Any popular movies out there you guys feel alone in hating? I've got alot but can't remember them all right now but here's a few of them....
X-Men (it was okay but Hallie Berrie really ruined it for me)
the Problem Child movies
Any movie with Hallie Berrie, Adam Sandler, or Queen Latifa (who decided they could act?)
The Fast And The Furious movies (I almost fell asleep)
Any movie by Micheal Moore except Canadian Bacon
Napolean Dynamite(I just didn't see what was so funny--I found the whole thing a boring waste of time)
Robots (the CGI animated movie)
Barbershop 2
Any movie by that guy(can't remember his name)who did Signs, The Village etc. I hate this guys movies--they all end up the same way-a cliffhanger no real ending type of ending.
Passion Of The Christ
The Sound of Music.
Y'know what I hate most about Moore's so-called "documentries" ? they are are liberal democrat smear job campaigns that are not only 100 percent false, but every single one of them seem to be bigot-induced anti-american hate speech.
None of his documentries--at least none that I can think of are anything except anti-american hissy-fits. He reminds me alot of the Canadians current attitude as of late.
Anti-american for no reason other than being a racist bigot.
The only exception is his non-documentry movie Canadian Bacon---It's anti-american sure,(which is how you can tell it's a Moore film.) But it's also a farce and so well done that I can't help but laugh my head off. IMHO Moore shoulda stuck to comical stuff like this rather than the anti-american hate-speech type ficton he currently pumps out.
This is a real challenge for me as I like most films or atleast can find something I like about a film.
Not sure why, but I didn't like X-Men either and had no interest in watching the other superhero movies like Spiderman, Hulk, and even superman (except the first one with Reeves was good). Batman is probably the only superhero that I like and even then he's not that great.
Best Superhero movie ever was Mystery Men. That is a film that I really liked.
I'm with you on most of the films PopsMcFly except Napoleon Dynamite. Napoleon Dynamite was or is a great comedy. At least for our times it was funny.
I don't think Hallie Berry or Sandler are great, but they are Ok.
The only baby film that I really liked was Raising Arizona.
Still don't like CGI, but they are getting better I suppose.
Nope...I don't worry about movies I don't like. Life is too short and has too much room to enjoy to worry about hating movies...whether or not anyone else likes them
If I cared what other people thought was 'popular' I wouldn't be hanging out at a site named 'badmovies.org'
I would have a much easier time naming popular TV shows I hate, such as AMERICAN IDOL, THE APPRENTICE, SKATING WITH THE STARS, DANCING WITH THE STARS, and just about anything in the "reality" genre.
All movies written by Charlie Kaufman. I know he's supposed to be the new golden boy when it comes to creative scriptwriting, but I found his stuff more confusing and dull than groundbreaking. Sure I enjoyed "Being John Malkovich, because I love far-fetched absurd comedies, but I couldn't finish "Adaptation" and I almost fell asleep watching "Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind", although acting was good and it had a few funny scenes. The idea that he's got some Philip K. Dick adaptation on his hands makes me itch. That's another movie I won't enjoy, and it's based on a work by one of my favourite writers.
fight club.
made jocks think they were something "cerebral".
Don't get me wrong about X-Men guys, it was okay and had some good stuff in it, but Berrie just annoys me to no end. X-2 was much better a story-well except for the fact that Berrie got half the plot about her character and STILL complained yet again. X-3 looks pretty intresting and I'll see it(mainly cuz of Kelsy Grammer as the Beast--perfect casting in my opinion) the only flaw I can see is that nearly the whole plot will revolve around Berrie this time. Really, I woulda preferred if they woulda just left out that spotlight hog outta the film and had said that Storm went back to Africa(where she is from anyway-she was a godess to african tribes originally in the comics-they coulda put this in the film) rather than have catered to Berrie's "It must all revolve around me!" attitude.
She was quite possibly---no, no, she was DEFINTELY the worst casting decsion for the X-men films. She was about as far from Storm as could be and didn't even try to get the character right at all.
her only worst thing was catwoman.
I'm with Scott on this one. I'm always hard-pressed to find a movie I really dislike. I can find something redeeming in nearly everything I watch.
I thought Napoleon Dynamite got better with repeated viewings, and the campaign dance cracked me up.
I can say I don't particularly like Kevin Costner's long winded movies (Dances with Wolves, Waterworld, The Postman). I personally think his best role was in The Big Chill (the dead guy). But there are enjoyable qualities to them.
I used to love Mel Gibson, but now that he's fallen off the sanity truck, not so much. I actually didn't mind Passion of the Christ, I thought it was well done, and I'm in no way a practising Christian. I liked it strictly for the "movie" value. My husband won't watch it.
I even liked...yes.....Farenheit 9/11. I didn't look at it like he meant it, more so as it's funny to see him get all worked up. *L* I also don't view it as Anti-American.
