Their are several, but in the last year I guess it would be The Blair Witch Mystery, which is so totally fake looking to me and I bet those kids are sitting on some Island laughing their asses off, because of the money they probably made on it.
what the hell are you talking about?
I believe Idnew if referring to The Blair Witch Project. In and of itself, I thought it was a pretty good film, considering I saw it as part of the Florida Film Festival at a small artsy-house theatre. The nationwide distribution and excessive media hype was excessive and overwhelming, and the film could not live up to that… It lost a lot, seeing it in a larger theatre, not a small venue. There are still a lot of lawsuits regarding rights, and distribution, AFAIK.
Sorry, the movie must be so bad I forgot the title :
That’s Higher Learning, not Higher Ground.
My apologies to Robert Day and the cast & crew of the made-for-TV movie Higher Ground.
John Singleton’s script however, should be considered grounds for taking away any degree he holds.
Batman and Robin gives me ballache just thinking of it.
:: ouch, my balls hurt now ::
Face/Off
Two of my friends and I watched this movie together. One of them (my current roommate) absolutely loves this movie. My other friend and I think it’s a pile of festering rat droppings.
I have to agree with those who have mentioned “Half Baked”. My roommate (different one) watches that movie all the time. At least he doesn’t quote it regularly.
FTR, I loved The Blaire Witch Project. It was the most original movie I’ve seen in a long time. When I hear people saying, “The shaking camera made me sick! The movie sucked!” I just have to wonder why they judge a movie’s greatness by their gastrointestinal fortitude.
Amen, sister. Grease is the worst stage musical ever produced, and it’s an even worse movie.
Hey, all you Rockey Horror fans: IT SUCKS! ADMIT IT!
But now I’ll go out on a limb:
I hated American Beauty. Yes, it was well acted and competently directed. Technically, it was as solid as rock.
But man, what a cloying, insulting, arrogant movie. Why, of COURSE people who live in suburbia are zombified losers; us folks in Hollywood are the ones who will tell you what truth is, yessirree! Of COURSE the neighbour’s a sadistic ex-soldier, because aren’t all soldiers like that? Of course the daughter hates her parents; all teenagers hate their parents! Twenty minutes into the movie I knew every character’s story.
My fiancee wants to add her own comment:
“I would rather tear out my own eyeballs than watch There’s Something About Mary again. It combined all the humour of a bookeeping class with the sense of humour of a bad root canal operation. I can only assume that it was some sort of mass delusion that caused people to enjoy this movie. Maybe I wasn’t doing the right drugs.”
It took Sharron and I four viewings to get all the way through. Folks, you all hated it; admit it. It’s the Emperor’s New Comedy.
The secret of good comedy is timing, and TSAM had a horrible sense of timing. Individually the joke concepts were good, but they just came out of nowhere at random, completely unconnected to one another. The perfect example is the scene where Ben Stiller gets caught by a fishhook. Why? He just does, and we’re supposed to laugh. A guy getting caught by a fishhook COULD be funny if you set it up right, but it just happened, and then suddenly it was completely forgotten.
I’m surprised that no one has mentioned “Thelma and Louise” or “Good Will Hunting.” Not that I have a strong animus against either, but they are strong, strong candidates for the “everyone loved it but me” syndrome. Frankly, I thought Good Will Hunting, for all it had going for it, was a little bizarre in terms of its logic- the movie only makes sense if you assume that a week before the movie began, Will got abducted by aliens who gave him 200 extra IQ points. Why isn’t Will alienated from his friends by the fact that they cannot understand any of his hobbies? Why is he so loyal to them that he will spend his life in an unrewarding job, never doing the thing he really loves? [Pepsi moppet] Du-huh! [/Pepsi moppet] Oh, of course! He was abused by his father!
But the worst move of all time is what my wife and I call “that sharecropper movie.” We don’t even remember the name of it- it was some Waltons-era horror movie about sharecroppers. I dozed off here and there in the middle of it, so my memory of it is basically nothing more than a bunch of sharecroppers walking around in the dark outside a barn. My wife was awake for the whole thing, and assures me that that’s all that happened for two hours.
There was a Highlander II?
