"I Hated That!" Movies You Loathe

[Via_Chicago]

Inspired by a similar thread (http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=579428), I thought I'd start one in these parts as well. What are the movies that you absolutely loathe?

Are they sacred cows?
Utter crap?
Totally repulsive?
What?

While I don't condone angry arguments (:D), I'd say it's all fair game, if only because it makes things a hell of a lot more fun. So hate away, haters (thanks, Sarah Palin!).

I'll start things off:

http://www.theleadershiphub.com/files/images/high-noon.preview.jpg

You had me at "Stanley Kramer Productions"...

[Val1]

Well, that didn't take long, only the 2nd post to disagree with a choice. High Noon is awesome: great use of Tex Ritter's song, 4 lives compressed into an hour, and one of the most reluctant heroes in the movies.

As for the movies I loathe:

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. I got off the Star Wars wagon early on. The original Star Wars was almost a mystical experience for me, it was the biggest, baddest adventure I ever watched. I have never daydreamed as much about a movie. I saw the movie three times that summer and had to put up with intense grand-parental pressure to see it the 2nd and 3rd times. Then The Empire Strikes Back came out and I left the theater thinking: that's it? That's the best the Empire can do? And then the third one came out with the Ewoks and the love triangle being decided because Luke was Leia's brother? I watched the 4th Star Wars movie, I don't even know the name, when it came out on video and I couldn't take more than 15 minutes of Jar Jar.

Dune, with Kyle MacLachlan and Sting. I love the book, read it maybe 10 - 12 times, and I was afraid going into the theater that the movie couldn't hold a candle to the book, and I almost walked out (but since I paid for it, I insisted on staying).

Gone with the Wind. It's not so much that I loathe the movie, I can appreciate it and the scene that pulls away from the morgue at the Atlanta train station is spectacular, but I had three girlfriends force me to watch that movie as some sort of togetherness thing. Once it was on channel 20 in DC, and butchered by commercials, it lasted over 4 hours. I could have been drunk for a week on grain alcohol and not killed as many brain cells as I did that particular viewing. When my wife told me she was not a big fan of GWIW I practically proposed on the spot.

[CHICO13]

Anything with Adam Sandler in it and The Bridges of Madison County. They showed Bridges on a flight back from South America I was on and I said, hey...cool Clint Eastwood. By the time Dirty Harry starts to cry I was ready to open the side hatch and jump.

[oman]

So far this thread is batting around a .200.

[oman]

[I]Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back....

Insanity.

[nancyb]

Dune, ca 1984.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41X19K2EX9L._SL500_AA240_.jpg



Dune, with Kyle MacLachlan and Sting. I love the book, read it maybe 10 - 12 times, and I was afraid going into the theater that the movie couldn't hold a candle to the book, and I almost walked out (but since I paid for it, I insisted on staying).


I'd have walked, too, except that I was with other people.

[Hungry Dave]

Anchorman. That script seems so forced. Really most Will Ferrell movies where he's the star I can't stand. He was great in Zoolander as Mugatu but it's the same thing every damn time.

[Claymore]

The Star Wars flick with the midget teddy bears...which one was that? Yeah, that sucked.

Eyes Wide Shut - other than getting to see Nicole Kidman completely nude, that was a complete mess.

[tcmahoney]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7e/The_Juror.jpg/200px-The_Juror.jpg

The perfect movie for a bad blind date. I know. I checked. Anne Heche is the only reason to watch this movie. Seriously.

[Chicago1871]

http://artfiles.art.com/images/-/Whats-Eating-Gilbert-Grape-Poster-C10134384.jpeg

[Ringo]

Citizen Kane.
Crap. I'm firmly convinced that many people say its great because they feel an obligation to and only say it to sound smart or something. and I'm gonna interject a Friends reference in here. Yes, a Friends reference. They're doing a quiz to see who knows whom better and the question is 'What does Rachel say is her favorite movie?' Joey answers 'Dangerous Liasons'. Next question: 'What is really her favorite movie?' 'Weekend at Bernie's.' That's my point -- everybody says its great, but I think most of 'em are full of it when they do.

[Iceblink]

I've been saying it for years.

I hated every moment of this movie. I don't see how anyone can like it.

http://www.moviemaker.com/images/uploads/maltese_falcon.jpg

[Matrim55]

Citizen Kane.

I've been saying it for years.

I hated every moment of this movie. I don't see how anyone can like it.
I'll respect both of these opinions simply because they take balls to state. I don't agree with either (though I think Maltese Falcon is far from great), but I know it's not easy to be scorned.

Anyway...

http://www.iveslawoffice.com/breathless.jpg
What about the souffle?

Also:

http://www.reelmovienews.com/images/gallery/the-dark-knight-characters_472x312.jpg
Other than Peter Jackson films, I can't think of anything that has such contempt for its audience.

http://cinephile.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/ben_hur.jpg
I'm an huge Wyler fan, but this film is worthless save for the first 45 minutes and its delightful, gay sexual tension.

[SirManchester]

http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/12/A70-6257

http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/7/MPW-3992

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/books/everythingthatrisesimages/lifeaquatic345.jpg

Because they inspired a generation of yuppie/indie/poseur assholes.

[Via_Chicago]

Some good ones.

Regards Kane, I've seen a lot of Welles, and I still contend it's his second weakest feature (his worst being The Stranger). That's not to say that I still don't think it's great (I do, and that just goes to show how great Welles really was), but I can understand where people are coming from with this one.

I also agree about The Dark Knight although I didn't when I first saw it. However, the more I reflect on it, the more I actively dislike it.

Maltese Falcon: Yes, a boring movie. I'll take the meandering near-meaninglessness of The Big Sleep any day.

Breathless: I've always preferred Godard's more radical work (his post '65 films up through the present) to the early genre-reversal films. Breathless actually put me to sleep the first time I watched it. I'd much rather introduce folks to Godard with Pierrot le fou than, say, this or Band of Outsiders (cutesy nothingness).

I'm just waiting for Norsk Troll to show up and echo the hate for Eyes Wide Shut (which has swiftly moved all the way up to my second-favorite Kubrick!).

[spejic]

Any movie where someone tries to stop the Biblical Apocalypse. There's been a bunch and they all don't make any sense.

Oh, and I can't forget A.I.

[Bonnie Lass]

http://www.popartuk.com/g/l/lgfp1568+jon-heder-stars-in-napoleon-dynamite-napoleon-dynamite-poster.jpg

http://www.eat-online.net/art/images/food_and_movies/like_water/locandina.jpg

http://www.cinemotions.net/data/films/0141/29/1/affiche_Incredibly_True_Adventure_of_Two_Girls_in_Love_1995_1.jpg

I was forced to watch all three. My cousin for the first one, two ex-GFs on the last two.

[Michael K.]

I don't have any actual movies to contribute, but I do have this (http://hatedit.ytmnd.com/), which the thread was crying out for.

[Ismitje]

http://www.forgettherest.com/media/images/DVD/08600DVD_1.jpg

I know there are more - mostly I put these out of my mind, but this one was on the other night as we hurriedly scrolled past it.

[Pathogen]

English Patient. Probably goes without saying, though.

Independence Day. Every minute of that movie is an insult to intelligence.