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Even though 2023 presented us with some quite high-grossing movies—the so-called “Barbenheimer” and The Super Mario Bros. Movie, for instance—not everything people watched over the past year was equally attention-worthy. Ask anyone who has sat down in front of a screen at least a few times and they will line them up for you, from the one they liked the most to the one they did the least, or maybe even found quite disappointing.

Members of the ‘Movies’ subreddit recently discussed disappointing works of cinema after the user ‘Starless Princess’ started a discussion about it. The OP shared that they tried giving The Portable Door a go (ended up regretting the decision) and decided to ask what was the worst thing fellow redditors watched in 2023. Scroll down to find their answers on the list below and see if they coincide with your list of “I’m never watching that ever again”.

#1

29 People Share The Worst Movies They've Watched In 2023 Probably Wish. It’s like someone fed a bunch of Disney movies into an AI program.

That-Stop2808 , IMDb Report

#2

29 People Share The Worst Movies They've Watched In 2023 Jonah Hill’s *You People*. Couldn’t even finish it.

MISTER-Boomstick-2-u , IMDb Report

#3

29 People Share The Worst Movies They've Watched In 2023 Black Adam. Had to turn it off. The acting and writing was awful.

_pinnaculum , IMDb Report

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Zedrapazia
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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As most superhero movies. Honestly, they're all CGI battles and nothing else, the scripts are 95% of the time garbage and the actors have horrible dialogue and their talent is wasted, no matter if they are newcomers or known faces.

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29 People Share The Worst Movies They've Watched In 2023 Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, just disaster

u/skuzzy87x:

Here's the thing though. I'm a sucker for bad flicks. Especially horror flicks. And I always finish what I started no matter how much of a pain it can be to get through.

I didn't make it 25 minutes. Absolutely trash.

kvicky7 , IMDb Report

#5

29 People Share The Worst Movies They've Watched In 2023 *Expendables 4* a film that exists to make *Expendables 3* feel better about itself.

MovieMike007 , IMDb Report

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Rocket Surgeon
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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I watched Expendables 1. It was okay, but not good enough to bother seeing 2 or any other sequels. Reading this, I feel like I got it right.

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#6

29 People Share The Worst Movies They've Watched In 2023 Napoleon. Badly directed, badly edited, badly written, bad sex scenes, bad battles and bad history. It did have nice costumes, I will give it that.

u/hundredhorses:

Napoleon, not just the worst movie I've seen this year, quite possibly the worst movie I've seen in my whole life. Certainly the most disappointing.

Disregarding the litany of historical inaccuracies, the movie is just bad. It's boring and there is no context for anything that happens.

Joaquin Phoenix is too old to play Napoleon, and his acting was bad.

We got a trailer for a grand Napoleon action movie in the style of Gladiator. What we got was a boring, weird and a-historical 3 hour mess of autism Napoleon.

Comstar , IMDb Report

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Zedrapazia
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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I haven't seen the movie but for heaven's sake, why does a film about Napoleon, a conqueror, have śex scenes?

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#7

29 People Share The Worst Movies They've Watched In 2023 Quantumania. Just stripped the heart and soul out of the Ant-Man franchise while ruining one of the best relationships in the MCU.

But we get a script cobbled from the scraps of the Rick and Morty writers room.

ithinkther41am , IMDb Report

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Ruivo
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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For me Marvel's biggest mistake of many is to treat each movie as a link in a chain of ever escalating events. It is difficult to care for movie #23 of 547 on another "we must save REALITY" saga.

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#9

29 People Share The Worst Movies They've Watched In 2023 Heart of Stone on Netflix is quite literally one of the most boring movies ever. From the get go it just feels generic and by the end it feels like I’ve been waterboarded with boring juice

Larry_Version_3 , IMDb Report

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WindySwede
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes! Felt hyped, started watched it, but could not finish it. Tried two-three times but could not!