One movie I thought was WAY overrated was "Sideways". Decent movie, yes. Comedy of the year? No.
I just like movies in general. I like the idea of movies, and therefore will watch nearly anything. Case in point, watched a movie called "The Wickeds" last night. It has Ron Jeremy and a bunch of nobodys in it. Definite no-budget film, but funny to me. My husband suffered while I laughed. Really bad zombies that are actually supposed to be "vampires".
The entire time I've been typing this, I've been trying to think of some big movie that I just hated......and can't. I may have to come back to this later.....*L*
Mine would be quite a list, but I'll narrow it down.
Titanic! Titanic! Titanic! Titanic! And, did I mention Titanic!
The remake of Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Fulci's The Beyond (and throw in his House by the Cemetary too)
The Fast and the Furious (2001)
Not Another (piece of s**t) Teen Movie
I'll leave it at that before this list grows too long.
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> None of his documentries--at least none that I can
> think of are anything except anti-american
> hissy-fits. He reminds me alot of the Canadians
> current attitude as of late.
Oh, now hold on. Don't judge everybody up here by the sleazy, corrupt, left-wing idiots we have in charge (and who will hopefully be turfed out Monday), or by the various "progressive" thinkers who seem to get all the attention. I don't deny that poking fun at Americans is something of a national pastime, but the crap that's been happening lately is unfair, and does not reflect the views of most of us. I've been especially apalled by the way our PM decided that the best way to endear himself to voters, having nothing else to go on, was to bash your country and your president. Great strategy -- insult your closest neighbour and biggest trading partner to win the votes of morons. What the hell has happened to my country?
Yeah, AndyC is ok...for a Canadian... ;)
I agree with Menard and all his namings of Titanic. Godawful, wretched thing that was.
I'm also going to have to say the Blair Witch. When that came out, everyone was going crazy over it. Probably the biggest reason for this was so many idiots believing it was all real. I went to see it and I was annoyed that I had spent the time and money.
Most all of the Chucky sequels are rotten.
Anaconda...anyone recall when that came out? That was a big movie around here. The CGI snake looked like it was drawn by a 5 year old in MS Paint.
Keep saying that and 5 year old childern from across the world are gonna hire assassins to track you down. My favourite bit of the movie is the waterfall running backwards.
Whoo-boy.....
The Wizard of Oz (ugh...)
Night of the Living Dead (I don't get it, never got it, never will get it...)
Pretty Woman (to this day, I cannot shake the notion that Julia Roberts has serious psychological problems buried deep beneath that superficiality...)
Thelma & Louise (two hours of my life I'll never get back... thanks, ladies...)
Superman (Reeve looked the part, but Hackman's performance was just too damn cheesey)
Top Gun (honestly, I can never take Tom Cruise seriously... kind of unfair, I guess...)
90% of all remakes
anything with a former cast members of Saturday Night Live
Ok. I forgot Top Gun. How did I forget Top Gun?? I loathe Top Gun. I guess I hate it so much I blocked it from my memory.......
I tend to agree about the X Men films.
Neither of them knocked my socks off.
I think the main reasons for not really liking them were indeed the casting.
Not just Halle Berrie....but ALL the actors cast in both films didn't seem to really fit.
Even Patrick Stewart as Professor X seemed wrong.
Especially Jean Grey...Famke Janssen as Jean Grey? Bad choice.
She's a decent actress...but not for that role.
The only really good casting choice in X-Men was Ian McKellen as Magneto.
He was excellent in that role.
Brian Cox was also good as Stryker in part 2.
Other than them, both films were completely miscast.
"Top Gun" is worst of the worst. Tom Cruise acting like an idiot we can deal with, but there we are supposed to like him. Same could be applied to "Days of Thunder", which is essentially the same with cars intead of jets.
And Tony Scott, despite "True Romance" and "Enemy of the state" should be tied to a chair and subjected to a non-stop session of all his movies. Now that's a cruel and unusual punishment, I know, but I think anti-capital punishment associations won't conplain this time.
I don't like Howard Hawks' Bringing Up Baby. Something about their rapid dialogue exchange irks me.
I also don't like Sin City for its boorish story and unengaging performances... Marv aside. The second time through, I might as well have been watching toast. Boring.
I agree on "Sin City". It works as a comic book, and very, very, well, but if you shoot it using the comic as an storyboard you don't get a movie, you get a xerox. And comic and movies are not the same, the voiceover worked great on the original, on the film it was just excessive.
I quite enjoyed Sin City, but haven't watched it on dvd too much so as to avoid that exact problem mentioned above: it gets a tad repetitive and the voiceover is a bit boring after a while.
Great film though, just in concept alone.
