What was a movie most people liked that you thought sucked?

[yurbud]

A couple of mine:

Legends of the Fall I had a hard time convincing my friend to sit through it, and I just wanted to see how bad it could get. The one redeeming part was Anthony Hopkins doing a Popeye voice after his character had a stroke. We goofed on that for years.

A River Runs Through It As a writer myself, I kept trying to guess what would happen next, and I was always wrong because NOTHING happened.

A Few Good Men Jack Nicholson and Tom Cruise were way, way over the top. Also, Demi Moore's breasts were different sizes from scene to scene.

TitanicBoring as hell until the sinking. Also, both of them could have lived if Kate Winslet switched places with Leo since she had the padding to survive in the freezing water. I also couldn't buy androgynous DiCaprio as the romantic lead, at least not in a love story with a woman (he has since got more man-ish).

[Archae]

1. Rocky

Every stupid boxing cliche recycled, then they made SEQUELS!!! :puke:

[baldguy]

95. Rocky Balboa (2006)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0479143/

[fishwax]

2. Cider House Rules n/t

[LynneSin]

184. I love the book but I can't stand the movie

Charlize THeron ruined it - she wasn't Candy. And don't get me wrong, I think Ms. Theron is a talented actress, but she just didn't bring the innocent but yearning Candy as it was written in the book. Michael Caine and Tobey MacGwire both did well in their parts whereas Paul Rudd was pretty much a throwaway. But THeron just totally sucked but I also blame it on the script (oddly enough written by John Irving). She was suppose to be torn between losing her beloved in the war and her growing feelings that was developing between her and Homer. But in the movie she just came across as a horny teenager.

[Sanity Claws]

3. Being There; All About Mary

[kiraboo]

4. Crash. There were a lot of bad review here.

I thought it was fantastic.

[yurbud]

16. Like a lot of things about LA, critics said it was over the top, but...

it was dead on.

Critics said the same thing about Grand Canyon that had a carjacking, someone finding a baby in the bushes, and ended with an earthquake, or the novel Tortilla Curtain that has devastating brush fires and floods within a few months--and all of that is stuff that really happens here.

[WindRavenX]

17. as did I

Actually, it was my favorite movie from last year...

[IsIt1984Yet]

22. I liked it a lot, too. I found myself "fighting" liking it at first. Then

it grew on me. I was especially moved that I found myself thinking about it days later... just stunned at some of the twists.

[Nicole]

32. Didn't you get that backwards?

The question was:

What was a movie most people liked that you thought sucked?

Maybe I'm confused?.

[kiraboo]

44. No, I was the confused one. See my other post

"Mildly inebriated on a Wednesday night." (!)

[Kire]

96. You don't like sex and car crashes?

James Spader was excellent when he put his wee wee in the wound in Deborah Kara Unger's thigh. Fetishes are great.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

174. Big boo-hiss to (scientologist) Paul Haggis for stealing that title nt

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. Top Gun, Last Samurai, Titanic, Gone With the Wind, ET, AI

[BigMcLargehuge]

13. to be fair, I think I am the only person on Earth who liked

The Last Samurai.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

39. NOPE, you're not!

I simply loved that movie!

Great cinematography, great story, great acting!

One of my all-time favs!

:hi:

[Nikia]

76. My husband and I liked it

It also seemed to be popular at the local video store for a while.

[Wetzelbill]

81. I loved it!

:)

Then Tommy officially went batshit. I am big Edward Zwick fan.

[TimeChaser]

6. Napoleon Dynamite

My school was obsessed with it. I just thought it was stupid

[Pithlet]

59. I couldn't watch it.

I'd heard from so many people that it was hilarious. I'd seen lots of pop culture references from it. So my husband and I put it on the netflix queue. We had to turn it off ten minutes into it. Not only was it not funny, but it was painful to watch. I just didn't get it.

[cassandra uprising]

77. Thank you!

That was one of thee most over rated movies ever!

[WCGreen]

143. I concure,,,,

[blondeatlast]

152. Agreed. nt

[gmoney]

169. Yeah... not so much.

It had a few moments, but about the only laugh for me was the time machine gag. That, and carrying tater tots in one's sweatsuit pockets.

[catbert836]

181. Yes, my school was obsessed as well.

So much that the seniors saw fit to have me get a perm and do Napoleon's dance moves as one of the acts for their send-off.

[txwhitedove]

7. Smokey and the Bandit

[u4ic]

8. Gosford Park

Four Weddings and a Funeral (take out Andie McDowell and I would have loved it)

[AlCzervik]

9. Moulin Rogue, hated it.

[gmoney]

170. unwatchable...

maybe I'm just too much of a crankypants, but talk about sound and fury signifying nothing...

[asthmaticeog]

10. Lost in Translation.

Meh. Bill Murray was great, but there was nothing else to recommend it.

