Monday Movie Meme - Hated it!

This week's Monday Movie Meme from the Bumbles had to happen. We spend so much time here talking about intriguing movies, movies we love, movies that make us cry, etc. Well, what about the ones we couldn't get through (or wish we hadn't)? I am a pretty tolerant person, and can usually find good in just about anything. I'm also very careful about reading reviews and avoiding the ones poorly rated. A few snuck in and caught me unawares though. Don't you wish you could have this part of your life back?

The Adventures of Shark Boy and Lava Girl - Hey, if I have to go see a kid movie in order to go to the movies at all, so be it. I check reviews generally, and at least try to see respectable ones. But now and again, on rainy days or moments of sheer boredom, I am forced to see something like this. It was even 3D, and it was horrible. Painful even.

The Black Dahlia - The book was wonderful, so I rushed out and order it on Netflix. I turned it off about half way through. Pretty pathetic for a movie about a serial murderer! Directed by Brian De Palma, and starring Josh Hartnett, Scarlett Johansson, Aaron Eckhart and Hilary Swank, it really caused me to question what the hell happened.

Planet of the Apes (2001 version) - Yes, perhaps I had had a couple glasses of wine, but that shouldn't have caused me to fall asleep during the entire movie. Again, directed by Tim Burton and starring Mark Wahlberg (yeah baby!), you would think something could have held my attention.

Jaws 3 and Jaws 4 - I can always manage to slip in reference to Jaws. My daughter, at some point, became obsessed with Jaws, and requested that I order all of the sequels, against my grave warnings of potential disenchantment. In the end, I gave in. The girl has to learn her lesson sometime. These movies were so bad. You can tell which actors were struggling to pay their mortgages these years, Dennis Quaid being one of them.

Night at the Museum: The Battle of the Smithsonian - Got caught up on my naps with this one. The reviews were middling, and it had Amy Adams, so I didn't think the risk of disappointment was that high. Wrong. The jokes and tricks just aren't that funny when they are recycled. Luckily, this was a summertime double feature, and our second movie was Up.

Nacho Libre - I like Jack Black. You basically know what you are getting with him. And I will admit that I may have just not been in the right frame of mind, but this movie irritated the hell out of me. My family would be horrified at the inclusion of this movie on the Hated List. They loved it...they belly-laughed through the entire movie.

Barbie movies (Mariposa, Cinderella, The Nutcracker, Thumbelina, Fairytopia, etc.) - Do yourself and your daughter a favor, and don't even go there.


So which bad movies were you bamboozled into watching?