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Populist_Prole

(5,364 posts)
Sun Jan 22, 2012, 07:13 PM Jan 2012

Ever watch a movie that was so bad you couldn't finish it?

Especially when said movie was supposed to be good?

Now I mostly despise big hollywood "blockbuster" type movies "everybody's talking about" and am mostly a fan of high quality "B" movies or idie stuff, but even then a lot of them kinda' sucked too.

Lots to list, and this does not include movies which I hate/hated but for some reason stuck through and saw the whole thing.

'Borat' -- I was deluged with people who told me I just HAD to see this because ( and I swear they ALL used these exact words ) was "just SO funny!". I thought maybe there was a metabolic imbalance that day depriving me of my normally fertile humor genes, but stupid, lame and tasteless doesn't even begin to describe it. If I could pile together all of whatever mirth that movie generated in the 1st hour I could stand it, it wouldn't have added up to a half-assed chuckle. Now I'm no prude. Another film that I really like that full of racy dialogue was the original 'Clerks'. Racy and even vulgar dialogue done witty.

'Once Upon a Time in America' -- After seeing and enjoying 'Goodfellas' and 'Casino' and the like, this one was recommended to me. I thought it incredibly cheesy and overwrought. Yeah, I'm supposed to appreciate it because it was made by supposed master Sergio Leone of spaghetti western fame. True to form this film had all his hallmarks: Cheesy dialogue, cloying and recurring corny-sounding musical scores, the liberal (over) use of annoying and distracting sound effects. Was a shame because there were a lot of good people in it's cast that could have made for a great film with better direction/production.

'The Valachi Papers' -- Maybe I was in a bad mood but I never seen such spectacularly sloppy attention to period correct details of the time of any movie I've ever seen...and it pissed me off. it seems a lot of movies from the early 70's had these faults, but none so brazenly insulting the audiences intelligence such as this.

'Malena' -- I felt I was supposed to really like this film, but it just didn't happen. Yeah she's voluptuous, and I did enjoy the vignettes of life in a Sicilian family, but the disjointed way it was made just annoyed me in a way I was surprised I couldn't tolerate.

'The Weight of Water' -- Was recommended to me by someone whose film tastes usually mirrored mine. So slow moving and ponderous that it holds the distinction of having the shortest run before I yanked the plug. I read reviews later and found I wasn't alone.

