Movies You've Seen That You Wish You Hadn't

[DeleyanLee]

Haven't seen a thread like this, but I'll kick it off:

Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Passage to India
Adaptations

There's probably more, but the last two are on my all-time stickers list and the first one was the big disappointment for last year.

Anyone else?

[alleycat]

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover

[firedrake]

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover

I couldn't a Sunday Roast for weeks after that film.

Patriot Games
Falling in Love
The Wedding Planner

[WendyNYC]

It wasn't a bad movie, but I'd really like to scrub some of the images from Requiem for a Dream from my brain.

[Jerry B. Flory]

Funny Games
Not that it's a terrible movie, but that it infuriates me to no end.

[Perks]

Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay

You'll laugh. You won't be able to help yourself in places. But there's just too much that you won't be able to un-see.

I still like Kal Pen.

[Cyia]

Was forced to sit through "Journey to the Center of the Earth" (not even in 3-D) :(

Twilight
Snake Eyes
Reindeer Games
Shanghai Knights
The Time Machine (remake)

[callalily61]

Pulp Fiction
(the first 15 minutes of) Kill Bill 1
I Spit On Your Grave
Terms of Endearment
Yentl

[alleycat]

Popeye (the one with Robin Williams)

[IdiotsRUs]

Ghost Rider *scratches eyes out*
Anything with Tom Cruise in.
Troy
Kingdom of Heaven

I've tried very hard to forget the rest.

[semilargeintestine]

Every Mel Gibson movies. Some of them were great, but I try to refrain from seeing films starring anti-Semites.

[TerzaRima]

The Ring. That scene with the horse and the blood in the water...pass the brain bleach.

[James81]

I Spit On Your Grave


Yeah, that one was pretty fucked up. I wish I could unsee the whole movie, but mostly I just want to unsee the part where the dude's junk gets mutilated on the boat. That makes me cringe and wince everytime I think of it.

As for movies I wish I could unsee:

Chocolat (terrible, just utterly terrible)
Epic Movie

[childeroland]

Angel (1984). "High School Honor Student by Day. Hollywood Hooker by Night." They actually managed to screw that up. In every way possible.

[katiemac]

Well, lots and lots of chick flicks come to mind. I'd like to un-see all the Harry Potters, too.

But something truly, truly god-awful I wish I'd never seen ... hmm ... a lot of reality television shows come to mind, actually. I have to think on the movies for awhile.

[selkn.asrai]

300--I wish my wasted time could be recompensated. And I need brain bleach for what I saw of Slither before I walked out of the theater--it was utterly repulsive, and I had nightmares for days.

[Gynn]

Saw
Benjamin Button
Transformers (the 1980's cartoon movie. Scarred me for life as a kid)

[thethinker42]

Cabin Fever
feardotcom
Exorcist: The Beginning
The Phantom Plot (er, Menace) and Star Wars II & III
The X-Files: I Want to Believe (and I used to be a RABID X-Phile)

[Romantic Heretic]

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

How they managed to take such a good graphic novel and make such an awful movie out of it is beyond me.

[thethinker42]

The Ring. That scene with the horse and the blood in the water...pass the brain bleach.

OMG I KNOW!!! I have a very hard time with stuff like that, and asked my husband and roommate repeatedly if that scene was as bad as I'd heard. They insisted that it was nothing.

I almost poisoned both of their drinks after that...

[emc07]

The Happening.

One of the worst movies I have ever seen. The acting is bad, the plot. I really loved sixth sense and even Signs. I even liked The Happening less than The Village and that is saying something since The Village is up there in its badness.

[alleycat]

The Bridges of Madison County.

No matter what you think of the book, they could have made a nice, simple little movie out of it. The basic storyline isn't that bad.

[Gravity]

The Blood Waters of Doctor Z. Don't let the title fool you. It's about a scientist who transforms himself into a walking catfish. Srsly.

Oh, and All That Jazz. I thought I was taking my wife to see a musical for our anniversary. Uhh...nope. I mean, Ben Vereen as Mister Death dancing around the operating room table while Roy Scheider undergoes heart bypass surgery (complete with spliced-in real footage)? Not a musical!

[Pagey's_Girl]

Contact. It was a good movie at first, until they screwed up the ending. It was as if they had no idea how to end it after all that buildup, so they just slapped some crap on and called it a day.

[JimmyB27]

Spiderman 3 and X-Men Last Stand. The first two films in both were pretty good - especially Spidey, and the third sequels were just a massive let down, imho.
All of that American Pie/Road Trip/Superbad crap my flatmate keeps making me watch.

I also wish I'd never seen the LOTR trilogy, as then I could watch it for the first time again. :D

[maxmordon]

Anything with Rob Schneider in it

[katiemac]

Yes! Spider-man 3, that's one I'd rather forget.

Also, although I've never seen it the whole way through, The Dreamers. When the brother is making breakfast while the roommate and sister are doing things I won't repeat ... yeah, I really wish I could lose that image.

[vixey]

I'm almost afraid to post these...

Clerks
Atonement

*ducks and runs*

[alleycat]

Also, although I've never seen it the whole way through, The Dreamers. When the brother is making breakfast while the roommate and sister are doing things I won't repeat ... yeah, I really wish I could lose that image.
Oh, I'm sure you remember the photograph in the guy's pants scene.

;-)

[poetinahat]

Chocolat (terrible, just utterly terrible)
Far out. It's one of my favorites. Well, how about that.

Just wish they hadn't entered my consciousness:
Silence of the Lambs
Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Unenjoyable, or profoundly disappointing:
The Hours
Brokeback Mountain
You Light Up My Life

[Marina Snow]

Babel
The Terminal
Wedding Crashers
Meet the Fockers
Godfather Part 111
Magnolia
Mulholland Drive

[Jersey Chick]

OMG I KNOW!!! I have a very hard time with stuff like that, and asked my husband and roommate repeatedly if that scene was as bad as I'd heard. They insisted that it was nothing.

