Movies you wish you had NEVER seen

[SoCalDem]

The night before we left on a cruise, we went to see...


drum roll........



The Poseidon Adventure... Not only was it a crappy movie, I was hearing EVERY little noise our ship made, and every odd "lurch" gave me the heebiejeebies..:)

[auburngrad82]

1. Boxing Helena

Two words:

IT SUCKED!

[MaryH]

26. PYTHON 2

I love monster movies - but this was so bad - filmed in Russia somewhere - that even I thought it stunk.

[Carni]

45. Agreed that movie was downright GROSS

I hated every minute of it!

[SmokingJacket]

123. I second that. Walked out of the theater! n/t

[Debbi801]

252. LOL. I tought it was such a bizarre movie...

But I was SO glad to find out it was all a dream at the end.

Debbi

[trotsky]

2. Jacob's Ladder

I don't like scary movies, but I was assured by my roommates at the time that it wasn't really scary.

Well that may be true but it was F*CKED UP and it gave me nightmares for months. Those weird shaking faces, etc. especially towards the end of the movie where everything is just falling apart for him. Yikes.

[Francesca]

9. I could not agree more that movie traumatized me!

[Carni]

50. That was a major downer of a film!

That movie freaked me out and worse yet I never clearly figured out if he ever had a wife and a kid...if the kid was killed etc.

I guess the whole thing was what he was seeing as he lay dying after being drugged by the government in Vietnam????

(Is that right because I came away from the movie creeped out and saying WTF?)

[trotsky]

57. That's kind of what I took away from it.

But yeah, "WTF?" was the general feeling.

[Carni]

61. OK, Glad I am not the only one!

Whatever the case it was indeed very disturbing!

[FreedomFry]

170. I loved that film, but then...

I love scary movies, and that one haunted me, too.

I think he did have a wife and child, and the child had died, because in the end, the child leads him into death to a better place.

So in that sense, it ended on a hopeful note. But oh, those vibrating heads, that disembodied voice, and that trip on the gurney into hell...

[Phillycat]

180. Made it to the pig's head in the fridge and turned that fucker off.

Not a moment too soon, judging by your description.

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

207. Trotsky, I'm w/ ya. That movie fucked w/ my head.

[TexasLady]

259. hmm i loved that movie

Maybe I just got it wrong, but I always thought that the movie was about him dreaming up his life as he lay dying, and that none of it ever really happened, but he imagined what it 'would' have been like had he lived through the injuries as he lay on that table.

Then again it was many years ago when I saw it.

I liked it. I like Tim Robbins too mmm..:D

[gollygee]

3. ROFL yeah that was a bad move

DH talked me out of getting Castaway before our trip to Australia. Yay for him :)

I wish I'd never seen Robin Hood Men in Tights, but not for any of those reasons.

Oh yeah and there was some movie with Bobcat Goldwaith and a talking horse. Eww.

[ScreamingMeemie]

4. Noises Off.

I wasted an evening of my life on that movie. :hi:

[underpants]

13. What? The movie featuring the most important woman in America Today?

In lingerie no less!!!


Not because of that but I liked that movie a lot.

[ScreamingMeemie]

18. I just couldn't get into it, but I am one of the rare ones who finds Harry

Potter books extremely boring, so...you wouldn't want to go with my opinion. ;)

[jeff30997]

29. Boooooooooring.

[yellowdogintexas]

219. I love "Noises Off"

[RubyDuby in GA]

20. Awww man

I thought it was funny...

I guess I'm the weird one.

[trotsky]

28. Thanks a LOT, MrsG!

I had forgotten about that waste of film! So a big sarcastic THANK YOU for reminding me! ;-)

My wife and I rented it one time and couldn't BELIEVE how dumb it was. We actually finished watching it because we kept thinking that eventually it would start to either A) be funny or B) make sense, but nope, neither happened.

[ScreamingMeemie]

131. This is the same problem MrG and I had!

No problem trots, anytime!! :hi:

[mcscajun]

112. I *loved* that movie!

Guess you have to have a taste for classic British sex farce to enjoy it, though :)

The timing, the acting...the lines!

Usher: Is there something wrong with your seat, Mr. Fellowes?
Lloyd Fellowes: Yes, it's facing the stage!

[stranger_with_candy]

221. that is the only movie i have ever walked out on

and i had to wake up my friend to leave.

[Jessica]

5. Ghost Ship

It's been months since I've seen it, but I still can't get the opening scene out of my head. Hate it. Hate it. Hate it. Make it go away. :scared:

[Connie_Corleone]

11. You're not the only one.

I absolutely HATED that first scene. It was just so horrible! And I like horror movies too.

[Lavender Brown]

12. UGH!

Ghost Ship was heinous! And the same friend who made me watch Cabin Fever (see below) made me rent it, lol.

[CBGLuthier]

24. another vote for the 5 minutes of Ghost Ship I saw

Gore is one thing but between the gore and the horror and tragedy of what happened, I quickly turned away.

[Carni]

60. I must be thinking of a different movie

Is this the one that has the dark haired actress from ER in it?

Maybe I saw a cut version because it didn't seem very scary or all that gory to me (or then again maybe I am a ghoul lol)

[Connie_Corleone]

76. That first scene when everyone got cut up into pieces??

That was awful! That damn movie came on one of the cable movie channels one night and I had to run into the living room to turn the channel before I saw that scene again!

[Carni]

83. I think I missed the first part of the film

I tuned in where the actress from ER is talking to some kind of a ghost girl and then they started seeing a party of ghosts that get poisoned and hacked up and whetever else.

I was also painting so I was sort of distracted!

I thought I watched the movie all the way through a few months ago but for whatever reason I think I missed the first scene that time also!

[greyfox]

104. Thanks...

now I GOTTA get that movie. Sounds like my kinda flick!

