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Posted: May 27 2008 10:56 am

We all have one. Amongst those movies we hate, there's one that we hate like no other. One that, to this day, makes us ask, "Why? Just...just why?" Maybe it's one that just about everyone else hates, though you seem to hate it the most. Or maybe it's one that just about everyone else loves, but you just can't see what they do in it and you wonder to this day why no one else sees what you do in it.

Mine is one of the latter: Honey, I Shrunk The Kids. It's supposed to be a family comedy, but I don't consider every parent's nightmare coupled with Hell to outdo Viet Nam to be either family-friendly or comedic. Quite frankly, it both horrifies and infuriates me that anyone, let alone such a staggering number of people, could find that sort of thing funny on any level. I know of only one or two other people who hate it, definitely my physician and possibly my father.

But that, sadly, is just me. You guys?

Posted: May 27 2008 10:58 am

Zoolander. Fucking terrible. Ben Stiller should stick to directing. He hasn't been funny on-screen in years.

Posted: May 27 2008 11:01 am

i really really really hate Fargo.

mostly cause everyone said it was a great movie but i was very disappointed. i guess that would belong in the overrated topic.

also, cause my friend made go halves on a movie, but he didnt tell me what movie it was until after he showed up to my pad w/fucking Fargo.

Posted: May 27 2008 11:52 am

Well I would have to say Titanic. I haven't seen it though, and refuse to ever watch it. I hate it for all it's hype and self proclaimed "epicness" Also, everyone tries to get me to watch it, if not for historic value. I say Fuck you, National Geographic has all I need to know about the Titanic. It just looks like a bullshit time period romantic movie, that happens to take place on a sinking ship. Oh, and fuck Celine Dion.

As far as movies I've seen... Blair Witch 2. I actually worked at a movie theatre when that came out, so I saw it for free, and still felt like i needed compensation for the 45 minutes I wasted trying to get through it.

Posted: May 27 2008 01:00 pm

Well, I don't have any movies where I can't understand anybody else would like it. I know there is going to be somebody that likes each movie, and I can usually understand why.

I don't really know if there is any movies I hate. There are movies I am resentful of. I'm not big for remakes (with the exception of horror movies. Remakes are just part of the genre). For me, I'm not a big fan when the remake old shows, cartoons, or make new sequels for twenty year old movies. IMO, it goes through a lot of misses before there is a hit. As much as they fail, it makes me wonder why they even bother. And then some of these remakes even get sequels. I think a lot of my bitterness is because in my eyes, they are more worried about using an already established franchise to squeeze all the juice left in the lemon rather than trying to do the franchise justice.

I'm also not big on pointless sequels like Home Alone 3, or when they make stuff like Son of the Mask. I've also addressed this in past threads but it always get on my nerves when an actor is replaced by another actor to play the same character. If you can't get the actor to come back, write the character out of the script, like Smokey in Friday.

Aside from all of that, I can't really point a finger at one specific movie.

Title: Titlating Joined: Dec 17 2007 Posts: 5042

I hated history of violence, it all jyst seemed like shock for shock value sake and that's just lame as hell.

Joined: Feb 24 2006 Posts: 2578

"Mazes and Monsters". Social propaganda at its most appalling. I'd burn every last copy if I could.

Posted: May 27 2008 01:42 pm

I can't stand ET. People are always talking about how great the movie is, and yet all I see is some half-retarded alien befriending an antisocial eight year old prick.

Posted: May 27 2008 02:23 pm

If I don't like a movie I usually just forget about it. So I don't really have one movie that I hate above any other.

That being said, there have been several occasions of me going on a rant about Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, usually when talking about french cinema. The cutesyness of that movie is something I just can't stand.

Posted: May 27 2008 03:21 pm

Triple X, fucking garbitch! Mad

Posted: May 27 2008 03:39 pm

I bought Disaster! The Movie because it said Motley Crue was in it, and their names were first in the credits on the box. They were in the movie for all of 30 seconds, and you can see their segment on their Carnival of Sins DVD. The rest of the movie is puppet shit jokes, bad parody, and porn. There's exactly one funny line, and another part that's funny, but completely forgettable.

And yeah, sequels without the main character? Bullshit.

