For completely taking a former franchise that was loved by fans, and you really had to work very hard to fuck up because all you had to do was stick with the premise of the orginal and run with it (even if you'd previously casted Winona Ryder), Aliens vs Predator (especially the Requiem sequel) really takes the biscuit.

For completely taking a former franchise that was loved by fans, and you really had to work very hard to fuck up because all you had to do was stick with the premise of the orginal and run with it (even if you'd previously casted Danny Glover), Aliens vs Predator (especially the Requiem sequel) really takes the biscuit.

1. In The Cut (Parkinson was right. It was shit. Likewise Body Of Evidence).
2. The Phantom Menace
3. Showgirls (but brilliant at the same time).
4. Swordfish ( despite the utterly necessary (to the plot Halle Berry's tits scene)).
5. Valentine ( if only for the DVD extra when David Boreanez talks about the director listening to the ideas of the cast as if they're remaking 'Citizen Kane')

Anything directed by M. Night Shyamalan.

I Heart Huckabees was shit. Totally meaningless. Awful, awful film.
The Ring 2.
Jaws the Revenge, as Guy said, is a stinker. Though I still own it.

Okay, these could change but . . .

Green Street
Ace Ventura II: When Nature Calls
Mr Magoo
Lost In Translation
The first Bridget Jones movie
Escape From LA (Whatever the fuck the second one was)
Kenneth Branagh's Frankenstein
The Man About The House movie
(I'm really crawling through the sewers of my memory here)

I forgot Green Street. It'e beyond shit. It's a whole new word that hasn't been penned yet.

Pretty much any Eddie Murphy film of the past decade.

Any film of the past five years about tennis.

Any film with one of the cast members from Friends in it with possibly one exception, though I can't think of it. Scream, maybe.

wingco wrote:

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Okay, these could change but . . .

Green Street
Ace Ventura II: When Nature Calls
Mr Magoo
Lost In Translation
The first Bridget Jones movie
Escape From LA (Whatever the fuck the second one was)
Kenneth Branagh's Frankenstein
The Man About The House movie
(I'm really crawling through the sewers of my memory here)

Arguing against Wingco is like throwing yourself against a threshing machine. However, I have to say that I liked 'Lost In Translation'. It's the same deal as 'Before Sunrise' - the idea of romance out of nothing. We're loathe to let it go, but...

Someone tell me - am I alone in liking 'Paris, Texas'? I've never cried over a film like I cried over the denouement/ending of that one. And that includes 'Ballad of a Soldier'.

hobbes wrote:

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You are so odd sometimes, Lyra.

Pearl Harbour. A film so bad I had to take it out of the DVD player and throw it out the window after an hour. I wouldn't have even used it as an coaster lest it made my drinks taste of ham.
Then it's the only film I've ever walked out of the cinema for.

Agreed - we got our first DVD player and did not own any DVDs - someone lent us Pearl Harbor which I knew would be shit, but could in no way possible watch it for more than the first 30 minutes. Couldn't chuck it out the window, but it did not further soil the laser.

EIM wrote:

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Any film with one of the cast members from Friends in it with possibly one exception, though I can't think of it. Scream, maybe.

Decent Jennifer Aniston movies:
The Iron Giant (voice)
Office Space
The Good Girl

Office Space, that can be the one exception.

I don't count voice roles, and I aint seen The Good Girl.

The Avengers
Indiana Jones and the incredibly stupid script (#4)
Howard the Duck
The Ladykillers (remake)
Sweet Home Alabama
Matrix: Regurgitations
Armageddon

I feel like I'm forgetting one that I usually remember... maybe I've finally blocked it out?

Nope...

The Unforgiven - Audrey Hepburn, Burt Lancaster, dir. John Huston

complete shit.

Top Gun
1941
Star Wars
Dune
City Heat

That new Guy Ritchie one's shaping up to take the title, judging by the trailor. His dialogue reminds me of that story by the seven year old that Bored(?) posted here, where Busta Rhymes says "No, you bad man!" to Notorious B.I.G., stabs him and then has a hot chocolate. Except Ritchie'd have Pete Doherty in there too, only a mildly homophobic Pete Doherty with a gun and stuff.