# What movie(s) do you wish you had your time back for having seen? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 18, 2007, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-s-do-you-wish-you-had-your-time-back-for-having-seen/396437 "2007-03-18T16:09:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-s-do-you-wish-you-had-your-time-back-for-having-seen/396437/41 "2007-03-18T21:04:58Z")
**Eyes Wide Shut**. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-s-do-you-wish-you-had-your-time-back-for-having-seen/396437/42 "2007-03-18T21:15:05Z")
[QUOTE=shamrock227] There is only one movie I disliked so much that I considered it a waste of my time. _The Piano_. I cannot express how much I hated that film. I am a fan of Sam Neill, but even he could not save this movie for me. Not to say this is the only movie I have ever disliked. It’s just that I don’t usually consider any movie a waste of my time. [/QUOTE] You didn’t find that seeing Holly Hunter’s flabby ass or Keitel’s flacid wiener (again) was redeeming? ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-s-do-you-wish-you-had-your-time-back-for-having-seen/396437/43 "2007-03-18T21:17:11Z")
**Napoleon Dynamite** was the first thing to spring to mind. It was painfully bad. The other one, with only a little thought, is **Donnie Darko.** I watched it because people here raved about it. What a steaming pile of dull that was. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-s-do-you-wish-you-had-your-time-back-for-having-seen/396437/44 "2007-03-18T21:20:04Z")
What the hell’s wrong with me? I actually \*enjoyed \* **Alexander**. I’d like to add **The Matrix** , **Superman Returns** , and **X-Men 3**. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-s-do-you-wish-you-had-your-time-back-for-having-seen/396437/45 "2007-03-18T21:29:53Z")
[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119887/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119887/) > [@](#): > > A Miami con man agrees to be the human target for a Neo-Nazi manhunter, in order to collect $50,000 if he survives After 15 minutes, I wanted to hunt him down and kill him. ---
**Author:** ![FordPrefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-s-do-you-wish-you-had-your-time-back-for-having-seen/396437/46 "2007-03-18T21:36:34Z")
Darkman Signs Sideways - except for the helmet beat down scene (which should have happened to the director and the lead actor again and again, and again…) ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-s-do-you-wish-you-had-your-time-back-for-having-seen/396437/47 "2007-03-18T21:53:51Z")
I’m probably setting myself up for an SDMB-style geek lynching, but I’d happily delete any two of the Lord of the Rings trilogy - one movie would have done. Since I’m being sacreligious, add the two new Star Wars movies I bothered watching. Pile of fucking shite. That’s almost fucking ten hours of my life right there. Throw in Napoleon Dynamite, and some gangsta Boyz N The Hood wannabe flick that I only went to see because it had Forest Whitaker in it, which is the only movie I’ve ever walked out of. That’s more than half a day. I want it back. ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-s-do-you-wish-you-had-your-time-back-for-having-seen/396437/48 "2007-03-18T22:06:02Z")
**Nurse Betty** , the movie that tried to play a scalping scene for _humour_. ---
**Author:** ![Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/c4cdca/32.png) [@Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quiddity_Glomfuster)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-s-do-you-wish-you-had-your-time-back-for-having-seen/396437/49 "2007-03-18T22:07:00Z")
[QUOTE=Dr. Rieux] **Eyes Wide Shut**. [/QUOTE] Heck yeah. And **2001: A Space Odyssey**. I don’t do dope, which I understand is vital to enjoying it. And some Schwarzenegger thing that had been Very Popular. I watched it on TV because I didn’t want to pay for it, figuring it was not my kind of film. It most certainly was not. One guy survives a plane crash (jet, no less), burning warehouse, numerous people with machine guns shooting at him - and those were only a few of his problems :rolleyes: At this point I’m doing the Richard Jeni Jaws 4 routine. (Why (smacks self) am I watching this (smacks self)). I’m pretty good at figuring out which films I’ll like from the trailers and descriptions of the stories and the ones I’ve hated have been ones I watched under protest to begin with. ---
**Author:** ![Shawn1767](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Shawn1767](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shawn1767)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-s-do-you-wish-you-had-your-time-back-for-having-seen/396437/50 "2007-03-18T22:08:07Z")
Nacho Libre (kids wanted to see it, not me) Hi Fidelity Riding in Cars with Boys ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Barchetta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/da6949/32.png) [@Red\_Barchetta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Barchetta)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-s-do-you-wish-you-had-your-time-back-for-having-seen/396437/51 "2007-03-18T22:17:07Z")
