10 Movies So Bad They Are Perfect for Watch Movies Get Drunk

Bad movies are like that one friend who always ruins game night but still gets invited back. They are chaotic, confusing, and sometimes downright painful, yet we cannot stop watching. When it comes to Watch Movies Get Drunk, you want films that deliver unintentional laughs, questionable acting, and plot twists that leave you saying, “Wait, what just happened?”

So grab your favorite cocktail or mocktail and prepare for a cinematic trainwreck with our list of ten wonderfully terrible movies. These picks are not your typical “so bad it’s good” suspects. We dug deeper, past the Tommy Wiseau zone and into more controversial, bizarrely entertaining territory.

Ready to make fun of someone else’s hard work? Let’s drink to that.

1. Jupiter Ascending (2015)

This movie is what happens when space opera ambition meets total narrative disarray. Directed by the Wachowskis, it tells the story of a janitor (Mila Kunis) who learns she is galactic royalty and must stop interstellar capitalism from harvesting Earth. Channing Tatum plays a half-dog soldier who falls in love with her while sporting space rollerblades and eyeliner. Eddie Redmayne, fresh off an Oscar win, whispers and snarls his way through the most baffling performance of his career.

The film looks amazing but has no idea how to tell a coherent story. It is packed with unnecessary lore, confusing political intrigue, and dialogue that sounds like it was assembled by throwing darts at a sci-fi dictionary. “I love dogs, I’ve always loved dogs,” Mila says with a straight face. Whole sequences pass where it's unclear what anyone's motivation is. It's as if the film was edited using a blender.

Despite the chaos, it never stops being entertaining. It’s the kind of mess you want to revisit, just to see if it really was that strange. Spoiler: it is.

2. Cats (2019)

Perhaps the most famous misfire in recent memory, Cats is the stuff of fever dreams. Director Tom Hooper transformed the beloved Broadway musical into a CGI nightmare where humans with fur, tails, and disturbingly human hands sing about their names and desire to be reborn. Idris Elba, Judi Dench, Taylor Swift, and others dance through oddly sexualized musical numbers while floating somewhere in the uncanny valley.

The film lacks spatial coherence, emotional resonance, and any real understanding of what made the stage show appealing. Some actors have shoes, others don’t. Sometimes the fur moves with them, sometimes it glitches. Rebel Wilson eats cockroach people. Jason Derulo meows like he means it.

Every moment feels like it was made on a dare. You will feel time dilate as the Jellicle Ball drags on, and by the end, you will have questions. So many questions. Not least of which: “Why did Judi Dench just break the fourth wall and purr at me?”

3. The Book of Henry (2017)

Directed by Colin Trevorrow, this film starts off as a whimsical tale about a genius boy with a single mom and turns into a thriller about child abuse and attempted murder. Naomi Watts plays the mother who follows her son’s posthumous instructions to assassinate a neighbor who may be harming his stepdaughter.

The tonal whiplash is enough to cause motion sickness. The first half is filled with quirky piano music and adorable antics, then suddenly we are watching the mom purchase a sniper rifle. The film swerves from Disney Channel movie to Law and Order: SVU and back again.

The sincerity with which this movie delivers its insanity is what elevates it. Nobody in the film seems aware that they’re in a genre carousel. It’s a one-of-a-kind disaster that will leave you slack-jawed with disbelief.

4. The Happening (2008)

M. Night Shyamalan delivers a thriller about nature striking back, but not in the thrilling or scary way. Instead, people are killing themselves in grotesque ways because of an airborne neurotoxin triggered by plants. Mark Wahlberg stars as a science teacher who spends most of the movie asking questions in a concerned tone.

Zooey Deschanel, with eyes wide and blinking, emotes like she’s trying to remember her lines. The dialogue is stilted and bizarre: “What? No!” and “The plants did it!” are real lines. The pacing is glacial, yet scenes feel rushed. Every decision the characters make seems like the wrong one.

This is a movie that is simultaneously boring and insane. It’s a masterclass in tonal mismanagement. If you’ve ever wanted to see an actor try to reason with a plastic houseplant, this is the movie for you.

5. Wild Mountain Thyme (2020)

Set in Ireland but apparently filmed in a soundstage where geography, accents, and logic go to die, this film stars Emily Blunt and Jamie Dornan as two romantically entangled neighbors. Dornan’s character is so painfully awkward that everyone in the village seems to know something is up. That something turns out to be his belief that he is, in fact, a bee.

