with the 1967 documentary Titicut Follies.
10:56In fact, the film was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation
11:00in the United States National Film Registry.
11:02No, in this case, the unwatchable nature of the film is the subject matter itself.
11:07Filmed over 29 days at the Massachusetts Bridgewater State Hospital for the Criminally Insane,
11:12the film captured the harsh and disturbing realities of the institution and the patients therein.
11:17It's definitely worth watching, if you can.
11:20Okay?
11:22Okay?
11:24Alright.
11:25Go ahead.
11:26Bye.
11:30Number 6, Salò or The 120 Days of Sodom.
11:34Salò or The 120 Days of Sodom was Italian director Piero Paolo Pasolini's final film,
11:40and undoubtedly his most controversial.
11:42And I don't want to rob you of that pleasure.
11:44Well, the theme of the stories we have heard today suggests to me that we should change or amend
11:49the rules we have accepted.
11:51To some, it's a masterpiece.
11:53To others, it's disturbing, repugnant, and to quote the TV Guide Review,
11:58nearly unwatchable.
11:59Loosely based on a novel by Marquis de Sade,
12:02the film sets itself in World War II Italy,
12:04where a bunch of rich libertines kidnap teenagers and torture them.
12:08We don't need to say any more for you to understand how this one could be hard to watch.
12:11Do we?
12:12Oh yes, obviously our hero knew not only Nietzsche,
12:15but Wiesman as well, as you will soon understand, I assure you.
12:19Number 5, Catwoman.
12:212004's Catwoman won more awards than many other superhero films.
12:25Unfortunately, they were Golden Raspberry Awards.
12:28And of the film's seven nominations,
12:30it won Worst Picture, Worst Actress for Halle Berry,
12:33Worst Director, and Worst Screenplay.
12:39You hear that?
12:40It's called silence.
12:42If by some miracle you make it through the first part of the movie,
12:45just wait until Berry and Benjamin Brad to play basketball.
12:48The downright ridiculousness of that one-on-one scene
12:51will have you saying enough is enough.
12:53You'd think that maybe this is one of those so bad it's good movies,
12:57but no, it's just so bad, it's bad.
13:00And unwatchable.
13:06Number 4, Jack and Jill.
13:08Adam Sandler is an enigma.
13:10While he has made some of the funniest movies we've seen,
13:13he's also made a bunch that are downright unwatchable.
13:16Case in point, Jack and Jill.
13:24Basically, the joke here is that Sandler is playing both twin siblings,
13:27Jack and Jill, and that's it.
13:29This is a one-joke movie,
13:31and that one joke isn't very funny to begin with.
13:34Okay, yes, it does have Al Pacino in it,
13:36and he, as always, is worth watching.
13:39However, even the great Pacino can only save the film for so long
13:43over the unfunny and unwatchableness of it becomes overwhelming.
13:54Number 3, The Last Airbender.
13:56In 2007, it was announced that M. Night Shyamalan
13:59had signed on to make three live-action films
14:02based on the animated series, Avatar The Last Airbender.
14:10Hold on, we know what you're thinking.
14:12Didn't they make only one movie?
14:14Yes, they did, and you know why.
14:16Because the one they made was so terrible,
14:18they cancelled the plans for the other two.
14:20Shyamalan took a beloved property
14:22with an interesting, deep, and exciting world
14:25and made it, well, really boring.
14:28If you're a fan of the series,
14:30you'll hate it knowing what could have been.
14:32If you've never seen the show, you'll just hate it.
14:34Either way, making it through this one is harder than bending the air.
14:39Number 2, Cannibal Holocaust.
14:42Now, no one probably thinks that a movie called Cannibal Holocaust
14:46is going to be a fun, family-friendly viewing experience.
14:49But this 1980 Italian horror film
14:52is even more disturbing than you might imagine.
14:56How much of the material is without sound?
14:58Less than half.
14:59Ah.
15:00Gruesome might not be a strong enough word
15:02to describe some of the sexual violence
15:04and animal cruelty in the film.
15:06Even those who wrote positive reviews of the film
15:08often noted the imagery as truly repugnant
15:11and sometimes unwatchable.
15:13Just so you know what you're getting into
15:14if you do decide to give it a shot.
15:16John, I want this material burned.
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15:42We're sure some of you saw this one
15:44coming from a mile away.
15:45Bad, unwatchable, worst ever.
15:48There are so many adjectives
15:50that have been used to describe Battlefield Earth
15:52and they are all well-deserved.
15:53And you were waiting for me to be transferred
15:55so you could turn it in
15:56and get all the credit for yourself.
15:58I didn't think you'd mind.
15:59I don't mind.
16:00Based on a novel by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard,
16:03the film was a passion project for John Travolta
16:05who saw it as part one of a two-part telling of the novel.
16:08However, when this film bombed as hard as it did,
16:11that put an end to any chance of a second film getting made.
16:14Well, that's a silver lining at least.
16:16Imbecile!
16:17What kind of crap lousy game are you playing?
16:20How many of these unwatchable movies have you watched?
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