If you could request a 1-time refund for any movie you watched in theaters, what stinker would it be? (Robin Williams, The Shawshank Redemption)

[LauraC]

One of these:

!. The Contender
2. Mission Impossible 2
3. Spanglish
4. Paycheck

[bus man]

Originally Posted by dizzybint

have to agree here too.... some overhyped films are a sad disappointment. I must be sad but Ive never watched any of the Star Wars films.. saw wee bits of one but not my thing, or maybe I didnt give them a chance..

My late father was never a sci-fi fan and didn't see any of the Star Wars movies. But when they did the re-release in the late 90s, and the original one ("A New Hope") played at this grand old movie palace that I knew would take him back to the theaters of his day, I managed to talk him into seeing it. And guess what? He really enjoyed it!

[CA4Now]

Originally Posted by LexusNexus

Wall E

No! (I saw it on video YEARS after it came out and loved it.)

[CA4Now]

Originally Posted by WorldKlas

I so hated Clockwork Orange; had to wait in the lobby while my ex finished (and enjoyed) watching it. Yes, I am old!

I must be your age. One of my college roommates became so upset while watching it that she left the theater and also waited in the lobby. Today I don't think I could handle that kind of violence on film.

[Katzpur]

The Big Blue

[RogueMom]

The Blair Witch Project. Thankfully, it was at the drive-in and just part of a double feature, but geesh, what a joke.

[TerraDown]

I'll jump in on The Blair witch project too. Stupid, just plain stupid movie.

[cachibatches]

STAR WARS, EPISODE 1

1. Boring as hell...
2. an annoyingly faux cute kid as Anakin Skywalker (should have been Haley Joel Osmunt. Has George Lucas never heard of foreshadowing?).
3. a bizarre pedophilia vibe from a much older Amadalia...
4. Samuel Jackson tragically miscast as a mother Fu------ Jedi Knight...
5. Jedi's who say quite uninspiring things like "I didn't come here to free slaves (how hard would it have been to turn the writing around so that Obi Wan wants to stick to the mission and Qui Gon, the older, wiser Jedi says something inspiring like: "There is always time to right injustice!"
6. Boring as hell (yeah, I know I already said it, but it is worth saying twice)...
7. An endlessly long Ben Hur rip off scene no one wanted
8. All kinds of crappy nods to contemporary politics and George Lucas' personal value system
9. The force is a bacteria
10. Non violence in a violent movie- the main battle is between robots and frogs! Who the hell cares?
11. Anakin is Jesus Christ or something
12. JAR JAR BINKS: Half frog, half rasta man, all crap!

Originally Posted by kanhawk

Escape from LA. I thought it was going to be as good as Escape From NY and it was awful. Walked out halfway through.

I honestly felt betrayed by John Carpenter. His hardcore fans supported him for years after he had lost his touch. Did he really have to make a mockery of one of our favorites?

Originally Posted by WorldKlas

I so hated Clockwork Orange; had to wait in the lobby while my ex finished (and enjoyed) watching it.

Yes, I am old!

Agree on Transformers and Blair Witch, too!

A Clockwork Orange is a tough one to watch because of the extreme, in-your-face sexual violence. The book was not so sex obsessed. It would have helped if Kubrick would have bothered to explain what "A Clockwork Orange" meant in the context of the movie, but I guess a little thing like a theme was just not important to him.

Originally Posted by Stagemomma

I don't remember the title, it came out in 96 or 97. Steven Seagal on an oil rig. Terrible movie. We were pregnant, it was winter, and we were desperate to get out of the house. My husband enjoys the martial arts so I sat through it.

You had me at Steven Seagal.

Originally Posted by rogead

Borat!

I sincerely hope Sascha Baron Cohen dies. An awful, despicable man who hurts people and uses racsim, and thinks that we are suppossed to laugh at it. I will laugh the day someone punche shim in the face or worse.

Originally Posted by LauraC

One of these:

!. The Contender
2. Mission Impossible 2
3. Spanglish
4. Paycheck

Spanglish was the most bizarre film I have ever seen. It almsot depicted a liberal fantasy world in which illegal immigration is celebrated, women dominate men, and men are not interested in sex. To this day, I have no idea what screwy chromosomes were inside the writer of this one.

[Lost Roses]

Lord of the Rings. Fell asleep early on.

Loved Howard's End and The English Patient.

[azoria]

Forrest Gump.

In fact I did walk out. I was staggered later on when it won an academy award for Best Picture. Egad.