Films you can't stand...

[Warped9]

Independence Day
Matrix 2 and 3
Trek XI
Starship Troopers
Battlefield Earth (but I think everyone hates it)
Superman Returns
Batman 2, 3 and 4 (before the Chris Nolan films)
Mars Attacks
Blade Runner

I'll think of more.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I liked the Matrix films but I had a problem with the basic premise, which is Morpheus' determination to free everyone from the Matrix. I never saw the big problem with it. So what if most people didn't know they were in the Matrix? It's not like the Agents ran a fascist dictatorship or anything. The society was pretty much the same as ours. I'm guessing the Agents interfered with people's lives very little, if at all. So I thought Morph should just shut the hell up and fly around in the wasteland in his own stupid ship. Oh and those random sex raves in Zion, what's up with that?

 

[BolianAuthor]

Here is my list of films that I think are the worst of the worst... and that's putting it as kindly as I can.

- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

- X-Men Origins: Wolverine

- Elektra

- Aeon Flux

- Star Wars Episode One: The Phantom Menace

- The Watchmen

 

[BolianAuthor]

I hate Tim Burton's stuff. All the gothy stripey black and whitey stuff.

And i thought i was the only one. The thing that really irritates me about Tim Burton is when he takes other IP's and then Burton-izes them into the same stupid annoying pseudo-gothic crap.

Other choices would be Stargate. The film took a brilliant premise then made it incredibly dull. The only thing that makes it even slightly tolerable is James Spader's acting.

And Avatar. Cameron spent 12 years on that? And if the film wasn't disappointing enough, the fact that its spawned a new 3D fad gives me further reason to dislike it.

I agree. Tim Burton has to be the single most unoriginal person in the film industry. All we ever get from him is gothed-out crap, with Johnny Depp as the lead, and Danny Elfman doing the music. And Christina Ricci as the female lead. God forbid Burton ever do anything fresh and original. I truly cannot stand his work.

 

[byron lomax]

"Brazil" sucks and is not as deep as people think. "Twelve Monkeys" is the far superior Terry Gilliam movie...it has all the depth and clarity of storytelling and characterization that overrated mess lacks. "The Third Man" is also painfully boring, except for the Orson Welles scenes. "Slacker" was torture to watch, and the worst movie watching experience of my life. The fact that it has fans and a Criterion Collection release sickens me.

I'm a big Slacker fan myself, though I can see why it would put some people off completely. I just found a lot of the characters fun and interesting (though often in a rather bemusing way), where others would find them irritating. You may throw up now, be my guest!

I do agree that Twelve Monkeys is better than the overlong Brazil, though.

 

[Nardpuncher]

I hate Tim Burton's stuff. All the gothy stripey black and whitey stuff.

And i thought i was the only one. The thing that really irritates me about Tim Burton is when he takes other IP's and then Burton-izes them into the same stupid annoying pseudo-gothic crap.

Other choices would be Stargate. The film took a brilliant premise then made it incredibly dull. The only thing that makes it even slightly tolerable is James Spader's acting.

And Avatar. Cameron spent 12 years on that? And if the film wasn't disappointing enough, the fact that its spawned a new 3D fad gives me further reason to dislike it.

I agree. Tim Burton has to be the single most unoriginal person in the film industry. All we ever get from him is gothed-out crap, with Johnny Depp as the lead, and Danny Elfman doing the music. And Christina Ricci as the female lead. God forbid Burton ever do anything fresh and original. I truly cannot stand his work.

Don't forget Helena Bonham Carter!

How many movies has she been in where she wasn't in some sort of Victorian period clothing?
I guess Fight Club. Maybe that's it!

Oh, reimnds me that I hate "Fight Club"... some sort of manifesto for rich white hipsters.

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

I don't get Office Space. As far as I know, I'm the only one who doesn't.

I'll just declare V for Vendetta the worst movie I've ever seen (and I watched Twilight, well, the rifftrax at least). What a piece of shit!

"V For Vendetta" is a masterpiece and I'm ready to argue about it for the next day, the next year or the next 500 years

Agreed! (Also, if I ever get married, I'll make sure it's on the 5th of November. It's the only way I'll remember, remember it.)

I also think "Blade Runner" is all surface, no substance. People say the whole replicants and humans relationship has some deep statement to make about human nature, but I just don't see it. All I see is Harrison Ford running around trying to solve some mystery I can't be brought to give two shits about and an original futuristic world that's more neat to look at than anything that happens in it is to think about.

Agreed.

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

Don't forget Helena Bonham Carter!

How many movies has she been in where she wasn't in some sort of Victorian period clothing?
I guess Fight Club. Maybe that's it!

There's also Planet of the Apes (2001) & Terminator Salvation.

 

[SalvorHardin]

And i thought i was the only one. The thing that really irritates me about Tim Burton is when he takes other IP's and then Burton-izes them into the same stupid annoying pseudo-gothic crap.

Other choices would be Stargate. The film took a brilliant premise then made it incredibly dull. The only thing that makes it even slightly tolerable is James Spader's acting.

And Avatar. Cameron spent 12 years on that? And if the film wasn't disappointing enough, the fact that its spawned a new 3D fad gives me further reason to dislike it.

I agree. Tim Burton has to be the single most unoriginal person in the film industry. All we ever get from him is gothed-out crap, with Johnny Depp as the lead, and Danny Elfman doing the music. And Christina Ricci as the female lead. God forbid Burton ever do anything fresh and original. I truly cannot stand his work.

Don't forget Helena Bonham Carter!

How many movies has she been in where she wasn't in some sort of Victorian period clothing?
I guess Fight Club. Maybe that's it!

Oh, reimnds me that I hate "Fight Club"... some sort of manifesto for rich white hipsters.

