Perchance

The ending was the reason I hated AI as well.

SPOILER (if you care)

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The movie would have been one of my favorites if it had ended with David underwater praying to the Blue Fairy. Fine. Great ending. Not even happy. I like non-happy endings.

Instead, we get the sappy happy crappy ending, which continues the devaluation of love that played all the way through the movie (a child loves his mother because she reads words to him? How can that be real love?) and then it just inflicts it on the clone mother.

Stupid movie.

-Perchance.

Pomp

Ewwwwww...Dogma. I cannot understand why so many people, especially atheists, seem to think that this is a wondeful movie. While it has its moments (the airport scene, the boardroom scene), the jokes are uniformly unfunny and the "message" about organized religion is shallow and preachy. Gak.

Pomp

Perchance,

Not even happy. I like non-happy endings.

But the eventual ending wasn't happy, as you note:

Instead, we get the sappy happy crappy ending, which continues the devaluation of love that played all the way through the movie (a child loves his mother because she reads words to him? How can that be real love?) and then it just inflicts it on the clone mother.

As I saw it, that devaluation of love was the whole theme of the movie. Most of what we call "love" is, in the view taken by the film, saccharine fraud born from our horror of being alone. If you don't like that message, that's fine, but if the movie left you disgusted over it, as it seems to have, then I think it did a pretty good job getting its point across.

Joeshmoe

Kung Pow is easily the worst movie ever made. I can't believe someone wrote this movie thinking it was in the least bit funny. Anyone who has seen it knows what I'm talking about.
Just terrible. :banghead:

Not Prince Hamlet

I agree. I thought the opening sequence was one of the funniest I'd ever seen, but the movie quickly got repetitive and I lost interest. It definitely doesn't count as a bad movie -- for that first sequence alone! -- but I wouldn't rate it very high either.

Jeff

Amie

I agree, Blade Runner soooooo sucked!!!!!!!!!!!
GHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Pomp you are the only person I ever knew that liked AI

Pomp

Amie,

Pomp you are the only person I ever knew that liked AI

I'm special like that, I guess.

Eudaimonist

Fifth Element
Fifth Element
Fifth Element
Fifth Element
Fifth Element

I had to list that five times because... well, it deserves that.

I'll include:

The last third of AI
Independence Day
Star Treks I, V, and everything above VI

Yellow3

Why has nobody listed Mars Attacks? My god, that was the worst movie I've ever seen, bar none (I've seen worse television, mostly cartoons). Of course, that may be because I always fall asleep during MST3K. The movies are just too bad; my brain shuts down in self-defense.

It is actually kind of funny how much of this thread seems to be based on just how much we like or dislike a movie, although I suppose there really aren't any other ways to respond to and rate things like movies. For example, Spaceballs is one of my favorite Mel Brooks movies and I thoroughly enjoy Face-Off, although I'd be the first to tell you that it's premise is so very, very stupid. And I want my own copy of In & Out, dammit. I died laughing at the sadistic self-help tape.

As for other bad movies:
Armageddon. I list this movie whenever the topic of bad movies comes up, and lord, it needs to be. I didn't even rent it - I was at a friend's house whose parents were watching it, for crying out loud - and I still feel cheated. Those responsible for making that movie should be paying me to make up for that pain.

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life. Buy the soundtrack because the songs are great, but oh god, the rest of it was awful and unfunny.

Star Trek: Insurrection. I hate you, I hate you, I hate you. Let us never be forced to look at Jonathan Frakes unneccessarily (or even necessarily) naked again, the man's starting to get that Shatner paunch. The only saving grace of this movie was Worf being forced to sing the songs from the HMS Pinafore.

Lord of the Rings (animated). I can see why they have to give it away, bundled in between copies of the better 'Hobbit' and 'Two Towers'. Bad animation, bad rotoscoping, bad character design, muddled plot (did it have a plot?), and just bad bad bad bad bad.

Disney's Dinosaur. I hate you, Milkman Eisner. Why don't you just buy the rights to the Don Bluth movie you so blatantly ripped-off, which had better writing and better character designs no matter how much CGI you threw at your pale copy, and just show that. It would have been better. And someone please shoot that goddamn scuzzy 'funny sidekick' lemur for me.

Okay, so that last one was more just a matter of me hating the movie than it being truly and fundamentally awful, but I seriously had to get that off my chest.

- Jen

Shadowy Man

Because I've been trying my best to forget I ever saw that movie. Thanks for bringing up such a painful memory. Why don't you just give me a paper cut and pour lemon juice on it?