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
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.
Sign me the fuck up. I want to be on the blacklist of anyone who hates The Big Lebowski.
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Blacklisted!
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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.
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.
I couldn’t agree more. This is the only film I have walked out on.
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!
No it doesn’t.
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.
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!
Pearl Harbor.
Sappy, predictable ‘love’ story, with a war as a back drop.
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.
Moving this to a forum that didn’t exist when this thread was created-Cafe Society.
Wow! I just looked at the 10-8 section of the OP and didn’t see it’s three years old!
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?
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.