Films that you regret watching

[crazyarms33]

what films have you seen that you have regret watching or never want to see again?

I have to go with Pink Flamingos, Thats one nasty flick

I HATED that movie.

OT: I LOATHE Fight Club. Cannot stand it! But everyone I know loves it. I just don't get it.

 

[BNguyen]

The Simpsons Movie, last time I go to a movie just to be with my cousins. They should pick better movies (yeah right) if they want to hang around with me. And please, stop playing football and whichever FIFA game comes out, there are better stuff to do... like cooking or something, I don't know.

The Grudge disturbed me to no end. I think it was the contortionist with no jaw sliding her way down the stairs that did me in. Not to mention the little ghost kid who keeps screaming at everybody every chance he gets.

Christ, that movie still creeps me out to this day.

Are you talking about the japanese version? because that one was the trigger for my night terrors.

I saw that version and it looked like it had very low quality, like a cheap version that you could see on youtube

 

[RamirezDoEverything]

Zombieland.

It just wasn't good. Woody Harrelson was the only reason I went to see it, the dude from "facebook" is just such a bad character.

 

[BNguyen]

Coming in a close second? "White Chicks".

The only redeeming quality of that movie was Terry Crews singing that one girly song. That guy makes anything hilarious.

Ichi the Killer... that movie deals with things I never wanted to think were there to be dealt with.

Ohhhh myyyyyy. I got through 50 minutes of that movie before I couldn't take it anymore. When the lady getting raped finds out Ichi, the man who saved her, also wants to beat her up, and she says "Thank you", my friend left the room. Did you know the close-up shot of semen at the beginning was real? Who thought that was a good idea?!

Also, Battle Royale. I'd heard good things about it, and I wanted to see the movie that supposedly inspired The Hunger Games. It started off with promise, but the deaths were so stereotypically Japanese I couldn't help thinking of how Kung Pow spoofs it. And the "cookie death" at the end just completely killed it as a serious movie for me.

I can't say I agree with you on Battle Royale, it did inspire Hunger Games and I consider that film and book series to be nothing more than a cheap rip-off that got hundreds motion sickness. I can't understand your view of "stereotypical Japanese" either

 

[BNguyen]

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.

Are you insane?

Where's all this hate for ND coming from? It's still one of my favorite films. It's sweet, heartwarming, and hilarious.

Also, comparing ND to Death of a Salesman is like comparing Legally Blonde to The Glass Menagerie: it's retarded.

I only regret watching City of Angels. For my defense, I was forced to watch it.

It's boring, stupid, the main character is a sadsack whiner you want to punch bloody for sheer retardation (and whose voice causes one to wish he'd grate his face off with a carrot peeler just to have it over with), his older brother is a gross quasi-pedophile, both of them abuse animals, and those are just the ones I can recall off the top of my head.

pretty sure it was the uncle, not the older brother if you mean the one who went around as a salesman

 

[Wintermoot]

Meet The Spartans I will never get those lost braincells back

 

[Clearing the Eye]

It may sound super cheesy, but I think every film offers you something positive, so I don't regret ever seeing any. The closest I'd come to regret is my decision to watch Antichrist with my then girlfriend. The movie itself is great and I'd seen it before then, but watching it with her was awkward. Sure, it caused some discussion between us, which is always good, but I'd rather those questions come up in other ways, lol.

 

[Tiamattt]

Lets see..

Spiderman 3 - Oh god was this terrible, it wasn't even batman and robin funny bad, it was the painful please tell me when the ending credits begins so my pain can end bad.

Transformers 2 - My friends actually loved it and thought I would too. It was the first movie since Spiderman 3 where I thought the movie was specifically trying to do so many things wrong on purpose to make me walk out of there. Which I should have since it would've hurt less then sitting through it's craptastic last act.

The last airbender - This film was so bad it made my friends try to drink the terrible away. Unfortunately for me I don't drink, but I think I would've if I paid extra money to watch it in 3D.

 

[EHKOS]

I can't believe people are trashing on Repomen....I liked it.

OT: Feed. Ew...just ew all the way through.

 

[rob_simple]

Miami Vice - I watched it a few months ago and by the end I was just sort of staring at the screen, mouth agape; not because I couldn't follow the plot but because there was next to no plot to follow and the whole thing ended on completely nothing. The entire film was literally pointless.

Also, Little Fockers, just because I watched it last night and out of all the painfully blatant cash-in sequels this was probably the worst I've ever seen. It had a plot that would have been thrown out of an OC script-writers session and they forgot to add in some jokes before all the actors --who really should know better-- got done cashing their cheques.

 

[Chalacachaca]

The Simpsons Movie, last time I go to a movie just to be with my cousins. They should pick better movies (yeah right) if they want to hang around with me. And please, stop playing football and whichever FIFA game comes out, there are better stuff to do... like cooking or something, I don't know.

The Grudge disturbed me to no end. I think it was the contortionist with no jaw sliding her way down the stairs that did me in. Not to mention the little ghost kid who keeps screaming at everybody every chance he gets.

