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Up the Sandbox (1972)
The first movie I ever walked out of
I saw this movie when it first came out and up to that point in my life I made it a point of staying to the very end - no matter how awful the movie was. I almost made it, although I had watched too much to get a refund. I think the reason I hated this movie was it couldn't make up its mind as to what kind of movie it was, trying to be both a comedy and a drama, it was neither funny nor dramatic. For the longest time this movie was my choice for the worst movie ever made, it wasn't until eleven years later when Streisand reached her career nadir with Yentl that Up the Sandbox was replaced. Other reviewers have called this movie one of her best. Do not be fooled, the ways the dream sequences are revealed is annoying and distracting, the simplistic (but not quaint) liberal ideas are painful to watch and listen to. To blame the release of What's Up Doc for the failure of this movie's box office success is ludicrous. The movie failed because it is no good.
The Player (1992)
This is the worst movie Robert Altman has directed
I personally think MASH and Nashville are two of the best movies of all time. And although I enjoyed Gosford Park it was merely a guilty pleasure. The Player however is a rip off from start to finish (especially the non-ending - you know one of those and one year later . . . endings that tells you that the writer got fired.) One of my personal ways of determining whether I like a movie is how many times I look at my watch during it. The movie was 15 minutes old and I had already looked at my watch five times. .. Avoid this movie at all costs.
Yentl (1983)
This is the worst movie of all time
My personal vision of hell is being locked in a room without the ability to close my eyes or block my ears and have this movie play for eternity on every available surface in that room. The whole notion that Streisand plays a boy/man only begins to scratch the surface of how ridiculous a premise this movie is. The single most important thing about watching any movie is the concept of "willing suspension of disbelief" . . . it is impossible to do that in this movie.
The Godfather (1972)
A bore fest from beginning to end
I saw this movie when it first came out in the movie theaters. It was the first movie I seriously considered walking out of. Up to that point in my life I had never fidgeted so much in a movie. I blame the director - his pacing was so ponderous that the story seemed to go on and on and I could hardly wait for it to be over. The whole Godfather series is vastly overrated.