Shoot, that should be Billy Elliot. :mad: Hate!
The second “Haunting of Hill House” film – tortured, quartered and maimed by CGI.
I didn’t know there was a Tommyknockers movie.
I usually crank through a Stephen King book in a few days, but it took nearly three months for me to finish the book because I had to keep putting it down. It was just so frustating. I wanted to scream, “JUST DIG IT UP ALREADY AND END THIS HORRIBLE STORY!” Toward the middle, I found myself skipping whole chapters and not missing a thing.
I can’t believe they made a movie out of it. I stopped buying Stephen King books after Tommyknockers.
When this movie came out, I was told I should watch it because it would make me a Christian.
I don’t think there’s a movie I hate more than The Princess Diaries. My cousins tried to get me to watch it with them and it made me so angry. the main character is ugly because she has glasses and her hair isn’t straight and everyone likes her better when she has expensive accessories and the politically conscious friend is a stereotype whose views are brushed aside. One part I got a grin out of - where she’s talking about her great responsibility to the people of her made-up country. I can’t imagine there’s more to being a European royal than smiling and waving. THe parts of the movie with the old woman were really, really, really awkward. I disagree with hereditary monarchy on principle. I was about the characters’ age when I saw this film and I resented the implication that teenagers cannot be introduced to heads of state etc without making collossal asses out of themselves unless they’ve been coached extensively. I watched this movie with my cousins and when I tried to leave the room they kept dragging me back until they finally gave up.
Man, that’s a lot to write about such a stupid piece of fluff, but I could think of more.
And just as a warning (I don’t hate this move, I pity it), NEVER see The Haunted Mansion.
I forgot to mention **Cheaper by the Dozen ** - the Steve Martin ‘comedy’.
That movie made me so angry, so very, very angry…
Ah, The Haunting, or What Liam Neeson Does For Beer Money When He Thinks No-One’s Watching.
Nah. He lives and gets transferred someplace else. At the end, Juliette Binoche goes off to find him. It’s not a bad movie, actually, if you get it on DVD and skip every scene that Juliette Binoche isn’t in. Nice and short, too.
well he’s back - See, I swore I wasn’t going to forgive Opie after A Beautiful Mind, but he won me back with Arrested Development. Maybe he should just stick to TV for now on.
Alan Smithee - Come on, don’t be such a tease. Why do you hate The Breakfast Club so much?
Grease.
Despise might be too strong a term for this, but a few nights ago my buddy and I were hanging out, just kinda wondering what to do, and we popped The Mask of Zorro in the player. I’m a big zorro fan, but… The pacing… My ghod… The pacing… Sloooooooooooooooow and predictable. About 30 minutes in, my buddy looked at me and said, “I… I’m sorry… I remember it being a better movie than this…”
Only if you explain how anyone could hate A Beautiful Mind.
(I’m not going to ask how people can love Arrested Development so much. I know the answers I just disagree with them. Mind you, I don’t hate it, I just can’t get excited by it at all.)
Thanks for sticking up for Heaven’s Gate, Johnny L.A. A wonderful film. And thanks to all of you who reassured me I’m not crazy for hating Lost in Translation (waste of Bill Murray) and **A Beautiful Mind ** (too bored after 20 minutes to go on).
But no one has mentioned my MOST hated film of all time: Fatal Attraction. I had to go for a walk during the last 20 minutes or so since the person I went with wanted to stay to the end to see how awful it could get. (Awfull!!!) The only time I ever walked out of a theater. I have never been able to watch either Glenn Close or Michael Douglas since then. YUCK.
Oh, good. This thread is back. I want to add my votes for Magnolia and The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, And Her Lover. I still owe my best friend for thinking seeing the former was a good idea and, as for the latter, I kept thinking it wasn’t worth walking out because surely it couldn’t get any worse. I was wrong.
One movie hasn’t been mentioned, though. This summer, a friend of mine who’s a history buff moved back to town after he separated from his wife. Wanting to lift his spirits, I took him to a movie which I thought would suit him. I was wrong. Even though I had only the best intentions, I found both of us subjected to the horror that was Troy! I’d never wanted to Pit a movie until I saw that, but I didn’t think I could do it justice. My friend and I are still apologizing to each other and a third friend keeps razzing us about how he’s glad he missed the experience.
CJ
No one’s mentioned The Cable Guy yet? I can stomach a lot of bad movies but that one is just so bad. My husband loves it, he’s a satellite/cable guy :rolleyes: .
I am unsurprised that someone has already mentioned Patch Adams; I am extremely surprised, even horrified, that only one person has so far. This was the worst piece of dreck I’ve ever seen in my life. It wasn’t even enjoyably bad, like Armageddon; it was just horrifically, eyeball-plucking-out, offensively bad. I cannot even begin to describe on how many levels this movie offended and disgusted me. God.
I need a drink now.
Hmm, bad acting & accents, maudlin theatrics, trumped-up “suspense”, horrible aging make-up, cheap sentimentality, facile & predictable directing. That about cover it? Opie makes, on average, one good film each decade. I’m not holding my breath for the next one any time soon.
It tickles my heart to see so many **Paul Thomas Anderson ** movies (Magnolia, Boogie Nights, Punch Drunk Love) in this thread. God bless you all, you’ve renewed my faith in the human race.
And we haven’t even started on Paul Anderson yet: Event Horizon, Soldier, Resident Evil, Mortal Kombat, Alien vs. Kramer, and just about every piece of cheesy sci-fi horror shit of the last ten years that you can put a name to. Surely this can’t be a coincidence - maybe they are the same guy. “It seems you have been living two lives, Mr Anderson…”
Can’t say I hate it but I was vastly disappointed by The Hudsucker Proxy. I’m a big Coen Brothers fan and have been let down by a few of their other films but I really disliked this one. I have some friends that think it’s one of their best. I don’t get it.
I remember really disliking War of the Roses. I like black comedies but I felt this one was just mean spirited.
L.A. Confidential. Confusing screenplay. Bad acting - Guy Pearce is awful, Kim Basinger won an Oscar? Terrible feel good ending. Is it just me or does anyone else remember that everyone was knocking this movie before, somehow, it became the critical darling?
And after all the hoopla surrounding Good Will Hunting and the best screenplay Oscar, I dislike it so much that I won’t even watch it.
How to Get Ahead in Advertising: This was advertised as a comedy. It wants to be a dark comedy. It fails completely. I hate it. I can’t beleive I actually watched the whole thing.
It is bad enough that when I see the lead actor pop up in other movies, my opinion of that movie goes down a notch. Even though acting was not really the issue.