Caligula. The Penthouse version. Splendid actors in it but it’s the only movie I ever walked out on.
Still stand by my point but I did essentially agree with you and participated with a current film.
My theater had maybe 3 other people in it but we’ll likely never really know because it was four-walled by Fathom Events. But I know I saw it out of curiosity and even avoided any exposure to trailers or reviews, or even hype to give it as pure a chance to engage me as possible. I’ve watched Bat Pussy three times, so I have a high tolerance for garbage.
American Beauty. A film I watched to the finish – most movies I dislike I bail on quite soon. Like Titanic, which I also found to be dreck. I think I hated every single thing about American Beauty, but basically, the script. That it won Best Picture just showed me how worthless the judgement of those voters is. Ugh.
Also, it’s not exactly “amazing” that people don’t remember shitty artists decades after they stopped producing work. Bad artists get forgotten, because nobody wants to see their art, because their art is bad. Doris Wishman made a bunch of shitty films fifty years ago. Outside of people with a particular niche genre interest, why would anyone under the age of fifty know who she was? Why would anyone over the age of fifty particularly remember her?
Even without the hardcore porn scenes that Guccione sneaked in over the director’s objections, it was a turgid mess, and proof that even elite actors like Helen Mirren, Peter O’Toole, Malcolm McDowell, and John Gielgud can’t polish a turd.
I didn’t mean them specifically, just as extreme examples of genuinely bad films. I could have just as easily said Uwe Bolle or Steven Segal latter-day direct to DVD films. But everyone is entitled to his taste and I won’t criticize that and perhaps misread the nuance of the thread.
The scene where he goes around serving appetizers at the murder was cool tho. Interestingly, that is all I can remember of that film. 
I think I napped a bit. But it is not a BAD or hated film, just boring.
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Concur. American Beauty thought it was a devastating satire of suburban life, but its own outlook was pure plastic-covered-couch bourgeois apathy and conformity. Oh, you think a middle-aged suburban man wanting to revert to an irresponsible suburban teenager is a trenchant comment on the hollowness of ordinary life, my, how edgy.
Also, anybody who hated Forrest Gump (which I hated too) and/or Love, Actually (which I fortunately avoided seeing) might want to check out Lindy West’s movie review essay collection Shit, Actually.
All of the Matrix movies!
What? I can listen to criticism of the Matrix sequels, but the first one is terrific. Even if one was not a fan, how could it be a zero star?
ehh everyone has their prefrences. Ive watched all of them and i just dont see the appeal. Not knocking them for their cinematic quality rather im just saying what I feel are my most hated personally!
I didn’t read the book, but my understanding is that the book is unreflective jingoistic propaganda, so Verhoven’s depiction is an effective satire. And you say that it might be too on the nose but is it really compared to what we’ve seen in real life? Young people sent off to die for lies, profit, and maintenance of the police state. The film has helped me look back and reflect on the atrocities and propaganda of the last 30 years. I definitely think it has artistic merit.
Lost in Translation. The characters are bored, and they bored me. The dialogue was barely audible. Bill Murray was insufferably smug. And the scene in the strip joint was embarrassing on a personal level.
You shouldn’t pass judgement on a book you haven’t read. It was one of my favorite adult Heinlein novels. The other two were The Moon is a Harsh Mistress and Double Star. In ST I found the government requirements for citizenship made a lot of sense. And the movie is so different from the book that it doesn’t even bear thinking about.
True in most cases I think. But then again there’s a movie called Battlefield Earth based on a book written by L Ron Hubbard. I have seen neither the movie nor the book but I’m pretty sure they both suck big time.
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