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Citizen Kain - 2 hours of complete suffering in order to please my Dad! I will never ever see that movie again as long as I live.

YES it won an Oscar, BUT that was in like 1945!!

What's your worst?

A good mate of mine is known for choosing shite films so i could give you a whole list!
Top would have to be Dreamcatchers, the film based on the Stephen King novel, oh may god what a pile of smelly mammoth poo that film was!
The Postman with Kevin Costner a very close second!
Peace and love, Danny J

I would have to say Closer was the worst film I've seen in the last year. I was so slow and people actually walked out half way through the film!

The sound of music is terrible.

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Originally posted by matengu:
The sound of music is terrible.

You have to sing along to make it good. Or, not good, but more fun.

Citizen Kane is terrific! You CRAZY!

The worst movie I've ever had to sit through was Brown Bunny. This was a low-budget indie that was about as pretentiously boring and stupid as they get. The gimmick was that Chloe Sevegny (sp?), who was dating the director/star at the time, gives him real oral sex on camera in one scene. So it was definitely going to get an audience just for that, but the movie itself was so unspeakably awful that I forced my roommate to take it back to the video store that same evening and rent something GOOD in penance. I'm still angry at him for making me watch it.

As for a movie most people seemed to love but I really disliked, that would be Gladiator. I honestly didn't see what was so great about it. I thought the plot was ludicrous, the action scenes undecipherable and the history out-and-out infuriatingly wrong.

While in the Czech Republic, owing to an unfortunate mistranslation of titles, we accidentally rented "The Piano Teacher" instead of "The Pianist" (Both translated in such a similar way that it was a Czech friend who made the mistake). The only thing that makes the experience ok is that we all obviously hated it, but we also all still thought it had won an oscar and went on for some time trying to discuss the merits and how interesting the film was, when we all quite clearly thought it was crap and had laughed through half of it. When I found out the mistake it was one of the funniest thhings I think I've ever had happen, which makes up for sitting through the movie.

As a fan of zombie flicks, i'd have to say I was the most disappointed leaving a theater after seeing Romero's Land of the Dead last year. I went in with high hopes and left with crushed dreams. Haha.

Butterfly Effect was terrible

I think you're all being a little hard on good films (except the latest Romero, which I admit I haven't seen) I know they've been years with the Golden Turkey awards, but the worst films I've ever seen are the Creeping Terror, where a walking duvet, whose tennis shoes are sticking out from the bottom of it, starts killing peope; the Two Headed Thing which I saw in a rundown cinema in Bandung and the Indonesian censor had cut out the worst bits; and of course, the immortal Wild Women of Wonga.
For most over-rated film, I would put Collateral Damage (Tom Cruise can't play a villain for toffee),The Man who wasn't There (The Cohen Brothers at their most boring - a great pity, because they've made some great movies) and Bertolucci's The Last Emperor (some fine set-pieces, but loses direction and certainly didn't deserve the shower of Oscars that it got)

More along the Tom Cruise is bad line ....

War of the Worlds was a really annoying movie. It was the teaming of Dakota Fanning with Tom Cruise that did it I think. They're both just so obnoxious to watch.

Dr. Moreau's Island
Vanilla Sky
Waterboy
Unbreakable

I have walked out on one movie - Crash (the David Cronenberg one). That whole suspension of disbelief thing went a bit too far.

But, "Dude, Where's My Car?" left me wanting a refund for the 2 hours of my life I wasted watching it.

Waterworld was pretty bad, but there are so many to choose from...

I love horror movies. but maybe I'm getting soft at the ripe old age of 20, because the only movie I have ever walked out on was The Hills Have Eyes. we made it to the part where the guy was being burned alive and his daughter was sleeping and there were mutants hovering over her and touching her. I didn't want to know what came next, so we left. so that was probably the worst I've seen.

that said, zombie movies are amazing. I have to say I loved every one of Romero's movies that I've seen (which isn't that many).

