OT: Most hated/worst movies you`ve ever seen

[ffg53]

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.

 

[3rdbass]

The Expendables 2. I mean it was just about Cameos and showing Star Power. No plot and action scenes were cut short. What a pointless movie.

The Twilight Series. I had to go to two of those worthless movies because of the girlfriend I was dating at the time. She was young. LOL. What overproduced teenage love fluff.

 

[Kemballin']

Troll 2 is so bad it's actually kinda good, it's hard to explain, it's more of a comedy, although it was supposed to be... Way worse than gremlins 2.

 

[nomar]

Grown Ups 1 and 2

Fool me once...

Second one's on you, pal.

 

[superjohn]

Grown Ups and any Adam Sandler movie after Happy Gilmore, any M. Night Shamalan movie after Unbreakable. Savages is a recent Oliver Stone movie that was unwatchable, no movie with Salma Hayek and Blake Lively should be that unwatchable. Three movies I thought were terrible that most people really liked- The Dark Knight Rises, Inception and the Paul Haggis piece of dung called Crash.

 

[nomar]

For me, the worst movie that was not intentionally made as a B-movie, low brow comedy, or action movie but was attempting to be a good movie is, without a doubt....

"The Ninth Gate" starring Johnny Depp.

No redeeming qualities, what...so...ever.

There were redeemable qualities. Frank Langella campily overacts and stabs someone to death. And then Johnny Depp has some freaky-deeky demon sex.

 

[Husky25]

Grown Ups and any Adam Sandler movie after Happy Gilmore, any M. Night Shamalan movie after Unbreakable. Savages is a recent Oliver Stone movie that was unwatchable, no movie with Salma Hayek and Blake Lively should be that unwatchable. Three movies I thought were terrible that most people really liked- The Dark Knight Rises, Inception and the Paul Haggis piece of dung called Crash.

Good Night and Good Luck was a better movie than Crash and should have won the Academy Award, not that it is important. Both had star power, but I'd describe Crash's star power as a collection of cameos. The best movie rarely, if ever, wins Best Picture anyway and sometimes they don't even get nominated. Sideways should have won Best Picture in '04 as well.

 

[nomar]

Restricting it to movies that were supposed to be good (good casts, popular with some good reviews, etc.), and which others may like.

Contact - dreadful Jodie Foster/Matthew McConaghey space disaster (South Park had an episode where the mere mention of the movie induced vomiting - I applauded)

Ocean's 12 - just for the scene where it becomes a plot line that the Julia Roberts character looks like Julia Roberts. Loved 11, and 13 was a good bounce back.

Blair Witch Project - to be fair, it was a cheap indy and they probably never thought it would become a phenomenon. For that kind of hype, you expect it to deliver something other than seasickness.

Sports category: Jerry Maguire. Especially annoyed that Cuba Gooding gets knocked out cold, wakes up, and starts doing sophisticated end zone dances. The athletic trainers would have carted him off for precautionary reasons. At that point of the movie, I had had enough anyway.

The Last Boy Scout: Bruce Willis trying to be a Die Hard-type character with a terrible script. Movie starts with an NFL player pulling out a gun, shooting all the defenders on the way to the end zone, and shooting himself in the head. Started out awful, and went downhill. (Hudson Hawk was much maligned, but that one actually cracked me up).

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 ducking 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.

 

[sledog]

where to begin?

 

[TopDog18]

The Happening

 

[Dove]

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.

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.

 

[nomar]

That movie sucked. My date didn't.

Well I'm sorry to hear that, Dove.

 

[Dove]

Well I'm sorry to hear that, Dove.

yep. Swung and missed on that one.

 

[Excalibur]

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.

The Postman is a movie that I will watch just to be entertained by its awfulness.

 

[TheChamps990411]

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.

your making this far more complicated than need be. chill its not that serious

 

[SoCalCanine]

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.

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!!!

 

[Scoe]

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

 

[huskiesnyc]

The award for most preposterous ending of 2012 goes to Trouble With The Curve.

 

[huskiesnyc]

Get Carter also deserves some love for worst movie

 

[Edward Sargent]

Chuck Norris made Arnold and The Rock look like they were Robert DeNiro!!

Speaking of Robert De Niro he's been mailing it in far too often for my liking. How many duckers can you stand?

 

[Duncan Idaho]

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.

 

[Dove]

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!!!

That was Ashley Judd in "Bug" and that movie was creepy. Enjoyed the movie but will not watch it again.

 

[jleves]

Eyes Wide Shut"

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.

 

[jleves]

Ted

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.

 

[Gurleyman]

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.

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.