What movie(s) did you absolutely hate?

[motely36]

I mean movies you left the theater wanting your time and money back.

The topic came up at work today, and I am hardpressed to come up with an answer. I seen movies I didn't "get" and movies I thought were pretty bad, but I can still come up with some redeeming qualities.

What about you?

[Phillycat]

The Mummy. Catwoman.

Troy. :puke:

[motely36]

4. Troy thats a good answer

Never saw catwoman, and I actually enjoyed the Mummy.

[AlCzervik]

11. Oh yes, Troy was awful

[davidinalameda]

1. Pearl Harbor

it sucked!!!!

[Lavender Brown]

3. jinx!

[motely36]

6. Didn't see it, no desire

I try to avoid Ben Affleck movies

[Lavender Brown]

2. Pearl Harbor

I really couldn't stand it. Some of the lines made me want to :puke:

[Beware the Beast Man]

5. Hellboy and Van Helsing come to mind.

Thankfully I only rented both.

[motely36]

9. Van Helsing I actually enjoyed,

but then I like vampire movies and Hugh Jackman. Hellboy was pretty bad, but at least it had some funny moments.

[Left Is Write]

39. I enjoyed Van Helsing too.

I just thought of it as a live-action cartoon and didn't take it too seriously.

[Zuni]

56. Hellboy was REALLY BAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I do not know how much more I could emphasize that

[Wickerman]

7. Beaches

will forever create a stench in my memory.

[motely36]

10. Never saw it

[Wickerman]

15. You never want to

[lateo]

8. Raising Arizona

Or any of the movies by these assclowns.

[Itchinjim]

12. The Hollow Man.

Not a Goddam thing in it about T.S. Elliot! I want my money back!


Edited for spelling

[skypilot]

13. "Funny Games"

Austrian flick about a family being held hostage, humiliated and tortured in the home by a couple of creeps. The most sadistic movie I've ever seen. The filmmaker practically rubs your face in it.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119167/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxzZz0xfGxtPTIwMHx0dD1vbnxwbj0wfHE9ZnVubnkgZ2FtZXN8aHRtbD0xfG5tPW9u;fc=1;ft=2

[judge_smales]

14. Everybody always gives me a hard time about this opinion, but I thought

that The Shining was the absolute worst thing I ever saw.

[thom1102]

16. Eyes Wide Shut...

It was the WORST movie! I saw it on HBO, and was really excited about it and even invited some friends over and all of us just hated it.

Also, American Beauty. Didn't like it one bit.

[motely36]

18. Never saw Eyes Wide Shut

I did see American Beauty and thought it was ok. But all of my friends gushed about how it was the greatest movie ever and saw it like 10 times. I just didn't get it.

[sundog]

27. ack! I thought it was a great movie

[jonnyblitz]

36. I loved it also.

Many didn't.

[LeighAnn]

17. Vulgur

A Kevin Smith movie about "Vulgar the Clown". I usually go for Kevin Smith stuff, but not that.

[terrya]

19. "Armageddon"

I rented that piece of shit and I was livid at how breathtakingly putrid this excrement is.

I wanted to find Ben Affleck and Liv Tyler and slap them silly just for that horrifyingly icky "I'm Leaving on a Jet Plane" scene.

Congress should pass a law forbidding Michael Bay from ever making another movie. My cat has more filmmaking talent than that hack.

[TlalocW]

23. I liked that movie

Because Bruce Willis dies in it. There should be more movies where Bruce Willis dies.

TlalocW

[Jessica]

20. I'm just asking for it, but ...

Groundhog Day. I couldn't wait for it to be over - but he just kept waking up! Grrrr ... x(

[Patiod]

57. (You knew this was coming) That's one of my favorites

God, I love that movie.

As they say, YMMV.

