Most awful movies (in celebration of Hollywood's fourth declining revenue year in a row)

9/28/05 | ltn72

[Thunder 6]

The soundtrack was good too...
Regards,

[Straight Vermonter]

"What'd you do???"

[Straight Vermonter]

Was that a poem or are you having formatting issues? :-)

[shibumi]

Coming late to this thread, I'm not going to read all 600+ posts to see if anyone has already made this point, so I apologize if this is redundant.

Regarding both of your comments on "A Few Good Men":

I regarded Col. Jessup in that movie as a classic tragic hero, brought down by his own hubris. I wanted to cheer when he made his final speech from the witness box. While in the military, I resented non-combatants who questioned the way in which we did our job, and as a civilian now, I am glad that there are men like Jessup ready to do hard and terrible things to keep me and my loved ones safe. I will just say "Thank You" as I sleep under the blanket of protection they provide.

This movie, IMNSHO, was just another attempt to hide the reality of the world behind a utopian myth, and I went away from it with neither respect nor admiration for LTJG Caffey. (Even if he had been played by a real actor.)

[Straight Vermonter]

I made it through the whole thread and I don't believe anyone has mentioned Solaris or Robin Hood with Kevin Costener.

[shibumi]

No one has been able to sit through a Kevin Costner film for many a year.

The man is so non-dimensional he makes Steven Segal look like a serious actor.

[CaptainK]

Class 1: "The Incredible Lightness of Being" -- stupifyingly bad writing and performances, polished off by a plot involving a serial adulterer physician ruining the lives of all around him for his own sexual gratification – won numerous awards in Europe

Actually its correct title is "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". I refer to it as "The Unbearable Movie"

[Thunder 6]

I'll never hear "Stuck in the Middle With You" quite the same way ever again.
If that comes on the car radio, my wife will make me change it. It's indelibly burned into her brain.

SD

--My wife too, she can't listen to that song after the movie...
Regards,

[Thunder 6]

I saw it on a date in High School. Guy two rows in front of us puked when the alien came out of the crewman's stomach. Nice.

Regards,

[Flashlight]

(re: Deep Impact and Duvall)

you're absolutely right. not realistic at all.

[RightOnline]

What was that gawdawful movie Cage was in where he played a self-destructive drunk? "Leaving Las Vegas" or some-such?

Absolutely horrid. I actually sat through it (on video rather than a theater, thank heavens) JUST to see if it got any better.

It only got worse. Of course, the critics ADORED it. Unbelievable crap.

[Sloth]

Can you believe that Sam Raime directed the Evil Dead movies? And he's directing hollywood blockbusters now? Spiderman! What a difference money can make when it comes to visual effects! lol

There's an awful lot of Evil Dead in that O.R. scene in Spiderman 2 where Doc Ock's arms come alive and attack the doctors.

[RightOnline]

"Mighty Wind"; same folks who did the EXCELLENT "Spinal Tap". Yeah, I know........Rob Reiner's an ass, but I love that movie.

[MarkL]

eh... No thanks.

I'm perfectly happy to remember those old movies.

Woody Allen just got too "artsy" for me, and that was before the whole "Mia Farrow/Soon Yi" thing.

That just disgusted me, and I have no wish to ever pay money that might wind up going to him.

I might catch an early Woody Allen movie on cable, but I won't go out of my way to see one.

Mark

[ABN 505]

Speaking of remakes. The worst remake of a great movie is "The Flight of The Phoenix", stilted dialog, uninteresting characters, bad guys who were unidentifiable [don't want to offend Muslim sensibilities], and of course all ethnic groups and gender must be represented. They took a wonderful film and ruined it and the thing is it could have been GREAT. I was stunned at how bad it was and kicked myself for wasting 2hrs. of my life.

[manwiththehands]

I was talking about Adam Sandler's "Punch Drunk Love". The dumbest movie I have EVER seen.

[manwiththehands]

"Take the Money and Run". Isn't that the movie where the Woody Allen character carves a gun out of the bar of soap, colors it with shoe polish, then tries to escape - in the rain? One minute he's holding the gun on the guard then the next he looks down and all he has is soap foam in his hands. That has to be one of the funniest scenes ever filmed.

[Uncle Vlad]

Anything directed by Michael Bay!

[MAWG]

You live in a garage apartment with 4 cats , dont you?

[manwiththehands]

"Solaris" was pretty bad. And to think I had to sit through a bad movie AND endure George Clooney at the same time! Ugh.