the one film you wish you didnt see

lizzylad84

ok, just curious.....whats the one film you wish you didnt bother going to see....be it in the cinema, dvd rental/purchase or download



mine would have to be Drive.....what a pretentious, mind numbing pile of horse ****......

Sleepy

Happiness.

Brilliantly acted and well directed but a thoroughly miserable experience.

Lingua Franca

Eraserhead. Total mindf*ck.

briggy

Human Centipede......

Cork24

the league of extraordinary gentlemen

yuloni

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SpaceCowb0y

The Missing (2003) think i actually may have fallen asleep in the cinema!

Banjaxed82

SpaceCowb0y wrote: »

The Missing (2003) think i actually may have fallen asleep in the cinema!

That was a pile of sh!te. I literally had forgotten about that film completely til I read your post.

False Prophet

"Tree of life"

Pointless Film trying too hard to be different/arty

muppetkiller

The Happening and The new Indiana Jones...shudder

MikeD22

Curious case of Benjamin Button

Utter boll0x

Lennonist

The Idiots

winston82

Dude, where's my car.

Worst. Film. Ever.

homeless student

Date movie, could only watch about 3o mins of it.

storker

Face Off

2+ hours of my life I'll never get back.

They re-made the Itchy & Scratchy Show, only with humans.

Stork

SpaceCowb0y

Banjaxed82 wrote: »

That was a pile of sh!te. I literally had forgotten about that film completely til I read your post.

CRAAAP!!!!!

Rayne Wooney

Silent Hill

It's one of those movies that I thought I fell asleep after about 10 minutes and dreamt what happens next, I still can't make sense of what happened in that 2 hours and 5 minutes of my life

hidinginthebush

Tree of life.

I didn't bother too much with reviews beforehand (I like to go into movies with an open mind), but really wish I had on this one. Put simply, its a movie for people who see the medium as art, and not entertainment. Much in the way I'll gladly drink a nice wine, the €300 a bottle stuff would be wasted on me, since I just don't take the time and effort to appreciate it, I just take it for what it is, a drink. Such was the case with the tree of life. I know people will simply say it was "pretentious" and leave it at that, but one thing the film did teach me was to dissect exactly why I didn't like it (largely through having to defend why I didn't like it in the movie megathread :pac: ). So in some ways, it actually made me a better critic, but at its own expense. Keeping in mind I really wanted to like this film, it was just too grand and ambitious while at the same time too scatty and jumpy for me to get to grips with the pace and enjoy it. The reason I'm sorry I saw it was that I had really looked forward to it, but just couldn't get on board with it.

DrumSteve

Its 50/50 between "I Dont Know How She Does It" and "A Serbian Film".

In fact, I probably found the former more offenisve.

Galwayguy35

Alexander

I think everyone else in the cinema felt the same way as me as well.

pawrick

Having some bears year ago in a mates house and one of them had this rented


Men in White (1998)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0156789/

How it gets 2.5 on imdb I've no idea - we turned it off after 30 mins playing in the background as the dialogue was so bad.

Skerries

Alexander is the only film i have ever come close to walking out on
but A Serbian Film does it for me, took me days to shake it off

TheUsual

That Korean film "Oldboy" ... nasty story.

ahuminahumina

Just saw Man of the House. Attrocious cac. Tommy Lee Jones can surely do better. If I start a film, I have to see it to the end no matter how bad it is. Terrible affliction to have.

T-K-O

TheUsual wrote: »

That Korean film "Oldboy" ... nasty story.

:eek:

Nasty but brilliant.

The Hollywood butcher is releasing their own version pretty soon

Pilotdude5

Titanic II

During the Atlantic crossing, the effects of global warming cause the Helheim Glacier in Greenland to collapse, creating a giant tsunami that sends an iceberg crashing into the ship, while the passengers are partying in the dining saloon.

TheUsual

ahuminahumina wrote: »

Just saw Man of the House. Attrocious cac. Tommy Lee Jones can surely do better. If I start a film, I have to see it to the end no matter how bad it is. Terrible affliction to have.

haha ! looks so bad, I can give that a miss.

Here's a quality Tommy film from 2009 if you haven't seen it yet "In the Electric Mist"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0910905/

T-K-O

Matrix 2/3

krudler

Kingdom of the Crytal Skull, a true piece of sh1t.

madma

employee of the month (dont even ask)

Cyrus (saw this in the cinema and was very close to walking out, utter crap)

many more that i cant think of but those 2 spring to mind

e_e

lizzylad84 wrote: »

what a pretentious

How the hell is it pretentious?