What are yours, if any? I hope I didn't offend anybody with my choices

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Ever watch a movie that was so bad you couldn't finish it? (Original Post) Populist_Prole Jan 2012 OP
Death to Smoochy. The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2012 #1
I hated Death to Smoochy, also. Stupid! madinmaryland Jan 2012 #29
Offhand I can’t think of frogmarch Jan 2012 #2
Breaking the Waves & The Piano rucky Jan 2012 #3
Hated "The Piano" Lydia Leftcoast Jan 2012 #66
It was totally depressing. I could not watch it to the end. n/t RebelOne Jan 2012 #74
"Master of Disguise" Yooperman Jan 2012 #4
Same here. I remember the trailers looked SO good and then, blegh. Gidney N Cloyd Jan 2012 #83
Another that comes to mind... "Dune" Yooperman Jan 2012 #86
Dune on the big screen Doc Holliday Jan 2012 #104
Casablanca, Message in a Bottle, Waterworld av8rdave Jan 2012 #5
Casablanca? Seriously? trof Jan 2012 #7
Hey...I've tried. I have never been able to stay awake through that dog... av8rdave Jan 2012 #14
I take movies like that almost like cartoons. They are supposed to be MGKrebs Jan 2012 #57
Pearl Harbor was a real stinker EvolveOrConvolve Jan 2012 #6
The worst movie ever IMO, but I got through it with much use of the FF button Populist_Prole Jan 2012 #20
OMG, I was cheering for the Japanese by the time they showed up jberryhill Jan 2012 #61
... Initech Jan 2012 #115
I walked out of "High Anxiety" in a theater. trof Jan 2012 #8
I Heart Huckabees Terra Alta Jan 2012 #9
I Heart Huckabees was a total stinker. Quantess Jan 2012 #110
"Gods and Generals" Adsos Letter Jan 2012 #10
I should've realized that movie was going to be boring when the book itself was boring as hell charlie and algernon Jan 2012 #54
I agree, especially about the monologues. Adsos Letter Jan 2012 #90
I so agree with you on Borat. dixiegrrrrl Jan 2012 #11
I walked out of "The Bride"... TreasonousBastard Jan 2012 #12
We like to watch bad movies just because they are so awesomely bad. YellowRubberDuckie Jan 2012 #13
Time Bandits... I don't know if it's amazingly horrible, but yeah... hunter Jan 2012 #36
Pineapple Express rug Jan 2012 #15
It did have one good line at the very end of the movie, but that was about it. Initech Jan 2012 #17
sacrilage SaintPete Jan 2012 #21
Anger Management Initech Jan 2012 #16
yep, joe and the volcano boston bean Jan 2012 #18
Joe Versus the Volcano. UnrepentantLiberal Jan 2012 #19
OMG your sense of humor stopped breathing SaintPete Jan 2012 #22
oh god, yes...I HATED Knocked Up!!! BlancheSplanchnik Jan 2012 #25
No way would she be with that loser. UnrepentantLiberal Jan 2012 #27
right! She was a successful professional BlancheSplanchnik Jan 2012 #30
My biggest problem with "Knocked Up" Doc Holliday Jan 2012 #105
I couldn't watch Knocked Up either. Chan790 Jan 2012 #77
Human Centepede Canis Mala Jan 2012 #23
I wanted to walk out of Inception XemaSab Jan 2012 #24
+ 1, Xema!!! pink-o Jan 2012 #72
Also, whoever wrote this has really boring dreams XemaSab Jan 2012 #76
Ohhhh darn....there were a few that my ex and I rented, but I can't remember the names. BlancheSplanchnik Jan 2012 #26
The very first "Batman" kimi Jan 2012 #28
"Pulp Fucktion" comes to mind... kentauros Jan 2012 #31
The animated movie "Doogle". Really bad, and Jon Stewart did one of the voices! Mayberry Machiavelli Jan 2012 #32
My wife walked out on "Unforgiven"- digonswine Jan 2012 #33
Gone With the Wind. mysuzuki2 Jan 2012 #34
Yep... WCGreen Jan 2012 #37
Wasn't Elizabeth Taylor Cleopatra? UnrepentantLiberal Jan 2012 #40
Caesar and Cleopatra (1945) with Claude Rains sarge43 Jan 2012 #51
I can't remember the names of the ones Ilsa Jan 2012 #35
Once Upon a Time in America Duer 157099 Jan 2012 #38
Vanilla Sky mrmpa Jan 2012 #39
Watchmen. Archae Jan 2012 #41
Scarface laconicsax Jan 2012 #42
Gone with the wind quakerboy Jan 2012 #45
absolute worst of the classic movies? Chan790 Jan 2012 #79
Gone with the Wind was easily 1000% worse quakerboy Jan 2012 #85
I liked 'Casablanca' but couldn't stand 'Gone With the Wind' LeftishBrit Jan 2012 #118
That movie was so unintentionally funny to me JonLP24 Jan 2012 #48
Titanic Tabasco_Dave Jan 2012 #43
Those Blade movies with Wesley Snipes. murielm99 Jan 2012 #44
The Hills Have Eyes Lil Missy Jan 2012 #46
but have you seen "The Hills have Thighs"? ldf Jan 2012 #111
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes Art_from_Ark Jan 2012 #47
Two come to mind. kaitcat Jan 2012 #49
Ghost Rider. Tripod Jan 2012 #50
If you thought Borat was bad, wait until you get a look at Bruno. RushIsRot Jan 2012 #52
Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter Wait Wut Jan 2012 #53
I would want to see that. Chan790 Jan 2012 #80
Hardly any MorningGlow Jan 2012 #55
Then may I introduce you to the following site: kentauros Jan 2012 #60
LOL where do you FIND these sites?! :) n/t MorningGlow Jan 2012 #64
I've known about this one for years. kentauros Jan 2012 #65
"Pulp Fiction" ScreamingMeemie Jan 2012 #56
I usually like to tell the "fans" of Pulp Fuction kentauros Jan 2012 #62
What is a zealots? I expect that is me? Tripod Jan 2012 #108
Well, I suppose if there is only ONE zealot of that 'film' kentauros Jan 2012 #114
Pulp Fiction AND Borat? bigwillq Jan 2012 #95
The Town. Iggo Jan 2012 #58
Trigger Effect. MGKrebs Jan 2012 #59
Watchmen, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call NOLA are the only ones I can recall for sure. ceile Jan 2012 #63
annie hall. i dont know why i disliked it so. half hour tops and i was walking out. seabeyond Jan 2012 #67
The Matrix and Battlefield Earth. LanternWaste Jan 2012 #68
Awww, I liked Battlefield Earth. MGKrebs Jan 2012 #81
300 and Stepbrothers PVnRT Jan 2012 #69
"Punch Drunk Love" Lydia Leftcoast Jan 2012 #70
"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" HughBeaumont Jan 2012 #71
Coudn't finish? I'm one of those "contract" movie consumers gratuitous Jan 2012 #73
Yes, #4 was a total bore. RebelOne Jan 2012 #75
I liked The Others TheCentepedeShoes Jan 2012 #98
Pulp Fiction TorchTheWitch Jan 2012 #78
'300.' I had a feeling it was going to be bad and I was not disappointed RZM Jan 2012 #82
Howard's End DryHump Jan 2012 #84
I distinctly remember walking out of Moulin Rouge. Bonobo Jan 2012 #87
Andy Warhol's Frankenstein. Only movie I ever walked out on. bluesbassman Jan 2012 #88
There was one HeiressofBickworth Jan 2012 #89
"Coffee and Cigarettes" opiate69 Jan 2012 #91
I got up and walked out of Fellini's Casanova. Horrible. PassingFair Jan 2012 #92
Hobo with a Shotgun ZenLefty Jan 2012 #93
Tree of Life geardaddy Jan 2012 #94
I don't think so, deucemagnet Jan 2012 #96
Solaris was kinda' dull, but I sat through the whole thing Populist_Prole Jan 2012 #97
You might like both Stalker and Kin Dza Dza. deucemagnet Jan 2012 #99
Though I LOVE "Key Largo", "Casablanca", and (mmmmm, young Lauren Bacall) "To Have and Have Not"... MiddleFingerMom Jan 2012 #100
Try Kenneth Branagh's "Much Ado About Nothing" SaintPete Jan 2012 #102
Somethings Gotta Give Enrique Jan 2012 #101
Many great movies getting trashed here SaintPete Jan 2012 #103
Natural Born Killers Doc Holliday Jan 2012 #106
Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo ( Rob Schneider) AsahinaKimi Jan 2012 #107
Fargo. Behind the Aegis Jan 2012 #109
Top Gun...a macho barf-fest; although trying to pass off American F-5 fighters as Migs was cute. tjwash Jan 2012 #112
I walked out of mackattack Jan 2012 #113
House Sitter Spacemom Jan 2012 #116
Not so many, as I tend to be pretty fussy about what I watch in the first place; BUT LeftishBrit Jan 2012 #117

