I can't believe I watched the whole thing [Archive]

twickster

08-12-2009, 07:35 AM

I picked up a few movies in the library the other day, and for reasons I can't now reconstruct, I settled in last night with my knitting and You Don't Mess with the Zohan. I thought it might be, yanno, funny.

What the hell was I thinking? I don't like Adam Sandler, and it was clear in the first five minutes what the movie was going to be like -- but for some reason, I sat there and watched the entire movie. I did laugh once, though I can't recall why, and it was slightly amusing watching the various cameos -- Chris Rock! Charlotte Rae! Mariah Carey!?!?! -- but overall -- yikes, what the hell was I thinking? Stupid and offensive -- but most egregiously, not funny.

What really dreadful movies have you sat all the way through because of sheer inertia? (Note: If there was someone else in the room who was enjoying the movie, it doesn't count -- you have to accept full responsibility for wasting those two hours of your life while knowing during each and every one of those 120 minutes that you weren't enjoying the movie at any level.)

RealityChuck

08-12-2009, 07:38 AM

Liar Liar. There really wasn't anything that appealed at the theater and we wanted to see something, so we picked this. Not funny at all. Not only didn't I laugh, but I can't recall the audience laughing at anything on the screen (other than maybe the goofs at the end).

Ephemera

08-12-2009, 07:43 AM

Shirley Ujest

08-12-2009, 07:46 AM

Ephemera

08-12-2009, 07:53 AM

I watched a portion of a Twilight Rifftrax scene on YouTube a couple months ago. It was even dumber than the movie alone.

WOOKINPANUB

08-12-2009, 08:02 AM

Twilight, but only sort-of. It wasn't very engaging, but wasn't the horror that so many people lead you to believe, either. I survived by texting a friend who'd previously seen it every time something incredulous happened.

Forgive me, but if it was that boring why didn't you just leave, rather than ruin everyone else's experience? I know this is a whole 'nother subject for a whole 'nother (pit) thread but since I rarely hear anyone admit they text in movie theatres, maybe you can share your thoughts?

Ephemera

08-12-2009, 08:05 AM

I watched the DVD alone in my bedroom. What gave you the impression I was in a theatre?

chrisk

08-12-2009, 08:11 AM

Forgive me, but if it was that boring why didn't you just leave, rather than ruin everyone else's experience? I know this is a whole 'nother subject for a whole 'nother (pit) thread but since I rarely hear anyone admit they text in movie theatres, maybe you can share your thoughts?

I know this wasn't asked of me, but why does texting inside a movie theater "ruin everyone else's experience?"

Full disclosure, I don't go to the movies much, and I don't have much experience with texting, though I did it some to keep in touch with my family while visiting England.

I can see the argument that, say, talking on a cell phone is disruptive to the people around you no matter how low you try to keep your voice, and you should leave the theater if you absolutely must take the call. But assuming that the phone can be adjusted to not make beeping sounds with each keypress, also that it doesn't make any loud noises when sending the text or receiving a response from the friend, that the brightness of the phone screen can be turned down - how is this disruptive to anyone else in the theater? Could you somehow sense that Aesiron isn't watching the screen like anyone else, and have that blow the whole moment for you?

(Yes, I know that I'm making several assumptions, and if you've been plagued by movie-texters that can't or don't do all those things, then I'm sorry for the movies that they've ruined. But I believe that they're all technically possible.)

On preview - nicely put, Aesiron. I didn't think of that one either. But are my points valid or not?

RickJay

08-12-2009, 08:17 AM

I watched "Battlefield Earth" all the way through.

It was every bit as awful as you've heard, but dammit, I'd paid for it (it was in a hotel room) and I was gonna watch every minute of it.

Hodge

08-12-2009, 08:23 AM

But assuming that the phone can be adjusted to not make beeping sounds with each keypress, also that it doesn't make any loud noises when sending the text or receiving a response from the friend, that the brightness of the phone screen can be turned down - how is this disruptive to anyone else in the theater?That's a whole metric buttload of assumptions. In my admittedly limited experience with movie theatre texters, nobody EVER turns down screen brightness and they rarely mute the key pad. It's distracting as hell.