Joined: Aug 26 2007 Posts: 2752

God damn "Hangmen", the movie is not even B quality, I hated it so much i made a rant on IMDB, and i shall reference that once again because i'm lazy:

ReeperTheSeeker wrote:

This Movie is The Ultimate Cure for Insomina + 80s Retroness, 27 June 2007
1/10
Author: ReeperTheSeeker from United States

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

I walked into Blockbuster, itchin' to watch some good old fashion action movies. So i browsed around the action section until this movie caught my attention because the cover had in big bold letter SANDRA BULLOCK. An action movie with Sandra Bullock in it and it's rated R!? YAY! Although I will admit i prefer her in a comedy but if this is anything like 'Speed' then i was sold. Sadly Sandra really is not in this movie, her role is minor: "Panicky kidnapped girlfriend" (She is in fifth place on the actors listing for Jeebus shakes!) Apparently this was her first movie role (and after watching this movie, i figured as much) Sandra is the only living human in this movie, everyone else might as well be a Zombie in a B-Horror Flick. This movie deceived me saying Sandra was the lead . . . i fell for it like Biff from 'Back to the Future' when Marty yells "WHAT'S THAT . . .!!!" God, i wish i watched that instead of this.

Sandra is the only bright side of this movie, every time she is on camera it is like she is picking up shock paddles and yelling "CLEAR!" to get this movies going but it flat lines no matter how hard she tries. More on Sandra later . . .

The Movie is dull. Very Dull. Think of the Dullest moment in your life then imagine living through that moment for 110 minutes (for me, it is this movie). This movie even somehow makes Gun Fights and Bullet time effects boring, so boring that Elephant Tranquilizers are put to shame. And this movie's idea of Bullet Time is a close up of an AK in slow motion which mocks you as the caps spitting out of it represent each second of your life as it slowly ticks away. And I knew i was watching a bad movie because i found myself fast forwarding "THROUGH-THE-ACTION!" The plot? . . . there was a plot? Music? . . . even by 80s muck standards is Bad but at least it's the one thing that kept me awake. Acting? Sandra Bullock was good and . . . ummm . . . moving on. Is it any good since it IS rated R? No, unless R stands for Ridicules-snooze-fest.

And it is really 80s Cliché when a movie opens with an overhead view of a city (rocking guitar licks or power ballet) and ends with a gun fight in a grim factory complete with steel walkways and assorted pipes. Both of which this movie satisfies. At least this movie establishes what era it's from which was unnecessary since Sandra's hair was screaming "1980s!!!!" And a movie gets really ham fisted when you watch an assassin stripper kill a nerd in the bathroom and stuff his body in a box, which you respond to sadly saying: "that is probably the most action that poor sap ever got." Another Hammy moment is at the beginning when some-Secret-Agent-Dude caps a crowd of people and apparently this movie thinks people jump into the air and fall to the ground when they die. All that scene needed was the Mario death ditty or maybe Contra sound effects but Nintendo might have sued.

And it is sad when the main action hero of this movie rips off other BETTER movie icons. Before the big gun scene, Da hero is found standing in a boxing ring ('Rocky' anyone?), sporting a leather fedora (not 'Indiana Jones' too) with an ominous spotlights behind him (Terminator the 2nd before owning T-1000) What is really REALLY sad is that people on Youtube or Dailymotion can film better quality videos (with a crappy webcam no less) then this movie. I'm serious, most Rant videos recorded with bad audio and blurry picture are more entertaining then this movie. I cannot even call this movie by it's given name for it's very name bring back horrid memories of watching this cruel and unusual punishment (a freaking violation against human rights!) The only bright speck in this dark abysmal abyss is Sandra's career started taking off thanks to this movie. But oh Sandra . . . why did you have to be in such a nightmare? The paycheck better been worth it. The DVD also graces you with a little back story on Sandra as an extra, seen how she is the only one from this movie who end up being a house hold name. Which explains why this movie uses her name as bait for unsuspecting movie buffs, Crafty little critter.

I don't have much experience with bad films but i know BAD when i see it. I could bounce back from 'Mazes and Monsters' with a good old campy Bruce Willis Comedy. But not even Bruce could cheer me up after this movie. I have yet to see any Ed Wood or Uwe Boll but I think I'm amped for them now. For i can't even fathom a movie worse then . . . "GAG" . . . 'Hangmen' . . .

yup, that sums up how i still feel.

Posted: May 27 2008 06:45 pm

Char Aznable wrote:

I can't stand ET. People are always talking about how great the movie is, and yet all I see is some half-retarded alien befriending an antisocial eight year old prick.

I second that, Char. It really is a stupid movie that also spawned a crappy video game.

Also, my sister gets really creeped out by E.T. for some reason. I think it's really funny that she is. Very Happy

Posted: May 27 2008 06:46 pm

The Lion King. Fucking lions. Everyone tried to cram that movie down my throat. I fucking hate it.

Joined: May 22 2008 Location: Goshen, VA Posts: 6544

Ugh. The Lion King. I can't stand Nathan Lane's gay ass and I'm pretty sure he voiced Timon, or Pumba, whatever. His voice gives me seizures, worse than Gilbert Godfried.

