Just as a point of reference, I loved Monsters Inc. The Mexican was tolerable but no more.

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- dave
Stay away from the meadow...

My SECOND all-time worst would be a movie called Grey Gardens... a documentary about the Bouvier Sisters, relatives of Jackie Kennedy. They were living in a broken down, dirty old house like a couple of cat ladies while Jackie was living the high life. To summarize the plot I would say it was two hours of a couple of crazy old ladies cackling at the camera and dancing around partially naked.

The THIRD worst movie in recent history would be Thirteen Ghosts. I was actually sitting in that one COUNTING the ghosts, saying things like, "Well, that's 10 ghosts. Three more and this flick's over!"
 

IMHO, Kodak film tastes better than other films, and I've never had a problem with nausea. The gelatin comes in several flavors too. But there's lots of fiber in that polyester!

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I SHOULD HAVE walked out of "On the Line"! How I managed to stay there is beyond me. Maybe I fell into a coma or something.

Going back many years, "Howard's End" was an incredible waste of film. The particular print I got did not have reel change cues. Imagine my frustration when an hour and a half into the film I was "still on reel 1". What a great idea for a film. Let's get a whole bunch of people with British accents, put fancy clothes on them so we can hope to get an Oscar, and have them sit around sipping tea and talking useless gibberish all day long about "Howard's End"...which turns out to be a ratty old house. Oh yeah, that's great filmmaking.

Anyone remember "Being Human" with Robin Williams?

BTW, John may have a point here. I'm not positive on Being Human, but I do believe all of the other films I've listed here were on Fuji film stock!

Toys, (1993/03/12, Cobb Movies 3 (former Trans Lux Twin), Huntsville):

The only reason I was in this movie was because some friends I'd just met were going to this dollar theatre to see it. I never got into this movie, and it would not be worth getting paid to watch it again.

Lost World: Jurassic Park, (1997/05/23, Regal Madison Square 12, Huntsville):

Compared to the original Jurassic Park movie, this sucked. Gore and running from dinosaurs.

Event Horizon, (1997/08/17, Regal Hollywood 16, Huntsville):

I would consider this to be the most horrible movie I've ever seen in a theatre. I wanted to walk out on it so bad, but I'd paid to see it, so I stayed. I truly hated this movie.

Godzilla, (1998/05/19, Carmike 10, Huntsville)

Just a couple of months after this all-stadium-seating, all-digital-sound theatre opened, they got Godzilla and put it in 7 of their 10 auditoriums. I've never had the desire to see that again. Yuck.

A Night at the Roxbury, (1998/10/02, Carmike Century Cinema 8, Decatur):

The movie was just way too dumb and not funny enough. Why was this movie even made?

Bride of Chucky (1998/10/17, Carmike 10, Huntsville):

Ugh.

My Favorite Martian, (1999/03/08, Regal River Oaks Cinema 8, Decatur):

I felt that this movie was a waste of my time and I would never want to sit through it again.

Little Nicky, (2000/11/12, Carmike Century Cinema 8, Decatur):

If someone could have hit Adam Sandler in the face with a shovel to fix that annoying impediment, the movie might have been a bit more tolerable. I'd rather eat a cardboard box that watch that movie again.

Jurassic Park III, (2001, Regal Hollywood 18, Huntsville):

I don't have a date for this one since I walked out on it. The only reason I ended up in it to start with is because I went into the wrong auditorium due to a confusing sign arrangement. I decided to stay and watch it and after about 20 minutes, got up and went to the auditorium I was supposed to be in.

Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (1975)
... aka Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
Fiore delle mille e una notte, Il (1974)
... aka Arabian Nights (1974) (USA)
... aka Flower of the Arabian Nights (1974) (International: English title)
Storie scellerate (1973)
... aka Bawdy Tales (1973) (USA)
Racconti di Canterbury, I (1971)
... aka Canterbury Tales, The (1971) (USA)

I tried and failed to sit though all of these films. Alas, I think he was just a poor filmaker however large or well intentioned his ambition. He was murdered in 1975 and we haven't had to endure another of his films since. I think after he was murdered is when my local theatre did a retrospective which is why I ended up going to see the films.

