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A Kiss Before Dying (Sean Young & Matt Dillon) -- Though to be fair, it was so bad we laughed our way through it.
Face/Off
Hoffa
Ice Age2
 
Drive!

I'm on a personal vendetta to have that movie recognized by the federal government, the Pope, NATO, & the United Nations as an official waste of 2 hours of your life. For the life of me, I can't even begin to understand how some people consider it some kind of great movie. I'm getting pissed just thinking about it.
 
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.
 
All the Twilight movies. Actually, I can only comment on the first two, but I assume the rest were just as bad.

The Host was terrible as well. Saw it at Redbox, an alien body snatcher with Sarcosise(?) Ronin (and actress I liked from Lovely Bones and Hanna), so I thought it might be good. Didn't find out until after it was based on another Stephanie Meyer book of Twilight fame, which explained what a terrible story it was (the whole thing is crap about a love triangle between her, her body snatched entity and two guys). Just horrible. I don't expect anyone here to relate since I am sure you were all smarter than me and never saw it.
 
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UCDaveD said:
Drive!

I'm on a personal vendetta to have that movie recognized by the federal government, the Pope, NATO, & the United Nations as an official waste of 2 hours of your life. For the life of me, I can't even begin to understand how some people consider it some kind of great movie. I'm getting pissed just thinking about it.
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You're going to want to skip Only God Forgives.
 
Independence Day, Pearl Harbor and This is 40.

Independence Day...God, where to start. The president's wife dying was the most awfully acted scene in the history of film. It held the title for about ten minutes and then the scene where the president lectures the scientist about something or other takes over first place. And that scene only remained at the top until Randy Quaid's final moments. All in all, it might have three of the worst moments in film history - it's the Secretariat of bad movies.

Pearl Harbor. F---. What a s--- show that movie was. I was rooting for the Japanese after the first ten minutes of the movie.

This is 40. (a/k/a Jude Apatow Needs an Editor). It was so, so, so long and so, so, so depressing. I have no idea how it made it onto film without someone suggesting to Apatow that it might cause people to cut their wrists halfway through - it might have been the worst thing I've ever seen in a movie theater.
 
Others (And I'm trying not to pick on kids movies like Ladybugs, Little Giants, Home Alone):
Worst non-sports sequel :Gremlins II
Speaking of which (concerning the Gremlins franchise), has anyone ever though about why midnight? Is it because of their sleep schedule? How do they even know, Can they tell time? What if they travel to a different time zone, can they not eat after 11:00 then? What if they travel to Indiana where some counties observe central time and a county directly north observe the eastern time zone? Are Gremlins students of geography? Significant holes in the plot, if you ask me.

Terrible (Non-sequel) Sports Movie - The Babe. American Anthem
Is that why Gretzky was traded to the Kings? Good Grief.

Worst Action-Suspense Film - 2012
So unbelievable, it is painfully difficult to suspend disbelief.

Worst Comedy (This one is tough, because they cannot be taken seriously by definition) - Stop or My Mom Will Shoot. Cops and Robbersons, Funny People.
There are others, but what do you do when the stars of the film clearly mail it in for a paycheck.

Worst movie that could have been good, if not for Eric Roberts - (Tie) The Specialist, Best of the Best
Wasted performances by Stallone, Woods, Stone (The Specialist), and James Earl Jones (BOTB). The Chris Penn character was totally out of place too.
 
SoCalCanine said:
Anything with Laura Linney, Andy McDowell or Sandra Bullock!
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Groundhog Day was great. And The Heat was good too, but Melissa McCarthy carried it. Searching for Bobby Fischer was enjoyable, but Linney was not a main character.
 
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SoCalCanine said:
Anything with Laura Linney, Andy McDowell or Sandra Bullock!
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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 Sex, Lies & Videotape.
 
Husky25 said:
Others (And I'm trying not to pick on kids movies like Ladybugs, Little Giants, Home Alone):
Worst non-sports sequel :Gremlins II
Speaking of which (concerning the Gremlins franchise), has anyone ever though about why midnight? Is it because of their sleep schedule? How do they even know, Can they tell time? What if they travel to a different time zone, can they not eat after 11:00 then? What if they travel to Indiana where some counties observe central time and a county directly north observe the eastern time zone? Are Gremlins students of geography? Significant holes in the plot, if you ask me.

