What movies would you say were the biggest waste of $8 and 2 hours (or more) of your life? What made them so bad?

One man's terrible movie is another man's cult classic...so what's the difference between 'so bad it's good' and 'so bad I got up and left'?

(I'm gonna think this over a bit before I give my answer, I think...)

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"I have no regrets. Regret only makes wrinkles." - Sophia Loren

My guess is youll go with a Madonna movie

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i thought serial mom was a pretty big pile o' crap

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Originally posted by DaOgre:
My guess is youll go with a Madonna movie



I don't think I've ever cared enough to actually watch one. I basically only watched Sci-Fi and kids movies through most of the Madonna era - I actually really, really dislike almost every 80s teen movie I've seen (yes, even the 'classics').

I'm still working on my answer...there are so many bad movies I've seen, it's hard to narrow it down.

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"I have no regrets. Regret only makes wrinkles." - Sophia Loren

Where do I start...

Bad movies of the '90s.

Aliens Ressurection... Couldn't even figure out the story behind it.

Alins III So bad I walked out

Batman Forever. I wanted to burn the movie so bad...

Independence Day... the "Politically Correct" version of War of the Worlds.

Ravinous... Sick, sick, sick...

Armageddon... Zzzzzzz

Lost in Space... And you thought the original series was campy?

Speed... Sure needed some.

6th Seal... Would have been better if released BEFORE Y2K, and something had happened.

The Haunting... I feel sorry for the poor Gremlin they had to waste while making that movie.

Any movie with Star Trek in the title... I should have learned my lesson with Generations.

Brady Bunch Movie, Beverly Hillbillies, Flinstones, Rocky & Bullwinkle, etc... I'm having a Maalox moment.

The Rock... Lot's of potential, but fell flat on it's face.

Spice World... Nuff said!

And that is still only a partial list! LOL!




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haha yeah. It is sad for every good movie, there are probably 20-30 bad ones.

But now, Gary, question. Were all those movies bad and NOT entertaining. Or just bad, but some of them entertaining?

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Last Action Hero

Romey & Michelle's High School Reunion

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

The Wild, Wild West

Iron Eagle, all three hundred of them (seems like any way)

Leviathon

will return later with more...

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Uh, what country is this??

"Higher Education" Saw it on HBO/skinamax last night. FULL of stereo types like: Skinheads VS Panthers on campus http://discussanything.com/Ubb/rolleyes.gif Very lop sided too. Cops like the skinheads but beat the panthers, Big mean skinheads cant fight or even beat the scrawniest of the panthers. Having been around hardcore skinheads, I can say that this is a complete joke. Basic premis was that white people are stupid and weak and black violence is justified. Hollywood is sick and needs cleaning up bad!

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Any Julia Roberts movie ever made.

Drop-Dead Fred (my head hurts just thinking about this movie..)

Deep Impact (should be the name of a porno...)

Dinosaur (great CGI doesn't save it)

Ghostbusters II

Any cartoon made into live action

Any bad '70's tv series made into a movie

Captian America (ugh..)

Smokey and the Bandit 3

Cannonball Run 2

Chicken Run, Pokey-Moron and most kids movies today..

Any sci-fi flick that relies on FX to entertain...



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Uh, what country is this??

Originally posted by Turbostang:


Any movie with Star Trek in the title... I should have learned my lesson with Generations.



DUDE!!!...that one was a low blow....i totally dissagree...

stay tuned for the next one...it will be a kick *** galactic war one...or..so they say



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Originally posted by 74Mav:


Star Trek V: The Final Frontier


Iron Eagle, all three hundred of them (seems like any way)




Now..i'll partially agree with you in Star Trek 5...prob the worse out of all of them...present and past.

Dude..Iron Eagle was cool!...now..granted i have seen ALL THREE...i would have to say..the first was the best....i still don't understand why they got rid of "DOUG" the kid in the first one...in the first 3 mins of the second one....that was surprising


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Originally posted by 74Mav:

Any cartoon made into live action




What about Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles?...granted the novelty wore off by the second one...it was still VERY COOL!



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Regarding STV, the Sybock part was so over acted it was pathetic, the effects were cheesy as hell and the plot was so transparent it hurt to watch it.

I'll give a pass to the TMNT. The first two were pretty good, and actually outway the third, which was a stinker.

I stand by my review of Iron Eagle(s). The actor (term used VERY loosely) Jason Gedrick, in the first one, could not act at all. The only 'actors' in the whole film were Lou Gosset, Jr., and Tim Thomerson, and even they couldn't make interesting.

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Uh, what country is this??

one that fits this list is Kubrick's Clockwork Orange. If you read the book, you know what I mean.

*sigh* Copland . . . THAT blew.

Prophecy II . . . The first one was interesting . . . #2 was just that . . . #2.

Chariots of Fire . . . LOL!

But, man, Iron Eagle (first one) utterly and completely kicked my *** . . . and still does. The soundtrack is incredible, too.

And Ravenous . . . JEEEEEEEZ I loved that movie, but, alas, I'm an HP Lovecraft fan, so that would explain it.