RikWriter

08-12-2009, 08:26 AM

When I was in college, my friends and I went to the movies a lot. One particular span of a couple weeks, there was nothing really any good out and I wound up sitting through Tequila Suririse...THREE fucking times.

chrisk

08-12-2009, 08:27 AM

That's a whole metric buttload of assumptions. In my admittedly limited experience with movie theatre texters, nobody EVER turns down screen brightness and they rarely mute the key pad. It's distracting as hell.

Okay, fair cop. But surely we'd expect more consideration of a fellow doper than a random movie theater texter? ;)

WOOKINPANUB

08-12-2009, 08:33 AM

I watched the DVD alone in my bedroom. What gave you the impression I was in a theatre?

Apologies;I didn't realize it has been out long enough for it to be on DVD. I keep thinking it's newish because there seems to be so much conversation about it around here. Please disregard my large conclusion jump.

To addressChrisk'spost, yes, the glowing blue of some numpty's phone does indeed ruin the experience of the people that can see it. If one can dim it so low that it can't be seen, how then does the texter text? Why even go to the movie in the first place?

Back on topic, I'm still wondering what invisible force made me stay in my seat for the duration of "The Happening". Darn you, Mr. Shyamalan, you did it to me again:(

gwendee

08-12-2009, 08:37 AM

It's a tradtion in my family to keep watching a movie to see how bad it can get. The later it is at night the better...

Torque

Cobra

Anything with Steven Seagal or Gary Busey or saints preserve us Steven Seagal AND Gary Busey

Stomp the Yard - I actually did go see this in the local second run theater. By the 13th or 14th lazy cliched plot device I should've been ready to split. But I was in a comfy chair in an air conditioned room....

Speaking specifically of Adam Sandler...he is problematic for me. I like 2/3 of 50 First Dates, and The Wedding Singer. Parts of Big Daddy do, in fact, make me chuckle. Does Rob Schneider have video tape of Sandler that could ruin his career? His parts are typically most troubling to me in Sandler's movies.

twickster

08-12-2009, 08:43 AM

Moderator tiara on

If you wish to discuss the etiquette of texting while in a movie theater, please go find another thread to do it in -- I suggest starting one in IMHO or the Pit, depending on how strongly you feel about it.

This thread is for discussing shitty movies you've watched all the way through. Please stick to that topic.

Thank you.

Moderator tiara off

KneadToKnow

08-12-2009, 08:52 AM

Anything with Steven Seagal or Gary Busey or saints preserve us Steven Seagal AND Gary Busey

This would seem to suggest that Die Hard on a Boat (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105690/) was a worse movie than Die Hard while Skydiving (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109676/), which is patently absurd.

congodwarf

08-12-2009, 08:59 AM

I actually liked Stomp the Yard. Then again, I like Leonard Part 6 so my opinion probably doesn't count for much.

I rarely go to the theater so when I do go, it's very likely something I know I will like.

The only two times I can recall not liking the movie were:

The first Land Before Time movie. I was in target audience age group but I just couldn't enjoy it. I got permission from the theater people to go find my mom, who was watching Scrooged. I ended up watching that instead and enjoyed it.

The time I stayed though was Black Sheep. I'm not sure why my sister and I went to see it. I don't like Chris Farley. I never have. But, we went to see it anyway. We were the only people in the theater - which was actually a lot of fun. I remember Cadbury Eggs. I don't remember if we were eating them, or talking about them but for me, Cadbury Eggs will always remind me of that horrible movie.

The movie was horrible. But, my sister and I were having fun so I stayed. If there had been anyone else in the theater, I would have left because I wouldn't have been able to be obnoxious with anyone else in there.

Hampshire

08-12-2009, 09:17 AM

A looong time ago everyone was saying how great the movie Arachanphobia was. So I got duped into going to see it at the theatre.
How boring was that thing. If you're not afraid of spiders what was the point? It felt like a disney made for TV Saturday afternoon special.

Justin_Bailey

08-12-2009, 09:26 AM

Thinking "how bad could it really be?", I recently sat down and watched Van Helsing.

By the end I was feeling completely embarassed for Hugh Jackman and Kate Beckinsale. Oh, and it made me dread the then impending release of GI Joe (which, up until that point, I was really looking forward to).

gwendee

08-12-2009, 10:43 AM

This would seem to suggest that Die Hard on a Boat (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105690/) was a worse movie than Die Hard while Skydiving (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109676/), which is patently absurd.

