# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![mblackwell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5fc32e/32.png) [@mblackwell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mblackwell)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-do-you-actively-loath/36131/121 "2000-10-11T23:17:48Z")
Hmm, I have liked about 5 of the movies already mentioned. The movie that I think really, really sucked was Bicentennial Man. ---
**Author:** ![BlackKnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@BlackKnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackKnight)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-do-you-actively-loath/36131/122 "2000-10-11T23:23:16Z")
Add me to the list of those who disliked “Bicentennial Man”. Compared to the Asimov short story that inspired it, this movie is horrible. If I hadn’t already read the story, I probably would have considered the movie “eh” but not too bad. I highly recommend the short story to any interested parties. ---
**Author:** ![Malarky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Malarky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malarky)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-do-you-actively-loath/36131/123 "2000-10-11T23:51:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zoggie \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by RickJay \* > > \*\* > > It’s N’Sync. > > > > If N’Sync (or as Letterman calls them, N’Suck) and Britney appear in a movie version of “Grease” together, I swear to Christ I am going to lead the people in open rebellion, overthrow the world’s governments and establish the People’s Republic of Rickjay, where I will be empowered to order public executions on whatever whim I fancy. And you can be damned sure the people who produced “Grease” with Britney and N’Sync will be the first ones against the wall when that day comes. > > > > Unite behind me, Dopers! Accept Cecil as our God-King, and I will lead you to a land where there is no Christina Aguilera and the people who made “Showgirls” are made to work in the dilithium mines! \*\* > > Dude I would most likely be with you…to overthrow the oppressive bourgeois (and sexually atrocious) N Sync and Britney Spears takeover of GREASE. Sorry man, but that’s overstepping their boundaries…once they get into the film remake realm, it is our right- nay, our _duty_ to annihilate them. 🙂 \*\* Annihilate N\*Sync and Brittney? I’m in… throw the Backstreet Bitches in there and I’ll carry the torch!!! ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-do-you-actively-loath/36131/124 "2000-10-12T01:24:07Z")
Mars Attacks? The World According to Garp? For various reasons, I loved both of them. I do, however, have a new suggestion. This one is a killer, you will all agree with mee this time. It is the ONLY movie I ever walked out of, physically ill from all the crap acting I had witnessed over the first, say, 12 minutes. Later, I saw it on TV whilst extremely drunk. It still sucked beyond belief. I am, of course, talking about: **THE BODYGUARD** I’ll leave you alone now. I suppose you need to throw up as bad as I need to. ---
**Author:** ![Shaelar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Shaelar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shaelar)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-do-you-actively-loath/36131/125 "2000-10-12T02:29:41Z")
What Dreams May Come I hated that damned movie. I saw it once and refuse to ever watch it again. ---
**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-do-you-actively-loath/36131/126 "2000-10-12T02:33:27Z")
The Bodyguard was truly awful. Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston had ZERO chemistry. Both of them are wooden onscreen and while with the right partner, that can be covered up (sorta), together they were awful. The World According to Garp is a flawed movie, but I liked it. I doubt anyone not reading the book will like it, though. You have to fill in holes with what you know from the book. Kudos to the director for giving Robin Williams the Garp role–I think that was great casting. Haven’t seen Mars Attacks, but otherwise, I agree with you. The Blair Witch Project was inspired genuis, BTW. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-do-you-actively-loath/36131/127 "2000-10-12T03:18:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by vix \* > \*\*Since _Jack Frost_ has not been mentioned, I’ll assume no one else suffered through it. I’m talking about the one with Michael Keaton as the guy who dies and comes back as a talking snowman. This movie was playing on a Bonanza bus trip from Providence to New York, and I actually paid $2 to rent headphones to watch it. As if taking the bus weren’t bad enough. I think we should be paid to take the bus, not the other way around. But, uh, that’s a different topic… \*\* Ugh yeah I heard about it…how it sounded so creepy and all. Also- The Breakfast Club. (Okay i have a love hate relationship with this one.) Sometimes its just so obnoxiously bad, cliched characters, sort of dull…but other times I just get sucked into it and I’ll watch it whenever it comes on TV. Weird? I guess i’m sort of ambivelent towards it. Jumangi i’ve never liked. I know, they had to add a plot onto it, b/c the book was so short. But it was so nice as a book, a bit creepy, rather fun…the movie was so in your face. That girl main character was an annoying bitch. And when the boy turns into monkey-boy. And that frigid aunt-bitch. Oh. The nightmare before christmas. \ ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-do-you-actively-loath/36131/128 "2000-10-12T13:18:14Z")
