Worst movie ever?
I seriously think this is one of the worst movies I have ever watched.
How can anyone think it is a good movie?
I just don´t get it.
Oh yes, me too -
I only watched it through to the end because i had paid £2.50 for it in a charity shop and I watch my pennies.
It just doesn't work.
Sometimes a stage play can work as a film and be original and exciting but not this, which wasn't even a stage play.
It could have worked if it had been done with any skill and feeling, which it wasn't.
The voiceover goes on and on and is a terrible piece of writing in itself.
John Hurt's voice was irritating.
The rest of the dialogue is terrible -
it is banal, tedious beyond belief -
a group of 15 year olds could do better.
Too too wordy -
I waited for the revelation at the end and it was just embarrassing.
This director CANNOT write - he cannot even construct a pleasing sentence.
(or direct - I felt it was very very sloppy).
I felt sorry for the actors.
The rape scenes were upsetting for more than their subject matter - the whole handling of it was upsetting and this was not justified by the ending.
I felt the director was getting off on it.
I watched the film in fifteen minute stages because my brain was going numb.
Terrible terrible terrible.
PS I rather stupidly posted my comment before reading the rest of the thread, assuming it would be full of people who agreed what a bad film this is.
Now I have read the whole thread and I still think it is a bad film.
It tries too hard, it finds it impossible to leave anything out, which is a patronising way of creating a film because it leaves nothing to the viewer.
The writing has absolutely no sophistication: it just thinks it does.
I agree it was a good idea but it is badly executed.
And I love theatre.
I have to disagree with you on the "whys" it was the worst movie ever.
While it could have been made using more conventional techniques I don't think it would have had the same impact. The starkness of the set drawn out on the stage set my imagination working on what it would look like in reality. I've seen many a small towns and even lived in one for 17 years and many of the things that happened and the thoughts of the residents were close to what I experienced in a "small Southern town".
At the end of the film which I watched alone in my living room I had to just sit there and wonder about what I just watched and the "if's" and "how" that could happen in reality. I rarely do that for most films and I watch a lot of them. Usually I just watch for entertainment purposes not expecting to get much in the way of deep thought like philosophical views or anything other than watch it and more or less forget about it in a few days. But this film always tends to come back to me at times when reading the news of evil doings such as the pain and suffering afflicted by crazies that friends and neighbors state, "We always though he was a great guy, so friendly and nice."
The truth is that human nature and our interaction with others is more strange than many might think especially when under pressure. It shows that "group think" can be very dangerous. It appears from the ratings and the comments in this thread that the majority didn't like this film. However, I would put it in the top 25 of movies I've seen and that's out of thousands in the 70 years of my life.
I can't help but wonder if it was the plot that was disliked or was it just the way it was presented?
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My favorite: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
I had a similar viewing experience (alone in the living room) and a similar response -- i found the movie very moving, surprisingly watchable, and deeply unsettling. It's been nearly a decade since I saw it, and like you, it still comes to mind when I see in the real world a glimpse of what was depicted of the people of Dogville. Far from the 'worst movie ever', in my opinion.
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