[IsIt1984Yet]

11. Oh yeah, beat me to it.

*yawn*

[Magrittes Pipe]

53. Wrong.

The opening scene was outstanding. :thumbsup:

That said, it's hard to get too excited about a movie who's three main attributes are: 1) an ex-SNL comic, 2) the soundtrack, and 3) an ass.

[asthmaticeog]

58. The ex-SNL comic has been consistently brilliant for a looong time.

The soundtrack and the ass were vastly overrated.

[Magrittes Pipe]

61. Yes, he has.

The soundtrack had Roxy Music and new Kevin Shields material, so I don't see how it possibly could have been overrated. The ass was very nice. If you don't like the female ass, however, it was probably unimpressive.

In any case, my wife has a better ass. But I never saw it on the big screen.

[asthmaticeog]

62. Wellllll...

"The soundtrack had Roxy Music and new Kevin Shields material, so I don't see how it possibly could have been overrated."

The Kevin Shields tune bores the shit out of me. He made so profound, influential and un-toppable a defining opus SO long ago that he really should take a page from the Jeff Magnum playbook and stay retired.



"The ass was very nice. If you don't like the female ass, however, it was probably unimpressive."

A few seconds of a marginally talented starlet's ass, however nice one may consider it, doesn't justify all the gushing praise this second-rate Wong Kar Wei ripoff movie got, nor is it worth the cost of theater admission or DVD rental.



"In any case, my wife has a better ass. But I never saw it on the big screen."

You sneaky sonofabitch - that set me up for SO MANY JOKES, any one of which would probably alienate us as friends if I told it, so I'm forced to hold my tongue. Well played, you clever monkey!

[Glorfindel]

12. American Beauty, Hope Floats, The Notebook, Field of Dreams

n/t

[GreenTea]

190. Might need some romance, hope, fantasy & dreams in your life...

[Broken_Hero]

14. Crying Game

Meet Joe Black...a few others.

[JudyM]

15. Jaws.

Everyone was screaming and I thought it was just dumb. Like Spielberg's later stuff a lot, though.

[yurbud]

19. Wow. I had the opposite reaction. You liked ET MORE?

[JudyM]

25. No, not ET, though that was sweet for kids.

[yurbud]

26. of his later stuff, I'd say Color Purple & Shindler's list were good

most of the rest is crap.

[JudyM]

45. Raiders, Amistad and Minority Report were pretty good, too, I thought.

[yurbud]

52. Amistad was a mixed bag & I hated ending of Minority Report

In Amistad, he took a great story and spent the most time on the most boring part--the court machinations.

In Minority Report, there was a perfect, Twilight Zone ending when they popsicled Tom Cruise, but then the movie kept going and took it back.

[Robeson]

18. Gladiator....

...:boring:

[yurbud]

24. It wasn't even a pale imitation of SPARTACUS (the homoerotic classic)

[ceile]

186. Agreed.

Russell Crowe was terrible!

[auntAgonist]

20. The Gods Must Be Crazy

Made no sense, boring .. not funny at all. My best friend LOVED it.

:shrug:

aA

[RebelOne]

74. I have to disagree. It was hilarious in some parts.

[yurbud]

21. ET--the Extra Terrestrial scrotum

That movie was such a steaming pile of shit, that when they found ET laying dead in ditch, I put on my jacket and was glad it was the end.

and he looked like a scrotum with arms and eyes.

[Robeson]

27. I'll have to agree on that one, too....

...never did get why that was such a popular "mainstream" movie, unless mainstream means 4 year old reviewers...:shrug:

[Strawman]

124. Sure you're not thinking of Eddie Torres?

The extra testicle?

[Jade Fox]

142. Scrotum- head....

Wake me when they're done trying to pluck my heart strings until they snap...

[hfojvt]

176. this would be at the top of my list

so I thank you and RABrrrrr

but I thought it was kinda fun until the last 20 minutes or so. Suddenly ET dies - no reason, no explanation. Then suddenly he comes back to life - how? We are never told. Then suddenly he can fly. It just got way too hokey at the end. At least with the Iron Giant it is more plausible, the giant robot has powers he does not know about - automatic defense mechanisms. So suddenly being able to fly makes sense - sensors detect falling and activate propulsion units. Same with Starman, he establishes from the start his ability to survive fiery crashes and that he must re-unite with his ship or die on this planet. Even in a kids story it is not cool to just pull plot devices out of thin air. Yes, the ruby slippers could have gotten Dorothy home from the start. Glinda knew that, but felt that Dorothy needed to go on a vision quest before she went home.

[conflictgirl]

23. Forrest Gump

I thought it was so dumb. I still don't understand why so many people loved it and thought it was so touching.

[Skittles]

109. I made it through just 30 minutes

utter drivel

[Benfea]

177. Agreed. It was little more than an aggrandizement of stupidity.

As if this country needs more of that. We already have FOX News, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, etc., etc.

