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Summer Blockbusters that Bombed

  1. Waterworld
  2. After Earth
  3. Battlefield Earth
  4. The Last Action Hero
  5. Gigli
  6. Green Lantern
  7. Catwoman
  8. The Adventures of Pluto Nash
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Summer Blockbusters that Bombed

  1. Waterworld
  2. After Earth
  3. Battlefield Earth
  4. The Last Action Hero
  5. Gigli
  6. Green Lantern
  7. Catwoman
  8. The Adventures of Pluto Nash
  9. Inchon
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Summer Blockbusters that Bombed

  1. Waterworld
  2. After Earth
  3. Battlefield Earth
  4. The Last Action Hero
  5. Gigli
  6. Green Lantern
  7. Catwoman
  8. The Adventures of Pluto Nash
  9. Inchon
  10. Speed Racer
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Summer Blockbusters that Bombed

  1. Waterworld
  2. After Earth
  3. Battlefield Earth
  4. The Last Action Hero
  5. Gigli
  6. Green Lantern
  7. Catwoman
  8. The Adventures of Pluto Nash
  9. Inchon
  10. Speed Racer
  11. Ishtar
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Summer Blockbusters that Bombed

  1. Waterworld
  2. After Earth
  3. Battlefield Earth
  4. The Last Action Hero
  5. Gigli
  6. Green Lantern
  7. Catwoman
  8. The Adventures of Pluto Nash
  9. Inchon
  10. Speed Racer
  11. Ishtar
  12. Astro Boy
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Summer Blockbusters that Bombed

  1. Waterworld
  2. After Earth
  3. Battlefield Earth
  4. The Last Action Hero
  5. Gigli
  6. Green Lantern
  7. Catwoman
  8. The Adventures of Pluto Nash
  9. Inchon
  10. Speed Racer
  11. Ishtar
  12. Astro Boy
  13. The 13th Warrior

Appropriately enough!

Next topic - I hope this isn’t a repeat:

Best Picture Oscar Winning Movies that You Hated (or disliked significantly)

  1. Chariots of Fire

BTW, I am building a listing of all categories so far including links to each one. It has been a while since the last one I have seen, by Little Nemo on 2010-11-05 (at post #2038). I’m up to post #4571. It’s slow going and I hope to be done in a couple of days.

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you have way too much time on your hands, echo7tango. :wink:

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No I don’t. That’s the problem! I don’t have time to do this, I should be doing other things on Mrs.Tango’s Honey-Do list. :smack:

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Best Picture Oscar Winning Movies that You Hated (or disliked significantly)

  1. Chariots of Fire
  2. The Departed
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Best Picture Oscar Winning Movies that You Hated (or disliked significantly)

  1. Chariots of Fire
  2. The Departed
  3. Out of Africa
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Best Picture Oscar Winning Movies that You Hated (or disliked significantly)

  1. Chariots of Fire
  2. The Departed
  3. Out of Africa
  4. The Greatest Show On Earth

I don’t hate it. I don’t even really dislike it. But it’s probably the weakest movie to ever win Best Picture. And it beat High Noon, which is a much better movie.

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Best Picture Oscar Winning Movies that You Hated (or disliked significantly)

  1. Chariots of Fire
  2. The Departed
  3. Out of Africa
  4. The Greatest Show On Earth
  5. Titanic

I found the whole movie nauseating and kept thinking, “Where’s that freaking iceberg!?”

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Best Picture Oscar Winning Movies that You Hated (or disliked significantly)

  1. Chariots of Fire
  2. The Departed
  3. Out of Africa
  4. The Greatest Show On Earth
  5. Titanic
  6. Annie Hall

Mind you, I never actually saw “Annie Hall.” But my 1977, 13-year-old self deeply resented it because it beat “Star Wars.” (That, and I can’t stand Woody Allen so I think I’m safe to say I’d hate the movie if I ever did happen to see it.)

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Best Picture Oscar Winning Movies that You Hated (or disliked significantly)

  1. Chariots of Fire
  2. The Departed
  3. Out of Africa
  4. The Greatest Show On Earth
  5. Titanic
  6. Annie Hall
  7. Kramer vs. Kramer

Yes, the acting was great, but I absolutely hate glurg. And K vs. K redefined it.

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Best Picture Oscar Winning Movies that You Hated (or disliked significantly)

  1. Chariots of Fire
  2. The Departed
  3. Out of Africa
  4. The Greatest Show On Earth
  5. Titanic
  6. Annie Hall
  7. Forrest Gump

I don’t hate the film itself, but I do hate Tom Hanks’ voice in it, plus the novel was incomparably better and the film wasn’t 1/16 as deserving of an Oscar or as likely to be hailed as a classic many years from now as Pulp Fiction (nominated the same year)

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Best Picture Oscar Winning Movies that You Hated (or disliked significantly)

  1. Chariots of Fire
  2. The Departed
  3. Out of Africa
  4. The Greatest Show On Earth
  5. Titanic
  6. Annie Hall
  7. Kramer vs. Kramer
  8. Forrest Gump
  9. State Fair
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Supposedly, Annie Hall wasn’t even the movie Allen had set out to make. In the original story - which was what was filmed - the relationship between Alvy Singer and Annie Hall was just a sideplot. But looking at the film, Allen decided that the sideplot was better than the main story and edited the film to make it the main story. This explains why the story is often non-linear and is only 93 minutes long.

Years later, Will Ferrell did something similar. When he made Anchorman, he had a subplot about an investigation that Ron Burgundy and his news crew were doing about a gang of bank robbers. The subplot ended up being deleted from the main movie. But there was enough footage to edit it into a second movie which was released as Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie.

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Best Picture Oscar Winning Movies that You Hated (or disliked significantly)

  1. Chariots of Fire
  2. The Departed
  3. Out of Africa
  4. The Greatest Show On Earth
  5. Titanic
  6. Annie Hall
  7. Kramer vs. Kramer
  8. Forrest Gump
  9. State Fair
  10. Braveheart

It just wasn’t all that great of a movie. Plus I thought another-similar-film, Rob Roy, which came out in the same year, was better, with a better villian.

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Best Picture Oscar Winning Movies that You Hated (or disliked significantly)

  1. Chariots of Fire
  2. The Departed
  3. Out of Africa
  4. The Greatest Show On Earth
  5. Titanic
  6. Annie Hall
  7. Kramer vs. Kramer
  8. Forrest Gump
  9. State Fair
  10. Braveheart
  11. The English Patient
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Best Picture Oscar Winning Movies that You Hated (or disliked significantly)

  1. Chariots of Fire
  2. The Departed
  3. Out of Africa
  4. The Greatest Show On Earth
  5. Titanic
  6. Annie Hall
  7. Kramer vs. Kramer
  8. Forrest Gump
  9. State Fair
  10. Braveheart
  11. Cimarron

Okay, I’ve never actually seen it. (Has anyone here seen it?) But I’ve heard it’s pretty plodding.