So what is your vote for the worst movie?

[Pajama Mama]

You guys often recommend a good movie. But what movie would you say is the worst movie that you have ever seen? What movie is really bad and yet you watch it anyway?

I'll start...

Dh and I watched "I Know Who Killed Me" with Lindsey Lohan on cable last week. It was sooo bad and yet we had to keep watching it. Dh said it was like a train wreck-you had to keep watching. The movie so wretched.

Another movie(s) to up on the worst list are the Jaws sequels. Jaws 2 was fine but 3 & 4 were absolutely embarrassing. They had a marathon of the movies the other night and I watched some of it because I was caring for a sick kid. Part 3 was in SeaWorld. What was the park thinking to allow the killer shark to use their park as a set? SeaWorld employees were dropping left and right. Part 4 actually had the shark following the widow of Chief Brody from the first two movies. He followed her plane to the Caribbean and only attacked her family members. The shark was like a hit man bumping off the members of that family.

So what movie do you put up for the worst movie award?

[elegantlion]

"Wicker Man" and "Silent Hill" both rank up there as the worst. I love Nicholas Cage and Sean Bean, but goodness what were they thinking with these movies.

I too had to finish watching them, because I had to know. They were awful.

[Tammy in Germany]

Borat...went to movies, and I wanted to crawl out of there. Oh. my. goodness!:001_huh:

[True Blue]

The Lady Killers, I couldn't get through the first 10 minutes because of all the senseless overdone profanity.

[Tatt2mama]

Hmmm... I've got to say the third Pirates of the Caribbean was pretty bad, considering how good the first two were. I got completely lost and couldn't figure out what was going on. And then I fell asleep.

Disney's Camp Rock was also pretty abysmal, imo. I sat through it with my 12 yo neice, and the acting was pretty awful.

Worst move ever, though? Not sure about that one.

[PrairieAir]

Worst in what way? Acting? Plot? Writing? Just generally yuck?

Off the top of my head:

Se7en (Perhaps there was good acting, good plot, good writing. I don't know because it was so absolutely creepy that dh and I had to shut it off on about the fourth deadly sin and wished we had sooner.)

Pulp Fiction - Just all around BAD, IMO. I don't like Quentin Tarantino movies and I don't much care for John Travolta. I wish we had walked out of the theater.

Napoleon Dynamite - There's over an hour of my life I'll never get back. I wish I had been doing something more productive, like, say, surfing the net. Stupid, stupid, stupid, and not the least bit funny.

Dumb and Dumber - See above and add gross to it.

Gosh, there are just so many. Perhaps we should also have a thread about actors/actresses and directors/producers we avoid. That's a huge list in itself. My family thinks I'm waaaaay too opinionated about actors and actresses in particular.

[genie]

Napoleon Dynamite - Worst. Movie. Ever.


:ducks and runs:
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[nmoira]

Without a doubt, It's Pat (http://www.amazon.com/Its-Pat-Movie-Julia-Sweeney/dp/B00008L3TW/). I'd alway rather enjoyed the sketch because I'd had a roommate who was Pat, down to the shirt and khakis. However, this movie was so repulsive, my reaction was visceral. I felt sick and dirty. My friend and I kept watching only because Mitch Pileggi (from the X-Files) was in it. Unfortunately, he wasn't in the film until the final minutes, and then only for a brief time. Grrrr.

[nmoira]

"Wicker Man" and "Silent Hill" both rank up there as the worst. I love Nicholas Cage and Sean Bean, but goodness what were they thinking with these movies.I recommend the original Wicker Man. I've no idea why they moved it to America and took out all the underlying mythology for the Nic Cage version.

[JFS in IL]

The Light at the Edge of the World with Yul Brynner. Got stuck in a movie theater with that one way back when, and have been traumatized ever since.

Pulp Fiction also creeped me out - I stopped watching about 1/3 of the way in.

And, at UCLA some director came to show us his not-yet-released film, starring Natassija Kinski, - "Exposed" - and it was soooo bad we students were mocking it and pissing off the director before it was done. I just checked at IMPD site and it looks to be as bad as I remembered.

[Miss Peregrine]

Spaceballs

Howard the Duck

Something with Jennifer Aniston and Kevin Costner, can't remember the name. UGH, it was just horrible.

[Tammy]

BAD, LOL! A movie has to be GREAT before I can sit through it, LOL!

Tammy

[abbeyej]

Well, I did watch more than two hours of Alexander. I can't imagine there are many people in the world who watched *more* than that much of it. Imagine me sitting there with my mouth slightly open, cringing at the subtly increasing awfulness...

There are a lot of movies that were just so awful and boring that I've thankfully forgotten them. Solaris was really dreadful. Solaris and Alexander were both movies that *intended* to be wonderful and artistic and were just bad. There are plenty of other movies out there that are self-consciously bad, and in a way, that makes it more tolerable. Dh watched all of "The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift" and it was certainly one of those kinds of movies. I stayed in the room with him, but worked on some project or other -- I couldn't have stood it otherwise.

[Once]

I am admitting my ignorance here but dh and I watched Orlando 10 years ago and still remember the agony. The acting was good but the story was way out there. I understand Virgina Woolf is like that but WOW! Never. Never. Again.

[Melinda in VT]

I agree that it depends on how you define bad.

For my dad, the threshold for measuring bad movies is Howard's End which we all saw together in the theater when I was in high school or college. So far, he has yet to find a movie worse than Howard's End, but I think a few have been judged as bad as. It's become something of a family joke.

The equivalent movie for DH and I is The Royal Tennenbaums. (sp?)

We didn't make it through Napoleon Dynamite either, but we had low expectations going in, so it didn't seem so bad.

[Jen3boys]

I know I've started to watch some REALLY bad movies, but the one I remember that I didn't like, yet watched the whole thing, was From Dusk Til Dawn. I guess I was disappointed because I did like Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs.

[Jenny in Atl]

Most all the movies Madonna has been in, Swept Away, Dick Tracey, Whose That Girl, etc. Even all the movies Guy Ritchie has made ((after)) he hooked up with her. Revolver was awful! I wanted my 2 hrs back! I can watch most anything with Jason Statham in it, but this was just retched.

[Pajama Mama]

Something with Jennifer Aniston and Kevin Costner, can't remember the name. UGH, it was just horrible.


I had to look up the title "Rumor Has It". It was a horrible movie if I'm remembering it. Didn't the Costner character sleep with 3 generations of the same family? Didn't the Aniston character first think that he was her real father? Then when she discovered that he wasn't her dad she slept with him? How can you switch gears from thinking someone is your dad and then have an affair with him? Yucko

[justme]

There are many. It depends what kind of 'worst' we're going for- stupidest plot, worst acting, most boring, most cheesy, etc.... some off the top of my head are:

Dick Tracy with Warren Beatty. We watched this with another couple on a New Year's Eve long ago and I literally leapt off the couch to go do my friend's dishes just to get away from it. I don't even remember what was so bad about it, but I couldn't stand another minute of it.

Any Batman movies, but especially the one with Danny Devito as the Penguin. Spiderman and any other 'superhero' movies drive me up the wall, as well. They are always the 'must-see' summer blockbuster, but you couldn't pay ME to see them.

I'll think of more....

[Ashleen]

My husband and I own both Dumb and Dumber and Napoleon Dynamite. We actually sat through Napoleon Dynamite the first time with confused looks on our faces. Then, later in the day, I said, "Hey, I think it was supposed to be a comedy." We watched it again and liked it. Go figure.

I second Borat as the most horrible thing I've ever seen and I'll add Rocky Horror Picture Show and the sequel to Ace Ventura as also-rans. Oh, and any old movie like the original War of the Worlds in which a woman's primary acting consists of screaming and cowering. When women scream or whine in movies, it makes me livid (I was relieved when Padme finally died in Revenge of the Sith because I wanted to kill her myself for whining).

[Ashleen]

Oh, and that movie where Alan Rickman has an affair with a teenage girl who turns out to be his daughter. :ack2:

[abbeyej]

Oh, and I'll add to the chorus of those who hated Borat. Now there was a movie that did what it intended to do, I guess, "well", but... (shudder) (cringe) (retch)

[Philothea]

Howard the Duck
The Mask, and actually most Jim carrey movies
The Time Machine (the more recent one where the conflict is presented and resolved in 2 minutes)
Rocky Horror Picture Show

[Miss Peregrine]

I had to look up the title "Rumor Has It". It was a horrible movie if I'm remembering it. Didn't the Costner character sleep with 3 generations of the same family? Didn't the Aniston character first think that he was her real father? Then when she discovered that he wasn't her dad she slept with him? How can you switch gears from thinking someone is your dad and then have an affair with him? Yucko

Yes, exactly! Yuck, Yick, Blech!
::twitch::

[Kathy in MD]

Straw Dog(s?) starring Dustin Hoffman. I saw it on my first and only blind date. (early 70's). I never heard from the guy again.

[PrairieAir]

I'd forgotten about The Royal Tennenbaums. Wasn't Gene Hackman in that one? He's on my actors to avoid list. He grates on my nerves a little--something about his voice and the way he acts exactly the same in every role.

The War of the Roses (Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas)
Knockaround Guys (Vin Diesel, John Malkovich, and others)
Heat (Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro, Val Kilmer)
The Bodyguard (Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston - They go together like oil and water. Absolutely no chemistry between them and nothing else redeeming about the movie.)
Fight Club - Good acting, interesting plot twist. Whatever. It was just NASTY!
Terms of Endearment - three of my least favorite actors (Jack Nicholson, Debra Winger, and Shirley MacLaine) in a story about a dysfunctional family and terminal illness. Completely depressing.

[Jen3boys]

Oh, and that movie where Alan Rickman has an affair with a teenage girl who turns out to be his daughter. :ack2:

Wow, I missed that one...yuck.....and I hated Alan Rickman's Closet Land. (I do really like some of his movies though)

[nmoira]

There are a few of these films that I love... :)

[CactusPair]

I love Helen Mirren, but she's in the 3 worst movies!

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (had to leave the theater):001_huh:

The Comfort of Strangers (Gross, Dumb, Boring):glare:

Exalibur (what a hoot! this is so bad I enjoyed it):tongue_smilie:

[justme]

All of the Star Wars prequels would have to qualify. Some of the worst acting I have ever seen, besides being cheesy. I turned off Moulin Rouge after 20 minutes, and I really thought I would like it!

[Mamagistra]

Something with Jennifer Aniston and Kevin Costner, can't remember the name. UGH, it was just horrible.

LOL I'll just vote "all Kevin Costner movies". ;)
















~GOSH!~ :lol:

[genie]

LOL I'll just vote "all Kevin Costner movies". ;)



Yep, yep, yep!! :iagree::iagree::iagree::iagree:

[starlashine]

I hate to say it, but for the life of me I can't stay awake through "Life of Brian". I've tried ten or so times. So it is on my list of worst movies.

