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I've seen many of the bad movies listed here so far, but not in theaters so they wouldn't count for this thread. The worst movies I saw in theaters would be Mortal Kombat: Annihilation and 2046. Each terrible in completely different ways.
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A History of Violence is one of my favoritest movies in the whole entire world.
Also, I'm really saddened by some of the movies that people actually got into their cars, drove to a theatre, and dished into their wallet for tickets to see Posts: 3636 | Registered: Oct 2001
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Oh, come on you guys. I'm willing to subject myself to worse crap than you guys are apparently.
A boy took me on a date to see Paulie Shore's Jury Duty. Even in my stupid teenage phase I could find nothing redeemable about this movie. Unbreakable and Planet of the Apes should get Oscars compared to this movie.
Also, my friend made me see Anaconda. Like I said, I'm willing to put up with a lot, but this movie was almost physically painful.
I right there with you on Master of Disguise though. Shameful. And I love Dana Carvey.
I think the worst comic movie is Fantastic Four. Ugghh.
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Rock Star, with Mark Wahlberg and Jennifer Aniston.
I saw that with my mother. Close up nipple piercing, a guy chanting "I like to eat [insert female body part here]"...NOT fun.
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This is a hilarious thread. Most of the movies I agree with as being awful, but some I'm baffled as to how someone could think they were awful. Bad maybe, but certainly not claw-your-eyes-out awful. Huh.
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Again, the movie couldn't decide if it wanted to be horror, absurdist, or a comedy, and came across as none of the above.
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quote:Originally posted by arevoj: 1) Boogie Nights 2) A History of Violence 3) Zoom
Finally! Someone who also hated Boogie Nights. All of my friends love that movie. I thought it was the dumbest thing ever.
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quote:Originally posted by Dan_raven: I knew there was a third one--
A Vampire in Brooklyn.
Again, the movie couldn't decide if it wanted to be horror, absurdist, or a comedy, and came across as none of the above.
Oh, God, yes. That was horrendous. I think I may have seen Superman IV in the theater, though, which would surpass Eddie Murphy's worst offense easily, if not for the fact that they actually stopped making Superman movies after the second one.
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Klimt. It was a biopic about a painter who halucinated a lot, and hung out with naked girls. Saw it in a French art house theatre and regretted the loss of my 5.50 euros immensely.
A close second is Day After Tomorrow, which was absolutely dreadful; paradoxically, seeing it was probably the most fun I've ever had at the movies, since I went to the late show with a huge group of friends and, since we were the only ones there, we spent the whole 90 minutes making fun of it.
Samarkand, your description of Gangs of New York was perfect, yet I still liked the movie. I'm not sure what that says about me . . .
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Thankfully, it was in a second run theater, so I only paid two dollars to see it.
I tend to have a pretty good sense of what movies I'll like. I only go to the movies when there's a movie I really want to see out, so in general I tend to avoid seeing bad movies. This was with a group and was a non-optional activity.
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Why was Day After Tomorrow so bad? I mean, it sure wasn't great, but it seemed a pretty run of the mill "end of the world" flick. Nothing to make it truelly awful that I saw.
Tristan and Isolde was pretty bad. I walked out of "A History of Violence" and "Jarhead". I think the worst movie-going experience I can remember having was Star Wards: Episode II. Not only was the movie just an all around pain to watch, but I had to suffer through hearing it lauded afterwards.
Oh, I didn't care much for Flightplan or Red Eye, but those were just kinda "meh", not horrible.
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It's funny. The only redeeming quality of Episode II was the love story of Anakin and Padme, most of which ended up on the cutting room floor. There are some great scenes in the deleted scenes feature on the DVD, but its as if Lucas took one look at them and decided that the characters were behaving way too much like actual real human beings so they didn't belong in his film.
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I don't really seek out the comic movies. My husband tends to like them though, so we see the ones that get the biggest hype.
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quote:Originally posted by Brian J. Hill: It's funny. The only redeeming quality of Episode II was the love story of Anakin and Padme, most of which ended up on the cutting room floor. There are some great scenes in the deleted scenes feature on the DVD, but its as if Lucas took one look at them and decided that the characters were behaving way too much like actual real human beings so they didn't belong in his film.
That was the WORST part of the movie!
"I don't like sand. It's course, and rough, and irritating, and it gets everywhere..."
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My pick, Magnolia Completely unlikable, one-dimensional characters (in a supposed character study); a slow moving, almost non-existent plot. And at the end, when you hope that everything will tie together in a clever & meaningful way (as the beginning hints at), it rains frogs. This 3 hour turd-sandwich gets my vote as the worst movie I've seen in a theatre.
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Vanilla Sky. What was the point? It was just awful!
I also saw Magnolia and Bringing Out the Dead but not at the theater thankfully! They were terrible. What do people like about Nicholas Cage in a dramatic role? He overacts and I just want to laugh. His comedies are hilarious and I think he has great comedic timing but in a drama he just sucks.
I agree with hating Boogie Nights as well. I never even finished the whole movie.
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quote:Originally posted by Brian J. Hill: It's funny. The only redeeming quality of Episode II was the love story of Anakin and Padme, most of which ended up on the cutting room floor. There are some great scenes in the deleted scenes feature on the DVD, but its as if Lucas took one look at them and decided that the characters were behaving way too much like actual real human beings so they didn't belong in his film.
