What movie do you most detest? (1 Viewer)

[Claire Panke]

Originally Posted by Elizabeth S

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover


Granted, I have never seen the last 20 minutes of this film. It is just one of the most unpleasant films I've seen and I finally walked out and let my date finish watching the film. Spent the time in the lobby talking with the theater worker about having to clean up vomit after the film. I've seen about 3 Greenaway films now and concluded they are just not for me. I like dark and to some depressing films (love the aforementioned "Happiness"), but I don't need to see dog shit, maggots and a fork in the cheek in the guise of an arthouse film. I could never understand Roger Ebert's love of this film, but came to realize I leaned more toward Siskel's tastes.

I adore the films of Peter Greenaway - but he's not especiallt interested in conentional narrative movie making, so his oevre is not for everyone. (In fact, just finished an afternoon with Night Watching today - I can imagine what the Hobbit fans who track this down will think, LOL.) I've owned the CTWL on DVD since it was firwst released in the formar, and I would buy it on BD in a heartbeat. It may help to know that it isn't (nor was it intended to be) "realistic", although I don't find it conventionally shocking. As a movie about fascism, it is meant to be uncomfortable viewing.

If Greenaway offends I'd definitely advise you to steer clear of Pasolini films in general and Salo in particular. (I've seen Salo once and that is quite enough.) Frankly, I've felt Mel Gibson's recent output was much more offputting than anything Greenaway has done (Greenaway's films do have an intellecutal rigor as opposed to Gibson's underlying masochism, that is something I find fairly repellent.)


There are lots of films I don't like, that were either disappointments or movies I thought were overrated or that I find just plain silly (Zardoz, frex, is too hippy-dippy-trippy to loathe; I can say I first saw it in is original theatrical run and so can put it into the context of its time). I have no use for gore porn either, mindless action flicks and Michael Bay movies I just don't watch.


I just don't have the energy to hate most mediorce movies. Moreover, there's hardly a film mentioned in this thread that someone, somewhere doesn't like or even love (see above). I generally try to stay away from movies I don't think I'll like - why waste time and money on something that's not good or you know isn't to your taste? You couldn't have paid me to see Pearl Harbor.


That said, I have to jump in and share my strong dislike of Van Helsing, a film I would've walked out of had I been alone. Probably the closest I've come to truly loathing a movie is Event Horizon. What a tiresome let down considering the cast.


I like Daniel Craig as Bond - the other Bond movies are hardly great art y'know - and I must confess Gladiator is a guilty pleasure, not good, but it's the only sword and sandle porn I've enjoyed in modern times.

 

[Mike Frezon]

Originally Posted by Richard--W


Oh, that Jack Briggs. I thought the poster meant an actor or a director or somebody. My mind is full of film and work. I don't obsess over the membership and I never remember who the people are. You have no idea how busy the last six years have been.

I sure do.


Oh wait. You were talking about your mind/life.

 

[MatthewA]

Originally Posted by TonyD

I despise any movie made by the duo of Freidberg and that other guy, Date movie, Disaster movie, and the most recent film which finally left thier names off the front of the dvd, Vampires Suck.

Those guys are true hacks.

I think those "movies" are overrated. Any rating higher than "kill it with fire" is overrating them. All of cinema is cheapened by their existence. Godfather, Citizen Kane, Lawrence of Arabia, Casablanca, all of those were much better movies before those two pieces of garbage came on the scene. They'd have to do actual activity just to be lazy.

 

[Bob_S.]

I don't think I really despise or hate any movie. I may dislike it enough to never watch it again (it's a long list) but not hate it. Jaws: The Revenge is the only movie I can think of where I wanted my money back. Despite a number of things that bothered me including the death of Martin Brody, the real kicker was the shark following Ellen Brody down to the Bahamas from Amity. For me, the Jaws francise ends with Jaws 2. Same with the Alien series. I have no desire to rewatch 3 or 4. Still trying to figure out why Citizen Kane is so great. I love old movies but this was just plain boring! Oh, I thought Deadman's Chest was the best of the trilogy-go figure.

 

[Brent M]

Originally Posted by Richard--W



Oh, really?

You think so?


Brace yourself.

My response is coming in due course.



PLEASE don't bother. I won't read it anyway so you'll be wasting your time.

 

[Adam Lenhardt]

Just Friends (2005). I saw it for free at a critics' screening, but still felt robbed of my time. It's not just awful, it's relentlessly unlikable.

 

[Lucia Duran]

Knowing starring Nicolas Cage. What a piece of crap film that was. I was so mad for wasting my money on it.

 

[Kazz]

2001 a space odyssey was one movie i totally hated. Perhaps because at the time I was watching it I was not a treki.

 

[Richard--W]

Originally Posted by Brent M



Oh, really?

You think so?


Brace yourself.

My response is coming in due course.



PLEASE don't bother. I won't read it anyway so you'll be wasting your time.


It's coming ....

 

[TonyD]

sigh...


Really can you guys just not do that, not very interesting from either side.

 

[Mike Frezon]

Originally Posted by TonyD

sigh...


Really can you guys just not do that, not very interesting from either side.

