ways_back_room | Daily Entertainment.

I feel like it'd be cheating to say "Birdemic: Shock and Terror" to this, because it's so bad no movie can match it for badness.

One day I'm gonna have to watch that movie.

I have a hard enough time picking favourite things, let alone least favourite. I will, however, note that my parents once persuaded me to try watching Titanic, and I fled to the sanctuary of my room before the second tape.

For movies, I would suggest Starship Troopers although it nearly redeemed itself by having Neal Patrick Harris dressed in a very Nazi-like fashion.

As for books, I want to say this old fantasy series I tried to read once but couldn't get past the first chapter. I finally gave up when I read the line "the uncomplaining, overloaded beast of burden" and decided that author was trying to be too fancy. I can't remember the name of series though but the main character was a sort of blond Red Sonja without the prohibition against romance...Raven something I think?

Edited 2011-06-29 12:25 (UTC)

I loved Starship Troopers right up until I saw the director's commentary and leanred what the director was tryinng to say.

...yeah, not so much.

I'm curious, what was the director trying to say? Was it something like humans suck?

I will admit it was a pretty movie.

It was, for the most part, humans suck, war sucks, bugs are complicated, and most of all this is not meant to be pretty.

I admit, he went about it in much the same cartoon-brazen style as in Robocop. I may give it a new chance one of these days.

And see that was my whole problem with the movie. Of course the friend I went to see it with loved it and thought it was a great message. Go figure. = ]

ETA: Wait, why haven't I friended you or asked if I may yet? You are awesome! May I friend you?

Edited 2011-06-29 15:19 (UTC)

You may! I like friends!

Done. = ]

Napoleon Dynamite.

A number of people were raving about it, but when I made myself watch most of it I saw no redeeming qualities, no sympathetic characters except occasionally the girl, nothing to like or even be amused at.

Oh? Sounds like Rushmore.

This one is in my top five. My sister and nieces LOVED it and forced me to watch it on DVD when it came out. That's two hours of my life I will never get back.

There could be a separate category: films and TV shows you don't like that everyone else does. I never saw the big deal about Shrek, for example, but I also wouldn't consign it to the perdition we are sending films to today.

My reaction to Napoleon Dynamite was a profound "meh." Probably because I grew up in small-town Idaho and do not consider it worthy of commemorating on film.

OH GOOD I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE.

I saw it in the theater, on... essentially the only date I went on in high school. We got there late and I don't think I would have understood the joke any better if we'd seen the first five or ten minutes as well as the rest. Actually, it's not 'understood the joke' so much as 'known what the joke was supposed to be.'

Leaving Las Vegas. Not a bad film. If you doubt Nic Cage has acting chops, watch this and see. But it's a terribly sad, terribly depressing film about someone who decided to commit suicide in the worst way possible. I refer to this as a horror film. We watch as horrible, horrible things happen and cannot do a thing to stop them.

And I saw this on a date. It may be the worst date film I ever chose (though Tin Cup possibly comes close. Yes, people, I took someone to see a golf film. And she agreed).

Also, and unrelated...I didn't tag many on the Love Meme. I didn't feel like fighting all night with LJ and wanted to RP instead. But rest assured, all of you, I still adore each and everyone of you. I'm just not great at putting into words.

I never saw this one...thanks for the warning! It sounds hard to watch.

Leaving Las Vegas is like Joy DIvision, not for consumption if you are the least bit depressed.

First Knight. Ben Cross and Sean Connery together could not redeem it. Prior to Cloverfield this was the only movie I ever came close to walking out on. (Cloverfield was not actually that bad of a movie if you ignored the stupid, stupid main characters and focused on everybody else in New York, but it was filmed in Blair Witch-o-Vision and I had to leave because I was getting motion sick.)

The only movie I've ever walked out of the cinema on was that godawful "Alexander the Great" with Colin Whatsisface. Dear God that was bad.

Ahaha, Hollow Man was terrible. I saw that on a first date, and even though I really, really, really wanted to see X-Men instead, I stupidly kept my mouth shut and when for the Bacon.

Oh, it was so bad; not even Josh Brolin could save it.

The upside? Said date and I bonded over just how awful the movie was, and when I confessed I wish we'd seen X-Men instead, he apologized for not realizing it was playing.

