What Movie Will You Never Watch Again? Explain.

02.10.12 | George D. Allen and Irv Slifkin | Movie Buzz, Movie Buzz PodcastPrint this Post

It's one thing to walk out on a movie before it's over (or, sometimes it's more than one thing, as you will see if you click on over to Have You Ever Walked Out on a Movie?). It's another matter entirely to get all the way to the end of a film and decide: That's it. I'll never, and I mean never, lay eyes on that again.

When it came time to Ask Movie Irv this question, I (as the man behind the camera and the one who decided on the question) figured I would get a certain kind of answer. Irv's response was not what I expected at all:

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Were you as surprised as I was? And, more importantly: What's your answer?

 
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  • Tito Pannaggi

    One thing is to say that this film do I not want to see again. An other thing is to say it to the proud director of the film, when he/she invites you to come and see it again with him/her.

    I guess I wish I never have to see "STELLET LICHT" Carlos Reygadas or "BREAKING THE WAVES" Lars von Trier again will be my two choices.

    • Gary Johnson

      Any movie with Adam Sandler or Chris Rock.

      • Mugsy F’hammer

        Chris Rock should learn the English language

    • Mugsy F’hammer

      I will never watch any movie with ugly pain in the ass Barbara Streisand-nor her hideous husband James Brolin

      • Mugsy F’hammer

        the two of them are equally disgusting--they need to stay out of Colorado for good--I find them reprehensible-they were sent from down below. Babs Streisand is contemptible

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=585617252 Steven Springer

    I walked out of "Cobb" when it was in theaters and I have never watched it when it's been on cable. It's insufferable.

    • Eric Marshall

      There are two movies that I will never EVER watch again: They are "Caddyshack" and "National Lampoon's Vacation". Both movies were degrading women and obessed about sex and nudity...and wouldn't you know? Both movies had the same star and director: Chevy Chase and Harold Ramis. Speaking of that, I agree with Mr. Springer: "Cobb" was horrible and may go down as the worst baseball movie of all time. I have no idea of what director Ron Shelton was thinking about by putting in sex and nudity in that film (the same goes with Ramis for the two movies I mentioned). And the scary part is that it actually happened in Ty Cobb's life! I like the part tlynette makes about movies that are in the AFI 100 that shouldn't be there. That includes "The Manchurian Candidate"-a movie that doesn't to be called a classic (another one that I won't see again) because that film started all the problems of the 1960's and it has some of the worst death scenes in cinema history.

      • Moosejaw

        In the words of dice clay

        "whatta you? A homo?"

        Seriously...check. It out...men and women are DIFFERENT. And REAL women like to be treated like women.
        No not degraded, but persued and ogled. Either blatently or slyly. Just like women do to men....yeah, homer, it's true.

        • Gary Johnson

          I'm with you. That guy should have been a priest or interior decorator (maybe he is). Had he mentioned Caddyshack II I would have agreed.

        • Jessica Skye Davies

          Yeah, actually, a tip - women want to be treated as women. You know, humans. "Ogled and pursued" is pretty annoying, "slyly" or otherwise. It might be flattering at first, but it gets old, fast. We're not prey. I have no hangups about sex/nudity in movies, but i'd definitely rather have a conversation with the guy who will pass on movies that blatantly degrade women.

          • moosejaw

            "...but i'd definitely rather have a conversation with the guy who will pass on movies that blatantly degrade women."

            women who seek this kind of man is generally known as a 'Fag Hag'

        • http://www.moviesunlimited.com George D. Allen

          Now then, "moosejaw" -- I'll respond here since apparently we're unable to click "reply" once we're a certain number of replies in.

          With respect to your comments above:

          There's polite conversation, spirited disagreement, and then there's your approach. It's not as clever as you think it is. In the future, it will get your comments deleted. Play nicely, or go elsewhere.

      • Richard

        Two points: 1) Angela Lansbury's death scene in "Manchurian Candidate" is one of the most memorable in cinematic history. 2) If you think this movie caused the "problems" of the sixties, you are as uneducated about American history as you are about American cinema.

  • Toby Martin II

    "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls"

    • Michael Weber

      Toby,
      You stated that you would never watch "beyond th Valley of the Dolls" again. Why not? how old were you when you first saw it. I was 19 or 20 and it blew me away, I loved it. As a matter of fact bought a copy. I'm 62 now. Just curious.
      Thank you,
      Mike

      • maxfrabien

        I loved "BTVOTD"! I bought it on laser disc (before dvds were invented), and I had the good fortune to meet Roger Ebert and he signed it for me. He co-wrote the screenplay. It is a camp classic.

  • Grand Old Movies

    A 1933 film called WHAT, NO BEER starring Buster Keaton is a movie I do not want to see again. This was Keaton's last star appearance in a major-studio film (MGM); he was then in the utter depths of his alcoholism and it showed. He's like one of the walking dead in this film; frail and ghostly white, he sleepwalks through his routines, many of which were repeated (and repeated unsuccessfully) from his earlier films. As the film went on, the audience, which had been tittering uneasily at first, fell into an uncomfortable silence and a pall settled over the theater. After the completion of this film, Keaton was released by MGM and then had to be institutionalized for his drinking; it's one of the saddest periods of his life. As a Keaton fan, it's not a film I want to sit through again.

    • R.D.Cochran

      As a Buster fan, I can agree with you on that.

      • http://www.facebook.com/thomas.e.leek Thomas Leek

        As a big Keaton fan I will watch it again and again. I find it enjoyable. Most people take Buster's MGM films as a dislike mainly because of what BK said in an interview in the 60's. But if you watch you can see the bits that BK added.

  • roy levering

    Any movie with Ruth Gordon.

    • billyb34usa

      Did you see Harold and Maude? Or, Rosemary's Baby? If you saw these and still don't like Ruth Gordon, then okay, you are welcomed to your opinion. If you haven't seen those two, you should...and maybe you would change your mind about Ms. Gordon.

      • david Navarre

        I agree, Ruth Gordon is splendid in Rosemary's Baby. in "Infamous Players" Peter Bart has some interesting info on her, particularly relating to Harold and Maude.

        • Alfie

          ... Ruth Gordon was also very good in "Inside Daisy Clover."

          • TinyTim

            Yeah, but now that you mention it I would never, ever watch Harold and Maude again . . . ever.

        • Lorri

          I like Ruth Gordon as an actress. I've seen her in a few things, but I NEVER want to watch "Harold and Maud" again! I didn't find anything remotely humorous about it. To me it was disturbing and pathetic!

          • Lorraine M.

            I like Ruth Gordon, too. She had a wonderful quirky quality--she was so much fun in Eastwood's "Every Which Way But Loose" movies. And she was great opposite Peter Falk in one of the "Columbo" episodes. (You were actually rooting for her, even though technically she was a baddie.) Had I been an actress, I think I would loved to have worked with her.

          • roy levering

            To me, Ruth Gordon was just annoying and I couldn't stand watching her. Charles Grodin is a close second.

      • Gary Houston

        Watch Ruth Gordon as Mary Todd Lincoln in "Abe Lincoln in Illinois." It is an intense portrait within what might have been believed a minor role.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1565922889 Joseph Glaeser

    I said wow when Irv said The Deer Hunter because it's the film I will never ever watch again. I was drafted in 1968 and I do not want to relive those memories again, ever.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1313918551 Enrique Bird-Picó

    The Oliver Stone "Alexander", as repugnant, dissapointing, and stupid a movie as I have ever seen. And to think I convinced 2 of my sons to go watch it with me!

    • greycrow

      Agree! What was with the accents, Colin and Val!?

  • billyb34usa

    I'll never watch The Hurt Locker again. I don't deny it was well done. It had many elements of a good movie. But, to me it missed the main element I see a movie for: entertainment. I'm not sorry I saw it (although I could have done without it nicely), but I would have no interest in seeing it again. And, to me, it's not the kind of movie that should be winning 'best picture' accolades.

  • david Navarre

    I've tried twice to watch Ishtar but it's an abomination. Howard the Duck follows closely but i can last a couple of more minutes with it so it comes in second

  • kent gravett

    I think Alexander Nevsky. I saw it as a student and was wowed in a way like no other. First Eisenstein film of my experience; one of the world's greatest actors; one of the greatest film scores. I have a recording of the score and that brings back many memories, but I can never re-live( like Movie Irv) that initial experience.

  • OZ, Rob

    I recently had a cull of old VHS & some DVDs from my collection,all movies i would not watch again.The most notable of these was,,Once Upon a Time in America,I found it laboriously long & the social and psychological aspects wafer thin.Typical of the 80s,I personally think this was an era of creative decline in Hollywood & this movie exemplifies my feelings..
    The other surprise throw out was Monkey Business 1952,With a great director one of the best actors ever & respected writer. The movie for me just does not live up to expectations it lacks mature wit and is plain disappointing nonsense...

    • Tom Herbert

      I agree that "Once Upon a Time in America" is long but if you had read the original novel "The Hoods" written by Harry Gray and published in the early 50's, you woul have enjoyed it and understood the premise behind the film.

  • Blair Kramer.

    I've commented on the first two "Godfather" films before. I know that they're great films. But for me, they're much too grim. I just can't watch them. Fun times in the movie theater they're not.

  • Jackie

    My late husband and I walked out of a very disgusting and horrific thriller movie of which I cannot even remember the name. It was about some sick entity who was killing members of this one family.One of the young ladies was taking a shower and all of a sudden the hot went full throttle and she could not turn it off. She was steamed like a lobster and it was so realistic and graphic..it was nauseating! There were other scenes prior to this one ( pretty gross ) but not as horrible as this. ( My Max ,who loved horror flicks )could not even stomach this one and we left!

  • Ron

    Among my "worst" Best Picture winners.

    Hurt Locker - talk about hurt; an obviously down year for good movies.

    English Patient - boooooooring.

    Dances with Wolves - too long and too irrelevant and I'm part Indian.

    And that stupid movie from India about the game show that also won best picture and I couldn't sit through.

    • Designer

      I'm glad someone besides myself thinks these 4 films are not the great masterpieces they are touted as. These are the kinds of movies, when I hear all the proaise make me think of "The Emperor's New Clothes".

    • ed cohen

      Ron, I couldn't agree with you more on Dances with Wolves. I never saw The Hurt Locker or The English Patient. The last movie you mentioned is Slumdog Millionaire, which was also so-so.

      • Moosejaw

        Dances with wolves.... Another Costner marathon... The man needs a film editor. I watched the Godfather Saga newly digitally remastered on AMC last weekend... As I am a huge Godfather fan...all 10 hours...but it is not the way a movie should ever be released....I said to my son 'if Costner sees this he will wonder why Coppola didn't release it this way'

    • http://www.facebook.com/whatever41 Cynthia LaRochelle

      "Slumdog Millionaire",, totally stupid. I went to see one of the Twilight's just out of curiosity, I laughed thru half and left. No wonder some teens are freaky.

  • Alfie

    I walked out of "Leviathan." Boring. Cold in the theater. I would have walked out of "Killer Klowns From Outer Space," but my teenage niece and I were the only two people in the matinee, and so we began to laugh and make fun of how bad the movie was - and there was no need to be quiet!!!! Killer Klowns turned out to be an enjoyable experience, after all ....

  • Movie Fan

    The last movie I went to was some snooze-a-thon about vampires and werewolves. Underworld? My sister wanted to go so I went, then spent the whole time watching the second hand on my watch go 'round and 'round the dial...I walked out on Dances With Wolves at the beginning, when he shoved his foot into his boot...When I heard the squish, I left. I quit going to movies a long time ago. It's tiresome because there's so little story mixed in with the violence and sex, plus there's always an incredibly loud soundtrack. It's just not worth the effort anymore.

  • Jackie

    I just remembered another movie that was really gross..".GRIZZLEY "The worst part is when the lady forest ranger was climbing down from a tree and stepped down into the disemboweled body of a camper.(squish) I wanted to leave at this point ,but my husband wanted to stay and find out if the bear ever got captured....he didn't. It all was so disturbing.

    • Jan

      You must not have watched all the way to the end of Grizzly. He did not get captured - they blew him to pieces with a bazooka.

      • scribe_well

        As a child, I saw the JAWS rip-off GRIZZLY in a movie theater. Halfway through the film, the audience smelled smoke and panicked (I stayed in my chair and watched the stampede, including a young man who vaulted a seat and stomped on an old woman to get to the exit). The "fire" turned out to be nothing but the air conditioner acting up, so everyone settled back in their seats to resume watching, all bad behavior forgotten. Suffice to say, GRIZZLY remains pretty vivid in my mind, and is still one of my all-time guilty pleasures. I even have the movie poster by comics-great Neil Adams. Ah, childhood!

  • Juanita Curtis

    Any movie with Adam Sandler and gross out movies ie Porkies.

    • Lorri

      Thank You! FINALLY! Someone else besides me who didn't like Porky's!!!! I thought I was the only person in America who didn't find it disgustingly funny! A truly awful and brainless movie!

    • Nicole

      Oh Yes. Thank You. I do not see why Sandler's movies make gazillions of dollars. They are not funny.

  • Ron

    I also hated Shakespeare in Love. I have a hate-love relationship with the movie, not Shakespeare.

  • Justin

    Tree of Life -- woof.

    • John Quinlan

      You are so right. But as you say woof,I say turkey.

  • TinyTim

    I never pass up a chance to condemn Rocky as the most overrated piece of tripe I've ever seen. When it came out and I knew nothing about it or anyone in it but Burgess Meredith (yecch), I went in hopes of seeing a good movie about boxing (though I'm not a big fan of that sport). What I got was a joke: a melodrama so predictably routine that it could have been a Popeye episode and a depiction of boxing so ridiculous it made Bruce Lee movies seem restrained. When I left the theater I never expected to hear anything about that trash again. To think it actually won the academy award for best picture is nauseating, but the fact it beat out Network and Taxi Driver is criminal. Those are actual movies with good performances, complex plots, and real ideas in them, not some glorified cartoon. Yeah, I know how beloved Rocky is by so many. Too bad, it's terrible.

