It's fully expected that some of the stuff we rent, borrow or see on TV is gonna suck, but what films have you gone to see, with high hopes, in the theater, only to be subjected to something horrible?
For me I'd pick:
Highlander 2
Leonard part 6
Howard the Duck
Battlefield Earth
The Order
EDIT: How could I forget Battlefield Earth? Added that and The Order.
Howard The Duck (walked out of the theater)
Battlefield Earth (almost walked out of the theater)
Hmmm...
Bats
I saw this in the theater to review it. Even going in knowing what I would encounter it was not good.
Showgirls
Despite how bad it is, our group had a fun time. We all went after getting pretty well snookered (can't remember who was driving, but they were sober). We spent half of the film screaming stuff at the screen, ala "Rocky Horror." That and laughing at the one guy in the audience who decided to go to the bathroom right after the sex scene in the pool.
Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend
I was only twelve and have always loved dinosaurs. This still annoyed me.
The Order is the worst movie I've ever seen in a movie theater. I prefer my sleeping pills in bottle form, not big movie screen form.
The Order! I forgot about that stinker.
I don't do to many "big screen" flix, seeing how we have a very small cinema here and my screen at home is not much smaller. LOL. I normally read reviews or ask people leaving the film if it was any good or not, but a bubby of mine just HAD to see Larry The Cable Guy, Health Inspector ... which I had no desire to see, so he paid, it's was stupid and I dozed through parts of it.
Wolf Creek and Thr3e
Quote from: Andrew on January 12, 2007, 08:19:18 PM
Hmmm...
Bats
I saw this in the theater to review it. Even going in knowing what I would encounter it was not good.
Showgirls
Despite how bad it is, our group had a fun time. We all went after getting pretty well snookered (can't remember who was driving, but they were sober). We spent half of the film screaming stuff at the screen, ala "Rocky Horror." That and laughing at the one guy in the audience who decided to go to the bathroom right after the sex scene in the pool.
Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend
I was only twelve and have always loved dinosaurs. This still annoyed me.
I quite liked Baby. Then again, I was about 6 when I saw it... Now for the one and only crapfest I paid to see in a theatre: Date Movie.
Even though I was only 8 when my dad took me and some friends to see this , this movie still made me want to punch the filmmakers.
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I would have to say Americas "Godzillia" I was about 13 and still knew it sucked. I was like "Why did he have babies when he King Of the Monsters?" to my mom. People where walking out. A good runner up is the 2 Matrix film and that Final Fantasty flim.
Right now I'll say "Ginozilla." Since it was boring AND insulting.
As well as "How the Grinch Stole Christmas." Man I was just embarresed.
Quote from: daveblackeye15 on January 12, 2007, 10:10:53 PM
Right now I'll say "Ginozilla." Since it was boring AND insulting.
As well as "How the Grinch Stole Christmas." Man I was just embarresed.
I saw" Grinch" too with a ex-girlfriend years ago. I wasn't exactly paying attention...... :wink:
THE WATERBOY, dragged by friends.
Sphere...
Good Start the first 30 minutes or so and then..... OY!
Broken Arrow
This is so far the only movie I have walked out on.
The worst movie I've ever seen in the theater.......
CONGO
I was hyped up to see it based on the trailers, but after watching it I wanted to hurt someone. That gorilla named Amy drove me over the edge.
The only good thing about the movie....it was the first movie I heard in Dolby digital.
Dungeons and Dragons
Quote from: whatupman on January 12, 2007, 11:24:07 PM
The worst movie I've ever seen in the theater.......
CONGO
I was hyped up to see it based on the trailers, but after watching it I wanted to hurt someone. That gorilla named Amy drove me over the edge.
Dang, I had forgotten about that one (defense mechanism?), but also saw it in the theater. Terrible, awful movie. Of course, it didn't help that they totally wasted Bruce Campbell in that movie.
Welcome aboard the forum.
I've only walked out on one movie and that was "Chasing Amy".
My friend & I were already bored to death about half-way through the film and asked each other if we were going to walk out or not.
Our conversation went something like this...
"What do you think dude? Should we leave? This movie f**kin' blows!" I said.
"I don't know...let's wait & see what happens. If it gets worse, we can leave." My friend said.
Then, when Ben Affleck's character suggests doing the gay thing....we left.
Hulk and Darkness Falls are other stinkers I saw. Darkness Falls I only went to cause I had nothing better to do that day, boy was I wrong! The Hulk made me even more angry than the Hulk ever was in that godforsaken movie, I've seen more enteraining debates on C-Span, plus I HATE CGI, cheap HG Lewis Gore f/x impresses me more than a 50 bazillion dollar green blob that looks weightless.
Mine has to be Ed, the movie with Matt LeBlanc and a man in a monkey costume playing baseball. My friend who hardly ever went out to see a movie picked it. I understood after that experience why he never went to the movies.