I almost poisoned both of their drinks after that...
I saw The Ring on TV - was the scene really that bad? I knew something awful would happen to the horse, but it wasn't too icky on TV.

About Schmidt -Kathy Bates. Topless. Need I say more?

Borat - I liked the movie for the most part, but there ain't enough brain bleach in the world to erase the scene of Sacha Baron Cohen and the fat guy wrestling all over the hotel room stark nekkid.

I don't remember the name of it, but it was supposedly-funny spoof of 300. It wasn't funny. Two hours of my life I'll never get back - someone owes me for that.

eta Meet the Spartans. It just came to me. Gah!

[thethinker42]

Oh...and Female Perversions. It *sounded* like an interesting movie (actually the blurb sounded interesting, not just the title). It was anything but. It was stupid. Made NO sense WHATSOEVER.

[Just Jack]

Battlefield Earth
No one warned me beforehand on that one. I haven't watched a Travolta film since.

Hancock
Will Smith was good in it. Too bad nothing else was.

The Godfather
Go ahead. Sue me. Crucify me. I didn't like it. Everyone built it up to be so damn great. I don't apologize.

[thethinker42]

I saw The Ring on TV - was the scene really that bad? I knew something awful would happen to the horse, but it wasn't too icky on TV.

It was bad enough for my taste...depends on how much you can handle when it comes to animals suffering/panicking/etc.

Borat - I liked the movie for the most part, but there ain't enough brain bleach in the world to erase the scene of Sacha Baron Cohen and the fat guy wrestling all over the hotel room stark nekkid.

OMG I hated that movie. Especially when he ambushed Pamela Anderson. From what I understand, she was NOT in on it, and that's just not cool.

[poetinahat]

One more to add:


The Royal Tenenbaums

Dude Almighty, that was bad.

[Pagey's_Girl]

Just wish they hadn't entered my consciousness:
Silence of the Lambs

Only worth watching for the Hannibal Lecther bits, IMHO. Twenty minutes onscreen at most and Anthony Hopkins stole the show. Although it gave me a neat little subplot for my WIP about the lead character loathing the movie because an idiot acquaintance used to give him all kinds of grief about having the same (well, almost) first name as the serial killer.

I wanted to like The Green Mile, but it was one of the most depressing movies I've ever seen. And Jurassic Park was supposed to be "da bawmb" as far as special effects went, but the first dinosaur they showed was so clumsily and obviously blue-screened that it ruined the entire movie for me.

[thethinker42]

Another one to add - and I'm sure I'll be shot for this:

Saturday Night Fever.

WTF is the attraction to SNF????

[alleycat]

Nashville.

I absolutely hated it, as did almost everyone else in Nashville, even the locals who were used as extras.

I could never really enjoy any other films by Robert Altman.

[selkn.asrai]

Benjamin Button? Atonement? My heart is broken! I adore those films.

Oh, oh! I will join Jack in the I Don't Like This Classic Club. Go ahead and kill me for these movies that I hate:


Scarface.
The Sound of Music.
Wizard of Oz.
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

[SirOtter]

The 1976 remake of King Kong. The Godzilla movies had better special effects. I did like the recent remake, although it was about 40 minutes too long. The original is still my favorite movie of all time.

Alleycat, I agree about Nashville. The movie, not the city where I grew up. The only Altman film I've enjoyed since was one most folks hate, Gosford Park, but I wouldn't watch it again. Nashville wasn't as bad as his blasphemous version of Raymond Chandler's best novel, The Long Goodbye, but it was a pretty sorry mess of a film indeed.

[alleycat]

Nashville wasn't as bad as his blasphemous version of Raymond Chandler's best novel, The Long Goodbye, but it was a pretty sorry mess of a film indeed.
I'd almost (thankfully) forgotten that clunker.

[SirOtter]

I'd almost (thankfully) forgotten that clunker.

Sorry 'bout that.

[Jersey Chick]

It was bad enough for my taste...depends on how much you can handle when it comes to animals suffering/panicking/etc.

I can't handle much - I usually avoid movies with animals (thanks, Disney /sarcasm) But I figured something blech was going to happen, so I kind of watched through my fingers - I'm a nancy that way.

[AmandaAcidic]

It was bad enough for my taste...depends on how much you can handle when it comes to animals suffering/panicking/etc.



I really enjoyed the Ring. I live for scary movies. But I can't remember that scene at all... Hm.

There's some movies I got off Netflix that were a total waste of time.

Scoop
Tape
13 Ghosts
Pathology
Half Nelson
Blind Dating
The Hard Easy (Even though staring at David Boreanaz for two hours was totally worth it.

That's all for now.

[semilargeintestine]

Contact. It was a good movie at first, until they screwed up the ending. It was as if they had no idea how to end it after all that buildup, so they just slapped some crap on and called it a day.

I know! I loved that movie until the end.

[thethinker42]

I can't handle much - I usually avoid movies with animals (thanks, Disney /sarcasm) But I figured something blech was going to happen, so I kind of watched through my fingers - I'm a nancy that way.

I'm the exact same way. I couldn't watch Black Beauty.

Incidentally, my "The Ring"-induced trauma was made even MORE enjoyable by the fact that I commuted to work on one of the ferries upon which THAT SCENE was filmed.

I need therapy...

[Zelenka]

'Face / Off' really freaked me out but apparantly I'm weird for that.

Otherwise...

Flesh for Frankenstein
Disaster Movie
Basic Instinct 2
Miss Potter (albeit only saw about half an hour before I had to switch it off for the sake of my sanity)

[maestrowork]

You Don't Mess with the Zohan -- why I went and saw an Adam Sandler movie, I have no idea!

