I, too, greatly disliked Titanic. I can't believe I forgot to put it on my list...maybe I've repressed it.

I'm very glad to see that other folks who have included their most hated films have not hesitated to slam Hollywood produced crap. In fact, the majority, if not all the movies included in this string are Hollywood originated garbage. I would argue that 8 out of every 10 films produced today in Hollywood are not worthy of 2-3 hours of our time. Your life is already short enough, don't shorten it anymore with Hollywood tripe! With that aside, how do you select the films that are worth watching? Since everyone's taste appears to be different, it often comes down to dumb luck.

Having said that, here's my contribution to the assault on Hollywood (in other words, contributions to the unfortunate shortening of my life)!

Stargate - Whatever you do, avoid seeing this plotless drivel-fest. By the end of the film, you will be begging for the main characters to be blown to kingdom come.

Father of the Bride (modern version) - Dull and insipid...the only character that isn't a complete facade is the Steve Martin father character, and he gets turned in the end!

Scary Movie - Sadly, my wife and I rented this movie hoping for something along the lines of 'In Living Color' or 'I'm Gonna Get You Sucka!', campy but amusing. Instead what we got was 1.5 hours of scatalogical hell.

Blair Witch Project - If you like constant screaming for 1.5 hours, I suggest taking a pair of plyers to your fingernails, it'll be more satisfying.

Gone With the Wind - Why do people put themselves through the torture of watching this 4 hour flick over and over again? I've never gotten all the way through the film as I can't get over the disgust I feel for the main character.

Forrest Gump - Has anyone ever analyzed the main female character in this film? She has no good qualities whatsover...and yet Forrest spends his whole life trying to win her love. People say that he is wise in his simplicity...if he's so wise, why was he obsessed with Jenny?

Good Will Hunting - The main character is a completely contemptable individual. Sure, he has had a tough life, but the ill-will he displays toward his fellow man left me with absolutely no symphathy. The entire premise of the movie is flawed, yet Matt Damon and Ben Affleck now appear in every other Hollywood film. Whoa to the movie goer.

Dogma - Speaking of Damon and Affleck...what happened to Kevin Smith. Clerks was a terrific movie with great dialogue and cutting humor. Wait, I know what happened...Hollywood got him and gave him 6 months to create a film! After seeing Dogma, I'll take a pass on his other new films, thank you very much.

Gladiator - Although I enjoyed the film for its artistic merits and fancy action scenes, I think it is terribly overrated. Deserving of a best picture Oscar? Is it just me or is it the case that every other year they now give the best picture Oscar to a film that made at least 200 million at the box office? Hmmm...

Titanic - I haven't even seen the film and I refuse to ever see it. Let's just say that I have very trusted sources that tell me to avoid it like the plague. Hell...the fact that James Cameron produced it and Leonardo DeCrapio starred in it is enough to keep me away!

10. Mission to Mars
9. Stepmom
8. Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
7. Contact
6. Waterworld
5. Howard the Duck
4. Starship Troopers
3. The English Patient
2. Blair Witch Project

1. And the winner.... Volcano

I found a wonderful review that sums up my thoughts about this movie perfectly:
"Volcano" tries to lend itself credibility with scripted television and radio reports that narrate practically every frame of the movie. This fails to aid the believability factor one iota, but it does make the audience unconsciously reach for a mute button that isn't there.

By treating this eruption-in-L.A. flick like live news feed, director Mick Jackson ("The Bodyguard") hopes to whitewash the absurdity and fill in some of the gaping holes in the premise. The technique is clever -- Americans are conditioned to sit in awe of any breaking news (witness the O.J. Simpson low-speed chase) -- but I don't want to pay $7.50 to watch a movie imitate CNN.

After a while hearing someone describe exactly what you're seeing anyway becomes grating. Late in the film we're even subjected to "Here's a recap of the crisis as it stands..." -- who is this for, the folks who went out for popcorn?