[Feathered Fish]

36. You got to check out the original...

Death Ship. It was made in the early 80's and it is a pretty good movie (in a 'b' kind of way).
Ghost ship was terrible.

[Carni]

53. I just watched that on cable LOL

I don't recall the opening scene but it was a pretty dumb movie!

[UdoKier]

233. Yeah, you don't see it coming.

I expected a creepy ghost flick, not an UNBELIEVABLY elaborate and gory mass death scene. JUST HORRIBLE.

Funny thing, after that scene, it wasn't all that bad. They should have held back on that scene to keep it in synch with the rest of the film.

[Connie_Corleone]

6. Category 6: Day of Destruction

What a huge disappointment.

[derby378]

52. Gotta mention 10.5 at this point

Especially the TV screen flashing that "MARSHAL LAW" had just been declared. Woo-hah!

[Lautremont]

54. You had high hopes for it?

I had to see it because it was shot in my hometown and featured such sights as the local mall being destroyed by high winds and egregious American mailboxes blowing down the street past genuine Canadian ones.

I also liked how Brian Dennehy's forehead wrinkles were magnified by his glasses whenever he hitched them up. And then there was the shot they ripped off from 'Gone With the Wind.' I still can't decide if that was a clever joke, a boneheaded attempt at homage, or neither.

[Connie_Corleone]

70. The movie ended and I was still waiting for the mass

destruction. They showed the aftermath of it, but the only thing that you saw got destroyed was the computer generated Arch in St. Louis.

[Biased Liberal Media]

264. I knew it would be crap...

but it was just GOD AWFUL. It made 10.5 look Oscar-worthy it was THAT bad.

[Lavender Brown]

7. Cabin Fever

:puke: Granted, I knew it was going to be horrible before I bought the ticket, but my friend wanted to see it.

[ceile]

194. Truly gross

I thought I was going to be sick. But it was good for what it aimed to be.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

8. Hope Floats and any chick flick I was forced to sit through.

[SoCalDem]

17. I'm a "chick" and "Hope Floats" was awful

But then I don't like movies like that :)

I have odd tastes in movies.. I LIKED "My Dinner With Andre"..

I like offbeat movies..HATE action films :puke:

To this day I have never seen ONE StarWars or StarTrek or DieHard or anything Ahhhhnold did..except for kindergartencop

[lpbk2713]

10. Pearl Harbor

Looks like they couldn't decide if they wanted to make a love story or a war movie. They ended up failing at both.

[gollygee]

19. Yep that's a stinker

my husband and brother are both history buffs and airplane buffs, and they cringe at that movie.

btw my husband and brother are two different people. This isn't freeperland, folks. :)

[amber dog democrat]

38. And as a maritime history buff I would HAVE to agree with you

I just kept thinking what a waste of money to produce it and....stupid beyond words.
I loved flying the fighters between buildings.

[underpants]

21. I'll second Pearl Harbor

30 minutes into it I started rooting for the Japanese.

When Aykroyd showed up I literally almost bolted from my chair-we were with another couple and my wife said we had to stay....they liked it....they voted for Bush.

[Arkana]

55. and I shall third that nomination

That movie blew. Absolutely blew. A dyslexic Ben Affleck and a manwhore Josh Hartnett, making a parody of a battle that my father's uncle died in. So I was even more pissed than usual.

[underpants]

62. At the beginning when "Spaz" from Trainspotting started to stutter

I must have let out a groan because my wife looked over at me and was shaking her head when both knew who was going to be the one who had to alert the others that they were under attack.

Lots of eyecontact between us in that movie and muffled laughter.

[DS1]

14. Hook - I think it was called - Robin Williams I believe

[jeff30997]

33. What a crappy movie !

[Demit]

15. Bad Santa. I expected it to be dark but hilarious. Hilarious it wasn't.

[RubyDuby in GA]

27. I second this one

I thought that movie was about as stupid as they come.
To this day, I still don't see why people liked this piece of crap. But that's just my opinion.......

[Runcible Spoon]

89. wha???? it's a RIOT! "OK kid what do you want for Christmas?"

"fraggle stick car." "kid, what the fuck is a fraggle stick car?" "fraggle stick car."
maybe this is only amusing to me because i KNOW what a fraggle stick car is!:7

[SmileyBoy]

135. No, no, this is how it went:

Kid: "I wanna fraggle stick car."

Santa: "What the FUCK is that???..."

I just laughed myself silly when I saw that.

[signmike]

16. Eraserhead

and that one about being 6 steps away from everybody, but i left early enough to escape major brain damage major brain damage brain damage major...

[Feathered Fish]

37. What?! n/t

[Taverner]

159. Dude...Eraserhead isn't for everyone

I loved it, but fully understand why so many people hated it.

[Khephra]

172. So true.

I think Eraserhead is one of the best films ever made. However, it took me a few times before I got it and grew to love it.

The mushrooms helped too, I will admit.

[Feathered Fish]

256. Lol!

Alright, I can understand that. It's one of those movies that is super-short but it is such an assult that it feels like forever.
"Just cut them up like regular chickens"
:-)

[signmike]

209. 6 Degrees of Separation

I just remembered the name. I actually watched all of E-head, just the one time -- it has to be done once, though IMHO, the interest level of "200 Motels" gives both of them some stiff competition.

I must have been getting free passes

[kodi]

22. seven

my soul was diminished by it and the evil it showed

[SnowGoose]

46. I felt the same way.

After walking out, I mused out loud, "what good thing did that bring into my consiousness?" I've watched several horror/thriller/sicko movies, but never had that feeling quite like I did with Seven.

A good lesson.

[Phillycat]

100. God, you are so right.

[Beaverhausen]

116. Seven, Monster's Ball, 21 Grams- all so frickin depressing

there should be a rating for movies that makes you want to slit your wrists!

[NRaleighLiberal]

125. Of the three, I thought Monster's Ball was a really good movie - but,

yes, depressing. 21 Grams was a bit irritating in addition to depressing - my view is that it is not as good as much of the hype.

