So, I'm watching Sunday Night Football and I'm inundated with advertising for the new movie "The Blind Side" starring my favorite actress, Sandra Bullock. The hype describes her performance as "Oscar Worthy". Having seen that nonsense the only topic today can be worst movie ever. You know my choice, but what you may not know is that the previous winner in my mind was "Cobra", starring Sly Stallone. "You're the disease and I'm the cure." Apparently he was the cure for those who were suffering from the desire to watch a godawful movie.
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Worst movie, huh? Geez, there's so many to choose from I don't know where to begin.
My worst movie ever, of all time, would probably have to be Napolean Dynamite. I hated that movie. It might have been a product of hype, but I just found the jokes unfunny and the characters annoying.
28 Days Later comes in at a close second, also possibly due to hype, but more due to a stupid story line. Really? After one month, a bunch of trained military personnel are going to be willing to rape underage girls?
For me, 28 Days Later is worth it just for the initial London shots. Chillingly awesome. You are right though, it does go downhill once they meet up with the military.
For some reason, Napoleon Dynamite works for me. I cannot possibly explain or defend myself on this stance, because it really is awful - I just like it.
I thought 28 Days Later was highly regarded as one of the better recent Thrillers. Not that I'd see it anyway. I hate scary movies.
I think my hatred for it would have been tempered somewhat had it not been so highly regarded. Nibbish is right about the opening shots, that much was pretty awesome. The plot just dives off a deep cliff into an abyss of stupidness after that, though.
The second one was better about that, even if they still have a few 'if we're that dumb we deserve to become extinct' moments.
After one month, a bunch of trained military personnel are going to be willing to rape underage girls?
sadly, I don't see anything remotely implausible about that statement.
I liked 28 days later, but then again I'm no aficionado of the zombie / horror flick genera. I think the film maker's motivation for the soldiers demented sexual desire was an attempt to show how quickly society's rules can break down in the face of great disaster.
dunno. i've seen some crappy movies, but i can't think of one to label the worst movie EVAH. one that pops to mind as a movie that i heard great things about, but i thought was utter crap, was sideways. the plot (and dialog) was predictable, the characters were annoying, and it was just overall bad. i have no idea why this movie was so well received.
I've never seen Sideways, but I've heard lots of people (morons?) curse merlots because of it. I like merlot, dammit.
I both liked Sideways and hate Merlot.
ditto for Moss
Loved Sideways. Thought the characters were believably prickly, the dialog both funny and sad, and the scene towards the end when Giamatti drinks his prized bottle from a styrofoam cup strangely moving. Plus, the DVD audio commentary between the two leads is one of the funniest I've ever heard.
I liked Napoleon Dynamite and Sideways. I'm 2-for-2!
ditto
The Happening is without question my least favorite movie.
The wife semi-forced me to see Management last night (terrible chick 'romantic comedy' featuring Jennifer Aniston and Steve Zahn), and it was predictably awful, but probably has the title of 'most unrealistic movie' I've seen in a LONG time (and I've watched Final Fantasy: Advent Children fairly recently).
Management is on my list of movies I might be willing to watch with my wife. May have to reconsider. It made my list because of Zahn grew up in Marshall, which is 45 minutes from where I grew up. So I've always given him props.
Steve Zahn's birthday was just a few days ago, I believe.
My wife and our best friends all independantly arrived at the same worst movie as SBG's, but I have a particular annoyance with movies whose plots are based on bad science. 2012 had some possibilities as an action-packed disaster movie (yes, 2012 is near a solar maximum; yes, an earth-directed CME has the potential to cause trillions of damage to the electrical grid), but when I read that Planet X / Nibiru was involved in the plot, well, the cr@p is piled even higher. Still, I have to go with The Core. 'Nuf said.
And don't you hate how people can never spell "independently" right?
