Disliking a film you haven't seen.

Handsome Bob

Is it really wrong to develop an intense dislike of a film without even seeing it? In the last few weeks I've seen The Blind Side and Whip It, and with both films there was a trailer attached for a film called Letters to Juliet.

Jesus christ on both occasions I felt like stabbing my eyes. Everything about the trailer irritated me. The crappy plot, the annoying lead actors, a Taylor Swift song, the smaltzy sentiment and cheese.........**** sake, I mean really, I don't usually take a snobbish attitude towards someone's personal taste in films, but if I come across anyone who goes to see this tripe I will show my contempt.

Am I overreacting? Would you be willing to hold fire on your criticism of a film until you actually saw it? Or is it perfectly possible to say that, just by looking at the trailer, "Yeah, that's a piece of ****."

Rant over. :mad: :pac:

It's not that irrational though personally I'll try and reserve judgment of a film till I have seen it. I have an intense dislike of Twilight after I had to read the books for an article I wrote and when the trailers for the films came out my hatred spread to them. I still went and watched the films which I feel justified my hatred.

As poor as Letters to Juliet looks I'll still watch parts of it simply because the great Franco Nero is in it. He's one of those actors I'll watch in anything.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM2hY1W-Fo8

Hank_Jones

Went to see Kick Ass and disliked pretty much every trailer that played before the film, A-Team, Prince of Persia, Repo Men.

I suppose it's just that we as people know what we like and some films just clearly aren't it.

It's like picking up a book I suppose, I don't read romance novels as I know that I won't like them.
Same thing goes for films really I suppose.

billybigunz

The Terminal.


I ****ing despise Tom Hanks and this looks like another ****ty vehicle for his useless brand of acting.

MagicMarker

Slumdog Millionaire.

Turtyturd

You deserve everything you get for going to see The Blind Side.:D

I saw the trailer for it a while back and it was the most condescending offensive piece of sh*t I had seen in a long time.

Hank_Jones

I actually kind of liked the Blind Side.

Sure it was a load of soppy unoriginal crap, but I still liked it for some reason.

Enjoyed Bullock's performance.

*prepares for abuse*

krudler

Usually whatever movie is lauded with Oscar hype, usually starring Kate Winslet and completely unwatchable only for the fact she usually gets her bangers out.

lace

disliked clash of the titans before i saw it simply because they should not have been re-making it and they certainly should not have been re-making it the way they did.

turns out i was right. it was horrendous.

Galvasean

Trailers for films like Leap Year and Couples Retreat are so bad that nothing could justify watching the film. Even if the rest of the film was pure quailty the bits in the trailer would drag it down to rubbish levels. In the case of Leap Year it pretty much shows the entire movie, so in a sense I have seen it.

ziedth

I remember seeing the ad for the vicki cristina Barcelona And thinking that I would actually rather anything that in All my years of films that I have hated then to even sit through the ad again.

I await someone telling me that it was good

also, films like epic/date/meet the Spartans movie I don't even need to see the ad to know that I ont be going near it.

billybigunz

ziedth wrote: »

I remember seeing the ad for the vicki cristina Barcelona And thinking that I would actually rather anything that in All my years of films that I have hated then to even sit through the ad again.

I await someone telling me that it was good

also, films like epic/date/meet the Spartans movie I don't even need to see the ad to know that I ont be going near it.

I loved it but then I love all Woody Allen films.

Josef Fritzl

MagicMarker wrote: »

Slumdog Millionaire.

Ah no.

Josef Fritzl

Josef Fritzl wrote: »

Ah no.

It's one of the most overrated films ever made. It's a 2-3 star film but not much more.

PeterIanStaker

The entire Twilight franchise of course. I unfortunately saw the first one now I hate 'em all. Kind of obvious.

bonerm

Not really. I've seen a good few Guillermo del Toro films at this point (El laberinto del fauno, Hellboy, Blade II, Mimic.) and disliked them all. As he is clearly a director allowed to make films to his own vision I know that if he makes any more films I will dislike and not watch them either. I do not need to see any more movies to be convinced of this.

As I sit here typing this I look at my 12disc LOTR set yet am still strongly considering avoiding his 2x Hobbit movies. I'm sorry to learn he even got the gig.

Caveat

It's irrational sure, but My current two are Avatar and yes, Blind side.

