I'll buy the idea that the effects are so revolutionary that I won't be able to understand how much without seeing the movie big screen, 3D. Because I haven't been taken with what I've seen so far, but people who've seen it up close seem to like it.

But when Terminator 2 rocked my socks, the story got me too. And that was from the trailers and having watched Terminator for the first time on the big screen the night before. I'd say Jurassic Park is probably the biggest FX movie with the weakest story I didn't regret seeing. I just had no interest in seeing it again, although it had me scrunched up in my seat in the theatre.

Forrest Gump bothered me from the get go. I hated his character from the start and resented his insertion into every important event of his lifetime, especially including the sacrifice of his lady love to HIV.

Worst Movies of the 2000s: The 40 Biggest Stinkers of the Decade

I've never heard of this one:

34. 'Kickin' It Old Skool' (2007)
Jamie Kennedy as a breakdancer who wakes up from a coma after 20 years? We really wish someone had pulled the plug on this unfunny stinker.

all the SFX footage looked so video game-y and unreal in the previews I've seen that it's not a selling point.

The footage you're seeing in trailers isn't fully rendered and has been flattened to accomodate a 2D display. It's not even close to how the finished movie will look in a theatre.

I never got the hate for Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever. It wasn't great, but it had fun moments. And one of my favourite movie lines, when Sever reveals her closet of weapons goodies and says "Some women buy shoes." I like Banderas and Liu as action heroes.

The others, on the other hand, all looked like crap, although Babylon AD tempted me for a little while.

The movie ends with Dances With Wolves proposing to go to the government and confronting them on how they treat Indians, despite the fact that when he pops his head up he's going to be locked up for desertion. The chief had proposed he just disappear into the tribe, but Dances felt the need to Make A Statement.

I totally remember it the other way! Weird. I think I'll hang on to that.

From tommyrot's link:

28. 'The Hottie and the Nottie' (2008)

Paris Hilton ... acts. And she doesn't even get killed at the end. Do we really need to say more?

What I want to know is, who played the hottie?

20. 'Little Man' (2006)

Marlon Wayans is a tiny thief who passes himself off as a baby. Because that would happen.

I haven't seen this, but I bet it was better when Lon Chaney made it as The Unholy Three.

Man, I know one of the stars of The Hottie and the Nottie (he's the reason I've shared oxygen with Paris Hilton, although I completely overlooked her at the time. Turns out she just looks like some skanky overdone blonde in person. Who knew?). For his sake I'm sad to see the movie there, but note I didn't exactly support him in the theatre. Friendship has limits.

Huh. I didn't think Wicker Man was all that horrible.

Wicker Man was dreadful, but in a must-see so-bad-it's-good kind of way. I mean:

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(Okay, it's not toast in the original clip. Still one of the best things on the internet.)

Most of the rest of that list is so-bad-it's-just-really-bad.

How did Wicker Man compare with the original?