Movies I Never Want To See Again

[naamah_darling]

Well, alainbriongloid asked me for a list of movies I never want to see again, and I couldn't resist the opportunity. So, I compiled a partial catalog of stuff I could go the rest of my life without seeing ever again

Comments

[orange_peacock]

I can't do scary movies at all. AT ALL. As in, "The Village" made it hard for me to sleep for awhile. I am so jumpy, and will leap three feet out of my chair if a coworker so much as shuts a door nearby. I can do dark, I can do psychologically disturbing, but damn does plain ol' freaky-gory horror make me want to hide in a very well-lit public place for a long time.

And pointless excessive violence in movies makes me sad. I'm glad they're starting to add DESCRIPTIONS to movie ratings now (and some of those descriptions crack me up) but I wish they'd have a whole separate rating system for movies that are "adult" for violence or for sex, so I could avoid the violent ones. Although methinks they'd just make the sex movies with more restrictive ratings than the violent ones, so that kids will be completely desensitized to human suffering by majority and totally clueless about sex. OH WAIT THEY ALREADY DO.

(Sorry for the pissy comment...I just got finished writing my weekly column for the school paper on how profoundly disappointed I am in the 156 assrags in Congress who don't think all kids - not even all people, but kids - deserve to see doctors...buncha maggots selectively chomping at the festering green sore of a federal pocketbook to kill as many people at home and abroad as possible. I'm a little hostile right now.)

[naamah_darling]

Am I a pussy? The Village, the first 2/3 anyway, freaked me out, too.

(And, yeah, I'd be hostile too. Evil fucksticks, the lot of 'em. Totally agree with you on all points re: sex and violence.)

[orange_peacock]

Everyone I know found "The Village" completely unscary. I think they didn't really consider it horror so much as weird-ass unspecified something. But they're screwed-up people who LIKE scary movies, and enjoyed Saw and all its sequels. So no, you're not a pussy. You just have one. :-P

[naamah_darling]

I've got to say that I know some people who consider stuff like Saw to be a "horror movie," but who cannot appreciate the horror in, say, The Thing, or The Fog. Anything more subtle.

There needs to be an acknowledged difference between a horror movie and a disturbing gorefest that relies on brute physical force to create a reaction.

The Village was one of those subtly scary movies. Like The Ring, or The first bits of The Blair Witch Project. What is scary is not what you see, it is what you are imagining.

Movies that don't make you work for the horror? I don't consider that fair play.