# Worst movies you've seen recently **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 20, 2005, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-youve-seen-recently/313230 "2005-07-20T01:48:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-youve-seen-recently/313230/41 "2005-07-20T15:46:29Z")
**Mr. & Mrs. Smith** is unquestionably the worst thing I’ve seen in the theaters this year. Devoid of charm or humor, with the most boring action sequences imaginable. Atrocious. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-youve-seen-recently/313230/42 "2005-07-20T15:47:16Z")
**A Series of Unfortunate Events** or how to turn pretty good books into an absolutely awful movie. ---
**Author:** ![AndrewL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@AndrewL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AndrewL)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-youve-seen-recently/313230/43 "2005-07-20T15:49:19Z")
I had the great misfortune of watching the first twenty or so minutes of **Little Nicky** over the weekend. I would have watched less, but I was sharing a hotel room at a convention, the guy I was sharing the room with wanted to watch it, and I had some work I had to get done in the room before leaving. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-youve-seen-recently/313230/44 "2005-07-20T15:53:25Z")
It would have to be **Garden State**. I didn’t like it. It was slow, several unlikeable characters, and just not good. It’s too bad, too, cause I think Zack Braff is great on Scrubs…so give him something someone else wrote, and he’s golden! The ending really pissed me off because: OK, so his “friend” made him go around all day just to get back his mother’s neckalce that he STOLE OFF OF HER DEAD BODY IN THE FIRST PLACE. Then he acts all high and mighty, like “I didn’t think she’d want ot be buried with it.” Well maybe not, but why didn’t you just snatch it, then give it right to Andrew? Huh? Why sell it, THEN remember “Oh, my best friend might not like it that I sold his mom’s necklace, better track it down, oh, and take him with me, cause he’ll love that I steal from Wal-Mart, am good friends with a shady bellhop, and get him soaking wet and cold.” Argh! ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-youve-seen-recently/313230/45 "2005-07-20T16:04:18Z")
If those are the worst movies you’ve seen, you guys are pretty lucky. I rented **Man-Thing** the other day. I actually stopped watching it, which is very unusual for me. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-youve-seen-recently/313230/46 "2005-07-20T16:13:55Z")
> [@Trunk](#): > > Except it was released last year, and garnered basically none of those things. Couple of noms for suppoprting actor & actress. Oh hell, never mind me. I was thinking of **Crash** , which was only a few months ago. Now I know what Closer was. I still liked it, because I like all the actors, but I wouldn’t defend it the way I’d defend Crash. ---
**Author:** ![yellowval](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-youve-seen-recently/313230/47 "2005-07-20T16:22:15Z")
**DeLovely**. Well, at least the seven minutes I watched were terrible. ---
**Author:** ![pokey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ebca7d/32.png) [@pokey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pokey)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-youve-seen-recently/313230/48 "2005-07-20T16:24:51Z")
I rented the **Stepford Wives** and I had a hard time finding anything to like about it. At least there was hair, makeup and outfits. The original movie at least made some sense to me but I couldn’t understand the Nicole Kidman version at all. I think the moral of the story is to watch out for people who like to do Christmas crafts because they may secretly possess free will and be engineering geniuses trying to take over the world and kill everyone so they can do Christmas crafts even in the summertime. I was already keeping my eye out for that anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-youve-seen-recently/313230/49 "2005-07-20T16:57:49Z")
> [@ArchiveGuy](#): > > **Mr. & Mrs. Smith** is unquestionably the worst thing I’ve seen in the theaters this year. Devoid of charm or humor, with the most boring action sequences imaginable. Atrocious. Agreed. I was soooooooo bored. My date and I stayed thinking there couldn’t be that much more left… we were wrong it just kept going. Brad Pitt and Vince Vaughn were funny. The rest was terrible terrible terrible. It tried so hard to be cool but failed miserably. War of the Worlds was enjoyable through out until… Robbie lived? F-that! Since I just saw it recently I will add… SAW The most boring ‘thriller’ I have ever seen. The only decent part was when crazy janitor man threatens the little girl with the gun… You don’t see that often in movies. The rest was just suck, ---
