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Movies you wish HAD died in production hell? (Original Post) ohiosmith Dec 2012 OP
Many Xyzse Dec 2012 #1
Bravo! ohiosmith Dec 2012 #3
More Xyzse Dec 2012 #20
The Happening charlie and algernon Dec 2012 #2
I had put that out of my mind! ohiosmith Dec 2012 #4
2: Gidney N Cloyd Dec 2012 #5
You ain't wrong! ohiosmith Dec 2012 #6
Zardoz. Worst.F'in'.Movie.Ever!!! lastlib Dec 2012 #7
Stay close to me - inside my aura! ohiosmith Dec 2012 #9
I loved Zardoz. But yeah it was awful. nolabear Dec 2012 #17
I am the only person in the entire world that loves that movie CBGLuthier Dec 2012 #37
I'll second that. geardaddy Dec 2012 #8
Vomit-thon! ohiosmith Dec 2012 #11
Bonfire of the Vanities KamaAina Dec 2012 #10
Dreck is the perfect description! ohiosmith Dec 2012 #12
Good call NewJeffCT Dec 2012 #24
Top of my list would be The Other Guys. cmdrowens Dec 2012 #13
Welcome to DU and I hope you enjoy the site. hrmjustin Dec 2012 #14
Thank you. cmdrowens Dec 2012 #15
Yes indeed! ohiosmith Dec 2012 #16
Oddly Enough... I thought that was tolerable. Xyzse Dec 2012 #19
I thought that was one of the funniest films ever JonLP24 Dec 2012 #44
Howard The Duck and Light of Day. HughBeaumont Dec 2012 #18
Absolutely! ohiosmith Dec 2012 #21
Right off the bat, NURSE BETTY, BELOVED, NATURAL BORN KILLERS. nt raccoon Dec 2012 #22
I kinda like NBKs! Agree on the others! ohiosmith Dec 2012 #23
Natural Born Killers was amazing lame54 Dec 2012 #38
Every Elvis movie except King Creole. dixiegrrrrl Dec 2012 #25
Can't hack any of them, including KC! ohiosmith Dec 2012 #26
It was my "teenybopper" movie, so to speak. dixiegrrrrl Dec 2012 #27
I thought Charro. cmdrowens Dec 2012 #31
Second pick--The Morning After (J. Fonda/J. Bridges) lastlib Dec 2012 #28
The new Star Trek franchise WhoIsNumberNone Dec 2012 #29
Yep, Godzilla '98. (video) sakabatou Dec 2012 #35
I Heart Huckabees zabet Dec 2012 #30
Yeah, Huckabees was terrible cemaphonic Dec 2012 #34
The Ugly Truth, Juno and Bridesmaids. (n/t) WorseBeforeBetter Dec 2012 #32
Anything with Highlander in the title coyotespaw Dec 2012 #33
The Da Vinci Code Graybeard Dec 2012 #36
Casablanca av8rdave Dec 2012 #39
Oh... One more... Bruno by Sacha Baron Cohen Xyzse Dec 2012 #40
Can't Stop The Music Kingofalldems Dec 2012 #41
Black Dahlia (spoilers) JonLP24 Dec 2012 #42
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band hibbing Dec 2012 #43

Xyzse

(8,217 posts)
20. More
Tue Dec 11, 2012, 05:03 PM
Dec 2012

Knight and Day - Cruise/Cameron Fiasco
Dragon Wars
Dragon Ball - The American Movie
Bunch of things with "Dragon" in the title
Catwoman - Halle Berry
Dungeons and Dragons - What a waste of Jeremy Irons' talent.
Any Lindsay Lohan flick after Mean Girls.

charlie and algernon

(13,447 posts)
2. The Happening
Tue Dec 11, 2012, 02:31 PM
Dec 2012

Should've died the moment the idea was pitched that plants would kill off the human race by making us kill ourselves and the only way to survive is to out run the wind.

nolabear

(41,991 posts)
17. I loved Zardoz. But yeah it was awful.
Tue Dec 11, 2012, 04:30 PM
Dec 2012

But that was the first time I thought Connery was hot. Rockin' the loincloth!

CBGLuthier

(12,723 posts)
37. I am the only person in the entire world that loves that movie
Wed Dec 12, 2012, 09:22 AM
Dec 2012

even with its flaws.

I still will take Zardoz over 95 percent of the SF fare we have gotten in the last 45 years including at least 4 of the SW movies.

 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
10. Bonfire of the Vanities
Tue Dec 11, 2012, 03:55 PM
Dec 2012

One of the classics of contemporary American literature --> the Hollywood meat grinder --> an hour and a half of 151-proof dreck.