[Angela in TN]

LOL I'll just vote "all Kevin Costner movies". ;)


~GOSH!~ :lol:

Even Dances with Wolves, Bull Durham & Field of Dreams? I'm not K.C.'s biggest fan but those are movies I enjoyed. No pressure to join the Costner fan club or anything....:tongue_smilie:

[Anne in Hawaii]

I hated that one!

[Angela in TN]

My vote for worst movie is "Weather Man" with Nicholas Cage who is a sentimental fave for me since way back in "Valley Girls". That movie was the most painful thing and I had to watch the whole thing to make sure it never got any better. All the commercials made it seem like it was comedy of some sort and it was just depressing and horrible. ugh!

[transientChris]

The Others


Not only was it very dreary, it was anti-homeschooling.

[Pajama Mama]

"LOL I'll just vote "all Kevin Costner movies".


I have to agree with the KC movies. He never interested me much. I did like the Robin Hood movie but I didn't particularly like *him*.

Another actor that I've never cared for is---Tom Cruise. Please don't throw any tomatoes. He always seemed so wooden and bloodless to me.

[HollyinNNV]

Pan's Labyrinth

Yuck, yucky, yuck!

[Quiver0f10]

Solaris. We made is 1/4 way through and shut it off LOL

[Old Dominion Heather]

Another vote for ALL Kevin Costner movies. I've never seen one I liked. He is on my must avoid list.

[gardenschooler]

Even Dances with Wolves, Bull Durham & Field of Dreams? I'm not K.C.'s biggest fan but those are movies I enjoyed. No pressure to join the Costner fan club or anything....:tongue_smilie:

Even those, especially those. I fell asleep in the theater watching Bull Durham & Field of Dreams. He's just so boring. Opposite of exciting.

I got that movie with Jennifer Aniston from Netflix recently, because I thought I was in the mood for some fluff. That's got to be one of the most idiotic storylines I've ever been a victim of. (of which I've ever been a victim, I know, I know).

[genie]

Even those, especially those. I fell asleep in the theater watching Bull Durham & Field of Dreams. He's just so boring. Opposite of exciting.



:iagree: He's got the most monotonous voice of any actor I know. Except maybe Ben Stein.

[gardenschooler]

Se7en (Perhaps there was good acting, good plot, good writing. I don't know because it was so absolutely creepy that dh and I had to shut it off on about the fourth deadly sin and wished we had sooner.)

Dh & I both were just mesmerized by Se7en. We thought it was brilliant! Adding it to my Netflix right now, it's been too long.

Pulp Fiction - Just all around BAD, IMO. I don't like Quentin Tarantino movies and I don't much care for John Travolta. I wish we had walked out of the theater.

We got called out of the theater by our babysitter. Glad I didn't miss much.

Napoleon Dynamite - There's over an hour of my life I'll never get back. I wish I had been doing something more productive, like, say, surfing the net. Stupid, stupid, stupid, and not the least bit funny.

My dd16 loves this movie. All the kids get together and watch it over and over again. I've tried, I really have. I don't see anything funny.

[Elaine]

Spaceballs

Howard the Duck

Something with Jennifer Aniston and Kevin Costner, can't remember the name. UGH, it was just horrible.

Anything with J.A. is bad. I loved her on Friends, but I can't sit through her movies.

[gardenschooler]

We watched Catch Me If You Can (http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Catch_Me_If_You_Can/60024942) recently, and I loved that. That's a movie.

[Marie in Oh]

I HATE HATE HATE John Travolta and I have a love hate thing with Nicolas Cage.

[Elaine]

Another vote for ALL Kevin Costner movies. I've never seen one I liked. He is on my must avoid list.

We are no longer friends.:glare:



























:lol: Why y'all hatin' on Kevin? I loved him in Field of Dreams and The Upside of Anger.


I also really liked The Royal Tennenbaums. I found it so amazing that the one thing all of the kids needed was a relationship with their dad.

[Elaine]

We watched Catch Me If You Can (http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Catch_Me_If_You_Can/60024942) recently, and I loved that. That's a movie.

:D I have a secret crush on Leo. I don't know what it is, I just find him so ding-dang cute!

[NicksMama-Zack's Mama Too]

worst movie E V E R!!

Unfortunately, it was the first movie I ever took my kids to.

[genie]

:lol: Why y'all hatin' on Kevin?

We've actually all been pm-ing each other for weeks, trying to come up with a way to get your goat, Elaine! Did it work? It was very hard planning out all the delicate intricacies of this operation.





















;)
And because he sucks. :w00t:

[Elaine]

We've actually all been pm-ing each other for weeks, trying to come up with a way to get your goat, Elaine! Did it work? It was very hard planning out all the delicate intricacies of this operation.



;)
And because he sucks. :w00t:


Ooooohhhhh, time for http://smileys.on-my-web.com/repository/Leisures_and_Sports/sumo-035.gif


:lol::lol::lol:

[genie]

Ooooohhhhh, time for http://smileys.on-my-web.com/repository/Leisures_and_Sports/sumo-035.gif


:lol::lol::lol:

You know what that smiley does to me!!! :sneaky2: Are you sure you're going there?

[Dana in OR]

Darkman (1990) starring Liam Neeson.

Originally film director Sam Raimi had wanted to film a movie about the pulp character The Shadow (http://www.pulps.westumulka.com/shadow/), but when he was unable to secure the rights he created his own character. Darkman has a lot of pulp and comic book elements - the tale of scientist Peyton Westlake who gets attacked and is burned beyond recognition. Undergoing experimental medical procedures, Westlake gains superior strength and with his knowledge of synthetic skin creation, can assume the identity of anyone for 99 minutes. After that time the synthetic skin dissolves and Westlake's scarred features reappear. Covering his burned features in bandages and wearing a dark overcoat and fedora, Westlake roams the night as Darkman.

[laylamcb]

Dances with Wolves and Field of Dreams, Bull Durham makes me want to hit something or someone. Hard. I absolutely hated that script. It felt so completely artificial. I liked Waterworld more than Bull Durham! And yet BD is not even close to the worst movie I've ever seen....

Worst movies ever:

Basically anything with Rob Schneider in it--he makes my skin crawl
Wild at Heart (BLECH to the fifth power)
All Austin Powers movies
Bill & Ted #2 movie (only because B&T #1 was a MASTERPIECE)
and drumroll for the worst movie I've ever seen:

King Solomon's Mines, with Richard Chamberlain. I wanted to take the movie theater to small claims court to get my money back! ;)

Layla McB

[RebeccaC]

We just went and saw the new Indiana Jones movie and Both Harrison Ford and Karen Black looked old and tried. Some people can pull off old in a distinguished manner with energy in action films very well, thinking of Sean Connery but Harrison Ford and Karen Allen just had no energy :sad: and certainly neither one were distinguished. Dh was kicking himself after seeing it saying we should have waited until netflixs had it. It was a very poor reflection of the first movie.

[Old Dominion Heather]

We are no longer friends.:glare:



:lol: Why y'all hatin' on Kevin? I loved him in Field of Dreams and The Upside of Anger.



Kevin is just so ickky. Although there are others who stink just as badly if not worse. It is just that I actually thought I might like those and watched them. He wasn't awful in Robin Hood, I guess. :001_huh: maybe. :glare: sorta...

People I hate more... in other words I don't even attempt to see their movies: Tom Cruise, Vin Deisel, The Rock (does he have a name?), Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Lopez, Adam Sandler, Jack Black (although, I have not yet seen Nacho Libre) hmmm... oh! Cameron Diaz and Ben Stiller.

[Old Dominion Heather]

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

It was much funnier when dh and I started making up dialogue.

[nmoira]

Kevin is just so ickky.Uh huh.

Kevin Costner... Billy Bob Thornton... Kevin Costner .... Billy Bob Thornton.

I'd take Billy Bob over Kevin.

[genie]

People I hate more... in other words I don't even attempt to see their movies: Tom Cruise, Vin Deisel, The Rock (does he have a name?), Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Lopez, Adam Sandler, Jack Black (although, I have not yet seen Nacho Libre) hmmm... oh! Cameron Diaz and Ben Stiller.


You had me until your oh! Can't stand any of the ones you listed before. But Cameron and Ben are okay. :)

[Jenny in Atl]

I always find it interesting what folks like and really hate. There are a few mentioned so far that I like, but not too many this time. Some on last time said they hated Mr Brooks, that one kind of redeemed Mr Costner for me a bit; yes I'm totally weird... I liked it. Also liked Field of Dream (more for James Earl Jones though) and Bull Durham. I also have a love hate thing with Nick Cage. Loved Lord of War, hated Ghost Rider. Dh who can watch really awful grade d movies, could not even finish it. And Se7en (loved, loved, loved that movie except for Brad Pitt and whiny Ms. Paltrow. I think I can watch just about anything with Morgan Freeman. Just saw Gone Baby Gone. He was in it for maybe 15 mins and stole the whole picture. Just an amazing actor.
:lurk5:

[Karenciavo]

Napoleon Dynamite - Worst. Movie. Ever.


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[AuntieM]

was M Night's latest, The Happening. Really, truly, awful. I know there are probably mixed feelings here about his other work, but I really liked Signs and enjoy watching films with a twist to the plot. The Happening was such a let down. Ridiculous plot, terrible acting, no good twists along the way... I felt robbed of my time and money.

Now if you want another actor to add to the list of "I can't watch anything with XXXX in it," here's my vote: Jim Carrey. Can't stand him. Can't stand the thought of him. I like The Truman Show, but I can't bear to watch him in anything else. Can't watch him on a talk show. Ick.

[nakitty]

Worst in what way? Acting? Plot? Writing? Just generally yuck?

Off the top of my head:

Se7en (Perhaps there was good acting, good plot, good writing. I don't know because it was so absolutely creepy that dh and I had to shut it off on about the fourth deadly sin and wished we had sooner.)

Pulp Fiction - Just all around BAD, IMO. I don't like Quentin Tarantino movies and I don't much care for John Travolta. I wish we had walked out of the theater.

Napoleon Dynamite - There's over an hour of my life I'll never get back. I wish I had been doing something more productive, like, say, surfing the net. Stupid, stupid, stupid, and not the least bit funny.

Dumb and Dumber - See above and add gross to it.

Gosh, there are just so many. Perhaps we should also have a thread about actors/actresses and directors/producers we avoid. That's a huge list in itself. My family thinks I'm waaaaay too opinionated about actors and actresses in particular.

ACK...LOL... I love all those movies....well, except Dumb and Dumber....I haven't even bothered to watch that one...but the other 3...those are good movies! LOL

[Jenny in Atl]

For those of you who liked Napoleon Dynamite and find the Flight of the Conchords funny too, you just might like a small New Zealand movie called Eagle vs. Shark (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0494222/)
It was an odd ball mess of laughs mixed with a good bit of dark humor. We really liked it.

Now back to movies we don't like... ;)

[nakitty]

ummm...OK...I will just say....I have very contrary movie tastes than most here...LOL

[Dana in OR]

Uh huh.

Kevin Costner... Billy Bob Thornton... Kevin Costner .... Billy Bob Thornton.

I'd take Billy Bob over Kevin.

Egad. I can't stomach either of them. Kevin = blah, Billy Bob = creeps me out.

