• The Late, Great Planet Earth
• The Crying Game
• The Grudge
• Event Horizon
• Meet the Parents

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It was pretty bad, but doesn't even begin to compare to The Late, Great Planet Earth.

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Originally posted by Storm Saxon:
I thought The Transporter was awful, awful, awful. I can't believe a sequel is coming out.

I walked out of the movie Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

While I always have a hard time remembering why things suck terribly, I think I have to give it to Buffy as being the worst. Though it's pretty close to a tie in my memory.

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Originally posted by Uprooted:
Oh Tante Shvester, I liked you so well until now . . . *sniffing a little tear of dissilusionment*

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crap.


*chants* Koyaaaaaaaanisqatsiiiiiiiiiii...

>.<

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Thanks a lot -- I'd forgotten that chant, but it apparently made it into long-term memory!
 

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Posted by Glenn Arnold (Member # 3192) on :
 
The only movie I ever walked out on was "Signs."

I was disapointed in "A.I." but felt that basically it needed a better editing job, and it should have ended when they found the statue of the Blue Fairy (or earlier, but then it would need a different ending). In all I thought it was a worthwhile premise, but without enough direction.
 

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Posted by Treason (Member # 7587) on :
 
Traffic - sooo bad.

Tomb Raider. ugh
 

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Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
 

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Originally posted by Uprooted:
Tante, did you like the books?

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Originally posted by Icarus:
(To be honest, I'm not sure you should list any "classic" bad movies, such as those of Ed Wood, for the same reason. How agonizing could it be if you chose to see a movie you knew was supposed to suck?)

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This is a valid point. However, for "agonizing" I will stand by my nomination of Orgy of the Dead. I'd previously seen Plan 9 from Outer Space and Glen or Glenda and think most of Ed Wood's films are charming in a low budget, only one take no matter what, sort of way. Those movies had a plot buried beneath the horrible acting and tin-plate-on-a-string special effects. Plan 9 actually had a decent sci-fi premise, it was just executed incredibly incompetantly.

Orgy of the Dead is terrible even by Ed Wood standards. It's from the decline of his already abyssmal career, when the only things he could con anybody into putting up money for was skinflicks but he still wanted to be doing monster movies. I expected an amusingly cheesy monster movie with the typical scantily-clad heroines running from aliens. This is not an amusingly-bad movie, this is just awful beyond any reasonable expectations.

--Enigmatic
 

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Posted by akhockey (Member # 8394) on :
 
The Ring 2. I don't know what inspired me to view such trash.

Also, the new Bad News Bears. Horrible acting and editing.

The 40 Year Old Virgin was way worse than I expected it to be. Not awful, but definitely not good.
 

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Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :
 
Tante, all is forgiven . . . my loyalties lie w/ Tolkien, not Jackson!
 

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Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
 
Huh. Tastes differ. "Koyaanisqatsi" was the most soporific piece of film I've ever seen. Husband and I were dating at the time when I dragged him to see it. I think that he still hasn't completely forgiven me.

But I really enjoyed "O Brother Where Art Thou", from the title, which was inspired, to the premise, which was pulled off beautifully, to the soundtrack, which I felt compelled to run out and purchase, and still listen to with delight.
 

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Posted by ambyr (Member # 7616) on :
 
Mission to Mars.

I watched it with a large group of friends, and the commentary they provided made it (barely) tolerable. . .

. . .until the credits came up, the lights went on, and I realized that we were in a movie theatre. And the commentary had been very loud. And every single person in the theatre was giving us well-deserved Looks of Death.

Whoops. I've never exited a theatre that fast in my life.
 

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Posted by sarcasticmuppet (Member # 5035) on :
 

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I did also go to The Mod Squad and The Avengers in theaters, and I'm fairly sure those were pretty bad movies. But I can't honestly say I saw the entire movie of each in the theater and um... the overall moviegoing experience was not agonizing in either case. *whistles innocently*

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Originally posted by Storm Saxon:
Porter, I say this completely without sarcasm, but isn't it weird how people can absolutely hate things that one likes? Like, I actually thought The Grudge was pretty creepy and enjoyed it as a horror movie. I really like The cook, the thief, his wife, and her lover, but Davidson absolutely hates it to the point of insulting me, personally, for liking it.