Christopher Walken, playing Dornan’s father, delivers his lines in a wavering Irish accent that travels through multiple continents. The romantic tension is supposed to be slow-burning but instead feels like a long hike through peat bogs of confusion.

When the bee confession finally drops, it’s impossible not to laugh. This is a movie that dares you to feel emotions it has not earned. You’ll sit there, stunned, as the characters act like this all makes sense. It doesn’t. And that’s why it’s incredible.

6. Serenity (2019)

No, not the beloved sci-fi one. This Serenity stars Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway in what begins as a noir-ish thriller about a fishing boat captain being asked to kill his ex’s abusive husband. Then halfway through, the movie changes direction completely: it’s all a simulation. The entire story exists within a video game created by McConaughey’s son to cope with trauma.

The twist is so jarring and poorly explained that it renders the first half of the film meaningless. McConaughey talks to the sea, Hathaway delivers sultry lines like she’s in a shampoo commercial, and the plot spirals into absurdity.

The film tries to explore grief, morality, and digital escapism, but ends up tangled in its own net of metaphors. The finale plays like a fever dream powered by Red Bull and missed deadlines. And yet, you will not be able to stop watching.

7. Showgirls (1995)

What was meant to be a provocative look at the cutthroat world of Las Vegas showgirls became an overacted camp classic. Elizabeth Berkley throws herself into the role of Nomi Malone with ferocity, flailing through dance numbers, fight scenes, and the world’s most aggressive pool sex.

The script is laughably bad, with every line either screamed or delivered with soap-opera-level earnestness. Characters change motivations on a dime. Gina Gershon vamps her way through as the rival dancer who might be in love with Nomi, or might just enjoy tormenting her.

It’s loud, sweaty, and chaotic—and somehow, it is never boring. Once mocked, the movie now enjoys cult status. Watching it is like watching someone confidently stride onto stage and then trip over their own glitter. Stunning in its failure.

8. Tiptoes (2003)

Tiptoes is perhaps the most jaw-dropping casting decision in cinematic history. Gary Oldman, a celebrated actor, plays a little person by walking on his knees and being surrounded by actual little people, including Peter Dinklage. It is hard to explain how this ever got made.

Matthew McConaughey plays Oldman’s twin brother (yes, really), who struggles with revealing his family’s genetic condition to his pregnant girlfriend. The movie wants to be a heartfelt drama about acceptance, but the grotesque choices and awkward direction turn it into something surreal.

There’s a sense of well-intentioned disaster here that makes it hard to look away. Every scene feels like it is about to collapse under its own weight. Tiptoes is the cinematic equivalent of a bad idea said out loud and taken all the way to completion.

9. The Fanatic (2019)

Fred Durst (yes, the Limp Bizkit guy) directed this psychological thriller starring John Travolta as Moose, an obsessed fan with an unspecified disability. Travolta’s portrayal is earnest but deeply uncomfortable, veering into caricature.

Moose is obsessed with a horror movie actor and begins stalking him, leading to violence and chaos. The tone is wildly inconsistent: sometimes it feels like a satire, other times like a tragic character study, and still other times like a horror film.

Durst includes scenes that seem like personal inside jokes, including one where a character listens to Limp Bizkit in a car and explains how great they are. It’s narcissism wrapped in cringe. The end result is a film that is equal parts confusing, pitiful, and weirdly hypnotic.

10. Gods of Egypt (2016)

In a mythical Egypt where all the gods are white men and turn into shiny golden robo-animals, we find Gerard Butler yelling through another performance like he’s still in Sparta. The film is a bombastic spectacle filled with terrible CGI, muddled mythology, and an overly complicated plot about gods, mortals, and a magical eye.

The whole production is over-designed and under-thought. Every scene feels like it was storyboarded in a trance. Action sequences blur into each other. Dialogue is either overly solemn or completely tone-deaf. It’s a gorgeous disaster that’s trying way too hard to be cool.

Critics panned it for its whitewashing and incoherence. But for viewers with a sense of humor and a good drink, it’s a cinematic buffet of “What were they thinking?” moments.

Final Toast: So Bad They Are Glorious

The beauty of Watch Movies Get Drunk is that it turns movie nights into experiences. These films might be cinematic disasters, but they are also gold mines of fun. With the right drinks and the right crowd, even the worst movies become unforgettable. They are the underdogs of your movie shelf. The flops that accidentally entertain. The dialogue disasters that fuel your night.

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