    • nancy

      i have to disagree with you tiny tim.Rocky was one of the best movies ever. If you want a bad movie then go se anything with adam sandler in it especially "wedding singer".

    • Andy

      Maybe TinyTim, you are correct about other films being more deserving of winning best picture that year. But I think you miss the point about "Rocky". Perhaps it was not intended to be a thought provoking or cognitively stimulating film. Among other things it's a simple, sentimental story of a man who courageously rises to the occasion when given the opportunity.

  • wayne

    I wish now I'd had the guts to walk out on 'Deliverance" but was only about 16 at the time it came out in 1972 and couldnt bring my folks car home too early that night...but my girlfriend and I had to finagle just to get 2 seats together as the joint was that crowded for this stinker!

  • Harry Lyme

    Almost anything Kevin Costner made after Bull Durham.....Mr. Monotone brings real excitement to the screen.

  • CheriLynn

    I think Irv was talking about a movie experience so profound he couldn't sit through it again because the setting he was in made the movie all the more powerful. I could name dozens of movies I could never watch again, or ones I walked out on, but to see a film and be moved by it to the point you don't want to mar that memory by watching it again under different circumstances is quite unique. I can see why Deer Hunter was that for you. The times, the sentiments, the people you watched it with all added to your unique experience.

    I can only think of one movie that fits that category, and it isn't because the movie was good. I watched Looking for Mr. Goodbar with my husband and we had decided to get a divorce, and this meant I was on my own, having to date again. Not only did it scare me to death, but the thought of having to date again was terrifying. I still can't watch that movie.

    I don't believe it falls into the category of being moved by something like The Deer Hunter. However, I've never seen that movie since the first time I saw it in the theater, and I have to admit I've never forgotten how beautiful Christopher Walken was, or how tragic. Robert DeNiro was amazing, and Meryl Streep was stunningly beautiful. It did change my perspective on the War, and for some reason I can't revisit it even at this late date. I also agree: The Hurt Locker--what were they thinking. Movies are pretty awful today. But take a look at The Painted Veil. Norton is very good and the Chinese vistas are incredible. You can't go wrong with a Somerset Maugham story.

    • Jan

      I have to agree. I would never watch this movie again because I lived through those times and it was just too intense and realistic for me to ever sit through it again. Another that struck me the same way was the 'Mosquito Coast' with Harrison Ford. If you were raised in a household with the father he became in the latter part of the movie, you never want to think about or relive those times.

    • Tom K.

      @ CheriLynn: Did that fear of dating save your marriage or did you two go through with the divorce ? I know that is a personal question, but, you left all of us hanging on the edge of a cliff. Gee !

    • bunnyb.gal

      I think you're completely right - it's moreso the complete experience encompassing the film, the audience, and whatever he was feeling at the time that he was writing about rather than the merits of the film in and of itself.
      It's something different to not want to watch a film again because it was a stinker, or overlong or whatever (but hey, it's nice to have a rant about your favourite turkeys, too!)

  • CheriLynn

    I forgot to write: Irv you constantly surprise me.

  • Vann Morrison

    When I was in grade school, I remembering going to the drive in with my parents and seeing the movie "Billy Jack". As a kid, I thought that was the coolest movie because he was a Green Beret and kicked some serious butt. After seeing the movie as an adult and having spent 19 of my 25 years of service with Army Special Forces, my opinion is, what a bunch of drivel. The whole plot of the movie is that if you're not a liberal, pot smoking, tree hugging animal rights activist vegetarian, Billy Jack will beat you up or kill you. His rose colored version of the world is the only acceptable version. Thank god Tom Laughlin quit making movies.

    • Blue

      Vann,

      I agree with you completely. However the next one was even worse!
      "The Trial Of Billy Jack" was nothing but a left wing, liberal, attack on our country. I couldn't stomach it & walked also.

  • Woody

    The Onion Field (1979).

    The only one of Joseph Wambaugh's books I have only read once, and did not make it through the whole movie.

    RIP Ian Campbell

    • Abbey Normal

      I echo your sentiments re: " The Onion Field ". I was a young police officer when it came out. I had read the book, but wasn't prepared for the emotional impact of the movie. I'm still unable to watch the movie without crying.
      RIP Ian Campbell

  • http://www.facebook.com/bryan.ruffin Bryan Ruffin

    Pretty much any movie Will Ferrill is in! With the exception of Elf, that was one I might give him. The same goes with Adam Sandler! Who told these guys they could act?!
    Dances With Wolves I enjoyed, but it could have been, what, 12 hours shorter? John Ford would have told the same story in half the time!

    • http://www.moviesunlimited.com George D. Allen

      The Sandler movie I would probably not revisit would be "Punch-Drunk Love" (even tho I am a huge fan of PT Anderson's other movies). Ferrell runs hot & cold for me; I'm in the distinct minority y not laughling once during "Anchorman," but I'm big on "Elf," "The Other Guys," and his very very interesting "Everything Must Go."

  • Tiberius

    I have too many to list, but a few note worthy additions are the recent movie The Spirit..the theater was actually nice enough to give me my money back on this one. 8mm with Nicholas Cage, Life Aquatic & a lot more, but these are a few that come to mind.

  • DIRK

    Well these are 2 kinds of movies -- the absolutely horrible films and the A-list movies that you find hard to watch. THE ACCUSED was hard to watch for the Rape scene, SAVING PRIVATE RYAN's first scene, i was kicking sand outta my shoes after that one, i was on the beach with them, but i could not watch it again. For outright badly done, gross out i gotta go with SCANNERS.

    • DIRK

      PS. I love it but find it hard to recommend is RESEVOIR DOGS. I love it, but people I talk to about it thought it was excessive

      • pretzel-logic

        If you like 'ressie dawggs' you'll love harvey in 'the bad lt' I can't spell luitenent...luoey, lueutenent--whatever! Another true tale of police corruption and pure evilness!

  • Lynn

    Old Yeller and The Yearling. I walked out on "The Getaway" with Steve McQueen, a Sam Peckinpah movie.

    • L.A. Boyd

      I was surprised to see your name The Yearling and Old Yeller. They are two of the three movies I have vowed never to see again (the third is Bambi). They were wonderful, but I cannot live through that kind of pain again. I nearly walked out on two movies -- the only reason I didn’t was because I was reviewing them: One False Move (the opening violence was disgusting and the movie as boring as it was loud and violent), and Boogie Nights (yuk). You can throw in Magnolia as well. I guess I pretty much don’t like P.T. Anderson’s movies!

    • L.A. Boyd

      I was surprised to see you name The Yearling and Old Yeller. They are two of the three movies I have vowed never to see again (the third is Bambi). They were wonderful, but I cannot live through that kind of pain again. I nearly walked out on two movies -- the only reason I didn’t was because I was reviewing them: One False Move (the opening violence was disgusting and the movie as boring as it was loud and violent), and Boogie Nights (yuk). You can throw in Magnolia as well. I guess I pretty much don’t like P.T. Anderson’s movies!

      • http://www.facebook.com/whatever41 Cynthia LaRochelle

        "Bambi"????? Are you serious, WTH! I thought the "Kill Bill's" were disgusting and you couldn't watch Bambi?????

  • Ada

    There are loads of horrid movies but the one I couldn't take any more was "WHERE THE BUFFALO ROAMS". It was too much to take, even though I like Bill Murray, but the movie stunk to high heaven. Let's not forget "EVITA", with Madonna. I found myself screaming for her to die already so we could leave.

  • Colin Benson

    I won't watch any movie with Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise and those two brilliant method actors who can play a block of wood at the drop of a hat, Kevin Costner and Keanu Reeves!

    • Jan

      I can't believe it!!!! There is actually someone else out there who wonders who told these guys they can act!

  • Rufnek

    I've got a massive list of films I'd never sit through again: Reservoir Dogs, Jurasssic Park, Saving Pvt. Ryan, Klute, Pat Garret and Billy the Kid, the remake of 3:10 to Yuma, the remake of Stagecoach, the essentially remakes of Rio Bravo, The Shootist, the list goes on and on

  • Dennis Loomis

    Avatar. The advance hype was incredible and I went expecting to have my socks blown off, as James Cameron had done with Titanic. I found the murky quality of the film hard to look at, the plot was hard to follow and it was not entertaining at all.

  • Bill

    The new "True Grit" haven't watched it and never will!

    • maxfabien

      Jeff Bridges acts circles around John Wayne's performance. The remake is far superior to the original.

      • Robert

        What? You haven't watched it and never will? You've missed the entire point of this discussion, as well as missed a fine film.

        • scribe_well

          Sorry, but the remake of TRUE GRIT was awful--principally because of Jeff Bridges mumbling performance. Throughout the movie, people in the audience kept asking "What did he say?" and "Huh?" THIS is a film I never need to see again.

    • L.A. Boyd

      Too bad. It was fantastic. Better than the original (better acting and more realistic). Loved it!

    • ganderson

      Too bad, because it really is a fine film. I'm a big fan of the story and have read the book a dozen times or so (an absolute American classic) and seen John Wayne's version another dozen times. That said, the 2010 film brings its own value to the story. I'm frankly unsure about Wayne v. Bridges and Campbell v. Damon, as both sets of actors bring different qualities to their respective roles; but wow, if you haven't seen Hailee Steinfeld act, you haven't seen Mattie Ross, and she IS the star of the story. There are some odd bits in the Cohen bros film but its humor (and there's a lot of humor in the book) and its atmosphere will transport you to another time and place. Try it, you'll like it!

  • Mrs. Gee

    Ed Wood! That's how I measure a really bad movie.

    • George Matusek

      Do you mean Tim Burton's film "Ed Wood" (which I've enjoyed several times) or the actual movies directed by low-budget director Edward D. Wood, Jr.? I think Michael Medved unfairly maligned Wood's "Plan 9 from Outer Space" as "the worst movie of all time" -- it's not boring -- it has (unintentional, at times) entertainment value --- it's not disgusting --- so how can it be "the worst"?

      • maxfabien

        There must be plenty of people who love "Plan 9" (I for one), cuz i read where it's going to be released on Blue-ray. As for the film "Ed Wood", it was excellent. Well deserved Oscar for Martin Landau, and Johnny Depp got cheated out of an Oscar nomination. It was one of his all-time best performances.

        • caronbc

          Totally, totally agree on both points. Loved the Ed Wood move and Plan 9. I have most, if not all, of Ed woods movies. They are great to watch. He is the king of B-grade.
          Thank you, Ed Wood and Tim Burton :)

    • L.A. Boyd

      I loved “Ed Wood.” I thought it was sweet and sad. Great performance by Johnny Depp. Landau was outstanding.

  • Tim

    I'm really not one to walk out on films since I can appreciate the effort put into any production...but came close when a friend, I was with, began pressuring me to leave an unrated screening of "Caligula", the one associated with Penthouse's Bob Guccione from 1979, starring Malcolm McDowell. Hard core porn wasn't exactly availabe on every corner back then and, I'm sure, we weren't the only ones in the theatre with our eyes popping out of our heads!

  • Tintwistle

    My choice would have to be Baz Luhrmann's incredibly awful "Moulin Rouge" from 2001. I could not wait for that film to stagger to an end. Sure, it was beautifully photographed, but I could not get beyond the actors' unabashed posturing and the inexplicable anachronisms that peppered the script. Barry Manilow in 1900 Paris, anyone?

  • George Matusek

    There are a few films that I never get tired of watching -- "Citizen Kane," "The Magnificent Ambersons," "Twentieth Century" (the 1934 Howard Hawks screwball comedy with John Barrymore), "Vertigo," and almost all the comedies written and directed by the legendary Preston Sturges. Some critics and film buffs want to rate "The Godfather" higher than "Citizen Kane" (which I've seen at least 30 times) -- I enjoyed and appreciated the artistry of "The Godfather" the first two times I watched it --- but I never want to see it again -- been there, done that --- let's move on. It doesn't make the cut in my list of re-watchable movies.

  • Designer

    The list is too long to put down here but basically any movie that completely destroys a book that I read and loved. Examples: "Dune" was a wonderful book and David Lynch's interpretation of it was terrible (the later 8 hour BBC version is far, far better). "I Robot" is one of the great classics of sci-fi literature by the late Isaac Asimov and I looked forward to seeing it in film for years. Then it came out as a Will Smith vehicle with great special effects and a wisecracking Will Smith as the supposedly brilliant and sensitive detective assigned to solve the case. If miscasting were a criminal offense, the producers of this film would be in prison for life.

    I could go on and on but time is short...

    • karlene

      along those lines I have to add the whole Lord of the Rings trilogy--love, love, love the books. sat through the movies for my husband's sake. thankfully, I can read the books again, it's been long enough for the movies to fade in my memory.

  • marxlover

    "The Exorcist." I couldn't sleep for several days after that one. Very disturbing to think of all the awful stuff that Linda Blair's character went through and about the evil inflicted by the devil. Never again!

  • Diane

    I received the DVD of Avatar for Christmas 2010, tried to watch it one night and could not stay awake. It was really, really stupid. I haven't even tried to watch it again. James Cameron should try his hand at something other than making movies because his version of Titantic was also a bomb in my opinion. Too bad he is a fellow Canadian - we are much smarter than he represents. He is not "King of the World" by any stretch of the imagination!!!!! Have to disagree with the Ruth Gordon haters out there though. She is amazing in every movie she has made - give her a second chance, you will learn to appreciate her quirky style. I do agree with the Kevin Costner comments - he is boring and dull, dull and boring..... Totally disagree with Rufnek about Klute - thought it was great. Try the original 3:10 to Yuma with Glenn Ford as the bad guy - he's one of my all time favourite actors. I do agree for the most part about remakes, as they never seem to live up to the original versions. The remakes that were produced in the 1940's and 1950's seem to be better than today's versions. But that's probably because the actors of the 1940's and 1950's were more talented than most of today's actors. Just my 2 cents worth!

