I always say I won’t watch “Jacob’s Ladder” ever again, but somehow I’ve seen it four times. It is THE creepiest movie I’ve ever seen.
I’ve never seen “Schindler’s List” and won’t watch “Life is Beautiful” again, too hard on my heart and mind.
I also have issues with animals-in-distress films, even if they’re Disney cartoons.
I think I get it - movies you want to see, but also kind of don’t want to see, right?
I despise remakes, sequels, and books made into movies, because I’d rather see something creative and new, and the old version is invariably better, if only because it’s a classic.
I love everything I’ve seen from Tim Burton, Danny Elfman, and Johnny Depp.
What shall I do when The Threesome decides to make Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? Yeah, yeah, it’s way different. It’s more like the original book. I just couldn’t spend $10 on it, sorry.
I get most of these choices, because I’m that way with Schindler’s List (I’ve never seen it and can’t find a time when I say to myself “I think I want to see a movie about the Holocaust,” but some of them are really weirding me out.
That’s such a shame. To my husband and me, it’s one of the funniest movies ever made. We’ve seen it dozens of times, can watch it over and over and over and not get the least bit tired of it, and quote endlessly to each other from it. It’s got some of the best dialogue in any movie, and George Clooney, John Turturro and Tim Blake Nelson were brilliant, Clooney especially so, considering the tongue-twisting dialogue he had to work with. People will look back from the future and see this movie and Out of Sight as the beginning of Clooney’s “Smart Choices” period.
It’s one of those movies I love so much that it makes me very sad when other people don’t get the enjoyment we do from it.
Another is:
I can’t even begin to imagine this mindset. You THINK you figured something out, so turned it off, and now have a truly bizarre opinion about a movie you’ve never even seen. Even “offended” by something you can only imagine? That’s insane! Have you met Cartooniverse by any chance? ARE you Cartooniverse in disguise?
Just by your
It’s obvious that you didn’t get ANYTHING about the movie, considering that THAT’S WHAT THEY DO IN THE FILM!
Sheesh! If you’d watched the whole thing, up to and including the very last scene, and still didn’t like it, I’d feel sorry for you, but you know, each to their own. To judge this amazingly wonderful, deep and sweet love story by the first 10 minutes, is just mind-boggling to me. I hope that you’ll give it another chance, considering that you might get insights into your work, whatever it is you do. Or not, since you seem to have your mind made up about it anyway. If you choose to imagine an unreality, not only will you be ironically mirroring the film, but it could be, maybe, your loss, because if you find you love it, and the people who love it really REALLY love it, you will kick yourself for denying it to yourself for so long and for such a bogus reason.
It is a shame, but I’m pretty sure I’ll eventually be watch it and enjoy the film, and not the association I have with it. Because really, I did enjoy it.
Another one I can’t watch (again) is Nuts. The nature of her flashbacks…let’s just say that’s one thing that pretty much guarantees my never watching a movie with a similar theme. It was great, and (IMO) Babs’ best role, but I won’t see it again.
Er. Be able to watch… dammit.
I thought it had something to do with the film, but it sounds like you saw it at a bad time in your life. I’m sorry there’s a negative connection. That can really ruin good movies. I have that same thing with On The Waterfront. Something terrible had just happened to me, and it was on TV, so I sat and watched it, crying and hating myself and the world the whole time. I know it’s a good movie, it’s a classic, but every time I try to watch it to judge it on its own merits, my mind immediately goes back to that day, and I simply can’t watch it.
Nothing to do with this thread…
The spoiler is what happened. It’s not part of this thread so I’m spoiling so that people can skip over it. Since I’d be curious if I read what I wrote, I include it for anyone else who is. SpazCat or anyone else who won’t watch movies like Boys Don’t Cry should probably not read this.
