# Name a specific movie you won't watch for love or money. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 14, 2011, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-specific-movie-you-wont-watch-for-love-or-money/599645 "2011-10-14T16:47:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-specific-movie-you-wont-watch-for-love-or-money/599645/41 "2011-10-14T22:02:12Z")
Any of those recent movies about a teenage wizard. I don’t know their names. Any other movie, I could sit through for love or money. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-specific-movie-you-wont-watch-for-love-or-money/599645/42 "2011-10-14T22:05:41Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > Titanic. > [@campp](#): > > Avatar > [@Death\_of\_Rats](#): > > I will not have anything to do with _Twilight_. Not the movies, not the books. Nada. You can’t make me for anything. Yay, at last, someone else who refuses to ever see Titanic! The only scenes I have ever seen from it are whatever seeped into my eyesockets before I could change the channel, and the first trailer that I saw sitting in the theater and couldn’t get away from it. I have never ever even been interested in Avatar in any way, shape or form, and I love good SF/fantasy. Twilight, the author, books, uberfans and movies can all drop into a volcano as far as I am concerned. I will add Moulin Rouge, Passion of Christ, hard core torture porn and any movie that they try and shove down our throats by pounding the trailers at us on TV, in theaters and on radio. If you have a movie you think is good, just mention it to me as a good movie of whatever genre, a single line or so as to why you think I would like it, and then drop the subject. If I want to see it, I will. If not, there is no way in hell you will force me to watch it short of those Clockwork Orange eye thingies and a torture chair. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-specific-movie-you-wont-watch-for-love-or-money/599645/43 "2011-10-14T22:07:10Z")
Any of the Saw movies. Way to gruesome and nightmarish. ---
**Author:** ![mcgato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac8455/32.png) [@mcgato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mcgato)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-specific-movie-you-wont-watch-for-love-or-money/599645/44 "2011-10-14T22:31:55Z")
An Inconvenient Truth ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-specific-movie-you-wont-watch-for-love-or-money/599645/45 "2011-10-14T22:56:04Z")
Anything where American sports (or any sport, usually) is the backdrop for the film. ---
**Author:** ![papergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/aca169/32.png) [@papergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/papergirl)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-specific-movie-you-wont-watch-for-love-or-money/599645/46 "2011-10-14T23:10:18Z")
Kill Bill. Saw and its ilk. Any movie that I know is going to be depressing, so I’m sure I’ve missed some good ones. Hitchhiker’s Guide whatever. Some of these because I just don’t like the type of movie; others because a former SO drove me crazy “studying” them. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-specific-movie-you-wont-watch-for-love-or-money/599645/47 "2011-10-15T01:18:25Z")
Yes, forgot to mention sports. Baseball, basketball, hockey, golf, boxing,running, synchronized swimming, and most especially football. I don’t care if the underdog team wins the game or if the game crushes the soul of the sport’s hero. Yawn! (exception: Rocky, back in the 70’s, that one was special). ---
**Author:** ![tadtooornamental](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@tadtooornamental](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tadtooornamental)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-specific-movie-you-wont-watch-for-love-or-money/599645/48 "2011-10-15T01:18:59Z")
I’m going to go in a completely different direction, but I can’t name a single movie because I can’t recall any of the titles (sorry!). Action movie with generic plot made solely to showcase the generic action star of the moment. Ex. anything starring Jason Statham, Van Damme, Segal, Vin Diesel or any former pro wrestler. So mind numbingly boring to me. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-specific-movie-you-wont-watch-for-love-or-money/599645/49 "2011-10-15T02:21:19Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Any of those recent movies about a teenage wizard. I don’t know their names. Any other movie, I could sit through for love or money. Harry Potter. You’re welcome. ---
**Author:** ![tavalla](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tavalla/32/89_2.png) [@tavalla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tavalla)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-specific-movie-you-wont-watch-for-love-or-money/599645/50 "2011-10-15T02:38:04Z")
[ul] [li]Torture porn. Once upon a time I would have, but I’m getting old and sensitive: I started to watch Wolf Creek, and realised that I can’t take sitting through 1.5 to 2 hours of mindless gore and psychopathy anymore[/li][li]Schindler’s List. Okay, so it’s “I’ll never watch it again” rather than “I’ll never watch it”. Once was shattering.[/li][li]Titanic. For reasons listed above.[/li][li]Grave of the Fireflies would be under the Schindler’s List rule if I had watched it even once; now it’s just under the ‘not ever’ rule.[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-specific-movie-you-wont-watch-for-love-or-money/599645/51 "2011-10-15T02:47:44Z")
