A few movies I can't stand popped up as all time favorites on the other thread, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who occasionally wonders "how can anyone like (insert title here)". Usually the movies have many good points, but have one theme or scene that ruins them beyond redemption for me.

So... here are mine:

Forest Gump: No matter how stupid you are, do what you are told- and only good things will happen to you. Also, those close to you only have your best intentions in mind, even after you make millions of dollars... Yeah... right.

The Breakfast Club: Hi, can we take every stereotype of teenage life in the 80s, throw them together and make what many consider the "defining work of youth during that time". I was there, and my teenage years didn't look anything like that at all. Many years later, a movie called "Kids" came out, and that was a lot closer.

Gladiator: I don't care HOW crazy you are, if you are the Emperor, your personal guard/political allies are NOT going to let you into the arena with a killer. You want to be untrue to history to make a good movie, FINE, Braveheart did it. You want to take what could have been a good movie and ruin it with the final scene, you are an ass.

Titanic. My friends, my MALE friends (yes I questioned their sexual preferences upon hearing about it) saw it five times. I saw it once and the only coherent thought I got out of that flick afterwards was "I can't believe I had a supersize coke before a 3h+ movie".

Office Space: I was so bored by the time it was over I did not even remember what it was about.

my dad likes the titanic... I questioned his sexuality many times and also told my mother to run away as far as she possibly could.

Monty Python - Not funny, never will be.

Well that explains Shew....

I can't watch The Ministry of Silly Walks scit with out damn near pissing my self from the laughter. Best comedy PERIOD! Bitch.

Scary movie 1 and 2

I think I smiled once or twice during the evening when I watched both of them...

The upper-middle class twit of the year > ministry of silly walks.

agree on gladiator, it sucks

The Usual Suspects... that was such a stupid, predictable, boring movie. It didnt have an original bone in it's body, and Im sorry, but could the cast overact just a LITTLE more please??

Master Damoiel Mindbend
Retired Enchanter of the 60th Season

The twits were one of the best Flying Circus skits. Oh, and Shew is gay. Incredibly gay. Gayer than the director in "The Producers."

Dude, where's my car?

Maybe if I had been stoned off my ass at the time I would have laughed.

I would never watch a movie such as "Dude where's my car" if I was sober. It's hard to think about what you don't like or what's bad in a movie when you can hardly think.

Something about mary. Deffinately fell asleep on a date in the theater to this flick. oh ha ha, his name is woogie. It had a couple of funny lines, but nothing worth watching again.


Thin Red Line. one of the worst movies ever.

totally agree with ehrnam

Oh yea i forgot about Thin. Jesus what a turd. That lasted about 10 minutes in the VCR. I mean seriously what a steaming pile of filth. Best movie Sean Penn could do would be to go back to Iraq and get himself blown up. That was Sean Penn in Thin Red Linew correct? it was out so fast im not even sure.

Anyone who does not like Monty is a choadknocker. British humor > all.

Only idiots from some foreign guild wouldn't enjoy the quality of humor Robin Williams offers. Death to scums! (tm)


Anyone who does not like Monty is a choadknocker. British humor > all.

righttt......and ur making fun of me cause im in lotj /laugh thats funny, im not even european ;p

monty is actually very lame too.. its just people falling over and making stupid faces and movies and sing stupid songs.. and kick eachother all the time... stupid doesnt = funny

Talari, I'd take that back ... God may strike you down for that blasphemy.. and if not, that wont be us with the torches outside your house ...

robin williams humor is horrible

george carlin and dave chappelle own that fool

Titanic, much like many others... took me 3 attempts to actually watch the whole movie.. I saw the beginning the first time, then the end the second time and the middle the last.. I kept falling asleep.

The most boring movie of all times without doubt...