  • George M

    The "PIANIST". I usually like anything Mr. Brody does, but this film seemed longer than "Heaven's Gate" (at 219 min.)The story was i believe based on a factual person, but the treatment just didn't work for me. I was a projectionist for over twenty years, so I saw a lot of films...maybe one too many!

  • fred buschbaum

    So many films to pan, so little time.....
    saw
    Plan 9 from Outerspace, (wanted to see lugosi's last film and experience Ed Wood). Took 3 attempts to get through it. Rocky 23.....still waiting, Anything, I Ain't Fonda Jane, (not a bad actress, and a great traitor!). I'm a bit older than many commenters here, and from a generation ago. I always judge films by the sections tucked away in almost all, instead of the whole movie. However, when I saw Ishtar, (again several tries to see it all), in my minds eye the mob scene in Frankenstien at the burning windmill kept appearing. A gritty film, or a soppy film are what they're supposed to be. They just should be done well. I'll see the new flick "John Carter" this week, but having read the John Carter adventures on Mars stories as a kid, when the minds eye allowed unlimited imagination I already have seen several "enhancements" in the trailors.
    @nd. cup of coffee done, eyes open, time to face the day.

    • Nils Goering

      I'm with you, Fred. I'm also an E.R.Burroughs fan and love his Mars books. And, I've also noticed from the 'John Carter' trailers that the film looks like it strays some from the concepts in the books. Judging from the previews alone, it looks like a mash-up of 'Star Wars' meets 'Lord of the Rings' meets 'Clash of the Titans' In fact, the previews for the new film 'Wrath of the Titans' look interchangeable with the action in 'John Carter'. Hopefully 'John Carter' will turn out to be a good movie. The actress that plays Dejah Thoris better be breathtaking!

    • Lenore Salinger

      So many movie buffs laud the actors and actresses from the 1930s 1940s and 1950s as being more talented than the current crop of film stars. In about 40 or 50 years from now, there will be movie buffs who will look back and say about the film stars of that future era that they aren't as talented as the old actors from the 1980s 1990s or early 2000s. It's all relative. And, in those years ahead, there will no doubt be plenty of celluloid stinkers for movie patrons to walk out on or never watch again. That's show biz.

      • http://www.moviesunlimited.com George D. Allen

        A voice in the wilderness! :) Your observation is so very, very true.

  • speedle

    "The Tree of Life". Both boredom and depression for the price of one ticket.

  • Nick

    Salo-The most horrid film ever made. I almost threw the freak'in disc against the wall! The epitome of a really bad movie! AVOID at all costs!

    • Hermitage

      Yes. I saw it in an art house theatre back in the '80s. One of my bitterest regrets, not to have walked out in the middle. (I had a vain hope of seeing the villains get their just deserts. I was brutally disappointed . . .) Left seething that I wallowed in that filth for the whole length of the film. Dismayed that such ugliness would be presented in the name of Art. Felt like no bath could ever make me clean again.

  • Nick

    Avatar
    The English Patient
    Howard The Duck
    The Tree Of Life
    Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia
    Hugo
    Housewife(Bette Davis flick)

    • Tim

      Howard the Duck! Ha! I'm with ya there!..*L*

    • Tommie

      Hugo? Seriously, you didn't like it? Did you see it in 3D? I loved it!

      • Dana Rich

        I have not seen Hugo and do plan to see it, but any movie that needs a "gimmick" like 3-D to be watched isn't worth the price of admission.

        • Robert Blenheim

          I'm sorry, but some of you name bad movies but none of them come up to "Pink Flamingos". It was so godawful it made me weep for how low the art of the cinema can descend. All the great filmmakers from Melies, Murnau and Dreyer through Kubrick, Lean and Hitchcock must be turning over in their graves over that wretched waste of celluloid and offense to all good taste!

          • http://www.moviesunlimited.com George D. Allen

            "Pink Flamingos" scarred me for quite some time after I'd first seen it - -I remark on the movie both in
            What's Taboo in the Movies Today
            http://www.moviefanfare.com/staff-notes/whats-taboo-in-the-movies-today/
            and more extensively, in
            Movies That Make You Mad
            http://www.moviefanfare.com/staff-notes/movies-that-make-you-mad/

            ...but I will also say I've come to appreciate John Waters' place in movie history and, while I might not be revisiting Flamingos or "Female Trouble" anytime again very soon, his successfully middle-of-the-road redux of "Hairspray" was quite well done.

            Taste is an amazing thing, isn't it? There are plenty of movies here folks mentioned that are some of my favorites. everything from the Stars Wars and Trek to Conan, Schindler's List, Neighbors...not to mentoin a great many movies I thoroughly enjoyed like The Kids Are All Right, Brokeback Mountain, Pulp Fiction, Wise Blood, The Shining, so many more.

            My own answer to the question overall, is that the only movies I would say "I'll never watch that again" to would be ones I didn't have much of a strong feeling about one way or the other. If I loved it, I would absolutely watch it again. If I hated it (for whatever reason), I am often drawn back to re-think my feelings about it. It's the just passably good or passably failed movies I tend to dispatch from the repeat viewing schedule.

  • Nick

    The Swarm
    Airport 1979
    The Road to Salina

    • SteadyD

      Pretty much any disaster movie from the 1970s can make the list - 1974's Killer Bees, 1974's The Towering Inferno, 1974's Earthquake, 1976's Flood! (the exclamation point is so you know how bad it really is), 1979's Meteor, 1979's Beyond the Poseidon Adventure, 1979's City On Fire, most of the Airport movies - the list goes on and on.

      • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1845774489 Debbie Coley

        You forgot 1974's Airport. The theater I went to was showing Earthquake in the next room. I could feel the Surround Sound vibration through the wall, making me wish I had seen it instead of Airport, which was horrible.

  • Randy Dannenfelser

    You mean no one mentioned Star Wars Eps 1&2? Holy cripes, what a couple of train wrecks THEY were!

  • R.D.Cochran

    Any overly romantic movie...Love Story (blech)and Somewhere In Time are two that come to mind. And before you say anything...I'm a woman.A little romance is fine, but movies like those are too much.

    • Sandy M

      Oh, come on RD. "Somewhere In Time is a cult classic. The ultimate love story. Where's your heart and sentimentality? AND IT'S SO EASY ON THE EYES - those are two beautiful people.

  • SteadyD

    I bought a movie called "Dead Girl" at a Block Buster that was going out of business because it looked interesting. The plot involves a couple of high school boys who enter an abandoned insane asylum (more common in movies than real life) and find a naked woman tied down on a table in the tunnels under the building. They learn that the woman is essentially ferrel, cannot talk, and cannot be killed. So of course they decide to turn her into a sex slave and depravity ensues. It's actually a well done movie, but too disturbing to be watched twice, assuming you make it to the end the first time.

  • ROY T

    I have never walked out on a movie. I always thought it might get better. I would now however, endure every bad movie I have seen. If you promise me, I will never have to watch even one minute of CLOVERFIELD.

  • Gord Jackson

    For me it is "Spartacus." I thought at the time it was a brilliant, powerful but toally depressing movie.

  • Audrey

    The movie that I will never see again is Mission Impossible. I have been a IMF fan since the TV series and always wished that a movie would be made. When I heard there was one coming out, I was so thrilled...until I saw the movie. I walked out of the theatre because it was a total insult to the TV series. It portrayed the IM Force with petty morals; not one of the original cast was even in the film, yet they had the nerve to use Jim Phelps name. Garbage, garbage, garbage. Anyone who has never watched the TV series, you owe it to yourself to see just how slick they were.

  • Kai Ferano

    I was a teenager when I was coerced by an aunt I was visiting in Massachusetts to go see at a drive-in, "Ben Hur." To me it was more like "Been Hurt."

  • Anonymous

    "A River Runs Through It."

    BORRRRRING! Neither my husband nor I cared for it at all.

    Many more I don't like-especially when they have to have constant sexual references, dress immodestly, and have loud mouth kids who yell at their parents. Yuck.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1450547336 Matt Gaffney

    Howard the Duck, that stunk. Silence of the Lambs.
    i watched it once but never again.

  • Tom

    I saw "The Reincarnation of Peter Proud" in a theater when it appeared (75? 76?) and it was GOD AWFUL!
    I cannot believe I did this, but there was a character even worse an actress than others, and when she said, "You'll never see me again!" I actually yelled out loud, "GOOD!"

  • John W. Floyd

    There are a number that come to mind. "The Cardinal" with Tom Tryon. The French bomb "Last
    Year at Marienbad" and the second half of
    "Cleopatra" (the half without Rex Harrison) and
    John Wayne's "The Conqueror". I do believe, however, that "Howard the Duck" deserves the golden flush award. JWF

  • David Ecklein

    What a question. So many films I will never watch again. Quite a few I never finished watching before becoming symptomatic. Just two among those are:

    (1) "The Magic Christian", a fun novel I read when it came out - had a helping of social criticism thrown in, and put me in a receptive mood for the much later highly touted Peter Sellers/Ringo Starr film. It was so egregious we pulled it from the DVD player a few minutes into the film. I'd rather watch a sandpaper disk.

    (2) Reminds me. Years before, in VHS days, we stuck a copy of Leni Reifenstahl's "Triumph of the Will" into our machine. Minutes later, my Filipino wife removed it, took it to the backyard, and hacked it to pieces with a bolo.

  • Jim C.

    Any Remaked vowed never to watch or buy.
    Movies with Sandler, Ferrill, or Bill Murray (The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissoo- one piece of ----) exceptions are Elf, Goastbusters and Caddyshack

  • Tom K.

    There are two I would walk out of or maybe wouldn't even walk into: (1) " Waterworld " and (2) Almost ANY REMAKE of a classic movie that was perfectly made the first time. Leave the classics alone and if you can't come up with a new idea for a movie, get out of the business, please.

    • caronbc

      I totally agree with you on leaving the classics alone! Who ever decided you could remake The Bishops Wife and put Whitney Housten in the lead!?!?!?!
      Also, The Women; I love Meg Ryan, but not as a serious actor. I couldn't watch this remake when I saw the cast.
      Bedazzled; how can anyone remake this Peter Cooke and Dudley Moore classic and put Liz Hurley as the devil.
      This list goes on....

  • Allan Cope

    Pretty Woman: typical Hollywood Politically Correct garbage from 1990's. Julia Roberts doesn't look or act like a prostitute. The 1990's was the worst decade in U.S. film history.

    • Sandy M

      Aw, come on, Alan. It's a classic Cinderella story.

      • http://www.facebook.com/whatever41 Cynthia LaRochelle

        I still watch it, love the music too, and how does he know what a hooker looks and acts like?????

  • Roy Shultz

    I'll catch a lot of flak for this one, but I will never watch "Gone With The Wind", again. Once was too much. In my opinion, one of the most over rated movies of all time. A cheap soap opera set during the Civil War.

    • Geneva P.

      You won't get any flack from me. I also thought GWTW was soap opera-ish and that Scarlett was too self-centered and walked over anybody to get what she wanted and was not a very likeable person. I would like to have seen Brett end up with Melanie. Scarlett deserved the wishy-washy simpering Ashley.

      • http://www.facebook.com/whatever41 Cynthia LaRochelle

        What is wrong with you???

        • Rsperan

          Cynthia, Thank-You, you are absolutely right. Geneva, his name was Rhett, Geeeeeze.

  • CE Carter

    This subject could easily branch off into a separate one: "Terrible Re-makes I Never Want to See Again." "Day of the Jackal" (1973), starring Edward Fox, is an excellent film. The re-make, "Jackal" (1997), starring Harrison Ford and Richard Gere, is a pathetic re-make, and is near the top of my "Really Bad Films" list. Like many who responded, I also have a long list of choices that I won't go into.

    I have to agree with Tiny Tim. "Rocky" didn't deserve Best Picture over "Network" or "Taxi Driver." The main characters were based on Muhammad Ali (Apollo Creed), and a composite of Chuck Wepner and Joe Frazier (Rocky Balboa). No prize fighter would be allowed to absorb that much punishment in the ring without the referee stepping in and stopping the fight. This, in my opinion, is what makes the "Rocky" character so pathetically fictional, predictable and the boxing storyline unbelievable. But think about it. Perhaps the fact that "Rocky" won Best Picture, proved the point "Network" was making: most people would much rather be entertained than informed -no matter how debased or outrageous the source of entertainment.

    I haven't been too impressed with the "acting" of Keanu Reeves so I try to keep an open and non-critical mind when viewing his films. Most of them have made my "Really Bad Films" list.

    "Lady Sings the Blues" (1972), starring Diana Ross, would have been a much better film had it been more realistic and stuck to the real-life drama Billy Holiday actually lived. And while we're on the subject of Diana Ross, and "Terrible Re-makes...", casting her as the Dorothy character in "The Wiz" (1978), places this movie squarely on my "Really Bad Films" list, also.

  • BRIAN

    The Bride Came COD(1941)All round stupid movie.A waste of good ralent(James Cagney and Bette Davis)Bette hated this film,too.

    • Nick

      I agree. Total waste of WB's top talent at that time. UGH!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000876895229 Dolores Tamoria

    Children of the Corn. Saw it and would never watch it again.

  • Charles Carnett

    I finally realized that any remake will not be worth watching. The best example I can cite is "The Four Feathers" (original), a thoroughly enjoyable film. The first remake was bad; the second remake was terrible! I almost walked out of the movie "The Poseidon Adventure", because of the language. I had not been to the movies for several years, so I sat there in stunned amazement that such dialogue was allowed in a first-run film.

