This. This. and This.
I’ll throw in Bridges of Madison County. A touching love story about two homely people I probably wouldn’t like if I met them in real life won’t be sucking up two hours of my life. Add also Snow Falling on Cedars. I tried to make it through the book. The writing was beautiful but the story and characters were so incredibly flat. Friends described the movie as the same way: Beautifully filmed but uninteresting.
I have this same issue with The Kingdom. Its been staring at me from my DVR list for so long that I almost resent it for no good reason.
And Pan’s Labyrinth is disturbing.
Avatar. I just don’t care about it and 3D hasn’t interested me since I was a wee bairn.
I know that Forbidden Planet is a masterpiece and plays a seminal role in the history of great science fiction. I also know that it’s based on Shakespeare’s Tempest, which is one of my favorite plays (it and Proof vie for the top spot). In fact, I would very much like to see it.
But it’s not exactly easy to find copies of it, so unless it gets a big swell in popularity and gets re-printed, I’m probably not going to see it.
Hint: Don’t see Revolutionary Road. You’ll thank me later.
I’ve always tried to put my finger on why I didn’t love the book, because I felt like I should, the writing was so beautiful.
I didn’t care about any of the characters. I didn’t dislike them, either, but they really are flat, and I just couldn’t get emotionally invested in their problems.
Correct-a-mondo!
Anything that celebrates Northern culture. Which I guess is nothing really.
Million Dollar Baby: I know the plot, and can’t bring myself to care.
Godfather II: I’ve recorded it a couple of times, meaning to watch it, but never seem to want to.
The Last Temptation of Christ: I tried to get through it, but only made a half-hour.
You only wasted 30 minutes, then. Smarter than I am.
A friend of mine suggested it be retitled, Paint Drying on Walls.
“Bachelor Party” is on my list of never-gonna-watch-that…that’s the one with the groundhog? And John Candy or something? Just don’t care.
Never seen “Saturday Night Fever” and don’t plan to. It just looks like one of those movies you had to grow up with to avoid finding it painfully dorky/cliche. (And John Travolta as a sex symbol has always baffled me.)
Never watched any of the Rocky movies, b/c boxing bores me and Sly Stallone is, IMHO, a joke.
Never seen “Fight Club” either, even though peoples’ jaws drop when I say this and they inevitably insist I’ll love it. It just doesn’t look appealing.
I also won’t watch anything excessively gory/gross. I like horror movies, but not if they’re gross, aka the “Saw” franchise. I prefer to be spooked, not grossed out by physical injuries and blood. I would spend half the movie saying “Tell me when it stops!” to my boyfriend. How annoying would that be?
I also avoid anything with Clint Eastwood. Like Mahna Mahna I have a somewhat irrational dislike of him, and his long history of making Westerns doesn’t help. Westerns…ugh.
I’ve got to give Ordinary People a pass on this. Doesn’t matter how rich or major you are. One son died; the other tried to kill himself. I know, it’s just a movie…don’t see how they are so much better off, though. I’d rather be dirt poor and have two living sons. I found the movie to be realistic and moving.
With you on that. In fact I’ve pretty much given up on watching horror of any kind. Either I’ll be able to suspend my disbelief and be shit scared watching a film (which I actually don’t like), or I won’t and it’s not worth watching because it’s just people pretending to be hurt/killed.
Me three, neither westerns nor films in the Dirty Harry genre appeal to me in any way.
You might be thinking of Caddyshack with a gopher and Bill Murray. Though he has had a run in with a groundhog too.
Bachelor Party had Tom Hanks. Not that that is any recommendation, as it also had Adrian Zmed.