//Izola

Ummm...read this about the Emporer in Gladiator:

In the later stages of his reign Commodus became ever more obsessed with performing as a gladiator. He even changed parts of his palace into an arena in order to fight beasts there or gladiators. But Commodus was not satisfied with such private fights. He also appeared in public as gladiator. For the Roman public, or at least the privileged classes, it was a harsh shock to see their emperor publicly debase himself to the level of a slave or a prostitute in the arena. For, in Roman attitudes, gladiators were indeed understood as one of the lowest possible levels of society.
Source: Commodus (http://www.roman-empire.net/decline/commodus-index.html)

robin williams humor is horrible

george carlin and dave chappelle own that fool

/agree!!! omg thank you! someone who is not brainwashed by the horriable jokes of robin williams

Ummm...read this about the Emporer in Gladiator:
Even if he was in the arena, I'm quite sure the shows would have been rigged.

Be that as it may, explain away the English Longbows (the real reason I hated the movie)

Leftover props from Braveheart? But if you really want to pick on an absurdity, try the armored carriage.

"george carlin and dave chappelle own that fool "

i now know your gay when you even mentioned dave chappelle

Good topic bat,

1. I'll second Office space this movie was trash and I work in a cube

2. Magnolia - no idea how come so many folks liked this movie.

3. Shrek - Has to be my ultimate hate on, NO shrek is not a classic and never can be a classic. Its a Fricken Disney movie they all have the EXACT same plot with the predictable feel good ending. A Classic movie actually does somthing new or different or pushes the envelope. Shrek Did non of these things.


4. Dare Devil or the Hulk - Both these movies sucked ass that is all.

A Classic movie actually does somthing new or different
Heroes are a troll and a donkey... :\

Daredevil and Hulk? Does anyone rate those movies as... "good" ?? :eek

On the subject, I hated "The Big Blue". Nothing less boring and LONG than this movie.

Its a Fricken Disney movie

No, it's not. The guy who wrote it was fired from Disney, and the entire thing is making fun of Disney...

Anyways, my most hated one that everyone seemed to love was Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Just thought the movie was shit.

Freaking Star Trek New Generation Movies!!! Hate EM and thier DAMN collectors plates!

oh man I agree on Magnolia. Not only was it pointless and artsy but it was way too fking long.
Pulp Fiction/Blue Velvet I always hear how great these movies are but I can't even get past ten minutes of the movie without being bored and tired.

I'll agree with Shewdogg about Monty Python, I hated Resevoir Dogs, and anything with Julia Roberts

I saw "Dude wheres my car" after smoking about 3 bowls of fine widow green and it was just plain not funny.

Anyone see bubbleboy? DWMC was that bad...even stoned.

We turned that off and put on half-baked like any good smoker

Training Day....
Oscar winner my ass.

Training Day SUCKED.


I didn't like Spider Man. :(

i agree with everyone on the gladiator, took me three tries to see the whole movie, and i shouted freedom in the final scene just cause the bitch didn't know his lines... :lol

oh and monty pwnz all! :D

Anything with George Carlin in it is god, which is why Dogma owns.

i now know you are EXTREMELY gay tim...

have you even listened to dave chappelle?

I don't listen to him, ,but I watch him on comedy central...

I think hes funny, just not as funny as your portraying him

Hate list:
1. The Fast and the Furios
2. Gladiator
3. Spiderman
4. Batman I-nth interation
5. Star Wars Episode II
6. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
7. Training Day

Very Disapointed:
1. The Matrix Reloaded
2. All STNG flicks except First Contact
3. Star Wars Episode I
4. Many of the clones/movies that hollywood spews out fall into this category. It is amazing how much shit gets made into movies

Shit just not worth wasting time on:
1. Anything with Sandra Bullock or Hugh Grant
2. With the exception of Pirates of the Caribean, every big budget movie released this summer.

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Hated crouching tiger, another one was gangs of new york. That movie was so boring and monotonous... it is one of the few movies I -have- fallen asleep on. Much like gladiator, I could have turned it off after the opening fight and been better for it.

I have to agree on Star Wars Episodes 1 & 2 they were ass but SPIDERMAN? I liked that movie.

Gangs of New York does have a long drawl in it. The first 20 minutes and the last 20 are all you really need to see. The rest is just filler story and you getting more and more pissed at the guy for getting pussy whipped by the chick.