  • Mr. Ed

    Two movies come to mind that I will never watch again. I saw both from beginning to end. They held my attention and were both award winning movies and both were based on fact. "In Cold Blood" and Schindler's List." I found them to be brutally honest and very disturbing and I would rather divert my eyes and squirm in my seat over a good make believe horror movie. Reality is reality and we see it every day on the news or on the History Channel. Give me my few minutes of pleasant diversion. Isn't that also what movies are about?

  • Moochie

    Bio Dome. After ten minutes I was outta there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • Oh..No! Not This One Again!

      Anything with Pauly Shore is going to be an absolute FLOP! While I'm at it..........Caddyshack (the original) was really funny, but the sequel with Jackie Mason has a stink with years of hang time.

  • maxfabien

    "Hostel" and "Martyrs". There oughta be a law against making such vile gut-wrenching garbage as this. Any movie that has a premise of an innocent person or persons being brutally and sadistically tortured. Anyone who considers this to be 'entertainment' is demented.

    • bunnyb.gal

      Add The Human Centipede to this list. I'll admit to being a bit of a gorehound but torture porn just escapes me. No character development, plot that can be written on a drinks coaster...pure lazy filmmaking.

  • Dog Mom

    I too wish I'd walked out of Deliverance. It was by far the worst movie I've ever seen. And how American Beauty got nominated, no less won the Oscar for best movie will alway ellude me. I struggled through it because of all the hype hoping to see what the Academy saw. They must have been smoking something that night. Wasn't worth my time. Nobody I know that saw it liked it.

  • Dana Rich

    I am a real science fiction fan but I thought that "A.I." was convoluted, depressing, and incomprehensible. What a waste of time and money!

    • Dana Rich

      I got to thinking about other horrible movies. "Borat" was the worst thing I have ever seen. What a stinker of a movie!

      • Oh..No! Not This One Again!

        Cohen(sp?) isn't going to get even fifteen minutes of fame. If there was any doubt if he is a fool, it was confirmed on Oscar night. This moron didn't get halfway down the red carpet before he was escorted out of the building and presentations.

  • Paul M. Boos

    Any movie by John Cassavetes! Especially a movie called "Husbands", made in the early 70's which purported to show a bunch of middle-aged men grieving over one of their recently deceased buddies. Their childish, almost teen-like behavior was a joke and bore no resemblance to behavior by real people....perhaps the only movie that I actually walked out on....

  • Pat

    I have a rule of thumb I use when comes to the newer movies. If it wins an Oscar - forgetaboutit. Chariots of Fire, Out Of Africa, Moulon Rouge, (ugh) yes, someone mentioned the English Patient, Brokeback Mountain the list goes on.

  • Sandy M

    "The exorcist" because it really scared the HELL out of me. I couldn't sleep for months afterwards even with my husband laying next to me.

    And, "Leaving Las Vegas" because I thought it was so disgusting and gross, well, Nicholas Cage was!

    • William Sommerwerck

      I watched "Leaving Las Vegas" the other day for the second time. It is supposed to be brutal film. (The author of the novel on which it's based committed suicide two weeks into the filming.)

      • Andrew

        Want to see another depressing movie? Watch "Pay it Foreward" with Helen Hunt and Kevin Spacey. The ending is really a downer.

  • gary

    mamma mia... meryl streep in trying to find some depth in that paper thin material only succeeded in exposing her considerable technigue. I thought she was too smart to do that but obviously not as she seems content to have gone on making a fool of herself ever since.
    mamma mia

  • Daniel E. Coates

    The new Green Hornet. I usually can force myself to watch the whole movie but that one I lasted 20 minutes and I couldn't take it any longer. I loved
    Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls. I seen it 3 oir 4 times and I will watch it again.

  • NYC Chaney Fan

    Mel Gibson's cinematic abortion The Patriot.....I was offended as both an historian and American Revolution reenactor as well as a person who has never had a frontal lobotomy.

  • Christopher Schwinger

    Pirates of the Caribbean 3 was a terrible movie. I will never watch that again.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1086364331 Stephen Farris

    At today's prices [unless you know of a discount theater-$4 or less], walking out on a movie could prove expensive. After paying $5 for popcorn, $5 for soda and $8 (or more) for the movie, itself, who would walk. And if you are not alone, times 2 or more, is a lot of $$$$.

  • Mominpink

    I will never watch Midnight Cowboy, Fargo, and Pulp Fiction ever again. Too disturbing! Rose Mary's Baby. Creepy. Even the preview with the baby carriage on the hill scared me when I was a little kid.

    • karlene

      thank you! HATED Fargo

  • http://www.facebook.com/JeffHeise Jeff Heise

    For art films-LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD-like watching paint dry; for mainstream-HOWARD THE DUCK-George Lucas must feel grateful for Jar-Jar Binks after this one; for horror-HUMAN CENTIPEDE and any sequels.

  • Evil Buddy P

    Any of the "Jaws" sequels.

  • Annie

    There are different reasons to eliminate a movie for one's viewing list -- but the result is the same -- my list

    Braveheart
    American Beauty
    Magnolia

  • Gayle

    The movie I refuse to ever watch again is
    Whatever happened to Baby Jane......talk about
    the epitomy of invalid adult abuse......disgusting!!!

  • Al S

    Help by the Beatles.

  • Gayle

    Inclined to agree with several submissions:: please
    PLEASE leave the great "oldies but goodies" alone!
    Remakes never NEVER measure up!! and that would make
    my list a whole lot longer........

  • Pelayo

    Any ANY AT ALL movie with Meryl Streep, or with Julia Roberts, or with Sarah-Jessica Parker, or with Al Pacino (The Godfather is watchable for Brando, Caan, Duvall, Hayden..), or with Tom Cruise (Rain Man is watchable for Dustin Hoffman).

  • Gwen

    i just never bothered with a lot of those movies, but i couldn't wait to see "gangs of ny" & really hated all of the gore. i mean--those weapons didn't just "wing" somebody. i suppose guys didn't mind it.

  • richard finn

    Worst Movie - "The Happening" with Mark Wahlberg
    I have never been able to stay awake during "Dr Zhivago". I haven't ever walked out of a theater, but when I rented "Scary Movie", it was just too stupid and I removed it and returned it.

  • Jack

    LOVE STORY w/R. O'Neal and Ali McGraw, Stood in long line to see it my fiance. Laughably bad. Never again.

  • Susan W.

    PLATOON

    Had to endure this Oliver Stone film while in film class. I voted to view Goldfinger but lost out to the other classmates. Platoon reflects the horrors of war too realistically and gave me nightmares. Can't imagine what the young, couragous service men feel having lived through any war.

  • Pamela Maschek

    I like horror flicks- but I don't know who told us that "Drag Me To Hell" was a horror film- it was a nauseating , disgust fest. I would not watch that even if I were paid. "Dog Day Afternoon" - a boring waste of time and Annie Hall" I walked out on both of those.

    • William Sommerwerck

      "Drag Me to Hell" is actually a rather restrained film, with "only" a PG-13 rating.

  • Susan W.

    P.S. Thanks Irv for the heads up about "The Deer Hunter" which, by chance, my husbund recently recorded and we were going to view for the first time. I might just take a pass on viewing that war film.

    • Lorri

      Please give "The Deer Hunter a chance. It is a great movie and well worth watching--if only once. Irv didn't say it was a bad movie, he just doesn't want to watch it again because of his own unique experience the first time he watched it. It's an unerving, but facinating look at an era that was very controvertial.

  • Maryjo

    I would NEVER sit through a showing of Deliverance again - those mountain men,ugh !
    All Rocky movies after the third one (and I'm being kind here) were all stupid,laboured,and pointless.

  • Debbie

    I will never, ever watch "The Exorcist" again. I walked out of the theater half-way through the movie. It scared me to death and still does.
    I can see why Irv won't watch "The Deer Hunter". I saw a clip where a man was held in a cage, stabbed and bled to death. Thanks but no thanks.
    Another is "On Borrowed Time"with Lionel Barrymore. I sobbed at the end of the movie. I can't go through that pain again.

  • Magman

    Movies I would never watch again? That's easy...virtually any movie that was on the Hallmark or Lifetime channel.

  • SLH

    Too many to list and too many to list that I wouldn't even give a chance let alone a second chance. Top two: Psycho and In Cold Blood once you have seen them does anyone really need to see them again. My own nightmares are bad enough I don't need help creating new ones !

    My main reasons to watch any movie is to escape reality, be entertained and hopefully be left with a good feeling so anything that doesn't give me those I will not watch again. They don't all HAVE TO have happy endings, but at least hope for something good to come helps ;-) .

  • Al

    As the person who said Kevin Costner (After Bull Durham), I say Dustin Hoffman (After Marathon Man)

    Way over-rated actor.

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1376844823 John Nagle

      I pride myself on being able to watch any film no matter what's the subject matter or content. Salo was my breaking point. I made it 1/2 way but...had to give up. I'll not be loading that DVD again.
      PS.... I thought HUMAN CENTIPIDE was quite comical...I have HC 2 in blue ray ready to roll!!!

      • http://www.moviesunlimited.com George D. Allen

        As a fellow fan of HC1, I am very curious to hear other reactions to HC2. So, when--or if--you make it through Six's sequel, do return and offer your review & see if you agree with my own assessment:
        http://www.moviefanfare.com/horror_movies/the_human_centipede_ii/

        There's something charming about having posted the link to a piece about Human Centipede II twice today.

  • Lorraine M.

    The 1954 animated film "Animal Farm," based on the Orwell classic. I was in my early teens, and not having yet read the book was expecting a fun kiddie cartoon--the grim goings on caught me competely off guard. It was a thoughtful, heartbreaking and chilling fable, and it so disturbed me I vowed never to watch it again. I actually felt unsafe after that viewing.

  • William Sommerwerck

    No one mentioned "Cars 2" -- a noisy, pointless atrocity.

  • John T. Borek

    Two brilliant films that I could never sit through again, Saving Private Ryan and Schindler's List. Once was more than enough. Also any of The Star Trek movies, OMG boring, oh so boring and any of the Star War movies. There is a huge list of movies that only need to be seen once, any more than that and the effect is ruined. Seriously, how many times can you see The Crying Game once the surprised is revealed.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000890600927 Charles Power

    Keanu Reeves in As You Like It actually did a pretty good job. His woodenness just happened to work for the role he had. I haven't seen him in the remake of The Day the World Stood Still as I was disappointed that he wasn't casted as the robot Gort.

  • Patrick

    Yvonne Rainer's Journeys from Berlin/1971, late Seventies navel-gazing political feminism at its most lugubrious. I watched all 2 hours and 5 minutes of it, too, despite the fact that the theater was emptying around me. No mas!

  • Publius

    There are certain films I refuse to see: One is THE EXORCIST. There was so much hype and talk and everything about it that I refused to see it because it was against my religion, and I could not stand a film glorifying evil.
    The movie I will not see again is THE PIANO; it was disgraceful, rude, digusting, violent and made no sense whatsoever.
    Another one is RUBIE. The film was so hilarious and bad at the same time; I couldn't stand it.
    ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES was the only film I ever turned off in the middle because I had enough after 10 minutes.
    DOCTOR ZHIVAGO I couldn't make any sense of after I had heard the balilika theme for the upteenth time. I saw it in the movie theatre and I never want to see it again.

  • Emily

    Forrest Gump. I thought it was SO boring. Didn't like one thing about it.

  • Gary Vidmar

    I can't identify at all with not wanting to return to a film that was initially disturbing. I think films like THE DEER HUNTER are ripe for a rediscovery, especially with time and accompanied by a critical perspective (a la Criterion dvds). Cimino's film, in fact, is an exellent example of a picture that probably requires more than a single screening to fully appreciate. Upsetting films like Pasolini's SALO, or the recent A SERBIAN FILM, are unlikely to please audiences at first viewing, but certainly deserve a revisit for a more refined analysis and perhaps some relaxed scrutiny.
    I'm surprised no one here has brought up Bob Guccione's infamous production of CALIGULA

    • maxfabien

      "Caligula" was mentioned by Tim (Mar 6, 11:32am).So hard to believe that such distingyished actors as Helen Mirren, Sir John Guilgud, and Peter O'Toole appeared in it.

  • VKMfanHuey

    ...in keeping with Irv's angle, the one movie I don't need to ever see again, but KNEW I had to watch ONCE, is "The Passion of The Christ"...
    It's a unique one, in that I feel EVERYONE needs to see it, ONCE, regardless of religious affiliation (or lack thereof...)...and that's it. You don't need to see it again - you won't forget it, and it begs the question, 'what will YOU do with this Christ?'

  • Al O’Neill

    When I was stationed at Fort Hood TX in the mid-1970's, a friend and I went to a 2-screen theater just off post to see "The King of Marvin Gardens, starring Bruce Dern and some other people. The theater manager was at the door of the side showing that picture; he urged us not to watch it because it was so unbelievably bad. He said we should go see the other movie instead; I can't remember what it was. My buddy and I were stubborn, I guess, because we ignored his advice. The manager was absolutely right; the movie was appalling. In fact, we were the only two people in the theater. Moral: Never, never ignore a theater manager's advice.

  • Norm

    I was stationed in Vietnam in 1969. I worked nights so I could go to the EM club when they showed movies once a week, in the afternoon. I came out of seeing 2001 A Space Odyssey and could only think: "What the hell was that all about?". I also won't watch the first Rambo (First Blood?) again. The only redeeming quality was Stallone did not have much dialogue during it.

  • Jack Jones

    I quit going to the movies on a regular basis back in the '70s. Have seen five piks in theatres in the last 10 years, usually because someone else wanted to go. At my age I don't want to waste time seeing the new ones when there are so many classics to see again. And even "B" movies of the Golden Age are more enjoyable than the recent junk. A movie I have watched more than once but will not watch again is Citizen Kane; thought it was overrated when it first came out.
    And once in a while remakes are as good as the original, i.e. An Affair To Remember.

