What movie do you actively loath?

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Here’s a few…

Crossworlds - yes, it’s a DTV starring Rutger Hauer, I didn’t expect it to be GOOD - but it was so insanely stupid and boring that I turned it off before I finished it (though I did get to the final fight). I NEVER let a movie go unfinished if there is nothing else to do, especially if I rented it.

Armageddon - so stupid on so many levels.

Bless the Child - OK, I was able to break down and start laughing at it about halfway through, but I feel like a tiny part of my soul died when I did - it just seems WRONG to enjoy a movie so bad, even if it is just laughing at it’s stupidity.

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Oh, I forgot another one. ‘Here on Earth’ - Rich kid gets in a race with poor kid, they destroy poor kid’s cute girlfriend’s families restaurant. Rich kid and poor kid are forced by courts to rebuild restaurant. Rich kid has to live with cute girl’s family because there are no hotels or apartments available anywhere near. Cute girl falls in love with rich kid. Cute girl gets incurable knee cancer…I would go further but I just made myself sick thinking about it.

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What? Saving our asses is stupid?

Armageddon is great fun! It also portrays a nice utopia, the human race acting as one soul, our collective destiny inextricably intertwined. It is really odd than only in the tenser, potentially disastrous scenarios when humanity sticks together and clearly demonstrates why our species is one worth preserving.

Back on subject, I have to admit that the movie had many scientific blunders regarding the detection of the asteroid, its destruction, its “environment”, among others (we could even start a thread for the sole purpose of discussing them). This shouldn’t detract from your enjoyment of the movie. In cases like this suspension of disbelief will do wonders for ya. It does for me! :

If I had to mention a particular aspect that really “bothered” me, it would have to be the incredible “coincidence” that both American and Russian space faring vessels were sufficiently standardized to allow for a flawless coupling between the modified shuttle (X71, I believe) and the Mir space station.

Anyhow, Armageddon reigns supreme in my prestigious list of all time great movies. I will probably rank it fourth in my Pantheon of Greatest Cinematic Gems, falling behind The Matrix, Star Wars and Field of Dreams.

Yeah, I admit it. My taste in movies is pretty simple and unspectacular :rolleyes:

And if you have still any further doubts about that, just check this out. It will probably give you ideas for movies deserving to be posted here.

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I don’t know if it’s the worst film I ever saw, but it’s the worst one I saw today: Mission to Mars.

What a piece of crap. The plot has more holes in it than a hat full of assholes.

SPOILERS COMING UP RIGHT NOW!

We have a race, so technologically advanced that they can actually migrate to the stars, seed life on another planet, build something that lasts for over a BILLION years (they seeded single-cullular organisms, we evolved from that), but they can’t stop some shitty meteor from hitting their planet? Puh-leaze.

Oh, and this benevolent, permanently smiling race made a puzzle for you to solve. If you get it wrong, THEY’LL KILL YOU!

A contrail in space? (Last scene.) What’s the ship running on? Premium unleaded?

Air escapes into hard vacuum, and there are no ice crystals formed? We saw the Dr. Pepper escape.

Jerry O’Connel as an astronaut? Let’s see. A Ph.D. in some technical area, professional pilot, train for astronaut, amass enough flight/space hours… His dad must have started training him while he was still in his scrotum.

And since we’re discussing him: he hurts his hand (the palm), and the blood squirts out? This guy must be under a lot of pressure.

Oh, and Ennio Morricone (didn’t know the guy was still alive) made the music. Yep. If I had closed my eyes, I could have sworn I was watching some montage footage of Once upon a time in the West and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

Still, Connie Nielsen and Kim Delaney looked great, didn’t they?

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That must be single-cellular of course. Bit ticked off right now. Sorry. :wink:

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i was going to say Ninth Gate but then i remembered that dispicable move Scary Movie and that wins the prize in my book.

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Heart Like a Wheel, any version of Home Alone and its spin-offs, any movie that features highschool students, and any movie shown on Comedy Central.

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ricksummon wrote:

I can just hear the dialog now:

“Gadzooks! I rolled a 3 and missed him!”

“I’m sorry, but I can’t understand your language. I only speak Common, Druidic, and Lawful-Neutral.”

“Only half a pound of gold coins for a lantern? What a bargain!”

“Good thing this 90 pound suit of armor makes me such a difficult target to hit.”

“We must kill all the kobold children! They aren’t worth any experience points alive.”

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Oh, and I forgot:

“Drat. I’ll have to wait another minute before I can swing my sword at him again.”

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I hate any stage performance of a play on film.
Although Richard Burton’s Hamlet is often seen on TV, along with other stage plays, like Dustin Hoffman’s Death of a Salesman, it never ceases to amaze me that people watch them, except to see a celebrity. Certainly it is the worst possible way to see any play.

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Maybe other plays, but I’ve gotta wholeheartedly disagree about this version of Death of a Salesman.

