Sounds to me like The Fred abides.
The Fred definitely abides.
Kinda hard to believe it’s based on a novel by Thomas Berger, who also gave us Little Big Man, not to mention the wonderfully odd Arthur Rex.
(We seem to have a variation of this thread a lot.)
Just bad: Dr. Detroit and Shallow Ha.
Revolting to me at least: Requiem for a Dream. I get it, just didn’t like it.
Most disappointing: The Wild Wild West
Two come to mind:
Repossessed, a 1990 spoof of The Exorcist, starring Leslie Nielsen, after Airplane! and The Naked Gun had made him the go-to star for that kind of comedy. Unfortunately, Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker had nothing to do with Repossessed, and it was just tremendously unfunny.
The Weather Man, a Nicolas Cage film. I couldn’t tell if it was supposed to be a dark comedy, or what, but after about 40 minutes, I realized that I simply had no interest in seeing where the rest of the movie would go, and I turned it off.
So bad that I’d erased it from my memory. OK, that tops Repossessed and The Weather Man for me. 
I’m still convinced that Ramirez’s sudden death in the film was the result of Sean Connery saying, “this is shite, I’m leaving,” and the director pleading with him to stay to shoot one more scene.
I will admit to not reading every post but --------- any hate out there for Leonard Part 6? That one I have managed to totally avoid since before it came out (didn’t even watch the previews or commercials) but that one strikes me as worthy of dislike and disdain. Even when Bill was still a good guy.
I’m pressed for time today so didn’t read the thread, please forgive, but has anyone yet mentioned About Last Night with Rob Lowe and Demi Moore? An involuntary shudder runs through me if I just happen to notice it in passing in the tv listings.
To each his own. I kinda liked that, but I haven’t seen it in years.
Open Water… A man and a women get lost at sea after a SCUBA diving mishap, spend most of the moving making bad jokes about peeing.
Actually, Neighbors was a pretty good adaptation of the original novel, but was flawed because it assumed you had read the novel. The entire point of the book was the fact that Captain Vic (and Dan
Ackroyd was perfect for the role) was completely unpredictable, but the movie didn’t give that impression.
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Nude young Demi Moore
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“Was she a pro?” “At this point, we don’t know.”
Movie in the theater that I paid good money for: Was living in the UAE and was at a mall in Dubai killing time when I saw a movie advertised: Hmmm, good SF title, capable if not star-powered actors, what the heck, I’ll give it a try>
Called Supernova and I wished the damn star would have blown this movie into atoms about 5 minutes in. Holy crap it’s bad.
Movies watched with family that I couldn’t turn off: John Carter is one of the few movies I’ve seen that make me go “what the hell did I just watch”? And it should have been so much better. Someone already mentioned Christmas with the Kranks which was almost, but not quite, completely unfunny.
I remember renting Ultraviolet and watching it at my mom’s house and being quite embarrassed.
Strange Wilderness is utter unfunny tripe except for ONE scene, which is on Youtube.
Now you don't need to see THAT movie. You're welcome.I usually watch a movie the whole way though (I’ve never left in the theater). I can only remember one movie that I didn’t get the whole way though, “Deadgirl”. I stopped that one because I was utterly disgusted, rather than it was a “bad movie.”
I have a pretty good radar I think for avoiding truly horrible movies, and I’ve seen a LOT of movies.
The plot was essentially a series of vignettes to more or less go with the songs. One of my favorite Paul Simon albums, but the film is a painfully amateurish vanity project.
I confess to owning a copy of this one. Saw it when it was new (50’s kid), and several scenes stayed with me all my life (you know which ones); bought a tenth-generation copy* on DVD a few years ago just to see how the film had held up over time. About as awful as I’d expected although “the scenes” remain very effective - no wonder they etched permanently in my young mind.
- The movie looks as if it has been drawn onto the film with charcoal pencil.
You might appreciate this atheist view of the movie. Warning, they are very NSFW, and they also tend to wander from thought to thought. They have also had problems with the Christiano brothers trying to sue them for copyright infringement, and they won against them in court.
I didn’t see those movies (well, part of Gump–it blew) BECAUSE of Tom Hanks. I was familiar with him through “Bosom Buddies” in which he was awful. When did he learn how to act? And be funny? I mean, he’s one of the greatest chat show guests America has produced, but I haven’t seen that translated to the screen.
The Tree of Life was going to be my choice for worst movie I’ve ever seen. My second choice would be A Passage to India, which was so ponderously slow I almost walked out of it, something I’ve never done.
I loved that documentary. I will never forget the brother who ate the long cloth, pooped it out, washed it, then ate it again. Some sort of Eastern ritual. He was chronically depressed and ended up committing suicide.
I really hated Inception. I know that it is many peoples favourite. The dialogue is inane. I tried watching it again on Netflix and lasted about 2 minutes.
There should have been only ONE!!!