[Angela in TN]

We watched Catch Me If You Can (http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Catch_Me_If_You_Can/60024942) recently, and I loved that. That's a movie.

Love, love that movie!:thumbup1:

[elegantlion]

I always find it interesting what folks like and really hate. There are a few mentioned so far that I like, but not too many this time. Some on last time said they hated Mr Brooks, that one kind of redeemed Mr Costner for me a bit; yes I'm totally weird... I liked it. Also liked Field of Dream (more for James Earl Jones though) and Bull Durham. I also have a love hate thing with Nick Cage. Loved Lord of War, hated Ghost Rider. Dh who can watch really awful grade d movies, could not even finish it. And Se7en (loved, loved, loved that movie except for Brad Pitt and whiny Ms. Paltrow. I think I can watch just about anything with Morgan Freeman. Just saw Gone Baby Gone. He was in it for maybe 15 mins and stole the whole picture. Just an amazing actor.
:lurk5:

I liked the idea of se7en, but hated the movie. However, I think Morgan Freeman should narrate everything, I vote for him for President, like in the meteor movie, Deep Impact, that's it. I could listen to him for hours. I even like his version of God.

[Karenciavo]

Troll, and guess what? They are remaking it. Micheal Moriarty must have been http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/merv/joint.gif (http://www.freesmileys.org) in that one.

[nakitty]

was M Night's latest, The Happening. Really, truly, awful. I know there are probably mixed feelings here about his other work, but I really liked Signs and enjoy watching films with a twist to the plot. The Happening was such a let down. Ridiculous plot, terrible acting, no good twists along the way... I felt robbed of my time and money.


I am soooo with you! I love MNS's movies....so was excited to see this one....and it sucked! I mean...I was ready to walk out...had I not just given my left kidney to see it... :glare:

[Karenciavo]

was M Night's latest, The Happening. Really, truly, awful. I know there are probably mixed feelings here about his other work, but I really liked Signs and enjoy watching films with a twist to the plot. The Happening was such a let down. Ridiculous plot, terrible acting, no good twists along the way... I felt robbed of my time and money.

Ya, you know, I feel like his movies have been nothing but downhill since The Sixth Sense, Signs was good, even The Village was O.K., but Lady in the Water and The Happening are dreadful.

[Kay in Cal]

The worst movie of all time is: Ghost Dad.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ghost_dad/
Bill Cosby. Dead. Family comedy.

You haven't heard of it. Be very very glad. This is actually the only movie in my life I've walked out of halfway through-- and I saw Dungeons & Dragons in the theatre.

Actually, I like most of the movies you guys mention, and even those I didn't (Pan's Labyrinth--way too violent for me) are, admittedly, good movies. I think there is a difference between a "bad" movie and one that I just personally don't enjoy.

Ghost Dad. Bad bad bad.

[PinkInTheBlue]

I don't watch horror and excessive language is plenty enough to make me leave or turn off a movie. So, outside of those obvious ones for me I'd say The Toy with Robin Williams, AI, and American Beauty. We started watching Blade Runner last night but didn't finish it. I hope it gets better because what I've seen so far is boring and borderline dumb. ;)

Gotta add Moulin Rouge and The Time Machine. Also, anything with extreme fighting and violence (ie, Fight Club and Pulp Fiction).

One more edit: I can't stand any of what I call 'stupid humor'. Dumb and Dumber, Napoleon Dynamite, etc. Basically nothing with Jim Carrey in it except The Majestic and Truman Show. Any other of those "comedy" actors that love to do stupid humor. I love a great, true comedy though. :)

[Mom2legomaniacs]

Wild at Heart -- hated it

The Bee Movie -- stupid imo -- just a waste of time for me

Summer Heat (?not sure of the title) -- Really boring -- best line -- "It's hot. Yeah, sure is." repeatedly. Just not an interesting movie at all.

Hmm, there are more, but those stand out at the moment.

[Virginia Dawn]

Late For Dinner, The Scooby Doo Movie, Barry Lyndon, George of the Jungle.

[Frontier Mom]

"The Sign of the Beaver." We read the book and listened to the audio book in the last year. Someone loaned the movie and we all declared it "The Worst Movie Ever Made!"

I couldn't believe how they would take a great, classic book and change the whole theme. I was terribly disappointed.

[laylamcb]

I also have a love hate thing with Nick Cage.
:lurk5:

:iagree: YES!! I have this, too! I LOVED Nick Cage in Raising Arizona and Moonstruck. Brilliant. And he was the only thing that kept the National Treasure movies from turning totally ridiculous--perfect blend of gravity and camp. But I absolutely abhored Wild at Heart--and almost everything else he's ever done. Mostly I can't stand him. And yet....

:glare:

[genie]

I just have to say... I LOVE Wild at Heart! Sorry, I know this isn't a vote-for-movies-you-loved thread. But some things you just gotta let out or they'll eat you alive!

[laylamcb]

I agree that it depends on how you define bad.

For my dad, the threshold for measuring bad movies is Howard's End which we all saw together in the theater when I was in high school or college. So far, he has yet to find a movie worse than Howard's End, but I think a few have been judged as bad as. It's become something of a family joke.

The equivalent movie for DH and I is The Royal Tennenbaums. (sp?)



I absolutely love Howard's End, but totally agree on The Royal Tennenbaums. I wanted to dope slap every single actor in it and throttle the pretentious Washington Post movie critic who gave it a glowing review. Urg. That's two hours of my life that I could've spent cleaning toilets!

Also dreadful: Americans with bad accents. Pick a movie. ;)

[samba]

Pumpkin (with Christina Ricci) and Beloved (Dh and I walked out of the theater)

[Elaine]

I always find it interesting what folks like and really hate. There are a few mentioned so far that I like, but not too many this time. Some on last time said they hated Mr Brooks, that one kind of redeemed Mr Costner for me a bit; yes I'm totally weird... I liked it. Also liked Field of Dream (more for James Earl Jones though) and Bull Durham. I also have a love hate thing with Nick Cage. Loved Lord of War, hated Ghost Rider. Dh who can watch really awful grade d movies, could not even finish it. And Se7en (loved, loved, loved that movie except for Brad Pitt and whiny Ms. Paltrow. I think I can watch just about anything with Morgan Freeman. Just saw Gone Baby Gone. He was in it for maybe 15 mins and stole the whole picture. Just an amazing actor.
:lurk5:

I agree about Morgan Freeman, I love the sound of his voice. I also agree about Gwyneth Paltrow. I can't stand her!

[Kris]

Oh, and I'll add to the chorus of those who hated Borat. Now there was a movie that did what it intended to do, I guess, "well", but... (shudder) (cringe) (retch)

I didn't make it through much of that one. Not surprisingly, it appears that it's a biggie with teenage boys.

Tops on my list today is "Marie Antoinette." I just got a chance to watch it yesterday and it was horrible. I went back and read some of the reviews on it, and it looks like it's a "love it" or "hate it" kind of thing. It put me to sleep.

[abbeyej]

LOL I'll just vote "all Kevin Costner movies". ;)

You must be forgetting "Untouchables"! Even with KC in it, it's a great movie!

[Cricket]

Anything with J.A. is bad. I loved her on Friends, but I can't sit through her movies.

I thought The Breakup was pretty awful. Horrible and depressing. Do people really act that way? I agree that her movies (the ones I have seen) were fairly bad.

[Jenny in Atl]

I didn't make it through much of that one. Not surprisingly, it appears that it's a biggie with teenage boys.

Tops on my list today is "Marie Antoinette." I just got a chance to watch it yesterday and it was horrible. I went back and read some of the reviews on it, and it looks like it's a "love it" or "hate it" kind of thing. It put me to sleep.

I could not even sit through it. Dd12 made it through and went YUCK! Panned it big time. And she loves over the top movies.

[abbeyej]

Solaris. We made is 1/4 way through and shut it off LOL

Dh and I watched the whole *&$# thing. Can you imagine? What was wrong with us?!? I think we were just so amazed and kept thinking, "It *has* to get better." I'll save you the trouble: It doesn't.

[abbeyej]

Oh, I have to add "Cold Mountain". Man, I hated that movie. Everything about it. The casting, the alleged "acting", the direction, the writing, even the setting that managed never, ever to look like the country they were trying to represent. I just wanted those characters -- all of 'em -- to *die* already and put me out of my misery. (Shudder) Yuck!

(I guess, to be fair, I liked the Alison Krauss song.)

[genie]

You'd better run. http://www.smileygenerator.us/community/searchsmiley/t/tomato2.gif


I guess since I'm already running out of the way of those rotten tomatoes, I'll go ahead and admit this:

Lord of the Rings: Second Worst Move Ever.

:thumbdown:

[Kay in Cal]

No!!!

It may not be your cup of tea, but that doesn't make it a bad movie, IMHO. I would argue that there IS such a thing as an objectively (at least, pretty darn close) bad movie. The cinema version of velvet Elvis art, etc.

But besides from being an artistically good movie... I happen to love LOTR!:001_tt2:

[Chris in CA]

There are so many, but Cool Hand Luke comes to mind immediately

[genie]

No!!!

It may not be your cup of tea, but that doesn't make it a bad movie, IMHO. I would argue that there IS such a thing as an objectively (at least, pretty darn close) bad movie. The cinema version of velvet Elvis art, etc.

But besides from being an artistically good movie... I happen to love LOTR!:001_tt2:

I wanted to like it. I REALLY did! I tried, for what, three hours, I tried! And go ahead and scold me, because I didn't read the book(s) first. I'm sure that would have helped. But the movie made me NOT want to read the books! Okay, that's not completely true. I do want to and will read the books. But I had expected to come out of the movie just dying to read the books, and it did NOT have that effect on me. I'm sorry. I know I'm not worthy.
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[Jenny in Atl]

I wanted to like it. I REALLY did! I tried, for what, three hours, I tried! And go ahead and scold me, because I didn't read the book(s) first. I'm sure that would have helped. But the movie made me NOT want to read the books! Okay, that's not completely true. I do want to and will read the books. But I had expected to come out of the movie just dying to read the books, and it did NOT have that effect on me. I'm sorry. I know I'm not worthy.
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My dh loves the bks so much he refused to see the movies. He did not want to tarnish his childhood memories. To this day, he will leave the room if they come on. I'm not kidding!

[Testimony]

I am embarssed to say, "Jumper." I thought maybe Hayden Christensen (did I spell his name right) would do better in this movie than in Star Wars. I was wrong. The idea was great! But this movie bombed within the first ten minutes of the movie and the credits did not start. Sadly, the plan on doing two more sequels to a movie that the producers just assumed everybody wanted to see again. :w00t::smilielol5::smilielol5::smilielol5:

Also, I agree "It's Pat" was bad too.:lurk5:

Blessings,
Karen
www.homeschoolblogger.com/testimony

[laylamcb]

...but I loved the movies. There was for me, however, one GLARING weak point: Arwen. Oh. My. Gawsh. She drove me insane. I plan to read the books, and I'm hoping against hope that her character isn't as cloying and insipid as she was in the movies. Every time they cut to her in any of the movies, I just have to fast forward. ACK!! :tongue_smilie:

[Liberty]

I recently saw Magnolia. It was over 3 hours long and filled with actors who are throughout the movie at the edge of hysterics. Toss in terminally ill people, Tom Cruise in his sleaziest role ever, a part where all of a sudden one of the songs of the soundtrack is lip-synched by all the characters, and a rainstorm of frogs (yes, FROGS), and you get what I knew in all of my heart to be the worst movie ever made. I couldn't wait to jump on imdb.com to make fun of it only to find it ranked in the top 250 movies of all time (????!!!!)