There's plenty of bad movies out there, but the one highly popular movie that I really disliked was "Good Will Hunting".

So boring that I could never watch it all the way through. And I tried several times due to it being forever played on United Airlines.

Then again, I find many of Tom Cruise's movies very watchable. He should have gotten an Oscar for Rain Man instead of Dustin Hoffman.

This one hasn't come out yet, but...
Snakes on a Plane.

Citizen Kane, Closer, Sound of Music, Vanilla Sky, Good Will Hunting, and Unbreakable are all really good movies.

I'd go with A Knight's Tale for worst movie I've seen. Went to it with some (female) friends and walked out of it.

Thanks to the wonder that is MST3k, I've seen my fair share of bad movies! Unfortunatly, I've blocked most of the titles from my memory.

Recent movie wise, I'd vote Unbreakable. That's the only movie I've ever nearly fallen asleep watching. Awful teen-type movies like that President's Daughter type one with Katie Holmes also fall into the category of "I would like that 90 minutes of my life back, please!"

So many to choose from!!!!

Ok, there are different kinds of "BAD MOVIES." There are the kind that are bad just because they appeal a wide selection of people without regard to quality or craft. Pretty much anything for tweens and teens.

There are movies that are bad because they somehow got lost in the process. PHENOMENON with John Travolta is a good example. So is it a brain tumor? Or is it really that space thing? They couldn't decide and still the movie got made. The Kevin Costner movie DRAGONFLY was pretty horrible, too. Blah. SOLARIS with George Clooney fits into this catagory, as well.

There are movies that are bad because they move at such a slow pace and NOTHING HAPPENS!!!! Clint Eastwood somehow managed to become famous despite his first film being a Spagehetti Western called FIST FULL OF DOLLARS. It takes him 10 minutes to walk across the room. Five minutes are spent focusing on the water dripping onto a cowboy hat. They shoot at each other now and again and, Voila! A classic Clint Eastwood Western.

There are some movies so horrendous that they are immediatly erased from our memories. Unfortunatly a vague resdue from these flops still remain lodged deep in our brains. The image of some dude in leopard thong occationally pops into my head. I don't remember the movie, but I wiSH the movie would get out of my head. A few years ago there was a Rene Russo movie that was horrendous. I don't know the name or any of the other actors. I only know that a fortuitious case of food poisoning sent me running to the bathroom halfway through the movie. Though I spent the next 45 minutes vomiting into the toilet, I'm sure I had a better time than if I had stayed till the end.

Any movie with Madonna. (There are a couple that aren't half bad . . .)

Finally there are movies that are so bad, they're good. Any movie by Ed Wood and specifically in my book, PLAN NINE FROM OUTER SPACE. I own this movie and love the horrendous production. I love watching the movie just to catch to horrible filmmakeing productions: flaming hubcaps for flying saucers, cardboard tombstone and astounding stock footage. Also in this genre of bad movies are classics like EVIL DEAD. Of course it is also great to learn about the production of such movies and I recommend the book, "If Chins Could Kill; Confessions of a B Movie Actor," by Bruce Campbell. Fantastic!

Anyway, that's my list.

Jet

Angel Eyes

This movie never seemed appealing to me but I had a friend at Sony and we saw a free screening on the lot. It was so awful that literally the audience was laughing because there were so many uncomfortable moments that were supposed to be serious but just looked random and didn't fit. Jennifer Lopez is by no means a good actress but she did a great job compared to the writers and directors. I just thought the story was one of the worst I ever saw and wonder how the hell it ever got greenlighted to make a movie.

The Messenger, story of Joan of Arc was another God awful movie. I loved how in the battle scenes the blood hit the camera lense. It was hilarious and I was like, did that really just happen? I can understand that in a wartime documentary story but I didn't understand why for a 'big budget' movie they didn't edit that out. I saw this a few years back but I remember I thought it was so horrible that I made a list of 10 reasons why it was so bad and no one should waste their time and money on it.