  • Garry Stewart

    Being a fan of the great MGM musicals I will NEVER sit through Lovely To Look At , an awful re make of Roberta.
    Others on my ...t list include The Hurt Locker, Sin City, Hudson Hawk,The Spirit,Forest Gump, Annie Hall, The Matrix[ what did it all mean?]Moulin Rouge, The Green Hornet, Pulp Fiction.
    Anything with Will Ferrell, Jack Black,Ben Stiller or Adam Sandler. Somebody stop them !

    • Robbee65

      I agree with almost the whole heartedly. I thought I was the only one who didn't like Annie Hall and Pulp Fiction. Idon't think that Woody Allen is all that.

  • celebkiriedhel

    Films with profound experiences - That would be "The Mission" for me. I came out bawling for about 1/2 hour or so afterwards and couldn't stop. I cannot watch this film again - it's too painful emotionally for me. But one I am very glad that I saw the first time.

  • Andrew

    The only movie I remember walking out on was "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie". I know, Maggie Smith got an Oscar but, found it boring. "Teenagers from Outer Space" is really bad but, I still see it when it makes the rounds.

  • Gord Jackson

    Some others I will never re-watch:

    "Dr. Zhivago" - boring shiverfest.
    "Passage to India" - boring safari meets near geological age
    "The Ten Commandments" - the Greatest Show on Earth set on Mount Sinai.
    "Schindler's List" - too deeply disturbing.
    "In Cold Blood" - also too deeply distrubing
    "The Conversation" - screams out for subtitles
    "My Dinner With Andre" - cinematic indigestion
    "The Descendants" - dysfunctional families don't interest me.
    "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" - and can stay there.
    "Vertigo" - back to the dizzying heights of boredom.
    "Blade Runner" - very dull
    "Rocky" - down for the count
    "Ishtar" - cinema that would break a camel's back
    "The English Patient" - something about tired blood
    Any "Billy Jack" film - celebrating brutal, vigilante justice

  • Patricia

    HOWARD THE DUCK. This movie was stupid. Would never never watch this duckies movie again.

  • Tom Webb

    The lists above are pretty consistent, and I agree with many of the 'Never Agains!'
    Wow! Where to begin? There are so many!
    My list- Magnolia, The Green Hornet (breathtakingly bad); American Pie (I never understood why that was popular); any of the Porkies films; Salo; The Patriot (I agree with the poster above, who found its historical distortions misleading and offensive); the remake of Planet of the Apes (not half as good as the original); JFK (I'm really bothered by its historical distortions and paranoia); Mission Impossible (as another poster said, it totally betrayed the spirit of the IMF team), and many others I can't think of now.
    I also won't go out of my way to see any Michael Moore films again, or watch his new ones. He is such a dishonest filmmaker, and cheats so much in his films. He plays fast and loose with the facts, and destroys his own credibility. Even when I occasionally agree with him, I find he ruins it by throwing in some childish, dishonest bit of business. Not strictly fiction films, as the others are, but perhaps fiction nonetheless.
    Fortunately, there are so many great films to choose from- a hundred years' worth- from the early silent days to now. I guess you can't expect all of them to be great. Just about every actor and director has made their share of turkeys, but many classics, too.

  • Bill Ameen

    It's amazing how many of the above movies are favorites of mine. I too rarely walk out of a movie, but notable exceptions were NATURAL BORN KILLERS (gore is OK but this was a pointless waste of time) and when I was in college I walked out of either LA DOLCE VITA or 8 1/2, can't remember which, they're indistinguishable to me. Most recently I found TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY to be the most tedious movie I have EVER sat through (I call it "Stinker...") (to know there was a 12-hour miniseries years ago is incomprehensible). Comment: THE MAGIC CHRISTIAN is one of the most underrated comedies ever, and Peter Sellers' funniest movie, in my opinion.

  • NSG

    I walked out of the theater when "The Neighbors" came out, years ago, with John Belushi. That was the first one I remember I couldn't stand to see any more of.

    Also don't like any horror films. When I was young I saw "Tarantula", which scared the heck out of me for a long time.

    I don't like many SciFi films, but there are some I might see again, after awhile. I don't care for some of the new high action CGI films, because the lighting they emit is hard on my eyes. The actions sequences tend to be too fast, whereas, live action films generally are not.

  • Kevin

    Anyone remember; The Happy Hooker goes to Washington? Walked out after the first 10 minutes. Any Three Stooges short with Joe Besser. Popeye and Robert Altman's last Film, which thankfully I can't remember except that I sat in a theater for 2 hours bored out of my wits. The Car. And any Bob Hope picture made in the 60's.

  • David Alan

    "Crash"

    • http://www.moviesunlimited.com George D. Allen

      Cronenberg or Haggis?

  • http://www.facebook.com/cdmalin David Malin

    "Hollywood Homicide" with Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett. My wife bought the DVD, we sat down to watch it and made it through about 20 minutes of the film before we took the disc out of the player and put it up on the shelf, never to watch it again!

  • John

    I walked out of Slumdog Millionaire. I felt that it was a stupid, exploitive film.
    However I can not watch the movie 'All Mine To Give'. Not that its a bad movie but it is the only movie next to 'Old Yeller' that I get emotional over and cry.

  • Frosty

    I hated "Network". It was like a bad TV movie. Faye Dunaway over-acts like crazy and is seriously not much to look at. Not a fan, never was.

  • Jmarm

    Natural Born Killers How disturbing was that one? A friend talked 2 of into going and both of us hated it. Love Woody and "wassher name" in other pictures but not this one.

  • hernando

    INSIDE DAISY CLOVER and SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS. (Loved Natalie in West Side Story and Rebel without a cause). WATERWORLD. Anything by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. WICKED STEPMOTHER, TROG, TROY (They should have called that BS ACHILLES. Can't Stand Brad Pitt. Hundreds more.

  • kathy

    my 2 are the english patient and ishtar. these are so bad! and i must add a lmao at fred...i ain't fonda jane! that's funny!

  • Tom Webb

    Someone mentioned the 1941 James Cagney- Bette Davis movie "The Bride Came C.O.D. I agree that it's a pretty lame film, and wastes the talents of its two great stars, but it has some good moments, and I would watch it again. Cagney is one of my all-time favorites, but his 1948 movie "The Time of Your Life" is one I couldn't sit through again. Cagney, usually an on-screen firecracker, barely moves throughout the whole movie. He just sits in a bar, philosophizing with all the characters who drift through. I couldn't wait for it to end, though I stuck with it, as it is part of the Cagney body of work. But never again-- it is awful. I understand the point of the film, etc., but no thanks. Give me Jimmy dancing or firing a Tommy gun anyday!

    • Steve F

      In The Bride Came C O D Eugene Pallette (Bette Davis's father) flies in in a Beechcraft Staggerwing--to me it's worth sitting through the movie for that.

  • Robbee65

    How in the world did Shakespeare in Love ever win best picture? Twenty minutes was all I could take.

    • Natasha

      (Y)

      • Natasha

        (y) didn't work. that was supposed to be a sign for "thumbs up"! agree on Shapespeare in Love

    • Alton Robertson

      Sad.  What a great movie!  Seen it at least a dozen times.

  • Laura B.

    Horrible films on my list (with NO redeeming qualities) include: Exorcist II: The Heretic, What About Bob?, The Pirate Movie, Neighbors, and Brewster McCloud.

    • http://www.moviesunlimited.com George D. Allen

      Wow, "Neighbors" is just not getting the love. I think the film was ahead of its time, and said as much when I recommended it as a movie you should watch (again, or for the first time) instead of watching "The Human Centipede II."
      http://www.moviefanfare.com/horror_movies/the_human_centipede_ii/
      Which is probably a movie we'd get a lot of votes for if we'd asked "What Movie Do You Refuse to Watch Ever?"

    • pretzel-logic

      Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat? You didn't like neighbors? I loved it--terribly funny and quirky. Do you like any comedies?
      BTW, I could see, "A Clockwork Orange" every day of the week!

      So there! [and it's not even a comedy]

  • Vickie

    Contagion. It was awful!!

  • Carol Henderson

    Harold and Maude was the second movie that I walked out on. It was horrible. The other Movie was the disaster with Tony Perkins and Tuesday Weld. it was so horrid that the name escapes me. And let me now forget 'They Shoot Horses Don't They?'. Yuck!

    • Gord Jackson

      Carol, the title you were looking for is "Pretty Poison." And definitely, not a pretty movie!

  • scribe_well

    Far too many to list (THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS immediately springs to mind). But my candidate for the most overrated and unwatchable--even in the context of when it was made--film of all time, has got to be THE GRADUATE. "Plastics" indeed. Has Mike Nichols ever lensed anything worth watching (apart from Ann-Margret's brief nude shots in CARNAL KNOWLEDGE)? And while I'm on the subject of overrated directors, Robert Altman should have been "MASHed" for his POPEYE film alone!

  • john

    i guess hes right and hes wrong at the same time..when i saw it the first time..it reminded me of when i was in training at FtHood in 1965-1966...but i had to see it more because i kinda knew those guys...they were my friends..and i guess in my own way of thinking i never wanted to loose them..i still watch it now and then

  • pretzel-logic

    Blue Velvet / a clockwork orange / citizen kane /almost every film noir made/ fargo / a x-mas story--or, you'll shoot your eye out/ alamo/ almost every sci-fi flick from the 50's!/ dances with woofs[[yes, I did like it a lot!] and, finally--a bunch of films I can't think of now--oh wow--what a bout all the MarxBro's films? There are plenty of films I need in my DVD library--1000's not 100's.....

  • Barbara

    "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly": one my husband REALLY enjoys, and just laughs and shakes his head, but I'm appalled at the immorality, or rather amorality, of the one who is evidently considered to be "the good". It's just not funny to me, and I'll never watch it again.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=529742289 Peter Sugars

    Jaws 3456789,,,, what a load of crap 1 was a classic 2 was pretty good, but the rest , SHAME, SHAME, SHAME should've never been made

  • Andrew

    I'm surprised. No one mentioned "Madonna: Truth or Dare". Don't tell me that was a "classic".

  • Alan

    ZARDOZ - a terrible and boring big budget sci-fi film made in 1974, directed by John Boorman and starring Sean Connery. Ugh !!!

  • john

    I recall two movies I walked out on. One was a movie with Bob Hope called "Eight on a Lam", and the other one was with Doris Day and Richard Harris called "Caprice". Two simply dreadful and awful movies!!!

  • Char

    The incredibly stupid and campy "Love Story" with Ryan O'Neal and Ali McGraw (she needed acting lessons). I adore a great love story, but this one was terrible.

  • http://www.facebook.com/john.d.stewart1 John Stewart

    The Sweet Smell of Success was a very good movie but I will never watch it again. Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis were just too creepy.

    The Searchers, starring John Wayne, makes me very uncomfortable. Powerful, powerful movie.

    Shock Treatment from the people who made the Rocky Horror Picture Show, it is a horribly weak movie. One Halloween I went to see it, full theater at the beginning, only 6 of us at the end.

  • Doug

    The Hurt Locker...lol. And paranormal Activity - that has got to be the worst kind of cinematic trash and sadly they made 2 sequels (that I'll never, never, never see)

  • Smally

    Braveheart. It was an excellent film, but it was so realistically violent that I could never subject myself to it again - particularly the ending death scene.

  • Bruce

    Sophie's Choice. Sophie should have chosen not to make that film.

  • VictoriaRegina

    I watched Braveheart - just once -
    Reservoir Dogs- foul language my living room needed Febreze (and I only watched 10 minutes or so)
    House of a Thousand Corps - really disturbing...
    Sci-Fi movies - some are soooooo predictable....

  • John F.

    Two Woody Allens, Stardust Memories (An insult to his fan base), and Shadows and Fog. Bleach!

  • Mags

    Pulp Fiction
    Showgirls

    Those were horrible.

    I'll also never watch Untraceable again - because it was too disturbing and scary!!

  • wynnosu

    Any movie with Adam Sandler, Jack Black, Steven Seagal, Ben Stiller, or, heaven forbid, any combination of that foursome. Just plain schlocky, brainless movies that are easily upstaged by any decent eighth grade remake of "Annie."

  • CheriLynn

    @Tom: I didn't mean to leave you hanging about my story, but I didn't date anyone I didn't know very well after that. In fact, I dated I believe twice. I went out with several friends, and yes, we did get a divorce. And, I'm thankful everyday because I met my husband. We became carpool buddies and got to know each other well before the dreaded dating idea came around. (Yes, Looking for Mr. Goodbar scared me that much.) As a side note: We've been happily married for twenty-seven years.

    Back to the subject: Irv, everybody doesn't seem to quite get the point of this post. It's not about not watching a movie that you hated, thought was disgusting, or was so bad that were offended, but about one that moved you to the point you can't watch it again because it would spoil the memory.

    Again, I do believe watching films with someone, or many someones does make the experience more memorable. There are certain films I like to see with a bunch of teenage boys (I know you're probably saying: What is she thinking?). It's because they interact with the movie by cheering, whistling, and whooping when someone gets even with a bad guy. That brings an element of fun to the picture. I also prefer to see comedies with several people. Laughing is contagious. The shared experience makes it more enjoyable. However, lately I find I'm watching films with zombies. No one laughs, or makes a sound, unless you're seated around annoying children or people that can't seem to shut up, in which case that is an entirely different post discussion. I think the one that probably did it for me was Dr. Zhivago, now that I think about it. However, I have seen it since and the experience hasn't been quite as wonderful as when I saw it on the big screen with my husband. The other one was Camelot, and it's never been as wonderful either. Irv: you have rightly kept that wonderful memory intact by not viewing The Deer Hunter again. You're right. You can't repeat experiences that profound, especially on the small screen. I hope I can have that kind of experience again.

    • http://www.moviesunlimited.com George D. Allen

      "...in which case that is an entirely different post discussion."

