CONFESS!!!!! Movies that everyone loved, but you hated!!!

[LynneSin]

Come on, there has to be a movie out there tha all your friends, family & co-workers raved about but when you saw it you thought it was a total dud!!!

Me: Couldn't tolerate Spiderman. I could go on and on with what was so freaking wrong with that move and now they are making a sequel???!!! I'll stay home for that one and save the money.

[LibInternationalist]

1. Does Quills count?

it got all kinds of critical acclaim, but I haven't actually found anyone who liked it -- HORRIBLE movie

[LynneSin]

5. I don't think anyone saw Quills

but that's your choice as to what you'll answer

[Khephra]

34. Cough..cough

I saw Quills and thought it was a brilliant commentary on art, sexuality, taboos, censorship, religious tyranny, and filled with great acting.

Then again, I've read some of Mr.DeSade's philosophical works (not his fiction) and think that he was a truly insightful individual...scum in many ways, but still very insightful.

(And I'm not even into S&M or B&D, so there! :evilgrin: )

[LibInternationalist]

82. Wow, I just didn't get that at all

I mean, I understood what they were trying to do, but it just didn't work for me

[supernova]

158. I liked Quills

for all the reasons Khephra just named. Plus Goeffry Rush is a wonder.

[Piltdown13]

199. Me too...

Partly the good performances, partly to look at Joaquin Phoenix!

[NashVegas]

174. Me Too

The little I've read of his fiction left me unimpressed, to put it mildly. But then I never got a kick of seeing defecation porn, anyway.

What hit home about the movie, for me, was the importance of the drive for expression, and the will to defy those who would put it under lock and key.

I had dreams that were triggered by that movie.

[noonwitch]

244. I liked Quills, too

I've read some of DeSade's fiction and prose, and Maurice Lever's bio of him. He was an interesting sociopath, and anyone who thinks that the scandals in the catholic church are new should read up on the pre-revolutionary French church.

Justine is a sick and twisted novel, with a very funny message underlying it. It is about two sisters, Justine and Juliette. They are raised in a convent, and their father dies just as they are approaching adulthood. For some reason, they are left penniless, and the convent kicks them out for not having money to contribute. Justine decides that virtue will win out and spends a good part of her life suffering for believing that being good will provide. Juliette willingly becomes a whore and makes great money and has success due to her choice to embrace a virtuless life. At the end, Justine is rescued from her life of wandering from one torturer to another by her sister, who has the money and power to do so because she is a whore. The introduction to the story is better than the nasty details of the novel.

[scottcsmith]

32. Two movies I hated

"Pirates of the Caribbean." Man, did I hate every single second of this film. My family loved it.

"Fantasia 2000" Yawn.

Conversely, I loved "American Beauty" and my wife hated it. Same for "LA Confidential."

[Khephra]

43. I'm a big Fantasia fan

But "Fantasia 2000" was dreck. Whales flying into space??? Give me a break. Talk about an idea that's never been done before. DOH!

[geniph]

263. I agree with you about Fantasia 2000

what a waste of celluloid! Ugh! Stop trying to update movies that don't need to be messed with! Fantasia was just fine the way it was, and Fantasia 2000 ruins it.

[geniph]

262. I liked it a lot

the acting was phenomenal, the script was good...the story strayed a bit from the facts, but that's literary license for ya.

[THUNDER HANDS]

2. Charlie Brown's Christmas

People were raving about it here on DU. So I watched it and thought it was a bible-video or something. I don't remember Peanuts referencing so much religion when I was a kid and watching it.

[Loonman]

3. The Sixth Sense

*(deep breath)* CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAP!!!!!!!!!

[LynneSin]

13. Me too

I was bored silly with that movie.

[Skittles]

144. TELL ME I WASN'T THE ONLY PERSON WHO KNEW HE WAS DEAD

AS SOON AS HE WAS SHOT. The kid says I SEE DEAD PEOPLE. HELLO !!!!!

[Khephra]

195. No

I knew from the previews.

[jobycom]

209. My wife got mad because I guessed it aloud after a couple of minutes

It wasn't a bad movie, though. Not great, but the mom and the kid were good, and Willis is underrated as an actor. It was a tad long, with a lot of cliche death scenarios, and I did wish for it to hurry up quite a few times. But I've seen much worse.

[Intelsucks]

4. Lord Of The Rings

It just didn't do anything for me.

[Droopy]

25. I second that

I haven't seen the second one and my brother-in-law wants us to go and see the third one. I don't know how to tell him that I didn't really like the first one all that much and I don't want to see the next two.

[Richardo]

6. There's Something About Mary.

Had only one laugh in it, and it's not the one you're thinking of.

(For me, it was the '7-minute abs' vs '6-minute abs' argument.)

[KCDem]

92. seconded.

I didn't find the movie funny at all. Maybe that's because it had been SOOOOO hyped up by the husband and the in-laws.

[Snow]

116. Thirded.

and my son really loved it. Maybe it's a generation thing. He really likes Quentin Tarantino, too, another strong dislike of mine.

[omshanti]

130. fourth-ed?

I just didn't find that movie funny at all.

[blondeatlast]

177. Here I thought my dislike of Tarantino was mine alone.

Welcome to my world!

[southerngirlwriter]

131. Thank you!

That movie insulted my intelligence. It was awful.

On edit: caught a typo.

[Logansquare]

132. 5th'd

Only laughed at Chris Elliot during the closing credits.

[Le Taz Hot]

239. Thank you!

It seemed like everyone LOVED that movie. I saw it and thought it was just stupid. Same thing with "Fargo."

[omshanti]

Titanic.

Bleah. I was dragged there by a group of my girlfriends and they were all sniffles and "awwww" and I just couldn't STAND it! It took all my strength not to walk out.

[Redneck Socialist]

57. I was rooting for the iceberg.

simply awful

[ProfessorGAC]

78. That'd Be Mine

Oh, there's lots of 'em. But, that one is the most convenient and memorably horrible.

My wife and i were watching it on cable and we were LAUGHING at the plot and dialogue. After about 30 minutes, my wife (yes, my wife, not me), said "What are we watching this piece of crap for? See what else is on."

Plodding direction; stupid script; an the entire team photo for Overactors Anonymous.

The Professor

[omshanti]

80. not to mention you already *know* how the movie ends.

The ship sinks. Enough wailing and hand-wringing dramatics already! Cut the damn crap and sink the damn ship already! Each time I thought the ship was FINALLY going to sink, there was another overwrought hysterical women-rushing-about scene...

And last but not least, that horrible theme song that gets stuck in your head for days on end.

[ProfessorGAC]

108. That Song!!!

Whenever i hear it, i think of Homer Simpson when the Flanders were singing "Onward Christian Soliders". "Stupid Flanders, i wish i was deaf!"
The Professor

[omshanti]

129. eeevry night in myyyyy dreamsss.... i seeeee you I fee-eel you...

ARGH MAKE IT STOP!!!! Make it stop!
:spank:

[absolutezero]

206. amusing story about that

that came out when i was in the 8th grade, and i'd been the first in my class to see it having been dragged there by my parents as a punishment of some sort (I got them back by being the only one to stand up and cheer when they showed leo's frozen corpse...lots of dirty looks)

The next day some girl in my class, completely obsessed with leo asked me how it ended...jokingly i informed her that the ship made it to NY and that Rose and Jack ran off together to live happily everafter...she apparently believed me and came in screaming the next day

[WoodrowFan]

238. bumpersticker

I saw a bumpersticker when it came out..

THE BOAT SANK: GET OVER IT!

[meegbear]

89. Hear hear ...

yeech.

[roguevalley]

211. Absolutely anything with Adam Sandburg in it.

[priller]

7. Easy - Titanic!

But if you're drunk and make fun of it, MST3K style, it's bearable.

[SpaceCatMeetsMars]

18. You could take a drink every time she yells,

"Jack!" because she yells it like 80,000 times at least.

[Rowdyboy]

8. Chariots of Fire

Borrrrrrring...

[frogfromthenorth2]

135. ZZZZZZZZ

eom

[pmbryant]

138. Agree on that

For some reason, my recollection was that it was a good movie (probably based on it winning the Best Picture award or something), so I rented it fairly recently and was terribly disappointed.

Spends most of the movie setting up a contest that never happens.

In retrospect, a real snoozer. But at least I made it to the end, unlike 'Shakespeare In Love'.

--Peter

[nuxvomica]

223. At normal speed, the movie probably runs about 30 minutes

The slo-mo seemed endless and unnecessary. Still the worst for that though "Brotherhood of the Wolf" comes a close second.

[pmbryant]

9. Shakespeare in Love

Didn't even make it halfway through before we turned it off.

:shrug:

--Peter

[Breezy du Nord]

134. I agree

That movie stinks.

[Grassrooter]

162. I still can't believe Gwyneth Paltrow won an Oscar for THAT!

My sis and I saw "Shakespeare In Love" in the theatre, and both kept dozing off.

[Lisa0825]

10. Fargo

HATED it, and almost walked out. I don't deny the great cast, but I hated the movie.

[regnaD kciN]

233. Same here...

I didn't see it until the DVD came out, and found myself wondering just what everyone was so enthused about. A couple of months ago, I put it on again, to see if my opinion had changed. It hadn't. By far the weakest Coen brothers film I've yet seen.

[terrya]

11. "Independence Day"

God, what a piece of crap. Completely idiotic. I mean, really. Space ships that can destroy whole cities...and get felled by a COMPUTER VIRUS?

[cprise]

30. And Stargate- Awful!

[absolutezero]

205. the TV show is pretty good though

I don't remember the movie, but SciFi is really doing great with the spin off show...hell it in its 7th season

[WoodrowFan]

12. Gone with the Wind!

I HATE gone With the Wind! abhor, abominate, allergic to, anathematize, be loath, be reluctant, be sorry, can't stand, contemn, curse, deprecate, deride, despise, detest, disapprove, disdain, disfavor, dislike, disparage, down on, execrate, loathe, nauseate, object to, recoil from, scorn, shudder at, shun, spit upon, spurn!

YUCK!!! I BLOW MY NOSE IN ITS DIRECTION! ITS MOTHER IS A HAMSTER AND ITS FATHER SMELT OF ELDERBERRIES!!!!


nothing but "Lost Cause" myth and crappola.

(never seen Titantic so I can't vote for it. )

[Snow]

33. You forgot that it's really, really racist.....

and you think the movie's racist, you oughta crack open the book. Cooties will crawl out at you! Amzing that something like that is so venerated. Don't people pay attention?

[MISSDem]

You folks who hate Gone With The Wind

must not be Southern. It is a GREAT (if not the greatest) movie

[kitkatrose]

249. I'm Southern and I hate that movie. n/t

[WoodrowFan]

236. racism

Oh I didn't forget that. It was part of the "Lost Cause" crap. Poor, poor Scarlett, lost the property her family gained by enslaving her fellow man. GIVE ME A BREAK!


So, am I the only one who cheered for the Union soldier Scarlett killed? I was REALLY hoping he'd shot her and burn the place down.

[U2Fanatic]

219. that movie bores me to death

and scarlet is a bitch :p

[Uzybone]

14. I agree about Spiderman

nonsense movie.

[sendero]

172. Not only Spiderman....

... but Batman, Superman and all their sequels.

It's sad when a $0.50 comic book can create a character that a multimillion dollar movie just can't get right.

[chimpymustgo]

15. The English Patient! I could not believe that Seinfeld episode

where Elaine is the only person who hates the movie. That's exactly how I felt. I went with some girlfriends, and they were crying, and I was, like, DUH???

[LibInternationalist]

21. Yeah, I didn't like that either

... but I did see it back to back with Lawrence of Arabia, so that may have affected my judgment

[Faygo Kid]

35. It's easily "The English Patient"

Two plus hours of sanctimonious pure torture. A terrible movie. Plenty of other good nominees, but this one definitely wins. Yecch.

[MISSDem]

68. You have to see The Englist Patient after you grow up -

The first time I tried to watch it I did rewind after about thirty minutes. But then I tried it again many months (and many life experiences) later and loved it.

[Faygo Kid]

73. Congrats. It still stinks.

Glad you "grew up." Loving "The English Patient" is not my definition of growing up.

[Gringo]

41. I agree totally

Empty, fake and pointless, and NOT romantic.

[regnaD kciN]

234. While I didn't think the film, as such, was all that bad...

...as an adaptation, it totally massacred the original book, which is one of the two or three best novels I've read in the last twenty years.

For those who hated the film: put it out of your mind and read the book. You'll probably come out of it hating the film even more!

[Cheswick2.0]

270. dupe

!

[Cheswick2.0]

Yes, I thought they got what they deserved in a sick kind of way

And bridges of Madison County bored and pissed me off for the same reason.


