If this thread were about books, absolutely my reaction as well. I read the book when it came out, and really, really wanted to give the main character a good shaking; I reread it again a couple of years ago (thinking that middle age would change my appreciation), and it annoyed me even more.
I’m still recovering from Swiss Army Man. Paul Dano and Daniel Radcliffe, two high-caliber actors. The famed directors of Everything Everywhere All at Once. WCGW?
Everything. This movie screams r/I’m thirteen and this is deep. It’s some of the worst writing I’ve ever encountered in a film. It’s not even the talking, farting corpse that bothered me. It was the pseudo philosophy. The random soliloquy about masturbation that provided zero original insight into societal norms as it was apparently trying to do. The acting was pretty solid, but two fine actors could not save this absolute disaster of a film.
I’ve noted some people have nominated films I love, and many I like. So it goes.
For my own reasons, I hate the following movies with a passion.
Shoot the Moon. It was intolerable.
Saturday Night Fever. I have several reasons. I hate disco. I hate dancing, watching people dance, and people who like dancing. Also, it was the only movie I was turned away from because you had to be 17 and I was 16. My gf was 17 and I was almost 17, and it was completely embarrassing. (I’ve never heard of this happening to anyone else ever–perhaps I’ll start a poll in the Poll Only thread) When I did see it, I hated it. Haven’t seen it since.
I agree completely. I real disappointment. But at least largely forgettable.
A few comments first… I agree completely with John’s critique of Starship Troopers. It only vaguely resembled anything Robert Heinlein ever wrote, which is a shame because a faithful adaptation of the book could be great to watch. Unfortunately, nobody has EVER done a good movie of a Heinlein book. Which is why I would nominate the Donald Sutherland film The Puppet Masters. Of all of Heinlein’s books you’d think that one would be fairly easy to turn into a fun movie, but apparently not.
Also partly agree with Maserscmidt on Shawshank Redemption. I don’t think it’s a bad film exactly, but it is massively overrated. I often see it included in peoples’ favorite films list and I just don’t get it. Fine for a Friday night, too tired to watch closely movie. But definitely not some kind of classic.
For me, I remember truly despising The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover. I don’t remember the details, except I found it nauseating. I’m willing to give a lot of leeway to a good movie, but that one didn’t deserve anyone’s indulgence.
Walked out of Team America: World Police. They forgot to make it funny.
Edit: Disagree on Remains of the Day. I think it’s a great film about a person incredibly unable to express himself. It’s about people whose sensibilities are so unlike our own it’s difficult to relate to. But I really like that one. Also good to see Christopher Reeve healthy before his accident.
Children of the Corn. Excellent Stephen King short story completely tanked.
King Kong Lives. Don’t. Just don’t.
Funny, both of these star Linda Hamilton.
Zardoz. “The gun is good; the penis is bad.” The TV is turned off.
My former brother-in-law was watching Bartleby (1970), based on the book about a withdrawn accountant (which is nowhere as exciting as it sounds) and, trying to be a good BIL, I sat down to watch it with him. This was in about 1971. As the film went on, the accountant becomes ever more withdrawn, only uttering “I choose not to do so.” By the end of the movie, in about 1983, I was ready to dig out my .45 and just end things.
Pearl Harbor. Revisionist, history butchering jingoistic glurge-fest.
Borat. I always say that If I swept whatever fragments of hints of mirth together in a pile, there wouldn’t be enough for a half-assed chuckle. This, from a movie some people urged/demanded I see because it was billed by them is the funniest flick of all time.
I remember having to read “Bartleby the Scrivener” in HS English class. I hated the story, can’t imagine they actually made a movie out of it.
Not just a movie; there was also a later one starring Crispin Glover.
A little more on why The Hobbit movies get zero stars from me.