I can't think of anything to entice me. Avatar in particular annoys me. I just know that the wow factor of the effects will wear thin after about 30 minutes and that there is bugger all else of interest in the movie.

C'mon, am I right or am I right?

tman

PeterIanStaker wrote: »

The entire Twilight franchise of course. I unfortunately saw the first one now I hate 'em all. Kind of obvious.

Ditto on that... Watched the first one thinking they couldn't possibly mess up a film with vampires in it as badly as I've heard, but by god they managed it and then some!
I now automatically hate any future film in the series

Otis Driftwood

Modern Horror remakes - Last House on the Left,Friday the 13th,Dawn/Day of the Dead etc etc etc.

I hated the idea of them and having watched them my hatred was compounded.

Edit : Any movie in the Saw franchise too.

Bob the Seducer

The one that's annoying me at the moment is Dear John. I never had any intention of seeing it but the fact I know what a "Dear John" letter is means I know what the whole story is going to be and how it's going to end based on the name alone.

DazMarz

I usually try to reserve judgement until I've seen the film, but sometimes I just can't. Some films just will not do it for me, and I just can't help that; musicals would be top of the heap, followed closely by chick-flicks and so on.

Morlar

The american remake of the french movie Taxi. Never seen it and could not even sit through the trailer to be honest.

Mackman

If i saw a trailer for a movie i knew was gonna be crap, i wouldnt hate the movie, but i wouldnt go and see it because i know i would hate it

constitutionus

Its not irrational at all.

the point of a trailer is to grip you. if they cant even do that then odds are you wont like the film itself.

in fact if anything what you should be really worried about is trailers that hype a film WAY up beyond its actual worth. nothing pisses me off more than going to see a film that gave away all its best bits in the ads.

the last worst offender of that i can remember is "when a stranger calls", they gave away the bloody twist in the trailer !

personally i get put off by most romance films lately, and generally anything with jennifer anison in it. its just painfull to watch at this stage. stick with the production company jen, your better at that.

Librobabe

tman wrote: »

Ditto on that... Watched the first one thinking they couldn't possibly mess up a film with vampires in it as badly as I've heard, but by god they managed it and then some!
I now automatically hate any future film in the series

I don't think vampire films will ever recover, come back francis ford coppola all is forgiven

Handsome Bob

tman wrote: »

Ditto on that... Watched the first one thinking they couldn't possibly mess up a film with vampires in it as badly as I've heard, but by god they managed it and then some!
I now automatically hate any future film in the series

The trailer for New Moon fooled me, I went to see it, I wish I hadn't. :pac:

ShiverinEskimo

Sex and the City 1 and 2.

I've seen barely 10 seconds of 'clips' but know that I despise every minute of both.

ultain

Anything with sandra bollox in it!

johnny_ultimate

This may seem odd, but I auto-hate any film whose plot I can discern from looking at the poster. This is called the 'Matthew McConaughey leaning against something effect' in some quarters. It does not just apply to his films though, take the poster for the upcoming 'The Back-Up Plan', for example:



I bet you I could provide at least a relatively accurate synopsis of the film by looking at that poster.
I also think 'Bollocks' would be a relatively fair summary of the Back-Up Plan.

marwelie

Why do singers think they can act? I yet to see any popsinger/celebrity type person make a decent movie (apart from King Eric of Manchester, but then again he is God, he can do no wrong ;o)). And that includes Jennifer Lopez who apparently was one to look out for after Out of Sight, which I thought was rubbish (probably in the minority, but hey ho!)

She does have a nice bum though ;o)

I'm a fairly decent judge of a trailer at this stage of my movie watching life. The only one that fooled me was The Lady in the Water. I really wanted to go and see that after seeing the trailer, but it left the cinema before I got a chance to. Have watched half of it since on Sky.............enough said ;o)

LeBash

My general rule is, gauge the reaction of some cocknocker (i know a couple).

If they like it, then hate it, if they thought it was ok, check it out, if they hate it, you can hate it, but tell them it was the greatest movie of the year.

We all know the pretentious people im talking about.

foxyboxer

Must Love Dogs




*Shudder*

Kashkai

Anything that's based on a chick lit book like PS I love you, or any chick movie is guaranteed to be crap of the highest order.

