Which movies do you refuse to watch?
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There is no film i will outright refuse to watch because its impossible to truely judge something without actually watching it or at the very least trying to watch it. However ,due to the internet ,friends working in the cinema and my job in a dvd rental shop there are alot of films i will watch but do so for free.
There have been many films i refused to watch for various reasons. The other night however my mum wanted to watch the original Halloween movies as we recorded them over Halloween night. I put the first one on, saw the opening and turned it straight back off and im not going to attempt to try again. The intro to the story was crap so why should the rest be any better.
In the past i refused to watch the Saw movies only coz i hate gore. When i did dare to watch i got engrossed though my mother whom watched them with me thought they were rubbish and wanted to turn them off. I can't wait to watch the rest when i ever get them on DVD or they come on TV again
In the past i refused to watch the Saw movies only coz i hate gore. When i did dare to watch i got engrossed though my mother whom watched them with me thought they were rubbish and wanted to turn them off. I can't wait to watch the rest when i ever get them on DVD or they come on TV again
I have looked into the history. I've also had a big list of archeologists, historians and reenacter pointing out to me where the movie goes wrong. Points that tended to get brought up include that the princess who was the love interest in the later part of the film was actually aged seven and living in France at the time; William Wallace killed more Scottish that English during his life; several Scottish clans were actually on Longshanks' side, William Wallace had been properly educated in England (London I think, but don't hold me to that), and was considered rather posh by many of the Scottish; William Wallace prefered to fight from horseback, rather than on foot; a few of the Scottish lords had sworn fealty to Longshanks before the time in question, therefore he was required to sent troops to aid these lords under the conditions of the oaths; William Wallace was a foot taller than Mel Gibson.Dragonhammer79 said:
I'm not trying to de-value William Wallace's achievements, I just strongly disaprove of Gibson's interpretation of both him and history in general (seriously, the guy the hero of Patriot was based on was more well know for his abusive treatment of slaves than for his military achievments, and Apocalypto or whatever it was called gets loads of stuff wrong).
I pretty much agree, but I have no qualms with walking out of a film half way through if it has sufficiently proved itself to be shit.George144 said:
(Though, I dislike Twilight because I read the book. Does that give me enough reason to not go see the movie and claim to dislike said series of movies?)
lol. U-571 was pretty bad. I went to go see it on a weekday afternoon, because I generally watch anything with nazis getting killed in it, and I was the only one in the entire theater. I had to yell at them to start the damn movie because they thought it was empty.SkylerRock said:
I was pretty ambivalent about the Twilight movies - considering them "chick flick" and thus not something I was interested in by default. Then I read about how the lead vampire bloke is actually 108 years old..and still goes to high school...uh-huh. Bit of a creepy uncle type then?
The saw movies have out-stayed their welcome. I am pretty "meh" about gore, just find them frackin dull.
Got to agree on anything with Will Ferrell in it. Unfunny ass.
Any horror film that relies on jump-shocks - which is pretty much all of them these days. I mean OK, if someone sneaks up behind you and blows an air horn in your ear, you are going to jump. That does not mean you are scared. And if they do it more than once you want to punch their teeth down their throat. Cheap and cheesy. I love a good scare, not seen any in a long time.
I enjoy horror movies but steadfastly refuse to watch any of the early 80s "cannibal" type horrors because I can't stomach actual animal cruelty and I know that it does feature.
Anything based on or adapting "literary" works - your Pride and Prejudice, Room with a View, Passage to India types. Having had all that stuff inflicted on me when I was school age, my interest in anything literary has died. Always hated the distinction at school about what was worthy and what was not - even had a teacher who called it the "white, male and dead" club (although there were sometimes women, but they had to be bonkers and neurotic to apply). Am not happily of an age where I can bin that stuff as pretentious crap that I could not give a damn about.
Given that this thread it about films you refuse to watch I could have added in Schindler's List until a week or so ago. Not because I felt it was a bad film, far from it, but because I had worried that I would find it too upsetting. Having now viewed it I am pretty disturbed to find that all it made me was angry, not upset. Go figure.
The saw movies have out-stayed their welcome. I am pretty "meh" about gore, just find them frackin dull.
Got to agree on anything with Will Ferrell in it. Unfunny ass.
Any horror film that relies on jump-shocks - which is pretty much all of them these days. I mean OK, if someone sneaks up behind you and blows an air horn in your ear, you are going to jump. That does not mean you are scared. And if they do it more than once you want to punch their teeth down their throat. Cheap and cheesy. I love a good scare, not seen any in a long time.
I enjoy horror movies but steadfastly refuse to watch any of the early 80s "cannibal" type horrors because I can't stomach actual animal cruelty and I know that it does feature.
Anything based on or adapting "literary" works - your Pride and Prejudice, Room with a View, Passage to India types. Having had all that stuff inflicted on me when I was school age, my interest in anything literary has died. Always hated the distinction at school about what was worthy and what was not - even had a teacher who called it the "white, male and dead" club (although there were sometimes women, but they had to be bonkers and neurotic to apply). Am not happily of an age where I can bin that stuff as pretentious crap that I could not give a damn about.
Given that this thread it about films you refuse to watch I could have added in Schindler's List until a week or so ago. Not because I felt it was a bad film, far from it, but because I had worried that I would find it too upsetting. Having now viewed it I am pretty disturbed to find that all it made me was angry, not upset. Go figure.
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Passion of the Christ.
Wish I had never watched Transformers.
Blood Rayne.
Anything Anime. (They are so predictable its just lame.)
..And others.
I won't watch Twilight unless it would help me score the girl who forced me to watch it. Seriously, there are few things on this planet that could make me watch that sh... movie.
Edit: I will never ever watch Transformers 2, and i deeply regret watching the first one.
Edit: I will never ever watch Transformers 2, and i deeply regret watching the first one.
Twilight series (for obvious reasons), romantic comedies (they're all exactly the same, the only differences between each one is the location of the film and the names of the characters), and modern horror films (when I want to see a scary film, I want psychological terror, not just a bunch of "attractive" brainless 20-something year olds, shit jumping out at me every five seconds, and lots of gore).
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Punch-drunk Love was awesome (directed by PT Anderson, the same director as Boogie Nights and There Will Be Blood). Funny People also stars Seth Rogen, therefore I will see it.
Ditto Twilight and any of these movies and TV shows (except True Blood) where vampires aren't inherently evil and are treated like any minority group.
Any romantic comedy except When Harry Met Sally and the one I mentioned above. Might as well name them "stupid women" movies; they're like Bruckheimerfests for women.
Anything by Uwe Bolle, Michael Bay or Roland Emmerich.
Sad to admit it, but I think some part of my brain that used to really enjoy anime got detached. I can still get a big kick out of Evangelion, Cowboy Bebop and that 7 minutes of Kill Bill, but that's about it. They all seem to be based on a (flame shield) dumb premise to me.
I'd sworn off Kevin Smith movies forever (excluding the first 2/3 of Chasing Amy), when I saw and thoroughly enjoyed Zack and Miri. So we'll see what the future holds for Mr. Smith.
Anything with Jake Gyllenhall.