Weird, isn't it?

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Storm Saxon: Let's pretend for a moment that I haven't seen Ed Wood. What would you then think about the fact that I've admitted to watching Plan 9, Orgy of the Dead, AND Glen or Glenda?

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That you're a silly person with too much time on his hands? That you are an afficiondo of B movies? Of Ed Wood in particular?

You know, I'm honestly not sure.

And I'm honestly not sure why you're asking, unless it's to imply that my question was silly, i.e. if you've gone to the trouble to see the Ed Wood movies, of course you're going to see the Tim Burton film.

But I think I'm leaning towards reason two as to why I asked you. In retrospect, I think I was mostly asking to find out why you had sat through the original movies, maybe, when to most people they are really awful peices of dreck.
 

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Posted by Enigmatic (Member # 7785) on :
 
I'm honestly not sure either, which is why I asked. I didn't mean to imply the question was silly, but my immediate gut reaction was "Whoa, what if I hadn't?" Oh, and all 3 of your guesses are true to varying degrees.

The cause and effect on this one is a little mixed, because the order I saw the movies in was (I think) Plan 9, Ed Wood, Glen or Glenda, Orgy of the Dead. There may have been some other of his films in there too, but I don't really remember them. We actively tracked down a copy of Glen or Glenda after watching Burton's Ed Wood. I recommend seeing it for the social commentary. It's one of the few movies to accurately differentiate between transvettites, transexuals, and homosexuals. (Probably the only one pre-90s.) I later happened to spot Orgy of the Dead on a shelf at Best Buy and said "Hey, Ed Wood! I bet this'll be good for a laugh" but I was very, very wrong.

--Enigmatic
 

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Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
 
Yeah, I forgot to mention that I adore Ed Wood.

I also don't mind B-type movies at all. My brother adores the old Godzilla and Bruce Lee movies and I think they're really cool.

I can totally see seeing Ed Wood movies as a party type kind of thing where everyone does a kind of MST3K improv. In fact, it sounds darn fun.
 

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Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
 
Tante, you said Lord of the Rings, but it sounds like you were actually describing Fellowship of the Ring. I agree with you about FOTR--that it's overrated, at least--but did you see the other two?
 

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Posted by Avadaru (Member # 3026) on :
 
The Man Who Cried

Fyfe knows what I'm talking about.

Worst. Movie. Ever.
 

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Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
 
I thought the Transporter was okay. Not memorable, but not awful. Certainly not worse that xXx.
 

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Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
 

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Tante, you said Lord of the Rings, but it sounds like you were actually describing Fellowship of the Ring. I agree with you about FOTR--that it's overrated, at least--but did you see the other two?

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Mission to Mars.

I watched it with a large group of friends, and the commentary they provided made it (barely) tolerable. . .

. . .until the credits came up, the lights went on, and I realized that we were in a movie theatre. And the commentary had been very loud. And every single person in the theatre was giving us well-deserved Looks of Death.

Whoops. I've never exited a theatre that fast in my life.

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I almost forgot to mention: When we saw Mortal Kombat Annihilation in the theaters we were doing commentary too, and it eventually got pretty loud. The difference is, the people near us weren't upset they were appreciative. I'm not exagerrating. We got laughs from a few rows in either direction.

--Enigmatic
 

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Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
 
Hmm. I thought TTT was much better that FOTR.
 

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Posted by littlemissattitude (Member # 4514) on :
 
These come to mind immediately:

Zardoz (1974) - I kept trying to like this one, but I just never could get it to make any sense.

