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Semi-OT: Worst movie you've endured in a theater


What's the worst movie you've sat through first-run at a theater, and why? Walk-outs don't count because you didn't experience the full awfulness of it (I've never walked out).

I made this "semi-OT" because for many, this would be a horror movie. For me, it's not a horror movie, but a movie by one of the greatest horror directors -- Cronenberg's Cosmopolis. One's reaction to the movie would probably be colored by whether you read the dreadful Don DeLillo novel beforehand, which I did. The book is bad in its own right, just a negligible modernist literature wet fart. Nothing about it, though, lends itself to a cinematic adaptation . . . nothing. This is the problem with adapting books such as this -- you have dialogue and situations which work (or don't work) being read, but not being said. What Cronenberg obviously did was open the book at his computer and just transcribe it, no imagination or attempt at adapting. So what you have is a novel that's lame in its own right, filtered through into a bland film where the actors are speaking dialogue meant for a novel only.

Aside from that, Robert Pattinson is just like a "nothing" on screen. The worst actor, though, is Paul Giamatti in his smaller role. I've never liked him; he just grates on me. In this he is almost unwatchable as he yells the book dialogue. The whole film was just a terrible cinematic experience.

Some runners-up (or runners-down?) for me:
The Lovely Bones (Peter Jackson)
Interstellar (Christopher Nolan)
The Aviator (Martin Scorsese)
Hugo (Martin Scorsese)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (David Fincher)
Diary of the Dead (George A. Romero)
The Counselor (Ridley Scott)
The Revenant (Alejandro G. Inarritu)
Lady in the Water (M. Night Shyamalan, and Giamatti again!)
My Soul to Take (Wes Craven)
Valentine (Jamie Blanks)
Away We Go (Sam Mendes)
Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson, and this has some of the same problems as Cosmopolis.)
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (Danny Cannon)


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the last one I recall is Star Wars Phantom Menace. The only saving grace was the Darth Maul, Qui Gon, Kenobi duel

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TRON: Legacy. Not at all the type of movie I would ever see on my own, but I was sort of dragged to it by some friends. I still haven't seen the first one.

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Titanic (1997). I hate that movie.

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I didn't go on its original run, but I also hated it when I watched it at home several years later. However, I went to it in 3D in the theater a few years back and for some reason actually liked it. It's Cameron's Avatar that I hated.

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3 way tie:

Prom Night III: The Last Kiss (1990)
The Chase (1994)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)

Looks like Kristy Swanson doesn't have a good track record with me.

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The remake of Poltergeist, probably.

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I didn't see many movies in theaters but from what I remember the two I hated most were Star Wars and The English Patient. I was really young when my mom took me to Star Wars, but I was never a sci-fi fan. She didn't like it much either but I think since everyone thought it was so great she figured I should have the experience of seeing it. The English Patient was the first time I ever went out with a woman (I was 30), and she was a fat ugly slob but I would've hated the movie regardless because it was just an awful movie.

At the time I also hated Burial Ground and The Alchemist.

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you should of taken her to KFC

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