She just... she just did the math.

Kaylee ,'Objects In Space'


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Tom Scola - Nov 28, 2009 8:39:19 am PST #5166 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Pearl Harbor was pretty awful.


Laga - Nov 28, 2009 8:42:54 am PST #5167 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

Catwoman was a disaster but Halle Berry and Benjamin Bratt were very nice to look at the whole time.

I loved Grindhouse, saw it 2 1/2 times in the theatre and we own both films ( Death Proof is mine, D owns Planet Terror )

I'm not sure why I saw Town & Country. I might have been waiting for a ride. It was forgettable.

I've seen Gigli on cable. I can't figure out how it was ever released. It's just horrible on every level, from the script to the editing with plenty of terrible acting in between.

I just watched Land of the Lost. I laughed. I thought the writer was going for Kevin Smith style humor but ended up with Beavis & Butthead.


erikaj - Nov 28, 2009 8:44:23 am PST #5168 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!

The first X-Files movie.ETA: That wasn't only awful cause I was disappointed; I talked my family into going and afterward they busted my chops. "Hey, I didn't write it," I said. Though if I had, I suppose I'd deserve a gig at Del Taco.


§ ita § - Nov 28, 2009 8:48:47 am PST #5169 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Are you an X Files TV fan, erika? I can't imagine many non-Philes liking the movie.


Polter-Cow - Nov 28, 2009 8:49:21 am PST #5170 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

So what are your least favorite movie viewing experience ever?

Phrased like that, I immediately think of Gothika. Not only was the movie bad, but the audience was extremely annoying and irritating with their reactions.

The Thin Red Line bored the crap out of me. There are various other movies I've thought were bad, like The Haunted Mansion, Men in Black II, Big Momma's House, and...I know there are others. But sometimes the viewing experiences are okay anyway.

The first X-Files movie.

I really liked the first one, but the second one was bad and pointless.


Scrappy - Nov 28, 2009 8:51:24 am PST #5171 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Bad Boys II-lacked the charm of the first one and we sat behind a woman who'd brought a little kid--NOT the place for a five-year-old.


erikaj - Nov 28, 2009 8:51:24 am PST #5172 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!

I was, but more casually than some people here. I was hoping to introduce the fam to the show, I think. It didn't work...the ride home was like a referendum on my taste. Not fun.


§ ita § - Nov 28, 2009 8:59:50 am PST #5173 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Yeah, the X Files movie would be a lousy entré to the franchise. It was very mythology bound and didn't take that much advantage of the big screen.

I kinda enjoyed Bad Boys II because the action pieces were fun. And Will Smith was still hot. But it was nowhere near the ride of the original.


bon bon - Nov 28, 2009 10:00:17 am PST #5174 of 30000
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

So what are your least favorite movie viewing experience ever?

This just happened to me -- maybe not the least favorite, but least favorite in memory. Bob, MiL and I went to A Serious Man. I'm not saying it's a terrible movie, but it's, you know, the story of Job with obnoxious people. Another Coen Bros movie with more formalist exactitude than living characters. No fun. UNLESS you are the group of middle-aged white men in the back of the theatre who brayed loudly at every scene. Apparently when you see things that happened in your childhood on screen, it never stops being hilarious. They were the most obnoxious moviegoers in my memory.


Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 28, 2009 10:10:17 am PST #5175 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

here's a question: how many of those top 10 movies have y'all seen?

I saw Grindhouse at an honest-to-God drive-in, tuning my car radio to the proper station to get audio. It was great!

I walked out of Sunshine (hated the lengthy spacewalk scenes that managed to be both claustrophobic and agoraphobic) and Out Cold (I could tell how awful it was before the opening credits finished, and cut my losses). But of the movies I've stayed and watched, Stigmata and The Cider House Rules were the least entertaining.