# What movies do you actively hate? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 3, 2008, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-actively-hate/458735 "2008-08-03T20:25:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-actively-hate/458735/21 "2008-08-04T02:13:31Z")
[QUOTE=Khadaji] Then Napoleon Dynamite. I don’t recall reading good things about it, a friend gave it to me for Christmas and told me it was hilarious. It was so painful I had to watch it in small doses. [/QUOTE] I forgot to mention this one in the “dislike” thread. My wife and I saw this one as a sneak preview, and found two, maybe three laughs in it. The rest of it was a movie made by the “cool kids” about the social rejects that pretended to sympathize with the rejects while actually laughing at them. It’s the exact opposite of Judd Apatow’s “Freaks and Geeks”. I didn’t really grow to actively hate it until all the “cool kids” started wearing “Vote for Pedro” t-shirts. If you thought this film was funny, you - by definition - were not an outcast. You were one of the oppressors in school. And “Dogville” deserves to be upgraded from “dislike” to “hate”. Lars von Treir is where they would stick the nozzle if they needed to give the entire planet an enema. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-actively-hate/458735/22 "2008-08-04T02:22:09Z")
**The Legend of Zorro.** I can respect doing something in a Steampunk vein, but… The plot revolved around California entering the Union. This happened in 1851, and the president was James K.Polk. Who does the movie show welcoming them into the Union? Abraham Lincoln (President 1861-1865). Just plain lazy. And don’t even start me on **League of Extraordinary Heroes**. Tom Sawyer as a 20-something? Mina Harker with amazing vampire powers? Hyde and Invisible Man as stand-up team players? Christ… ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-actively-hate/458735/23 "2008-08-04T02:36:25Z")
It’s a toss up between Forrest Gump and any historical movie where everyone has nice teeth and everything is clean (i.e. The Other Boleyn Girl) ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-actively-hate/458735/24 "2008-08-04T02:40:46Z")
As I’ve said many times, **[Alien](http://www.sff.net/people/rothman/alien.htm)** ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-actively-hate/458735/25 "2008-08-04T02:49:33Z")
The correct answer is, of course, **Very Bad Things**. ---
**Author:** ![Purgatory\_Creek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/74df32/32.png) [@Purgatory\_Creek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purgatory_Creek)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-actively-hate/458735/26 "2008-08-04T02:54:29Z")
I’ll second _Leaving Las Vegas_. I’ve never much liked Nicolas Cage, but that movie made me loathe him and everyone who had anything to do with his existence. Oh, and _A Christmas Story_. I successfully avoided seeing that piece of crap until a few years ago when my boss brought it to work and forced us to watch it as our holiday “celebration.” Made me wish for a Red Ryder BB gun my ownself. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-actively-hate/458735/27 "2008-08-04T03:12:21Z")
Lost in Translation. I can’t believe it got such great reviews, I couldn’t stand it. ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-actively-hate/458735/28 "2008-08-04T03:14:50Z")
[QUOTE=Purgatory Creek] Oh, and _A Christmas Story_. I successfully avoided seeing that piece of crap until a few years ago when my boss brought it to work and forced us to watch it as our holiday “celebration.” Made me wish for a Red Ryder BB gun my ownself. [/QUOTE] You’ll shoot your eye out. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-actively-hate/458735/29 "2008-08-04T03:49:47Z")
_The Big Lebowski_ _Chasing Amy_ ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-actively-hate/458735/30 "2008-08-04T03:50:58Z")
[QUOTE=Cluricaun] It’s a toss up between Forrest Gump and any historical movie where everyone has nice teeth and everything is clean (i.e. The Other Boleyn Girl) [/QUOTE] Before sugar came along and spoiled it all, a lot more people had nice teeth than you might expect. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-actively-hate/458735/31 "2008-08-04T03:58:09Z")
I hate _Unbreakable_ because it caused me to walk out of the theater because it sucked so bad. I hate _Twister_ because for a while there, it seemed like everybody I visited had it playing, and I was forced to watch that crap not only once but several times. I hate _Fur_ because here I thought it was going to be a good movie because it was about Diane Arbus and it starred Nicole Kidman, and it was utter dreck. It tricked me. I hate _The Brave One_ because it’s still fresh in my mind, having just suffered through it last night. That movie SUCKED, especially the dialogue. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-actively-hate/458735/32 "2008-08-04T04:14:28Z")
> [@pepperlandgirl](#): > > A part of me believes that if the sequels never existed, they would realize that compared to good movies, The Matrix both sucks and blows. I don’t think so. Don’t you remember how incredibly popular it was before the first sequel came out? OTOH: > [@pepperlandgirl](#): > > I walked out of the movie theater convinced that George Lucas is not just a bad film maker (he is), and running one of the biggest scams in history (he is), but that he actively hates the human race. His misanthropy runs as deep as his soul. He hates humans because he does not understand them, as evidenced by the so-called characterization and motivations in this film. He despises his audience, as well. He wants to punish people for his own failings as a man, and his self-loathing (and misanthropy) was funneled into Revenge of the Sith to create his final testament to cynicism, sadism, and anti-social behavior. The film was manipulative, trite, unremarkable, derivative, and boring–and that’s not even the worst things I can say about it. Everybody tries to claim it was the best of the three prequels, but I view Eps 1 and 2 as mere failings of imagination. The subtext of ep 3 was far more disturbing than the brainlessness of eps 1 and 2. You have succeeded in finally putting words to the unease I had with Episode 3, and with the entire series to a lesser extent. I think you nailed it: he simply doesn’t understand how humans, as social animals, work. And if you think about it, Episode 6 and to a lesser extent Episode 5 were studies in near-cathartic ill will of all kinds: Solo’s disgusting chauvinism, Lando’s cowardly revenge (hiding behind Vader’s coercion), the ease with which everyone but Solo and Artoo gives up on Skywalker on Hoth, etc. The incest revelation almost feels like Lucas giving into the temptation to destroy something beautiful. And yep, it’s definitely one of the biggest scams in history–it’s hard to believe that the world is so captivated by a series of oversimplified good-and-evil stories that stinks worse and worse with every movie, with awful dialogue and shitty character development all the way through. ---
