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Robb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 01:38 PM
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Wow. A new champion in "Worst Movie I Ever Saw"!
The Hulk.

Good Lord, what a stinker.

So long, Gigli. Adios, Ishtar. There's a new sheriff in town, and his name is The Hulk.

Took us three nights to finish. Amazingly bad. No redeeming qualities. They could have at least had good looking bad actors for us to look at, but noooo...

Mrs. Robb said "Oh, God, no...they didn't just say that" three or four times. I said "C'mon, dammit! HULK SMASH! NOW!!" a half dozen times.

Bad bad bad bad bad bad bad movie.

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Blue-Jay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 01:41 PM
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1. You think YOU'RE disappointed.
I actually bought the damn thing. Right now, it's gathering dust next to "Stranded", which is quite possibly the worst sci-fi movie I've ever seen. (and I've seen 'em all)

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Khephra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 01:42 PM
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2. I don't think it was that bad
However, it did have the lamest reworking of an origin in any superhero film ever.
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Yupster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 01:44 PM
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3. I nominate "My Dinner with Andre,"
though friends of mine said they actually liked it.

At least if it was Andre the Giant they could have ended the movie with a thrown folding chair.
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NWHarkness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 01:46 PM
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4. Here's what confuses me about "My Dinner With Andre"
They are called movies. Shouldn't something move now and then?
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magnolia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 10:16 PM
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52. Their lips were moving!
It was about the conversation. I loved it. The first time I saw it I rewound it and watched it again.

There's another movie with the same characters called "Vanya of 42th Street"...it's great too and a little more movement.
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thebigidea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 03:29 PM
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28. its no "My Breakfast with Blassie"
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AngryAmish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 03:30 PM
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29. Shut up you pencil-necked geek.
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thebigidea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 06:55 PM
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39. "When I eat, I want my hands to be clean - like a surgeon."
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 03:33 PM
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30. I wrote and shot a student film in highschool...
Edited on Sat Feb-28-04 03:34 PM by CanuckAmok
...called "My Dinner with Bomb-dre". It was a very truncated version of the original, except Bomb-dre had to keep talking, or the bomb handcuffed to him would be detonated.

I wish, more than any wish in my life, that I still had a copy of it.

edit: typo
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 09:07 PM
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44. what? No responses to my magnum opus?!
n/t
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IconoclastIlene Donating Member (554 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 04:12 PM
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35. I liked Dinner with Andre
but I hated and didn't watch reservoir dogs.
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Kat45 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 09:04 PM
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43. YES! 'Andre' was the most boring movie I've ever seen.
I couldn't wait to see it after hearing the critics raving about it. When I saw it, I couldn't believe how dull it was. I figured they must have liked it because it was the same kind of boring, pretentious conversation that they like to be a part of.
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brainshrub Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 01:50 PM
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5. Matrix "Revolutions" was the lamest big-budget movie I've ever seen.
Lawnmower Man II was the worst small-budget movie. LMII was so bad I needed an enema.
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Ediacara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 01:51 PM
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6. You've aparently never seen Rob Schneider's "The Animal"
talk about two hours of my life I'll never have back...
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Blue-Jay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 01:55 PM
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7. Yeah, but that movie was supposed to be stupid.
I mean, c'mon, it's Rob Schneider.

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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 02:05 PM
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14. Was that the movie with the cute girl from survivor?
I wanted to see it, but never got around to it. Sounds like I lucked out.

More bad popular movies:
Pirates Of The Carribean (although Depp was good)
Titanic
The Thomas Crown Affair
Red Planet
Star Wars I&II
All the Matrix movies
Mystery Men
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NWHarkness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 01:55 PM
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8. The Shanghai Gesture
We rented this from Netflix last week,

I love out Noir and the credentials on this one looked spectacular. Gene Tierney, Victor Mature. Walter Huston. Mike Mazurki. Maria Ouspenskaya.Directed by Josef Von Sternberg from a John Marquand novel.

Oh. My. God.
What a howling dog. It's racist in conception, it's ineptly directed, the dialogue is horrible and the plot makes no sense at all.

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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 01:56 PM
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9. Why did you watch the whole thing?
Just curious. I don't blame you, really; it took me years to get over the guilt I felt when I didn't finish a book.
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Robb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 06:59 PM
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40. The Idiot Filter effect
...We kept telling ourselves it was bound to get better. :eyes:
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rfkrocks Donating Member (846 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 02:00 PM
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10. species-the whole series
i love sci-fi except there are so many bad sci-fi pics. This movie was gory with sexual violence and a hideous plot. it was so bad that stuck in my mind like thosehorrible "dietech" ads
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carpediem Donating Member (700 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 02:00 PM
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11. I actually thought Ishtar was funny...
Although most people I know who have watched it don't agree.
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arikara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 02:59 PM
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23. I liked Ishtar too
I couldn't figure out why it had such a bad rap.
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gmoney Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 09:32 PM
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48. Ishtar Rules!
The songs from that are classic... the plot's a little lame, but it's genius compared to most stuff released today.
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waterman Donating Member (585 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 02:02 PM
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12. Oh? then you probably haven't seen the old Cleopatra with Liz Taylor.
Took me 6 genuine wacks to get through that one. She was horrific in it, although Richard Burton was fine. Still, it was a slog. And the boring, monotone flute music was enough to gag on.
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Blue-Jay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 02:03 PM
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13. Or John Wayne as Genghis Khan for that matter..
KHAAAAAAN! (I just had to do that)


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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 03:04 PM
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25. Sad story about that film.
"The Conqueror" was filmed near a Nevada A-bomb test site. Unbeknowest to everyone. As a result, everyone involved...John Wayne, Dick Powell (the director), Susan Hayward, Agnes Moorhead...died of cancer later on.

Terry
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 03:38 PM
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32. I remember reading that!
Weird.
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Jade Fox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 02:44 PM
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21. There's only one reason to watch that movie: the fabulous clothes n/t
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rfkrocks Donating Member (846 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 02:10 PM
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15. tony curtis as a knight?
Does anyone remember when tony curtis played a knight and said with the new york accent "i've come to restore the honor of my fadder"
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Khephra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 02:34 PM
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16. The worst film I've seen recently
"HOuse of the Dead"

Video game shots in the middle of a film? Come on!
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 02:34 PM
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17. It couldn't have been as bad as "Independence Day"
"The Hulk" couldn't have been as bad as that piece of dreck, "Independence Day"

A big budget piece of shite.

Terry
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Blue-Jay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 02:35 PM
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18. Man, I liked "Independence Day"
Lots of good stuff blowin' up!

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Catshrink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 02:38 PM
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19. And Will Smith is so nice, so damn nice, to look at.
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neebob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 02:42 PM
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20. I tried to watch West Side Story again last night
Edited on Sat Feb-28-04 02:49 PM by neebob
and I'm sorry, but that one gets my vote for WME (Worse Movie Ever). Maybe I'm missing something - and I'm a choir geek from way back, so it's not the fact that it's a musical - but it's definitely the hokiest, stupidest flick I've ever seen. I don't see how anyone could have taken it seriously, even at the time it was made.

In the last decade, I have to say Independence Day is the worst. Hard to top Bill Pullman's presidential go-get-'em speech for lameness, in my opinion - unless, of course, you compare it to a bunch of leave-it-to-beaver-ballerina gangsters, half of whom are wearing dark makeup.
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Jade Fox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 03:25 PM
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26. I've always thought that movie was a stinker....
When I saw I as a kid I couldn't figure out why all the people in the movie
didn't seem to have jobs or anything since they were obviously, like, 30 years
old. It wasn't until much later that I realized they were supposed to teen-agers!

They also toned down some of the more hard hitting lyrics for the movie
(not uncommon when musicals were turned into movies back then), especially in
the song "America", which in the play was staged as an argument the
Puerto Rican women have among themselves about the pros and cons of their
their new life.
I hate the way the film turns it into this icky battle-the-sexes thing.
The original last line of that song is, "Nobody knows in America-
Puerto Rico's IN America!"

The one good thing about that movie is the dancing. Just turn off the sound and
watch. Its pretty phenomenal.

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Redneck Socialist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 04:19 PM
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36. Oh man, I love that movie.
Oh well, different strokes and all that.

My nominee would be the Island of Doctor Moreau, the new version with Marlon Brandon. Unspeakably bad. Simply the worst.
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arikara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 02:56 PM
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22. The latest bad movie that I saw
Minority Report. Hard to follow, and boring boring boring. We couldn't finish it. I should have known better than to rent a Tom Cruise movie.
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Blue-Jay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 03:01 PM
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24. Tom Cruise can usually stink up a movie for me too,
but I liked Minority Report. Of course, I'm a Phillip K Dick fan, and his stories translate into film well.

