I picked up a few movies in the library the other day, and for reasons I can’t now reconstruct, I settled in last night with my knitting and You Don’t Mess with the Zohan. I thought it might be, yanno, funny.
What the hell was I thinking? I don’t like Adam Sandler, and it was clear in the first five minutes what the movie was going to be like – but for some reason, I sat there and watched the entire movie. I did laugh once, though I can’t recall why, and it was slightly amusing watching the various cameos – Chris Rock! Charlotte Rae! Mariah Carey!!! – but overall – yikes, what the hell was I thinking? Stupid and offensive – but most egregiously, not funny.
What really dreadful movies have you sat all the way through because of sheer inertia? (Note: If there was someone else in the room who was enjoying the movie, it doesn’t count – you have to accept full responsibility for wasting those two hours of your life while knowing during each and every one of those 120 minutes that you weren’t enjoying the movie at any level.)
Liar Liar. There really wasn’t anything that appealed at the theater and we wanted to see something, so we picked this. Not funny at all. Not only didn’t I laugh, but I can’t recall the audience laughing at anything on the screen (other than maybe the goofs at the end).
Twilight, but only sort-of. It wasn’t very engaging, but wasn’t the horror that so many people lead you to believe, either. I survived by texting a friend who’d previously seen it every time something incredulous happened.
Forgive me, but if it was that boring why didn’t you just leave, rather than ruin everyone else’s experience? I know this is a whole 'nother subject for a whole 'nother (pit) thread but since I rarely hear anyone admit they text in movie theatres, maybe you can share your thoughts?
I know this wasn’t asked of me, but why does texting inside a movie theater “ruin everyone else’s experience?”
Full disclosure, I don’t go to the movies much, and I don’t have much experience with texting, though I did it some to keep in touch with my family while visiting England.
I can see the argument that, say, talking on a cell phone is disruptive to the people around you no matter how low you try to keep your voice, and you should leave the theater if you absolutely must take the call. But assuming that the phone can be adjusted to not make beeping sounds with each keypress, also that it doesn’t make any loud noises when sending the text or receiving a response from the friend, that the brightness of the phone screen can be turned down - how is this disruptive to anyone else in the theater? Could you somehow sense that Aesiron isn’t watching the screen like anyone else, and have that blow the whole moment for you?
(Yes, I know that I’m making several assumptions, and if you’ve been plagued by movie-texters that can’t or don’t do all those things, then I’m sorry for the movies that they’ve ruined. But I believe that they’re all technically possible.)
On preview - nicely put, Aesiron. I didn’t think of that one either. But are my points valid or not?
That’s a whole metric buttload of assumptions. In my admittedly limited experience with movie theatre texters, nobody EVER turns down screen brightness and they rarely mute the key pad. It’s distracting as hell.
When I was in college, my friends and I went to the movies a lot. One particular span of a couple weeks, there was nothing really any good out and I wound up sitting through Tequila Suririse…THREE fucking times.
Apologies;I didn’t realize it has been out long enough for it to be on DVD. I keep thinking it’s newish because there seems to be so much conversation about it around here. Please disregard my large conclusion jump.
To addressChrisk’spost, yes, the glowing blue of some numpty’s phone does indeed ruin the experience of the people that can see it. If one can dim it so low that it can’t be seen, how then does the texter text? Why even go to the movie in the first place?
Back on topic, I’m still wondering what invisible force made me stay in my seat for the duration of “The Happening”. Darn you, Mr. Shyamalan, you did it to me again:(
It’s a tradtion in my family to keep watching a movie to see how bad it can get. The later it is at night the better…
Torque
Cobra
Anything with Steven Seagal or Gary Busey or saints preserve us Steven Seagal AND Gary Busey
Stomp the Yard - I actually did go see this in the local second run theater. By the 13th or 14th lazy cliched plot device I should’ve been ready to split. But I was in a comfy chair in an air conditioned room…
Speaking specifically of Adam Sandler…he is problematic for me. I like 2/3 of 50 First Dates, and The Wedding Singer. Parts of Big Daddy do, in fact, make me chuckle. Does Rob Schneider have video tape of Sandler that could ruin his career? His parts are typically most troubling to me in Sandler’s movies.
If you wish to discuss the etiquette of texting while in a movie theater, please go find another thread to do it in – I suggest starting one in IMHO or the Pit, depending on how strongly you feel about it.
This thread is for discussing shitty movies you’ve watched all the way through. Please stick to that topic.
I actually liked Stomp the Yard. Then again, I like Leonard Part 6 so my opinion probably doesn’t count for much.
I rarely go to the theater so when I do go, it’s very likely something I know I will like.
The only two times I can recall not liking the movie were:
The first Land Before Time movie. I was in target audience age group but I just couldn’t enjoy it. I got permission from the theater people to go find my mom, who was watching Scrooged. I ended up watching that instead and enjoyed it.
The time I stayed though was Black Sheep. I’m not sure why my sister and I went to see it. I don’t like Chris Farley. I never have. But, we went to see it anyway. We were the only people in the theater - which was actually a lot of fun. I remember Cadbury Eggs. I don’t remember if we were eating them, or talking about them but for me, Cadbury Eggs will always remind me of that horrible movie.
The movie was horrible. But, my sister and I were having fun so I stayed. If there had been anyone else in the theater, I would have left because I wouldn’t have been able to be obnoxious with anyone else in there.
A looong time ago everyone was saying how great the movie Arachanphobia was. So I got duped into going to see it at the theatre.
How boring was that thing. If you’re not afraid of spiders what was the point? It felt like a disney made for TV Saturday afternoon special.
Thinking “how bad could it really be?”, I recently sat down and watched Van Helsing.
By the end I was feeling completely embarassed for Hugh Jackman and Kate Beckinsale. Oh, and it made me dread the then impending release of GI Joe (which, up until that point, I was really looking forward to).
I have not (yet!) seen Drop Zone. You have valiantly fought ignorance today.
I like ANY movie with an angry dance-off (or cheer-off). I will still watch it when it comes around on cable. I was just aware while watching it that there really wasn’t one unpredictable line in it.
Honey (with Jessica Alba) is similar, in that it was never in danger of winning any awards for Best Original Screenplay. But hey…hip-hop dancing! I’ll watch that!
