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What are some of the worst films you have seen?

What about that movie "Congo?"
I worked at a movie theater back then and I can remember about ten people asking for their money back - it was that awful.

Also, Star Trek Generations, Star Trek First Contact, and Star Trek Nemesis - all crap.
 
TechieJustin said:
What about that movie "Congo?"
I worked at a movie theater back then and I can remember about ten people asking for their money back - it was that awful.
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Is that the one with the ape that has a special glove that speaks what the ape signs? That was pretty bad.
 
Wedding Planner. I'm a die hard movie watcher, I can sit through anything in any genre and make it to the end. But that, I couldn't do it. Even a bad big budget film has entertainment value somewhere, this thing, had nothing to stop me chewing off my arm and spilling my popcorn.
 
XXX.

I downloaded the movie and still felt ripped off. Just horrible, not even in a good way.

The other worst film I have seen is Roadhouse, however it is a great "bad" movie to watch.

Finally there is Over the Top with Sylvester Stallone. Stallone plays a trucker, who broke up with his wife due to her family being jerks. She is dying and he needs to become friends with his son he never knew. How does he do it? By winning the national arm wrestling championship. Another good/bad movie.
 
There are so many truly awful movies, that there couldn't possibly be enough space to list them all. Instead, here are a couple movies that are so bad that they are actually pretty great and entertaining:

1. Zardoz (although already mentioned) - Between the dialogue, the costumes and the nearly-indecipherable plot - this movie has more WTF? moments than almost any movie I've ever seen - and some noble (if overreaching) social commentary.

2. The Room. - So bad on so many levels that it is probably the funniest movie I have seen a few years. Defies any explanation. Ridiculous, awful, yet riveting - Go see it. (For clarification, it came out in 2003)
 
kellen said:
XXX.

I downloaded the movie and still felt ripped off. Just horrible, not even in a good way.

The other worst film I have seen is Roadhouse, however it is a great "bad" movie to watch.

Finally there is Over the Top with Sylvester Stallone. Stallone plays a trucker, who broke up with his wife due to her family being jerks. She is dying and he needs to become friends with his son he never knew. How does he do it? By winning the national arm wrestling championship. Another good/bad movie.
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I remember that movie.
 
Star Trek One. :(

I had the great misfortune of having a Trekkie BF for a short while.

Being a total Trekkie, he never got a Driver's License.....

Soooo..... Could I please take him to the theater on Day 1 first thing in the morning?

It was the worst Movie EVER! Most of the audience were hard-core Trekkies and their unfortunate Chauffeurs (such as myself). About 2/3 of the way through people starting boo-ing and chanting "We Want Our Money Back!" . A LOT of people, not just me..

My poor little Trekkie kept saying "sssshhhh! here comes the good part!"
He was right. eventually the movie ended and the lights came back on!

We broke up not too long after that.


A few decades later and out comes Star Trek again.....
Surprise! Another Bomb. :p

Oh well. At least it wasn't quite as mind-numbingly awful as the first one.
Or the third one. Or fifth. How many of those REALLY awful stinkers did they make anyway?


Have Fun,
Keri the Anti-Trekkie

PS. Surprisingly, I like the Star WARS movies OK. Odd, because I've always had a strong dislike of Star TREK.
 
i saw this horror film called captivity, and it was just awful. i can't remember what it was about, but i think they make snuff films.
 
KeriJane said:
Star Trek One. :(

I had the great misfortune of having a Trekkie BF for a short while.

Being a total Trekkie, he never got a Driver's License.....

Soooo..... Could I please take him to the theater on Day 1 first thing in the morning?

It was the worst Movie EVER! Most of the audience were hard-core Trekkies and their unfortunate Chauffeurs (such as myself). About 2/3 of the way through people starting boo-ing and chanting "We Want Our Money Back!" . A LOT of people, not just me..

My poor little Trekkie kept saying "sssshhhh! here comes the good part!"
He was right. eventually the movie ended and the lights came back on!

We broke up not too long after that.


