Just as a point of reference, I loved Monsters Inc. The Mexican was tolerable but no more.

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- dave
Stay away from the meadow...

My SECOND all-time worst would be a movie called Grey Gardens... a documentary about the Bouvier Sisters, relatives of Jackie Kennedy. They were living in a broken down, dirty old house like a couple of cat ladies while Jackie was living the high life. To summarize the plot I would say it was two hours of a couple of crazy old ladies cackling at the camera and dancing around partially naked.

IMHO, Kodak film tastes better than other films, and I've never had a problem with nausea. The gelatin comes in several flavors too. But there's lots of fiber in that polyester!

I SHOULD HAVE walked out of "On the Line"! How I managed to stay there is beyond me. Maybe I fell into a coma or something.

Going back many years, "Howard's End" was an incredible waste of film. The particular print I got did not have reel change cues. Imagine my frustration when an hour and a half into the film I was "still on reel 1". What a great idea for a film. Let's get a whole bunch of people with British accents, put fancy clothes on them so we can hope to get an Oscar, and have them sit around sipping tea and talking useless gibberish all day long about "Howard's End"...which turns out to be a ratty old house. Oh yeah, that's great filmmaking.

Anyone remember "Being Human" with Robin Williams?

BTW, John may have a point here. I'm not positive on Being Human, but I do believe all of the other films I've listed here were on Fuji film stock!

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Toys, (1993/03/12, Cobb Movies 3 (former Trans Lux Twin), Huntsville):

The only reason I was in this movie was because some friends I'd just met were going to this dollar theatre to see it. I never got into this movie, and it would not be worth getting paid to watch it again.

Lost World: Jurassic Park, (1997/05/23, Regal Madison Square 12, Huntsville):

Compared to the original Jurassic Park movie, this sucked. Gore and running from dinosaurs.

Event Horizon, (1997/08/17, Regal Hollywood 16, Huntsville):

I would consider this to be the most horrible movie I've ever seen in a theatre. I wanted to walk out on it so bad, but I'd paid to see it, so I stayed. I truly hated this movie.

Godzilla, (1998/05/19, Carmike 10, Huntsville)

Just a couple of months after this all-stadium-seating, all-digital-sound theatre opened, they got Godzilla and put it in 7 of their 10 auditoriums. I've never had the desire to see that again. Yuck.

A Night at the Roxbury, (1998/10/02, Carmike Century Cinema 8, Decatur):

The movie was just way too dumb and not funny enough. Why was this movie even made?

Bride of Chucky (1998/10/17, Carmike 10, Huntsville):

Ugh.

My Favorite Martian, (1999/03/08, Regal River Oaks Cinema 8, Decatur):

I felt that this movie was a waste of my time and I would never want to sit through it again.

Little Nicky, (2000/11/12, Carmike Century Cinema 8, Decatur):

If someone could have hit Adam Sandler in the face with a shovel to fix that annoying impediment, the movie might have been a bit more tolerable. I'd rather eat a cardboard box that watch that movie again.

Jurassic Park III, (2001, Regal Hollywood 18, Huntsville):

I don't have a date for this one since I walked out on it. The only reason I ended up in it to start with is because I went into the wrong auditorium due to a confusing sign arrangement. I decided to stay and watch it and after about 20 minutes, got up and went to the auditorium I was supposed to be in.

Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (1975)
... aka Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
Fiore delle mille e una notte, Il (1974)
... aka Arabian Nights (1974) (USA)
... aka Flower of the Arabian Nights (1974) (International: English title)
Storie scellerate (1973)
... aka Bawdy Tales (1973) (USA)
Racconti di Canterbury, I (1971)
... aka Canterbury Tales, The (1971) (USA)

I tried and failed to sit though all of these films. Alas, I think he was just a poor filmaker however large or well intentioned his ambition. He was murdered in 1975 and we haven't had to endure another of his films since. I think after he was murdered is when my local theatre did a retrospective which is why I ended up going to see the films.

If you think the Farley Bros. are gross, you haven't seen anything yet. Go rent a Pasolini film. (He focused on the scatalogical humor in most of those works.)

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Ok Evans, at least Event Horizon had a great sound track on it, but Roxbury? You like crap like Scream but you didn't find Roxbury funny??? I thought Roxbury was hilarious. 'sup?

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Scream? I never saw "Scream" in the theatre, and doubt that I'd like it. In general, I don't like horror movies. Event Horizon was just horrible and they used the DTS to hit you with a blast of sound from behind every time something scary or disturbing would suddenly happen. Even some of my big, tough, ugly friends were scared by that movie.

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Evans A Criswell
Huntsville-Decatur Movie Theatre Information Site

Oh yeah, John, Kodak DOES have better flavor than other films. Some of them have either a real bitter or an acid taste. Kodak has a nice round "filmy" flavor. Put a spritz of FilmGuard on it and you have a right, tasty meal!

The Blair Witch Project -- should have sunk without a trace.

The Age of Innocence -- one of Scorsese's lesser lights. When the GCC Bridgewater Commons had this on an exclusive I all but fell asleep in a sold-out Saturday-night show.

Little Nicky -- what a load of This helped get the head of New Line fired.

Autumn Tale -- an ordeal to sit through. 2 hours of talk, all in French. The only music was a brief cue 2/3 of the way through and a song over the end credits.

Coyote Ugly -- another piece of How come Disney released this crap and put Black Hawk Down into turnaround?

The Celebration -- the first of the Dogme 95 pictures. Utterly pointless. Not only that, I saw it at the BAM Rose Cinemas in Brooklyn the weekend that theater opened.

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