# Movies You Didn't Expect to Suck So Bad **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 10, 2011, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-suck-so-bad/574196 "2011-03-10T17:27:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-suck-so-bad/574196/101 "2011-03-11T22:28:49Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats](#): > > I remember liking _The Music Man_, but I only watched it all the way through once, and for the life of me I can’t call up any scene from it other than “Marian the Librarian” and “Gary, Indiana”. And then only snippets flash through my mind like a trailer. I sort of liked the scene where all the salesmen were on the train, and the “Trouble in River City” piece. I guess the beginning was actually okay (I’m something of a Robert Preston fan, so that helped) but IMO the movie is just _waaaaay_ too long. I remember looking at my watch numerous times and thinking, “Man, is this over soon?” I think it would have been a much better film if it had been about 45 minutes shorter. ---
**Author:** ![Sakuma\_Drops](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sakuma\_Drops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sakuma_Drops)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-suck-so-bad/574196/102 "2011-03-11T22:54:34Z")
> [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](#): > > But _WALL-E_ \*was charming, and worth watching just for the part before he left Earth. It kind of felt like another movie after that, but not a bad movie. A bit of a gear shift between Wall-E’s world and the work of the ppl on the ship. I rank it near the top of Pixar movies. > > Opinions vary. I realize that the second half of WALL-E is not up to par with the first, but I do think there are some genuinely cool moments. My personal favorite is when the Captain gets some dirt on his hands from touching WALL-E…what he doesn’t realize is that the dirt is from Earth. When he goes over and analyzes it with the computer, it instigates a whole chain of discoveries about Earth and how amazing it is compared to the ship. Also, as a nerd, seeing EVE open up WALL-E only to find that his motherboard had a hole scorched through it resonated more than it probably should have. Not too many real computers come back from an injury like that! ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Barchetta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/da6949/32.png) [@Red\_Barchetta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Barchetta)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-suck-so-bad/574196/103 "2011-03-11T23:20:15Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > I had similar feeling about **Wall-E**. It started out promising even though the robot watching an old musical felt a bit hipster forced. I liked the daunting skycrapers built of trash landscape that they created. But the mixing of live humans with animated humans was an odd choice and the whole second act of a robot chase picture seemed below Pixar’s standards. Nailed it. Movie started off promising enough, but the live-humans (Fred Willard, really??) broke my sense of immersion, and the completely fell apart as soon as they got into space. ---
**Author:** ![kath94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/67e7ee/32.png) [@kath94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kath94)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-suck-so-bad/574196/104 "2011-03-12T00:16:01Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > [The American](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1440728/). I have never seen an audience so uncomfortable. Suckzilla. Just saw this on DVD a few weeks ago. How bad can a George Clooney movie be? \*THIS \*bad. > [@Mama\_Zappa](#): > > [Stranger Than Paradise](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088184/). > > Got a fabulous review when it came out, so a friend and I went to see it. > > People all around us were laughing and we didn’t understand why. We sat through that whole damn movie waiting for the good part. That’s 89 minutes of my life I’ll never get back :mad:. A friend recommended this to me & my husband. We’re seriously doubting his sanity at this point. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![67java89](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/aeb1de/32.png) [@67java89](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/67java89)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-suck-so-bad/574196/105 "2011-03-12T01:51:05Z")
Hannibal. Awful, awful. What a disappointment after Silence of the Lambs ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-suck-so-bad/574196/106 "2011-03-12T01:59:33Z")
“Batman” is my usual go-to movie for threads like this; it was SO hyped, an absolutely huge movie deal, the blockbuster of the year, and it was so, so boring. It was ridiculously stupid and crammed 40 minutes of story into over two hours of film. But it’s been mentioned. So I’ll go to my second choice; the 1998 version of Les Miserables. It’s a classic story, great casting choices for the leads… and Jesus Christ, it sucked. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-suck-so-bad/574196/107 "2011-03-12T02:17:09Z")
When I was little I was totally stoked to see the Power Rangers: Turbo movie. I stopped watching Power Rangers after that. ---
**Author:** ![Shamozzle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shamozzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shamozzle)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-suck-so-bad/574196/108 "2011-03-12T05:21:42Z")
I vote for CRASH (2004). I turned it on without any preconceptions and after 20 minutes I was thinking, ‘What the hell is this? This is total crap!’ _Click_ The thing won best picture FFS. ---