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ThoughtCriminal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 03:29 PM
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27. Worse than the Batman movies?
yikes!
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Faygo Kid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 04:08 PM
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33. First one (Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson) was fun. The rest? PU
I liked the original "Batman." Thought it was creative, dark and a lot of fun. All the others - all of them - have been terrible.
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 03:36 PM
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31. You have obviously never seen "Saturn 3" or "The Doom Generation"
I actually tried to rip my own eyes out during Doom Generation.
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bhunt70 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 09:16 PM
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45. I liked Doom Generation
but I like many Greg Araki films.
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gmoney Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 09:26 PM
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46. Saturn 3 screenplay by Martin Amis
One of my favorite authors wrote this clunker, then wrote a great novel (Money) about the process of making the movie. Read the book, then watch the movie and put the pieces together. Fun!
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 09:28 PM
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47. Oh, I will!
I didn't know that.

Although caliming anybody 'wrote' that is rather generous.

I'd describe it more as 'crapped' by Martin Amis, although I didn't know he was involved.

It was hardly clever; it was Frankenstein in space.
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 04:09 PM
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34. Even my five year old son fell asleep during this movie...and he really
wanted to see it!
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 04:23 PM
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37. You're right--it was awful. And the guy who played the lead didn't have
a good enough body to fast forward to the shirtless scenes.

And what's-her-face--Jennifer Connolly--wasn't shirtless either, so straight guys have no reason to see it either.
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 04:26 PM
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38. "The Italian Job" and "SWAT" are the last two awful movies...
I saw. I am constantly amazed at the dreck I will endure in order to get high with the neighbors.
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ms_splash Donating Member (823 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 07:07 PM
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41. Johnny Mnemonic
Edited on Sat Feb-28-04 07:08 PM by ms_splash
(did i even spell that right?)

Not even bad enough to be good.

HOORAY, out of the 700 club at last
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jmowreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 07:14 PM
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42. The Hulk is a cinematic masterpiece compared to...
The Telephone.

Yes, Whoopi Goldberg talks on the telephone. And she acts out little skits based on her talking on the telephone.

The worst movie EVER made, and don't try to deny it.
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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 09:49 PM
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49. You know what was truly lame? Collateral Damage
Edited on Sat Feb-28-04 09:50 PM by MrScorpio
Ordinary joe, fireman type takes on the big bad terrorists.

The Gropenator sees his wife and get blown to pieces and he decides to get even 'cause he's pissed off.

No problem there.

But, instead of being a half-psycho ex-snake eater with a personal arsenal the size of a small Central American banana republic, he's some wimpy fightfighter (which is an insult to firefighters), who "finds out" that an obstensibly non-violent human-rights organization is actually a terrorist front/apologist group operating freely in the US.

At this point I said, you must be fucking me.

When he's goes after the group and like a steroid-laden baby, throws a temper tantrum in the front group's office, I said what's the point?

He's pulled out by the FBI, who knows that these guys are baddies.

I turned it off. I said this is crap. For an Ahnuld movie, that's saying a lot.

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Gildor Inglorion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 10:00 PM
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50. War & Peace with Henry Fonda and Audrey Hepburn
Was just about as bad and disappointing as a movie could ever be. There was one good scene in the Hulk...Lou Ferrigno as a security guard talking to the guy who originally drew the Hulk for Marvel Comics. (I can't think of his name, but he played himself in "Mallrats.")
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Dob Bole Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 10:03 PM
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51. LOL...couldn't agree more...
It was the worst directing I've EVER SEEN. And then they changed the whole Hulk story, since the Cold War is over....and it just didn't make sense beyond that point.
And he runs like a two year old playing Jenga.
Bad Movie, Bad.
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BlueJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 10:26 PM
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53. My worst is the "Blair Witch Project"
That POS was incredibly boring.
The girl would have been killed 10 times (by her friends) if the movie had any reality to it.
And the whole pack of them were about as smart as a pet toad......
"Jim, it's dark and there are some very dangerous things happening outside our tent!
Bob: By golly, I've got a brilliant idea... Lets all go to sleep!!
and tomorrow night when things get really bad, we'll separate far from each other so we'll have no protection!

Fuck...at the end, I was glad they died.
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