I’ve seen and hated a lot of bad movies, but two stand out because they were highly recommended by family members (both of whom, based on these recommendations, I subsequently suspected of serious emotion instability): The Mirror Has Two Faces and A Walk in the Clouds.
I also hated Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies. He’s never been a subtle filmmaker, but this one just seemed to double- and triple-tap every emotional beat. I was like, Steve, we get it already.
My parents walked out of three movies ever, if memory serves. They both made it to the campfire scene in Blazing Saddles before bailing. With Pulp Fiction, my mom made it to the gimp and my dad hung in until Marvin’s head got blown off in the car. And for TCTTHWAHL, I doubt they made it ten minutes. Personally, I love those three (well, I’m actually kind of meh on Pulp Fiction, but I appreciate its iconic status).
I lated about fifteen minutes into that one before realizing what a ridiculous piece of shit it was.
My woo wife took it to heart and started writing “Infinite love and gratitude” on her water bottles.
As long as she doesn’t write “gift”, because it may be that her water speaks German.
I, Robot – it started out as a screenplay set in Asimov’s Robot universe (but not based on any of his stories). They bought the rights to the book and slapped the names of the characters on the ones in the film, but that doesn’t make it an adaptation. Completely wrong-headed and misses the whole point of Asimov’s stories. A worse case than Starship Troopers, IMHO. I still watch that film occasionally.
I wish they’d made a movie from the script Harlan Ellison wrote of I, Robot, especially with modern CGI. That’s be a trip.
Martians, go Home! sounds like the title of a bad Disney film, but it’s supposedly based on the Fredric Brown novel. Brown, a helluva writer of science fiction, fantasy, and mystery, has never been treated properly by Hollywood. Brown’s book displayed his wonderful sense of creativity and wit. This supposed adaptation lacks both.
Dragonheart – you thought Sean Connery was bad in Highlander 2? He’s worse in this.
10,000 BC – a truly, amazingly, stupid movie with great CGI effects. Even if you grant their stupid, uninspired premise, the film falls down on its own.
By the way, there arguably IS one good film based on Heinlein – 2014’s Predestination, based on “All you zombies”
I just remembered another movie I hated that was horrible .
On Deadly Ground
A film produced, written, and directed by Steven Seagal. A self indulgent piece of crap. Though it could have been worse according to this anecdote:
Producer and director Steven Seagal filmed almost 40 minutes of footage for the environmental message at the end of this movie, and planned to use it all in the final cut. After pressure from Warner Brothers and a disastrous preview screening, where audience members booed, laughed, and made obscene gestures for the entire sequence, Seagal cut the final scene down to about seven minutes.
There are parts of GBII which are quite good. The 2016 remake… hmm, I think Mark Twain said it best “Fun, yes, but of a mild sort.” I didnt hate it, it wasnt bad… just not good. Mind you it did not deserve all the one star review bombing. I would give it 3 stars. I could see 2.
Yes. To fanboys maybe it was the most disappointing film, but it wasnt bad. It just wasnt LotR great. I can understand the reaction, you are going expecting LotR and you dont get that level of great.
Yeah, horror films can be super bad. Now we all know why Disney fights for Mickey so hard, no doubt someone has already written a cheap schlockfest with The Mouse as a slasher. 
Yeah, that was one big fat lie… Required??? I hope just to make fun of it, the Prof didnt take it seriously??
Speaking of Big Fat Lies- Supersize me by a big fat alcoholic liar. Who had the gall the blame his liver damage on McDs. (Mind you, I am not a McDs fan at all).
Don’t end yourself, shoot the TV.
So many bad movies listed here.
Moon in the Gutter - Best described by Roger Ebert - "The Moon in the Gutter is a sumptuous, dazzlingly photographed melodrama that becomes, alas, relentlessly boring. "
The Man with Two Brains - I would rather lobotomize myself with an icepick than watch this movie again.
Jackson may have been forced to take three movies, but nobody forced him to make each one three hours long. The padding’s on him.
From all I’ve heard about the conditions and constraints that Peter Jackson was under when making the Hobbit movies (example: video: “Peter Jackson Says He ‘Winged It’ on THE HOBBIT”), I’m a bit surprised they turned out as well as they did. There’s a lot wrong with them, but they could have been a lot worse.
Amen.
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I don’t know whether or not it was a good movie, but the only film I’ve ever walked out on was Excalibur (1981). No other film has ever bored me as much.
I had a similar experience with “The Color Purple.”
I’ve never seen “The Cook…” but I do remember how it received almost universal critical acclaim, and the one person I have encountered who said he liked it was, ahem, a bit strange."
I heard that “Whiplash” was very good, but not an easy watch. I’m sorry, I don’t care how good the acting, etc. was, the characters were all so unlikable, I shut it off within about 10 minutes.
And I refuse to see anything Quentin Tarantino made, ever since seeing “Pulp Fiction” in the theater. Yes, I finished it, and yes, I wanted to take a Hazmat-quality shower afterwards.
Even before MST3K debuted, I was at a party where we gave “North By Northwest” a comparable treatment.
I also think “Blazing Saddles” is stupid, although I can understand why other people like it. Not for me, and I love satire.
Boring? Let’s talk about Midnight in the Garden of Slow and Boring Movies. My god. Glaciers are speedy by comparison. Hated that movie!
You really don’t wanna sit through Hateful Eight then.
Truth.
I love Tarantino, and I hated this movie. Django Unchained, too.
He’s not bad in Highlander 2. It’s a terrible, terrible, terrible movie, but he just does his thing.
I remember watching and liking this film when I was 10 years old back in the 80s. I have a feeling if I watched it again though would be posting in the other thread about things I like as a kid that I hate as an adult.
Speaking of movies I liked as a kid and hate now:
The Toy with Richard Pryor and Jackie Gleason. The film wasted both men’s comedic talent. The racist overtones of a rich man “buying” a black man went over my head as a kid. And the constant “you can’t buy friends you have to earn them” comments are forced down the viewers throat. Just horrible, horrible film.