**Author:** ![Flip\_Pancake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f1d935/32.png) [@Flip\_Pancake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flip_Pancake)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-suck-so-bad/574196/109 "2011-03-12T05:35:23Z")
[The Happening.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0949731/) ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-suck-so-bad/574196/110 "2011-03-12T05:54:29Z")
I might be about to get myself in trouble, but we’ve had _Cat on a Hot Tin Roof_ from Netflix for ages and I finally bugged the boyfriend into seeing it… god, it was AWFUL. Blah blah blah blah blah from all these people we didn’t give a rat’s ass about who had to explain everything all the time to each other… there was just nothing at all good about it except maybe Burl Ives and some of the fluff at the margins. Really a disappointment. We couldn’t figure out why on earth people like it. (Oh, and bad accents while we’re at it.) ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-suck-so-bad/574196/111 "2011-03-12T07:15:16Z")
I tried to watch **Gone with the Wind** three times. I could never get into it because I found it so boring. ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-suck-so-bad/574196/112 "2011-03-12T09:21:24Z")
E.T.: I always fall asleep at the reese’s pieces trail. Pulp Fiction: I fall asleep at the Bat-tusi. However, if I fast-forward to the adrenaline shot, it gets better. ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-suck-so-bad/574196/113 "2011-03-12T09:36:34Z")
**Alien Vs. Predator: Requiem** I know, WTF was I expecting, right? But I actually liked the first one and I had high hopes for the second. The directors seemed so… enthusiastic! And then there was the trailer… a KID gets killed right away. A douchebag gets his face melted off in the crossfire. American soldiers with assault rifles get their asses handed to them by Xenomorphs! A great big Alien-Predator hybrid runs around killing everything it encounters! Reiko Aylesworth (the beloved Michelle from 24) is a soldier kicking ass! What’s not to love??? And then there was the actual movie… shot almost entirely in the dark. Featuring dorky sub-plots about pizza delivery guys in love with the high school slut who is in turn in love with the dickish jock. Characters so shallow and stupid that you start rooting for the aliens to bump them off! The whole thing sucked from beginning to end. I will however defend **Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day**. The movie requires repeated viewings before it starts to grow on you. There’s lots of humor in it and a certain subtlety that was missing from the first movie. For example, when the boys are having their dream with Rocco’s speech… it closes with Greenly saying “Thanks for coming out” which is one of the first things the boys would have ever heard him saying. Or how Bloom tries to cover up the massacre in the bar but gets found out the next day. I know after all the waiting it probably didn’t live up to anyone’s expectations but there’s a good movie underneath all that disappointment. ---
**Author:** ![pope\_hentai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@pope\_hentai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pope_hentai)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-suck-so-bad/574196/114 "2011-03-12T12:40:01Z")
“the last airbender”. How anyone could screw something up that bad my friends and i had trouble understanding to the point where we thought it through, and figured out all the necessary plot points from the first season of the tv series and how possible it was to put it ALL into a 2.5 hour time span. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-suck-so-bad/574196/115 "2011-03-12T15:37:33Z")
> [@jordanr2](#): > > this isn’t the first time I’ve seen someone say this. I thought [Prizzi’s Honor] was a perfectly competent movie, but not exceptional in any way and not one I need to see again - baffling that it received such critical adulation. I’ve mentioned it at least three times on these boards, so it may well have been me you saw say it. But I can’t say it too often: we HATED HATED HATED it. ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-suck-so-bad/574196/116 "2011-03-12T16:05:52Z")
My wife and I walked out of District Nine after about twenty minutes of watching this steaming pile of suck. ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-suck-so-bad/574196/117 "2011-03-12T16:06:42Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > _Avatar_, for reasons that have been beaten to death on this very board. > > _Children of Men_, ditto. Agree about Avatar, but I expected to hate Children, and totally loved it. ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-suck-so-bad/574196/118 "2011-03-12T18:42:31Z")
Haven’t read all the responses yet, but I have say that I was very disappointed in Starship Troopers. Bugs shooting rocks out of their asses across interstellar distances… Most pathetic, unnecessary love story ever… From the director of _Robocop_… ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2011, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-suck-so-bad/574196/119 "2011-03-13T00:00:14Z")
Aw, comon. They weren’t rocks. They were, uh, helium bombs or something. Yeah, that’s it. I guess that’s what they mean by suspending disbelief. ---
**Author:** ![stegon66](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@stegon66](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stegon66)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2011, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-suck-so-bad/574196/120 "2011-03-13T01:06:16Z")
> [@](#): > > Also, Diary of the Dead may be one of the worst films I’ve ever seen. You haven’t seen very many zombie movies have you? DOTD was decent. Survival of the Dead is the weakest of Romero’s zombie films but it’s still much better than many other zed flicks. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-suck-so-bad/574196.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-suck-so-bad/574196.md?page=7)