Least favorite movies

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Dear God, what is wrong with you people. Now many of these films are atrocious, some good, but I can’t accept that most would be the worst movie you’ve seen. I think you guys are just bashing a popular movie because its popular and not of your style. I don’t expect people to love these films, but saying they’re the worst is sensational at best.

Crime #1: How can anyone claim Seven is the worst movie they’ve seen and walk out on it? Then place it next to Home Alone on the shit-o-meter??? You can’t be serious, I understand not liking a slow cerebral movie on a gory and unsettling topic, but you can’t really believe its terrible prima facia.

Crime #2: Armageddon is a great movie for its genre. Again it may be a meritless genre in your eyes, or you aren’t impressed by SFX, but it is a cool flick. The effects are stunning, the sound impressive, and if you suspend disbelief for 2.5 hrs you’ll be caught up in it. Its about entertainment, not a pulitzer, or nobel prize.

Crime #3: Porky’s defined it genre and is hilarious by all accounts. Now if you don’t like high school movies fine, but its better than a Troma movie.

Crime #4: Star Wars is epic. You may not love it, but saying its worst, again tells me your more inerested in being unique.

I could go on, but every worst movie discussion deviates to movies everyone liked/got good reviews that I didn’t like. I want to hear about the dregs of the film world. Stuff whose story lines are surpassed by your average porno.

There however are movies here worthy. Cabin Boy, Waterworld, Surf Ninjas, Escape from LA, Over the Top are canidates.

I contribute The Postman, Cool World, Jack Frost, My Giant and some sequels that went south.

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Got to agree with you there cere

Seven was unsettling… I really cannot ever remeber getting nausea from one movie but Seven did it for me in Spades. And you know, I LIKED having it turns the old screws on me. I about near puked when Sloth was found to be alive. And in that, I found that the move was a work of art. To inspire such feelings in me while making a make belive subject seem real is truly a art of filmaking.
Think about it…Films that pull you in and you forget its not real. In this, Seven is a masterpiece. I rank it up there next to Saving Private Ryan in this respect. Same unsettling but worse for Ryan knowing that war is like that

I bow to you Cere…hard to find a good connisuer of the art of film these days. You hit it right on the head of what was trying to be portrayed.

I am really looking forward to Fight Club. I hear it may be the next sleeper

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Got to agree with you there Omni

Seven was unsettling… I really cannot ever remeber getting nausea from one movie but Seven did it for me in Spades. And you know, I LIKED having it turns the old screws on me. I about near puked when Sloth was found to be alive. And in that, I found that the move was a work of art. To inspire such feelings in me while making a make belive subject seem real is truly a art of filmaking.
Think about it…Films that pull you in and you forget its not real. In this, Seven is a masterpiece. I rank it up there next to Saving Private Ryan in this respect. Same unsettling but worse for Ryan knowing that war is like that

I bow to you Cere…hard to find a good connisuer of the art of film these days. You hit it right on the head of what was trying to be portrayed.

I am really looking forward to Fight Club. I hear it may be the next sleeper

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Damn double post…Sorry Omni

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  • Batman and Robin–I rented this and saw it for the first time last week, and it was truly one of the worst stinkers I’ve ever seen. I thought the critics were out to lunch when they denounced this movie, but after watching it, I’d say that I’d rather sit through “Barney’s Adventure” twice than see this one again.

  • Superman IV: The Quest for Peace.

  • Any of the “Critters” movies.

  • Any slasher flick, especially the Friday the 13th series. I hate gore with a passion, although I used to be a horror book and movie buff.

  • Sheena, Queen of the Jungle (?).

  • Clifford.

I’m sure there are plenty of others, but those are the ones that come readily to mind.

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Absolutely hated previously mentioned:
Solarbabies, Over the Top

Absolutely hated but never mentioned:
Howard the Duck, George Lucas at his finest
Beastmaster II, Portal through Time

Hated but other people liked:
Howard’s End, Yuck! Get a decent plot line. Character development may be fine, but they have to do something.

“People’s Poet don’t die, we’ll kill ourselves if you do, but first we’ll take off all our clothes.” The Young Ones

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Say what???

Fargo?
NBK?
Pulp Fiction?
Porky’s?
Cabin Boy?
Seven?
Mars Attack?

Those movies are great!

The Blair Witch Project, now THAT was a piece of shit!!!

>^,^<
KITTEN

Coarse and violent nudity. Occasional language.

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Does anyone remember “The Jerk?”

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Does anyone remember “The Jerk”?

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I Love the Jerk!

“Pay to the order of Iron Balls McGinty… one dollar and NINE CENTS!”

Don’t let the loveless ones sell you a world wrapped in grey.

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And no, by “jerk” I don’t mean dumb, redundant posters. :slight_smile:

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Interesting. A lot of the movies mentioned here I liked…Fargo, Blair Witch Project, and Seven.

Personally, I think part of the key to weither you really enjoy a movie or not is what your expectations are.

Movies I would have hated if I didn’t know what to expect:Fargo, Blair Witch, Armeggedon, Con Air, any Jackie Chan flick,The Mummy (I knew going in that it was more of a Raiders of the Lost Ark rip off than a horror movie, so I wasn’t disapointed like many people).

Movies I didn’t like because I went in expecting more: The Thin Red Line, NBK, Event Horizon, Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves.

Phantom Menance goes in here, even though I knew what to expect already…but it STILL sucked. One of those movies that could have been SO much better with some editing, just like Eyes Wide Shut.

You say “cheesy” like that’s a BAD thing.

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  1. Armageddon - What’s bigger? The holes in the plot or Bruce Willis’ ego?
  2. Pacific Heights - Will the person who told Melanie Griffith she could act please immolate himself?
  3. Blue Velvet - Evidence that David Lynch is one step away from the loony bin.
  4. Eyes Wide Shut - Stan Kubrick (GRHS) could have joined David at the loony bin.
  5. My Best Friend’s Wedding - hated it.
  6. Demi Moore’s version of the Scarlet Letter - If she would have stuck with the original story, she may have had something.
  7. A movie with Sharon Stone and one of the Baldwin brothers about a voyeur. I’ve blocked the name from my memory in an attempt to salvage my sanity.
  8. 2001: A Space Odyssey - huh?
  9. Interview with a Vampire - Tom Cruise is a babe. But Tom Cruise with blonde hair and fangs is a mistake.
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Sharon Stone and er… a Baldwin (I can’t keep track, they do crossover genres. Billy I think) was Sliver.

I have never liked any of Stanley Kubrick’s movies. Not Clockwork Orange, not The Shining, not 2001, not Dr Strangelove, none of them! Slow boring meandering claptrap! Ugh! I wouldn’t be so vehement about it if he wasn’t lauded as a genius when in fact he is terrible!

And I don’t care that he’s dead.

The worst movies I’ve seen recently include: Armageddon, Escape from LA, The Big Lebowski.

I had a flatmate who insisted I’d love all the tapes he used to rent, and I’d look at the titles, roll my eyes and say “No thanks, I’ll just do my own thing”. But no, every week “Come on, you’ll love this one! You will!”

Will I bollocks! The few times I caved in I instantly regretted it - his tastes were the worst and conflicted with mine in every fashion!

Mind you, this is from someone who owns a copy of Anastasia. :slight_smile: