MetaChat - What's The Worst Movie You've Ever Seen?

Moulin Rouge. I only watched it because I got out-voted on a "movie night" with friends, and it was so excruciating I was pissed for weeks at the people who inflicted it on me.

posted by BoringPostcards 08 October | 07:21

For some reason I watched that Brady Bunch movie about 10 years ago. Most of those "let's make a movie of an old TV series" qualify in this category. Yet I remain vulnerable.

I felt insulted by Woody Allen's Stardust Memories when I first saw it. But not because it was a bad movie.

posted by DarkForest 08 October | 07:26

Oh, I forgot that Bruce Willis movie, Armageddon. That was one movie I walked out of feeling duped. And that Lara Croft movie... There are probably a lot I've pushed out of my memory.

posted by DarkForest 08 October | 07:29

Forrest Gump. I only stayed because I was with a friend who refused to leave. But hey, life is like a box of chocolates - you never know when you're going to get a turd.

posted by Hellbient 08 October | 07:32

My partner and I watch a lot of terrible movies. A lot. When a movie is too terrible to provoke laighter from us, it's rock bottom.

Sigh. We watched Bloodrayne. That shouldn't happen to anyone.

I also watched the notoriously awful Boxing Helena, but at least it was technically competent. Bloodrayne is riddled with errors, technically and in staging... like the shot of a character charging up castle stairs, who slows down to allow his surprise assailant catch him from behind.

I laughed out loud at Boxing Helena, despite feeling insulted and scornful and dirty all over (and not in a good way), but Bloodrayne is nothing to laugh at. It was soul-suckingly awful.

posted by Elsa 08 October | 07:35

Bridges of Madison County, which I actually walked out on.

posted by rainbaby 08 October | 07:38

Oh sorry, watched all the way through - Moulin Rouge.

posted by rainbaby 08 October | 07:39

I have an irrationally strong aversion to Pink Floyd: The Wall, having been obliged to sit through the whole thing twice.

The last time I hated a movie all the way through was Saw 2.

posted by misteraitch 08 October | 07:42

Oh, if we're talking about wide release films? Then it's The Butterfly Effect. Mindnumbingly awful, riddled with plot errors, and the movie equivalent of a long bus ride listening to to someone on his first acid trip. "Whoa, did I just BLOW YOUR MIND or what?"

Really dreadful.

posted by Elsa 08 October | 07:46

Forrest Gump held the bottom spot for me until I saw Year of the Dog. Yeesh, what a waste of time, effort and money all the way around with that one.

posted by NoMich 08 October | 08:03

I would say Scenes From A Mall, the wanna-be Woody Allen film starring Woody Allen ... but I left about half-way through that film. From there, I stepped across the hall into the next house. L.A. Story had just started.

So I guess I owe a bit of gratitude to Scenes, because I adore L.A. Story.

Wait ... I remember ...

I saw Battlefield Earth for free. A preview screening. Never have I wasted two hours of my life so absolutely.

posted by grabbingsand 08 October | 08:18

at random:

1. Bottle Shock - new contender for Worst Movie EVER.
2. Hanging Up - with Meg Ryan, Diane Keaton, Lisa Kudrow. Teeth-grindingly unfunny, unsympathetic and absolutely tone-deaf.

3. Art School Confidential - the most mean-spirited movie ever made. AVOID.

4. any movie made by Harmony Korine. They're like watching the inside of a sociopath's brain.

5. any movie made by Robert Rodriguez. On the surface, they're uber-cool, hip Quentin Tarantino style rave-ups. What they are to me are turgid, violent, misogynistic garbage.

posted by Lipstick Thespian 08 October | 08:35

The Postman. Not the cute Italian movie, but the Kevin Costner directed/acted P.O.S. from 1997. Yikes was it bad.

posted by AwkwardPause 08 October | 08:43

Either John Carpenter's Vampires (and I love Carpenter) or Soldier, starring Kurt Russell.

posted by Prospero 08 October | 08:54

The remake of Planet of the Apes that Tim Burton did a few years ago. Pointless and nonsensical with some seriously painful dialog.

posted by octothorpe 08 October | 08:56

Technically, the x-rated movie at the drive in I was forced to see when I was sixteen. (My cousins were driving, they turned into the drive-in line, which has no place to turn around, and I thought I WAS GONNA DIE OF EMBARRASSMENT.)

