Whats The Best/Worst Movie You Ever Saw?

[riddler72]

1.What movie was absolutely great,inspiring,surpassed your expectations,a pleasant surprise,and made you feel good about yourself????

2.What movie was just dismal,mind-numbing boring,insipid,devoid of any interesting story,characters,or budget(or too much),and was just plain awful to watch again????


riddler72

[carabas]

How about you go first.

[Cloudman]

1.What movie was absolutely great,inspiring,surpassed your expectations,a pleasant surprise,and made you feel good about yourself????

2.What movie was just dismal,mind-numbing boring,insipid,devoid of any interesting story,characters,or budget(or too much),and was just plain awful to watch again????


riddler72

1. Donnie Darko - Most amazing, captivating film ever made IMO. I know a lot of people hate it, but it's awesome.
2. Tropic Thunder - Life of Brian had more humour in 5 seconds than this film had throughout its duration.

[grphxkindaguy]

1. Star Wars (the original)

2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

[Mia]

1. The Jungle Book (1994) I expected it to be a silly childrens movie. But it was so good that I went back and saw it again the next day.

2. Twilight. The acting was so bad that I just got up and walked out on it.

[titanfan]

1. The Matrix

2. Signs

[Karl O'Neill]

1. The Dark knight---Masterpiece.

2.GI JOE--This shit is offensive.

[Monty_Cristo]

worst - Ax 'em http://www.obscurehorror.com/horror356.html

[The Once And Forever]

Worst: Bug

I am a very simple person to entertain, and if you show me something that in your trailer, is interesting, and I go expecting to see that in your movie, and then you don't have it, I become a very angry person. Bug made me think it was about a giant cockroach, or something thereabouts. There was no visible giant bug. Not even a visible big bug, there weren't even any visible bugs. Except for that stupid montage that happened whenever white trashy and shell shocky started having sex. I felt like a little child led into a van with promises of candy.

[cappa donna]

Good Will Hunting - very inspirational and relatable to a young highschool student struggling to find his way

Scary Movie 3 - nuff said

[Legato]

Best: District 9- Very refreshing storyline concept with well thought out characters from both the human and aliens.

Worst: Transformers 2. Too many plot holes, disappointing villain, horrible comedy, too much focus on the humans. Had a few decent action scenes but still not the kind of movie I would want to watch again

[Monty_Cristo]

Worst: Bug

I am a very simple person to entertain, and if you show me something that in your trailer, is interesting, and I go expecting to see that in your movie, and then you don't have it, I become a very angry person. Bug made me think it was about a giant cockroach, or something thereabouts. There was no visible giant bug. Not even a visible big bug, there weren't even any visible bugs. Except for that stupid montage that happened whenever white trashy and shell shocky started having sex. I felt like a little child led into a van with promises of candy.

I felt that way about the movie Wendigo, too.

[Fatguy]

Its hard to define "Best", so I'll go with Favorite: Pulp Fiction.

Worst movie I ever saw? Tetsuo, the Iron Man (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096251/). My friend highly, HIGHLY recommended it to me and I HATED it. It actually grated on my nerves, it felt like it was trying way too hard to be weird and artsy.

[frankiedetroit]

There have been many movies that left me wretching, including schlock like Cool World.

But the worst, I'm pretty sure, is Sergeant Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. Peter Frampton and the Bee Gees as the Beatles (sort of). I was just a lad when I saw it, but even at that tender age I recognized $#!T when I saw it.

Best? Geez...OK, I'll limit it to something I saw first run in theaters in the last 20 years, how about...Goodfellas.

[Arvandor]

Worst film - Roswell. A film where truly, literally, absolutely, nothing happened.

[Ontir]

Best worst movie? Let's see...

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls jumps to mind. The film is, in many ways, the basis for "Rocky Horror," and while it's beyond bizarre and just totally unbelievable for the most part, it's a great deal of fun, with a fantastic soundtrack by the Strawberry Alarm Clock.

[ddqfpluskick]

Well for best movie I would have to say The Shawshank Redemption mostly because I can watched it more than once well more than 10 tens now. I guess because all the main characters are flawed and have to come to terms with their problems or be destoryed by them. I also think that is a film where their is no moral code and each person has to decide what is right and wrong.

