For me it would be as such:

Footloose

The Goonies

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Actually lost friends over my white-hot hatred of those films.


Comments, anyone?

ALL of the Rocky movies
ALL of the Dirty Harry movies
ALL of the Godfather movies
Ferris Bueller
Big



I'm sure there are others but that is all I can think of right now.



Cat

I can't think of any 80's movies I hated right now.....

But 2002's One Hour Photo with Robin Williams tops my list!

  E.T...

    Not so much hated, I s'pose, but overrated.  I went in expecting serious sci-fi action not thinly veiled chick flick.  In 1982 I hadn't heard much about E.T. before seeing it... groove ;) on...

not an 80s film but i've always been annoyed by the lord of the rings movies.

I wish "Gone With the Wind".....would
Breakfast Club(spare me Judd Nelson)

Pretty in Pink & The Breakfast Club

I can't stand either one of those movies.

  E.T...

    Not so much hated, I s'pose, but overrated.  I went in expecting serious sci-fi action not thinly veiled chick flick.  In 1982 I hadn't heard much about E.T. before seeing it... groove ;) on...


Agreed.

Annoying alien and faggy kids. Bad combination.

not an 80s movie, but ... Goodfellas, Casino and all three Godfather films

Violent Mob movies are not really my cup of tea. 

one i always used to have trouble with was chinatown. it's so SLLLLOOOOOWWWWWW.......!

Star Wars

The Breakfast Club

dag! everybody hatin' on bTc! that movie changed my life!

Agreed.

Annoying alien and faggy kids. Bad combination.


Uh, I think Elliott was a little young to determine such a thing.  You're sounding a little like Fred Phelps/Jerry Falwell here, "E.T. was a f@g!"

I agree, the movie was sooooo frickin' sappy.  Spielberg should have hired David Lynch as a consultant.  Could have used a little Eraserhead injected into that flick!  The excessive merchandizing was worse.  By the fall of '83, we were saying, "E.T. go home!"

DUMB:
"Porky's," all of them including the first one.

CHEESY:
"Dirty Dancing," and I don't like Jennifer Gray.

RUBBISH:
The Indiana Jones sequels.  "Raiders of the Lost Ark" was and will always be awesome.  The others, nuthanks.

PRETENTIOUS:
"Reds."  All Hollywood, no grit.  Boring.  If you thought it was boring, "Reds" fans implied you were not sophisticated enough.  Sorry, there was no reason a story about John Reed, the only American in buried in the Kremlin had to be boring, but it was.  Boring does not equal sophisticated.  The only part worth seeing is Henry Miller's cameo!*

BORING:
"All The President's Men," as above, except there was no Henry Miller cameo.  When my father took us to see it, I thought I was to young to understand it, so that's why it was so boring.  I was, but that's not why.  I watched APM twenty years later, and it was boring from the first frame to the last!

PATHETIC:
"On Golden Pond," Hepburn, Fonda, and Fonda--"Wanna dance or would you rather just suck face?"  'Nuff said!

BRATTY:
"St. Elmo's Fire," should be fairly obvious why.  If not, you probably bought all episodes of "Friends" on DVD.

SNOOZER:
"Plenty," Meryl Streep, Sting, Tracy Ullman, John Gielgud...but plenty narcotic.

SNOTTY:
"Room With a View," stop the Pretentious-Go-Round, I'm gonna puke!

CHEESIER:
"The Lost Boys," suburban vampire kids featuring Kiefer Southerland, a retarded Anne Rice.

GROSS INSULT TO CELLULOID:
"The Rocky Horror Picture Show," don't get me started!
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*ASTERISK
"Henry & June," I thought "Oh great, they're making a movie about Henry Miller"...but it wasn't.  It was just another super-softcore attempt on the diaries of Anais Nin, with 18-year-old sexpot Uma Thurmond as "June," and Maria De Meideros as Nin, who coos sultry inanities, like 'ugo is with us but, I vant to vuck 'enry!
Git outta here!  Henry Miller got a lotta nookie, but he wasn't just some Hugh Hefner dude!
::)

Star Wars

The Breakfast Club






I couldn't relate to Breakfast Club either.

ALL of the Rocky movies
ALL of the Dirty Harry movies
ALL of the Godfather movies
Ferris Bueller
Big



I'm sure there are others but that is all I can think of right now. 8) NO DISRESPECT... But..I loved all of those movies!...I grew up onRocky, Dirty Harry, Godfather, and Ferris and BIG... Rocky to me was the ICON of the underdog.....Plus my husband looks like a mix of Rock (SLY ) and John Travolta..( did you hate Urban Cowboy too??  )..And my memories as a kid were watching ALL Clint Eastwood movies...the Sergio Leone ...The Good , The Bad ..and The Ugly....and The God Father is a Classic, but then again I love mob movies Goodfellas is one of my faves as well...and BIG..that was GREAT..Tom Hanks was super as the kid in a little boys body...I thought it was wonderful...



Cat
8)

i agree with all of maxwell smart's assessments except i always thought temple of doom got a bad rap. it was cool, man! it was just so different from the original it thwarted expectations. it was kinda hardcore nasty and over the top and it was awesome! last crusade blew though.

and henry and june is one of my favorite movies ever. from the same director as "unbearable lightness of being" and the stunningly amazing 70s invasion of the body snatchers remake. long live philip kaufman! my dream movie would be directed by him and star kim richards.

i agree with all of maxwell smart's assessments except i always thought temple of doom got a bad rap. it was cool, man! it was just so different from the original it thwarted expectations. it was kinda hardcore nasty and over the top and it was awesome!



   Hardcore, nasty and over-the-top.  Agreed.  Almost a action/horror movie in the spirit of Sam Raimi's Evil Dead series.  Was terrifying one minute, gross-out the next minute, humorous the next and back to terrifying...

   I'll spare everyone my arguments in defense of IJ&TOD and not wax polemical.  I mean, someone actually succeeds at convincing me of the relevance of the Star Wars  prequels I'll eat my hat...

   Funny to watch George and Steven, on the DVD interview, maneuvering to distance themselves from IJ&TOD.  Seems George was in a foul mood because of his divorce (understandable) and the dark, brooding nature of the story and sets of IJ&TOD was the product of his heavy heart and troubled soul.  Mmmkay...

   What good thing and what evil hath been wrought in thy halls, George groove ;) on all...

  Edited to add:
  last crusade blew though.

  Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is George's & Steven's apology for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom...