This being the late 70's it wasn't that hardcore, but gaaaah.

The worst part of this? My cousins were with their boyfriends and I was with a BLIND DATE they'd picked out for me.

The movie itself was so bad it was actually funny. The miracle is I am still on speaking terms with those cousins. ;-)

posted by bunnyfire 08 October | 09:11

I have particularly hated:

Jurassic Park (wanted to leave early but was with other people, so I had to wait it out, and I just sat there getting angry at the existence of photons)
From Dusk 'Til Dawn - complete garbage. garbage garbage garbage. It additionally made me resent the existence of celluloid.
City of Angels - I have no idea why I even saw this, but it was all I could do not to yell "Joey... joey... get me some tissue!" at the screen.
John Carpenter's Vampires - I went to see this when I was in Blacksburg because a girl from the vet school asked me to go. So in addition to all the BAD oozing out of the film there was a thick layer of AWKWARD drizzled all over top of it.

Actually, quite a lot of other movies, too. I'm really not a movie person.

posted by Wolfdog 08 October | 09:22

Dune. . .I was SO disappointed in how that movie turned out, after all the hype.

You've Got Mail. . .You've got product placement.

Southland Tales. . .The girl at the video store warned me.

posted by danf 08 October | 09:40

Yeah, Moulin Rouge. But luckily it was on a plane so I wasn't forced to sit through it.

I remember going to see Greystoke and howling with laughter at the scene at the end in the Natural History Museum. "That was my father". People around me were weeping with emotion and I peed my pants laughing.

I hardly ever go to the movies these days (expensive, have to travel several miles to get to a cinema, nobody to go with, etc.) so when I do go, it's usually for something I really want to see, so my disappointment options are reduced.

I often record movies to watch on TV and switch off after ten minutes thinking, huh. But then I delete them, so I can never remember which ones they are.

posted by essexjan 08 October | 09:40

Lost in Translation, absolutely the most boring movie and the stupidest overall concept with characters that I could not identify with and would not like to know in real life. I watched it all the way through just to see if it would have one redeeming quality. Sideways comes a close second for the same reasons, and Zoolander placing third.

posted by Ardiril 08 October | 09:47

The Blair Witch Project.

posted by gaspode 08 October | 09:56

But luckily it was on a plane so I wasn't forced to sit through it.

I didn't mean I got off the plane. I meant I switched it off.

posted by essexjan 08 October | 10:00

Naked Lunch. To quote Nelson Muntz : "I can think of at least two things wrong with that title"

posted by essexjan 08 October | 10:03

Don't Tell Her It's Me, which I saw as part of a 4-movie all-nighter at the drive in in 1990.
For recent movies, I'd have to go with Balls of Fury, mostly because the entire soundtrack was Def Leppard songs.

posted by rocket88 08 October | 10:04

I saw Hostel or Saw or something, one of those torture-porn movies. It might be the only movie I've ever seen that made me feel bad about myself (as opposed to feeling bad about the movie) after watching it.

posted by box 08 October | 10:07

Sin City. I know, I know, fantastic cinematography, beautiful rendition of a comic book, fucking horrific misogynistic trash wonderfully rendered in full color. I almost puked and walked out at one point but was with friends. I wish I had asked for my money back.

posted by Fuzzbean 08 October | 10:15

easy: Lost In Translation.

runner-up: some 80's Schwarzenegger flick that was so bad I forgot the title.

posted by lonefrontranger 08 October | 10:18

It'd be a toss-up between Wes Craven's Them and M. Night Shamalamadingdong's The Village. Them was the only time that I've very nearly fallen asleep in a cinema (out of sheer self-defense) and The Village had me wishing that I could fall asleep on command. Those two movies are three or more hours of my life that I shan't get back and that pisses me off.

