I hate any movie with Martin Lawrence in it’s cast, whether he is starring or supporting.
Big Momma’s House
Bad Boys and BB2
Black Knight
etc, etc, etc, etc, etc,
Why does Hollywood let that guy make movie, he is just plain awful.
I also concur with Batman and Robin as one of the Worst Movies.
The premise was bad, casting bad, Arnold as Mr. Freeze, Alicia Silverstone as Batgirl who she is Alfred’s niece, no the Batgirl I know is Commissioner Gordon’s daughter. And they put the rift between Batman and Robin way too soon, who is Robin now suddenly Nightwing? The only thing that was anything good was Poison Ivy. And why have Bane in it anyway, 2 villians is enough, 3 is just overkill.
That’s just the beginning of the movie, though. Later in the film we see Masterson behaving in a more disturbing manner, and there’s an important scene in which she suffers a terrified and terrifying fit while riding a bus with her boyfriend. She is taken to a mental hospital, and, doubting her own ability to get by in the outside world, she refuses to go with her brother when he comes to take her home. She eventually decides to leave the hospital and move in with her boyfriend, but while the film ends on a postive note there’s no suggestion that she’s been miraculously cured or that her new life will be easy.
Kate Winslet and Emma Thompson were in Sense and Sensibility, not Pride and Prejudice.
I’m fairly certain that there hasn’t been a theatrical movie of P&P since the 1940 version starring Greer Garson. There have been several television productions, though, of which the BBC’s 1995 version with Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth is the most recent and well-known.
Someone’s post reminded me: I Loathe, Hate AND Despise Ron Howard’s despicable rendition of How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Horrid. Lovely book, totally obliterated in his version. Yucky, horrid, horrible, truly VILE.
some interesting stuff in this thread whether I agree with it (another thumbs down for Best Friend’s Wedding) or not (don’t quite know why previous poster disliked Two Towers; not as good as FOTR, but not sure why they thought it loathe-able).
Dusting off all previous rants I’ve made on this topic… Face/Off. Not a movie with a plot hole – it’s a plot hole with thin threads of movie across it. Set pieces in search of a story. Annoying people doing stupid things because they look good (or, John Woo thinks they look good) on screen.
First Knight OK, there is no definitive version of the Arthurian legend, but you gotta draw the line somewhere. And Arthur being executed by a firing squad is about 80 miles over that line.
Runaway Bride Manipulative, calculating, cold. That it’s categorized as “romantic comedy” is an insult to anyone who’s ever laughed or been in love. And full of product placement, to boot.
Tank Girl. I went to see this coagulated bit of goat-cum at a dollar night at the local theater. And walked out, demanding my money back. In fact, it was so bad, I left during the gratuitous nude scene, which is 100% unlike me.
As a matter of principle, I try to avoid ANYTHING with Nicolas Cage in it. However, even that did not prepare me for It Could Happen to You. Um…no, it couldn’t.
I’ve noticed some Jim Carrey backlash here, but I’m surprised that no one’s mentioned The Mask. Another $1 night, another refund. But I stayed for the whole thing that time. Mostly because of Cameron Diaz.
I dutifully read through what has been posted, and was shocked that no one has mentionned the movie that they show on flights to hell: Philapdelphia. Of course if strong headwinds on the flight are encountered, they also show The Color Purple.
They make me gag, they make me wanted to poke out the directors/producers eyes… they are so f***ing condescending… hell, I would prefer sitting through an overtly homophobic rant than these two turkeys
Forrest Gump. The most cheaply sentimental piece of garbage ever created. Taking a guy and surrounding him by historical events and people does not make a good movie. I hate this movie more and more every time it is on. How on earth anyone ever thought it was so heart warming and original I will never understand.
Count me as one more person who disliked Happiness.
I understand that Hollywood studios want to make money. And, formulaic films that usually make money are not always successful. A confused plot, stilted dialogue, sketchy characters, too much action, too much bad action, pretentious romance etc can all ruin a film.
But, there is a whole glut of indie films (the exalted independent label) that are really badly made. Conceptually, they are merely reactionary. “What’s taboo for Hollywood is OK for us”. Which translates into sex (incest and “perversions” obviously), depression and pills/drugs. A perfect recipe for bad coming-of-age films or poor commentaries on urban/sub-urban culture.
…and Happiness is right at there at the top of such crap.
I agree with a lot of the movies posted here, but others I really like. Let me toss a few more into the fray:
I don’t think anyone’s mentioned On Deadly Ground yet. This is by far the worst movie I have ever seen, and this is coming from someone that generally gets a kick out of bad movies. I never miss an opportunity to slam this bit of trash.
Deep Blue Sea. Oh. My. God. My ex-girlfriend’s dad made me sit through this one, and he kept getting pissed off with me because I couldn’t stop laughing at the movie.
Slight hijack… Does anyone else try to watch their most hated movies at least once every few years, just to remind yourself how much you hate it?
Ohhhh, you brought it all back, all of the repressed memories, the ones I’d thought I’d buried, along with $7.50. Tim Robbin’s death scene was the worst. The cross-cut back and forth–between her shrieking and Tim’s dead, frozen noggin (in tight close-up) was laughable. I’m sure we’re supposed to feel pathos, but all I could think of was how his dead head looked like a dog turd found while mowing the lawn.
…and then that incredibly unbelievable new-agey ending where those friendly, good aliens who’d killed a truckload of people who were trying to get to them, decided to take one of the astronauts to their playground, as if that made up for everything. Gah.
The Rapture also disgusted me. I found the moral point of view very troubling. The Mimi Rogers character was a much better person before she found religion - at least she didn’t murder her children then.
In An Officer and a Gentleman, I did not understand how doing a bunch of push-ups and carrying off Debra Winger in the end was supposed to redeem the Richard Gere character. He still deserved to have his face punched in.
Terms of Endearment is one of the worst pieces of manipulative tripe I’ve ever seen.
So many seemed to have forgotten that this wasn’t about bad movies, but movies you actively hate – for whatever reason. Bad movies happen, they are a fact of life, and can be fun in spite of everything. To that end, I offer movies I despise (and have paid good money to see) which have nothing to do with they’re relative merit as a movie:
Saturday Night Fever (actually somebody else paid for me to see this and I still felt cheated)
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band ($1, I was still cheated, and fell asleep somewhere in the middle of it, woke up, tried to watch it on cable once – same effect)
Blair Witch Project (Scary as dinner at Denny’s, and almost as interesting)
Grease (which my sister-in-law and children love, but which I can’t stand to sit through)
Not a movie, but a great indicator that I will hate a movie: Julia Roberts
Titanic. I saw it in college, and wanted to puke all over the place. and funny thing is, my pals considered it the right thing to say that they cried in teh movie- Guys cried in the end!!
Lost in Space in another contender, though thankfully, I saw it on cable.
Forrest Gump and Any Given Sunday are the two sets of two and a half hours I want back. At least Lost In Space was bad enough to be almost funny at times.
Gump was so dull I had to take regular breaks to avoid falling asleep (so maybe that should be 4 hours I want back). If it hadn’t been a rental copy, it’d have gone straight in the garbage compacter after I finished watching it.
Sunday just had no redeeming features whatsoever. Ok, so it probably doesn’t help that I don’t like American football, but I don’t like baseball either and even the Major League series were enjoyable enough. The characters were boring and one-dimensional, the acting was totally unmemorable, and the premise was hackneyed. After this and the disappointing Natural Born Killers, I’ve really been put off Oliver Stone as a director. I’m just glad I didn’t pay to see this dreck.