"""OH OUR LOOOOOOOOOOOOVE OUR LOOOOOOOOOOOOVE OUR TRAGIC LOOOOOOOOOOVE AND DEEEEEEEESIRE!"""

You're married, try doing the right thing, get a divorce first or stop whining about the way it turns out.

the only good part of The English Patient was the Indian guy with the long hair, who was sooooooo attractive.

[demon67]

16. FORREST GUMP

Manipulative drivel. Yuck.

[SpaceCatMeetsMars]

29. My mouth was hanging open the whole time

I watched Forrest Gump and so was my husband's. We both think that is the worst movie of all time, hands down.

[amazona]

115. oh how could I forget Forest Gump?

Just what we need...another movie with the theme of how stupid Southerners are. The only smart one died of AIDS. Sheesh.

[GumboYaYa]

161. I couldn't agree more.

I was so offended by that movie that I have never seen the end.

[dontomas]

85. Shawshank Redemption was robbed!

The year that Forrest Gump won the Academy Award for best movie was the same year that S.R. was up...seriously...S.R. was raped.

[blondeatlast]

180. Agreed. Great performances, great script, great direction.

See? It HAD to lose . . .

Welcome to DU!

:toast:

[Imalittleteapot]

88. Add that one to my list. n/t

[Piltdown13]

201. Hear hear!

I still can't get my normally-progressive parents and boyfriend to understand what a manipulative piece of crap "Forrest Gump" is! Sure, sticking Tom Hanks into historical footage was pretty cool the first couple of times, but it's hardly a conceit to base a movie on. Even more objectionable is the overarching theme -- if you want good things to happen to you, don't think too much, don't ever question what you're told, and always be obedient. In case we missed that message from Forrest's saga, the film makes sure to punish anyone who dares to "rebel" (Jenny dying of AIDS, for instance).

Of course, that's just my opinion; I could be reading too much into it. :-)

[WoodrowFan]

237. Never seen it, but,..

Never seen Forest Gump, can't say I ever will, did not appeal to me in the least. BUT< I remember seeign a poll when it came out that said most people that thought it was a TRUE story were Republicans!! BOL!!!!

[nuxvomica]

224. A CGI moneyhole by the world's worst director

It's ironically the name of my least favorite movie and my most favorite DUer.

[SoCalDem]

17. 2001..n/t

.

[GOPisEvil]

22. Same for me! 2001 was a snoozer!

:boring:

[SoCalDem]

77. I saw it on a date when it first came out and I DID fall alseep.

The guy thought it was the BEST MOVIE ever.. yuk

[GOPisEvil]

79. I turned it off.

I think it was on AMC. I had never seen it because my parents hated it so much. I changed the channel. A pretty movie to look at, but gah, how BORING!

[Richardo]

105. LOL! Did we date in the late 70's, SoCal?

I took a date to 2001 when I was in college (what was I thinking?) and she fell asleep.

And yes, I think it's one of the best movies ever... :D

[David__77]

19. The Crying Game!

I hated it! Hated it! I could simply not believe that the makers thought the purported "twist" or "suprise" in the plot wasn't transparently obvious to any discerning viewer from the start.

[cprise]

24. I like that one

.

[nuxvomica]

225. Exactly. Was anyone fooled?

[Beaker]

246. nope.

man-hands were a dead giveaway from the start.

[cprise]

20. Birdcage!

The World is Not Enough

Brigett Jones' Diary

LOTR

[Faygo Kid]

"Birdcage" should have been good

Robin Williams, Nathan Lane, Gene Hackman - geez! A decent script and direction would have helped, but it didn't have them.

[dfong63]

23. i was not impressed by "blazing saddles"

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

26. Dances with Eternity...I mean Wolves

[jonnyblitz]

107. LOL..yeah that was a long one.

I can't handle anything with Kevin Costner in it. :puke:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

139. he inspires narcolepsy in me

[Kathy in Cambridge]

149. 'Goodfellas' was robbed of an Oscar by Dances W/Wolves

Now, which film is studied in flim classes and emulated by fledgling directors? It ain't Dances With Wolves.

[omshanti]

27. the Matrix Reloaded.

Took itself too seriously. Bleah.

[Gringo]

28. Free Willy & the Green Mile

The former because of its utterly stupid story, and the latter for its relentless Holywood-izing and sentimentalizing death row.

[Gringo]

40. Jerry Freakin Maguire!

What a meaningless, trite, shallow, phony movie. Absolutely hated it.

Almost anything with Tom Hanks after "Big", Anything Robin Williams

Don't much care for the saintly, schmaltzy characters.

[Cheswick2.0]

274. "you had be at hello".... GAG

how trite

[Kamika]

31. Another for TITANIC

[Snow]

36. Not to mention Leo looks like he's about 12!

Eeewwww! Don't kiss the seventh grader!

[Kamika]

50. I really hated that but the worst thing was the commercialism of a real..

What I really hated was that they took a REAL disaster where TONS of ppl died and turned it into a false movie with a totally false story..

Imagine if they make a movie about 911 that is totally made up, about a guy saving this girl blablab there would be an outcry

[LynneSin]

55. Give it 50 years, they'll make a love story epic out of 9/11

Just like Pearl Harbor

:puke:

[blondeatlast]

181. Great. Thanks, LynneSin, I'll sleep better tonight, knowing that.

But you are right--look at "Pearl Harbor."

On second thought, whatever you do, don't. I'd nominate it but it was pretty universally trashed.

[Snow]

151. Right, Kamika - in fact, a popular teaching exercise in epidemiology

is an analysis of the patterns of survival, by gender, age, and social class, of the passangers & crew. You give everybody the numbers, let them work out the patterns, without telling them what the event was, then ask the class to figure out what caused the deaths. Usually they get it pretty quickly - women & children first, poor people last.

[MrScorpio]

166. Another Titantic basher on board

I will believe that I'll be bored stiff

[LynneSin]

37. OOO, I should add in 'Chicago'

I got to the point that I would fast-foward it to just the scenes with Richard Gere (who was great in the movie) and Queen Latifah (ditto). Catherine Zeta-Jones and Rene Z. just bored me to tears. It's obvious that Zeta-Jones won her Oscar thanks to her husband's extensive campaigning (which was well documented in the press). I thought Meryl Streep was robbed of the award (and she was absolutely hilarious in Adaptation!!!)

[kimchi]

65. Yup. That's my pick.

Conceptually, it was a neat idea. I just don't think it worked as a musical at all.

[ldf]

171. chicago was excellent!

and i'm not big on musical movies.