This isn’t the greatest help, but maybe someone else can fill in the details: there was a movie about early French missionaires in North America, released early in the '90s, I think it was called Black Robe. Stunningly, brutally realistic. It showed the Indian tribes hating, loathing, fearing one another, being violent towards one another and the white men. Not that the missionaries got off easy, either, but it avoided the mindless good guys/bad guys stereotypes. This is not the feel-good movie of this or any other summer.
end hijack.
Ah, here it is! http://us.imdb.com/Title?0101465
The Big Lebowski
Huge steaming pile of fetid dingoes kidneys!
But one that has garnered an undeserved cult following. I can’t for the life of me figure out why they enjoy this alarmingly pointless nonsense. It is shite of the highest degree, and anyone who says different immediately goes on my permanent blacklist. Okay?
I like a lot of the movies mentioned here so far: Event Horizon, Sphere, Disney’s Hercules…
The movie I loathe that no one has mentioned is Terry Gilliam’s Brazil. What an utter waste of the talented people in it: Robert Deniro, Jonathan Pryce, Bob Hoskins, Michael Palin… I’d rather be shot than ever sit through this movie again. My friend fell asleep for a large portion of it; when he awoke not much had happened in the hour interval. What’s really bad is that I talked him into renting it because Harlan Ellison likes it- a lot.
The Hidden: I walked out on this horror movie, and i still had nightmares.
I’ll agree about the hideousness of Julia Roberts.
I dislike anything with Adam Sandler in it.
I disliked Dumb and Dumber and Pet Detective 2.
Dune. The book was odd but the movie was insane.
The Blair Witch Project. Really overhyped! I kept waiting for something exciting to happen, which never did and the camera shots of anything almost interesting were often poor.
Oh, man, you too? (Or rather, your fiancee.)
My wife and I saw this after a rather urbane couple said it was the funniest movie they’d ever seen. I reminded my wife of the recommendation when she and I couldn’t get into whatever movie we had come to see.
She sat through it, barely laughing at some of the better scenes. Me too. (The SC Police station was the tops for us.) But the rest of the theatre was roaring. We were mystified, and my wife was slightly pissed. She told me on our way out that the next 10 movie picks were here. sigh
The worst two movies I’ve ever sat through:
Speed
That crap-fest with Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks that was like “An Affair to Remember” I prayed they would jump off the Empire State Building, but alas- no dice.
Zette
The only thing that makes me absolutely loathe Seven is the freakin’ ending!
Brad Pitt loses his wife and everything he holds dear to Spacey’s psychotic character. So what does he do? Shoots the bastard and lets him get away with it, consigning himself to a lifetime of misery and heavy medication.
No, no, NO!!! Have Pitt’s character shoot himself, leaving Spacey frustrated that all his work has come to naught and gets a nice long sentence to think about it.
From a general quality perspective, the movie Cool World slurped a large pile of maggoty moose turds. No plot, lousy animation (with plenty of extraneous crap that didn’t make any sense) and an ending that came out of nowhere.
Since Zoggie brought up Disney films, add these to my list of detested films:
Any Disney cartoon made after Beauty and the Beast (With the exception of the Toy Story movies).
I will not watch them on a plane,
I will not watch them on a train.
I do not like them, not at all.
Disney 'toons can suck my balls.
And WTF was so great about Babe? I rented that cuz I heard how wondeful it was. Let me tell you something kiddies . . . IMHO IT SUCKED SO BIG TIME, I COULD FEEL MY EYES BEING TUGGED FROM THEIR SOCKETS TOWARD THE TV! I had to turn the movie off and take it back to Blockbuster for my safety and the safety of everyone else in the house.
Here’s Babe so you people don’t have to waste your money on it:
Babe: I wanna herd sheep
Other animal: You can’t you’re a pig.
Babe: I wanna herd sheep
Other animal: You can’t you’re a pig.
Babe: I wanna herd sheep
Other animal: You can’t you’re a pig.
Babe: I wanna herd sheep
Other animal: You can’t you’re a pig.
Babe: Look at me, I’m herding the sheep!
Farmer Guy: That’ll do, pig. That’ll do.
There, I’ve now saved everyone reading this thread the money of renting this film and possibly paying late charges. No need to thank me, it was my civic duty.
American Beauty??? I didn’t have to see it; the previews were bad enough!
And I fell asleep every time I tried to watch Wolf.
But the absolute worstest movie of all time: Sleepless in Seattle. Ugh! Nuff sed.
Forrest motherfucking Jesus Christ in an ice cube tray Gump.