Terrible Films You Have Nonetheless Seen More Than Once

St Elmo's Fire

"Gray Lady Down"

every dance movie ever.

Deep Impact

Mission: Impossible 2

A Cinderella Story

I can't think of the name of it now, but that one with Mick Jagger as a futuristic bounty hunter employed by Anthony Hopkins trying to sieze control of Emilio Estevez' body. Flashsomething, I think.

Anchorman - I know I'm on my own here. People keep forcing me to watch it. I'll never like it, however many times they sit me in front of it. It makes me feel really sick and ill. Last time I walked out of the room. If I watch Anchorman again I'll be straped down with my eyes held open like Alex in A Clockwork Orange.

Anchorman is a terrible film.

Oilyrags that's Freejack no?

MAN OF THE HOUSE STARRING CHEVY CHASE

anyone who was a regular customer of the nyc > boston peter pan bus around the turn of the millennium can sympathize w/me im sure.

Terrible isn't going far enough. Anchorman is the Abu Graib of comedy.

Blueski, I believe you are correct.

anchorman is kinda played out but so is 'citizen kane'.

in 2002 the 1st day i had a digital camera i took a picture of mick jagger as freejack

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Passion Fish. "I didn't ask for the anal probe".

Just think - in 2012 or so we'll be treated to the 20th Anniversary edition Bluray DVD.

I have a horrendous idea that I may have seen "Beverly Hills Cop 2" multiple times, too.

I've seen "Red Heat" starring Arnie a couple of times... "COCAAAAAINNNNE!!!"

but I thought "Passion Fish" was meant to be a good film...

it was, and is one.

The Silence. It does get funnier every time.

The Awful Truth

haha. Eric's still taking Screwball 101.

Hackers
Gen X Cops
Pretty Woman
The Long Kiss Goodnight

Eric unhappy til I give him earful of whatfor (be careful, I still hv yr phone #)

Why would you watch a terrible film a second time? STONED?

Well, no, y'see it's because I only like terrible movies....

it happens to be on TV or whatever, i dunno.

A date insisted. She had a thing about Emilio. The first time, I snuck in to catch a freebie after watching something else, I forget what, but it was probably pretty mediocre since I felt I was owed more than I got. Oh well, I think it was one of those 'go to the movies to enjoy the air conditioning' things.

Skidoo

what's the film starring John Travolta and Christian Slater? I saw it TWICE on opening weekend, with two different groups of people. Sober.

I have no idea if Passion Fish is a "great" film in the view of critics or the general public or whatever. I do know that I watched it three times because I was working for my university's film series at the "box office" (read: desk in the room where the movie played). I worked three of those shifts. I think being 18 years old I wasn't the intended audience. But to me it was terrible.

Alfred, Broken Arrow was a decent film. Not one I'd see twice in one decade, but... (and John Woo has done worse since)

It's pretty terrible, but it's not dull.

"The Color of Night" and other boob-intensive movies

I'm soon forced to see Kids for the second time, because it's a part of a "Gender in Teen Films" course I'm on. Oh well, at least I should have a good time afterwards telling everyone in class why it sucks so much.

When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
Pretty Woman (1990)
Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
Michael (1996)
You've Got Mail (1998)
Notting Hill (1999)

all of them, every christmas

When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
You've Got Mail (1998)
Notting Hill (1999)

I fail to see the terribleness of these, unless you just hate romantic comedies in general.

your christmases must suck

it's a part of a "Gender in Teen Films" course I'm on.
it's a part of a "Gender in Teen Films" course I'm on.
it's a part of a "Gender in Teen Films" course I'm on.

Black Hawk Down

Yes, I know what I wrote.
Yes, I know what I wrote.
Yes, I know what I wrote.

your christmases must suck

oh, you get used to it.

when harry met sally is great

Armageddon, once with dumb friends, once with visiting group of japanese students during a tech comm seminar. Horrible.

Also, i liked Freejack.

cliffhanger
kicking and screaming
disturbia

I fail to see the terribleness of these, unless you just hate romantic comedies in general.