[RandomKoolzip]

38. The Breakfast Club.

It seems like everyone of my generation venerates this film like it was the bible. Everyone I know can quote freely from it.

I always hated it. Everything about it was a cliche, and all the characters are so smug and self-absorbed.

Plus, I get the feeling that an entire generation was turned off to politics by that one scene where the nerdy Anthony Michael Hall tells everybody that he has a fake ID so he could vote, and they all roll their eyes. The message? Voting is for dorks. A lot of kids absorbed that to deliterious effect, I think.

[the_boxer_]

120. You have got to be kidding!

The Breakfast Club was a right of passage, imo.

[roguevalley]

215. cracks me up that the little geek on Breakfast Club grew up to be on Dead

Zone. I almost have to check my glasses when I see him,
he's so matured.

[displacedtexan]

230. the kid in the coffee table

in pretty in pink... that's what i still call him. he's a notorious rightwinger now.

[RandomKoolzip]

260. I get the same reaction from everyone I know when I tell them that.

No, I really really really disliked The Breakfast Club. Didn't like it when I saw it at 9 years old, didn't like it when I gave it a second chance at 14, hated it when I gave it a third chance at 21, and really really fuckin' hate it when I see how many people I know my age NOW who can quote freely from that movie but can't name all the Dem candidates and don't give a shit about politics in general...It may sound weird, but I truly belive that that flick is was an apathy smart bomb...It taught an entire generation that priveliged white kids
have earned the right to be self-absorbed and deserve not to give a shit about the underpriveliged; that their problems are unique; and that all people can be placed into five or six genral categories, which is total bullshit. ONE single black kid in that ensemble would have taught them to keep their mealy bratpack mouths shut about thair so-called "tough" lives.

The Chocolate War is a far far better movie in this vein, IMHO.

[West Coast Democrat]

39. The New Star Wars Trilogy

also, Forrest Gump and Titanic

[Gringo]

48. Did many people like the new star wars?

I went, simply because I wanted to see the completion of the stories I'd grown up with, but I don't know anyone who liked them much. Movies that looked great, but had no feeling whatsoever in them.

[Kamika]

66. Noone really did

I used to be a huge star wars fan before the new movies.


Altough movie nr2 was tons better then nr1

[jpgray]

42. Ghost World

A movie that tries to pretend its tired cliches are somehow new and exciting. Ooh, the art-world is gimmicky! Never heard that one before!

[Whitacre D_WI]

53. Any movie that gives props to Skip James is good in my book.

And the "Blueshammer" scene is priceless.

[RandomKoolzip]

69. Yeah, I loved it.

I thought "Ghost World" was great. Then again, I'm a record collector, so maybe I'm biased to any movie that can give pathos to my hobby like that...

[jpgray]

111. I guess I didn't actively hate it, just thought it was a bit overrated

If I get tons of raves from friends, I tend to have expectations that are too high to satisfy. The bits of "Blues Hammer" &c were pretty funny, they just weren't as original as I was expecting.

I'm the same way with music. Ask me about the time a friend lent me the White Stripes' Elephant.

[democrat in Tallahassee]

44. English Patient

*

[thom1102]

45. American Beauty...

Hated it. Jeff and I went to see it with two friends of ours, and when it was over, Jeff and I looked at each other and said "That sucked!" Our two friends looked at each other and and said "That was GREAT"

To each his own.

[Gringo]

59. I loved American Beauty

Skewered the fake, hypocritical suburban yuppie mentality perfectly.

[Zomby Woof]

142. sucked the big one

Good performances, lots of talent in the cast, but the suburban ennui/angst shit has been done to death.

[blondeatlast]

194. Yikes, boring as hell and oversmug besides.

A little smug would have been appropriate, but this movie just bored me silly.

[JVS]

245. The ending was a huge disappointment

Lester shouldn't have chickened out.

And all the stuff with the the daughter pissing and moaning about life was lame.

[Blade]

46. Like you, Spiderman...

as well as all the Star Wars and LOTR movies. Can't stand any of that boring shit!!!

[jonnyblitz]

47. EVERY Austin Powers movie. GAG

I usually don't find mainstream comedies funny.

[Redneck Socialist]

63. good one...

...so awful they wiped my mind clean. I had forgotten about them.

[jonnyblitz]

76. I sat through all three like a fool , too. n/t

[Kamika]

251. austin is hardly mainstream

nr1 and 2 were hardly mainstream, they require quite an ironic sense about things to fully grasp

[DemNoir]

49. The Hours

The most pretentious chick-flick ever made.

[Nay]

137. Austin Powers for me, too.

I sat in the theater and HATED every minute of the first one, while hubby and son laughed like hell. I thought it was so stupid and awful I wanted to claw my own eyes out.

[DS1]

51. Pulp Fiction. Cheeseburger car dialog, praying for a car wreck

.

[jonnyblitz]

54. The first time I saw that movie I liked it. The second time I saw it

I wondered why in hell I liked it the first time...

[DemNoir]

56. Good Pick!

Quentin Tarantino, the most overrated director maybe ever.

[bubba_fett]

157. couldn't have said it better myself!

Ha!

[MissMillie]

248. gets my vote (n/t)

.

[Drifter]

52. Every single one of them ...

I am not much of a movie goer. If I see a movie, it is usually ancient history. By the time I see, I have heard soooooo much about it, that the movie is disappointing. This is the biggest reason I do not go out of my way to see a movie.

Vicious cycle ... I know.

I saw "Rambo - First Blood" when I was in college, I paid 4.50 to get in. It was that moment, I vowed I would never again pay that much to see a movie again. I have probably seen a dozen movies in the theater since then, none of which I paid more than a buck or two to see.

Cheers
Drifter

[CatWoman]

58. Out of Africa

nuff said.

[Faygo Kid]

60. Another good choice

I went with "The English Patient," but "Out of Africa" was bad and boring, too.

[phillybri]

61. "Almost Famous"

What was the big damn deal??? :shrug:

[blondeatlast]

183. Good one--anyone could have called in those roles.

[radwriter0555]

62. ANYTHING by quentin tarantino, I simply can't STAND...

lol, just HATE the flicks, hate the guy, don't get nothing from it.

[Gringo]

70. Wow, you beat me to it.

He strikes me as a nasty, evil geek. His amoral pig mentality is becoming more widespread, tho.

[Gringo]

64. Anything Tarantino

While he is occasionally clever, esp. in Jackie Brown, Overall, I just see his movies as ugly, misanthropic gore fests with cutesy little pop-culture quips thrown in to make it seem more "literate". "Robocop" had more intrinsic value than any of his garbage.

