well this is my second vote but I just remembered that I actually sat and watched dustin hoffman in “Sphere” the other night.
What a dog…this mysterious power takes over a deep ocean lab of some sort of the other. The entire movie was turbid,vague and just plain awful. Hoffman looked as if he were asleep for most of it. It brought to mind a michael caine interview where the interviewer asked him why he made such an awful movie. Caine replied, “Well I needed another house at the time.”
Oh and my apologies to adam yax on the sig thingie.
“Ward, You’re upsetting the beaver.”
Barbara Billingsley
There’s a lot of stinkers out there, but I thought the Avengers movie just sucked. I think it’s the only movie I’ve ever rented that I couldn’t finish watching.
ARG220- Then congratulate yourself for having missed the worst abomination television has ever seen.
Comedy Central once aired “Porky’s.” Of course, since Comedy Central is basic cable, it had to remove any ‘offending bits.’ Out of Porky’s. I’m amazed that the entire performance was anything more than “Opening Credits”, hour-long commercial break, “Closing Credits.”
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According to the OP we’re only supposed to vote for movies that were attempts at being good, so I suppose that what Hollywood still calls “A-pictures”, with a significant investment of studio time and money and at least fairly big-name performers, are what was meant.
In no particular order: Twister, Independence Day, Striptease, G.I. Jane, Kindergarten Cop, Stop or My Mom Will Shoot, Amistad, Interview with a Vampire, Speed II, most of the Lethal Weapon and Die Hard sequels, Jurassic Park II, Baby’s Day Out, The Bonfire of the Vanities…and that’s just the beginning of the '90s list.
A movie that I intensely disliked though many will disagree with me: Good Will Hunting. Everything about it made me want to puke.
Looking back, I guess I got off the OP because all these movies are so bad they’re not almost good, with the exception of Striptease, which is extremely funny. I didn’t mention Con Air because it was explicitly a parody and a very well-done one.
My mom insisted upon watching this piece of crap when it was on network TV a few days ago. I didn’t watch it, but I was in the room, and MAN does that movie suck. (And yes, I’ve actually seen it, a few years ago.)
Any movie with Kevin Costner, who is such a hideously bad actor that it’s painful to watch him. That includes Dances With Wolves (which would be a pretty good movie if it weren’t for Costner).
I have to vote for these two, because they are the only movies I was not able to watch all the way through: Summer City Cabin Boy
When you consider some of the movies I have watched all the way through (Batman and Robin, Ghoulies, Kindergarten Cop, Wild Thing…heck, I even watched an entire episode of the Olsen twins show) that means something.
It’s usually whatever movie is on while my father is sleeping in front of the TV. The last time I visited, it was “Hot Pursuit” with John Cusack (featuring Jerry Stiller as the bad guy).
My wife rented this REALLY crappy movie starring James Spader. It’s about these people who are sexually turned on by seeing/being in/studying automobile accidents. Anybody else see this and can remember the name of it? This movie was so exceedingly horrible I can only imagine that it was created as an inside joke by people who got together one night, got drunk, and decided to see how terrible a movie they could get produced. The rest is history.
Pulp Fiction - appalling. I was speechless, I was so appalled. I hated everyone in this movie and wished they would all die appalling deaths.
Woody Allen’s “serious” movie, Interiors, back in the 70’s my refined and cultured boyfriend took me to see this. We sat there for what seemed like months watching this exercise in apathy and depression. I hated everyone in this movie and wished they would all die depressing deaths. (Finally released from the agony, we headed out to the car - across the street was a drive in showing a women-in-prison movie, they were all nude out in the yard doing jumping jacks! Now THERE was entertainment!)
The Sting - Robert Redford and Paul Newman. I can’t actually say I hated this whole movie because I fell asleep after the first 45 minutes and frankly didn’t care what I had missed.
It was some horrible schlock with Robin Williams and Joan Cusack. Normally, I can sit through pretty much anything (heck, for a while when I was a kid, my favorite movie was Xanadu, the finest film ever made about a guy with feathered hair who wants to open a roller rink). I was, however, forced to sit through Toys by my “friend” who loved it. Bleah. Even thinking about it makes me mad!
i believe you’re referring to Crash, a book i picked up, and then quite easily put down-- in this case, the movie was probably better than the book.
(btw, i got dragged to Twister and prayed for philip seymour hoffman’s death to no avail)
speaking of crash, mention of costner reminds me of the plane crash game: who gets on your ideal “day the music died” plane of doom? my pix: costner, mel gibson always, julia roberts often, and now boarding-- michael douglas!