**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:** [July 20, 2005, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-youve-seen-recently/313230/50 "2005-07-20T17:03:43Z")
I tend to avoid movies that I can tell are bad just from the trailers ( **Because of Winn-Dixie** , **The Stepford Wives** , **Bewitched** , hell, just about anything with Nicole Kidman) so I don’t generally see the worst of the worst. But I was really disgusted by **Spanglish** –I’m not an Adam Sandler fan, but I thought that there was a chance he might, like Jim Carrey, be better in something different than his normal hijinks. No such luck, and even the ravishing Paz Vega couldn’t keep me from walking out on this thing. I know I’m in the minority (if but a vocal one) in thinking that **Revenge of the Sith** was just awful; no pacing, hideously flat dialog (did Lucas _really_ hire Tom Stoppard to retune the lines?), obvious plotting, the stupid “Nooooo!!!” cry in the end, and virtually everything looked as if it were shot in front of a greenscreen; I’ve seen _a lot_ of Star Wars fan fiction that was better made than this. The film, in fact, seemed to be made so that Lucas could demonstrate all the different fade wipes that can be done with nifty editing software; I counted over seventy wipes before I gave up, which is absurd. And three words: **Die Another Day**. Just stop milking this poor, desicated cow any more; she’s dead and gone. I’ve more or less given up on most mainstream film (though I think **Batman Begins** was outstanding), and stick with indies and foriegn films that, even when they are disappointing, at least offer something novel to recommend them. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-youve-seen-recently/313230/51 "2005-07-20T17:09:14Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > I also loved **The Life Aquatic** and **The Royal Tenanbaums**. I Heart Wes Anderson. Loved **Bottle Rocket** , **Rushmore** , and **Royal Tenenbaums**. HATED **The Life Aquatic**. Oh, and **Bouv** - I think the idea behind that was that Mark stole the necklace from Large’s mom near the beginning before his friendship with Largeman really reignited. Before that, he was just another old friend who came back to town for a few days. So at first, he didn’t care, it was just another piece that he stole and made some money from. Once he got closer to Large, he started to regret having done that to someone he began to care for so he wanted to make it right. I don’t think he was acting high and mighty as much as he was trying to make ammends for his mistake. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-youve-seen-recently/313230/52 "2005-07-20T17:13:33Z")
> [@interface2x](#): > > Loved **Bottle Rocket** , **Rushmore** , and **Royal Tenenbaums**. HATED **The Life Aquatic**. Interesting. I hated Bottle Rocket and Rushmore, and loved Royal Tenenbaums and Life Aquatic. I’ve noticed Anderson’s fans rarely agree on which movies are his better ones. ---
**Author:** ![cruel\_butterfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5daacb/32.png) [@cruel\_butterfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cruel_butterfly)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-youve-seen-recently/313230/53 "2005-07-20T17:54:19Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Shark Tale I’ll second that. _Finding Nemo_, while not the same plot, was much much much better and will stand the test of time. I was recently forced to watch “Are We There Yet?” and I gotta tell ya…::sigh::…if I am ever subjected to that kind of torture again, I just might crack. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-youve-seen-recently/313230/54 "2005-07-20T18:14:21Z")
It’s had a pretty good streak of seeing only movies I’ve enjoyed (thank you, tomato-meter) of late, with two exceptions (unless I’m forgetting something): I saw **Resident Evil: Apocalypse** for free, and I still paid way too much. **Paycheck** was awfully bad. ---
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2005, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-youve-seen-recently/313230/55 "2005-07-26T19:53:46Z")
Gotta add “The Island”. Holy-crappy-movie-full-of- :rolleyes:-product-placement, Batman! BLECH!!! My girlfriend and I ended up watching it due to a misprint in the paper for Wonka showtimes. Somehow I have angered the Gods… ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2005, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-youve-seen-recently/313230/56 "2005-07-26T19:58:13Z")
> [@Stranger On A Train](#): > > I know I’m in the minority (if but a vocal one) in thinking that **Revenge of the Sith** was just awful 100% agreement here. I thought it was just awful, every bit as bad as its two predecessors. I think people say it was good just because they’re determined not to allow the entire trilogy to be a waste, but deep down in their hearts they know “Revenge of the Sith” was a total dog. A month or so ago Mrs. RickJay rented “Elektra.” Holy mother of Lipton, that was a bad movie. Everything that could be bad about a movie was bad about “Elektra.” ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2005, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-youve-seen-recently/313230/57 "2005-07-26T20:09:19Z")
I really hated War of the Worlds. Painful to sit through, bad acting, bad writing, bad ideas. Why spend $200 million and produce such garbage. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2005, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-youve-seen-recently/313230/58 "2005-07-26T23:59:39Z")
**High Tension** –evidence that the French should stay away from horror movies. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-youve-seen-recently/313230/59 "2005-07-27T00:20:08Z")
I just saw M. Night Shyamalan’s **The Village** , and I wish I hadn’t bothered. I’ve enjoyed Shyamalan’s other movies, but this one is a total snoozer, with a supposed “twist” that I saw coming a mile ahead. I kept thinking “naw, that can’t be the big surprise, that’s so obvious.” But by golly, I waited it out, and the obvious became more obvious. And then, thank God, the movie was over. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-youve-seen-recently/313230/60 "2005-07-27T00:21:23Z")
**Kate and Leopold** Yeah, I don’t get out much. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-youve-seen-recently/313230.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-youve-seen-recently/313230.md?page=4)