Seanland

Have to agree with Predeconinferno on this one, not many movies i totally hate, but American Beauty is definately not anywhere on my favourites lists, to say the least.

ophelia783

Gangs of New York was probably the one that I hated the most...within 10 minutes after the start time, I wanted to leave, and after three and a half hours, I wanted to hang myself.....

Everyone else thought it was a masterpiece 'shudder'

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I've always read positive comments about Scorsese's "After Hours", but I thought the movie really kinda sucked.

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I agree the acting was dismal. [duck and cover]

hokiesandwich

Sin City, Kill Bill.

I had someone describe the scene where Uma Thurman kills Lucy Liu in the winter garden as 'patient' and therefore totally awesome. I either heard or inferred something about a warrior ethic in that same description, which made me want to vomit. I don't really like the Japanese blood-bath genre, and there was no samurai beauty involved in the movie.
I'm not a purist, however,and found some parts to be amusing,but those were few and far between. I found the Kill Bill series, as well as Sin City to be tedious and extremely childish. Which says a lot for my feelings on the original sources of inspiration for these flicks, whatever they may be.
I thought that we were past the kind of misogyny exhibited in the film, but apparently there is quite a market for it. It just exhibited a deep-seated fear of women in power, castration, and an obsession with dominating women and young girls physically and sexually that I really couldn't swallow. No offense to those who are, but I'm not a feminist, and find the whole ideology irritating, but this film was out-and-out ridiculous. I'm surprised womens' groups aren't up in arms over the content and attitudes towards women, and I'm ashamed that so many long-haired fantasy-world geeks got just as excited as Yellow Bastard during the flick. Rodriguez did an awesome job with the camera work (as far as I understood it in the current Wired Magazine article, at least) but it was a damned waste of my time.

I only hope the newest Batman doesn't end up in this heap of burning flesh and celluloid.

hokiesandwich

I am talking about Sin City below, but forgot to reference it specifically.

And no offense is meant to people with long hair, or who like the fantasy genre, but this little experience just sort of pushed me over the edge. Our engineering and computer science departments students were packed into the theatre for Sin City, and I feel that I'm making a comment based on my experiences in the local population of Blacksburg, VA.


[QUOTE=hokiesandwich]Sin City, Kill Bill.

I thought that we were past the kind of misogyny exhibited in the film, but apparently there is quite a market for it. It just exhibited a deep-seated fear of women in power, castration, and an obsession with dominating women and young girls physically and sexually that I really couldn't swallow. No offense to those who are, but I'm not a feminist, and find the whole ideology irritating, but this film was out-and-out ridiculous. I'm surprised womens' groups aren't up in arms over the content and attitudes towards women, and I'm ashamed that so many long-haired fantasy-world geeks got just as excited as Yellow Bastard during the flick. Rodriguez did an awesome job with the camera work (as far as I understood it in the current Wired Magazine article, at least) but it was a damned waste of my time.

Hain

I'd have to agree with everyone when they say Napoleon Dynamite. I watched 20 minutes of it and figured that this had to have a Columbine-like ending. Horrible I know, but that is what I thought.

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I can't believe I wasted 1.5 hours of my life watching this movie! I mean I like Will Ferrell movies, especially Old School, but this was awful! I chuckled maybe once throughout this entire movie they call a 'comedy'. I don't get it, what is all the rave about? Some people have called it the best comedy ever.....to me it may be the worst.

CrispyTheClown

I lasted about 20 minutes on that one.

The Matrix Trilogy, The Star Wars Saga, Potter....ah hell....basically anything that has to do with wizards, aliens or robots taking over the currnt world that they inhabit.

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Johnny Pyro

80 percent of the movies listed on this thread that are considered boring I love.I guess I'm a boring person!?

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Exactly! That's the point of the thread. If people are posting movies that really belong in the thread, everyone should find that they like most of the movies posted. Of course, it doesn't exactly work out because some of them don't really belong (like Matrix 2/3 since everyone hates them), so YMMV.

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Paq

the only movies i can think of that i just can't watch that everyone loves are definitely pulp fiction, kill bill 1/2, matrix 2/3, the american pie movies, just stuff like that.

Come to think of it, i rarely ever sit through movies i don't really like or know i'm going to like..
as for last good movie i saw: batman begins

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Suave

The English Patient. The word patient definitely has a double meaning in this title. Boooooring.

Also, Titanic. Sappy (not the good kind of sappy) piece of shit, the only saving grace of which was Kate Winslet's bazongas. Or at least I think they were in there. If they weren't, it had no good part. Oh, except the end where DiCaprio dies. On a related note, I enjoyed the modern adaptation of Romeo and Juliet immensely though, and I'm not ashamed to admit it.