As a feminist/intellectual I really urge you to set high standards when criticizing films. Not in a ILoveMovies-assholie kinda way (well...) but still... Then again I mean there are terrible teen movies I know I should think of as crap but there's lots of nostalgia tied to it.

there's this deadly serious 80's film called COMING OUT OF THE ICE about some bloke in prison who's a runner which was the totally at-random default rainy-day/teacher-off-sick video at my school. it must have been sent to the place by mistake once and seriously we were made to see it 5 or 6 times and never all the way to the end. once i'm sure it was wheeled out twice in a day for two seperate classes. i still haven't got a clue what it's about.

one summer i saw Shallow Hal so many times that i now genuinely love it.

St. Elmo's Fire is not a terrible film.

i'll watch a terrible film multiple times if there is something about it that interests me

default rainy-day/teacher-off-sick video at my school.

Now that is a subject in itself. At school we saw the 1974 film version of "All Creatures Great And Small" three times, "Batteries Not Included" twice, and that Swiss film where some kid is shunned by everyone in his village because his younger brother falls down a ravine and breaks his leg. And the only person who will talk to him is some weird guy who carves little wooden figures. Never did figure out what the hell that was all about - we were shown that four or five times but never got to see all of it. And also "Ring of Bright Water" and "Swiss Family Robinson" - always seemed to run out of time just when they got to the bit with the pirates.

four weddings - which i had to use as a case study for a-level media. fucking hell.

Eric's still taking Screwball 101.

Well, I'm sure not in Screwball lol

CANNED HEAT IN MY HEELS TONIGHT!
Holy shit, I always heard this as "candy in my heels tonight". Goddammit. (I voted: "I rarely curse" in that thread)

There are shockingly many terrible movies I've seen multiple times.
Let's just take whatever appears in my head:
-Spies like us
-Fist of the North Star (the anime, that is)
-Fortress ("A Prison of the Future. A High-Tech Hell. Built to Hold Anything... Except an Innocent Man.")
-Notting Hill (I, however, /love/ When Harry Met Sally. So there we are)
-Porky's (One of my jr high friends loved this shit. Of course, the same friend also loved "Saved By The Bell")

Shooter

Thoroughly Modern Millie.

"Ring of Bright Water"

I hope you're not including this in terrible films it's great except for the HEARTBREAKING and truly TERRIBLE ending which no child should be forced to watch on a rainy day. Your teacher was cruel.

Ha ha, Micky Blue Eyes for me too!

Men in White. I don't know how I managed to see it once let alone twice.

I hope you're not including this in terrible films it's great except for the HEARTBREAKING and truly TERRIBLE ending which no child should be forced to watch on a rainy day. Your teacher was cruel.

One of the hallmarks of watching movies at school is that usually there's not enough time to show the whole film. So I've never seen the ending although I know what happens. Cruel? More like lazy - they showed a film when they couldn't be bothered to teach, which looking back was quite often.
One film I did manage to see all the way through at school was Polanski's version of Macbeth. Now that is a fucked up movie to show 14 year old kids.
Throughout this whole thread everyone's been using "film" but I suspect that most of these were watched on the usual school TV-with-video-in-an-armoured-box trolley combo. How many people here were shown films on an actual reel to reel projector? When I was at middle school there was a guy called Mr. Ross who would visit and show films using one of the school's crappy 8mm projectors. Mostly all the same "Anglia Films" stuff.

i have seen 'sliding doors' at least three times.

I saw Polanski's Macbeth in high school as well! Gotta love the guy who takes an arrow to the head.

wait a sec, I heard Shooter was a subversive critique of Bush! must be good!

I saw Polanski's Macbeth in high school as well!

Ditto

If Shooter includes a subversive critique of Bush, I missed it, but what do I know, I only watched it the once. I can state without fear, though, that it's the kind of movie that has march drumming on the soundtrack throughout going 'rumatum-tum-tum-tatum!', even in the love scenes (such as they were.)

I just bought my wife a copy of "Dirty Dancing". Now she won't ever have to stop on it when it's on cable and watch it until its end because she now has a copy she can watch whenever she wants to.

I think I have somehow seen Weekend at Bernie's 2 no less than 4 times!

My wife has watched The Notebook at least once a week for the last several months

What Women Want: notable because Marisa Tomei and Judy Greer are a million times more interesting than the actual female lead (Helen Hunt)

hahaha i actually lked that stupid movie for some stupid reason!

i really wanted to see Christmas With The Kranks with like Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis, cuz it seemed like the most hoaxy silly ridiculous thing EVER, but knowing myself i would probably enjoy it

"Notes on a Scandal", aka "Attack of the Unattractive Lesbian". Stupid in-flight movies.

