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Oh, I forgot to add two of the worst movies ever to my Hated List. They are

armageddon
The Avengers

My mind tried to block them. I know some may try to defend these films by saying they're not THAT bad. But they really are. I spent my time in the cinema laughing at The Avengers as I ouldn't belive how awful a film was.

Recently, I have to say that I really disliked Babel. It was 4 half-baked stories that are so broad and empty that people think that they're profound. They are not, they are just under-developed. There's maybe one decent story (the African kids), the rest was just dull. Pretentious is a word over-used in terms of film criticism, but it definiately applies to Babel. I would almost include Lost in Translation in my Hated list for this very reason, if it wasn't for the great performances by Bill and Scarlet.

And Crash was very mediocre in itself, but I'm starting to hate it due to it being over-rated.

I enjoyed The Constant Gardener. It was a bit too earnest, and not that memorable, but it was pretty good. Not worth including in a most hated list.

I think Uwe Boll hasn't been mentioned because everyone expects his films to be awful.

This is completely random, but if you look at the entertainment, there are certain archetypical characters that need to be filled in every generation. Would Uwe Boll be the modern variation of Edward D Wood, Jr?

I liked Armagedon. True it is big, loud, overdone, unrealistic popcorn film for the summer masses. But it never breaks its own rules and it never pretends to be better than the B-movie fare it is. The logic allows me to enjoy the first and third Fast the Furious movies, XXX, Riddick and countless other mass consumption films.

And don't forget, Bruce Willis was firing a shotgun at it actor of the time Ben Affleck. That made me giggle. And get in trouble with my girlfriend at the time simultaniously.

Yeah, to me Armageddon is rather a guilty pleasure in fact. I can't help but drop my little tear at the end, even if it's definitly bad cinema, full of clichés and unbearable patriotism.

I didn't think the stories in Babel were underdeveloped. Not everything was clearly spelled out, sure, but I like when a movie makes you think. To each his own, however.

I'm afriad I couldn't get anything out of Armageddon at all.. it didn't work at any level.

As for Babel, it is not a movie that makes you think. Actually, wait, it does. It makes me think how people can actually like this crap. I love movies that make me think, I love Mulholland Drive, for example. But Babel doesn't make me think. Nothing was spelled out becuase it says nothing. A film about communication? Come on, every film is about communication! It needs to do a lot more than that to be of any significance. As Jamey said above, at least Armageddon knew what it was, a Big Explosive B-Movie. Babel thinks is something great, and is awful.

But hey, that's just me!

Bless you Michael Bay. Armageddon is a masterpiece.

Er... why would the sons of a farmer have a rocket launcher? Bit excessive for chasing away wolves

Babel was about communication, sure, but each person's struggle with personal identity was worthwhile too. I'm not saying it's one of the greatest films of all time, but I did enjoy it. Maybe it should go under my guilty pleasures, eh? Wrong thread, I know... I definitely respect your reasons for not liking it.

It's sort of how many people didn't like Match Point because it wasn't typical Woody Allen, but I enjoyed the themes within, about luck vs. strategy, etc.

I thought of a couple more movies i really hated

Dances With Wolves
King Kong[remake]
Cabin Fever

King Kong and Dances with Wolves were long,boring dragged and just giant turds. Cabin Fever was just a laughable horror flick I like Eli Roth and he got it together when he made Hostel[thank god].

Dances with wolves is one of the most fascinating, magical, important piece of cinema of the last 30 years !
I cannot conceive how you can so easily say it was long and boring !!!

I didn't it was that important and it sure wasn't magical or fascinating.

Well it was, 16 years ago in the movie theater, and it still is, today on DVD. Every nation must live with the shame legated from its ancestors. Colonialism, fascism...
Dances with wolves depicts so vividly, so brutally and so poeticly the weight of the indian massacres perpetrated in "old" America. And it's told with a real cinematographic point of view, with majesty, with courage, with adventure, with everything a great motion picture needs to have and to be.

I will agree that Cabin fever is overstated. It is an interesting premise with a great, if obvious, punchline. Some where in the follow through I lost interest in the characters, and thus eventually the movie.

Conversely, I love what Eli Roth did in Hostel (not sure about the neccessity or potential series quality of it). It was just as brazen, violent, grotesque and unflinchingly raw as Cabin Fever. But there was not pretense in the film that it was about anything less than what was on the screen. He didn't spend as much time trying to get you to like the characters, nor did he sugarcoat the protagonists intentions about why they were in the script.

Hostel is sadistic, depraved and cruel as it is supposed to be. Cabin Fever's story softens the main selling point of why you would see it to begin with.

Cabin Fever was brilliant

Cabin Fever was stupid uninteionally funny and just plan disgusting film.

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