Worst films and why

BuilderPlumber

What would you regard as the worst films and why? Here's my top ten in no particular order:

1. The Police Academy sequels: one way to do it is to make the same film 7 times. The first film was mildly amusing but 6 virtually identical sequels were not needed.
2. Karate Kid sequels: The original was just ok, the sequels were all terrible. And kind of went around in circles.
3. Rambo 3: Rambo goes to Afghanistan to kill as many Russians as he can. America = good, USSR = bad. That's the biased message here.
4. Casino Royale 1967: not to be confused with the excellent 2006 film of the same name, the 1967 version was a shameless, stupid and overblown spoof on all things Bond. It was certainly not a classic Bond film or even spoof.
5. Batman and Robin: 1989's Batman was the best superhero film made to date and its 1992 sequel did not disappoint either. The 1995 sequel was lighter but echoed the feel of the original TV series. But this 1997 monstrosity nearly ended the Batman franchise altogether.
6. Low quality Vietnam films like Strike Commando or Missing in Action: Often starring karate man Chuck Norris (or else some total unknown), these films make the worst of the Rambo films look good! They are so bad they are almost good!
7. Delta Force: Chuck Norris again with more pro-American propaganda. And what's worse: it got a sequel.
8. Free Willy 3: A favourite of Christmas TV, this series certainly did not merit a third sequel. Boring and predictable, it is the perfect film to put you asleep on Christmas day.
9. North To Alaska: comedy westerns tend to be awful and this is one of the worst.
10. Summer Holiday: proof that singers should often stick to singing and not acting. This is one of any number of stupid films made by pop singers, in this case Cliff Richard.

Honourable mentions: Waterworld (not all completely bad but certainly not great), The Postman (like Waterworld, this poor man's answer to Mad Max is directed by and stars Kevin Costner. The concept was interesting and the book it was based on was good but how the film progresses, its length and its anticlimax let it down 100%), Cyborg (a mindless, violent and poorly made Mad Max ripoff starring yet another martial arts legend turned actor in JCVD). Die Another Day (in the grand scheme of things, far from being the worst film ever but it is the poorest of the Bond movies). There are also many poor superhero movies out there but cannot remember them by name.

Dirty Dingus McGee

2 films which are crtically acclaimed and seemed to be very popular with the general public that I thought were poor are High Noon and The Hurt Locker.

High Noon is a really poor film.2 hours of building up to a very inevitable shootout that we know Gary Cooper won't be killed in and the whole film is just him going around whinging and asking people for help.It bored the ****e out of me.

I really disliked the Hurt Locker aswell. The first 20 minutes are absolutely brilliant but the rest of the film is just a repetition of the same thing over and over again and it gets really boring.

I'm no expert but in my opinion the worst thing a film can possibly be is boring and both of those films bored me to death.

BuilderPlumber

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

2 films which are crtically acclaimed and seemed to be very popular with the general public that I thought were poor are High Noon and The Hurt Locker.

High Noon is a really poor film.2 hours of building up to a very inevitable shootout that we know Gary Cooper won't be killed in and the whole film is just him going around whinging and asking people for help.It bored the ****e out of me.

I really disliked the Hurt Locker aswell. The first 20 minutes are absolutely brilliant but the rest of the film is just a repetition of the same thing over and over again and it gets really boring.

I'm no expert but in my opinion the worst thing a film can possibly be is boring and both of those films bored me to death.

I have never seen The Hurt Locker but have grown very very tired of war films in general. Vietnam films were all the rage 30 years ago and, while the quality did differ, the basics were always the same. I'm sure I saw a film like The Hurt Locker about some other war in the past. I had the opportunity to see it loads of times but have not done so. That says a lot about a film. I have no doubt that it is good but war films are not for me.

I liked High Noon but agree that the buildup was tedious and the end predictable. For 1952, I am sure it was good but it has not aged terribly well and would not go anywhere if made today. One film that I feel is fairly toothless is Red River, an early John Wayne western (it would be relocated to Ireland later and renamed The Quiet Man!). So, on top of fare like this, High Noon must have been revolutionary for its time!

In general, I now will steer clear of anything starring a martial arts guy. It seems that in the 1980s, every martial arts champion went into films and combined a wooden acting approach with show off set pieces of karate action against Vietcong, gangsters or others.

Un Croissant

Discounting all the obviously bad films out there, I have to say 'The Big Lebowski'. I got major hate in AH a good while back over this and accused of purposely trolling, but I did not like this film at all.

