<p>The original Fame is really terrible too. Have you seen it recently? Guaranteed to make you cringe, and not in a good way.</p>
<p>Mama Mia. (I’m on a roll.) Someone should have done a mercy killing of that movie before it was released.</p>
<p>I know. But, I love that song! “Fame”</p>
<p>I know that “Rachel Getting Married” is a brilliant film because lots of critics say so.
I thought it was boring…</p>
<p>Love Story was pretty bad. I enjoyed the English Patient, but it was nothing like the book which I loved. If I’d read the book first, I think I would have hated the movie.</p>
<p>IMO the worst movie of all time (would have walked out but wanted to see the second movie of a double feature) was Visconti’s The Damned.</p>
<p>Other movies that I thought were just unspeakable boring but critically acclaimed: Walkabout and Death in Venice.</p>
<p>JHS, I’m with you on Wings of Desire - I wanted to like it - and parts of it were beautiful, but mostly it just was weird and sort of pointless. And I hated Last Tango too - boring and icky.</p>
<p>My husband loved My Dinner with Andre, but he reads philosophy for pleasure, while I have absolutely no patience for it.</p>
<p>Now that you mention Fame, Chicago was terrible too. I fell asleep during it. </p>
<p>With all the talented people in the world, they let Renee Zellweger and Richard Gere dance and sing. </p>
<p>Oh and Moulin Rouge. With all the talented people in the world, they let Nicole Kidman dance and sing.</p>
<p>The Princess Diaries as a novel series isn’t actually that bad (and I say this as a boy) </p>
<p>it’s much less contrived</p>
<p>I really liked some of the above worst movies.
I loved the English Patient, and I also thought Gladiator was very good ( albeit I watched it on my laptop and played battleship during the fight scenes). I also like Pulp Fiction- it is a classic!</p>
<p>But I also hate a few movies that are very popular-
Hated Forest Gump- The Sixth Sense-Mystic River- any Star Wars movie with Jar-Jar in it-many Disney films, To Live and Die in LA-but I don’t go to many movies and I try and research them before I go, so I haven’t seen many that I wanted to walk out of.</p>
<p>I also liked My Dinner with Andre, Wings of Desire and if you hate those films don’t see Mindwalk ( poet, politician and physicist discuss implications of quantum physics and the interconnectivity of all things ) <B</p>
<p>Oh, so many to choose from…</p>
<p>PS. I Love You…horribly miscast, contrived and sacharin sweet piece of doo doo.</p>
<p>Mystic River…I know, I’m the only one who hated it. As a native New Englander, i have no patience for fake boston accents. We sound bad enough. Don’t make it worse than it is.</p>
<p>Synecdoche, New York with Philip Seymour Hoffman…it may have been a great film. I couldn’t tell. I was curled in the fetal position sucking my thumb for comfort.</p>
<p>Anything with an anaconda or piranha in it.</p>
<p>Movies I love: Pan’s Labrynth, Big Fish, About Schmidt, The Hours, Mean Girls, Capote, Uncle Buck, Dumb and Dumber (I know, I’m a true intellect) Just about anything by Robert Altman or Woody Allen.</p>
<p>Also loved “Inglorious Bastards” very clever and unique.
