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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Seeing both an Ideal Husband and Whale Rider were both tainted by talky people who talked. Seeing Titanic was pretty grim.

I probably ruined a few movies myself going with my friend, the Loud Inappropriate Laugher. There were times when I laughed with her, but there were times when she was too much, even for me.

Oh I forgot Crash (the Cronenberg one). I went with a friend who I was going through a bit of a rough patch with. I could feel both our moods sinking lower and lower as the movie got worse.

I've seen Grindhouse, Battlefield Earth, and Catwoman. I wish I could unsee all of them.

So what are your least favorite movie viewing experience ever?

The only time I ever walked out on a movie was a college midnight showing of Sid and Nancy, which I was talked into seeing with my friend and her boyfriend. I was already tired, there were obnoxious drunk party boys in the audience whooping it up, the print was lit really dimly, and I hated everyone I saw on the screen. Finally, after about 20-30 minutes of sheer detestation for the film and everyone in the theatre other than me and my friend, I leaned over to her and told her I had to leave. It was one of her favorite movies, so she didn't get my loathing of the film.

The only other time I ever wanted to walk out of a film was the really bad film about Kellog and the Battle Creek sanitarium whose title escapes me at the moment. I apologized to my mom for taking her.