> [@](#): > > Worst movie of all time? Maybe Mars Attacks! I’ve seen twenty minutes here and there flipping through the channels and can’t believe how bad it is. “Let’s make a movie with personality-free aliens who kill for no reason at all! They get what they want and kill anyway! And let’s make their victims the cretins!” Can you say “parody”? Look at the “classic” monster films from the 50s. They usually had “personality-free aliens who kill for no reason at all”. This was not one of Burton’s best films. I thought it started out great and then lost steam at the end. But “worst movie of all time”? I think you just didn’t gt the joke. > [@](#): > > The Blair Witch Project was plain awful. Not just awful in comparision to hype, but just plain suckulent. How do you get lost in the wildnerness of, oh where was it, oh yeah Maryland for days at a time? Yeah, how can they get lost? Why can’t they just follow the stream? It’s almost as if something _supernatural_ was going on! As if someone or some_thing_ was thwarting their efforts to get out of the woods. As a narrative story, _The Blair Witch Project_ didn’t really work. It relied on the audience thinking that what they were seeing was _real_. Since most people knew it never happened, that kind of blew the entire premise. Still, I thought the concept and technique were refreshing. For me, for a movie to be truly aweful it has to have pretentions of being a _great_ film. Like _Magnolia_ and _The English Patient_. _Magnolia_ was utterly predictable and I was offended when the director revealed his “twists” as if they were golden nuggets. FLASH! If the audience knows what’s coming, they’re not “twists”! As for _The English Patient_, yeah, yeah, we know. _Die_ already! I also hated _The Cheap Detective_. ---
**Author:** ![Sealemon88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Sealemon88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sealemon88)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-do-you-actively-loath/36131/129 "2000-10-12T15:06:36Z")
I trust these choices require no explanation: **Highlander 2: The Quickening Grease 2 The Ninth Gate** (Although this one at least has some MST3K potential) **Event Horizon The Thin Red line** ---
**Author:** ![Malarky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Malarky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malarky)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-do-you-actively-loath/36131/130 "2000-10-12T16:42:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by don Jaime \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by xizor \* > > **What are you kidding? Seeing Alicia Silverstone and Uma Thurman in slinkly costumes (Alicia in black leather, rrrarrrrr) was alone worth admission.** > > I saw Uma’s breasts nekkid in _Mad Dog and Glory_, and even they couldn’t keep me awake. I was _fourteen years old_ and unimpressed. Horrible waste of DeNiro, Thurman, and Bill Murray. If my ride had been there I’d have walked. > > _Batman_ stunk from the word “go.” Tim “Wait A Minute While I Build Up Enough Flatulence To Fart In Your Face” Burton should have called it _Joker_. _Dull, Brain-Dead, Washed-Up Has-Been Joker_, to be precise. This drek had all the subtlety of a swat upside the head with a 2x4. Random killing, random killing, huge Carrot Top-style prop, overhead shot of the only street in Gotham, Batman is confused and wussy, random killing, random killing…how Schumaker is considered its destroyer baffles me. It was wretched to begin with. Even the Adam West Bat wan’t _this_ clueless. > > Worst movie of all time? Maybe _Mars Attacks!_ I’ve seen twenty minutes here and there flipping through the channels and can’t believe how bad it is. “Let’s make a movie with personality-free aliens who kill for no reason at all! They get what they want and kill anyway! And let’s make their victims the cretins!” No bigger cretin than the one what made it, Timbo. Who keeps giving Burton money? Each of his movies is unthinkably awful. \*\* Except for Edward Scissorhands… ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-do-you-actively-loath/36131/131 "2000-10-12T18:57:42Z")
Oh someone else here said it too…Dracula. (Yep, the Keanu Reeves one, with Winona Ryder, and Gary Oldman.) My English teacher showed it to us because she needed to grade some papers that day, and we had just finished reading it. It was one of those movies that’s so bad its funny. That scene with the “vampire-whores” seducing Jonathan…cheesey as hell. And Lucy Westenra getting screwed by the werewolf: tres bizarre. And Gary Oldman as Dracula? Umm. That was wrong. Very much so. ---
