truly terrible films

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come on, what films do you think are over rated, over hyped and just plain vile? these two spring to my mind immediately. {especially after seeing them on someones fav films list ) icht.

lord of the rings films
casablanca

oh, I liked Sideways and some others mentioned!

Agree with Tabs about The English Patient though. Yawn.

Xanado-didn't see the film but the theme tune will always stick in my mind. Xanadoo-oo

Oh yes - the Girl with the Pearl Ear-ring - was there any dialogue?

Casino - crap

Eyes Wide Shut was utter bollocks.

Misery was the biggest pile of shite I have ever seen.

But the biggest load of bollocks was Guest House Paradiso m(the Bottom one) That was about as funnny as being in thumbscrews.

Has anyone mentioned Open Water yet?

I never went to see Open Water. I kept asking people how long anyone could be expected to watch a couple tread water, dodge a couple of sharks, fall asleep, almost drown, wake again and dodge a couple more sharks.

No one answered me, so I didn't go! lmao

hope I didn't spoil the plot for anyone!

AI.

Hate it, I was so angry that I wasted hours of my life watching it and that I bought it. Depressing miserable defeatist shite (and I'm more mellow about it now than after I sat through it!)

Grease 2 on the other hand is so bad that it's good

Eyes Wide Shut - rubbish
English Patient - how many sand dunes??
French film called Smoking/No Smoking - only film i've ever walked out of
Damage - laughable, but took itself rather seriously
9 Mile - pants.

Damage! O that was a truly, truly terrible film. actually paid MONEY to see that.
the Bodyguard?

Stargate
Vanilla Sky

Xanadu pph, good job I'm sitting here on an empty stomach you know...what a turkey.
There are so many cacky low and high budget British films, where do you start...
Very Annie Mary, Guest House Paradiso, Blame it on the bellboy, Twin Town, Janice Beard 45wpm...
I think I'm in a minority on here as I tend not to see most of the big budget American releases, because I suspect I won't enjoy them and because I can never get a babysitter .
But I just know I'd hate and loathe a lot of the ones already mentioned.
And as Lou will know I despise Richard Curtis. All his stuff is meretricious pap. I even hated the well-intentioned Girl in the Cafe.

The one I feel "guilty" about hating though is Truly Madly Deeply. Urgh.

And I hated that one with Richard E Grant about the single dad.

Bitter Moon
White Hunter Black Heart
Forrest Gump

Oh God yes Beetle, Thingy and Sarah. Vile.

And what about the "hilarious" portrait of British life in Three Men and a Little Lady

Coyote Ugly

Forrest Gump - in fact, Robert Zemeckis is a bit of a blot on civilisation. As is Tom Hanks.

You've Got Nausea springs to mind. Tedious in Seattle...

Ha ha, ff, and that reminds me of Verhoeven's meisterwork Show Girls, starring the 1990's riposte to Greta Garbo, Elizabeth Berkley!

Forrest Gump? Interesting. I didn't want to like it, but found that I did.
But speaking of Tom Hanks - Saving Private Ryan was a waste of my life (and I was an idle layabout backpacker at the time, so that's saying something.)

I liked Forrest Gump too

Life if like a box of chocolates..........

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover.

The Thought Police should throw the fella who thought this schlock in jail for life for being so warped.

(Marina, come come, Tom Hanks was delightful in Big. And I still have a soft spot for Splash)