# What movie do you actively loath? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 8, 2000, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-do-you-actively-loath/36131 "2000-10-08T06:49:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2003, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-do-you-actively-loath/36131/201 "2003-10-26T04:41:26Z")
**The Legend of Bagger Vance**. Oh. My. God. Bad accents, horribly beneath himself acting from Mr. Smith and the boring-est and most clichéd story-line I’ve ever encountered in my life. This is the only movie that I could predict _every_ line at least 20 minutes before it was said. Nothing redeemable here. If I NEVER see another movie with Charlize, no matter how gorgeous she is, it’ll be too freakin’ soon ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2003, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-do-you-actively-loath/36131/202 "2003-10-26T04:48:19Z")
Hmm, interesting thread, although in some cases the choices seem to say much more about people’s being annoyed by having to think a little bit about what they are seeing rather than something inherently bad in the movies themselves. The first _Batman? Brazil? Magnolia? Scarface? Starship Troopers? The Big Lebowski_, fer cryin’ out loud? Loved 'em all, to one degree or another. So sue me. Hey, my sister says she thinks _Citizen Kane_ was one of the worst films she’d ever seen, so there you go. OTOH, all you folks who are hammering Joel Schumacher, Michael Bay and Kevin Costner, I’m witcha there. Shite-meisters beyond compare, all of them. And if I may, I’d like to throw Tony Scott (\*Top Gun, Days of Thunder, The Last Boy Scout, Beverly Hills Cop II \*and too many others to name) on the bonfire with 'em. ---
**Author:** ![Gadfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/aeb1de/32.png) [@Gadfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadfly)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2003, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-do-you-actively-loath/36131/203 "2003-10-26T05:00:23Z")
> [@](#): > > The Big Lebowski > > Huge steaming pile of fetid dingoes kidneys! > > But one that has garnered an undeserved cult following. I can’t for the life of me figure out why they enjoy this alarmingly pointless nonsense. It is shite of the highest degree, and anyone who says different immediately goes on my permanent blacklist. Okay? Sign me the fuck up. I want to be on the blacklist of anyone who hates The Big Lebowski. ---
**Author:** ![Drastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Drastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drastic)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2003, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-do-you-actively-loath/36131/204 "2003-10-26T05:21:34Z")
[Strongbad] Blacklisted! [/Strongbad] Or, I’ll happily join that line queuing up to sign up for it. One I haven’t seen mentioned: **Jeepers Creepers**. Primarily because it had a twofold impact on me: the first punch was a friend convincing me to go see it with him, and instead of an enjoyably bad movie, seeing ismply an execrable one. The second punch came months later, when I found out about Victor Salva’s history, at which I still feel irritated about contributing even a single ticket sale to his credit. ---
**Author:** ![Blackdragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@Blackdragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackdragon)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2003, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-do-you-actively-loath/36131/205 "2003-10-26T05:24:43Z")
If I died and went to Hell, I think Satan would be running a marathon of Ghost Dog, Swimfan, A Man Apart, and Ghost Ship. I could go on, but I’m afraid of offending too many people. And, I do not think of myself as a movie snob. But, any flick that makes me think the $2.99 rental would be better spent on any form of torture, is just a very bad movie. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2003, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-do-you-actively-loath/36131/206 "2003-10-26T06:26:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lazlo \* > \*\*What I think is the absolutely worst film of all times is _ **Natural Born Killers** _. I didn’t drive to it so I couldn’t even walk out. Aaaaaaarrrrrrgggh. I wish Oliver Stone would’ve been killed after making Platoon so that we could’ve been spared this crap. Dammit, now I’m pissed thinking off thinking about it. \*\* I couldn’t agree more. This is the only film I have walked out on. ---
**Author:** ![Jervoise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d2c977/32.png) [@Jervoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jervoise)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2003, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-do-you-actively-loath/36131/207 "2003-10-26T06:59:03Z")
The people you guys are quoting may not reply, as they are no longer following this thread. Why? Because this thread is freakin’ three years old! ---
