Well this is a tough call. I'm gonna go with No Country For Old Men, because annoying people on Reddit incessantly quote The Big Lebowski and I fear they've ruined it for me.
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Well this is a tough call. I'm gonna go with No Country For Old Men, because annoying people on Reddit incessantly quote The Big Lebowski and I fear they've ruined it for me.
I saw State of Play (Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck) in the cinema and was bored out of my mind, I wanted to leave but didn't for some reason. There've been a few DVDs I turned off half way through - most recently, The Men Who Stare At Goats. These aren't terrible films, in the sense they're embarrassing, but they're really bad to me, personally, in that I get way too bored and frustrated to sit through them. As for hilariously bad films... the Super Mario Bros movie. It's so terrible, but I love it because it's so funny in how bad it is.
Yeah I've watched Men that stare at goats as well. **** that was bad. The worse film I probably watched was a Australian film called Postal. It was seriously ****ed up even had Mini Me(from Austin Powers) in it. He ended up getting locked up in a huge vault with 1000 monkeys that raped him.
Tron Legacy was utter ****e, and my stupid friends made me see it just because Daft Punk did the soundtrack.
That Eddie Murphy film The Haunted Mansion was pretty embarrassing.
Jack and Jill I haven't seen but you just know that's gotta be up there.
Scary Movie 4 and an anticipatory nomination for the fifth one.
Star Wars Episodes I, II and III
Dude, Where's My Car?
Crash, the one that won the Oscar for Best Picture. Just awful. Honestly, the worst-written, most cliched, most self-congratulatory piece of **** I have ever watched.
Can still remember the circumstances of watching it, too. Was spending a weekend at my girlfriend's, and she rented a couple movies. She wanted to watch The Vagina Monologues, and got Crash to balance it out with something she thought that I'd like.
In retrospect, I enjoyed The Vagina Monologues more. Though as far as reviews go, "this movie was so bad that my girlfriend started giving me an apologetic blowjob halfway through" would probably have increased sales.
I remember one time a bunch of friends and I decided to see a movie. We were in Washington DC, so the movie prices were outrageous. So we had the standard argument over which movie to go see. For whatever reason, one guy really, really had his heart set on "Congo." Since he felt so strongly about it, and the other 2-3 choices were a stalement anyway, we let him have his way.
When the movie let out, there were 8 of us. We had to walk to the subway/metro stop, it was about half a mile. All the way out the theater, through the parking lot, to the street no one said anything. The silence stretched on for at least five minutes. Finally, the guy just looked at us with pleading eyes and blurted out "Guys. I'm really sorry!" That's how bad ****ing Congo was.
When the movie let out, there were 8 of us. We had to walk to the subway/metro stop, it was about half a mile. All the way out the theater, through the parking lot, to the street no one said anything. The silence stretched on for at least five minutes. Finally, the guy just looked at us with pleading eyes and blurted out "Guys. I'm really sorry!" That's how bad ****ing Congo was.
I'm pretty selective about films that I watch these days. Not because I don't want to watch films but because I'd rather be doing, rather than sat watching. I do enough of that, as it is. Some years ago, when the first Pirates of the Caribbean film came out, I was invited along for a selected screening. I ended up walking out after 20-25 minutes and went to the bar. It wasn't because I was thirsty, I just thought the film was formulaic rubbish. I've subsequently seen the whole film and my opinion hasn't changed. I understand the rest of the Pirate films are in the same vein. I also understand that they are universally enjoyed, so its probably just me... and everyone I know, who think they are a waste of time.
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