Howard the Duck. I was with family and couldn't walk out.
Santa Claus: The Movie Ditto
Man on Fire
Orca
The Avengers Yes, I'm the guy who saw it at the theater.
Happy Feet What a stupid disjointed plot and the importance of the dancing seemed to drop out of the movie for big stretches of time. And why make a critter with super stubby legs dance?
Hardly Working is supposed to be a legendarily awful movie, but the day I saw it I had a massive headache and nausea, might have been a migraine for all I know, the family made me go anyway. By the halfway point in the movie, I felt better than I had in two days. So hate on that film from me. Saw it on TV years, nothing special but still don't get the hate.
Ash: i hated chasing amy the first time but now it's like my favorite kevin smith film (or atleast tied with Clerks)
Yaddo: Orca is so bad it's good though
Zombiedudeman: I agree with you, The Hulk sucked
Quote from: Yaddo 42 on January 13, 2007, 07:10:49 AM
The Avengers[/i] Yes, I'm the guy who saw it at the theater.
And I'm the other guy. :wink:
Escape from LA.
As a matter of fact I told a girl that I worked with that I saw it at the movies, and she basically made me feel like a complete idiot for watching it. She was like "didn't you see the preview on tv?!!"
I have have an excuse though, it was part of a double feature. That and the Man in the Iron Mask. That was kinda brutal too, adding the fact I was in a theater with a gang of teenage girls who was there to see Leonardo Di Caprio. I learned my lesson well.
Staying Alive
The 13th Child. Absolute crapfest, though luckly I went with a crowd and laughing our asses off made it worth while. I learned a valuble lesson though: just because it has a theatrical release doesent mean it wasnt made with a camcorder in some guy's backyard. :hatred:
At the age of 8 or 9 it had to be Cleopatra......I haven't seen the whole movie since. :question:
Quote from: Shadowfyre on January 13, 2007, 12:33:09 PM
Quote from: Yaddo 42 on January 13, 2007, 07:10:49 AM
The Avengers[/i] Yes, I'm the guy who saw it at the theater.
And I'm the other guy. :wink:
And I'm the other other guy. That was kind of a legendary one, wasn't it? Close to gibberish. They chopped out anything that would've given the story sense.
I decided a few years ago to come up with an answer for "worst movie I've ever seen", since that question gets asked pretty often. And since it happens also to be a movie I saw in the theatre, it will be the answer for this topic too:
Drop Dead Fred, an absolutely despicable comedy that (I think) tries to be another
Beetlejuice, but instead convinced me the screenwriter and director hated children, romance, and life itself.
The only sort of cool thing about DDF was that it was filmed locally (Minneapolis), so I was able to recognize where some of the scenes were shot. That was all the entertainment I could wring out of the thing.
Oops, forgot about Escape from LA, paid to see that one.
That made me remember seeing Virtuosity on a hot August afternoon, and being the only one in the theater, like everyone in the world was warned off the film but me. Well, the AC was good, and Russell Crowe went on to better things.
I've tried to watch Orca that way since, SaintMort. Just either bores me or irritates me to see a favorite actor, Richard Harris, in such a lousy movie. Still can't figure out why my mom took me to see it when, I was small and she was not a fan of killer anything movies. Would love to have the cardboard display that was in the lobby going in. Must have been seven feet long and almost four feet tall. Lurid graphics of the whole town destroyed or burning with the whale in mid-leap.
I think I saw Virtuosity in the theater too. Bleah.
Immortel (Ad Vitam). This is actually more boring than Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within.
in response to Orca... I can't not laugh at the leg biting scene lol
If by "worst" you define as films walked out on, then the following:
Beer with Sally Kellerman -- this was supposed to be a comedy. After sitting there for an hour without laughing, I'd had enough.
Howard the Duck -- This is a very strange thing to unite so many of us here. I'm frankly shocked that so many of us had such a similar experience.
The Valachi Papers -- After the 8th or so meaningless, inexplicable, random murder, I gave up.
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There are also really horrid films that I sat through to the bitter end:
Equinox -- yes, I know there are those of us here who love this one.
The Phantom of The Opera (The Robert Englund version). People in the theatre were screaming obscenities at the screen at this one. The only film I"ve ever attended where I personally witnessed an angry "mob" -- well, at least 5 -- of people haranguing the boxoffice for their money back.
Panic in the Year 3000 -- NOT to be confused with "Panic in The Year Zero", which I have not seen but understand to be not so bad. This was a New Zealand film starring Olivia Hussey (Romeo and Juliet) & a cheap ripoff of Road Warrior and The Most Dangerous Game. Wretched on so many levels, but I sat through the whole thing in hopes of some nudity.
peter johnson/denny crane