**Author:** ![DreadCthulhu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/db5fbb/32.png) [@DreadCthulhu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DreadCthulhu)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2003, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-do-you-actively-loath/36131/208 "2003-10-26T10:54:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Togepi no Miko \* > \*\*Event Horizon makes more sense if you are into Lovecraft. \*\* No it doesn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2003, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-do-you-actively-loath/36131/209 "2003-10-26T12:22:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by CrankyAsAnOldMan \* > \*\*The BBC has done an excellent series of adaptations of Jane Austen’s works. But I’ve liked some much better than others. One example: I liked the more recent Mansfield Park, which takes a few liberties, much better than the BBC version. I thought the casting of Fanny was simply off in the BBC version. I just couldn’t stay interested in her fate. In the recent big-budget version? Loved that Fanny. \*\* While I’m not a big fan of the BBC _Mansfield Park_, I don’t like the recent film version. I don’t mind changes to a story if it’s in keeping with the spirit of the original novel, but I thought the actions of meek little book-verion Fanny required for the plot did not mesh well with the more modern and “wild” characterization of her presented in the film, and made her very uneven as a character. I also did not like Fanny’s treatment of Henry Crawford–accepting him one day, and rejecting him the next. It put all my sympathy on his side. But that’s not the movie I loathe. The film I first thought of when I opened this thread was _Bridget Jones’ Diary_. When this movie came out, 4 of my closest friends who know of my love for Jane Austen came up to me (at different times, not all in a bunch) and said things like, “Oh, you _have_ to see this movie! You’ll just love it! It’s a modern version of _Pride and Prejudice_. It’s even got Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy!” Well, that does sound like something I’d enjoy. _Pride and Prejudice_ is my favorite novel, and I’d be interested in seeing a modern version. I liked _Clueless_. I like Colin Firth. I hated this. Yes, it is P&P, if Elizabeth Bennett were a whiny, insecure 30-something who rejoices that her life has meaning now that she has a boyfriend. Yech. I so seriously disliked her that by the end I was really hoping that the poor modern-day Darcy wouldn’t wind up with her. ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2003, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-do-you-actively-loath/36131/210 "2003-10-26T13:31:29Z")
**West Side Story** : The only musical I hate more than this movie is **Grease** , but that movie has been mentioned before. I don’t see why people love this movie. That it’s like _Romeo and Juliet_? Then go see or watch _Romeo and Juliet_! ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2003, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-do-you-actively-loath/36131/211 "2003-10-26T14:53:02Z")
Pearl Harbor. Sappy, predictable ‘love’ story, with a war as a back drop. ---
**Author:** ![howie1423](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/aca169/32.png) [@howie1423](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/howie1423)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2003, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-do-you-actively-loath/36131/212 "2003-10-26T15:08:24Z")
by far the worst series of movies ever was the mighty ducks series. It’s boring, generic, uncreative, and every time i so much as here about it i start to yell and curse about it. God damn it those movies pissed me off, they make ashamed to play hockey just because then i am somehow assiociated to that movie. I’ve played at the arena where they filmed it…damnit i hate that rink. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2003, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-do-you-actively-loath/36131/213 "2003-10-26T15:26:28Z")
Moving this to a forum that didn’t exist when this thread was created-Cafe Society. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2003, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-do-you-actively-loath/36131/214 "2003-10-26T15:29:57Z")
Wow! I just looked at the 10-8 section of the OP and didn’t see it’s three years old! ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2003, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-do-you-actively-loath/36131/215 "2003-10-26T19:17:07Z")