[QUOTE=Quiddity Glomfuster] Heck yeah. And **2001: A Space Odyssey**. I don’t do dope, which I understand is vital to enjoying it. [/QUOTE] Hardly vital. I just watched it again last night, for what must be close to the 10th time, completely sober. It’s also one of my favorite movies of all time. ---
**Author:** ![Thirty-Nine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f0a364/32.png) [@Thirty-Nine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thirty-Nine)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-s-do-you-wish-you-had-your-time-back-for-having-seen/396437/52 "2007-03-18T22:59:39Z")
**Oceans 12** **Miami Vice** **Minority Report** I liked The Village though. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Prize](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d2c977/32.png) [@Sir\_Prize](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Prize)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-s-do-you-wish-you-had-your-time-back-for-having-seen/396437/53 "2007-03-18T23:10:17Z")
I always try to enjoy even a bad movie, but since I just saw it a few days ago I have to say **300**. Boring, bad acting, bad script, bad visuals, boring fight scenes. Even the previews before the movie were lame. Give me my 2 hours back. ---
**Author:** ![lazybratsche](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ba8739/32.png) [@lazybratsche](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lazybratsche)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-s-do-you-wish-you-had-your-time-back-for-having-seen/396437/54 "2007-03-18T23:14:58Z")
Very Bad Things – I like dark humor, but… that was just horrific, without anything funny or otherwise redeeming. I want my time back, and the writers locked far away from the rest of civilization. I Heart Huckabees – My then-girlfriend and I decided to watch it, since all of the other indie kids on campus were raving about it. We were… less than impressed. Normally I eat pretentious pseudo-intellectual bullshit right up, but this was even too much for me. Sphere – I watched it recently, not remembering anything about it but wanting some relatively light and diverting scifi. By the end, I realized that I had seen it before… but it was so boring that I didn’t remember watching it at first. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-s-do-you-wish-you-had-your-time-back-for-having-seen/396437/55 "2007-03-18T23:17:18Z")
[QUOTE=Johnny Hildo] Can you name a movie more boring than _The Russia House_? Betcha can’t. [/QUOTE] I haven’t seen that one, but I’d put money on _Orlando_ against just about anything. -Joe ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-s-do-you-wish-you-had-your-time-back-for-having-seen/396437/56 "2007-03-18T23:25:20Z")
Ranking #15 on the IMDB Bottom 100 was the Yu-Gi-Oh movie, which I dutifully took my son and his friend to. I knew it was going to be awful, so I also took my iPod, and I spent the entire movie listening to decent music (Rutter’s _Requiem,_ as I recall, and perhaps more). If I had set the volume high enough to drown out the movie, it would have destroyed my eardums, so I couldn’t escape completely. So, yeah, I want that time back. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-s-do-you-wish-you-had-your-time-back-for-having-seen/396437/57 "2007-03-18T23:30:47Z")
[QUOTE=Johnny Hildo] Can you name a movie more boring than _The Russia House_? Betcha can’t. [/QUOTE] Celeste, about Marcel Proust’s maid. Of course her boredom was the whole point of the movie. Vanilla Sky for me ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-s-do-you-wish-you-had-your-time-back-for-having-seen/396437/58 "2007-03-19T00:51:47Z")
Bulletproof Monk. Nuff said. ---
**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:** [March 19, 2007, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-s-do-you-wish-you-had-your-time-back-for-having-seen/396437/59 "2007-03-19T01:48:28Z")
I have, of course, mentioned this one before in past threads. **The Big Lebowski** ---
**Author:** ![shamrock227](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@shamrock227](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shamrock227)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-s-do-you-wish-you-had-your-time-back-for-having-seen/396437/60 "2007-03-19T02:16:19Z")
[QUOTE=Chefguy] You didn’t find that seeing Holly Hunter’s flabby ass or Keitel’s flacid wiener (again) was redeeming? [/QUOTE] You’d think I would, right? 😉 But, sorry, no. The urge to reach into the screen and slap the crap out of Holly Hunter was so overwhelming that I couldn’t even follow the story (if there was one). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-s-do-you-wish-you-had-your-time-back-for-having-seen/396437.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-s-do-you-wish-you-had-your-time-back-for-having-seen/396437.md?page=4)