Films that you regret watching

[AKDread]

Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

jar jar >.>

 

[Angryman101]

Napoleon Dynamite. As aptly put by the only review about it I remember, it felt like they were trying to market the film to a group they spent most of their time mocking. For a more personal (and possibly overanalytical) reaction: They were trying to capture the essence of Death of a Salesman but failed to understand the struggle that made the Loman family so compelling. Lacking that, Napoleon Dynamite instead opted for a weak narrative lacking both an arching theme and the social criticism of Miller's production.

What the fuck are you talking about? That is...seriously the first time I've ever heard anyone compare ND to anything like death of a salesman. Are you being serious?
There was no social criticism, and the movie made a point not to have an overarching theme. It was a movie about a gawky Idaho teenager and his weird family doing dumb shit.

 

[Dryk]

Off the top of my head I can't really think of anything so bad that I regret it :|

This Italian film "La vita è bella". It's one hell of a long and boring film the type to fall alseep to.

You fell asleep to one of the greatest films of all time?
This makes me sad.

Dude that film was too long (3 hours) and I had no idea what the plot was whole about.

It's 116 minutes, and the plot is really really simple.

I've seen some shit movies over the years, but the movie Australia... I really want my time back & as an Australian aboriginal the movie made me want to kill myself or at least go back in time & commit mass genocide of my people. :/

My biggest beef with that movie is that it ends, then it keep going, then it ends again, and keeps going. Not even just climaxes, that film has three full on endings and just doesn't actually end until the last one.

 

[Krion_Vark]

Grave of the Fireflies. Only because it was depressing as hell.

 

[JakeNubbin]

Ratatouille, every movie I've ever seen since Ratatouille has seemed like a downgrade compared to it. I know I would have really liked some films, but not anymore! Brad Bird has firmly planted into my brain how a film should be written and directed. From a movie about a rat that wants to cook, that's incredible.

 

[Asita]

Napoleon Dynamite. As aptly put by the only review about it I remember, it felt like they were trying to market the film to a group they spent most of their time mocking. For a more personal (and possibly overanalytical) reaction: They were trying to capture the essence of Death of a Salesman but failed to understand the struggle that made the Loman family so compelling. Lacking that, Napoleon Dynamite instead opted for a weak narrative lacking both an arching theme and the social criticism of Miller's production.

What the fuck are you talking about? That is...seriously the first time I've ever heard anyone compare ND to anything like death of a salesman. Are you being serious?
There was no social criticism, and the movie made a point not to have an overarching theme. It was a movie about a gawky Idaho teenager and his weird family doing dumb shit.

...I'm really starting to wonder how people are missing my meaning so spectacularly. Perhaps I need to go back and reword it for the sake of clarity. Let me reinterate the key aspect of that post: I felt that the movie was trying to emulate Death of a Salesman, but failed in that attempt. To put it another way, I 'compare' them in the same sense that one might compare the Last Airbender to the show from which it got its namesake, or Titanic: the Legend Goes On to James Cameron's Titanic. The comparison exists solely for the sake of pointing out that they had a common inspiration and radically different quality. I did not and would never compare the two on their own merits. For the sake of further clarification, allow me to quote the other response to a similar comment I made in this thread:

I was not making a direct comparison of the two. As you noted, on their own you might as well try to compare Jackass to West Side Story. What I was trying to convey was that it felt like Napoleon Dynamite was trying to be Death of a Salesman but didn't understand what it needed to capture to succeed in its apparent goal. I felt that they put a great deal of effort into trying to make the protagonists seem as pathetic as Willy Loman, but didn't understand that a pathetic nature alone does not make a character compelling. Willy as a character is compelling because of how his nature clashes with his self-image and how both relate to the American Dream. Napoleon, on the other hand...is pathetic, knows it or doesn't care, and the story doesn't go anywhere with any of that. It's simply a given. In essence, it felt like ND was trying to tell a similar narrative but didn't try to understand the very tale they were using as a base. I hope that clarifies things.

Obviously I didn't convey my meaning very well in the first post, so I'm going to see if I can fix that.