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen -- one of the few movies I actually walked out on.

Brothers Grimm - what a disastrous mess.

[nahalwi]

Gigli. Al Pacino couldn't even save his brief screen time from the horror of what that movie was.

[TerzaRima]

Jersey, it was uber icky. Ickiness happened. I slept with the lights on.

[Goodchild]

Invasion.
I swear the writer stuck a pig on each hand before they started writing the script, and even then the finished script is more ham-fisted than this awful joke.

The Hole.
Apt name, as this film was literally a void.

[James81]

Gigli. Al Pacino couldn't even save his brief screen time from the horror of what that movie was.

Gigli is hailed by just about everyone as the biggest movie failure of all time.

[alleycat]

Gigli is hailed by just about everyone as the biggest movie failure of all time.
I couldn't list that one in this thread because I've never seen it (and hope not to).

From Justin to Kelly is another one I don't plan on ever watching.

[DeleyanLee]

Gigli is hailed by just about everyone as the biggest movie failure of all time.

Even worse than Ishtar? Is that possible?

[eyeblink]

About Schmidt -Kathy Bates. Topless. Need I say more?


Don't watch At Play in the Fields of the Lord then. (Well you might prefer Tom Berenger and/or Daryl Hannah nude in the same film.)

The only scenes I can think of that made me (almost) have to look away are in The Tin Drum (eels) and Cries and Whispers (broken wineglass).

I don't regret watching any film, however bad it was. However, as I review DVDs elsewhere on the Internet, Memoirs of a Geisha did make me wonder why I was putting myself through it - a very pretty but very tedious two-and-a-half hour film, plus TWO bland and self-congratulatory commentaries and a shedload of equally bland extras, all that to write a 1000-word review...

[selkn.asrai]

I don't regret watching any film, however bad it was. However, as I review DVDs elsewhere on the Internet, Memoirs of a Geisha did make me wonder why I was putting myself through it - a very pretty but very tedious two-and-a-half hour film, plus TWO bland and self-congratulatory commentaries and a shedload of equally bland extras, all that to write a 1000-word review...

I agree. Memoirs of a Geisha was tedious and bland, and perhaps a bit hyped up on itself. It was v. pretty, but with the lack of depth in the characters and their situations, I found it largely superficial. The soundtrack, however, I found v. beautiful. Chalk it up to Yo-Yo Ma.

Of the soundtrack, book and movie versions, I'd rank the film the lowest.

[Cyia]

Has anyone mentioned Snakes on a Plane yet?

Ignoring the idiotic premise as idiotic... Why would anyone who's trying to fill a contained space with as many deadly poisonous snakes as possible stuff a Python in there?

Oh, and for nakie scenes I wish I'd never seen -- Space Cowboys -- bare butts from Donald Sutherland, James Garner, Tommy Lee Jones... AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

[maestrowork]

88 Minutes. Al Pacino couldn't save this atrocity. In fact, I think he's part of the problem.

[Gynn]

Hostel.

The last 'torture porn' movie I'll ever see. I was a big fan of Slasher films in the 80's, but this new genre is way over the top (at least Slasher films brought breasts to the table).

[Samantha's_Song]

Anything with Jim Carey, Steve Martin and Eddie Murphy in.

Brokeback mountain. The scenery was nice though.

[firedrake]

Oh, and for nakie scenes I wish I'd never seen -- Space Cowboys -- bare butts from Donald Sutherland, James Garner, Tommy Lee Jones... AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

That brings back mental images I thought I'd managed to push aside... I have
this if you want some

http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q255/geeandtee/eyebleach1.png

[shawkins]

Until I saw August Rush, I'd never enjoyed anything less than The Thin Red Line.

[Gynn]

Until I saw August Rush, I'd never enjoyed anything less than The Thin Red Line.

But the kid is such a darling!

[Jersey Chick]

Oh, and for nakie scenes I wish I'd never seen -- Space Cowboys -- bare butts from Donald Sutherland, James Garner, Tommy Lee Jones... AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Oooh.... old man ass. I forgot about that movie. :Shudders:

[Serenity]

The sequel to Pulse. I can't even begin to find the words to tell everyone how excruciatingly BAD that movie was. That and The Happening. In my ever (not) so humble opinion, NOTHING happened in that movie except I lost a little bit of my life that I can never have back.

[callalily61]

I like the American Pulse so much I bought the unrated version. Then again, I watch bad 50s SF for fun, so I'm admittedly lowbrow. The sequel to Pulse? Nah. Not going there.

feardotcom. That was my last torture-porn movie, ever. I'll watch pretty much anything with Stephen Dorff, but this--when they showed that girl after everything the guy did to her over the 7 days... I ripped out my eyes, and was happier for it. It was disgusting for the sake of being disgusting.

[firedrake]

I like the American Pulse so much I bought the unrated version. Then again, I watch bad 50s SF for fun, so I'm admittedly lowbrow. The sequel to Pulse? Nah. Not going there.

feardotcom. That was my last torture-porn movie, ever. I'll watch pretty much anything with Stephen Dorff, but this--when they showed that girl after everything the guy did to her over the 7 days... I ripped out my eyes, and was happier for it. It was disgusting for the sake of being disgusting.

That's just reminded me of another film I wish I'd never seen... 'The Hitcher'. *shudders*

[katiemac]

Something's Gotta Give, although I don't think I ever saw it the whole way through.

[Samantha's_Song]

I forgot this one yesterday... Munich. The reason I hate this film is the way the so-called good men treated that women they shot, it was vile and I'd never watch it again. I will never see Daniel Craig in the same light after this film.

[eyeblink]

That's just reminded me of another film I wish I'd never seen... 'The Hitcher'. *shudders*

Original or remake?

[firedrake]

Original or remake?

