Movies you HATE

DudleyFan · **Joined:** January 7th, 2002, 11:40 pm **Posts:** 1620

Of course, there is a flip side to the movies we love:

the movies we HATE.

These aren't necessarily BAD movies. But, for one reason (or many), we hate them.

I know there are movies that I may respect, but not like (Brazil.) Or movies that I find one aspect of it ridiculous (Julia Robert's DisneyWhore performance in Pretty Woman.) Or movies where the tone is off, but there are amusing moments (Ishtar.) And movies that I didn't really like, but just don't get me that worked up (American Pie.)

There is one movie, however that I hate, Hate, HATE:

Road Warrior.

I had seen Mad Max, and didn't like it. So I knew I was in for more of the same when my husband and my in-laws talked me into seeing it with them. If it had just been me and my husband, I would have walked right out after the woman is raped, tied to a tire with barbed wire, and shot full of arrows. And can I say something? When the dog is shot, a great cry of "Noooo!!" went up from the audience. Not a peep with the woman. Just business as usual.

I hated this movie so damn much. And it became a shorthand in my husband and my relationship. If he tries to talk me into a movie I don't want to see, all I have to say is "Road Warrior," and he drops it immediately. (Though, to his credit, he is not a guy who likes violent movies much, either. We are more likely to disagree because he wants to see "Kate and Leopold," and I don't. He has a higher tolerance for schmaltz than I do.)

Bernice · **Joined:** January 29th, 2002, 7:22 pm **Posts:** 305

central... and I were discussing starting a thread like this the other day!!! but you beat us to it!

all i can think of right now is:

Pay it Forward
K-Pax

unfortunately they both star Kevin Spacey which is a shame because i really like him usually. but these movies just seemed soooo stupid to me!!
oh, another one is

Field of Dreams, and pretty much anything with Kevin Costner in it.

surely more will come to mind soon...

ChaGuana · **Joined:** February 10th, 2002, 5:01 pm **Posts:** 87

yeah I was disapointed with Pay It Forward too.. don't feel bad, just look at it as, anything with Bon Jovi SUCKS ;p

centralamericanwhatnot · **Joined:** February 6th, 2002, 10:51 pm **Posts:** 212

The Messenger: Joan of Arc

...has got to be the worst fucking movie out there. but that's just my opinion. I mean it was really bad. I mean really really bad. It was so bad, I walked out and I never do that. It is the only movie I have ever walked out on. It hurts my stomach just thinking about it.

olwiggum · **Joined:** December 11th, 2001, 4:39 am **Posts:** 1651

i hate just about anything with Kevin Costner in it.
i also didn't like:

Muriels Wedding
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (i'm gonna catch a lot of shit for that one)
Ghost World

there are way too many for me to think of right now...

"Does the fact that I'm trying to do it do it for you?"

Itslikeimsayin · **Joined:** December 12th, 2001, 2:26 pm **Posts:** 406

Ouch. [kicked in the stomach by Bernice.] Field of Dreams. I love Field of Dreams, but then again, I'm a big baseball fan and I guess a big softy when it comes to a guy making up for lost time by "having a catch" with his dad. Oh boy I'm sickening.

Off the top of my head, I'd have to say:

Jim Carrey's Grinch
My First Mister (I'm a big Albert Brooks fan and although he only acted in this, I looked forward to it only to find an incredibly hard-to-believe storyline full of cliches).
High Fidelity (Similar story: Huge Jack Black fan, as many of you from AST already know, but I just thought HF was horrible and made little sense.)

That's all for now, but I'm sure I'll be back here.

thisapple · **Joined:** January 8th, 2002, 2:26 pm **Posts:** 147

kevin costner movies make me scream, too!

ride postman!