Anyway, I don't have any particular movies I hate [hey I didn't mind Gigli, so I guess that means anything goes] but I do get frustrated when blockbuster movies cast big name actors just because they are big name, rather than finding someone good for the part.
X-Men and it's sequel, whilst not perfect, were still pretty enjoyable, but I tend to think the casting choices for that film were, well, excessive.
Halle Berry suited Storm fine, and actually most of the cast were good for their roles, but having someone complain too much about screen time, dialogue and whatnot is just petty: She's part of an ensemble cast with heaps of main characters, more than the average film, so it's a little unrealistic to make a grab for plot time. In that case, the casting really screwed them over, since now they're stuck with her!
Since I don't hate movies specifically [if they entertain me, they've done their job, if not, I don't go too nuts]
But what I do hate when it comes to popular movies/series, is when making money seems more important than making a good film [ahem, Jurassic Park 3, ahem] in which case the movies may be mildly entertaining, but by god you hate the people behind the scenes for working too closely to a formula.
For instance, a critically acclaimed Aussie film, 'A Japanese Story' won a heap of AFIs here [our Oscars] and was bought up by the states. The producers were then told to cut the short opening sequence out of the film because it didn't start with the right character: Every film must start and end with the main protaganist apparently, otherwise people may tend to get confused they seem to think.
I watched that opening sequence the other day, and thought to myself: 'cutting that scene is incredibly pointless,' and it got me angry about the type of person who thinks it's so important to start a film a certain way.
If they are watching it, they have paid for their seats and I really don't think they'll walk out in the first few minutes in a confused daze saying 'but it didn't start with the main character, I've lost all will to live...'
So yes, I don't tend to hate movies themselves, no matter how bad, [though I may dislike a few] but I really hate the ideology behind some of the popular movies.
For what it's worth, X-2 heavily featured the back story and ramifications of Wolverine so to work thriough the team like that in sequels would not be too surprising
The Matrix.
I hate it.
Anything -- anything -- could have happened in that movie. So, out of the limitless potential, what did we get? Gun fights and wire-fu.
Gun fights and wire fu.
Not even laser guns or wire-fu where people get their limbs torn off.
Just ...
Gun fights and wire fu.
*spit*
Worse, almost every single sci-fi or action movie since then has tried to be as similar to The Matrix as possible.
*hock* *spit*
the island, for one. they completelly rip off the idea of Parts: The Clonus Horror, and somehow...................someway...................manage to squander the intellectual worth of the idea in ways i didn't think possible. That movie was BEGGING to be remade! It had a brilliant idea behind it! so of course, they decided instead to remake it in precicelly the wrong way, as a stupid action movie. Oh, and try to get it out the door without it being noticed as a remake. Great.
Also, Sideways sucked. I didn't care at all for any of the characters. In fact, I hated them. And everyone else i asked hated the characters too. But somehow, someway, those people also liked the movie. I am forced to conclude the movie somehow paid them 50 bucks to like it.
Syriana. It had four different plots, only one of which was even a little interesting,and all of them were so cut down in order to force them all into the same movie. And i could not, for the l;ife of me, figure out what bob was doing.
Sorry about that I didn't mean to lump you all together---I was just shocked that it happened in the first place because the two countries have been so close for so many years--for it to be broken over a hockey game was just bizarre.
I gotta add Oblvion to my list--the idea is NOT fresh or original,Bravestarr came first in the 1980's--it was essentially the same thing but it was an animated series and while I never saw it personally it always looked really cool--an Indian(who LOOKED like one for once) as the main hero Marshall Bravestarr, a black leather clad gal with a whip, a butt kicking alien who worked the saloon, and Bravestarr's steed who could transform into a two legged ass-kicking monster as Bravestarr's partners and a evil zombie with alien scorpion men and killer phsycotic and robot army to back his evil gang up sounded to cool--and the expensive and thus short lived action figures rocked as well (I bought Bravestarr and the Bar tender at a thrift shop for a buck a piece) Tell me THAT wouldn't be an awesome cartoon--how it failed is beyond me considering it was done by the guys who did He-Man--but this idea was better than He-Man ever even sounded-at least to me.
So when I saw it at the rental store a few years back I was intrigued, I had never gotten to see Bravestarr and figured this was as close as I'd ever get. So I rented it and was very excited---until I poppped it into the player----Arrrrggggghhhhh! I couldn't even finish the flick it annoyed me so bad! The good news is that I've heard through the grapevine that Bravestarr episodes can be found on VHS so I'm gonna be on the look out for those.
Rushmore - I was looking forward to comedy and I don't what the hell I got, but it wasn't funny.
Blair Witch Project - I guess if you were one of the clueless that thought it was a documentary it would have been scary, but I'm afraid it bored me beyond belief. If it was real it would have made a good murder mystery because someone would have killed the that bossy b***h Heather Donahue.