Agreed. The point of the thread is to simply state what films you detest...and why.


The point of the thread is not to antagonize each other and add posts without value to the membership.

 

[Chi Chi Rodrigweez]

So many bad ones have already been mentioned (Transformers 2, Batman & Robin, Phantom Menace), so I'll venture over to a different franchise and go with Star Trek V.


And while we're in that universe, Star Trek: Insurrection. How many times does Data have to go berserk before they finally realize he's somewhat of a risk/liability? I won't even get into the karaoke scene, or Worf's space zit.

 

[Aaron Silverman]

You can't mention the Star Trek franchise in this thread without bringing up Generations. That was the most miserable excuse for Star Trek ever committed to film. The only thing it did right was the way it killed off Kirk -- until it brought him back to life and re-killed him in a mind-numbingly stupid way!

 

[WadeM]

Pretty much any film that uses the name Michael Bay, Jerry Bruckheimer, Steven Spielberg or Paul Schrader.


I love all kinds of movies, but something about the superficialness of the films associated with these names actually makes me angry (although I do enjoy other superficial movies). And something about their films make me feel like they're trying to do something more than what they're capable of effectively doing. Their films play like they're amateurs pretending to be professionals. But again, they just fail.

I was amused when I discovered that there's actually entire websites devoted to hating Michael Bay films...

 

[WillG]

Pretty much any film that uses the name Michael Bay, Jerry Bruckheimer, Steven Speilberg or Paul Schrader.

Guess everyone is entitled to their opinion, but Spielberg? Granted he's had some misfires and his more recent work can get on the schmaltzy side. But "Jaws" "CE3K" "Raiders"?

 

[WadeM]

Oddly enough, of all of his films, I don't mind Raiders and Minority Report, although I only saw MR one time in a theater so my opinion may change on that one if I saw it again. I really don't care for his other ones though.


For the other people I named, it's 100% dislike.

 

[Chuck Anstey]

I had one but then someone mention the Star Trek: TNG films and I forgot I had two.


Star Trek: First Contact : Somehow after 7 years of Captain Picard being a total weeny, we are supposed to believe he can become all Captain Kirk as a man obsessed with destroying the Borg even though he didn't in any other episode after becoming Locutus. I just can't stand movies where an established main character pulls a 180.


My number 1 detested movie though is The Two Towers or more specifically I detest Peter Jackson and what he did to it. The book characters were noble, honorable, and willing to fight a lost cause because it was the right thing to do. In the movie they were all sniveling cowards trying to avoid their responsibilities and hide from the coming darkness. Also the book was practically a screenplay without modification but PJ decided he had to make up 4 additional scenes out of whole cloth. Two of them were needed to undo his rewrite of the characters' personalities and motivations so the events of the book would still happen and all of them were pathetic movie cliches that lowered the quality of the movie.

 

[Nick Martin]

Originally Posted by Ronald Epstein

I was thinking about this very question today.


There is one single film that makes me tense inside every

time I see that it's being shown on television.


The one film I will never, ever watch again because it

just makes me angry to think of it....


Independence Day


This film makes my skin crawl. Touted as blockbuster

style entertainment it was huge on effects but obviously

there was no money left to spend on talent. Here we have

Bill Pullman as President giving a speech which has

to be amongst the most uninspiring dreck ever delivered

on screen.

Then, you pull in a has-been actor like Judd Hirsch who

does a very clichéd over-the-top portrayal of a Jewish Father.

And Harvey Fierstein? What the heck was he doing in

this film?

Just bad entertainment all around.


Very curious to find out what single film makes your

skin crawl more than anything else?

and INDEPENDENCE DAY is one of my all-time favorite movies that I have never and will never tire of. To each their own and I love it primarily because I find it to be wonderful entertainment all-around.


The speech, the tender moments, David Arnold's mesmerizing score, the effects, all of it. I love that film inside and out, through and through.


Also makes for a great Blu-ray disc.

 

[Brett_M]

Carlito's Way: Rise to Power sucks really hard.

 

[Aaron Silverman]

Originally Posted by Chuck Anstey

I had one but then someone mention the Star Trek: TNG films and I forgot I had two.


Star Trek: First Contact : Somehow after 7 years of Captain Picard being a total weeny, we are supposed to believe he can become all Captain Kirk as a man obsessed with destroying the Borg even though he didn't in any other episode after becoming Locutus. I just can't stand movies where an established main character pulls a 180.


My number 1 detested movie though is The Two Towers or more specifically I detest Peter Jackson and what he did to it. The book characters were noble, honorable, and willing to fight a lost cause because it was the right thing to do. In the movie they were all sniveling cowards trying to avoid their responsibilities and hide from the coming darkness. Also the book was practically a screenplay without modification but PJ decided he had to make up 4 additional scenes out of whole cloth. Two of them were needed to undo his rewrite of the characters' personalities and motivations so the events of the book would still happen and all of them were pathetic movie cliches that lowered the quality of the movie.

First Contact is actually my favorite Next Generation film. Probably for the same reason you didn't like it.


Just out of curiosity, which version of The Two Towers did you see? IMO the characters came across much better in the extended cut (especially Faramir).