Worst films to watch on a first date?

El Duda

Just finished watching Shame and it got me thinking....

What would be the absolute worst film to watch on a first date?


Shame
Kill List
Anti-christ

seamusk84

Schindlers List

degsie

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2190126/

Insect Overlord

Going to the movies for a first date is a bad move all round. :P

I convinced someone to watch "Freaks " (1932) with me last night though. That was a risky move.

Indestructable

Human centipede

blue note

I went to kinsey on a first date. To be honest I think a movie is a crap first date anyway, but I was 19 in college and heard it was good. And it was. But looking at pictures of genitalia and listening to people talk about painful sex and the like was seriously awkward!

A Neurotic

A friend of mine invited a girl over for a movie, flicked around on Netflix and found what looked like a nice goofey Jim Carrey comedy.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is not a good date movie.

bonyn

My brother asked me for a dvd that he could watch with his newish gf. A comedy.

I gave him Rules of Attraction.

Think they turned it off after 5 mins. Apparently she didn't think the rape scene was funny.

Jimbob1977

The Accused

Hostel

Shallow Hal

degrassinoel

An File wrote: »

Going to the movies for a first date is a bad move all round. :P

I convinced someone to watch "Freaks " (1932) with me last night though. That was a risky move.

One of us! One of US! ONE OF US!

conorhal

Years back I bumped into a buddy in Temple Bar who was on a first date, I was headed to the IFI to catch a movie and he and his date tagged along, knowing I was into my indie movies at the time I guess my mate thought he could appropriate a little culture and sophistication to impress his date from my movie choice.
We went to see Tarnation, a biographical documentary film by Jonathan Coulette cobbled together from video, audio and home movies he had obsessively made over the years. It's kind of harrowing in places as it deals with his deeply troubled childhood and relationship with his schizophrenic mother and is pretty experimental to boot, so perhaps not really a first date movie.
My mates date literally sobbed her way through the entire film and when it ended so did the date, she was too depressed and emotionally wrung out from the film and just wanted to go home while he was just bored and bewildered by the whole thing.

They are now married.

Not a first date per say, but the first time I was introduced to the new girlfriend of another friend of mine, we met to see a movie, which again I picked.
This time it was Rules of Attraction, a cheeky indie that looked humorous and entertaining, the fact it was based on a Bret Easton Ellis novel though really should have been a subtle warning that there was going to be all kinds of fukd up involved along the way, certiantly I didn't know it opened with a pretty nasty gang rape at a college party that ends with the semi-conscious victim getting vomited on. God the evil look I got from his girlfriend said it all, this is what you watch for entertainment?

They are now married also. So in a way, perhaps they were good first date movies, at least it gave them something to talk about afterwards, even if that something was largely centered around, 'seriously, what is wrong with your friend?'

mansize

The passion of the Christ

Gatling

Debbie does Dallas
One night In Paris
One night in chyna

mansize

Lolita

5rtytry56

Eyes wide shut
War of the roses

ganmo

Black swan

Manchegan

It's not necessary for the film to be bad to put the kibosh on a first date. I'd heard good reviews of this new release...

"Wanna go see a movie?"
"What's on?
"True Romance"

*tumbleweed*

mansize

Crank


It was so bad and it pushed the myth the no doesn't mean no if she enjoyed it...

Chain Smoker

Looking For Mr Goodbar is about a sexually liberal woman and goes along swimmingly, if somewhat boring, right up until the final scene, in which (this is an utterly **** film that hasn't even came out on dvd so you should just click on the spoiler)

a young Tom Berenger (who she went on one date with earlier in the film) reappears to brutally rape and murder the woman, credits roll

See also: Irreversible, Mike Leigh's Naked

An File wrote: »

Going to the movies for a first date is a bad move all round. :P

Yup

D0NNELLY

Anal Angles 4.

WinnyThePoo

Salo?

barney shamrock

Deliverance.

thejuggler

Best film (from a straight males perspective) might be Titanic.

Long movie but she goes down at the end

titan18

A Clockwork Orange would be a bad idea. I kinda did that once (wasn't a date but did like the girl)

Citygirl1

The Wolf of Wall Street.