The original. I had a crush on Rutger Hauer, until I watched that film.

[Kaiser-Kun]

Irreversible

I was warned, but even so, the film was too much. The infamous rape scene almost made me sick.

A Clockwork Orange

The scene where they force the writer to watch as they rape his wife actually made me sick.

Canoa

I've noticed that what I hate seeing more isn't violence, but impotence. The young boys can't do anything to save themselves from being brutally lynched and killed by the mob- and we all know it.

[selkn.asrai]

Gigli is hailed by just about everyone as the biggest movie failure of all time.


Oh, come now. You forgot Crossroads and the Rollerball remake.

[Samantha's_Song]

This evening's film on the TV has won hands down. The return of the Texas chainsaw massacre. What a complete load of old bollocks! The original was crappy enough, but this modern version? Well... Some of it seemed like foreplay for sickos, the only things that got massacred were a door, a window and a TV ariel. A massacre and there wasn't even any blood?! There wasn't even anything to laugh at in it like the old one. I quite like sick films, but this was just total crap and I would have banned it for being such rubbish if I had my way.

I agree about the rape scene in Irreversible; it was totally unnecessary for the length of it and it was sickening.

[maestrowork]

Untraceable. It's a mess of a film, torture porn disguised as a mystery-thriller. I really didn't have to see that stuff.

[Amy R.]

Funny thread.

For me, "Don't Mess with the Zohan"...and I have no idea why I watched it right through to the end.

[blacbird]

The Deer Hunter. Worst Best Picture Oscar winner ever. Anyone who actually served in Vietnam knows what a complete load of horse crap that movie is.

Its director, Michael Cimino, is absolutely incapable of telling a story cinematically. He went from Deer Hunter to the wildly expensive and laughably horrible Heaven's Gate, which exceeds even Ishtar in the history of motion picture flops, both in artistic and financial terms. And I, at least (thank you, Jesus), haven't seen his name in a director's credit since.

caw

[Empress_Isis]

I wasn't a fan of the Deer Hunter. Although I got so bored with it that I never made it to the end, so my opinion isn't all that well rounded!

[Cyia]

Anyone else have six year olds around who fell in love with the last Bring it ON! movie?

[callalily61]

maestro, thanks for the heads-up on Untraceable. It's on STARZ this month andI was thinking of watching it. I just saved my eyes--again.

[eyeblink]

The Deer Hunter. Worst Best Picture Oscar winner ever. Anyone who actually served in Vietnam knows what a complete load of horse crap that movie is.

Its director, Michael Cimino, is absolutely incapable of telling a story cinematically. He went from Deer Hunter to the wildly expensive and laughably horrible Heaven's Gate, which exceeds even Ishtar in the history of motion picture flops, both in artistic and financial terms. And I, at least (thank you, Jesus), haven't seen his name in a director's credit since.

caw

Complete disagreement here, though I haven't served in Vietnam.

I saw Heaven's Gate in 70mm in London over twenty years ago and I can still remember large sections of it, and the impact it had. A film that is really due for re-evaluation - and I'm not alone in thinking that. There are far worse flops around.

Cimino has since made Year of the Dragon, which is a good film, The Sicilian (distinctly flawed, and I saw the full-length version), Desperate Hours (which isn't very good at all) and The Sunchaser, which I haven't seen. And don't forget the one he made before Deer Hunter, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot.

[jennifer75]

Napoleon Dynamite. Because it was so bad the first time, I made myself watch it again, to give it another chance. And now I love it. But it's so bad!

[eLfwriter]

The Fountain.

The trailers promised me a holy grail quest and then the movie delivered a terminal monkey and a guy that floated around in space in a bubble with a tree. I think it was supposed to be symbolic. I was too busy trying to restart my brain to catch said symbolism.

I am proud to say that I survived the above mentioned film. Barely.

[ThePinkBookworm]

Meet the Parents 2: Meet the Fockers. WAY WAY WAY to much sex. It was like EVERY SINGLE SCENE was a sex scene or joke. I want to wipe it all out of my memory, but thankfully that was a few years ago and it is disappearing.

Thankfully I never seen any horror films like SAW, but I read a review of the recent ones and I wish I had not because I cannot get the horrible images out of my head.

Li li:e2BIC:

[DamaNegra]

Meet the Spartans. I watched about 10 minutes of that movie, but those were 10 minutes too many. UGH! I want those 10 minutes of my life back, with interests.

[KikiteNeko]

Twilight.

Or as I like to call it tWHYlight.

[Disa]

Something about Mary

The Grudge

[KikiteNeko]

The Grudge

The Japanese series was better.

[poetinahat]

I was hoping that Australia would be worth watching. I haven't seen it, but all indications are that will just make me cringe.

[callalily61]

The Japanese series was better.

Definitely.

[DaddyCat]

Some dittos and some fresh ones:

Untraceable - Begin a movie with the torture/death of a cat, and everyone involved has earned my wrath unto the thousanth generation.

Cabin Fever - I learned much later that this was supposed to be funny. Yeah, so funny I forgot to laugh.

Silent Hill - Hollywood's hatred of Christianity is surpassed only by their ignorance of it.

Pulse - To be fair, I'm a huge fan of Kurosawa's Kairo and likely couldn't help being disappointed. But really, did Craven have to take an atmospheric and thoughful movie about contemporary isolation and turn it into "generic teenagers vs. cyber-monsters"?

[BenPanced]

Bloodsucking Freaks. 70's horror/slasher flick of the lowest order. Beyond the so-called "torture porn" label. A friend and I saw it, and we slowly went from laughing at the absurdity of it all to staring at each other in abject horror over what was unfolding on the screen.

The Fountainhead. I found nothing to admire about these self-absorbed, selfish people, and nothing about it makes me even think about wanting to read Ayn Rand to learn more about her "philosophy".

