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Ah. I see. Thanks. The ending doesn't seem quite so tacked on when you know the real story.

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I got the ending, but i still didn't like AI, mostly because it was so messed up, it was like three very different movies tacked together.

But i don't think it belongs on the list because its not really a Spielberg movie, its a Kubrik movie that Spielberg picked up after he died. I'd like to think that if it Speilberg had died before filming Jaws and Kubrik picked it up that it would have sucked ass too.

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If Kubrik had done it, we definitely would have been rooting for the shark.

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I voted for Hook, but I think there are three or four other movies on the list that are easily as bad.

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A.I. is winning this poll? That's a genuine surprise. The movie is very good.

It's always worth a laugh when somebody says they don't like the film because aliens show up at the end.

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Am I allowed to hate AI because of the cute little bear from the fabric softener commercials?

That movie sucked dick.

EDIT: Since when is "dick" allowed?

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I can't see how AI or War of the Worlds doesn't win this.

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See The Color Purple.

I dare you.

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Well I haven't seen The Color Purple... but I've heard good things.

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If Kubrik had done it, we definitely would have been rooting for the shark.

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I'm sure the shark would have had all the good lines....

"How do you eat women and children?"
"Easy, you don't lead 'em as much."

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I see that only a few people besides myself even saw 'Always', which accounts for the other votes.

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I haven't seen War of the Worlds, but I have a hard time believing it is worse than A.I.

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The Color Purple and Amistad are obvious choices. Why you would choose to make those movies is beyond me.

I haven't seen The Terminal but I can't see how it could be good.

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the color purple only gets saved for me for Prince's soundtrack for it.

1941 is such a massive dissapointment that for me, it has to be the only choice

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the color purple only gets saved for me for Prince's soundtrack for it.

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Brilliant!

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sam,

I've seen them all except for Always and Munich. I picked The Terminal. 1941 was my second choice.

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the color purple only gets saved for me for Prince's soundtrack for it.

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Brilliant!

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Haha!

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why do you nerds hate WOTW so much?

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El D, I just saw Munich tonight, go see it the next chance you get. Its really good

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I'm going with Hook

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This was the worst movie I ever saw as a kid, save The Sound of Music.

EDIT: Why is everyone hating on War of the Worlds. I watched it tonight and thought it was a decent movie. I thought it was a pretty intense movie up until the ending, which really is out of Spielberg's hands. Oh well, agree to disagree...

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K,

Yeah, planning to see Munich this weekend. Also cautiously considering The Ringer, Hostel, or Wolf Creek.

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Wolf Creek sounds terrible. Well, to me anyway.

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I don't get all the hate on A.I. and War of the Worlds, I liked them both. The endings were a little weak but I don't think that they ruined the entire movie.

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Blarg,

It sounds pretty terrible to me as well.

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I figured Batteries Not Included would be on the list.

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I don't get all the hate on A.I. and War of the Worlds, I liked them both. The endings were a little weak but I don't think that they ruined the entire movie.

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why do you nerds hate WOTW so much?

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that's a question for scifi purists. i didn't hate it that much (hence not a nerd?) AI is clearly the worse movie.

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I chose the terminal. I was going to choose hook, or AI, but then I remembered that they at least had a minimal amount of eye candy going for them.

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I'm going with Hook

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This was the worst movie I ever saw as a kid, save The Sound of Music.

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Hmm, I really liked this movie as a kid

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Good to see no one's voted JP yet.

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I've seen them all except for Always and Munich.

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Always is a good film. It's not a must-see. But, it's a should-see.

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I don't get all the hate on A.I. and War of the Worlds, I liked them both. The endings were a little weak but I don't think that they ruined the entire movie.

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If A.I. ended when Haley Joel Osment was on the bottom of the ocean looking at the Blue Fairy saying "Make me a boy" over and over again, and faded to black, cue John Williams score, it would have been a MUCH stronger ending, IMO.

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War of the Worlds ... by FAR. That was the worst written storyline in history.

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um...wow.

methinks Orson Welles would disagree.


anyway, isn't 1941 the clear choice here?

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War of the Worlds ... by FAR. That was the worst written storyline in history.

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um...wow.

methinks Orson Welles would disagree.


anyway, isn't 1941 the clear choice here?

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I cannot in clear conscience vote for "1941". The John Williams score and the Eddie Deezen dummy save this for me.

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Wow, it's refreshing to see quite a few bad movies on this list, and realize that even the best in their fields make mistakes.

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Variance is a bitch

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I don't get all the hate on A.I. and War of the Worlds, I liked them both. The endings were a little weak but I don't think that they ruined the entire movie.

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If A.I. ended when Haley Joel Osment was on the bottom of the ocean looking at the Blue Fairy saying "Make me a boy" over and over again, and faded to black, cue John Williams score, it would have been a MUCH stronger ending, IMO.

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Yeah, that's why I thought that the ending was tacked-on afterwards. At the time, I thought that they'd originally ended the movie with him at the bottom of the ocean but that test audiences hadn't liked it, so they added the aliens/robots ending.

Turns out that the horrible ending was meant to be there all along.

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I'm going with Hook

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This was the worst movie I ever saw as a kid, save The Sound of Music.

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Hmm, I really liked this movie as a kid

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The first time my parents tried to get me to watch this, I started crying and threw a tantrum halfway through because I hated it so much. I've never seen it since. I couldn't tell you what it's about. I couldn't even tell you why I hated it so much because it's been so long. I just know that whenever that movie gets mentioned the sheer disdain that I had as a kid comes back out, and I have to complain about it.

And I liked Mary Poppins when I was a kid so it's not like I was anti-musical or anti-Julie Andrews. Just hated that damn movie so much.

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War of the Worlds was at least entertaining. AI was pretty interesting. There are a few I haven't seen (1941), but out of the ones on the list, I think Amistad is an easy choice. Very, very boring.

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War of the Worlds ... by FAR. That was the worst written storyline in history.

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um...wow.

methinks Orson Welles would disagree.

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could you mean H.G. Wells?

people, we already had this discussion. WotW is not the worst movie ever. that is clearly battlefield earth. WotW ending is not the worst movie ending ever. frankly, i can't even blame spielberg for staying faithful to the book ending. i doubt better execution would make it any better. fwiw, the book is a classic in spite of qualms over the ending.

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War of the Worlds ... by FAR. That was the worst written storyline in history.

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um...wow.

methinks Orson Welles would disagree.

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could you mean H.G. Wells?

people, we already had this discussion. WotW is not the worst movie ever. that is clearly battlefield earth. WotW ending is not the worst movie ending ever. frankly, i can't even blame spielberg for staying faithful to the book ending. i doubt better execution would make it any better. fwiw, the book is a classic in spite of qualms over the ending.

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Ahhh, someone else who's fortunate enough not to have seen Highlander 2, huh?

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could you mean H.G. Wells?

people, we already had this discussion. WotW is not the worst movie ever. that is clearly battlefield earth. WotW ending is not the worst movie ending ever. frankly, i can't even blame spielberg for staying faithful to the book ending. i doubt better execution would make it any better. fwiw, the book is a classic in spite of qualms over the ending.

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Ahhh, someone else who's fortunate enough not to have seen Highlander 2, huh?

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I raise you The Omega Code starring Casper van Dien.

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In a way, I think someone seeing Highlander 2 is being dispensed some justice.

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A.I ftw.

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The Color Purple and Amistad are obvious choices. Why you would choose to make those movies is beyond me.

I haven't seen The Terminal but I can't see how it could be good.

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the terminal is good