100 Facts in 100 Days: Fact 48
Posted on August 15, 2006 @ 4:22 pm
48. The worst movie I’ve ever paid to see at the theater was Exit to Eden, a wacky BDSM-themed comedy/softcore porn starring Dan Aykroyd and Rosie O’Donnell. Yeah, let that sink in for a minute. The only movie I’ve ever walked out on (and you’re going to hate me for this) was Lost in Translation. Sooooo boring. Finally, the only movie I’ve ever sneaked (snuck?) into was the the Jamie Lee Curtis/Lindsay Lohan remake of Freaky Friday. I bought a ticket for Once Upon a Time in Mexico with Antonio Banderas and slipped into Freaky Friday instead — just so I wouldn’t have to admit to the high-schooler working the ticket booth that I was wanted to see Freaky Friday.
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Strangely enough, they were showing an episode of Beat the Geeks last night up here on G4TechTV and the answer to one of the questions was Exit to Eden and I remarked that it was such a horrible, horrible movie.
Rosie O’Donnell in leather bondage gear….that doesn’t need to sink it… that thuds through all the layers of your mind like a stone. *shudder*
I now hate you. I loved Lost in Translation. I saw it in the theater AND I have it on DVD.
In high school, a few of us snuck out of “Dante’s Peak” to catch another (my fifth) viewing of “Star Wars Special Edition”. This was, of course, after we were berated by a lady for talking too loud during “Dante’s Peak.” I replied, “You’re not missing much here,” right before we walked out.
The worst movie I ever paid to see was waaaaay back in 1971. My brother and I rode our bikes over to the Fox Theatre and paid our hard-earned allowance to see a film called Vanishing Point.
All our friends were talking about it because there was a scene in which a woman rides around on a motorcycle naked. It also featured a muscle car being driven on a cross-country chase and a “spectacular” crash at the end.
You’d think with all that, it would be a great film — for a young boy anyway. However, it was one of the most boring movies I’ve ever seen. It was also loaded with laughable mistakes.
First mistake — casting. Barry Newman was cast as the outlaw driver. BARRY NEWMAN! A total nerd! Second, if you’re going to have a naked woman on a motorcycle, she should have spectacular breasts — not the droopy, sad little breasts of a middle-aged hippy chick.
Finally, the filmmakers obviously didn’t have a big enough budget to actually crash the Dodge Challenger that they used in the film. So, the had a little montage at the end and obviously crashed a different car! An older Camaro! DUH!
It is the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen in a movie — Did they think the audience wouldn’t notice that they switched cars? To a totally different model?
the only movie i’ve walked out of was a stevan segal movie. a friend and i almost got kicked out of the jack nicholson wolf movie with michelle pfeiffer. that movie is so bad it makes exit to eden oscar worthy.
i’ve given up being embarrassed over seeing teen movies. then again, i get in to movies for free so i can honestly say that i don’t pay to see silliness.
Kudos to you for walking out of “Lost In Translation.” I saw (most of) it on cable and was both amazed and disgusted that it was so well-received by critics and audiences.
Sneaking into movies rules. You should do it more often!
I sort of walked out on “Lost in Translation.” Somewhere around the 45-minute mark when I realized “this is the style the director is going for - it’s not going to get any better,” I just turned around and surfed the net instead for the rest of the movie. So technically, I did sit through the whole movie, but I ignored it most of the time.
Bloody heck - two people visit Japan and all they want to do is sit in their hotel rooms and go to bars? They don’t deserve to be in Japan.
how can that possibly be worse than Spice World — you paid for that one, too, right?
Spiceworld isn’t that bad. At least not compared to Rosie in bondage gear.
Spice World at least had the virtue of being colorful and having some lovely scenery.
Yeah, I was wondering who was going to bring up Spice World first.
I think I watched Exit to Eden shortly after it came out. Early high school or late middle school, I think. I had more tolerance for bad movies then.
I liked Lost in Translation quite a bit, I think. I’ve seen worse.
Worst movie ever? Quite possibly Titanic.
Movie I’ve walked out of: Jeepers Creepers. The point at which I officially gave up horror. Sadly the only other halfway decent (and I use that term lightly) movie playing was Princess Diaries and I had to entertain myself with that until everyone else came out.
I sneaked into some stupid movie on a field trip in… high school sometime, possibly 8th grade. My friends wanted to go, but it was boring as hell, one of those chick flicks that was utterly unremarkable. Something about November, or autumn, or Indian Summer, or something. I don’t even remember.