New York, New York (1977) - This movie was so long that when the end credits started to roll, I said, "Finally" under my breath. Except that it was louder than that, and lots of people heard me. My poor mother, who was the one who had wanted to see the thing, was so embarrassed. So was I; I really didn't mean to say it that loud.

Titanic (1997) - The only part of this film that I liked was the part that took place in the present, when they were looking for the stupid ship.

Raise the Titanic (1980) - What is it about movies about the Titanic? I really, really wanted to like this movie. I loved the book. The whole time I was reading it, I kept thinking, "This is going to make a great movie." It didn't. The casting was awful, and it went downhill from there.

Batman (1989) - I fell asleep about twenty minutes or so in.

I've only ever walked out of two movies, The White Buffalo and Sorcerer, both from 1977.
 

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Posted by the_Somalian (Member # 6688) on :
 
I was 12 when I saw the second Mortal Kombat movie. At the time I lacked enough taste to enjoy it...but whenever I catch a glimpse of it on tv these days I see that it is indeed one of the worst movies ever made--the first one is more enjoyable (in an exceedingly campy way, the enjoyment enhanced by the fact that I was a kid at the height of the Mortal Kombat craze.)

And as long as we're being honest, one of my least favorite movie experience was "Pirates of The Caribbean." I know--this film is uber-popular, Johny Depp is super awesome, and so on--it just simply didn't click for me as soon as it began. It felt bloated, bombastic and self-concious without having the least bit of substance and imagination. As the characters dashed from place to place, with loud music blaring, and mighty ADVENTURE being had, I sat there bored. Oddly enough as I walked out I heard a 10 year old boy express these same exact sentiments to his mother. =D

But everybody else enjoys it so I could be wrong.

Maybe I should've talked about End of Days.

Remember End of Days?
 

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Posted by MandyM (Member # 8375) on :
 
AI was pretty awful but hands down the two worst movies ever were Beloved and The Royal Tenenbaums. I couldn't figure out what all the hype was. Ugh!

I also hated Magnolia, Bringing Out the Dead, The Ring and, the only movie I ever walked out of, Audition (edit: Ôdishon, Japanese with subtitles).
 

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Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
 
Ha! The Royal Tenenbaums was about the funniest movie I have seen in a long time. But I have a very sick sense of humor.
 

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Posted by the_Somalian (Member # 6688) on :
 
"Magnolia" is one of those movies whose faults I recognize but can't help love. It has many brilliant moments but long ones of sheer pretention as well. P.T Anderson was to say that maybe everybody else was right and the film should've been 30 minutes shorter.
 

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Posted by Bob the Lawyer (Member # 3278) on :
 
End of Days was so bad I think my eyes actually bled.

I just saw the J.Lo Shall We Dance which was creepy, and oblivious to its creepiness, and terrible in all respects.

I saw Bushwhacked in the theatre. That has to be, without a doubt, the worst movie I've ever seen in the theatre. Along with Tomb Raider: 2, which I actually promised to deny having seen. But promises were made to be broken. That I hated MK:2, of course, goes without saying.

The thing about A.I. that's too bad is that the opening is fantastic. The transformation of Haley Joel Osment's character is fascinating to watch. The opening 15 minutes or so of the movie is brilliant, and then gets pounded down by the boredrum and aimless scenes that followed. It might be the worst movie I've ever seen, simply because it takes this awesome opening and then pisses all over it to the point that all anyone can talk about is how terrible the movie is.
 

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Posted by Treason (Member # 7587) on :
 
"Zardoz (1974) - I kept trying to like this one, but I just never could get it to make any sense."


Is that the Sean Connery movie with the big god head? I thought that was funny!
 

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Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
 
I like A.I.
 

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Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
 

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• Event Horizon
• Starship Troopers (I will put a hurt on Paul Verhoven if I find him)
• Meet the Parents
• Manos Hands of Fate (even with Mike and the bots)

• Batman and Robin
• The Core
• Catch 22
• Showgirls (even a lot of nudity couldn't save this bomb, also thanks to Verhoven)
• Barton Fink
• Planet of the Apes (new version)
• Star Trek the Movie
• Faceoff

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Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
 
Batman Returns
What Women Want
can't think of another... perhaps one of the other terrible batman movies too.
 