Alien(s)-all of them.




NO DISRESPECT... But..I loved all of those movies!...I grew up onRocky, Dirty Harry, Godfather, and Ferris and BIG... Rocky to me was the ICON of the underdog.....Plus my husband looks like a mix of Rock (SLY ) and John Travolta..( did you hate Urban Cowboy too??  )..And my memories as a kid were watching ALL Clint Eastwood movies...the Sergio Leone ...The Good , The Bad ..and The Ugly....and The God Father is a Classic, but then again I love mob movies Goodfellas is one of my faves as well...and BIG..that was GREAT..Tom Hanks was super as the kid in a little boys body...I thought it was wonderful...
8)



No disrespect taken. You are entitled to your opinions as I am entitled to my own. I don't ever recall seeing Urban Cowboy so I have no opinion one way or the other. I don't know if I saw Goodfellas or not but I don't care for mob movies-or movies with a lot of violence. As for Big, I know everyone raved about it but it just didn't do anything for me. I don't know why.


Cat

8) Hey Cat...I understand...we all have different prefereces...But again..I disagree with you on the " Alien " movies... ::) i loved all of them..My fave is the first..I dont really like sequels but Aliens  was really cool to me..I guess I really got into it because at the time my boys were teens and we all sat up and got it on Pay Per View and watched it 4 times in a row...All Bundled in a pallet on the living room floor..I have sweet memories of that nite..Popcorn, aliens and my boys on both sides...

1st runner up:

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and the winner is...

worst movie of the eighties -imo

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Alien(s)-all of them.




No disrespect taken. You are entitled to your opinions as I am entitled to my own. I don't ever recall seeing Urban Cowboy so I have no opinion one way or the other. I don't know if I saw Goodfellas or not but I don't care for mob movies-or movies with a lot of violence. As for Big, I know everyone raved about it but it just didn't do anything for me. I don't know why.


Cat


I didn't see it in the '80s itself (about 10 years ago I did for the first time), but I've gotta agree with you about Big. Sure, it had a few humorous parts here and there, but I didn't find it that funny or entertaining - it was too slow overall. Hell, it was even kinda sad in places!

To me it's overrated, although the overall storyline is a bit relatable to us all. For instance, in the beginning, when he's himself, I thought Josh was a believable 12-year old. However, it's like, once he got his adult body, I always thought he started acting like he was 5 or something. It just wasn't that believable to me (well, neither is the premise ;) - but you get my point).

1st runner up:

http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/7365/badct0.jpg

and the winner is...

worst movie of the eighties -imo

http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/3272/worstjn4.jpg




LOL.. U know, I loved Rivers Edge but, I have to say and people think Im so weird and no, I dont live under a rock but I have never seen Top Gun!!! I have never seen pretty Woman, Roadhouse, or Dirty Dancing and I have to say the 2 movies I hated that seemed to be loved by all is :
1> E.T.  He looked like something u have to flush.. LOL < I should say that I saw that for the 1st time last yr and maybe u have to be young to like it>
and
2>  Forrest Gump... I hated it...
I know, Im weird!

Top 10 Movies Hawk Hates (And Gets Chastised For It)

10. Fatso, starring Dom Deluise. He was great, but the directors handled the subject matter all WRONG!
9. Steel Magnolias. I can hang with some chick flicks, but this one just played it up too much!
8. Smokey & The Bandit 3. What a joke!
7. Gremlins 2: The New Batch. Is it me, or was Tony Randall miscast in the voice of "Spike"?
6. Iron Eagles. Louis Gossett Jr. was the only class in that act!
5. Platoon. Oh, noooooo......NOT another war movie!!!!!
4. Superman IV. "The Dude Of Steel"? C'mon.....Geraldo could've done better!
3. Moonwalker. Purely a Michael Jackson vehicle...wish I was that rich! Then I could be spoiled too!
2. Mac & Me. Another shameless plug for a restaurant...any guesses which? *cough-McDonald's*
AND! Hawk's All-Time Worst Film Of the 1980s:
1. My Tutor...also known as: "Soft Core Porn With Hardly Any Point!"

I didn't see it in the '80s itself (about 10 years ago I did for the first time), but I've gotta agree with you about Big. Sure, it had a few humorous parts here and there, but I didn't find it that funny or entertaining - it was too slow overall. Hell, it was even kinda sad in places!

To me it's overrated, although the overall storyline is a bit relatable to us all. For instance, in the beginning, when he's himself, I thought Josh was a believable 12-year old. However, it's like, once he got his adult body, I always thought he started acting like he was 5 or something. It just wasn't that believable to me (well, neither is the premise ;) - but you get my point).
8)  AWWW...I just loved BIG...I wont say it again..but I thought it was great..

Mac & Me

The Breakfast Club

Pretty in Pink

St. Elmos Fire

>:(  I just thought of one...I ABSOLUTELY HATED " Howard The Duck"..walked out of the theatre

ET
Blue Lagoon
Halloween & Nightmare In Elm Street movies
Pretty Woman (1990, close enough)

Top Gun tops my list.

HATE that movie.


Others:

Joe Versus the Volcano

Blade Runner

Harry And The Hendersons











AN

Top Gun tops my list.

HATE that movie.


Others:

Joe Versus the Volcano

Blade Runner.....  I agree with you on Joe Versus The Volcano...I love Tom Hanks but that movie sucked

Harry And The Hendersons











AN
8)

Jaws 2
Jaws 3 (3D)
Jaws 4 (The Revenge)

Jaws 2
Jaws 3 (3D)
Jaws 4 (The Revenge)
8)  I agree..The first JAWS scared the crap outta me but the others sucked

Jaws 2
Jaws 3 (3D)
Jaws 4 (The Revenge)



I agree with you, there.



Cat

How about "Hamburger: The Movie"?

That was a complete waste of 86 minutes worth of film!!!

How about "Hamburger: The Movie"?

That was a complete waste of 86 minutes worth of film!!!
    8) I forgot about that suck A** movie...

Pretty in Pink
Goonies
Top Gun

definitely E.T.

Jaws 2
Jaws 3 (3D)
Jaws 4 (The Revenge)


I cant remember Jaws 4?  It was all so stinky after #2

Pretty in Pink
Goonies
Top Gun



I didn't care for Pretty in Pink either. That dress she made was butt-ugly!  ;D ;D  The other two movies were ok-not great but ok.