[Cricket]

Van Helsing was so awful. The special effects, dialogue, everything. Ugh! Not even staring at Hugh Jackman could save that film.

[Karenciavo]

I guess since I'm already running out of the way of those rotten tomatoes, I'll go ahead and admit this:

Lord of the Rings: Second Worst Move Ever.

:thumbdown:

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[Karenciavo]

...but I loved the movies. There was for me, however, one GLARING weak point: Arwen. Oh. My. Gawsh. She drove me insane. I plan to read the books, and I'm hoping against hope that her character isn't as cloying and insipid as she was in the movies. Every time they cut to her in any of the movies, I just have to fast forward. ACK!! :tongue_smilie:

Well, she doesn't appear in the books as much as she does in the movies (sore point for some fans) and I don't think she comes off as insipid.

[Peek a Boo]

I'd categorize my dislike as:
Won't even bother watching it, period.
Watched the first part but turned it off.
Watched the whole thing and considered it a waste of time and wouldn't recommend it, period.
Watched it and considered it stupid, but.... ok, some people might like that sort of thing.
Considered it corny/lame/dumb, but a few enjoyable moments.
Kinda liked it, but wouldn't bother watching it again if i had my 'druthers.
Pretty good movie.
I think I'll own that one.
and
I would watch that movie again and aqgain and again!


I've seen stupid movies, but the only ones I have ever turned off were Matador and Lady Killers [Tom Hanks]. I *love* Pierce Brosnan, but Matador just about turned me off of watching him in anything else.

On the "I hate them even tho i watched them" list:
Napoleon Dynamite
The Conqueror -John Wayne as Ghenghis Khan? i don't think so.
Traxx
Pan's Labyrinth

and a few others that I can't think of right now.....

[sarathan]

I'm not sure if this is the worst movie I've ever seen, but I recently watched Lady in the Water and it was TERRIBLE! Boring, bad acting, the works. Bad, just bad.

[sarah in tenn]

Seven. As in the 7 deadly sins. I wish I had never seen it.
sarah

[kortney in AL]

I'm embarrassed to say I even saw part of this movie, but Scarface with Al Pacino has to be the worst I've ever seen. How many times can you say one curse word!!

As far as the worst movie because it was depressing, that would be Sleepers.

[ereks mom]

Some cute songs, but overall, I just cannot stand that movie!

[Rich with Kids]

Smokin' Aces. It was horribly gory and graphic.

[ereks mom]

I don't watch horror and excessive language is plenty enough to make me leave or turn off a movie.
One more edit: I can't stand any of what I call 'stupid humor'.

We don't watch anything rated R. The language just gets to me.

And as for 'stupid humor': I cannot tolerate Jim Carrey at all.

[justme]

Several people have mentioned 'Lady in the Water' and I would have to agree. Painfully boring and pointless.

Also to add: any baseball themed movies (Bull Durham, Field of Dreams, the one with Robert Redford, etc...) They are just like a sedative to me. I could probably undergo surgery while watching one and wouldn't even know it.

On my refuse to see with actor/actress: Julia Roberts! Can. Not. Stand. Her. Period. Jim Carey, Jack Black, Adam Sandler (except Wedding Singer). Don't like over-the-top stupid humor.

[Pajama Mama]

I just remembered...My nominee for worst foreign film is "Fat Girl". I love foreign films and I heard about this French film. So, there were scenes throughout the movie that were questionable but the ending was absolutely revolting. The ending was so disgusting that I can't type what happened. I wish I had some brain bleach for that one.

[amy g.]

Blue Velvet

[SusanG]

Howard the Duck
The Mask, and actually most Jim carrey movies
The Time Machine (the more recent one where the conflict is presented and resolved in 2 minutes)
Rocky Horror Picture Show


Oh, I loved The Mask!

I'm shocked at the hate for Rocky Horror - that's in my top ten all time favorite movies list!!!

[SusanG]

Another vote for ALL Kevin Costner movies. I've never seen one I liked. He is on my must avoid list.

Same here - I can't stand that man! I also generally avoid movies with Tom Cruise and Mel Gibson, because I loathe them both, but their movies do tend to be a LOT better than Kevin Costner's movies.

[SusanG]

Dh & I both were just mesmerized by Se7en. We thought it was brilliant! Adding it to my Netflix right now, it's been too long.





Se7en is also a favorite here - we even have a framed one sheet of the movie on our bedroom wall - part of dh's Brad Pitt shrine of movie memorabilia, most of which is from Fight Club, another favorite of ours!

[SusanG]

I liked the idea of se7en, but hated the movie. However, I think Morgan Freeman should narrate everything, I vote for him for President, like in the meteor movie, Deep Impact, that's it. I could listen to him for hours. I even like his version of God.


Love Guru was not a great movie, but there is a HILARIOUS Morgan Freeman running joke that almost makes it worthwhile.

[SusanG]

Wild at Heart -- hated it




I didn't think anyone here would have even SEEN that movie - it's another of my favorites. I guess I'm a movie weirdo! I own the soundtrack, dvd, and even have a rolled up one sheet around here somewhere. IMO, it was Nicolas Cage's best movie role.

[nmoira]

Se7en is also a favorite here - we even have a framed one sheet of the movie on our bedroom wall - part of dh's Brad Pitt shrine of movie memorabilia, most of which is from Fight Club, another favorite of ours!The only thing I liked about Se7en was Gwyneth Paltrow's end. I cannot stand that woman.

[nmoira]

I guess I'm a movie weirdo!I loved Wild at Heart too. We can be weirdos together.

[SusanG]

Okay, I have replied to a ton of posts, so I better list my most hated movies. I'm SURE I'm missing some, but here are a few:

Van Helsing
Brothers Grimm (the one with Matt Damon - is that what it's called)
Pan's Labyrinth
Date Movie

I will admit we didn't finish Brothers Grimm or Date Movie - they were too painful and we gave up about 30 minutes in to each one. Pan's Labyrinth was only watchable with copious amounts of rum punch, and even then I absolutely hated it. Van Helsing was just.......pathetic.

[nmoira]

Tops on my list today is "Marie Antoinette." I just got a chance to watch it yesterday and it was horrible. I went back and read some of the reviews on it, and it looks like it's a "love it" or "hate it" kind of thing. It put me to sleep.I've been toying with watching it muted; I understand it was filmed largely at Versailles.

[PrairieAir]

I HATE HATE HATE John Travolta and I have a love hate thing with Nicolas Cage.

Absolutely! There are a few John Travolta things that are tolerable, but it's just that and nothing more. Grease is so cheesy it's good--but not great and not because of JT. He wasn't bad on Welcome Back Kotter. I think maybe he was made to play a goofball. I've seen him do a good job of acting in more serious roles, but I don't care for him. He kinda creeps me out.

Nicolas Cage is one I either love or hate. There's no in between with him. Wind Talkers and Captain Corelli's Mandolin are examples of good Nic Cage movies. I do wish he wouldn't talk through his nose so much.

Matthew Broderick is probably the actor who annoys me the most. His voice just grates on my nerves. He's whiny. Every time someone on the board says, "Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?" I have the most awful flashbacks of all the Matthew Broderick movies I've suffered through. When the kids were small and The Lion King came out, we took them to see it in the theater--something we almost never do with our entire family. Simba irritated me all the way through the movie. It was even more annoying that I couldn't figure out why he irritated me so. I wanted to team up with Scar and kill the little punk animated lion myself. The voice was so familiar, but I couldn't quite place it. By the last scene of the movie, I had figured it out and made dh and the kids wait while I checked the credits. Then I ranted about what a ridiculous choice that was for Simba's voice. Oh, and his wife annoys me too. I think they were made for each other. :rant: :cursing: :banghead:

:001_huh: Oops. Sorry.:blushing:

When I start talking this way, my family is shocked. I am never so critical of normal people, but I can be quite cruel in my criticism of some celebrities. Although, if I ever met them, I'm sure I could be nice and try to see a real person in there somewhere. :D

[Mom2legomaniacs]

I didn't think anyone here would have even SEEN that movie - it's another of my favorites. I guess I'm a movie weirdo! I own the soundtrack, dvd, and even have a rolled up one sheet around here somewhere. IMO, it was Nicolas Cage's best movie role.

Well, we were in grad school and it was showing for free, I think. I didn't know anything about it before we went. I was a bit on the shocked side, I seem to recall. The mood of the movie and my mood that night just did not mix well, I guess. So not a fave for me at all.

[PrairieAir]

:lol: See, now I like Gwyneth Paltrow and Mel Gibson and we all enjoyed The Brother's Grimm--all except youngest dd who was really freaked out by one scene.

We're all looking forward to The Love Guru. We're Mike Myers fans. Youngest ds has watched the clips on YouTube over and over and walks around repeating them. He goes around saying "Marishka Hargatay" in that goofy voice. I finally explained to him that it is an actress' name and showed him a picture of her. He only laughed harder. We love stupid, goofy humor, but it's got to be our kind of stupid, goofy humor.

[nmoira]

:lol: See, now I like Gwyneth Paltrow and Mel Gibson and we all enjoyed The Brother's Grimm--all except youngest dd who was really freaked out by one scene.We can agree to disagree about Gwynnie, but I was surprised by how much I enjoyed Brothers Grimm.

[PrairieAir]

I'm not sure if this is the worst movie I've ever seen, but I recently watched Lady in the Water and it was TERRIBLE! Boring, bad acting, the works. Bad, just bad.

Ooh, I loved Lady in the Water. I thought it was interesting, suspenseful, and excellent acting from Paul Giamatti in particular.

Isn't if funny how different our opinions on something like this can be? My brother and I have a very similar (and odd) sense of humor, but our taste in movies which are not comedies couldn't be any more different. I've learned not to steer clear of action or drama movies he recommends. Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Silence of the Lambs, and Se7en are among his favorites! His wife likes the Saw movies which I just refuse to even try. They are such funny people--keep me in stitches whenever they're around--but they have a definite dark side to them that I don't think I have. At least my dark side looks a lot different.

[Pencil Pusher]

1. Wind. My mom chooses movies based on the cover pic. The title of this one sums up the plot & everything.

2. The Lemon Sisters. See above.

3. Time Machine. Sure, somebody reasonable picked this one. Someone who bothers to read the back of the box. But didn't the ending sort-of leave you feeling violated, plot-wise? As in, there could have been one, but HA! GOTCHA!!