posted by ninazer0 08 October | 10:19

I immediately thought of Captain Correlli's Mandolin. Horrid, horrid dreck. We switched it off halfway through because we couldn't bear to listen to Nicholas Cage murder an Italian accent any longer.
Then I came here and saw another Nicholas Cage movie that I absolutely hated, which was City of Angels. I DOUBLY hate that movie, because it is a remake of a fabulous Wim Wenders film that stands at the top of my list of excellent films.
It's funny that Nick Cage can end up at the top and at the bottom of my list. I love Valley Girls and Raising Arizona. All of his other work falls somewhere in the middle.

posted by msali 08 October | 10:23

Easy. The only movie I ever walked out on: The Runnin' Kind.
This conservative guy goes to LA to be in an all-girl "punk" band. We know they are punk because a few of their shirts are ripped and they have attitude.
I particularly remember the scene in which they make him punk by giving him a mohawk that pretty much looked like it was done with gel. Kind of a proto-fauxhawk.
This was 1989 so of course punk was really edgy and current at the time. I think it may have been sprayed pink too. We left soon after so I can't recall.
In my mind I lump Justine Bateman and Susannah Hoffs into this movie also, but those are one or two separate movies.

Saw it at the Galleria Mall in London, Ontario on a Sunday night because there was nothing else at the theatre that we hadn't seen yet.

posted by chococat 08 October | 10:26

Two come to mind: The Postman, as mentioned earlier. I saw it during a free screening and it was horrible.

Also, Untamed Heart with Christian Slater and Marisa Tomei. I just HATED it. Everyone I saw it with adored it, though.

posted by peep 08 October | 10:40

The remake of The Wicker Man. Seriously. It was terrible. And don't be fooled by the "edited" version on Youtube. Yea, that's effin' hilarious because the ridiculousness is set apart from the rest of the movie, but if you're actually sitting through the rest of the movie shifting uncomfortably in your chair, those funny parts come few and far between, and when they do, they make you laugh a strained ha-ha. Not in a "that was hilarious" way, but more like that embarrassed laugh you try to cover up/distance yourself from the mortification and uncomfortableness like it's no big deal and you're in on some kind of joke:

- when you almost trip/slip on ice walking down the street in the winter and try to make it look like you're having fun in a "oh well, it's winter" way.

- your friend's dog incessantly humps your leg with a VERY visible boner.

- your aged relative pisses their pants a la "The Exorcist" during a dinner party.

- you're introducing a friend you thought you knew pretty well to someone else as your "good friend" and said friend goes on a racist "9/11 was an inside" job spiel.

synonyms: Sam Neill's laugh at the end of "In the Mouth of Madness." Actually, I'm pretty sure my laughter during The Wicker Man remake was more akin to this.

posted by kkokkodalk 08 October | 10:41

Oh Gump and Dusk Til Dawn are just awful, but I loved Blair Witch. (I saw it before the hype, though, and have never re-watched it, so my opinion might change.)

I'll add White Noise (what ever happened to the lovable Michael Keaton of Mr. Mom and Night Shift) and The Whole Nine Yards.

I get really fired up about bad movies and mr. rossi has to calm me down with the mantra, "They didn't make this movie just to piss you off."

posted by jrossi4r 08 October | 10:42

Waterworld. Though the movies I most resent are Gladiator and A Beautiful Mind.

Lost in Translation was great.

posted by mullacc 08 October | 10:44

I loved Moulin Rouge. I've seen it several times. But then again I am culturally gay.

Some baddies -- War of the Worlds. M. Night Shyamalan's Signs (ohhh, painful, ouch).

posted by Claudia_SF 08 October | 10:57

This is great, folks. It's true what they say: one person's trash is another one's treasure.

Recently the movie that I wished I could unsee was The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Richard Ford. Man oh man-- what a piece of shit. SO BORING. Terrible writing. No sympathetic characters. Just awful. And it was nominated for all kinds of awards!

Probably #1 on my list is A.I. The worst bits of Kubrick combined with the worst bits of Spielberg. The only reason I didn't walk out is because my buddy (MeFi's own The Card Cheat) told me that the last twenty minutes were even worse than the rest of the movie. I didn't see how that was possible... but he was right!

