Movies You Can't Stand to Watch
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I've tried to watch the David Lynch 'Dune' movie five times now. Never could get myself to watch it through to the end. It's just such a mess.
Is that the one with Sting in it?zala-taichou said:
I remember trying to watch it. I mostly remember Patrick Stewart in a sadly lackluster role. The rest is a blur of boredum, confusion, and a fat guy eating a person after pulling out his heart.
Have you ever actually watched them, or are you jumping on the band-wagon? It's cool if you like to ride the wagon, I do it all the time. I'm just wondering.Quoth The Raven said:
Essentially just romantic comedies. You know - the typical ones where you can predict exactly how it's going to play out right from the start. I also don't like horror films because they all have the same basic concept. In fact, I generally dislike any predictable film. That's why I can't stand Avatar. So yeah - rom-coms, horrors and Avatar.
I think it's more than just being relentlessly grim for me; I actually enjoy more downbeat films where the bad guy wins, or at least there's a more sombre ending. The thing that I hate is that there's no tension in those kind of films. Okay, maybe when they're trying to escape from the killer, that could be tense, but then they're caught or whatever, and now you have to endure torture scene after torture scene. That just isn't scary, it's uncomfortable, and unsettling perhaps, but not scary.Jewrean said:
Scary is when you don't know what will happen, not when it's rendered in sickening detail, killing any mystery it could have. It just reeks of pointlessness.
I remember when watching saw (the first one), by far the scariest part was when one guy had all the lights go out in his apartment, and the only way he could see was by the sporadic flashes of his camera. That was an excellent scene, and was incredibly tense. Of course, this was before Saw just became the archetype for torture porn, the first one was almost decent.
OT: Not many films come to mind, I usually try and watch things through if I'm committing to it. I very much regret doing that for Napoleon Dynamite though. Jesus christ that film is bad.
My mother watched The Sound of Music so many times when I was a kid that I can't fucking stand it now. Not that it's a bad movie, but geez, it was beaten into my brain.
Also, most chick flicks.
Also, most chick flicks.
2001: A Space Odyssey.
It came highly recommended by a friend (plus, everyone in the world seems to love it). I sat through the whole thing, and to this day, I refuse to believe it wasn't more than 3 hours long. It was painfully boring to watch, and the only joy I got from it was pointing out that the bones the primitive humans were beating each other with were clearly rubber.
It came highly recommended by a friend (plus, everyone in the world seems to love it). I sat through the whole thing, and to this day, I refuse to believe it wasn't more than 3 hours long. It was painfully boring to watch, and the only joy I got from it was pointing out that the bones the primitive humans were beating each other with were clearly rubber.
AvP Requiem is absolutely terrible. They took what was good about Alien and Predator, and totally destroyed it. I finished it, but hardly.
I like a lot of bad movies. Plenty of movies are so bad I find them hilarious, and will willingly watch them multiple times. I can take some pretty awful garbage in my movies. But...MY GOD, even I have my limits, and that limit is Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland.
I swear, this is the most painfully bad movie I have ever seen. It physically hurt me to watch it. I didn't know that was possible until this movie came along. I have never been so pissed off at a movie as I was at this one. The Cinema Snob was right when he called it 'soul crushing'. I couldn't agree more. Hate this movie. I can't even think about it without wanting to break into a rant about all the different things that I can't stand about it.
The only other movie that comes to mind as so bad I couldn't watch it was Oliver and Co., and I dread the fact that I plan on reviewing this movie because I have tried sitting through this movie and I could not. I could not watch it the last time I tried to. I had to turn it off because I felt embarrassed to even be watching it because of how offensively racist it is, and how pathetic its attempts to try to be "cool" and "down with the hood" are. No. Just no. I'm embarrassed Disney ever made this movie.
I swear, this is the most painfully bad movie I have ever seen. It physically hurt me to watch it. I didn't know that was possible until this movie came along. I have never been so pissed off at a movie as I was at this one. The Cinema Snob was right when he called it 'soul crushing'. I couldn't agree more. Hate this movie. I can't even think about it without wanting to break into a rant about all the different things that I can't stand about it.
The only other movie that comes to mind as so bad I couldn't watch it was Oliver and Co., and I dread the fact that I plan on reviewing this movie because I have tried sitting through this movie and I could not. I could not watch it the last time I tried to. I had to turn it off because I felt embarrassed to even be watching it because of how offensively racist it is, and how pathetic its attempts to try to be "cool" and "down with the hood" are. No. Just no. I'm embarrassed Disney ever made this movie.
I checked out The Good Shepherd. There were a few plot points that didn't go anywhere, and it was damn depressing. The only good part was a nice exchange of banter between Matt Damon and John Turturro in their first meeting. It was told all in flashbacks. It wasn't awful, but what made it unwatchable was the ending.