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#10

29 People Share The Worst Movies They've Watched In 2023 Meg 2 - I like Statham, and don't mind simpleton movies - but this one was just too dumb

65 - I don't remember much - but I gave it a 5 on IMDB. So it can't be great

1hate2choose4nick , IMDb Report

#11

29 People Share The Worst Movies They've Watched In 2023 Out of morbid curiosity I watched the Flash. Absolute garbage.

Helo7606 , IMDb Report

#12

29 People Share The Worst Movies They've Watched In 2023 Wonka, it felt all over the place and I thought the singing was awful.

The_broke_accountant , IMDb Report

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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa)
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nobody's ever gonna do better than Gene Wilder. Hollywood should just give up on this one.

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#13

29 People Share The Worst Movies They've Watched In 2023 The worst movie I saw that was released in 2023 was Spy Kids: Armageddon. I also don't know why I watched that movie either I guess I like to torture myself.

BBennison9 , Netflix Report

#14

29 People Share The Worst Movies They've Watched In 2023 The new exorcist. Lazy writing, jump scares were half-assed and didn't work, editing was choppy and jarring, callbacks were forced and unnecessary. Worst of all, it was so freaking boring. Hated everything about it.

devitosmagnumdong , IMDb Report

#15

29 People Share The Worst Movies They've Watched In 2023 That Ana de Armas/Chris Evans spy movie. Don't even remember the name. My wife was excited to watch it and even she was blown away at how bad it was Edit: Ghosted. Thank you reddit for reminding me haha

u/DanGabriel:

As soon as they said that the goal was to recover a list of passcodes, the IT guy in me couldn’t watch anymore. Apparently, my checking account is more secure than our most vital national secrets.

iceman333933 , IMDb Report

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Bernd Herbert
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How did they retrieve those codes? Via Hacking à la Hollywood? Meaning, typing blindly on a keyboard for 5 seconds?

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#16

29 People Share The Worst Movies They've Watched In 2023 God damnit I love you Charlie Day, but Fool's Paradise was the worst movie I've seen this year. Man it hurts to say.

jettster3 , IMDb Report

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Mistiekim
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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah I love Charlie Day too, but just seeing the trailer I knew I should keep away from it. Glad he got some of the sweet Mario money to offset this….

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#17

29 People Share The Worst Movies They've Watched In 2023 The Creator.

So much special effects wasted on such bad writing. And it COULD have been great. The premise was good, quite interesting. Theexecution of the story was laughable.

mykepagan , IMDb Report

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MrPractical
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ha, my favorite movie of the year. There are dozens of us fans! Dozens!

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#18

29 People Share The Worst Movies They've Watched In 2023 Leave the world behind- stopped watching it 20 minutes into the film.

Knock at the cabin- I watched about 30 minutes into it I thought yea Oo has potential may get better nope accidentally left it running on in the background

Bluebutteyfly , IMDb Report

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Dash Junior
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I loved Leave the World Behind. The movie was filled with mysteries that kept me very interested. The Julia Roberts character was very annoying, because she was so bleak in her outlook. Still, I liked the movie a lot.

Lame Llama
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I watched it, i liked it. However, nothing really happened in the movie itself.

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AmusedPanda
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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Bad ending. So lazy of the directors to make us fill in the blanks ourselves. The daughter of the house owner irritated the heck out of me. They all behaved oddly. Only the father that rented the house was believable to me.

Ban-One
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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Spoilers: Wasn't too happy about the ending either. If I would have had a go at an ending I might have ended it like this: Bacon, Hawke and Mahershala Ali all die in a shootout fighting over the meds. Myha'la, Charlie Evans and Roberts are hit by another sonic wave (radioactivity??) and it effects all of them, all dying over the next few days. Only the character Rose (Farrah Mackenzie) is making it. I would keep her getting into the house, eating the snacks and finding her way into the bunker, turning on "Friends". But instead of ending here, a shape/person is getting in the house, into the basement and finally the bunker where Rose is watching Friends. In a flashback it is shown that it's the person coming all the way from the shed (where he/she was sleeping in the leafs) into this building. That person closes the bunker and locks it from inside. Rose is still unaware of the visitor. Fade to black...

