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Highlander II: The Quickening- Absolutely terrible. And I liked the first one.

Bicentennial Man - Robin Williams is a robot trying to be human. In the end he dies and you're supposed to be crushed, and all I'm thinking is "Who cares? It was just a robot?"

Any movie involving jail and innocent women which is shown on USA at 2:00 in the morning.

The following are movie storylines that should not be made because they have already been done right once and done wrong hundreds of times.

Mob kills cop's family
Nerd in love with cheerleader
Young geek getting karate lessons from the janitor
Ugly Duckling becoming sexy goddess overnight
Unstoppable robotic killer
Any current movie with Jean-Claude Van Damme, on the grounds that it'll just go directly to video anyway and Vin Diesel could have done it better.

I don't know, but I think that Ace Ventura movies would be real close to the top of that list.

Kevin

For the most part, anything the has a Roman Numeral higher than I next to it, and in some cases those with the I (there are some exceptions to this rule, but very few).

Anything with the following in them:

1.  Rob Snieder
2.  Chris Caten??? (you know, Corky Romano)
3.  David Spade
4.  Adam Sandler (except for The Wedding Singer, and possibly Mr. Deeds)
5.  Chris Farely

Anything about stupid teenagers running from crazed killers while showing excessive (can't spell gratuitous) amounts of flesh - this also includes any spoofs of said films.

Duckman

plan 9 from outer space
all billy jack movies
all 30-something type movies
two of a kind
yor, hunter from the future
phenomenon
love story
yentl
on golden pond
kramer vs kramer
......ad infinitum.......

dj

[!--QuoteBegin--][/span][table border=\"0\" align=\"center\" width=\"95%\" cellpadding=\"3\" cellspacing=\"1\"][tr][td]Quote [/td][/tr][tr][td id=\"QUOTE\"][!--QuoteEBegin--]The absolute worst I have ever seen involved SNL people.  ...... I'm not sure who they were, but the movie involved two guys bouncing their heads to music.  [/quote]
I remember the one you are talking about.  I didn't see the movie (in fact, I haven't seen any of the recent SNL movies).   But I did see the previews and that was enough.   :doh:

Add this one:
ENOUGH starring Jennifer Lopez and Billy Campbell.

OK. I went to see this at the theatre, being a Billy Campbell fan. I've liked him since The Rocketeer. I liked him on Once & Again (except the writers could've made the character less wimpy) ... but anyway, he was the reason I wanted to see the movie. I even thought it might be fun to see him play a bad guy for a change. I'd already read that most critics thought it stunk. It didn't sound like all that good a movie to me either, but with me, usually if I like an actor, I can sit through a movie they're in at least once.

If I ever walked out of a movie within the first 15 or 20 minutes and asked for a refund, before that day, I can't remember when that was. But I could not stand to watch one more minute, not even for Billy. Some "fan" I am!

BTW, it wasn't just the subject matter of the movie that drove me out of the theater that day. It was just generally a lousy script IMO ... what I saw, I think the actors were doing the best they could with the material they had to work with.

Some things are too sacred to be criticized directly.

I must add a hearty amen to JerryBrooke's nomination of "AI." That was truly nasty. It started out as though it might be interesting, but went straight downhill. I think it was the point where the little robot boy was sitting at the bottom of the ocean, frozen, staring at the blue fairy whom he had been seeking all his life (she is also frozen), and then was rescued and unfrozen by aliens, that was the real low point. The sad thing was that it got such great reviews.

Recently, one of the movies I've really disliked was Punch-Drunk Love. I thought it was really bad, but I know a lot of people (again, including reviewers) really liked it. I don't know. I thought it was really bizarre.

I didn't see it but my husband has always said Me, Myself and Irene was a horrid one also.

Absolute worst movies I've seen....

Hmmmmm....

Let me see....

     The Bare Witch Project :thumbup:
     Deep Throat :thumbup:
     Fritz The Cat :thumbup:

Oh stop! I'm just kidding. Don't be so sensitive. :doh:  :lookaround:   (p.s. I never saw any of them!)