I want someone to buy me a copy of Ronin, so I don't have to watch it whenver it's on TV. They always cut out some line that I like.

Shooter was cool, especially when watched on a transatlantic flight (on one of the big screens, not on the teevee in my seat, thanks Air Canada!). Someone remind me why they show violent films on planes, though: it's not like it eases my nerves on a long flight to watch snipers etc.

Ronin doesn't belong anywhere near a list of terrible films, though.

I liked "Notes On A Scandal"! (very apt rename though, lol)

"Notes on a Scandal" would have been a fantastic Masterpiece Theater. In an actual theater, eh.

I loved "Notes On a Scandal." Now I pine for movies whose producers suddenly realized that Dame Judi Dench would be tuffer than The Rock.

I think I have somehow seen Weekend at Bernie's 2 no less than 4 times!

I've seen the original "Weekend at Bernie's" and once was enough. Although I found it funny mainly because the actor playing Bernie looked like my landlord at the time. How can someone sit through the sequel four times?! I mean where can the plot go? Bernie was still dead, and they still had to pretend that he wasnt!

Okay, I've seen the live action Fist of the North Star at least three or four times. Continuing on a manga movie theme, I suspect I've seen the live action Crying Freeman a good three or four times.

The Rock would probably cry if you hid his baby oil; Dame Judi would probably fuck you up for shits and giggles...

Have Rock and Judi made a movie together? I know Vin Diesel did...

And it sucked, and I only saw it once and it was about a dozen times too many.

Vin Diesel's worked with Dame Judi? Some kind of alternative Bond film? That would actually kick ass!

"Timecop", because you can practically write the rest of the script in your head after seeing the first five minutes, making it doubly stupid for someone - ie, me - to have seen it twice.

Stay away - don't repeat my mistake.

Okay, I've seen the live action Fist of the North Star at least three or four times.

WAU RESPECT (and pity)

I just bought my wife a copy of "Dirty Dancing". Now she won't ever have to stop on it when it's on cable and watch it until its end because she now has a copy she can watch whenever she wants to.

It won't matter, she will anyway.

I know. *sigh*

nobody puts Dan's wife in the corner

lol I was about to make that joke

I should torture her by getting a copy of "Roadhouse" and playing that incessantly.

Whenever "Dirty Dancing" comes on, I sing "Now I . . . have . . a nerd for a wi-i-iiiiife..." until she throws stuff at me.

I LOVE ROADHOUSE, Dan, you should come watch TV at my house.

I've never seen Roadhouse, but am familiar with it via Mystery Science Theater sketches.

damn, i was SO gonna say "Roadhouse" which, of course, is something of an ILX touchstone.

I have no idea if you would die of laughter, mortification or irritation if you watched "Roadhouse", Morbs, but I am certain enough that death would be involved that I advise you to stay away.

omg Notes on a Scandal was RIDICULOUS camp entertainment. dench was friggin outrageous. that scene in the bathtub was incredibly great and creepy

Has anyone else seen Black Dog? Because that seems to totally be Swayze's next step up (or down, depending on your POV, I guess) from Roadhouse. And it has added Meat Loaf goodness too...

all anyone needs to know about mr. swayze's post-road house movie career, really:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e9/Towongfoo.jpg

I have seen Black Dog.

Is there a 12 step program for crappy action flicks?

laurel ronin is like a $9 dvd now!!! man up and visit a target

omigod Black Dog is like Jean-Pierre Melville directing Smokey and the Bandit.

Smokey and the Bandit.

Thanks for reminding me - that bloody Bandit movie that doesn't actually have Burt Reynolds in it except for 30 seconds at the end - "Smokey & The Bandit 3".
In fact add to the list "Cannonball Run II", another film likely to be shown on ITV on a wet Sunday afternoon...

i should rescreen black dog sometime, i saw 3/4 of it once. the melville comparison is apt.

How many people here were shown films on an actual reel to reel projector?

*raises hand* at least up until jr. high or so, when laserdiscs and VCRs became available.

Polanski's Macbeth is awesome and was also shown to me in high school english