Cat

AWWW...I just loved BIG...I wont say it again..but I thought it was great..
>:(  I just thought of one...I ABSOLUTELY HATED " Howard The Duck"..walked out of the theatre


Bizarre, how we're totally flip-flopped on this, since I loved HTD (and not even just because of Lea Thompson). ;) Sure, it was cheesy and unrealistic, but it has the fantasy appeal of a video game while still interesting enough to want to root for the good guys (i.e. Lea, and the duck).

BTW for the record, I only saw Big in its entirety once, back around 1996 when I was 14-15. At the time, I just remember going to myself, There's no way I'd have acted like that only two years ago, then again, I guess it's not everyday you become 20 years older and have to fend for yourself! So that could explain Josh's regression to being more of a little kid than a borderline teen.

Now that I'm older, maybe I should give it another shot.

Bizarre, how we're totally flip-flopped on this, since I loved HTD (and not even just because of Lea Thompson). ;) Sure, it was cheesy and unrealistic, but it has the fantasy appeal of a video game while still interesting enough to want to root for the good guys (i.e. Lea, and the duck).

BTW for the record, I only saw Big in its entirety once, back around 1996 when I was 14-15. At the time, I just remember going to myself, There's no way I'd have acted like that only two years ago, then again, I guess it's not everyday you become 20 years older and have to fend for yourself! So that could explain Josh's regression to being more of a little kid than a borderline teen.

Now that I'm older, maybe I should give it another shot.
  ::) Maybe u should!...I watched it with my sons when they were little and they acted Exactly like Josh and Billy

i just saw this thread.
there are hundreds of movies i hate that eveyone loves....or well, i just didnt like them...not Hate hate...

Shawshank Redemption.
Saving Private Ryan

Pulp Fiction




Cat

Saw II

i agree with all of maxwell smart's assessments except i always thought temple of doom got a bad rap. it was cool, man! it was just so different from the original it thwarted expectations. it was kinda hardcore nasty and over the top and it was awesome! last crusade blew though.

and henry and june is one of my favorite movies ever. from the same director as "unbearable lightness of being" and the stunningly amazing 70s invasion of the body snatchers remake. long live philip kaufman! my dream movie would be directed by him and star kim richards.

OK, I'm not going to heap any more scorn on "Henry & June," but I am going to get to ULOB in a sec!
Disclaimer: self-depricating humor.
In the late '80s/early '90s, a whole raft of films were popular that I deemed "Yuppie Movies" because I was a wretchedly bitter young social misfit whose life was consumed by class hatred*...especially for the yuppies!  I was Sir-Marx-A-Lot.
http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/06/madgo.gif

Yuppie Movies--because the played at Harvard Square or Coolidge Corner for more than eight weeks (or just because I said so!):

Henry & June
9 1/2 Weeks
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover
Avalon
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Cinema Paradiso
Monsieur Hire
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
Howard's End
Wild Orchid
Enemies: A Love Story
Slaves of New York
Joy Luck Club
She's Having a Baby
The Last Temptation of Christ
Cyrano DeBergerac
Dances with Wolves
Steel Magnolias
Pretty Woman
Parenthood
The Prince of Tides
Fried Green Tomatoes
Basic Instinct
Thelma & Louise
Thelma & Louise
Thelma & Louise**

Reasons yuppies liked the above movies:
1. because we're so sophisticated
2. woo-woo scandal!
3. isn't that sweet, isn't that precious
4. French
5. James Ivory
6. Makes us feel righteous as we drive back to the suburbs

This is all tied in with disgust and disillusionment of early adulthood and the selected films are on the list because they pushed my buttons for one reason or another.  For instance, why are "Driving Miss Daisy" and "A River Runs Through It" not on the list?  Because I liked them.  Pure bias, it's just that simple.  A few on the list I actually enjoyed, but cast aspersions on the phoney-baloney yuppies who made them popular--"Howard's End," "Slaves of New York," "Thelma & Louise," and "Avalon."

**I mention three times because neurotic women's studies professors took a cool chase/buddy flick and extrapolated it to symbolize the oppression of all women everywhere.  I know, my women's studies 101 professor made us watch T&L and Basic Instinct for scholarly analysis.  I wish Dinesh D'Souza was lying, but he wasn't.  Not then.  At least she didn't assign us Fried Green Tomatoes.
1991--your standard treatise-on-a-Volvo station wagon: Left side, "Live Simply That Others May Simply Live," right side "Thelma and Louise Live."  The yuppies liked to tell you both how to live and who lives!

*The more things change the more they stay the same!

;D

I must disagree with two of Maxwell's choices:

Last Temptation Of Christ (this was a "What If?" movie- NOT defamation of character!)
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover- This was a WICKED film!

Most of the others I will agree with.

Here are 3 more to go on the "Burn With Barney" list:

-The Pick-Up Artist
-Batman & Robin (Two Words- GEORGE CLOONEY)
-Basquiat (Fair biography- it reminds me too much of my brother, who is an artist in Portland, and also a druggie)

OK, I'm not going to heap any more scorn on "Henry & June," but I am going to get to ULOB in a sec!
Disclaimer: self-depricating humor.
In the late '80s/early '90s, a whole raft of films were popular that I deemed "Yuppie Movies" because I was a wretchedly bitter young social misfit whose life was consumed by class hatred*...especially for the yuppies!  I was Sir-Marx-A-Lot.
http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/06/madgo.gif

Yuppie Movies--because the played at Harvard Square or Coolidge Corner for more than eight weeks (or just because I said so!):

Henry & June
9 1/2 Weeks
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover
Avalon
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Cinema Paradiso
Monsieur Hire
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
Howard's End
Wild Orchid
Enemies: A Love Story
Slaves of New York
Joy Luck Club
She's Having a Baby
The Last Temptation of Christ
Cyrano DeBergerac
Dances with Wolves
Steel Magnolias
Pretty Woman
Parenthood
The Prince of Tides
Fried Green Tomatoes
Basic Instinct
Thelma & Louise
Thelma & Louise
Thelma & Louise**

Reasons yuppies liked the above movies:
1. because we're so sophisticated
2. woo-woo scandal!
3. isn't that sweet, isn't that precious
4. French
5. James Ivory
6. Makes us feel righteous as we drive back to the suburbs

This is all tied in with disgust and disillusionment of early adulthood and the selected films are on the list because they pushed my buttons for one reason or another.  For instance, why are "Driving Miss Daisy" and "A River Runs Through It" not on the list?  Because I liked them.   Pure bias, it's just that simple.  A few on the list I actually enjoyed, but cast aspersions on the phoney-baloney yuppies who made them popular--"Howard's End," "Slaves of New York," "Thelma & Louise," and "Avalon."