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,674 posts)
1. Death to Smoochy.
Sun Jan 22, 2012, 07:54 PM
Jan 2012

Stupid movie. Couldn't finish it.

Ishtar. It got horrible reviews but I thought it couldn't be all that bad. It was.

frogmarch

(12,153 posts)
2. Offhand I can’t think of
Sun Jan 22, 2012, 07:55 PM
Jan 2012

any movies on TV I’ve become bored or disgusted with and stopped watching them, but I always read the onscreen guide blurbs about them before I tune them in. I avoid movies whose blurbs have “drug kingpin” in them or “to hunt down the person who killed his or her partner/wife/husband/friend/parents/sister/ brother/family.” I don’t watch movies that I think will contain a lot of violence or excessive profanity, and if I think a movie will include the death of an animal, I won’t watch it either.

I loved The Weight of Water, but I can see why it wouldn’t appeal to everyone.

The movie had almost too much gore and violence for me, but by the time it appeared I was hooked on the movie, so I ewwwed my way through it.

Lydia Leftcoast

(48,217 posts)
66. Hated "The Piano"
Mon Jan 23, 2012, 04:21 PM
Jan 2012

Plot holes you could shove a piano through, implausible characters and situations, insipid musical score.

Yooperman

(592 posts)
4. "Master of Disguise"
Sun Jan 22, 2012, 08:24 PM
Jan 2012

Dana Carvey .... absolutely couldn't finish it... usually love his comedy but he certainly missed on this movie.

Yooperman

(592 posts)
86. Another that comes to mind... "Dune"
Mon Jan 23, 2012, 11:10 PM
Jan 2012

I remember the those previews... I said the same thing..but I still waited till it came out for rent.

Dune was long ..and long... and long and boring. I suffered through it in the theater...mostly hoping it would someone get better.... but it never did.

av8rdave

(10,573 posts)
14. Hey...I've tried. I have never been able to stay awake through that dog...
Sun Jan 22, 2012, 09:09 PM
Jan 2012

Shallow character development. Never could really get interested in any of the characters or what happened to them. Bogart overacted and seemed very, well, hammy to me.

I know, I know...to each his own. That movie just never really worked for me.

MGKrebs

(8,138 posts)
57. I take movies like that almost like cartoons. They are supposed to be
Mon Jan 23, 2012, 03:24 PM
Jan 2012

over the top. The modern equivalent is stuff like the Clint Eastwood movies or the Schwarzenegger movies where they always have a gotcha line, like "go ahead, make my day". Casablanca is one scene after another with classic lines and scenes like that.
That scene when she is at the fabric merchant after they quarreled the night before is hilarious.
(paraphrased)
Merchant (to Ilsa): Only 1500 francs!
(Rick approaches)
Merchant: For friends of Rick, only 700 Francs!
Rick: Last night we said a lot of things.
Merchant: For SPECIAL friends of Rick, 350 Francs!