Worst film.......well I've seen some bad ones. I would have to say the one film I despise so much I've only seen bits and pieces is Resident Evil Extinction. I hate this film. The reasons why are simple. We have a Mary Sue lead actress who spend half the time brooding and the other half of time developing super powers. We have pretty much killed the Umbella conspiracy and turned it into a zombie wasteland story. The multiple character shields (who died horribly) for Alice. Finally the ending just drove me to madness. An Alice Army is coming for Umbrella, awesome, just awesome. Also it seems no other female can survive or carry over from the previous movies. Jill has vanished, the report chick was eaten, and the little girl vanished (though she got wasted in the books). The whole trilogy is mauled by sterotypical action flick cliche and ruins the survivor/mystery suspense the games produce. The third does this most of all by pretty much using dramatic irony to fill the audience in on what the bad guy are up to. So all and all I loath this film out of the three the most and wish people, when making a movie about video games, (other than fighting games) would have to play the games before writing a script.

[lead sharp]

Best: Bladerunner, imersive atmosphere, beautiful to look and makes you think.

Worst: Matrix, there have been worse (Batman and Robin, Spider-Man 3, Matrix 2, Electra and so on and so on) but that was the first film that made me glad it was over. Derivative, directionless, drivel.

[RolandJP]

Best: Saving Private Ryan

Worst: Saving Ryan's Privates

[Acecool]

1.What movie was absolutely great,inspiring,surpassed your expectations,a pleasant surprise,and made you feel good about yourself????

2.What movie was just dismal,mind-numbing boring,insipid,devoid of any interesting story,characters,or budget(or too much),and was just plain awful to watch again????


riddler72

1st one, there are a bunch that fit that quota.

2nd Is an easy one to answer. The Thin Red Line was possibly the worse movie I have ever seen. My mind felt numb by the end of the first hour. I would have left, but I as determined to watch the whole damn thing, just in case it was going to get better and pleasantly surprise me. By the end of the third hour, I felt that it was a test of my own character to watch the rest of it.

[Subotai]

Funny how it works...That's one of my favourite films, I could watch it a hundred times.

Worst movie I saw - in theatres, no less - any of the Prequels, I suppose.

Best movie I ever saw? High and Low, maybe.

[Pól Rua]

I'm not going to say 'best' or 'worst' because I'm not talking about quality, I'm talking about MY REACTIONS.

1. 'Miller's Crossing'. The film is beautifully constructed. It's like a work of art, like a faberge egg. Every line is delivered to perfection, not a word, not a shadow is out of place. I find that with quite a few of the Coen's films, they are, if nothing else, meticulous film-makers.
However, with 'Miller's Crossing', the blend between cynicism (almost to the point of nihilism) and romanticism is really done magnificently. It's as hard-boiled a plot as you want, however, at its heart is a story about loyalty, principle, trust and ideals.
It's also a smart film, and aimed at a smart audience. It doesn't offer a viewer a lot of flags and shortcuts to understanding the film. It has a fairly complex narrative, and characters keep their motivations under their hats. It's not a film you can 'half-watch'. It demands all your attention, and rewards you for it.
It's also a strikingly beautiful film, with a lot of attention paid to colour and lightning, costume, set design and music.
If there's any real flaw to it, it's that its precision may be too meticulous... too staged, but personally, I don't have a problem with it.
So yeah, 'Miller's Crossing'.

2. I felt nauseous after seeing 'Viridiana', a film by Luis Bunuel. This is another extremely well-crafted film. Bunuel is a master film-maker, and he's working with an astounding cast. However, these positives only serve to heighten the effect of the film's sense of misogyny, class hatred, cruelty and nihilism. As I said, I'm basing my reply on personal response. 'Viridiana' may be an extremely good film, but I found watching it a thoroughly unpleasant experience.

[Captain Avenger]

1. The Postman---Kevin Costner did a great job playing a character that was inspiring yet still flawed and the guy playing the villain did a great job as well. The setting wasnt anything spectacularly creative but the way the played it out and the characters in general were just truly inspiring.

2. Contact---How could this movie have been so fu--ed up. I mean, it had Jodie Foster(my favorite actress) as the lead character, and the movie was supposed to be about mankind's first contact with extraterrestrials; yet they somehow found what seemed like the absolute most boring way possible to present what should have been an exciting subject.

[Sir Tim Drake]

Best: Spirited Away

Worst: Howard the Duck

[Julusnc]

1.What movie was absolutely great,inspiring,surpassed your expectations,a pleasant surprise,and made you feel good about yourself????

2.What movie was just dismal,mind-numbing boring,insipid,devoid of any interesting story,characters,or budget(or too much),and was just plain awful to watch again????


riddler72

Recently not considering Hollywood Classics.....

1.Million Dollar Baby - This was a great movie and nothing like I expected.A++++

2.The Avengers - I walked out when Sean Connery put on the bear suit!

[howyadoin]

Best? Possibly Blade Runner or One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Worst? Toss-up between The Man With the Screaming Brain, Forrest Gump, or Return of the Jedi.