Anything that has angst ridden teenagers in it, eg Twilight is also going to be rubbish.

Sappy "let's hear it for the minorities/disabled/womens rights" etc are all condecending patronizing crap.

Remakes of classic movies are usually sh1te.

Personally I avoid all of the above which tends to limit my movie going but I save a fortune to spend on my blu Ray collection of great movies.

Galvasean

LZ5by5 wrote: »

The trailer for New Moon fooled me,

how?

Morlar

Prosperous Dave wrote: »

Anything that's based on a chick lit book like PS I love you, or any chick movie is guaranteed to be crap of the highest order.

Anything that has angst ridden teenagers in it, eg Twilight is also going to be rubbish.

Sappy "let's hear it for the minorities/disabled/womens rights" etc are all condecending patronizing crap.

Remakes of classic movies are usually sh1te.

Personally I avoid all of the above which tends to limit my movie going but I save a fortune to spend on my blu Ray collection of great movies.

That's pretty much my outlook on this too. Well said there.

ShiverinEskimo

Anything with Jennifer Aniston. And here's a blog explaining why.

http://offthemeatrack.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/the-machine/ wrote:

The Machine
September 3, 2009

In downtown Los Angeles, on the corner of an intersection, stands an old, run down building. The rotting, decayed sign over the door reads “Golden Dragon Karate Dojo”, but its doors haven’t been open since the kung-fu craze of the late 70s. Many other businesses in this area have come and gone, repainted their crumbling facades and so on, whilst this building has stood as a decaying monument to that era; windows boarded up, doors bolted shut and caked in rust. It has always perplexed locals why it was never sold during any of the waves of regeneration which offer false dawns from time to time. It was bought by a man, rumored to be in the movie business, as the karate-dojo folded but he never saw fit to use it for anything, content to let it slowly decay. No amount of money, it was said, could tempt this man away from it.

Were one fortunate enough to get inside, they would find a similarly run down interior. Just past the main door is a short corridor. To the left are some general offices, and to the right is a small equipment shop. Both have a vague Mary Celeste feel to them, desks with phones, pens, papers and other such paraphernalia lie abandoned, covered in a blanket of dust, as if the occupants had just vanished one day. The corridor leads down into the main hall. This is a large, spacious room. Where once it featured rows upon rows of training warriors, now it is empty and silent. Along the walls are a few torn and tatty posters advertising (then) upcoming karate tournaments and others with suitably encouraging slogans for the would-be karate master. This room is sparse and dead now, empty for all but one thing. The Machine.

In the centre of the room, on the floor, sits the Machine. It is a dark grey metal box, roughly similar in size to a fridge that is on its back. Its surface is pristine, brushed metal with clean edges, in start contrast to the decay around it. For the most part the surface of the machine is blank, with only a few items. One is a slit which runs around the entire perimeter of the Machine, half way up. When the Machine is activated this pulses with a red glow.

On one end of the Machine are two panels. One is a blank, rectangular inset panel about the size of an A4 sheet which features one solitary red button, set in the middle of the panel. Once this panel featured a range of buttons, switches, dials and keys for inputing various variables to the Machine. But there are no variables to change any more, just one single button which activates the Machine.

Below this panel is another, smaller panel, similarly inset into the side of the Machine. This panel features one, single slot just wide enough for a CD to emerge from.

The Machine and the room sit still for long periods of time. But occasionally, about once a year, there is a visitor. A man in a dark suit and a brief case enters the building through a locked fire escape at the back of the building. He walks over to the machine, dragging with him a fold-up chair which is rested against the wall. He sets up the chair, puts down his brief-case then walks over to the Machine. He presses the red button and then sits down. The Machine stirs into life. A low, throbbing hum begins to emanate from inside the grey, metal box. The red glow lights up, illuminating rhythmically in time with the whirring heart-beat of the Machine. Occasional blips and bleeps also ring out over the low-hum as the Machine processes its various calculations.

After 3 minutes it suddenly stops. The hum dies down, slowly returning to silence and the red glow fades. After a moment there is a final sound, a short burst of mechanical movements and then a DVD slides suddenly out of the slot. The Man in the Suit gets up, walks over and takes out the DVD. This is the new Jennifer Aniston film. He puts the DVD in his briefcase and leaves the building.