I have not (yet!) seen Drop Zone. You have valiantly fought ignorance today.

I actually liked Stomp the Yard. Then again, I like Leonard Part 6 so my opinion probably doesn't count for much.

I like ANY movie with an angry dance-off (or cheer-off). I will still watch it when it comes around on cable. I was just aware while watching it that there really wasn't one unpredictable line in it.

Honey (with Jessica Alba) is similar, in that it was never in danger of winning any awards for Best Original Screenplay. But hey...hip-hop dancing! I'll watch that!

G0sp3l

08-12-2009, 10:44 AM

My first thought was "Battlefield Earth" but since its taken I'll submit

"Fair Game" calling it crap is an insult to crap. I can still remember one scene, Cindy Crawford walks into a gas station looking like a drowned rat and the pseudo nerd starts drooling over her. My mind-stutters into WTF!! I could've understood if some part of the movie had established her as supposing to be hot or something.

It's like an acid burn on my brain.

Lucky 13

08-12-2009, 11:11 AM

My sister and I sat through "You've Got Mail" when it first came out. I thought it was OK, but ended up feeling crappy afterward because I had to go with my sis instead of a guy (I was a few weeks away from meeting the man who is now my ex.) In retrospect, I'm wondering what posessed me to enjoy a movie about a woman who corresponds and falls in love with the man who basically runs her business into the ground AND forgives him at the end. :mad:

Caffeine.addict

08-12-2009, 11:23 AM

Battlefield Earth for me. It was such a shitty movie, I just kept watching to see how much worse it could get.

I sat through AI at the theater. I went with a friend so it wasn't too bad as he and I joked through out the movie.

KneadToKnow

08-12-2009, 11:32 AM

I have not (yet!) seen Drop Zone.

sigh

I remember life before I had seen Die Hard while Skydiving. Grass was greener. The sky was bluer. Food tasted better.

Enjoy it while you can.

FallenAngel

08-12-2009, 01:34 PM

Rent: My wife and I went with a friend of hers who was in from out of town. Total shit. Horrible. Horrible. Horrible, but I didn't want to say anything in case the girls were enjoying it. When the credits started to roll, all three of us sat there like we'd just seen a horrific accident.

Children of Men. Among the most boring and idiotic movies I've ever seen. My wife insisted we keep watching because it was either going to get better or it would be interesting to see how it could get any worse. It kept surprising us.

gigi

08-12-2009, 02:27 PM

Two words: Vanilla Sky.

Ok, five words: Vanilla Sky and Minority Report.

I had to look up "Minority Report" as I had successfully blocked out the name, if not the suckitude.

ETA as upthread reminded me:

Six words and an initialism: Vanilla Sky and Minority Report and AI.

typoink

08-12-2009, 02:43 PM

I watched "Talladega Nights" recently. I've been told it's funny if you're really into NASCAR. I'm not, but I'm suspicious I'd find it amusing even if I were. I don't think I laughed once, but for some reason I watched the whole darn movie waiting for a joke.

Because I hate talking about bad movies without mentioning a good movie, the first time I saw "Umbrellas of Cherbourg," it was on TV at, like, three AM. I was just channel surfing for a couple minutes before heading to bed, but found it so entrancing I watched the whole darn movie. I hadn't intended to watch more than five minutes or so.

Mahaloth

08-12-2009, 02:53 PM

Thinking "how bad could it really be?", I recently sat down and watched Van Helsing.
.

I like Van Helsing! I know, I know, I'm in the minority.

Anyway, I sat through Battlefield Earth as well, which I actually think could be seen as a reasonably well made comedy(I know the meant it seriously, though).

I also sat through Wild Wild West with Will Smith. Terrible movie.

I think I saw Phantom Menace four times in the theater. I think I didn't realize just how bad it was until I had the DVD. Now, it's totally clear to me and I don't plan to ever sit through it again.

Encinitas

08-12-2009, 03:24 PM

"Love Story"

I couldn't understand why everyone was crying at the end. I was glad when Ali McGraw died.

KneadToKnow

08-12-2009, 03:28 PM

I also sat through Wild Wild West with Will Smith. Terrible movie.