**Battleground Earth**. Just a hunch. ---
**Author:** ![Namkcalb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c89c15/32.png) [@Namkcalb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Namkcalb)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-specific-movie-you-wont-watch-for-love-or-money/599645/52 "2011-10-15T02:48:20Z")
Wah, so much hate for “The Passion [of the Christ]”, It had torture in it, but it was in it for a purpose. Mel Gibson isn’t the nicest of people(understatement of the year), and probably hates me just because of the country of my birth, but he is a damn fine director, and a decent actor. ---
**Author:** ![Flip\_Pancake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f1d935/32.png) [@Flip\_Pancake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flip_Pancake)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-specific-movie-you-wont-watch-for-love-or-money/599645/53 "2011-10-15T03:03:27Z")
Any Lars Von Trier film. I had to look up _Human Centipede_. And yeah, that one too. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-specific-movie-you-wont-watch-for-love-or-money/599645/54 "2011-10-15T03:46:35Z")
> [@Flip\_Pancake](#): > > Any Lars Von Trier film. He’s the rare director who I have completely written off. I saw _Breaking The Waves_ and thought Von Trier was amazingly misogynistic. My wife saw, and loved, \*Dogville \*and took me to see it with her. I walked out of the theater **pissed off** , absolutely loathing Von Trier. He’s an asshole, and I never want to see anything else he’ll make. I feel the same way about the Peter Greenaway. I’ve seen _The Draughtsman’s Contract, A Zed & Two Noughts, Drowning by Numbers, The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover_ and _Prospero’s Books_ and hated them all. I wound up seeing them when a film group wound up being shanghaied by a group of Greenaway fans. He’s a brilliant **Art** Director, but a shitty and talentless Director. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-specific-movie-you-wont-watch-for-love-or-money/599645/55 "2011-10-15T04:17:06Z")
> [@Krokodil](#): > > **Battleground Earth**. Just a hunch. If you’re thinking of Battlefield Earth with Travolta, I’m with you. Any vampire movie Any werewolf movie Any sci-fi movie with precocious children Any Nick Cage movie except _The Wicker Man_, the most unintentionally hilarious movie of the past 20 years ---
**Author:** ![Loopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loopus/32/15343_2.png) [@Loopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopus)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-specific-movie-you-wont-watch-for-love-or-money/599645/56 "2011-10-15T05:14:39Z")
I’ve never seen any _Star Wars_ movie, and now I consciously avoid them. Not for any logical reason. It’s just a thing. I don’t know if I will ever have the nerve to see _United 93_, or any other 9/11-based movie. I’m afraid of how emotional I would get over it. I tend to cry easily at movies anyway, and 9/11 is a difficult subject for me. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-specific-movie-you-wont-watch-for-love-or-money/599645/57 "2011-10-15T06:01:47Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > Yay, at last, someone else who refuses to ever see Titanic! The only scenes I have ever seen from it are whatever seeped into my eyesockets before I could change the channel, and the first trailer that I saw sitting in the theater and couldn’t get away from it. Never waver in your determination. It’s a movie for twelve-year old girls, seemingly written by one. . ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-specific-movie-you-wont-watch-for-love-or-money/599645/58 "2011-10-15T06:18:18Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > [_The Passion of the Christ_] looks and sounds more like torture porn than anything worthwhile. This is the movie I was going to mention. But now you’ve convinced me to see it. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-specific-movie-you-wont-watch-for-love-or-money/599645/59 "2011-10-15T13:41:53Z")
I could probably sit through any movie for enough money, but Lars von Trier’s work would be by far the most expensive for whoever’s handing out the bribes. Guy really has a deep down hatred and contempt for everyone, including his audiences. Saw Breaking the Waves, but not even Nicole Kidman in chains and a belled collar could make me sit down and watch Dogville. I have no idea who keeps funding his movies, but they have to be colossal dumbasses. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-specific-movie-you-wont-watch-for-love-or-money/599645/60 "2011-10-15T14:21:31Z")
I honestly think people overemphasize the brutality of _Passion_. Granted, it’s not something I want to watch again, despite owning it on DVD, but honestly, I was expecting so much worse. Jesus still looks 100% human. And every torture scene is rather short, broken up by flashbacks, looking at other characters, etc. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-specific-movie-you-wont-watch-for-love-or-money/599645.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-specific-movie-you-wont-watch-for-love-or-money/599645.md?page=4)