I haven’t and it wasn’t, to me.
The Avengers. No, not the one with Captain America, the one where Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman play Steed and Peel as automatons.
After seeing Mars Attacks and Big Fish in theaters, I stopped spending money on Tim Burton movies.
Slumdog Millionaire just made me feel uncomfortable and angry.
The faux-documentary part does not last the entire movie; the movie changes in tone in the middle into something completely different. You could easily have not liked the shift, but it sounds like you didn’t even give the movie a real chance.
I personally feel like walking out of a movie before it ends is generally a terrible idea. I’ve done it very very few times, but I admit that I recently I had to because I felt I was being “dis-entertained”. I tried to watch Rocky (the original) but only got a half hour or so into it before turning it off. I found the scenes in the beginning with Rocky and Adrian to be the exact opposite of entertainment: I was being shown things to make me uncomfortable for no compelling reason. I should have switched it off after 15 minutes, but convinced myself it had to get better. It probably got better afterward, but I spent at least 10 minutes ready to turn it off before I did so. I was just getting sick of it and couldn’t bear watching another minute. I gave it a chance, and it just continually failed to make me want to continue watching.
That’s not to say it sucked. As a film it was interesting. But I couldn’t watch it.
Many excellent choices here.
I gotta go with the Tim Burton remake of Planet of the Apes. Really amazingly bad.
And to paint with the exactly correctly wide brush, anything at all directed by M. Night Shyamalan. For me, he no longer fits the OP because I do expect his movies to suck so bad, but for a while there…
Well, the OP’s condition was “critically acclaimed.”
I’m not sure which movie this comment is directed at, but Burton’s flick got decent reviews at the time IIRC, and Shyamalan was (maybe still is?) a darling of the critics. I did expect the Burton film to be decent, and I no longer expect a Shyamalan flick to be. I saw The Happening on HBO or Show Time a few months back and was again reminded not to waste my time any more on him. Though it wasn’t as bad as Signs.
To throw out a more recent suck film… The Book of Eli.
Planet of the Apes. I don’t think anybody expected it to be good, much less the critics. If you read shalayaman’s wiki entry, the goodwill from critics only lasted like 3 years after The Sixth Sense. They’ve been lukewarm ever since, and then went postal after he made the lazy critic character in Lady of the Water.
But it wasn’t directed at only you. Lots of people are just posting bad movies nobody likes.
It doesn’t get any better, though, just more gross; nor does the creepy and annoying little weasel from part one get any less creepy and annoying as the hero of the rest of the movie. I can’t understand how people keep ragging on Crash for being heavy-handed and obvious when it’s a masterpiece of subtlety and moral ambiguity compared to District 9. longhair75 made the right choice.
I fully expected The Lovely Bones to suck. I was surprised by how much I hated Return of the King.
I’ve watched a lot of zombie movies and Diary of the Dead is clearly near the bottom of the pile. It was awful in ways that even Day of the Dead could only dream about. It was so bad that I’ve made no effort to watch Survival of the Dead.
Of course, I’m one of those weirdos that prefers the Dawn remake to Romero’s original (which has aged really badly).
Easy Rider. We worshipped that movie in 1969, and now I wonder why. Just one long, pointless music video about choppers.
Flesh Gordon, an absolute riot in 1974, a snoring bore fest in the 21st century.
But let me tell you about the absolute worst. In 1985, I worked for a company tagged to supply unusual equipment for a new movie. For free. The trade-off was free advertising with our names in the credits. After our part was done, I waited anxiously for the movie to come out.
Finally, it hit the theater. Opened on a Tuesday, which was normal in those days, and movies usually played for a week (longer, if really successful). So I figured I’d catch it on Friday. Too late, it was already gone. It had to be a REAL stinkeroo to disappear that fast. Unfortunately, videotape rentals were literally in their infancy, and bombs weren’t exactly hitting the shelves. So I had to wait until the mid-90’s to finally rent the movie that I’d worked on.
First, our equipment had been cut from the movie. Subsequently, neither the company name nor mine were mentioned at all in the credits. And the movie freaking STANK. Oh, almost forgot, the name of the movie was The Slugger’s Wife, with Michael O’Keefe and Rebecca DeMornay. (Who?)
Futuristic porn always disappoints.
Not only you. I hated the books, hated the movies too, but the ultra-long run time and the Endless Endings of Mordor caused a lot of pain for me and several people also sitting in the same row.
I turned off There Will Be Blood during the oil rig explosion I was so bored. I was expecting some kind of period piece real thinkin’ type movie. Instead it was more like watching some well filmed (but not acted) home movies from the 19th century. There wasn’t anything really to move the plot, it was all random scenes.
I turned off Inglorious Basterds during one of the interminably boring theater scenes. I shouldn’t have seen Der Untergang a week before seeing it, I got spoiled.
The Big Lebowski keeps being a disappointment every time I attempt watching it. They say it’s a cult classic. OK fine.
The recent Mighty Joe Young remake.
Bored me to tears.
You sat all the way through Return of the King even though you hated the books AND the first two movies? 
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.
Probably the 1976 version of “King Kong”. I went to it thinking the original was so great, how could it miss? It did…badly. Avoid this movie at all costs. Get root canal instead of seeing it.
In response to the OP about “All That Jazz”, I loved it when it came out, although I can see how somebody’s death trip movie can be boring to some people. But when I saw it again a couple years ago, I found myself singing Paula Abdul’s “Cold Hearted Snake” to the “Air Erotica” scene.
Batman Returns- it was the first film I ever thought of walking out and asking for my money back. The MACK-size plot holes.
Avatar, which has been beaten to death, buried, dug up and beaten again on this board. Also, modern 3D doesn’t work for me.
UP- I really wanted to like this film. While I’ll watch if it’s on, but something is just missing. I guess I can say an emotional connection.
The Paper Chase- I remember the television show and liked it. I finally saw the film last month. Who wrote this screenplay and did the editing? The scenes don’t flow and the dialogue just doesn’t seem natural. For example, when Hart visits his friend (can’t think of his name, but the one with the photographic memory and a fiance). When the friend has a breakdown, the dialogue seem really fake to me.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory- I watched Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory growing up and liked it a lot. I hadn’t read the book at that point. When Charlie came out and was supposed to be more closely based on the book, except for Christopher Lee’s character and the characters modernized, I decided to see it. I came out thinking, I’m glad I never read the book. I could relate to Wonka Charlie more than I could with Charlie Charlie. The former made mistakes and had a visibly close relationship with his grandfather. The latter was too perfect and his grandfather might as well have been the old man down the street he just decide to invite with him.
I actually like All That Jazz.Yes, it’s disjointed, but that last number. Usually, I don’t like musicals.
I respectfully disagree. See if you can find copies of Electric Zombies and Of the Living Dead (to name just a few). DOTD isn’t perfect I’ll grant you, but as a zombie movie it’s pretty good (Romero at least managed to imbue it with a sense of apocalyptic dread largely missing from his other latter-day efforts Land of the Dead (which I liked) and Survival of the Dead (which I probably liked more than I should)).
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.
First of all, the whole thread about Wonka’s childhood “trauma” and his moster dentist father wasn’t in the book, and Willy Wonka as he was originally written was NOT the creepy, emotionally-stunted man from the Burton movie. Second, in the book Charlie loves his Grandpa Joe and he isn’t just window-dressing. Overall I didn’t care for Freddie Highmore’s Charlie. I think I heard some people complain that the Charlie in the old movie was too pitiful, but in the book the situation with his family is even bleaker than in the movie (in that they were very much on the brink of starvation), so for me it’s not a big deal.
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.