I'm sorry to admit that I paid to see that. Not even the scene with Salma Hayek's tooshie could save it.

Morbo

08-12-2009, 03:33 PM

I sat through The Beast (http://www.jabootu.com/beast.htm). On SciFi, so I could have easily watched something else, gone outside, read a book, got some work one, done laundry, cut my toenails, etc. I didn't.

Running time: Four Hours.

Top that!

Justin_Bailey

08-12-2009, 03:36 PM

I sat through The Beast (http://www.jabootu.com/beast.htm).

Top that!

I watched The Beast during it's original run as a two-part movie on NBC. I thought it was so awesome I ran out and read the Peter Benchley book!

Hampshire

08-12-2009, 03:37 PM

Children of Men. Among the most boring and idiotic movies I've ever seen. My wife insisted we keep watching because it was either going to get better or it would be interesting to see how it could get any worse. It kept surprising us.

Sorry you feel that way. Children of Men was one of my favorite movies of 2006. And with a 92% at Rotten Tomatoes a lot of critics felt the same way.

G0sp3l

08-12-2009, 06:18 PM

oh dear god, I just remembered

Babylon AD

Every instinct was screaming this movie is gonna suck. But it had Michelle Yeoh, who I love in it. So I'm thinking however bad it is SHE'LL be cool.

Lesson: Always follow your instincts, Michelle WAS okay, but she had ONE FIGHT AND DIED. I sat through 80 minutes of crap. I still don't know how the movie ended.

F$(K Vin Diesel

liirogue

08-12-2009, 06:23 PM

A couple of recent ones:

Twilight (not even several glasses of wine could make that one enjoyable)

G.I. Joe

DZedNConfused

08-12-2009, 06:52 PM

The Dark Knight

Well actually I did only stay there cuz I fell asleep and the hubby let me sleep:D

Slithy Tove

08-12-2009, 07:03 PM

I had a look at Ice Station Zebra just to see why it appealed to Howard Hughes, and stayed up late to finish the damn thing. Patrick McGoohan was like Lot and I was like the Angel of Destuction, resisting hitting the button for the sake of one righteous actor.

woodstockbirdybird

08-12-2009, 07:14 PM

Holy shit, I'd (mercifully) forgotten about Vanilla Sky, but I did indeed watch the whole thing. Saw it in the theater, though, so that's my feeble excuse.

Recently, my girlfriend and I rented [i]Spring Breakdown[/b]. We knew it had been direct-to-DVD, but we wanted something light, and with Amy Poehler and Parker Posey as the leads, how bad could it be? Quite possibly the worst comedy ever made. Why we finished it even we couldn't say.

Flutterby

08-12-2009, 08:17 PM

Meet The Parents

My Step-mom lent it to me, saying it was so great and I'd heard people talking about how funny it was, it wasn't. I couldn't help but cringe most of the time over what was happening.

I turned it off half way through and went off to do other stuff thinking to return it later and for some unfathomable reason the next day I went and turned it back on and forced myself to watch the rest of it.

Unfortunately my friend tends to like movies like this (one of her favourites is 50 First Dates) so I end up watching some of them anyhow. Horrible though.. absolutely horrible. I don't know why the heck I went back and watched the rest of it.

Though I do admit I found Don't Mess With The Zohan amusing, but I doubt I'll ever watch it again.

salinqmind

08-12-2009, 08:35 PM

The Phantom Menace. Or Attack of the Clones. The one where Ewan McGregor was bounding around on the fakest looking CGI beast. My word, that was a bad, bad movie. I was fascinated by how very bad it was, in so many ways it was laughable. I know these later movies have been discussed to death here before. With good reason!

Mr. S and I watched The Servant the other night on TCM, kind of knowing what it was about and familiar with the actors. Afterwards, it was like, what the HELL was that all about??? Not being wealthy upper-class Brits who hire sinister manservants, we figured it had something to do with the class system and severe alcoholism, but were otherwise stumped. We coulda been watching "Dance Your Ass Off"!

myskepticsight

08-12-2009, 08:40 PM

I promised a friend I'd watch Twilight with her, give it a chance.