**Author:** ![Sateryn76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Sateryn76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sateryn76)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-actively-hate/458735/33 "2008-08-04T04:14:49Z")
[QUOTE=gaffa] I forgot to mention this one in the “dislike” thread. My wife and I saw this one as a sneak preview, and found two, maybe three laughs in it. The rest of it was a movie made by the “cool kids” about the social rejects that pretended to sympathize with the rejects while actually laughing at them. It’s the exact opposite of Judd Apatow’s “Freaks and Geeks”. I didn’t really grow to actively hate it until all the “cool kids” started wearing “Vote for Pedro” t-shirts. If you thought this film was funny, you - by definition - were not an outcast. You were one of the oppressors in school. [/QUOTE] Well said - excellent point. You may have just explained to me why I hate this film. It really made me angry that it was so bad… ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-actively-hate/458735/34 "2008-08-04T04:21:24Z")
[QUOTE=cmkeller] Lost in Translation. I can’t believe it got such great reviews, I couldn’t stand it. [/QUOTE] The worst sexual experience I ever had was with a woman I took to this movie. I still have nightmares. Not sure I can blame the cast or director, though. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-actively-hate/458735/35 "2008-08-04T04:26:52Z")
[QUOTE=gaffa] I forgot to mention this one in the “dislike” thread. My wife and I saw this one as a sneak preview, and found two, maybe three laughs in it. The rest of it was a movie made by the “cool kids” about the social rejects that pretended to sympathize with the rejects while actually laughing at them. It’s the exact opposite of Judd Apatow’s “Freaks and Geeks”. I didn’t really grow to actively hate it until all the “cool kids” started wearing “Vote for Pedro” t-shirts. If you thought this film was funny, you - by definition - were not an outcast. You were one of the oppressors in school. [/QUOTE] Someone’s bitter! (and wrong, but I doubt I could convince you of that) ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-actively-hate/458735/36 "2008-08-04T04:47:42Z")
**Kicking and Screaming**. The most horrible, horrible movie I’ve ever seen. It makes me mad thinking about it. The only reason I didn’t leave in the middle of it was that I was with some workmates and it was an “office outing” sort of thing. Ugh, that thing stunk. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Shroud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/439d5e/32.png) [@The\_Shroud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Shroud)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-actively-hate/458735/37 "2008-08-04T05:00:10Z")
I have a bad memory for movies, so I forget exactly why I hated some of these, just that I couldn’t wait for them to be over and felt poorer for having watched them: _Palindromes_ - I really liked the director’s _Happiness_, but this one just annoyed me. _Sweet November_ - the one with Keanu Reeves and Charlize Theron. I hated their insipid characters from start to finish. _Phantom Menace_ - Jar Jar, crappy CGI and the bad kid actor were enough to stop me from seeing the other two prequels. _Touch of Evil_ - Just because I wanted it to live up to its reputation, and it didn’t. In fact, it had one of the worst idiot plots I’ve ever seen. _Titanic_ - I should watch this again; when it came out I was 19 and I absolutely hated Leonardo DiCaprio for being that smirky pretty boy who gets all the chicks (and draws them naked). I’m sure I’ll think of more later. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-actively-hate/458735/38 "2008-08-04T05:16:46Z")
[QUOTE=Gala Matrix Fire] **Sideways** - Which guy is more appalling? The obviously obnoxious overgrown drunken lothario cheater, or the quieter, legend-in-his-own mind milquetoast who steals from his elderly mother who’s on a fixed income, and lies about it? [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Freddy the Pig] I hate **About Schmidt**. The title character is an actuary, which happens to be my profession, and he’s depicted as a narrow-minded, provincial dolt. He has never travelled, never thought about anything besides his job, and appears destitute and barely able to care for himself. [/QUOTE] Now we just need someone to come along and mention _Election_ and we’ll be three for three on Alexander Payne. Seriously, I can see why people don’t like these movies, particularly if they need a character to be sympathetic or redeemed, 'cause Payne and co-writer Jim Taylor just don’t offer up that kind of fiction; instead, they concoct stories where no one is really a villain, but there aren’t much in the way of honorable people, either. Sort of like real life, writ large. The problem with Schmidt, in particular, isn’t that he’s an actuary, but that it is all he is; he has nothing else in his life. I know plenty of people like that, including people who are would-be actors/musicians/et cetera. [QUOTE=Tapioca Dextrin] \*\*Pretty Woman. \*\* [/QUOTE] Now there’s a hate I can buy into. A dreadful movie with a bizarrely inappropriate Cinderella message in the end. Stranger ---
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My hated movies change over the years. For awhile I hated “Gone with the Wind” (fatigue more than hate probably). For a while I hated “Tootsie”; then after “Rainman” I realized it was Dustin Hoffman I really hated. Right now I’m hating on “Atonement” (that book was really never, never meant to be a movie) and “Sex and the City” (did anyone read the bitchy Rex Reed review? That’s how I felt about this movie. only more so. ) ---
**Author:** ![Shawn1767](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Shawn1767](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shawn1767)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-actively-hate/458735/40 "2008-08-04T06:12:52Z")
_Hi Fidelity_, boring, dreary, didn’t like any of the characters. _Riding in Cars with Boys_ I actively hate both of these movies. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-actively-hate/458735.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-actively-hate/458735.md?page=3)