[xcentrik]

67. "Scent of a Woman"

Al Pacino, who can do better, mugging and mugging and mugging and mugging and spewing catch phrases ("Hooah!!!) over and over again. And who gives a rat's ass about privileged high school boys?

[terrya]

81. Pacino's Oscar for this was ridiculous.

It was a "lets give him the Oscar for his whole career" award. Pacino could have gotten an Oscar for some well deserved performances..."The Godfather" and "Dog Day Afternoon" among them. Not for an hammy performance like "Scent of a Woman"

[LibInternationalist]

83. Oh, but the tango was brilliant

[Zolok]

71. Patch Adams...

I was rooting for Bob Gunton the whole time, I half hoped that Patch would lose his appeal in the end and (in a Twilight Zone-esque twist) get dragged off by forensic pathologists for dissection.
Oh that and "Robocop"...horrible loud nasty infantile power fantasy movie...

[Gringo]

124. Didn't see it

It looked like the most excruciating torture, from the trailers

[Snow]

252. Yeah, but I've met Adams a couple times, heard him

speak - he's a crazy idealist, but he's doing really good, needed work. He doesn't look much - okay, he doesn't look anything like Robin Williams. Kinda acts like him, though...

[Bertha Venation]

72. There's Something About Mary

Kathy loved it. Kathy hated the first "Batman" -- I think that's the best "superhero" movie ever made.

[Flaxbee]

74. Remake of "The Time Machine"...

and I had such high hopes, but it was godawful. Also, was it "Mission to Mars" with Gary Sinise, Don Cheadle, Tim Robbins? Horrendous. Then again, I don't know anyone who really liked those two...

There aren't so many that I dislike that others liked (though my college roommate's favorite movie - one that was playing almost every freaking time I came home -- was "Harold and Maude" which I despise (perhaps because immediately after I saw it the first time I got a call that my grandma had just died)), but there are so many that I thought were OK but now have almost no recollection of or couldn't stand if forced to watch now, like FOrrest Gump (liked it when I first saw it); Titanic -- didn't really love it, and thought all the "Jack!", "ROse!", "Jack!", "Rose!" dialogue was dreck - but I wasn't pissed I'd spent my time and money; "Spiderman" is dull, "As Good as it Gets" drives me insane, at least the scenes with Helen Hunt do... blah blah blah. So many mediocre movies.

[spychoactive]

75. dude where's my car?

on second thought, did ANYONE like that movie...

titanic qualifies!

(E-A-G-L-E-S)

[LynneSin]

101. I actually like "Dude, Where's my car"

It's such a stupid movie but great when you need a good laugh that doesn't require much brain power

[terrya]

170. I heard that there's a scene where Ashton Kutcher and Seann William Scott

kiss.

That might be...interesting. :-)

[XNASA]

84. Gone With the Wind

Worst movie ever.

[ProfessorGAC]

113. Second Worst. After Titanic

Held the title for about 60 years, though. I can't stand that piece of crap. All the prints should be boxed up and set afire. Except for one.

They should keep one on file for film students to see. The lesson should be "Never do this again!"
The Professor

[Imalittleteapot]

86. Titantic, Chariots of Fire AND

Star Wars. Can you believe that I napped in the last two? Thankfully, I didn't pay good money to see Titantic. It was such a poor remake of a good old black and white that I couldn't get through the video in one session.

[smirkymonkey]

87. Moulin Rouge

Ugh! Couldn't understand the raves that movie received!

Also, pretty much any Hollywood Blockbuster - most of them are shite.

[LibInternationalist]

91. yeah -- that was awful

but can you IMAGINE how bad it would have been without Nicole Kidman?

[blondeatlast]

185. IMHO, it might have been better . . .

[Imalittleteapot]

96. I decided not to see MR after seeing the trailers.

I really don't know anyone that like it.

[Logansquare]

136. The rapid cuts almost gave me seizures

I *think* the costumes and sets were beautiful, but I never actually saw any of them for more than three seconds. No really, I started counting off seconds during shots, and three was long.

[roguevalley]

216. I liked David Wenham in drag in MR. Faramir, the Untold Story. ;0)

[geniph]

265. That's an interesting critique

I also agree the fast cuts all but ruined the movie. There's a feature on the DVD where you can basically re-edit some of the dance scenes, and it's amazing how much better they are when you STAY on the dancers so you can actually SEE what they're doing, instead of epileptically leaping from shot to shot with the speed of beagles.

Oh, and there's just no way the "contemporary" songs could do anything but make me cringe in great pain. Ewan McGregor did his best, but ...ouch.

[blondeatlast]

184. Wretched, absolutely wretched.

Perhaps they could tape Saddam Hanus's eyes open to make him watch it for hours on end as a punishment.

[Padraig18]

90. Easy--- "Titanic"

I think it sucked MAJOR ass, even though I find Leo D. a REAL hotty... :shrug:

[KCDem]

93. Joe vs. the Volcano

Actually, I don't think everyone loved it, but I've seen some people here talk about it positively. It's the worst movie I've ever seen.

[chiburb]

94. Home Alone. n/t

.

[Red_Storm]

95. Forrest Gump

[Fridays Child]

165. That movie...

SUCKED!!!

[jobycom]

97. Ferris Buehler's Day Off

So damned formulaic and contrived I figured it was written and directed by an advertising firm. It used every cinemagraphic and pop-culture cliche in the book. The first time I saw it I started finishing the lines before the actors did, or predicting the next scene. "Now she'll kick the principle in the nuts..." Whack.

I watched part of it a second time, because everyone claimed it was so good that I thought maybe I'd just been in a bad mood. Nope. It stank worse. I couldn't finish it a second time.

[JVS]

275. yeah that movie sucked

[wryter2000]

98. A couple

Clockwork Orange
Dances with Wolves

[dontomas]

99. Worst. Movie. Ever

So many to choose from....

1. Legally Blonde - I felt 20 IQ points stupider from seeing this movie.
2. Hulk - I understand the whole comic book thing...but the movie was bad.
3. View from the Top - complete crap. Even Mike Myers was bad in this film.
4. Battlefield Earth - need I say more.
5. ANYTHING with Steven Segal in it...with the exception of Under Seige.