Originally posted by tam:
one that fits this list is Kubrick's Clockwork Orange. If you read the book, you know what I mean.


I dunno...I read the book, and I'd say that I really liked the movie quite a bit, even if it did cut out the ending. (Incidentally, there was a reason for that - in my copy of the book, there's an intro explaining why.)

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And Ravenous . . . JEEEEEEEZ I loved that movie, but, alas, I'm an HP Lovecraft fan, so that would explain it.

LOL! I'm a Dean Koontz fan... that movie to me was simply going for the shock value, and it over did it.

But now, Gary, question. Were all those movies bad and NOT entertaining. Or just bad, but some of them entertaining?

I'll admit a couple of them were entertaining... like Independence Day. I just regret not waiting for the video! http://discussanything.com/Ubb/smile.gif



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12 Monkeys...it was just fuggin stupid

Oh, man, 12 Monkeys was great! But I am a pretty big Gilliam fan.

Haven't seen 12 monkeys..but from what i hear...it's quite an interesting movie

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FREDDY GOT FINGERED- Need I say more!

the thin red line

and what is freddy got fingered? sounds like a porno.

add any movie with 'Ernest' in the title to the list too.

Originally posted by veni-vidi-vici:
and what is freddy got fingered? sounds like a porno.

hehe, here's some more that SOUND like pr0n but aren't:

The Thin Red Line
Free Willy
Spaceballs
Three Amigos
Moby Dick
Babe
Driving Ms. Daisy
Octopu$$y
Bone Daddy
The Mad Doctor Hump
Girl Stroke Boy
In Too Deep
Chinese Box
The Astronaut's Wife
The General's Daughter
The Bone Collector
What Dreams May Come
The 400 Blows
The Whole Nine Yards
Reindeer Games
My Giant
Deep Impact
What Lies Beneath
Dances with Wolves
Big Daddy
Grease
My Dog Skip
Sister Act
Every Which Way But Loose
Toy Story
Bringing Out the Dead
The Dirty Dozen

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Dungeons And Dragons.

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I don't see how in the hell it won all those awards.. it was horrible! I would classify it more as a documentary on the drug world than a movie. Biggest waste of my free dvd rental I ever used! Funny thing was, it was still playing at the movies when I rented it!

I like most all movies the critics hate. Guess I am just weird that way.

As long as the movie has awesome sound, I will sit thru it. I love Dolby Digital sound!!!! THX baby

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etc.....

it won because it was diffrent...

It was written well, and shot innovatively, and had beautiful cinematography.

and Benicio Del Torro is a fantastic actor..and deserved the oscar he got

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frequent Originally posted by veni-vidi-vici:
the thin red line

and what is freddy got fingered? sounds like a porno.

Amen brother....the thin red line was good for about 45 mins...the rest could have been edited...

Ohh..it's a tree....---3 mins pass--- Ohh...look...it's that same tree

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Originally posted by tam:
add any movie with 'Ernest' in the title to the list too.

HEY!!...Jim Varney...may he rest in peace, was a genious...

i mean...i'd like to see you invent a character that cool.

Ernest goes to camp...His first and GREATEST
Ernest scared Stupid...he kills alot of trolls, and saves a town...it rocks!...
Ernest goes to jail...He is in the big house, really funny
Ernest Saves Christmas...prob the only one left that is worth seeing..and see the others first before this one.

The rest were less than good...but he has some hits!..

Plus, i also watched him on saturday mornings....

i miss jim varney...

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"The Perfect Storm" ... the perfect bore would be more accurate.

"oohhh .... lookout .... it's another giant wave!!" a true story, eh? since nobody survived, nearly everything that took place on the boat was pure fiction.

"L.A. Confidential" ... Kim Bassinger? An oscar??!!! Danny DeVito chewin' scenery.
They kill off the only saving grace .... Kevin Spacey ... and it's all over. The final (3 hour?) scene? "We know where it's going ... just hurry up and DIE, would ya?"

wow...i would have to say that LA confidential is up in my top 10 fav movies...

i thought it was written well...and had a great "old time" feel....



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Sorry Scott ... nothing personal. I thought it was quite over-rated. Especially in comparison to "Chinatown"; another noir detective flick set in Los Angeles. Russell Crowe and Kim Basinger (who's finest performance to date, was playing a dead woman in the Tom Petty video "Last Dance With Mary Jane") ... vs. Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway? No contest. The script by Robert Townsend is brilliant, without the self-conscious, "hipper-than-thou" Ellroy style.

Just one man's opinion, nothing more.

I must admit however, that opinion is probably influenced by attending an author's visit by James Ellroy. I had just read "My Dark Places", the account of his mother's unsolved murder, and was looking forward to hearing him speak. I thought he was an arrogant jerk.

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I have tons and tons of movies I could say, but one in paticular I absolutely thought sucked the most..

The Haunting

That movie was sucked so bad, it wasn't even funny..