[TlalocW]

21. Two "Classics"

Sunset Boulevard and Citizen Kane. Had to sit through both of them for a Performance Appreciation class in college (so technically I did pay for them). They just both drove me nuts. Of course, maybe if I saw them now, I would like them, and thanks to Mystery Science Theater 3000, every now and then I'll yell at someone, "You can't walk out on me... I'm Charles Foster Kaaaaane!"

"The Tin Drum" was another one - mind-crushingly boring. There was a big to-do about it in Oklahoma supposedly being child pornography. Some busy-body group in OKC tried to get it declared as such because of one scene where a young boy (who is supposed to be a midget) is boinking his babysitter, which his parents still hire to take care of him. All they did was get people interested in a movie that without a doubt was gathering dust in movie rental places and public libraries. I had a librarian friend in Tulsa tell me that right after the brouhaha there was a waiting list to rent the movie a page long when there had never been any before.

The other one that bugged me was Rocky Horror Picture Show because to give us an idea of what the whole Rocky experience was like, the professor invited his theater friends to it, and his friends went a little bit overboard, doing things that you're not allowed to do in the theater like throw eggs at the door whenever someone entered or exited. Plus they also tore the toilet paper dispensers off the walls to get the toilet paper. The professor had to stay an extra 2 hours after the movie was over and clean the classroom, and he apologized to us next class period.

One of my Spanish professors that liked to be in plays (he was King Lear) came into the room when the movie started, and I guess you're supposed to yell, "Sit down, asshole!" when someone does that. I yelled it out in Spanish, and he briefly scanned the dark room looking for me with a smile on his face.

TlalocW

[Patsy Stone]

32. You may never come to my house to watch movies...

You've named some of very favorite films. Sunset Boulevard is genius. Citizen Kane is genius and the Tin Drum, well I've seen it repeatedly in the theater during Film Festivals.

Wow. And, as someone who used to act out the part of Columbia in the RHPS, I gotta say, no one ever threw eggs. Toast, rice and frankfurters, but never eggs.

No disrespect, but how old are you?

[HEAVYHEART]

34. "No disrespect, but how old are you?"

heeheeheee. :D

[Patsy Stone]

37. Right? ;) n/t

[TlalocW]

38. I'm 32

I don't see the genius... sorry, but then I'm not a theater person. I liked the pterodactyls in the picnic scene from Citizen Kane though. :)

TlalocW

[Nosmo King]

66. Kane did for sound film what "Birth of a Nation" did for silents!

You've got to appreciate the techniques Welles used in making KANE. He had never worked in that medium before and he produced a masterpiece!

Matte paintings, extreme long focus and camera angles, mise en scene to die for, all these are laid out for your enjoyment in KANE.

[TlalocW]

67. By that rationalization...

All the incredible special effects techniques created by Lucas' team for the Phantom Menace makes it a masterpiece - all that's missing would be Jar-Jar collapsing and saying, "Rosa-bud, okie-day?" :)

TlalocW

[Nosmo King]

76. But, did Lucas synthesize all the accumulated knowledge into one film?

What Welles did was pull every trick out of the hat and put them artfully in one film! How will Jar-Jar hold up in the harsh light of historical context?

[TlalocW]

78. Ah, but new technology and new methods were created

By Lucas and his team. Your subject line says that Welles took already created methods and used them for the film. And Lucas, for all his other faults, did it pretty seamlessly. So kudos for both directors, but Citizen Kane was a boring movie with characters that weren't interesting to me, and Phantom Menace was nothing more but good eye candy filled with characters that were annoying to me.

I don't care about historical context. I'm not going to watch a movie and think, "Wow... Even though I could care less about the characters or the plot, this movie will hold well in the harsh light of historical context! I'm going to watch it again and again because of that!" I care about being entertained. There are movie buffs out there that will talk about the importance of Roger Corman's contributions to movies, but his movies are still stinkburgers.

TlalocW

[flamingyouth]

60. Gasping - oh my stars

Sunset Boulevard? One of my all-time faves.

But then again, I'm a silent film geek, so you'll have to forgive me. :D

[WoodrowFan]

63. Virgin!!!!

eggs?? who throws eggs???

