Films that you regret watching

[KingHodor]

Valhalla Rising. A movie about Vikings with a decent looking trailer [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQgoGccHJD4]? Hell yeah.

Oh wait, turns out the trailer was just vague enough to get me to watch the slowest paced and least eventful movie of all time.

Thank you for reminding me of that movie.

Yeah, a friend told about this movie with this awesome-sounding concept ("Viking crusaders and a one-eyed berserker vs native Americans in pre-Columbian America"), and it turned out to be two hours of boredom... oh yeah, plus that scene of homosexual Christian Viking mud-rape interspersed with trippy flashes of this guy building a pile of rocks (again, don't be fooled if this sounds kind of interesting).

And just a few months later the director Nicolas Winding-Refn managed to fool me *again* and once more bore me out of my skull with Drive, although that one atleast had a good soundtrack.

 

[TheKaduflyerSystem]

Warriors Of Terra
SOOOOOO bad.
But, the worst thing, my Dad wrote the script, but it was too expensive on special effects, so another writer changed the script and it sucked, the original script looked cool, on par with some thing like 'The Thing' but more action oriented.

 

[rednose1]

Well the first ones to come to mind are...

"Drive" with Ryan Goseling. Had a semi decent plot, but the long. Silences. Every. Five. Seconds in conversations drove me nuts, and felt that Ryan's character is just left half done.

"Boondock Saint 2: All Saints Day" How I wish I could unsee this one. Boondock Saints ranks as my favorite of all time, and was PAINFULLY waiting for the sequel, as the movie ends to allow for one. I finally get ASD, and it is just horrible. Rocco was a close family friend with real reasons to go and kill criminals. His character is fully developed and is my favorite of the film. The new guys pretty much walks up and say, "Hey, you guys like to kill criminals? I'm in! Don't worry about why, just trust me, I'm a perfect stranger." That, and I just couldn't buy the new special agent being as highly attractive as the movie pretended her to be.

"Battleship" This movie is just ridiculous. The overall story is pretty cool, but the details are just laughable. That and the protrayal of the Navy was unbelieveable. I saw Movie Bob's review of this and thought, "Surely it can't be as bad as he says." It is, oh how it is.

 

[Asita]

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.

It's primarily a matter of how the characters are presented, as I saw it. Arthur Miller had made a point of making Willy into a character who had not accomplished anything in his life, who could even be said to be below the everyman at the end of the day. At the same time, we as the audience are meant to sympathize with him, to empathize with his plight even if we think his head is stuck in the clouds. I could be alone in this, but when I look at Napoleon Dynamite, I see the directors trying to pull off something similar with the principle cast. Consider for a minute their character traits. For the most part they are without true virtues, at best coming off as average in a few categories and accomplishing little of note throughout the course of the movie and we are given little reason to care about those things they do accomplish.

As I acknowledged in the first post I very likely overanalyzed it, but I simply couldn't see a point behind presenting the protagonists like that unless they had a specific goal in mind, and - in that regard - attempting to capture the 'pathetic hero' essentially invented by Death of a Salesman seemed the most likely intent, making the film's greatest failure (as I saw it) its inability to understand how to present and use such characters. Hence my comment that it felt like they tried to capture the essence of Death of a Salesman without understanding it. I saw it as a failed attempt to mimic the core features of Miller's production.

 

[Doogan]

The Exorcist : wish I could get back those 2 hrs of my life, Worst Film EVER! I watched it just after it was unbanned and broadcast on Channel 4 (UK) after my parents told me it was the scariest thing they had ever seen.....needless to say I was bored out of my mind.

Anchorman : I had to switch it off after 30 mins as I didn't even crack a smile. That had to be the Un-funnest film ever. Also I couldn't stand all the sexist jokes.

 

[theAlfaBlade]

Godkiller-The plot was interesting but I hate that they didn't animate it.........on second thought it would have made the torture rape scene more disturbing(Huuh I feel so unclean and disturbed for watching that movie)


Oh and bridesmaid-awful movie with it's definition of humor (AKA) weirdo people act weird so you should laugh,and the cock talk in the beginning of the movie was to much.

 

[Wuks95]

Mabye it's me, but I really hated Melancholia. Concept, visuals, themes and art are amazing, it even has some Kirsten Dunst boobies, but it's so slow paced that I literally fell asleep in the theater. Other than that, I dislike mediocrity in many movies today. I watch them, and forget about it the next day.

