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.
A Series of Unfortunate Events or how to turn pretty good books into an absolutely awful movie.
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.
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!
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.
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.
DeLovely. Well, at least the seven minutes I watched were terrible.
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.
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,
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.”
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.
High Tension–evidence that the French should stay away from horror movies.
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.
Kate and Leopold
Yeah, I don’t get out much.