 

[Dangit2019]

Skyline

I watched it when my family friends rented it on dvd. I had heard it was mediocre, but I thought it was bad in a "Transformers/turn your brain off and see explosions" bad, and was surprised to see it be "Battlefield Earth/cheese grater against forehead" bad. Afterwards, my family friends all shook their heads and just said over and over: "that was baaaaaaad."

 

[BNguyen]

Forrest Gump was drivel to me. So bored througout we had to watch it at school for some reason.
Advent Children was a waste of my money.
Um... I don't watch many films so this is tough.

Batman Begins is probably one of my most disliked films though I can't begin to go into why it'd take to long to list everything that mildly annoyed me and added up to me going "blargh" and walking out of the room to do other things.

I can't remember the name of one film, but it's some space marine thingy with insect alien things and a guy gets his brain sucked out by the queens stinger or some shit.
Saw it when I was like four.

I am now incredibly hateful towards insects and traumatised by the experience.

that movie would be Starship Troopers

 

[Dangit2019]

Edit: Oh dear got The Last Airbernder film. There is a special place in hell for Mr. Shyamalan where he will have pebbles thrown at him for all eternity

That film provided plenty of entertainment to me and my friend when it came out on Netflix. You see, we have a hobby of watching crappy movies and doing our own little "MST3K" type commentary on it.

Since I was a big fan of the original (watched every episode), half of my commentary was me yelling out "IT'S PRONOUNCED AANG! NOT ONG! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU SHYAMALAN!" I don't thing I can forgive M. Night after this; I now realize how hardcore Star Wars fans felt after episode 1.

 

[Dangit2019]

another craptastic movie is battlefield earth

How to commit suicide through alcohol poisoning:
1. Watch the movie "Battlefield Earth"
2. Take a shot of whiskey every time the movie uses a Dutch angle.
3. Embrace Death's cold embrace.

Seriously though, what a horrible film. What's sad is that you can tell that it was a passion project for John Travolta, and halfway through you just felt sorry for him. That poor guy just wanted to make a movie for his whacked out psychotic cult leader, and yet it had to backfire right in his face.

 

[BNguyen]

off the top of my head The Godfather for being too slow. I mean the first 30 minutes is of the characters sitting around talking
and the Twilight films, my sister used to be a fan and because we had no other tv to access, she wanted to watch them but it seems that after I pointed out its flaws she hates them

A Home of Our Own for being too depressing
What's Eating Gilbert Grape for the same reason
Every Air Bud movie because DOGS DON"T PLAY SPORTS!
Spirit - that horse movie because my sister got addicted to it and wouldn't let anyone watch anything else
AvP Requiem - it was too dark to see anything that was going on

 

[pilouuuu]

Tree of Life.

It's such a pretentious crap. It looks amazing like a very good screensaver. And it's just as boring. It has some strange acting and almost no plot. Just a bunch of nonsense pretending to have some very special message about the meaning of life. Even Brad Pitt can't save this dull film. Oh and Sean Pean appears for no reason at all just looking worried. Maybe he's thinking "OK, they're paying me for showing up here. But this is really crap!"

It's probably the most boring movie of all times. If you suffer from insomnia maybe it'll be goo for you. Only that you will feel so bad after spending time with this crap that you won't be able to sleep. Don't watch this boring film! Did I mention it's boring? Booooring! Boring nonsense.

 

[lacktheknack]

A Serbian Film, it was shit, inspirational some called it...I can't tell you about it because if I do, you will be curious and want to see for yourself...

Oh yeah, the only movie that ever used the phrase "newborn porn". Ever. GAH.

OT: Since I never watched A Serbian Film, I'll go with The Hangover. Comedy of the Year, they called it. This proves to me that comedy is deader than disco.

 

[lacktheknack]

How to commit suicide through alcohol poisoning:
1. Watch the movie "Battlefield Earth"
2. Take a shot of whiskey every time the movie uses a Dutch angle.
3. Embrace Death's cold embrace.

Oh Lawd. I thought Dutch angles were used exclusively for drug sequences...

 

[dagens24]

Prometheus. What a dissapointment.