Christ, that movie still creeps me out to this day.

Are you talking about the japanese version? because that one was the trigger for my night terrors.

I saw that version and it looked like it had very low quality, like a cheap version that you could see on youtube

Well I did saw it when I was like 14 years old. It didn't exactly scared me or anything, but that exact same scene did disturbed me a bit, but I paid no attention to it and the sound the ghost made sounded a lot like when you run a pick through a metalic electric guitar string, so I associated that guttural sound with that. Still, I watched it at midnight just before sleeping, and next thing you know, I'm screaming in terror.

 

[Don Savik]

The Eragon movie, need I say more?

From now on, whenever someone decides to make a movie adaptation from a book, they should have someone who was actually interested in the book help with the writing because it looks like whoever made the movie just skimmed through the book. :/

I hated that movie so much. First of all, no dwarves at ALL. The replacement for the king of dwarves is a black guy (who isnt a king, just a resistance leader). The urgals aren't uruk-hai-like monsters, but men with war paint on their faces. If you can't even get the fucking bad guys right in your fantasy movie.......wtf........

The shade was described as having blue skin, red hair, sharpened teeth and claws. What did we get? Some crazy old evil wizard guy that rode a smoke dragon for some reason because the first book didn't have any big dragon fights.

Did the movie even have elves? I mean, I liked the books, I read them all. They can get a bit slow sometimes like all fantasy novels, but considering he was 17 when he started them, its a pretty good series. He put a lot of time into the races cultures and languages, making them unique........and the movies just shit all over that because, idk, budget? because removing nerdy lore and fantasy elements makes for a lower common denominator audience hence more money? NNNNNRRRGGGGHHHHHH ALL MAH RAGE.

 

[unindexedsearchengine]

Battleship- a shitty movie in which you could tell the whole story quite accurately by only watching the trailer + first five mins of the actual movie.The actors did a horrible job, it was terribly boring and a lot of the scenes had the hollywood brush about them, the " there is no fucking way this would happen in real life" thing (besides the aliens i mean). The motivation of the baddies was lifted from Battle LA (that sucked too), and they just tagged the name of a famous board game (?) for marketing reasons.

I want 2 hours of my life back

 

[Davroth]

Metal Man

To date the only movie that was too terrible to finish.

 

[Hypno-Sheep]

Event Horizon.
quite possibly the worst film I have ever watched.

Kingdom Of Heaven.
the only film i have fallen asleep to at the cinema.

 

[Samus Aran but a man]

I just watched Prometheus. It was shit.

It has an unfocussed, shallow and pretentious narrative with no engaging characters. The movie is at its best only when it is imitating the films it is meant to be a prequel to. The visuals are stunning, but visuals don't make a movie. Not even Michael Fassbender could save this pedantic piece of poop.

 

[Dfskelleton]

Funny I should just now see this thread, considering what I just watched.
I just watched Hellraiser: Revelations.
First off, ever since the 2nd movie (save for #4, which was actually pretty decent), the only redeeming quality of the Hellraiser franchise has been Doug Bradley's stellar performance as Pinhead. Even when his motives were dumbed way down to "WORLD DOMINATION!", Mr. Bradley's sheer voice and image made the other crap (and believe me, there was A LOT OF CRAP) almost bearable. Except for Hellworld, which I firmly believe to be designed only to afflict the mental trauma you'd experience if you were actually, you know, turned into a horribly disfigured immortal surgeon.
Without Bradley, this new movie was literally painful. The new guy who plays Pinhead looks like he's not sure what he's supposed to be doing, and all of the other non-cenobite characters literally make me want to claw at my own face.
You know the whole thing with Frank in the first movie? Well, imagine that, but if it was done really briefly, and replacing creepy-voiced Frank with some guy who belongs on Jersey Shore. Literally, this guy kills a hooker and then the skinless idiot crawls out and says "HER BLOOD BROUGHT ME BACK. GO GET ME SOME MORE." in the same tone you'd request your friend to go get you a beer.
In fact, I'm going to stop now. If I were to write down every reason why I hated that movie, then I'd probably fill half of the page.
Clive Barker says that in his new novel, he's going to kill off Pinhead in a way that will hopefully make sure that nobody wants to make anything about him ever again. 2 problems, Mr. Barker; 1, the idiots who make these movies probably won't read books, and 2, he's already been disgraced by being put in more crappy sequels than I can count.

 

[Evan Halfmann]

Cashback.

That movie was so incredibly awful that, frankly, it was embarrassing. It starts off sort of as a Fight Club pastiche then it pretty much turns into a complete cornfest. The plot is painfully uninteresting as well. It sort of starts like "oh this might be interesting" then halfway through "wow pretty insipid" and finally "man that was pretty bad." Most bad movies I just forget about but, in retrospect, the movie is 10 times worse than I remember and therefore it is one of the only movies I legitimately regret seeing.