In between these news reports we get some semblance of a story involving a city crisis manager (Tommy Lee Jones) who has his hands full with a teenage daughter (Gaby Hoffman) and a lava-submerged Wilshire Boulevard after the La Brea Tar Pits inexplicably spew forth with a volcanic explosion.

Sections of L.A. catch fire. The special effects are adequate, but the flowing lava has a bit of a spilled nail polish look about it. Then there's lots of burning landmarks followed by a few minor stunts.

With the help of a geologist (the talented Anne Heche), Jones devises suburb-saving plan that hinges on damming a Wilshire intersection with highway dividers.

You have to pretend there are no side streets the lava could ooze down, but then this is special Hollywood lava -- cool enough to stand next to while hosing it down, but hot enough to melt firemen like the Wicked Witch of the West -- and like a good professional it sticks to the script.

Things get nasty when the eruption moves into the subway tunnels and starts wreaking havoc in other parts of town.

"Volcano" was fated from it's conception -- it's just so silly -- but is made worse by a paint-by-numbers approach to the storyline. As in all encroaching doom movies, there is a surrogate audience in a control room somewhere to indicates when we should sweat, worry and celebrate. But "Volcano" takes this a step further with the whole news coverage thing -- these reporters are practically reading the script to us (I kept expecting to hear one say "fade out").

The crowning letdown is the movie's insultingly flagrant social statements that pop up whenever there's a break in the action.

A big black guy is arrested by a Fuhrman-esque cop when he insists a fire truck head for his neighborhood. Later he's let loose when they need his strength move the highway dividers. When the Wilshire flow is plugged, the same cop directs the firemen to his street. What a tender moment.

Even worse is the scene in which a little boy searching for his mother in the aftermath is asked what she looks like. He scans the ash-covered mass of humanity that has gathered at an evacuation center and says, as poignantly as he can, "Everybody looks the same."

Let's all hold hands now. Yeish.

Okay, now it's my turn. These are my 10 most hated films, in no particular order.

1.Double Jeopardy- Possibly the most boring and predictable piece of garbage I've ever seen. I actually had to force myself to stay in the theater...couldn't leave because my ride for the night wanted to stay and finish watching it! Pure torture!

2.Jerry Maguire- Incredibly overrated. The only thing notable about this is Renee Zellweger.

3.Fargo- Possibly the lamest "comedy" I've ever seen. I saw this with a group of people, and we're still trying to figure out why it got such praise. Maybe this dislike is partly my own fault because I really hate the comedy genre in general.

4.There's Something About Mary- Forced comedy abound. Watching them try to strain out another masturbatory
joke is almost too painful to witness.

5.Starf****r- Also called "Starstruck" on some boxes. This was a horrendous piece of waste. It was boring as hell, and the obvious sexual tension between two of the characters was just lame. Even makes screenwriters look bad...definitely one to skip.

6.Lost In Space- Bad remake of a bad tv show. When I went to see this it was one of the few times I've actually almost fallen asleep in the theater. I was surprised to see Heather Graham in something like this. She could have done so much better.

7.It's A Wonderful Life- I know I'm probably going to get nailed for this, but I can't stand IAWL. I won't get into why, because I'd rather not incite any kind of argument, I just want to let it be known that I'm not a Capra fan.

8.The Wizard Of Oz- Once again, normally called a "classic", but I don't enjoy it at all.

9.Dark City- Too many things wrong with this one to even mention...could have been a good movie, but somehow wasn't.

10.Sense and Sensibility- I had to attempt to watch this 4 times before I was able to actually sit through the whole thing. It bored me to tears. By the end I really didn't care which character ran off with Hugh Grant.

