Readers Reveal their Most Hated Films and TV Shows, From ‘Unbreakable‘ to ’Ishtar‘
A new wave of confessions is surfacing as viewers revisit cinematic and television experiences they’d rather forget.From a jarring moment in M Night Shyamalan‘s Unbreakable to the perceived emptiness of Babes in the Wood, and the sheer tedium of Ishtar, a selection of readers have shared the screen disasters that left a lasting negative impression.
David Cochrane, 56, from Nottingham, recounts walking out of a cinema screening of Unbreakable after Samuel L Jackson’s comparison of Egyptian hieroglyphics to comic books. “No, they’re not!” cochrane exclaimed aloud, instantly disengaging from the film and its subsequent sequels. Similarly, Patrick McKiernan, 42, of Belfast, describes the 1990s TV series Babes in the Wood as “the ultimate test of my love for the medium,” finding its plots “wafer-thin” and its characters poorly written, especially when contrasted with contemporary shows like Sex and the City.
Morgaine, from Virginia, USA, delivers a scathing review of the 1987 film ishtar, starring Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty, calling it “aversion therapy” and comparing it unfavorably to a “tricycle accident” and a “stunned mollusc.” She characterizes the film as a pointless journey of two songwriters in the Moroccan desert, ultimately finding it less rewarding than Christopher Guest’s Waiting for Guffman or the existential works of Jean-Paul Sartre.