 

[Rose and Thorn]

The only films I refret watching are the ones I watched when I was too young. I should have waited to see certain films when I was at an older age for the first time, the experience would have been better.

 

[agent_orange420]

Navy Seals - very odd in the fact that the computer game was waaaay better than the film (this was in the 90's)

Avatar - goes to prove all the money in the world does not make the film fantastic, if you then nick your macguffin from The Core. The Core for gawds sake!

AVP2 - The series has been rapidly reducing in quality (resurrections new born? WTF?!?) but it was impossible to see any of the ruddy thing.

Resident Evil (all of them) - When the games had such a excellent mix of suspense and cheesy dialogue taken directly from horror (bar resident evil 5, which was just gears of war - africa) why have the films become all about the action adventures of Milla Jovovich. Fair enough, would be a giggle to watch, but why does it have to butcher resident evils rich back story. Nemesis looking like a melted sex toy was the icing on the cake.

Haywire - Sorry movie bob, this was so bad. should have learnt my lesson after he recommended splice (not great, but at least something happened)

 

[aenimau5]

Silence of the lambs. I was ten. Thanks dad.

 

[Angryman101]

It's primarily a matter of how the characters are presented, as I saw it. Arthur Miller had made a point of making Willy into a character who had not accomplished anything in his life, who could even be said to be below the everyman at the end of the day. At the same time, we as the audience are meant to sympathize with him, to empathize with his plight even if we think his head is stuck in the clouds. I could be alone in this, but when I look at Napoleon Dynamite, I see the directors trying to pull off something similar with the principle cast. Consider for a minute their character traits. For the most part they are without true virtues, at best coming off as average in a few categories and accomplishing little of note throughout the course of the movie and we are given little reason to care about those things they do accomplish.

As I acknowledged in the first post I very likely overanalyzed it, but I simply couldn't see a point behind presenting the protagonists like that unless they had a specific goal in mind, and - in that regard - attempting to capture the 'pathetic hero' essentially invented by Death of a Salesman seemed the most likely intent, making the film's greatest failure (as I saw it) its inability to understand how to present and use such characters. Hence my comment that it felt like they tried to capture the essence of Death of a Salesman without understanding it. I saw it as a failed attempt to mimic the core features of Miller's production.

I can almost guarantee that you are.
And you're so overthinking a dumb movie like Napolean Dynamite it's not even funny. Not every film holds up to fucking Citizen Cane or something, it was a dumb movie about some kid's dumb life in Idaho.
If anything it's more of a commentary on how shitty Idaho is.

 

[217not237]

A Clockwork Orange.

Oh, I didn't hate it or anything. It's my favorite movie. The thing is, though, it's pretty much the only thing I can think about anymore.

 

[RyoScar]

Transformers 2, 2 hours of my life i'm never getting back.

 

[Asita]

I can almost guarantee that you are.
And you're so overthinking a dumb movie like Napolean Dynamite it's not even funny. Not every film holds up to fucking Citizen Cane or something, it was a dumb movie about some kid's dumb life in Idaho.
If anything it's more of a commentary on how shitty Idaho is.

...You're really starting to try my patience with the way you're taking my statements. I'm going to continue to assume that's a problem with my expression, however. In case I hadn't made it abundantly clear: I wasn't expecting the movie to be Citizen Cain. I wasn't expecting it to be comparable to Death of a Salesman, nor did I intend to imply that it should have been or even could have been. My intent was to try to understand what was going through the screenwriters' heads when they decided on the portrayal of the characters, and I found Willy Loman to be the simplest way to express what I felt was the base concept behind them: A pathetic character with little in the way of admirable features, which the writers unfortunately had no idea how to use competently, let alone well. That was the extent of my intent. I hope that clarifies things, again.

 

[Fleischer]

Rabbid Grannies.

 

[Shinkicker444]

Bloodrayne, Dungeons and Dragons they both were GOUGE MY EYES OUT WITH FORKS bad. I'm sure there are others, that may even be worse but they are staying as suppressed memories never to see the light of day again.

 

[Sleepy Sol]

I had to watch Tower Heist for my birthday once. It wasn't my own choice; my friends just wanted to take me to the movies and I couldn't convince them to watch anything other than that.

Oh god, it was so terrible.

 

[Nautical Honors Society]

Where The Wild Things Are

What a terrible movie. It was creepy and slow. Like watching paint dry...disturbing childhood ruining paint.