[ceile]

187. Horrible movie.

The dumbest POS I ever saw!

[Skittles]

28. another thought about Titanic

if she had just STAYED in the life boat then JACK would have been on that door or whatever it was that Rose was on in the water and HE would have survived too

[yurbud]

40. Am I the only one who thought Leonardo DiCaprio looked like a chick?

He looks sort of like a guy now, but definitely not then.

[Skittles]

108. well, I thought he was cute

but I've never thought of him as particularly sexy

[BigMcLargehuge]

29. ALL of John Hughes Teen Comedies of the 80's

because these are held up to be the movies that "define" my generation.

Well fuck them.

I have about as much in common with that collection of so-white-they-glow-on-the-new-moon upper class twits from suburban Chicago than I do with 15th Century Chinese slave laborers. I hated every one of those fucking idiots in The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Some Kind of Wonderful, and especially Ferris Beuller's Day Off. Not to mention all of the other films in Hughes' ouvre.

I reserve special hatred for all the work of his protege Chris Columbus too.

I'd rather have an anal entry root canal than sit through Mrs. Doubtfire or The Stepmother again.

If you think post-Jaws Spielberg is sickeningly sweet, Columbus' films are subsidized by the Dialysis Manufacturers of America and the American Dental Association.

[Yollam]

166. I second that on the Hughes flicks. "Long Duk Dong" was offensive, too.

How must Chinese people feel when they are portrayed as hopeless dorks who can't even use silverware?

I don't mind that the kids were rich and white, so much as that they were presented as though they represented typical, all-American kids. Even the supposedly poor kids, like Molly Ringwald in Some Kind of Wonderful seemed remarkably well-dressed and had remarkably middle-class attitudes.

[scoey1953]

30. The CAT in the HAT....what a disapointment...

I went home and shredded my entire collection of Dr. Seus books, with hopes Hollywood would
Never do that again..(just kidding...I just hid them.)

[TimeChaser]

80. Did anyone actually like that movie?

:shrug:

[Radio_Lady]

92. Go figure! My grandchildren did and so did I! We even have the DVD!

The Movie's Production Budget: $109 million

The Movie grossed:

Domestic: $101,149,285 75.5%
+ Foreign: $32,811,256 24.5%

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

= Worldwide: $133,960,541

Not the worst "failure" for a movie in the world.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

31. "The Fugitive". I don't think it SUCKED, so much as it was just "meh".

Garden variety Hollywood thriller. It got so many notices like it was the best movie EVARRRR, which I just didn't understand.

[MorningGlow]

51. I second that

(And I'd usually pay good money to see Harrison Ford sit and read the phone book.) After seeing the movie, my friends, supposedly movie ubergeeks, were all gushing about it. They were horrified that I killed the lovefest by actually daring to say "...but it was just one long chase..." :spank:

Forrest Gump sucked too.

And Moulin Rouge--MAN I hated that crapfest!

[Nicole]

33. Titanic

I wanted to drown Rose & Jack myself just to get the movie over with..

[BlueIris]

34. 21 grams. Sean Penn was phoning it in, Naomi Watts can't act,

the whole thing was horribly directed and edited (resulting in a dizzyingly imbalanced--and pointless--plot structure), and I thought its "message" (such as it was) was misogynist and morally bankrupt (while getting reviewed as a film of deep, humanitarian profundity that promoted "values"). AMATEUR HOUR. Want those 120 minutes and my $10.00 back, let me tell you.

[alcibiades_mystery]

46. I agree...the editing was too clever by far

Utterly pointless rearrangement that added nothing to the plot and was completely unnecessary (unlike, say, Pulp Fiction or Memento).

[BlueIris]

88. *Exactly.*

I'm so excited to have someone agree with me about this. My other complaint about 21 grams is that it's one of the most bizarrely overrated films...ever. Even if you weren't offended by its knee-jerk, bait-and-switch, there's-going-to-be-a-profound-ending....no-there's-not-'cause-our-director's-a-stupid-kid construction, why do people love it so goddamn much?? There was nothing original or innovative or particularly great about it (except for Benicio del Toro, who gave the best performance in that film, so, of course, it had to be marginalized by the shit storylines of white actors Penn and Watts)!! Haaaaaaaaaaate. And I hate being so isolated in my hate. Welcome to my buddy list!

[gordontron]

35. fight club nt

[China_cat]

36. Madagascar.

[StellaBlue]

37. Something About Mary; any Star Wars movie; Citizen Kane

nt

[LSdemocrat]

38. Spiderman

I like action movies, but Spiderman didn't do anything for me. Of course it probably doesn't help matters that I don't see the appeal of Kirsten Dunst. That aside, I still thought it was a rather boring movie.

