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2017-04-26, 03:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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Movies you regret watching
Have you guys ever regretted watching a movie? Like you feel you could have gone with your life without seeing those pictures? That they were so horrible and disgusting you want to burn your own eyes.
I just saw Alejandro Jodorowsky's Holy Mountain, and I got to say, I really didn't like it, I guess it was too artistic for me to get it but to me it was really ugly, disgusting and confusing.
I wish I had said NO! when my friend recommended it.Last edited by S@tanicoaldo; 2017-04-27 at 08:51 PM.
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2017-04-26, 03:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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The Hours was a well-acted cinematic root canal of a movie.
Crumb was an absolute gut punch.
Pink Flamingos made me wonder why I hated myself enough to keep watching through to the end.
Wild, Wild West was awful.
Austin Powers: Goldmember had me imagining after every gag that Mike Myers was somehow checking to see if everyone had left the theater yet.
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2017-04-26, 03:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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Resevoir Dogs. Everyone is wrong, that movie wasted two hours of my life.
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2017-04-26, 03:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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There are lots of movies that I've felt were a waste of my time. Some, e.g. anything with the name Dan Brown attached to it, that I can't believe I sat through. But I don't regret watching them, because they broadened my experience.
But there's a handful of movies that go beyond merely "bad". There are movies so vile that I feel contaminated from having watched them. The evil of the movie seems to rub off on me, personally.
Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland was the last movie I saw in that category. Never in the field of cinema has so much talent been wasted so badly."None of us likes to be hated, none of us likes to be shunned. A natural result of these conditions is, that we consciously or unconsciously pay more attention to tuning our opinions to our neighbor’s pitch and preserving his approval than we do to examining the opinions searchingly and seeing to it that they are right and sound." - Mark Twain
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2017-04-26, 04:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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Natural Born Killers. Garbage I wish I could completely forget watching.
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2017-04-26, 04:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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Godfather Part III: An unsatisfying and boring end to a fantastic series. Nothing about this movie holds up well when compared to the other two.
Alien Resurrection: Everything about this movie was stupid. The dialogue felt like Whedon at his most forced, and the visuals were just bad.
Frozen: An inoffensive movie. Not particularly good, not particularly bad. Unfortunately, I saw it with my niece, who loved it. And for several months only wanted to watch it when I babysat her. If I could, I would slap whoever wrote "Let It Go."
The Notebook: I don't like romances. I was told I should watch this one anyway, because it's so good, apparently. It's not. It's just boring.
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days: Ahh the regrets of having an older sister who watches crap and only 1 tv.
The Village: Riding high after The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable, two great movies in my opinion. Or at least the opinion of young, idiot Dienekes. So when The Village was announced I went to go see it. One of my worst mistakes, ever. Not only was it boring. Not only was the horror mystery I was promised by the trailers totally absent, replaced with a romance plot. But it was an idiotic romance plot! The blind chick is in a near death experience, with her family behind her and the monster bearing down. All she has to do is shut the door and done, everyone is safe. But no. This freaking moron stands at the doorway because "Emperor Commodus will save me!" And of course, she's right. He swoops in and they run in the room and shut the door and the monster can't get in. But she was never in danger! She just needed to shut the door! She is the equivalent of someone standing in front of an oncoming train because "If someone cared about me they'll save me!" No, screw you. You could have killed the people behind you. You are a selfish, horrible, weak person. And it's supposed to be "romantic."
Transformers 2: This movie is almost perfect in how it fails at every single attempt to be funny. From the painful parents to the racist robots. To that guy talking about being under a robot's balls. I don't think I ever saw anything like it.
Meet the Spartans: My first and hopefully last experience with a Friedberg and Seltzer movie. It was like watching a poor dumb child trying to imitate Mel Brooks or Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker. But where they were hilarious with references that mold their movies and were used to create jokes. This just threw out references to other movies and events (many of which I did not get) without really exploring or making a joke out of it. It was just idiotic.
The ABCs of Death: This movie was fascinating, a look at 26 short films about death in a single movie. And in fairness here, some of them were actually pretty good, like the one about killing a duck or something, and another about a dog fighting ring. But for the, maybe 5, that were passable, the rest were unabashedly unbelievably stupid. From torture porn, to some idiotic one about farts. This was probably the worst movie I have ever seen. Among my friends and I, we have never let the guy who suggested this film live it down.
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2017-04-26, 04:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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The 2016 film Masterminds. Originally I was taking my wife out on a lunch date to see Sully, but she thought we'd both benefit with a comedy movie. I agreed, but unfortunately neither of us knew what kind of comedy movie this film was. It was not a funny movie to us and to this day I regret not debating more to see Sully (it left theaters a few days later).
