# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-suck-so-bad/574196/141 "2011-03-14T13:23:19Z")
Can I mention **The Phantom Menace** again? The worst part is that I went into it with abysmally low expectations and it **still** disappointed me. I think it all crystallized during the pod race scene when I found myself thinking “Man, I wish I was watching the lightcycle match from _Tron_ right now.” ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-suck-so-bad/574196/142 "2011-03-14T13:38:47Z")
> [@Sakuma\_Drops](#): > > FWIW, when I watch _ROTK_ these days I usually stop after the “you bow to no one” part. Not because the very end is _bad_, but because that’s the emotional climax of the movie and nothing else really needs to be said at that point, at least upon repeated viewings. Ah, so you skip the Scouring of the Shire. 😉 > [@Sakuma\_Drops](#): > > This movie (the Tim Burton one) bugged the hell out of me. Usually movies that stray from the book don’t bother me but I remember people making a point of saying that THIS movie was sooooo much closer to the book than the original movie which it absolutely was not. I suppose that’s what really bothered me, because I wondered if some people saying that even read the book at all. Yeah, it was about as faithful an adaptation of the book as _O Brother Where Art Thou_ was a faithful adaptation of Homer’s _Odyssey_ (but not nearly as good a film). ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-suck-so-bad/574196/143 "2011-03-14T15:54:25Z")
> [@Sakuma\_Drops](#): > > I still recommend reading the book. Its mood and sense of humor, I think, is much closer to that in the old movie. Willy Wonka is a lot more…spry, and doesn’t spend his time brooding and lamenting the trappings of his youth. I didn’t see the Tim Burton movie, but I have read the book. Yes, I think the original _Willy Wonka_ with Gene Wilder was a pretty close interpretation. I saw the movie before I read the book, but that was awhile ago. What I do remember is that the ending of the movie is much better than in the book, which I don’t want to spoil, but was something of an anti-climax. Gobstopperless, you might say. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-suck-so-bad/574196/144 "2011-03-14T16:41:39Z")
Well, the book had a sequel (_Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator_). ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-suck-so-bad/574196/145 "2011-03-14T17:02:07Z")
> [@Nobody](#): > > I tried to watch **Gone with the Wind** three times. I could never get into it because I found it so boring. Agreed, and I live in Atlanta, so agreeing with you is kinda treasonous. I think Rhett didn’t “give a damn” because he was sick of the movie too. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-suck-so-bad/574196/146 "2011-03-14T17:12:15Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > This. And I’ll throw in [Broken Flowers](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0412019/). > > _Crystal Skull_ has already been mentioned. As has _Phantom Menace_. I fell asleep IN THE THEATER during _Menace_. All I can remember of **Broken Flowers** is lengthy scenes of Bill Murray sitting. On a bed or something. That’s all. Sheesh. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-suck-so-bad/574196/147 "2011-03-14T17:22:23Z")
**Dungeons and Dragons**. I knew it would suck, but I thought it would suck in a good way. And there were ways in which it was a cheesy, enjoyable adventure, but they were overshadowed by the bad-bad acting (as opposed to bad-good acting) and lack of consistency of it all. What’s sad is it has some of the most visually compelling CGI of any movie up to that time. Plus one of the best-delivered cheesy lines was wasted on the rest of the movie: Give me the ROD!!! ---
**Author:** ![Pandoranoid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce73a5/32.png) [@Pandoranoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pandoranoid)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2011, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-suck-so-bad/574196/148 "2011-03-15T02:43:01Z")
I really like some of Tim Burton’s films a lot, but I hated his ‘Alice in Wonderland’ reboot. It was uninspired, and even Johnny Depp just seemed to be recycling old characters. And the 3D blew, too. But I am utterly shocked that no one has mentioned ‘Finding Neverland’. It got tons of great reviews, but it was the most trite pile of cliches I had seen in ages. Oscar-biddy, one-dimensional, sappy, maudlin, pablum. Maudlin pablum. Sort of fun to say. Very ploppy on the lips. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2011, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-suck-so-bad/574196/149 "2011-03-15T02:48:39Z")
While I agree with you on _Finding Neverland_, I DO think that Freddie Highmore deserved an Oscar nod in that movie. He out-acted people with a lot more experience than himself. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2011, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-suck-so-bad/574196/150 "2011-03-15T03:29:30Z")