If you think the Farley Bros. are gross, you haven't seen anything yet. Go rent a Pasolini film. (He focused on the scatalogical humor in most of those works.)

Oh yeah, you can add Scream to my list of "wish I had walked out on".
 

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Ok Evans, at least Event Horizon had a great sound track on it, but Roxbury? You like crap like Scream but you didn't find Roxbury funny??? I thought Roxbury was hilarious. 'sup?

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Scream? I never saw "Scream" in the theatre, and doubt that I'd like it. In general, I don't like horror movies. Event Horizon was just horrible and they used the DTS to hit you with a blast of sound from behind every time something scary or disturbing would suddenly happen. Even some of my big, tough, ugly friends were scared by that movie.

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Evans A Criswell
Huntsville-Decatur Movie Theatre Information Site

Oh yeah, John, Kodak DOES have better flavor than other films. Some of them have either a real bitter or an acid taste. Kodak has a nice round "filmy" flavor. Put a spritz of FilmGuard on it and you have a right, tasty meal!

That quote came from a reviewer in the magazine Entertainment Weekly. I read the review after I saw the movie and I thought it was the PERFECT thing to say about the movie so I made it my own.
 

The Blair Witch Project -- should have sunk without a trace.

The Age of Innocence -- one of Scorsese's lesser lights. When the GCC Bridgewater Commons had this on an exclusive I all but fell asleep in a sold-out Saturday-night show.

Little Nicky -- what a load of This helped get the head of New Line fired.

Autumn Tale -- an ordeal to sit through. 2 hours of talk, all in French. The only music was a brief cue 2/3 of the way through and a song over the end credits.

Coyote Ugly -- another piece of How come Disney released this crap and put Black Hawk Down into turnaround?

The Celebration -- the first of the Dogme 95 pictures. Utterly pointless. Not only that, I saw it at the BAM Rose Cinemas in Brooklyn the weekend that theater opened.

Dancer in the Dark -- more Dogme 95 crap. In its run at the UA Union Square there was audible warble in the Dolby Digital soundtrack.
 

Yes Scream was lame, but Scary Movie was HORRIBLE!
 

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Evans A Criswell
Huntsville-Decatur Movie Theatre Information Site
 

I've seen many of the films listed above, and while they are bad I still feel "Quintet" is about the worst. I was screening it (so I was getting paid) so I had to watch. Closed in only a week.

The most people I've ever seen walk out of a film was "Interiors." The film itself wasn't so bad; it was just that people were expecting a Woody Allen comedy (even though the posters, reviews and trailers made it clear it wasn't.) I ran it for 400 people on it's first Saturday night... when it was over, only 30 people remained.

What kind of crack-smoking booker booked you with 2 prints of POOTIE TANG??? And an even better question: does he still work for the company?

Anyways, just 2 weeks ago, I had to screen the utterly horrendous "Extreme Days." Talk about a load of crap (it looks like it was shot on home video).
 

Conversations with Willard Van Dyke (1981) coupled with Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer (1974) both in glorious 16mm shown on our IMAX screen !!
 

The Musketeer...WTF was that
Glitter...Mariah Carey 'nuff said
Hollow Man... decent effects but a snorefest
Showgirls...AAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
Scream 2+3
I Know What You Did Last Summer and it's lamer sequel
Spice World... see Showgirls

Future movies I am dreading
The one with Britany Spears, whatever the title is.
Any movie with any pop singer diva...the producers needs to be shot.
Any movie with Freddie Prinze Jr
Any movie written by Kevin Williamson...how many movies can this guy rip off from himself
Any movie with a borderline R rating to get teens money

Rant mode off.

Speaking of another thread elsewhere...I yearn for more of the showmanship days of roadshows. Something special. If we can't have that, give the days of the late 70's and early 80's when there used be lines around the building. I love movies but the magic is fading. Good or bad, I am waiting for Episode II. At least it will have even a little of this magic. Hollywood is not making any movies that have people waiting anxiously anymore. There doesn't seem to be anymore anticipation. I know Hollywood has always made crud, but the only buzz or anticipation I remember in the last 5 years was Ep.I and ID4. Both were not great, but at least there was some magic there.