[Cloudman]

Best? Possibly Blade Runner or One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Worst? Toss-up between The Man With the Screaming Brain, Forrest Gump, or Return of the Jedi.

Forrest Gump? Why??

[LtMarvel]

Lawrence of Arabia was the best I've ever seen in theaters. I was in KC during a rerelease and went to see it on a whim. Blew me away.

Saturday the 14th--Is there anything worse than a parody film in which every joke falls flat? (and my mom took me to see several films that ended up MST3K episodes...)

[Ilash]

Best? Possibly Blade Runner or One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Worst? Toss-up between The Man With the Screaming Brain, Forrest Gump, or Return of the Jedi.

Forrest Gump? Return of the Jedi?

Have you seen not very movies or something?

I do love your top 2 though. Especially Cuckoos Nest.

[Pól Rua]

Forrest Gump? Return of the Jedi?
Facile 'rah rah' patriotic nonsense for people who like their history to be pre-chewed so there are no lumps, and, The Care Bears vs The Third Reich?

[jessecuster3]

Best: Its a toss up for me between House of Games and Wall Street. I saw both of these in the theater when I was 13, and they completely change my life. Wall Street made me pursue my career, and House of Games introduced me to David Mamet, who remains one of my all time favorite writers/artists.



Worst: Caddyshack 2, hands down. I fell asleep halfway through.

[4thHorseman]

Can't decide on best, but worst:

Dumpster Baby. God what trash. It tried to make a statement about the world we live in and the kind of freaks we humans can be. Too bad the plot of the movie involved a fetus wrapped in a blanket passed around to various people who didn't want it for one reason or another. This was after it was born from a fat lady who didn't even have to take off her pants to give birth. The transitions are terrible (the limited amount they had between people), the audio was horrendous to where you had to pretty much lip read what they were saying, and for no reason or explanation a pale man in a black coat and hat went around trying to find the baby.

If you would like to view this treat, I found it off the Xbox Netflix.

[Chiasm]

1. Serenity - I came into this as a Firefly virgin having never seen any episodes and I came away a Browncoat.

2. Pirates of the Caribbean II - I liked the first movie but the 2nd went on way way way too long and got rid of everything that was good about the first movie.

[howyadoin]

Forrest Gump? Why??
Forrest Gump? Return of the Jedi?
Facile 'rah rah' patriotic nonsense for people who like their history to be pre-chewed so there are no lumps, and, The Care Bears vs The Third Reich?Dead-on. Plus Lucas pussying out on the love-triangle subplot.



Have you seen not very movies or something?I've seen shitloads. And the more good ones I see, the shittier those two look.

What can I say? I have standards.

[jesse_custer]

Haha, I tried watching Forest Gump recently and had to turn it off.

Yeah, Tom Hanks is convincing, but goddamn that script is awful.

I remember loving it as a youngster, though.

[howyadoin]

I remember loving it as a youngster, though.Well, sure. If you're not into things like critical thinking, it's pretty entertaining.

[jesse_custer]

Hell, if you're into thinking at all, it's not worth a shit.

[howyadoin]

Hell, if you're into thinking at all, it's not worth a shit.That should be the tagline on the poster.

[kalorama]

The deep devotion some people have to the idea that Gump is a great, meaningful movie has never made any sense to me, esp. when it seems pretty obvious that Zemeckis was much more interested in playing with his new CGI toys than actually developing characters or the story.

[kalorama]

As for the original question:

Worst movie: Way too many to single one out, but the worst movie I ever paid money to see in a theater was Striptease.

Best movie: Again, lots of candidates, but I have to go with either Monty Python and the Holy Grail or Dr. Stragelove.

[Stressfactor]

I have too many "bests" to mention but the WORST? There's only ONE movie that I deliberately turned off and never saw the rest of.... Back in grad school I rented Oliver Stone's Nixon. Now, as a historian, I KNEW going in not to expect ANYTHING remotely historically accurate but MY GOD!! I didn't even LIKE Nixon (still don't) but Stone's hammer-handed approach was just IMPOSSIBLE! The man even managed to shoe-horn not one but TWO separate Kennedy Assasination conspiracies into the film -- Geeze louise, I thought Stone had already gotten that out of his system with JFK but I guess not.

WORST of all, though, was just the ham-handed, bash you over the head "symbolism"... I mean in one scene, at a dinner party, there is a discussion of the Vietnam War still raging and Nixon is cutting into a VERY rare steak on his plate and the is a CLOSE UP (A freakin' CLOSE UP!) of this thick, red, blood POURING out of the cut steak and spreading across the plate.