**I mention three times because neurotic women's studies professors took a cool chase/buddy flick and extrapolated it to symbolize the oppression of all women everywhere.  I know, my women's studies 101 professor made us watch T&L and Basic Instinct for scholarly analysis.  I wish Dinesh D'Souza was lying, but he wasn't.  Not then.  At least she didn't assign us Fried Green Tomatoes.
1991--your standard treatise-on-a-Volvo station wagon: Left side, "Live Simply That Others May Simply Live," right side "Thelma and Louise Live."  The yuppies liked to tell you both how to live and who lives!

*The more things change the more they stay the same!

;D
  :o I cant believe you hated Dances with Wolves!!!!!!!!! I thought it was wonderful

The one movie I really remember hating that everybody else seemed to think was great was Dirty Dancing. The whole time I was watching it, the only thing I could think of was "Why do I care about what happens to *any* of these people?"

I also didn't particularly enjoy many of Tom Cruise's movies. There is something about him that I do not like, and for the life of me I cannot figure out what it is. The only one of his movies that I ever really enjoyed was "The Last Samurai". I have never figured out what it is about him that rubs me the wrong way.

I actually REALLY HATED Grease but that was filmed in the 1970's.

I suppose it wasnt the film so much, just the music to it.

It really sheesh me to tears.

Then they released the grease megamix in the 90's.............yippee :\'(

The one movie I really remember hating that everybody else seemed to think was great was Dirty Dancing. The whole time I was watching it, the only thing I could think of was "Why do I care about what happens to *any* of these people?"



  Yeah, I've been sucked into that date night vortex too... :-Dirty Dancing  is pretty much the ultimate chick flick and quite possibly the standard that all chick flicks are measured against, but I accept this.  You're correct, the characters are impossible to identify with and to care about.  Just a bad movie, IMO...

  Yup, it's gotta be Swayze go ;)...

The one movie I really remember hating that everybody else seemed to think was great was Dirty Dancing. The whole time I was watching it, the only thing I could think of was "Why do I care about what happens to *any* of these people?"

I also didn't particularly enjoy many of Tom Cruise's movies. There is something about him that I do not like, and for the life of me I cannot figure out what it is. The only one of his movies that I ever really enjoyed was "The Last Samurai". I have never figured out what it is about him that rubs me the wrong way.


8) to me it seems like TOM..( the wonderful and sarcastic scientologist....)...Over reacts..And over ACTS...I dont really care for him either...I liked Top Gun...but.....Gheeesh...My husband and I met him at the Motorsports park here and they say he is 5'10.....Bull....I am 5'9 and I TOWERED over him..He wasnt even that nice....

The one movie I really remember hating that everybody else seemed to think was great was Dirty Dancing. The whole time I was watching it, the only thing I could think of was "Why do I care about what happens to *any* of these people?"


"Dirty Dancing" sucks dead donkey dongs.
:P

Patrick Swayze guilty pleasure 4me: "Roadhouse."
Now stop that laughing at me, I'm embarrassed enough!
:-
  :o I cant believe you hated Dances with Wolves!!!!!!!!! I thought it was wonderful

Actually, I liked "Dances with Wolves," but it was still a yuppie movie!  Grrrr...die yuppie scum!
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For Native-American themes, I prefer "Last of the Mohicans," and "Black Robe."


I actually REALLY HATED Grease but that was filmed in the 1970's.



I loved "Grease" the first time I saw it, but I was ten!
Subsequently, I find the whole number to be dumb as all sh*t.  They didn't even TRY to make the characters look or act like kids in the '50s really were!  I mean, it didn't even the credibility of '50s themed fantasy.  Sort of like what the movie "Reds" was to the WWI era socialist movement in the U.S.
::)

8) to me it seems like TOM..( the wonderful and sarcastic scientologist....)...Over reacts..And over ACTS...I dont really care for him either...I liked Top Gun...but.....Gheeesh...My husband and I met him at the Motorsports park here and they say he is 5'10.....Bull....I am 5'9 and I TOWERED over him..He wasnt even that nice....

There is such a thing as "short man's disease" brought about by the rampant height discrimination in our society.  I know, I deal with it.  Even when a man under 5'8" becomes a heart throb movie star, he's still vulnerable.  Ultimately we short men have to figure out how to ignore the stupid height discrimination.  It's not going away any sooner than discrimination against fat women.  Whether or not he is responding to height prejudice, when a short man exhibits ambitious or leadership qualities, his detractors say he has a "Napoleonic complex."  They said the same thing about me, along with, "that mean little f*cker's got a major case of short man's disease!"
;D

They even said Howard Dean had a Napoleonic complex because he is an assertive leader.  Why stop there?  Apply it to everything.  If I go on a camping trip, call it a "Napoleonic camping trip."
:P

Anyway, Michael J. Fox was even shorter than Tom Cruise, and he was never such an a-hole.  In his younger years he was a real Alex P. Keaton Republican who couldn't wait to visit the Reagan White House.  He turned out to be a nice guy, though.  So sad about the Parkinson's.

There is such a thing as "short man's disease" brought about by the rampant height discrimination in our society.  I know, I deal with it.  Even when a man under 5'8" becomes a heart throb movie star, he's still vulnerable.  Ultimately we short men have to figure out how to ignore the stupid height discrimination.  It's not going away any sooner than discrimination against fat women.  Whether or not he is responding to height prejudice, when a short man exhibits ambitious or leadership qualities, his detractors say he has a "Napoleonic complex."  They said the same thing about me, along with, "that mean little f*cker's got a major case of short man's disease!"
;D

They even said Howard Dean had a Napoleonic complex because he is an assertive leader.  Why stop there?  Apply it to everything.  If I go on a camping trip, call it a "Napoleonic camping trip."
:P

Anyway, Michael J. Fox was even shorter than Tom Cruise, and he was never such an a-hole.  In his younger years he was a real Alex P. Keaton Republican who couldn't wait to visit the Reagan White House.  He turned out to be a nice guy, though.  So sad about the Parkinson's.



We have a history of short people in my family...I'm 5'2", my dad is 5'3", and both my grandfathers were 5'7".

8) I really like Michael J fox...