I hardly ever walk out of movies, but I walked out of the 1978 Jill Clayburgh “classic” _An Unmarried Woman_. A self-absorbed middle-aged woman’s rich husband leaves her, so she leaves her huge Manhattan apartment and goes out and gets herself an even BETTER husband…independently wealthy SoHo arteeste Alan Bates, with an even COOLER Manhattan apartment! Couldn’t stand the character, couldn’t stand the bullshit, stood up and left when Jill and her little daughter sat down at the grand piano and belted out “Maybe I’m Amazed” together. …did I post this three years ago? ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2003, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-do-you-actively-loath/36131/216 "2003-10-26T20:19:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ben \* > **I’m surprised that no one has mentioned “Thelma and Louise” or “Good Will Hunting.” Not that I have a strong animus against either, but they are strong, strong candidates for the “everyone loved it but me” syndrome.** I did like _Thelma & Louise_, but _Good Will Hunting_…ugh. I saw it at the dollar theater, and there was a group of people sitting behind me who all worked together and were seeing the movie because their boss, Bill (who was not present), had been raving about it. As the credits began to roll, I heard a voice behind me say “Well, that sucked.” And then another, with heavy sarcasm, “Thanks a _lot_, Bill.” Pretty much sums it up for me too, except that I don’t have Bill to blame. I’ll also take this opportunity to mention my vast hatred of _Grease_. It was reissued when I was in middle school, and for some reason was insanely popular with my classmates. I had to sit through the whole thing because it was the movie people voted to have shown at our middle school graduation party. What an obnoxious, sexist, poorly produced, worthless piece of garbage. Oh, and _The Rocky Horror Picture Show_ is _meant_ to be bad. That’s the whole point. ---
**Author:** ![Ruiniform](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9de053/32.png) [@Ruiniform](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruiniform)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2003, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-do-you-actively-loath/36131/217 "2003-10-26T20:52:45Z")
In recent days, **Johnny English** is the worst piece of crap I have ever seen. It is uncreative, unfunny, and really just a trainwreck. It’s insanely boring (I was really hoping John Malkovich’s character would just become the friggin’ King of England so the movie would actually _go_ somewhere) and needlessly digusting-- we get treated to, among other things, Rown Atkinson being completely drenched in human feces and an octogenarian’s gratuitously bare rear end). Yick. Also, I remember being bored out of my mind by **What Dreams May Come**. I don’t even remember anything about it, except that it was mind-numbingly static. You’d think Heaven and Hell would be interesting. ---
**Author:** ![skeptic\_ev](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@skeptic\_ev](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skeptic_ev)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2003, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-do-you-actively-loath/36131/218 "2003-10-26T20:59:25Z")
It’s interesting to think about why we like/dislike certain movies. I noticed, for instance, that many people who didn’t like _The Blair Witch Project_ felt it didn’t live up to the hype. I really didn’t experience much of the hype–purposely–and it scared the pee out of me. I had to sleep with the lights on the night I watched it. Overhypeness dooms a flick, IMO. Anyone have any movies you don’t really like but are drawn to anyway? _Nothing but Trouble_, which someone mentioned in this post’s first incarnation, is like that for me. It’s a train wreck. I want to turn away, but I can’t. This shames me. My vote for bad movie: The 3D _Nightmare on Elm Street_ movie. I saw it because it was 3D. Blech. I should’ve gone to the Englewood (a theatre in KC that shows old movies) and seen _Creature from the Black Lagoon_ again. ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2003, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-do-you-actively-loath/36131/219 "2003-10-26T21:49:24Z")
**Moulin Rouge!** makes me angry. What a crappy, crappy movie. The visuals are nauseating. The story is cloying and unoriginal. The music was awful. And yet, everyone loves this movie. Why? For the love of God, WHY? ---
**Author:** ![toque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9e8a1a/32.png) [@toque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toque)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2003, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-do-you-actively-loath/36131/220 "2003-10-27T00:07:30Z")
Has no one seen **Swing Kids**? Oh my fucking Christ, what an awful, offensive film. But I liked The Big Lebowski, Blue Velvet, Ghost Dog, Mars Attacks, and Something About Mary, so what do I know. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-do-you-actively-loath/36131.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-do-you-actively-loath/36131.md?page=12)