[TlalocW]

68. The people the professor invited threw eggs

Apparently this was common before theater owners started putting their feet down about that and actual hotdogs thrown at the screen when Frankenfurter shows up on screen the first time. I've never been to an actual showing of it so I'm fuzzy on all the traditions.

I felt sorry for the guy who was seated by the door. He kept getting pelted with eggs when someone would leave for or come back from the bathroom. He finally left in a huff halfway through the movie.

TlalocW

[Zomby Woof]

69. I fucking loathe RHPS with the heat of 1,000,000 suns

It's just vile dreck that survives based on the 'hip' idea that campy cheese of this level is something you either 'get' or you don't. There is nothing to get. It's the ultimate conceit of its fans that it is 'fun' and 'cool', and by extension, anyone who doesn't like it hopelessly has a stick in their ass. It amounts to nothing more than masturbatory self-indulgence and cloying self-conscious hipper-than-thou self-delusion at its worst.

I fucking hate Schlocky Horror. The emperor of midnight movies has no clothes.

[TlalocW]

73. I didn't think much of it either

And I'm a fan of bad, bad movies (as long as they're being made fun of by Joel/Mike, Tom Servo, and Crow).

One of my favorite web comics had a storyline where the main character was going to direct a stage musical version of "Shock Treatment," the sequel to Rocky Horror. These comics deal with his dealing with the Rocky Horro bunch that shows up to protest it:

http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp08272004.shtml
http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp08302004.shtml
http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp08312004.shtml

TlalocW

[Q3JR4]

22. I didn't like The Grudge.

Freaking dumb ass movie...

[goodboy]

50. when we saw it, the entire 13-17 year old female population of Columbus

Ohio was in the first several rows...screaming, moving in their seats, getting kicked out of the theater...plus the movie sucked balls.

[sundog]

24. Gladiator, Cabin Fever, In The Cut,

Titus (Julie Taymor version), The Dreamers, Titanic... (the list could go on, but I'll stop there)

[motely36]

29. I was thinking of Gladiator

cause I hate Russell Crowe, but I thought J______ Phoenix was good in it.

Please don't ask me to spell his name :)

[RevolutionaryActs]

54. Joaquin.

:)

[Patiod]

58. I hated Titantic too

For god's sake, just get off the damned boat already.

[motely36]

77. YES!!!

I was rooting for Jack to drown so I could go home!

But, I like the visuals of the ship. Some of the ship decoration is just fabulous. My favorite scene is of Victor Garber in front of the fireplace when he realizes his dream is dying.

Other than that, the movie pretty much sucked ass. :P

[Patsy Stone]

25. Less Than Zero

We turned it off for a bathroom break and no one wanted to put it back on.

Also, In the Company of Men was a hateful, hateful film.

[Left Is Write]

40. Yeah, I hated Less Than Zero also.

It couldn't have been more depressing if it had tried.

[Patsy Stone]

42. Almost Downey's biopic! :) n/t

I just couldn't bring myself to care.

[ProfessorGAC]

48. Yeah, That's A Real Piece Of Crap

It's in my top 10 worst ever, too! Not one character has any redeeming qualities, so it's almost impossible to care what happens to them.

It's also directed with the pace of a glacier on qualudes.
The Professor

[Lerkfish]

26. overhyped movies like "American Beauty"...

not that they are absolutely horrible movies per se, but when everyone overhypes them as the greatest cinema since Citizen kane, and you finally see it and say "wtf?"

others that fit that category for me:

Fargo
Pulp fiction
Dusk to Dawn
A time to Kill
Contact

[motely36]

44. I just didn't get American Beauty

My best friend loved it, watched it 10 times and says it is the greatest movie of her lifetime. I thought it was ok.

[brainshrub]

28. The Omega Code

The Omega Code was so lame it was like someone was pissing in my eyes.