After the movie I stood by the theater door to gage other people's reactions. Is it just me? I thought. No. People were walking out grumbling. My favorite moment came when a seriously pissed-off looking woman stomped by glaring at her sheepish-looking boyfriend. "Why am I always blamed when the movie is bad?" He said as he passed me.

WHAT A PIECE OF GARBAGE.

posted by Fuzzy Monster 08 October | 11:00

End of Days. Can't remember anything about it, except that it features Gabriel Byrne as the Devil (?) and it is utterly awful despite his presence.

posted by altolinguistic 08 October | 11:04

Life is Beautiful

SPOILER:

The kid sees his father murdered in front of him...."Oh, boy! Daddy brought me a tank!"

posted by brujita 08 October | 11:10

Wag the Dog. They could've made their point in a 5-minute short, but no, had to stretch it to 2 hours.

posted by Melismata 08 October | 11:25

Party Monster. Ugh. Ugh, ugh, ugh, ugh. And, the latest Zorro movie, which had Antonio Banderas and yet still managed to suck so badly it wasn't even campy fun, which takes real work.

posted by mygothlaundry 08 October | 11:40

Moulin Rouge! (2001). ugh. Could not stand that movie. Had to walk out.

posted by nickyskye 08 October | 11:41

Probably #1 on my list is A.I.

Oh yeah. Forgot about that one. (Adjusts list.)

posted by Claudia_SF 08 October | 11:49

huh, like A.I., Lost in Translation, Forest Gump, Armageddon, Bridges of Madison County, City of Angels. Guess I have a taste for a certain type of glurge.

Love Wag The Dog.

Seconding Naked Lunch. ugh! And Waterworld, lol, not a Kevin Costner fan, except I did almost like Dances With Wolves.

posted by nickyskye 08 October | 12:09

I liked Naked Lunch (I like Cronenberg in general) and Lost in Translation a lot. A.I. was so-so, though difficult to watch in places. Same with Life Is Beautiful. Most of the movies listed here I haven't seen. Oh, Blair Witch was good for what it was. It was just way over-hyped.

posted by DarkForest 08 October | 12:15

I will say this about Wag The Dog: to this day, when I need a concrete expression of powerful but nonspecific vituperation and opprobrium, I rely on 'Fuck Albania!' to get the message across.

posted by Wolfdog 08 October | 12:38

Probably Titanic. No, wait, Pearl Harbor - it's the worst-but-not-enough-to-be-funny movie I've ever watched to the end. The battle scenes were cool, but the rest of it was a complete waste of time.

posted by Daniel Charms 08 October | 13:02

The recent Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Total piece of crap.

posted by god hates math 08 October | 13:12

Spielberg's War of the Worlds. Because it was reviewed as a kind of reaction to 911, and all I could think of, when I was watching it earlier this year, was that those horrific high-tech invading aliens destroying everything in their path were exactly how many Iraqis-- hiding in basements with their children, just like Tom Cruise does-- saw the American forces the same way. But without, you know, the happy ending.

posted by jokeefe 08 October | 13:13

Oh, and Eyes Wide Shut (on HBO in a hotel room in Anchorage) and the first five minutes of Moulin Rouge. I couldn't even watch it was a diversion from the flight.

posted by jokeefe 08 October | 13:17

Ugh. By "911" I of course mean Sept. 11, 2001. Sorry to fall into cliche-speak.

posted by jokeefe 08 October | 13:19

Henry and June. The talking, writing and fucking came off as equally dull (and I'm a writer!).

posted by brujita 08 October | 13:32

This probably isn't the worst I have seen, but this movie springs to mind. Highlander 2 in it's original theatrical cut was absolutely horrible. People have told me that the "Renegade" edition is better, but I couldn't possibly care enough to ever find out.

posted by King of Prontopia 08 October | 13:36

Oh, and Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette was just awful, mindbendingly boring.

posted by King of Prontopia 08 October | 13:45

Speed 2 is the yardstick by which all bad movies are judged in our household. A trainwreck of a movie, and somehow I was talked into watching it until the end. Bleck.