Amen to The Core, the king of all bad science shitty disaster movies. The remarkable part about this film is that it gets noticeably worse as it goes. It's like at some point someone just said "Eff this, the movie's gonna suck anyways, why not go all-out?" We developed a great drinking game related to this film in college. It's the perfect movie to drink while watching because it just gets more entertaining as you go along. If you want to try for yourself, the game was simple drink when: Someone says "The Core", someone says "unobtainium", or someone spouts bad science. Suffice it to say, it's hard to last the whole film
Q, who those of you have met at the Conventions know is one of the most mild-mannered people on the planet, goes into a violent rage whenever anyone brings up "The Core". He is a plasma physicist so the bad science absolutely grates him.
When I saw the preview for The Core, I started laughing like it was a parody of a disaster film. I fell asleep the one time someone tried to show me the movie.
Apparently 2012 is based largely around the premise that neutrinos are exhibiting non-standard behavior and increasing the temperature of the earth's core, which I have to say is one of the most preposterous movie premises I have ever heard. Neutrinos are essentially the weakest interacting of all the weakly interacting particles in the universe and even though tens of millions of neutrinos per second pass through every square inch of the earth every day, we need to build huge kiloton detectors (and place them underground so as not to be drowned in background noise and they don't really interact with the ground anyway) just to get a few events per day because they interact that weakly. Somehow, apparently, the fundamental nature of how neutrinos interact with matter is going to change and raise the temperature of the earth's core. Yeah, totally plausible.
I heard someone espouse that in 2012 the Earth's magnetic field will flip north/south (these events DO happen) due to a massive CME (?), and which will cause the Earth's rotation to reverse. WTF?! And why do channels like Discovery or TLC give these guys any air time?!
I recently went on a bit of a diatribe the other day when the History Channel went ahead and ran another Nostradamus show, followed by a UFO show. And that ghost hunting $h!t on Discovery. The quality of programming on these stations has definitely declined quite noticeably. I know television is a extremely cut-throat business, but the pandering to the LCD is infuriating. I shouldn't be subjected to watching drivel because the mouth-breathers of the world outnumber the intelligent. I'd love for History or Discovery to put their foot down and say "We know we might take a slight hit, but we want to be the place for high quality, intelligent programming." and make it an oasis in a sea of TV stupidity (in essence, what the WGOM is for the internet).
agreed. the history channel still has the most integrity, but it's being bled away. remember when TLC used to be a decent channel? i refuse to watch anything that network produces anymore...
TLC? You mean the "huge dysfunctional families" channel?
i'm talking about 10 years ago. i didn't have cable again for a long time, and when i got it back, it was just a steaming pile of horsec@ck.
The Discovery channel should just put their foot down and show nothing but Mythbusters and Dirty Jobs. Then it'd be awesome.
Yeah, the earth's magnetic field does flip every now and then, but it usually happens over the course of years (not sure how many, but it certainly doesn't flip instantaneously), and it has certainly never reversed the course of the earth's rotation.
Andrew, why doesn't Q just use his Q-continuum super powers to make the genre of preposterously stoopid Sci Fi movies go away?
During one of The Blind Side commercials the other day, Sheenie, my brother and I had the following conversation:
My brother: That looks pretty good.
ME: Eh, I don't need to see it. Sandra Bullock will ruin it.
Sheenie: She's made a few decent movies. Like Miss Congeniality.
My brother: Yes, and the one with the bus.
Sheenie: But she did also make that one with Harry Connick, Jr. That movie was terrible. The only movie I can remember worse was The Golden Compass.
So, seeing as how I haven't seen the WGOM's least favorite movie, but I did endure the utter garbage that is The Golden Compass I need to second Sheenie and submit it as the worst piece of crap of all time.
I have a couple of nominations. As a recent college student, I was forced to see a lot of crappy movies but the two that stick out are
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer with the awful writing and the blatant product placement. The flying car was covered head to toe in Dodge logos!
Epic Movie. You can probably add to this Disaster Movie, and Meet the Spartans (which I had the sense to stay away from). To most disappointing thing about this movie was not the movie itself, but the fact that my friends at the time found it humorous. They are no longer my friends.
Those movies (and Scary Movie series) could be fun parodies if they were at all clever instead of stupid. But think of the money saved by hiring Jr. High School writers!
There is one spoof movie in the last decade that I can watch, and do watch, over and over. Not Another Teen Movie. Aside from Simon Pegg's movies of course.
Please, don't even lump Simon Pegg's films with those others. They rock.
Thumbs up to "Not Another Teen Movie". But to lump Pegg's movies in is a little off-base. Movies like NATM, Epic Movie, Disaster Movie, et al. mock specific scenes in specific movies (some obviously do it better than others), while Shawn of the Dead, Hot Fuzz mock entire genres, which gives them more freedom in execution and a more universal appeal. I'm not a scary movie guy, mostly because I don't find them scary and are thus pointless, so the percentage of jokes in the "Scary Movie" series that aren't generic boob or fart or whacked-in-the-nuts jokes I don't understand. On the other hand, everyone has seen some sort of zombie movie (SotD) or cop movie (HF), so the more general allusions are more widely understood.
I guess I didn't mean to. I obviously agree with you on this. Pegg's movies are actually good. The 'Spoof' movies really aren't. I never saw Scary Movie, but I have a feeling I wouldn't care for it.
But I don't know what it was with Not Another Teen Movie. There were a lot of specific jokes that if you hadn't seen the spoofed movie, you wouldn't get, or without a certain knowledge wouldn't get like their lunch room, Anthony Michael Dining Hall. With the exception of a couple of gross out gags, I thought it was more clever than not.
Or maybe its really bad and I just get amused by the lines being shouted off camera.
I think NATM is in on the joke. My favorite bit in that movie is when the black guy says "I'm just here to say things like 'shit', 'damn', and 'that is whack'." then follows it up with his next three lines being "shit" "damn", and "that is whack" It's more taking the piss out of the genre and thereby admitting it's shallowness, more than just exploiting cheap parody.
I haven't seen any of these movies, but the Anthony Michael Dining Hall lunch room made me laugh.
I hope you also got a chuckle when the football team played in the Harry Dean Stadium.
At RottenTomatoes, the 4 stellar movies that are Epic, Date, Disaster, and Meet the Spartans have a COMBINED 12%. And by the community, they have a COMBINED 45%. Yet people see these movies, and they continue to get greenlights.
I hated the first Fantastic Four movie that I avoided the second one like it was rabid. Not even a Jessica Alba nude scene could have enticed me. I enjoyed the FF comic books as a kid, and just knew they would total ruin the Silver Surfer for me if I watched the second one.
Um hated it so much...
Where can I requisition an edit button, Boss?
Show of hands... who doesn't have the ability to edit at least their own LTEs?
It comes and goes for me. I haven't been paying close enough attention to discern a patter yet. Right now - no edit function.
It seems to vary by thread for me.
You have to be logged in.
What I have noticed is when someone who registered before me makes a post I cannot edit it but when someone who registered after me makes a post I can use the edit feature. That might just be in my head though..
Varies by thread for me as well, although it seems to be a time based issue for me, I edited a comment earlier today and now I don't have the option with the same comment.
EDIT: I have the ability to edit this LTE, but just noticed a clock ticking down from 30 minutes, if that helps.
EDIT #2 No clock this time, I'd never seen that before, but I'm also viewing the page from firefox for the first time since the reformat.
Not even a Jessica Alba nude scene could have enticed me.
Hey, now. That depends.
I was a ginormous Silver Surfer comic fan... I still have not seen the movie. I have stumbled across it on Dish, but within 5 seconds, I turn the channel. Truly awful.