[LibInternationalist]

102. Hmm...

If you thought Legally Blonde was bad -- Legally Blonde 2 was about a Billion times worse

Agree on all others, and add (new) Planet of the Apes -- the ending STILL makes my head hurt

[LynneSin]

103. Wait - no one like Battlefield Earth

This isn't worst movie - just movies that everyone loved but you didn't.

But I agree with you on Hulk. I PPV'd it this weekend and fell asleep I was so bored. Never bothered to rewatch it during the 24 hours I had it

[ProfessorGAC]

109. One Point Of Debate Re #5

First, i think the first Seagal movie, Above the Law was pretty good.

Secondly, the most recent, Half Past Dead is surprisingly good!!! I watched it expecting it to be the typical guilty pleasure, shoot'em up/beat'em up.

But, it's all so stylish, and interestingly shot, with some REALLY excellent bad guys and some very nice plot twists. If you haven't seen it, give it a try. I think you might have to make an exception apropos Seagal. I was shocked at how good it was.
The Professor

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

100. Jurassic Park. No story whatsoever. (nt)

[blondeatlast]

187. Oh GOD; I laughed myself silly, out loud, in a packed theater

during the scene where the two kids managed to hold the door to keep the dinosaur from coming in the room. Nobody knew why I was laughing; to me it was SOOO obvious. My husband thought I hasd gone insane until I explained it to him.

A classic moment of de' rigeur bad cinema. Not to be missed.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

243. To my eternal shame...

...I allowed myself to be dragged into the SECOND one, which managed to be even MORE formulaic and have LESS of a story than the first one. Good money and two productive hours down the toilet. :grr:

[gobblemy]

104. Starwars Attack of the clones

I was really disappointed. Too much love story crap.

[dback]

106. "As Good As It Gets"

Loathesome, fraudulent crap that is false on every level. I was stunned at how much I hated this film, right down to the whitewashed end credits version of "Always Look On the Bright Side of Life" (with the line about "Life's a piece of shit if you look at it" scrubbed). Then I go to a screenwriting class, and had to watch the first chunk of it AGAIN, as a supposed example of "great writing." Aauuuggghhhhhhh!!

I had "Huh?" reactions to "Il Postino" and "Life Is Beautiful"--they weren't bad, but they sure weren't all they were cracked up to be. And Roberto Begnini winning Best Actor over Ian McKellen ("Gods and Monsters") is one of the all-time Oscar travesties. Oh, and "Moulin Rouge"--a movie that is over-edited and so hyperactive as to be ridiculous--being heralded as a great musical work of art is absurd.

[regnaD kciN]

235. My one-line review...

As Good As It Gets: not very.

[geniph]

266. Man, dback, you and I had EXACTLY

the same reactions to all four of those movies. EXACTLY. And you're right about Ian McKellen, too - highway frigging robbery, to take away the Oscar he rightfully earned and give it to Begnini for that piece of CRAP.

[xxqqqzme]

110. top gun

still don't know what the hype was all about.

[RobinA]

112. Oh, Where Does the List End

English Patient
Jurassic Park - soooo overrated
Sixth Sense - big surprise, I figured it out 1/2 hour into the movie
Forrest Gump
and the winner....
The Piano - die already, so we can leave this theater

To the person who hated Moulin Rouge - the movie is not for everybody. I loved it, but I could just as easily have hated it. The people I thought would like it, hated it. People I thought would last about 10 minutes watching it were riveted. There's no expalining it.

[amazona]

114. the original star wars

Bad space opera. Bad actors.

[freestyle]

117. Sex, Lies and Videotape

I thought this was the worst thing I had seen, until Blair Witch Project came along. Out of Africa was fairly intolerable also.

[skypilot]

118. "The Shining"

I saw this movie twice when it came out during the 80s. I saw it again a little over a year ago after getting into a discussion about it with a couple people. It was STILL not scary. I can't imagine what people find or ever found scary about this movie. In fact, I prefer to see it as a black comedy about an extremely dysfunctional family coming to the breaking point--with Shelly Duval's priceless "scared" expressions providing the final punchline. It's much more satisfying that way, otherwise you can have this piece of crap.

[maveric]

202. If you read the book first, you probably hated the movie. Like me.

Kubrick was a genius but he changed so many key parts from the original that even Steven King was pissed.
I was very dissapointed with the flick.

[skypilot]

259. Actually, I didn't like the book either

I was hoping the movie would be better but it was even worse than I could have expected.

[the_boxer_]

119. Natural Born Killers...

My friends thought it was the greatest thing since sliced bread. I was like, "Ummm....whatever.."

[johnnie]

121. Natural born killers...

I thought that one sucked, but it seemed to be a favorite. I thought it was crap.
Most of the others you all mentioned also. I got through a few minutes of Titanic, Gone with the wind and some of the others here and my stomach told me to turn that shit off!!

[the_boxer_]

126. Good! I'm not the only one that didn't see the genious of NBK...

:toast:

[Ramsey]

122. Titanic!

What a steaming pile of crap!!

[ploppy]

123. The Piano

I really didn't like it at all.

[SoCalDem]

125. I hated it too.. Such a gloomy movie

There were no people in it that I liked..

The wife..cheater
the husband..mean
the girl.. tattletale
the tattooed guy..ick

[ploppy]

140. Chopping off the finger

Why??!!

[geniph]

267. While I loved the Piano

I do have to say that it takes a MAJOR suspension of disbelief to try to put across the idea that Sam Neill is somehow loathesome and Harvey Keitel is a hottie. Um. I don't THINK so! Why, oh WHY, were those parts not reversed?

[mvd]

127. My big two

Moulin Rouge and Gosford Park

[GalleryGod]

128. The English Patient

Except for Kristin Scott Thomas' Full Frontal Nudity:bounce: :bounce:

[mvd]

145. Forgot this one

n/t

[frogfromthenorth2]

133. Dead poet society / The piano / American Beauty /

[kaiden]

141. Howard's End

wouldn't.

[Skittles]

143. LOTR, Harry Potter, Matrix

CRAP

[mvd]

146. The Matrix isn't my type, either

But I loved the other two. Especially Harry Potter.

[matcom]

147. American Pie

STUPID F*CKING MOVIE!!

flame away :)

[bubba_fett]

160. I agree

The second one was even worse...I was dragged to that damn movie kicking and screaming the whole way.

[blondeatlast]

189. My jaw hit the floor at how bad; my hubby loved it.

Then I hear the director?/writer? on Terry Gross's show being praised for his sensitive portrayal of women.

Good God, I had to stop the car to get out and breathe. I thought I had entered a parallel universe.