4. I know there are a couple worse than the ones listed. Some that literally left me ANGRY at the...complete lack of...anything. I mean, I don't want to see a horror film, but I'm not going to hold that against it, kwim? As long as it's up front about what it is, it's my responsibility to know I don't like that.

By the same token, if your movie doesn't end, SAY SO. So I know to avoid it. I'd rather...gouge my own eyes out? I don't know. Something that doesn't make you feel as though you are. literally. measuring out your life w/ coffee spoons. And then DUMPING it, spoonful by spoonful into a vast abyss.

Now. To the poster who doesn't like Spiderman, et al. Let me just say, many superhero movies are surprisingly philosophical. Spiderman II happens to be the best ex of this that I have seen. It's Plato's Republic. It illustrates the question: "What is justice?" and "Is a just man just because he is *perceived* as being so or because he actually *is* so?" and "What if a just man is perceived as being *unjust*?"

Yes. Spidey II is ownable.

ETA: I'm w/ the Costner-phobes. His acting...sends shivers down my spine. And not in a good way. :)

[Kelli in TN]

:iagree: YES!! I have this, too! I LOVED Nick Cage in Raising Arizona and Moonstruck. Brilliant. And he was the only thing that kept the National Treasure movies from turning totally ridiculous--perfect blend of gravity and camp. But I absolutely abhored Wild at Heart--and almost everything else he's ever done. Mostly I can't stand him. And yet....

:glare:

I believe I have shared on the old boards my feelings about Mr. Cage. Basically you can take any plot, who cares about the plot, do you even really need a plot, and let Mr. Cage bring his fineness to the film and it is A-Okay.

Mr Cage is just fine. Easy on the eyes, kind of quirky, what more could you want?

[Amy loves Bud]

Easy. Dumb and Dumber. Fortunately we were on a ski trip with friends who rented it so we didn't spend a penny of our money on it and I was able to get up and find a book while they watched it. Otherwise I would be mourning that 2 hours of my life.

[PrairieAir]

People I hate more... in other words I don't even attempt to see their movies... Jack Black (although, I have not yet seen Nacho Libre)

Don't bother with Nacho Libre. We like Jack Black and none of us thought it was funny. I fell asleep. They showed all the funny parts on the commercials.

[Kelli in TN]

The Others


Not only was it very dreary, it was anti-homeschooling.

Wait, how was it anti-homeschooling?

[Amy loves Bud]

Kevin is just so ickky. Although there are others who stink just as badly if not worse. It is just that I actually thought I might like those and watched them. He wasn't awful in Robin Hood, I guess. :001_huh: maybe. :glare: sorta...

People I hate more... in other words I don't even attempt to see their movies: Tom Cruise, Vin Deisel, The Rock (does he have a name?), Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Lopez, Adam Sandler, Jack Black (although, I have not yet seen Nacho Libre) hmmm... oh! Cameron Diaz and Ben Stiller.

Please, take Jack Black's name out of that list. He doesn't belong there!

I heart Jack Black. Though if you don't like him, Nacho Libre probably won't help matters. :lol:

[Amy loves Bud]

I agree about Morgan Freeman, I love the sound of his voice. I also agree about Gwyneth Paltrow. I can't stand her!

Same here! I loved the opening of The Bucket List and the ending of The Shawshank Redemption in a large part because of his voice.

"I hope."

[Pencil Pusher]

I believe I have shared on the old boards my feelings about Mr. Cage. Basically you can take any plot, who cares about the plot, do you even really need a plot, and let Mr. Cage bring his fineness to the film and it is A-Okay.

Mr Cage is just fine. Easy on the eyes, kind of quirky, what more could you want?

I would have totally agreed. In fact, he was one of my "safe" actors--as in, if he's in it, it's safe. Not stupid, not crass.

And then I saw Lord of War.

[SusanG]

Please, take Jack Black's name out of that list. He doesn't belong there!

I heart Jack Black. Though if you don't like him, Nacho Libre probably won't help matters. :lol:


If you want to like Jack Black, try School of Rock and Be Kind Rewind. He's amazing in both.

[Parabola]

Pan's Labyrinth

Yuck, yucky, yuck!
i liked Pans Labyrinth. Don't hit me.

ISo, outside of those obvious ones for me I'd say The Toy with Robin Williams, AI, and American Beauty. We started watching Blade Runner last night but didn't finish it. I hope it gets better because what I've seen so far is boring and borderline dumb. ;)

:)

Blade Runner is in my top movies, its brilliant. The book is better (as always). Also really liked American Beauty.

I guess since I'm already running out of the way of those rotten tomatoes, I'll go ahead and admit this:

Lord of the Rings: Second Worst Move Ever.

:thumbdown:

OMG, someone ELSE who feels this way about that movie. DH and I were so bored, the dialogue was so cheesy, it was just AWFUL. We never watched the rest of them. (PS: Charlie was in that, so if it comes around again, I will watch it but J*ST to see him)

There are so many, but Cool Hand Luke comes to mind immediately
Like that one Too!

Oh, I loved The Mask!

I'm shocked at the hate for Rocky Horror - that's in my top ten all time favorite movies list!!!
Me too SusanG, I love that movie. I taught my kids the Time Warp even!

Don't bother with Nacho Libre. We like Jack Black and none of us thought it was funny. I fell asleep. They showed all the funny parts on the commercials.
Agreed, sucked.

Someone already mentioned my personal WORSE MOVIE EVER: A History of Violence. It was advertised as a sort of psychological drama, but it was nothing but killing, blood, bad acting, and me rooting for all the characters to just shut up and die.

[Amy loves Bud]

I didn't think anyone here would have even SEEN that movie - it's another of my favorites. I guess I'm a movie weirdo! I own the soundtrack, dvd, and even have a rolled up one sheet around here somewhere. IMO, it was Nicolas Cage's best movie role.

It's a symbol of my individuality and my belief of personal freedom.

:D

[Kelli in TN]

Oh, dh was flippin through channels and I can add to the list.

ANY movie ever made starring Burt Reynolds. Every last Burt Reynolds is awful.

[Amy loves Bud]

:iagree: YES!! I have this, too! I LOVED Nick Cage in Raising Arizona and Moonstruck. Brilliant. And he was the only thing that kept the National Treasure movies from turning totally ridiculous--perfect blend of gravity and camp. But I absolutely abhored Wild at Heart--and almost everything else he's ever done. Mostly I can't stand him. And yet....

:glare:


Moonstruck was definitely his best, imnsho.

[Diane]

I hated The Happening with Mark Wahlberg...I'll never that get hour and 45 minutes of my life back.

[SusanG]

It's a symbol of my individuality and my belief of personal freedom.

:D


OMG, I have to watch it again tomorrow now. One of the best lines from any movie. EVER. It's worth watching for the cameos alone - Willem Dafoe in his sleaziest role ever, and Sherilyn Fenn is super hot even as a bleeding, dying car accident victim!

[SusanG]

Okay, just thought of another movie I HATED.....

The Departed

[Amy loves Bud]

Napoleon Dynamite - Worst. Movie. Ever.


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[gardenschooler]

I believe I have shared on the old boards my feelings about Mr. Cage. Basically you can take any plot, who cares about the plot, do you even really need a plot, and let Mr. Cage bring his fineness to the film and it is A-Okay.

Mr Cage is just fine. Easy on the eyes, kind of quirky, what more could you want?

Oh, I've been holding back my fingers.

Did someone say they have a love hate relationship with Nicolas Cage? Well, I have a love love relationship with him.

The movie is secondary. Superfluous. Gets in the way, actually.

[Amy loves Bud]

Another....Spanglish.

Sad screwed up marriage to begin with, sad screwed up marriage at the end. Awful.

[HollyDay]

"Coming to America" with Eddie Murphy.

[Hillary in KS]

How is it that no one has mentioned "The English Patient?"

People, please. That was one awful movie, made worse by the fact that everyone else I know seemed to love it.

[Kelli in TN]

Another....Spanglish.

Sad screwed up marriage to begin with, sad screwed up marriage at the end. Awful.

NO!!!

Sad screwed up wife, incredibly faithful husband and father. I loved his character. I want to think that even if were to decide to become a self centered, neurotic b*tch that my husband would still resist the sweet, beautiful, kind hearted woman in front of him.

I think he would. But to be on the safe side I think I will refrain from morphing into a self-centered, neurotic b*tch. Except for about 24 hours out of each month, and then the big pimples give away the reason why, so he forgives me.

[genie]

Oh, I've been holding back my fingers.

Did someone say they have a love hate relationship with Nicolas Cage? Well, I have a love love relationship with him.

The movie is secondary. Superfluous. Gets in the way, actually.

Agreed!

Love love relationship with the following actors:

Nicolas Cage
John Cusack
Johnny Depp
Mandy Patinkin

[Parabola]

Another....Spanglish.

Sad screwed up marriage to begin with, sad screwed up marriage at the end. Awful.

Oh I liked this movie. I was impressed with Sandler's acting, it was more than I expected from him after The Water Boy and Happy Gilmore, y'know.

I thought it was a good story too.

[Kelli in TN]

How is it that no one has mentioned "The English Patient?"

People, please. That was one awful movie, made worse by the fact that everyone else I know seemed to love it.

Oh, please wake me up when it's over.

[genie]

How is it that no one has mentioned "The English Patient?"

People, please. That was one awful movie, made worse by the fact that everyone else I know seemed to love it.


Or what about The Piano, from a couple of years earlier? Yuckomatic!

But people loved it. :confused:

[Elaine]

Please, take Jack Black's name out of that list. He doesn't belong there!

I heart Jack Black. Though if you don't like him, Nacho Libre probably won't help matters. :lol:

I knew I loved you, Amy!!

I love the part is School of Rock-
The student says, "Are you drunk?

And Jack Black says, "Nooooo, I'm hungover. I was drunk yesterday."

:lol::lol::lol: Yeah, we're all about class here at Casa de Laney

[Elaine]

Same here! I loved the opening of The Bucket List and the ending of The Shawshank Redemption in a large part because of his voice.

"I hope."

It's so funny, when I get to heaven I swear God is going to sound like Morgan!

Is that blasphemous?:lol:

[Elaine]

Okay, just thought of another movie I HATED.....

The Departed

Really?? I loves me some good 'ole mafia violence.:D



Plus, Mark Wahlberg, Leo, Matt Damon! Eye-Candy galore!;)

Editing to add...isn't it so funny that the men above consider themselves great actors and I am just happy to see them with their shirts off? ROFL

[Elaine]

How is it that no one has mentioned "The English Patient?"

People, please. That was one awful movie, made worse by the fact that everyone else I know seemed to love it.

You know what that movie needed?



















More COWBELL!!:lol:

[Elaine]

OK, someone else post something, I look pathetic with the last four posts being mine!;)

[Kay in Cal]

We liked Lady in the Water as well... that dark faerie sort of thing is right up my alley.

[FlockOfSillies]

:glare:

[SusanG]

You know what that movie needed?







More COWBELL!!:lol:

Can't that be said about MOST movies, though?

[Elaine]

Can't that be said about MOST movies, though?

Very true, SusanG, very true!