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ngdawg

A Fish Called Wanda-disgusting piece of crap that was highly recommended by someone usually reliable. My friend and I couldn't believe what we were seeing.
2001:Space Odyssey. WTF? Boring, lame and it ended badly because the rest of the film made no sense so why not tack on a worthless nonsense ending. No, it's not deep. It's stupid.
Daughter just went to see Batman Begins and just sat there waiting for it to end.

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ElwoodBlues

I have to agree with NG on 2001. My roomate always raves about it, but I can barely make it a half hour into that flick before I am bored out of my mind.

The one that really gets me is Garden State. Everyone raves about Zach Braff and his awesome film. I hate Garden State. I just cannot stand the movie. I found it to be boring, underacted, and overrated.

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Lak

I have a friend who can't stand Pulp Fiction either.... you guys are wierd, yo.

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I'll third the 2001 thing - just a weird movie all up really.

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StephenSa

So many movies, so much to hate....
Not a movie but a hugely hyped mini-series on Sci - Fi the Spielberg produced "Taken". I realize its doesn't really fit the thread but I was so utterly pissed at how horrible it was I just had to mention it.
With more relevance - "Akira" - a japanese anime that seemed to just consist of lots of yelling of the major characters names and giant tub of goo on a rampage. Overhyped, confusing garbage. Give me "BladeRunner" any day.
Anything by M. Night Shamalamadingdong. Yeah, I got that "The Village" was actually a community shut off from modern society about fifteen minutes in. How did I know? Because every M. Night movie has a "Twilight Zonian" twist and that was the most logical. Once you know there is a twist it doesn't take a genius to figure out what said twist is and then the rest of the movie just meanders along waiting to reveal what I already know. I knew the comic book guy would be the "evil enemy" in the "Unbreakable" and I knew Brucie was dead in "6th Sense". They're alright viewing fair but I don't find them great.

"Saving Private Ryan" - I never cared if Ryan was saved or if Tom Hanks got out alive. I can't really explain why. I usually love war movies but I never got into it. I found myself bored and ready to leave halfway through. Maybe it just needed R. Lee Ermy....

"Blair Witch" - Poorly shot drivel.

"Out of Africa" - I considered suicide a quarter of the way through.

"Master and Commander" - Would have rather watched "Love Boat".

2nd and 3rd "Matrix" films - such a promising beginning....

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Paq

OH MY DEAR GOD
i forgot about blair witch

utter...crap

also, no offense, but after watching batman begins and loving it, but suffering through the previews, i have a request to make to all producers:
please...please...please...stop it with the hot chick on a martial arts killing spree...honestly, it is just overdone and frankly, only being done for eyecandy effect and the fanboy's little "ooo, boobies on screen and it would be so hot to get my ass kicked by a DD boobied girl"

seriously, it's old, overdone, and just not done well..

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Nimbletoe

I guess I can add War of the Worlds to my list. The special effects were great, and it had a few moments where it seemed like it might even be good, but the plot is so thin, the moment you start to think about it, it collapses into nonsense. Too bad they didn't fix the plot in the remake to make sense, instead, they made it worse somehow. Bleh.

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ShaniFaye

People are funny creatures Blair Witch is the ONLY movie that has ever given me nightmares....and I mean out of any movie ever.

I'd throw the last 3 star wars into the list....all but the last 40 minutes or so of the latest one.

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The two most popular movies that leave me cold are The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Grease. I think they have dated badly and what was once considered scandalous is now just grating.

I suppose you could read something into the fact that these are both campy musicals but I love Moulin Rouge and West Side Story for example. I also happen to work in theatre.

Mostly though, I imagine it has to do with all the amateur adaptations and tributes I have had to endure in my career.

Ditto on "TAKEN". Talk about a sluggish treacly disappointment!

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theguyondacouch

Star wars. I just don't understand why people like them so much.
I'm actually stupider after having seen napoleon dyamite. There were some funny scenes, but most were just boring.

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spongy

I would like to add my thoughts on Rocky Horror and Grease.... they both were awful in my opinion.

Granted I saw Rocky Horror on DVD, perhaps it woulda been better at a midnight screnning, but damn did it blow donkey kidneys.

Grease is a film I was told I HAD to watch.. as in "omigod, you haven't seen Grease? Let's watch it right now." Movies under pressure.. not for meesa.

Now I know why I never saw Grease.

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Acornbud

Raging Bull. It could be deNiro acted so well, I hated him for years. The character he played was a real AH!

Cynthetiq

Fight Club...

I'm tired of whiny 20somethings thinking they deserve things without having to work for them and when they do that they feel it should have been more than what they got.