JerryBrooke.....totally agree on Eyes Wide Shut...very bad. As for Clockwork Orange it was great from a cinematic viewpoint, but I couldn't take the "violence for fun" characters. I was  glad I saw it once, but never wanted to see it again. The same was true for "Platoon" and "Saving Private Ryan". both too real to actually want to see a second time, while both being very well done films.
As for bad movies....have never seen a teen horror flick that was any good, IMHO.
Add "Leaving Las Vegas" to the list.
I liked "Fried Green Tomatoes"....towanda!!!

Fried Green Tomatoes and Magnolia.....Those were great movies.  What is wrong with you people?    


Here is my list:

Wayne's World
I know what you did last Summer and ALL movies like them.  I am a little kitten when it comes to scarey movies
Austin Powers it make me laugh, but generally disgust me too.
A Civil Action (boring...etc)
The General's Daughter (it should be illegal to show such realistic sexual violence)
Ace Ventura
American Pie....does society really need movies like this?  :angry:

imho, Fried Green Tomatoes was all right.  Any southern movie involving cannibalism automatically earns at least three stars.  Magnolia, I have mixed feelings about.  A few good performances.  The rain of frogs was interesting, but confusing.  Couldn't stand Tom Cruise, but I felt the same way watching Days of Thunder and Top Gun.  At least in this movie it was intended.  Overall, a mixed bag.  

As to the others mentioned, well, The General's Daugher was possibly the worst movie I've ever seen.  I had previously purged it from my consciousness.  I liked "A Civil Action", though.

On my thirtieth birthday, my co-workers decided to have one of those 'morning zoo'-type radio stations make a prank call to me.  

Of course I came off like a complete and total moron.  You know how they like to repeat the really embarassing calls?  They replayed mine every half hour all morning.

And as my consolation 'prize' I got tickets to ... Stone Cold.

Complete humiliation on the half hour across Green Country and for what-- Brian Bosworth.

I liked the story the same way I like a lot of sci-fi/fantasy pieces.

[!--QuoteBegin--][/span][table border=\"0\" align=\"center\" width=\"95%\" cellpadding=\"3\" cellspacing=\"1\"][tr][td]Quote [/td][/tr][tr][td id=\"QUOTE\"][!--QuoteEBegin--]Here's a thought... Wouldn't Lewis' Screwtape Letters make an excellent movie!!!![/quote]


or The Great Divide?

The Elephant Man.  No question.

[!--QuoteBegin--][/span][table border=\"0\" align=\"center\" width=\"95%\" cellpadding=\"3\" cellspacing=\"1\"][tr][td]Quote (Bobby Valentine @ Feb. 09 2003,9:55)[/td][/tr][tr][td id=\"QUOTE\"][!--QuoteEBegin--]I hated:

Clockwork Orange
Ya Ya Sisterhood
Pulp Fiction (terrible movie -- I asked for my money back)
Batman movies -- I was so let down
The Sinbad movies
Fried Green Tomatoes
Tomb Raider
Scorpion King
Land Before Time 300  :frowning:
The Noah's Ark Mini-Series on NBC -- now that was plain stupid

Movie Reviews From the Land of Beer and Cheese,
Bobby Valentine
Milwaukee, WI[/quote]
bobby:

ah, yes...noah and the mini-series.  truly foul!!!!
i like the sinbad (the sailor, not the comedian) movies because i'm a ray harryhausen fan.

dj

Marc wrote:
[!--QuoteBegin--][/span][table border=\"0\" align=\"center\" width=\"95%\" cellpadding=\"3\" cellspacing=\"1\"][tr][td]Quote [/td][/tr][tr][td id=\"QUOTE\"][!--QuoteEBegin--]I should probably stay away from this one, since I would begin by referring to a sacred cow movie concerning the Civil War, a plantation, a plucky heroine and a dashing man with a moustache. :lookaround:[/quote]

Later Marc wrote:
[!--QuoteBegin--][/span][table border=\"0\" align=\"center\" width=\"95%\" cellpadding=\"3\" cellspacing=\"1\"][tr][td]Quote [/td][/tr][tr][td id=\"QUOTE\"][!--QuoteEBegin--]I suppose if I nominate The Patriot someone will get mad, but I have to do it anyway.  Talk about overkill!  I was just waiting for them to start showing the British shooting kittens. [/quote]
You didn't stay away from it very long, did you?

By the way, I like the movie.

Kevin

Hmmmm,

Most later movies with Al Pacino, with the exception of "Heat" because i really like De Niro and the director, Michael Mann.  Is it just me or did he take the character in Scent of a Woman and make it the mold for every other character.  "Hoo-aah, I am just getting warmed up."

Speaking of later Al Pacino movies, did anyone see "Any Given Sunday".  Oh my, this is a bad one.  Oliver Stone is getting quite megalomaniacal.  Al Pacino *see above*.  My absolutely worst scene involved an eye that was dislodged from its owner during a football game.  

"Cutthroat Island" - Geena Davis, Matthew Modine, Pirates, bad.
I can't remeber the name, but a movie with Morgan Freeman and Gene Hackman set in a police department in the Carribean, "Interrogation" might be the title.  Thought it would be a winner, but no thank you.

I also heartily agree with the AI sentiment here, terrible.

Jonesy

[!--QuoteBegin--][/span][table border=\"0\" align=\"center\" width=\"95%\" cellpadding=\"3\" cellspacing=\"1\"][tr][td]Quote (Trois @ Feb. 21 2003,11:36)[/td][/tr][tr][td id=\"QUOTE\"][!--QuoteEBegin--]Absolute worst movies I've seen....

Hmmmmm....

Let me see....

     The Bare Witch Project :thumbup:
     Deep Throat :thumbup:
     Fritz The Cat :thumbup:

Oh stop! I'm just kidding. Don't be so sensitive. :doh:  :lookaround:   (p.s. I never saw any of them!)[/quote]
Well I won't say which, but I've seen one of those ... long long time ago ... not proud of it ... but just to say, for the record, that porno is boring when all is said and done. Sex was meant to be participatory (between husband and wife), not a spectator sport. Tons more fun doin' it than watchin' somebody else do it.

All I have to say on the subject!  :blush:  :blush:  :blush:

[!--QuoteBegin--][/span][table border=\"0\" align=\"center\" width=\"95%\" cellpadding=\"3\" cellspacing=\"1\"][tr][td]Quote [/td][/tr][tr][td id=\"QUOTE\"][!--QuoteEBegin--][!--QuoteBegin--][/span][table border=\"0\" align=\"center\" width=\"95%\" cellpadding=\"3\" cellspacing=\"1\"][tr][td]Quote [/td][/tr][tr][td id=\"QUOTE\"][!--QuoteEBegin--]Army of Darkness[/quote]
... it's hard to top a skeleton crawling along, brandishing a knife... the rotted warriors rise from the ground, grab a honey, and proclaim 'we've got plans...for YOU...' [/quote]
Exactly what were rotted warriors going to do with the 'honeys'?  Some things even Viagra won't fix.

Re: Left Behind... yeah, the acting wasn't the best, and the effects were pedestrian... But it's still a movie I'd rent (if my VCR was workin') because of the good story.  

Sometimes the message transcends the messenger.

Kari - they might at least have humiliated you for a good movie/actor...

Just because I disagree with some theological bent doesn't mean I can't work up a little "suspension of disbelief" & enjoy the story.

I don't like every word in the Joshua books, and I'm sure I'll be irritated over changes they made in the movie.  (If I ever manage to see the thing!)  But ya gotta suspend the disbelief!  Ya gotta stop grumbling in the back of your mind "Oh yeah?!?! Well what about Romans 8, hunh?!?!"

I have to "suspend my disbelief" every time I watch a story written from a worldly point of view, don't I?

Here's a thought... Wouldn't Lewis' Screwtape Letters make an excellent movie!!!!