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Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
 
*she says in a very quiet voice* (but I loved What Women Want . . .) *and tiptoes out of the thread*
 

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Posted by sarcasticmuppet (Member # 5035) on :
 
I loathed the George Clooney Batman.

And I kinda liked The Royal Tenenbaums, I just thought it was really weird. But I'd seen Rushmore on CC, so I kinda knew what to expect. Even so, I did NOT like the wrist-slitting. >.<
 

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Posted by Stone_Wolf_ (Member # 8299) on :
 
I think What Women Want is a good movie.

(edited to add "I think")

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Posted by Beren One Hand (Member # 3403) on :
 
I liked the Nike ad in that movie.
 

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Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :
 
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The thing about A.I. that's too bad is that the opening is fantastic. The transformation of Haley Joel Osment's character is fascinating to watch. The opening 15 minutes or so of the movie is brilliant, and then gets pounded down by the boredrum and aimless scenes that followed. It might be the worst movie I've ever seen, simply because it takes this awesome opening and then pisses all over it to the point that all anyone can talk about is how terrible the movie is.

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Maybe that's why I hated it, because I thought it showed promise that I kept waiting for it to fulfill.

I don't think I mentioned that Revenge of the Sith was right up there for me as well. I didn't hate the other two as much as everyone else did. Well, I guess the second one was pretty disappointing to me, but I actually liked Phantom Menace -- I dunno, maybe just because I liked seeing Liam Neeson walking around in robes or something! But by the end of the third one I was truly squirming around in my seat, looking at my watch, and thinking "Please let it be OVER!!!"
 

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Posted by Palliard (Member # 8109) on :
 
For me it was "What Dreams May Come". I'm as big a fan of Richard Matheson as they come, but... there's two hours of my life I'd like to have back.

Robin Williams, I realize you're getting old and insane like Mel Gibson, but please please PLEASE get over your Jesus complex!
 

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Posted by Shawshank (Member # 8453) on :
 
Oh, yeah, I forgot about Episode 1.
 

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Posted by Shawshank (Member # 8453) on :
 
Oh, yeah, I forgot about Episode 1.
 

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Posted by Katarain (Member # 6659) on :
 
This is the second thread that I've seen people mention Starship Troopers as a bad movie.

I simply don't understand the hate. That was a great movie! We loved it over here.

Starship Troopers 2, though, was absolutely horrific. It was agonizing to get through.
 

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Posted by Ophelia (Member # 653) on :
 
Worst moviegoing experience:
Contact
But that was because it was my friend's first date with her new boyfriend, and they dragged me and the boy along. The boyfriend's friend was not a bad person, but the boyfriend was, and it was just an awful and miserable experience that prejudiced me against what probably is not a bad movie.

Worst movies (that actually are bad on their own merits) I've seen all the way through, just hoping they would get better:
The Sweetest Thing
Serving Sara
Pumpkin
 

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Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
 
Definately AI. I was so incredibly bored during that movie.

The worst movie I've ever seen is Reign of Fire (that one about the dragons). Absolutely. Terrible.
 

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Posted by camus (Member # 8052) on :
 
I pretty much abhorred Slaugherhouse-Five, which is why I avoided Breakfast of Champions. Vonnegut novels should never be made into movies.
 

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Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
 
Everyone's ripping movies I like.
 

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Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
 
Whale Rider

I'm sure the movie was fine, but I was bawling twenty minutes into and couldn't finish.

It's possible my experience was compromised by a massive case of PMS.
 

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I paid seven bucks for an hour long nap. I'd pay even more to erase the memory of the first half hour I sat through.
 

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Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :
 
The Tarzan movie with Bo Derek.
When we left the theatre, my friend looked at me in disgust and said "$2.50 for each breast."

