<p>WORST for me: Friday the 13th - although I am IRL pals with the guy whose hockey mask it is, so my loyalties were mixed going in to the theater. </p>
<p>And lest I get typecast as squeamish…chalk me up for liking Inglorious Basterds. I can cheer on a fantasy scalping of Nazis.</p>
<p>In general, though, I’ma sending my DH out to movies with UCSD<em>UCLA</em>Dad. Identical tastes. I like my girlie weep-fests; DH hates that, preferring screeching tires.</p>
<p>didn’t like avatar, agree with an earlier poster about the movie the fighter, but all time, hands-down worst movie i have seen was very bad things. i walked out after about 15 minutes…that’s the only movie i’ve ever walked out on!</p>
<p>The remake of “King Solomon’s Mines” with Richard Chamberlain and Sharon Stone. It was so bad that the rest of the people in the theatre participated in our own rendition of Mystery Science Theatre 3000.</p>
<p>Hated “The English Patient” and didn’t see “Avatar” as my kids told me it was like “Dances With Wolves” crossed with “Ferngully”.</p>
<p>Jeez. Y’all are a bunch of pikers. The real and only worst movie ever is John Wayne as Genghis Khan in the Howard Hughes produced film “The Conqueror”. Saddle up you mon-gols. Nope. Not joking. It is in fact that bad.</p>
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The Conqueror is a 1956 CinemaScope epic film produced by Howard Hughes and starring John Wayne as the Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan. Other performers included Susan Hayward, Agnes Moorehead, and Pedro Armend</p>
<p>Curmudgeon – Ah, but have you ever seen Wayne in The Barbarian and the Geisha? Now that’s a terrible case of miscasting. He plays an stalwart 19th century American diplomat opening Japan to trade…in a stovepipe hat no less. </p>
<p>RadDad – Avatar was indeed Ferngully Dances with Shogun – painted blue.</p>
<p>I’m so glad I’m not the only one who didn’t like Wall E- people look at me like I have the plague when I say that. I actually fell asleep because I was so bored! I also hated Inception. What’s funny is that my husband liked it at first until I started asking specific questions. The more he thought about it the less sense it made.</p>
<p>We also compared Avatar to Ferngully! And yes, GFG, Kevin Costner’s acting leaves something to be desired (anyone remember his “British” accent in Robin Hood?) but he is kind of cute. Also, pretty much anything with John Wayne is on my don’t watch list.</p>
<p>I love Wall-E because it is really adorable, but it’s only something I can watch if it’s on in the background of something else. There is no dialogue for entirely too long for my attention span and I do fall asleep if I am not otherwise occupied. Naturally, my ADHD fiance who can’t sit still through ANYTHING EVER to save his life ADORES Wall-E and never wants to watch anything else. Seriously.</p>
<p>Yes, we laughed hysterically at Costner’s British accent! And what about Pierce Brosnan’s singing in “Mama Mia”? We weren’t sure if they intentionally cast him in that role precisely because his horrible singing would make the movie funnier.</p>
<p>Rad Dad, your kids stole the line about Avatar being Fern Gully/Dances with Wolves–I would have sworn I used that first.
I hated planes, trains & automobiles and I normally really like Steve Martin.<br>
There was a horrible movie in the theaters for about 2 minutes in 1979 by Albert Brooks (the same one as in Broadcast News) which was titled something like American Life–that was definitely the worst movie I’ve ever seen.
And much to my surprise, I decided not to finish watching Good Neighbor Sam last night (from Netflix) even though I liked the San Francisco shots from 1964–I don’t like movies where people get themselves into bad situations by their own stupidity. (I therefore agree about Empire of the Sun with a previous poster).</p>
<p>My H says “Benjie Come Home.” Apparently I got him to take one or both kids to that when I was home–possibly just having had the second one. Anyway, it’s a nightmare of his I hadn’t previously understood the depths of…the wound sounded pretty deep when I brought up this question.</p>