# Questions about movies you certainly have no intention of seeing **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 18, 2011, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-movies-you-certainly-have-no-intention-of-seeing/582323 "2011-05-18T14:48:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![awldune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@awldune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/awldune)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-movies-you-certainly-have-no-intention-of-seeing/582323/21 "2011-05-18T19:22:22Z")
> [@UncleRojelio](#): > > Dude, did he ever find his car? I’m glad to say he did. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-movies-you-certainly-have-no-intention-of-seeing/582323/22 "2011-05-18T19:25:01Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > Psst - Saving Ryan’s Privates? Completely different movie. Probably does not feature Tom Hanks. Probably stars Otm Spank instead. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-movies-you-certainly-have-no-intention-of-seeing/582323/23 "2011-05-18T19:29:15Z")
> [@RandMcnally](#): > > They were hopped up on pheromones that were sprayed everywhere. They were sprayed on the leis that everyone on the plane was eventually wearing. ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-movies-you-certainly-have-no-intention-of-seeing/582323/24 "2011-05-18T19:29:52Z")
> [@awldune](#): > > I’m glad to say he did. 😉 Good to hear. ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-movies-you-certainly-have-no-intention-of-seeing/582323/25 "2011-05-18T19:32:25Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > They were sprayed on the leis that everyone on the plane was eventually wearing. For real? ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-movies-you-certainly-have-no-intention-of-seeing/582323/26 "2011-05-18T19:48:08Z")
A question for anybody who has seen THOR: is it worth seeing? A question for anybody who has seen WATER FOR ELEPHANTS: do you get to see Robert Pattinson nekkid? ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-movies-you-certainly-have-no-intention-of-seeing/582323/27 "2011-05-18T20:08:23Z")
In the last Terminator movie did the Terminators finally wipe out that infestation of humans? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-movies-you-certainly-have-no-intention-of-seeing/582323/28 "2011-05-18T20:35:42Z")
> [@](#): > > A question for anybody who has seen THOR: is it worth seeing? I enjoyed it, along with about 95% of the other folks who have seen it. But everyone seems to agree that the 2D is better than the 3D, so don’t pay the extra money. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-movies-you-certainly-have-no-intention-of-seeing/582323/29 "2011-05-18T20:40:41Z")
> [@Caricci](#): > > For real? The pheramones? Yeah. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-movies-you-certainly-have-no-intention-of-seeing/582323/30 "2011-05-18T20:40:50Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > A question for anybody who has seen THOR: is it worth seeing? Depends what you’re expecting. If you’re not an intense comic book/Marvel geek, then yes. If you ARE an intense comic book/Marvel geek, then maybe. (I’m not one, but I’m sure someone’s got a beef) It’s fun, not boring, and no background is needed to enjoy it. My question: The Passion of the Christ. Is it all just a bunch of sado-masochistic torture scenes, or is worth watching beyond the first five minutes and thinking “Ok, got it. Done now!”. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-movies-you-certainly-have-no-intention-of-seeing/582323/31 "2011-05-18T20:42:54Z")
> [@Caricci](#): > > For real? For a moment there I thought that was in reference to Saving Ryan’s Privates! ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-movies-you-certainly-have-no-intention-of-seeing/582323/32 "2011-05-18T21:02:59Z")
[QUOTE=Taomist] My question: The Passion of the Christ. Is it all just a bunch of sado-masochistic torture scenes, or is worth watching beyond the first five minutes and thinking “Ok, got it. Done now!”. [/QUOTE] It has a couple of good non-SM moments. One that comes to mind is Mary watching Jesus stumbling as he carries his cross and having a flashback to watching him learn to walk as a child, and there’s even a comic relief moment of him explaining the concept of a chair to her. But mostly it’s torture and beatings (including a couple of non-Biblical ones, such as when he’s thrown over a bridge in his chains and pulled back up like the world’s worst bungee jump), more beatings, finally the crucifixion, followed by a two second resurrection scene. Herod Antipas (a man who even the Bible recounts stole his brother’s wife and lusted for his stepdaughter [who from non Biblical accounts we know was also his niece and grandniece since wife Herodias was his niece as well as sister-in-law] is portrayed as flamingly effeminate for no apparent reason and rather than God tearing the curtain to the Holy of Holies in a symbolic “I am now among you” message he basically takes a sledgehammer to the temple floor. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-movies-you-certainly-have-no-intention-of-seeing/582323/33 "2011-05-18T21:21:43Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Herod Antipas . . . is portrayed as flamingly effeminate for no apparent reason . . . . Well, at least [one earlier Herod](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwrN1aA5Xg8) cold go either way. Maybe. ---
**Author:** ![Dietrich\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@Dietrich\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dietrich_K)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-movies-you-certainly-have-no-intention-of-seeing/582323/34 "2011-05-18T22:40:30Z")
I’ve got one. Why do all of my friends, coworkers, etc., either chortle ruefully and roll their eyes or perpetrate a classic facepalm whenever I so much as mention **Signs**? I mean, I get it: it’s written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, so it’s obviously going to be a piece of shit, but why, exactly, is this particular movie of his pretty well universally considered to be so bad? (I say “pretty well universally”, as I know exactly one person who not only likes, but LOVES this film, and he’s a conservative Baptist minister. Does that hold any significance?) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-movies-you-certainly-have-no-intention-of-seeing/582323/35 "2011-05-18T22:44:49Z")
The two biggies are that, first, it’s about crop circles being the work of aliens, when most thinking people were already before the movie came out sick and tired of explaining that crop circles are made by bored teenagers, not aliens. Second, the big reveal at the end is that water is deathly corrosive to these aliens, and yet they somehow managed to cross interstellar space without noticing that our planet is swimming in the stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-movies-you-certainly-have-no-intention-of-seeing/582323/36 "2011-05-18T22:51:13Z")
**Twilight** - is there any reason for a non-teenage non-girl to watch it? ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Credible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a8b319/32.png) [@Justin\_Credible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Credible)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-movies-you-certainly-have-no-intention-of-seeing/582323/37 "2011-05-18T22:54:24Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > Plus, is there really a “depressurize plane” button in the cockpit? It’s right beside the “Wings Stay On/Wings Fall Off” switch. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-movies-you-certainly-have-no-intention-of-seeing/582323/38 "2011-05-18T23:03:23Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > A question for anybody who has seen THOR: is it worth seeing? [Yes.](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sN9Ufv19LLM/TcqB_8z2j4I/AAAAAAAAGKQ/KmBOtzok8ck/s1600/ChrisHemsworth-Thor-03.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Dietrich\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@Dietrich\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dietrich_K)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-movies-you-certainly-have-no-intention-of-seeing/582323/39 "2011-05-18T23:05:22Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > The two biggies are that, first, it’s about crop circles being the work of aliens, when most thinking people were already before the movie came out sick and tired of explaining that crop circles are made by bored teenagers, not aliens. Second, the big reveal at the end is that water is deathly corrosive to these aliens, and yet they somehow managed to cross interstellar space without noticing that our planet is swimming in the stuff. Ah. I see. So, as predicted, I’ve missed nothing by not seeing it. Good. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-movies-you-certainly-have-no-intention-of-seeing/582323/40 "2011-05-18T23:18:04Z")
Mine is about _Alien Resurrection_. I’ve only watched bits and pieces of it, so I don’t really have a grasp of what’s going on, nor can I be bothered to track down a summary. This is a good place to ask. What was with that gruesome maggoty thing at the end that looked alien-ish but wasn’t? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-movies-you-certainly-have-no-intention-of-seeing/582323.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-movies-you-certainly-have-no-intention-of-seeing/582323.md?page=3)