<p>“Jaws”?! </p>
<p>“Jaws” is an AWESOME movie! </p>
<p>“We’re going to need a bigger boat.”</p>
<p>I’m another fan of Open Water. </p>
<p>Open Water 2 is laughable. <em>spoiler alert</em> Oops, left the baby alone in the yacht!</p>
<p>Scout59 – Did you ever see ‘Stakeout’ with Richard Dreyfus and Emilio Estevez? Not only is it a good movie in it’s own right, but EE quotes ‘Jaws’ <em>to</em> RD!</p>
<p>Haven’t seen “Stakeout” but that does sound funny.</p>
<p>One of my favorite parts of Jaws is where they’re all comparing scars and Quint tells the story of the USS Indianapolis (“So, 1100 men went into the water. 316 men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945.”)</p>
<p>And really - babies and “Open Water”?</p>
<p>Coraline - the absolutely most wretched movie. Dark doesn’t even begin to describe the terror it inflicted in the name of entertainment. Should have been rated R.</p>
<p>Oooh. Perhaps one of you will know what movie this was: ok so it would have been released oh say 45 years ago, ahem. Supposedly for children, so an unwitting neighbor parent took a pile of us to see this thing. It was a version of Little Red Riding hood updated. The wolf kidnapped the little girl and tied her to a toilet (yes) in a dungeon. Each and every kid subjected to that awful movie was traumatized. For years after seeing this thing both my sister and I would run out of the bathroom (PTSD-ishly) after flushing. Anybody know the title?</p>
<p>I don’t know, Hugcheck. I’m too preoccupied with reliving the trauma I suffered from sitting through Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte in grade school. I literally had nightmares for years.</p>
<p>Hmm maybe Strangeland. I saw it when I was a kid and the terror it caused was bad enough that it actually legitimately triggered lasting OCD, even after the movie had stopped being scary. I saw it again as a teenager and laughed at how awful it was. Dee Snider is a bit of a hero to me really, but that wasn’t his best project.</p>
<p>Caveman.
Hands down.
Wouldn’t normally have seen it, but it was well reviewed by Pauline Kael in the New Yorker. Unrelentingly terrible. I can’t recall whether we walked out of it eventually, or merely wished that we had.</p>
<p>How about movies that you thought were good when you saw them years ago, but see again and hate? We just watched “Hair,” after having seen it back when it first came out. Now, it’s really not very good at all.</p>
<p>Hugcheck – The closest I can think of is The Company of Wolves, by Neil Jordan…the same guy who did The Crying Game. But it came out early 80’s…</p>
<p>^Had that experience with Silent Running. When it was new I thought those robots were so cute, story seemed poignant etc. Watched it with the kids and we were all sooooo booooored. Nothing happens! The robots, well yes they were precursors for R2D2, but Star Wars did it so much better!</p>
<p>I agree - I still love the music for Hair, but the story hasn’t aged well. I didn’t like the movie version as much as the stage version even when it was new. Have seen bits on youtube and they just seem … bad.</p>
<p>In Hunt’s new category: 2001, A Space Odyssey.
We thought it was great when it first came out. Bought it on DVD and nearly expired of boredom.</p>
<p>I’ll admit I’m not the sharpest tool in the shed, but movies like Dr. Strangelove, Monty Python and by the Coen Brothers, I appreciate and even love several of them! </p>
<p>So I guess I’m missing something because without a doubt, that the worst movie I have ever seen is:</p>
<p>The Adventures of Baron von Munchausen</p>
<p>my ignorance is now exposed :)</p>
<p>Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh so I’m sitting here innocently watching Oprah and here comes a commercial for (que evil sounding music and growling voice) Little Red Riding hood coming out March x. Expletive barely deleted!!! What gives, universe? Did I hear that in my sleep while TV squawked in the background and hence recall the other awful version for this thread? Or was this precognitive? Coinkidink? Crike. Lawdy lawdy. That will be a big what to miss around here.</p>
<p>^^^^^
Watching the same Oprah episode and commercial and thought the same thing.</p>
<p>Thought the same thing?? ^^^^^^^^</p>
<p>I saw “The Legend of Billy Jack” when I was probably 11 or 12 (dating myself) when it came out, and I thought he was the most heroic person alive and it was the best movie ever. I saw about 5 minutes of it years and years later and couldn’t believe how bad it was - has to be one of the worst ever!!! Kind of like Steven Segal but with even worse acting if that is possible.</p>
<p>The Adventures of Baron von Munchausen - oh I agree that was bad. I wanted to like it because years ago I had a crush on John Neville. But it was so pointless.</p>
<p>Magruber…taken after the old show McGyver</p>