It doesn’t matter if you’ve seen the movie before now or not; just that you are determined never to assault your senses with it in the future. I’d prefer if we were all specific (e.g., not saying I’ll never watch any Mel Gibson movie, but rather I refuse to watch The Beaver for any reason, up to and including Jodie Foster wanting to watch it with me before having sex with me), but I’ve been around here long enough to know that if the thread gets any traction, people will ignore the admonition no matter what.
To start off, I’ll mention another Gibson movie: The Passion of the Christ. I haven’t seen it and I don’t intend to, ever. The little I’ve seen of it in the trailers repulses me; it looks and sounds more like torture porn than anything worthwhile.
Paranormal Activity I, II, or now III. I won’t even let my husband tell me about them. We went and saw PA I when I was pregnant and I peed my pants. I’m not convinced if I hadn’t been pregnant I wouldn’t have peed my pants.
I had no great desire to see it when it first came out. People kept talking about how wonderful it was. No thanks, I really don’t want to watch it. Still, people everywhere kept going out of their way to tell me how fantastic it was.
One day I was in the checkout line at the grocery store, and it happened for the umpteenth time, and that was the breaking point for me. Someone mentioned the movie. I related that I hadn’t seen it. The checker told me “Oh, you ***have ***to see it!”
No, I really, really don’t. I decided then and there that under no circumstances would I ever watch this movie.
Even though part of me is dying to know the actual plot ending of the Saw series, I cannot watch another one of them. I’ve gotten through 5, and there are only 2 more, but there’s just too much gore for me to make it.
Human Centipede and HC 2. I’ve described them vaguely to hubby and he wants to see 1 at least, but I don’t think I’ll stay in the room if he ever gets them. Generally its my “job” to see to our entertainment options, so if he wants to see them, he’ll have to go after them specifically.
The ones mentioned (except Titanic, which I will watch part of anyway because it’s on some station every weekend).
-Requiem for a Dream.
-Any ‘Saw’ movie, or anything of that ilk.
-Pulp Fiction - I’ve seen bits and pieces, but I have no desire to sit down and watch it from start to finish, I think it’s repellent.
ditto for Pretty Woman and The Godfather. Yes, yes, excellent movies, yes, I’ve seen bits and pieces. Welcome to them. I think prostitution and the mob are both repellent, too. Making entertainment out of either subject, I understand and certainly have no objection to! - but to me personally, there is something that just says, ‘no’.
My hatred for Woody Allen is well documented on this Board. I know the man is super-multi-talented, but his douch-bagged-ness is rated a million times higher in my book.
Similar to Suburban Plankton’s objection to Titanic, I won’t see most movies that are shoved down my throat. And I hate, hate, hate when someone is compelled to describe to me a movie, book, tv show, etc. In that vein, I remember as a teen, my brother fell in love with the movie “Caddyshack,” and just would NOT shut up about it. To this day, I haven’t watched it, and have zero interest in ever doing so.
Other hugely popular movies strike me the same way, and I mostly don’t want to see them if I’ve been subjected to thousands of reviews, ads, hours of water cooler discussion, etc. It helps that I don’t really like watching movies, much TV, even youtube videos that go viral…
I don’t think there’s a single movie (and movie here can be expanded to include whatever amalgam of horrifying clips etc. you could possibly dredge up and fit onto a 3 hour DVD) that I would not watch for £30.
I really hate torture/slasher movies. I won’t watch them. If my 18 year old wants to watch them, he can do it in his room on the computer, because I don’t even want to *hear *them.
Generically, I will never watch anything in the torture porn genre.
Specifically, my hatred for “Raising Arizona” burns like hemmorhoids during a 20K bike ride.
It was the fave-rave of my brother and his friends in college/grad school, so whenever they were in for a visit that abomination was played at top volume at least once a night. It was so loud you couldn’t escape it except by leaving the house. when they weren’t watching it, they were bandying nonstop quotes back and forth.
I so badly hate that movie that I want to go back in time so I can steal his copy of it, smash it into little bits, burn the bits to ash with a blowtorch, and hurl the ashes into a black hole.
(and this being the Dope, I’m sure the “Raising Arizona” quotes will be popping up like mushrooms any moment now…)
Indeed. I’ve watched some really terrible movies. Like really bad. I’ve got a high threshold. If you pay me enough, I’d sit through it, even if it’s 2-girls-1-cup on continuous loop.
I can’t think of any movie that I wouldn’t watch if sex with Catherine Zeta Jones and/or 10,000 dollars was offered. I’d even watch a Uwe Boll film festival for 100,000, but it might require those things put on Alex’s eyes in Clockwork Orange and straps to keep me from clawing my eyes out.