Posted on 09/28/2005 9:11:34 AM PDT by pabianice
How about this category: "Should have left it as a book"?
Tom Wolfe's "Bonfire of the Vanities". I loved that book, but they just clobbered it as a movie. Horribly. I may have wept.
Lethal Weapon IV - A gun grabbing POS "classic" that ruined all of the Lethal Weapons for me.
Class 2: Matrix II. Snazzy special effects, but it was a crashing bore.
Class 3: Zoolander. Brain dead stupid. Left the theatre after about a half hour of it.
Can't have a bad movie thread without the presence of an MST3K alum.
"One man's pile of crap is another man's sandbox."
I do miss MST3K. The SciFi Channel killed it. I wish I had the where-with-all to have my own cable channel where I could buy all the shows that were good but weren't given a chance to succeed.
Wait for the DVD for Charlie. I kind of liked it, but it's definately not for everybody. It won't be remembered the way the first movie is either. I love Depp but his Wonka had nothing on Gene Wilder's. Wilder was the quintessential candyman to me, even if Dahl hated it.
Yeah, like Herman's Head.
And I usually like Sean Connery movies.
To each his own. I know that I'm in the minority on this one and that's okay. I don't HATE Nemo, I just think that it's as good as it's been made out to be. And it is a bit hyper for the under five crowd. I just think it's sad that the folks at Disney have to make every one of their movies more for adults than for kids these days.
Showgirls.....I thought it was a comedy.
You must be joking. A superior film noir flick with gorgeous cinemetography. And based on some historical fact; hint, substitute Mulholland for Mulray.
I love Jack Nicholson, but when he did "Two Jakes" he went into category two.
For me any movie with Barbra Streisand is at least a three. I never understood the appeal.
The movie begins with a boat slowly going down a river. One guy said, "I'll give everyone a buck if we leave now." Without any hesitation, we took him up on his offer.
I'm still grateful to him today. I wish I'd walked out on a lot of other movies.
If writers and directors make an effort to have their plots be believable or at least internally consistent, then I will meet them halfway by giving my 'suspension of disbelief.' Moviemakers who *don't* do this show disrespect to their audience and are doing a crappy job.
That would be Eraserhead. Saw it back in art chool and everyone but everyone was praising it to the skies. I walked out when my tolerance for fetal goats dropping from the ceiling was finally overcome.
Horrifyingly bad movies you simply leave, dragging yourself up the aisle with your arms because your legs have gone numb from shock.
I sat through what I thought was surely at least five and a half hours of Fanny and Alexander before I gave up in utter frustration. Turns out I left about five minutes before the end. But seeing the end probably wouldn't have made a difference. It was the most mind-numbingly boring movie (not to mention the most irritating to listen to) I've ever experienced.
Those are the only two movies I've ever walked out on, btw. Falling asleep just means it was boring in a sedative kind of way. Walking out means it was so bad it made you mad.
THEY'RE MAKING A SEQUEL TO ZOOLANDER!!! Is there any doubt why Hollywood is in decline?
I think the only movie I have walked out on was "Rock n Roll High School." A group of us went and could endure it for about 45 minutes.
My wife had the good sense to walk out on "Independece Day" but I stayed in the theater, hoping it would get better.
Cat 1: Erin Brokovich (and anything else with Julie Roberts AKA the worst/most over-rated actress of all time)
Pulp Fiction
These two films alone have created a new category for me- Types of Movies I Will Never Waste my Time or Money on Again: anything by Quentin Terentino or with Julia Roberts. This will save me quite a bit of money over my lifetime, I figure.
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