 

[The_Blue_Rider]

AvP2, I payed 3 quid for it in asda and felt completely ripped off, the first was not master piece (infact it was shite) but the second one is probably one of (maybe even the) worst film I've ever seen.

This, I loved Predator, I liked Predator 2 (even though apparently its not very well liked), I loved Aliens, and Aliens vs Predator was a fun film at the very least. AvP2 just killed it all for me they even had the balls to end it with a sequel hook too >.<

Eragon also comes to mind, I know the book isnt exactly the best thing ever but I thought it was a neat little fantasy tale... Which was horrendously butchered when it made the transition to film. In a way im glad they fucked the story up enough that there could be no sequel, because I dont want a sequel to this crappy film.

Transformers 3. I liked Transformers, and I even liked Transformers 2, so i was relatively optimistic for this one. How could I have been so wrong??.. Shia Lebouf's awkwardness as Sam was cute in the first film, and I could tolerate it in the second film, but now that seems to be his only character trait... That and being a massive dickhead. The other really annoying part was at the end where

Spoiler

Optimus straight up murders Megatron and Sentinel Prime

, that seemed incredibly out of character.
If I had one nice thing to say about this film its that the battles were somewhat fun to watch, and Megatron looked totally badass

Spoiler: Beware, fucking awesomeness ahead, proceed at own peril

God that was badass

And lastly I'd have to say Green Lantern. This movie was just meh. The Green Lantern Corp. is an intergalactic law enforcement agency and set it almost entirely on Earth? The fuck man? The Fuck??

Why they couldnt just do something similar to Green Lantern: First Flight (Really good animated film, check it out if you like GL) is beyond me. Ryan Reynolds looks the part of Hal Jordan, but he's not cut for serious (Well to be taken seriously I guess) roles. The whole Parrallax thing was pretty interesting I guess, but this movie could have been so much better if they didnt focus on Earth so much.
Also they made Hal kind of a whiny *****. Im all for character development but it seems that filmakers these days seem to think you have to go from one side of the spectrum to the other for people to get it.

 

[FamoFunk]

Harry Potter. I went there.

Only film that's bored me so much I've fallen asleep watching every single one in the cinema (Drag to the cinema to see)

I cannot bare the poor acting from the 3 main people (Potter and his chums)

 

[croc3629]

Drive.

I was promised a more intellectual version of The Transporter, with deeper character development and an intriguing story.

That is the first time I've ever felt like falling asleep in a movie theater.

 

[AKDread]

i have to say public enemies was the only film i ever fell asleep to in a movie theater >.>

 

[Angryman101]

...I'm really starting to wonder how people are missing my meaning so spectacularly. Perhaps I need to go back and reword it for the sake of clarity. Let me reinterate the key aspect of that post: I felt that the movie was trying to emulate Death of a Salesman, but failed in that attempt. To put it another way, I 'compare' them in the same sense that one might compare the Last Airbender to the show from which it got its namesake, or Titanic: the Legend Goes On to James Cameron's Titanic. The comparison exists solely for the sake of pointing out that they had a common inspiration and radically different quality. I did not and would never compare the two on their own merits. For the sake of further clarification, allow me to quote the other response to a similar comment I made in this thread:

I was not making a direct comparison of the two. As you noted, on their own you might as well try to compare Jackass to West Side Story. What I was trying to convey was that it felt like Napoleon Dynamite was trying to be Death of a Salesman but didn't understand what it needed to capture to succeed in its apparent goal. I felt that they put a great deal of effort into trying to make the protagonists seem as pathetic as Willy Loman, but didn't understand that a pathetic nature alone does not make a character compelling. Willy as a character is compelling because of how his nature clashes with his self-image and how both relate to the American Dream. Napoleon, on the other hand...is pathetic, knows it or doesn't care, and the story doesn't go anywhere with any of that. It's simply a given. In essence, it felt like ND was trying to tell a similar narrative but didn't try to understand the very tale they were using as a base. I hope that clarifies things.

Obviously I didn't convey my meaning very well in the first post, so I'm going to see if I can fix that.

Ok, I just don't understand how it's trying to do that at all. Like, I've seen both, and I just can't comprehend any way in which that's any kind of sane claim to make.