[Vidar]

41. The Matrix. Only the second movie that caused me to walk out.

[Jade Fox]

144. Walked out on that baby too....

Later I tried to watch The Matix with friends on DVD. Still couldn't sit through it. Boring. Derivative. Incomprehensible.

[BlueIris]

42. Ugh, and HOW could I have forgotten "A Beautiful Mind"?

The problem? Aside from the melodramatic, disrespectful, ahistorical depiction of John Nash and his life, the shitty direction and the obnoxious ending? Russell Crowe. Worst. Performance. Ever. ACK. SO bad. And it's badness entirely overshadowed the work of the otherwise good-to-excellent performances in the rest of the talented supporting cast.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

43. Forrest Gump.

:puke:

[alcibiades_mystery]

47. Star Wars, from soup to nuts

What a hokie, utterly stupid story. What nonsensical plot twists and awful acting. The three latrest movies were very illuminating, though. They revealed, beyond the cultural mysticism, how truly awful the first three were as well. Blech. And Star Wars fans are fucking losers. I've had it with these people.

[RedStateShame]

48. Waking Life

Okay, you got some cool animation, that's good. Oh, that's it?! Just some guys fighting for a spot at the most annoying table of would-be philosophers in a coffee house acting higher than the next guy? Oh, not so interested now.

[Magrittes Pipe]

57. Totally agreed.

I loved the animation, and couldn't help but think "this movie would've been fucking brilliant if it weren't so goddamned stupid."

[HughBeaumont]

114. Thirded.

About an hour into this pseudo-intellectual crapfest, I go to the wife, who was 7/8ths asleep: "Do you feel particularly compelled to keep up with this?" "No." That was it. DAMN I hate movies like this.

And what the hell is with Ethan Hawke and his melodramatic "tortured philosophy student" act? Dude, just shoot Denzel in the ass and shut da fuck up.

[jane_pippin]

49. Napoleon Dynamite & Sideways

I liked Napoleon Dynamite--when it was called Welcome to the Dollhouse and was a good movie.

As for Sideways--Yuppies have a midlife crisis! Wine is a metaphor--get it? Get it? A metaphor for life! Love is awesome! Creativity is too! Yay!

Yeah. Not a fan of those two. Not at all.

[yurbud]

63. I liked Sideways, but not the evolution of Alexander Payne's work

a couple of his first movie, Citizen Ruth and Election, were great. The later stuff like About Schmidt and now Sideways, have drifted toward extreme realism, including how boring and random, real life can be.

[jane_pippin]

113. Whoa, I didn't know he did Citizen Ruth and Election.

I liked those movies a lot too. What a difference between those and Sideways. I thought the acting was good in Sideways, for the most part, but the writing was puke-inducing. I can't believe it won an Oscar.

I like how you described the difference: "extreme realism, including how boring and random, real life can be." Good point. That idea does appeal to me, actually, but it seems like it's hard to pull it off well and easy to just let it slide into dull cliches.

[yurbud]

139. in my writing classes, they said it was diff. between naturalism and

verissimilitude.

One is an exact representation of real life, and the other just seems like it.

If you just showed what real life was really like, Virginia Madsen never would have called him again.

[Zookeeper]

146. Although the ending was vague as to ....

whether or not what's-his-name and Virginia Madsen would end up together, I was convinced that he would be incapable of sustaining a relationship. God, he was annoying!

[yurbud]

149. yeah, but it ended on a happy note instead of just stopping at him back

at his miserable life.

[smirkymonkey]

64. Hated Sideways - that would be my #2 choice however....

My number 1 most hated movie that everyone else loved was "Love Actually" - it was so bad in so many ways.

[yurbud]

107. Hugh Grant as Tony Blair in love with a dumpy secretary?

[blondeatlast]

153. LOL!

I liked Napoleon Dynamite--when it was called Welcome to the Dollhouse and was a good movie.
:rofl::rofl::rofl:

My reaction as well--and "Dollhouse" WAS a better movie by far.

[trackfan]

50. 2001: A Space Odyssey

[Hugin]

56. I didn't get that one either... Until, I read the book.

Then it made sense, sort of. :crazy:

[catbert836]

182. The thing about the book...

it was written after the movie came out, and the movie was originally based off of several of Clark's stories. I thought it (the book) seemed rather hastily written, and was not on par with Clark's other work.

Same goes for the sequels, except worse.

[HuskerDU]

54. Fargo- I lived in Minn and couldn't get past the over-the-top

accents.

Napoleon Dynamite- Did anything happen in that movie- I missed it.

[Zookeeper]

85. Actually, when I visited the women's restroom after...

"Fargo," I heard a couple of women say, "I don't knnoow anyone who tawks like theeeat." (Fellow Minnesotan, here.)

I liked that movie very much, although I haven't seen it for a while.

[yurbud]

138. I had a roommate from Upper Peninsula Michigan & he was WORSE

than Fargo.