We went with a neighbor couple to Step Brothers in the theater. For some reason, this couple always drags us to crap. In any case, the film/projector broke down halfway through and we gladly accepted our free passes and got the heck out of there. Still have not seen the last half of the movie, but the first half made me question humanity.
Sorry to step on the worst movie evah theme (of which I will have thoughts on later) but I couldn't sit on this.
This is for you Wire Fans. Ten minutes highlighting the 100 greatest Wire lines.
Definitely NSFW due to some mother lovin' language but it is wonderful (the Sheeeeeeiiiit montage is classic). I think it's pretty much spoiler free but may not be 100% spoiler free. Enjoy!
Just in case there are some spoilers, I will wait to watch that until I finish the last three seasons. (finishing season 2 tonight! Whooo!)
Gotta love the opening picture on that link. Omar putting Levy in his place and dangling his tie at Bird.
I desperately want to watch this, but, alas, we're still working through season four.
I really don't think there are spoilers here or you would have to really parse each scene to notice them. Remember it's one hundred lines in 10 minutes or about 6 seconds per line. There's definitely no "Colonel Mustard in the Kitchen with a Candlestick" moment in the whole vid.
There's a spoiler in the final minutes about two of the characters.
i dunno, i think the piece is wrought with spoilers. maybe not for your average viewer, but anyone who's made it through the first season of the wire obviously has a special attention to detail that others lack. i say finish (i'm still in season four, myself), and then enjoy this.
I gotta say Abraxas: Gaurdian of the Universe. It's one of those movies you think should be so bad it's funny, but it just isn't. At all. However, it still may be Jesse Ventura at his finest.
Jesse Ventura will not be at his finest until he is under the ground.
Wow, Twayn, tell us how you really feel.
In his defense, he had lunch with me today. I think my bitterness rubs off.
I had lunch with the former Jim Janos and I found him very pleasant one-on-one.
Jim went to community college with my father-in-law and tried to get him to come wrestling at some club or something once. And then while my FiL left for a MNDOPT job in outstate, Jim Janos left for California with his GF.
Not even as White Lightning?
Heh heh. I own that film. Not that I've ever watched it. I think I'd better move it up in the queue.
The Game; I just wish that movie would have been over.
Can't Stop the Music ftw. EIGHT on the tomatometer.
pft. That's nothing. Epic had a 2. And a 10 by the community. To even convince the public that it was that bad is impressive.
Bullock, Oscar-worthy??
This got brought up by Spooky the other night. It was decided that the writer meant 'Razzie', and the editors somehow missed it. An unfortunate error, to be sure, as it kind of changes the whole focus of the article.
I've mentioned this before, but Jingle All The Way. We have a cornucopia of everything offensive:
--a movie that initially tries to call out the commercialism of Christmas ends up glorifying it at the end
--real-life, mean-spirited violence in what is supposed to be a movie aimed at kids
--a creepy subplot with Phil Hartman hitting on Arnold's wife
--a snowy Christmas shot obviously made with fake snow in Hollywood
--Sinbad
I think I mentioned this before, but Cloverfield literally made my wife sick because of the shaking camera. I can't remember ever walking out on a movie before that. It was a thriller with characters you could care less if they die. Not good.
Another nomination was Santa Clause 2. A lot of the disappointment came from I really enjoyed the first one. I watch that one with the boys every Christmas. Didn't bother to watch the third Santa Clause.
I can understand the handheld shots for Cloverfield or Blair Witch Story, but what was with all the Parkinson's-like filmwork in the third Bourne film? I'da smacked the director had I been there when that was filming.
Amen to this. This bugged the crap out of me in what should have been a great movie.
That and the director's need to peek over characters' shoulders to catch the action. Many times just getting the back of the head in a conversation. WTF
I agree, I really enjoy the trilogy, and the second one is one of my favorite movies in the genre, but the shaky-cam shots in the third were totally unnecessary and disorienting.