A.I. is up there too.

The sequel to Lost Boys is the most recent bad movie I've seen, but I didn't make it to the end, so that doesn't count for this thread!

posted by Sil 08 October | 13:45

I walked out of Jeepers Creepers. I hated it so much, and halfway through I realized why I knew the director's name. Oh, it sucks and a molester directed it? yeah, sorry date, I'll be outside.

I'm kinda feeling lame about how many of these movies listed that I enjoyed...

posted by kellydamnit 08 October | 13:50

Dracula, Dead and Loving It. I made the mistake of assuming that all of Leslie Nielsen's movies were funny.

Dishonorable mention goes to Mafia!, which I saw a few years later. Even though the ticket was free, that is 90 minutes of my life I'll never get back.

posted by reenum 08 October | 14:20

I hated, hated, hated Leaving Las Vegas. My friend and I laughed so desperately throughout the movie, the couple in front of us told us to shut up. It's the only time I've ever been one of Those People in a movie theatre.

And having A.I on the list (which I haven't seen) reminds me of Pay It Forward. Holy crap, that was dreck.

posted by mudpuppie 08 October | 14:25

It annoys me, actually, but I'm often unable to hate big movies by big directors with big stars even if they're quite dreck-like. I guess I always just find something to like about it, like that good turn by that supporting actor I always like, and focus on that. We truly live in the best of all possible worlds!

I have watched my share of wholly unlikable glurge. Probably one of the worst in terms of also being a life mistake was Powder, attended as a kind of first date. But it has a nice cast and isn't completely awful ....

More recently my action-moving-liking and discriminatory-sense-lacking nephew begged me to see stuff with him such as The Scorpion King 2, which hasn't got The Rock in it, and has a bunch of Los Angeles-accented teens of various skin hues (the only halfway interesting aspect) on a completely and utterly dull adventure with an obvious-as-hell ending despite several supposed "twists". *shudder*

The other was The Chronicles of Riddick, which even has Vin Diesel, but he can barely save the universe let alone that pisspot. But my nephew calls it his favorite movie ....

posted by dhartung 08 October | 14:31

Seeing reenum's comment just reminded me that I went to see Wing Commander on a free media pass.

Even though it was free, I wanted my money back.

...and Wing Commander reminds me of another video game movie, Alone In The Dark, directed by Uwe Boll and written by a buddy of mine (who I actually went to see the movie with on opening night).

By the end of the film I was so confused. Nothing made any sense. I thought, man, I wish I could ask the writer was he was thinking. Then I realized I could!

At the afterparty I went up and asked him, basically, 'hey man-- What The Hell?'

He was very apologetic. He said the producers had added all kinds of crap and the movie no longer made sense. I believed him.

posted by Fuzzy Monster 08 October | 14:34

Moulin Rouge - only kept watching because of Ewan MacGregor

Wayne's World. I wanted to walk out, but the group wouldn't leave. They thought it was crap, too, but "we've already spent the money."

The Postman - yes. Bad. I'd been warned, but watched anyway.

Oh, god, From Dusk Til Dawn. It was worth it to see Q.T.'s head blown off, though.

Dune, yes. Rented the bastard. It was terrible.

I couldn't even finish Lost in Translation.

I didn't mean I got off the plane. I meant I switched it off.
Damn!

I did like Wag the Dog. There was an episode of Sliders that did a kind of parody to it. I called it Dag the Wog.

Yeah, Eyes Wide Shut just did not live up to the hype.

Highlander 2 did not exist!!!!11111 but yeah, I saw it and wondered how Christopher Lambert held his head up after that

posted by lysdexic 08 October | 14:51

The Dark Knight. So very cheesy. Ugh.

posted by jouke 08 October | 15:01

Why all the Moulin Rouge hate? I really liked it.

Lost in Translation was good too. Maybe if I watched it again I would think it sentimental and saccharine, but at the time I enjoyed it.

posted by matthewr 08 October | 15:04

I know there are many Moulin Rouge likers out there, and this trait does not preclude me associating with you in any way.