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Mitchell
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I thought it had so much potential. I enjoyed it but didn’t like the ending. I think the ending was supposed to be cerebral, but I thought this could actually have been a mini series and gone further.

Omima mimi miki
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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Dude I really liked this movie - because it was very symbolic and demonic . Anything that the Obamas produce is prob going to have some gas lighting, brain washing with subliminal messaging - so that's weird in itself. Plus anything with Ethan Hawk - is a win!

Libstak
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11 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Agreed, it was OTT with the exaggerated character anxieties. If I had to spend time in a room with any one of them on a good day, I would be so confused about where the heck their head is at. Julia Roberts character especially took all of 5 minutes to get on my last nerve. As to the breakdown of society? Major bombs going off all over a big city within 2 days? Yeh, we are bad but that is some over exaggeration. Finally, how does someone come across a crashed plane and not desperately hunt for survivors and then go hunting down the nearest fire department or police dept? But, no, he walks away and back at the house mentions it much later like some freaking after thought that gets hardly any reaction and no "omg, we have to tell someone". Just rubbish.

TPWK 🩵
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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I thought that the movie had potential, however, I did not like the ending at all, and I also feel like there were a ton of build-ups just for nothing to happen. Like my entire family was on the edge of their seat watching it, but like I said, nothing ever happened!!!

kath morgan
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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Leave the world behind was a strange movie… The ending made me laugh out loud

Sugar Shack
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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Leave the world behind- my wife and I turned it off after 30 minutes largely because the Julia Roberts was SO annoying. I want escape when I watch a movie and not to spend time with the sorts of people I avoid in real life.

Tammilee Truitt
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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Was worth a watch, and I liked the ending even though I am the only person on the planet who doesn't like "Friends". The son annoyed me.

Community Member
10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

liar! I'M the only person on the planet who doesn't like friends! >:(

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WindySwede
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I stopped watched after 10 min at first, but managed the second time.

Keley Babs
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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I hated knock at the cabin as well. I just couldn't see it being very realistic. The beginning of the story was very very hard to sell.

MarsFKA
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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We watched it a couple of nights ago and felt that it wasn't all that bad in its portrayal of a family suddenly completely out of their depth. Don't need to watch it again, though.

Riley Quinn
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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I didn't like Leave the World Behind as much as I thought I would. A bit confusing. When I have to go online to find out what I just watched, it means that the story was lacking detail or I'm an idiot.

Michelle Hasenkamp
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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Except for the ending, which I think I have seen something like it before, I only fast forwarded twice. The first time was the absolutely long horrendous screaming scene and the second time was the Friendship dance which attempted to make Julia Roberts character less annoying. It had its moments when I thought it was going to take off but nope.

Adrian Schrepfer
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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Good acting. But the story was a draft at most. I liked the Tesla pile up.

Ashlee
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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The unanswered questions and pointless side plots drove me crazy, and the fact that the author didn't even know the answers to most of the mysteries behind the movie made it even dumber. I don't need every questioned answered for me in a movie, but the plot should at least make sense to the writer

El Cucuy
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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Both of these movies started out great, but fell really flat in the endings. Especially Leave the world behind. It just kind of ends randomly.

M Calad
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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This movie has very interesting elements that if well explored and developed, could have made it into a great film. But instead they came up with THAT 💩... Why? Whhhhhhy? And the had such good actors that were directed so poorly. Why? I was so disappointed.

William Teach
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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

World got tedious, especially with the Julia Roberts acted racism. Supposedly it makes sense later, but, nah.

Any
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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I loved it. It was great and gave the right chilly world ending feelings! You have to make it past the 25 mark though.

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29 People Share The Worst Movies They've Watched In 2023 Lion-Girl (2023), that whole movie was like if Power Rangers had a even lower budget. I'm pretty sure that creating that movie was just an excuse to get Tori Griffith naked as much as they could (which barely helped the movie). The action scenes were bad, the special effects were bad and the story was very predictable and felt like someone took the worst manga they could find and made a script out of it.