A few decades later and out comes Star Trek again.....
Surprise! Another Bomb. :p

Oh well. At least it wasn't quite as mind-numbingly awful as the first one.
Or the third one. Or fifth. How many of those REALLY awful stinkers did they make anyway?


Have Fun,
Keri the Anti-Trekkie

PS. Surprisingly, I like the Star WARS movies OK. Odd, because I've always had a strong dislike of Star TREK.
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I assume many Star Wars fans have no driving license either, or dentists, or white people, or any other kind of classification you can put onto people.

And to Star Trek fans it is known, that the odd numbered films are not the best films in the entire Star Trek Dekalog (Kieslowski's Dekalog is something else entirely though - I mean good).

And the first Star Trek film is the one that divides the most. I personally like although it is quite slow paced some times.


Sorry if that post came off as an attack, but the generalization of Trekkers not having a driving license is quite over the top.


Another entry to the list:

Matrix Re- ...
 
KeriJane said:
Star Trek One. :(

I had the great misfortune of having a Trekkie BF for a short while.

Being a total Trekkie, he never got a Driver's License.....

Soooo..... Could I please take him to the theater on Day 1 first thing in the morning?

It was the worst Movie EVER! Most of the audience were hard-core Trekkies and their unfortunate Chauffeurs (such as myself). About 2/3 of the way through people starting boo-ing and chanting "We Want Our Money Back!" . A LOT of people, not just me..

My poor little Trekkie kept saying "sssshhhh! here comes the good part!"
He was right. eventually the movie ended and the lights came back on!

We broke up not too long after that.


A few decades later and out comes Star Trek again.....
Surprise! Another Bomb. :p

Oh well. At least it wasn't quite as mind-numbingly awful as the first one.
Or the third one. Or fifth. How many of those REALLY awful stinkers did they make anyway?


Have Fun,
Keri the Anti-Trekkie

PS. Surprisingly, I like the Star WARS movies OK. Odd, because I've always had a strong dislike of Star TREK.
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Careful you may get flamed around here but no decent geek boyfriend would subject their significant other to such a personal obsession, that would be like my fiance forcing me to watch Harry Potter--we suffer with our differences but do not force them upon eachother perhaps he was more obsessed with the spock ears than he was with the benefits of an intimate relationship LOL
 
Sorry for implying that all Trekkies are obsessed to the point of:

Always working Star Trek into a conversation,

Never obtaining a Driver's License, Job, House, or Life in general.

Obviously, this was a Hard-Core Trekkie and not to be confuse with the functionally Trekkerate.

Yes, I know that people get all obsessed about all kinds of subjects.
I was trying to make the point that I was merely there as a Chauffeur / Date as were a very few others.

That theater by definition (1st showing, 1st day) was full of hard-core Trekkies.

Three decades later it still saddens me when I think about it.
Star Trek ate my Boyfriend! :eek:

To be fair I'll blame TV in general, OK?

Have Fun,
Keri

PS. Star Trek One is still the Worst movie I've ever seen followed closely by most of the others.
I was hoping they got it right or at least better last year but....
No, they didn't.
 
It's not so bad...

Fortunately, I don't go to see certain genres so I'm already ahead in terms of watching disappointed films. For example I don't watch British films about football and the working class. Yes, I saw Snatch and I saw Lock, Stock...

American horror comedies are awful too. Even on television, I don't like wasting my time with them.

So for me, it's mostly romantic comedies. But that's what gets me into some beds, so I'm fine with Sandra Bullock and 'Jennifer Lopa'. Besides, they are still better than some friends wanting to watch horror or catastrophy...

Yeah, no more Saw and chainsaw for me, thanks!
 
I love musicals, but I recently tried to watch Mamma Mia! and turned it off half way through. It has a great cast, and I know it was huge on Broadway, so I was surprised that I hated it.

I guess if you're going to film a musical, it's best to use people who can actually sing instead of cramming as many "names" in as possible.
 
"If" with Malcolm McDowell. Give it a try!

I watched it a number of years ago, and I still really don't know what that movie was all about.
 
I honestly think The Godfather is appalling. Tried twice but have never made it to the end.

V For Vendetta is also embarassingly awful.
 
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