I am very surprised to find that Lost In Translation, which I absolutely adored, has so many haters. Interesting.

posted by rainbaby 08 October | 15:16

I probably like at least 75% of the movies that you-all hate. I guess that I'm more tolerant of movie cheese or something.

posted by octothorpe 08 October | 15:19

I found Moulin Rouge intolerable as well. But I really like Lost In Translation. But the worst movie I can remember seeing, and I actually endured through the whole experience, was The Avengers. When the villains came on screen wearing furry costumes, I actually groaned out loud.

posted by MonkeyButter 08 October | 15:22

Of the movies named here, I liked:

The Brady Bunch Movie
Pink Floyd: The Wall
From Dusk Till Dawn
Lost in Translation
Sin City
A.I. (though yeah, the end sucked... it should have ended when he was praying to the Blue Fairy)
Naked Lunch

It's true what they say: one person's trash is another one's treasure.

Very very true. :)

posted by BoringPostcards 08 October | 15:27

I loved Lost in Translation. But then I adore Bill Murray and he was so good in that.

posted by essexjan 08 October | 15:34

I happen to enjoy bad movies, so this was a hard one for me. It's funny so many people mentioned Moulin Rouge- I hated that one, too, and then went to college where it seemed that was the only movie anyone ever wanted to watch or talk about. I saw a really bad Mandy Moore movie once- I think it was How to Deal? It was so bad strangers were turning to strangers in the theatre to talk about how bad it was. And yet, that was perversly enjoyable for me. So I don't know.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 08 October | 15:42

I forgot about Fargo. Really hated that.

posted by Wolfdog 08 October | 15:55

There is no question that Rumor Has It is the worst movie I ever sat through. Also? Lost in Translation is one of my top five favorite films of all time.

posted by brina 08 October | 16:09

What was that stupid Charlie Sheen movie with the aliens? Oh yeah, The Arrival. God that sucked.

My experience with Powder was strikingly similar to that of dhartung's. Frankly, I'd forgotten all about it until he mentioned it.

More recent - I had the misfortune of seeing A Prairie Home Companion on a flight from Dallas to San Francisco a couple years back. I'm an avid NPR listener, and can take Keillor's schtick in small doses on the radio, but good god, that was an awful movie.

posted by ufez 08 October | 16:14

Chiming in as another person who really like Lost In Translation. I often get the feeling though that you have to have been in a certain frame of mind when you saw it, and perhaps going through something rotten.

posted by Sil 08 October | 18:25

I saw Ghost when it first came out. All of my friends were crying crocodile tears. I couldn't wait for it to end.

Jurassic Park was bad. It was also the first movie I saw with my now husband, so I can't completely hate it.

I actually cried at The Bridges of Madison County. When she was in the truck with her husband at the stoplight. I wanted her to jump out.

I've never seen Pay It Forward. I heard what it was about and knew the ending. I knew I would have hated it. I have never seen Moulin Rouge either. It sounds like that's a good thing.

I hated The Breakup. Didn't everybody?

The only movie I walked out of was The Man With Two Brains. I liked it but my friend didn't get it.

posted by LoriFLA 08 October | 18:36

We do this periodically, and i can't remember what i put all the other times but i could never pick just one or put them in order of suck.
i like Sin City and Lost in Translation and others.

You want suck? Dreamcatcher. Oh my god, so full of suck it created a vacuum, despite how hard good actors tried to fight it.

Patch Adams.
i was actually forced to watch it while in a hospital. Talk about cruelty.

i could go on but i've tried so to repress them.
Must. Block. Recall.

i loved The Man with Two Brains.

posted by ethylene 08 October | 18:45

A Beautiful Mind.
Make. It. Stop.

posted by ethylene 08 October | 18:47

Oh, I forgot about Rumor Has It -- that was bad in an ewww way.