UGH. Dumb and Dumber. I went to see it with my husband at the dollar theater. I wanted to leave about fifteen minutes in and demand my dollar back.

This is a tough one for me because I regularly enjoy viewing terrible movies thanks to Mystery Science Theater: 3000. And I'm not sure I've ever seen a movie so horrible that I left part of the way through.

Though I did come pretty close when I decided I wanted to see a girly flick and chose to view The Last Song. Not a single person in the sparsely populated theater told me to shut up when I'd frequently comment aloud that Miley Cyrus's character was a bitch. I don't care if she did save baby turtles. One pet the dog moment does not give you redemption.

Another one I almost couldn't finish watching was Tentacolino, the sequel to the first of the Italian animated Titanic musicals in which pretty much everybody lives. What makes it watchable is the ridiculous dialogue and the gypsy prince character's questionable logic. He also gets to say this to his talking dog: "Stop making excuses! You're in Atlantis now and you're just gonna have to get used to the water!"

Wizards. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076929/) My mom bought it on VHS from a catalog because the premise looked interesting--sort of Fallout meets Lord of the Rings--but dear GOD did it ever suck. The animation is mediocre at best, the characters are one-dimensional, all the women are either Boris Vallejo warriors or saggy-tithed hookers, and the climax is the most infuriatingly stupid thing in the history of storytelling.

Uh, replace "tithed" with "titted," there. Damn iPad auto-correct.

I think I need to figure out how to get saggy-tithed into a conversation today...

If a church isn't pulling in as much money as it used to, it could be that the tithes are saggin'. :)

It takes a lot for me to have something that's my least favorite or that just gets under my skin. I've got a whole list of movies that I won't watch ever again because they're painful but that doesn't mean bad.

If you want to make me curse and grumble through an entire movie, put on Prince of Thieves, I hate what that movie did to Robin Hood. I saw it when it came out in the theater when I was just getting into writing and I remember thinking, no, no, not Robin Hood. Some parts were funny and pretty but overall it was a horrible mess and what Robin Hood isn't.

The only movie I've ever walked out of was Sin City, it just felt too much like watching variations on someone's really creepy fantasies. It was a well made movie with a great cast, but it made my skin crawl. I'd rather sit through Atonement again even though I hate the protagonist and the entire plot because James McAvoy is amazing in it.

As noted above, I heartily second Napoleon Dynamite. It'd be in my top spot, as I don't know what the joke is supposed to be.

Wedding Crashers was also awful. I know what the joke was supposed to be, in that case, but I found it not funny in the LEAST.

For more lulzy terribleness: Mom somehow rented an atrocity called Starquest: The Odyssey through Netflix. She gave up before it was half an hour in, saying she was going to order better movies; at that point it was just trying to be Star Trek and failing miserably.
I left after the lovechild of HAL and GLaDOS (IT IS PROGRAMMED TO PROVIDE SANCTUARY) told two characters that since they would not remove all signs of rank and separation - meaning their uniforms - it would.
Dad stuck it out to the end, and reported the last lines as: "I didn't think it could get any worse!" "It just did."
Ripe MSTing fodder, but really, really terrible.

The Shadow. I sat through that one at the behest of my father and left without A) getting the plot, B) liking what I was presented with, or C) having any affection for ANY of the characters.

Love. Never. Dies.

See if I ever forgive you castrating my Phantom.

LOL LOVE NEVER DIES.

...Sorry, automatic reaction there.

Ahhh, flashbacks!

Date Movie was pretty dire. I only went to see it because I was too hungover to argue.

And also The Core. I loled at the bad science all the way through.

But I think for least favourite movie I have to nominate The Other Boleyn Girl. I HATED it. Very nearly walked out of the cinema.

Least favourite book? LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY! I realise that some of you will call me a heathen for this opinion but I just couldn't get through it. Reading Fellowship was like pulling teeth.

If there had ever been a film of Avatar: The Last Airbender, I'm fairly sure it would have been utter dreck.

Thank god that never happened.

I'm a bad movie freak, and a MiSTIE, so I've seen more bad movies. But no movies has ever pissed me off as much as The Ugly Truth.

Bad Movie Beatdown tells the tale.

Daily Entertainment.

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject