What movie do you think SUCKS that was very commercially sucessful?

[Mobius]

One of mine has to be "The Fast and the Furious", as much as I love Vinny, it was not much of an artisitc triumph.

[theoceansnerves]

1. titanic

man, it's bad.

[belladonna]

3. I was just going to say Titanic

Worst. Movie. Ever.

[Mobius]

5. I liked it, but I can see where you are coming from

Although I found it entertaining, It did have some hokey parts.

[kodi]

40. you bet, it made me long for shelley winters & the poseidon adventure

and they panned cimino's heaven's gate and elevated titanic to legend status?

[richmwill]

45. Here here

Another vote for "Titanic". Is it wrong that 2 hours into the film I was saying "Just go and DROWN already"?

[JohnLocke]

48. Ya beat me, buddy.

[Burma Jones]

80. ABSOLUTELY

What Dreck. But then, dreck sells baby.......

[MrSandman]

2. Pearl Harbor...

If you want the romance..."From Here to Eternity"
on edit...or "In Harm's Way"
If you want the history..."Tora, Tora, Tora"

[SnohoDem]

43. Pearl Harbor was so bad

the only thing I enjoyed was the scotty playing Fala.

[MrSandman]

65. At least you found some enjoyment...

You would think the Battle of Britain would have been lost without U.S. aviators.

[devilgrrl]

4. Fuckin' 'Dead Poet's Society'

What a bunch of pretentious dreck that was

[Mobius]

10. Oh it was so touching how those boys came together like that...

Made me cry , sort of.

[aquart]

6. Moonlighting.

Where we all pretended Cher could fall in love with Nick Cage, as opposed to getting a restraining order to keep that psychotic lunatic away.

I mean the characters they play, naturally.

[Mobius]

11. "moonstruck", I believe.

I never saw it. Looked lame.

[salinen]

20. You mean "Moonstruck"

I liked it.

[Th1onein]

7. The first Lord of the Rings

[Malikshah]

87. Blasphemer!

Auuuuuggghhh.

Verily, the pervy hobbit fanciers shall smite thee.

[dawg]

88. I smite thee!

Although, if you weren't into the books, I can see how the movie could have been less than fantastic.

[WLKjr]

8. Lion King 2

I have personal experience with that movie. The Vendor at my store (dont damn me to hell becuase I work for Wal-Mart) Anderson ordered LOADS OF IT because Disney said it was going to be a hit. We got paraded with signage, demos, kiddie activites and then the day came. We ended up with LOADS OF IT and didnt sell but a hand full of the like 600 copies on VHS and DVD we were shipped. I think I counted at one point 7 cardboard displayers...........

[TheWizardOfMudd]

9. There are so many

Most of the ones that get all of the incredible hype. Those Charlie's Angels movie suck shit through a rag.

[curse10]

26. LoL- that's a pleasant image!

and you're right the Charlie's Angels movies were truly awful.

[koopie57]

12. the most miserable movie I ever sat through

was that one about the olympic runner a long time ago and it won an oscar I believe. He didn't run on Saturdays or something like that. The name is on the tip of my toungue.

[Mobius]

15. LOL "Chariots of Fire"

good call

[koopie57]

21. thats it!

and didn't it go on for days? We kept waiting for it to get good and waited and then it was over!

[devilgrrl]

16. you're thinking of Chariots of Fire

nt

[President Jesus]

57. that was a great film!

Of all the crap blockbuster films Wil Smith has been in, you're going to tell me Chariots of Fire is the worst film you've seen?

[koopie57]

86. yes I am.

I'm glad you enjoyed it though.

[NightTrain]

13. Jurassic Park

Christ, did that thing bore me!

[Enraged_Ape]

67. A crushing disappointment for me, since the book was so good

In the book, they didn't have access to firearms, which made it a lot more tense and exciting as to how they were going to get out of their situation.

In the movie, after an hour and a half of killing and mayhem, our heroes open up some sort of gun locker and get to blastin'. WTF?!!

[soothsayer]

14. blair witch project

since titanic was taken

[pagerbear]

17. All of them

I prefer small, independent movies.

[curse10]

19. please

[NightTrain]

22. I've seen plenty of small, independent films that sucked ass, too.

Inverted elitism, my friend!

[Enraged_Ape]

68. I think I've seen MORE small, independent films that sucked ass

People tend to forget that there is quite often a good reason why a big studio won't bankroll a movie: because it's just plain shit.

[pagerbear]

35. Perhaps I should have been more clear

It has been my observation that

the more advertising, paid and unpaid, a movie has, the less I like it.

Please forgive me for any inconvenience and discomfort the appalling word choice in my original post has caused.

[physioex]

18. Top Gun...

It had a pretty boy and great aerial shots of jet airplanes. Was there a story? Tom Cruise should not even be called and actor in my opinion.

[MrSandman]

23. And how many times did that one missile...

fly off the rail?

[salinen]

25. Rent "Magnolia"

Cruises only real performance.

[physioex]

28. To be fair..

He was "OK" in A Few Good Men, but Jack Nicholson takes most of that credit.

