One of my favorite “you didn’t see this but you’ll love it” movies. Mind you I only say that to people who WILL love it and that is a lot of people I know.
They all love it.
Sorry, but I despised it. Kind of like how some people here hated movies I loved but you don’t see me complaining about.
Me, too!
Fame - I loved the original. I was curious what they’d do with modern music and dance. In stead, I was bored to tears during the entire 14 hours.
Matrix 2 & 3 - Another movie I had high hopes for only to have them crushed to bits.
**All Harry Potters **(except Azkaban I suppose) - Again, too many expectations I think.
The Wicker Man - I can’t even begin to sum up where it sucked
Watchmen - To be honest, I think they did the best they could. I don’t think I could have liked any adaptation of my favorite book. Liked V for Vendetta better than the book though, but I hope they’ll never adapt Sandman.
Seldom do I waste money on going to the cinema; in fact the last two films I saw on the big screen were courtesy of sneak preview free passes.
Somehow I also managed to get freebies for the 2004 opening of the new Wayan’s film “White Chicks” and it was beyond dreadful. Because I was in the company of one of Rochelle Aytes close relatives, I couldn’t walk out without risking a major ass-whuppin’, so I forced myself to sit tight. Those ninety minutes were one of the longest months of my life.
Pearl Harbor was not only the worst movie of the decade, it was the worst movie ever.
IMHO, the entire premise of Transformers is more believeable than Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett and Cuba Gooding Jr. shooting down the entire Japanese naval air corps more or less singlehandedly… though the various speeches by whichever Baldwin was in it were even worse.
Otherwise, The Matrix Reloaded (just for the stupid cliffhanger ending), Date Movie, The Men Who Stare At Goats*, Napoleon Dynamite, Planet of the Apes, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, In the Name of the King, and The Matrix Revolutions.
*terrific (nonfiction) book, awful fictionalized movie.
I don’t watch a lot of movies, but one really bad one not yet mentioned was the Keira Knightley vehicle, Domino, where she plays a bounty hunter. Vaguely remember her topless in it, so it’s got that going for it, but the movie was a giant pile of shite.
I very rarely walk out of movies (Natural Born Killers being the lone exception: if I want to watch a director masturbate for two hours, I’ll look at porn (or watch Tarantino…)). I think we did end up walking out of The Happening though.
Y’all have already mentioned the first two Star Wars prequels and the third Matrix.
I’d throw An Inconvenient Truth on there as well, if I could get through the whole thing.
Hard to believe the thread has gone this far without this being mentioned. Add it to my list too.
Unfortunately, that makes about 30 movies on my worst 10 list. 
Add me to the list of folks who really enjoyed this. Very good film on several levels. Good companion to Sexy Beast.
I love movies and will watch anything but here is a few that were too painful.( in no particular order)
1.) **Alexander **- So boring, fell asleep trying to watch it about 5 times.
2.) **Where the Wild Things Are **- How do you make full length film of basically a 10-page picture book? Awful…and my kids are scarred for life because I took them to see it!
3.) Mall Cop - too stupid, turned it off.
4.) **Garden State **- watched the whole thing waiting for something to happen… nothing did.
5) Lady in the Water - more like “Shit in the Water”
6) **The Happening **- See #5
7.) Bruno - I got what he was trying to do, it just wasn’t funny.
8.) **Paranormal Activity ** - I was actually happy when they put themselves out of their misery.
9.) Land of the Lost - I grew up watching this show! Hard to believe the original “campy” series was better than this!
10.) **Brothers Grimm **- WTF?
Domino and Natural Born Killers are two of my absolute favourite movies ever. I just can’t understand how people can’t like these kinds of movies – they are definitely not boring, that’s for sure.
Nit, but a pet peeve of mine:
No, that’s not “in no particular order”, it’s in alphabetical order. It’s not in any particular order of like/dislike, to be sure, but it is definitely in an order.
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I am the type to watch very few movies. Never cared for em (while my wife, on the other hand, can spend days glued to AMC and TCM (she seems to prefer movies from about 1945-1965), and if I’ve even seen 10 movies this decade, I’d have to struggle to think what they were, so I don’t have a bottom ten list (although most of the ones mentioned I’ve heard nothing but bad about), but to comment on one:
I also heard the Napoleon hype and wanted to see for myself, despite it being a documentary of my high school years from what I heard, but, having rented it to see if I could “relate” or “enjoy” I could do neither. The movie was pointless, hard to follow - might have enjoyed it more if it was marketed as a “mockumentary” or something becuase that’s the vibe I got from it.
So, that’s on my list
The other one on my list that I’ve actually seen and hasn’t been covered so far (surprisingly) is Casino Royale - don’t get me wrong I love James Bond, every red-blooded man does, but I view reboots with extreme trepidation (I have yet to see Star Trek for that reason, despite being a bigger Trekkie than James Bond fan), and I was a combination of confused, saddened, and angry at the Bond reboot. I was thoroughly convinced that the Bond franchise was utterly and irrevocably ruined, though my enjoyment of every Bond film previous didn’t keep me away from the theatres to see if Quantum of Solace would be worth it (I was relieved to see the franchise getting better with QoS, and am hesitatntly saying that Casino Royale was just a blip.)
Ooh. Forgot Casino Royale. Craig was excellent but that was just the worst screenplay ever.
Wow. It’s always interesting to see these lists and see what others put on a bad list but I liked it.
My list:
Napoleon Dynamite - probably has to be number one as I didn’t finish this as a rental.
There’s Something About Mary - also couldn’t finish it, so a close second.