It's a pretty decent flick otherwise.

I hated Crouching Tiger, too. My hubby bought it and watched it at home and I thought it looked like a Power Rangers remake.

I HATE the new star wars movies. The make up, the story line, the characters!!! Ewww.

Rocky I, II, III.. ad infinitum? *yawn* And that goes for most movies that just will ... not... die.

The movie with Robert Deniro and Billy Crystal.. analyze that, I think. Don't waste your money. I sat there, waiting, thinking the movie was going to get funny and before I knew it, the credits were playing and I still hadn't cracked a smile. I had to wake up my friend who went to see it with me, though. THAT was comedy.

As an aside, Monty Python and the Holy Grail will always rock.

I also have to agree with whoever mentioned Pirates of the Caribbean as ok. I put off watching it because I heard such terrible things, but finally went. I *loved* it. Although Johnny Depp was a bit too effeminate for me, I feel he played his role well. They all did!

I liked Crouching Tiger. 8(

I liked Rocky..=( Except 5.

Both Matrix movies, particularly the first. The second had a few more cool scenes, but also sucked for the most part.

Any Bruce Lee movies. Unarmed martial arts can bite my shiny metal ass, even more so when they are just about the only thing in the movie.

The Deer Hunter - Interesting setting, great actors, love, war, and Russian roulette... always a successful formula, right? I'm sorry, but this movie was a ridiculously long, tedious aberration.

Winner: League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. The only thing going for it is the quality of the special effects. Captain Nemo helping the British government? Absurd. Tom Sawyer as little more than a teen in 1897? He ought to have been at least as old as Quartermain. The villains get nifty futuristic weapons? Cool, let's go half a century into the future and pull some Stens out of our asses to give to Nemo's crew. Oh and while we're at it, let's temporarily shrink the Nautilus and all of its contents tenfold so it can go through a tiny frozen river into Mongolia. The characters retain little more than their names and a few superficial attributes apiece. This movie might just have worked if it had been tweaked a little and made into a real farce.

Willgatus is gonna carry a gun to school and kill all the cool kids... I can just tell.

I agree on Gladiator and braveheart totally.The bit at the end where he shouts freedom when he`s being Hung-drawn and quartered is totally hilarious and could only have come from the US,where people still seem to go in for patriotical trash.
Anyone who thinks crouching tiger sucks,probably also belives anime is for children :b

Culture is rarely a bad thing ;) For you people who think monty python isn`t funny.Think about the time it was made,and then look at the other humor that was around at the time.Key word ' originality '

Films that truely suck imo : Pretty much all US was films,period dramas,etc,etc

I agree on Gladiator and braveheart totally.The bit at the end where he shouts freedom when he`s being Hung-drawn and quartered is totally hilarious and could only have come from the US,where people still seem to go in for patriotical trash.
Anyone who thinks crouching tiger sucks,probably also belives anime is for children


Anime is fucking retarded.

How can you insult a movie like Braveheart and then think cartoons are so crafty? Instead of sitting there jerking off to the panty shots on the latest Sailor Moon, go watch a decent movie. You insult our sense of patriotism and its integration into some of our movies, yet you claim Crouching Tiger is better?

Shouting 'Freedom' is funny? I suppose characters shouting 'OMG GOKU, LETS USE OUR ULTRA ZENO MEGA SUPER DUPER BLAST RAY OF MASS DESTRUCTION ON THE EVIL TRANSFORMING TOASTER' while the cartoonists cleverly insert little shots of 8-year old girls wearing school uniforms so that the sexually-deprived may fantasize about something other than their Everquest girlfriend is any better?

Try this sometime. Go into a video store sometime and sit next to the anime section and watch who buys it.

(Yes, I know I subscribe to many stereotypes.)

my standards are pretty low, basically every movie named here I liked, including The Hulk, Spiderman, Gladiator, etc

but League of Extraordinary Gentlemen pissed me off, in many ways.

and I not only think anime is for kids, I think anyone who spends all day watching some Go-Shen-Shujin-Itzu-Karor-Kaka-Rot power up to kill Hwa-Ro-Shing-Chao-Itza-Shojon doesn't have room to talk about crappy American war movies.