I kinda liked The Breakup, but I'm the only one.

posted by Claudia_SF 08 October | 18:48

I would probably hate even more movies if I saw more movies, but it's like only every once in a while do I forget good sense and experience and think "Hey, wouldn't dropping a big fuckin' anvil on my bare toes, or possibly going to the theatre, be fun? Ooh, I'll get some $8 popcorn while I'm at it." It's completely inexplicable, but there it is.

posted by Wolfdog 08 October | 18:50

Ohh, Here's a bad one: The Color of Night. Bruce Willis as a tortured Psychologist who's patients keep getting killed.

Oh and if you hate Kevin Costner movies, Message in a Bottle is pretty awful. We had free tickets but paid with our wasted two hours. It loses extra points for wasting one of Paul Newman's last performances.

posted by octothorpe 08 October | 18:58

directed by Uwe Boll

well, I think I've found the problem right there...

posted by kellydamnit 08 October | 19:21

Miami Vice. And I'm a big Michael Mann fan: I love Heat and Collateral.

posted by kirkaracha 08 October | 21:13

What was the name of that movie that incorporated all sorts of other movie characters in it? That was the worst one I've ever seen. I think the title is something like The Movie.

Ooooh. Found it on IMDB's Bottom 100 list.

Epic Movie. Yeah, that was the worst movie I've seen.

posted by Stewriffic 08 October | 21:33

I was going to say Gladiator, but then the mentions of Forrest Gump distracted me -- oh, yeah, I thought, how could I not have chosen Forrest Gump . . . oh man, that was bad . . . now, what was that other one? Wait, I've almost got it. Oh shit, another reference to Forrest Gump . . . man, that was so awful . . . dammit, what was I going to say?

posted by treepour 08 October | 22:44

Pink Cadillac made me walk out of the theater to use the bathroom for a very long time, but since this was in the era before I learned how to drive, I had to go back inside and finish the movie out with my parents and I eventually liked it.

I'm also very cautious with the movies I buy and see in the theaters, so I've not had a horrible movie experience yet. I mean, Matrix Revolutions, yes, it was awful, but it was a "so bad it's fun to make fun of at the matinee" day for me, so that doesn't count.

Movie so bad I wish my then-boyfriend had not rented it on Netflix and I wanted those hours of my life back? 24 Hours in London. Guy Ritchie-lite. HORRIBLE movie.

posted by TrishaLynn 08 October | 23:14

I hated the Shawshank Redemption. Maybe it would have been okay with out the voiceover. Or the heavy handedness. Maybe. I know people loved it, but it was like Forrest Gump without even the silly factor to redeem it.

I just watched Nim's Island on an airplane. That one was bad bad bad.

posted by small_ruminant 08 October | 23:22

Well, I liked AI but I also recognize it as potentially gawd awful depending on your mindset. The Alternate Reality Game would have made an undeniably bad ass movie instead, tho.

But Lost in Translation? Wow. I guess some of us are just more prone to go to the theater to have our loneliness, existential angst and naughty thoughts about Scarlett Johansson validated on-screen than others.

I'm surprised it took half the thread for M. Night to appear. Gotta N-th Signs on this one.

posted by Skwirl 09 October | 00:25

I was going to say The Fountain but then I remembered I laughed all the way though it so I will say Mr. Frost. Jeff Goldblum is at best, a cold walking turd, but this is so bad.

posted by arse_hat 09 October | 00:46

30 Days of Night was just plain pathetic. The vampires were visually cool, but I got so tired of that silly bird call noise they kept making. It made me think of The Beastmaster. That movie had me spitting like a cobra with all of it's craptacular suspension of the laws of nature (30 days without a shower or a bathroom and the vampires with superhuman sense can't fucking SMELL these morons?) and common sense. Just another horror movie with dumb people doing dumb things for dumb reasons and nothing new to offer.

posted by evilcupcakes 09 October | 00:46

Ghost Rider--Nicolas Cage has basically become a joke and I felt the joke was on me as I sat watching this craptacular piece of "work."

posted by govtdrone 09 October | 07:26

Waitress.

posted by Jaltcoh 09 October | 21:18

What the hell? 70 comments and not one mention of Independence Day?

posted by eamondaly 10 October | 12:32

Lord knows i've tried.
Never make it.
Same with Showgirls.
Can't make it past the switchblade.

posted by ethylene 10 October | 12:36

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