D&D movie - awful
Mike Myer movies - he’s not funny to me
Will Ferrel movies - except Stranger Than Fiction but otherwise, he’s not funny to me
The Return of the King - bored me
Jim Carrey movies - he’s not funny to me
Ben Stiller movies - he’s not funny to me except maybe Mystery Men
Sequels to Pirates of the Caribbean - Those are what I was expecting from the first film. I can’t believe they are doing another.
Matrix sequels - The story is lost in this mish mash.
My guest of honor is City of Angels. It’s from the 90s but it was the first film I can remember not finishing to the end. It was so bad, I didn’t feel bad about not finishing it and it has allowed me not to finish other bad movies.
*Oblivion *was a movie my wife inflicted on me to see my reaction. Bad. I think we inflicted in on someone else as well.
I have seen clips of *Borat *and *Bruno *but didn’t bother as I wouldn’t like them. But I haven’t seen them, so they aren’t on the list. I don’t like his humor, apparently.
I have some SciFi movies recorded, including the Dungeon Siege movie, but we haven’t watched them yet. Includes A Sound of Thunder, which I also heard was bad but haven’t seen it yet.
The hardest part about this is that I enjoy movies. I like the experience at the theater as well as watching them at home. I still get entertained by most movies or find something that’s okay about them. I think there are only three movies I have not finished but admittedly there are lots that I haven’t started because friends told me I wouldn’t like it or I had no interest in it.
There are groups of movies, though, that while not at the terrible level, did NOT hold up to a second viewing. Michael Bay movies (Pearl Harbor, Transformers) seem to hold this record where they are fun in the theater but when you think about it, they aren’t that good. Or they lose it once you find out what really happened, such as with Pearl Harbor. 300 is almost another but I only recently saw it and haven’t watched it again.
vislor
Well now I just have to ask…
What IS funny to you? 
I did see it, and it’s probably in my top ten of all time. The confusingly similar characters situation did annoy me, but I liked everything else about the movie so much that it cancelled it out.
dhkendall, my list was going to be in no particular order, but then I used my Netflix rating history, which is in alphabetical order, to help me make it. I just forgot to edit that bit. Sorry to inspire you to nitpick!
Unfortunately, it’s a case by case basis.
I haven’t found SNL funny in 20 years, which includes most of the actors.
I liked Friends, although the middle seasons were tough at times. I don’t like the old “this is the one where there is a misunderstanding” type of humor and I think that’s what it did then. I still find season one to three quite funny, with very few bad episodes but I don’t like the break up episodes between Ross and Rachel.
I like the Man Who Knew Too Little, but can over think the ending at the beach at times. (I think they should have left that scene out.)
Wow. Eddie Izzard. Jeff Dunham, but the show is only so so. Craig Ferguson. I find them funny.
As I think about it, though, it seems that I get most of my humor from drama shows that have some humor. So, a funny situation in flashForward, Lie To Me, Bones, or other drama show that I like. Eureka has a lot of funny moments as well.
Thanks!
vislor
I thought I was the only person who liked The Man Who Knew Too Little. And I agree that the beach scene should have been left out.
I tend not to see films that are iffy. But here are the films from the decade that I hated, in alphabetical order:
Bridget Jones, Edge of Reason - I loved the first, but this sequel insultingly destroyed the characters for some really cheap laughs.
Catwoman - an example why every comic book movie should have at least one writer who has actually read an issue of the comic book.
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past - look, the wife makes me watch these rom-coms, and that’s ok. But this was painfully bad. Please stop putting Matthew McMumblelyabs in movies. I’m going to punch him for this flick if I ever see him.
Good Luck Chuck - even 7th grade boys think this movie is crass and stupid.
Hollow Man - a story with so much potential wasted by bad writing, directing, and hammy acting. The director was more interested in tit shots than storytelling. The plot is driven by nothing but unbelievable stupidity.
Jersey Girl - The last Kevin Smith film I’ll ever take a chance on. I liked Clerks. It was interesting and mildly entertaining. But I would gladly see Clerks erased from history if it means putting an end to Kevin Smith’s celluloid pollution. He is a seriously lucky hack who gets to spread his shit for eternity because he made one sorta good flick fifteen years ago.
Lady in the Water - see above, substituting Shyamalan for Smith and The Sixth Sense for Clerks.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest - take all the bad stuff from the first film and none of the good stuff. Multiply by suck. Even Depp couldn’t save it.
Sweet Home Alabama - from the insulting depiction of Southern culture to the fact that the only honorable character in the film gets screwed in the end, this film is to Southerners as blackface was to African-Americans.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - ok, so maybe it is impossible to make a book like THGTTG into a really stellar film, but did the filmmakers even bother to read the book at all? I mean just look at Marvin.
The Matrix Revolutions - not one or two, but hundreds of teenage fanboys wrote better fan-fic sequals than this. Too bad the Wachowskis don’t have internet access.
The Ugly Truth - Have you ever had a favortie food that you can no longer eat beacuse of some unfortunate food poisoning? What do they call that, negative reinforcement? Well, I watched this for one reason only: to look at Katherine Heigl for ninety minutes. Now I’d rather look at Rhea Pearlman porn.
Van Helsing - Another great concept ruined.
Swing Vote - just the retarded premise makes my head asplode. Somehow this film about politics managed not to have anything to say politically. Ideally it could have been a scathing (and funny) indictment of both political parties in America. Even if it only hit one side or the other it could have been ok, but they wimped out and made weak sauce.
I only have 8 right now, but here they are.
300
Transformers
Step Brothers
Watchmen
The Devil Wears Prada
Star Trek: Nemesis
X-Men 3
Shutter
Another vote for (against?) The Golden Compass, Wild Hogs, Evan Almighty and a vote for the Underworld movies, all of them.