According to the marks I gave them on IMDb, Elektra, The Amityville Horror, and Bewitched were the three worst movies I’ve seen this year.
I was awestruck watching Bewitched. I didn’t laugh once, I had no idea Will Ferrell could be that unfunny. As for the other two? Quite simply no redeaming value in any of them.
Ha, but nit picking the ending was GREAT fun!
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow - a bunch of people with no personality moving between sets and being present for special effects for no particular reason.
I agree with you just about 100%. I was particularly happy to see someone else driven batty by the wipes. Generally I don’t even notice that kind of thing, but it was so over the top it really distracted me and took away any suspension of disbelief that had miraculously survived the stilted dialog.
I also thought Troy was pretty bad. They stripped away all of the bigger-than-life mythos and compelling plot lines (the gods, Achilles’s heel, Iphigenia), but left the characters mere sketches. It left me totally uninterested. I think maybe it was targeted at people who didn’t know the story beyond the famous horse trick. At 2:30 in, my husband and I were really scared: “Two and a half hours, and they’ve gotten to day two of the ten year war!”
The Grudge. Wow, it made even less sense than the original. It was blonder though, and they found a good role for Bill Pullman
Revenge of the Sith. This was supposed to make up for the first two?
The third Matrix movie. I’m still pissed about it. It’s that bad.
I found something to like in just about every movie mentioned here that I’ve seen. In a departure from my annoying habit of defending things in a hater thread, I’ll simply offer a couple with no redeeming qualities whatsoever:
Van Wilder
My Boss’ Daughter
Gee, I think I see a pattern there…
Maybe it’s 'cause I never saw the TV show, but Shaft is the only movie I’ve contemplated asking for my money back afterwards. No one reason, but being able to guess the next scenes all the way through didn’t help.
Fantastic Four. Worst thing I have seen in ages, and that includes Bewitched. Insipid, boring, lousy characterization and a color scheme that looked it was inspired by a box of Skittles. If I had been alone, I would have walked out after the first half-hour.
War of the Worlds
Is it just me or does it seem like Speilberg is just going through the motions when making his movies lately.
I think the guy just works too much and has short attention span. It’s like he gets these ideas in his head for a few great scenes he wants to direct in a movie, does them, and then puts the rest of the filming on autopilot since his mind is then focusing on his next project.
His latest films fall flat then because while they may have the few “Wow” scenes they just don’t hold together as a whole.
Saving Private Ryan has it’s great initial 20 minutes but the rest is pretty much forgetable.
War of the Worlds seemed to start out so promising then fell into typical cliche scenes that bored the hell out of me. The roving eye/snake in the basement ala Anaconda and a dozen other flicks. The hysterical crowd beating on the minivan? Gee, how original, what a great scence.
He needs to focus more on making a complete film instead of jumping project to project.
My library is currently packed up in boxes pending the completion of a new master suite. I was tempted to unpack it willy-nilly to find my copy of The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy and reread it to wash that dreadful “adaptation” out of my brain.
He lost me starting with the scene of the tripod erupting out of the ground. Way too many stupid people staying near either a giant sink hole or an epicenter. I know a few would be that stupid but that was a large crowd. I think better of the self preservation instinct in my fellow humans. I yet to talk to anyone who thought a vaguely sensible person would want to get to the ferry. Etc. Pure retched crap.
The honour of ‘worst movie I’ve seen this month’ gets to go to The Forgotten. It was bad, bad baaaaaaad.
Ending seen a mile away, yep. Shrill, harpish and unlikeable main character, yep. Stupid premise that’s been done to death a million times, in a million better ways, yep. Written like it was something found on Dean Koontz’s slush pile, yep.
$5.95 on PPV, and I nearly walked out of my own house.
On the other hand, in the category of “So Bad it’s Good”, I’d like to nominate The Return Of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, with Smuggy Smug Pants Renee Zelweggerwiggy-wiggy and Matthew McConaughey. It made no sense, the acting was terrible, and I loved it to bits.
The Good Gril, starring what I can only assume to be the, “I just lost a bet and had to make this movie” version of Jennifer Aniston.
I think this is the first movie where I hoped every person was killed in a painful way at the end. And, I don’t just mean the characters. The actors, writer, director, best boy, and key grip all deserved lost of deep hurting.
I watched House of Sand and Fog and holy cow what a bad movie. I LOVE movies and I just could not watch the whole thing in one sitting. No redeeming qualities at all.
I would like you all to know that it is only my preternatural self-control that is keeping me from defending the last two movies named.
I actually liked The Good Girl. I would agree it wasn’t a particularly amazing movie, but still, there was something about it.
I thought **War of the Worlds ** was horribly disappointing. Looked pretty cool, but there were so many plotholes and things that didn’t make sense.
Besides that, I really haven’t seen many awful movies lately. The boyfriend and I are super picky about movies, and check out rotten tomatoes before seeing anything. Seems like the site is usually dead-on with the reviews.
Is that the one with Robert DeNiro and the little bug-eyed kid? Where he is a psychologist?
I was trying to come up with the name of that movie, which is the worst I have seen recently. Since The Stepford Wives, at least.
Regards,
Shodan
I haven’t seen either one, but you’re thinking of Hide and seek.
The Forgotten has a plotblurb of…
War of the Worlds
Malevolence, is without a doubt, the most boring horror movie I’ve ever seen. Ever. (and I’m mentally comparing it to Wolf, mind you). The Grudge and Exorcist:The Beginning(the third most boring I’ve…) rank pretty high on the recent and terrible list too. I’d second Cold Creek Manor but it’s been a year since I saw that mess.
OTOH, I liked War Of The Worlds much better than the original, which I watched for the second time in my life just a few months ago. Was the remake good? Not really. But it was far less painful to watch than the original.