I drank four beers during that movie....actually during the first hour. Robert Pattinson was actually pretty attractive looking in the movie but every photo/other appearance I've seen him in he's looked horrible. I thought the movie was dumb but I have a feeling I'll see all the other ones when my friends acquire the DVDs out of sheer curiosity. I know the basic storyline of the whole series (I think it gets more retarded) so I do kind of want to see it play out.

I told my friend I had to be allowed to talk shit during the movie....she shushed me too much. But there are a lot of WTF moments eve she, a big fan, agreed with. Next movie I will wait to view it until she's getting tired of it so I can talk during more.

Mahaloth

08-12-2009, 09:59 PM

I'm sorry to admit that I paid to see that. Not even the scene with Salma Hayek's tooshie could save it.

It's so bad I can't even remember that scene! Is it really her?

The Phantom Menace. Or Attack of the Clones. The one where Ewan McGregor was bounding around on the fakest looking CGI beast.

That's the third one, Revenge of the Sith, which is.....OK.

eleanorigby

08-12-2009, 10:34 PM

I second Love Story. To think I rented it a few years ago. To think it WON an Academy Award-- it's inexplicable to me.

I octeteth Twilight. Thank god I didn't pay for a theater ticket for piece of shite.

Eragon--but I had my young son with me (who loved it).

Kate and Leopold. I want my 2 hours back!

The Ya-Ya Sisterhood. It was a decent book, but dayum it sucked as a film.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney version).

Up. It was ok, but it didn't live up to its hype in any way. Meh.

Hamlet

08-12-2009, 10:51 PM

Moderator tiara on

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Moderator tiara offI have no idea if you have used that before, but I've not seen it and I think it is hilarious. Kudos to you, twickster.

Miss Woodhouse

08-12-2009, 11:02 PM

My husband loves goofy men movies. I once sat through Strange Brew because that's what he wanted to watch. I could have left the room. I could have been scrubbing the toilet with a toothbrush. bathing the dog. using my brain.

KneadToKnow

08-12-2009, 11:33 PM

It's so bad I can't even remember that scene! Is it really her?

As far as I could tell. It was every bit as glorious as a very brief tooshie shot can be, but I don't even think full-frontal Salma could have saved that film.

cactus waltz

08-12-2009, 11:37 PM

The Heartbreak Kid.

This movie is bad with a capital C. Do not see it, please. I think it is enough that I did, it should cover for everybody else.

I am not sure what was the worst thing about it, even. Maybe Carlos Mencia. Or Malin Akerman. Or the fact that Ben Stiller appears to be a emotionless black hole on drugs? Or that I have to be embarassed for Jerry Stiller's sake?

Omgalion

08-13-2009, 01:35 AM

Love, Actually. A terrible, terrible movie.

Freudian Slit

08-13-2009, 01:41 AM

Disturbia. The blandness...it burns. I figure I rented it, might as well see what happened. I can't even remember how it ended.

gladtobeblazed

08-13-2009, 01:53 AM

I tried to watch Battlefield Earth all the way through. I had to turn it off after 40 mintues, it was too much to take.

A few that I've seen recently all the way through and regretted:

Van Helsing
Ultraviolet
Congo
Black Christmas (the 2006 version)
Hot Dog... The Movie
The Toxic Avenger
Piranha
Cursed

Nava

08-13-2009, 02:29 AM

It's so bad I can't even remember that scene! Is it really her?

She claims it's her and that she actually found it more embarrassing/nerve-wrecking than the strings-and-pasties in From Dusk Till Dawn.

Cicero

08-13-2009, 05:54 AM

Last Year at Marienbad.

Dances With Wolves.

FriarTed

08-13-2009, 06:26 AM

In theatre, Hanging Up- Diane Keaton, Meg Ryan, Lisa Kudrow & Walter Matthau's last performance. That's gotta be great! Right? Right?..... Bueller?

On VHS, Gosford Park- my friend brought it over. I didn't say anything about how bad it was for the whole movie out of respect for her since I thought she was liking it.

At the end, she cried out "Dear God, that sucked!"

I cried out "Why didn't you say something?"

"I thought you were enjoying it!"

"No! I thought you were enjoying it!"

"Why didn't you say something?"

"You brought it and I was being polite!"

We are now honest when we think a movie sucks.