[Miguelito]

Burn After Reading.

It was terrible, just not funny at all (well, the scene with the modified reclining chair got me laughing, but that was about it). And this is coming from somebody that thinks that the Coen Brothers can generally do no wrong.

[thethinker42]

Cabin Fever - I learned much later that this was supposed to be funny. Yeah, so funny I forgot to laugh.

OH GOD I hated that movie. It was horrible. It literally could have ended like 17 times, but they just...kept...going. It went on longer than a bad wedding toast and was only slightly less horrific.

[Filigree]

Here's one to add: the Harold & Kumar Christmas movie. We had a Dish Network credit to use up, liked the first two, and started watching this thing. Why we kept watching, I have no idea.

It was horrible. Think 'Meet The Fockers' meets any 'Cheech & Chong' movie, with absolutely all fun bled out of the resulting mutant offspring. Not even Wafflebots and Neil Patrick Harris could save this movie.

[Manuel Royal]

Three years ago, eyeblink. Three. Tempus fugit, Pal; in fact your username is particularly appropriate here.

I started looking for a previous post by me in this thread; seems like the sort of thread I'd definitely reply to, and I didn't want to repeat myself. Then I looked at the dates and saw it was from before I ever heard of Absolute Write.

Worth resurrecting, though, I guess.

Lot of good movies listed in this thread; some great ones, even. (Like Adaptation, in the OP. At least, I assume that's meant to be Adaptation; I couldn't find a listing for a movie called Adaptations.) Well, no accounting for taste. That's why they have so many flavors of ice cream.

Okay, I'll list one that I wish I hadn't spent two hours of my life on: The Life of David Gale.

[angeluscado]

Napoleon Dynamite. My brother said it was amazing, so great, absolutely hilarious, so I thought I'd check it out. I still want those 82 minutes back.

Borat. It was just... so... bad. I found none of it funny, and a lot of it a little disturbing.

House of Wax (remake). The only reason why I watched this was because I wanted to watch Paris Hilton die. It took me two or three times before I could watch it to that point.

Any of the torture porn movies I've seen, like Hostel and Saw. Not a huge fan of it.

[Ed Panther]

Battlefield Earth
No one warned me beforehand on that one. I haven't watched a Travolta film since.

Hancock
Will Smith was good in it. Too bad nothing else was.

The Godfather
Go ahead. Sue me. Crucify me. I didn't like it. Everyone built it up to be so damn great. I don't apologize.

Godfather??? Godfather????

Now why would you go and say something like that. Now I have to kill you.

See ! You have no idea whether that was a Godfather quite or not!

[Ginosion]

Citizen Cane. There wasn't even a cane in the whole movie. The hack who directed this should go back to school. He's got nothing on current greats like Uwe Boll, Michael Bay or M. Night Shyamalan (post Signs).

[Manuel Royal]

Citizen Cane. There wasn't even a cane in the whole movie. The hack who directed this should go back to school. He's got nothing on current greats like Uwe Boll, Michael Bay or M. Night Shyamalan (post Signs).I see what you did there.

[Diana Hignutt]

Certain scenes from Event Horizon (you know the ones)
The Ring (the freaky video with the subliminal crap parts)
30 Days of Night 2

[laurie17]

Citizen Cane. There wasn't even a cane in the whole movie. The hack who directed this should go back to school. He's got nothing on current greats like Uwe Boll, Michael Bay or M. Night Shyamalan (post Signs).
Are you referring to Citizen Kane by Welles, or a different film?
(Welles changed cinema!)

For me, the American versions of The Ring and The Grudge - very disappointing. Also, the 5 minutes I saw of Twilight, and most very poorly done Horror films.

The Orphanage was very, very good, but I'm terrified of masked kids now.

[cara]

I was forced to watch some of Twilight >_< It was terrible. Titanic by Cameron was boring as anything. Also, Notting Hill and other Hugh Grant films...

Mulholland Drive because of the very hardcore sex scene (apart from that, it was amazing).

[Gilroy Cullen]

Don't know why I feel the need to add to this awesome list of don't watches, but here goes:

Pirates 3 (I've not been brave enough to see 4 yet)
Not Another Teen Movie
The Last Air Bender (Really anything Shyamalan since Unbreakable)
Almost anything with Ben Stiller

[Marumae]

Some dittos and some fresh ones:

Cabin Fever - I learned much later that this was supposed to be funny. Yeah, so funny I forgot to laugh.

Silent Hill - Hollywood's hatred of Christianity is surpassed only by their ignorance of it.

Pulse - To be fair, I'm a huge fan of Kurosawa's Kairo and likely couldn't help being disappointed. But really, did Craven have to take an atmospheric and thoughful movie about contemporary isolation and turn it into "generic teenagers vs. cyber-monsters"?


Agreed completely, only I have to add for the Silent Hill one, I was a fan of the old game and it felt like Gans shoved his own theories on the town so far down our throats it wasn't even the same place to me. Blegh.

Also loved Kairo, the atmosphere and the strange theme of solitude made it a very eerie, not gory horror movie.


The Sound of Music.
Wizard of Oz.
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

*falls over* !! I love those movie, among my favorites! Tragic!

Agreed on Brothers Grimm, I know a lot of people love Terry Gilliam, I honestly think he's a mess of a script writer and director. I'm fully aware I'll probably be lynched for that but I stand by my convictions!

[DragonHeart]

The Silence of the Lambs--not because it was bad or anything, but I do think the way people hype it up all the time really brings ridiculously high expectations to one viewing it the first time. That and I'd already read the book and knowing what happens took pretty much all the tension out of it. Kudos for being an excellent adaption, though.

[Rhoda Nightingale]

Agreed completely, only I have to add for the Silent Hill one, I was a fan of the old game and it felt like Gans shoved his own theories on the town so far down our throats it wasn't even the same place to me. Blegh.