:D:D:D

[Elaine]

"Coming to America" with Eddie Murphy.

What? What? :confused: You didn't love the band Se*ual Chocolate??

:lol::D:lol:

[Once]

Elaine

You are hysterical! Thanks for the laugh tonight. I really needed it.

[RoughCollie]

The worst movie I ever saw was Alien.

[Elaine]

Elaine

You are hysterical! Thanks for the laugh tonight. I really needed it.

:D Hysteria. Just another service I provide!:lol:

[Once]

Alien and hysteria on the same page.

Did you ladies plan that?

[Dana in OR]

Event Horizon (1997) With Sam Neill. Ick. Anguish.

For that matter, Laura Dern in "Jurrasic Park" should get the worst actress ever award. Although the movie survived her wooden performance.

[Sandy in Indy]

Artificial Intelligence: AI by Steven Spielberg. Huge disappointment!
Napoleon Dynamite--couldn't get past the first 10 minutes. Bleech.

[Kris]

I'm shocked at the hate for Rocky Horror - that's in my top ten all time favorite movies list!!!

The first time I saw that one, my boyfriend took me to the midnight show at the old theater -- where everyone dressed up and played characters. He didn't warn me first and I had NO idea what was going on -- and had a blast!

I don't know if I'd put it on my top ten list, but I wouldn't pass up another chance to go see it. ;-)

[Kris]

I wanted to like it. I REALLY did! I tried, for what, three hours, I tried! And go ahead and scold me, because I didn't read the book(s) first. I'm sure that would have helped. But the movie made me NOT want to read the books! Okay, that's not completely true. I do want to and will read the books. But I had expected to come out of the movie just dying to read the books, and it did NOT have that effect on me. I'm sorry. I know I'm not worthy.
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Well, add me to the "not worthy" club, too, then. Yes, I tried -- and failed miserably!

[Kris]

Van Helsing was so awful. The special effects, dialogue, everything. Ugh! Not even staring at Hugh Jackman could save that film.

This was one of the few movies we actually went out to see. I usually wait until they're on cheap DVD or TV. I love Hugh Jackman, but that didn't help. I wanted to watch it again to see if that was *really* a microphone at the top of one of the shots, but haven't been able to work myself up for it.

[Kris]

Seven. As in the 7 deadly sins. I wish I had never seen it.

Definitely the stuff of nightmares. I can't watch it, but I can have it on for background noise. :-)

[Kris]

I've been toying with watching it muted; I understand it was filmed largely at Versailles.

I think you could get just as much out of staring at an 8x10 glossy stuck on the wall. It's basically the same thing, over and over and over -- with different gowns.

"Marie Antoinette" really got to me because I was looking forward to something historical -- which it definitely is not. Take a pretty teenager off the street, put a fancy dress on her, and you've got the movie.

I've been trying to decide if you're better off if you *don't* know anything about the period when you watch it. One thing's for sure -- you sure won't after it's over.

[Kris]

I would have totally agreed. In fact, he was one of my "safe" actors--as in, if he's in it, it's safe. Not stupid, not crass.

And then I saw Lord of War.

I haven't seen all of his movies, but I usually like him. Lord of War creeped me out -- but "The Weatherman?" I think that one was turned off after about fifteen minutes.

[Kris]

Starship Troopers :glare:

:eek:

I admit it took awhile, but I learned to love it.

[Mom to Aly]

Worst movie ever, as far as wasting my time, has to be... DOOGAL!!!! Even my daughter, who I think was about 6 at the time, couldn't watch it!

The worst as in, horrible happenings, The Comfort of Strangers--I used to looooove Christopher Walken, have not been able to stand him since, and it has Rupert Everett, whom I adore, and Natasha Richardson and Helen Mirren, all great, but don't get sucked in, this is the worst!!! I still get chills thinking about it! I saw it with my sister years ago, and we both get sick when we think about it---yuckkkkkk!!!!!!!!!!

[Natalieclare]

Ok, another Kevin Costner hater here. Along with Richard Gere (except in Chicago, in which you are supposed to hate him), Tom Cruise, and Vin whomever. Or is it Van? I don't know nor care. :D

I think A Walk In the Clouds was one of the worst movies I made myself sit through. My dear friend said it was one of her favorites, so I thought I needed to do justice to her recommendation.... It's so nice we survived that period of our friendship. I'm almost over it. Gag.

It's really hard to look at people the same way, after they've recommended something as simply divine and you find you can hardly stomach it. The same thing happened to me with Sinbad. One friend said she thought it was the all time funniest movies. I don't think I laughed once!

[laylamcb]

Re: Arwen in LOTR, perhaps it was just the way Liv Tyler portrayed her? Is Arwen always on the verge of weeping in the books? Does she need some kind of throat lozenge? What's with the whispering? And then there was the fact that everyone else was risking life and limb while the big dilemma in Rivendell was whether or not Arwen would make it to the getaway ship on time. Argh!! I loved the Rohan lady--she kicked butt! I loved Blanchett's Galadriel (but then I love Cate). But Arwen was like fingernails on a chalkboard. Also, I tend to dislike the "slo-mo for emotional effect" thing, and it seems like they did that periodically with her scenes. Hate the slo-mo.


I think A Walk In the Clouds was one of the worst movies I made myself sit through.

Now, see, I really love A Walk in the Clouds. One of Keanu Reeves' few good performances, I thought. He nearly single-handedly sank Much Ado About Nothing with one of the worst, most wooden performances I've ever seen. And I've seen Dr Butcher, MD, so I could be called a connoisseur of bad acting.

Agree on The English Patient--the only thing that made it watchable was the storyline involving Juliette Binoche. I was prepared to do just about anything to eliminate the other characters and their self-obsession.

I stand by my loathing of Wild at Heart, but I did really enjoy Rocky Horror Picture Show. SO MUCH depends on how you're first introduced to it, y'know?

Layla McB

[Faithr]

Gosh, this is a long thread! I didn't quite read all of it, but the worst movie I saw recently (fairly recently, I don't see many movies) was Love Actually. I got to choose between going out to dinner or going to see that movie for a wedding anniversary (we had a baby who'd only tolerate a sitter for so long). Since it had all these great British actors in it that I love, Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, I opted for that. Wow, what a shallow, vapid, contrived, vulgar, sputter, sputter, I really wanted to write them and tell them they owed me a nice Italian dinner.

I tried to watch Troy with Brad Pitt but only lasted about 5 minutes. Terrible. I hate Brad Pitt much more than Kevin Costner who I think is good in some movies and terrible in others.

Borat - my dh bought this to watch on an business flight and literally took it out and destroyed the dvd right then and there because he thought it was so vile.

[Danestress]

That if the made a movie featuring Kevin Costner snoring in a Lazy Boy for 2 hours, I would probaby buy the DVD so I could watch it over and over:)















~GOSH!~ :lol:[/QUOTE]

[MicheleinMN]

Open Water. Awful.

[percytruffle]

We also really liked Lady in the Water.

We hated My Super Ex-Girlfriend. There aren't even words.... There was no redeeming value to that movie. at. all.

We also cannot sit through anything Austin Powers. That is the epitome of stupidity!

[Hillary in KS]

You know what that movie needed?


More COWBELL!!:lol:

Laney, you made me laugh. out. loud.

Now - when do we get to hear your Eddie Murphy "Hot Tub Party" imitation? :)

[elegantlion]

Open Water. Awful.

Agreed!!! At least we only rented it, what was the point of the movie?? I think they even made a sequel.


ETA: Rocky Horror holds a special place in my heart. Midnight showings and lots of props. I absolutely can not watch Tim Curry in anything else without thinking of him in a bustier.

[percytruffle]

ETA: Rocky Horror holds a special place in my heart. Midnight showings and lots of props. I absolutely can not watch Tim Curry in anything else without thinking of him in a bustier.

:lol:
Anybody have any toast to throw?! I'm feelin' the urge.

[Debbie in OR]

Chasing Amy (walked out after 15 minutes)
Little Miss Sunshine (rented and turned off after 15 minutes)
Babel (rented and watched all the way through thinking there must be something redeeming at the end but, no. Nothing. So.very.depressing.)

[Dayle in Guatemala]

After reading all 183 posts, this is my thoughts:

I, too, am in the can't stand Kevin Costner club.

I would have written that anything with Tom Cruise in it if all of you hadn't already put that out there!

I won't give my opinion on Nick Cage. I plead the 5th!

I've never seen most of the movies on this list, which either shows that I'm completely sheltered or discerning depending on who you talk to.

And my absolute all time worst movie would have to be: Moulin Rouge. What was that anyway? It's sad considering that the music was mostly okay and I truly like most of the actors in other movies. Got through about 15 minutes and really couldn't handle it.

[Kay in Cal]

Little Miss Sunshine was wonderful! The end was so great... power of love and family over disfunction and all that. I saw it on an airplane the first time, and even in its butchered state the end made me cry....

[Elaine]

Laney, you made me laugh. out. loud.

Now - when do we get to hear your Eddie Murphy "Hot Tub Party" imitation? :)

:lol: Oh my gosh! Have you been talking to *anj*?? I was just up in NJ with her and I was doing that exact impression!:lol:

We have to meet someday, Hillary.:D We could just sit somewhere and laugh.

[abbeyej]

I've been toying with watching [Marie Antoinette] muted; I understand it was filmed largely at Versailles.

Actually, I liked it! lol... It's true that you can't go into it expecting a historical epic. That's not what it is. But it does manage to give the feel for a particular point in history -- the over-the-top decadence that is so ultimately unfulfilling, the obliviousness to anything outside the main characters' expansive and yet ultimately very *small* world... It's very beautiful to look at, the soundtrack --while completely anachronistic -- fits with Coppola's interpretation of the time...

It *is* slow and languorous. Not a great deal happens. And ultimately, it's really deeply sad -- and not so much because of the ending we all know is coming, but because there really isn't much meaning to be found in wardrobe.

[Elaine]

Little Miss Sunshine was wonderful! The end was so great... power of love and family over disfunction and all that. I saw it on an airplane the first time, and even in its butchered state the end made me cry....

I soooo agree! I loved that movie. Everytime they pushed that van, I cracked up!

I just caught the end of it the other night.:001_smile: I also loved Lady in the Water.

[nmoira]

Little Miss Sunshine was wonderful! The end was so great... power of love and family over disfunction and all that. I saw it on an airplane the first time, and even in its butchered state the end made me cry....:iagree:

If I'd known the ending beforehand, I never would have seen the movie. Fortunately, the filmmakers are more imaginative than myself... the ending was immensely satisfying.

[Mekanamom]

and Sherilyn Fenn is super hot even as a bleeding, dying car accident victim!

Oh... that is the one scene that really stuck with me from that movie. (My hair is all sticky... or some such thing...)

I'm ambivalent about Wild at Heart. Didn't love it or hate it- but I did let that scene disturb me. :001_smile: As far as slightly weird/gothic movies go, I'm more of a Tim Burton kind of fan than a David Lynch fan. And anything Joss Whedon does is golden. Off the wall is good, but I need the humor!

Other movies mentioned earlier:
I do like Rocky Horror- but could not stand The Mask. Shudder. I think I must have been in the completely wrong frame of mind when I went to go see that one.

[Jenny in Atl]

Which Midnight Movie person were you?

Rocky Horror Picture Show

or

The Wall?


:lol:

[genie]

And anything Joss Whedon does is golden.

Big hairy truth in those words! I think he's unable to create something I won't like. That man is my hero! :001_wub:

[KSGrace]

1. Fight Club...I just did NOT like it. Everyone kept going on and on about the ending..."OMG! The ending will LIKE blow your mind." Well, my mind was not blown...actually I thought it was the lamest ending EVER! lol

2. I can't remember the name...the weirdo Adam Sandler movie where he called a phone s#x girl...anyone see this? It was really odd. And Bad.

3. What Lies Beneath. I don't know if it was the movie or the fact that dh and I sat next to the most annoying people in the world at the movie theater. The got up for snacks, bathroom break, phone calls, etc then would come back and say, "What did I miss?" and the other one would loudly go through a recap. GAWD!

I liked Peggy Sue Got Married but other than that...I cannot handle Nicolas Cage. Ugh. Nasal talkers just gross me out.

[laylamcb]

Big hairy truth in those words! I think he's unable to create something I won't like. That man is my hero! :001_wub:


All I can say to that is...Shiny! ;)

[Debbie in OR]

Little Miss Sunshine was wonderful! The end was so great... power of love and family over disfunction and all that. I saw it on an airplane the first time, and even in its butchered state the end made me cry....

Oh no! Say it isn't so! OK, so I have to know how the end redeems it because my dh and I were morose after the first 15 minutes!

[Ashleen]

I liked Peggy Sue Got Married but other than that...I cannot handle Nicolas Cage. Ugh. Nasal talkers just gross me out.

:iagree: Oh, and remember that Jim Carrey was in that movie? I can't believe so many people dislike him. My kids love him. It doesn't matter the movie. They just love him.

[laylamcb]

Gosh, this is a long thread! I didn't quite read all of it, but the worst movie I saw recently (fairly recently, I don't see many movies) was Love Actually. I got to choose between going out to dinner or going to see that movie for a wedding anniversary (we had a baby who'd only tolerate a sitter for so long). Since it had all these great British actors in it that I love, Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, I opted for that. Wow, what a shallow, vapid, contrived, vulgar, sputter, sputter, I really wanted to write them and tell them they owed me a nice Italian dinner.



:iagree: Hated it and was angry that I had listened to all of the fevered praise.

[Margaret in GA]

[quote=KSGrace;354046]1. Fight Club...I just did NOT like it. Everyone kept going on and on about the ending..."OMG! The ending will LIKE blow your mind." Well, my mind was not blown...actually I thought it was the lamest ending EVER! lol
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I honestly cannot believe that someone would not like Fight Club. It's just a perfect movie in my opinion. I also like Kevin Costner, Nick Cage (when he's not an action hero-- I mean, who doesn't like Adaptation??), and I squrimed my way through but ultimately liked Pan's Labryinth and Seven. I loved Napolean Dynamite, all Spiderman movies, and Little Miss Sunshine. I think M. Night Shyamalan and Quentin Tarantino are great, great, great. Just goes to show how different people are in their tastes. ;)

Worst movie ever: Point Break with Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze.
Second: the Thomas the Tank Engine with Alec Baldwin.

Margaret

[KSGrace]

Jim Carrey was in Peggy Sue? No Way! I have to go look this up now. LOL

:auto:

LOL He was WALTER! That is so funny. I need to watch that movie again.

[Jeannie in NJ]

I really dislike all movies with Tom cruise and all movies with Jim Carry (except for The Truman Show, that was really good ).
I (dare I say it), really like Kevin Costner, Field of Dreams is one of mine and dh's favorite movies, we have seen it more times than I can count.

Also, I have loved Nic Cage since Valley Girl and another of dh's and my favorites is Moonstruck.
Worst movie I have seen: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (again Jim Carrey).

I also really hate 2001, Space Odyssey (saw it in college , the only movie that I have walked out of the movie theatre).

[KSGrace]

Oh I forgot about Valley Girl! That is a Nic Cage movie I like also...

I LOVED Eternal Sunshine. I have no idea why. My husband said he could barely make it through and I just LOVED it. He also hated What Dreams May Come and I loved it. Hmmm. To each their own, I guess.


I really like Kevin Smith movies (Mallrats, Clerks, Chasing Amy) but I didn't like Dogma...at all. Ugh.

[KSGrace]

WARNING...SPOILER ALERT!!!! If you haven't seen Fight Club and want to, don't read post.

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A note on the Fight Club movie...I just couldn't get into it. Then the ending...come ON! He's hitting himself?? LOL My husband and I spent the next week, making each other hit ourselves and yelling, "STOP hitting yourself, stop hitting yourself."

:lol:

But..I know people really like the movie...I just didn't get it or something.

Oh. One bright spot in Fight Club was Helen Bonham Carter. I think she is so talented and weird and cool. She creeps me out but in a good way. lol

[Janna]

But I can. not. stand Jesus Christ Superstar. And the thing is, my dh LOVES it. I can't even begin to describe how much I hate that "movie" (I've never seen it on stage, nor do I have any intention, not that it's showing anywhere anymore).

I walked out of "Me, Myself and Irene". The only movie I ever walked out of the theater on.

Dh and I just watched and turned off "Across the Universe" last night. We enjoy musicals, but that was just stupid.

I didn't like "Casino" because it made me angry. There was so much anger in the movie, the feelings transferred to me even though I had nothing to be angry about, LOL. Make sense?

I don't care for Renee Zellweger

Dh and I just watched and turned off "Across the Universe" last night. We enjoy musicals, but that was just stupid.

I don't care for Gwyneth Paltrow, but was pleasantly surprised with "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow". Really enjoyed that one.

As far as KC goes, he doesn't bother me. Some of his movies I don't like (including Bull Durham), but I really liked "Mr. Brooks". Not because it was a "good" movie from a moral point of view, but because he did a good job. It was dark, but well done.

Did NOT like "American Beauty" at. all.

Agree about JA - she was great on Friends and that's it.

Never saw Solaris or "Alexander" (I knew better on that one. Come on...Colin Farrell? Angelina Jolie? That was a no-brainer it would suck, LOL)

[Kris]

Little Miss Sunshine was wonderful! The end was so great... power of love and family over disfunction and all that. I saw it on an airplane the first time, and even in its butchered state the end made me cry....

My son and I had a great time watching this one, and couldn't wait for Sweetie to come home to watch it with us. We thought he'd love it! Nope -- he just stared at us like we were "off" -- LOL! And he loves "weird" stuff -- so I guess it was just too weird for him! :lol:

[Kris]

Actually, I liked it! lol... It's true that you can't go into it expecting a historical epic. That's not what it is. But it does manage to give the feel for a particular point in history -- the over-the-top decadence that is so ultimately unfulfilling, the obliviousness to anything outside the main characters' expansive and yet ultimately very *small* world... It's very beautiful to look at, the soundtrack --while completely anachronistic -- fits with Coppola's interpretation of the time...

It *is* slow and languorous. Not a great deal happens. And ultimately, it's really deeply sad -- and not so much because of the ending we all know is coming, but because there really isn't much meaning to be found in wardrobe.

I wonder if I would have liked it more if I hadn't had unreasonable expectations going in -- but now I'll never know! Darn it! :)

[laylamcb]

My son and I had a great time watching this one, and couldn't wait for Sweetie to come home to watch it with us. We thought he'd love it! Nope -- he just stared at us like we were "off"


This happens to us, too. Goodfellas? I HATED it, DH loved it. Emma w/ Gwynnie? I LOVED it, DH subtitled it, "They Came to Talk." Raising Arizona? Brilliant! DH despises this movie. Steel Magnolias? I can take it or leave it. DH actually got up and walked out--he couldn't take the bad Southern accents. He can't understand my love for Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, which he considers puerile. Puh-leez! Modern masterpiece! But sometimes we agree: We BOTH loathed ad eventually walked out on The English Patient.

[Camy]

I thought "The Golden Compass" fell far short of it's hype. Dh and I previewed it (we were thinking of watching it with our children as an incentive to discuss the Phillip Pullman/anti God phenomena), and we were surprised at the thought of so much money going into this film, only for it to fall short. We were hoping for great special effects, but none seemed to catch our fancy.

Blessings,

Camy

[Sharon H in IL]

Oh that's easy: Con Air with Nicholas Cage. It was the first time since my new baby was born that we could go see a movie, and *nothing* was showing anywhere. We chose Con Air basically because we didn't know anything about it.

Mistake. Bad, very bad mistake.

We still talk about how truly awful that movie was.

[elegantlion]

Oh that's easy: Con Air with Nicholas Cage. It was the first time since my new baby was born that we could go see a movie, and *nothing* was showing anywhere. We chose Con Air basically because we didn't know anything about it.

Mistake. Bad, very bad mistake.

We still talk about how truly awful that movie was.

Aw, come on, you didn't like Nicolas Cage with long air and a bad accent?

[Sharon H in IL]

Aw, come on, you didn't like Nicolas Cage with long air and a bad accent?

It had the misfortune of combining two elements that make a movie detestable: 1) it was a bad movie, and 2) I was so desperate for a break from nonstop motherhood I would have been happy to see almost anything, and it took my short-lived break and WASTED it.

:willy_nilly:

[FlockOfSillies]

What?! I loved that movie! McDowell's... heh heh heh.

[genie]

Aw, come on, you didn't like Nicolas Cage with long air and a bad accent?

And tight jeans, a wife-beater top, and all those muscles?!?!

[FlockOfSillies]

What kind of army has machine guns and giant bombs, but no mortars? Huh? Huh? I'll tell you... a stupid, fake movie army.

[SusanG]

As far as slightly weird/gothic movies go, I'm more of a Tim Burton kind of fan than a David Lynch fan. And anything Joss Whedon does is golden. Off the wall is good, but I need the humor!

Other movies mentioned earlier:
I do like Rocky Horror- but could not stand The Mask. Shudder. I think I must have been in the completely wrong frame of mind when I went to go see that one.

Tim Burton and Joss Whedon are my two FAVORITE people in the world, other than my husband and kids!!!

[Kris]

This happens to us, too. Goodfellas? I HATED it, DH loved it. Emma w/ Gwynnie? I LOVED it, DH subtitled it, "They Came to Talk." Raising Arizona? Brilliant! DH despises this movie. Steel Magnolias? I can take it or leave it. DH actually got up and walked out--he couldn't take the bad Southern accents. He can't understand my love for Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, which he considers puerile. Puh-leez! Modern masterpiece! But sometimes we agree: We BOTH loathed ad eventually walked out on The English Patient.

