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ffg53 said:
Mr. Wrong
Krippendorf's Tribe
Identity Thief

The first two predate Netflix and I--like an idiot--actually paid to see them in the theater.
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Big time laughing at Krippendorf's Tribe and when I saw this thread it was first on my list. Wow..brought a first date to it and somehow took it out on here for requesting it (no second date). May have saved my rep at the time. That movie sucked. My date didn't.
 
Husky25 said:
Almost every Kevin Costner epic, lead by The Postman. Water World is on the list as well as Wyatt Earp, but at least I am not looking for the 3.5 hours of my life back from those two. The Postman is a dumpster fire that operates on a completely different level.

In the interest of full disclosure, I never saw Dances with Wolves, but its success apparently gave Mr. Costner the hubris to think that everyone would be interested in seeing 4 hour blocks of him at a time.
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The Postman is a movie that I will watch just to be entertained by its awfulness.
 
progrocks said:
hated and worst are two very different things. Some of the worst movies i have seen I do not hate because it is funny how bad they are.

The ones I hate usually have expectations where I do not expect them to suck.

For instance, I hate the Matrix sequels. And it grows to hate because I still think about the first, which was great, and that makes me think of the others, which makes me hate them more every time.
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your making this far more complicated than need be. chill its not that serious
 
Taco said:
You're so right on Laura Linney - the Savages and The Squid and the Whale were both painful!

You know what your getting with Bullock and For Macdowell, she was in Groundhog Day, 4 Weddings, and s e x, Lies & Videotape.
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I knew I would have to answer about Groundhog Day in which Bill Murray's genius was able to overcome the McDowell factor. But if anyone has seen Laura Linney in "Bug", the single biggest piece of crap disguised as a movie of all time, they too would question her taste and intelligence for even accepting that awful role! I am the first to admit I have missed many of the movies these three were in simply because I refused to go see them because they were in them! BTW my wife loves Sandra Bullock and Andi McDowell and their movies but somewhat shares my distaste for Laura Linney. Thank heavens I have a daughter I can send chick-flicking with her!!!
 
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Lord of the rings
Pleasantville
Freddy got Fingered (Tom Green as the main character says it all, dumbest movie ever)
Grown ups
the third Harold and Kumar
The Dictator
 
The award for most preposterous ending of 2012 goes to Trouble With The Curve.
 
Only movie I ever left was Time Bandits. Was treated for depression after watching Angela's Ashes. I kept hoping it would end after the second hour but it drove on and on and I couldn't move. Like being on the Nitrous bottle by yourself, you need a buddy to shut the thing off.
 
SoCalCanine said:
I knew I would have to answer about Groundhog Day in which Bill Murray's genius was able to overcome the McDowell factor. But if anyone has seen Laura Linney in "Bug", the single biggest piece of crap disguised as a movie of all time, they too would question her taste and intelligence for even accepting that awful role! I am the first to admit I have missed many of the movies these three were in simply because I refused to go see them because they were in them! BTW my wife loves Sandra Bullock and Andi McDowell and their movies but somewhat shares my distaste for Laura Linney. Thank heavens I have a daughter I can send chick-flicking with her!!!
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That was Ashley Judd in "Bug" and that movie was creepy. Enjoyed the movie but will not watch it again.
 
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StoweD210 said:
Eyes Wide Shut"
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Always my first choice when this topic comes up anywhere in my life. By far the worst big budget film of all time. From the Title to the conclusion, pretentious bullshit.
 
nomar said:
All flawed movies but that is some irrational hatred! Especially the bit about re The Last Boy Scout. But I guess that's what this thread is about. Not the objectively worst movies you've seen. The ones that just set you off for whatever reason.

I saw parts of Jerry Maguire this weekend and we were all laughing about how the guy potentially suffers a neck/spine injury, but (a) no doctors come on the field (b) the trainers do nothing but CLAP in his face, and (c) when he regains consciousness, nobody puts him in a brace and on a board, and (d) they allow him to prance around and break dance.

Also, Jerry does not love Dorothy at all and it's just a matter of days before he remembers that. All that said, I sure as s* don't hate the movie.

Now let's see.

Here are some movies I hate:

Mystic River - This movie sucks. Sean Penn mopes and whines the entire movie. The plot sucks. The ending sucks. Everyone overacts. The Academy should have closed down after handing Penn that Oscar. Oh, also, the subplot with Kevin Bacon's wife was so ing stupid it makes me angry thinking about it. (Screenwriter 1: "Should we leave in this subplot where Kevin Bacon and his wife are on the phone with each other even though it doesn't move the plot forward one iota?" Screenwriter 2: "Yes, but only if we film it by using close-ups on her mouth." Forgive me I'm not depicting this correctly; I saw it in the theater and refuse to ever watch it again.)

Crash - I didn't hate it after I saw it, although I did find it too "on-the-nose" and I also found it ironic that it was a movie about different kinds of people and prejudices yet happened to be the whitest movie ever. But I started hating it when it beat out Brokeback Mountain. I hate it less now that Haggis is no longer a Scientologist, but just a little bit.