EvilTOJ

08-13-2009, 07:08 AM

Watchmen

After reading and hearing from all the comicbook fanboys wanking over the impending movie, I thought it may be worth a look. I saw it at the video store and picked it up out of the dozens of copies still there (should've been foreshadowing on my part). Now, I knew this wouldn't be a typical superhero movie, like Batman or Spiderman. I expected to see some kind of film noir espousing the foibles and trials of being a superhero. I liked the alternate time line, the beginning montages were awesome, fight scene right at the beginning seemed to set the tone.

I was wrong. It sucked.

Dr. Manhattan needed about ten thousand LESS lines. Every single one of his lines was about how his god-dom was irrelevant to the human race. OK. WE GET IT. You don't care fine! Go get therapy or go live on Mars in your stupid Fortress Clock Of Solitude. Seriously WTF was the point of that? OH boo hoo he broke up with his girlfriend and went to Mars to cry and slit his wrists! Then he kidnaps her and drones on some more about his 'feelings'. “Can’t you just tell me how all this ends and save us the time?” the Jupiter asks Big Blue impatiently. At that point, she was reading my thoughts exactly. I know SOMEone is going to mention the blue wang, so I'm just doing it now and getting it over with.

Ozymandias was the 'here's the twist!' villain. So Night Owl and Rorschach spend 15 minutes trying to kick his ass in his Egyptian Fortress of Solitude, then he blows up NY, and now they're all 'welp, that's it. gg I guess.' Then they stand around talking about it! uh, what? If anything you should want to take him out even more, he just killed millions of people!

Rorschach seemed to be the only character that actually stayed focused on what it's like to be a superhero. He had a mission and stuck with it. Even he knew he was a bit of a loon, but he accepted that. Except for the very end when he inexplicably asked Dr. Manhattan to blow him up. Huh? He was the only character we seemed to get to know on the inside. To see how he was thinking. The rest of them were just blah.

Switching back and forth between protagonist stories was jarring at times, confusing at others. It was like there were four or possibly five movies going at once, but split up and mixed in all together.

Granted, I haven't read the comic book(and here's where The Comic Book Guys just smirk and say "then you just don't underSTAND, man!") but a multi million dollar movie should at least make sense to people who haven't seen it.

If I've ruined this movie for anyone planning to see it, I'm not sorry. Biggest waste of $5 and three hours of my life since I rented "There Will Be Blood". Now THAT was a movie I didn't even bother watching all the way through.

Wheelz

08-13-2009, 09:00 AM

The made-for-TV Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367623/).

I had plenty of reasons to not expect much of it in the first place. No Chevy Chase or Beverly D'Angelo. Made for TV. And while I always liked Randy Quaid as Cousin Eddie, I didn't figure the character could carry an entire movie as the lead.

Still, I thought it might be good for a few laughs, especially since the credited writer (Matty Simmons) served as a producer on all the other Vacation films. He'd be able to capture at least some of the feel and tone of the series, right? Or at least be able to write in one single funny line? Right?

Nope. I could see this emerging as a giant piece of crap within the first few minutes, but for reasons I can't quite explain, I sat there and watched the entire turd slide out for 2 hours. Not a laugh. Not a chuckle. Not a smile. Absolute death.

DiggitCamara

08-13-2009, 10:54 AM

Closer--Not only was it boring as hell, but whose brilliant idea was it to cast Natalie Portman as a stripper and not have her show anything?

Irreversible--Actually a pretty good movie. But I was cringing in my seat, from start to finish... well, the last segment is kinda nice, but doesn't make up for the rest of the movie.

KneadToKnow

08-13-2009, 11:13 AM

Closer--Not only was it boring as hell, but whose brilliant idea was it to cast Natalie Portman as a stripper and not have her show anything?

Two different issues. Casting Natalie Portman as a stripper was brilliant. Natalie Portman was even going to show something. Then she got cold feet.

Blame Natalie, not the director or casting director.

gigi

08-13-2009, 11:20 AM

Two different issues. Casting Natalie Portman as a stripper was brilliant. Natalie Portman was even going to show something. Then she got cold feet.

So, she could wear socks. Does that mean she has to keep her other clothes on?!

twickster

08-13-2009, 11:22 AM

I have no idea if you have used that before, but I've not seen it and I think it is hilarious. Kudos to you, twickster.

Thanks.

