# Movies you absolutely DESPISE **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 19, 2005, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-despise/290886 "2005-02-19T14:16:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Promethea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Promethea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Promethea)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-despise/290886/41 "2005-02-19T18:12:51Z")
The English Patient. I’d been looking forward to seeing it for weeks and was so disappointed I could have cried. Every minute in the cinema passed like hours. Worse, I had dragged along someone I didn’t know very well, so didn’ t like to ask if they wanted to leave in case they were enjoying it, but then felt obliged to leave too. After the film was over, I discovered they had been hating it too. :smack: When Seinfeld did an episode in which Elaine goes to see The English Patient and hates it, I felt like I was watching my life on TV 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-despise/290886/42 "2005-02-19T18:15:10Z")
5th Element ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-despise/290886/43 "2005-02-19T18:16:37Z")
Any of the happy-love-girly-syrupy-sweet chick flicks my roommate is inexplicably fond of. Love Actually, Sleepless in Seattle, When Harry Met Sally…I _hate_ romantic comedies. Also, any comedy with Jim Carrey or Adam Sandler. They just make me angry. ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-despise/290886/44 "2005-02-19T18:16:45Z")
Oh yeah, and **Boogie Nights** : It’s like, what, 8 hours long, and just full of tired 70’s references, one-dimensional characters, shallow melodrama, weak attempts at humor, and showcases for Respected Independent Film Actors To Display Their Craft. which reminds me of **American Beauty** : Another attempt to take paper-thin characters and completely predictable stereotypical situations and pass it off as saying something profound. “Look deeper” past the stereotypes and you’ll see – more stereotypes! It’s redeemed only by the fact that Mena Suvari lying naked on a bed of roses is a great image, and a memorable one. ---
**Author:** ![mike1dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@mike1dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mike1dog)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-despise/290886/45 "2005-02-19T18:20:39Z")
I almost forgot this movie: **Donnie Darko**. I know there are literally thousands of people, some of them on this board, who think it’s one of the greatest movies ever. I’d rather eat goat. ---
**Author:** ![Fortean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/96bed5/32.png) [@Fortean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fortean)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-despise/290886/46 "2005-02-19T18:21:59Z")
**Easter Parade.** I can’t begin to categorise my hatred of this film. It has all the appearance of a nice, colourful, slightly second-banana Hollywood musical but actually it is the devil’s own testicles. \*\*Requiem for a Dream. \*\*Mahoosively overrated, over-directed, over-acted, stupidly plotted, unwatchable cack. **Father of the Bride II**. Oh no, Diane Keaton has to have the baby despite being about 50 million years old! And Steve Martin will have to sell their dream home to some nasty foreigner! The horror! Another film that appears harmless but is actually propagating a political agenda so nasty and mean-spirited that Peter Hitchens (poisonous brother of Christopher) would baulk to entertain it. ---
**Author:** ![Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9dc877/32.png) [@Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightwatch_Trailer)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-despise/290886/47 "2005-02-19T18:28:19Z")
**Signs** and **The Village**. **Snow Day** - this one felt personal because it seemed to be desperately trying to be Pete and Pete: The Movie, and thereby desecrating one of the greatest television shows ever produced. One of the very few movies I ever stopped watching partway through was **The Wedding Singer**. I simply could not finish that garbage. **Shrek** - the epitome of all that is wrong in film comedy. ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-despise/290886/48 "2005-02-19T18:30:21Z")
> [@overlyverbose](#): > > I’m sure I’ll get flamed for this one, but I was forced to watch **A Clockwork Orange** in high school. I hated that movie, probably because I was being sexually abused around the general time I watched it, but I thought it was absolutely vile, and I couldn’t and don’t understand how the movie was considered “art.” But different strokes for different folks and all that. I didn’t like it either. I thought much of the violence was gratuitous, in that the same point could have been made with far less of it. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-despise/290886/49 "2005-02-19T18:44:10Z")
> [@mike1dog](#): > > I’d rather eat goat. Hey, barbequed goat is some good eatin’! As for movies I hate: > [@stegon66](#): > > Armageddon > > I forced myself to sit through this pandering, can’t-tell-what’s-happening-because-it’s-so-badly-edited piece of shit just because my bro-in-law was an extra in it. It is one of my life’s dreams to frisbee the negative into a live volcano. Fuck you Michael Bay. > Gladiator > > Drearing, boring, lifeless. How the FUCKING FUCK did this shit win the Best Picture Oscar? What he said (except for the brother-in-law part). ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-despise/290886/50 "2005-02-19T18:45:56Z")
> [@SolGrundy](#): > > **Dancer in the Dark** : I can write, and have written, pages and pages about how much I hate this movie. So I’ll just say that I hold Lars von Trier personally responsible for the awfulness of it and will never see another movie of his. Ooh, be forever grateful that you made that decision because it means you missed the repellant suckathon that is **Dogville**. Add that piece of garbage to my list. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-despise/290886/51 "2005-02-19T18:46:59Z")