Oh, titanic and monty python both are pretty weak, well, Holy Grail had some funny parts. But other than that

Fuck 'Wein owned this shit up.

Anime is FUCKING GAY.

I realize there is some cool Anime, but it's limited to the shit that actually has a good storyline.

One time I ran into some fucker at work watching "Dragon Ball Z" I asked him why he liked the shit (keeping in mind hes fucking 20) and he told me "It helps him focus his inner power"

Yup. Fuckin crazy nerds.

I've been reluctant to wade into this thread. It's obviously degenerated from "mainstream movies that you think sucked" into "my favorite movie type can beat up your favorite movie type."

I've got a lot (http://www.dvdprofiler.com/mycollection.asp?alias=Palimax) of movies. I've got a bit of Anime in there (Akira, Cowboy Bebop, Spirited Away), but I'm not exactly an Anime fan. I think 1% of my collection is just right for the genre.

There's simply a lot of good movies in EVERY genre. Crouching Tiger wasn't only a good wire-kung-fu movie, it was a great MOVIE. If I just wanted wire-kung-fu, I'd re-watch Iron Monkey.

Spiritied Away isn't just a good anime film. It's a great film.

Apolocapyse Now isn't just a good war movie. It's a great movie.

I've got this little Japenese horror-shock fetish I'm trying to satiate, and I'll let you know how it goes. Audition didn't live up to my expectations, Dead Alive is still on my to-watch pile, Versus is backordered, and my hong-kong import of Battle Royale is "shipped." (Don't let anyone tell you the 8-minute longer "director's cut" is the complete BR movie. When they added those 8 minutes of mostly flashbacks, they cut some of the gore... My Hong Kong release might be from a dirty master, but at least it's the theatrical release.)

Star Wars Episode I

the racing shit weas SOOOOOOOOO FUCKKKINGGGGG GAYYYYY!!!!! and jar jar binks licked my left one too

The Wizard of Oz.....what a stupid fucking movie....

Update: Battle Royale showed up in the mail today (from New Jersy - go figure). Plays fine on this machine, and doesn't read the disc AT ALL on my region-free Apex AD1100-W. (also "go figure.")

DVD-Shrink and Nero just finished making a fresh region-free copy on DVD-R for me, so, I'll keep you posted if this satisfies my need for asian-shock. [If not, I'm watching Dead Alive.]

Omg die irl, Shew!!!1!

Yeah, I'm a tad anal relative to my age group, but I'm not going to shoot anyone. That's what CS and FT are for :p

Additions to the suck list:

Star Wars Episode One sucked like a former White House intern.

28 Days Later would be a pretty good movie if the zombies/Rage-infected people actually looked scarier than their undead EQ counterparts :\ And what's the deal with a happy ending in a "horror" (and I use this term VERY loosely) film? To its credit, though, the acting and parts of the plot were pretty decent, and the scenery made me want to move to England.

Tears of the Sun: if the sun had seen this film, it would have indeed cried - over the eight (give or take a few) bucks it wasted. Predictable, minimal realism (any less, and the guns would shoot backwards) and of course the mandatory happy ending.

Pearl Harbor: Let's just say that the day the movie was released shall forever live in infamy.

Ainwein wins....insert another quarter and try again.

Anime is too large a genre to classify with one sentence. But most of the crap that is on Cartoon Network is just that, crap. Also it is completely for kids. Most of the Anime that is available on the Internet is pornography. And after one has looked about 20 images of that you have seen it all, unless you really get off on tenticles inserted into various orifices.

But with all that said, there is some really nice anime out there, Spirited Away comes to mind as does Vampire Hunter D, and hell I am a Star Blazers fan of old.