      Indeed it was :) -- Irv had his say about the state of movie theater etiquette a while back. In case you may have missed it, you can find that here:

      http://www.moviefanfare.com/staff-notes/theater-etiquette-r-i-p/

      On the subject of folks missing the point of the post -- not that it never happens, it absolutely does -- this is not one of those times.

      Wow, that didn't take long. Case in point: Check out the first comment on Irv's post today. The post is unconfusingly titled, "Who Are The Next Big Action Stars?"
      http://www.moviefanfare.com/staff-notes/who-are-the-next-big-action-stars/

      Anyway, I made the question deliberately broad with respect to "why" you would never watch a movie again. As I mentioned in the text, I'd anticipated that Irv might give one of those "I really hated it" or "it really turned my stomach" answers, but his response turned out to be quite different. But the question to Irv (and by extension, to everyone else) was meant to give people the freedom to offer all sorts of reasons why they'd never watch a movie again.

  • nancy

    sorry but i disagree. I'm a Cagney fan and davis fan and the movie was funny. Much funnier than some of the junk they call comedy today.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1391610530 Ed Yeary

    Eye of the Beholder - Ashley Judd. No real plot and horrible ending. One of the worst I've ever seen.

  • http://www.facebook.com/nazario.grace Nazario N Grace Jimenez

    WHAT DREAMS MAY COME. Ugh, what a crapfest. And THE LITTLE DRUMMER GIRL. The film just went on and on & I hated it.

    • Natasha

      1st one was a waste, i completely agree

  • http://www.facebook.com/Bob.Clay77 Robert Clay

    The movie would be 'Song of Norway'. Six reels of unbelievable suffering. If KGB interrogators needed to extract information from some poor unwilling suspect, never mind the pliers, never mind the electro-shock machines, ... just make them watch 'Song of Norway' for 10 minutes, and even the hardest nut will crack.

    • Natasha

      :) ha-ha-ha! :)

  • Barney Vincelette

    A 1969 movie called "Justine" was so terrible that they ought to make a sequel about the movie being shown in a drive-in movie theater causing the stars to go out because it is visible to the sky and forces God to see it, whereupon God commits suicide as the universe disappears. Only that kind of an insult could do "Justine" justice. "If it is Thursday it must be Belgium" should be shown in poison control centers to cause vomiting. It is another bomb.

    • http://www.moviesunlimited.com George D. Allen

      Your outstanding pan of "Justine," cruelly, makes me want to watch the movie. :)

      • SLH

        I think you might mean : "If It's Tuesday This Must Be Belgium" I like it, it's no great award winning blockbuster, but Suzanne Pleshette looked lovely, Ian McShane was the perfect naughty boy who grows up too late and there are some really funny scenes with some great character actors from days gone by. To each there own huh ? T'would be a pretty boring world if we all agreed on everything.

        • Rick Minor

          "Justine", a Jess Franco film, is terrible in a way that only a Jess Franco film can be. Jack Palance appears in the film reciting nonsensical dialogue and is obviously drunk on red wine. I truly believe they paid him partially in wine, which he drank liberally on the set. Also spliced in (incoherently) are scenes of Klaus Kinski as the Marquis DeSade. Although I am sure they were never present on set at the same time, one can only imagine what a drunken Jack Palance meet-up with Kinski would have been like. Probably like that show where Meat Loaf and Gary Busey are constantly going at it, except much weirder...

          • Rick Minor

            Wow, I think I just convinced myself to re-watch a film I thought I would never want to see again! I actually bought "Justine" because I couldn't find a rental. Years later, after having watched it once (and probably not all the way through), I purged it from my collection. I think it left a strange residue on my shelf.

          • http://www.moviesunlimited.com George D. Allen

            My desire to see this movie now has officially reached the status of unbearable (as has my accompanying shame for being a Kinski fan and not having seen it already)! Sadly, yes, the only time Kinski and Palance appeared together (or didn't appear together, as the case seems to be) in the same film.

  • L

    I am someone who likes to watch movies over and over. I don't have the expertise to know what kinds of decisionmaking would lead me to want to see a film many times. One hopes that a film director will have that sense and be a good judge of a film's watchability.

  • Aunt Bea

    The worst movie I ever saw was Ruling Class with
    Peter O'Tool.
    I like most of Peter O'Tool's movies, but this one was offensive and just awful. What is entertaining about mocking God?

    • Natasha

      Aunt Bea,

      I listed the worst movie I ever (invention of lying) for the very same reason - God was mocked in it and that made me so sick... so I agree with your comment and feel sorry for those who do mock - they do not know...

  • Steve

    My "won't see again" film is Schindler's List. In fact, my whole family agrees with me. We started watching it in 2009, and made it halfway. It was only last summer when we finally finished it. It is absolutely the most emotionally draining film I have ever seen.

    • L.A. Boyd

      That movie is on my “best” list. Yes, it is difficult to watch, and that is part of the reason everyone should watch it. So well done and so moving. Perhaps it has opened some people’s eyes. An ambitious undertaking well realized. I would definitely watch it again.

  • Jag915

    I will never watch again "The Shining". After reading the book, I was looking forward to seeing the movie but when the movie came out IT STUNK!! The book was VERY scary but the movie WAS NOT! It was more like a satire of what the book was when it would have been SUPER scary if it had been like the book. TERRIBLE MOVIE!!!

  • Trusgift

    Many movies I will never re-watch because they're simply bad, but one comes to mind immediately because, although I would seriously like to experience it again as a work of art, I am mightily disturbed by graphic, dehumanized violence and the depiction of a time and place where it became a culture is too much to take: "Schindler's List".

  • chris mattson

    THE MOST GOD AWFUL MOVIE I CAN REMEMBER SEEING WAS "BODY DOUBLE"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I ACTUALLY PAID GOOD MONEY AND SAT THRU IT AT A THEATER IN HOLLYWOOD. I CAME OUT OF THE MOVIE SAYING "WHAT DID I SPEND ON THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" GOOD MONEY AND TIME OF MY LIFE I WILL NOT GET BACK!!!!

  • Judith Molina

    I'm a horror fan, but the two movies that really got to me was The Exorcist and a vampire movie that I can't remember the name of. The vampire loved to fly small planes. He was horribly hideous looking but was able to take the form of a handsome man. He used that to lull an old couple to violent deaths. Two reporters were investigating the vampire but were battling each other to get the scoop. He killed one of the reporters while he was shaving. That scene was super scary because he took on an invisible form while doing it. These films are too frightening for me to view again.

  • karen wilson

    "Bridesmaids" -- worst movie ever! only one laugh in the whole movie-- the Scottish cop.

    • Natasha

      :) now I'm glad i didn't see it when it was in the cinema!

  • KC

    "Welcome to the Dollhouse"... I felt so sorry for the main character and Kept cringing throughout this one, praying that it was not what our youth had become.

    • KC

      Oops I forgot to mention that this was supposed to be a dark comedy which usually I like, but I just thought it was plain sickening.

  • tlynette

    There are some that I've seen that I take a 'been there done that' attitude towards. Then there are the ones on the AFI Top 100 that I don't think should be there, and can live without watching again. Then there are "Night of the Generals" and "Wise Blood." ????? I spent most of these craptastic "films" with my brow furrowed, and a dazed look on my face, wondering how could I have wasted 2 hours on this, and where is the producer/director so I can slap him?

  • Maureen

    Oh, dear God, that awful Andy Warhol's Frankenstein. I mean, how many times can one monster rip open his or her own torso! Yuck!!!

  • greycrow

    Movies that would be difficult to watch again, Sophie's Choice, Schindler's List. Movies I have seen and would not watch again for boring or awfulness, Liz Taylor's Cleopatra, Bo Derek's Tarzan. And Richard Harris was in the Tarzan movie! Ai Yah!

  • greycrow

    Oh, yeah. Blair Witch Project. Once was enough. Meh.

    • Eric Larsen

      Yeah, that two hour piece of trash put me to sleep. Certainly a stinker.

  • greycrow

    Here's a question. What movie(s), that you didn't like overall, would you (or do you) watch because of one or performances by particular actors?

    • http://www.moviesunlimited.com George D. Allen

      Good question. I may have to Ask Movie Irv some version of that in the near future.

  • Eloise Swanson

    ABout 1942-43 there was a movie shown at the Magestic Theater in Dallas, Texas called
    "Hang down Your Head Tom Dooly" !
    It was based on a song of that name involving a cowboy who was destined to hang. The cast and story were serious - a real dramatic interpretation of a dramatic western event
    As the presentation got "heavier and droopingly sentamental someone LAUGHED loudly. That did it!! Audience members stopped leaving the theater.
    From then the film became hysterically funny!!
    And when it ended everyone burst into enthuastic applause !!

  • David Hines

    Sitting in the theater, first we heard the groans and muffled whispers of disbelief, finally the stampede for the door opening up to long line of patrons looking for refunds. The movie: a 1988 adaptation of Isac Azimof's "Nightfall", starring David Birney...the worst I have ever seen and, no, I didn't stay until the end...absolutely couldn't.

  • Steve T

    Just saw ( forced to sit through) Cage's preformence of "Night Rider #2" GASTLY, he had to be under contract to Saten to do that movie !! I did enjoy the popcorn , light salt with extra butter.

    • http://www.moviesunlimited.com George D. Allen

      You are of course referring to "Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance"--which I am proud to remark I thoroughly enjoyed (in glorious 2-D, not converted 3-D) and would be willing to watch quite a few times more. As I reported to friends eager for a review, it is five-star trashola, disreputable in all the right ways -- and Cage is positively off the hook in a wickedly demented movie. A vast improvement over the lackluster original. And yes, I think Cage might be under contract with Satan. For pretty much every movie.

  • Gary Bowden

    Would never watch Batman and Robin again or Freddy Got Fingered and that was on tv..painful! Any Adam Sandler movie or Rob Schneider movie..White Chicks was awful,too..

    • Eric Larsen

      Actually Batman and Robin was not all that bad, with the exception of George Clooney who was so not able to separate his roles as Batman and Bruce Wayne, not only that his portrayal was so B acting it is not even funny. "Hello Freeze, I'm Batman" reigns as the most cheesy line ever concocted. The whole film was really a cross between the current overdone comic book feel of the film and the campy show of the sixties.

  • Frank Guerrasio

    Arthur Miller's "Everybody Wins" with Nick Nolte & Jessica Lange. I gave my friend his $7.00 back !!!

  • connie ferrell

    "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice" and "The Three Amigos" have to be 2 of the worst.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=623747357 Constance Ferrell

    "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice" was horrible, and "The Three Amigos" as well.

  • Ford Rafferty

    "The Separation," which is currently playing in theater & just won an OScar. Its plot is the kind I particularly detest: people do not act reasonably and rationally in order to keep the movie going. It's nothing but non-stop arguing from beginning to end. I don't want to see/hear that when I go to the films. And that makes "Carnage" a close runner-up to this one.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1427948866 Betty Romano

    The majority of movies I would never watch again, but topping the list might be "The Kids Are Okay"..I found the sex scenes so distateful and was surprised that a two fine actresses would stoop so low as they did in this one. Most that I wouldn't see again were just plain boring but I cannot abide foul language , overt sex scenes, or extremely violent films...doesn't leave many does it? Namely: The Kings Speech, The Help, August Rush, The Queen, Midnight in Paris...all wonderful, outstanding pictues...saw them all twice.

  • John

    Either Forrest Gump or Titanic. Both were the most overrated pieces of sentimental tripe I've ever seen. Absolutely terrible!

    • kerry

      completely agree with you on both movies, and i'd also add in "Ghost" was overrated too!

  • toni

    Braveheart, it was a great movie, but the ending was so distrubing I could NEVER do it again.

  • Jim Foster

    No thought required on this one. It's BORAT, hands down. My one word review: "Yuck!"

  • Nick

    Any of the Star War movies.... Star Trek movies..... the movie, "The Star" ..... pretty much anything with "Star" in the title!! Never will understand how people will stand in line to see these boring science fiction filled crap.... Tried to go see Star Wars when I was 14 yrs old and fell asleep after the first ten minutes....

  • David in CT

    "Conan the Barbarian" w/ Arnold Schwarzenegger. I saw it when it first came out and actually fell asleep in the theater.

  • Natasha

    Invention of Lying made me sick to the stomach

  • http://yahoo.com Kate

    I will never watch "The Misfits", it was Clark Gable's, last roll. He died shortly after the wrap of this movie. His death in my opinion was unnecessary and due primarily to Marilyn Monroe.

    He was not a man to sit around and just wait for her to show up on the set for work. Because of her not showing up when she was supposed to, Gable, did all the stunt work with the catching of the Wild Mustangs, it took a terrible toll on him and caused his heartache.

    I know this movie is an excellent movie but I can not bring myself to watch the movie from start to finish.

    Kate
    Salt Lake City, Ut.

  • Susan Johnston

    I completely agree with Movie Irv re: the Deer Hunter. Another movie I will never, ever watch again is Peckinpah's the Wild Bunch...a great cast but a virtual immersion in graphic, over the top violence beginning with the scorpion on the ant hill and escalating into a frenzy. It freaked me out and disgusted me, so I will never watch it again.

  • mike

    PULP FICTION....stupid, bloody and just plan back acting.........

    • kerry

      Pulp Fiction is one of those movies that is a cult classic, and you either love or hate it, there is not sort of like it with this movie. It is also one of those movies that you really need to watch two, three, or even four times to catch everything that is going on. It's a must atleast once in your life because it is one of those movies that at some point someone is going to reference and if you haven't seen it, you will be dangling in the dark not understanding what everyone is laughing about.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=846520385 Daisy Brambletoes

    There are very few movies I refuse to ever watch again, but those include "Pan's Labyrinth", "The Color Purple", and "The Bridge to Tarabitha". All three were incredibly depressing, and even more depressing was "Graveyard of the Fireflies", "When the Wind Blows", and "Sophie's Choice". I'll never watch any of these a second time. But the worst of them all still remains..."Old Yeller", the infamously depressing story of a brave dog who defends his humans from a wild animal attack only to be rewarded with rabies. I hated it as a kid and have hated it ever since, and the only condolence is that the owner shot his poor dog to save it from an even more hideous death.