I’ll second all of the following: **Gone with the Wind** : wouldn’t begrudge others, but I couldn’t stand it. **Moulin Rouge** : hyperactive, and I hate anachronisms in general. **Magnolia** : the director’s so in love with himself that he took what story there was and stretched it out beyond belief. And the part where all the characters are singing along with the same song at the same time strained all credibility. And I’ll add a few: **The Reflecting skin** : for what reason was this nihilistic, abusive, depressing piece of crap ever made? Absolutely no point to all the sickness in it. **The cook, the thief, his wife and her lover** : Incredibly disgusting. I fast forwarded a lot of it because I would have puked otherwise. Again, what is the point? ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-despise/290886/52 "2005-02-19T19:05:05Z")
This thread merely shows that there is no film so popular that a small number of people will not despise it. C’est la vie. But personal “worst” is Manos: the Hands of Fate. There’s no real way to describe it. It’s just that bad. ---
**Author:** ![TheBoneyKingofNowhere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@TheBoneyKingofNowhere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheBoneyKingofNowhere)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-despise/290886/53 "2005-02-19T19:47:46Z")
[QUOTE= **Blue Velvet** Now, _Mulholland Drive_ is one of my favorite movies of all time, so I wanted to check out more Lynch, and this one seemed to be well regarded. The opening scenes had me going “Oh yeah, this is going to be great.” Nope. It ended up being so brutal and degrading that I couldn’t take enough showers to wash the scum off. Who _needs_ this shit, part deux.[/QUOTE] “_hit_ me” Seriously, Blue Velvet made me laugh. I thought it was great. The same with\*\* Pink Flamingo’s\*\*. That shit is classic. As far as movies I despise? **Pearl Harbor**. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-despise/290886/54 "2005-02-19T19:54:06Z")
I’m going to blow my intellectual snob cred right out of the water here, but I don’t think I’ve seen any movie by Jean-Luc Godard that hasn’t made me want to run piano wire through my eyeballs in relief from torturous boredom. _Le Mepris_ (_Contempt_) seemed to be designed to demonstrate his, well, contempt for the audience. I’ve always wanted to see _Alphaville_ but I just don’t know if I can handle the experience without a _Clockwork Orange_-like apparatus to keep me in my seat. Ugh. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![shy\_guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@shy\_guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shy_guy)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-despise/290886/55 "2005-02-19T20:10:44Z")
**Patch Fucking Adams**. I can’t even begin to put into words how much I utterly despise this movie and everyone involved in its making. In a way, it’s a thing of beauty. It’s the pinacle of awfulness. Evil in its purest form. I’ll also throw in another vote for **Magnolia**. Gak. I _own_ **Freddy Got Fingered** , and I would watch it ten thousand times before watching either one of these things again. Oh, and **The Other Sister**. ---
**Author:** ![Jonboy\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/77aa72/32.png) [@Jonboy\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonboy_X)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-despise/290886/56 "2005-02-19T20:16:27Z")
I might be the only one on earth, but I really, really hated **Love Actually**. I used to almost kinda-sorta like sappy romcom’s, but this one may have cured me. I don’t know why. Wait, yes I do. The plot was ridiculous. The love stories were ridiculous. The dialog was crap. BTW, just because someone is saying it with a British accent, doesn’t make it witty. Oh, and I loved the part about 20 minutes in where they show you a lady’s boobs. I guess that’s to keep the bf’s/hubbies that were dragged there awake on the outside chance that there might be more of the same later in the flic. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-despise/290886/57 "2005-02-19T20:17:28Z")
Lots of great movies mentioned in this thread. The one movie that I ever really actually found myself hating is **My Big Fat Greek Wedding**. ---
**Author:** ![Zap\_Rowsdower](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3da27b/32.png) [@Zap\_Rowsdower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zap_Rowsdower)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-despise/290886/58 "2005-02-19T22:03:15Z")
**Field of Dreams** **Jerry Maguire** Unwatchable crap, and Ive seen **Manos: the Hands of Fate** un-Mistied. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-despise/290886/59 "2005-02-19T22:20:51Z")
> [@overlyverbose](#): > > I’m sure I’ll get flamed for this one, but I was forced to watch **A Clockwork Orange** in high school. I hated that movie, probably because I was being sexually abused around the general time I watched it, but I thought it was absolutely vile, and I couldn’t and don’t understand how the movie was considered “art.” But different strokes for different folks and all that. Was this movie shown to your high school class, or were you “forced” to go see it by a friend or friends? If it was an assigned film, what in hell was the school thinking, and how did they avoid getting lynched by the parents??? ---
**Author:** ![Dancing\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8baadc/32.png) [@Dancing\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dancing_Dead)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-despise/290886/60 "2005-02-19T22:29:40Z")
I am surprised at some of the movies appearing in here, but I might as well add a few. Titanic Gone with the Wind American Pie Forrest Gump The entire slew of Vietnam movies This list would be too big to print [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-despise/290886.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-despise/290886.md?page=4)