Aww... I liked Cloverfield. It was massively overhyped and read into way too much., but I thought it was a decent 'normal people in a crisis' movie that had, you know... normal people (as opposed to the 'he's just a normal guy... who used to be a cold-hard killer with the navy seals' kind of disaster movie that always seem to crop up).
I agree with this, I found it to be pretty entertaining.
HA! Last night my brother handed me a DVD and said 'if you want to watch a really horrible movie, you should watch this.' It was Cloverfield
The two worst movies I ever paid to see in the theatre: A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon and The Jerky Boys. The first is a lame River Phoenix movie which taught me a lesson about going to see a movie with a large group. The second one I saw because I'd heard so much hype about their tapes, without having actually heard the tapes for myself. I still wish I'd walked out and demanded my money back.
Oh, and Hannibal really sucked, too.
hey, good luck getting your money back.
That was a snuff film! Haha!
That's pretty funny.
I'm going to chime in here, even though I'm only an occasional commenter. I hated Burn After Reading with a passion. My sisters and I walked out in the middle.
Also saw Great Expectations that came out in '98 with Ethan Hawke. Yuck! I am willing to overlook a lot of implausibilites in a movie, but I couldn't handle this one. Can't believe I let my husband take me to this one instead of Titanic.
Nooooo. Did you walk out BEFORE the infamous Pitt/Clooney encounter?!?!? I admit, the movie was odd/slow/without identity before that point, but from that point on the movie became completely clear and made it a personal favorite.
Right, Burn After Reading was tediously annoying with a surprisingly good payoff at the end.
exactly right.
I almost turned it off right before that part. The last 20 or so minutes made it sort of worth it, but wow, were the first 3/4 of the movie difficult.
The Pitt/Clooney encounter is actually why we walked out. Not every character in a movie has to be loveable, but most of these characters were horrible, horrible people. Brad Pitt was the only redeeming one, I thought. At least he was funny.
Ted was pretty likable. But he got what was coming too. Darn hatchets.
I'm guessing that might have spoiled something for me.
Occasional commenters who chime in once in a while become regular commenters.
That may depend on how Tricia feels about Sandra Bullock movies.
What, a litmus test? I thought all were welcome here.
I've never seen Hope Floats, so I can't comment on that. I liked Speed & Miss Congeniality though. Two Weeks Notice was stupid.
No litmus test. fw is just yanking on my chain.
No litmus test, but whether anybody who likes Sandra Bullock movies would want to hang out with this crowd is another matter.
More importantly, does she have an opinion on whether Dancing Queen is melancholy?
Stop, you're making me teary just thinking about it.
That Time Machine remake a couple of years ago was pretty bad, horrible in fact. The Coen Bros' Ladykillers was awful. Aviator sucked balls (sorry boss, had to throw that in there)
Yeah, I went to time machine on the strength of Guy Pearce's performances in L.A. Confidential and Memento. That movie taught me a very important lesson - all of your heroes will not only let you down, but kick in the face repeatedly as they do it.
Just another movie crying out for updated effects, but ruined in the process. The road is littered with them, unfortunately.
Guy Pearce still rocks, but what's a guy to do?
I took my wife to Duplicity this summer. Horrible beyond belief despite its respectable ensemble.
And would it be cheating to add the Rob Schneider The Animal.
You guys are funny. That's good enough reason to hang out here. I neither love nor detest Sandra Bullock and her movies.
You guys are funny...
I am continuously amazed that more people do not recognize this.
I know what you mean. I crack myself up all the time.
Don't ask why I started to watch this crap:
This discussion has led me to think about how the ability to rent or see movies other than in a movie theater really changes how I value a movie.
My wife has been pretty ill lately and going out to a movie ain't happening (which we used to do a 2-3 times a month). However we have rented a bunch of movies, many of which I didn't even think twice about seeing in the theater. The fact that I am watching them at home really changes the equation on how much I enjoy the movie. For instance if I would have had to spend close to $30 (2x$10 tix, plus concessions, parking, drive, etc) on Knowing or State of Play, I would have been pretty disappointed. Watching them in my home and sharing a bag of microwave popcorn, they were actually relatively enjoyable.