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#20

29 People Share The Worst Movies They've Watched In 2023 Transformer: Rise of the beasts. The action wasn’t even that cool

JoseUnderTheRedHood , IMDb Report

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DrBronxx
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've lost track of these films. I think I checked out after the third one. I may have watched the Bumblebee one as well, but I'm not sure.

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29 People Share The Worst Movies They've Watched In 2023 I thought Expend4bles was utterly shite from start to finish, but there was a small saving grace with the choreographed fight / gun battle on the ship deck. I mean none of them are particularly noteworthy but at least the first couple were *fun*. You can sit back and watch your old action heroes hip firing a mini-gun. This was *dead*.

However, a couple of weeks later I saw Sumotherhood, which is a sequel to Anuvahood. I doubt these mean anything to any non-Brits on here but they're p**s-takes of British crime dramas. What an absolute disgrace of a film, an appalling pile of wank. It followed the guise of "If I am being loud, I must be hilarious". A painful watch.

BigBeanMarketing , Paramount Pictures UK Report

#22

29 People Share The Worst Movies They've Watched In 2023 Beau is Afraid. It's billed as an absurdist black comedy, and it is none of those things.

Kangarou , IMDb Report

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#23

29 People Share The Worst Movies They've Watched In 2023 ‘**Good Burger 2**, hands down the worst movie I’ve watched in the last *FIVE* years.

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Amy Smith
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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have too much love for the first one to watch this. Don't want my happy memories of Kenan and Kel sullied

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#24

29 People Share The Worst Movies They've Watched In 2023 The Equaliser 3.

Denzel Washington spends 80% of the movie sitting in a chair drinking coffee, 15% walking around an Italian village like he’s on vacation and only 5% of action scenes that made his heart rate exceed 60 BPM.

Aerowolf1994 , Sony Pictures Entertainment Report

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why is this here! This is the absolute best movie! You surely missed the plot

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#25

29 People Share The Worst Movies They've Watched In 2023 The killer

Either I didn't get it, either it was just an action movie without any action.

I admit I had some expectation, David Fincher / Michael Fassbender / Tilda Swinton... Great cast and realisator. But I was bored during the movie.

Keanar , IMDb Report

#26

29 People Share The Worst Movies They've Watched In 2023 Five Nights at Freddy's

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Nikole
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Watch “W***y’s Wonderland” with Nic Cage instead. Sure, it’s not Oscar-caliber and is an obvious ripoff of FNAF, but it’s crazy. And Cage’s character doesn’t speak a word.

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#27

29 People Share The Worst Movies They've Watched In 2023 Recently I happened to watch The Portable Door attracted by the interesting cast and the promise of a light, adventurous fantasy story, but I didn't enjoy it at all and regretted giving it a try. It felt like a total waste of time.

StarlessPrincess , The Jim Henson Company Report

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Juririn
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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why did I read "adulterous" instead of "adventurous"? 🙃

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#28

29 People Share The Worst Movies They've Watched In 2023 The Ritual Killer…Hulu movies like The Boston Killer and To Catch a Killer were fun Hulu surprises… the Ritual Killer was another story….

RedmoonsBstars , Iervolino & Lady Bacardi Entertainment Report

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Worst movie i watched this year would have to be the marvels...i say this even though i enjoyed it, just compared to eveything else i watched it was pretty bad. On the other hand though, the BEST one i saw was godzilla minus one.

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29 People Share The Worst Movies They've Watched In 2023 I didn't see many bad movies this year, and actually, I would say I only saw one. I know Its definitly not the worst movie of the year, but as far as the worst movie I saw this year go, I'd give it to Insidious: The Red Door. I was excited to see what they'd bring to the table to end that storyline, and it was so boring, unoriginal, dull, lame, poorly written and poorly paced. No hate to Patrick Wilson, I hope his next movie he directs will be great and I love him as an actor, but this was just outright bad and honestly really dissapointing. Other than Insidious, no movie I saw a movie that was "bad", and the movies I'd rank just above it get an "it's watchable" from me

Thing of note: I didn't see Blood and Honey, Thanksgiving, The Nun 2, Expendables 4, Beau Is Afraid and other movies most people are commonly mentioning.

CricketKieran , IMDb Report

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