[proud2BlibKansan]

204. Am Pie movie

was bad but the damn song is the worst piece of music I have ever heard. Anyone old enough to remember its no-stop run on the radio hates this song.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

148. The English Patient, Titanic, Natural Born Killers

I HATED Titanic-I walked out of the theater. I fell asleep during The English Patient. And NBK was highly overrated.

[NightTrain]

150. E.T.

Saw it theatrically when I was 16. Hated it then, and doubt I'd like it any better 21 years later.

[frogfromthenorth2]

153. Gasp....!!!!

eom

[LynneSin]

182. I've actually never seen E.T.

and I was old enough (well, I was a young kid) to see it when it first came out.

I have seen bits and pieces of it, but never had any interest in watching the entire movie

go figure

[frogfromthenorth2]

198. Gasp...Gasp....!

[ploppy]

258. Me neither!

n/t

[geniph]

268. I've never seen ET either

not my cup of tea.

[ochazuke]

213. E.T. is my Most Overrated movie of all time

I was hoping, when E.T. was lying in the stream bed, that some dog would come along, get hold of one of his arms, and start thrashing him around.

That's how much I liked that movie.

[Bill of Rights]

222. I almost walked out of ET

It was completely over-hyped and I expected too much.

[nuxvomica]

226. Manipulative bilgewater

And I didn't for a second believe that moldy puppet was real. Topo Gigio was more believable.

[ohiosmith]

152. Love Story, The Sound of Music, and most of all White Christmas

[markses]

154. All Lord of the Rings flicks

What fucking maudlin TRAAAASH!

Since when did the freaking loser D&D nerds take over the country? Jeeeeeebus.

[Kat45]

155. "Chicago" Adding insult to injury was its Oscar,

particularly over a Scorcese movie that I loved. And I'd also like to agree with those who voted for "Titanic" and "There's Something About Mary."

[The Zanti Regent]

156. I hated STAR WARS!

Never liked it, it seemed to be nothing but watered down Nichiren Buddhism!

[ochazuke]

218. Star Wars hasn't aged well at all

It looks hokier every time I see it. And the prequels suck right out of the gate.

[nuxvomica]

227. When I reviewed movies, I gave it 2.5 out of 4 stars

And my boss made me change it to 3.5 cuz it was such a "great movie." I actually thought "The Empire Strikes Back" was the best one.

[Deja Q]

159. Star Trek First Contact

... n/t

[Djinn]

163. Glad I'm not the only one to put ET

that was dull dull dull - first saw it at 6 years old - saw it years later - still a boring dull obvious story

Green Mile - wtf??
Forest Gump - pointless syrupy shite(almost ANYTHING with Tom Hanks most overated actor ever)

ANYTHING by Lars Von Trier but especially Breaking the Waves which apart from making you sea sick with the shaky hand held cameras was basically a story about a woman who humiliates herself for her "love" in the end her murder sees her "redeemed" and it was so far off the bat in relation to Scottish Calvin society it was almost laughable... utter utter shite

I think that my tastes are the total opposite of popular opinion, but atleast it means there's usually spare seats at the movies I do like

my favorite movie is Three Kings which disapeared - was marketed as a real gung ho American soldiers movie which probably put of a lot of people who would have liked it and brought in a bunch of people for whom the politics would have been either boring or sacreligious

[Grassrooter]

164. High Fidelity.

There were like two good moments in it:

- Jack Black's amusing response to that Dad who comes into the record store looking for Stevie Wonder's "I Just Called To Say I Love You" for his daughter.

- Lisa Bonet singing that Peter Frampton song; I don't know, I just liked the way she sang it.

Other than that, this film was a big bore (for me, anyway). And I rented it, because I was hearing people rave about it. Maybe it was John Cusack - I can't stand him.

[citizen snips]

167. Lord of the Rings.

My family loves that movie but I can't stand it.

[rbnyc]

168. ET, Gone with the Wind,

Hmmm, I'm sure there are tons more.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

169. I Agree, Gone With The Wind...I Like the Carol Burnett Parody Better

:-)

[blondeatlast]

190. "Thanks. I saw it in the window and just had to have them."

Funniest TV moment I ever saw, and this was like 20 years after the show as on originally. I swear I peed my pants.

[LizW]

200. I heard Carol Burnett interviewed just the other day

and she talked about that scene. The "dress" was designed by Bob Mackie (sp?). CB said that she came down the stairs and the audience just started screaming with laughter, and they went on so long that she didn't think Harvey Korman would ever get his line out. I love that skit.

I always loved how Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman and Tim Conway would get each other just on the verge of cracking up in the skits. I would fall on the floor laughing.

[Name removed]

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[terrya]

173. One more : "The Blair Witch Project"

That movie was so unbelievably lame. I just didn't get that one at all.

[silverlib]

255. I got sick

and had to leave. I was motion sick. I went to the bathroom, recovered uneventfully and went back 'cause I REALLY wanted to see it. Fifteen minutes later, I had to leave again, this time eventfully. Never finished it and have no regrets, other than the waisted money because I was too embarrassed (and sick) to aske for a refun.

[geniph]

271. I couldn't decide whether to puke

from the motion sickness or snore from the utter, utter boredom.

I truly, truly hated The Bore Witch Project. Please. Kill them all, please. Make them stop shrieking about the fucking map. Please. It was one of the great reliefs of my life when they were all dead and stopped their infernal squalling.

[baldguy]

175. Rocky

What is the appeal of watching two idiots beat each other up?

[Tyler Durden]

176. You are ALL wrong! "Bridges of Madison County"

I would watch ANY film on your list, non-stop, repeated for 24 hours, rather than sit through THAT ABORTION again.

Okay, maybe not "Moulin Rouge."

[maveric]

203. The film that ruined many a marriage.

[St. Jarvitude]

178. "Titanic"

I laughed when others cried, it was that ridiculous to me. :shrug:

[Ilsa]

179. Armageddon and the 2nd Austin Powers movie

I thought the other asteroid movie with Morgan Freeman and Duchovney's wife was better. I slept thru the second austin powers flick.

Still love LOTR I and II, seeing III this Friday.

[stanwyck]

186. Jerry McGuire

Hate it completely. From Renee Zelwinger (who I usually like) as the pitiful dishrag of a girlfriend to Jay Mohr (as obnoxious in real life as in the movie...and a wingnut). Plus Cuba Gooding's over-rated performance. Oscar worthy? And Tom Cruise running through the airport. I mean, when you have to resort to the running through the airport, you've reached rock bottom.