***Please, do not be upset if I have said something about one of your favorites movies. This list is based solely on my opinions, and should not reflect any animosity toward anyone on here. It's already a running joke in my household that I have an odd taste in films, so please no one take any offense to this.***

Okay,
All Star Wars (Sorry, It doesn't interest me much)
Its A Wonderful Life (kinda boring to me)
Mighty Joe Young (No Reason)
Grease 2 (The first one was good). Well,actually, I'm gonna rent it cos i haven't seen it all. What I did see of it though wasn't great. At IMDB there are mixed feelings about it.
Yeah, I know, everyone's metioned Blair Witch. Now, if you took out the swearing and screaming and that stuff, it's okay. But, then it wouldn't be a long movie. But, I have to admit, I was scared.

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I really just have one.... King Pen. 5 minute puke scene was a little too much for me.

• Lost Highway
  
• Ready To Rumble
  
• Spanking The Monkey
  
• Along Came A Spider
  
• Home Fries
  
• Disney's "Annie"
  

I am taking too much time to do this, like someone said above, I must have blocked them out.

1. Spiceworld! - NO PLOT WHATSOEVER, I NEVER THOUGHT THEY COULD MAKE A MOVIE ABOUT ABSOLUTELY NOTHING

2. Gladiator MOST OVERRATED MOVIE EVER

3. Return of the Livig Dead - GOES WITHOUT SAYING

4. Any Given Sunday OH MAN, THEY THREW A CAMERA, A FOOTBALL, AND SOME ACTORS INTO THE AIR AND STOPPED FILMING WHEN THEY LANDED, TERRIBLE FILM!!!!!!!!!!

5. Snow Falling on Cedars I WAS AMAZED AT HOW BORING IT WAS, IT FELT LIKE IT WAS 5HOURS LONG! LITERALLY!

6. Bats - .... IM NOT EVEN GONNA WASTE MY TIME

7. Godzilla (the one with Matthew Broderick) A NICE GODZILLA? THAT DESTROYS EVERYTHING ON ACIDENT?

8. Independance Day STUPID!!!! FILLED WITH PLOTLESS ACTION!!!

9. Armageddon WOW! IM GETTING MAD JUST WRITING THIS, I BETTER STOP

10. Baby Geniuses TALKING BABIES...ENOUGH SAID

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Nyssa, anyone who would decry your list ought to pack up their bags and move to a country where free speech is not allowed. Wait, maybe they do live in one of those places since the internet is everywhere! Aaaargggh! Anyhow, each and every one of these lists probably contains 1 or 2 movies that others enjoyed, even at a base level. I respect the likes and dislikes of everyone who has carefully considered their lists. Yours is no different. Take a look at mine to find a few shockers as well!

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Little Buddha- if anyone else out there has seen it, you'll probably agree with me that it's a horrible movie.

Speed 2- keanu reeves was smart not to take the lead role in that wreck.

Scary Movie- that was just inane.

Space Cowboys- okay, Clint Eastwood's too old for this kind of thing.

Grease 2- a movie like Grease shouldn't need a sequel. But they made it, and it SUCKED.

what's that only 5? whatever. I'm too worked up to think of 5 more.

"Maverick"--wow, was that a bad movie. Mel Gibson is better than that, I'm pretty sure.

The Bodyguard - Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner - so totally bad I would have walked out had my friends not been pinning me to my seat.

'War of the Roses' - Good cast (Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito), absolutely the most depressing movie I've ever seen.

The ones that make me want to run screaming into the night:

Star Wars Episode 1

NeverEnding Story Part 2

The Thornbirds

The Piano

DUNE

Nell

Sleeping with the Enemy

the worst movies are probably the ones that come from books. Even though a new one is coming out i'd like 2 see. I just hopoe they don't kill it. The movies always leave out half the things that were in the book.
O ther bad movies are the land before time 2-whatever number they finished with. I mean the 1st 1's a good kid movie but they just got carried away. u just can't make that many movies in a series or it won't be any good. The only one thats good is the lethal weapon series with mel gibson and danny glover. thats a good series with 4 movies but look at the actors ...they can't mess it up.

10)six sence
9)joes apt
joes apt
johs apt