NewJeffCT

(56,828 posts)
24. Good call
Tue Dec 11, 2012, 05:29 PM
Dec 2012

I loved the book, and saw the movie and went WTF? And, the casting was awful, to boot. A lot of good actors in completely wrong roles.

JonLP24

(29,322 posts)
44. I thought that was one of the funniest films ever
Wed Dec 12, 2012, 04:31 PM
Dec 2012

and by far, Farrell's funniest. I do prefer the absurd type of comedy and Wahlberg was great. "Seriously, Alan, who is that?"

HughBeaumont

(24,461 posts)
18. Howard The Duck and Light of Day.
Tue Dec 11, 2012, 04:58 PM
Dec 2012

Talk about "Unnecessarily Making Cleveland Look Worse" . . . I actually saw Howard the Duck in theaters and was ashamed. It's not even a "So Bad it's Good" movie, it plain and simple wasn't even good enough to SUCK.

Light of Day was just painful. The only reason to see that movie is to spot a young Trent Reznor and his old band The Exotic Birds (under another name, of course).

lastlib

(23,278 posts)
28. Second pick--The Morning After (J. Fonda/J. Bridges)
Tue Dec 11, 2012, 09:25 PM
Dec 2012

Worst movie I ever took a date to. Just wanted to vomit by the end of it.

WhoIsNumberNone

(7,875 posts)
29. The new Star Trek franchise
Tue Dec 11, 2012, 09:56 PM
Dec 2012

All the Alien vs Predator movies
The Star Wars prequels
Spawn
Batman & Robin (The one with Arnold Schwartzenegger in it)
Godzilla (the 'American' one- where he look more like a dinosaur)
Downfall (Great movie, but I'm SO FUCKING SICK of all the 'Hitler hears about' YouTube videos)

sakabatou

(42,172 posts)
35. Yep, Godzilla '98. (video)
Wed Dec 12, 2012, 06:12 AM
Dec 2012

Good thing in "Final Wars," he gets killed off in a few seconds. Sorry, no subtitles.

cemaphonic

(4,138 posts)
34. Yeah, Huckabees was terrible
Wed Dec 12, 2012, 05:49 AM
Dec 2012

It was like someone watched Wes Anderson's movies and said "I can do that!" So all of the prep-school angst and annoying/endearing personality quirks but without Anderson's visual inventiveness, and without Owen Wilson to write some humor and actual human emotions into the script. And it was a horrible waste of a really great cast.

I don't remember especially liking Eternal Sunshine..., but I don't remember actually hating it either.

Graybeard

(6,996 posts)
36. The Da Vinci Code
Wed Dec 12, 2012, 09:11 AM
Dec 2012

It was so bad as to be unwatchable.

The cinematographer was one of those who are enamored with the idea of using as little light as possible. He says, "Where is the art if you walk into a room and just turn on the lights?"

So Ron Howard gets permission to film in the Louvre (never done) and the scenes are so dark they might as well have been shot in an empty warehouse.

av8rdave

(10,573 posts)
39. Casablanca
Wed Dec 12, 2012, 09:58 AM
Dec 2012

Try as I have, I've never been able to stay awake through that schmaltzy, overacted, faux sentimental dog. Bogart was positively hideous, forced to barf out some of the campiest lines ever conceived.

Xyzse

(8,217 posts)
40. Oh... One more... Bruno by Sacha Baron Cohen
Wed Dec 12, 2012, 01:58 PM
Dec 2012

That was the only movie I ever walked out on.
I still blame my sister for bringing me in there.

JonLP24

(29,322 posts)
42. Black Dahlia (spoilers)
Wed Dec 12, 2012, 04:25 PM
Dec 2012

First off, the movie isn't even about the Black Dahlia but about a predictable love triangle involving 2 of the lead detectives. There is one scene where Aaron Eckhart (spelling?) & Josh Hartnett walk out of a room full of detectives watching a Black Dahlia film which, by all definitions, a porn. Then one of the superiors chews out Josh Hartnett and demands an apology, the film doesn't out-right say it but it seemed absurd to me this superior would be so offended they didn't stay and watch the porn that one would actually have to apologize for it.

Then when Eckhart dies, Hartnett goes to Johansson's(who was w/ Eckhart) door crying. Then the very next scene they make love, I guess it is because they both miss him so much. Then they have a fight and leaves Johansson then goes to the girlfriend he had earlier in the film. I was zoning out in this part, but I guess that girlfriend killed Eckhart so Hartnett kills her and then goes back to Johansson who takes him back, no questions asked.

Hartnett also kills the person who killed the Black Dahlia, but discarded the evidence which is why it is "unsolved".

hibbing

(10,109 posts)
43. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Wed Dec 12, 2012, 04:26 PM
Dec 2012

Hey,
This was a horrid movie with the Bee Gees and Peter Frampton and others.

Peace

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