Wow, Blue Velvet?? Traffic? Meet The Parents? O Brother, Where Art Thou? I liked all of these, and have seen O Brother many times.
 

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Posted by dem (Member # 2512) on :
 
Godzilla (matthew broderick version)
Saw it opening day. When Godzilla chases the helicopter through the city, everyone in the theatre was yelling, "Fly UP!!!"...The scene when the car is in Godzilla's mouth and they 'time' hitting the gas so they will land on the bridge...We all thought the movie was over and then they showed the eggs in Madison Square Gardens. Universal groaning throughout theatre. Painful movie.

VAMP
How could a chick vampire movie be this bad???
 

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Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
 
I am glad somebody finally mentioned The Core.

Interestingly enough I also didnt enjoy Pirates the first time I saw it. It just didnt rub me the right way. I liked it better the 2nd time something quite rare for me and movies.

I think Killer Clowns from Space is probably one of the worst movies ever made. Not that I dont laugh everytime I see it, its just SO absurd I cant believe the director wants us to take it seriously when you have a clown on a tricycle punch the head off a black gangster dude who was laughing at him.

I have NEVER walked out of a movie that I was watching in the theatres, but then again I think thats more luck than pure resolve. I fall asleep during LOTS of movies I watch at home, but I probably should have walked out of Starship Troopers. The only way I can enjoy Starship Troopers in ANY degree is to laugh at how pathetic the human strategy is when it comes to fighting these BUGS. HMMMM maybe we should blanket the field with napalm EVERY time we are about to send ground troops in, it seems to cut down on the number of enemy units.

I have never seen the Royal Tannebaums (however you spell it) but I did see Life Aquatica by the same director, and I have to say while amusing some of the time, it just doesnt strike the right cords with me. It doesnt help that people with a slight hint of elitism say to me "its dark comedy, you just have to understand it." Well in the future Ill try to convince myself that something is actually really funny when my reflexes fail to do their job.
 

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Posted by Brinestone (Member # 5755) on :
 
It's a tie between Babe, Pig in the City and Ace Ventura, Pet Detective.
 

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Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
 
Ronin
The Shadow Conspiracy
 

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Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
 
Gasp, Brinestone, you didn't like the talking pig? (I didn't see the movie, so I can't comment on it, but talking pigs!!!)
 

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Posted by Glenn Arnold (Member # 3192) on :
 
I'm curious how many of these movie experiences were in a movie theatre, rather than on TV.

In particular, "2001" hasn't been in theaters since (I think) the '70's. I loved it when I saw it. I was about 10, and I saw it in a theater. I saw it on TV (with commercials) and got bored. I showed it to my son on VHS, and he got bored. I didn't, but I could see why he would've. I was hoping it would get shown in theaters in 2001, but all they did was release it on DVD. Maybe it would be better on a plasma screen.

Also, I recently got a copy of "Walkabout," which is from the same time period, and my daughter kept pointing out how slow it was. I think that may be a characteristic of movies of the late '60s early '70s. Today everybody is used to action every 8 seconds, and no long artistic shots. We expect the movie to keep our attention, rather than doing the work of paying attention on our own.
 

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Posted by Brinestone (Member # 5755) on :
 
The first one was cute. The second one was agonizing.
 

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Posted by Sarcasm (Member # 4653) on :
 
A.I.
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Star Wars Holiday Special
Scooby-Doo
Mission to Mars

Hmm. These are mostly sci-fi movies. Strange.
 

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Posted by Enigmatic (Member # 7785) on :
 
Glenn, I wondered the same thing about pacing when I was watching my way through AFI's Top 100 Films list. The Graduate in particular seemed really, really slow to me. (I'm not calling it one of the agonizing movies. It wasn't bad, just slower paced.) Personally, my patience with the long, slow, artistic shots in movies depends on whether it's adding anything to the storytelling or just feels pretentious.

