Least Favorite Movies Ever

[sodascouts]

While this is a bit negative, I gotta vent. Last Saturday, my friend and I decided to go to a movie. There really wasn't anything we wanted to see particularly, so we decided to go to see Tropic Thunder.

WORST. MOVIE. EVER.

I have never walked out of a movie I paid good money for, until last Saturday (although I thought about it when I watched Domino a couple years ago). My friend and I couldn't endure more than a half an hour. Thank goodness it was matinee prices.

Extreme violence played for laughs; unfunny jokes; ruthless mockery of people with Downs syndrome and mental retardation; a plot that meanders such that after a half an hour, we still hadn't gotten to the kidnapping part. We did get to the part where a director steps on a landmine, gets blown apart, and Ben Stiller's character drinks blood from the guy's decapitated head because he thinks it's fake and he's drinking prop blood.

Ha. Ha.

I'm watching The Daily Show now and Stewart is gushing about that movie! I think Stiller has mass-hypnotized all of his friends to not only like it but make cameos in it.

So, what are some of your least favorite movies?

[DonFan]

Vent away, Soda. I hate it when I pay good money for a movie that ends up being silly, stupid & tasteless, which defines many movies these days.

Some movies that I hate: Years ago when my husband & I were dating, we got up & walked out of "Summer Rental" with John Candy. It was awful.
I also hate the Austin Powers movies, for the reasons I listed above.

[Freypower]

Being old and a fan of historical/costume dramas, I vowed the last time I saw Camelot and Doctor Zhivago that I would never sit through either of them again, and Doctor Zhivago was directed by David Lean, one of my heroes.

We once sat through a film by Pedro Almadovar that has received nothing but raves but which we both thought was rubbish, Tie Me Up Tie Me Down. I would say the same for Three Colours - Blue, which was pretentious nonsense.

But I don't see many movies these days, so there aren't really any I dislike.

[Glennsallnighter]

I haven't been to the movies lately either FP (Horton hears a who, The Simpsons and Ratatouille don't count!) although I must say I LOVE Dr Zhivago! In common with DF however I hate the 'Austin Powers' movies. I just can't take to Mike Myers character at all. I can't stomach horror and I hate any movies that are either too violent or ridicule vulnerable members of society. So I guess I WON'T be going to 'Tropic Thunder'!

[sodascouts]

Finally, other people who are unimpressed with Austin Powers! It had its moments, but overall it was really stupid.

I can't stand violence either in movies. Yeah, it's just pretend, but I can't enjoy it even in a fictional scenario. I refuse to see horror movies.

All the violence was why I also couldn't stand Sweeney Todd. My friend pleaded with me to watch it with her and I did, only to be absolutely disgusted by it.

[Prettymaid]

This is going way back to 1986, but does anyone remember Howard The Duck starring Lea Thompson? Human sized duck is befriended by lead singer in a girl band and in one scene actually makes a pass at her!
Who-o-o-o--o-a!

[sodascouts]

Yes! Howard the Duck was horrifically bad! Who greenlighted that project?!

Another moldy oldie that sucks hard... and this is coming from a Monkees fan...

Head.

The only way to explain how that one got written: drugs. Lots and lots and lots of mind-altering drugs.

[ticky]

There was a movie Hubby and I went to see just a few months after we were married at the drive in (dating myself here much?) It was called The Aroura Encounter and it starred some grizzly old guy from some LONG gone TV show and a few kids who had that aging desease. The CHILDREN were supposed to be ALIENS!!! can anyone say VERY BAD TASTE???? It was awful! and it played double feature with a movie called Band of the Hand.. now the only way I can even begin to discribe how BAD this movie was is to say IMDB it... www.IMDB.com Band of the Hand. Both movies were an insult, but I dont know which is worse, that they were ever made or that we watched BOTH of them!!

[GlennLover]

Soda, I agree with you about Head. I was crazy about the Monkees at the time but even I had to admit that the movie was awful.

The worst movie that I ever saw though, had to be Being There starring Peter Sellars & Shirley MacLaine. This was years ago. My sister & I were going to walk out, but we didn't because we thought that it had to get better as it went on. It didn't .

[DonFan]

This is going way back to 1986, but does anyone remember Howard The Duck starring Lea Thompson? Human sized duck is befriended by lead singer in a girl band and in one scene actually makes a pass at her!
Who-o-o-o--o-a!

Ding-ding-ding! We have a winner for WORST MOVIE EVER!
I had forgotten about that one, PM--it was so bad that I blocked it completely from my memory.