Movies you love to hate

[Acim]

Do you have any movies that you love to hate? Or just movies that would be on your 'worst of all time' list? I have 6, and the one at the top is a film I just love to hate, on so many levels. The rest are just plain bad, IMO. My apologies to anyone who loves these films, for I know there are some. Please do note whatever films would make your list (of worst ever).

1. Eyes Wide Shut (saw it in theaters. Almost walked out twice on it, wish I had).
2. Solaris (2002 version - I wanted to like it, I really did. Unfortunately, it is just not possible)
3. Lost in Translation (love the actors in this film, hate the plot of this film)
4. Toys (I may have enjoyed it more if I didn't fast forward through last third of it. But it felt right doing so)
5. About Schmidt (this is latest addition to this list and is better than Lost in Translation, so it has that going for it)
6. Planet of The Apes (2001 - The good news is this would be in my top 5 Tim Burton films)

 

[Revoltingest]

Last Tango In Paris- Tedious, pretentious & just plain awful. The movie is nicknamed "Butterball" for reasons you don't want to know.
There Will Be Blood - Sure, Mr Lewis gives a great performance, but the movie was a boring & dreary affair....& there wasn't any real blood until the very end.
Crash (from 2004) - This is the most ham fisted & preachy movie I've ever seen. The great revelation? Racism is bad!

 

[GabrielWithoutWings]

Sweet November - I try and meet the ladies halfway with chick-flicks but after my ex-wife and I watched this, I absolutely banned it from my house. The ending is so depressing that I wanted to slit my wrists open. It isn't sweet. It isn't even bittersweet. It's depressing, but not nearly as depressing as...

The Road - This one from my current wife and, again, it's been banned from my house. While the last movie at least has elements that help you identify with the characters, this movie seems designed to make you want to stab yourself in the face. It's set in a post-nuclear world (think Fallout 3, minus the guns). If you want to watch a post-nuclear movie with a satisfying ending, watch The Book of Eli. If you want to stab yourself in the face, watch The Road.

 

[angellous_evangellous]

I hate:

The Book of Eli (completely unoriginal)
Rush Hour 3
Alice in Wonderland (all of them)
Wizard of Oz
Any movie with Pauly Shore

 

[Songbird]

Avatar. I only liked the CG, which was pretty much the point of the movie.

 

[Revoltingest]

I forgot one....A Serious Man is one seriously & grindingly dull movie.

Here's one which everyone else hates, but is one of my top 10 movies of all time....The Hudsucker Proxy.
It was too over-the-top for many.
Here's a clip of the Hula Hoop's introduction, failure, & ultimate success.....using an almost-silent-moviesque approach (no dialog).
A true (not) story!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng3XHPdexNM

 

[Songbird]

I forgot one....A Serious Man is one seriously & grindingly dull movie.

Sounds like it. Reminds me, I read a book about emptiness as a spiritual path, and I never got very far. It was boring. I think a book on emptiness should be really short.

 

[Revoltingest]

I think a book on emptiness should be really short.

Indeed!

(Can't frubalize you yet, so you'll have to settle for this.)

 

[Songbird]

Indeed!

(Can't frubalize you yet, so you'll have to settle for this.)

I'll take it!

 

[Magic Man]

5. About Schmidt (this is latest addition to this list and is better than Lost in Translation, so it has that going for it)

Aw, I liked About Schmidt. I can see why someone would not enjoy it, though.

I used to consider Battlefield Earth the worst ever, and it's still up there, but there are others that might be as bad. The following don't necessarily fit into that category, but:

Magnolia - Why was this movie 5 hours long, and what the hell was up with the raining frogs? I still don't know how or why I made it all the way through.

Pulp Fiction - I don't really hate it, and it's not one of the worst, but I just don't get the attraction.

Bug - It starts out OK, but it gets insanely ridiculous.