I’d heard how good _The Triplets of Belleville_ was supposed to be – maybe some of the stuff I slept through was interesting, but the stuff I saw sure as hell wasn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2011, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-suck-so-bad/574196/151 "2011-03-15T03:39:23Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > I’d heard how good _The Triplets of Belleville_ was supposed to be – maybe some of the stuff I slept through was interesting, but the stuff I saw sure as hell wasn’t. I liked it just because of how weird and quirky it was. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2011, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-suck-so-bad/574196/152 "2011-03-15T04:28:57Z")
> [@Pandoranoid](#): > > I really like some of Tim Burton’s films a lot, but I hated his ‘Alice in Wonderland’ reboot. It was uninspired, and even Johnny Depp just seemed to be recycling old characters. And the 3D blew, too. > > But I am utterly shocked that no one has mentioned ‘Finding Neverland’. It got tons of great reviews, but it was the most trite pile of cliches I had seen in ages. Oscar-biddy, one-dimensional, sappy, maudlin, pablum. > > Maudlin pablum. Sort of fun to say. Very ploppy on the lips. Ditto on the Alice flick. Dull. And I can’t remember what happened in it or even how it ended. ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2011, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-suck-so-bad/574196/153 "2011-03-15T04:31:20Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Can I mention **The Phantom Menace** again? The worst part is that I went into it with abysmally low expectations and it **still** disappointed me. I think it all crystallized during the pod race scene when I found myself thinking “Man, I wish I was watching the lightcycle match from _Tron_ right now.” Yeah it was the pod race for me too. I was watching my watch and when I looked down, I realized over half the movie was over and essentially nothing interesting happened, at all. Then, the creeping horror of bad dialogue, bad acting, bad cgi, and a race with absolutely no drama at all started to engulf the entire theater. ---
**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 15, 2011, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-suck-so-bad/574196/154 "2011-03-15T12:23:25Z")
> [@Pandoranoid](#): > > I really like some of Tim Burton’s films a lot, but I hated his ‘Alice in Wonderland’ reboot. It was uninspired, and even Johnny Depp just seemed to be recycling old characters. And the 3D blew, too. > > But I am utterly shocked that no one has mentioned ‘Finding Neverland’. It got tons of great reviews, but it was the most trite pile of cliches I had seen in ages. Oscar-biddy, one-dimensional, sappy, maudlin, pablum. I agree on both of those. I did see some reviewer of _Finding Neverland_ ask why no one can ever “just” cough in a movie, like all people occasionally do - coughing has become movie code for “this character has a debilitating disease and will die providing a poignant and tragic ending” (see also \*Moulin Rouge). \*Whoever knew coughing was so dangerous? ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2011, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-suck-so-bad/574196/155 "2011-03-15T13:11:02Z")
You think coughing is bad, try throwing up! ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2011, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-suck-so-bad/574196/156 "2011-03-15T13:29:48Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > You think coughing is bad, try throwing up! You threw up? When’s the baby due? ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2011, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-suck-so-bad/574196/157 "2011-03-15T14:25:28Z")
Oh, sorry, it isn’t. I put my hand to my abdomen and winced. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2011, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-suck-so-bad/574196/158 "2011-03-15T14:28:54Z")
Nice knowing you, **Zsofia**. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2011, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-suck-so-bad/574196/159 "2011-03-15T14:58:49Z")
It’s Snakes! On A Plane! The meme was far better than the movie! ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2011, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-suck-so-bad/574196/160 "2011-03-15T15:00:26Z")
The diagnosis is unfortunate… she’s got a case of Ally McGraw disease, a debilitating condition that has as its only symptom the ability to make **Zsofia** increasingly beautiful the closer she comes to death. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-suck-so-bad/574196.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-suck-so-bad/574196.md?page=9)