Ah, now there's someone I can't stand. Helena Bonham Carter.
And I'll more or less have to agree with Tim Burton projects. I don't much care for them.

 

[Winterwind]

Anything with Jack Black, Will Ferrell, Ben Stiller or Owen Wilson.

 

[tharpdevenport]

In no order:

"Avatar"
"Men In Black 2"
"Dune"
"Star Trek: Nemesis" (and that new one)
Any of the live-action Batman films after Burton's '89 -- that includes today's.
The Mtraix sequels -- FUCKING HORRIBLE.

"The Lord of the Rings" (live-action -- never seen the Leonard Rosenman scored animated film) -- do not get the big fucking deal. It drags, and those drags aren't used to further develop the characters or builds the drama later, and I feel completely empty in the end anyway. About the only thing it had going for it, was the complex world created for it, which in itself wasn't all that hot to begin with.

ANY of the Star Wars prequels.

"The Thing" -- couldn't make it passed like ten minutes.

"The Mummy 2" -- just a pointless action fest.

 

[Warped9]

All the TNG Trek films stink, but I can't get over the praise for First Contact.

 

[Davros]

I agree. Tim Burton has to be the single most unoriginal person in the film industry. All we ever get from him is gothed-out crap, with Johnny Depp as the lead, and Danny Elfman doing the music. And Christina Ricci as the female lead. God forbid Burton ever do anything fresh and original. I truly cannot stand his work.

Which one of his films has Cristina Ricci ever been in? I cannot think of a single one.

 

[SalvorHardin]

I agree. Tim Burton has to be the single most unoriginal person in the film industry. All we ever get from him is gothed-out crap, with Johnny Depp as the lead, and Danny Elfman doing the music. And Christina Ricci as the female lead. God forbid Burton ever do anything fresh and original. I truly cannot stand his work.

Which one of his films has Cristina Ricci ever been in? I cannot think of a single one.

Sleepy Hollow is the only one I remember

 

[Mr Light]

Oh yeah, I hate Spider-Man 2. There's no action. It's just two hours of teen soap opera crap with three brief action scenes in it. The only moment of creativity is the Evil Dead scene where the Ock arms come alive.

 

[scotpens]

Anything with Jack Black, Will Ferrell, Ben Stiller or Owen Wilson.

Amen and hallelujah! Will Ferrell is the unfunniest "comic" actor since . . . well, since Adam Sandler. Or Pauly Shore. And Owen Wilson is exactly the same in every picture he's in. He always makes me think he just lost his surfboard.

Hmmm . . . Owen Wilson and Will Ferrell in Dude, Where's My Board?

 

[Admiral2]

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: I never got past the first movie because it was dull, and talky, and just utterly non-entertaining.

You and I are of a kind.

I've had passionate debates with people online and in person about "The Thing" (1982). I just don't get what the fuss is all about. People tell me about how it's some science fiction masterpiece with powerful ideas and insights about paranoia and an incredible atmosphere, but all I see is a shallow monster movie with forgettable nothing characters.

The only things I liked about it were how delightfully over-the-top and creative the special effects on the creature were in their grotesqueness and one line, "You've got to be fucking kidding me!". That line and all the scenes where the creature goes through brilliantly sick and gross transformations are awesome, but they alone are not enough to make this a great movie.

Something to ponder. Both this movie and one made in the fifties called "The Thing From Another World" are based on the same short story by John W. Campbell, and a selling point for the later movie is that it's more faithful to the original material. I wouldn't know either way cause I've never read it, but the fifties movie is ridiculously more entertaining. Though I actually liked the one you're talking about, I completely understand where you're coming from.

 

[Starbreaker]

My most hated films:

S.I.C.K.
Dreamcatcher
13 Ghosts
The 13th Warrior
Bewitched
Cabin Fever 2
The Cave
City Slickers 2
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
Fun With Dick and Jane
The Glass House
Friday the 13th (2009)
The Goonies
The Grudge
The Haunted Mansion
The Haunting
Hostel II
The Nutty Professor 1 & 2
Pulse
Prism
Rat Race
Splinter
The Stepford Wives (2004)
Green River Killer
White Chicks
Who Framed Roger Rabbit

 

[scotpens]

. . . Both this movie and one made in the fifties called “The Thing From Another World” are based on the same short story by John W. Campbell. I wouldn't know either way cause I've never read it, but the fifties movie is ridiculously more entertaining. Though I actually liked the one you're talking about, I completely understand where you're coming from.

John Carpenter's version is more faithful to the original story, but the 1951 film directed by Chris Nyby (under the tutelage of Howard Hawks, who reputedly personally directed some scenes) is much more fun to watch. It's also of cultural interest, of course, as the first of the Cold War “alien invasion as metaphor for the Communist menace” sci-fi pictures.

“An intellectual carrot? The mind boggles!”

 

[Admiral2]

. . . Both this movie and one made in the fifties called “The Thing From Another World” are based on the same short story by John W. Campbell. I wouldn't know either way cause I've never read it, but the fifties movie is ridiculously more entertaining. Though I actually liked the one you're talking about, I completely understand where you're coming from.

John Carpenter's version is more faithful to the original story, but the 1951 film directed by Chris Nyby (under the tutelage of Howard Hawks, who reputedly personally directed some scenes) is much more fun to watch. It's also of cultural interest, of course, as the first of the Cold War “alien invasion as metaphor for the Communist menace” sci-fi pictures.

“An intellectual carrot? The mind boggles!”

My favorite part's when Scotty the newsman is reading off the dispatches from the general ordering them to do all the things they already did and screwed up. It's just a ridiculously fun movie.

On another subject, I, too, have no love for Ben Stiller or any of his movies. I find it mind-boggling that he's the son of two of the funniest people in history and he's an utter bore.