Worst movie you've ever seen

[quoll]

Anything with Adam Sandler (and why is it that Aus tv seems to think we actually want to have his movies on 3 free to air channels at the same time?), Jim Carrey for me too UGH, Tom Cruise (add me to the list) and Leonardo de Caprio. None of them float my boat at all and I just avoid altogether rather than put myself through the pain of actually watching them.

[rueful]

, quoll, it's like we're twins! I think Leo is a decent actor, but he's such a pasty boy, even now, that I can't see him as a romantic hero.

[peach]

I'm with you girls on everyone but Leo, he's gotten better.

For me it would be anything with Arnold Schwartzenegger. Any one of his movies would be on my worst film list without a doubt.

[rueful]

Chiming in to add Rob Schneider, David Spade, Mike Myers, and Jimmy Fallon to the list quoll already had made of men I avoid. Hmm, something about those former SNL guys, I guess.

Also, I dislike all those man-child movies they are now making, no matter who stars. Possibly an unfair judgment, since I've only seen the abundant trailers, but the idea of some beautiful woman (because it's always a beautiful woman, no matter what the guy looks, acts, or smells like) falling for some guy who lives like a slob, acts like a moron, and can't form a sentence drives me crazy.

Oh, speaking of "no matter what he smells like," MATTHEW MCCONAGHY! He is so unappealing to me I can't even express it. He always looks like you'd need to bath in antibiotic ointment after you made contact.

[lizap]

I give the top award to 'Legends of the Fall'. I would never have bothered seeing it (it was clearly from the promos not my type of film), except I made a bargain with a workmate who was a fan of Brad Pitt. If she would read a Dick Francis, I would rent 'Legends of the Fall'. There must have been at least 3 separate times when I actually leaned forward in relief to eject the tape thinking it was finally over, only to find it going on and on and on . . . It's the antithesis of what I look for in a movie (that is, complexity, subtlety, restraint). I was actually screaming at Anthony Hopkins from time to time, I was so embarrassed to see him in this picture.

[peach]

Re: Matthew McConaghy, I get the same feeling about Paul Giamatti, and Jack Black, add his name to the list, I fast forward when viewing The Holiday, I don't get his appeal at all.

[rueful]

I liked Jack Black in High Fidelity and in School of Rock, but I agree I don't get him as a romantic lead. And it's not about looks, because I used to think Bill Murray was pretty hot, back in the 80s, because he was smart and funny and had something else too.... (now's when I need to be French so I can say "je ne sais quoi" without sounding pretentious). Jack Black seems smart and sometimes funny, but something's missing.

Oooh, I think I may have just figured it out, it's something I mentioned above. Even when acting wild and unpredictable, Bill Murray still seemed like a grown up or at least mostly on the way to being one. I think I don't like male characters who seem like they're looking for a mother (albeit a very hot one) rather than a mate.

[tipou]

call me weird, but i would find my maternal instincts for jack black any time. this guy is so witty its wicked. drives me nuts.

[rueful]

It takes all kinds Anyway, more Bill Murray for me.

Way back when this topic started, maxx02 mentioned Titanic. That was the one that blew my mind. I couldn't understand people going over and over again to see a 3 hour love story about two of the most insipid, annoying characters ever written. I like Kate Winslet, but even she could not save Rose, and I won't start on about pale, limpid Leo. ick. Even that, however, I might have tolerated. But here you could have a fascinating story about one of the most fascinating events in recent history, and there is a ship sinking, and people are drowning, and the director feels the need to have people chasing each other around the ship with a gun!!!! When the shooting started I actually said, "Oh COME ON!" so loud that my husband (who also was hating it) shushed me. When the boat started to sink, and they showed some little snippets, like the maid tucking in the little children, and the old couple curled up together on the bed, and the 3rd class passengers trapped below, and the musicians playing on, I thought, "Now this is the movie I would have liked to see." Unfortunately, that lasted about 2 minutes before it went back to the nonsense.

Sorry. Perhaps I should have taken this to the Rant thread.

[lizap]

I hadn't seen Jack Black in a movie before 'Holiday' (or did he have a small role in a Bruce Willis film?), but he was utterly charming -- self-deprecating and witty -- as a presenter for 'The Who' at the Kennedy Awards recently. I thought he sort of stole the show, and that's saying quite alot considering all of the luminaries who were there.

I'm with you on Titanic, rueful!

[tipou]

"the school of rock" would be a good introduction then. he's totally adorable in that one.

and of course in "envy" with ben stiller - one good little movie by barry levinson, very very funny, you will love him in it.

he has kept his inner child alive for real, that guy.

***woops - wrong thread **********

[catdishy]

Jack Black held his own in Stiller's Tropic Thunder with Stiller and Robert Downey Jr...they're all over the top. ITs a hoot. Oh, and Tom Cruise whom I usually loathe, was all duded up in a fat suit and facial hair and bald, and he was outrageous, too.

[tipou]

oh i have to see this... i saw a video of a song, the 3 guys were doing the back singers, it was hilarious.

but this is the bad movie thread, i god everybody on the wrong thread. that is jack's fault.

[ambra]

Ok, no one has mentioned these two: "The Blair Witch Project" and "Boogie Nights". I disliked both of these movies with a passion!

"Blair Witch" had so much hype around it, about how it was this great "little film" that a bunch of kids went out and made on a shoestring budget and it was mostly improvised to give it more of a "documentary" feel. Thankfully, I didn't waste money seeing it in a theater; I just wasted time watching it when it came out on dvd. It wasn't long before I was rooting for the witch to take out the kids and be done with it. Not scary. Not suspenseful,

"Boogie Nights" had all the critics raving about it. I came to the conclusion after seeing this movie that these critics were probably too embarrassed to go into the little back room at their local video store to rent actual porn and this movie gave them the opportunity to watch it and call it art so they could watch it over and over again. I'm not a prude but I really have no interest in porn nor a movie about the porn industry. Burt Reynolds made it even less of an appealing experience.

I'm usually very wary of movies that have alot of hype built up around them because most of the time they don't live up to all the talk.