OK,really...rant mode off.
 

'Black Knight'

'Thomas & The Magic Railroad' (at least my 3 year old nephew loved it)

-Aaron

 

The reason we received a second print of Pootie Tang was that during the second week of the movie our bookings split our original first print with another film in an auditorium. We soon later received our second print because of the contract stating that we needed to play Pootie Tang an X amount of hours. It was a horrible experience and thus it is added to this thread . I am however a big believer in Karma and am sure that booker is lying in a ditch somewhere...
And I have also screened "Extreme Days". I have forgotten about that horrendous movie and now am adding it to my list. I guess it was so bad that it drove itself from my memory.

Vertical Limit? Okay, I wrote a paper for my chemistry class about the rediculous use of liquid nitrogen in that movie. The acting was definately sub-par, but the scenery and the subject of climbing K2 was interesting, and sometimes breathtaking.

I hated the idea of Glitter so much, I refuse to see it. Our theater didn't even book it, thank God.

 

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most of that Dogme 95 stuff, and I've shown most of it, being an Arthouse...

There are others, but I can't remember them, which is probably a good thing

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There must be more to life than Film and Rugby...

Gwan Glawster!!!
 

I just remember the big dramatic climax where they salvage the water bottle from the body of some long-dead dude in a cave in a glacier - a glacier is solid ice, right? - and then open the damn water bottle and drink some LIQUID water???

How do they manage such inanity? Go ahead and invent some secret juice you shoot up to stay alive in high altitudes - I can accept that - but magic water that doesn't freeze after a year in a fricking ice cave?

#5. Mrs. Parker & The Vicious Circle - Will somebody please get Jennifer Jason Leigh a dialect coach for her next movie?!!!! AAAAAGH!
#4. Vanya On 42nd Street - I did not get 2 minutes into that movie before I wanted to punch everyone involved with the production, everyone who may have inspired the people involved with the production, the director's mother, mother-in-law, grandmother, aunts, nephews, neices.... GET A TRIPOD!!!
#3. Virtuosity.
#2. Congo.

And although I have never been paid to sit through it, but I know someday I will during it's restored director's cut or something. I just cannot get past the first 20 minutes of, no matter how many times I've tried, no matter how open-minded I've tried to be, no matter how much I tell myself it's supposed to be one of the best movies ever made, no matter how much those stupid kids bug the crap outta me...well that's the problem right there. I cannot stand the obnoxious, smart-alecky children in...

#1 E.T. - Maybe it gets better after 20 minutes. I do not think I will live long enough to find out.

And I'd just like to add these 3 genres...

Shot on video with no tripod blown up to 35mm.
Ron Howard.
Steven Speilberg post Close Encounters (but I do like Shindler's List.)

Oh and if Andie McDowell is in it, I would rather watch the first 20 minutes of E.T.
 

I don't have many memories of "Armageddon". It was so preposterous I fell asleep during the first reel. I never have wanted to go back to see what I missed.
 

PS Your not going to like my thoughts.
 

And I liked the short version of Guccione's Caligula better than the long version.

Then there's Leonard Part 6.
 

Meet Joe Black.
Hello? Is there an EDITOR in the house?
I could barely make a 1/2 hour TV show out of this crap, why is it THREE HOURS LONG???

Any Dogme movie, any "handheld camera for a realistic/gritty look" movie - hey pal, if I want to get seasick I can watch my brother's vacation videos.
We have steadicam now, folks! Lose the nauseating stuff! (Unless it's about someone with palsy, even a POV shot should be STEADY)
 

I DREAMED OF AFRICA.

Played it for one week, then for the second week (to fulfill the two-week contract), it only showed at 10:15pm. Kind of amusing, considering the only people that went to that movie anyway were old women ... and they don't go to a movie at 10;15pm.