[SmokingJacket]

124. My imagination was poisoned by those horrible images.

Which I can never erase from memory! No fair!

I hated it.

[nickinSTL]

23. Legion of the Dead...

BAD ripoff of From Dusk Til Dawn.

BAD.

[Fleshdancer]

25. Trainspotting

People like that movie for some odd sick reason. It made me sick to my stomach. :puke:

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

97. Love it, own it on DVD.

[Phillycat]

102. Me too, especially the part about the baby.

The people I was watching it with were laughing during that part, I was horrified.

[UdoKier]

236. What kind of people do you hang with?

My wife and I had a newborn at the time. We were in tears. Awful. A very unpleasant film, but a good one, in a way, too.

[procrastinator]

30. Oh Brother Where Art Thou

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

98. Yikes! LOVE that movie!

[procrastinator]

108. Thought it was boring and pointless....

to each their own, I guess.

[Tweed]

115. Yeah, I feel deeply sorry for you if you didn't enjoy it

[Khephra]

165. I have your back on that one!

My mother had a live-in boyfriend who just LOVED bluegrass and would play it 24 hours a day and loud as a Spinal Tap concert set on "11". Then if you tried to listen to music in your own room at a "3" he'd burst in and scream that your music was too loud.

So, needless to say, I have some...issues when it comes to bluegrass. That's not the film's fault, I will agree. But I didn't like the rest of the film either--and I LOVE the Cohen Brothers movies so it wasn't something about their style that turned me off.

[liberalpragmatist]

174. Makes much more sense if you've read "The Odyssey"

Or are familiar with it.

[Lerkfish]

179. right. I had, so got the references. My wife hadn't, so pointless for her.

that would make it incredibly small niche marketing...

"Come see the movie that only people who've read the Odyssey would understand"

[underpants]

31. Reality Bites-sorry whiny loser worshipping

Ben Stiller is the only one in the cast that has made out of the cross off list so far and that is just because he seems like a all right guy (his movies are not that great) and YES this does include Garafalo-I like her politics but I have never thought she was too funny (reading your material on stage?) she has gotten closest to the light other than Stiller.

[Kber]

175. Yes

To be fair, I rented Reality Bites at the same time as Schindler's List and watched Schindler's List first - so it was probably inevitable that I spent the whole movie wishing they (the Reality characters) would stop being such whining brats.

[SteppingRazor]

32. Aw, C'mon!

You people aren't listing BAD horror movies. You're listing horror movies that DID THEIR JOB (i.e. horrify you).

You want a BAD horror movie, as in a miserable, why-did-I-waste-my-life-on-that sort of experience, check out House of 1,000 Corpses.

[DIKB]

40. Got an even worse one.

Troll 2.

You'll be sucking on your tail-pipe in NO TIME.

[hatrack]

198. Oh yeah? What about CHUD?

Or, even worse, "Ghoulies"?

Trapped-on-the-road-in-a-motel-in-Kansas movies, both of them . . .

[lectrobyte]

34. tough question. I can re-watch Bloodsucking Freaks, but something

like Sandra Bullock's 2 Weeks Notice really makes me sorry

[ZenLefty]

35. Gosford Park

I swear, if I had a razor blade in my pocket I would have comitted suicide halfway through it.

[NRaleighLiberal]

126. I liked (did not love) Gosford Park - liked Remains of the Day or..

Howard's End much better.

[Feathered Fish]

39. Charlie's Angels

None of those women could act themselves out of a paper bag. McG should NOT be allowed near a camera again. UGH
Ugly, stupid and boring. oh, yeah and unnecessary

:thumbsdown:

[Carni]

63. I concur!

Those flicks are an insult to bad movies!

[amber dog democrat]

41. The Thin Red Line

Naturally I read the novel first. I had real problems with that film all the way through it.

[underpants]

48. God was that boring

Watching the man who would be Jesus just sit there and stare at the ground for what seemed like 5 minutes each time.

I got through it but it took three sessions including a "Oh yeah let me sit through this before I take it back" session at the end.

[amber dog democrat]

56. That is what I did with Pear Harbor

Its like watching a drunk person misbehave. You know you should not stare but you keep looking to see what may happen next.

What was with all the choirs and spiritual Dyaks or Fiji head hunters ?

[NRaleighLiberal]

80. Have to differ....we really enjoyed that one - + great soundtrack

[Lydia Leftcoast]

228. I liked the Thin Red Line

because it was a war movie that showed more than battle scenes, if that makes sense.

[Chimpanzee]

42. Canadian Bacon

made Uncle Buck look like a masterpiece!

[derby378]

49. But we LIKED that one!

Screenplay by Michael Moore, John Candy's farewell performance - not the best film ever, but definitely worth watching again.

Menge les briefs, Quebecois!

[achtung_circus]

156. ou,

mange mes combinaisons.

[Chimpanzee]

210. Canadian Bacon??

:scared:

[Wickerman]

43. Beaches

God, what manipulative dreck. And so many false endings - gawd, I still shudder when I recall how badly I wanted out of that theatre and the fucking thing would not end - even when Bette couldn't find more scenery to devour.

[NRaleighLiberal]

127. Unabashed Vomit Material!!!!

[amber dog democrat]

44. Crossroads by Brittany Spears

Even seeing it at the parody show at the Alamo Draft House...
this is one bad film.
Anybody want the movie poster ? I have a few.

[almostallhere]

47. up close and personal... ugh.

[Jessica]

110. That movie was soooooo bad.

[amber dog democrat]

51. Patch Adams

OK so I saw it on an airliner with the sound off. But it still lacked something.

[Rambis]

58. Jer-ass-sick-park

:puke:

[NRaleighLiberal]

85. And, especially, the sequals!!! Pure drek....

[American Tragedy]

59. Last House On The Left

Aside from the distractingly incongruous background music, I thought it was fairly well executed. I have little doubt that the director achieved the very effect upon his audience that he had intended. That doesn't change the fact that I desperately felt the need to scrub myself with salt after watching it.

I've loved horror movies since I was a child, and I have a very strong stomach, but even for me, there are scenes in that film that I sincerely wish I had never witnessed.

There are other videos that I seriously regret having seen, like Cannibal Holocaust, but I won't even bother explaining them.

[frylock]

77. i just watched that a few weeks ago..

and had to literally FORCE myself to sit through it. I had to stand in the shower for the better part of an hour directly afterward, gathering my thoughts.

Sounds like you enjoy the same types of movies that I do. I have a copy of Cannibal Holocaust, but haven't watched it yet. That bad, huh?

[American Tragedy]

88. Yep. I love horror movies. I was practically raised on them.

It's extremely uncomfortable on a personal level to watch two girls only a couple years younger than me being slowly murdered. It kind of made me flash back to every time that I've vaguely felt that I was in a threatening situation, in a bad part of town or with a group of strange people.

Although it obviously contributed to the paradigm, Last House on the Left was somehow very different and more real than the subsequent slasher flicks of the past two decades. I won't soon forget it.

Oh, and yes. Cannibal Holocaust is definitely that bad.

[timtom]

214. Perhaps you might enjoy -------

"Audition"

An intriguing little Japanese horror flick....

[Lydia Leftcoast]

229. The only Japanese movie I ever failed to sit through, and

I've sat through some ridiculous ones.

[Taverner]

206. Cannibal Holocaust isn't that bad

IT's an Italian Cannibal flick, thats all...no different than other grindhouse flicks. It just never found a distributor...

But Last House, that IS fucking disturbing. Partially because they build up these great characters, that you like and feel like you know, and then systematically torture and kill them in a very realistic fashion.

Ugh...that movie gives me the heebiejeebies...

[Biased Liberal Media]

263. Really? I'm a pretty big horror junkie

and from what I have been told Cannibal Holocaust was WORST than LHOTL. I refuse to watch either. I don't do rape or scenes of torture well (imagine that?). Texas Chainsaw Massacre is one of my favorites but it's only one I can stomach about once a year (the original).

[NRaleighLiberal]

64. A few - Patch Adams, You've Got Mail, Ladykillers,......

and perhaps the worst of all to us - Saving Grace.....that just scratches the surface - we rent 10 per week on Netflix, so have seen examples of the absolute best (Lost in Translation, eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind) to the worst (just a few examples, above..)

[greyfox]

106. Just agree on one

LadyKillers was a HUGE disappointment.

[fugue]

65. License to Kill

It was the most violent Bond movie to date, and I was not expecting that level of blood and graphic violence. I was up all night shaking afterward.

[Carni]

66. Just thought of the one that bothered me most--Hannibal

I couldn't make it through the dinner table scene where Hannibal starts dining on Ray Liota.

Sickest thing I have ever tried to watch and I felt violated for days! (excuse the mellodrama but that's how I felt!)

[Connie_Corleone]

67. The dinner scene was better in the book.

More sick than in the movie.

[Carni]

72. The whole brain thing just did not get it with me... UG!

I just made myself sick all over again thinking about it!

(I definitely won't be reading the book LOL)

[HEIL PRESIDENT GOD]

68. A Mighty Wind

So I could see it for the first time again and laugh my ass off!

Seriously, I'm glad for even the bad movies I've seen. Some of them I enjoy talking about more than good movies.

I just love movies.

[NRaleighLiberal]

84. Another great movie that gets better with each watch.....Wha'

Hoppend?? I DON'T THINK SO....

And for * - "I can't do my werk........."

[HEIL PRESIDENT GOD]

122. I got a weel wed wagon! nt

[arwalden]

69. Ishtar

[qnr]

87. Well, I liked Ishtar, coming out as it did right in the middle of

the Reagan administration, making fun of the CIA, etc. :shrug:

[Bertha Venation]

168. my dad liked it too--said a lot of the jokes were over heads because

so few Americans understood the Middle Eastern culture. He'd worked in the ME for 12 years when the film came out.

I liked it because the image of Dustin Hoffman & Warren Beatty singing to a boombox as the "entertainment" cracks me up just thinking about it.

[Lerkfish]

182. I liked it...wasn't a GREAT movie, but not the disaster as reputed.

[hyphenate]

71. Liquid Sky

Biggest piece of crap I have ever been unfortunate enough to witness.

[Beaverhausen]

133. OH MY GOD!!! That was a big cult thing back in ...what was it? 1983?

I think I saw it twice yet had no idea what was going on!

[hyphenate]

208. It was burned into my memory

unfortunately. There was one other movie in the early 80s that I only saw half of (we walked out of a movie for the first and only time in my life) but since I can't even remember the title, Liquid Sky kind of is higher on the list.

[Khephra]

181. Heroin, Mini-UFOs, Androgyny, and Lesbian spoken-word artists?

What's not to love about Liquid Sky?

;-)

I used to have that on tape. I think I've seen it something like 30 times, if not more.

[KarenS]

73. Sophie's Choice

this movie haunted me for months :cry:

[NRaleighLiberal]

82. Difficult, but is a GREAT movie - Streep is incredible in it.

[eoberhauser]

74. The Bachelor

With Chris O'Donnel and Renee Zelweger - I couldn't even look at Zelweger again until Bridget Jones.

Erin

[CornField]

75. Blair Witch Project & The Passion

Both amount to the worst 4-6 hours of my life... even child birth was better.

[laheina]

146. Blair Witch was all hype ! nt

[Lydia Leftcoast]

230. I saw it when my cable company gave a free preview of Showtime

I'm so glad that I spent no money on that boring oddyssey of three idiots wandering through the woods and saying "fuck you" a lot. I hope the witch did get them.

