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What’s the worst movie you’ve ever seen?  It can be bad for any number of reasons.  Bad acting, bad story, bad camera work you name it.  But the general feeling is that the movie is just painful to watch.  Where you able to make it through the whole thing?

The two movies that come to my mind are About Schmidt and Billy Madison.  My wife rented a bunch of movies one night and About Schmidt was in the stack.  We remembered seeing commercials for it a long time ago and thought that it looked pretty good.  We where wrong.  The movie was so painful we couldn’t wait for it to end.  We kept waiting for things happen… but it just got worse.  But we weren’t going to abandon it, we believe on seeing movies through to the end no matter how bad.  Or maybe we just haven’t seen one that bad yet.

Billy Madison was so bad that it holds a special place in our relationship.  It was the first movie we saw together and we saw it with another couple.  The other couple thought it was great.  We did not.  The two of us agreed that it was possibly the stupidest movie we had ever seen.  It’s not that I don’t like Adam Sandler.  I’ve enjoyed other movies he’s done over the years.  But I just couldn’t get behind this.  Ugh… so stupid.  I don’t even remember much about it at this point.  I just know we both walked out of the theater, glad that it was over.

How about you?  What’s the worst movie you’ve ever seen?  Or are  you one of those people who watch bad movies on purpose?

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Oh, and Batman Forever was crap, Star Wars Ep I is still really hard to watch and from what I gathered, Master of Disguise is eye gougingly horrible.  It was playing when I used to be a theater projectionist.