I started re-watching this once on a plane, but had to turn it off during the first scene, as I was embarrassed that the guy beside me could see my screen:o.

tricky D

An File wrote: »

Going to the movies for a first date is a bad move all round. :P

I convinced someone to watch "Freaks " (1932) with me last night though. That was a risky move.

degrassinoel wrote: »

One of us! One of US! ONE OF US!

If she comes out chanting this afterwards, she's a keeper.

My worst date movie, Monsieur Hire. Thankfully it wasn't a first date nor the last.

D3V!L

I brought a first date to see "Enemy at the Gates" , looked good but I really didn't think it out. She was German and her grand father fought in the war.

Just in case you haven't seen that cinematic classic its about a mass ambush of German soldiers in Stalingrad where a serious amount of them died. :pac:

Not my best moment, we were together for 9 years later though.

lapua20grain

The fifth wave just cos its crap

SimonTemplar

Blue Valentine. An extremely depressing movie starring Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling whereby the movie's timeline is split, contrasting the fun and excitement of a couple's early romance with the painful breakdown of their marriage years later.

liam7831

I Went Down

Arsemageddon

Bad Boy Bubby

Come And See

ixoy

Okay, it was our second date but "Wolf Creek" was definitely not his sort of film. Head on a stick..he hasn't forgotten it..
Can't have been too bad given we're engaged now and that was nearly eleven years ago.

Arghus

I Spit on Your Grave.

Audition.

Dead Ringers.

Killer Joe.

Insect Overlord

ixoy wrote: »

Okay, it was our second date but "Wolf Creek" was definitely not his sort of film. Head on a stick..he hasn't forgotten it..
Can't have been too bad given we're engaged now and that was nearly eleven years ago.

Oh, man! I remember watching that on DVD with an ex about 8 years ago. We also saw "Last House On the Left" in the cinema. Bad choices!

Liam McPoyle

Arghus wrote: »

I Spit on Your Grave.

Audition.

Dead Ringers.

Killer Joe.

Funnily enough my now wife and I went to see Killer Joe on our second or third date.

It was a good litmus test before i told her i was into really extreme cinema.

Mike Litoris

The Crying Game.

Bacchus

There's a niche selection of girls that would enjoy these as "first date movies" but for the majority....

Pi
Brazil
Primer
2001
Any TOS/TNG Star Trek movie
50s-80s sci-fi (Planet of Apes, Day the Earth Stood Still, Forbidden Planet, etc.)

They're all too slow paced, odd or just plain nerdy to set a tone of fun, romance or fear

Mizu_Ger

Eyes Wide Shut. I know this from experience (wasn't quite a first date, but near enough).

5rtytry56

A Scanner Darkly

V1llianous

Boys don't cry.

It was our first date but definately not a film for throwing an arm around the shoulder. Still together 16 years later though

Chain Smoker

Bacchus wrote: »

There's a niche selection of girls that would enjoy these as "first date movies" but for the majority....

Pi
Brazil
Primer
2001
Any TOS/TNG Star Trek movie
50s-80s sci-fi (Planet of Apes, Day the Earth Stood Still, Forbidden Planet, etc.)

They're all too slow paced, odd or just plain nerdy to set a tone of fun, romance or fear

No need to specify girls there, I like a lot of those but I'd ****ing hate to go to any of them on a date.

Mizu_Ger

What was that film that Robert de Niro takes Sybil Shepherd to see in Taxi Driver?????? :eek:

5rtytry56

Blair Witch project

ixoy

'Irreversible' wouldn't be a great choice.

5rtytry56

• Hollow Man
• Rainman

degsie

I spit on your grave I/II/III

TerrorFirmer

Yeah, it's already been mentioned but Irreversible would definitely top the list of inappropriate first date movies for me. Such a brutal, disturbing film that doesn't leave you for a very, very long time. I think I saw it about ten years ago and even now the mention of that word makes me feel uncomfortable.

Robsweezie

Single white female

And that film about the girl with teeth in her hoo ha

5rtytry56

MISERY

Sam Kade

El Duda wrote: »

Just finished watching Shame and it got me thinking....

What would be the absolute worst film to watch on a first date?


Shame
Kill List
Anti-christ

The best would be scary film she'll be latched onto you all night

ciarang85

Song for a raggy boy