**Author:** ![Chum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3ab097/32.png) [@Chum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chum)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2000, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-do-you-actively-loath/36131/132 "2000-10-13T00:00:10Z")
How anyone could fall in love with someone so selfish, so spoiled, and so mercurial is beyond me. It makes the whole movie painful for me to watch. _SHUDDER_ I couldn’t agree more. I feel almost unAmerican for despising this movie, but I do nonetheless. I hate it for precisely the same reason as you. Scarlett is absolutely wicked, and I feel I have become _stupider_ for having watched her prance around and wail. The only movie I’ve ever walked out of is “Bram Stoker’s Dracula.” Where do I begin. Keanu? Winona? Gary Oldman? No, I can’t, remembering this movie will have me laughing so hard I’ll probably wet myself. Good God, that movie was indeed horrendous. I remember seeing bits and pieces of it a few years back, and I thought it looked really scary (I admit to being freaked out by the way his shadow lingers around). I read the book, which was EXCELLENT, so I decided to watch the movie. Pure drivel it was! What a terrible interpretation of a wonderful book! I watched it with a friend who hadn’t read the book, so we simply fast forwarded through the last hour or so. Disgusting. ---
**Author:** ![Phobos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Phobos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phobos)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2000, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-do-you-actively-loath/36131/133 "2000-10-13T13:04:42Z")
Man. I can list a hundred bad movies, but I can’t think of one that I actively loathe the same way that Vyvyan from the Young Ones loathes “The Good Life” with Felicity Kendall. I suddenly miss my adolescent view of the world. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2000, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-do-you-actively-loath/36131/134 "2000-10-13T14:54:37Z")
For a movie that’s not only dreck but also offensive as well, you can’t do much worse than Nickleodeon’s **Snow Day.** It’s a horrifyingly bad ripoff - AND they show off a 14-year-old’s nipples! Boy, that’s family entertainment! I’m amazed nobody has yet mentioned **Spice World.** ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2000, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-do-you-actively-loath/36131/135 "2000-10-13T19:49:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RickJay \* > \*\*For a movie that’s not only dreck but also offensive as well, you can’t do much worse than Nickleodeon’s **Snow Day.** It’s a horrifyingly bad ripoff - AND they show off a 14-year-old’s nipples! Boy, that’s family entertainment! > > I’m amazed nobody has yet mentioned **Spice World.** > > \*\* Oh? how’s it offensive, i just thought of it as kind of crumby but not offensive…its one of those Nick ones. Oh- that other Nick Movie, Harriet the Spy. I never liked that one… ---
**Author:** ![ElwoodCuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2000, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-do-you-actively-loath/36131/136 "2000-10-13T20:26:11Z")
Blues Brothers 2000 does not deserve to exist. ---
**Author:** ![JustAnotherGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/278dde/32.png) [@JustAnotherGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustAnotherGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2000, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-do-you-actively-loath/36131/137 "2000-10-13T20:46:40Z")
My father once brought home a rental (back in the old days, before Blockbuster) titled something like “Alaska” It was a monotonous documentary about these men and their trip to Alaska, which they basically did nothing but huddle in an igloo. He lost rental priveledges for six months. Yes, children can do that to their father. We never even watched the whole movie, just kept fast forwarding for the ‘good part’ that never came. But we will always remember that movie. Otherwise, most sequels suck. Grease 2, Meatballs, Police Academies. I’m hard-pressed for an absolute worst. Not having read all the posts, but I once had a thing for Kristie McNichols… kind of sick huh? So I liked the Pirates movie. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2000, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-do-you-actively-loath/36131/138 "2000-10-13T23:55:22Z")
In French class we had to watch these movies…we all hated them righteously. The first was called Chocolat, it was about a French girl living in Africa. End of story. There was an African servant too…stuff happened…but slowly and in an excruciatingly boring way. Another one, I forget the name, was about these kids living in the West Indies. \ I’m guessing the French aren’t known for the films? ---
**Author:** ![Lazlo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lazlo/32/9678_2.png) [@Lazlo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lazlo)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2000, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-do-you-actively-loath/36131/139 "2000-10-13T23:57:24Z")
Someone else mentioned _ **Episode 1** _. I agree. That has to be the worst film I’ve seen in a couple of years. If it wasn’t for Natilie Portman, I would’ve walked out. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Teeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Dr.Teeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Teeth)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2000, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-do-you-actively-loath/36131/140 "2000-10-14T22:32:26Z")
Answer me this, then: why is it that no one has mentioned Eddie Murphy’s “The Nutty Professor”? It is the quintessential definition of puerile offal. I suppose, to answer my own question, that it’s really too self-evident to need mentioning. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-do-you-actively-loath/36131.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-do-you-actively-loath/36131.md?page=8)