There is such a thing as "short man's disease" brought about by the rampant height discrimination in our society.  I know, I deal with it.  Even when a man under 5'8" becomes a heart throb movie star, he's still vulnerable.  Ultimately we short men have to figure out how to ignore the stupid height discrimination.  It's not going away any sooner than discrimination against fat women.  Whether or not he is responding to height prejudice, when a short man exhibits ambitious or leadership qualities, his detractors say he has a "Napoleonic complex."  They said the same thing about me, along with, "that mean little f*cker's got a major case of short man's disease!"


Honestly, I do not know exactly *why* I never liked Tom Cruise, but I don't think its his height. I mean, I've never actually met the guy or anything, and I can find no rational reason to dislike him. He's certainly never done anything to me. Heck, I even missed his annoying "couch jumping" incident. There is just something about him that creeps me out, and it did before I knew anything about him.

8) I really like Michael J fox...



Me too.



Honestly, I do not know exactly *why* I never liked Tom Cruise, but I don't think its his height. I mean, I've never actually met the guy or anything, and I can find no rational reason to dislike him. He's certainly never done anything to me. Heck, I even missed his annoying "couch jumping" incident. There is just something about him that creeps me out, and it did before I knew anything about him.



Me too.



Cat

Top Gun
Goonies
Pretty in pink
E.T.
Popular movies i dont like.

Goodbye to Africa
That is totally crap.I hate it.

We have a history of short people in my family...I'm 5'2", my dad is 5'3", and both my grandfathers were 5'7".

It's a couple of factors with me.  I'm anywhere from 5' 4 1/2 to 5' 5," depending on who's measuring.  I just quote it as 5' 5," however, if you see me with shoes on, it's deceptive because a wear a prescription orthotic.  Also I have a very straight posture and well-proportioned dimensions, which also give the illusion of greater height. Nonetheless, I call myself "short," not "vertically challenged," or something.  However, I cannot be sure my own height comes from genes or is heritable were I to have children.  There is ativism for shortness in my family.  My father's maternal grandfather was 5' 4" and one of his sons was 5' even.  Some have attributed this to terrible rheumatic fever he suffered in childhood, but we can't be sure.  My maternal uncle is 5'6" and my maternal grandfather was a gargantuan 5' 9."  My paternal grandfather was, I think, about 6' even, though he was probably 5' 10" when he died at the age of 37.  The self-inflected shotgun blast blew off the top of his skull!
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My mom is an average 5' 5," and my father is 6' even.  6' used to be "tall" fifty years ago, but now it's nothing remarkable!  My dad always implied I didn't "measure up," but that's becaue he's about the nastiest SOB you'd ever (not) want to meet. I don't know if my full height would have been taller if I had more hale beginnings.  I was beset by health problems one after the other as a child, then at the pubescent growth spurt time, I suffered from severe neglect due to familial chaos.  This resulted in both high stress levels and poor nutrition in late childhood/adolescence. There were also so problems in utero.  Any of these can led to great hindrance in growth...but not necessarily.  I am convinced the latter eniologies were involved because my hands, knees, and feet are quite narrow for a man. 

Whatever the reason, I can't change it, and I've come to the radical notion...why should I even want to change it.  It's an integral part of who I am.

Honestly, I do not know exactly *why* I never liked Tom Cruise, but I don't think its his height. I mean, I've never actually met the guy or anything, and I can find no rational reason to dislike him. He's certainly never done anything to me. Heck, I even missed his annoying "couch jumping" incident. There is just something about him that creeps me out, and it did before I knew anything about him.

I have met some women who are nazis about hight.  They go nearly to the point of saying "short men should be euthenized."  But I don't think most people would care about Tom's height.  they don't like him because he's an a-hole.  That's why I brought up a nice celebrity--who happens to be short--Michael J. Fox.

:o I saw the infamous " Couch Jumping" incident...It was very odd....Katie was 7 when he made Top Gun...I know age doesnt matter when you are older but ....I literally thought.."What a nut" when he was jumping on Oprahs couch...I also took great offense at his remarks about Brooke Shields and Anti-Deppressents....I worked in the medical field for over 10 years and Post Partum depression..and Just plain old Depression are valid and Real medical Facts...Medication does work...I read some of L Ron Hubbards book about Scientiology...Personally..I believe in GOD and JESUS....

I cant remember Jaws 4?  It was all so stinky after #2


You haven't missed much.  The shark killed the youngest son then chased the mother to the Bahamas to get revenge.  Reaaaaaaaalllly bad movie.

You haven't missed much.  The shark killed the youngest son then chased the mother to the Bahamas to get revenge.  Reaaaaaaaalllly bad movie.
  8) I def agree...BBAADD.....

Friday the 13th Parts 1-158  :-\\





Cat

From the '80s... Fatal Attraction and Weird Science come to mind.

Innerspace, Great Balls of Fire,...in fact I don't like Dennis Quaid.

Lost Boys cheesy?? For God's sake! It's one of the icons of the 80's! I love it! Great soundtrack btw.

ANYTHING that starred Whitney Houston!!!!!!!!!!!!!

From the '80s... Fatal Attraction and Weird Science come to mind.



I also hated Fatal Attraction.




Cat

Friday the 13th Parts 1-158  :-\\

Cat


If I recall correctly, the first half of Part 132 wasn't all that bad.  ::)

Innerspace, Great Balls of Fire,...in fact I don't like Dennis Quaid.

Lost Boys cheesy?? For God's sake! It's one of the icons of the 80's! I love it! Great soundtrack btw.
8) I really liked The Lost Boys too, Jason Patric was great, at the time I always thought if they ever made a movie about The Doors..Jason would be great as Jim..But Val did a bang up job!

ANYTHING that starred Whitney Houston!!!!!!!!!!!!!


  Did Whitney Houston appear in any movies in the 80s..?

 

I know its not in the 80's but the cheesiest films I have ever watched were the GREASE flicks.

I watched the first and thought "can this get any worse" ??? SO low and behold they bring out Grease II.................Great !!!!!

The most Boring film I have ever seen was in the 90's .

The Piano bored the absolute sheesh out of me........and it dragged on what it seemed like as for hours............ what crap.

Any Friday the 13th movie.  Posion Ivy (the one with Drew Barrymore)  Spaceballs, Mell Brookes ought to be lynched for such a movie.

singles, mermaids, the grudge, ....oh , there must be more

8) OK..I am a huge Clint Eastwood fan...BUT..I saw "White Hunter, Black Heart"...today for the first time...I hated it!...First of all, Clint had this wierd, phony accent, and the ending really sucked...