Most Hated Movie is without a doubt "Roadhouse". It is so fucking bad that words can't describe it, they can't. I've never seen a good movie with Swayze in it except for "Red Dawn" and maybe "Donnie Darko". It all sucks.

Posted: May 27 2008 09:46 pm

joshwoodzell wrote:

Ugh. The Lion King. I can't stand Nathan Lane's gay ass and I'm pretty sure he voiced Timon, or Pumba, whatever. His voice gives me seizures, worse than Gilbert Godfried.

Most Hated Movie is without a doubt "Roadhouse". It is so fucking bad that words can't describe it, they can't. I've never seen a good movie with Swayze in it except for "Red Dawn" and maybe "Donnie Darko". It all sucks.

Man, I love Road House. What about The Outsiders?

Posted: May 27 2008 09:53 pm

Swayze was in the Best of Times, a good high school football/failed life/second chance movie with Robin Williams that is one of those hidden treasure films.

OH WAIT. THATS KURT RUSSELL. I always mix them up.

Posted: May 27 2008 10:32 pm

Really? I've never confused Russell and Swayze, but I get Kurt Russell and Jeff Bridges confused sometimes.

As for most hated movie, Star Trek: Insurrection. Did anything actually happen in that movie? Anything at all? It felt more like a really long, really mediocre episode of the TV series than an actual movie.

Posted: May 27 2008 10:35 pm

True, true dat. Though I would like to make many children with the woman character in that film.

Posted: May 27 2008 11:18 pm

Syd Lexia wrote:

Really? I've never confused Russell and Swayze, but I get Kurt Russell and Jeff Bridges confused sometimes.

As for most hated movie, Star Trek: Insurrection. Did anything actually happen in that movie? Anything at all? It felt more like a really long, really mediocre episode of the TV series than an actual movie.

For some reason I get Kurt Russel and Kevin Costner mixed up :S

I kind of hate Blair Witch project, my supervisor said it was just a college student project that was so good it made it onto the big screen and it was good if you viewed it like that, and then I see this list of fucking credits a mile long and look it up and realize he's a fucking dumbass, now it just fucking sucks dick. He made it sound so good and it just wasn't. I did kind of like the ending, and it may have been decent when all that hype surrounded it, about how these kids got lost in the woods and dissapeared, if I thought it were real it would have been interesting, but instead it's a piece of shit.

Posted: May 27 2008 11:26 pm

Dragonlance.

They fucked it up. They fucked it up so bad that if I ever won one of those $200+ Million Powerball lotteries, I would buy the rights to Dragonlance from WoTC, so they could never shit upon its good name again!

Posted: May 27 2008 11:29 pm

anorexorcist wrote:

Syd Lexia wrote:

Really? I've never confused Russell and Swayze, but I get Kurt Russell and Jeff Bridges confused sometimes.

As for most hated movie, Star Trek: Insurrection. Did anything actually happen in that movie? Anything at all? It felt more like a really long, really mediocre episode of the TV series than an actual movie.

For some reason I get Kurt Russel and Kevin Costner mixed up :S

I kind of hate Blair Witch project, my supervisor said it was just a college student project that was so good it made it onto the big screen and it was good if you viewed it like that, and then I see this list of fucking credits a mile long and look it up and realize he's a fucking dumbass, now it just fucking sucks dick. He made it sound so good and it just wasn't. I did kind of like the ending, and it may have been decent when all that hype surrounded it, about how these kids got lost in the woods and dissapeared, if I thought it were real it would have been interesting, but instead it's a piece of shit.

I really liked Blair Witch. Blair Witch 2 is the one I had trouble with. But then it didn't seem as bad after I saw the extra content that takes place between the two and I realized that 2 was supposed to be a movie based on the "actual events" in that content. It actually made it better the second time through when I realized why they would go from a documentary style movie to a traditional movie rather than believing they just did it for no reason.

Posted: May 28 2008 12:36 am

Bloodrayne. Holy fuck that movie sucks. It's the only Uwe Boll movie I've seen, and I only saw it to see what's-her-fuck's boobies.

Posted: May 28 2008 02:41 am

ross_rifle113 wrote:

Bloodrayne. Holy fuck that movie sucks. It's the only Uwe Boll movie I've seen, and I only saw it to see what's-her-fuck's boobies.

I didn't watch it. But I did watch House of the Dead for similar reasons.

Posted: May 28 2008 03:52 pm

Rudy

Simply because it contradicts the fact that "you can't always get what you want."

Metaphor:If your a midget you can't be a cop, sorry that's life.
Comparison: If your a small retarded kid you can't play college football.