+1

The cult in the games is COMPLETELY different. I like the movie well enough--big fan of both Radha Mitchell and Jodelle Ferland--but it doesn't even begin to touch the work that went into the mythology and world-building of the games. Much as I love seeing Pyramid Head on screen, he really shouldn't be there.

/fangirl off

And to stay on topic: Red Riding Hood. Complete waste of time that was. I think Amanda Seyfried could be a decent actress, really, but she needs to stop taking crap roles right now.

[kenthepen]

hey now! Brothers Grimm was, well, meh, but "Brazil" is my alltime favorite movie. I'm sure Tom Stoppard being cowriter didn't hurt.

And "Fisher King" is excellent also.

One I wish I hadn't seen; Torque
I only watched it out of morbid curiosity. A friend of mine had worked on the crew, and said one day the director screeeeeamed "I don't give a f*** about continuity!"
The only thing I remember now is that there were about six separate shots of reflections off of knives stuck in the ground.

[Mclesh]

Troll 2

[nighttimer]

Wolf Creek: stupid when it wasn't sadistic.

Perfect Stranger: I saw this one for free and I still feel like I got ripped off. Any movie where a character has to explain in the last 10 minutes what happened in the previous hour and 50 minutes is a steaming pile of doo-doo.

Hostel II: Because inflicting cruel torture on a naked woman is the best way to spend two hours.

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover: Boring. Pretentious. Artsy-Fartsy. Overrated. Junk.

Inglorious Basterds: Quentin Tarantino's worst movie. It made me almost feel sorry for Hitler.

The Blindside: Oh, please won't a nice, kindly White family take in a poor Black kid and keep him for a pet? Sentimental slop.

Righteous Kill: DeNiro and Pacino have made a ton of bad movies separately and this brain-dead whodunit they made together is more of a "why did they do it?"

Caligula: When nudity and sex scenes are more boring than interesting you're doing it wrong. An old naked Helen Mirren was no good in The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover and a young naked Helen Mirren is no good here either. Maybe she should keep her clothes on?

[seun]

Love, Actually.

Lock thread.

ETA: The Sixth Sense. Now you can lock the thread.

[Dr.Gonzo]

Hannibal Rising. Bag of shit.

[Misa Buckley]

Contact. It was a good movie at first, until they screwed up the ending. It was as if they had no idea how to end it after all that buildup, so they just slapped some crap on and called it a day.

In the "Good film, crappy ending" category, I'm going to add The Witches of Eastwick and Stargate (though Stargate is a mostly crappy movie. I just watch the series and pretend the film didn't happen).

I'm not sure I was supposed to laugh at Final Destination as much as I did.

Volcano. Just so scientifically inaccurate it's like a bad joke.

Anything on SyFy at 8pm (for instance Mega Shark vs Crocosaurus. I am in no way kidding)

[CharlesL83]

X-Files: I Want to Believe: Yes, so bad I want to believe I didn't see it.

[randi.lee]

Cold Mountain... purely due to the ending-!!

[Kiel]

Titanic
Love Actually
Vampires Suck

[DavidBrett]

Dan in Real Life

[A Girl In A Dress]

Thor... what a waste of Natalie Portman's acting abilities

Captain America... mostly for the completely false/inaccurate aspects of flying and how aircraft work ("what? we're in a nosedive?! here, I'll switch autopilot on!" = NOT how autopilot works)

[The_Ink_Goddess]

TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY.

I thought all the trailers and promos looked really good, and I love a good cerebral thriller. But, to me, it was bland, boring and incomprehensible, full of leaps of logic (and no logic at all) and the whole thing was not involving in the slightest. I don't think that's just because I'm stupid and have the attention span of a gnat. I wish it had just been one of those films that I always say, "That looks really good..." and then never seen, because I would be able to hold onto my illusion that it wasn't a total waste of talent.

[Rhoda Nightingale]

In the "Good film, crappy ending" category, I'm going to add The Witches of Eastwick and Stargate (though Stargate is a mostly crappy movie. I just watch the series and pretend the film didn't happen).

I'm not sure I was supposed to laugh at Final Destination as much as I did.

Volcano. Just so scientifically inaccurate it's like a bad joke.

Anything on SyFy at 8pm (for instance Mega Shark vs Crocosaurus. I am in no way kidding)
Awww, I love that stuff!! And I am in no way kidding. Me and mom both have a weakness for super-cheesy sci-fi movies with really bad special effects. I could eat that stuff up like candy. It's awesome.

[AVS]

The Assassination of Jesse James by the.... (yada yada yada). Brad Pitt goes for his Oscar by way of Merchant Ivory meets the Wild Bunch. Hold frame, stare, stare, stare, cough, Scene shift. I thought it would never end.

The Boat that Rocked. Throw a whole bunch of talented stars at a movie, play some great songs and still it foundered. Juvenile, pointless plot and shifting POV. Richard Curtis's wettest hour.

Transformers... the second one. My eyes... my brain.

[DreamWeaver]

Anything on SyFy at 8pm (for instance Mega Shark vs Crocosaurus. I am in no way kidding)Awww, I love that stuff!! And I am in no way kidding. Me and mom both have a weakness for super-cheesy sci-fi movies with really bad special effects. I could eat that stuff up like candy. It's awesome.Me, too. I'm such a wimp that the only way I can enjoy a scary movie is if it's completely unbelievable. Like Sharktopus--awesomely horrible and totally entertaining. Or the one that pitted two monsters championed by Tiffany and Debbie Gibson against each other.

Good times.

[scarletpeaches]

Alexander.

Colin Farrell, Jared Leto and Jonathan Rhys Meyers in the same movie.

A movie about the greatest military leader the world has ever seen.