That was the WORST part of the movie!
"I don't like sand. It's course, and rough, and irritating, and it gets everywhere..."
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What was left from Lucas' bad chop job was the worst part of the movie. Believe it or not, the deleted scenes were pretty good.
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Battlefield Earth-Ditto what everyone else said. One of two movies I've walked out on. He Got Game-Worst movie ever until... She Hate Me-I had never heard of it, and I wish I still didn't. The Island Of Dr. Moreau-Zzzzzzz Sphere-I read the book in one sitting. I'm still not sure I've seen all of the movie in between naps. Sense And Sensibility-It's my own fault for even agreeing to enter the theater. But my girlfriend walked out with me, too.
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Corky Romano, but I have a good excuse. At least I think it was a good excuse. Other people have told me it paints me in an unfavorable light.
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Some of my favorites are on this list, and that makes me sad. How can P.T. Anderson & W. Anderson movies be on this list?
Regardless, the worst movie I ever saw in theaters was Blank Check. I was 10, and really excited to be seeing a movie in theater, and I walked out. My parents followed me out looking eternally grateful.
To this day, the only movie I've walked out of.
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1) Battlefield Earth is the only movie I have ever walked out on in the theater. I went to see it for my birthday, with 3 other friends. I think I was, like, 14 or something. We walked out and went and saw Frequency instead.
2) The Country Bears. I have a perfectly good excuse for this one. I worked for a movie theater, we had to make sure the movie was built properly. There were two movies that needed to be previewed that night, and I owed the assistant manager a favor.
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King Kong. The only reason I didn't walk out, was because I don't like to waste money. It was absolutely moronic. Peter Jackson stinks on ice, and should be burnt at the stake.
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I didn't see either in the theater, but Eye of the Beholder and Young Adam are two of the worst movies ever made in the history of humanity.
I sometimes contemplating making it a rule that whenever I meet a person I don't know, the first think I tell them is to never see either of those movies.
I really don't understand, because Ewan McGregor can be so good, but in those movies he made me want to punch him in the face with a brick.
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1) VAMP (Grace Jones and lesbian vampires...how could it be bad???) 2) Godzilla (almost good, because the whole theatre was yelling at the screen by the end of the movie...those left in the theatre, at least) 3) King Kong (Maybe I just don't like over-sized monster movies.)
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Spawn. Even with free tickets I was robbed. Serves me right for going. Day after tomorrow speaks for itself. *Sigh* Braces for impact. Star Trek: Final Frontier planted the seeds that killed my inner trekkie. Generations brought the seeds to fruition.
Honorable mention: Clock Watchers. Didn't see it in a theater, somone rented it and for some reason it sucked you in, you couldn't get away from it. The movie was a train wreck; we couldn't stop watching thinking that something somewhere was going to happen. It didn't, the movie just ended after fourty interminable days, er three hours.
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Battlefield Earth (as many other people have pointed out.) This one I would have walked out on, but it was showing in a drive-in. It was so dark, even on the screen, that you couldn't really tell what was going on either. We have to sit through it to get to the second feature.
Luckily, at drive ins, there are other things you can do to entertain yourself instead of watching the movie when the movie is this bad. Posts: 9538 | Registered: Aug 2003
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To whoever said 2046... what the heck are you talking about?! That movie was amazing.
Anyway, two movies I've walked out on were Battlefield Earth and... Men In Black II... god that movie was horrendous.
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quote:Originally posted by DaisyMae: Where were the Indigo Girls in RICWB? I love them. Did they sing, or did they act?
You're thinking about Boys On the Side, which all things considered wasn't bad. They had one of the themes (Power of Two) and were the band on stage near the end.
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Unbreakable was bad, but the worst movie I've seen in the past year was The Producers. Oh, ow. I can't believe it was that show and those performances that won all the Tonys - it was a terrible movie. Catherine and I walked out of it.
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Horse Whisperer. I tried to retreat inside myself. It didn't work, so boredom killed something inside during that movie.
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ouch.. I forgot I saw Mortal Kombat: Annihilation in the theatre...
My boyfriend at the time dragged me to that. He helped build one of the theatres and as a thank you, they held a big party and gave us a choice of two movies. One was an animated Disney movie that my tough construction worker ex-bf would never see, so we had to see the other one.
I've blocked most of it. But what I remember was terrible. even down to the quality of the film stock they used... *shudder*
quote:Originally posted by DaisyMae: Where were the Indigo Girls in RICWB? I love them. Did they sing, or did they act?
You're thinking about Boys On the Side, which all things considered wasn't bad. They had one of the themes (Power of Two) and were the band on stage near the end.
Ah, that makes sense. I haven't seen Boys on the Side, but I have see Riding in Cars With Boys and I'm pretty sure I would have remembered seeing the Indigo Girls in it.
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"Worst movie seen in theatres" is something of an extra painful subject for people, since it usually involves a night out, if not also money paid.
Dungeons and Dragons had acting bad enough to cause people to rend cheek-flesh with their own molars. I think I was dragged off to see it with a well meaning friend. It was, ... well, as terrible as people describe it.
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Star Wars had me hooked on special effects laser weapons, and this one had Roddy McDowall from Planet of the Apes. What a disappointment.
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