Let’s find out what crap taste you have in other media besides books. List your all-time most despised movies. (No need to post The Hobbit, or Mad Max: Fury Road…those are understood from the other threads).
*The Pledge/i – Jack Nicholson, Sean Penn-directed pile of you-know-what. I get angry just remembering this one.
*Higher Learning/i – the fact that it tried so hard to say something important made the film so much worse.
*Loser/i - Jason Biggs’ follow-up stumble to American Pie. Stupid plot, unsympathetic characters = don’t care.
*Gamer/i – Gerard Butler. My son made me watch this. I plan to hold it against him for at least a decade.
*Oz the Great and Powerful/i – Even though James Franco is one of my least favorite current actors, I thought the hottie triumvirate of Kunis, Weisz and Williams would offset his awfulness. Sadly, no.
*Leaving Las Vegas/i – Cage’s character took 100 minutes too long to drink himself to death.
Anything Schwarzenegger. Anything Rambo. All movies in the Rocky franchise except the first one (haven’t seen Creed yet and it does look much better). Flashdance. Independence Day. Armageddon.
Walkabout. Nicholas Roeg.
Father tries to kill his two kids, but only succeeds in killing himself. They meet up with an aborigine boy and they walk about. So pretentious. So boring.
The Damned. Visconti
Murder. Nazis. Kinky sex. Just icky.
Death in Venice. Visconti
Old guy lusts after a much younger one. There is a cholera epidemic. He dies of cholera without making a connection. Boring.
Snowpiercer
World’s stupidest premise. If your world was covered with snow, you’d put everyone in a train and have them drive around. No it’s not an allegory. It’s just stupid.
Magnolia and The Talented Mr. Ripley. We saw both over one weekend. We couldn’t imagine hating a movie more after seeing Mr. Ripley until we saw Magnolia the next night.
Troy, because they changed too much from the book - it’s a timeless classic! I don’t care how many shirtless guys were in it. OK, I do care, but still…
“Walkabout. Nicholas Roeg.
Father tries to kill his two kids, but only succeeds in killing himself. They meet up with an aborigine boy and they walk about. So pretentious. So boring.”
Pretentious and overly-artsy for sure, but that movie did give us our first look at a teenage Jenny Agutter who years later starred in “Logan’s Run” and more recently has appeared as the head nun in “Call the Midwife.”
Sure glad I haven’t seen many of these movies–we are pretty selective and it seems a waste of time and money to see bad ones. Oftentimes, just from the trailer, I can tell I’m not interested. Saves a lot of time.
I think a lot of the movies on this thread will be one-offs that almost no one but the poster has seen. We’ll have far fewer bad movies in common than bad books.That’s because there really weren’t any “classic” movies we were all assigned to watch back in high school the same way there is with assigned books.
Once a bad movie comes out it quickly disappears with hardly anyone seeing it, but if a book can get on the high school reading list it can hang around for generations.
D had to view a TON of movies, but that was part of being a cinema major. I think she enjoyed many of them but she, H and I hate Woody Allen movies.
She went to see Anna Karrinina with a friend who was shocked that it was a sad movie. D was dumbfounded that she didn’t know it was sad when the friend suggested attending.
Django Unchained…horrible
Moonrise Kingdom
Anything involving chainsaws and killing multiple teens who are stupid or car chases with big explosions and destruction
Gone Girl…loved the book though
Any talking dog movies
Anything with Jack Black
Most Adam Sandler flicks
romantic vampire movies
Hunger Games series , but loved the books
Wag the Dog