Populist_Prole

(5,364 posts)
20. The worst movie ever IMO, but I got through it with much use of the FF button
Sun Jan 22, 2012, 09:37 PM
Jan 2012

You know what really blew my mind? Was that those that liked it...I mean raved about how much they loved it, did so for the same reasons, the very same, that I hated it....particularly the corniest jingoistic moments. The one with an angry FDR standing up was the queen mother of them. Talk about "same planet - different worlds"!

trof

(54,256 posts)
8. I walked out of "High Anxiety" in a theater.
Sun Jan 22, 2012, 08:36 PM
Jan 2012

About half way through.
I generally like Mel Brooks' movies, but that one sucked, big time.

Terra Alta

(5,158 posts)
9. I Heart Huckabees
Sun Jan 22, 2012, 08:39 PM
Jan 2012

It got pretty good reviews apparently, but it made absolutely no sense to me. I only got about halfway through it.

Quantess

(27,630 posts)
110. I Heart Huckabees was a total stinker.
Sun Jan 29, 2012, 06:33 AM
Jan 2012

I guess they were trying to get metaphysical or try to get quantum physics into it, or something (which I am interested in), but it sucked a bag of big ones. I got through 20 minutes.

charlie and algernon

(13,447 posts)
54. I should've realized that movie was going to be boring when the book itself was boring as hell
Mon Jan 23, 2012, 02:29 PM
Jan 2012

Someone should've told the director that pages-long, boring monologues in a book do NOT translate well to the screen.

But what I most hate about Gods and Generals is that is killed any chances of seeing a movie on the last, bloody battles of the war.

HOPEFULLY, Speilberg's "Lincoln" movie that is coming out will actually be good and we can FINALLY get a decent movie on the battles of 1865.

Adsos Letter

(19,459 posts)
90. I agree, especially about the monologues.
Tue Jan 24, 2012, 03:03 PM
Jan 2012

There was way too much that was ham-handed in that movie. The scene with the Irish regiments facing each other at the stone wall on Marye's Heights made me cringe (I'm cringing just thinking about it).

I would really like to see Spielberg do a movie on Grant's Overland Campaign of 1864. I think it has all of the elements:

1. Personal drama on the Union side (the conflicts between Grant, Meade, Sheridan, and Warren)
2. The serious hardships of soldier life during our civil war
3. The politics around the killing (thinking here of the role that the upcoming presidential election of 1864 played in the thinking of Lincoln, Grant, and Lee; and, of Emory Upton's willingness to spend his soldiers' lives at Spotsylvania Courthouse in order to gain promotion).
4. The whole change in the nature of the war with the introduction of Grant's overall strategy, and the increasing use of serious entrenchment.

To me that series of battles in May and June of 1864 encapsulate a lot of the nature of the war that is often unrecognized by many Americans; although, it would probably have to be a good 3 hours long.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
11. I so agree with you on Borat.
Sun Jan 22, 2012, 08:43 PM
Jan 2012

And Woody Allen's "Everyone Says I love You...."
I was actually embarrassed for Edward Norton, who, at one time, I thought was a an exceptional actor.

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)
12. I walked out of "The Bride"...
Sun Jan 22, 2012, 08:46 PM
Jan 2012

and still can't believe it was that bad.

Couldn't finish "Zombie Strippers," either. Knew it gonna be bad, but never guessed it could be THAT bad.



YellowRubberDuckie

(19,736 posts)
13. We like to watch bad movies just because they are so awesomely bad.
Sun Jan 22, 2012, 08:47 PM
Jan 2012

If it didn't have such trainwreck qualities, I would have turned Time Bandits, but it was so amazingly horrible, I just couldn't do it.
Then there is any horror movie on Chiller. We've seen so many bad horror doozies it's kind of a thing at this point.

Initech

(100,063 posts)
17. It did have one good line at the very end of the movie, but that was about it.
Sun Jan 22, 2012, 09:24 PM
Jan 2012

"You just got killed by a Daewoo Lanos, motherfucker!"

SaintPete

(533 posts)
21. sacrilage
Sun Jan 22, 2012, 09:40 PM
Jan 2012

that movie was AWESOME

Though, the first time through, I do remember that I found it unfunny.

Hmmm...try watching it stoned.

That should help. Worked for me.

Initech

(100,063 posts)
16. Anger Management
Sun Jan 22, 2012, 09:23 PM
Jan 2012

I was given a copy of the DVD for my birthday a few years back, I normally like Jack Nicholson (especially as the die-hard Lakers fan I am), but I really don't know what the hell they were thinking with this one. It was so bad I couldn't watch it.