[TeddyKGB]

78. The Matrix sequels

The original was perfect in and of itself -- and now even it's stained by that crap.

[NRaleighLiberal]

81. Agreed....awful...case of taking itself too seriously!

[skygazer]

79. Gods and Generals

Bad history, bad acting and sloooowwwwwww....

Also Castaway which I thought was pointless and inane.

Hook - just plain awful.

Robin Hood with Kevin Costner.

[Ctrl_Alt_Del]

86. Red Dragon

They had no business remaking "Manhunter".

"Kids" would be a close second.

[Runcible Spoon]

90. battlefield earth. waterworld. the postman. anything with julia roberts.

nt

[Sequoia]

91. The Vanishing

A truly horrifying French movie. When I saw that movie I could not have piece of mind for many days.

[Strawman]

138. It's Dutch and it's a great movie, but the Hollywood version blew

Understandable though if you don't like scary stuff like the ending.

[progmom]

217. I loved this movie!

Called Spoorloos when it was released in Holland.
Part of the movie was in French - can see why you had it confused.

[WoodrowFan]

92. Meet the Parents

Boring, unfunny and I disliked EVERY character in the movie.,

[Khephra]

183. I had to turn that one off it was so unfunny

I can't believe that Robert and Ben could be so bad in a comedy! I'm even more amazed that it received good reviews and the box office take was large enough that they've gone and made a sequel to it.

[Xeno of Elia]

93. Armageddon

By the end of the movie, I was practically begging for them to kill Bruce Willis's character in the most painful way possible. Ben Affleck playing with Animal Crackers on Liv Tyler's stomach made me wanna puke. Negative 4 stars for that turkey!



Fargo is right up there with Armageddon in my list of the worst movies of all time. Fargo makes Plan 9 From Outer Space look like Olivier's Hamlet in comparison. Watching that steamy pile of dog crap was the celluloid equivalent of having splinters driven under my fingernails for two hours.

[laheina]

147. The asteroid was the most unrealistic thing ever.

The only thing that I can figure is that it would have been anticlimactic for the earth to have been destroyed by a giant potato -- which is what a real asteroid looks like.

[Phillycat]

161. I loved Armageddon and I'm ashamed to say so.

It's cheesy, it's overblown, the acting is abysmal, the special effects are retarded. And I love it. :shrug: Guilty pleasure, what can I say?

Fargo, on the other hand, is actually a good movie.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

234. As a Minnesotan, I loved Fargo

if only for the first portrayal of genuine rural Minnesota accents on screen.

[timtom]

241. I loved Fargo.

That's where I first became aware of Steve Buscemi and William H. Macy. Fan of both ever since.

[Rhiannon12866]

94. What a stupid, stupid move on their part!!!

I guess that they weren't looking for repeat business.:shrug:

The movie that I most regret seeing was Ingmar Bergman's "Cries and Whispers," while I was in college. I found it to be very disturbing and it continued to creep me out for days. But, when it was shown at my school, seeing it was a requirement for my acting class. My acting professor told me that I had to get over my sensitivity, but I'm afraid I never have.:-(

[Lydia Leftcoast]

231. As a grad student I made the mistake of seeing Cries and Whispers

right after attending a matinee of The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahogony.

So I had Brecht at his darkest and most cynical, followed by a film about a woman dying painfully of cancer while her neurotic sisters snap at each other and diss the maid, who is the only decent character in the whole film.

I'm surprised I didn't slit my wrists that night.

[Rhiannon12866]

244. Wow! Me, too! What a torture-fest!

I agree with your assessment of the characters. The scene that disturbed me most was the one involving the glass.:-(

I used to believe that there were some movies that I really had to see. That experience totally changed my mind on that score. I usually stick to comedies, these days, LOL!:D

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

246. You guys have to see SCTV's sendup of this, called "Whispers of the Wolf".

It was a "Monster Chiller Horror Theater" special where the host, Count Floyd, had the movie ordered by the station manager who hadn't seen it (but presumably assumed it was a horror movie because of the title). It turns out to be a pretentious Bergman flick with the depressed dialogue between 2 sisters (Andrea Martin and Catherine O'Hara).

The film, and Count Floyd's reaction, are bust a gut funny. "Did you see that kids? That was scarrry! Those women were so depressed, they couldn't function in this world!"

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

95. Once when I was 19

and home for the summer with my evil and drunk parents, I had a huge violent fight with my mother and walked to the dollar theater several blocks away.

I saw some Jamie Lee Curtis as a cop movie. It had "blue" in the title. It was really gory, with the bad guy smearing the blood of the woman he had just killed all over his face or something (and I think he strangled her with her pantyhose).

I looked down at my arms, which were ripped the hell all up by my mother's fingernails and thought "WRONG movie to see right now" and walked out.

It was ick. Not even good plot-wise, either. Not one of her better movies.

[Khephra]

184. That's "BLUE STEEL" co-staring the ex-liberal that liberals love to hate

Ron Silver

[La Lioness Priyanka]

96. sophie's choice

requiem for a dream

[no name no slogan]

99. Robin Hood: Men in Tights

It was Mel Brooks' parody of the Kevin Costner "Robin Hood". It is also the only movie I've ever walked out on, too. It was hard to believe that the same man who made the "History of the World" movies and "Blazing Saddles" could have created such a massive turd like RH:MIT.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

154. right, i prefer to remeber brooks untainted by that one

i passed on dracula: dead and loving it

[kaitykaity]

101. Leaving Las Vegas

Elizabeth Shue getting ****ed wasn't my idea
of "brave acting."

Reviewers like Ebert said how "wonderful" it was,
but I thought it was a sick piece of misogynistic CRAP.

[NRaleighLiberal]

103. Most depressing movie I think I've seen.....

[Lydia Leftcoast]

232. Leaving Las Vegas

Nicholas Cage (whom I actually like) deliberately drinking himself to death for no particular reason and Elizabeth Shue getting gang-raped. For some reason, some members of my Sunday movie group in Portland thought this was a terrific movie.