I know, I know, it a just like my opinion, man, but I was so underwhelmed after it. I guess it suffered from the hype.

DareGod

Cabin Fever.

Men In Black II.

50 Shades of Grey.

agent graves

said it a hundred times.... battleship. god that was a brutal film.

e_e

One I got in trouble for criticizing on this board before: Slumdog Millionaire

ZERO chemistry between the two romantic leads, a narrative that is just a series of ridiculous contrivances and emotionally manipulative to the point of complete ridiculousness. It's pretty much "suffering suffering suffering suffering suffering suffering suffering yay feel happy now!!!!". A poorly written, cheap mess of a movie and a strong contender for worst best picture winner ever. Very telling that it almost ended up being straight to video, should have stayed that way.

shazzerman

Recently, Tusk and Horrible Bosses 2 have been my new contenders for worst ever.

Tusk - Kevin Smith is bloody hilarious, isn't he? This nudge-nudge wink-wink piece of "satire" is just more of that sub-Tarantino frat-boy type cinema that thinks it can get a free pass because it is not to be taken seriously. Contains an insufferable turn from Johnny Depp.

Horrible Bosses 2 - somebody tell Charlie Day that the person who told him he had a funny charming voice was a mental case... and then rip Charlie Day's larynx out.

Unearthly

The worst film I have ever seen is Jaws: The revenge. The plot line explains why.

A shark seeking revenge on the Brody family for killing the sharks in the previous films follows them to the Bahamas to eat them. :eek:

BuilderPlumber

DareGod wrote: »

Cabin Fever.

Men In Black II.

50 Shades of Grey.

Never went to see it as am not interested in that kind of film but friends of mine said it was very poor.

minikin

Left Behind 'starring' Nicholas Cage
Why?
Because it stars Nicolas Cage
Appalling rubbish.

Dirty Dingus McGee

Un Croissant wrote: »

Discounting all the obviously bad films out there, I have to say 'The Big Lebowski'. I got major hate in AH a good while back over this and accused of purposely trolling, but I did not like this film at all.

I know, I know, it a just like my opinion, man, but I was so underwhelmed after it. I guess it suffered from the hype.

I was slightly underwhelmed by it the first time I saw it but it was much funnier the second time around for some reason.I think it has it's own strange kind of humour and you have to be in the mood for it beforehand.

s8n

Hollow man and I still know what you did last summer. Both terrible

e_e

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

I was slightly underwhelmed by it the first time I saw it but it was much funnier the second time around for some reason.I think it has it's own strange kind of humour and you have to be in the mood for it beforehand.

It's a bit like the movie equivalent to a Frank Zappa or Captain Beefheart album, once you get into its own strange rhythm it's amazing.

BuilderPlumber

Unearthly wrote: »

The worst film I have ever seen is Jaws: The revenge. The plot line explains why.

A shark seeking revenge on the Brody family for killing the sharks in the previous films follows them to the Bahamas to eat them. :eek:

Forgot about that one. This is a perfect example of how an excellent original film is succeeded by a very very poor sequel.

Saralee4

I really didnt enjoy the Tim Burton versions of Charlie and the chochlate factory and Alice in wonderland. They were visually beautiful but crap movies. Really turned me off johnny depp too.

i think the worst sequel was one made after the vampire movie The Lost Boys. I love that film but the sequel was really bad.

Bad films that are actually good? ........Sharknado of course

Rgb.ie

San Andreas - 2015 tripe.

Mal-Adjusted

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

I really disliked the Hurt Locker aswell. The first 20 minutes are absolutely brilliant but the rest of the film is just a repetition of the same thing over and over again and it gets really boring.

My problem with the Hurt Locker is that's it's a one trick pony. he's trying to defuse the bomb. if it goes off he's dead, therefore breaking all tension because the audience knows it's not going to go off & kill the main character unless it's the very beginning or the very end of the film.

EoghanIRL

The road - very boring and mundane,
coupled with bad acting.. Worst movie I have ever seen.

Green zone - watched it because I thought it would be good due to Matt Damon starring in it (liked him in the bourne triology). Hated this film.

Insidious- good for the first part and rapidly went down hill towards the second half of the movie.

Sharknado 2 - after thoroughly enjoying sharknado I had high hopes for the sequel.. However I was quickly let down.
Celebs trying to get in on it ...
Brilliance of sharknado ruined by several cringy moments and a boring plot. It basically went commercial.

