Fridays Are For One Question
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My wife and a few others thought I wrote kind of passionately about the movie experience in yesterday’s post. What can I say? I really, really enjoy the movies. But having said that, there has been more than once when I’ve wanted my $10 back. That’s what today’s question revolves around:
“What movie did you last see that wasn’t worth your time and money?”
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July 23rd, 2010 at 7:56 am
Kick Ass. It probably didn’t help that I saw it the weekend of the flood, but still…more disturbing than awesome.
July 23rd, 2010 at 8:20 am
My wife and I attend a movie so rarely that I cannot remember the last movie I regretted spending the time or money on.
I’m sure there are more than a few in all my movie watching years, but right now I can’t think of any of them.
July 23rd, 2010 at 8:28 am
I made the mistake years ago, while working in youth ministry down in B’ham, of taking a few youth to what I thought was going to be a silly/funny movie. The movie was the first Austin Powers flick. Yikes.
July 23rd, 2010 at 8:29 am
Woops.
July 23rd, 2010 at 8:33 am
In high school, my friends and I walked out and did ask for our money back for Scary Movie (for what we thought was going to be a funny movie).
July 23rd, 2010 at 9:34 am
Oh, holy cow, there is no comparison on this one – Momma Mia. What a terrible, terrible waste of time. 2 hours that I will never get back, and the vivid, wretched image of Pierce Brosnan’s terrible acting/singing singed into my brain!!!
Obviously, I haven’t gotten over this one.
July 23rd, 2010 at 9:46 am
The newest Adam Sandler movie Grown Ups. It was seriously the stupidest movie I have ever seen. Not funny stupid, but embarrassingly stupid.
July 23rd, 2010 at 10:09 am
For me, I almost think it’s worse when a movie has lots of good parts, and one stand-out terrible part that kills the rest of it.
About 10 years ago, I went to see a movie called “The Bone Collector”. The ending of that movie was so bad, and so ridiculous, I thought I was going to have a stroke. Let’s just say, if there was to be a fight between a serial killer at the top of his game and a quadriplegic, I’d put my money on the serial killer. But oh, no, not in this movie! I mean, no disrespect to quadriplegics, but I don’t see many in the UFC?
I had a bit of a freak-out in the theater… and I was on a date. She handled it well, but it was a low moment for me.
AR
July 23rd, 2010 at 12:34 pm
The Last Song. I am normally a big fan of her movies, but alas, the movie just didn’t do the book justice.
July 23rd, 2010 at 2:05 pm
Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood. I thought it was going to be on the level quality-wise with Gladiator. But instead it was just stupid and totally not based on the legend or anything historical.
It should have been an epic success, but instead was an epic failure, especially the D-Day sequence at the end of the film where the French sweep in on landing craft a la Saving Private Ryan.
It was sad, because parts of the movie were very solid, but it was like Ridley Scott’s 12 year old grandson got to write in some of the scenes. So, in the final run, all I remember are the parts that were embarrasingly stupid.
July 23rd, 2010 at 6:15 pm
Beowulf – we all know the story, but the awful CG ruined it.
July 24th, 2010 at 1:56 pm
Another Brosnan pick from me.
My wife and I saw Oceans in theaters. The footage was amazing, but anything good about this film stops there. Brosnan’s narration was HORRIBLE and the content of it didn’t contain a spec of anything educational. Instead, it was all pagan lovey with lots of mother earth speak, and describing the ocean as having emotion. Parts were very laughable. Probably our most disappointing theater experience.
July 24th, 2010 at 2:46 pm
Luckily I saw these at home, so no money wasted. But the two worst movies I’ve seen are definitely Borat and The Genius Club.
July 24th, 2010 at 9:16 pm
The Sorcerers Apprentice. I love Jay Baruchel, he is a delightful young actor and a joy to watch although other than “How To Train Your Dragon” I don’t think he has been given the right movie yet and TSA was a waste of his and other gifted actors talents. It started out well then unravled towards the middle. It was like they had two scripts and just couldn’t decide what movie they wanted to make or who their audience was. So many loose ends and characters that were introduced as being important to the story and then they dissappeared. It was just sad to see what could have been a good idea wasted. Don’t go. Don’t even rent it.
July 28th, 2010 at 6:16 am
Well I love that so many of you are going back so many years to find a flick that wasted your time and money.
I, on the other hand, just have to go back a month or so to Killers. I was hoping to enjoy another Mr. and Mrs. Smith-esque movie. It started out pretty good but fell off a cliff by the end – as if they switched scripts about half way through to a spoof.
What is with that? Do they run out of money? Switch directors? Loose permit to film on location?? Well, I paid good money (or at least a lot of it!) for a babysitter and movie – come on Hollywood!
July 29th, 2010 at 8:01 am
Well said, Mrs. Graham. Come on, Hollywood! We’re getting babysitters for this junk!