Jesus…this thread has brought up some many bad memories…I may need to go back to my shrink.
My el stinko list:
Armageddon–This movie has more holes in it than Amadou Diallo
Battlefield Earth–See Armageddon
Meet Joe Black–Movie Director: “Brad, for this role, we would like you to play the wooden, can’t really show emotion type character”. Brad Pitt’s Acting Coach: “you mean like every role he’s ever played on film?”
Batman and Robin–I love it when studios spend $7 billion on the cast then use a script that wouldn’t fetch you a buck fifty on the literary market.
Speed 2–Cha-ching.
Very Bad Things–2 hours of nails across a chalkboard…that’s my best description of this disaster
Toys–Kidneystones? Toys? Hmmmmm…that’s a tough one.
Mission Impossible–See Armageddon
The Legend of Bagger Vance–Did they film this whole movie in one take? It was like watching Funniest Home Videos do a golfing movie
the 2nd Austin Powers movie–I’ve banished the title from my pissant brain…but Cha-ching, cha-ching
Godfather III–I pissed off my Mother and left her house on Xmas Day to see this movie. She didn’t talk to me for the rest of the Holiday…I didn’t talk to myself for the rest of the year because I chose such a stupid movie.
I could not agree more! My SO loves this movie and watches it anytime it’s on TBS (I think) and I literally have to leave the room. It makes me want to hurl.
The death scene was the best part of the movie! If I had been stuck in that movie, I would have spaced myself, too. I thought Tim had a satisfied smile on his frozen face, as if to say “I got paid–I’m outta here, suckers!”
I hate hate hate anything made by the Micheal Bay / Jerry Bruckheimer combo, but Armageddeon was the worst. I’m a pretty accepting guy, but if I meet someone and they like that movie, I instantly dislike them.
Previously posted (by Jeff LIchtman): “Terms of Endearment is one of the worst pieces of manipulative tripe I’ve ever seen.”
Yes, yes. I Loathe that one too. And Kramer vs. Kramer - shamelessly manipulative.
I can’t remember if I mentioned it before, but I hate Santa Sangre
aside/hijack - to Hamlet: your comments in that previous thread, about why you hated Sante Sangre, were the funniest things I had read thus far on the Internet!!! Wondered if you were still around, or if that movie had done its final damage to your brain.
end hijack
One more movie I detest is a Nicolas Cage - Meg Ryan film called something-i-cannot-remember. It was very similar to Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire but was a complete butchery and mockery of the idea. It was so unbelievably false and manipulative that I had to watch it fully to stabilize myself.
I agree with Titanic… HORRIBLE ACTING by Leo… lame-ass should be kicked out of all movies altogether. He almost ruined Gangs of New York.
But Final Destination is the absolute worst movie I have ever seen. I think they actually made a sequal… please.
It really is quite funny how some of my favorite movies are being named here, such as The Big Lebowski and American Beauty. The Big Lebowski was just absolutely hilarious and I found it to be very clever, but I guess humor is just extremely subjective. American Beauty I found to be just… beautiful. All of the characters were complex and interesting (though some were obviously unlikable), and though the directing may have been a tad overdramatic, I was completely and utterly enthralled. For the person (or persons) that names this the movie they loathe, would you mind explaining why?
As for movies that I loathe, I really can’t say I would choose any of the bad to mediocre action movies that have been listed, such as Armageddon, Face/Off, etc. I actually kind of liked Face/Off, as it was generally fast and stylish, and was innovative in certain spots. But I digress. Bad action movies are usually tolerable to me because they generally don’t take themselves too seriously, are full of visual effects that are either interesting (Star Wars I) or are easy to make fun of, and in general you can sit through them and kind of laugh at the whole thing.
So as for a movie I loathe, I guess I would choose “Signs”. Now, it was not a completely bad movie, in that there were some moments of suspense and a couple moments of clever directing. But the whole pay-off (you know what I mean) and resolution was just so terrible that it left a bile vomit gurgle taste in my mouth. It was just so non-sensical (i.e. the strategy of the invasion, the antagonists’ actions, etc) in constrast to the very serious tone that Shamalan was trying to set. What really ticked me off was that it got a 4-star (perfect) review from Roger Ebert, and that was one of the reasons I wanted to see it (I’ve liked or loved every one of his 4-star movies). So I blew a full $9.00 to watch this dreck that was just too serious to really laugh at but just set you up for massive disappointment by the end.
Perhaps if I had never heard of the movie and I saw it on TV, I would feel differently, but alas…
Damn it MrPud, I’d read six pages of bad movies, ready to come out with the WORST movie ever made, but you beat me to it: DEEP. BLUE. SEA. HORRIBLE. Like you, my ex rented it and I laughed even before it was put into the VCR. Made her mad, so I had to sit through it all.
And whoever posted that The Big Lebowski was a pile of whatever has problems.
Air Heads. They air it on Comedy Central all the time. I can put up with bad movies, and if it’s a movie I’m not into, I just won’t watch it. But as much as I can remember, no other movie made me so angry.
The plot is of course pretty standard fare. A struggling band wants to get famous (I really really hate the whole “struggling band” premise to begin with, even in real life) so it takes over a radio station and holds all the employees hostage. It takes the ridiculous plot cliches of “Rebel against The Man!!” and “I’m an unstable, raging idiot, but I love you!” and takes them to a whole new level of irritation. There are few movies where I actually want the “bad guys” to win. You can joke about it all you want in any bad movie, like “Haha, I hated this movie so much it would have been funny if the monster ate the main characters.” But honestly, I really wanted the good guys to lose horribly. The “bad guys” were just normal guys trying to do their job, and the GOOD guys were the idiots holding them for random at gun point. And the employees weren’t even over-the-top oppressive like most “The Man” villains are, they were afraid and trying to reason with these psychos. And at the end of the movie, the idiots win! The main guy gets the girl, and the band is made famous. WHY?! I mean, ARGH! Just…ARGH! NO! Idiots like them deserve to go to jail! They are a menace to society! We do not feel sorry for them! UGH, what an awful awful movie.