Strictly Ballroom - I saw this on an airplane once and will never watch it again. Considering how many terrible movies I've seen on airplanes, this one must have really stuck in my craw for it to stand out like this.

Southland Tales - I loved Donnie Darko, so I was so excited to see this. I was actually laughing out loud throughout (it's not a comedy) and would have walked out had I been alone. The only scene I liked was the one that everyone else hated (Justin Timberlake mouthing the words to the song by The Killers). This was a terrible, terrible movie.
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No question - thought I would pick ones where there are conflicting opinions, rather than ones that nobody likes. Some of it is circumstance: I saw Contact in the theater with friends and the whole place was laughing at how stupid the movie was (and then I found out people actually liked it), I bought a ticket to see what all the fuss was about for Blair Witch and wanted my money back. I had high expectations for Jerry Maguire being a great movie, but watched it thinking it could have had a place in the Monty Python "Hospital For Over-Acting" skit, even before the Cuba Gooding dance put me over the top (I also laugh when I picture Tom Cruise's puppy dog eyes totally over-acting through the "you complete me" stuff). My dorm suite in college rented Last Boy Scout and we were throwing beer cans at the screen - some of which might have not even been empty yet. These are all times the badness stuck with me, as opposed to a pedestrian bad movie you never think about again.

Mystic River was an awesome book, but Dennis Lehane creates very dark, depressing characters. I remember thinking the movie fit the tone of the book, but that the tone and the characters didn't translate well to the screen, so I didn't recommend the movie to anyone who asked. Shutter Island worked better.

I am so annoyed with myself for forgetting two more: Benjamin Button and Nic Cage in The Wicker Man. In Benjamin Button, I just wanted the character to just frickin' hurry up, finish shrinking, and die at the end so I could return the DVD.

The Wicker Man was simply the worst movie ever made (the Nic Cage one - cant speak to the original). I will not accept any other nominations. Everyone else is fighting for second.
 
jleves said:
Started off with such promise and quickly went to crap. I'm pissed they screwed up what should have been one of the funniest movies ever.
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Ted gets five stars from me, one for each minute that Norah Jones was in it.

My Blueberry Nights gets 95 stars.
 
The were a number of issues with Trouble with the Curve. The ending was just one of them. Still, I'm a sucker for Amy Adams.
 
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Any epic type movie with Kevin Costner (possibly the worst actor on the planet except for...the next guy in my list)
Any movie not named The Matrix 1 with Keanu Reaves
Any movie Gwynnith Paltrow tries to do a British accent

Howard the Duck. Yeah, I have always loved Sci Fi, but it was horrible in every way imaginable. Not sure if that was worse than Gigli tho, a movie my girlfriend at the time made me sit through. I dumped her because of it. Just awful. And she thought it was great.
 
jleves said:
Started off with such promise and quickly went to crap. I'm pissed they screwed up what should have been one of the funniest movies ever.
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I actually thought the "Ted" was hilarious but maybe since I had such low expectations going in to watching it. Maybe not a great movie but definitely entertaining enough to sit through it with all the stupid humor.
 
Battleship Earth, Howard the Duck, but for the worst I'll go with Congo. I don't know what was worst, Tim Curry as the villain with the terrible Romanian accent (reminded me of a bad Dracula impersonation) or the talking gorilla, Amy, who seaks with a voice box and is annoying as hell. The movie was just do unbelievable to take. It's the 2nd time I ever left the movie theater. The other was a comedy called 'Short Time' starring Dabney Coleman about a cop who finds out during a physical that he's dying (that's a great basis for a comedy to start....). He goes about recklessly trying to get killed on the job for some reason but fails. All I kept thinking was, if a routine physical said you were going to die, wouldn't you get a second opinion before trying to off yourself??
 
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Nick of Time with Johnny Depp and Christopher Walken. Also, 88 Minutes with Al Pacino. Plot was not quite as bad as Nick of Time, but Pacino put out one of the most awful acting performances you'll ever see. Watching The Godfather a thousand times won't be enough to block out how bad he was.
 
Mike Moran said:
I have never watched it either. I honestly just wanted to see if anyone actually did. Haha.
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I saw it. I had an ex who was big into horror movies, so I got to see every crappy piece of torture that came out in the second half of the 00's. The Saw series (first one was actually pretty good - the ending was awesome), Hostel, Hostel II, Hills Have Eyes, House of Wax, Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake, etc. And it was her fault I saw Wicker Man, which was probably why it ended. Human Centipede was just same old formula - crazy dude tortures people - just with a new form of torture. Best part of the movie was the guy in the theater who shouted "let's connect on LinkedIn". Guess you had to be there.

The one time I got to pick a movie, we went to Madagascar. Still one of my favorite movies ever, because other than a cartoon lion biting a cartoon zebra in the ass, nobody tortured anyone. It was Citizen Kane of Shawshank in comparison to the movies I saw around it.
 
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