[Sentath]

188. A Knight's Tale

Yeah the male lead is cute

Didn't stop me from walking out

[Andyjunction]

192. Breakfast at Tiffany's

Audrey Hepburn was hot as hell but that movie was painful to watch.

[blondeatlast]

240. I forgot that one! It was just "too" something, I'm not sure how

to describe it.

[soothsayer]

193. Gone with the Wind

unwatchable! I've never seen the whole thing from start to finish, tho i think i've seen most of it in pieces. just bloody awful

Also Titanic, Blair Witch, and some others folks here listed that I've already forgotten

[zelda7743]

196. A Beautiful Mind

I was annoyed more than anything. x(

[TheDonkey]

197. The Goonies, Spiderman, Matrix, Independence Day, Harry Potter 1 & 2

Loved the Harry Potter books but the movies were crap

[jayfish]

207. Oops,Wrong Thread

Jay

[Zorro]

208. Reservoir Dogs

I hated Brazil, too.

And the Matrix Reloaded was a load of crap.

[JCMach1]

210. Fargo, Out of Africa

that last one I slept through.

Ghost

and that crappy Bruce Willis movie where the little boy sees dead people. It was so bad I have blacked out the name.


Attack of the Clones-- I saw this in the theatre and tryed watching it again on cable just a few weeks ago. It was even worse than I remembered. I think it was even worse than the Phantom Menace.

[Clark Can WIN]

212. "you've got mail'

BARF

[Wells]

214. Sea Biscuit was about CARS, not horses nor underdogs.

Watch Sea Biscuit, and your girlfriend/spouse will develop a subconscious and uncontrollable desire for a new car!

[oustemnow]

217. Royal Tennenbaums

what utter crap. Except for the attempted suicide scene with the Elliot Smith song as the soundtrack. That rocked.

[Paul Hood]

220. Lost In Translation

I thought this movie was so boring. She can't have been married long yet she seems not to know anything about her husband. Tired, bored rich people trying to figure out their lives, not for me.

[omshanti]

250. Yeah! I HATED that movie. Put some pants on for God's sake.

she spends like 1/2 the movie fully dressed from the waist up, but then has no pants on. WTF? it's not like her legs are all that, either.

By the way, I was in Japan for a week and I loved it. I wanted to scream at the bored characters to get out of the #$%@ hotel and enjoy life already! Now it's up for a Golden globe. Is there no justice in this world?

[coda]

221. Armageddon

Titanic

Independence Day

Twister

World according to Garp

[dreissig]

228. Saving Private Ryan

Awful. Gory. And no, despite its voyeurism it was not true to life.

Terrible. After 10 minutes I'd had enough.

[skippysmom]

279. Almost anything by Spielberg

Maudlin crap that's all about men. Are there ever any women in his movies?

The one exception is the Color Purple. Whoopi was great in that movie.

[Sugarbleus]

229. I think it was called: TEN MONKEYS? ick

[RebelOne]

231. A Beautiful Mind

I didn't exactly hate it, but I just couldn't see what all the hype was about. I fell asleep before the end.

[cedahlia]

272. I second that

And I adore Jennifer Connelly, too. Don't see why she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role, though. I also like Russell Crowe, but that film just did nothing for me and seemed inexplicably overhyped.

[onebigbadwulf]

232. Gangs of New York

[Garbo]

241. EYES WIDE SHUT!!!

Oh, how I hated that movie! Total crap.

And PLEASE don't give me this, "you just dn't understand the deeper meaning...." stuff.

[geniph]

273. I called it Mouth Hanging Open

from my sheer astonishment that Kubrick spent the last two years of his life making that colossal piece of shite.

[blondeatlast]

276. Wretched, but I couldn't stop laughing, actually.

I got nothing out of it--not even turned on.

[Cosmic_Latte]

242. The 3rd "Matrix" Movie

I hated it so much I couldn't remember the title. The first "Matrix" wasn't that bad, the second one I had to sit through (can't waste money!), but this I couldn't stand the most... I mean, it didn't justify the means. What were they really fighting for? (I think they got lost.) Did anyone 'like' it as much as I do? :eyes:

[Terwilliger]

257. where did you hear that it was a good movie?

I think the consensus on Matrix Revolutions is that it SUCKED

[Lydia Leftcoast]

247. The Piano

Where shall I begin? Puritanical New Zealander Sam Neill is surrounded by all kinds of missionary ladies who are (understandably) panting after him, so he sends for a picture bride (a mute unwed mother) from the States. Once she arrives, he ignores her, preferring to spend his time having tea with the missionary ladies. Feeling ignored, Holly Hunter takes up with greasy, ignorant Harvey Keitel, gives him piano keys as tokens of her affection, and writes him notes, even though he's illiterate. When Sam Neill finds out, he cuts off Holly Hunter's finger. Even though her muteness is psychosomatic rather than physical, she doesn't scream. However, never fear, in the last scene, she has a new steel finger!

Punch Drunk Love: an adolescent male fantasy about being a stupid, clueless, inconsiderate, self-centered jerk and being infinitely forgiven by a woman who is in every way your superior.

ll Postino: If the star hadn't died right after filming, this would never have made any impact. It's okay, but not great.

[paulk]

253. "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"

Which I renamed "The Unbearable Length of This Movie". All my artist friends really didn't think that was very funny.

[Hogarth]

254. We don't go to the theatre often ...

... but the only movie we watched all the way through, I think, was "Lord of the Rings." "Titanic" and "A Beautiful Mind" sent us walking out halfway through, no refund required. We took our chances.

[silverlib]

256. Lost in Translation

[geniph]

261. Forrest Gump, Independence Day, the English Patient

hated all three of 'em, for differing reasons.

[Race4Peace]

264. how about

Lord of the Rings-the fellowship of the ring. Twuz to long and not much action. :nopity: to the director. Twuz absolutely :boring:.

[hatrack]

269. Terms . . . Of . . . Endearment - blecch!!

But for the occasional relief provided by Jack Nicholson, a maudlin, mawkish, sap-oozing and pointless flick that couldn't have jerked tears with a pair of barbeque tongs.

Also indictable for the most gratutious cute baby shot in the history of film!

[regnaD kciN]

277. I always referred to it as...

Terms of Endurance -- since it was a struggle to endure long enough to watch the whole thing. The sort of movie that gives "chick flicks" a bad name. I agree that it was a tragedy...because only one of the principal characters died at the end!

[Crunchy Frog]

278. Lord of the Rings

Love the books, hate the movies.