[ctdonath2]

My kickoff offerings:

Russian Ark - a grand effort at a single-take movie. One camera, running non-stop for 90 minutes, wanders through a Russian museum as 2000 actors do their part depicting history and fantasy when it arrives. Laudable attempt, mind-numbingly boring.

Playtime - three-year studio-busting grand-scale comedy of a man lost in the urban/bureaucratic jungle. Big-frame photography captures far more action than normal films ... but in doing so loses the story, relegating the result to big budget small humor. Methinks it is an accidental depiction of an autistic's view of the world: so much visual information being absorbed that normal storylines disappear into the noise, leaving only fragments of humor.

[1rudeboy]

Russian Ark was fantastic.

[Genoa]

Only because I saw it recently: “It Runs in the Family,” the misbegotten sequel to “A Christmas Story.” Ludicrous.

[dfwgator]

Speed 2.

[Pearls Before Swine]

“The Mexican”, with Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, and James Gandolfini.

[RabidBartender]

Toys with Robin William

Lost in Translation

Billy Jack

90% of all films that have Ben Affleck in them.

Speed Racer

[highlander_UW]

My offering is perhaps a subset of your category. The worst rendition of a book to movie that I've seen is Dune. At the time the movie first came out I'd read the book twice, once just weeks before I saw the movie and I was unable to follow the story in the movie. I think they've reedited and redone it, but I doubt it's much better.

[AnnGora]

“Grease”

What a drip.

[chesley]

“Seven”. God, I hated that film.

[Straight Vermonter]

“No Country for Old Men” - Worst. Movie. Ever.

[Kartographer]

Inconvenient Truth
and all Michael Moore movies!!

[Le Chien Rouge]

Battlefield Earth-—John Travolta scientology crap

Ishtar—Warren Beatty

Howard the Duck-—interplanetary species love...blech

[Stat-boy]

The Highlander II.

[LRS]

“Carnal Knowledge” holds a high place on my “hated every moment of it” list...

[mad_as_he$$]

Heaven’s Gate.

[imjimbo]

The WORST has to be that mess from AlGore-!

[nathanbedford]

1) Cleopatra
2) Heaven’s Gate
3) Fahrenheit 9/11
4) Love Story
5) all Army training films

[Huskrrrr]

Dude Where’s my car?

Seriously Dude where’s my car?

[jimfree]

Sisters of Death - watched this while unable to sleep during a dysphasia (inability to swallow) episode in the early 90s. Surprise ending was just plain stupid.

The Thing With Two Heads - I believe this was a TV movie. Starred Roosevelt Grier and Ray Milland, not a great gig for either.

[deoetdoctrinae]

Gigli.

[Fresh Wind]

Close Encounters of the Third Kind