- They made large-scale changes to the book’s story, including numerous scenes and characters which weren’t in the book, nor in any of Tolkien’s other writings
- Additional combat scenes often looked like something out of a video game
- A major new subplot was a romantic triangle, created out of whole cloth
Two other films which I’ve seen, and which get zero stars from me:
Repossessed: A spoof of The Exorcist, starring Leslie Nielsen (on the heels of his success with Airplane! and The Naked Gun), and Linda Blair. Unfortunately, it wasn’t made by the ZAZ team, and so, the writing and direction lacked the comedy sense of Nielsen’s earlier comedies; I laughed exactly once during it, and that was at a cute sight gag. Otherwise, it was just awkwardly unfunny throughout.
The Weather Man: A Nicolas Cage film, about a television weatherman going through a mid-life crisis. One of the rare times that I turned off a movie partway through; it was supposed to be a comedy-drama, but nothing in it was funny, the characters were all unlikable and uninteresting, and I had no desire to see how things turned out.
Most obvious is when Tom Skerret is in the aurshaft and the other crew member tells him it’s coming for him but doesn’t tell him from which direction and he doesn’t think to ask.
Then there was the idiot who let down his guard when he found the cat.
Or when Yaphet Kotto doesn’t shoot at the alien. He shouts “get out of the way” when his crew mate is behind the alien and not in the line of fire. Of course, she was the exceedingly stupid one who didn’t warn Skerret where the monster was coming from, so she probably didn’t have sense enough to duck.
Then there’s the basic premise of what the hell is the Big Evil Corporation is expecting to accomplish. Why send a bunch of unprepared people to the alien? If they’re killed, where is the profit? And why waste the millions of tons of ore? Aren’t they interested in profit at all? Wouldn’t it be better to send a team that was prepared?
And there are the little things. Smoking on a spaceship? It’s not as though air is in short supply. 
The detectors work on “microcurrents of air.” They go out of the way to mention that. Which means every time it moved, it would go off.
It didn’t help that the finale was predictable and cliched. And had a self-distruct mechanism that was easier to start than stop.
Stupid.
HIghlander 2 does not exist. There were rumors that one was being considered. Fortunately, they decided against it.
You said most hated and then zero stars. That isn’t always the same thing.
My most recent hated movie and likely of all I have seen was “Prometheus”. Is it the worst movie of all time? No. It might even be considered decent by some.
What makes it so hated, for me, is the crushing disappointment. Ridley Scott, after a long time away, showed he learned nothing and that his first movie was likely a fluke. Much like “The Matrix”.
I’ve heard about this, though I have not seen it. I believe it has one of the shortest run times for a theatrically released movie by a real studio, at least in the past few decades. It is 80 minutes with credits.
There are quite some Hot Takes in this thread.
Not to focus on superhero genre movies, but for me it’s a tossup between Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice for smothering the World’s Finest heroes in the director’s joyless hypermasculine edgelord aesthetic and WW84 for taking one of the brightest standouts of the DCEU and following it up with one of the most bafflingly nonsensical plotting the superhero genre has seen — and that’s a high flocking bar.
Whenever this subject comes up, I always nominate what IMHO is the worst movie ever made.
Burt Reynolds sings. And dances. Sort of.
Here’s one of the IMDB reviews:
Is the movie as bad as Golden Turkey Awards claims. You bet it is. I’d rather sit through two hours of test pattern than endure this slow-motion train wreck again. It does for Hollywood musicals what the Titanic did for ocean cruises. Folks who think this is a misunderstood masterpiece are probably also kind to house flies. I just wish the movie were laughably bad, like an Ed Wood misfire. But it’s not. Instead, it’s almost painful to witness a Cole Porter score get butchered by performers about as musical as I am. I just hope writer-producer-director Bogdanovich learned a few humbling lessons from the experience. One thing for sure— I’ll bet no studio gave him six million to play with after this. My advice—watch the movie only if the alternative is two hours of a political speech.
I love, love, LOVE this movie. You have no soul.
My personal nomination is Forrest Gump. Hate this with the fire of 1,000 suns. Officially stopped watching the Academy Awards after this won.
I don’t hate Gladiator, but it was just some action movie I saw in the theater that was pretty good. I remember when it won Best Picture…I just couldn’t believe it.
Gladiator? What???
There are many things wrong with that picture. One of them is that the girl on the left’s mouth seems to be dissolving into the lollipop. Tell me, at least, that these characters are killed in the movie.