Personally, I'm tired of movies about low-lifes.

[Jack Schitt]

105. Strange Brew.

Worst. Movie. Ever.

One can only take so much "hoser" before kicking some ass!!! :grr:

[Phillycat]

107. Requiem for a Dream, Blue Velvet.

Never again. Either of them. Once is enough.

[funkybutt]

254. Requiem for a Dream

interesting cinematography but DAMN that was the most painful viewing experience i can ever remember! HOW SICK.

I think i'm still disturbed

[x-g.o.p.er]

109. Anything with Kevin Costner within the last 10 years

Dances With Wolves was his last good movie.

Well, except Tin Cup. That was a riot.

[NRaleighLiberal]

128. But even in DWW - ...flat monotone..."if....the....wolf....shows...up.....

to...mo...row....I....will....name....him....two....socks.....ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzz

[Phillycat]

129. Yes! Yes! YES!! Stupid, STUPID Kevin Costner!

[elehhhhna]

257. DWW was based on F-Troop. Think about it.

[MrsCheaplaugh]

111. Bad Bad Bad...

Top Gun just stunk - still the worst movie I've ever seen.

Second prize goes to the first "Batman" with Jack Nicholson - not only a stinky film but one of the worst performances by a usually competent actor.

[Phillycat]

114. Welcome to DU!

I loved Top Gun because it is the most homoerotic movie ever made. Have you ever seen so much testosterone, butt-patting and blatant flirting? Mmmmmmmmm.

[Tweed]

113. Super Troopers

I seriously thought that movie was three hours long and it was a little under two. So not funny.

[Jessica]

117. Are you meowing kidding me?

:-)

[Tweed]

119. Were you high/drunk during the movie?

[Jessica]

130. No.

Somehow I enjoy completely ridiculous humor even when I'm sober.

[TexasLady]

260. I loved it

I thought for a 'b' movie it was entertaining!

[Guy Fawkes]

118. "Battle Royal" -considered one of the most violent movies made

ever. Sure, there isn't extreme blood, like Kill Bill, but... holy shit there is a REASON that BR isn't being imported to the US.

[legally blonde]

120. I'm going to go with

Pearl Harbor and Titanic. When I went to see Pearl Harbor, I was expecting a war movie, not a fucked up love-triangle chick-flick.

[laheina]

150. Butterfly Effect

Distressing for days, and the damn thing was full of plot holes. I get irritated even thinking about it.

[laheina]

151. oops!

I posted that in the wrong place. Sorry.

[mcscajun]

121. Office Killer -- is there a Brain Purge function anywhere?

'cause I really need all recollection of this film obliterated from my cerebral cortex. :(

Friend of mine suggested I watch it, telling me it was a comedy. Well, a comedy-thriller, actually. I don't think the director had quite made up his mind WHAT it was. If you can laugh at Carol Kane playing a mousy worker who accidentally kills a co-worker and then drags the body home to her basement, and then decides this was fun so she keeps on killing more co-workers and propping up the bodies in herbasement...then you have a much odder definition of comedy than do I.

If you've never heard of it, take heart. If you have, Avoid it!

[SmileyBoy]

132. Remember The Titans

:puke:

[ScreamingMeemie]

134. I love that movie...and I fell in love with "Sunshine" what a Cutie

McHotty he is! :hi:

[SmileyBoy]

137. Worst acting in history, by all actors involved.

Plot with no transition, etc. Made me PUKE.

I'll never watch a Disney movie again.

[ScreamingMeemie]

141. I loved it. Thought the acting was great. Just goes to show...

:hi:

[smbolisnch]

152. Me too!!!!!!

I LOVE this movie. I can't even put my finger on exactly what made me like it so much, the story, the soundtrack, loved it! I still sit and watch it whenever it comes on TV!

[underpants]

148. A fully predictable formula movie

Yes horrible acting too.

[SmileyBoy]

191. Finally, someone who agrees.

:hi:

[ScreamingMeemie]

136. Oh, I forgot....Natural Born Killers and Airport 77.

Now I hate flying over Lake Michigan even. And Natural Born Killers made me look at Woody the Bartender in a totally different light. :hi:

[nutshell2002]

139. Gosford Park

And they added insult to injury by nominating it for the Best Picture Oscar.

[Calligirl]

140. Midnight Express

I'll never forget it!

[Taverner]

142. Last House on the Left

Not that it wasnt a well done movie, or that the acting was bad (very convincing acting actually), but this movie is just a non-stop assault - and not a pretty one either. Anyone who's seen it can attest to that..

[Phillycat]

145. Is that the movie that has that line: "The call is coming from inside

the house"? I don't watch horror movies, they terrorize me, but I wondered where that line came from...

Tell me the basic plot because I'm sure as hell never going to watch it... Thanks!

[Taverner]

153. It Wasn't that film - the tagline was "It's only a movie..."

Last House on the Left was, in many ways, an excellent movie. However its the subject matter that many (myself included) find disturbing.

It's about two teenage girls who go looking to score some pot (it is the 70's), and the dealer they go to kidnaps them and with his two friends, they proceed to rape, torture and murder the two girls. These scenes are very graphic, and are extremely hard to watch.

By some freak of coincidence, the murderers end up at the girls parents house and when the parents find out what they did, they then proceed to exact revenge on them, torturing and murdering them.

Part of what is so disturbing about the film is that you feel real sympathy for the girls, and they aren't just two stereotypes that get killed. They are well developed characters and you really feel for them. The parents too - during the revenge scenes, you really can understand what the parents feel like.

Very nihilist movie, and I appreciate the message Wes Craven was trying to convey - but the disturbing elements of this flick burn inside your brain and leave a scar...