The first two X-men were excellently made superheroe movies. The third from I've read may be disappointing because of the the director Brett Ratner (Rush Hour 1 & 2). I've heard it is going to concentrate mostly on Storm (Halle Berry) the most miscast character in the series. I've always thought this part should have gone to Angela Bassett (who looks like Ororo Munroe from the comics and can act).
Don't blame him. Berrie more or less blackmailed them into getting the spotlight centering on her almost completely....she's a glamour hog.
From a test showing review I read she is in almost every scene.
I'm with Menard as far as Titanic is concerned--1953 version with Clifton Webb and Barbara Stanwyck is shorter and far more entertaining, for me at least.
Ditto anything with Tom Cruise.
I hadn't even heard about any hockey game. There's been so much stupidity surrounding the federal election up here, with the ruling party (hopefully gone today) saying a lot of stupid things to look like patriots (by some definition I don't understand), I assumed that's what you meant.
Nope--I've been to Canada before and while the mountie border patrol treated us like trash for being American citizens the rest of the folks in Canada we met were really decent and I've always just figured that a cop is a cop regardless of the country they are in an 9 times outta ten cops are jerks. But what I was referring to was a series of Hockey games that took place. I cannot remember exactly what type of Hockey game it was be it Olympic or College or whatnot but the Canadian fans and the players on the team shouted U.S.A. sucks! through the whole game--this wouldn't have been a big deal except that the U.S.A. was the only one they targeted. When the U.S. went up against Russia in the same series, several canadian fans went in just to shout "U.S.A. sucks!" . What has started this I don't know--I don't even like Hockey--hell aside from the Superbowl I hate sports with a passion--and the only real reason I like to watch the Superbowl are the hilarious ad's that come out usually during that time--the closest thing I LOVE with all my heart to a sport is Pro-Wrestling. lol
Yeah, hockey fans in general can be pretty bad. There's a certain portion of fans at all levels who are going to find some way to make the players, officials and other spectators miserable. Sadly, it seems to be getting worse. You would be amazed at the things minor hockey fans will yell at teams from a town just a short drive away. Crazy.
I don't know if this qualifies for "popular" but it was supposed to be a bigger release horror movie.....Venom. Time I'll never recover. So boring.......I was begging the TV to kill someone. Anyone. When they finally starting dying, it wasn't even worth the wait.
I actually liked Venom, provided there is not another film of which you are speaking. The one I saw starred Klaus Kinski, Nicole Williamson, and Oliver Reed. There is a particularly painful scene for guys which involves a Black Mamba and Oliver Reed's pants leg. I did have the advantage, though, of having seen it when it came out at the theatre. It may well not be as effective on the small screen.
I hated Sleepless in Seattle.
And I really disliked The Phantom Menace. (That'll get me flamed for sure, I bet.. :)
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> And I really disliked The Phantom Menace.
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Or not. Midichlorians my ass.
I thought it was agreed upon that nobody was suppose to give Andy an opportunity to mention his ass. Now we'll be talking about his ass for the rest of the week. (http://www.smileys.ws/smls/action/00000027.gif)
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...or, I could completely re-direct the talk about AndyC's ass by mentioning....
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Gigli....
Danged. What a choice; Andy's ass or Gigli.
Did somebody mention something???
No, you were dreaming; go back to sleep.
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> Doctor Menard's Portal o' Doom
> Zhorkow's Cybiko Files
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> Captain Obvious,,,,,,to the rescuuuuuuuuuue!!!
Oh, ok then...
hmmm... Bennifer...pronounced like 'really'...
Oh no...this is a new release starring Jonathan Jackson and some other people unheard of. Oh wait, METHOD MAN is in it. Yeah, anyhow......just...yeah.
>Gigli....
That was popular??
BTM-
It's a running joke. If you search Gigli on this board, you will probably see what it's all about. Apparently it's only really popular for 2 people on this board who shall remain nameless (dean, Scott)...
I don't know.. me, I'm also not big on those "romantic comedies".
Granted, maybe it's partly because I've never been in love (that is, love you someone and they love you BACK) but still, a lot of them contrite and silly.
I really didn't like Being John Malkovitch... I mean, I thought the beginning was kind of quirky, but I didn't really like the ending. (Granted, maybe I'm misinterrepting the ending, I dunno...)
Are you suggesting my ass is Gigli? I resent that.
Of course not. (http://www.smileys.ws/smls/action/00000042.gif)
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Spiderman (1st and 2nd one): Don't Get Me Wrong they were good movies, but they weren't worth all the hype. They were above-average films, but not great
same with X-Men (X-2)
Titanic
Shakespeare in Love
Are you suggesting my ass is Gigli?
You mispelled "Jiggly"
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