So maybe my disdain for Aviator is based on the fact that we went out to see it, that it was one of the three movies I decided to spend money on that month. If it had been a rental, I probably would have a different opinion.
I think that expectations definitely play a big role in how much people enjoy a movie, and the more money you drop down (or the more inconvenience you suffer to watch a movie), the bigger the expectations.
I agree. Besides the cost of tickets, concessions, etc., I also have the sitter cost. If I see a crappy movie in a theater, I get pretty pi$$ed. Even a marginal movie in the theater makes me mad. I'm better off just renting so the risk/reward trade off is better.
And the bar is even lower when you're watching the movie on cable.
I'm sure it's no coincidence that all of the "worst" movies that sprang to my mind were seen in a theatre. I've probably seen many more on cable in recent years that were about as bad but have already been forgotten.
I'd guess that the movies we LOVE the most tend to be ones we experienced in a theatre or in some memorable setting, possibly with a special date or good friend(s), too.
That's probably true. My wife's dad fixes the popcorn machines at the local cinema, so he has a permanent 'Admit +1' free pass card. We used to watch a fair number of movies in theater, and even if it sucked, you realize that you didn't spend any money on it, so it's not really a big deal.
That was the only way I got through Wicker Park, god that movie was a pretentious load of filth.
The fact that I am watching them at home really changes the equation on how much I enjoy the movie.
I agree in principle, recently Dr. Chop and I sat through Deception at home, and let me tell you, I want my time back. I'm not pissed about the rental fee, or the netflix turnaround, but even with diminished expectations I want a refund on 2 hours of my life.
Moss was thinking about this in relation to the pre-screening of (untitled). (See review below.)
Did Moss enjoy the movie more because it was free? Would Moss have enjoyed it equally well if it was full price?
Also, would Moss have told several people about the movie today if it was an ordinary weekend viewing, or was Moss subconsciously influenced to "spread the word" about the movie by attending a pre-screening?
Moss is in his own head today...
the worst movies I watched and can remember... 'Random Hearts' with Harrison Ford. Second place would be the remake of 'The Thomas Crown Affair'
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I watch a few flicks over the weekend. 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall' was alright. Its a Judd Apatow movie and I generally like the,. 'For Your Consideration' was a bit disappointing. I remember when it came out all the reviews were pretty glowing. I never got around it watching it until now. It had funny moments, and it was a satire on the Oscar hype, but I never got engaged into the movie.
On the other hand, 'Charlie Wilson's War' great. Tom Hanks was fantastic! Phillip Seymour Hoffman was outstanding too. And I watched this British movie called 'The Bank Job'. That was a treat! I stayed up well past my bedtime to finish the movie. It was based on a true story about a bank robbery in London in the 1970's, and...I wont spoil the rest. Even though the cockney accents and British slang was thick, I still recommend it.
You know what movie I hated, Adam. Was it the worst ever? Probably not but I do have a funny story about the movie. I got free passes from the Production Company or something in the mail so the lady friend and two of her friends joined us. The whole movie they saw how frustrated the film was making me and I commented on how I sure hope there would be people outside the theater to ask me how I felt about the movie. Sure enough, there was, and sure enough, I did.
I don't think that they were expecting the amount of disdain I had for this flick. It was outstanding.
I think I've mentioned this before, but I thought Titanic sucked. Decent special effects, but they don't come into play much until the last hour. By then I was so sick of the lame dialogue and forced love story plot I was hoping that nobody survived. Other than that, I'll nominate Howard the Duck, Water World, and Ishtar.
I've seen all four of these.
Titanic > Ishtar > Water World > Howard the Duck
But, boy it's close on those last three. I was not a big fan of Titanic, but I don't think it's down there with stink bombs like Ish! Tar! and the like.
