Worst 3 movies that you OWN.

McLoki
McLoki Posts: 5,231
edited December 2005 in Music & Movies
I thought it would be a fun thread to hear about the 3 worst movies that you actually purchased (blind purchase?) that you not only won't watch again, but wish you had not seen the first time....

My list:

Made in America - Ted Danson and Whoopi Goldberg what could go wrong with these two headliners eh? :rolleyes: Actually it was a cheap purchase (only $10 when almost all DVD's were over $20) I credit this movie with teaching me a bad cheap movie is just as crappy as a bad expensive one....

Anchorman (unrated even) - blind buy due to so many polkies liking it. Taught me that good decisions in speakers in no way relates to good decisions in movies... :p

Fight Club - my brother thought this was the most awesome movie. I watched 3/4 of it and never made it to the end. Just one self-inflicted fight after another for no apparent reason. I have to blame myself for this one cuz I knew my brothers tastes were bad.. :cool:

There is my list. You may like some or all of these movies - but I thought they were either stupid, bad, or just plain sucked.

So - what do you have?

Michael
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited November 2005
    You might want to watch the end of Fight Club some time. There's a whole plot twist in there that kind of makes everything make sense.
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited November 2005
    Dibs on Anchorman and Fight Club...

    Seriously we had a thread here a while back where we'd swap out turds to a different bowl. I'll see if I can "flush" it out in a search...

    EDIT: Found it...
    http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5689&highlight=swap
    More later,
    Tour...
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  • opus
    opus Posts: 1,252
    edited November 2005
    How funny!!!

    2 of your 3 worst movies I like. Give you $10 for both of them :)

    I hated Anchorman the first time I watched it but for some reason I found it amusing later. No accounting for taste I guess.

    Put me down for Starsky and Hutch, Daredevil and Dukes of Hazzard ( I know I will buy it when it comes out :rolleyes: )........kevin
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited November 2005
    opus wrote:
    ... and Dukes of Hazzard ( I know I will buy it when it comes out :rolleyes: )........kevin
    ROFL... You must be psychic...
    More later,
    Tour...
    Vox Copuli
    Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. - Old English Proverb

    "Death doesn't come with a Uhaul." - Dennis Gardner
    "It's easy to get lost in price vs performance vs ego vs illusion." - doro
    "There is a certain entertainment value in ripping the occaisonal (sic) buttmunch..." - TroyD
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  • Frank Z
    Frank Z Posts: 5,860
    edited November 2005
    The Punisher
    The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
    National Treasure (Full Screen)
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited November 2005
    This list is endless; however the BEST movie I've seen recently was The Station Agent.
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  • Frank Z
    Frank Z Posts: 5,860
    edited November 2005
    Stay on the subject...butt-nugget.


































    :D
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  • aaharvel
    aaharvel Posts: 4,489
    edited November 2005
    Crouching Tiger
    Con-Air
    Days Of Thunder

    2 out of 3 are Bruckheimer 'masterpieces' :rolleyes:
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  • cjpre4
    cjpre4 Posts: 20
    edited November 2005
    I had to get some of these because my girlfriend wanted to watch them over and over again.

    Moulin Rouge/Chicago- both these movies sucked the very life out of me.

    Ocean's twelve- Julia Roberts actually plays Julia Roberts in a small part of this blockBUSTer, so stupid I quit watching right there.

    Escape from New York- Kurt Russell - when I was starting up my home theater, I was almost buying anything to get a DVD collection.
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited November 2005
    aaharvel wrote:
    Crouching Tiger

    That's not the one with Jet Li in it, is it?
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  • McLoki
    McLoki Posts: 5,231
    edited November 2005
    audiobliss wrote:
    That's not the one with Jet Li in it, is it?
    Nope Yun-Fat Chow and Michelle Yeoh.

    Great replys so far - maybe we can get a swap going. One mans **** is another mans treasure. (is that a great mental image or what.... :rolleyes: )

    If I have anything you want, Put me down for (so far)
    (cjpre4)
    Moulin Rouge
    Escape from New York
    (aaharvel)
    Con-Air
    Days Of Thunder


    Michael
    Mains.............Polk LSi15 (Cherry)
    Center............Polk LSiC (Crossover upgraded)
    Surrounds.......Polk LSi7 (Gloss Black - wood sides removed and crossovers upgraded)
    Subwoofers.....SVS 25-31 CS+ and PC+ (both 20hz tune)
    Pre\Pro...........NAD T163 (Modded with LM4562 opamps)
    Amplifier.........Cinepro 3k6 (6-channel, 500wpc@4ohms)
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  • McLoki
    McLoki Posts: 5,231
    edited November 2005
    BTW - I would only feel good about a swap. I consider my 3 movies so bad I would feel guilty taking money for them....

    Michael
    Mains.............Polk LSi15 (Cherry)
    Center............Polk LSiC (Crossover upgraded)
    Surrounds.......Polk LSi7 (Gloss Black - wood sides removed and crossovers upgraded)
    Subwoofers.....SVS 25-31 CS+ and PC+ (both 20hz tune)
    Pre\Pro...........NAD T163 (Modded with LM4562 opamps)
    Amplifier.........Cinepro 3k6 (6-channel, 500wpc@4ohms)
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 28,771
    edited November 2005
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  • MrBuhl
    MrBuhl Posts: 2,419
    edited November 2005
    Wow - I liked Fight Club, Crouching Tiger/Hidden Dragon, and About Schmidt... I must be getting old...