The New World - Actually this would probably include pretty much any Terrence Malick film, but I avoid his others ones. I don't want to see 5 minute slow-motion scenes of birds flying off a lake. I want a movie.

 

[Magic Man]

There Will Be Blood - Sure, Mr Lewis gives a great performance, but the movie was a boring & dreary affair....& there wasn't any real blood until the very end.
Crash (from 2004) - This is the most ham fisted & preachy movie I've ever seen. The great revelation? Racism is bad!

Mark this day in history. Revolting and I agree wholeheartedly. I should have included these. I love Day-Lewis, and I have watched more than one movie only because he was in it, but TWBB was just bad, for the reasons you give. And I couldn't agree more on Crash.

Here's one which everyone else hates, but is one of my top 10 movies of all time....The Hudsucker Proxy.
It was too over-the-top for many.

Why do you say everyone else hates it? I've never seen it (but I keep meaning to), but I've heard good things about it, and it gets good ratings on imdb and Rotten Tomatoes.

 

[Revoltingest]

The Hudsucker Proxy is a polarizing movie. Ebert's review even left him schizophrenic about it. Some thought the rich visuals & score suffered from a lack of character.
I think otherwise. The movie makes many interesting & fun references (some arcane & some obvious) to history, culture & other movies. It had me rooting for the man
from Muncie & his gal Friday. For me, it outranks even Fargo as one of their greatest achievements. A very small minority agrees with me on this. See it, & discuss with
others. Let me know the consensus. Oh.....woof!

I even knew people who hated Fargo...yes, tis true!
(I'm a sucker for Carter Burwell scores too.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF3z-j8o39I

 

[Magic Man]

The Hudsucker Proxy is a polarizing movie. Ebert's review even left him schizophrenic about it. Some thought the rich visuals & score suffered from a lack of character.
I think otherwise. The movie makes many interesting & fun references (some arcane & some obvious) to history, culture & other movies. It had me rooting for the man
from Muncie & his gal Friday. For me, it outranks even Fargo as one of their greatest achievements. A very small minority agrees with me on this. See it, & discuss with
others. Let me know the consensus. Oh.....woof!

I even knew people who hated Fargo...yes, tis true!

You know one here. *raises hand* I actually didn't realize it was the Coen brothers. That definitely puts a damper on it for me, as I'm not a big fan of theirs.

(I'm a sucker for Carter Burwell scores too.)
[youtube]TF3z-j8o39I[/youtube]
Fargo Yeah - YouTube

Love Carter Burwell. I didn't realize until just recently how much work he's done. Rob Roy is one of my favorite movie scores. It's incredible how much he's done, and it's all great. He did the Mildred Pierce series for HBO, and it was great.

 

[Revoltingest]

You know one here. *raises hand* I actually didn't realize it was the Coen brothers. That definitely puts a damper on it for me, as I'm not a big fan of theirs.

Not even....
Blood Simple
Miller's Crossing
No Country For Old Men
??????

 

[Riverwolf]

The Star Wars prequel movies.
The Twilight movies.

 

[Magic Man]

Not even....
Blood Simple
Miller's Crossing
No Country For Old Men
??????

Haven't seen the first two (or even heard of them). No Country was OK until the end. The end was disappointing. Burn after Reading was OK. I didn't hate it, but I didn't especially like it. I'm also not a fan of The Big Lebowski.

 

[doppelganger]

Avatar. I only liked the CG, which was pretty much the point of the movie.

Second that. Horrible movie. It's a remake of Fern Gully with a $400M CGI budge and still not a good remake, at that.

Right up there on my movies I hate is the "Avatar of the Old West" - Dances With Wolves (or is Avatar "Dances With Wolves in Space"?)

 

[Rakhel]

I have to agree with Riverwolf's choices and have to add a few of my own

Thema and Louise
Chucky
Any Chuck Norris film

 

[9Westy9]

Stormbreaker. The acting is just dire throughout

 

[Panda]

Beowulf worst movie ever.