TITANIC!


I hated it so much, I refused to see it, on the grounds that it was hyped as such a hot film!

...Or maybe, because I can't Leonardo diCrappihole!

Any Friday the 13th movie.  Posion Ivy (the one with Drew Barrymore)  Spaceballs, Mell Brookes ought to be lynched for such a movie.

There was the other Poison Ivy, a "Meatballs" rip-off TV movie circa 1984 w/ Robert Klein.  Spaceballs was nowhere near as p*ss-poor as "Robin Hood: Men in Tights."

The funny thing is "Friday the 13th" was a bona-fide horror movie before there were any sequels.  It wasn't supposed to be just a joke, it was supposed to be scary.  The problem was kids-get-butchered-in-the-woods formula was hackneyed even in 1980, but it did have its moments.  Then there was the 1981 sequel.  You want to drag Jason back out to hack up some more campers.  Cool.  Now let it go.  The didn't.  Where it became a total joke was:
1984: Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
1985: Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
Guys, you can't do that...but they did anyway!  Then the the public began to know the series as "Jason" movies!
::)

TITANIC!



Definately on my list of the worst movies ever. Boring, unbelievable performances, horrible dialogue and bad graphics.  Simply "Waterworld" awful.

Something About Mary 

Something About Mary   


I'm with you on that one.

Definately on my list of the worst movies ever. Boring, unbelievable performances, horrible dialogue and bad graphics.  Simply "Waterworld" awful.

I saw Waterworld in theater.  I had the mistaken impression it was based on J.G. Ballard's novel The Drowned World.  But it wasn't.  It was just Mad Max Sur la Mer.
And in the immortal words of Butt-head, I thought,
"This sucks more than anything has ever sucked before!"
:D

The Goonies]

For me it would be as such:

Footloose

The Goonies

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Actually lost friends over my white-hot hatred of those films.






Such attitude!!!!  You MUST be kidding---right??


How could you POSSIBLY consider those movies a total, complete 'bore-fest' and hatefully annoying????  You're kidding.


CLASSIC---"Anyone....Beuller....anyone....Beuller....Beuller"  

The Goonies, Footloose, The Lost Boys, The Breakfast Club-----THEY ALL ROCKED.   Footloose was one the BIGGEST box office smash of the time, and the Soundtrack was just BLOWN AWAY


Apparently, for many of you, your sense of humor either went stagnate, or you are simply just a 'downer'.  I am PROUD of my own PERSONAL copies of EACH of those 80's Teen films.  The Breakfast Club----um, excuse me, was recently voted during the 25th anniversary High School movies DVD re-release as the BEST HIGH SCHOOL TEEN FILM  of ALL - TIME.

What is UP with you folks??  I'm AMAZED none of you went too far as to list hatred of TOP GUN. I would have loved to personally give you a good ass-smack for that.



PEANUT

The Goonies]

For me it would be as such:

Footloose

The Goonies

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Actually lost friends over my white-hot hatred of those films.
Welcome to the boards! Won't you stay and chat a while?


I loved FBDO.  Still do.  It is a very '80s movie, but it has aged rather well.  Not "Footloose."  That one looks as dated as "Meatballs."  The soundtracks is extremely lame, and Kenny Loggins is insufferable!

"Goonies" I never saw.  I was a bit old for it by the time it came out.  Here's what I do remember--Cyndi Lauper:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAcDWaGH5hM







Such attitude!!!!  You MUST be kidding---right??


How could you POSSIBLY consider those movies a total, complete 'bore-fest' and hatefully annoying????  You're kidding.


CLASSIC---"Anyone....Beuller....anyone....Beuller....Beuller"  

The Goonies, Footloose, The Lost Boys, The Breakfast Club-----THEY ALL ROCKED.   Footloose was one the BIGGEST box office smash of the time, and the Soundtrack was just BLOWN AWAY


Apparently, for many of you, your sense of humor either went stagnate, or you are simply just a 'downer'.  I am PROUD of my own PERSONAL copies of EACH of those 80's Teen films.  The Breakfast Club----um, excuse me, was recently voted during the 25th anniversary High School movies DVD re-release as the BEST HIGH SCHOOL TEEN FILM  of ALL - TIME.

What is UP with you folks??  I'm AMAZED none of you went too far as to list hatred of TOP GUN. I would have loved to personally give you a good ass-smack for that.



PEANUT

I'm not a movie afficionado but I didn't like the following "popular" movies:
Nightmare on Elm Street movies
Pretty in Pink (but I liked the Breakfast Club)
Star Trek movies
First Blood/Rambo

It's just me, I'm sure.. but I always hated the Star Wars series as well as Star Trek series... I'm just not a sci fi fan I guess.  I also think anything Jean Claude Van Damme and Steven  Seagal  made, should automatically be put in the trash bin. Pure crap.

From the '90s I'd add...

Armageddon
Twister
The English Patient

Ok, I freakin' HATE that stupid "Boondock Saints" movie... and I know it's not from the 80s, but I just have to rant about that one. Like, give me a break. Two Irish brothers in Boston go around shooting up Russian mobsters? Yeah, OK. And what's with them speaking like every language on the planet in that movie EXCEPT Irish? Just bugs me. Anyway, moving on...

Disliked "Sixteen Candles" but loved all the other Hughes movies.

Ok, I freakin' HATE that stupid "Boondock Saints" movie... and I know it's not from the 80s, but I just have to rant about that one. Like, give me a break. Two Irish brothers in Boston go around shooting up Russian mobsters? Yeah, OK. And what's with them speaking like every language on the planet in that movie EXCEPT Irish? Just bugs me. Anyway, moving on...

Disliked "Sixteen Candles" but loved all the other Hughes movies.




I was the right age at the right time for "Sixteen Candles."  If I had been +5 years older or younger, I don't tink it would have done much for me.    The bits that still work for me are the ones with Anthony Michael Hall and John Cusack!

TITANIC!


I hated it so much, I refused to see it, on the grounds that it was hyped as such a hot film!

...Or maybe, because I can't Leonardo diCrappihole!


I too refused to see it because of several reasons, not the least of which was the predictable ending.

The only reason this film grossed like 2 billion is that 15 year old girls watched it 20 times each to see Retardo DiCrappio (I like some of his other acting though).

I despise Larry: Health Inspector as well, though I suspect I'm not the only one who does. A waste of 9$ and 90 minutes. How can a movie be far off one's stand-up routine humor-wise?

