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[cw68]

For me that's an example of a movie where I saw it when it opened, almost by accident, and hadn't heard a thing about it. So I thought, "okay that was kind of cute - it was a little long but the thing with splicing in historical footage was a nice gimmick and the war scenes were well done". I didn't think anything about it and then about a week later, every moron and his brother is walking around saying "life is like a box of chocolate" and "stupid is as stupid does" and talking about what an amazing movie it was and how Tom Hanks should get an Oscar (this was back when all you had to do get a best actor Oscar was to play a retarded guy). I was thinking "well, it wasn't *that* great".

If I had seen it after the hype I would have been really disappointed.

I couldn't believe that it won best film over Shawshank Redemption (one of my favorite movies of all times) or Quiz Show. I think I would have even picked Four Weddings and a Funeral over Gump!

What????

That movie was stupid genius!

I recommend you give it another try, and wallow in it's sheer stupidity. Awesome!

I've tried that and I never love it. I was so dissapointed, it's the kind of movie I would usually love. My most recent favorite stupid movie is Dodgeball.

[tgianco]

My most recent favorite stupid movie is Dodgeball.

As long as you don't besmirch the name of Patches O'Hoolihan, we're cool.

[CataBird]

"Dude, Where's My Car"

Vomitously bad!

Ok, Guys!

There are movies you EXPECT to be bad--aka, all those "sequels" to low-class movies; and then there are all those "critically acclaimed," big-budget "films" that just FLOOR you at how awful they are!

Some examples?

"Lost in Translation," "Being John Malcovich," "Insomnia," and "Hanging Up!," to name a few. Does anyone here really want to spend $9.50 to watch grass grow?

[mylo]

Oooh.. I loved lost in translation. I think you perhaps got lost in the translation.

[CataBird]

Top this!

The one movie I've seen that I would give the ultimate award for being the WORST EVER is.....drum roll, please...

"Naked Lunch," which starred Peter Weller (of "RoboCop" fame).

I think everyone involved with both the writing of, and the making of, this film HAD to have been on some SERIOUSLY hallucinagenic drugs!

[TheCourtJester]

Titanic.

Napoleon Dynamite (Seen it multiple times...every time because someone convinced me "it's funnier after the first time you see it). No, give a couple of morons in a high school Video Production class (the ones that make "skater movies) some extra time, a camera, and a little weed, and you have ANOTHER napoleon dynamite.

Dodgeball, anchorman, Starsky and Hutch, Along came polly, Zoolander. Heck, I'll shorten it to "anything with Ben Stiller in it." I don't like WIll Farell, either. I wouldn't dislike 'em so much if 1) I haven't inadvertently seen SO MUCH of them...I mean seriously, they're in everything. and 2) They didn't play the SAME STUPID CHARACTER in EVERY movie.

Most movies involving Quentin Tarantino.

[Folsom4Now]

It's got be very bad sequels: Caddyshack II, Cannonball Run II, Slap Shot II.

For me, it looks like sequels to entertaining comedies w/ a sports slant.

Sequels are always usually bad but "My Boyfriends Back" and the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" movies were the worst ever!

[ngilbert]

Sequels are always usually bad but "My Boyfriends Back" and the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" movies were the worst ever!

Buffy is strange. The movie was mediocre but they somehow turned it into a successful TV series a few years later. Who knew? Usually it's the other way around ("My Big Fat Greek Crappy TV Show" comes to mind). Aside from Buffy, the only other example I can think of where a TV series based on a movie lasted more than a year was M*A*S*H* (not that the original M*A*S*H* movie was a bad movie).

[hotdogface]

WHEN A STRANGER CALLS!!!! - absolutly stupid. perfect example of the "corny scary movie"

[windie]

Moulin Rouge! We stopped watching after 20 minutes.

Anyone else feel the same? Maybe I have no taste!

You made it five minutes longer than we did! We thought it was awful.....

[bishmasterb]

I think this turned into a Best Films of All Time thread!?

[Gina99]

You made it five minutes longer than we did! We thought it was awful.....

I agree. I watched about 15 minutes and had a headache. And after Gump I wanted my money back. But I am a tough critic when it comes to movies.

[ngilbert]

I agree. I watched about 15 minutes and had a headache. And after Gump I wanted my money back. But I am a tough critic when it comes to movies.

Same here. I assume the Nicole Kidman character died but we never stuck around to find out. Movie Rule # 24 is that if a character has a cough at the beginning of the movie, by the end of the movie they will have died of tuburculosis in Ewan MacGregor's arms (or blown into tiny chunks *by* Ewan MacGregor in the case of General Greivous... but I digress)

[mylo]

I think this turned into a Best Films of All Time thread!?

Haha.. funny how peoples tastes can be so different.

Whenever I'm watching a REALLY bad movie, or hear a REALLY bad song, I can't help but think.. "Wow, this is somebody's _favorite_ song, how sad"

[Dave Burrell]

Harold and Kumar go to White Castle

Dukes of Hazzard

Napoleon Dynomite

Barb Wire (#1 all time stinker movie)

Dogtown and Z-boys

Urban Legends final cut

NL's Christmas Vacation 2