Worst movie you've seen in the last month?

[Fenris]

**SPOILERS (not that you should watch this movie anyway)**

For me, it has undoubtedly been Hide and Seek. You really have to hand it to De Niro. When he picks bad movie roles, he really picks bad ones. His performance in this film is so laughably awful and over-the-top that you get the feeling he actually enjoyed hamming it up for an hour and forty minutes.

The rest of the characters in the movie are almost superfluous as De Niro and Fanning play a rather boring and pointless mind game. Elizabeth Shue plays his woefully one-dimensional girlfriend who kisses him lovingly after their first date, which involved her going over to his house for an afternoon. Her role in the plot is virtually nil. Amy Irving (yes, that Amy Irving) is featured briefly as De Niro's depressed wife before being killed off in the films opening salvo. Famke Janssen is arguably the most 3D of the minor players, and yet she barely gets 15 minutes of screen time.

The plot is straightforward, I'll give it that, but it runs into difficulties mainly because it's almost the exact same plot as 2004's far superior Secret Window. The ending, touted as a twist, is silly and contrived, and the resolution sequences at the end make absolutely no sense whatsoever. In fact, one gets the feeling that the writer and director had no idea how to close the movie either when one views the "alternate endings" included on the disk.

And to top all of this off, the body count is abysmal: one dead wife, a cat, and Elizabeth Shue. At least we get to see De Niro die. ;)

[JimmyJazz]

1. Alfie. Jeez - even Jude Law's cute face couldn't save that piece

of ca-ca.

[doc03]

2. Alexander

[guinivere]

27. I agree

Jumped back and forth too much, overly dramatic music and just plain corny, bogus writing...the list goes on.

[terrya]

3. I'm really sorry to say it: "A Dirty Shame"

I love John Waters. I really do. But it was truly an ordeal sitting through his latest movie. He was trying oh so hard to be shocking...and I couldn't get over how forced it all was.

NOT his best, by a long shot.

[mitchum]

10. True, but I did enjoy it much more than "Cecil B Demented" or "Pecker"

I did enjoy parts of the movie...
"There's gonna be a bearquake!"
and Tracy's hokey pokey

[jonnyblitz]

25. tracy's hokey pokey was quite funny...

I totally hated both pecker and cecil b. demented. i thought a dirty shame had it's moments but I was ready for it to be finished when it ended. I still prefer the ones from the 70's with Divine and Ddith Massey. i love "female trouble" and "pink flamingos".

[terrya]

33. I sort of liked "Cecil B. Demented"

I'm probably one of the few that did, but...

I sort of liked it. There were some funny moments in it. And any movie were I actually didn't actively despise Melanie Griffith is saying quite a bit. :-)

[Merrick]

4. Easy - "Particles of Truth"

Its a small movie that probably nobody knows, but trust me, that's for the best. basically one of those films where unbridled pretentiousness flies in the face of creative bankruptcy. kinda like W. trying to teach a quantum physics class. very annoying.

[jpgray]

5. Robot Holocaust

But I saw it in MST3K form--one of my friends got hold of a nice DVD copy. HILARIOUS 80s post-apocalyptic film, with great "East European" diction from the villainess Valeria. "Dog wan"? "Duck Worn"? Oh, "Dark One"!

:silly:

[Fenris]

7. That's a great episode.

:D

[carpetbagger]

6. "Dawn of the Dead" has been playing on CNN and MSNBC this week.

Fuck George Bush.

[Donkeyboy75]

8. I was forced to watch "Summer Catch"

by my wife. She is lovely, but has a terminal case of Ilikeshittymoviesitis.

[Clintmax]

9. ROFL!

"Ilikeshittymoviesitis" :rofl: Good Gods, that's funny!

[Fenris]

11. I had a girlfriend like that once...

She really liked "The Princess Diaries" and "Miss Congeniality."

[Donkeyboy75]

12. But you didn't marry her.

Smart lad, especially considering current circumstances. :thumbsup:

[tigereye]

16. hey DB

How are ya?


For me, Countess Dracula's Orgy of Blood. My husband found it somewhere in his travels. Over the top acting, boob-obsessions, bizarre shots, although quite unintentionally wry at times. The only "good " acting was by the guy who played the monk who chased after the vampires. ;)

[Fenris]

20. I'd like to think I dodged a bullet, yes.

:hi:

[tigereye]

13. somehow I am having trouble picturing that

Fenris.

should I ask about her musical taste? ;)

[Fenris]

19. Dave Matthews Band.

Need I say more?x(

[tigereye]

24. well

most of my past bf's, and my husband introduced me to really great music - I did like progressive rock prior to that. ;)

Charlie Parker
Miles Davis
REM
John Cale
Lou Reed
Cap't Beefheart
Velvet Underground

and I just took it and ran from there!


