My first thought for this thread was A Few Good Men. It includes two actors I loathe, in the form of Tommy Cruise and Dummy Moore, and another I feel is drastically overrated (Jack Nicholson, who played Jessup with zero understanding for the kind of man he might have been). Worst of all, it gave us the line "You can't handle the truth!", which in the context of the story epitomizes the tortured arrogance that fueled the worst excesses committed by the Nicholson character. However, the line has taken on a life of its own and now gets parroted all to often by people suffering from the same blindness as Nicholson's Col. Jessup, and with the mallet-headed triumphalism given it by Nicholson.
And toss in True Blood. I rarely bail on an HBO series, but this one (hah) sucks majorly. Poor acting, including tons of fake southern accents, a script straight out of a romance novel, and it's taken the Iceman from Generation Kill and turned him into an emo wet dream.
I missed you too. I go through movie hibernation during baseball season and then watch everything in the winter. Unless this was a great year for American films, Birth remains the last great American film.
One of the most stupid movies ever made. It took an interesting story and screwed it up. You are correct the writers had no clue how to portray Jessup. A man like Colonel Jessup would never be so stupid as to ruin his career over a slacker like Guttierez or whatever his name was. He would have waited until the trial was long over and would have arranged a "chance" encounter with Cruise's character and told him off.
I think it also got a boost due to Jean-Pierre Jeunet's reputation. The problem was that it was such a departure from the movies that made him famous that it almost seems like a bait-and-switch.
What an unmitigated, unapologetic, unbelievable, roll your eyes, cringe worthy, no holds barred piece of shit. Michael Corleone would whack Al Pacino if he knew what he did to his good name.
Just caught this on HBO. Bad, even by Soderberg standards. The only redeeming feature was Ellen Barkin looking cougar-licious.
Eh. All that scene did was remind me of the flaming stampede from the beginning of Mars Attacks! And then I realized that I could've been watching a film where Jim Brown punches the crap out of a bunch of aliens. If you ever find yourself forced to watch a chick flick for some stupid reason, try to sway the crowd to Steel Magnolias. Why? Julia Roberts dies. Good times. My additions to the thread are both musicals: My Fair Lady and Seven Brides For Seven Brothers. There are plenty of films I don't like or can't stand, but those are the only two that make me angry in a very literal sense. The ending to My Fair Lady is terrible. If they'd kept the ending to the play it'd be a film I'd enjoy watching; as it stands it's merely a display on how a monstrous, loathsome finish can absolutely ruin a previously enjoyable movie. I know I've said this before, but my personal summary for Seven Brothers is "Stockholm Syndrome: The Musical!"
There are two problems with a thread like this. One - some movies shouldn't be loathed, because you're stupid if you expected any better. For instance, as soon as you heard "Jim Belushi stars in [insert bomb here]", you know it will suck. So if you watch it, its your fault. Its like eating shit and complaining it wasn't prepared well. No kidding - its not supposed to be eaten. Is the world worse for Battlefield Earth being made? Maybe - but its a movie based on a Hubbard book. Why did you go see it? The second problem is that most movies aren't really LOATHSOME - you don't come out feeling angry at the director. You come out thinking "well that sucked", but rarely do I find the entire spirit of the film objectionable. For instance, someone here said "Good Will Hunting". I can understand why people wouldn't like it. (I find it immensely watchable.) But its not really loathsome. Just annoying or uninteresting. There's nothing in that movie that is fundamentally offensive. However, there are some that do merit inclusion on this list: 1. Napoleon Dynamite - the very idea that idiots being earnestly idiotic and us having to take them seriously is loathsome. On many, many levels. I hate this movie, I hate Jon Heder (who can't act worth shit) and the very idea of this movie being made. 2. Sicko - I loathe any movie that shows such monumental disdain for its viewers. It assumes you're stupid. That's loathsome. 3. And, the most loathsome film ever...........Bonfire of the Vanities. I'm SHOCKED this hasn't been mentioned yet, although perhaps that's because its been buried in the same warehouse as Indiana Jones' Ark. Taking the best book of the past 30 years, casting Tom Hanks as Sherman McCoy (a piece of casting so unbelievably awful it boggles the mind) and Bruce ********ing Willis as Peter Fallow, a casting choice that is, somehow, even worse than Hanks as McCoy.....which should not be possibly under the laws of physics. Even worse, Willis was forced on the movie because he was a big hit with Die Hard, epitomizing all that's wrong with studios. (Hey, the Scorpion King made money - lets cast the Rock in the big budget adaptation of Hamlet!) Almost worse, the two actors DePalma wanted, Cleese and Jack Nicholson, would have been nearly as bad. I know this was before the internet, but how difficult could it have been to locate a vaguely gay Englishman (I repeat myself, granted)?? Melanie Griffith is a master stroke of casting comparatively, and I'm not sure I'd cast her as herself in her interview. An all around loathsome project that is deservedly not allowed on television ever again.
Once upon a time, when I was adolescent and disconnected I tried to watch this movie. Not only could I not sit through it but it made me dislike Cat Stevens. Ill never forgive them for that. (although i think the 'anal exploits' label is a fitting touch)
YES. To me, this movie is nothing more than Oliver Stone jacking off into a camera for about 2.5 hours. Which, of course, doesn't exactly differentiate it from many of Stone's other films, but in this one it just has NO purpose whatsoever. I've never ever walked out of a theater, but if I had seen this when it was released I'm about 90% sure I would have.
Loved how Kevin Spacey called it the best screenplay he'd every read and loved it when the movie ended his career.