[Phillycat]

155. Good god...

No thanks. I think I've had enough horror scenes in my own life--I don't need to add that sort of twisted shit to my reperatoire (sp?).

Thanks for the info. I'm sorry you still are haunted by it. You're welcome to come over to my house and watch cheesy teen comedies to try and scrub your brain! (they're my guilty pleasure). :)

[Taverner]

157. Cheesey Teen Comedies from the 80's?

For some reason I never can put down a John Hughes movie, even tho theyre sappy and unrealistic.

But what scrubs my brain are old Cheech and Chong movies. Somehow, the 100th time Chong describes his joint as "mostly Maui Woweee but theres some Labrador in there too..." it still gets me laughing.

[Phillycat]

158. Sure! I own 16 Candles, Breakfast Club, AND Pretty in Pink!

Take your pick! :hi:

[Taverner]

160. Yeah, just thinking about LHOTL makes me want to rewatch B Club

eom

[Phillycat]

164. "Could you describe the ruckus?"

[Ripley]

162. Gak! Didn't Craven also make Event Horizon?

That's another one I regret. Disappointed that Sam Neil would be in such gratuitous gore. I don't like anything Craven has done.

[Taverner]

163. I dunno, Craven did some good flicks

Nightmare on Elm Street was really good, Hills Have Eyes was good too.

He's a true horror director, in that his movies inspire feelings of horror, not terror.

But Last House was his first film, and he pretty much subjects you to 90 minutes of that sick feeling inside....

[Ripley]

166. I like a good horror, but not his.

I thought it was because he's a Brit and they must have different horror over there. :D I'm more of an Alien type horror fan.

[Phillycat]

169. Didn't he do that under the stairs movie?

I accidentally watched ten minutes of that movie at a party, and forced my boyfriend to leave with me because I couldn't stay in the same room with that movie for one more minute. God, I hate horror movies. And if it is the same director, he is GOOD at producing that claustrophobic, god this sucks feeling.

[Khephra]

185. Ah, but if you watch "THE PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS" all the way through

you'll find out that the film is very Anti-Reagan. It's actually an allegory about how Republicans treat the poor.

I'm not kidding you either. There's been papers written on that very topic.

[Phillycat]

186. Huh!

Interesting!

[Taverner]

188. Lots of horror flicks have Lefty refs...

The original Dawn of the Dead is all about the perils of consumerism, Day of the Dead is all about the Military Industrial Complex, and Nightmare on Elm Street is about the false security of suburbia...

[Frogtutor]

251. Event Horizon messed with my head for a LONG time...

That is the LAST time I'll ever let someone (my husband, for example)choose a movie to go to without knowing something about it in advance!

Frogtutor

[Ripley]

143. Crappy thing with Tom Cruise....forget title, maybe Magnolia?

It was his supposed "art" film. :puke: That was the one and only time I actually turned off a movie rental before it ended and took it back in utter disgust.

[bling bling]

211. That was going to be mine too.

I'll add, Punch Drunk Love. Both movies I waited and waited and waited for them to get "good"...never happened.

Magnolia was the worst, tho.

[Strawman]

144. Outbreak

Was probably the biggest POS I ever shelled out money for at a theater. That movie sucked.

But that wasn't as bad as the time I was sick on New Year's Eve and stayed home on my parents' couch and watched all the Thurndebirds puppet movies because I couldn't get the remote and that channel was left on. Kept waking up and watching bits of them and falling back asleep. I think they played all of them through twice too. I normally like stupid stuff but those were just way too brutal.

[smbolisnch]

149. Crash and Castaway

Crash- simmply disturbing. Maybe its just me, but the sex/mangled car accident victims mix just left me feeling sick. :puke:

Castaway- Completely boring and just plain terrible when the damned ball floated away and he was screaming and crying.

[catzies]

167. Requiem for a Dream, Spun, Fight Club, Breaking the Waves,

House of Sand and Fog.

[Fenris]

173. House of Sand and Fog made me cry like a child

Ben Kingsley destroyed my spirit.

[Fenris]

171. The Doom Generation

:scared::puke:

Filmed proof that the most horrible manner to die is having your gentials cut off with a pair of hedge clippers.

[Lerkfish]

176. "Life or something like it" with Angelina Jolie...

that's 90 minutes of my life I want back.

also:

"Sunset" or "Twilight" (cant remember the exact name); with James Garner, Paul Newman, Gene Hackman......you'da thunk with those actors it would be good.nope.

"Pelican Brief" -- the most illogical movie: an assasin shoots an old ailing man with a gun when the man is surrounded by 50 medicine bottles....what? the idea of making it look like an accidental overdose never occurred to him? Likewise, Julia and Denzel are running from professional CIA assasins in....a parking garage...and get away by...get this: leaving by the exit door.

[buckettgirl]

177. Idle Hands and Hell Boy n/t

[VOX]

178. "About Schmidt"

Way too sit-commy, repulsive characters, etc. I honestly didn't give a flying shit "About Schmidt" or anyone else in that formulaic piece of dreck.

Two hours that I'll never get back.

[More Than A Feeling]

187. Star Trek V: The Search for Plot

Also, the Matrix: Revolution (Reloaded wasn't good but it wasn't terrible) Basically, anything that mistakes having a philosophical base with being a good movie

[Blue in a Red State]

189. The Human Stain

Anthony Hopkins as a black man posing as a Jew? Yeesh.

[Blue_Tires]

190. Arlington road

and even though i didn't see the movie, I read "Hannibal" to the end, and ended up wishing i didn't

[Lydia Leftcoast]

237. Funny thing--I just saw Arlington Road on TV

I rather liked it, especially the feeling of paranoia built up, and the self-assured evil of Tim Robbins' character.

[ProfessorGAC]

248. I Liked It Too, But. . .

. . .the ending is one of the most distressing movie endings i've ever seen. That is a CREEPY movie.
The Professor

[FeelinGarfunkelly]

192. Hardball and Passion of othe Christ.

Hardball w/ Keanu.. oh jeeeezus. "I am blown away by your ability to show up." give me a friggin break!