BlancheSplanchnik

(20,219 posts)
25. oh god, yes...I HATED Knocked Up!!!
Sun Jan 22, 2012, 09:59 PM
Jan 2012

Soooo fucking sexist!

I saw it shown in a class I was interpreting, so I couldn't say anything that was on my mind. I was sooo disappointed---the female students were angry or laughed nervously, but couldn't articulate what was bothering them. A few frat boy types laughed uproariously and shouted down anyone who tried to criticize. The guys who didn't fit that mold laughed along, in order to fit in.

Worst of all, the Professor didn't open discussion, discuss and identify the reactions nor analyze the messages. That reallllllly infuriated me.

BlancheSplanchnik

(20,219 posts)
30. right! She was a successful professional
Sun Jan 22, 2012, 11:11 PM
Jan 2012

but she was presented as an unfulfilled rich bizatch, with unfulfilled, ugly snotty superficial rich bizatch friends.

All women in the film, including her mother and even a female gynecologist were presented as incredibly detestable. (geeeeeeeee, that couldn't be a reflection of attitudes about women.....must be a mistake! Writers/directors/producers never try to purposely control the audience's emotional response to the characters. No never. )

All other women in the film were basically extras. As the one female star, she is a completely unsympathetic character, UNTIL she realizes her true purpose---to end her personal aspirations, drop all vestiges of herself as an interesting individual, and become the appendage of this jerk and bear the dumb ass sleaze bag's child.

Only then does she become likeable and fulfilled.

Excuse me while I fucking PUKE!!!!!! Fuck you, Rogen.

Doc Holliday

(719 posts)
105. My biggest problem with "Knocked Up"
Sat Jan 28, 2012, 10:55 AM
Jan 2012

was that I thought it was simply unbelievable that a mega-hottie like Katherine Heigl (who figures prominently on my personal Celebrity List) would do a one-nighter with Seth Rogan... even with alcohol involved.

 

Chan790

(20,176 posts)
77. I couldn't watch Knocked Up either.
Mon Jan 23, 2012, 05:32 PM
Jan 2012

Generally, I don't think Judd Apatow's movies are all that funny...but that one was just terrible. I generally will finish any movie I start, I even managed to sit through 54 on a date in college but I could not get even 40 minutes into Knocked Up.

pink-o

(4,056 posts)
72. + 1, Xema!!!
Mon Jan 23, 2012, 05:05 PM
Jan 2012

When that bus took forever to fall from the bridge, I just wanted to go up to the screen and push it in the water.

Also, there is NOTHING worse than lazy writing, and this movie had it in spades. When they all fall to the floor, defeated over some obscure solution that didn't work, and they're ready to throw in the towel--when SUDDENLY Ellen Page jumps to her feet and cries out: "Wait! We haven't tried _________ yet!" and they all jump up and are re-energized and OF COURSE it works.

Whatever "it" was: I could never figure out what they were doing. Only that I sat thru until the end like an idiot--and with how much the movie obsfucated, the ending was TOTALLY predictable. Yawners!!!!

XemaSab

(60,212 posts)
76. Also, whoever wrote this has really boring dreams
Mon Jan 23, 2012, 05:26 PM
Jan 2012

Last night I dreamed that I was doing a sea watch with this group of people, then we went to a restaurant run by the three DU admins that served only hard-boiled eggs with various condiments. All the tables were round and they only sat FOUR people to a table even though the tables could have fit more people.

Yes, this dream wasn't the most exciting dream ever, but it still had a certain WTF factor that Inception lacked.

BlancheSplanchnik

(20,219 posts)
26. Ohhhh darn....there were a few that my ex and I rented, but I can't remember the names.
Sun Jan 22, 2012, 10:02 PM
Jan 2012

DARN!!!

We laughed our asses off. Not at the MOVIES, but at our reactions to them!! Usually we would sit through whatever it was, no matter what, but there was one that we finally did say, "pack it in"!

Can't remember a single title, though. Guess this was completely unhelpful of me.

kimi

(2,441 posts)
28. The very first "Batman"
Sun Jan 22, 2012, 10:15 PM
Jan 2012

I'd heard it was so goooood, my now ex-husband had as well. I'd driven 400-some miles to visit him at Sheppard AFB in Texas where he was at officer training school, and to get out of the heat (it's pretty damn hot in Wichita Falls in August) we went to this dog of a movie. Well, I hated it, but didn't want to walk out cause I thought that HE liked it; he hated it but didn't want to leave cause he thought that I liked it. What a waste of an afternoon.