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Lwang9276

Napoleon Dynamite: i only lasted like 5 min to where hes like i want chapstick or some crap. wow that movie looked stupid

Kill Bill(s): wtf... jus a uma thurman killing people... wow id rather jus play cs thats freakin more realistic

War of the Worlds: was hopin for a crazy movie but ended up wit the thought "so there was no point?" i mean special effects were nice.. thought it be good cuz Batman Begins rocked

Mondak

Lost in Translation was horrible. The folks who all pretend like they are in on the joke with movies like this one are so pretentious I want to throw up.

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iwhore

Napolean Dynomite... it was humorous at times but not enough to save the whole movie, not to mention the fact that EVERYONE quotes it all the time...and they aren't amusing any more.

Bubble Boy...it's repetitive...I got a nice sleep when my cousin tried to force me to watch it though.

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cherriesue

titanic...although i refuse to see it on principle

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Derwood

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THE SEVEN SAMURAI IS THE WORST MOVIE EVER!

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Daoust

Wow. Lots of Napoleon Dynamite haters here. Well you can all go eat a decroted piece of crap, because I loved it.

Movies I didn't like that everyone else did. Hmmm. There's probably about a billion. Any movie with Will Smith in it. Any movie with Drew Barrymore in it (exception - E.T.)
Any movie with Liv Tyler or Joquain Phoenix in it. EVERY JERRY BRUCKHEIMER MOVIE!
I know I'm not being very specific, but that's how I feel.

One specific movie I hated that everyone else loved: Fight Club (the most frequently mentioned movie on this thread). It's a movie that's cool to like. Made popular by the post secondary, free thinking, anti-establishment wannabe's, this movie was waaay less than the sum of it's parts. I strongly believe it should have just been about fighting. Once the buildings started getting bombed, I gave up.

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guthmund

You're insane. I'll admit that the followup Fierce Creatures wasn't all that funny, but Wanda? Someone must have given you the wrong tape.

Some good ones (excuse me...bad ones) mentioned here.

I'm going to throw my hat into the ring and say any movie with Owen or Luke Wilson in it is probably crap. Everybody seems to love these guys and everything they do despite all the movies they've made that can be classified as utter crap or borderline crap.

But Owen is so funny?!?! No. He's not. He plays the exact same guy in every movie. Unfunny Owen.

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CandyLover

Super Troopers and Kung Pow. I think those movies aren't very good at alll but it seems alot of people like it. I guess its just not my type of humor.

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joecool

Traffic maybe the worst movie I have ever seen, everyone I know seem to love it.

roachboy

my architect:
a stupid pretentious film made by a stupid pretentious little man who happens to be louis kahn's son. ok architecture footage in places done by a guy who has no fucking idea how to do it. and miserable music. miserable.

sideways. god i hated that film. everything about it. wretched.

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I love classic movies. I could sit and watch TCM all day. I've seen many of the films on AFI's top 100 list. I intend to see them all some day. Having said that, I hate hate hate "Gone With the Wind."

I had never seen it, so finally, a couple of years ago, it's being shown on TCM and I think, "What the hell, it's long, but it's supposed to be this epically amazing film. I'll watch."

What a mistake <i>that</i> turned out to be. I'm not one of those people who yell at characters on tv or in film, but somehow found myself yelling, "God, would you just SHUT UP?!" over and over during this movie.

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Charlatan

Frankly JJ, I don't give a damn...


(sorry about the swearing, I know how touchy you can be about it).

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Blonddie

I would have to agree with alot of these posts. Movies now are so expensive and usually suck, for this reason hubby and I go to 'maybe' 1 a year in the theatre. Other than that we rent them, so that we can fast forward if we want too.
As for worst movies-- the Terminal with Tom Hanks. I usually love Tom, but this movie was awful. Terrible ending, and I really can't stand Catherine Zeta-Jones! Hubby can't stand anything with Ben Affleck in it- Pearl Harbor, Daredevil. Neither one of us liked Meet the Fockers-- total let down.

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mystmarimatt

Napoleon Dynamite. It's not a bad movie, per se, it's just really over-rated and and over-played. Everybody's got to love it, and if they don't, then there's something wrong with them.

Get over it.


Kill Bill 1 & 2 - Not all that great. Quite dry, in fact. And I can't stand Michael Madsen. As an actor, his acting makes me want to gouge out my own eyes.

Vanilla Sky - The ending was a sheer cop-out. "Oooh, look at me, ooh, the other way, what's going on? Oh no! I'm being deep. Look at me. I'm so deep you can't even see me, that's how deep I am." Sadly bizarre, pointless movie. More dissapointing because I generally like Cameron Crowe. But "Vanilla Sky" was just shit.

Grease/Phantom of the Opera -

Hmm.

MUSICAL THEATRE IS DEAD! AND YOU KILLED IT! ASSHOLES!

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