The movie had me guessing who was leak in the agency.
It was an anti-climactic ending and rendered the plot pointless. It wasn't smart or clever, it felt obvious and forced.
Another film that gains my ire is Twilight, and not because it's popular. I've noticed that a lot of movies have too many filler scenes in them. I keep hoping that a scene will serve a purpose, but it never amounts to much. All I keep thinking is "Big Lipped Alligator Moment", everytime I see it.
The movie had me guessing who was leak in the agency.
His son leaked the info to a Russian spy.
It was an anti-climactic ending and rendered the plot pointless. It wasn't smart or clever, it felt obvious and forced.
Another film that gains my ire is Twilight, and not because it's popular. I've noticed that a lot of movies have too many filler scenes in them. I keep hoping that a scene will serve a purpose, but it never amounts to much. All I keep thinking is "Big Lipped Alligator Moment", everytime I see it.
My list:
Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd - No...Just no. No one in the whole fucking movie knew how to sing and if they did, the musics are just too damn annoying.
ET - And I going to ruin a lot's of memories now, but I always though that he look like a giant penis with that long neck and fat body and shit. Other than that, I as a poor brazilian kid always watched really violent movies(Robocop, Nightmare in Elm Street and etc...) in the movies session that passed after noon, so when I see a good alien for a change I though "BORING".
Twilight movies - I watched because of a ex-girlfriend and I fell asleep in the middle. The protagonist as far that I know is annoying and extremely selfish, all the characters are boring and vampires don't shine in the sun, they burn under it!
Anything from Rob Zombie (Except Devil Rejects) - I don't get why so many people still think that he is a good director, look Halloween. The John Carpenter FIRST Halloween was scary because was a believeble fear, There are no reason for him to follow Laurie Strode, but he did anyway, so there's always a impression that could be anyone even YOU. The chance of erasing that hole stupid "Michael is Laurie brother LOL" plot was right there, but he not only keep that but it was a really shalow movie and I guess that I never heard so many "Fuck" out of porn version. That other movie of his(The Devil Rejects predecessor, which the name I forgot and I don't intend to remember) was really bad.
Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd - No...Just no. No one in the whole fucking movie knew how to sing and if they did, the musics are just too damn annoying.
ET - And I going to ruin a lot's of memories now, but I always though that he look like a giant penis with that long neck and fat body and shit. Other than that, I as a poor brazilian kid always watched really violent movies(Robocop, Nightmare in Elm Street and etc...) in the movies session that passed after noon, so when I see a good alien for a change I though "BORING".
Twilight movies - I watched because of a ex-girlfriend and I fell asleep in the middle. The protagonist as far that I know is annoying and extremely selfish, all the characters are boring and vampires don't shine in the sun, they burn under it!
Anything from Rob Zombie (Except Devil Rejects) - I don't get why so many people still think that he is a good director, look Halloween. The John Carpenter FIRST Halloween was scary because was a believeble fear, There are no reason for him to follow Laurie Strode, but he did anyway, so there's always a impression that could be anyone even YOU. The chance of erasing that hole stupid "Michael is Laurie brother LOL" plot was right there, but he not only keep that but it was a really shalow movie and I guess that I never heard so many "Fuck" out of porn version. That other movie of his(The Devil Rejects predecessor, which the name I forgot and I don't intend to remember) was really bad.
I've actually seen a couple films starring the Olsen twins and they really suck. The films are so insipid and bland, and the characters appear to reside in the uncanny valley. The plot is always the same, except for a minor change in setting which seems to change absolutely nothing else. It's bothersome to say the least.
It's a bit more talky-talky than most movies these day, but I still loved it.Drummie666 said:
OT: Anything my mom likes. She has terrible taste in movies in my opinion.
I will never forgive everyone involved in Borat. I'm giving Cohen a chance with the Freddie Mercury biopic. But other than that I despise that movie.
Any Slasher movie. I mean. Yea it's kinda entertaining seeing manifestations of the people I went to school with that I hated getting slaughtered. But where's the point.
Torture movies like Hostel. I shouldn't have to explain why. Movies are art. Torture movie makers are this people who throw something together/come up with some god awful pretentious BS and tells us it's art "for a different crowd".
Movies where it's either 2 hours of non-sense or just legitimately nothing that resembles a point, and then the director tells us "we don't get it". Screw you buddy.
Any Slasher movie. I mean. Yea it's kinda entertaining seeing manifestations of the people I went to school with that I hated getting slaughtered. But where's the point.
Torture movies like Hostel. I shouldn't have to explain why. Movies are art. Torture movie makers are this people who throw something together/come up with some god awful pretentious BS and tells us it's art "for a different crowd".
Movies where it's either 2 hours of non-sense or just legitimately nothing that resembles a point, and then the director tells us "we don't get it". Screw you buddy.