  • kerry

    The movie I will not watch again is "8mm" with Nicholas Cage. The movie was disturbing, and opened my eyes to a type of lifestyle, I'd much rather have been ignorant to. While the movie did supply you with a good deal of suspence and who did it type of feel, it just was a bad subject matter. Yes movies, plays, books, etc are suppose to open you up to new things, that bring discussion, but I just can't see myself discussing this movie over coffee at the local coffee house.

  • Heather B

    Flowers in the Attic!

    I saw it when I was young and hated it! I gave it another shot about 7 years later.

    The Chocolate War

    Not even Bud Cort could save this turkey!!!

  • frank pienkosky

    you're kidding right?......"Brokeback mountain"....[it made me want to PUKE!]....totally vile bile....

    • maxfabien

      Yes, the scene showing Jack getting brutally murdered was pretty vile. I assume that's what you were referring to. Other than that, "Brokeback Mountain" is a tender, honest look at the pain and heartbreak of discrimination.

  • oldcus57

    the Giant Sider Invasion.Only watch this turd if your really drunk

  • Jean Noah

    Only one movie leaped to mind when I read this topic---The Piano! Hated it so much I told everyone I could not to bother with it. The nudity offended me and the darn thing made no sense whatsoever! Don't get me wrong, the acting was good and so was the music. I just HATE this movie! Nuff said.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001193317380 Chris Matthews

    Natural Born Killers. 'nuff said.
    I like experimental art cinema, but Stone dropped a big turd with that one. Just because yoyu put mescaline in a cow patty doesn't make it profound.

  • Shaxpar

    I have been waiting 15 years to express the full force of a full-throated BOO!!! at "Event Horizon" (1997), and at Sam Neil in particular. I had to use IMDB to find the name, so odious and malodorous is that cow pie on the path of glory walked by Grade F films.

  • Mark Lovejoy

    "Marley and Me"--my wife and I saw it a year or so ago. We've had dozens of pets. I fought not to cry when Marley was put down, and we both broke down soon after leaving the theater.

    "Scary Movie"--would be funny if you're watching it stoned!

    "Doll Graveyard"--the opening scene, where a young girl is punished by her cruel dad by being forced to dig a grave for her beloved dolls, she falls back in the hole when he's helping her out, possibly dying instantly, and the he buries her, disgusts me as a parent. I'd have to skip that scene on the DVD.

  • stevie

    ONE MOVIE I WILL NEVER WATCH AGAIN IS "PET SEMETARY".THIS MOVIE KILLED ANIMALS AND THE CHILDREN TOO.THAT'S JUSY WRONG!

  • Andy Geisel

    That's easy ... "Dumb & Dumber!" I'd watch "Plan 9 From Outer Space" again and again before watching that one again!

  • Debbie

    GONE WITH THE WIND. three hours of my life I will never get back. What a stupid ending.

    • SOPHIA DUNAWAY

      I cannot believe that no one has mentioned "Reds". What a self important, self inflated piece of crap. I walked at intermission and even then felt as though someone had hit me in the head and stole not only my money but one and a half hours of my time.

  • Will

    American Beauty. An Oscar winner that was nothing more than a sad comentary on society... It stunk!

  • CV66Seabear

    Tree of Life. Kept giving it time to get better - so we didn't walk out. Someone should have pulled the plug on this ridiculous "art" film.

  • Dave V.

    Here's my list of 'Never Going There Again Flicks'
    (Includes the name of the Directors of such atrocities)

    'Quintet'(1975) Robert Altman's excruciating Sci-Fi bore. I'm still mystified as to why the great Paul Newman decided to take part in this convoluted junk.

    'King Kong'(1976) Dino Delaurentis's 'Guy-in-a- monkey-suit' epic was the biggest joke of the decade. Poor Jeff Bridges,sadly misused.

    'The Spirit'(2008) Frank Miller's injustice to the memory of Will Eisner's comic book creation.

    'Moulin Rouge'(2001) Baz Luhrmann's overblown, confusing, messy 'musical'(Ha!) extravaganza.

    'The Money Train'(1995) Joseph Rubin's pointless 'buddy-buddy-action-comedy movie' is a train wreak.

    'Jaws IV'(1987) Joseph Sargent's sequel to the 'Jaws' franchise is laughably bad. Cited as one of the worst films of all time. Need I say more?

    'Shampoo'(1975) Hal Ashby's satire of sexual politics & social mores during Nixon's 1968 election is a colossal bore - and Warren Beatty's performance in the film proves he is generally a BIGGER bore on the big screen!

    'Nine'(2009) Rob Marshall's hideous musical version of the Fellini film '8 1/2'. Like 'Moulin Rouge', further proof that movie musicals 'ain't what they used to be...'

  • Eric Larsen

    One movie i will never watch again ever, and even if it were to come on in cable which BTW it already had is the Dukes Of Hazzard theatrical version. Having grown up watching the show, i saw many bad vibes in the film. The jerks who played Bo and Luke Duke were made out to be total dummies, the Daisy Duke character was so trailer park slut like in the worst way by none other than Jessica Simpson who has B actress written all over her. The guy who played Boss Hogg Burt Reynolds was all wrong, and the whole thing was just unbearable to watch period. I was not in the theater, but used a blockbuster gift card to rent it. I am so glad i did not pay money to watch that piece of work, but the only redeeming factor that made the film of any value was the automotive star of the show, the infamous General Lee aka 1969 Dodge Charger in all it's glory, and the stunts were pretty wild for the show.

  • Steve F

    I can't find a live link to it any more, but in the March, 1997 Spectator Magazine Frederick Forsyth (author of The Day of the Jackal) simply shreds The English Patient for its lack of authenticity. I was dragged to see it, and found it insufferably pretentious. Nothing that happened in the plot was not telegraphed at least half a reel in advance, and the actions and reactions of the central characters bore no resemblance whatever to the behavior of real human beings. I suggest watching "The Toy Patient" on Youtube. It boils things down to the basics, it's a lot shorter, and it's much, much funnier.

  • Lisa K

    The Philadelphia Experiment w/ Michael Pare', do I really need to say why, other than it was awful, and a waste of money from beginning to the point when I bought my ticket!

  • Pat

    Any film that has the title "Big Mama's" in it

  • Roger Phillips

    "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" lives up to the title by being cuckoo. It is total crap, terrible, awful and I can not think of enough negative things to say of this turkey that I (for some reason) sat through. It took place inside a nuthouse, had no redeeming charcaters, or story. I can not believe this trash won all kinds of oscars. This made me not want to automatically go to see oscar winners like some kind of sheep. The actress for best actress was really only a supporting role. Jack Nicholson played a total sleeze as he did in very single movie I saw of his

  • caronbc

    REQUIEM FOR A DREAM....
    I found this movie deeply disturbing and cold. When it finished I sobbed so heavily at the thought of their lives being so thoroughly and irreparably ruined.
    It wasn't like some movies where they have a great time and then go out in a blaze of glory; it was dark and depressing all the way.
    I've heard some say it's a great movie and I guess it was well done, because it achieved what it set out to do and it certainly made you think about it. But I personally, never want to think about it again.

  • Michael Schilke

    ISHTAR!!!!!!!!

  • Ellen

    I've got two of them. "The Godfather," and "American History X." Both of them ruined my sleep for days.

  • Bill

    Bad movies for me would have to be the Twilight movies. I feel that these movies were written by a 13 year old sexually frustrated girl. The dialogue was horrible. The acting put me to sleep. I would have walked out but my wife would not let me. She has sat through my bad movies. Payback are a *&$@.

  • mr.baggins

    how about Frank Zappas @200 Motels? huh?

  • Andy

    I'll never ever watch sideways again, I'd rather watch paint dry.

  • Edac

    Three movies I will never watch again are: "The Grapes of Wrath," "The Oxbow Incident," and "Tunes of Glory." I'm glad I saw them - but the emotional involvement was so great that I feel that I cannot watch them again.

  • Rick Minor

    There are too many really terrible movies out there that I have seen and would not ever want to watch again; that is a category that could fill an entire book. But, there are also some really well-crafted films that I can appreciate from an artistic standpoint but leave an impression or create a feeling that I do not wish to experience again. Several of the critically-praised grittily realistic "classics" of the late sixties and seventies fall into this second category. "Midnight Cowboy" and "Taxi Driver" are great films and major achievements, but I find them depressing and disturbing. I just don't need to dwell on these issues-it interferes with my ability to stay focused and upbeat.

  • William Arthur Grove

    Some got the question, and some chose to complain about this, that, or the other. Some were just stupid.

  • CACS

    'Black Hawk Down,' a movie I really enjoyed and thought was brilliantly made. Unfortunately, it was also so devastating to watch, I am not sure I could ever manage to watch it again.

  • Jackie

    I TRIED to tell everyone , but a stupid glitch in the site wouldn't let me. All time horrible movie and disturbing because of the baby that was slaughtered by Custer's men in this movie was " LITTLE BIG MAN" with Dustin Hoffman. I CANNOT imagine why he would star in such a movie. Being a Jewish man,did he not see the corrallation between Custer and Hitler? Custer was a vicious maniac as was Hitler.How could anyone with an ounce of intelligence find this movie entertaining? I don't care what kind of "Stud" Dustin's character was supposed to be. This movie was NOT funny!!

  • Doghousereilly1

    I will never watch "Conspiracy" again. The film with Kenneth Branagh and Stanley Tucci is the most horrifying movie I've ever seen. Need you ask why?

  • Psychoajr

    Pier Paolo Pasolini's "Salo, Or The 120 Days of Sodom."  Hailed by some as a masterwork, this exercise in graphic, sadomasochistic torture, mutilation and sexual humiliation set in World War II Italy, became the most disturbing cinema experience of my life.  So vivid, it becomes unwatachable.  You want to bathe after watching it. I hated myself for having finished the viewing and wished I could erase it from memory.  It's hard to imagine that the director is also responsible for making the most realistic looking film about Christ ever made. Pasolin''s "The Gospel According to St. Matthew" is far superior to Mel Gibson's "Passion of the Christ," another film I wished I had never seen. 

    • Jasonrfleming

      Salo is a very disturbing film but that is by design. I've seen it 3 times. The first on VHS and after watching it I put the tape back and tried to forget it and it was at least 10 years before I watched it again when the Criterion Collection released it. In the intervening years I had become a fan of Pasolini's other work and I believe him to be one of the major Italian filmmakers along with Antonioni, Visconti, Rossellini and Francesco Rosi. By using DeSade as source material and updating it to wartime Italy he shows the true horror of fascism. The 4 men embody the entire fascist state and the young victims embody the victims of that state. It's worth noting the actual town of Salo was the site of some of the worst atrocities in Mussolini's regime.

  • Doppleganger51

    basically  any  movie  made  by  will  Ferrel  he  takes  a really  good  movie  that  you  have  loved  and  does a remake  that  is  worse  than  trash  and  destroys  the movie  and  all  the good  it  represented   so  if  he  made  it  or  has in  part  in  it  i  know  in  advance  it  will  be  horrible  and  why  torture  yourself  and  others  by  watching  it  

  • Mjh71

    Psycho.  Although we never actually saw any blood & gore, the expert direction of Alfred Hitchcock had us all believing it.  Just too scary!   In second place:  Beyond the Valley of the Dolls  It was totally without any message other than "lets see how bizarre and gory we can make it" on the part of the directors.  I got up and walked out after about the first three-fourths of the show.

    • Jason

      1960 Psycho classic! if you said the remake with Anne Heche then I would agree with you the Remake was an Insult to Hitchcock!

  • Csnine

    Caligula, Mosquito Coast, Ace in the Hole. Kirk is great, character is worse than grating. Adam Sandler movies. He is a great comedian, but his movies are quite pathetic. There are many other movies not worth the time.

  • Rachel2348

    Psycho  - because of the terrible effect it had on my childhood - I saw it at 6 and was scared of the dark until I was in my 30s.

  • Chett56

    Night Of The Living Dead!  There are people out there who are not dead and they act like that. 

    • Cchuckles

      There are indeed, but the movie itself is a classic that I've watched three times and have it diarized for 2015.

  • http://www.facebook.com/1bluenote ElizaBeth Marshall-Smith

    The Passion of the Christ. As a Social Christian, I think it's too hard to watch. I'm sure Gibson ment well, but it dwells far too much on the darkness of the event, making Jesus seem like some kind of "victim" of circumstance, which is touching and sympathetic, but inacurate. Jesus Christ did what he, himself planned to do: die on the cross and rise again, paying a price for me I could'nt pay for myself. That's pretty UP-beat.       

  • Parkerr71

    recently.....war horse.....pretty lame by speilberg standards.

  • Luvlinda

    Salo! The worst POS ever made by man! I wanted to burn the DVD to hell! God Awful! Stay away from that movie!

  • victor0630

    The Passion Of The Christ. Very hard to watch the first time.

  • Paige

    The Passion of The Christ and The boy in The Stripped Pajamas. Both were very hard for me to watch.

  • Bobby Laguardia

    star wars THEY BORE ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Flimfilmman

    The Wild, Wild West.  First they cast the character Agent Jim West as a black man, then they turn his partner into a drag queen, add a GIANT metal spider per the producer's request, and then proceed to bore the audience with an unimagintive, boring mess which bears no resemblence to the excellent Robert Conrad/Ross Martin tv series.  If you're going to turn a tv series into a motion picture, have some respect for the original material a la Mission: Impossible, Star Trek, and Maverick.

