We had a video rental shop for years in Montreal which means I have seen literally thousands of movies and many of them several times.. In the shop, we ALWAYS had a movie playing on the many monitors in the shop.. Now, one of the worst acted movies we had was .... "Attack of the killer tomatoes"... Please don't ask but it was also a popular one for rental.. Some of the horror films were very bad... Halloween time they were popular especially the scary ones.. Some of the Porno films (adult films) were also pretty bad but extremely popular.. No, I didn't plat those in the shop.. The movie I have seen the most often was .... "Mambo Kings" which I have seen something like 100 times.. Yes, 100 times I watched that movie as it was a nice musical that was popular on the monitors in the shop.. It went out very often as well.. We had a sophisticated surround sound system in the shop and the movie ... "Top Gun".. was popular with those jets taking off from one end of the shop and the sound would travel to the other end.. Very impressive and again a good rental as they liked the sound effects..
I have a couple of those too. "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" comes to mind. It's playing on Turner Classics right now. Tried to give it another chance.
I may have told this story elsewhere in the forum, but "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" was the first movie I ever saw in a movie theater. I grew up in a church where, at that time, playing cards, dancing, and going to a theater were things that we weren't supposed to do. On the way to somewhere with the Boy Scouts, we spent the night in Green Bay, Wisconsin. I think I was 14 or 15 then. Left on our own to roam the streets of Green Bay, a few of us decided to go to a nearby theater. "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" was playing, and none of us knew the first thing about it, but we thought we'd give it a try. Wholly confused, we left before it was half over. Watching a golf game couldn't have been more boring than that movie.
The worst I’ve seen in decades just won multiple Oscars. “Everything, Everywhere, All at Once” takes top honors from me, and everyone in our group that saw it. A neighbor has an incredible home theater and invites folks over for snacks and movies about once a month. We’re headed there in a few hours. Anyway, there were probably a dozen of us and it was unanimous…terrible, embarrassingly bad.