Mayberry Machiavelli

(21,096 posts)
32. The animated movie "Doogle". Really bad, and Jon Stewart did one of the voices!
Sun Jan 22, 2012, 11:55 PM
Jan 2012

There are a number of candidates where I stuck around but it was a near thing:

Excorcist 4 (it's so bad it's kind of funny though)
the fourth Scary Movie film

digonswine

(1,485 posts)
33. My wife walked out on "Unforgiven"-
Mon Jan 23, 2012, 12:08 AM
Jan 2012

granted--she was not with me at the time. For the record-Unforgiven is in my top five BEST films I've seen.

mysuzuki2

(3,521 posts)
34. Gone With the Wind.
Mon Jan 23, 2012, 12:09 AM
Jan 2012

horrible, horrible, horrible! On the other hand, I loved Mars Attacks! That may say something about my taste in movies.

WCGreen

(45,558 posts)
37. Yep...
Mon Jan 23, 2012, 12:41 AM
Jan 2012

Sure didn't live up to the hype...

She was so much better as Cleopatra and going crazy on the Streetcar...

Ilsa

(61,694 posts)
35. I can't remember the names of the ones
Mon Jan 23, 2012, 12:13 AM
Jan 2012

I hated and turned off the DVD player. I wanted to walk out of Freejack, mostly because it was so loud, but I had a date.

 

laconicsax

(14,860 posts)
42. Scarface
Mon Jan 23, 2012, 01:31 AM
Jan 2012

I'd seen the ending, and everyone talks about it in glowing terms, so I figured why not actually sit down and watch the whole thing...

I made it less than an hour before I was bored witless and turned it off.

Gone With the Wind is another notable film I've shut off before it was over.

quakerboy

(13,919 posts)
45. Gone with the wind
Mon Jan 23, 2012, 03:10 AM
Jan 2012

Worthy of its own mention.

I would rank it as the absolute worst of the classic movies, maybe of all the movies.

My honorable mention goes to the musical 7 brides for 7 brothers.

quakerboy

(13,919 posts)
85. Gone with the Wind was easily 1000% worse
Mon Jan 23, 2012, 11:04 PM
Jan 2012

than Casablanca. Easily and hands down, no question about it.

JonLP24

(29,322 posts)
48. That movie was so unintentionally funny to me
Mon Jan 23, 2012, 05:41 AM
Jan 2012

I loved that movie for different reasons than most people that enjoy that movie do.

ldf

(2,964 posts)
111. but have you seen "The Hills have Thighs"?
Sun Jan 29, 2012, 05:38 PM
Jan 2012

stumbled across it on a cable channel late one night....

and, yes, it was bad. at least the approximate 5 minutes i watched. two women and one man (of course). it is amazing how they can make a porno movie that shows no dick.

Tripod

(854 posts)
50. Ghost Rider.
Mon Jan 23, 2012, 05:59 AM
Jan 2012

And there is another version coming out. And what the hell happened with Nicholas' face. Maybe he shouldn't ride that burning motorcycle any more, it reached his face.

RushIsRot

(4,016 posts)
52. If you thought Borat was bad, wait until you get a look at Bruno.
Mon Jan 23, 2012, 01:37 PM
Jan 2012

I couldn't stand the first five minutes of it.

Wait Wut

(8,492 posts)
53. Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter
Mon Jan 23, 2012, 02:21 PM
Jan 2012

It was a complete WTF movie. An old bf had gotten a hold of my Netflix queue and I didn't catch it. He paid dearly.

 

Chan790

(20,176 posts)
80. I would want to see that.
Mon Jan 23, 2012, 05:38 PM
Jan 2012

Hell, I might want to own it and hang the movie poster on my wall as framed art.

MorningGlow

(15,758 posts)
55. Hardly any
Mon Jan 23, 2012, 02:34 PM
Jan 2012

I soldier on through most of them, even ones I rent or come across on TV.

I did turn off Dancer in the Dark.

I WISH I had turned off Moulin Rouge. It was PPV and I figured I had already paid for it--might as well just sit there, maybe it'd get better. I ended up wishing I had my $3.99 and those two hours of my life back.

kentauros

(29,414 posts)
60. Then may I introduce you to the following site:
Mon Jan 23, 2012, 03:36 PM
Jan 2012
Public Domain Torrents
Movies that made History...Sort of...

