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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.

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

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    #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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    #4

    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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    10 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.

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    #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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    10 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.

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

    Gene made a better Wonka, no doubt about it. That being said, I prefer the storyline of the Tim Burton version as it was truer to the book. Deep Roy as every Oompa Loompa was 1000x better than the orange monstrosities of the first. The "daddy issues" storyline could have been left out, except then we'd not have had Christopher Lee saying "CHOC-o-late" like it had personally insulted him.

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

    I recently watched it and it was pretty good, the singing wasn’t the best but it had a good storyline and the acting was pretty good. I overall liked it but thats my opinion

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

    I loved it, thought Hugh Grant was fabulous as the oompah loompah. Lovely film

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

    I was going to avoid it because I love the original so much but Hugh Grant as an oompa loompa. I may need to check out some clips at least.

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

    Thats the beauty of it! It was not a remake, its a prequal. It takes us back to when W***y was literally fresh off the boat full of young ambition and hope. If you look you can see how much Timothee became Gene Wilders character before he burnt out.

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    Himory TheDreamer
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    10 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As someone who isn't a fan of either one of the previous movies, I really liked this one. No annoying kids, protagonist still a bit loony but not in a cringe, uncomfortable way. Also liked the way he lookes and characterization better, and I even find this version relatable at some points.

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

    I don't like any of the adaptations of these books. Wonka is usually too nice, except for Depp. And he was creepy, but in the wrong ways. Why can't we just get a faithful adaptation?

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

    I haven't seen this yet, but judging by the previews I thought it looked really fun and cute.

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

    I have only seen trailers and they are enough to put me off watching it. Especially as UK cinema is so expensive.

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

    I liked it alright, but it was completely unnecessary and really corny for most of the film. Just make new stuff instead of remakes and spinoffs!

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

    Doing a remake of an iconic film is like re-releasing the Joshua Tree but the local pub band are playing the tunes, instead of U2. It's just not going to work.

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

    Why did they need another one? There was a remake with Depp only about 20 years ago. It sucked - and a big part of it is that the "shockingly entitled spoiled brats" getting their comeuppance, "terrible poverty, two salaries can't afford decent housing", "Wealthy business owner is dangerous loon who exploits workers in unsafe conditions" are not comedicly overblown melodrama - they're current events.

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

    Love me some Timothee, but not sure about this one. I should preface by saying I’ve never seen the original either, so maybe it would work for me.

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

    Not watching anymore “woke” remakes of great old films.

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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.

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    #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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    10 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.

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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.

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    MrPractical
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    10 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

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    Dash Junior
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    10 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.

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    #19

    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

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    DrBronxx
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    10 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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    #21

    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.

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    #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.

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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.

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    I love it here
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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.

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    #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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    10 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.

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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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    Cursed Starscream
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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

    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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