[Deja Q]

24. Gladiator!!!

What a joke of a movie.

Much like Star Wars, the acting was bad, the plot uninventive, the pacing atrocious. But both had mostly good effects, so I'm thinking that's why anybody went to see either of them.

[TheWizardOfMudd]

50. No, no, no, no, no

Gladiator was incredible. SEE ACADEMY AWARDS. FIVE OSCARS.

Focus.

[DEMVET-USMC]

73. Gladiator with Russell Crowe ? That is one of the best movies ever made

Maybe you should see it again. How you can compare it to Star Wars is beyond me. The acting was great, the cinamatography was beautiful, the plot was very good. And the question of: What is Rome ?, was probed on many different levels and many of the different characters had different answers that I found to be of current value and interest. ...Oscar

[chaska]

27. Forest Gump

[Paul Hood]

37. I second Forrest Gump. n/t

[TheWizardOfMudd]

52. If you had lived through the times depicted in FG

You would feel differently.

[nuxvomica]

72. I third it

I will not miss an opportunity to condemn this celluloid abomination. A CGI moneyhole populated by hollow characters with pointless eccentricities. Compare this one to Zelig, which had the same premise but better visual effects, editing, script, performances, humor, etc.

[DarkPhenyx]

29. "Gone With The Wind"

I hated it and think it was way over rated. It should have went with the wind and stayed gone.

[Burma Jones]

81. I don't know nothin' bout makin no movies Miss Scarlett

[Harrumph]

30. "Deep Throat" sucked but was sucessful.

The Hulk was very bad, too. Hated it.

[LizW]

31. Scooby Doo Movie............groan! (n/t)

[Bryan]

33. Moulin Rouge

A shrill, stupid, garish, smugly faux-bathetic monstrosity with a story as thin as onionskin paper, and whatever you think of them as actors, Ewan MacGregor and Nicole Kidman can't sing worth a motherfuck.

[smirkymonkey]

47. Ugh - Hated it!!

Pure Torture.

[President Jesus]

56. I second that

[mvd]

79. Boy, I agree

It was kind of fake right down to the modern songs that just didn't fit IMO.

[solinvictus]

32. Star Wars: The Phantom Menace

God, it was awful. Additionally, anything with Adam Sandler.

[Kathleen04]

42. I second your sentiments on that Star Wars

Blech! IMO, all of the new Star Wars have been awful.

[aljones]

34. The Mask, with jim carrey

Hated that movie!

[Kat45]

36. Chicago

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[Champ]

71. What?

That movie should've got best picture!

[m-jean03]

83. LOL n/t

[EstimatedProphet]

39. Mulholland Drive

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

[Champ]

41. No one really said it was an artisitic triumph

Everyone knew it was supposed to be a film you kick back and watch. An undercover cop infiltrates a street racing ring. The description already tells you it's not an artisitic triumph. Though 2 Fast 2 Furious was very fun to watch!!

[JohnOneillsMemory]

44. Men In Black II. No laugh lines, only smirks, Will not likeable anymore,

Endless tech for tech's sake, non-stop product placement-the movie was just a vehicle for corporate advertising.

I only saw it because my new Rayban sunglasses came with a free pass.

By the time the 30 minutes of wam-bam previews were over (complete with lengthy produced commercials) I was exhausted before the frikkin' movie began.

That little talking dog was in no way amusing. Nor were the humans.

[Fenris]

46. SPIDER-MAN

I hate that movie.

[Don_G]

49. The Creature From The Black Lagoon

So I'm older than most of y'all.

It sucked then and it does now.

[Lou_C]

51. The Blair Witch

I asked for my money back.

[mitchum]

53. Most of them

[AlCzervik]

54. Even though it just opened, it's already raking in huge bucks

Troy.

[President Jesus]

55. That's easy: Independence Day

followed by:

Wild, Wild West
Bram Stoker's Dracula (Keanu, Winona)
Godzilla
The Hulk

[FDRrocks]

58. I'm young, Van Helsing...

I've never seen hollywood so clearly telling me that I am stupid, than when I saw this movie, then witnessed it do well at the box office.

This movie was so bad that I now believe Tarantino is a relative genius. Alls he does is derive shots from movies he has seen, but compared to the bad-plot-bad-script-cg-driven crap that the summer season crams down our throat... all four of his movies are diamonds in the rough.

[Dogmudgeon]

59. What? No "Battlefield Earth"?

You guys are seriously slacking.

For myself, I'm cultivating my über-ironic sensibility. I liked Battlefield Earth. But I'm keeping my fingers crossed that they don't make Dianetics into a movie.

--bkl

Piltdown Man was always biting his wife.
-- L. Ron Hubbard, A History Of Man

[sir_captain]

60. Recently, Saving Private Ryan

[DEMVET-USMC]

77. Saving Private Ryan was a Great Movie

I still remember sitting in the theater after the movie was over and the complete silence throughout the viewing audience. It was a packed house so no wisecracks, please. The reality of the battle scenes was unprecedented. People do get blown to pieces and bleed a lot in battles, and this movie brought that home. Machine guns really can cut a man in two, etc. ...Oscar

[Twillig]

78. feh. Call me crazy, but the truest moment in that movie to me

was when Hanks gets called to the rear to be given his 'private Ryan' mission.