[SacredCow]

55. Definitely Titanic....

At the end, I was hoping that old bat would just jump off the ship in penance for subjecting me to that ridiculous story.

And the special effects that were so hyped???? Not too impressive.

[Fleshdancer]

60. Trainspotting

That movie literally made me sick to my stomach but all my friends loved it. :shrug:

[Zookeeper]

84. I loved that movie! And I couldn't believe...

the uproar claiming that it was glamorizing drug use. :crazy:

Yeah, diving into a toliet for your dope, getting AIDS from dirty needles...what fun! :sarcasm:

[smitty]

65. "Reservoir Dogs",

[tjwash]

71. "Why do I have to be Mr. Pink?"

Even for Steve Buschemi, that was an annoying role.

[yurbud]

79. I watched some of the movies that inspired Tarantino--he transcribed

chunks of THE KILLING, a really bad early 60s heist movie.

After watching that stuff, I even came up with the Tarantino law of plagiarism: the fewer people who saw the original the more you can steal from it.

[Zookeeper]

148. Lol! Yeah, I think you're right about the "Tarantino Law"...

Mr. Z. loves the Kill Bill movies, which I haven't seen (although I did like Pulp Fiction). Maybe I'm just being a jerk, but my gut tells me that Tarantino has done his best work. How long can he continue to milk b-movies, even foreign ones?

[Zookeeper]

155. So, you're referring to Kubrick's film from 1958?

I haven't seen it, but would expect it to be better than "really bad."

BTW, my Tarantino-defending DH just said, "Remember, 'Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.'"

[Radio_Lady]

66. Unforgiven.

I hated the whole idea, and when it won the Oscar, I was truly upset.

[Radio_Lady]

67. I also despised HIGH FIDELITY --

in spite of the performances of John Cusack and Jack Black.

[txwhitedove]

151. Ditto on Unforgiven, and I usually love westerns.

[tjwash]

68. A Clockwork Orange.

[YankeyMCC]

69. Titanic and Pretty Woman

don't make me choose which was worse.

:)

[RedG1]

70. The Shining AND Witches of Eastwick

a Jack Nicholson fan but paying to see those two in the theater was a ripoff...
my nominations for suckiest movies ever

[japple]

94. I hated The Shining, too. After reading the book, I was really

looking forward to seeing it, but that has to be the most miscast movie of all times. Jack Nicholson was supposed to be a guy about 25 yrs. old or so and I think he must have been about 50 when he played that role. Shelley Duvall, whom I really like in other roles, was a whining, simpering, ragdoll. And, worst of all, Scatman Crothers, who was supposed to be an ex-football player!!! Then there was that bit the little kid did with his finger. Where did that come from? It was just awful.

[MorningGlow]

72. And Good Will Hunting

WTF--completely overrated. And Damon and Affleck bug me. Except for their performances in Dogma, of course.

[yurbud]

75. ironic--movies written by fairly smart people, but when about smart

they flounder in painful stereotypes and don't know where to go with it.

I did like the job interview sequences and the stuff with George Plimpton and Damon though.

[scoey1953]

73. Sleepless in Seattle

Thought it sucked.

[Mz Pip]

78. Match Point

War of the Worlds
Shakepeare in Love
Titanic

Definitely Legends of the Fall

Mz Pip
:dem:

[Wetzelbill]

82. Both Kill Bills were complete bloated egofests

and yes, I get the inside little movie jokes. Tarantino was writing like somebody who tries to write like Tarantino. The both had their moments, and visually were good, but wayyyy too long. Should have been one movie, without a doubt.

[Zookeeper]

83. The Aristocrats.

Mr. Z. and I tried to watch it this week. I lasted 15 minutes and decided it was too boring to waste anymore time on. Mr. Z. gave up 30 minutes later. He found it tediously repulsive.

I had looked forward to seeing it and was very disappointed. But, since it was made by Libertarian (aka perpetual adolescent who is still thrilled by pee-pee jokes) Penn Jillette, it made perfect sense.

It's very poorly directed. I understand the comedians' fascination with the joke, since it seems to be about relieving the stress of having to censor themselves during their performances. However, Jillette didn't manage to make it interesting.

We are going to watch Sara Silverman's "Jesus is Magic" tonight, and I hope it will live up to my expectations.

[yurbud]

104. I'd be curious to hear what you think of Sarah Silverman's movie

I only thought there were two clunker sequences in there.

The "Jesus is magic" story is great, as is the one about the sweaters she sent to a tribe in Africa.

[Zookeeper]

120. Well, we didn't end up watching it last night...

since all three Zookids are at summer camp, we found something else to do.:evilgrin:

The plan is to watch it on Saturday. I'll let you know what I think of it.

