Avoid These Movies At All Costs!

I have to add one. Boogeyman. Oh my God it was horrible. Someone told me it was scary. It was far from it. Coming home from work and seeing my 300 pound Aunt fry chicken in her bra in my kitchen. Now THAT was scary. Maybe I should make a movie about that.
 
Alysheba said:
I have to add one. Boogeyman. Oh my God it was horrible. Someone told me it was scary. It was far from it. Coming home from work and seeing my 300 pound Aunt fry chicken in her bra in my kitchen. Now THAT was scary. Maybe I should make a movie about that.
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Allow me to add: Atlantis, the Disney cartoon.

Not only is the plot predictable and thin, it is also slightly racist. And it's a rip-off of several (substantially better) animes, like Castle in the Sky and Princess Mononoke.

And the rendering (CGI) looks goddamn cheap.
 
I'd like to add Van Helsing. Talk about CGI overload.... :eek:
 
i have to say i really enjoyed lost in translation.

van helsing stunk, big time. sixth sense, theres one overrated piece of drivel, oh look its a fountain in some square, and the clouds go by..... yawn!!

revenge of the sith - poo.

swat- s**t (do the math)

resident evil- oh dear no.

anything by uwe bol.

A.I - why spielberg why???
 
Daredevil was not a bad flick, just misunderstood
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If the makers of DD wanted people to take it seriously they should have got a better actor than Ben Afflicted. But then DD was never one of my fav comic characters so my opinion is likely not a good indicator.
 
Please avoid...Ghostworld.One of those movies that managed an astounding amount of hype given how badly it sucks...about a dumb pretentious girl who should've been happy that people ignore her instead of lynching her for intolerable stupidity.

From Hell...supposedly based on the Alan Moore comic series. This movie has an absolutely terrific scene with Ian Holm...the only problem is that this scene comes at the very end of a very boring movie. Johnny Dope gives a lethally dull performance that, paired with his turn in Sleepy Hollow, represents the only prescription that any insomniac needs. Heather Graham plays the only prossie in the West End that doesn't have a Cockney accent and venereal disease. The Hughes Bros made a big deal about how they painstakingly recreated the scene of each murder from archival records...too bad they didn't spend some of that energy in providing a more gripping onscreen narrative and more interesting characters.
 
I really enjoyed Ghostworld. It wasn't a perfect film, but it was an excellent little probe into youth culture and the gap between reality and our expectations. Which is why the dumb pretention was important.

I'll agree on From Hell, however. Many parts of it were painful to watch, and it couldn't even succeed by dropping the Moore baggage and trying to be an entertaining stand-alone, unlike LXG.
 
Green said:
EDIT - in fact (while I'm in rant mode), is there anyone else that thinks the whole "it's so bad it's funny" argument, when applied to most films (specifically crappy, dubbed martial ats films), just doesn't wash? I mean, in my opinion, if it's bad, it's bad.
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to me it depends on the film, some are just bad. eg: attak of the killer tomatoes (yes, i've actually watched it) was voted the worst movie of all time and was screened to be funny. but it was just bad. Catwoman on the other hand was hysterical. i watched it with my mother, brother in law and his girlfriend. the bil and girlfriend didn't know what to do as my mother and i were laughing our heads off.
I liked Armagedon, sorry, but i did. i even cried at the wedding scene. it was so schmaltzy.
Signs was horribly bad. i was expecting something really good.
deep impact was terrible. i cheered when the tidal wave swept the planet.
resident evil, was jut bad
but for me the ultimate in things i won't watch becasue it looks so terrible, Titanic, after all i know how it ends, the boat sinks! honestly!
I'd also like to add any movie in which people eat each other (Alive springs to mind) and most sequels!
 
Long Time Dead, Cut, Battlefield Earth, Son of the Mask, Catwoman (unless you want to laugh your arse off), Birthday Girl, The Interpreter, Abandoned, The Hills Have Eyes, Spice Girls movie, House of Wax (unless you want to laugh at Paris Hilton), Poison Ivy, ? can't remember the name of it but it had Claudia Schiffer in it, Showgirls, Triple X (I think that's it's name, it has Vin Diesel in it), The Fifth Element, Fire Walk With Me (the Twin Peaks movie - what the f?), Schizo, Shriek (also stars Coolio), Scary Movie 3, 21 Grams, Serenity- huge disapointment, Back to the Future 2 & 3, The Neverending Story 2 & 3, Mission to Mars, Contact, Van Wilder, Loser, Simon Says - absolute stinker (stars Dennis Rodman), Color of Night (unless you want to see Bruce Willis' "bruce"), movies based on John Grisham books- too formulaic, F.A.R.T- The Movie (so dissapointing!), there are so many.
 
I wopuld personally reccomend people never watch:


Long time dead
Dumb & Dumber, the lot
Bless this child
Cable guy
The ring 2
Pitch Black
House of wax
signs
Stigmata
Romy & Michelles... was forced to watch this by a friend (some mate!)
Elektra
Catwoman
Matrix, sorry dislike them all.
Blade 3
Deep Impact
Titanic
Signs
Lost in Translation. ????????????? WHY??????
The village
The Dreamcatcher, proof Steven King has lost it.
 
Taipan
Raise the Titanic
Mortal Kombat II (What the Hell is up with Raidens wig?)
American Ninja (... all five of them)
Battlefield Earth
Ghosts of Mars (When good Goths go bad!)
 
I didn't mind Lost in Translation.

Battlefield Earth really was very bad- my brother and I rented it from the videoshop, and about an hour in, we asked, 'When will the story start?'

Titanic- really don't like this one.
 
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