Saralee4

EoghanIRL wrote: »

The road - very boring and mundane,
coupled with bad acting.. Worst movie I have ever seen.

Green zone - watched it because I thought it would be good due to Matt Damon starring in it (liked him in the bourne triology). Hated this film.

Insidious- good for the first part and rapidly went down hill towards the second half of the movie.

Sharknado 2 - after thoroughly enjoying sharknado I had high hopes for the sequel.. However I was quickly let down.
Celebs trying to get in on it ...
Brilliance of sharknado ruined by several cringy moments and a boring plot. It basically went commercial.

I loved the road. I thought it was really good, very depressing movie though. I heard the book is good.

Dirty Dingus McGee

Mal-Adjusted wrote: »

My problem with the Hurt Locker is that's it's a one trick pony. he's trying to defuse the bomb. if it goes off he's dead, therefore breaking all tension because the audience knows it's not going to go off & kill the main character unless it's the very beginning or the very end of the film.

Yeah.There is no real tension that was my problem with it.I think

Guy Pearce's

character gets killed and that was in the first 20 minutes which was excellent but there was nothing more to it than the same set piece being done over and over again knowing that

Jeremy Renner is obviously going to survive until the very end of the film

BuilderPlumber

EoghanIRL wrote: »

The road - very boring and mundane,
coupled with bad acting.. Worst movie I have ever seen.

Again, this is another very famous film I did not see. While some have raved about it, a little voice was telling me this was another poor man's Mad Max ripoff in the vein of the Costner flop The Postman. It was on this time last week IIRC and did not feel compelled to watch it. I did not watch I Am Legend for similar reasons. Any views on that? I like a good post apocalypse film but as with westerns, there are too many poor ripoffs of the classic ones like Mad Max and Terminator.

BuilderPlumber

Saralee4 wrote: »

I loved the road. I thought it was really good, very depressing movie though. I heard the book is good.

I may give it a go. I like the Mad Max films and through these ended up watching Costner's The Postman (which is a very good concept but poorly done and overlong) which I did not enjoy and fear The Road would require you to like that film?

BuilderPlumber

Mal-Adjusted wrote: »

My problem with the Hurt Locker is that's it's a one trick pony. he's trying to defuse the bomb. if it goes off he's dead, therefore breaking all tension because the audience knows it's not going to go off & kill the main character unless it's the very beginning or the very end of the film.

All war films follow that style. A hero overcomes a situation, loses a friend along the way and helps out a community. Now, I daresay The Hurt Locker in its defensive is more intelligent than a lot of similar films. I'm sure The Hurt Locker is more like Apocalypse Now, The Deer Hunter or Full Metal Jacket than Braddock: Missing In Action.

I remember all them Rambo films and all the copycat answers to them. A one man army taking down enemies of the West was the theme. For some reason, we did not get that Rambo v Saddam film (the fourth film takes place in Burma instead)!

But these things back in the day were so popular. People could not get enough Rambo, etc. back then and any secondary school art exhibitions at the time was sure to include some painting of Rambo with a bazooka or gun ready to take on the communists.

I think that the second Iraq war took away appetites for such films to an extent but since a 4th Rambo was made and a 5th is also on the cards, there is a still a large audience for crude, biased one man army sagas. The first Rambo film was actually excellent, but the sequels were full of good action but very biased.

Faith+1

Unearthly wrote: »

The worst film I have ever seen is Jaws: The revenge. The plot line explains why.

A shark seeking revenge on the Brody family for killing the sharks in the previous films follows them to the Bahamas to eat them. :eek:

So the sharks became self aware? May god have mercy on us all!

BuilderPlumber

Faith+1 wrote: »

So the sharks became self aware? May god have mercy on us all!

Just looked it up! It says 'This time it's personal'! as its slogan! Poor fare like this are totally disrespectful to an excellent original. It is obvious Spielberg is not directing this one.

Arghus

I've seen pile upon pile of utterly crap films over the years. A lot of them were pretty obvious stinkers, and, as a result, I can't really muster the energy to rant and rave about their ineptitude. For example, Godzilla from 98? - Everyone knows about that one, so what's the point anymore?

But, still, there is one pet-hate film that I utterly despise. Almost like some might hold a particular movie close to their hearts: I hold my memories of this one deep -festering in my bile-duct. Give me half the chance and I'll begin to feel the froth gather at the corners of my mouth at the mere mention of it.