And Passion.. saw this w/ a friend to make fun of the God-nazis in town. Biggest waste of 7 bucks ever. I still cant believe I saw this hate-fest.

[ceile]

193. Forrest Gump

Absolutely cannot stand that movie. I wanted to strangle Tom Hanks!!

[Blue in a Red State]

195. Oh, and Jersey Girl and anything with Julia Stiles in it.

[xpunkisneatx]

196. Punch Drunk Love

This movie got tons of critical acclaim, yet when i watched it all i said was :wtf:

[smbolisnch]

204. Oh yes, forgot about that one!

I was so excited when I finally picked it up, and I am watching the movie thinking, Ok, it'll get good any minute, just a slow starter....
Nope, sucked clear through! :wtf:

[spatlese]

216. Punch Drunk Love gets my vlote too n/t

[Lydia Leftcoast]

227. I hated Punch Drunk Love, too

The critics in Portland said that it was a real step up from the average Adam Sandler movie. Little did I know that it wasn't far up enough.

It was a dorky, clueless guy's fantasy: he can be a boring, stupid jerk and pretty women will forgive him anything.

[Phillycat]

255. YES! Me too!

HATED IT.

[kwyjibo]

197. American History X, Dancer In The Dark

I'll never get over curbing. ever. every time I remember it I get so upset.

and while Dancer in the Dark was an incredible movie and I love Bjork so much, it was more sad than I had ever expected. I can't tell you how much I cried after that movie. It's hard for me to even think about, just like American History X.

[tjdee]

199. Ed Norton, stomping that guy's head on the curb with his boot....

That's a disturbing memory. He was scary in that.

[Flammable Materials]

215. I love both of these films, in a sad way.

Particularly "Dancer In The Dark".

The song sung on the train breaks my heart every time I hear it.

[Danger Duck]

200. Meet Joe Black

It was the only time that I actually prayed that flesh eating bacteria would devour me(normally I just ask the bacteria politely)

[juslikagrzly]

223. Absolutely agree with this one

It was a train wreck. Horrid, stilted acting, especially by Brad Pitt (I think it was him)

[sakabatou]

201. Godzilla's Revenge

Worst. Godzilla. Movie. Ever.

[Shakespeare]

202. Eyes Wide Shut.

The biggest waste of 3 hours of my life that I'll never get back.

[420inTN]

203. Gigli. n/t

[stranger_with_candy]

222. i never even saw it

and never will for that matter... but i still agree.

[alarimer]

205. Van Helsing

And I've seen it TWICE (I have no idea why).

[TexasLady]

258. agreed, top ten suckie movie

kids liked it though..

[Left Is Write]

212. Less Than Zero.

So incredibly depressing....

[Flammable Materials]

213. IRREVERSIBLE.

I don't regret seeing it, though.

ALSO! The guy in the Club Rectum, the one who keeps begging the boyfriend of the raped woman to fist him? I know the guy!

http://www.costes.org

Warning: Website NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART.

[progmom]

218. Gothika

Why the hell did I watch this movie?
This is why I hate HBO.

[Not_Giving_Up]

220. Groundhog Day

Give me a break, please!!!!!!!!!! That movie would just never end!


The Others

I watched it a second time, figuring that while trying to keep the kids out of the room I missed something. I didn't...It just sucked. It was obvious something was wrong...the kids couldn't be exposed to sunlight?? WTF????????

[Kire]

224. I Spit on Your Grave

[Kelli372]

245. No! One of the most memorable cult classics

[Anarcho-Socialist]

225. Red Dawn

The movie that pukes think is a documentary.

[devilgrrl]

226. Suburbia - Dead Poet's Society - Witches of Eastwick - Kids

Hated all of them! :puke:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

235. "The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover". Gruesome and cruel.

[Pacifist Patriot]

250. That's on my list too. Just awful!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

238. The Piano

The plot makes no sense, and I am stumped as to why so many women thought Harvey Keitel was "sexy" in that film. If they had said Sam Neill I would have understood...

[TexasLady]

261. I think Harvey was sexy too

It was something I cant put my finger on. He aint no looker, but it was the way he treated that woman. The passion he had for her, and I guess lots of women want that too.

Then again, I think Christopher Walken is sexy, ever since I saw him in Brainstorm. Yumm...

[LeftyMom]

239. Time Bandits

Boy: Don't touch it, it's eeeeeeeeeeeeevilllllllll!
*Mother touches toaster oven and thier house explodes.*
*The End*

There, I've ruined the ending and you don't have to see it. Feel free to thank me. :)

[maveric]

240. Bridges of Madison County

Boring, flat acting, uninspired, just terrible.

[skooooo]

243. yep i hear you..

Saw this movie in the theater w/mom and we made fun of it the whole way through.

[Hawkeye Pierce]

242. 90% of the movies in the past ten years.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

247. "Exorcist 4" for sure. That's 90 minutes of your life you'll definitely

be wanting back. It wasn't at all clear from the trailers that this was one of the worst movies of all time.

[Pacifist Patriot]

249. The Net, Waterworld, Siesta, Eréndira

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

[Debbi801]

253. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes and Eyes Wide Shut. (nt)

[mondo joe]

262. HIGHLANDER: THE QUICKENING. Worst 2 hours of my life.

The audience actually screamed, booed and threw popcorn at the screen.

[VelmaD]

265. There should have been...

only one.

[arwalden]

266. Rocky

[SoCalDem]

267. It would seem that there are very few GOOD movies being made

That last movie I saw in a theatre was ANTZ :)

[Amaya]

268. The Perfect Storm

[liontamer]

269. Girlfriends

an indian movie with the message that lesbians are : evil, crazy, dangerous, and bound to end up dead