I'll concede that. None of those other movies had a Kate Winslet nude scene, though.
Waterworld
Heh, we were just talking about this at bowling the other day. How can you hate a movie in which paper is so scarce that everyone smokes it? C'mon, it had Dennis Hopper for crying out loud! And jet skis!
Ok yeah, it sucked.
I was hoping that nobody survived
(un)luckily enough, history was on your side on this one.
They're all dead now, however. So, there are no survivors.
In the end, there will be no survivors. I suggest we drink more beer until then.
In heaven there is no beer
That's why we drink it here
In heaven there is no beer...
That does not exactly inspire me to a deeper faith.
Might I suggest Pastafarianism then? There, Heaven is Beer volcanoes and a stripper factory. I've been touched by His noodly appendage, and it's a pretty sweet belief system. RAmen.
Ummmmm....no. I don't care to have anybody touch me with their noodly appendage. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
That's cool. To each his own. After all, the First "I Really Rather You Didn't" says:
I'd Really Rather You Didn't Act Like a Sanctimonious Holier-Than-Thou Ass When Describing My Noodly Goodness. If Some People Don't Believe In Me, That's Okay. Really, I'm Not That Vain. Besides, This Isn't About Them So Don't Change The Subject.
Every beer is sacred.
Except shite beer, which is profane. Proof? Well, what about all that praying at the porcelain altar that it invokes?
Water World was going to be Moss' nomination...horrible.
Also, Eyes Wide Shut, and Ang Lee's Hulk...gawdawful.
Blargh, I stopped watching Ang Lee's Hulk after about 10 minutes. Drivel.
Haven't seen Ed Norton Jr's Hulk though.
So not on topic, but in the general theme...
Moss went to a pre-release screening of (untitled) last nite. It is a "smart" comedy in the vein of Thank You for Smoking (although totally different).
All in all, an enjoyable film, and definitely not LCD humor. The first forty minutes were absolutely hilarious, with many LOL moments. Of course, being a smart comedy, it had to get serious after awhile...but it wasn't spoiled by the seriousness. A main theme in the development of the various characters is how the audience's first impressions can be totally misleading...or dead-on, depending on the character. The ending was a little trite, but still a fine movie.
Up in the Air, by chance?
If you're wondering about the movie title...it's actually (untitled).
I once scored free passes to a sneak peak preview of "The Grudge" I would have gotten up and walked out had I not gotten a ride from my friend and thus had no way to go anywhere anyway. I didn't pay to see the movie and I was still mad.
I had the same problem when I saw Zoolander. I drove, and I'm too good of a friend to leave everyone stranded. Would totally have walked out otherwise.
You hated Zoolander? Oh, man, that movie cracks me up every time.
Me too
When my wife and I were discussing really bad movies, my daughter tossed that one into the ring. I've never seen it, so I couldn't judge, but she has pretty good taste for a teenager.
Okay, my wife and I have been discussing this and we've come up with a couple more.
My contribution is Up Close and Personal. That movie sucked so much it could pull matter out of a black hole. The wife's contribution is Jerry Maguire.
"SHOW ME THE EXIT!"
I'm a day late here, but it took me a while to think of what was absolutely the worst movie I've ever seen. It struck me this morning when I woke up.
In The Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale.
Now, video game movies are almost uniformly terrible. And ones directed by Uwe Boll certainly are, but this film is just something else. I get a kick out of movies that are really terrible, so I figured I would be able to get some laughs out of this. But it was two and a half hours of wooden acting from Jason Statham, and it wasn't made as terribly as his other films so there wasn't nearly as many laughs to be had. It was painful to watch. And I believe the new director's cut on Blu Ray is somehow longer. Awful, terrible, putrid "film."
Seeing the name "Uwe Boll" makes Moss envision a cross between Uwe Blab and Manute Bol. /shudder