--Enigmatic
 

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Posted by plaid (Member # 2393) on :
 
Moulin Rouge (dumb story, boring dialogue, bad music). My butt went numb fast. I actually would have left the theater only I was seeing the movie with my mom...

Usually it's artsy films that I find the most awful. I can usually tell from reviews whether I'll like a "regular" film. But a critic can give an artsy film a great review... and I'll find that I can't stand it... examples = Alphaville, Hiroshima Mon Amour, Daughters of the Dust
 

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Posted by jeniwren (Member # 2002) on :
 
American Anthem. The first movie I ever walked out of.

I wanted to walk out of Muppet Treasure Island but my son wouldn't have stood for it. I got real close with Robots too... beautiful visually with a vacuum of a story.
 

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Posted by Goo Boy (Member # 7752) on :
 
What Women Want was pretty bad, but not bad enough to make this list.
 

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Posted by SC Carver (Member # 8173) on :
 
Death Become Her ....I wanted to die about half way through it.

I'll second “Lost Highway ”… I should have gotten lost on the way to the theater.

The only movie I ever fell asleep in the theater was " One Fine Day " with Michelle Pfeiffer and George Clooney

But the top of my list is one no one will remember: " Solar Crisis ". It came out in the early nineties I think. It had Charlton Hesston and the "special effect team" from star wars. I couldn't possible describe how bad this movie was. I kept thinking they were going to tie together all the different threads and it would make since. It never did.
 

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Posted by Soara (Member # 6729) on :
 
A.I was worth it all because of Jude Law.

2001 was a very bad movie already, but it was worse because I was so excited about it. My parents both speak of it with reverence in their voices. And it was so <i>bad</i>. I know people say the reason everyone likes it was because it was made before anyone made sci-fi movies. Even so...there was no plot. There was no story. Whatsoever. Maybe there was a little bit of a half-assed story, but the end didn't make the slightest bit of sense. At all.

 

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Posted by FlyingCow (Member # 2150) on :
 
Dungeons and Dragons.

The movie was bad enough, but the "movie experience" was a nightmare. A brief anecdote:

I was working in Cambridge, UK, and Dungeons and Dragons had come out and gone in the US while I had been away. So, when I saw a movie theater showing it, I decided to go.

It was pretty far out of town, and I had to pay a few pounds for a bus to get there - I even conned a roommate into going with me. When we got there, we had missed the start of the showing we wanted to see, and decided to wait - and get food.

The food was abyssmal. When we saw the movie, it too was abyssmal. When we got out, we discovered that the last bus had already left, and we were stranded with no cell phone waaay outside the city.

We walked back about an hour or so (without seeing any pay phone - the one in the theater was locked up by the time we got back from the bus stop) before a cab finally picked us up, and we paid a lot more pounds to get home, finally.

So, I essentially paid a little more than $20 to see one of the worst movies ever.

And I will never get the stolen hours of my life back.
 

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Posted by Aeroth (Member # 6269) on :
 
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.

Other than one or two good action sequences, I couldn't find anything about that film that was entertaining.
 

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Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
 

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Posted by Stone_Wolf_ (Member # 8299) on :
 
Soldier had its moments, and the ending definatly wasn't one of them.
 

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Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
 
By far and away "My Boss' Daughter" was the worst more agonizing movie experience of my life, and I see A LOT of movies. I almost walked out, but refused to waste my money, so I stayed and watched, and suffered through it.

The Ring 2 is a close second.
 

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Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
 
Worst I've ever seen:

The One with Jet Li
Battlefield Earth
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AI (didn't even finish watching it)

Farmgirl

( IMDB's listing of the worst movies ever)
 

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Posted by Treason (Member # 7587) on :
 
Why does everybody hate AI?
I totally get Battlfield Earth, even though I've seen it 3 times. I just love it, for cheese factor reasons.
 

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P.S. EndertheJedi, I'm not a huge grammer Nazi or anything (mostly 'cuse I can't spell so hot) but seriously...come on now.