Also:
Jay and silent bob (sorry wiggum)
remember that movie "in dreams," with robert downey junior. that sucked.

olwiggum · **Joined:** December 11th, 2001, 4:39 am **Posts:** 1651

ILIS, i didn't like HF at first either. i think that i was looking forward to it too much.
i watched it one summer. i waited about a year and watched it again and fell in love with it. maybe you should try it again... just a suggestion...
"Does the fact that I'm trying to do it do it for you?"

highwaters · **Posted:** April 15th, 2002, 3:07 pm

Costner

Isn't there anything we can do about this continuous employment problem? He's so bad. But, like a couple of you, I love Field of Dreams because of the baseball thing, which is a doubly-lame thing for me to say because I can barely stand Amy Madigan.

This affection does not cross over into Bull Durham, for two reasons: 1) Reynolds, Gammons and Ravech do a better Crash & Co. than the orginial cast; and 2) dumb movie.

Gladiator.
As Good As It Gets.

And that terrible movie with Sandra Bullock, River Phoenix, Samantha Mathis, and Dermot Mulroney (whassisname?). They're in Nashville or wherever, trying to make it as C & W singers/songwriters. Painful. So painful.

GypsyCabDriver · **Joined:** February 15th, 2002, 4:08 pm **Posts:** 52

We all see movies that suck from time to time, but Gladiator still pisses me off. I saw it for the first time only about a month ago after a friend recommended it ("I can't believe you haven't seen Gladiator - it's one of my all time favorites!!!"). I was so mad at the Academy by the end of it that I swore I'd never give any weight to the Oscars again. I'd always suspected (as do most of you, no doubt) that the Oscars are nothing more than a popularity contest. Well, now I'm convinced.

highwaters · **Posted:** April 15th, 2002, 6:34 pm

Amen, Gyspy. Suckwad movie if I ever saw one. And Russell Crowe. No. It was so wrong. The entire Academy lost their minds last year. (Except that they got the supporting performance categories right for a change.)

My favorite part was at the beginning (this rant will cover about 5 minutes of the movie), with all of the nicely-primped Romans fighting the barbarian Germanic Tribesmen. Roman Anglofiles. Interesting concept from Mr. Scott. Can't wait until he makes a film about, oh, say, the Sepoy Uprising. Surely he'll toss a retroactive, passive-aggressive handful of dirt in their faces, too. Oh, by the way, the Germanic Tribesmen waxed the Romans on a regular basis, did he forget to say? I think he did. Yuck.

Boooo. Boooo Gladiator.

You might guess I have some problems with Disney, too. :)

And Amistad. Don't.

Zoolanderbr · **Joined:** February 6th, 2002, 5:57 pm **Posts:** 324

Harry Potter
Charlie's Angels
Big Daddy
......

ARGH!!!!!! Stupid films!!!

LET'S GET LUCKY!

Bernice · **Joined:** January 29th, 2002, 7:22 pm **Posts:** 305

sorry, ILIS- nothing personal. i really have no feelings for baseball, and kevin costner just has got to stop. why don't people know when to stop?? (e.g. Aerosmith)

i liked high fidelity and I suggest you watch it again (to whoever it was who didn't like it). i love John Cusack- usually. but i thought that one movie that he did with billy bob where they're air traffic controllers or something--what was it called????!! that movie was so ridiculously stupid!

others I hated:
True Crime (with arnold and jamie lee curtis right?)
As good as it gets (it must be helen hunt!)
City of Angels (nickolas cage- what happened?)

and of course
Gladiator (gluteus maximus arelius...who gives a fuck!??!)

and then there's...

i dreamed of africa (i wathced it on a plane)
Kuffs (remember that one with christian slater?)
the Blair Witch project (probably one of the biggest disappointments in my moviegoing life)

oh, there are so many!

olwiggum · **Joined:** December 11th, 2001, 4:39 am **Posts:** 1651

i'm hurt...
2 people hated As Good as it Gets...

shame on you...

...but it's your opinion and i respect that... if i have to... :)
"Does the fact that I'm trying to do it do it for you?"

FutureMan · **Posted:** April 16th, 2002, 11:21 am

Two words...

Random Hearts

And that's all I'm going to say. That's how much I hated it.

FutureMan "Bob Maplethorpe potential getaway driver, GO!"

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