    What I have I don't dig -
    The Rock, Somewhere in Time, and (Extended Directors Cut DVD) Apolcalypse Now... otherwise known as - "How to take one of the great movies of all time and ruin it..."
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited November 2005
    I also like a bunch of the choices here. I thought that I ddin't really have any that I didn't like, but looking over my collection, I do have (if anyone wants any of these just let me know, I owe soem Karma around here anyways):
    - "Highlander" which I got as a gift and could never offload,
    - "The Outsiders" which was bought by a girl I was with at the time... her favorite movie,
    - "Secret Window" (with Johnny Depp)... I like Stephen King, usually like Johnny Depp... just didn't care for this
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • Shizelbs
    Shizelbs Posts: 7,433
    edited November 2005
    bobman1235 wrote:
    You might want to watch the end of Fight Club some time. There's a whole plot twist in there that kind of makes everything make sense.

    Ditto. I thought the same thing until I finally saw the whole thing start to finish. Trust me on this one, finish the movie.
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  • Shizelbs
    Shizelbs Posts: 7,433
    edited November 2005
    Austin Powers 2
    Bridget Jones' Diary
    The Bone Collector
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  • begbie
    begbie Posts: 630
    edited November 2005
    Magnolia (damn was this a long movie)
    Traffic (won a few Oscars but has very little replay value)
    Thin Red Line (I like artsy but not this one)
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  • Toxis
    Toxis Posts: 5,116
    edited November 2005
    The Opposite of Sex
    The Watcher
    Toxic Avenger (had to buy it just because...although the movie SUCKS!!!)
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  • danger boy
    danger boy Posts: 15,722
    edited November 2005
    1. Lost in Translation
    2. Fight Club (i've seen the whole movie)
    3. Sideways

    I really hated all three of these movies.
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  • Ricardo
    Ricardo Posts: 10,636
    edited November 2005
    1) Once Upon a Time in Mexico
    2) Hangmen-This would win the "Worst Movie Ever" competition..
    3) Blade Runner -I know lots of people like it; I never saw it on theaters; I have started watching it a couple of times but just cannot do it...

    I'll add a fourth:

    4) Tigerland
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  • Willow
    Willow Posts: 11,053
    edited November 2005
    Dark water
    War of the Worlds

    Thank god I didn't pay for them
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited November 2005
    I don't own any movies I don't like. However...If I owned 3 movies with Adam Sandler in them they would be my 3 worst.

    The three worst that I've owned and gotten rid of because they really sucked were:

    1) Sphere
    2) Natural Born Killers
    3) Any movie in pan-n-scan - It was either retuned/exchanged immediately or given away.
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  • reeltrouble1
    reeltrouble1 Posts: 9,312
    edited November 2005
    I dont have any I dont like, but the wife does:

    Big Fat Greek Wedding
    Bridges of Madison County
    Some thing with that Talk Show Lady Kelly Ripa (its awful)

    She want Chicago and Phantom of the Opera, if anyone has these I will buy em cuz I cant trade hers and have any peace.

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  • Ron-P
    Ron-P Posts: 8,520
    edited November 2005
    The Phantom Menace
    Attack of the Clones
    Revenge of the Sith
    If...
    Ron dislikes a film = go out and buy it.
    Ron loves a film = don't even rent.
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  • aaharvel
    aaharvel Posts: 4,489
    edited November 2005
    Ron-P wrote:
    The Phantom Menace
    Attack of the Clones
    Revenge of the Sith
    BOO! HISS!!! BOO!!! ;)
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  • ninerbj
    ninerbj Posts: 870
    edited November 2005
    Sideways
    Alexandra
    Dingleberry and Douschbag visit White Castle (or something like that)
    "she had the body of Venus, with arms."
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  • ward91
    ward91 Posts: 338
    edited November 2005
    Sky Captain! the worst film ever might as well have been a kiddys cartoon. it was filmed 100% indoors with blue skreen.
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  • Skynut
    Skynut Posts: 2,967
    edited November 2005
    ninerbj wrote:
    Sideways
    Alexandra
    Dingleberry and Douschbag visit White Castle (or something like that)


    It is funny how peoples taste are different, I thought Harold and Kumar go to white castle was friggin hillarius.


    On my no good list are

    Deep water.
    Battlefield earth.
    Anything produced/directed by John Woo.

    And for the loyal followers (feel free to flame)

    I could not even make it through LOTR.
    I am going to try again someday but from what I've seen so far it will be a long day.
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  • Pablo
    Pablo Posts: 723
    edited November 2005
    I really don't buy blind. But my wife got me this one (and it's one I would have bought blind because the 1st one is one of my favorites), so my top 3:

    Starship Troopers 2 (heros of the federation)
    Starship Troopers 2 (heros of the federation)
    Starship Troopers 2 (heros of the federation)

    I'm still pissed every time I see it on the shelf!
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