The Hangover. I fucking hate that film. A cynical, misogynistic, homophobic, unfunny and downright racist piece of trash that's filled with utterly unlikable characters -characters who don't change in any meaningful way from beginning to end, other than to become even bigger assholes.

Hey man, it's only a comedy, lighten up. Well, okay... but no - This film disgusts me. The whole worldview of the film is that of the douche-bag-jock-white-guy that populates its world. It's "edginess" is non-existent. The best "adult" comedies are those that use all the lewdness and rudeness at their disposal in the service of good characterisation, or, when they're really, really memorable, to push some boundaries - forcing us to think while we laugh, even if only a tiny way.

The Hangover has none of this. It's a cowardly film. It uses it's ability -as an R-rated comedy- to speak relatively freely and risquely, to make jokes at the easiest of targets. For example - women are a pain in the ass; they nag and stop you having the craic with your boyz. Worst of all you might get married to one, but some of them can be strippers too, so they aren't all bad really. Asians are really funny, their accents are pure gas. If you need drugs; ask a black guy. Also, people who may be slightly "touched" mentally may have a penchant for possible homosexual incest. But don't worry, they're a terrific laugh overall - they don't understand the world because their brains don't work. They're dead handy to have around too, they usually are mathematical geniuses, just like that movie, the one with Dustin Hoffman doing full-retard.

I think the films underlying message is -anyone who doesn't fall into the spectrum of middle-class, straight white-guy is, at best, nothing more than a caricature, helpful to facilitate shenanigans, or, at worst, a boil on the arse of white-guy world. It's a regressive film, with an ugly heart. That what makes me hate it the most. What dismays me the most is that people ate it up wholesale. It's beloved. And it's crap. It's less-than-stellar politics aside, it's a boring film, the punchlines are obvious.... the whole film is obvious and unsurprising. Even though it's been a few years, and the franchise is now dead, the fact that this was anything near a zeitgeisty cultural touchstone hit with the public and the critics still makes me despair for the continued evolution and eventual fate of Hollywood comedy.

ardinn

BuilderPlumber wrote: »

What would you regard as the worst films and why? Here's my top ten in no particular order:

5. Batman and Robin: 1989's Batman was the best superhero film made to date

Christopher Nolan's 3 batmans were better imo - I loved the 1989 film - hated the next 3, but Nolan did justice to Batman!!

Worst film of all time...... man of steel

Saralee4

BuilderPlumber wrote: »

I may give it a go. I like the Mad Max films and through these ended up watching Costner's The Postman (which is a very good concept but poorly done and overlong) which I did not enjoy and fear The Road would require you to like that film?

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The Road is a very grim depressing but realistic look at an apocolyspe. It is about a father and son relationship and their survival and how a father will do anything for his son but also that in times as bad as that there is hope for the future.

I have never seen mad max or the Costner movie but i know a little of what its about and type of film and i wouldnt compare them at all. There is no fantasy element in The Road. Its a journey of survival. Its very realistic and raw. At times there are scenes were there is little dialogue and the main charachters just sit looking at each other. Its one of the most realistic end of the world movies ive ever seen but i was a bit down after watching it. It does make you think though.

The Dark Side

The Nic Cage remake of The Wicker Man was all kinds of stupid.

razorblunt

I'm not going to put any of the Sci Fi channel films in this category. I don't watch them but they're not masquerading as "proper" films anyway.
For me it would be the below, not in order, except for the first one!

1. Alone in the Dark - it was just a complete mess, Stephen Dorff, Tara Reid and just nonsense with the worst graphics I've seen in a while.
2. Burn After Reading - if it was cake it would have eaten itself, bloody circle-jerk of a movie, turned it off half way through
3. Elizabethtown - how cana pair of shoes lose that much money, it felt like it was dragging on for hours

For the first and third I'd have turned them off or walked out but I was in company for the former and in the cinema for the latter and needed a lift home!

When I first started going out with my now wife she'd often pick up a rental, that's where Alone in the Dark came from originally, she followed it up with a movie staring Lance Henriksen and the curly haired horrible actress from American Pie, can't recall the name, but that was switched off after 30 mins. Her third strike came when she rented something we had seen about 6 weeks previously. Henceforth banned from renting!

AndyBoBandy

Man of Steel.
Utter garbage
constantly moving timeline, utterly crap story.

I only made it an hour into it before turning it off, as I would have been even more pi$$ed if I'd actually watched it to the end.