    • Cadesgrams

       I remember watching this show when I was younger. It had a mystery mixed with a little scifi. The remake movie made it a childs fantasy that should of been a cartoon in my mind. The original wins hands down.

    • Cadesgrams

       I will have to say that I liked the Star Trek movie with Chris Pine. It stuck to original characters better and even gave answers to questions like "Why did Kirk call the doc Bones?". It updated it with cool special effects but didn't take away from movie itself. In other words the movie wasn't just about special effects you were still interested in the characters and plot.

    • Jason

      Agreed I like Will Smith but that film was an absolute disaster! one of my top 50 TURKEYS!

  • Doppleganger51

    any  picture  with  will  ferell  in  it  he  took  some  favorite  childhood  shows  and  made a remake  and totally  ruined them he  is  in my  mind  the worst actor/producer /director  ever to disgrace a movie  ever now  as  far  as others  the Birds  by  alfred  hitchcock   once  was enough 

    • Cadesgrams

       Amen! The remakes are made stupid and talentless

      • jason

        Agreed Can't knock originals.

  • Cadesgrams

    Gone with the Wind. Not because I hated it because what I felt during this movie I just want to savor. I hated the ending but it was an ending that made you think and feel. I just don't want to lose the first time feelings. I truly enjoyed the cinematography in it. It was awesome for that time!

  • mcleanne

    "Far and Away" with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman.  Probably the stupidest ever made.  Washing a lace tablecloth by hand in the Oklahoma dust bowl???!!!  When did she use it that it had to be washed?...Both characters should have been drowned at birth.

  • spirit

    "Scarface" with Al Pacino.  Tooooooo much violence and profanity, etc.
     

  • Steve in Sacramento

    Thanks Irv for an interesting pick (and for an interesting reason).

    Me, I'd have to go with "Christmas With the Kranks."  Not that I was expecting much - but I absolutely loathed that movie.  Unless I was reading it wrong (I guess it COULD have been playing with irony), it seemed to be suggesting that we all REALLY SHOULD conform to our fascist (for lack of a better word) neighbors.  Is that the message of Christmas?  Or a worthy message at any time?

  • Victoriaeasterday

    Born on the Fourth of July. It broke my heart and I found myself crying for weeks afterward. This was Tom Cruises only shot as a serious actor and he deserved the Oscar for it.

    • GYSGTOFMARINESRET

      Save Your tears Lady, Ron Kovic got what was coming to him, and On One knows that better then Kovic.  He said he joined the Marines to become a hero, but he couldn't hack it. Kovic was all about Kovic. Another poor Vietnam Vet who returned to the United States and was Spat upon by everyone, BS!!!!! Here's something you need to ask yourself when someone tell's you he was spat on when he returned from Vietnam.  What did All those Poor Vietnam Vet's Do when they were Spat upon??? Well, they don't know the anwser either, because in the Movie that made that line up, No one asked Rambo what he did when someone Spat on him!!!! One More Time...IT'S B.S.!!!!!  Signed: A Marine Vietnam Vet (0311)  

      • GeorgeDAllen

        Nobody needed to ask John Rambo, of course, because the fictitious 'Nam vet told his own story in "First Blood" -- "It wasn't my war. You asked me, I didn't ask you. And I did what I had to do to win. But somebody wouldn't let us win. Then I come back to the world and I see all those maggots at the airport. Protesting me. Spitting. Calling me baby killer. ... Who are they to protest me? Huh?"

        I think we can safely assume from this passage of dialogue (and from the setup of the storyline) that, being the (once?) stoic kinda guy he is, Rambo took the spit like a man and didn't respond to the indignity by assaulting the "maggot" in return--instead allowing his anger to boil inside until he finally couldn't take it anymore. This 2000 piece on Slate has a decent account of the spitting-on-vets controversies: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/press_box/2000/05/drooling_on_the_vietnam_vets.single.html

        What was most interesting to me there is the passage at the end of the article, which remarks that inasmuch as the spitting incidents might (or might not) be fabricated, people tend to take vets at their word for fear of being seen as demonstrating disrespect. Which, in a way, is what I guess you are also asking folks to do.

  • Debbiepardo

    Sophie's Choice, it's way to depressing.

    • Linda Loveridge

      I agree with you.  The story didn't make a whole of sense

  • John Vandelden

    Most of today's movies are not very good. The only good movie of late is War Horse. So in response I won't watch any more blowing up this or that and any movies with cartoon characters which eliminates 99% of the new breed.

  • Katherineferg

    The first film that comes to mind is "Moulin Rouge" (Nicole Kidman).  It was tedious and painful to watch.  All the reasons that some people like it are the reasons I hate it and will never watch it again (extreme closeups, unlikable characters, bad singing, the use of classic pop songs instead of original music).  I loved "Strictly Ballroom" but not this Baz Luhrmann debacle.

  • BobW

    I think Movie Irv's take on this is dead on:  I can think of scores--hundreds perhaps--of movies that I would not see again by virtue of their total badness.  But one that creates a mood that first time that the viewer believes can never be replicated, and then having the force of will to stay away from it, that's pretty powerful and shows more will power than I think I have.

  • Joekocimski

    I am a movie freak - watched thousands of movies and own thousands.  I am also an easy please but I did walk out of one movie in my life (I'm 69) and that was the Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy.

  • Orvis1

    intersection

  • jerry j.

    An early 1950s movie with Phil Silvers called Top Banana.  I guess a filmed Broadway play about a Milton Berle-type early TV star, but so confusing as to what is going on onscreen that it's unwatchable more than once. 

  • Rchowe

    BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS.

  • Springfieldjanet

    I saw a movie a long time ago and actually all I remember is that I don't ever want to see it again because it was too violent - the original Straw Dogs.

  • Vann Morrison

    "Billy Jack"   I saw the movie when I was in grade school at the drive in. I was enamored by Tom laughlin because he was a "Green Beret" in the movie. Later in life I became one and I saw the movie again as an adult. What a bunch of Drivel! The whole plot of the movie; hug trees and bunnies, protest the government and adhere to my leftist beliefs or I'll smash your face in. I don't care how much of a bad ass you think you are. Left wing or right wing. Not everyone is going to be afraid of you. Had it been my movie, it would have ended after 15 minutes with a close up of Billy Jack's bullet riddled body.
    The same goes for Steven Segal and his movies.

  • Mcpulp

    "Beloved" Both my wife and I agree we will NEVER watch that movie again. Pitiful had to turn it off after 40 minutes into it. Sorry Oprah. this was pure rubbish!

  • Bobby Donat

    "The Black Swan"  God awful!

  • Shadow0109

    "Million Dollar Baby" I was so depressed at Hilary Swank's character's fate that nothing that happened afterwards made up for it.

  • Gil

    "The Last House on the Left"....saw this movie in 1972, as I had gotta married, and we went to the show for this stinker.....it was gross, disgusting and absolutely the worst movie by far that I have seen. I believe there was a remake of this movie a few years ago....and "NO" I did not go see it....Could this movie been made better....probably not, actually I do not quite remember the subject matter...something to do what a gang of sadists....perhaps, modeled from Charles Manson and his crew.... 

  • http://awesomesauciness.wordpress.com/ awesomesauciness

    "Simpatico" with Sharon Stone and some other people...awful, awful, horribadterriawful movie.

  • Cchuckles

    Any movie with Tom Cruise. Exception: when Nicole Kidman is the co-star, thereby saving the movie. (e.g. Eyes Wide Shut)

  • Winterwood

    1.)  The Bank Job (Movie from England where I could not understand a single word being said.  Left after 10 minutes.  2). Pirates of the Carabbean - the episode with the Spanish actress.  One of the worst performances by J. Depp EVER - I demanded my money back.

  • Winterwood

    The latest Martin S. directed movie of the orphan kid who lives in a Paris train station.  I think it's called "The Illusionist"?   Went with the family but at any moment wanted to run out screaming.  Stupidest thing I've ever seen and even more shocking that it was directed by Martin S.  Ugh!

  • Burt

    Bambi it broke my heart as a kid and wanted to cry so bad at the theatre but wouldn't

  • Barry

    If I see a movie I hate, but everyone else loves it, I usually try to watch it again. Maybe I wasn't ready to see it. Watchmen is one of those films I hope never to see again. The English Patient I tried to watch on more than one occasion but it's, for me, unwatchable. I also include A Beautiful Mind and American Beauty in any list of films I hope never to see again.

  • Gen1777

    It's a Wonderful Life.  Everybody but me loves this movie, but it was the most depressing thing I have ever seen.  It was almost bad enough to make me consider suicide!

  • Rosie_gibson

    the thing

  • Bill

    I hated Mr anmd Mrs. Smith (Brad Pit and Angalina) so much that I got up and left. My wife stayed.
    The other "film" I hated from the get go was Pulp Fction.
    there is no reason to make a movie as bad as these. No real plot, only killing for the heck of it. 

  • Couttsclan

    "Sophie's Choice" was so upsetting that I just could bare to see what her horrendous choice was again, very strong impact.

    • Pandro42

      That was one really upsetting, gloomy, and depressing movie.  No, I don't want to ever see that one again, either.

  • lastrow

    I had seen Legally Blonde, which was okay.  However, when watching Legally Blonde 2, I wanted to live the theater.  Unfortunately, I was on a airplane at 35,000 feet and had to fight the urge to leave.
    It wasn't the worst movie I ever saw, but close.  I had to turn off the sound and try to sleep through it.

  • Sanezane

    Pulp Fiction

  • Patriciamcnamara

    I don't think that I could ever see the movie Saving Private Ryan again even though it was a great movie.  That D Day scene at the beginning was so realistic that you just about feel like you are there.  I was just about to shut my eyes because I couldn't watch it anymore when the scene ended.

  • Ron

    Amadeus--  to this day, I still don't know why I sat there and watched that 3+hr movie---geee

  • Edyalice

    Bambi  really upset me.  I can't stand to see animals hurt or killed.

  • Netherlandj

    THIS CONTAINS SPOILERS: Dynamite with Charles Bickford.  Watched the entire movie, unfortunately.  He was a miner, his wife leaves him for another man.  End of the film, he, wife and boyfriend get stuck in a mine.  Boyfriend (Conrad Nagel) wants to light a cigarette (for which you need matches), but Charles won't let him.  Charles decides to blow a hole in the wall with dynamite by hitting it with a sledge hammer to get them out of there, and of course he'll be killed, but the other two will survive.  He tells Conrad to take wife further into tunnel so they'll be okay.  Conrad wants to toss a coin to see who does it, Charles wins.  Conrad takes wife aside, asks her who she loves, she whispers answer, and he goes back to Charles and tells him that she loves him (Conrad) and wants to say goodbye to Charles.  Charles reluctantly goes to say goodbye, and when he leaves, Conrad hits the sledgehammer, is blown up, and Charles and wife live.  She tells Charles she told Conrad that she loved him (husband).  What ticked me off:  If Conrad wanted to light a cigarette, THEY OBVIOUSLY HAD MATCHES.  WHY DIDN'T THEY USE THAT TO LIGHT THE DYNAMITE AND EVERYONE LIVES?????  Stupid ending!!  I guess I was supposed to forget that scene, even though it was in the LAST FIVE MINUTES of the film!!  I'll never watch it again (sorry about the spoiler, folks, but the ending didn't make sense).  

  • Kevin

    The Keanu Reeves remake of "The Day The Earth Stood Still", because it is abysmal crap.  To use the name of the classic original is  unforgivable.

  • Pribe55049

    "The Deer Hunter" was a very powerful movie.

  • Andy Hasselbach

    Movies I hate, hate, hate: "St. Elmo's Fire," "Billy Jack," "Dirty Dancing," "Tea and Sympathy."

  • sue’s reviews

    There Will Be Blood.....I know it's an Oscar Winner but I will never watch it again and even regret watching it at all, nothing redeeming in any of the characters, completely lacking in any signs of compassion or even momentary happiness.  Awful!

  • Meadia55

    Anything with Will Ferrell or Jennifer Lopez. How either of these dimwits get an acting job is beyond me.

    • Doppleganger51

       Hi  Media55  I  would  have  to  agree  with  you about  will  ferell  he  is  the  worst actor /director/producer  in history I would  not  watch anything  he has  done  even  if  paid  to  do  so   on  the other hand  I  do  like  Jennifer  lopez

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QKHWDZMMHNSENGXPRNBOEKKBY4 SabraJ

    Norbit - Eddie Murphy, walked out
    Pooty Tang - walked out, do you really need to ask.

  • Teddysmith22017

    The Flinstone the movie. Left after 10 minutes

  • Doppleganger51

    absolutely anything  with    will  ferell in it  he can  take  a  excellent  show  and  do  a  remake  of  it  that  is  so  bad  it  would  gag  a maggot he  is  the  worst  actor /director  /producer  in  the history  of the buisness   I  would  not  see  any  thing  he  does  even  if  paid  to  do  so  

  • Moochie22

    BioDome and KungFu Panda.  Walkked out of both!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Wallyz79

    Moby Dick, from 2010. Stars Barry Bostwick as capt Ahab.  I rented this because it also stars Renee O'Connor, I loved her from the Xena tv series, but even she couldn't save this pathetic film. Worst c.g. I've ever seen, utterly ridiculous!!!

  • Lenny

    I Heart U

  • Pandro42

    I will never again watch either Pan's Labyrinth or Bridge to Terabithia..The ads and trailers made them look like interesting fantasy films, but when I watched them they were very depressing.  So, never again.  Also, an old western movie called The Last Hunt.  I saw that one as a kid and it upset me so bad that I couldn't sleep for days. I avoid it when it pops up on TV and will watch anything else.

  • jerry j.

    One I started to watch on cable once but could not finish was It Started In Naples, with Gable and Sophia Loren. Sophia looked great, but Gable was showing how sick he was and he was fat and his face was so puffy it was an ordeal to watch him onscreen. 

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