Terrible (Non-sequel) Sports Movie - The Babe. American Anthem
Is that why Gretzky was traded to the Kings? Good Grief.

Worst Action-Suspense Film - 2012
So unbelievable, it is painfully difficult to suspend disbelief.

Worst Comedy (This one is tough, because they cannot be taken seriously by definition) - Stop or My Mom Will Shoot. Cops and Robbersons, Funny People.
There are others, but what do you do when the stars of the film clearly mail it in for a paycheck.

Worst movie that could have been good, if not for Eric Roberts - (Tie) The Specialist, Best of the Best
Wasted performances by Stallone, Woods, Stone (The Specialist), and James Earl Jones (BOTB). The Chris Penn character was totally out of place too.
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I was going to mention Cops and Robbersons, but I was sure nobody had ever heard of it. Might have been the last time anyone cast Chevy Chase in a lead role, other than Vacation remakes.
 
Taco said:
You're so right on Laura Linney - the Savages and The Squid and the Whale were both painful!
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I don't think you can hang the piece of crap that was Squid and the Whale on Linney. She was pretty great in You Can Count on Me and the Tales of the City miniseries.
 
@Champs couldn't agree more re: 10,000 BC or agree less regarding Million Dollar Baby.

My nomination is Hercules in New York:



Keep in mind that this version is better than the original in which Schwarzenegger is dubbed.
 
Borat.
Water World.
Battleship.
Eragon.
Battlefield Earth.
Last AirBender.
Blair Witch Project.
 
Oh I forgot about Battleship. I just saw it.
If you haven't seen it yet, but have seen Transformers, Independence Day, and Down Periscope, then you don't have to waste your time with Battleship. Borat, Like most comedies, is all about expectations. Its stupid juvenile humor and that is not your particular brand of vodka, then of course it is a bad movie. But I think Borat accomplished Sasha Baron Cohen aim. There are other movies that are just terrible (See: Beverly Hills Cop III...actually almost all of Eddie Murphy's catalog that does not involve stand-up comedy, BHC, BHC II, Boomerang, and the 48 hours movies), but I tried to stay away from sequels, because they are basically money grabs.
 
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Husky25 said:
Others (And I'm trying not to pick on kids movies like Ladybugs, Little Giants, Home Alone):
Worst non-sports sequel :Gremlins II
Speaking of which (concerning the Gremlins franchise), has anyone ever though about why midnight? Is it because of their sleep schedule? How do they even know, Can they tell time? What if they travel to a different time zone, can they not eat after 11:00 then? What if they travel to Indiana where some counties observe central time and a county directly north observe the eastern time zone? Are Gremlins students of geography? Significant holes in the plot, if you ask me.

Terrible (Non-sequel) Sports Movie - The Babe. American Anthem
Is that why Gretzky was traded to the Kings? Good Grief.

Worst Action-Suspense Film - 2012
So unbelievable, it is painfully difficult to suspend disbelief.

Worst Comedy (This one is tough, because they cannot be taken seriously by definition) - Stop or My Mom Will Shoot. Cops and Robbersons, Funny People.
There are others, but what do you do when the stars of the film clearly mail it in for a paycheck.

Worst movie that could have been good, if not for Eric Roberts - (Tie) The Specialist, Best of the Best
Wasted performances by Stallone, Woods, Stone (The Specialist), and James Earl Jones (BOTB). The Chris Penn character was totally out of place too.
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100% agree on Funny People. I consider myself pretty easy to please when it comes to movies, but my friends and I actually walked out of the theater on that one. Horrible. Doesn't help that it seems to be on HBO every other day.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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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.
 
SubbaBub said:
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.
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There were redeemable qualities. Frank Langella campily overacts and stabs someone to death. And then Johnny Depp has some freaky-deeky demon sex.
 
superjohn said:
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.
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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.
 
Gurleyman said:
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).
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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.
 
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