The Blair Witch Project was terrible too, though I know I'm not the only one who thought that sucked.

All of the Child's Play movies were terrible, though not nearly as bad as, say, Brazil.

I don't know if anyone has mentioned Karate Kid or the sequels, but, ugh.....

Oh yeah, almost forgot: The one Jenna Jameson produced movie (starring herself) that I saw sucked, and not in the way you'd hope a movie of that type might suck.

I too refused to see it because of several reasons, not the least of which was the predictable ending.

The only reason this film grossed like 2 billion is that 15 year old girls watched it 20 times each to see Retardo DiCrappio (I like some of his other acting though).

I despise Larry: Health Inspector as well, though I suspect I'm not the only one who does. A waste of 9$ and 90 minutes. How can a movie be far off one's stand-up routine humor-wise?

The Blair Witch Project was terrible too, though I know I'm not the only one who thought that sucked.

All of the Child's Play movies were terrible, though not nearly as bad as, say, Brazil.

I don't know if anyone has mentioned Karate Kid or the sequels, but, ugh.....

Oh yeah, almost forgot: The one Jenna Jameson produced movie (starring herself) that I saw sucked, and not in the way you'd hope a movie of that type might suck.


Dude, if you like Larry the Cable Guy's stand up, you might just be a redneck... How could anyone find that f**king moron humourous? I didn't see the movie, but let me guess... 90 minutes of a big, fat, talentless idiot making the most basic and obnoxious one-liners imaginable. Yeah, that's SO much different than his stand up routine... ::)

The people who are responsible for making that guy rich, along with the rest of those blue collar imbeciles, probably deserved it when they failed grade 4.

The Blair Witch Project was terrible too, though I know I'm not the only one who thought that sucked.


The BWP crew went most of the way to making a terrifying movie.  They understood how to create nervous suspense.  They understood the Hitchcock principle, "the scariest monster is the monster you never see."  I also thought use of light and shadow.  The cam-corder style was cool.

The problem is the script was terrible, and I couldn't stand the kids.  I was rooting for the witch!
;D

I thought both Titanic and Blair Witch Project were somewhat decent movies that got ridiculously over-hyped. Whenever something seems overrated, there's always the chance of a huge backlash against it...

I don't mean that everyone who hates these films is simply reacting to the hype. It's just that in addition to people who hate Blair Witch Project on its own terms, for example, you've also got people who viscerally hate the whole "Oh my god did you see this movie it's like soooooo scary and based on a true story too!" type of hype surrounding a film like that. ;)

I thought both Titanic and Blair Witch Project were somewhat decent movies that got ridiculously over-hyped. Whenever something seems overrated, there's always the chance of a huge backlash against it...

I don't mean that everyone who hates these films is simply reacting to the hype. It's just that in addition to people who hate Blair Witch Project on its own terms, for example, you've also got people who viscerally hate the whole "Oh my god did you see this movie it's like soooooo scary and based on a true story too!" type of hype surrounding a film like that. ;)

A lot of people got so into BWP there were whole "fan fiction" sites.  There was background written by the screenwriters themselves which accompanied the official website.  Then the fans tried to amplify on the background.  It got pretty p*ss-poor pitiful!
::)

"Waiting To Exhale"...

Not an '80s film, but it had Whitney "Watch Me Go Into Porn" Houston, who was made into an '80s pop icon (unfortunately).

I like various films, of all sorts, but anything with her in it is rendered puerile and intolerable.

If they had used someone else, like Cicely Tyson, for example, I might have enjoyed it.

Another non 80's movie (sorry) but I detested "Gangs of New York."  It was so long!  I thought it would never end, and I was bored senseless.  I would have walked out of the theatre, but was on a date and thought that he was enjoying it.  Turns out, he hated it as much as I did.  It became a running joke between us, so I guess something good came out of it.  But it is seriously the worst movie I have ever seen!

I saw what undoubtedly qualifies as the most overhyped piece of cinematic garbage, last night:

"Legends Of the Fall".

Don't get me wrong- I am a BIG Anthony Hopkins fan, and have been since I saw "Magic", when it first came out. I also like Aidan Quinn, and to a small degree, Brad Pitt.

But this film was quite sub-standard as far as plots and believable characters go.
The settings were great, and Hopkins's portrayal of a stroke victim was uncanny!

That being said, I got so disgusted that I actually watched a baseball game yto cleanse my palate. (Baseball, BTW, is a sport I have NEVER liked.)

I saw what undoubtedly qualifies as the most overhyped piece of cinematic garbage, last night:

"Legends Of the Fall".



I don't really remember the plot, but I remember being very disappointed in it and very bored!

War of the Roses. It an outstanding cast (Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito) but it really sucked. Talk about a waste of great talent.




Cat

Adventures in Babysitting - very boring and infantile.I can`t belive suburbs teens could be that stupid ?

Newest one to hit this list:

"The Spaghetti Incident", with Rosanna Aquette and David Bowie.

Fair cast, bad plot, even worse catch phrase on the cover:
"She wants tied up. He wants tied down. It's not what you think."

Hawk's Rating On The Barf-O-Rama Scale: 8 (Major Hork-ola!)

ET
Any Star Wars Movie
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind

ET
Any Star Wars Movie
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind



ET, sure why not.

Any Star Wars Movie ?
I disagree.

Close Encounters Of The Third Kind ?
Really? There's a lot of anticipation and wonder in that movie.
:(

ET, sure why not.

Any Star Wars Movie ?
I disagree.

Close Encounters Of The Third Kind ?
Really? There's a lot of anticipation and wonder in that movie.
:(

i'm with ya. ET=pretty schmaltzy. star wars = some are excellent, some are totally stupid. ce3k is one of the best movies ever made.

Star Wars (all of them)

Any "Brat Pack" movie

Dirty Dancing

DUMB:
"Porky's," all of them including the first one.



My friend and I snuck in to see that because we were under 17 and they did check ID's.  I was SO disappointed.  What a waste of time.

I also have never been a big fan of Animal House or Caddy Shack.  They just don't "crack-me-up" like other people say they do.  Some parts are funny/cute, but I just don't really l like them.

I am also not a very big Monty Python fan.  British humor and I have a large ocean to cross before we see eye to eye.

War of the Roses. It an outstanding cast (Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito) but it really sucked. Talk about a waste of great talent.




Cat


I agree with that one - it was not that good of a movie.  Talented actors, but not a well-written script.