[yurbud]

134. I won't ask for a review of that performance

[Zookeeper]

136. OK....

I'll just say it was an action-packed adventure....:evilgrin:

[EstimatedProphet]

86. Mulholland Drive

David Lynch has no clothes. Period.

I love watching Lynch fans try to support that movie. I ask them about why there's little 2 inch people that crawl under a door and giggle hysterically, or the demon that lives behind a dumpster, or the guy with big ears that makes phone calls, or why they sent an assassin to shoot a vacuum cleaner, and they get all defensive and start to excuse Lynch because it was supposed to be a TV show. Well, if that were the case, THEN WHY NOT TAKE OUT ALL THE THINGS THAT DON'T BELONG?! If I wrote a novel, and started sticking in parts of other novels and stories at random for no reason, then it would make it one specific thing-A BAD NOVEL!

Lynch supporters go on and on about how he's such a genius, but really-if a genius was adapting a movie from a proposed TV show, would he leave all the loose ends in the movie for no #$#%&*^!!! reason that end up getting in the way of the movie making any sense at all? I seriously doubt it.

[Jade Fox]

145. Gave up on it on DVD.....

If your going to make a movie that is terminally enigmatic, it should at least be about something important. Lesbian porn doesn't qualify.

[NeoConsSuck]

156. There never was a monster..

proof that a murder was committed was deposited behind the diner. The blue key. In her dream, it became a monster, it was Diane's way of justifying her actions (hiring a hitman).

http://www.franksreelreviews.com/reviews/mdexplain.htm

[EstimatedProphet]

183. OH!!! Now I get it! It all makes sense! Lynch is a genius!

:eyes:

[Malikshah]

160. Silencio!!! No hay banda!!! My partner and I will randomly scream

that out when folks mention this monstrosity.

Oh-- Y Tu Mama Tambien was completely lost on us...bored, pretentious, bored again.

Mala Educacion -- now there was a good one.

[patricia92243]

87. The Sound of Music. My niece has seen it 50 times. When I finally saw it

I thought it was boring. When they were finally escaping the Nazis, I thought "Now, it is finally getting interesting" instead that was the end/

[Zookeeper]

100. I've still never seen it, but....

a friend in High School told me I wasn't "wholesome" because I'd never seen The Sound of Music. And she was the one who was, ummmm, well, kind of slutty and my experience was limited to listening to her recount her "adventures."

[yurbud]

102. singing nazis is boring? Christopher Plummer, usually the psychotic

villain as the romantic lead wasn't interesting?

It is probably THE second or third best English language nazi musical after the Producers and Swing Time.

[Helga Scow Stern]

89. Life is Beautiful...

what an annoying film about adult children in denial of evil.

[yurbud]

105. When Jerry Lewis dies, they are going to release his movie about

a concentration camp clown who entertained the kids on their way to the gas chamber. When they did a studio screening, Jerry liked it, but studio was horrified and didn't want anyone to see it. So it's in a vault until Jerry dies.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

112. It came out a week or so ago that Jack Abramoff (!) was involved in an

attempt to revive the project in the early 90s. The mind boggles.

http://looker.typepad.com/looker/2006/06/the_clown_still.html

[Idylle Moon Dancer]

125. ?!!!!!!!!!?

Are you serious? I'm not sure which is more disturbing: the thought that such a movie exists or that our world is so messed up that I can't just dismiss the notion out of hand!

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

133. It's called "The Day the Clown Cried"

only a handful of people have ever seen it

http://www.subcin.com/clowncried.html

SPY: What was it like seeing The Day the Clown Cried?

JOAN O'BRIEN: It was a disaster. Just talking about it makes me very emotional ...

(Her voice trails off.)

HARRY SHEARER: With most of these kinds of things, you find that the anticipation, or the concept, is better than the thing itself. But seeing this film was really awe-inspiring, in that you are rarely in the presense of a perfect object. This was a perfect object. This movie is so drastically wrong, its pathos and its comedy are so wildly misplaced, that you could not, in your fantasy of what it might be like, improve on what it really is. Oh My God! - thats all you can say.

http://www.subcin.com/clownspy.html

[LynneSin]

185. I heard it was the other way around

That Jerry Lewis refused to have the movie shown

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068451/trivia

Jerry Lewis has the only copy locked in a private vault where he vows to keep it from ever being viewed again.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Clown_Cried

[Dulcinea]

90. Pretty Woman, Jerry Maguire, The Matrix

Hated all of them.

The Matrix was just plain boring, & I have no idea why anyone liked either of the other 2. Tom Cruise hasn't been in anything good since "Risky Business."

[yurbud]

103. I didn't get pretty woman either--that happens everyday in Beverly Hills

[stanwyck]

162. I'm totally with you

on Jerry Maguire and Pretty Woman. Both Hollywood tripe. I liked the first Matrix.
Jerry Maguire was completely absurd. Poor Renee Zelwinger...."you had me at hello". And when you have to resort to the hero running through an airport, you've given up - it's hopeless. Then, Pretty Woman, the glamorous world of streetwalking. What a wonderful message movie for the teeny Britneys who loved this movie -- be a prostitute and meet Prince Charming.