Now onto the "cinematic masterpiece" known as “Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.” I went to this movie very excited, because it had been awhile since a decent sword play movie had been released. Unfortunately this entire movie was nothing more then a big budget Saturday afternoon martial arts flick. Our heroes, the good guys, were such amazing warriors that they had the ability to jump from building to building. In fact they were able to do this with such grace power that they could hover for a time, in essence our heroes could fly. Hell if you squinted your eyes just right, you wouldn’t notice the wires holding the actors up. But people were very impressed with the fight sequences. Now I seemed to be the only one in the theatre who thought “if these people can fly why they would bother to sword fight, why not just fly above the enemy and drop a rock on them?”

But I understand that we need some tension and obstacles for our heroes to overcome, in order for their successes to mean anything. But this film, like all martial arts films had no tension. All the fight scenes were so heavily choreographed that they looked comical. At no point in any of the combat did I really think our heroes could loose. As with all martial arts films the action was so heavily choreographed, you could actually see the actors stand still and wait for their opponent to move into position. Now where did our heroes get this amazing ability to fly? Oh by the way did I mention that only the good guys have this ability? Anyway, our main hero played by Chow Yun Fat. Is returning from some sort of monastery, where is has been perfected his warrior ability, and has decided to no longer be a warrior. I guess he learned the ability there. Ok, so the action sequences seemed less then fluid and actual, but I can forgive that and I decided to pay attention to the story.

Well the story was the TYPICAL bullshit that is in every martial flick made. Our hero returns home to find a women he loves, a traveling merchant, who also has the ability to fly by the way. Our hero wishes to give up his violent past, but can’t because someone he wronged now wants revenge. This movie was nothing new, nothing worth an $8.00 ticket.

Battle Royal owns.. one of the best movies I've ever seen, I rarely , extremely rarely, get nightmares from movies but that one still haunts me. Few movies are that good with that low budget

//Izola

The only good anime was Robotech. End of line. I must say though on a different sublect Ghost and Dirty Dancing are 2 of the most god awful pieces of horse shit I have ever had the distinct mis-pleasure of ever seeing. Sweet mary mother of JESUS what turds. If you liked them you are gay.

rabican, you're pretty upset about the whole "flying" thing, aren't you.

Where was I?

Ah yes, Battle Royale. Let me say, first, that I enjoyed the movie. I enjoyed watching the relationships and alliances deteriorate when faced with the kill or be killed terror. I especially enjoyed watching the "Lighthouse" girls collapse under the pressure.

I'm *somewhat* not clear about the beginning (the smiling girl) and the end (the running duo). Of course, it was late, and I was tired, so I might have missed something.

Similarly, I'm not so keen on the ending. Just seems... ...odd.

Anyway, I'll give it a B+ for the sort of violence and gore I was expecting (it was NOT nearly as over-the-top as I was expecting), and a B+ for story. But it does get an A+ for that certain je ne sais quois.

I CANT Be the only person thinking this...

What the HELL are you talking about Palimax??

Master Damoiel Mindbend
Retired Enchanter of the 60th Season

What the HELL are you talking about Palimax??I watched Battle Royale late last night.
Synopsis: Anticipating simply another routine class trip, a group of 9th graders, led by their teacher (Takeshi Kitano), are hijacked to fight in the Battle Royale, in which 42 students are dropped on an island with food, a map, and various arms. There, they must kill each other, until there is only one survivor left, who will be allowed to return home.

As the brutal game begins, terror and panic challenge the students' fragile trust in one another. Some suspect everyone, blindly striking down those who cross their paths. Others form alliances, dreaming of a peaceful solution with multiple survivors. But in the end, there may only be one person left to tell the tale of what happened on the island.You can get it in region-3 DVD from PokerIndustries for about $14 delivered. Don't blame me if your DVD player isn't region free of if you don't have a DVD burner to make a regionless copy.

www.battleroyaleonline.com/ (http://www.battleroyaleonline.com/) had a GREAT deal of information about this movie. At the very minimum, it's an enjoying "massacre romp" of a film. At the best, it's a facinating look at terror and love.

Well being about as big a movie watcher as palimax seems to be, I have no opinion on this thread's topic.

Just thought I'd spread some knowledge by saying that the Correct "Genre" for Movies like Crouching tiger is called "Wuxia".