So, if you waste any time, it will be free time and only yourself to blame for bothering to download and watch any of these "gems"

kentauros

(29,414 posts)
65. I've known about this one for years.
Mon Jan 23, 2012, 04:21 PM
Jan 2012

It used to not be a torrent site, but direct download. I guess teh bandwidth started hurting after a while. The only problem is that if no one else is seeding your choice, then you can't get it. However, sometimes they are available on YouTube, such as this gem I'm about to watch:

Unknown Satellite over Tokyo (Warning from Space)

&feature=watch-now-button&wide=1


You just have to put up with commercials. Look at their links for Top Seeders and Leechers, too

kentauros

(29,414 posts)
62. I usually like to tell the "fans" of Pulp Fuction
Mon Jan 23, 2012, 03:39 PM
Jan 2012

that I only managed to make it 26 minutes into it before I shut it off. They usually don't understand why I would, even after attempting to explain myself. There are a lot of zealots for that 'film'...

kentauros

(29,414 posts)
114. Well, I suppose if there is only ONE zealot of that 'film'
Mon Jan 30, 2012, 01:59 AM
Jan 2012

then yes, that is you

However, I have met far too many people that fall into the category of "zealot" with regards to this 'film' being their number-one-of-all-time-forever-and-no-others-even-approach-in-quality-of-story favorite, so the plural is correct

ceile

(8,692 posts)
63. Watchmen, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call NOLA are the only ones I can recall for sure.
Mon Jan 23, 2012, 03:53 PM
Jan 2012

I like comic book movies, but the Watchmen was a bit boring. The Bad Lieutenant was Nicolas Cage at his overacting best (worst).

 

seabeyond

(110,159 posts)
67. annie hall. i dont know why i disliked it so. half hour tops and i was walking out.
Mon Jan 23, 2012, 04:24 PM
Jan 2012

havent watched another of his movies since. and it got such raves. only movie i can remember walking out of. there have been videos i stopped watching.

 

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
68. The Matrix and Battlefield Earth.
Mon Jan 23, 2012, 04:25 PM
Jan 2012

The Matrix and Battlefield Earth.

Better stories told by Dr. Seuss, better visuals found in Berenstein Bears.

Utter crap-- both of 'em. Absolute waste of time.

MGKrebs

(8,138 posts)
81. Awww, I liked Battlefield Earth.
Mon Jan 23, 2012, 06:12 PM
Jan 2012

It does have one MAJOR flaw though: A big, bad, mean, alien monster with John Travolta's whiny little voice.

Lydia Leftcoast

(48,217 posts)
70. "Punch Drunk Love"
Mon Jan 23, 2012, 04:30 PM
Jan 2012

A fantasy for frat boys: You can be an obnoxious, inconsiderate, self-absorbed, oblivious, stupid jerk who is alternately stalker-like and callous, and a sweet, pretty young woman will still love you.

HughBeaumont

(24,461 posts)
71. "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"
Mon Jan 23, 2012, 04:55 PM
Jan 2012

Having never tried drugs (which I'm assuming is part of the premise of that meandering and pointless mess), I guess I'm not part of "The Club".

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
73. Coudn't finish? I'm one of those "contract" movie consumers
Mon Jan 23, 2012, 05:06 PM
Jan 2012

If I start a movie, I feel like I have to finish it. Some I wish I hadn't:

1. The Two Jakes. "Chinatown" didn't need a sequel.
2. Kill Bill, any part.
3. Star Wars Episodes 1 and 2. Episode 3 barely makes it.
4. The Others. Still paying Mrs. gratuitous back for dragging her to see that one.
5. A.I. Forget waterboarding. Just start showing this stinker, and your prisoner will confess to anything.

TheCentepedeShoes

(3,522 posts)
98. I liked The Others
Tue Jan 24, 2012, 08:54 PM
Jan 2012

But then. I saw it on TNT or something so no outlay
We have not been to a movie house since Titanic, and then just because everyone seemed to be going
And I am rather picky about what I rent or call up on Dish

bluesbassman

(19,370 posts)
88. Andy Warhol's Frankenstein. Only movie I ever walked out on.
Tue Jan 24, 2012, 12:17 AM
Jan 2012

Never felt compelled to try to watch it again.

HeiressofBickworth

(2,682 posts)
89. There was one
Tue Jan 24, 2012, 12:23 AM
Jan 2012

I needed to repeatedly stab a dinner fork in my thigh to stay awake. Don't remember the name at this moment but it was a Merchant Ivory film.

PassingFair

(22,434 posts)
92. I got up and walked out of Fellini's Casanova. Horrible.
Tue Jan 24, 2012, 04:14 PM
Jan 2012

I WOULD have walked out of "Druids", but I rented it.

The. Most. Unwatchable. Movie. Ever.
SO bad.

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/movie-reviews/druids.php?page=1

ZenLefty

(20,924 posts)
93. Hobo with a Shotgun
Tue Jan 24, 2012, 06:01 PM
Jan 2012

I knew it was going to be awful, and I was even in the mood for an awful movie. But I just couldn't get into it for some reason.

deucemagnet

(4,549 posts)
96. I don't think so,
Tue Jan 24, 2012, 06:47 PM
Jan 2012

but then again, I can sit through Russian science fiction flicks, so everything else is a walk in the park.