[bigwillq]

91. Forrest Gump

Titanic
The Lord of the Rings (I only watched the first one, well parts of it...:boring: )
A History of Violence

There's more...Let me think...

[Maestro]

93. Independence Day

I saw that movie on the Fourth of July and man I thought that movie was just horrible with over-the-top acting.

[yurbud]

106. watch carefully near end, one of the crashed saucers has flames that don't

move.

[Maestro]

111. Oh man, that is funny.

I'll have to rent it, fast-forward through the movie, to that part for a laugh. Thanks.

[yurbud]

129. Howard Stern used to talk about it, and old time celeb confirmed

[yurbud]

140. it just looks like a matte painting in the background

[Deja Q]

97. Moonraker

:puke:

[yurbud]

101. It's not good, but it's kind of the peak of 007 gadgetry

they had nowhere to go after that.

[LSdemocrat]

194. I like Moonraker as the best Bond parody ever made

If you think of it that way it actually works!

[readermostly]

98. "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", but I know I'm definitely in the

minority, as I think it was a big hit at the time.

[Love Bug]

128. My biggest problem with Close Encounters is

the fact you have a man with children who decides to go off into outer space with some ETs, not knowing if he would ever come back. Well, gee, thanks, Dad. Love you, too. Guess your thirst for adventure is more important than we are.

[haf216]

99. Crash!!!

I just could not believe that all these people would keep running into one another!

[Ediacara]

147. I totally agree

Really horrible movie. And welcome to DU! :hi:

[MsAnthropy]

110. American Beauty

I HATED that movie!

[devilgrrl]

115. I thought it was crap too

:puke:

Love Alan Ball though :-)

[Radical Activist]

116. Sideways

It was so hyped but I think it was the most obnoxious, annoying piece of shit movie I've seen in the theater in a long time.

[HughBeaumont]

117. We could be here all deigh.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Both Kill Bills.
Anything by Kevin Smith.
Donnie Darko.
Natural Born Killers.
Fight Club.
Traffic, Crash and 21 Grams. Let's amend this - I didn't the MOVIEs so much sucked, I found the female performances in these to be over-the-goddamned-top ANNOYING as fuck-all and because of them, completely ruined each film. Since when did "Oscar worthy" for females mean acting like repellent bitchy shrews?
Mean-spirited, punching-bag main character movies such as There's Something about Mary, Meet the Parents, Kingpin, etc.
Movie scenes where Will Farrell chews scenery like a cow.
American Beauty.
Joy Luck Club.

[kiraboo]

118. I agree with all four of the OP's choices. n/t

[Yollam]

119. The English Patient

Also, Free Willy, but that wasn't as acclaimed.


BTW, I still don't see DiCrapio as all that man-ish. But I guess he was okay in Titanic. I can't say I didn't enjoy that film. Their lovemaking scene in the car, with the steamy windows, and his flabby, clammy, pale bare shoulder grossed me out though.

[Karenca]

164. THE ENGLISH PATIENT

Ick

[bertha katzenengel]

121. There's Something About Mary

how on earth did toilet humor get to be millions of dollars worth of popular? :shrug:

[bertha katzenengel]

122. Androgynous people can't have opposite-sex relationships?

"I also couldn't buy androgynous DiCaprio as the romantic lead, at least not in a love story with a woman (he has since got more man-ish)."

Just a friendly :wtf:

:hi:

[yurbud]

130. I would not deprive Leo of his choice of partners regardless of what

genitalia he does or doesn't have.

I'm just saying it didn't work for me. Maybe if he and Hillary Swank switched roles, Titanic and Boys Don't Cry.

[Brigid]

123. Fargo.

I just didn't get the black humor, I guess. Strangely enough, another Coen production, "O Brother Where Art Thou?" is one of my all-time favorites.

[Midlodemocrat]

126. Bullets over Broadway.

Couldn't wait for that movie to end. Awful, awful stuff.

[Love Bug]

127. As Good As It Gets

Yet another movie where the dysfunctional man is "rescued" by the "love of a good woman." It's exactly that kind of fantasy that encourages women to put up with all kinds of crap from men thinking if they love them enough they can fix them. Same goes for "Tin Cup," too. Feh.

[otohara]

131. The Squid & The Whale

worst movie I ever saw, had great reviews.

[Misskittycat]

132. One more for Titantic. Horrible acting. n/t

[NewJeffCT]

135. Field of Dreams

I used to love baseball. I practicallly lived & breathed it. I made several 2 hour drives a year down to Yankee Stadium. If I wasn't at the game, I was watching the games from beginning to end on TV or radio.