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2017-04-26, 04:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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2017-04-26, 05:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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Transformers 2:
Anyway, last one for me was Ratchet and Clank. It was so bad I still won't go to any movie recommended by the guy who picked that one. I could have written a script that was better, and I haven't played the game since it came out.
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2017-04-26, 06:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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Highlander 2.
I was on my way back to college after a trip home, drove by a theater and saw it was out, and was excited enough that I decided to stop and hop in the next showing...
So yes, I actually saw that monstrosity in the theater. Even paid full price for it. Despite claims to the contrary, it did actually exist."That's a horrible idea! What time?"
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2017-04-26, 06:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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Ridley Scott's Prometheus and Nolan's Interstellar, for roughly the same reason. Having all that resources and talent behind them to do something deeply ambitious and thought-provoking which you almost never see in genre cinema, and they're so... mediocre.
Prometheus is dragged down by a messy, poorly thought through script. One where questions are raised, but just kind shrugged off in favour of jingling keys in front of the audience.
Interstellar feels exceptionally hollow. It tries to build this deep emotional center for itself, but is shockingly incompetent at executing it and consequently utterly disengaging me with it.
I could go more into depth, but that's the heart of dissatisfaction with them.
I had expectations going into these which I didn't think were unrealistic, but even lowering them to the level of any other movie... I wouldn't watch either again given the option and I think would be happier if I'd never seen them. If they just lived as a possibility in my mind.
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2017-04-26, 06:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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There's very few movies that I don't at least get "so bad it's good" enjoyment from. I liked Batman and Robin, for example.
I can really only think of two where I really regret it.
[I]Wing Commander[/I is by far the worst. That the movie was bad was in retrospect unsurprising. After all, videogame movie. What really pissed me off was Chris Roberts bragging about how closely he'd worked with the film makers on it, when the plot was wholly unconnected to the games and novels and the lore was abysmal. Add in awful acting, awful CGI, and the plot being awful on its own merits and you have the only movie to ever give me a migraine. I mean that quite literally - I spent the last 5 minutes of the movie throwing up in the bushes outside the movie theatre.
Warcraft is the second, mainly due to my need to see it overcoming my better judgement. It wasn't bad enough to be hilariously awful, but not good enough to be enjoyable. The general mediocrity was made really sad by the glimpses where you could tell the people who made it really did care about the Warcraft universe - this weirdly is worse than if it was just farmed out to make money by someone who didn't care.
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2017-04-26, 06:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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Saturday the 14th. So bad on so many levels, made worse by the fact that I paid to see it, even worse because I suggested we see it. No one ever trusted me to pick a movie again.
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2017-04-26, 06:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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John Wick II. I didn't see the first movie. I can tell it's the sort of movie some of my friends would love, so stupidly over-the-top crime-action movie with 'Splosions and a badass dude who just won't die no matter how bad you injure him (He should not have been alive half-way through though the movie, and, if he got any injured as he did here in movie I, they should have killed him already.) it's like, they were trying too hard to be badass, and that might appeal to people who like this sort of stuff. I'm not one of those people.
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2017-04-26, 06:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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I wouldn't go so far as to say I regret watching anything I've seen (although I'm sure I could change that with a quick hit of A Serbian Film), but there are a handful of films that sucked so incredibly hard compared to the rest of what I've watched they stand out. Notably:
- Adam Sandler Movies. Somebody at the local blood plasma donation center has no taste whatsoever, and occasionally I have the misfortune of being subjected to these.
- Kangaroo Jack. I saw this when it came out as a young child, because the trailers made it look like a family movie about a talking kangaroo and I had limited taste when I was 9. The trailers were a filthy lie, and this movie turned out to be garbage. Even at 9 I could tell, although I suspect that it's even worse than I remember given the 8% it got on Rotten Tomatoes.
- There's Something About Mary: When my dad insists that I have to watch something, it's a classic, I get trepidatious. There have been plenty of classics recommended to me, but then there was this pile of awful. There's the humor, which bounces between being hackwork gross-out humor, even stupider situational comedy, and a particularly ugly batch of misogyny. The gross-out humor is probably as good as it gets, and I hate gross-out humor.
- Barbarella: Queen of the Universe: This was another "classic" I was recommended by my dad. Personally I tend to associate classics with having a plot of some sort, maybe some characters that aren't one dimensional, and other similar things. This movie has none of that.
- Forrest Gump: Here we get to my personal least favorite movie, which is greeted only with visceral hatred. Most of the rest of the movies on this list I merely dislike (although a Sandler or two might sink into the hated category). This I despise - a several hour long smarmy, condescending anti-intellectual lecture openly hostile to anyone who might even tangentially be categorized as intellectual cleverly disguised as an uplifting movie with a positive message about mental disabilities. A sickening hybrid of nostalgia and jingoism presented as some sort of meaningful statement on a wider culture. Contrived moralizing in the form of religious propaganda taking brazen glee at the misfortune of those who aren't a member of the chosen religion*, all papered over with a thin veil comprised mostly of self satisfied smugness. The rest of the movies on this list are awful, but they come by that through a combination of laziness, ignorance, and ineptitude. This gets there by malice, and then manages to get a good critical reception on top of that. The rest of these I'm willing to hold against the higher-ups involved as artists. This one I hold against them as people.
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2017-04-26, 06:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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I'm not sure I would go so far as to say that I actually regret seeing any films, even the ones I've hated. Even a terrible movie allows me the opportunity to pick it apart and understand why it's terrible, which in turn helps me appreciate the good movies I see even more. That being said, there are a number of movies that I regret paying money to see, such as The Green Hornet and Sucker Punch.
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2017-04-26, 07:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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I saw Silence of the Lambs for free at a "pre-release sneak preview".
Maybe they edited it into a good movie later, but given the subject matter, I doubt it.
Similarly except for Shaun of the Dead, which was a comedy, with the possible exception of Night of the Living Dead as a cultural artifact, I pretty much regret seeing any minutes of "living dead" films. Thar goes double for "slasher films".
I know that it was a television series rather than a film but I wish I could forget 24, unfortunately my wife was a fan, thankfully it's now off the air.
Last night I saw Our Brand is Crises (with the last 30 minutes on fast forward), just so BORING.
I think my then eleven years old son enjoyed some of it, but whatever Avengers movie I saw, was also dull. Not even the tight outfits worn made it interesting.
I can still remember the plots of many others I regret seeing, but thankfully the titles are forgotten.
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2017-04-26, 07:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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I regret exposing myself to NuTrek. The best I can say about it is that the first two did such a number on my expectations that I didn't hate the third.
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2017-04-26, 07:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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2017-04-26, 07:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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Against the Dark.
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2017-04-26, 08:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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Arrival- Say all you want about the "deep symbolism" and "amazing message", I don't care. The movie was boring. It was lifeless, nothing happened, the plot twist was stupid, and I've heard better soundtrack from MIDI files made by twelve year olds on Guitar Pro.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them- This movie might have been alright if they decided to make things make sense. It may be that I'm personally not a fan of the Harry Potter series, so I may not understand the established rules of the universe, but that does not excuse the ending. The ending took forever.
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2017-04-26, 08:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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The only movie I can think of that I actually regret watching is The Girl Next Door. You don't expect much from romantic comedy movies, but it was so aggressively, insulting stupid that it still sticks with me to this day as an example of 'I want that hour of my life back.'
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2017-04-26, 08:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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Ella Enchanted and The Princess Diaries for making me unable to take Anne Hathaway seriously as an actor in any movies from then on. No matter what role she takes, she will always be Mia Thermopolis in cosplay in my mind.
And this might get me a lot of hate, but Rise of the Guardians for being a complete disappointment from what the fan works hyped it up to being. All the supporting designs and fanfiction and speculation had it out to being incredibly beautiful, detailed, and emotionally wrenching movie, but the actual film felt hectic and badly paced, and the characters were fairly unpleasant and uncanny valley. Visual stunning, but little below the surface. It's a bit hard to look at the same fan works without remembering what the actual movie was like.
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2017-04-26, 10:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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Godfather 3. I do understand what they wanted to create with it, and I can see that they attempted to create it, except that they didn't really do a good job with it. Which is such a shame, since the other two movies did a superb job at "creating what they aimed". And I'm pretty sure that if the creators were given a chance to revise and edit, swapping out a notable actress (if you can actually call that an actress), they could re-work it into something you can call a true masterpiece, something worthy of being the ending to such an amazing series.
It's still better than most movies.
But did I regret watching it? Yes, and more than many, truly terrible movies I've watched in the past. It would have been better for me to think that the series ended at 2, especially since 2 is already a pretty fitting ending.Extended Signature: Homebrew StuffSpoiler: Avatar
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2017-04-26, 10:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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You know I remember liking that movie, then again I was like 16 when I first saw it and I don't think I've seen it since I turned 20 so that might have something to do with that. At least it was trying to do something different than the myriad of American Pie clones (and movies) that were coming out at the time.
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2017-04-26, 10:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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The last movie that I regretted seeing in theaters was The Exorcism of Emily Rose. It felt like nothing happening for 2 hours. It was that dreaded combination of boring and awful that I could not enjoy at all. Even if I give it a lurid description like something Cr1tikal or the AVGN might, it won't make the film any more interesting.
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2017-04-26, 10:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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Jason Bourne- my dad is a fan of Bourne Identity and Supremacy. Came out with confusion and disappointment over sequel hooks.
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2017-04-26, 10:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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The Force Awakens.
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A Nightmare on Elm Street.
Man of Steel.
Suicide Squad.
Kill Bill (Does it count if I turned it off half an hour through?)