The only movie I remember walking out on was. . . .  I can't even think of the title . . . . .  it was. . . . . .  maybe. . . .  Broadcast News.  Was that a movie?  I remember it took place in a TV station and the movie itself was long so they had an intermission and we left, not to return.

not an 80s movie, but ... Goodfellas, Casino and all three Godfather films

Violent Mob movies are not really my cup of tea. 


I totally AGREE 'WhisteDog'. I can't stand Martin Scorcese's love of overbearing brutal violence.  I prefer the elegance of Hitchcock.  As for a movie from the '80s that was popular, that I didn't really like: 'The Big Chill'. 

"Forrest Gump."

I will NEVER be able to stand that film!

I also can't make it through "Apocalypse Now", without falling asleep.

"Forrest Gump."

I will NEVER be able to stand that film!

I also can't make it through "Apocalypse Now", without falling asleep.
totally agree about forrest gump. always thought that movie was way overrated.

totally agree about forrest gump. always thought that movie was way overrated.


Wooah.. hold on. It's a good film.... good however, does not mean great.

Wooah.. hold on. It's a good film.... good however, does not mean great.
if you like forrest gump, that makes you a filthy freedom hating, babkilling conservative fascist.

if you like forrest gump, that makes you a filthy freedom hating, babkilling conservative fascist.

he's going to love that.

Just saw a new stinker that only I hated:

"In the Presence Of Men".

Bad cast, poor plotline, trumped-up follow-through.

Someone call Leonard Maltin!

I really hated The Shining. What a boring film. 

Other films not from the 80s that most people like but I detest are:
Clockwork Orange
2001
Titanic
West Side Story
Gone with the Wind
Citizen Kane
and
Star Wars Attack of the Clones (or whatever episode II is called)

I really hated The Shining. What a boring film. 

Other films not from the 80s that most people like but I detest are:
Clockwork Orange
2001
Titanic
West Side Story
Gone with the Wind
Citizen Kane
and
Star Wars Attack of the Clones (or whatever episode II is called)


I really hated The Shining. What a boring film  -- Boring? It was more spiteful than just boring. It was garbage when it came out and it's still garbage today. 
Clockwork Orange -- More garbage.
2001 -- Not one of my favorites but at least it's a serious look at space exploration and travel. And there's so little of that.
Titanic -- I saw it again on television last week. They say most movies today are geared toward 13-year-old girls and boys. Guess which group that one aims for. I do like its attempt at trying to visually recreate the last hours of the people on that ship but I still prefer 1958's "A Night To Remember".

West Side Story, Gone with the Wind, Citizen Kane -- You're crazy. Those three are great.

Star Wars Attack of the Clones (or whatever episode II is called) -- Sometimes a mediocre Star Wars movie is better than something like "The Shining".

:)

I really hated The Shining. What a boring film. 
The was a lot missing from the book that was not included in the film.

"Forrest Gump."



"Forrest Gump" was cute and all, but the author, Winston Groom, was not satisified enough withe Zemeckis/Roth interpretation to let them go forward with the sequel.  It was marketed as a "family movie," so the conservatives objected to the profanity, sex, and AIDS references.  The liberals, on the other hand, objected to the right-wing political message in the movie.
I enjoyed it the same way as I enjoyed Steve Martin's "The Jerk."
:P

My friend and I snuck in to see that because we were under 17 and they did check ID's.  I was SO disappointed.  What a waste of time.

I also have never been a big fan of Animal House or Caddy Shack.  They just don't "crack-me-up" like other people say they do.  Some parts are funny/cute, but I just don't really l like them.

I am also not a very big Monty Python fan.  British humor and I have a large ocean to cross before we see eye to eye.


I loved "Animal House" even though the screenplay was weak.  Jonh Landis managed to pull together a great little movie on a meager budget and not much of a script.  They couldn't make "Animal House" today (I mean, they could, but it wouldn't work) unless it was made completely outside of "Hollywood" (ala "Napoleon Dynamite"). Today they'd cast Jack Black as "Bluto," and it would just get worse from there!
::)
"Caddy Shack" had some great material in it, but I hate it because I hate golf and all things golf-related. 

If you don't like British humor, then I guess Python's out.  A lot of Python sketches were written nearly forty years ago.  Some of the humor based on rigid social class and etiquette may be hard even for young Britons to "get" nowadays. 

I really hated The Shining. What a boring film  -- Boring? It was more spiteful than just boring. It was garbage when it came out and it's still garbage today. 
Clockwork Orange -- More garbage.
2001 -- Not one of my favorites but at least it's a serious look at space exploration and travel. And there's so little of that.
Titanic -- I saw it again on television last week. They say most movies today are geared toward 13-year-old girls and boys. Guess which group that one aims for. I do like its attempt at trying to visually recreate the last hours of the people on that ship but I still prefer 1958's "A Night To Remember".

West Side Story, Gone with the Wind, Citizen Kane -- You're crazy. Those three are great.

Star Wars Attack of the Clones (or whatever episode II is called) -- Sometimes a mediocre Star Wars movie is better than something like "The Shining".

:)




West Side Story- I have never been able to get past the "I just met a girl named Maria" scene.

Gone w. Wind- as far as films set during the Civil War I just prefer Glory... now that was a film I could relate too... besides doesn't Rhett practically rape Scarlett in the film  Hmmm nothing romantic about that!

Citizen Kane- you know I had to watch it in a film class twice in one evening ...basically I was like Rosebud is a sled! get on with the action.. alas it never came.  It just moved too slow for me.

I prefer films that move... or at least characters I care about... (was there anything remotely likable about Kane?)  I get bored easily and start thinking about my shopping list. and wonder if I'll have time to get the laundry done. I love films  like To Kill a Mocking Bird, Miracle Worker, TheChildren's Hour, the Elephant Man, Grand Illusion, M, Imitation of Life, Color Purple,  Jaws, You know good films

I agree tho. I would take Nat. Portman's horrible getting shot at in the desert acting to any scene from the shining too.

I mean seriously, Ive seen 6 year olds fake roll after getting "shot" much better than the one Portman tried to pull off... this scene tho, single handedly is the reason I hate the film.

Top Gun~ can't stand Tom Cruise
Dirty Dancing

What was worse was I had an older sister who had the soundtracks to both movies which she played all the time.

Just reminded of another one today.
"The Crying Game."

It was marketed as, "There's a big surprise in this movie, a BIG surprise!"
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OK, she's got a pecker, can we go home now?
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Did I mention the movie "Weird Science"? :P