I want those 2 hours of my life back
I just got back from the WORST movie that I hated, hated, HATED, and those are two hours of my life I’ll never get back.
I know you’ve been there. What movie do you still resent for having stolen time from your life?
Technorati Tags: Movies, Sundance Film Festival, Worst Movies Ever
January 26th, 2007 at 6:02 pm
From Dusk Til Dawn with George Clooney. It was a great opening and then got all bizarre. I felt ripped off, timewise. Worse — I felt like someone was playing a joke on me, like they’d sucked me in. I’ll see anything with GC, but this one was awful. This wasn’t the Dakota Fanning movie you’re referring to, is it?
January 26th, 2007 at 8:33 pm
No, although that’s certainly be causing a stir here. I haven’t seen it myself.
No, this movie was about a girl with vaginus dentitus (or some such Latin)–teeth in her vagina. So I saw more than my lifetime quota of teenage boys’ peni being bitten off and spit out by the nether regions. Trust me, if you think that sounds funny, it was nothing but gross. Especially when we had to see the dog pick up one of them–oh, let’s just forget the whole thing, can we?
January 26th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
I could have done without The Lake House. And Bean, Stick It, Baby’s Day Out, Meet the Parents, All That Jazz, Payback, and Rush Hour 2. I also walked out of Stranger than Paradise, Operation Condor, The Bear, and Seabiscuit.
And of course, I’d like back the three hours stolen from me when I was forced to watch Titanic the second time.
Most terrible movies I’ve seen (of which there are many, obviously) are redeemed through sheer hilarity (see: Ultra Violet, You Got Served, and anything that’s ever been watched as part of Bad Movie Club).
January 26th, 2007 at 9:01 pm
Excuse me? Bad Movie Club? Uh, I think I need to start one/be part of one. Please elaborate.
January 26th, 2007 at 9:11 pm
Bad Movie Club generally only involves martial arts/action movies, with the occasional sci-fi thrown in, but only if there’s lots of kicking and explosions. We’ve watched the entire American Ninja series, the first two Cyborg Cops, and a smattering of other flicks. Our goal right now is to watch every movie David Bradley’s ever made, but it could take a while because I’m not back home very often.
I’m trying to get one started here at school, too, but it’s hard to find people who want to actually pay attention to a movie with no plot, substance, or logical progression.
Also, I just watched From Dusk Till Dawn and I gotta agree on how incredibly disappointing it was. Super lame.
January 27th, 2007 at 7:27 am
I enjoy B movies. Not all, but most. But, my expectations are completely seperate for those types of films than my expectations are for feature films.
That said, The Blair Witch Project stole time from my life that I will never get back.
January 27th, 2007 at 8:10 am
I just got my new issue of EW and read an article about Sundance,which briefly mentioned that film-my sympathies to you,Robin!
Some bad movies that I’ve sat thru I can blame on my sister(for making me see them with her):American Pie 2,The Man. Others are my own doing like Bonfire of the Vanities,Harlem Nights and Click.
I will say a good word about From Dusk Til Dawn-it’s not for everyone but if you love vampire showdowns with wildman humor,it’s the ticket.
January 27th, 2007 at 10:15 am
lizzie, you are one harsh movie critic. “seabiscuit” on your list– does that little lump of coal that passes for your heart even beat? as to “titanic”, have to agree with you–it was so bad it was hysterical. the most entertaining part for me was sitting through it with one of my daughters who had seen it three times and started sobbing during the opening credits and a friend who was likewise overcome, all the while a couple of teenage boys behind us were hooting, laughing and making lurid remrks about k. winslett’s breasts.
as for want your stolen hours back bad (i would have settled for my eight bucks back) my vote goes to “be cool”, the “get shorty sequel”–someone should have filed a class action lawsuit on the rip offness of that flick.
robin, sounds like in spite of one stinker you’re having a blast. soooo jealous here.
January 27th, 2007 at 2:15 pm
Saw Titanic once, sobbed my living eyeballs out, couldn’t bear to see it ever again.
When the old couple lies in bed, holding hands as the water pours in–sobbed so much it hurt.
January 27th, 2007 at 3:38 pm
Annette,
I hatehatehate movies that are emotionally manipulative, which is why I had such a problem with Seabiscuit. I hate watching a movie where I don’t care about the characters or the plot, and would be happy if the film ended that second, but find myself welling up anyway. I cry plenty on my own - I don’t need a director beating me over the head with emotion. Happens a lot with Tom Hanks movies, too. And Ron Howard.
Plus I can’t stand Tobey Maguire. I defy anyone to name me one movie that he’s starred in where he doesn’t play himself. His annoying, downtrodden self.
January 27th, 2007 at 4:07 pm
okay, just remembering how overwrought and corny that whole hyped to the max movie was is making me start to snicker. isn’t that the measure of a really, really bad movie, that someone as normally sentimental and empathetic as i, could, along with the boys behind me, laugh at a ship full of folks drowning. now if you want to see it done right rent “a night to remember”–a REALISTIC telling of the titanic tragedy.
January 27th, 2007 at 4:53 pm
“that someone as normally sentimental and empathetic as i . . .”
Cough, cough, cough.
Lizzie, I love Spider-Man and all his angst and humanity, so watch it there, my friend.
January 27th, 2007 at 10:03 pm
You haven’t lived until you’ve watched “‘Skeeter” and “Mosquito” back to back.
And thank you, Annette, as it had been quite some time since we boosted Robin’s google status with a mention of Kate Winslet’s Breasts.
Where did Barry’s links go? Being a guy, I was probably genetically obligated to save those into ‘Favorites’, but it appears that I didn’t.
January 28th, 2007 at 6:25 am
What do you mean, where did Barry’s links go?
January 28th, 2007 at 9:48 am
I love both Titanic AND From Dusk ’til Dawn.
I do want my Meet the Parents time back, though. Also, Phantom Menace (both times) and everything in Attack of the Clones except for the scene where Yoda fights. And, dear heavens, all of MIBII. Every last horrific second. I can’t even enjoy the first movie anymore — which was a ton of fun — because it makes me think too much about how awful the second one was.
Vagina dentitis phobia is a surprisingly common male mental illness. The actual condition is a myth.
Hey, Robin, did you see Black Snake Moan?
January 28th, 2007 at 3:21 pm
Saw Black Snake Moan and LOVED it. Fantastic story, acting, music. Really a great use of two hours of my life.
January 28th, 2007 at 5:58 pm
“Fezzik, jog her memory.”
“I think I jogged it a little too hard.”
Barry was kind enough to give us links to KW-Bs last time you brought the topic up. It was a little bit of a problem for annette to get the computer back from her husband, though.
January 28th, 2007 at 8:04 pm
Oh, yeah . . .
January 29th, 2007 at 7:44 pm
patrick, never did get the computer back–been operating from the laptop ever since.