Tipsy McSwagger

The Lego Movie - Turned it off after 40mins. I love animated movies but this was just seriously unfunny and boring. The worst animated film I have seen since Shrek 3.

pah

BuilderPlumber wrote: »

For some reason, we did not get that Rambo v Saddam film (the fourth film takes place in Burma instead)!

Sure we did!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seZUHRPJ7wE

Right Turn Clyde

Unearthly wrote: »

The worst film I have ever seen is Jaws: The revenge. The plot line explains why:

When handed the script for the first time, Michael Caine read the opening words, "Fade in, the Bahamas", then put down the script, rang his agent and said "Yes!"

Also, years later he was asked whether he had actually seen the film. He said "no, but I seen the mansion that it built!"

Saralee4

one that actually got Gweneth Paltrow an Oscar - Shakespear in Love - I only watched about 5 mins of it in fairness but I believe it was complete crap!

MRnotlob606

last of the dogmen.Basically about this bounty hunter who finds a lost native American tribe in modern times.pure ****e.

Right Turn Clyde

I've only ever walked out of the cinema twice, for Epic Movie and Mel Brooks' remake of The Producers. So clearly they're amongst the worst films I've seen. However, the real disappointments for me are always with highly regarded films. Stuff like Godard's Breathless and Bresson's Au Hazard Balthazar. Boring, dull and rather ugly. Another one is Tarkovsky's Stalker, which is quite sensational looking, but utterly without warmth or heart (although, I suspect that's the whole point).

Finally, Django Unchained was lost on me. An excellent cast, an occasionally brilliant writer/director and interesting subject matter, all smothered in style and a jarring soundtrack. No, not one of the worst films I've seen, but one of the most disappointing.

Saralee4

Right Turn Clyde wrote: »

Finally, Django Unchained was lost on me. An excellent cast, an occasionally brilliant writer/director and interesting subject matter, all smothered in style and a jarring soundtrack. No, not one of the worst films I've seen, but one of the most disappointing.

:eek:

BuilderPlumber

ardinn wrote: »

Christopher Nolan's 3 batmans were better imo - I loved the 1989 film - hated the next 3, but Nolan did justice to Batman!!

Worst film of all time...... man of steel

Nolan's Batmans are indeed excellent. As good as the 1989 film, maybe even better. I liked Batman Returns from 1992 as well. Batman Forever was just ok and overall a very tame affair (too like the 1960s series complete with Robin saying all them 'holy ... Batman' comments!! Of course, Batman & Robin totally went down the tame road completely. The Mr Freeze character could have been done much more darker but this was not the type of film.

Man of Steel is not good imo either. I know that there are countless bad superhero films that make Batman and Robin look decent in comparison and that is one. There were a few bad Incredible Hulk ones too and the Iron Man sequel (the first Iron Man was excellent).

Any movie that either ruined or practically destroyed an actor's career. Gigili is the perfect example of this, which was so offensive that it ruined Ben Affleck's then-rising career for a long time.

Duggy747

Deleted User wrote: »

Any movie that either ruined or practically destroyed an actor's career. Gigili is the perfect example of this, which was so offensive that it ruined Ben Affleck's then-rising career for a long time.

Never liked him as an actor at all but he's impressed me with his director chops, he's got great promise behind the camera.

One and only film I've ever walked out on was Knowing, when it showed to be aliens there were groans from everyone in the screen and we all got up to leave at the same time. It was pretty funny how everyone cleared out of there before the credits.

Atrocious film, though.

stephenl15

I remember leaving halfway through Juno in the cinema. Thought it was awful

Un Croissant

I left half way through Star Trek one.

Watched it since and it wasn't half bad.

AndyBoBandy

I've never walked out of a cinema mid movie, but when I went to see the first Matrix when it came out, there were 2 biddy's late 50's/early 60's a few rows in front of us, when Neo was shown the huge pods where the humans were grown, with the machines going around, 'harvesting', the 2 biddy's got up and walked out, almost wetting themselves with laughter.

Adamocovic

An unpopular opinion but I didn't like Avatar at all.

Maybe because I didnt watch it in 3D in the cinemas but people were boasting how awesome it was. Tried giving it a chance but eventually found myself just waiting for it to be over.

Hazys

40 Days and 40 nights

I was in 5th year of secondary school so 10 Euro was a lot for me at the time. I was on my way to the bookies to put 10 Euro on Brazil at 9/1 to win the 2002 World Cup but i ran into a couple of buddies who convinced me to go to the cinema instead.