I've not yet had occasion to pull out the sparkly mod wand that came with it, though. ;)

DiggitCamara

08-13-2009, 12:00 PM

Thanks.

I've not yet had occasion to pull out the sparkly mod wand that came with it, though. ;)

Kind of a weird combination, though (jackboots and a tiara and a sparkly mod wand)

lost4life

08-13-2009, 01:12 PM

I actually have a term for watching a horrible movie all the way through. I've even got other people using this term. Surviving the Game.

Many years ago, I started watching this gem late at night. I had a few important things to do in the morning and really needed to get to bed....but, this movie was just so horrible, I had to see how it ended. Didn't get to sleep until 2am.
Check out this classic with Ice T, Rutger Hauer, F. Murray Abraham, Charles Dutton, Dr. Cox and Gary Busey!

Oh, and feel free to use the term!

typoink

08-13-2009, 01:20 PM

Watchmen
Granted, I haven't read the comic book(and here's where The Comic Book Guys just smirk and say "then you just don't underSTAND, man!") but a multi million dollar movie should at least make sense to people who haven't seen it.

Yeah, that's where you went wrong (and, to be fair, so did Zack Snyder). The adaptation of Watchmen was essentially a frame-by-frame remake of the comic book, only excluding a lot of the details that flesh the backstory and character motivations out a great deal more.

The Watchmen film is likeable (if not great) if you've read the book, but I'd never recommend it to somebody who hasn't read it.

3:20:59 or bust

08-13-2009, 01:35 PM

G-Force.

Just absolutely brutal. The whole thing was played straight. I kept waiting for a joke of some sort, any sort, but it never came. Ugh.

twickster

08-13-2009, 01:39 PM

Kind of a weird combination, though (jackboots and a tiara and a sparkly mod wand)
Don't be silly -- I wear jack-flip-flops.

KneadToKnow

08-13-2009, 03:43 PM

So, she could wear socks. Does that mean she has to keep her other clothes on?!

You + Charlotte = beer

kelly5078

08-13-2009, 04:11 PM

"Synecdoche, New York." I watched the whole thing. I have absolutely no idea what it was about.

Dob

08-13-2009, 04:42 PM

The Spirit.

I rented it from Netflix on Blu-Ray figuring it would be a cool movie to watch in high-def. I was wrong, very, very, so very wrong.

After I finished watching that movie something changed in me... kittens now die when I walk by, grass browns, leaves fall, metal rusts... you get the idea.

Zebra

08-13-2009, 05:40 PM

Pootie Tang

The Education of Little Tree

Marci X

Extreme Ops

The Core

To be fair I had to watch these for work reasons, but they were awful.

Arglefraster

08-13-2009, 06:02 PM

I think I saw Phantom Menace four times in the theater. I think I didn't realize just how bad it was until I had the DVD. Now, it's totally clear to me and I don't plan to ever sit through it again.

I had pretty much the same experience as you. I think I was just so frickin' excited about there finally being another Star Wars movie that I convinced myself it was teh awesome. It wasn't until I'd had some time away from it (after it wasn't in theaters anymore) and then watched it again on DVD that I started seeing all of it's many, many flaws.

A few friends and I saw Dirty Dancing 2: Havana Nights in the theater. I have no idea why we thought this was a good idea, or why we stayed through the whole thing.

Roadfood

08-13-2009, 07:13 PM

Pulp Fiction

I will go to my grave not understanding why anyone, let alone so many people, think this is a good movie. Boring, stupid, pointless, sick, dumb . . . just a few of the adjectives I can think of to describe it. Two guys talking about what they call a Big Mac in France? Yawn. Oh, they're actually hit men going to a job? Snore. Look, they got shot and didn't die; right, no need to ever explain that. Look, there's Bruce Willis, for no apparent reason. Oh, and John Travolta can dance like Batman; someone shoot me quick. Oooo, stab him with a big needle, oooo, blood all over the backseat . . . How on Earth is this possibly entertaining? I'd get more enjoyment out of stepping in a fresh, steaming pile of dog crap than I did spending two hours watching it in movie form.

The only funny thing about that movie was that I hated it so much I wanted to leave, but thought my wife wanted to see it so I stayed. Meanwhile, my wife hated it so much she wanted to leave, but thought I wanted to see it so she stayed.