Oh, the look he gives the sandwich that some clerk typist Rear-Eschelon-Mother-Fucker has casually left lying on a plate was gold.
Very beautiful shot.

[sir_captain]

61. Recently, Saving Private Ryan

[PittPoliSci]

62. Passion.

[politicat]

95. 2nd that. An S&M movie disguised as ... what? Surely not religion.

It missed the whole point.

Pcat

[VolcanoJen]

63. "Armageddon." Hands down.

I have a natural aversion to Bruce Willis movies in general, but "Armageddon" takes the crap cake.

[Atlas Mugged]

64. ET

T'was tripe.

And I agree on almost everything previously listed.

Yes - I'm a film snob. For starters, I own everything ever made by Herzog and Kurosawa.

[Enraged_Ape]

66. American Beauty

So many things I hate about this movie:

1) Kevin Spacey. Sorry, I know a lot of people here think he is some sort of God. But frankly, I don't think the man can act to save his ass. He sort of walks through every part speaking in a monotone, always with the same blank expression on his face. I guess some people interpret this as "depth".

2) Its creepy jailbait lust theme. This movie seems like a masturbatory fantasy for mouth-breathing middle-aged men. I was not aware at the time that the actress who plays Spacey's daughter was underage at the time she did her nude scene. This makes it even creepier.

3) Its heavy-handed sophomoric take on our materialistic society. "They're yuppies and they're miserable!! GET IT?!! GET IT?!!"

4) The rip-off of the "hovering bag scene" from a New York independent filmmaker, with no credit given whatsoever.

5) The trite, sterotypical depiction of the homophobic marine next door as (THAT'S RIGHT! How did you know?!) secretly gay. I'm sorry, but not all homophobes are closet gays. A great many of them are just ignorant and frightened of things they do not understand.

6) The ending, which was so pointless and stupid that I interpreted it as a blessing, for the family onscreen and for me as the viewer.

Did I mention I hate this fucking movie?

[sir_captain]

74. Good call

a simpering, pretentious Lolita wannabe

[Guy_Montag]

69. Too many to count,

few Hollywood blockbusters are worth paying to see at the cinema.

[GCP]

70. ANYTHING by M. Knight Shmayalan

Or Whatever the fuck his name is.

[DEMVET-USMC]

75. The Sting has to be one of the most overrated:Best Picture Oscar: 1973

What a disappointment this movie was for me with actors such as Robert Redford and Paul Newman in thier prime, I found it boring and the plot so contrived and unrealistic, in 3 words: SILLY AND BORING. ...Oscar P.S. and I am Oscar so I should know

[President Jesus]

94. W T F ???

[DEMVET-USMC]

96. Gee Whiz, a 6 digit reply

I guess that counts as a posting. WTF can I say ? Oscar

[gpandas]

76. the matrix n/t

[Speck Tater]

82. I liked every one of the "bad" movies listed above.

I go to the movies looking for entertainment, and I am seldom disappointed.

I know people who go to the movies looking for opportunities to assert their "superior" taste who are likewise seldom disappointed. However, those "superior" sorts miss out on the pure joy and excitement that I get from watching an entertaining "bad" movie. I wouldn't change places with them for the world.

Last night I enjoyed myself immensely watching Earth vs. The Flying Saucers (1956), and the night before that I got a huge kick out of watching Comic Book; The Movie. Give me a "bad" movie any day of the week. I LOVE them! Think I'll sit down this evening, pop up a big batch of popcorn, and enjoy a Matrix marathon! Life doesn't get any better than that.

[m-jean03]

84. Lethal Weapon 4

A disaster! The first 3 were so good! But the last one practically broke my heart it was so stupid.

[Champ]

93. I hated the first 3 but loved the 4th one

I don't know, I think Pesci, Rock, and Jet Li were the reasons. Also gotta love the chicken suit scene. I laugh everytime I see that movie.

[CBHagman]

85. I sit out a lot of blockbusters, but...

"Titanic" had tremendously dumb dialogue and was dreadfully silly.

I hated "Notting Hill." I hated it, hated, hated. Did I mention that I hated it?

And don't get me started on "Pretty Woman."

[VOX]

90. Right there with you on "Notting Hill." What a loathsome movie.

And "Pretty Woman" was vile and manipulative, too.

For the record, I'm not particularly prejudiced against Julia Roberts (although she does choose her "projects" a bit too carefully).

[dawg]

89. 2001: A Space Odyssey

Awful, just awful. I have fallen asleep everytime I've tried to watch it.

Then, I wind up thinking all kind of silly things like "Go ahead monkey, whack that bone. Whack itttt! You know you're gonna do it!"

[citizen snips]

91. Harry Potter.

My parents made me go see that movie and I hated it.

[citizen snips]

92. delete