Gee, thanks Stone, I think you could have gone with something a LITTLE more subtle there. As it was, it was STUPID because he had SO overdone it I sat there thinking to myself... 'That steak would have to have been not just RARE but FRESHLY BUTCHERED AND PUT ON THE PLATE RAW to produce that much blood!'

Glah! Worst. Movie. EVER!

[mgs]

1.What movie was absolutely great,inspiring,surpassed your expectations,a pleasant surprise,and made you feel good about yourself????

2.What movie was just dismal,mind-numbing boring,insipid,devoid of any interesting story,characters,or budget(or too much),and was just plain awful to watch again????
Well, those aren't the terms I'd use to describe what I consider the best and worst.

Well, sure. If you're not into things like critical thinking, it's pretty entertaining.
but isn't that the point of most movies?

Um, right now...

for best, maybe Raiders of the Lost Ark is one.

Worst, my views are probably skewed, but Heavy Metal 2 and The Blair Witch Project are the ones I think of now.

[The Zapper]

It's not the worst film I've ever seen, but I hate Titanic the most. Pearl Harbor is a close second, and I even got paid to watch it twice.

[Michael P]

The first 20 or so minutes of 3000 Miles to Graceland is the worst movie I've ever seen. (The rest of it probably is, too, but that's when I walked out.)

[The Xenos]

I have a number of best.

Batman and Robin sticks out in mymind as worst. I was so young and hopeful, but the jadedness set in after that one.

Meanwhile, I find it funny some movies I like ended up as people's worsts. Noteably Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

[Wolf-Man]

Best: Raiders of the Lost Ark... Lots of close choices though.

Worst: Master & Commander: Snorefest at the Bottom of the Ocean or whatever it was called. The boat one with Russell Crowe.

[riddler72]

I have a number of best.

Batman and Robin sticks out in mymind as worst. I was so young and hopeful, but the jadedness set in after that one.

Meanwhile, I find it funny some movies I like ended up as people's worsts. Noteably Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Batman And Robin....talk about a train-wreck!!!!!

It tried to be campy like the old 60's show,but it failed................


riddler72

[sHayden]

Best: Oldboy. I really liked this movie. Though I've been leery of claw hammers ever since. And I hope the rumors of a Steven Spielberg, Will Smith adaptation never come true because they will mess it up so bad.

Worst: Donkeypunch. I thought it would be a horror/suspense film worth a good laugh but it was horrible. I fast forwarded to the part where they donkey punched someone and that wasn't even good!

[G. Wayne]

Best? Oh wow, lots of things come to mind. Let's go with Beetlejuice.

Worst would be Catwoman. (followed by any one of a number of Z grade $100 budget horror movies.) Not even Hally Berry in skimpy leather could make that movie worth watching. Couldn't even make it farther than 20 minutes into the thing, and I've sat through all of Dragonball: Evolution.

[Fatguy]

Best: Oldboy. I really liked this movie. Though I've been leery of claw hammers ever since. And I hope the rumors of a Steven Spielberg, Will Smith adaptation never come true because they will mess it up so bad.

LOL no way. There's not a project on the planet that would be more incompatible than Spielberg and Will Smith doing a remake of Oldboy.

[Simbob4000]

Best, I guess I would have to go with Red Beard. Worst, I don't know, that one seems harder for some reason. I guess right now I would have to say Watchmen, only because you have to try to fuck that up.

[riddler72]

Best? Oh wow, lots of things come to mind. Let's go with Beetlejuice.

Worst would be Catwoman. (followed by any one of a number of Z grade $100 budget horror movies.) Not even Hally Berry in skimpy leather could make that movie worth watching. Couldn't even make it farther than 20 minutes into the thing, and I've sat through all of Dragonball: Evolution.

How could anyone mess up a movie like Catwoman,with Hally Berry in it??????


riddler72

[Iron_Stark]

Best: lots of choices, Godfather I & II, Star Wars the Original Trilogy, Dark Knight, Iron Man.

Worst: Fantastic Four movies. Those were hot donkey sh**.

Galactus a cloud?!?! Sue was horribly miscast. The Thing looked like a burn victim.

Worst of all Marvel's baddest villain, a villain who Darth Vader took inspiration from, was turn into a jealous businessman with cheesy one liners, Marco...Polo.

That scrawny, goofy looking The Doctor/Cobra Commander in the G.I. Joe movie was a bigger badass and more menacing than movie Doom.

[dupersuper]

Way too many bests to list, but for worst there's Black Mask, The Dentist, Batman and Robin, Superman 4 and pretty much all the MST3K movies before wisecracking robots saved them.