AidySevenfold

Prometheus.

e_e

False Prophet wrote: »

"Tree of life"

Pointless Film trying too hard to be different/arty

..and what does arty mean?

I don't think The Tree of Life was trying too hard to be anything. It's the work of a master who knows completely what he's doing. I just wish the film's naysayers would question their own reactions to it and why it makes some viewers so angry. There's nothing to be gained by just saying things like "pretentious", "self-indulgent", "arty" without substantiating them with anything. :pac:

I kinda empathize with this review:
http://www.amazon.com/review/R1G5TF9PFTSTVP/ref=cm_cr_dp_title?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B005HV6Y5W&channel=detail-glance&nodeID=2625373011&store=movies-tv

grohlisagod

A Serbian Film.

Esel

Lingua Franca wrote: »

Eraserhead. Total mindf*ck.

+1.

Also The Elephant Man.

crazygeryy

grohlisagod wrote: »

A Serbian Film.

+1
like i said before. the makers and actors involved in this movie should be rounded up and executed.

Pat Mustard

The Spirit.

Utter trash. Don't even watch it if someone pays you €20 to watch it on tv. Go and look out the window instead.

Even now, it annoys me to think of it.

johnny_ultimate

False Prophet wrote: »

"Tree of life"

Pointless Film trying too hard to be different/arty

The thing The Tree of Life actually proves is that pretty much all other films don't try hard enough.

I actually don't have it in me to try and defend the film on these types of threads anymore. Although I do find it increasingly odd that the word 'art' seems to be used as some sort of insult or indicator of negativity in relation to film.

Pat Mustard

TheUsual wrote: »

That Korean film "Oldboy" ... nasty story.

Sacrilege.

T-K-O wrote: »

The Hollywood butcher is releasing their own version pretty soon

Sacrilege is the order of the day. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1321511/

Lexe

TheUsual wrote: »

That Korean film "Oldboy" ... nasty story.

Yeh this movie is sick with a pretty gross scene at the end but I thought it was a great movie. I think Japanese and Korean cinema push the boundaries in an effort to get noticed in America

T-K-O

The Mustard wrote: »

Sacrilege.



Sacrilege is the order of the day. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1321511/

Urrgh.

They will destroy a brilliant movie.

Princess Peach

The day the earth stood still, Keanu Reeves.

I should have jumped off the plane instead of sitting through that.

stoneill

The last three Star Wars films.

Pat Mustard

T-K-O wrote: »

Urrgh.

They will destroy a brilliant movie.

They will.

And Samuel L. "Say what again" Jackson is in it. Presumably as the villain (shudder).

It's all wrong.

Pat Mustard

Princess Peach wrote: »

The day the earth stood still, Keanu Reeves.

I should have jumped off the plane instead of sitting through that.

I thought Keanu Reeves was very plausible as an emotionless, inhuman life form. It was like he wasn't acting at all.

realgirl

Be Kind Rewind or Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
Gave up on both within half an hour, and I would watch nearly anything to the end.

Tipsy McSwagger

The Tree of Life has arguably the greatest extended scene of all time, the creation of life. It's a film for people who don't need a car chase or violent set piece every 10 minutes to hold their attention.

bnt

While visiting a friend in Cardiff a couple of years ago, we went to see Saw 3D, because he's a fan of that sort of thing. I am not, and the film did not change that. It's also the only 3D film I have seen, and I'm in no hurry to repeat that experience either.

crazygeryy

Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »

The Tree of Life has arguably the greatest extended scene of all time, the creation of life. It's a film for people who don't need a car chase or violent set piece every 10 minutes to hold their attention.

so correct me if im wrong but are you saying anyone that disliked that movie(and i have not seen it) is a cretin?

a sweeping generalisation if i do say so myself. :rolleyes:

krudler

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

The thing The Tree of Life actually proves is that pretty much all other films don't try hard enough.

I actually don't have it in me to try and defend the film on these types of threads anymore. Although I do find it increasingly odd that the word 'art' seems to be used as some sort of insult or indicator of negativity in relation to film.

It doesnt have enough 'splosions, although there are dinosaurs in it.

lizzylad84

may get some flack for this but i fell asleep during the day the earth stood still, the remake of coarse...................................and what the fudge was "burn after reading" about.....still have no idea