I have been a fan of Vin Diesel since Pitch Black and Boiler Room, but Triple X was terrible. It would have been much better if it had been overtly tongue-in-cheek, but I think it was meant to be serious.
Also, this over a year old, but Saving Silverman was one of the dumbest movies I’ve ever seen. Its only highlight was Amanda Peet in those plunging-cleavage outfits.
Um…he’s not in that movie. You’re thinking of Jesse Bradford(Hackers, Bring it on, Romeo and Juliet etc.)
I can’t believe that nobody has mentioned this one yet.
Star Wars, Episode II: The Attack of the Clones.
George Lucas’ only ambition in this movie was to cram the screen with as many candy-colored visual effects as possible. The screenplay may well be the most pathetic ever written (“You have grown too my lady. Grown more beautiful, that is.”, “I’ve been dying a little bit each day since you came back into my life.”) The acting is miserable. Portman and Christenen portray youthful love with about as much enthusiasm as most people would give to a particularly bad chemistry lecture. Even the costumes and sets were totally inept.
I agree with Friedo. Waking Life sucked so hardcore my friends and I stopped watching it and were tempted to damage it to spare other people from renting it. After watching we watched Shallow Hal and it seemed like the funniest and most brilliant movie ever made.
Come to think of it the only movie I stopped watching was Waking Life. I like pretty much every movie I see because I just want to be entertained no matter how mindlessly or how much I have to shred the movie internally to remake it in my head as something worth watching.
I usually avoid watching movies I know I will dislike, I’ve only been forced to go see a couple of real stinkers. In the past six months I’d have to say the worst I had seen was ‘Eight Legged Freaks’, and it really wasn’t that bad of a movie, just not as good as I’d hoped. Most everything else I’ve seen in the last 6 months has been pretty good.
What did you expect from this movie? Sheesh. After the Phantom Menace, did you expect a character drama on the order of The Ice Storm?
I judged Attack of the Clones as an action movie, and as such, it was a decent (maybe even good) movie. The action sequences were enjoyable and some were genuinely creative. I disagree with you on the sets; a lot of them were gorgeous. I don’t really care much about costumes, so I won’t issue an opinion there. The epic mythos seemed to be carried through, despite the acting, despite the dialogue. Moreover, I felt excited at times during the movie.
I never felt an ounce of excitement during The Phantom Menace (except maybe the opening blurb and the Star Wars theme); thus, Attack of the Clones was for me heads and shoulders above the previous endeavor… I enjoyed it.
Throwing my hat in with the OP. I like stupid movies, I like parodies, and I like Kung Fu movies. I figured this would be right up my alley, just like the Fist Full of Yen segment with Bong Soo Han from Kentucky Fried Movie.
But this movie sucked. Not even mildly amusing. Not the least bit clever. Not even slightly original. I didn’t even finish watching it past about 15 minutes in, because I didn’t care what was going on. I’ll never get those 15 minutes back. They’re gone forever. :mad:
My wife rented The Limey, thinking it would be something we’d both like. She left to go to bed after about 30 minutes, I left to surf the net after 60. It was impossible to generate any sympathy, caring or even interest in the main character or anyone around him. Even the villain was boring: a dull, spineless egotist who does nothing but tell dull, spineless egotitical stories about himself while some Denise Richard’s act-alike watches him like a love-struck tree sloth.
A&E’s “remake” of The Lathe of Heaven
I watched some movie called The Garden of Evil, I think it had Jeremy Irons in it and Richard Greeko. Ugh, it was by far the worst movie I have ever seen, and I just saw it about a month ago.
Driven.
The one with Stallone and Reynolds. It is just horrible. Awful. The editing and directing are the most pretentious and gratuitous I’ve ever seen. It is so bad that it makes me laugh out loud as I watch. The only decent acting is by Reynolds, but it gets cut to pieces. It’s like it was edited by Edward Scissorhands on speed. Bad. Really really bad.
The newest Star Wars movie was completely awful except for the Yoda fight sequence. It is definately not a movie I will want to see again.
Though I found Road to Perdition significantly worse. It was the most predictable movie I have seen in ages with the longest segments of nothing happening. The only good thing I can say was that the acting was pretty good. Other than that the movie was completely painful for me to see. I saw it with some friends and the friend that chose to see this one will never choose a movie for us to watch in the theatre again.
A friend of mine recently rented…
Space Truckers
I didn’t really watch the whole movie, but it was playing in the background during a party.
It’s mildly interesting when there’s a bunch of drunk people MST3King it.
At least I didn’t fall asleep.
Easily the worst movie I’ve ever had the misfortune to see.
I opened this thinking of Jeepers Creepers, only to see that Coldfire got in there with the first reply. Well done, sir. Glad to see I’m in good company.
Apart from that… Vertical Limit? I normally love this sort of film but the action in this just bored me as it was so repetitive. Literally every time something could go wrong, it did. The main characters must have escaped death by a whisker at least thirty times whilst the supporting cast were gradually killed off in a variety of dull and predictable ways. Bleugh.
Just watched the whole thing this weekend, and I can assure you I would watch any other movie in this post than Glitter. I spent much of the movie sitting on the couch in slack-jawed wonder at the gall of Mariah Carey to attempt to act (she has one diva moment where, for a brief second, I believed her character, but then realized that was probably just her and not talent talking), confusion at the disruptive editing (where was the damn cat hiding all those years, since the orphanage, because it was the same cat, right?), and pained laughter whenever the boyfriend-producer spoke a line, for he appeared to be getting inspiration for his delivery from Mark Wahlberg, back in the Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch days (“Come on come on! Feel it feel it!”). It’s remarkable in the degree of its suckitude, so much so that I cannot help but recommend it as a bad movie touchstone.
I opened this thinking of Jeepers Creepers, only to see that Coldfire got in there with the first reply. Well done, sir. Glad to see I’m in good company.
Apart from that… Vertical Limit? I normally love this sort of film but the action in this just bored me as it was so repetitive. Literally every time something could go wrong, it did. The main characters must have escaped death by a whisker at least thirty times whilst the supporting cast were gradually killed off in a variety of dull and predictable ways. Bleugh.
I don’t go to many movies I expect to be bad, so I thought I wouldn’t see a movie worse than ITR champion’s choice this year.
But my wife dragged me to Crop Circles: Quest for Truth this past weekend, and we definitely have a new champion in the POS dept. As bad a “documentary” as I’ve ever seen.
Oh, and thanks for the mention, flyboy. That movie still moves me deeply (even though the DVD has no chapter stops); but what do I know? I liked Waking Life a lot, too. 
I don’t go to many movies I expect to be bad, so I thought I wouldn’t see a movie worse than ITR champion’s choice this year.
But my wife dragged me to Crop Circles: Quest for Truth this past weekend, and we definitely have a new champion in the POS dept. As bad a “documentary” as I’ve ever seen.
Oh, and thanks for the mention, flyboy. That movie still moves me deeply (even though the DVD has no chapter stops); but what do I know? I liked Waking Life a lot, too.
You’re a much better person than I **brondicon
**. I couldn’t watch twenty minutes of that movie without my brain starting to feel like it was turning into mush. You have my eternal respect for actually making it through the whole movie.
The Sweetest Thing with Cameron Diaz, Selma Blair and Christina Applegate. They should have just called it nasty girls talk about sex and dance in a having a seizure type manner. I don’t know why they even bothered with a plot. It was pure torture. I don’t know why I sat through it.