If there was baseball trivia, I knew the answer.. heck, through the years before Field of Dreams came out, I never got a baseball question wrong on Jeopardy. Then, I'd play hours upon hours of Statis-Pro Baseball (a more complex version of Strat-O-Matic)

Then, FoD came out & every sportswriter in America seemed to orgasm over this movie. There were stories of men being brought to tears by the movie.

I went to see it & I hated it. I've never looked at baseball the same way since. I follow the sport now out of sheer habit, and really have no passion at all for it. I'm just not into it anymore. I have not been to a baseball game since 1989, which is the year it came out. I don't even know what happened to my Statis-Pro game from years back.

[ScreamingMeemie]

137. Pulp Fiction

I liked the four you posted. But we all have different tastes. :hi:

[Hardrada]

141. Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Self-indulgent and pretentious and all that product placement!!

[TK421]

150. Good Will Hunting....I couldn't stand this movie n/t

[Arkham House]

154. The Wizard of Oz

I may be the only person in the world who doesn't like it...and I'll concede there are a few magical moments, especially the Art Deco first glimpse of the Emerald City in the distance, and the Flying Monkeys. But toi any real Oz fan, familiar with the books, it takes gross and stupid liberties with the "real" Oz...having a Cowardly Lion with a Brooklyn accent is simply embarrassing...it's too "cute", which the Oz boks very definitely are not...and the "it's all a dream" ending makes me want to barf. Flame away...

[Ava]

157. The Lord of the Rings

all of them

[Malikshah]

161. Now you're just being contrary....

;)

[Hardrada]

158. It was so fine and artsy to like Ingmar Bergman flicks

but I now find them nearly unwatchable save for The Seventh Seal. So many of them have scenes with drunken garrulous Swedes talking for about half an hour about the Meaning of Life or some shit like that.

[MikeDuffy]

197. What are some subtle observations about "The Seventh Seal"

that endear the film to you?

[mac56]

159. "The Sound Of Music"

Hatehatehate it.

[begin_within]

163. Fargo - pointless. The Silence of the Lambs - icky. Citizen Kane - boring.

[WyLoochka]

165. I'm with the OP

A Few Good Men

was the last movie I paid to enter a "theater" to see - it was THAT BAD

turned me off for all time

[Iniquitous Bunny]

167. Ferris Bueller's Day Off

I grew up in the 80's and was supposed to like it. I wanted to shoot that little shit.

[Catfight]

168. "Out of Africa." nt

[kryckis]

171. A Walk to Remember...

...sucked donkey balls. Alot of people like it and I don't understand why. Another horrible movie is The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants. Just awful.

[Rob H.]

172. Jacob's Ladder

I also didn't care for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, either. It failed what I like to call the "wristwatch test" miserably, as in, I was constantly looking at my watch trying to figure out how much longer it had to go.

[nytemare]

173. "Bridges of Madison County", "Cold Mountain"

I suppose they are the same sort of movie. I loved the actors in both movies, but the acting didn't help in these.

The movies were flat out sappy. I didn't finish either of them.

[long_green]

175. Caddyshack

Part of it is, I don't like the people who like that movie. The other part is it isn't funny. Not at all.

[Dangerously Amused]

178. Gangs of New York. Also Braveheart.

I can't stand to watch torture and cruelty, and both of them had too much - and too realistic - for me. It got to me and I finally had to walk out. Which is not to say that other aspects of the movies weren't great, the acting and the cinematography and all that. But I thought they could have made their point with less explicit scenes.

[long_green]

179. Mr Smith Goes To Washington

It's a well done movie, but since Jan. 20, 2001 I can't look at that folksy guy with his appeals to the common folk and common sense and his unquestioning regard for "American Ideals" and not root for Claude Rains to run him out of the Senate. Jefferson Smith is a fascist.

[Dinger]

193. You Have To Be Kidding?!?!

That movie gives me hope in these dark times.

[mvd]

180. Couldn't even sit through An English Patient

[ceile]

188. Dracula

Gary Oldman rocked of course, but it was just SO BAD. Even down to the little "army men" fighting the battle scene in the very beginning. Terrible!

[blondeatlast]

189. Pulp Fiction.

Guy Ritchie does the genre much better (Snatch, for example).

[GreenTea]

191. Recently; Anchorman & 40 year Old Virgin

Love Wedding Crashers!

[sendero]

192. ET -

the Extra Terrible.

What a treacly load of bollocks.

[Homer Wells]

195. E. T.

Just seemed silly and smarmy to me.

[WeRQ4U]

196. Brokeback Mountain was boring.

I thought it tugged at my heart and I felt for those two men having to deal with that type of life, but it was no more emotional or inspiring than any other movie I've seen in the past.

I think it got a decent amount of ride out of the subject matter. Flame away, if you'd like.

Jay