In a few days this DVD will be sent to Jennifer Aniston’s home where she will view it for the first time. Along with the movie will be a package of information, including humorous anecdotes about the filming of said movie, such as pranks her co-star played on her, for use on the interview circuit. Of course these events did not take place as there was no filming. Jennifer Aniston has not stepped foot in front of a movie camera in 5 years. A set has not been built, a roll of film has not been used and a script was never written. The Machine is pre-programmed with all the materials needed to create a Jennifer Aniston film. These are; the Story (this never changes), Aniston’s character’s occupation (an array of Waitress, Fashion Magazine Editor or Art Gallery Manager), level of kookiness (Not-so-Kooky, Kooky, or Very Kooky) and her romantic lead (one of 5 leading men). The Machine then processes all these variables and produces the finished film, along with all necessary promotional material (the poster, Aniston tying the tie of her leading man, set against a blue sky, and title in sans-serif font, one word bold, the other normal weighting can be produced in under one second). All Jennifer Aniston films are created by the Machine.

The Machine must be destroyed.

kumate_champ07

twilight, havent read or seen any of it, the promo shot of all the guys with their tops off is the the piece of straw that brakes the camels back

kumate_champ07

Prosperous Dave wrote: »

Anything that's based on a chick lit book like PS I love you, or any chick movie is guaranteed to be crap of the highest order.

Anything that has angst ridden teenagers in it, eg Twilight is also going to be rubbish.

Sappy "let's hear it for the minorities/disabled/womens rights" etc are all condecending patronizing crap.

Remakes of classic movies are usually sh1te.

Personally I avoid all of the above which tends to limit my movie going but I save a fortune to spend on my blu Ray collection of great movies.

any movie that has matthew mcconaughey taking his top off, if he wears a white vest the movie is usually fine but if you can see his nipples its shíte

AnonoBoy

The Bounty Hunter.

I have never and will never see it but I know from the trailer that it is godawful sh*te.

Anyone who says otherwise has no business talking about films in any capacity whatsoever. They should not even be allowed mention them down the pub of a weekend.

PARKHEAD67

sex & the city: the movie. Dont really need to explain why but I reckon my brains would explode after 2 mins. of watching it.

Dozen Wicked Words

Just the trailer for "The Ghost" makes me hate the film. Ewan McGregor uttering the line "What have you gotten me into?"

Sweet Jebus, awful line to put on a trailer.

Retr0gamer

Anything with Gerard Butler. The man once commanded 300 Spartans now look at him!

Optimalprimerib

If it stars colin firth, avoid like aids

MJ23

Mona Lisa Smile, Two Weeks Notice, Love Actually
Anything with ....................................
Julia Roberts, just cant look at her depressing face
Sandra Bollox, same in every film
Hugh Grant, floppy haired dithering twat
Eddie Murphy, shouts too much
Colin Firth, same in every film
Rene Zellweger, cant look at that scrunched up stupid face
Adam Sandler, just an idiot
Ben Stiller, tries way too hard
Gwyneth boring Paltrow,
Katie granny knickers Holmes
Kiera Knightley, skinny and annoying
Ricky Gervais, someone just shoot him please
Kate Winslet, just go away. in the nip in nearly every film
Robert Downey Jr. Just too sarcastic

Many more, just cant think

seraphimvc

i am not sure why,but movies like Jarhead, recently the Hurt locker, maybe the movies smell of political correction, always turn my interest off. i couldnt even finish the hurt locker's trailer on youtube i was bored by the trailer in 20seconds

tyler71

ziedth wrote: »

I remember seeing the ad for the vicki cristina Barcelona And thinking that I would actually rather anything that in All my years of films that I have hated then to even sit through the ad again.

Dear God, that film I had to stop watching it after less than an hour - that's one hour of my life wasted regardless of the Scarlett Johannsen ogle factor. I think you develop a good feeling after a while of films you're just not going to like - so most of the time you should go with that feeling.

missingtime

Anything with Shia La Beuf

Even though I did watch the Transformers movies but was eventually proved right

Mike Litoris

The remake of the Karate Kid looks fookin horrid....and dont get me started on that new A-Team movie.

JohnMearsheimer

Mama Mia....after seeing the trailer I don't think I could ever bring myself to watch it. I'll throw New Moon in there too.