<p>takeinallin, my husband and I discussed the same thing about Billy Jack. We wondered why we thought this guy was such a hero.</p>
<p>How about “Nacho Libre”? Maybe a couple of laughs, but really terrible.</p>
<p>Dances with Wolves
Avatar
Jaws
Castaway
Independence Day
Armageddon</p>
<p>worst movies ever?..really? I find it very hard to believe any of the above were the worst movies that someone has ever seen.</p>
<p>Clearly, no one has seen “Freddy Got Fingered”…</p>
<p>Caligula.
Taken to the film on a first date (mid 70’s) Aaaack!</p>
<p>Oh, Lord, I’m having a flash back…one of the worst movies of all time – Drop Dead Fred. About a girl’s imaginary friend who comes back to ‘help’ her with her love life. Total waste of everyone in it.</p>
<p>Here is one that everyone loved…except me. I found the plot really stupid. Whos’s with me?
“MICHAEL CLAYTON”</p>
<p>^^^I didn’t get Michael Clayton, either. Only saw it because I liked the actors/actresses in it.</p>
<p>The remake of “Hairspray”, the one with Travolta, was pretty bad I thought - I liked the original one though due to its quirkiness.</p>
<p>Castaway was purely annoying.</p>
<p>I think some movies are like the fable, The Emperors’s New Clothes, you feel “am I the only one whoe sees how awful this is”? I have seen a lot of movies I had low to medium expectations of, so if they weren’t very good, oh well I wasn’t expecting much. It is when the awfulness comes as such a complete surprise that it really sticks with you. I was pregnant and on bed rest when I saw Dances with Wolves. My doctor gave me permission for a night at the movies under certain conditions. H called ahead to the movie theater, I was able to have my feet up, we met friends. I basically spent 24 weeks in my house, either in my bed, on the sofa, or on a chaise lounge on the deck. So for my one “big” night I felt betrayed. Yep, Kevin Costner let me down!</p>
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<p>It would be much better on a small screen: a postage stamp size screen, with the sound off. Having paid money to see it in a theater, I kept waiting for the two guys to stop talking and start the movie. After half an hour of feeling like someone had cornered me at a party and wouldn’t stop talking, I walked out.</p>
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You missed the best part!</p>
<p>Nah–I saw the whole dang thing–it was just one unrelenting bore.</p>
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<p>My kids and I went to see Nacho Libre because we liked School of Rock and the ad on the TV showed some pretty funny scenes. We read a review in the paper about it–the reviewer wrote–“Nacho best movie, Jack Black.”</p>
<p>Turns out all of the funny scenes were spotlighted in the tv ad. But we now have a shared experience that we still laugh about and we still use the line, “Nacho best movie.”</p>
<p>geeps20- yeah I would agree that while that list of movies may not be academy award winners, I would have a hard time calling any of them the worst ever. At least some of them have that big screen entertainment thing going for them. And even though Jaws seems pretty hokey now, at the time it was pretty entertaining. I was summer interning on a naval base at the time and one of the fishing boats brought in a great white they had just caught. It didn’t look that big sitting on the dock, but then they propped the mouth open-YIKES! We all used to swim way out in the ocean and I pretty much gave that up after seeing that mouth. </p>
<p>And I actually really liked Michael Clayton- decent plot and entertaining. Oh well- it’s fun reading about the different tastes here!</p>
<p>takeitallin, I first saw Jaws in a movie theater in Myrtle Beach, SC while on vacation with my family. Honest, the next day there was NO ONE in the water (and for the rest of the trip, my sister and I made our younger brother go farther out in the water than we were - just to serve as shark bait.)</p>
<p>^ lol…nice one. I remember Jaws in 1976, I was 11. Everyone I knew was afraid to go into the water. I can still hear the sound of “Jaws” coming from the movie. It’s a classic, especially for southern New Englanders with all the subtleties. I believe it was shot on Martha’s Vineyard.</p>
<p>Now Jaws 2 and 3 were bad…3 really, really bad.</p>
<p>Apocalypse Now. Spent a lot of it in the bathroom talking to another lady who was also bored. Near the end, I leaned over to my date and said, “If they go back up that [darn] river, I’m leaving.” Would have walked out if I had had transportation home!</p>
<p>acm, my mother called Dances with Wolves, “Dances with feathers in his head” thanks to her negative reviews I didn’t see it. I’m not a big Kevin Costner fan anyway.</p>
<p>Kevin Costner trfecta–Dances With Wolves, Waterworld, The Postman.</p>
<p>(actually, the latter was so camp, we have a soft spot for it in my family.)</p>