I sat thru the whole thing b/c I could not believe that a movie could be so craptacular. It was like driving by a car wreck...I just had to slow down and look.

I later learned that the movie cost 27 million to produce.

[Skittles]

30. I walked out of Laws of Attraction at the DOLLAR THEATER

overrated Julianne Moore and Pierce Brosnan - oh lord is sucked BAD.
I also didn't make it through THE TERMINAL - I just didn't care enough about the characters to stick it out.

[Rambis]

31. Pulp Fiction

I answered this a month ago too, still hate it!

[TOhioLiberal]

33. probably gonna get flamed for this...

...but I hated 'The Day After Tomorrow.' They lost me at the tornado scene in LA. As a midwesterner knows, and the filmmaker should have too, you can't FLY a HELECOPTER in the middle of a tornado!

[jonnyblitz]

35. AUSTIN POWERS! All three of them.

and to have to listen to people do pathetic immitations of him whenever a new one came out was annoying. :puke:

[noonwitch]

41. "It's A Wonderful Life"

I hate that movie, it grinds on my nerves.

[flygal]

43. Anyone remember Altman's Ready to Wear (prete a porte)

:puke: horrible

[Patsy Stone]

46. Really, Really bad...

Altman rule: It's every other film that's great. :)

[NewJeffCT]

45. The Messenger (Joan of Arc)

Milla Jovovich (sp?) was Joan, and I thought the movie was just terrible. I try not to read reviews, but heard from a normally reliable friend of mine that this was a great movie... and I haven't forgiven him since, though he is at least realizing that others might not share his opinion.

[Debbi801]

47. Lost In Translation.

[Jack_Dawson]

52. Most women didn't get it

But guys...they got it.

:toast:

[Debbi801]

53. ROFL. My husband thought it was worse than I did.

[Jack_Dawson]

55. Well...if you're looking for car chases

and such, LiT is definitely not going to be your movie. But I've found it's the kind of movie you either "get" or you "don't get". Most people I know loved it, but then again my gf hated it, and she clearly didn't get it. There was a lot of subtext to the flick that she missed. She liked it better the 2nd time.

[Jesus H. Christ]

62. I wonder if it has to do with the infidelity thing.

I'd beat a lot of people would have changed their minds if it were a middle-aged woman and an attractive young man.

[goodboy]

49. The Bear, and Waterworld.

[DerekG]

51. The Passion and The Matrix

The latter used Christian allegory, and the former, well, you know. Both were excessively violent and lacking any semblance of spiritual resonance. Frankly, I was ecstatic to see the Matrix franchise self-destruct.

[WoodrowFan]

59. Meet the Parents

If I wasn't with friends I would have left. Instead I just fell asleep. What an awful movie.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

61. Jurassic Park II (nt)

[Orangepeel]

64. I hated Bridges of Madison County

maybe I just expected too much after all the hype, but I hated it! The people playing her kids couldn't act their way out of paper bags and the whole thing was slow and stupid.

[bmbmd]

65. All-time worst for me?

"Blair Witch Project", perhaps.

[Joe Power]

71. What was up with that POS?

That movie was basically unwatchable. I love horror films, but that was awful.

[Joe Power]

70. Forest Gump, Titanic

:puke:

[Darth_Ole]

72. ditto on Titanic....

At the end when the old lady is standing at the front of the ship, I would have loved to kick her in the ass.

[RevolutionaryActs]

74. I liked parts of Titanic...

like when it was sinking..............................

Although to think about all the people who died in the water after it sank is sad. :(

[Joe Power]

75. LOL!

Exactly!

[sakabatou]

79. Godzilla 1998

For every G-fan in the world, GOD, that was an awful movie!

[KayLaw]

80. Chariots of Fire

What a terrible night that was.

[underpants]

81. Reality Bites

Bleeech!

[Nosmo King]

82. I walked out on Independence Day, Home Alone and Superman

Of course the theaters right across the hall was showing Pulp Fiction, Dances with Wolves and Midnight Express respectively