I spoke with Clint Eastwood ( at a pub , across the back alley from his Carmel " Hog’s Breath Inn". He just finished filming ‘Heartbreak Ridge’, explaining his short hair cut… I said at one moment, " Paint Your Wagon"?.. He said, " Don’t remind me". So, I give him a pass…
Reminds me of when those guys talked to John Goodman, who was very drunk, at a baseball game. They asked him about Flintstones and he just laughed and said, “Terrible movie! Terrible!”
A real shame, the books were good. Ya know, Jim Carrey doesn’t belong in every fucking thing!
…" M O N E Y "… "Hell’’ it’s still a job… Good thing, not all of us are filmed!!!
Prometheus is very very high (low?) on my most hated movies list. I saw it in the theater, expectations high. I ended up playing solitaire on my phone during some bits. It wasn’t even interesting enough to be awful sometimes, just 124 minutes of boring and stupid. I mean, an automated abortion of an alien fetus. Graphic and onscreen. Boring and stupid. That’s an achievement.
Jackson’s King Kong might be on that list as well, nowhere near as high (low?). Hated that movie.
I thought that movie was brilliant. Not sure if Academy level, but not at all surprised by the nominations. My lady friend who saw it with me hated it; maybe not a 10-hate, but at least 7. Super unimpressed and found it tedious. I’ve seen it a couple of times since streaming and thought it held up well. Go figure.
What a flat movie that was. No real tension, just some nice to watch CGI effects.
The Day After Tomorrow. Total waste of film.
I just thought of another movie I hated –
The Cat in the Hat with Mike Myers.
A movie so bad the Dr Seuss estate swore off doing anymore live action adaptions.
That’s another one. Man, there were some bad ones in the early Thousands.
Really? I didn’t buy a flat-screen TV (over keeping CRT) for five years based on how bad the monkey vs dinosaur scene in a showroom hurt my eyes. Unnatural animation and just awful awful to look at.
The biggest movie disappointments for me are the various Star Wars prequels and sequels. Episodes 1-3 are just plain bad movies. Badly made, badly directed, badly edited, badly acted. No excitement, bad guys who are hardly in the films, and for what? To tell a boring story that got the plot exactly where we know it was going. Same for Rogue One,everything in that film was predictable and boring to the last. I was literally fidgeting and forcing myself to stay in the cinema seat, it was one of the most boring films I’ve ever sat through. Then they follow it up with dross like Solo and episodes 7-9 which are some of the most turgid and messily plotted films ever made.
The next film I saw in the cinema after Rogue One was Alien Covenant, which somehow was even worse than Prometheus. Between the two of them and Covid I’ve not been back to the cinema and probably never will. Covenant was utterly stupid from start to finish, every single beat was fully predictable. And it made no sense either, David mucks about with black goo to become a creator? Well, he didn’t create the black goo so you’ve created NOTHING my friend.
That was the high point for me. But yeah, not a good movie.
I had a choice to see Covenant or Wonder Woman in the theaters and I chose the former. I chose poorly. Covenant is not a good movie and I can’t think of any reason why it needs to exist aside from someone wanting more money. All the crap with the black goo didn’t need to be added to the Alien franchise. Oddly enough I still haven’t seen Prometheus.
Heavenly Bodies
Two hours of aerobic dancing.
Even the sex scenes were boring.
(And I was a hormone-crazed teenager when I made that assessment.)
From Hell It Came
In the words of one reviewer: “And to Hell it can go!”
According to a possibly apocryphal anecdote, when a preview for one of the Aliens vs Predator movies played, the final line “Place your bets…” line elicited a comment from somebody in the audience: “I bet this movie will suck!”
Lots of good and bad nominations in this one, so let me throw out another one:
Knocked Up
Walked out on this one for the simple fact that I couldn’t stand every single important character in this movie. When she went into labor and Rogan launched into a profanity laced tirade at some health professional over the phone (I think this was supposed to be funny?), I just said “fuck these losers, the baby is doomed” and walked out. Hated those people, hated their movie.
I wonder how many hated movies come from a mismatch between expectations and reality. Like when you’re really hoping for a positive outcome and your dreams are dashed upon the craggy shores of bad cinema.
I had such high hopes for “The Original Kings of Comedy” (2000), a Spike Lee film featuring comedians Steve Harvey, D.L. Hughley, Cedric the Entertainer, and Bernie Mac, each performing stand-up.
Tagline: “We got jokes.”
Spoiler: They didn’t.
That was part of why I hated Alien III so much. A lot of it was that they killed off most of the survivors in the first few minutes, but part of it was that Aliens was so great that my expectations were high. If it had been edited down so that only the good parts were kept, it might have made a good short film or part of a longer film.