This was, IMO, one of the best things aired on TV in the last twenty years. It wasn’t to see a celebrity, but to see an outstanding cast from top to bottom, excellent performances, and fabulous writing. The fact that this was taped on a stage not only didn’t detract from the performance but maybe even magnified the experience. This production underscored (at least for me) the huge gap between what TV could be and what it usually is.

Being that most people can’t get to a stage theater and see a once-in-a-lifetime production of Dustin Hoffmann, John Malkovich, Charles Durning and the rest, this is probably a great way to see a stage play.

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IMHO there are a lot more bad movies than good movies, so the list of very loathsome movies could be very long.

“Weekend at Bernie’s” has to be on my list. I think because one of the people I was watching it with thought it was so incredibly funny and I was just sighing and rolling my eyes, waiting for it to be over. Have to put the “Home Alone” movies and just about all Mel Brooks films in the same category - that type of humor just doesn’t do it for me, and the fact that most people I know seem to like these movies makes me dislike them even more. (maybe I’m mad that I don’t get it?)

Technically speaking, “Event Horizon” has to be close to the top of the list. A bunch of incoherent gibberish.

Getting tired of all the Bond movies too. Give it a rest for a while.

I thought “Brazil” was hilarious.

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That was kinda the point. They even said in the movie that the woods aren’t big enough to get lost in, but they did anyway, despite walking in a single direction and following the stream for hours at a time. Like Time and space was all screwed up and they couldn’t leave no matter what they tried.

I knew it was fake but felt it was a lot better then most modern horror movies.

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Another vote for Gone With the Wind - for glamorising racism

And hasn’t anyone mentioned Love Story? (pass the sickbag)
But how come the Blair Witch Project gets so many votes? I loved it and was genuinely scared, but perhaps I’ve led a sheltered life

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Ha, Ha, Ha… funny thread! The wife and I turned off Nun’s on the Run after 10 minutes. Most of our friends loved it. We liked Zoolander, they hated it. Most recently: Once Upon a Time in Mexico. Johnny Depp gets his eyeballs drilled out. The blood looks like candle wax and he isn’t in any pain. The movie was sooo bad I forced myself to watch it to see if it could get any worse. It did.

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Scary Movie.

Vile, disGUSTING, putrid waste of film. It was so bad, I made the video store refund my money. The counter person had recommended it and said it was clean and funny.

It was neither, instead it was as if written by horny be-pimpled nasty 13 year old boys, using up all the most disgusting dirty jokes they could come up with.

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Almost forgot.

“As Good As it Gets”. HORRIBLE movie, awful weird people. These are people you’d RUN from in real life. I spend 40 minutes waiting for it to get better (before I realized that the title MEANT it). Then I walked out.

I couldn’t figure out why everyone loved it so much. When they asked at which point I walked out, and I told them, they’d say “ooooh, but that’s where it gets REALLY GOOOD”.

Wait…you mean to tell me, that out of an hour and a half minute movie, that if the first 40 minutes suck and the last 80 (that’s an hour and a half right??:D), that that consitutes a “good” movie?

Sorry, I expect “good” movies to be good all the way through.

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Dungeons and Dragons. To think that JRRT could have contributed to the creation of this in any way is too painful to contemplate. But that would be like holding Alexander Graham Bell responsible for telemarketers.
Andy Warhol’s “Bad”. He got that one in one.
Nurse Betty. Get away from her you bitch!
Rocky & Bullwinkle. Ruined my memories of the Kurwood Derby, it did.
If you don’t stop it you’ll go blind. Too puerile for words.
Anyone else remember that one?

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My top three most hated movies:

Scarface - the very first movie I walked out of. I didn’t make it past the chainsaw scene. Bleah.
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls - seen so long ago it’s hard to remember exactly why I detested it, but I still feel vaguely ill trying to.
Starship Troopers* - vile, repulsive, idiotic crap.

Oh and RickJay, American Beauty didn’t knock any of the top three off my list, but I hated it for all the reasons you mentioned.

*Billy Jack used to be #3, but after seeing it again last year I changed my mind. In fact, I recommend it. It’s a laugh riot all the way through and would be the best MST3K ever. Fortunately Starship Troopers rushed in to fill the void.

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But the BBC Pride & Prejudice was significantly better than the Kate Winslet/Emma Thompson version (IMHO)…>>>Cranky

Just a minor correction- in all fairness Emma Thompson/Kate Winselt did Sense & Sensibility , not Pride & Prejudice- I do agree that the BBC P & P is very good, second in Jane Austen films only to the BBC production of Persuasion, but I’m prejudiced because I prefer both of those books to S & S (which I like as well, just not as much).

I can’t believe there have been several mentions of Sean Connery in bad movies and no mention of First Knight. Horrible horrible horrible and not just because Richard Gere was in it.

and for love of God…

For Love of the Game - I think thats what it was called- the really really long baseball flick that cemented my loathing of Kevin Costner.