Movies you can't stand

[Hourglass]

Popular movies I can't stand. Good topic! Though this is going to get me hated, lol...
To keep it fair, I'll only include movies I've actually seen. Let's see...

1) A Christmas Story - holidays are coming and for some reason, people love this movie. Why they do continues to baffle me.
2) Fight Club - interesting premise, with perhaps the worst ending in the history of motion pictures.
3) The Matrix - the first one. I enjoyed the second and third, but the first one was like watching a documentary with the occasional stunt thrown in to keep people awake.
4) There's Something About Mary - was this supposed to be a comedy? If so, I'm missing something.


I'm sure I'll think of others. Will update when I do.

[Tbone]

Off the top of my head the film that really pisses me off is:

BRAVEHEART - what a load of inaccurate crap

Other crap movies include:
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (I won't watch any of the others or read any of the books).
Bridget Jones' Diary, etc.
The Blair Witch Project - too boring for words

Originally Posted by Hourglass

[B]Popular movies I can't stand. Good topic! Though this is going to get me hated, lol...
To keep it fair, I'll only include movies I've actually seen. Let's see...

3) The Matrix - the first one. I enjoyed the second and third, but the first one was like watching a documentary with the occasional stunt thrown in to keep people awake.

Hourglass, I liked the first Matrix film. The second Matrix was just a tedious, montage of fight sequences, and as a consequence I never bothered to watch the third Matrix film. Just personal tastes - if we all liked the same films this thread wouldn't be.

[shadows]

Originally Posted by Hourglass

Popular movies I can't stand. Good topic! Though this is going to get me hated, lol...
To keep it fair, I'll only include movies I've actually seen. Let's see...

1) A Christmas Story - holidays are coming and for some reason, people love this movie. Why they do continues to baffle me.
2) Fight Club - interesting premise, with perhaps the worst ending in the history of motion pictures.
3) The Matrix - the first one. I enjoyed the second and third, but the first one was like watching a documentary with the occasional stunt thrown in to keep people awake.
4) There's Something About Mary - was this supposed to be a comedy? If so, I'm missing something.


I'm sure I'll think of others. Will update when I do.

I really enjoy A Christmas Story. I think that one of the reasons (for me, anyways) is that it takes place at a different time, when people's attitudes regarding the holidays was different. Plus, it was a story about a family and not about a dog/kid/adult/man-formerly-without-a-heart saving Christmas(or the world!). A consider it a classic!

With regards to The Matrix, I enjoyed the first one a lot more than the second two. That is not to say that I did not find some enjoyment in them, but they came across as just being made for the sake of being made. Something that made sense by the end of the first movie got way too obfuscated by the end of the third. They do it all again? The cycle is broken? Huh? LOL!

And there seems to be a lot of hate for the Harry Potter movies. I guess I am one of the few here that seems to enjoy them. LOL! I enjoyed the books more, though. I liked the journey that Harry and his friends were on, and how the story got darker as they got older. I could also see how she grew as a writer as each book went along.

Of course, these are just my opinions. There is certainly nothing wrong with anyone not liking the aforementioned movies. Heck, there are probably some people out there that enjoyed the movie 'Abandon'.:D

[shadows]

Here are some movies that I cannot stand.

Darkness. This movie, which came out in 2002 and starred Anna Paquin, was one of the most idiotic movies I have ever seen. The whole premise behind the "evil" of the movie, not to mention the actions by the mother/daughter left me shaking my head. And the ending? Ugh.

Abandon. This gem stars Katie Holmes(sorry Tom, but I'm not calling her Kate!) and Benjamin Bratt. This movie also came out in 2002. I actually prefer Darkness over this one. I can say, without a shadow of a doubt, that this is my most hated movie of ALL time. If I can, I try to dissuade people from having to watch this crappy-ass movie!

The Unborn. This movie came out this year. The main problem with this movie is that it takes every horror movie cliche and places it haphazardly in! While not a true pile of garbage, the movie was not scary at all as you knew where every "scare" was going to come from before it was even on the screen!

Out of the three, I would say to avoid watching Abandon the most.

I am sure I will find more movies later, but I had to get those ones off my chest first.:D

[alphanumeric]

God lord. We've come this far and yet nobody has mentioned the "Movie" Parody franchise? Those bastards must Die!!!

But singularly I would have to say Uwe Bolls "Alone in the Dark." I rented it on the premise that his work couldn't be as bad as everyone said.

Oh the horror of my mistake!!! It was the first time that a Movie really negatively upset me. The clerk was willing to refund me when he heard my tale of woe, But I told him some lesson's have to painful in order to truly learn something from them

I just IMDB'd Uwe for the title of the movie (I try NOT to remember anything about it!) And have discovered he actually made a fucking sequel!!!

There are people starving and that POS gets enough money together to make a sequel? There truly is no god...

[shadows]

Originally Posted by alphanumeric

God lord. We've come this far and yet nobody has mentioned the "Movie" Parody franchise? Those bastards must Die!!!

But singularly I would have to say Uwe Bolls "Alone in the Dark." I rented it on the premise that his work couldn't be as bad as everyone said.

Oh the horror of my mistake!!! It was the first time that a Movie really negatively upset me. The clerk was willing to refund me when he heard my tale of woe, But I told him some lesson's have to painful in order to truly learn something from them

I just IMDB'd Uwe for the title of the movie (I try NOT to remember anything about it!) And have discovered he actually made a fucking sequel!!!

There are people starving and that POS gets enough money together to make a sequel? There truly is no god...

Alpha, if you are talking about the Scary Movie series, I believe it was mentioned a few posts above(John mentioned it, I think).

Uwe Boll deserves to get locked away for the crap that he makes. A good movie premise can be turned to shit whenever he gets his "magic" touch on them. Perhaps he can be tied to a chair and forced to watch his crappy-ass movies for the rest of his life? Fair punishment I would say.

[alphanumeric]

Originally Posted by shadows

Alpha, if you are talking about the Scary Movie series, I believe it was mentioned a few posts above(John mentioned it, I think).

Uwe Boll deserves to get locked away for the crap that he makes. A good movie premise can be turned to shit whenever he gets his "magic" touch on them. Perhaps he can be tied to a chair and forced to watch his crappy-ass movies for the rest of his life? Fair punishment I would say.

No I'm talking about the "superhero", "Date", and "meet the spartans."

Those POS'

The scary movie franchise is actually done by different folks. Who are just a little bit smarter than the other guys. enough so that it's the other guys who earn my wrath.

[shadows]

Originally Posted by alphanumeric

No I'm talking about the "superhero", "Date", and "meet the spartans."

Those POS'

The scary movie franchise is actually done by different folks. Who are just a little bit smarter than the other guys. enough so that it's the other guys who earn my wrath.

I see. Yes, I have had the misfortune to see Date Movie. The spoof on Napoleon Dynamite at the beginning was the only part of the movie I enjoyed. A shame, as I am a big Alyson Hannigan fan.

I don't have any desire to see either the Spartan or Superhero ones either. From what you have said, I am saving myself some heartburn.

[Tbone]

Originally Posted by alphanumeric

No I'm talking about the "superhero", "Date", and "meet the spartans."

Those POS'

The scary movie franchise is actually done by different folks. Who are just a little bit smarter than the other guys. enough so that it's the other guys who earn my wrath.

Meet the Spartans was so bad I tried my hardest to forget I'd ever seen it. But to think someone gave them $20M to make another movie, scary.