Your Least Favorite Flicks

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Lisey Landon

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Titanic. Worst movie I've ever had to sit through. I haven't seen that much cheese since...well, ever.....there's "chick flicks"...then there is Titanic....
Hey, I'm a chick, and I hated it so much that I refused to watch any De Caprio movies for years. I just wanted to walk out when people with guns started running around, going downstairs and whatnot, while the boat was sinking.:hopelessness:
 
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Dana Jean

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Here's a dozen to be getting along with:
Forrest Gump - glutinous yarn with a moral heart of utter mendacity
The Strangers - Liv Tyler snivels through boring and unexplained cabin in in the woods invasion
Project X - vile teen "comedy" in which unrepentant protagonist suffers no consequences for anguish and damage inflicted on innocents
That’s My Boy - Adam Sandler does horrible voice in horrible comedy about horrible person
Another Earth - glum morality/character piece which pretends to be science fiction and takes itself far too seriously
The Love Guru - Mike Myers’ mojo fails to work in graceless comedy
Identity Thief - despicable main character put forward as hilarious and lovable
All About Steve - mental illness presented as humour
Sucker Punch - 2 hours of teenage wish-fulfilment video game graphics sit on top of a misogynistic mess
Man Of Steel - many excellent visual and design elements totally negated by malodorous and wilful misreading of main character and his adoptive father
The Paperboy - jumbled lurid melodrama notable for Nicole Kidman urinating on Zac Efron’s face
The Fourth Kind - alien abduction movie which fails in every way possible, starting with credibility
Forrest Gump. I died a little. It's my most favorite movie. :confused:
 

Lina

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I don't like Avatar and The Shining. Many people call them almost the best movies, but I did not like the cast in The Shining (as well as the ending and some p[lot twists) and I was just bored watching Avatar.
 

Neil W

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Forrest Gump. I died a little. It's my most favorite movie. :confused:
It is great that we don't all agree on everything.

One of the reasons for my acute dislike of Forrest Gump is the way that (it appears to me) it was embraced so enthusiastically by so many in the US for its wonderful message of "All you have to do to be successful in the USA is have a good heart" when, in fact, Forrest - for all his good-heartedness - would never have been successful, and would never have been permitted custody of his son. Its message, notwithstanding its (I assume) sincerity, was fundamentally untrue, but that uncomfortable fact was lost in a sea of sickly sentiment.

As I said, good job we don't all agree on everything. At least we agree on SK as an author! :)
 
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booklover72

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Rambo, All the superhero movies and ET , i just couldn't like ET i hated him and the james bond movies. doe'st matter if it is Sean Connery or Brosnan or whoever the new guy is just didnt work for me.
 
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booklover72

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I don't like Avatar and The Shining. Many people call them almost the best movies, but I did not like the cast in The Shining (as well as the ending and some p[lot twists) and I was just bored watching Avatar.
i saw about a minute of Avatar and then went to bed. i know i didnt give it a chance but i wasnt impressed.
 
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Grandpa

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Oooo, a revived thread that I didn't know existed.

I remember being dragged to West Side Story as a kid and hating it, except for Natalie Wood. About a year or two ago, the movie came up in discussion with a couple of friends with whom we watch classics. We decided to give it a try, with me thinking I was just a sullen, uncooperative kid the first time. I'll like it better now.

Nope. I was right. It still sucks.

Not only do I not like T. itanic, I further resent it deeply for the fact that 1) I had gulped a Diet Coke during the movie, and by the time we get through the 17.5 hours of ship sinking, with the water gushing through the passageways and into the rooms, I was ready to flood the theater on my own; and 2) the Titanic craze robbed one of my favorite movies of all time, LA Confidential, from its rightful share of awards.

Arlington Road.
The slaughter of innocents and the triumph of evil.

The last (or first, whatever) Star Wars. The last Indiana Jones.

I'd like to say I hated Deconstructing Harry, but since we gave up on it after the first 15 minutes, I can't really say.

The dysfunctional family movie with DeNiro and (Ben) Stiller. I just couldn't stand it.

I do get a laugh out of Plan 9. Just the way they wrote out Lugosi, the continuity curiosity with the woman sitting out in the back, the confusion of dark or daytime from scene to scene, the sheriff scratching his head thoughtfully with the business end of the revolver, the shower curtain over the door in the alien craft... honestly, I get a kick out of it.

And I like Spielberg when he's on his game like Empire of the Sun or Munich or the first three Indiana Jones. Not so much when he mails it in, like Jurassic Park II or the last Indiana Jones (see above).
 
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Where the wild things are ruined one of my only reading experiences as a youth.
Pretty much anything that Tim Burton is involved with
The Exorcist sequels and the Godfather three because if I enjoyed the Opera, I would go to one.
 
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opundo

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I may be the only person on earth, but I DETEST The Sound of Music and ET. Both are sickeningly sweet and boooooring. I saw ET in the theater when it first came out and I can remember arguing with a friend in the parking lot over how predictable and treacly it was. I think I watched it one other time on TV and found it just as insipid as the first time. As for The Sound of Music, I wish Julie Andrews would fall off one of those mountains she's singing from and that all the kids would follow one after the other! :devilish:
Edelweiss, Edelweiss
Every morning you greet me
Small and white clean and bright
You look happy to meet me
Blossom of snow may you bloom and grow
Bloom and grow forever
Edelweiss,Edelweiss
Bless my homeland forever.
 
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Tim D.

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I agree completely. I almost jumped up and cheered when the ship sunk, mainly because I knew the end of the movie had to be sometime soon after this event. I had to try very hard not run into oncoming traffic after leaving the theater. I think my wife asked for that movie on DVD when it came out just to piss me off. She seemed to want to watch it several times the first few weeks we had the DVD.

I'm gonna go out on a limb here, but I'm guessing if the long rumored 5 hour director's cut of Titanic ever materializes you're not gonna buy it?
 
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kingricefan

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I'm gonna go out on a limb here, but I'm guessing if the long rumored 5 hour director's cut of Titanic ever materializes you're not gonna buy it?
The deleted scenes are included in the newer version but aren't restored back into the film, just as 'extra's'.
 
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Tim D.

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Signs- M. Night Shymalan gets my vote for worst director ever. These two movies in particular were so
stupid I could almost feel my IQ dropping as I watched them.
Diamonds Are Forever- Worst James Bond movie ever. Too stupid for words.
The Dark Knight - Long, slow, boring, silly and did I mention boring?
The Paperboy- Repellant in every way.
Batman Forever and Batman and Robin - The two Joel Shumacher travesties in the Batman franchise.
At least he issued a formal apology for making Batman and
Robin.
 
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Started watching My Dinner With Andre once, and kept thinking there had to be more to it.. But there wasn't. Just one guy talking and talking and talking through dinner, making free associations, while the other guy sits there looking fascinated.. I want that hour and a half of my life back damnit!!
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Napoleon Dynamite. I never understood how that movie gained popularity and is considered a cult classic in a way. I didn't really find it funny, but rather boring. Maybe the "humor" wasn't for me in that movie :/
 
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notebookgirl

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I have a hard time with musicals. I just can't seem to grasp why everything stops and people break into song. :)

I agree! Can't handle them at all. No interest when people break out in song. However, very odd, the only one I could stand is "Les Miserables" Maybe because the story was told by the songs. My husband gives me really strange looks whenever I watch it.
 
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