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Am I the only person in America who loathed Patch Adams? After this movie and the cloying What Dreams May Come, I’ve sworn off any movie starring Robin Williams.
I’m glad to see that at least one person besides me thought this movie was funny. I’m not a burnout/pothead but I thought this movie was really funny.
David LaChappelle (the main ‘star’) has a really good stand-up comedy show on HBO this month.
Also, I wanted to agree with Edwardina…I’m ashamed of myself for actually buying a ticket to Leonard Part 6.
Oh god, I had forgotten about that one. Just as bad as Dying Young, which I mentioned earlier. But Patch Adams was so unspeakably vile that I had apparently blocked it out of my memory, and I honestly hadn’t thought about that movie since I saw it until I read your post.
Patch Adams is horribly predictable, terribly preachy, and undeniably stupid. It is beneath contempt. Robin Williams should be castrated for having been a part of this movie. If I had a doctor like the one he played, I’d run screaming out of the place and find another hospital where the doctors take their work seriously and don’t screw around when it comes to your health.
The real Patch Adams couldn’t have been this annoyingly preachy, right?
As much as abhor to even deign to mention the title, The Blair Witch Project was the worst film I ever had to endure. To my dismay, I not only had to pay $8.50 admission and lose two valuable hours of time, but my friends restrained my when I attempted to escape experience.
Wow, reading these posts have made me realize that I’ve hated TONS of movies! Here are my picks:
As Good As It Gets: OH MY GOD! KILL ME NOW! I watched this on a plane (first class, thank you very much!) to California and I could not get through it! COULD NOT! Instead I talked to the 11 year old kid sitting next to me about vomit and South Park. Helen Hunt can kiss my ass. I hate her.
Boomerang: What drivel!
Free: I could not believe the precious time I wasted watching this slop. Eddie Murphy needs to retire, toot sweet!
Man On The Moon: I don’t care what anybody says, Jim Carrey WAS NOT Andy Kaufman! I cannot believe he won a Golden Globe for this crap! It was horrible horrible horrible. And Courtney Love needs to go back to heroin, she was much more likable then.
Grease 2: Now, the first “Grease” I liked (considering I was only about 6 when the original movie came out) but the second coming was absolute balderdash.
Lake Placid, that other movie about the genetically altered sharks, etc. Leave animals alone!
Scarlett Letter: starring Demi Moore and Gary Oldman. snooze
and most recently…
What Lies Beneath: by the end of the movie my friend and I were screaming out loud “OH COME ON JUST END ALREADY!” bad. really bad.
Took my kids to “Matilda” (family thing, sisters and Mrs D went to see something romantic, and the guys took all the kiddies to this piece of dreck.) Theater was packed. We were the only folks to walk out. I can stand bad, but that thing was so damn mean. I’d far rather have my kids watch porn.
Any movie by Woody Allen. I don’t understand how someone that has created nothing of consequence can be so famous. Lots of people create anything great works and they get to remain what they are, regular loser people. But heah, its Woody Allen so we have to splash his face in the media alongside other legit celebrities once in a while.
The Blair Witch Project was plain awful. Not just awful in comparision to hype, but just plain suckulent. How do you get lost in the wildnerness of, oh where was it, oh yeah Maryland for days at a time? I thought that Maryland had some of the best wilderness rescue teams in the world because of the thousands of people that get lost in their vast acreage every year. I hear that parts of Maryland are so remote that you can hike for several hours without passing a single shopping mall.
See, this movie was so bad, I didn’t even remember the name correctly:
Free: I could not believe the precious time I wasted watching this slop. Eddie Murphy needs to retire, toot sweet!
This movie is really called “Life”. It still sucked.
Dude I would most likely be with you…to overthrow the oppressive bourgeois (and sexually atrocious) N Sync and Britney Spears takeover of GREASE. Sorry man, but that’s overstepping their boundaries…once they get into the film remake realm, it is our right- nay, our duty to annihilate them. 
Its practically a fact…virtually no movie will ever live up to its book counterpart. Matilda’s a really good book too…sometimes, though, the movie will just totally lose everything. It all becomes…i don’t know, conformed. The loses originality, and mood is what im trying to get at.
Anyone here see Green Mile? I only saw it in commercials. I refuse to go see. It looks way too melodramatic, and almost romanticized. Plus I don’t really like Tom Hanks. Was I justified in not seeing htis one?
Man on the Moon- I just hated that movie. It sucked on ice.
