Anonymous
09/08/2022 17:06
Subject: Worst movie you ever saw?
Anonymous wrote:The Birdcage is one of the best movies on the planet! Ridiculously talented ensemble cast. Still relevant today.
Every remotely fun person I know loves that film.
Cage au Folles was better though.
Anonymous
09/08/2022 17:04
Subject: Worst movie you ever saw?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Forrest Gump
March of the Penguins
March of the Penguins national as grim. But it was a great documentary.
* MoP was grim.
Anonymous
09/08/2022 17:01
Subject: Worst movie you ever saw?
Under the Skin and Melancholia were unbelievably pointless.
Anonymous
09/08/2022 17:00
Subject: Worst movie you ever saw?
Anonymous wrote:Forrest Gump
March of the Penguins
March of the Penguins national as grim. But it was a great documentary.
Anonymous
09/08/2022 16:59
Subject: Worst movie you ever saw?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Totally agree with Love, Actually. And will add Eat, Pray, Love. I wanted to throttle that stupid woman.
My most conflicted movie: Into the Wild. Amazing acting, scenery, filming, music - an incredible piece of art. But I truly have a problem movies that take people making dumb or uneducated decisions and turning them into tragic heros. Same issue with Perfect Storm - gorgeous movie, but at the end of the day it was a series of bad decisions based on people ignoring the available information because they thought they were above it all. The lesson there should be to NOT follow in their footsteps - but the movies have the effect of hero-izing the bad decision makers. The "tragedy" of Into the Wild could have been prevented with just a teensy bit of planning ahead. But I still bought the soundtrack, the music was beautiful. So, I'm conflicted on that one - it was either one of the best movies I've ever seen or one of the worst.
I wanted to throttle her too. I'm Italian and DH is Indian and we spend a lot of time in both countries. That stupid book and movie incorporated every bad stereotype of those countries and cultures. Truly awful.
Thank you both! After reading Eat Pray Love I went on Amazon to see if I was the only one who hated it, and there were 10k five-star reviews. Then I started planning how I could get a publishing house to underwrite me while I travel the world writing inane things about food and religion, all the while dramatizing my marriage as “horrible” for things that happen to many couples, and exhibiting zero self-awareness. Do you think someone would pay me, too?
Anonymous
09/08/2022 16:58
Subject: Re:Worst movie you ever saw?
Brown 🐰
Anonymous
09/08/2022 16:55
Subject: Worst movie you ever saw?
Anonymous wrote:Uncut Gems. And I like Adam Sandler!
I’d nominate pretty much anything Adam Sandler’s in for worst movie. He’s not funny and the way he makes faces at the camera is just cringe.
Anonymous
09/08/2022 16:53
Subject: Worst movie you ever saw?
It’s been two decades, but I still can’t forget how awful Ishtar was. You’d think a movie with Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman would have promise.
Madonna’s movie Body of Evidence, with Willem Dafoe, was also terrible. It was supposed to be her “artistic statement about s!x” or something. There’s a scene where they pour candle wax on each other. We saw it for a few bucks at the Jennifer and the audience was laughing at the “serious” parts. One guy got up, turned around to the rest of the theater, and yelled “Duh, nobody saw that coming?!” at a clumsy plot reveal. Everybody laughed with that guy.
Madonna’s movie Body of Evidence, with Willem Dafoe, was also terrible. It was supposed to be her “artistic statement about s!x” or something. There’s a scene where they pour candle wax on each other. We saw it for a few bucks at the Jennifer and the audience was laughing at the “serious” parts. One guy got up, turned around to the rest of the theater, and yelled “Duh, nobody saw that coming?!” at a clumsy plot reveal. Everybody laughed with that guy.
Anonymous
09/08/2022 13:15
Subject: Worst movie you ever saw?
The Fountain with Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz. Even they couldn’t save this dog of a movie.
Anonymous
09/08/2022 10:55
Subject: Worst movie you ever saw?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:See, I’ve seen Battlefield Earth (The John Travolta Scientology movie) and Glitter starring Mariah Carey. Those are actually the worst movies I’ve ever seen. They were not even competent movies.
Almost need two threads: Worst Movies Ever (e.g., Glitter, Battlefield Earth) and Worst Movies Expected to be Good based on Reviews/Feedback (e.g., Forrest Gump, Love, Actually)
Agreed. Money Plane is probably the worst movie I've ever seen. The plot is incoherent, the settings are completely implausible from a space/time perspective, the acting is awful, the editing is awful (e.g., scenes jump sunny to cloudy during cuts, etc) . . . .
Among the most disappointed I've ever been by a movie was No Country for Old Men. The whole time, DW kept asking me when it was going to get better, then asking to turn it off, and I kept saying it had to get better because it was so acclaimed. Then we got to the end and thought "Nope, it never did." So I went to read reviews and commentary on it to see what I missed, and that didn't change my view at all. But I wouldn't say it's the Worst Movie Ever. Just like The Princess Bride isn't the worst movie ever. Maybe the category should be "Acclaimed/beloved movies where you just don't see it."
Maybe it's just me being contrarian, but if the movie is "acclaimed," I usually do not enjoy it or usually even watch it.
Anonymous
09/08/2022 10:14
Subject: Worst movie you ever saw?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:See, I’ve seen Battlefield Earth (The John Travolta Scientology movie) and Glitter starring Mariah Carey. Those are actually the worst movies I’ve ever seen. They were not even competent movies.
Almost need two threads: Worst Movies Ever (e.g., Glitter, Battlefield Earth) and Worst Movies Expected to be Good based on Reviews/Feedback (e.g., Forrest Gump, Love, Actually)
Agreed. Money Plane is probably the worst movie I've ever seen. The plot is incoherent, the settings are completely implausible from a space/time perspective, the acting is awful, the editing is awful (e.g., scenes jump sunny to cloudy during cuts, etc) . . . .
Among the most disappointed I've ever been by a movie was No Country for Old Men. The whole time, DW kept asking me when it was going to get better, then asking to turn it off, and I kept saying it had to get better because it was so acclaimed. Then we got to the end and thought "Nope, it never did." So I went to read reviews and commentary on it to see what I missed, and that didn't change my view at all. But I wouldn't say it's the Worst Movie Ever. Just like The Princess Bride isn't the worst movie ever. Maybe the category should be "Acclaimed/beloved movies where you just don't see it."
Anonymous
09/08/2022 09:51
Subject: Worst movie you ever saw?
This is going back a ways but, Idle Hands. The only movie I’ve ever actually walked out on.
So, so stupid…ugh.
So, so stupid…ugh.
Anonymous
09/08/2022 09:41
Subject: Re:Worst movie you ever saw?
The Northman. (Only redeeming thing was ATJ). I don't understand why it has positive reviews (and I watched all of Vikings so it isn't like its not my thing). I acknowledge at times it was visually beautiful, but, for me, it just fell flat.
Anonymous
09/08/2022 09:41
Subject: Worst movie you ever saw?
Eraserhead
Anonymous
09/08/2022 09:38
Subject: Worst movie you ever saw?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The Money Pit. Hands down the worst movie I ever watched. I was young when we rented the VHS but I can still remember how that movie made me cringe.
I watched that one so many times as a kid
NO! The Money Pit is amazing! "Two weeks"
LOL