LVBoPeep

08-13-2009, 10:57 PM

Sorry you feel that way. Children of Men was one of my favorite movies of 2006. And with a 92% at Rotten Tomatoes a lot of critics felt the same way.

I also thought it was really good- thought provoking and orginal.

When I was in college, some friends and I thought that a movie with Sean Connery as King Arthur would ROCK. Instead, we sat through all of First Knight. All of it... and laughed at all the "serious" bits. Because it sucked....so...bad...

Freudian Slit

08-13-2009, 10:58 PM

Pootie Tang

The Education of Little Tree

Marci X

Extreme Ops

The Core

To be fair I had to watch these for work reasons, but they were awful.

Where do you work? Pimpadelic's?

GreedySmurf

08-13-2009, 11:48 PM

My worst was from a while back.

Thin Red Line My god that is the closest I've ever got to walking out of a movie theatre with the movie still running. I was there with a mate, so I sat through but bored out of my skull. After the movie we were talking about and he said he was close to walking out as well. If only once of us had said something :smack:

Just recently my missus has made me sit through on DVD:

The Knowing :(
and Australia double :(

terrible terrible movies.

I have now come to fear the question/statement "Will you sit down and watch this almost certain to be terrible movie with me"

Jragon

08-14-2009, 12:44 AM

Dragonball Evolution, just watched it and would very, very much like a hot metal spike and some bleach. The first 15 minutes are okay if you neglect that it has anything to do with Dragonball, then all of a sudden they fired the writers and started making stuff up, the dialogue became even more unbelievable and plot points just sort of happened with no setup or explanation. By the end with the Oozaru thing I was practically ramming my head against the wall.

typoink

08-14-2009, 01:28 PM

Push You Down

08-14-2009, 04:54 PM

The Dark Knight was one of my least favorite movies I'd seen in years. I found it cliched, patronizing, and clumsy. My girlfriend agreed absolutely, and we both walked out of the theater saying we thought it was awful.

I have a hard time convincing people I actually hold this opinion.

I can kind of see that. I enjoyed it but it really felt like a 70s crime thriller that I had 'seen' before. It just happened to have a dude with bronchitis dressed as a bat.

vivalostwages

08-14-2009, 07:04 PM

The New World. Good grief, what a long, tedious, boring slog.

GardeningSpirit

08-15-2009, 08:37 PM

Way back when I was still married to my ex, he rented Eraserhead and Blue Velvet. I couldn't stand either one of them!

gigi

08-17-2009, 09:31 AM

"Synecdoche, New York." I watched the whole thing. I have absolutely no idea what it was about.

Heh. I think my father had to watch this two or three times to figure it out. I'm afraid to try it, much as I love Phillip Seymour Hoffman.

vivalostwages

08-17-2009, 12:41 PM

The Squid and the Whale: Nobody I could give a damn about, all talking in ways that no human being would ever talk (yes, I realize that artificial speech is used very effectively sometimes, but this was not one of those cases), and I can't even remember much of the story.

I made the mistake of renting another, later movie by the same writer/director, and had to quit it after 30 minutes.

Freudian Slit

08-17-2009, 12:42 PM

The Squid and the Whale: Nobody I could give a damn about, all talking in ways that no human being would ever talk (yes, I realize that artificial speech is used very effectively sometimes, but this was not one of those cases), and I can't even remember much of the story.

And the fact that the boy was the only person in his whole family who knew Hey You.

joebuck20

08-17-2009, 01:15 PM

The Island of Dr. Moreau.
A buddy and I saw it at the drive-in in high school because it was playing on a double bill with Independence Day.
Man, was it horrible, but we insisted on getting on our money's worth and stayed through the whole thing.
I was bored out of my mind, but my friend kept himself entertained by talking to a guy parked next to us about catching badgers.

Miss Woodhouse

08-17-2009, 03:17 PM

I've remembered a few more.

National Lampoon's Bagboy. Yes, someone in America actually watched it. Luckily it was a Netflix download, but I did sit through the whole thing. I didn't think movies could be that bad. It achieved whole new levels of badness that had never before been achieved by movie-kind. When the Guinness Book of world record adds a section for worst commercial movie ever made, this will be the movie that gets that place in the book.

I also watched The New World. I don't know how I managed to stay awake, but what's more I don't know why I made the effort.