I was 14. My criminal 28-year old cousin and a friend of his kidnapped me, drugged me, and raped me for 2 days. The last place they took me was a cheap motel, where they left me. I woke up in the morning, alone, with a clear head, wishing I was dead, and trying to figure out how best to kill myself. They made sure, by telling me over and over and over, that it was all my fault and that no one would believe me if I told. I believed them 100%. I turned the TV on just to have some noise because it was too quiet in there. On The Waterfront was just starting. It’s probably understandable why I can’t watch it to this day, even several decades later. Btw, I never told anyone what happened. I obviously didn’t kill myself. I told my family I’d run away from home, which they believed because I’d done it before. I covered for the bastard, who told my dad he’d dropped me off a couple hours after he picked me up. He later went to prison for many years, for raping his own daughter. I didn’t know about the charges and sentence though until many years after he was already locked up, because if I had known I would have testified against him. My letters to the parole board probably kept him in prison for at least a few years after he was scheduled to get out. He’s out now. Last time I saw him was at a family reunion. He had the nerve to say hi to me. Fucking bastard. The parole board must not have told him about my letters, because he’s not a forgive and forget kind of person. Neither am I. Fucking bastard. Wow, even though this is the wrong place for this post, it kinda feels good to call him out on a public message board. Well, even though it’s in size 1, under cover of a spoiler tag, and not in the Pit. He scares me too much to go any more public than this.
Wow…I am so sorry, I cannot imagine the horror and pain you went through. Congratulations on getting through it, and moving on - you are one brave woman.
Sorry you didn’t put that spoiler info in a thread by itself - might help others who have been in a similar situation. Perhaps another time.
Again - you are one strong person to have gone through that and carried on.
In response to DMark. I’m keeping the spoiler tag because this is all outrageously off-topic for this thread. Sorry.
Thanks, I appreciate the sentiment. I’m not so strong, though I hate to admit it. I’m more f*cked up than anyone will ever know, especially on this message board, where people often use personal posts as weapons in flame wars. In any case, I wouldn’t know where to put it. MPSIMS is wrong, since I don’t really hang out there, and couldn’t help anyone anyway, since I still harbor grief and guilt and shame and all those other things that you’re supposed to “get over,” especially this long after the fact. Intellectually I know it was NOT my fault and he’s 100% to blame. Emotionally though, I’ve never quite gotten over it, mainly because of the guilt that if I had turned him in, his daughter might have been spared (assuming anyone did believe me). The Pit is wrong because I don’t have the rage and anger I once had. Sometimes it sparks, like in my previous post, but mostly it’s dormant. If it ever flares up again though, I’ll make a Pit thread. Thanks for your words though, you’re very kind.
No.
It’s obvious that you didn’t get ANYTHING about the movie, considering that THAT’S WHAT THEY DO IN THE FILM!
Your outrage amuses me greatly. This is why a wide variety of movies are made every year: not everyone likes the same thing. To go into a hissy fit because someone’s tastes are different from yours is really just a waste of energy that could be going elsewhere.
I sent you an email, Equipoise.
And this conversational tangent has brought to mind another fantastic movie I’d rather eat glass than ever see again: Fire Walk With Me. I was just thinking about it - it’s been ten years since I saw it, and thinking about it made me cry a little again. (Yeah, I cry at movies sometimes, you wanna fight about it?)
But I wasn’t in a very good mood to begin with.
Oh I’m not outraged at all. Astonished, I suppose. I don’t mind if people don’t like a movie I like (well, I mind, but I figure it’s their loss). It’s not a matter of different tastes though. You’re judging a movie that you HAVEN’T SEEN, because you think you figured something out that you didn’t figure out at all. That’s not about taste. That’s about being judgemental toward a movie that you know nothing about. If I only saw the first 10 minutes of, say 2001: A Space Odyssey, thought I had it all figured out and condemed it because it was about a bunch of apes, then took great pride in spouting my ignorance to others on a message board, I’d quite rightly be called out for it. Considerng what it says up at the top left of my screen, that’s what astonished me most about your post.
It’s not as if Eternal Sunshine was a scorned movie that got nothing but bad reviews. I was/is very highly regarded as a delightful, insightful film. There’s a reason for that. You might have ended up disagreeing with the good reveiws, but you never gave it a chance, and only because of a false impression that the movie said all it had to say in the first 10 minutes.
Astonishing.
Hence why I mentioned it in this thread. I would rather eat glass than see the rest of it. I know people like the characters in that movie and I DON’T LIKE THEM. Now tell me why I would want to see the remainder of a movie filled with people I hate? That is why the gods gave us “off” buttons.