Stalker
Kin Dza Dza
Solaris

Yep, I saw them all beginning to end.

Populist_Prole

(5,364 posts)
97. Solaris was kinda' dull, but I sat through the whole thing
Tue Jan 24, 2012, 08:14 PM
Jan 2012

I'm a fan of Russian films, especially pre-USSR break-up. I liked the insight, and it was interesting to see their take on "the future" circa 1972.

deucemagnet

(4,549 posts)
99. You might like both Stalker and Kin Dza Dza.
Tue Jan 24, 2012, 09:28 PM
Jan 2012

Stalker is long and extremely slow, but beautifully shot and poetic. Kin Dza Dza is also rather long (Russians!) but is goofier and more satirical. You won't find an English version of Kin Dza Dza on DVD, but there are subtitled versions available to stream over the web.

MiddleFingerMom

(25,163 posts)
100. Though I LOVE "Key Largo", "Casablanca", and (mmmmm, young Lauren Bacall) "To Have and Have Not"...
Tue Jan 24, 2012, 10:07 PM
Jan 2012

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... I have tried more than half-a-dozen times to watch "The Maltese Falcon" and
have been literally bored into slumber each time.
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Much like my attempts to read Shakespeare. I've tried and tried again, but have
never enjoyed nor "gotten" him (except for the exceptional quotes given by
Steve Martin in "L.A. Story" -- perhaps his greatest film).
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Enrique

(27,461 posts)
101. Somethings Gotta Give
Tue Jan 24, 2012, 10:55 PM
Jan 2012

a romantic comedy thats somewhere near ten hours long, in something like 10 acts. It kept going on and on for no reason. The title turned out to be right for us.

SaintPete

(533 posts)
103. Many great movies getting trashed here
Sat Jan 28, 2012, 10:49 AM
Jan 2012

This is an interesting thread.

I think that a list of movies we hate might tell more about how we perceive ourselves than any list of movies we liked.

Doc Holliday

(719 posts)
106. Natural Born Killers
Sat Jan 28, 2012, 11:24 AM
Jan 2012

Why, I don't know. It was like a train wreck for me...couldn't stand it, couldn't look away. Normally, I'm a huge Oliver Stone fan, but I thought he really jumped the shark with that one.

Agree on Star Wars Episodes 1 and 2. I wouldn't have made it through 2 if not for Samuel L. Jackson.

Solaris-- the George Clooney remake. I fell out twenty minutes in. Even the lovely Natasha McElhone couldn't keep me awake....and that's something I never thought I'd say.

Titanic. Three hours of my life, lost forever...and I don't care how many Oscars it was nominated for.

The Return of Bruno. Bruce Willis? Fine. Bruce Willis singing? Not so much.

Casino. Gods, what's not to like? Scorcese, DeNiro, Pesci, Sharon Stone, all-star supporting cast, awesome soundtrack? There must be something wrong with me...I just didn't like it. Thought it was overdone, and for some reason the word "turgid" comes to mind.

AsahinaKimi

(20,776 posts)
107. Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo ( Rob Schneider)
Sat Jan 28, 2012, 02:20 PM
Jan 2012

Turned it off half way though it... worst thing I have ever saw.

Behind the Aegis

(53,950 posts)
109. Fargo.
Sun Jan 29, 2012, 05:19 AM
Jan 2012

I didn't speak to my boyfriend for three days following (he said it was a "must see," guess what he didn't see for three days!?).

tjwash

(8,219 posts)
112. Top Gun...a macho barf-fest; although trying to pass off American F-5 fighters as Migs was cute.
Sun Jan 29, 2012, 07:16 PM
Jan 2012

I'll never forgive them for that launching Tom Cruise's career as a big name star thing.

My sister played and rewound that volleyball scene so much, it actually stopped working on the tape.

Spacemom

(2,561 posts)
116. House Sitter
Mon Jan 30, 2012, 05:01 AM
Jan 2012

Steve Martin and I think Goldie Hawn. My husband and I were dating at the time. We got up and left the theatre. Truly horrible.

LeftishBrit

(41,205 posts)
117. Not so many, as I tend to be pretty fussy about what I watch in the first place; BUT
Mon Jan 30, 2012, 09:12 AM
Jan 2012

the one that really springs to mind is 'Hannah and Her Sisters'. It really depressed me - if I'm going to cry over a film, I'd rather it was one that was intended to be a tragedy!

I really liked 'Solaris' and 'Stalker', by the way!

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