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

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[tattycat]

Saw III. *kri*

And I agree with so very many of the ones on your list, it's not even funny. Frx, I can watch The Ring, but only when it's daylight. Event Horizon, likewise.

[naamah_darling]

Yeah, I just avoided the Saw movies altogether. I no longer feel I need to prove my masculinity by watching stuff I know is going to be really revolting and disturbing.

I learned a lesson, see, by letting people talk me into seeing shit like Seven.

[ladymairwen]

Ditto the Saw movies disgust.

Somebody tried to explain to me the ...philosophy?...of clownsadistdude and it took me about 30 seconds of thought to decide "um, nope."

They are designed to gross out, revolt, disturb, and otherwise fuck with the heads of normal people. Or perhaps (more disturbingly) for some people to enjoy death and murder and gore without actually having to murder anyone. Like a snuff porn.

[naamah_darling]

Hence the "torture porn" appellation for the genre. Totally accurate.

[coyotegoth]

Agreed on all counts, especially about The Hulk, which came close to being one of my greatest movie disappointments of all time. (Phantom Menace; Star Trek: the Motion Picture and Eyes Wide Shut still head that list.) (Also, I suspect that Halloween would edge out The Fog as "worst remake of a Carpenter flick ever"; however, I don't plan to verify that.)

[naamah_darling]

I can't say; I didn't see the revamped Halloween. I certainly don't intend to.

I was so pissed about the Hulk. It sucked SO badly. Unbelievable. How the hell do you screw up a movie about a giant green guy who smashes shit? HOW!?

[ygrane]

Eyes Wide Shut is an absolutely beautiful film in fast forward. The dialog and character interaction are totally unrelated to the beautiful ball scene, and are rather tedious, so why bother with them? And, in fast forward, it only takes about thirty minutes of your time instead of the usual three hundred thousand hours of a standard Kubrick film. ;-p

[spooke]

God, yes. Another one I'd rather not watch again is 2001: A Space Odyssey. It's a classic, yadda yadda, I think I missed two birthdays while I was watching it.

[ygrane]

Naamah, have you been stealing my brains again? I wouldn't recommend it, they're not very good brains.

But I agree with you on all of them save for The Fog, which I have not seen, and The Ring, which I'm ambivalent about. Though I don't think I'd seek it out again, so I suppose it would go on my no re-watch list too.

Event Horizon traumatized me. I cannot watch it. And I fear and loathe Sam Neil by association now. Ditto for Se7en. Though I can forgive Kevin Spacey because I didn't stick around long enough to see the end, so I didn't ever see his face.

[naamah_darling]

I was actually angry at Sam Neil for a while, because prior to that movie I'd really liked him a lot. Then I saw him in that really cool, creepy version of Snow White they did with Sigourney Weaver as the wicked stepmother, and I forgave him. He was fine in that, and the movie was really cool.

I'm sooo glad I'm not the only one who found Event Horizon to be totally horrific.

[ygrane]

OOO, I'll have to look up Snow White.

I think it's sort of a fifty-fifty chance. EH employed a lot of subliminal imagery, and if you're really susceptible to that, like I am, then it's a truly horrifying movie. They people I know who aren't thought it was boring and a bad horror flick.

AI is a film I will never ever see again. Three hours of Haley Joel Osmett wailing piteously for his mother. No thanks.

[oregonrose]

LOVE your icon!

[agirl_gonemad]

I also hated The Ring, but I really liked Ringu (it was scarier, somehow). Pathfinder...is horrible. Hilarious (not on purpose) but horrible. The leading actor had more lines in the Lord of the Rings movies than in his own.

[naamah_darling]

Pathfinder: YES YOU SEE NOW WHY I LIKED IT!!! :D

It's my love of awful movies!

It was wonderfully bad, in a way that I actually do want to watch again and again, because it's so much fun to laugh at. The violence was really entertaining, and, in terms of how it looked, it was beautiful. Not that these things defend its copious awfulness.

Poor Karl Urban. He's pretty cute, you know? He deserves better.

[agirl_gonemad]

That he does. I didn't realize the character's name was Ghost until the 2nd go round, reading the end credits. Thomas and I show it to friends so that they don't go buying it on their own.

[naamah_darling]

"Thomas and I show it to friends so that they don't go buying it on their own."

That totally cracked me up. BWAHAHA!

We do the same thing with bad movies to OUR friends. Misery shared is misery lessened!

[apocalypticbob]

It's funny, because some of the movies you despise are some of my favorites! Too bizarre

[naamah_darling]

"I had to watch it a few times in the daylight before I could be okay with it

[pinstripe_bindi]

Nathan Fillion plays the first Private Ryan, the one who turns out to be the wrong guy. I saw the movie for the first time since I saw it in the theater (before I had any idea who he was, of course) a couple years ago and was like HOLY SHIT IT'S CAP'N TIGHTPANTS!

[dorei]

The scene that really got to me in SPR was the scene where the jewish soldier is being killed in that upstairs room. Just the way the german soldier was on top of him saying "shhhhhh ..." as he pushed the knife into him and the jewish kid is saying "wait, wait," like some sort of time out when you're playing tag at home. It just really got to me more than any of the over the top violence did in that movie. I think the reason why the storming the beach scene didn't affect me as much was because I knew it was going to be horribly violent so I spent the majority of that scene with my head buried against my date's shoulder.