So there is hope for all of us. And then eventually you meet the person whose taste is incredibly compatible with yours!

[Fenris]

28. Heh...I guess you could say I already have.

:D

[tigereye]

35. yeah

I was going to say something like that... :)

[tedoll78]

14. Marcie X.

I like Lisa Kudrow, especially in "The Opposite of Sex."

But that piece of crap? I felt embarrassed watching it.

[MalibuChloe]

15. What the Bleep Do We Know?

that stupidass fucktard movie.

[Flaxbee]

32. lol! I despised it, too...

the movie had one of those "aren't we clever" attitudes that makes me want to hit inanimate objects with a baseball bat. It sucked, and wasn't very intelligent.

But I saw it several months ago, so it doesn't count for this post.

I did recently see "Elvis Has Left the Building" with Kim Basinger and John Corbett, with cameos by Tom Hanks and Richard Kind. Movie really, totally, utterly sucked, but in a charming sort of way. I wouldn't recommend it, but it didn't make me wanna reach for the old baseball bat...

Oh, and my sci-fi-loving hubby made me watch "The Arrival" with Charlie Sheen. Had a decent premise, but he just ruined it along with some really bad directing.

[Dervill Crow]

40. I heard that What The Bleep Do We Know was good.

It wasn't. I turned it off after less than five minutes and started looking more closely at the people who say it's wonderful. They are just plain weird.

[Guy Fawkes]

17. Ozark Savage... (When indie goes bad)

Sure, "Ozark Savage" was entertaining... if you want to turn your living room into your own private MST3K. This movie puts all other 'B' action to shame. With its bad plot and naration, this movie would fail even the lowest expectations.

[sundog]

18. oh that was SOOO bad

so bad... you're right

though i did see something called 'Boogeyman' that was horrible, yet quite amazing in comparison with DeNiro's grand shit fest

[WCGreen]

21. Elf....

It just sucked.....

What could have been good.....

They went for the easy laugh......


Well, Will Farrell, what should I expect.....

[In_The_Wind]

22. *note to self*

avoid Elf ...

just sayin'

[WCGreen]

23. It's bad....

[In_The_Wind]

38. how bad ...

[RandomKoolzip]

26. Bergman's "Persona."

Jesus, what a piece of shit! Yeah, I know, it's "innovative," it's "art," woof woof woof. It's also painful to watch and unbearbly pretentious.

[Frozen Hamster]

29. Elektra

A real waste of money, and since I was renting it to see if it was as bad as I'd heard that's saying a lot.
Crappy script, crappy acting, crappy directing - all in all a truly horrendously bad movie.

[BlueJazz]

30. Redeye..if you're talking about current films....

The beginning was fine then the whole plane/Movie went into a dive-spin.

SPOILERS!!

I mean, this women did everything possible in the world to get her father murdered....She was a whimpering idiot during the first half of the movie, then suddenly turns into "Super-Woman"
She drives the SUV up on her lawn where the killer "Just" happens to be going into the house..Fuck!...what a pile of implausible Crap...

[henslee]

31. As much as I like him... Wes Craven ain't the man no more.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

34. I just caught a bit of Red Dawn on TV

It was the scene where they've got the Russian soldier and are torturing him to get him to confess.

When they execute him, he protests that it's against the Geneva Convetion, but one of the American says, "Never heard of it."

All I could think of was that this seemed like a training film for Abu Ghraib guards, and I turned it off.

Ah yes, Reagan's legacy, the triumph of the mean and dumb.

[NYdemocrat089]

36. Even though I didn't see it this month

I have to agree with you that Hide and Seek was horrible.

[Bullwinkle925]

37. "The Wedding Crashers"

Could have definitely waited until it hit HBO. Even then, I would have probably changed channels.

[hippywife]

39. Just watched this one last week

because we rented a few DVD's and I was in the mood for scary movies. We almost stopped wathcing it, too. The other one we rented was Dark Water which I had seen previews for on TV. Turns out it was a Japanese film and was so painfully slow and awkward in developing the story. We also rented Margaret Cho Revolution and did stop watching that one. She used to be funny and one of my favorite comedians but not anymore. I should have known better after I didn't like Notorious but thought I would give her another try. Very disappointing.