HOW COULD IT BE CRAP?

BUT IT IS!!!

[bearilou]

Eraserhead Color me one of those who just didn't get it.

2010 version of Clash of the Titans I wanted to love this movie, I loved the original. The visuals were wonderful, Sam Worthington is easy on the eyes and Mads Mikkelsen is nummy to the nth degree and Liam Cunningham holds the key to my heart... but...yeah....

[triceretops]

Paranormal Entity
The Fourth Kind
'76 King Kong
Brenden's Journey to the Center of the Earth and the idiotic George of the Jungle.
I refuse to watch any Murphy Dr. Doolittle Movie
I couldn't take Paul seriously, but wanted to.
Sandler's Click, what a POS.

Tri

[Lady MacBeth]

The last two Matrix movies.

[defcon6000]

Napoleon Dynamite. My brother said it was amazing, so great, absolutely hilarious, so I thought I'd check it out. I still want those 82 minutes back.

Borat. It was just... so... bad. I found none of it funny, and a lot of it a little disturbing.

I remember seeing Napoleon Dynamite and thinking: People said this was funny???

Borat is stupid incarnate, just like those Jackass movies.


The Order starring Heath Ledger. Interesting concept but terribly executed.

[roseangel]

Eragon
The Last Airbender
The torture porn movies.

[Paul]

Apollo 18.

shockingly bad.

[kasper]

There are a lot of movies I didn't enjoy, but I can't think of any I wish I hadn't seen. You can learn things from bad movies about storytelling and film making.

I didn't really care for Heavy Metal 2000. I thought it was a terrible follow up to the first movie. I just hope they don't botch the remake that is supposed to be in the works. I was hoping that Jesus Christ Serial Rapist would be a funny bad movie, but it was just terrible softcore porn. I like Poultrygeist, but I hate all the chicken in the movie.

There is one movie I refuse to watch because I know I'll want to unwatch it: A Serbian Film.

[cmi0616]

OMG I hated that movie. Especially when he ambushed Pamela Anderson. From what I understand, she was NOT in on it, and that's just not cool.

The whole premise of the movie is that NOBODY in it was "in on it". I thought it was hysterically funny, and even impressive considering he got people like Ron Paul and Pamela Anderson.

[Alvah]

Saw -- I don't like cruelty that is just for the sake of cruelty,
and I don't like horrific behavior that goes unpunished.


Nightmare on Elm Street. I don't like violence and gore
that are just for the sake of violence and gore. That
movie was pornographic because of the violence and blood.

[Lyra Jean]

Blindness Julianne Moore starred in it.

Ugh! It was horrible for too many reasons to list.

[W. S. Marble]

"2001, a Space Odyssey." Oh, don't get me wrong--it was a good movie and all....but I crashed into another car on the way out of the drive in.

[SirOtter]

I'm a huge fan of Rayond Chandler, and looked forward to seeing Altman's The Long Goodbye for years. Alas, it was a typical Altman film, empty and pretentious and woefully miscast in every role, and the ending was such a gratuitous perversion of the book's entire theme I was nauseated by it.

Also, anything directed by John Cassavetes. I have a fairly high tolerance for bad films like Plan 9 From Outer Space, but not so much for pretentious ego-wankfests like Shadows or Faces or The Killing of a Chinese Bookie. A Woman Under the Influence did have a marvelous performance by Gena Rowlands, but that was merely a truffle on a dung heap. Spare us, John. Oh, wait, he's dead. I guess he has no choice.

[defcon6000]

I didn't really care for Heavy Metal 2000. I thought it was a terrible follow up to the first movie. I just hope they don't botch the remake that is supposed to be in the works.

I saw it as more of a homage movie than an actual follow-up. It wasn't as bad as all the reviews made it out to be, it did have an actual storyline, which the first lacked. But I couldn't get over how the animation style looked exactly like a Saturday morning Fox cartoon. Also, the music sucked.

[WordCount]

Bram Stoker's Dracula from the 90s.
God, that film was awful.

Long (errr) Remember Lugosi!

[Lyra Jean]

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

It's not that I disliked the movie but the ending totally sucked. It ruined it for me. All I could think about is what about the guys family. I mean he had a wife and 3-4 kids.

[JohnnyGottaKeyboard]

Beautiful Boy (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1533013/), starring Michael Sheen and Maria Bello. Saw it tonight and thought of this thread about half way through the flick. Talk about pretentious...and so full of its pop-psychology. Did they even interview any actual people who had gone through this? I felt complicit in something dirty.

[DragonHeart]

Hannibal Rising. Bag of shit.

I forgot about this one. I actually had to watch it in class, but I just couldn't do it. I kept my head down and wrote a story instead but even the audio alone nearly made me sick. I absolutely hate media that has violence and gore for the sake of it and this movie was that personified. Ugh.

Still managed to get an A on the paper, though.

[Mclesh]

Bram Stoker's Dracula from the 90s.
God, that film was awful.

Long (errr) Remember Lugosi!

This brings back a memory of seeing Andy Warhol's Frankenstein in 3-D.
Good God.

[WordCount]

This brings back a memory of seeing Andy Warhol's Frankenstein in 3-D.
Good God.

I would have wrote that one too, but thankfully, I was able to forget it.

I think "repress" may be a better word for it.

OOOOO....*shiver.

[Mclesh]

I would have wrote that one too, but thankfully, I was able to forget it.

I think "repress" may be a better word for it.

OOOOO....*shiver.

:roll:

Repress is a good word for it. I'd manage to repress it for years.

[seun]

Nightmare on Elm Street. I don't like violence and gore
that are just for the sake of violence and gore. That
movie was pornographic because of the violence and blood.

At the risk of derailing the thread, 'pornographic' is an interesting term to use in relation to violence. Not one I personally equate to a horror film.

