Paul Feig is incredibly hit and miss and much more miss than hit. Spy was terrific, but most of his movies are quite bad.
This is the one I was going to mention. I went to the theater expecting something similar to Saving Private Ryan. Instead I got whatever that movie was (it wasn’t a war movie, which is what the trailers implied). It was the only movie I’ve ever seen in a theater where I considered walking out in the middle of the film. I would have if the people I was with hadn’t insisted I “give it a try” and watch the rest of it. It didn’t get any better.
Exactly. The movie wasn’t as bad as Thin Red Line but it didn’t feel like a Ghostbusters movie. Mostly because the villain was some emo human who wanted to get back at a world that he felt had wronged him rather than an a ghost.
Always amazed by these lists where no one is familiar with Doris Wishman, Ray Dennis Steckler, Andy Milligan but somehow the Hobbit is the worst film ever made. Well, I won’t go there but I’ll add Winnie the Pooh, Blood and Honey as a modern nadir. About 10-15 minutes into it, I was openly hostile to it. Why, WHY would you make a film using the Pooh characters and not even try to be clever? They portray them as fat, masked hillbillies killing unlikable characters …and that’s it! Not even the gore is good.
And yet, you saw (at least part of) that Winnie the Pooh gore film. I’ll bet that many saw it just out of curiosity. How did the filmmaker earn than a more conventional film would have?
Neil Casey who played the villain was from another Paul Feig project Outer Space. That was part of the failed attempt from Yahoo to make original programming. There were a few cast members from that who made it into the movie. I didn’t mind seeing them in something else.
Solarbabies. A movie so boring, it is downright coma-inducing. The movie contains endless shots of teens rollerskating (rollerblading?) through a desert (“Can we get a sheet of plywood shoved behind that dune? Okay, people, now we’re ready to make a movie!”) When the teens are not skating, they’re talking to a metal ball. And what little plot there is, elicits only apathy. Not even so-bad-it’s-good…just plain bad. If you force yourself to sit through this, that would be the perfect expression of masochism.
But this isn’t a thread about the worst movie ever made-This thread is about movies you personally hated. Sure, the people you listed tended to make absolute dreck, but the dreck they made hasn’t been in first run (or even second run) theatres for decades.
The “How Did This Get Made” episode about Solarbabies was great, they even got Mel Brooks on to explain what went wrong… “I put my own money in the show!”.
He was one of the 11 in Ocean’s 11.
I’ve walked out of very few movies. The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover freaked me out, about twenty minutes into it: I was a teenager who’d just gotten out of a relationship with a girl with an abusive, controlling father, and something about this movie just slotted straight into that awfulness for me, and I couldn’t stay. The movie wasn’t bad, but it was decidedly not for me.
Wax, or the Invention of Television Among the Bees is the other movie I remember walking out of, but that’s because it was pretentious twaddle made by a halfwit hipster who thought that the more weed he smoked, the wiser his filmmaking would be. So, so bad.
What the Bleep! Do We Know has a special place in my heart, a place of burning rage at its deceptive nonsense. It was required viewing for a college class, and I used the Straight Dope to help me show up at the next class loaded for bear.
But those are easy targets. There’s a director I loathe that all right-thinking people adore: Wes fuckin Anderson. The last movie I saw by him–The Fantastic Mr. Fox–would be, if I became pope, considered high heresy, and everyone involved in the project excommunicated. It takes a lovely children’s book, chews it up, and turns it into a Wes Anderson navel-gazing tweefest about how sad it is to be a middle-aged middle-class man.
I like many Wes Anderson movies but was bored by The Fantastic Mr Fox.
I was living in the United Arab Emirates in 2000 and wandering round a mall there and saw a movie advertised…hmm, Science Fiction name, fairly adequate cast (Robert Forster, Angela Basset, James Spader), so I decided to spend a few dirhams and go see it.
Called Supernova. Didn’t walk out but I considered it. Still the most stupid movie I have ever seen. You have been warned.
And while I’ve never watched it all, I have seen enough of Batman and Robin to know that the scriptwriters for that monstrosity should have been hanged, drawn and quartered…sheesh, the old “Batman: The Animated Series” had better plotting and dialogue that this.
You are definitely a movie critic I would follow. 
In a spirit of father-daughter bonding, I allowed my youngest to pick a movie when it was just us in the house. She picked 13: The Musical.
About a third of the way through, a vicious debate raged within me: obey every last nerve in my body as it screamed at me to betray my daughter’s trust, leaving her hurt and vulnerable and unable to ever form a meaningful relationship due to deep-seated abandonment issues; or continue watching 13: The Musical.
I’m not saying my better self lost that debate. I’m saying it was a damned close-run thing.
In the end, the only way I could keep watching was by entertaining the wish-fulfillment fantasy that there would be a post-credit scene in which cast and crew turned to the camera and apologised for what they had just done. A scene which, had they even the faintest shred of artistic integrity, they should have been begging for the chance to shoot.
My most hated movie of all time is The Polar Express. I read the book, then I heard it read by various people every Christmas on the Mark And Brian radio show- Mark and Brian present “The Polar Express” - YouTube
That movie did not just gild the lily. It gilded, chromed, bronzed and bedazzled it.
In fairness, Batman: The Animated Series had better plotting and dialogue than most movies or TV shows.
Thanks @miller, I came to say the same thing. I actually own B:TAS and enjoy sharing it with my friends on my Plex server. Sure, there were episodes that didn’t hit the mark, but the majority of them were better than the majority of movies made to date!
And in a related note, a while back I updated my Plex server. I had Batman and Batman Returns from my DVD collection. A friend bought me a Blu-ray 4 pack with the first 4… and while I quickly put up the replacement options, I did NOT want to put up Forever or B&R. So I put it in the poll threads, and the consensus was to put up all 4. I did so, and still feel dirty. But it was the best way to honor the gift I grant.
The 2012 Three Stooges, I walked out.
I want to remind everyone that the coming of this movie was foretold in prophesy. Further, I have no beef with the portrayal of the Stooges. But my goodness it was written badly.
Look, the Three Stooges were Jews in that non-religious way that is only hinted at. So what did this movie do? It made them Catholic and sent them on a quest. You know, like The Blues Brothers. The remake was not faithful to the original actors or the source material.
Probably needs a separate thread, but out of 10, my lowest score for a 2023 movie so far(I’ve seen 27 movies released this year) is:
Cocaine Bear - I gave it a 3 out of 10. Pretty dismal. No, not funny like you think from the title.