Next in line is "the taleted mr. ripply" and "scary movie 2"

SM2 was more of a let down, b/c the first one I didn't know was going to be that perverted.. won't see it again though..

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Well, since nobody else brought it up yet, I HAVE to bring up what I consider to be hands down the all time worst:

Street Fighter II

As a martial artist, I'll usually let alot slide on a karate flick, (at least if the action is decent). This POS had absolutely NO redeeming value whatsoever though. All the characters were distorted from their game version, the plot stank, the acting STANK, and Van Damme's fight scenes/moves were worse than usual. It's the ultimate lemon to me http://discussanything.com/Ubb/smile.gif

Coincidentally, Street Fighter the Animated Movie was pretty cool though.

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The Perfect Storm - Not even the awsome special effects could save this movie.

O' Brother Where Art Thou - O' Brother What a Lousy Movie



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A loud and resounding vote for "Titanic", I cheered when the girlyboy died....it was about freaking time!!!! Ahhhh I wanted my 6 years of life back after watching that...oops it only FELT like 6 years. The worst movie I have ever had the horror to sit through (I hated my best friend for a while after making mew watch it http://discussanything.com/Ubb/smile.gif).

The Big Kahuna.

I usually like really bad movies so I dont have too many more at the moment.

Im with you - Jim Varney ROCKED!! Ernest Goes to Camp was the definately the best!

Rayne

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haha...rayne

titanic...the movie as a whole was ok...

sure the love story was kinda lame...but editing, visial effects....and some performances.....they were good....like that irish dude..he was cool http://discussanything.com/Ubb/wink.gif

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Rayne's right, SOME bad movies are fun to watch, especially if they're on Mystery Science Theater 3000 - LMAO!

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My son and I were actually on the Satellite of Love ... a great moment in father-son history!

Originally posted by Brian:
The Perfect Storm - Not even the awsome special effects could save this movie.

O' Brother Where Art Thou - O' Brother What a Lousy Movie


Heh, 2 of my favorites!

Gone in 60 seconds, total garbage. The 1st one wasn't much better.



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Originally posted by CGord:
Heh, 2 of my favorites!

Gone in 60 seconds, total garbage. The 1st one wasn't much better.


Actually, I'll do a retraction on O'Brother. The first time I watched it, I was sick as hell and just could get into it (maybe I couldn't comprehend it while running a 102 degree fever..). Watched it (reluctantly) with my wife this weekend and found a few things to like about it. Not as bad as I first thought, but, not my favorite either.

Still stand by my Perfect Storm opinion, though...



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"Eyes Wide Shut"

I actually lost IQ count watching that piece of crap...

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Originally posted by Brian:
Actually, I'll do a retraction on O'Brother. The first time I watched it, I was sick as hell and just could get into it (maybe I couldn't comprehend it while running a 102 degree fever..). Watched it (reluctantly) with my wife this weekend and found a few things to like about it. Not as bad as I first thought, but, not my favorite either.

Still stand by my Perfect Storm opinion, though...

I love O Brother, but I am a diehard Coen Bros. freak. The only thing from them I have not liked was Barton Fink.

"I'm set to R-U-N-N-O-F-T!"

I really liked The Perfect Storm, except for one part. When they 1st get into town, the mom gives Marky Mark a big, earnest hug & says "Home safe". I understand the emotions involved in this particular scene without having to be beat over the head with them, that was a bit ham-fisted. But otherwise I thought it was excellent.



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Time to add another one (or two...)

Chris Rocks "Down to Earth.." It should go a little further, like straight into hell. What I saw of it was boring, not funny, and just a wast of time.

Dogma - Stupid.... http://discussanything.com/Ubb/rolleyes.gif

Coyote Ugly - pushed my tolerance of stupidity and bad acting to new levels http://discussanything.com/Ubb/tongue.gif

The Wraith - cool Chrysler concept car, bad acting and script



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Whipped.. 1:15 of what? nothing... abunch of people screwing each other (not porn either) It was just dumb. It did have one funny part, when the dood dropped the dealio down the toilet, but the rest was lame

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Any movie based on a video game is sure to suck. Case in point, Mario Brothers, Tomb Raider, Mortal Combat etc.

Also to be avoided, comic strips brought to movies such as Batman, Superman, Popeye, Dick Tracey.

Finally, all of those boring as hell 19th century classics such as Room with a View, The Scarlett Letter, Sense and Sensibility, Washington Square, any other adaption of a Jane Austin, Henery James or EM Foster novel.

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Originally posted by Geoffrey:
Traffic

I don't see how in the hell it won all those awards.. it was horrible! I would classify it more as a documentary on the drug world than a movie. Biggest waste of my free dvd rental I ever used! Funny thing was, it was still playing at the movies when I rented it!

I like most all movies the critics hate. Guess I am just weird that way.

As long as the movie has awesome sound, I will sit thru it. I love Dolby Digital sound!!!! THX baby



My favorite sceen in Traffic was when Micheal Douglas's daughter was getting it from that drug pusher. I think that had to be the highlight of that chick's acting career.


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