And just out interest, are you referring to the original film or the remake?

[Camilla Delvalle]

Hm, a whole bunch of these movies are on my top-list. I wonder what that says about my taste.

[zerosystem]

I'm usually picky about what I see in cinemas, so the only movie I regret seeing in the last year was Abduction. I thought that seeing it might give me ideas for a YA novel I want to write, but it just left me rolling my eyes for 90 minutes instead.

[Elena Andrews]

Tree of Life. There may be other movies I dislike less but this was the most recent and still stuck in my memory...

[Mclesh]

Flash Gordon (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080745/)


This movie was so bad, but not a "so bad it's good kind of thing." Just bad, like you're watching thinking WTF? the whole time. We had to fast forward through most of it.

Unwatchable. The only good thing about it was the Queen song.

It's almost worth it just to see how bad a movie can really be though.

[maxmordon]

Deck The Halls. With Matthew Broderick and Danny Devito. Why? Just why?

[DamnStraight]

Twilight and Transformers.

[JustinlDew]

Any of the scary movies.
The Human centipede, brain bleach anyone.
The Donner Party
Eragon
Percy Jackson and the Olympians.

[Jersey Chick]

The Bee Movie. This is my son's current movie du jour and I remember being bored out of my skull when I took my daughter to see it when it first came out. What a mess this movie is. If it could have decided what movie it wanted to be, it might not have been such a train wreck.

[Sunburn]

Most horror films I wish I had never seen.

There was some movie I had seen on a couple meeting and falling in love within 24 hours. I wish I had not seen that it was so boring.

[TCnKC]

"The Forgotten" with Julianne Moore.

I think the title speaks for itself.

[Sunburn]

"The Forgotten" with Julianne Moore.

I think the title speaks for itself.
The Forgotten wasn't all that bad actually.

[Shadow_Ferret]

Robocop.

Even now years later I cant get the scene where they take a shotgun and blow away his hand out of my mind.


Saving Private Ryan. I'm still outraged at the dishonest manipulation of that movie making us think it was Tom Hanks' character visiting the graves at the beginning.

[Rbel]

Cabin Fever -that was a mistake to watch. I do not like unhappy endings first of all. I still cannot get the blood out of my brain and dog eating the..nevermind.

[Gilroy Cullen]

I almost forgot to include a couple on my list:

Forgetting Sarah Marshall - Just ugh.

The Mummy: Tomb of the Emperor (or something like that) - completed derailed the series. Horrible.

[Cyia]

Even now years later I cant get the scene where they take a shotgun and blow away his hand out of my mind.


I was this way about Something Wicked This Way Comes. They made us watch that in school, and there was a scene at the carnival where Mr. Dark shakes a man's hand, crushing it until the skin splits on the top. I couldn't even look at those little cheese slices that come in the plastic wrappers after that, because they split the same way if you bend them :/

[hester]

The Star Wars prequels

"Grown Ups" (I think that was the title).

[Gravity]

The Thing (2011): decent monster, so-so acting, but enough unresolved plot holes to drop a Sno-Cat into.

[nicolethegeek]

The Meltdown... which is a perfect description of what to do with the DVD before you waste your time with it!

[regdog]

Silent Hill

[Devil Ledbetter]

The Ring.

I'm such a big baby.

[darkangel77]

There's been a few in the past that I can't think of off the top of my head, but one recently...

The Devil Inside.

My boyfriend and I both love horror movies and we decided to make that our Friday-night flick. What a mistake. It was so boring and uneventful for something billed as the "scariest movie of the year", or something like that. For us, it was a waste of $25. I want my money back, lol...

[Lyra Jean]

I think the movie is called, "Drag me to Hell" or something.

About a woman bank teller who doesn't renew a loan for some Gypsy woman. And she cursed her hell.

[Chazevelt]

Dumb and Dumber. I can't even sit through the entire thing.

But I love Transformers.

[Archerbird]

The Exorsist, or at least the remake. It was so boring, I fell asleep at the premier (Ok, technically I didn't really see it then...).

[BenPanced]

Home Alone and Sibling Rivalry. Those were the movies that hepped me to the trend of showing the good stuff in the trailer in the hopes you'll stick around for the crap stuffed around it.

[Cranky]

Dracula 2000. I hated the ending. The rest was actually kind of interesting. The scene in the record store made me laugh out loud, though. :D

[Pallas Athene]

Season of the Witch- 21st century accents in medieval europe, bad CGI, and a plot that can be summarized as 'The Exorcist, except not'.

[DancingMaenid]

I think the movie is called, "Drag me to Hell" or something.

Yeah, that movie's on my list, too. I hated it.

Also:

Funny Games (I think I was expecting something a little like A Clockwork Orange. Instead, I found it not only depressing and demoralizing, but dull. What a terrible combination.)

Let's Go to Prison

The Star Wars Holiday Special (Honestly, it was mostly a disappointment because I was hoping it'd be so bad it was funny. But I found it too tedious and boring to really be funny. I started skipping the musical numbers.)

[JustinlDew]

Silent Hill

My nephew and I watched that. I liked it except the Wtf ending.

Eragon, just Eragon.

[cmi0616]

Although I've met a lot of (artsy-fartsy, filmaker-type) people who disagree, I thought Shame was by far one of the worst movies I've yet to see. If you're not going to have the characters saying much, please don't include a good five-minutes worth of footage containing Michael Fassbender beating off. Nobody really needs to see that, and we understand his character is a sex-addict with out it.

Also on the list of films I wish I hadn't seen:
Funny People
Grown-Ups
Wendy And Lucy
No Strings Attached
Arthur (the 2011 remake)
Twilight
When In Rome
Leatherheads

and a host of others that I'm blanking on right now. more to come i'm sure!

[JustinlDew]

Inkspell.