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Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
 


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Would you call their behavior appropriate for married people? Perhaps your point is that this behavior is condemned. Could be . . . I don't remember it that well, because it was unpleasant and unmemorable. I could back off on that point. I remember some anxiety and some guilt, but it seemed more guilt over the fact that they were using each other than anything else.

In any case, why would I want to see a movie about two such empty people?
 

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Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
 
I was going to post this earlier, but then I had second thoughts about possibly embarrassing my son, so I erased it without posting. But I discussed it with him, and he said that it is OK to tell this story:

When my son was a very little boy, I took him to see the movie "Babe". He was restless and squirmy, so I held him on my lap to watch the movie. He settled down and snuggled in. Then he fell asleep. So I just held him on my lap and continued to watch the movie (which, by the way, I found to be sweet). Maybe I shouldn't have let him have that soda. Because he wet himself -- and me -- in his sleep. I kind of felt this warm wet feeling go all through my lap. Since there was nothing to be done about it at this point, I stayed until the movie was done and then took my little boy and me home for a bath and a change of clothes.

Not the most agonizing movie experience, but certainly uncomfortable.
 

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Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
 

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Ah, yes. I hated that one.
 

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Posted by Stone_Wolf_ (Member # 8299) on :
 
Here here, Spawn sucked monkey parts!
 

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Posted by Will B (Member # 7931) on :
 
I have to comment on A.I.

A.I. didn't really have a happy ending. The aliens gave him his ideal mother -- for 24 hours. After that, it was over. Period. We didn't see what happened after, because the movie was about trying to get mother's love. But we knew that just after the movie ended, he'd have to face being alone.

The reason I liked all this is I saw how it related to child abuse recovery, which is a powerful theme. I also liked how this contrasts with The Velveteen Rabbit: in that, if you love a stuffed animal enough, it becomes real. Since this board is open to everyone, I won't use the appropriate language to say what I think of that ridiculous concept! A.I. told us something different: you can make it real in your imagination, for a short time. But then you have to wake up and smell the coffee. Your mother wasn't ideal. It hurt you. But you can't ever make her be what you wanted. So: when your fantasy breaks, you'll have to get on with the business of living.

Most people I talked to hated AI because it had nothing to do with the way computers really work. True! Maybe Spielberg should have given up on the robot them and just had the boy be a Pinocchio, or something.

[ August 27, 2005, 08:17 AM: Message edited by: Will B ]
 

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Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
 
Wait a second.
How can I forget the movies I hate the most-

Basic Instincts
Fatal Attraction
Baby Boom
3 Men and a Baby.

Damn, I hate those movies. Basic Insticts just sucked, who'd have sex with a murder suspect? Fatal Attraction drove me insane because it's just WRONG to have an affair with some random woman. Plus what she did to that poor innocent rabbit. that was so mean. At least mine is not big enough to fit in a pot.
Baby Boom was stupid on all sorts of levels. What kind of Harvard graduate buys a house without looking at it first? Or why are the people in Vermont so stupid? growl.
Then there was 3 men and a baby. How is it a good idea to have sex with a woman than forget that you had sex with her? I hate movies with people that can't change a simple diaper.
 

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Posted by Goo Boy (Member # 7752) on :
 

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I've never heard anybody say they disliked it for this reason. I've only heard people complain about all the kubricking at the end (i.e., last 45 minutes) of the movie.

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About the velveteen rabbit thing: that's interesting. I guess what ruins that for me is that by the time this happens, he's also lost thousands and thousands of years and any chance at any kind of life in the society he was created for.
 

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Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
 
Oh, yes.
Show Girls and Eyes Wide Shut.
Not even full-frontal nudity saved those movies.
 

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Posted by John Van Pelt (Member # 5767) on :
 
Musing about this thread over the weekend, I had the displeasure of remembering:

Message In a Bottle (Kevin Costner impersonates a sad sock puppet)

City of Angels (why even TRY to remake such a lovely film as Wings of Desire?)
 