LOL! Hopefully you found something productive or fun to do with the rest of the evening. "The English Patient" is one that I haven't watched yet. But from some of the comments here, it looks like I'm not missing much. :D

I couldn't watch "Goodfellas" -- I tried and tried, because that's another one that we can't get together on. I just can't get past the language. I don't mind the occasional expletive, but when none of the characters can seem to put together a sentence without dropping the "F" bomb, it gets old pretty quick. I don't think I've managed more than ten minutes at a time on that one. So at that rate, I might get through the whole movie in ten years or so. :lol:

[salinda]

I really hated Thelma and Louise. Friends bonding over suicide? Yuck!

[laylamcb]

Tim Burton and Joss Whedon are my two FAVORITE people in the world, other than my husband and kids!!!


:iagree:, or at least two of my favorite cinematic innovators. Don't know what kind of people they are.... ;)

[Faithr]

But I can. not. stand Jesus Christ Superstar. And the thing is, my dh LOVES it. I can't even begin to describe how much I hate that "movie" (I've never seen it on stage, nor do I have any intention, not that it's showing anywhere anymore).

I walked out of "Me, Myself and Irene". The only movie I ever walked out of the theater on.

Dh and I just watched and turned off "Across the Universe" last night. We enjoy musicals, but that was just stupid.

I didn't like "Casino" because it made me angry. There was so much anger in the movie, the feelings transferred to me even though I had nothing to be angry about, LOL. Make sense?

I don't care for Renee Zellweger

Dh and I just watched and turned off "Across the Universe" last night. We enjoy musicals, but that was just stupid.

I don't care for Gwyneth Paltrow, but was pleasantly surprised with "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow". Really enjoyed that one.

As far as KC goes, he doesn't bother me. Some of his movies I don't like (including Bull Durham), but I really liked "Mr. Brooks". Not because it was a "good" movie from a moral point of view, but because he did a good job. It was dark, but well done.

Did NOT like "American Beauty" at. all.

Agree about JA - she was great on Friends and that's it.

Never saw Solaris or "Alexander" (I knew better on that one. Come on...Colin Farrell? Angelina Jolie? That was a no-brainer it would suck, LOL)

American Beauty. We netflixed this and my dh and I watched about ten minutes and thought, would these people get OVER themselves? I have no patience for made up angst. And it was just so creepy how the husband gets this infantile lust for his daughter's friend. Gosh, what a depressing, depressing movie and that people thought it was TRUTH and it won the Oscar or some such thing made it worse.

Probably I'm being unfair but we had such a visceral reaction to it. Ugh.

[Mom2legomaniacs]

I really hated Thelma and Louise. Friends bonding over suicide? Yuck!

Not on my fave list either!

[JumpedIntoTheDeepEndFirst]

Ok-I didn't read all 20+ pages of responses but I have one word for you...

Waterworld

That is all.

[Mom2legomaniacs]

One that was either very boring or else I totally missed the point was Prairie Home Companion movie. I just didn't get it. I thought with the people that were in it, that it would be a really good one too. Not for me.

[nmoira]

WaterworldI should have known better, Waterworld being a Kevin Costner vehicle. However, it had a promising start, what with the urine and all, but, even before it started to get ridiculous, DH leaned over and asked me why everyone was so dirty. It was all I could think about for the rest of the movie.

[Kris]

I should have known better, Waterworld being a Kevin Costner vehicle. However, it had a promising start, what with the urine and all, but, even before it started to get ridiculous, DH leaned over and asked me why everyone was so dirty. It was all I could think about for the rest of the movie.

Good question! I guess soap was at a premium, but they certainly had plenty of water. :D

[Faithr]

Wasn't this the movie where most of the world was covered in water but everybody smoked cigarettes. My mil saw it and said she kept wondering where they grew all that tobacco!!!!!

[CynthiaOK]

It's gotta be Castaway (with Tom Hanks) for me. That was the most absurd movie ever - still can't get over "Wilson" (the basketball). Blech!!!!!

Honestly, after seeing Castaway, I can't watch anything with Tom Hanks in it.

[sdWTMer]

Ooooohhhhh, time for http://smileys.on-my-web.com/repository/Leisures_and_Sports/sumo-035.gif

That sumo wrestler is sooooo funny! ROFLOL! :lol:

[sdWTMer]

How is it that no one has mentioned "The English Patient?"

Did you see that episode of Seinfeld with Elaine having to go see that movie! Hahahahahahahahaha :lol:

[sdWTMer]

So what movie do you put up for the worst movie award?

Mine would have to be Grilled (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0409043/) with Ray Romano and Kevin James. I love those actors, but this movie was the worst! Ick!

[Angela in TN]

Actually, I liked it! lol... It's true that you can't go into it expecting a historical epic. That's not what it is. But it does manage to give the feel for a particular point in history -- the over-the-top decadence that is so ultimately unfulfilling, the obliviousness to anything outside the main characters' expansive and yet ultimately very *small* world... It's very beautiful to look at, the soundtrack --while completely anachronistic -- fits with Coppola's interpretation of the time...

It *is* slow and languorous. Not a great deal happens. And ultimately, it's really deeply sad -- and not so much because of the ending we all know is coming, but because there really isn't much meaning to be found in wardrobe.

I agree completely! I think there is enough of the essence of Marie Antoinette in the movie for me to completely love it even though there is a lack of dialogue. These movies give me something visual to attach what I know about these historical figures and Versailles is beautiful. Tragic story but I enjoyed it!:D

[Hillary in KS]

Did you see that episode of Seinfeld with Elaine having to go see that movie! Hahahahahahahahaha :lol:

"Quit telling your stupid story, about the stupid desert, and just die already! Die!!"

LOL!

[Happy]

What a fun thread...I've gotten many laughs over your suggestions.

I do like Bull Durham and Field of Dreams, but nothing else with KC. I love baseball and baseball movies. :D

Movies I intensely dislike...gee, the list is long, but here are my tops in the bottom department.

Napoleon Dynamite. Couldn't sit through it.
White Men Can't Jump. Gag. Best friend and I sat through it thinking it HAD to get better. It didn't.
Children of Men. Dark, depressing, violent, and pointless.
The Accidental Tourist. Zzzzzzzzzzzzz

The only thing I like Nicolas Cage in are the National Treasure movies. In the beginning of his acting career he sounded as if he were reading the words off a cue card. He was a poor reader, too. :D

There are so many more bad movies than good ones. Too bad.

[Kris]

"Quit telling your stupid story, about the stupid desert, and just die already! Die!!"

LOL!

:lol:

I had forgotten that part! Thanks for the reminder and the BIG laugh!

[Kris]

The Accidental Tourist. Zzzzzzzzzzzzz

I watched that one a long, long time ago and don't really know if I felt one way or another. Then my mother told me she thought I was like Geena Davis in that movie -- that pretty much nixed it right there. :lol:

[huntergirlnc21]

Toys with Robin Williams and LL Cool J. My high school boyfriend and I went to see it at the theatre. It was beyond awful.

[LauraGB]

From Dusk Til Dawn - left the theater. More recently, Semi-Pro w/Will Ferrell was terrible (as we had expected). I know there are more, most of which have already been mentioned, but those are the two that stick out for me.

[nmoira]

Wasn't this the movie where most of the world was covered in water but everybody smoked cigarettes. My mil saw it and said she kept wondering where they grew all that tobacco!!!!!They didn't grow it; IIRC they either dove for cigarettes in sunken containers or there were some on cargo ships or a combination of these.

[Spy Car]

The worst movie I ever saw was Alien.

The only film I ever walked out on was Alien.

Although "Sing in the Rain' really got on my nerves.

Bill

[Spy Car]

And for the I-can't stand-Richard-Gere anti-fan club, one of the worst films ever made was the 1983 "remake" of Jean-Luc Godard's 1959 French New Wave classic "Breathless" (one of my favorite films) with Gere and Valérie Kaprisky.

This one was beyond AWFUL.

Bill

[Parabola]

Which Midnight Movie person were you?

Rocky Horror Picture Show

or

The Wall?


:lol:
OOoooo, the Wall without a doubt! I cannot watch people shave any part of their body now because of this movie, which I first saw 20 years ago.


Worst movie I have seen: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (again Jim Carrey).

I also really hate 2001, Space Odyssey (saw it in college , the only movie that I have walked out of the movie theatre).
I really LOVE both those movies. Really.

I thought "The Golden Compass" fell far short of it's hype. Dh and I previewed it (we were thinking of watching it with our children as an incentive to discuss the Phillip Pullman/anti God phenomena), and we were surprised at the thought of so much money going into this film, only for it to fall short. We were hoping for great special effects, but none seemed to catch our fancy.

I was really disappointed in this one too.

I should have known better, Waterworld being a Kevin Costner vehicle. However, it had a promising start, what with the urine and all, but, even before it started to get ridiculous, DH leaned over and asked me why everyone was so dirty. It was all I could think about for the rest of the movie.
:lol::lol::lol::lol:

I ambivalent towards both Kevin Costner and Nicholas Cage, sometimes I like them, sometimes I don't, depends on the movie. The actor I really can't stand AT ALL is Michael McConaughey.

[laylamcb]

The actor I really can't stand AT ALL is Michael McConaughey.

Ugh. Yes. Totally agree.

[laylamcb]

...Queen of the ****ed. I love vampire flicks, but this was just--it doesn't even dignify description. Yuck.:ack2:

[laylamcb]

Zoinks! I was bleeped! How funny--I didn't even think about the fact that the title might be construed as vulgarity. :tongue_smilie:

Well, that's a first for me. Anyway, the bleeped word rhymes with crammed. Starring Stuart Townsend. Avoid at all costs.

[Kim in Appalachia]

I think it came out in the 80's. It was just awful.

"Terms of Endearment" is also on the top of my awful list, along with "Hope Floats"; that movie is so depressing. It's even worse than "Terms of Endearment".

[Kim in Appalachia]

Ok, I actually liked "The Royal Tennenbaums". :) I must of watched it on an off day. I must have been in the mood for something really dry.

[Parabola]

Terms of Endearment is my favorite chick flick. I love Debra Winger, and Jack Nicholson, and John Lithgow. I think the characters are great. Yes its sad, but the usual chick movies bore me to pieces, this is one of the exceptions.

[Parabola]

Ok, I actually liked "The Royal Tennenbaums". :) I must of watched it on an off day. I must have been in the mood for something really dry.

I liked it too, its really not that bad.

[sabrina]

Napoleon Dynamite - Worst. Movie. Ever.


:ducks and runs:
http://smileys.on-my-web.com/repository/Surprise/surprised-027.gif


I second that!!

[Jill, OK]

In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale.

I don't know what we were thinking when we rented this. Well, my guess is that poor dh is so starved for a good action movie, that he got desperate. At least we had the wherewithal to stop when it got about twenty minutes or so into it. (It's hard to convince my dh to stop watching something when he's paid five good American dollars for the privilege. The fact that he didn't argue with me should tell you something big.)

But that's twenty minutes of my life I won't ever get back.

[sdWTMer]

But that's twenty minutes of my life I won't ever get back.

:lol:

[nmoira]

Ok, I actually liked "The Royal Tennenbaums". :) I must of watched it on an off day. I must have been in the mood for something really dry.Aw, I liked it. :) Not even Gwyneth Paltrow could ruin it for me.