Fcuking peer pressure. I ended up spending my 10 Euro on the sh1tiest movie of all time and then having to watch me lose out on 90 Euro later that summer after Brazil went on to win the World Cup. Fcuk you Josh Hartnett

Un Croissant

Adamocovic wrote: »

An unpopular opinion but I didn't like Avatar at all.

Maybe because I didnt watch it in 3D in the cinemas but people were boasting how awesome it was. Tried giving it a chance but eventually found myself just waiting for it to be over.

As a rule, I don't like 3D and refuse to watch any more movies in it. Most of the time it seems like tacked on nonsense

e_e

Arghus wrote: »

I've seen pile upon pile of utterly crap films over the years. A lot of them were pretty obvious stinkers, and, as a result, I can't really muster the energy to rant and rave about their ineptitude. For example, Godzilla from 98? - Everyone knows about that one, so what's the point anymore?

But, still, there is one pet-hate film that I utterly despise. Almost like some might hold a particular movie close to their hearts: I hold my memories of this one deep -festering in my bile-duct. Give me half the chance and I'll begin to feel the froth gather at the corners of my mouth at the mere mention of it.

The Hangover. I fucking hate that film. A cynical, misogynistic, homophobic, unfunny and downright racist piece of trash that's filled with utterly unlikable characters -characters who don't change in any meaningful way from beginning to end, other than to become even bigger assholes.

Hey man, it's only a comedy, lighten up. Well, okay... but no - This film disgusts me. The whole worldview of the film is that of the douche-bag-jock-white-guy that populates its world. It's "edginess" is non-existent. The best "adult" comedies are those that use all the lewdness and rudeness at their disposal in the service of good characterisation, or, when they're really, really memorable, to push some boundaries - forcing us to think while we laugh, even if only a tiny way.

The Hangover has none of this. It's a cowardly film. It uses it's ability -as an R-rated comedy- to speak relatively freely and risquely, to make jokes at the easiest of targets. For example - women are a pain in the ass; they nag and stop you having the craic with your boyz. Worst of all you might get married to one, but some of them can be strippers too, so they aren't all bad really. Asians are really funny, their accents are pure gas. If you need drugs; ask a black guy. Also, people who may be slightly "touched" mentally may have a penchant for possible homosexual incest. But don't worry, they're a terrific laugh overall - they don't understand the world because their brains don't work. They're dead handy to have around too, they usually are mathematical geniuses, just like that movie, the one with Dustin Hoffman doing full-retard.

I think the films underlying message is -anyone who doesn't fall into the spectrum of middle-class, straight white-guy is, at best, nothing more than a caricature, helpful to facilitate shenanigans, or, at worst, a boil on the arse of white-guy world. It's a regressive film, with an ugly heart. That what makes me hate it the most. What dismays me the most is that people ate it up wholesale. It's beloved. And it's crap. It's less-than-stellar politics aside, it's a boring film, the punchlines are obvious.... the whole film is obvious and unsurprising. Even though it's been a few years, and the franchise is now dead, the fact that this was anything near a zeitgeisty cultural touchstone hit with the public and the critics still makes me despair for the continued evolution and eventual fate of Hollywood comedy.

Believe me the sequel makes the original look like The Great Dictator.

BuilderPlumber

Adamocovic wrote: »

An unpopular opinion but I didn't like Avatar at all.

Maybe because I didnt watch it in 3D in the cinemas but people were boasting how awesome it was. Tried giving it a chance but eventually found myself just waiting for it to be over.

Enjoy Avatar but it was just way too long.

blatantrereg

Too many to mention. But ones that were well received by critics and audiences but were in fact ****:

The Station Agent was sh!t (in spite of Tyrion)
Brick was sh!tter (in spite of Joseph Gordon Levitt)
Pi was even sh!tter. (Just insufferable pretentious bollocks.)

edit: Sorry, omitted reasons:

The Station Agent was boring and not funny. Also the woman's interest in Tyrion was as a surrogate child. That was kind of interesting, but most people who say they like it refuse to accept this notion. So people like it for all the wrong reasons and miss the point entirely, and buy into sentimental nonsense.

The other two were just pretentious crap. Trying to discuss them in any more detail than that just makes me annoyed because they were such pretentious crap. They're so bad that my dislike overflows into disgust for anybody who expresses a liking for them. There's nothing to like - you just imagine you are clever by watching them.