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Posted by Wendybird (Member # 84) on :
 
Originally posted by Carrie:
The only movie to ever put me to sleep on first viewing:

I have never made it through Mermaids. I have tried to watch it at least 3 or 4 times but fall asleep EVERY time.

Strange Brew
Meet the Parents
and any movie with Jackie Chan make my list of movies I hate (I actually haven't seen most of the Jackie Chan movies just because I can't stand him and can't stand sitting through his movies...)
 

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Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
 
Dreamcatcher.

Ugh... read the book which was brilliant.
They really ripped the story apart for the movie. And none of the changes were any good.

The only good think was Flight of the Osiris was shown before it. That was fun.
 

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Posted by BunnV (Member # 6816) on :
 
Uprooted, I'm totally with you on "AI".

I don't know if this qualifies because I had to stop it because I couldn't take it anymore: the "Garfield" movie.
 

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Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
 
1)Unbreakable (So bad we were ticked we'd rented it, would have been really bad if we'd seen it in a theater.)
2) Meet Joe Black... only good if you have a fetish for Brad Pitt chewing, but even he can't save it. (Did see this in theater... was ticked I spent the money)
3)Alexander.... We were fast forwarding fight scenes because they were so tedious. Once again rental.
4)Never Been Kissed (Saw in theater)

We rented "The Pacifier" recently which was remarkably better than advertised, though still not great.
 

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Posted by Brinestone (Member # 5755) on :
 
Unbreakable? Anna, say it ain't so! I love that movie.
 

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Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
 
Brinestone, maybe it isn't actually that bad, but it was so contrary to what we were expecting at the time. It seemed like the movie ended where it should have begun.

AJ
 

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Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
 
I loved "Unbreakable," too. IMO, it's one of the best superhero movies ever made.
 

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Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
 
Hey now, whoever said it! I like What Dreams May Come, even though I haven't seen for a few years. The acting isn't great, but the fact that it is visually stunning is enough anyway. And I liked how Robin Williams portrayed his character. I thought it was very well done.
 

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Posted by Enigmatic (Member # 7785) on :
 
Spawn! I totally forgot about that one. I mean, it doesn't top MK: Annihilation as the worst movie I've seen in theaters, but it was pretty bad. Apart from the bad acting, stupid version of the costume, and confuse-o-vision fight scenes, what really hurts me on this one was that they changed a major story element in the comic books to match the movie!

I don't mind if a movie's not completely faithful to the book. They're different mediums and you often have to change things for pacing or such. But they wanted a sexy female assassin in the movie, so in the months before the movie came out they introduced a storyline that basically said "All that stuff we built up in the first 2 years of this title wasn't an accurate memory. Spawn was wrong about who killed him, and the guy who we told you killed him totally went along with the whole thing, claiming that he did kill Spawn because... well, because... Hey, look over there! It's a sexy female assassin! She killed him." Lame. Lame. Lame.

--Enigmatic
 

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Posted by Goo Boy (Member # 7752) on :
 
I really liked Mermaids. I thought it was totally sweet and poignant. There was also a lot I could identify with with the Catholic background. I watch it every time I catch it on television.

I agree with Telp about Dreamcatcher. Really a very good book. I knew the movie was going to stink because there was no way they could portray a lot of the internal struggles on screen, and the story was absolutely huge, and I couldn't think of anything that could safely be left out. Then, rather than try to cut out plotlines, they attempted to squeeze a hint of each plotline in, without having time to develop anything at all. It jumped so fast and so erratically it was schizophrenic. And the guy acting like he was taken over by the alien was just awful; laughable bad. Morgan Freeman was good, though. Just not good enough to save this.

Unbreakable was good, it was just very slow. If you watch it again you may enjoy it more, because you will already have a sense of where it's going and be more patient with it, and appreciate more of the little touches.

I thought What Dreams May Come was just awful.
 

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Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
 

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Dreamcatcher.

Ugh... read the book which was brilliant.

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