Because of that monstrosity I can no longer watch anything on Andy Kaufman because it reminds me of that horrible movie. I wish I could go back in time to warn myself not to watch it.
“Just stop telling your stupid story about the desert and DIE ALREADY!!”
Although I have to say I liked a few of the films listed above (hey, I was ten when I saw the Goonies), my most hated film is “The English Patient,” for the obvious reason that it was a wandering piece of crap with no point. I’m constantly amazed that people are fooled into thinking “too long + British accents= OSCAR TIME!”
I felt completely validated when they had that entire Seinfeld episode that had, as its main plot point, the fact that “The Eglish Patient” sucked. At least, Elaine didn’t like it. But I think its suckiness is self-evident and really needs no support.
[aside] I adored “Happiness”. That wasn’t a black comedy, it was a “feel good” movie - you feel good that you’re not nearly as miserable as those people. My kinda movie. [/aside]
Speaking of Robin Williams films, does anyone rememebr Toys? I tried to forget it but it keeps coming back and making me hide under my desk.
Man, what a mess, a disaster of a movie. It started out as this surreal fantasy and degenerated into a combat scene straight out of “Home Alone.”
Robin Williams - I can’t figure they guy out. As an actor he can, when he’s fitted with the right script, blow anyone out of the water. He has amazing range - look at his wildly different characters in The Fisher King, Awakenings, Dead Poet’s Society and Good Will Hunting. But has any great actor ever appeared in so many truly, amazingly atrocious movies?
Sort Of Bad:
- Hook
- Jack
- Bicentennial Man
- Nine Months
- The Best of Times
Bad:
- Jumanji
- Jakob the Liar
- The World According to Garp
- Flubber
- Father’s Day
El Sucko Supremo:
- Popeye
- Patch Adams
- What Dreams May Come
- Toys
Who holds a candle to this? Okay, Sean Connery, but who else?
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Let’s move this post to the Utopian Society thread. Finally a vision of an ideal society we can all agree on.
Michael Caine.
I’d also like to second the Woody Allen sucks vote.
I was not impressed with Annie Hall, Sleeper, Bullets Over Broadway, or Deconstructing Harry.
After seing those four I decided to stop renting Woody Allen movies trying to find out what was so great about him.
Since Jack Frost has not been mentioned, I’ll assume no one else suffered through it. I’m talking about the one with Michael Keaton as the guy who dies and comes back as a talking snowman. This movie was playing on a Bonanza bus trip from Providence to New York, and I actually paid $2 to rent headphones to watch it. As if taking the bus weren’t bad enough. I think we should be paid to take the bus, not the other way around. But, uh, that’s a different topic…
I saw Uma’s breasts nekkid in Mad Dog and Glory, and even they couldn’t keep me awake. I was fourteen years old and unimpressed. Horrible waste of DeNiro, Thurman, and Bill Murray. If my ride had been there I’d have walked.
Batman stunk from the word “go.” Tim “Wait A Minute While I Build Up Enough Flatulence To Fart In Your Face” Burton should have called it Joker. Dull, Brain-Dead, Washed-Up Has-Been Joker, to be precise. This drek had all the subtlety of a swat upside the head with a 2x4. Random killing, random killing, huge Carrot Top-style prop, overhead shot of the only street in Gotham, Batman is confused and wussy, random killing, random killing…how Schumaker is considered its destroyer baffles me. It was wretched to begin with. Even the Adam West Bat wan’t this clueless.
Worst movie of all time? Maybe Mars Attacks! I’ve seen twenty minutes here and there flipping through the channels and can’t believe how bad it is. “Let’s make a movie with personality-free aliens who kill for no reason at all! They get what they want and kill anyway! And let’s make their victims the cretins!” No bigger cretin than the one what made it, Timbo. Who keeps giving Burton money? Each of his movies is unthinkably awful.
The Pirate Movie.
A musical starring Kristy McNichol & Christopher Atkins. Blue Lagoon meets Gilbert & Sullivan, except without any nudity or wit.
I wanted to walk out on this waste of celluloid, but my friends were literally holding me down. I wanted to shout insults at the screen, but I was shocked into silence by the absurdness of it all. I wanted my friends to pay me back double the admission price (which I didn’t pay to begin with). I wanted to forget I ever saw this drek, but I can’t, it’s etched into my memory.
I still have nightmares about it…
Green Mile would have been alright if it was an hour shorter and they cut out the epilogue. (Note to filmmakers: Not everything in the book needs to be in the movie.) What suprised me is that they got away with one of the most graphic execution scenes I’ve seen in recent history.