What movies do you actively hate?

[BMalion]

I was forced to sit through The Bad Lieutenant. I still hate the thought of that night 15 years later. A vile charactor sinking lower and lower.

Bonus points: Harvey Kietel’s dick!

[CookingWithGas]

@Lavender Falcon

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover. A date suggested it, and if I had any inkling what it was about, I never would have gone. Very sick, twisted, and disturbing. I walked out of the theater half way through, very upset, and I don’t recall that I’ve ever felt that way about a movie. Of course, I usually know what a movie is about before I see it, so I just don’t watch the ones that I suspect would provoke that strong of a reaction in me.

I can see that reaction but I saw it as a black comedy and enjoyed it.

[shiftless]

@mr. jp

American Beauty.

The materialistic real estate saleswoman, the stupid teenagers who think they’re special because they are weird, repressed homosexual gay-hating marine guy, the sex-fixated cheerleader who is actually a virgin, etc. It takes this bunch of archetypical stock characters, mix them together, and suddenly it’s “deep”.

What makes it “deep” is that Hollywood thinks they are portraying the angst of us poor, middle class Americans. Only the filmmaker is fully self-aware and he must hide his self-awareness from middle America. The one person who dares to be different is punished. A condescending pat on the head and a kick in the ass from our creative betters. Thanks Hollywood, I’ll try to be more like you.

[Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew]

@Frylock

Inconcievable!

I do not think that word is spelled the way you think it is.

[Hampshire]

@shiftless

What makes it “deep” is that Hollywood thinks they are portraying the angst of us poor, middle class Americans. Only the filmmaker is fully self-aware and he must hide his self-awareness from middle America. The one person who dares to be different is punished. A condescending pat on the head and a kick in the ass from our creative betters. Thanks Hollywood, I’ll try to be more like you.

True. Hollywood type seem to think everyone in America is depressed and we all aspire to someday be big celebrities.

Lina Lamont: “If we bring a little joy into your humdrum lives, it makes us feel as though our hard work ain’t been in vain for nothin’. Bless you all.”

[Frylock]

@Biffy the Elephant Shrew

I do not think that word is spelled the way you think it is.

You’re right. :smack:

I fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia, but only slightly less well-known is this: I before E except after C.

-FrL-

[Cluricaun]

@BMalion

I was forced to sit through The Bad Lieutenant. I still hate the thought of that night 15 years later. A vile charactor sinking lower and lower.

Bonus points: Harvey Kietel’s dick!

An interesting film, but that noise that Keitel keeps making throughout the movie ruins any chance of me paying attention to it. I don’t know what you’d call that, yelling, howling, keening, whatever, but it’s a horrid noise, like nails on a chalkboard to me. Aaaeeeennaaahhhh!!!

[Tom_Tildrum]

@Biffy the Elephant Shrew

I do not think that word is spelled the way you think it is.

Just this little exchange has me gnawing on my knuckle and muttering angrily to myself. Dammit, I thought I’d repressed these feelings.

[Mama_Zappa]

@Khadaji

Then Napoleon Dynamite. I don’t recall reading good things about it, a friend gave it to me for Christmas and told me it was hilarious. It was so painful I had to watch it in small doses.

Word.

It looked like the sort of quirky thing we’d like. We were bored silly.

Hannah And Her Sisters. A movie containing entirely unlikeable people in annoying situations. One of very, very few movies we walked out on.

Stranger Than Paradise. Got great reviews in the paper. Went to it with a friend. Sat there the entire time, while people around us were laughing, wondering what they were laughing at and when it was going to get good. There’s 2 hours I’ll never get back :mad:

[lissener]

@Illuminatiprimus

REALLY??? :eek: :eek: :eek:

I’m now seeing that movie in a completely different light, and I don’t like what I’m seeing.

Even creepier: the dude did hard prison time for raping a 12yrold boy . . . and since then has directed Peaceful Warrior. Try watching those nubile adolescent male bodies with that knowledge for a truly icky experience.

[lissener]

@SuntanTigerTamer

Natural Born Killers - I felt like I paid $10 to have someone masturbate on me.

That is the best review I’ve ever come across for that atrocious piece of crap.

[MrSquishy]

Moulin Rouge: …like being stuck inside a kaleidoscope for two hours while a madman plays a calliope next to your ear.

[Jimmy_2Times]

I’m not a big fan of Crash. I would have been happier if any of the other nominees won that year for Best Pic.

[BrainGlutton]

@Cluricaun

No, but I prefer an honest more Jabberwocky feel to middle European movies than giving it the fantasy of being bug, rot, and odor free. There is makeup and prosthetics that can be used. These people would have, for the most part, been repulsive to modern day westerners. They weren’t just like us but with stupid looking clothes.