Can’t wait to see “Avatar”</p>
<p>Poetgrl…I love the Old Planet of the Apes. My Best friend gave me the entire set for my B-day last year!</p>
<p>Oh gosh. I saw Love Story with my boyfriend (now H) when we were in college. The theater was packed and we felt sooo lucky to get the last two available tickets. We loved it. We both cried at the end and held hands all the way home in deep contemplation of the dramatic possibilities of losing each other to a nameless (but not at all disfiguring) disease. If I saw it today I’m sure I’d think it was hilariously cheesy, but for a young New England couple in love back in the day, it was perfect!</p>
<p>I still treasure the original Fame, but the remake was a trainwreck from beginning to end (and I only stayed for the end because I was with a group). It’s certainly my nominee for the most disappointing of 2009 (so far, anyway).</p>
<p>The only movie I have ever walked out of was Batman Forever. I think what I found most disturbing (beside the opening scene) was that people had brought their small children to watch the film. The kids were freaking out, and the mom in me just couldn’t stand watching these terrified children watching this movie to the complete oblivion of their parents. I walked across the hall and watched My Best Friend’s Wedding. Not exactly a great movie, but quite a relief after the Batman nightmare.</p>
<p>I really like Gladiator. I’ve seen it a couple of times and got caught up in the emotional drama both times. </p>
<p>Just an aside: The Ed Wood films have a cult following because they are so awful.</p>
<p>Someone wrote Mr. Brooks, definitely have to agree with them.</p>
<p>Previuosly I mentioned Boyfriends with Talia Shire. My mistake - it is actually Old Boyfriends and also starred John Belushi.</p>
<p>I doubt that any of you have seen it. I hope not…</p>
<p>Worst movie hands down IMO - Nacho Libre. Blah!</p>
<p>In the category of most disappointing: * Jesus Christ Superstar*. Son (a big fan of the original album) found the DVD in his school library. Called me up an hour later ranting, “Why didn’t you tell me what a bad movie this was?”</p>
<p>I saw Istar and didn’t think it was so bad.</p>
<p>My D’s and I ADORE Chicago.</p>
<p>I detest anything that Jim Carey is in…that pet detective movie was terrible.</p>
<p>Oh, did anyone tackle “THE THIN RED LINE” yet? It was sooooooooooo bad that I fell asleep before we could walk out. When the movie FINALLY ended I woke up to a standing ovation of people expressing their relief that the damn thing was OVER. People were saying things like “Finally!” and “That was stupid!”. </p>
<p>SAVE YOURSELVES AND DON’T WATCH “THE THIN RED LINE”!</p>
<p>This is the only movie that I have walked out of the theatre during the middle of the show. Actually, I don’t think I made it to the middle! Jerry Lewis was in it and I can’t fathom now why we even went to see it.</p>
<p>Hmmmm . . . . so many memories!</p>
<p>I kind of liked Howard The Duck and Ishtar.</p>
<p>I really liked Chicago – I thought it had a unique approach to dance on film. It helped that my niece was one of the acrobats in the Razzle-Dazzle scene (you couldn’t see her face ever, but you saw lots of her butt). </p>
<p>Fame? The original Fame? I loved that!</p>
<p>I saw Inglorious Basterds with my son and absolutely 0 expectations, and I really enjoyed it.</p>
<p>People don’t like Love Story or The Sound Of Music? Wanna fight?</p>
<p>Showgirls WAS a stinker, though. And Nacho Libre, and Ace Ventura. And how about The Cable Guy?</p>
<p>And, come to think of it, why has no one mentioned Star Wars, Episode 1: The Phantom Menace? That has to have been one of the worst movies ever.</p>
<p>WuTang: Many (not all) of my objections to The Princess Diaries related to the changes that had been made to the original book, which I agree was not half bad, sort of a B+ book for tweenie girls. I imagined production meetings with executives pounding the table shouting, “Dumber! We have to make it dumber! Scene 35 still has a glimmer of intelligence; get it out of there!”</p>
<p>Movies mentioned here that I totally agree with–My Dinner With Andre. JHS, I did stay awake,because I was stupified with amazement that anyone took what Andre said seriously–worst pretentious pap ever, and I kept waiting for the other character to say so–sadly, he never did. </p>
<p>Forest Gump–hate the concept, hate the execution (never made it through the whole movie…yet I feel I can make those judgments:D).</p>
<p>AI–awful. Depressing. Pointless.</p>
<p>I know there are others I have blanked out on (mercifully.)</p>
<p>I think there are various categories of bad movies.</p>
<p>Some I find the concept so unpalatable that I don’t like the movie. For this reason I couldn’t watch *Juno<a href=“the%20concept%20of%20such%20a%20mature%20pregnant%20teen,%20who%20could%20be%20so%20ironic%20about%20her%20situation,%20was%20just%20unbearable%20to%20me”>/i</a>, also didn’t like Forrest Gump and then there’s Away From Her about a woman with Alzheimer’s.</p>
<p>Then there are those with terrible scripts and/or bad acting. This usually becomes apparent five minutes into a film, so I seldom watch these movies all the way through. An example is a movie like Because I Said So with Diane Keaton.</p>
<p>Comedy is a category where one person’s hysterically funny is another person’s worst movie ever. To illustrate, Anchor Man is not my cup of tea.</p>