Check out The Name of the Rose, you’ll see some ugly monks!

[BrainGlutton]

@lissener

Even creepier: the dude did hard prison time for raping a 12yrold boy . . . and since then has directed Peaceful Warrior. Try watching those nubile adolescent male bodies with that knowledge for a truly icky experience.

Y’know, if Michael Jackson ever decides he wants a vehicle-film . . .

[Anastasaeon]

I’ve never actively disliked any movie. I’ve gone to theatres and I either left feeling like, “meh, at least I got to spend some time with friends/husband” or “well, the popcorn was awesome”. Nothing is ever a waste of time for me. Happy-go-lucky Stasia, never feeling ripped off…

Until Vantage Point. Holy hell, I hate that movie. I watched it theatres with my husband and our friends, and I was, after about twenty minutes, almost wretching, squirming in my seat, hiding my eyes. No, it wasn’t gory, or overly, unessecarily violent. It simply offended my ADD-addled senses to the breaking point. I had watched the same scene from so many different perspectives so many times that I was feeling quite literally sick. I hated having to watch the whole fucking movie from the beginning again, only to get an extra two or three minutes of progression in the storyline. I only sat there and tolerated it because we were with polite company, and they seemed to be enjoying it. I actually closed my eyes and tried desperately to sleep, so I’d have an excuse for missing it - oh, long day guys, sorry, I just kind of drifted off. But I couldn’t sleep. I felt like I had to escape.

I’m pretty sure I ran through the doors of that theatre and into the blessed nighttime air, taking big, gulping, appreciative breaths of freedom.

I think I understand how some folks feel, now, when they feel they’ve been totally ripped off at the theatre. Maybe it was a great movie, I don’t know. I don’t care.

[Hostile_Dialect]

@Blaster Master

I also actively hate Titanic. Not because it’s a bad film, I have no idea, because I’ve never seen it. I hate it because I was about 14 at the time it came out and EVERY girl my age was COMPLETELY obsessed with the movie and… Leonardo DiCaprio. How the HELL was I suppose to compete with HIM? And that god-damned song, it was EVERYWHERE! I’ve even heard a blue-grass cover of that song; how pathetic is that? I can appreciate liking a movie and seeing it more than once. I’ve seen The Dark Knight twice, for instance. But I think the girl I knew who saw it the least times saw it about 7 times; I’ve met many more who have seen it 12 or 15 times. It’s not the highest grossing movie of all time because it’s great, it’s the highest grossing movie of all time because they released a movie that targetted the most susceptable demographic during a time when too many people have too much extra money to waste and didn’t know how to tell their daughters that seeing the movie for a 14th time was 13 times too many. And THEN, it went on and won an assload of academy awards, not because it was the best movie, but because it was so ridiculously popular that they didn’t have a choice. This film is the manifestation of everything that I hate.

Agreed. I was 12, but yeah, same thing word for word.

[starryspice]

@pepperlandgirl

Stars Wars III: Revenge of the Sith. I walked out of the movie theater convinced that George Lucas is not just a bad film maker (he is), and running one of the biggest scams in history (he is), but that he actively hates the human race. His misanthropy runs as deep as his soul. He hates humans because he does not understand them, as evidenced by the so-called characterization and motivations in this film. He despises his audience, as well. He wants to punish people for his own failings as a man, and his self-loathing (and misanthropy) was funneled into Revenge of the Sith to create his final testament to cynicism, sadism, and anti-social behavior. The film was manipulative, trite, unremarkable, derivative, and boring–and that’s not even the worst things I can say about it. Everybody tries to claim it was the best of the three prequels, but I view Eps 1 and 2 as mere failings of imagination. The subtext of ep 3 was far more disturbing than the brainlessness of eps 1 and 2.

Can you expand on this? Where in the motivations/characterizations in the film do you see misanthropy? (I don’t agree or disagree, I’m just curious.)

[BMalion]

@Hostile Dialect

Agreed. I was 12, but yeah, same thing word for word.

I was 36 years old and I agree. I hate that movie.

[JohnT]

@Blaster Master

It’s not the highest grossing movie of all time because it’s great, it’s the highest grossing movie of all time because they released a movie that targetted the most susceptable demographic during a time when too many people have too much extra money to waste and didn’t know how to tell their daughters that seeing the movie for a 14th time was 13 times too many.

Just like all those parents who allowed their sons to watch the Star Wars movies over and over again, right? Talk about a “susceptable demographic”!

:rolleyes: