Movies You Regret Seeing

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The whole point of that movie is for it to be ridiculous, loud, mindless, and obnoxious. It's supposed to be a fun popcorn movie.
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When I have to shut off my brain to enjoy something then, no it is not fun. I already had low expectations going in knowing I was watching a B-grade action film, but if the film manged to go below even those expectations by trying to make me believe that a bus can hit a car...and the bus gets wrecked, no one dies, and I'm not watching The Matrix, then you have failed at suspension of disbelief. That is not my idea of a popcorn movie when the film insults my intelligence at every turn, I'm sorry but physics doesn't work that way! The only part of that mess I enjoyed was the Vin Diesel/ Rock fight as it was the most believable thing that happens in the whole film, and even then I have issues with it.

In short, I'm calling Fast 5 what it is and saying it's not to be taken seriously when everything is played dead straight is not a convincing enough argument, a bad movie is a bad movie period.
 
It's okay Hyakushiki. You can just watch movies with interludes. He's a realism snob too. :lol:
 
There are brainless movies and there are brainless movies. The good brainless movies don't break the laws of physics, probability or psychology enough to knock you out of the moment... or at least give you a "wink wink" and let you know it's all right, we're in an alternate comic-book universe where everything's kosher.

The problem with the FnF series is that the tone is seriously uneven throughout. You have realistic-sounding and looking technical parts mixed with gritty crime drama mixed with asinine dialogue mixed in with pure cartoony car-on-car violence. Sometimes they get the balance right, most of the time, they don't.
 
If I'm watching a movie based on a comic book, I can suspend a lot of belief. I'm also not a comic book fan, so I'm not worried about it rending a hole in my holy canon. Maybe that's why I prefer comedies, because there's not as much absurdity to ruin the flow of the movie, unless it isn't funny.

To me a movie's good if the story transcends the action, but it really helps if the action's good, and not drawn out so you're thinking...gee, this could/should have ended 20 minutes ago, but the bad guy just won't die for some reason.

But toss too much bull my way throughout the movie, bore me with plot devices and tropes I've seen a thousand times and I've had enough. I have time for maybe 5-6 movies a year, so they have to be good, because it might be two months until I have time for another one!
 
I suspend all faith in the laws of physics when watching a movie like Fast Five. I laugh and have fun with the outrageous stunts and the over-acted drama. The same goes for one of my favorite movies: Shoot 'Em Up - it's got ridiculous jumps and gunfights. The way people talk is also a total joke. I loved every minute of it. Fast Five isn't as good at it as Shoot 'em Up was, but it's in the same category.

I'm just not going to let my understanding of the physical get in the way of enjoying a movie. It's about entertainment right? If I can accept floating mountains with waterfalls in Avatar, then I'll accept that truly stupendous climax from Fast Five.
 
Mind you, I can easily suspend disbelief for a well-told story (Abrahm's Star Trek... with plot holes you could drive a planet through, or Captain America, with the vibration-absorbing vibranium shield that rings like a bell and still somehow manages to bounce off of targets it's thrown at)... but pile bad on bad and the movie rapidly becomes unwatchable. See "Sucker Punch"... starts out great, still good through the first one or two action sequences, then rapidly falls into over-the-top-boring.

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To me a movie's good if the story transcends the action, but it really helps if the action's good, and not drawn out so you're thinking...gee, this could/should have ended 20 minutes ago, but the bad guy just won't die for some reason.
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Dear Lord, Transformers 2, anyone? The longest, most boring action scene ever filmed.
 
The difference with Avatar is that there was a plausible explanation, there was a fictional element on the planet that made them float. When a film like Fast Five does something like, having a one ton muscle car tow a ten ton vault behind it like it was coated in Eezo (I'm playing Mass Effect 2 at the moment so forgive the analogy though it's quite apt.) when I know that's impossible, and the film gives no explanation as to how it was possible other than "it just does deal with it" I can't accept that and it pulls me out of the experience. A work of fiction has to convince you what you are seeing, reading, or listening to is possible within the context of the story even if it's not possible in reality, that's how Willful Suspension of Disbelief works. If the story fails to do that, then you're doing it wrong, that's what Avatar got mostly right but Fast Five got completely wrong.

I'm a fan of science fiction, so I'm willing to accept many fantastic things in my stories as long there is a plausible explanation as to why they exist.

If you still enjoy it despite that, then good for you but the film does nothing for me, you can have it.
 
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What's eating Gilbert Grape.

Movie started my total dislike of both Johnny Depp and Leonardo Decprio.
 
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Sucker Punch - :yuck:
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This, absolutely. I actually paid to see it in theatres; we went in knowing it wouldn't be great (after all, it's a Zack Snyder film), but it was so beyond bad we couldn't believe it. Not so bad that we walked out, mind - it was that definite train-wreck situation. My prediction of it being the worst movie I watch all year still holds, and I don't think anything else will touch it.

I don't regret seeing Avatar, but only because it showed me that full 3D could work in a theatre. I didn't much care for the Dances-With-Blue-Wolves storyline, the dialogue was pretty bad, and there was fully 100% too much Papyrus font. But the 3D was encompassing, not the gimmicky sharp-object-pops-out effect most other movies go for.
 
Still not a lot of 3D that trumps Avatar... not even Disney's much touted Real3D.

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Oh, FnF5... physics... one of my favorite parts is where we're supposed to believe you can flip over a bus with a Grand National without getting crushed. Way to go, ricer-math! :lol:
 
For me the biggest regret movie.

Star wars Ep 1 - the first of the new ones. I'd been a huge fan of the original trilogy, grown up with them. And finally a new star wars movie was made . . . Oh the expectations!!

It was 16 years since the last of the original trilogy - Return of the Jedi.

Watching Ep 1, I can remember the slow sinking realisation that I was watching a complete failure of a movie. And it got to a point in the film, I can remember the scene was where they were travelling underwater in a submarine and these big and bad fishy creatures were trying to eat their sub, snapping at them out of the gloom, each one bigger and badder giving these cheesey scare moments. It was like a fun-park ride for toddlers. In the back-seat was that silly Jar Jar Binks going "Oh Noes, no no" as this was going on.

And I can remember sitting there and the thought in my head went - "I've waited 16 years for this???"

Once the film finished I waited long into the credits . . . the reason? So that I could walk out of there after most everyone had left so that I wouldn't risk meeting someone I knew and have to talk about what we'd just seen. :ouch:
 
Let's see:
Michael Jackson's Moonwalker
Freddy Got Fingered (the only film I have ever paid to see and not watched all the way through)
Napoleon Dynamite
Eyes Wide Shut
Dirty Weekend
Star Wars Episodes 1-3
Lord Of the Rings Trilogy (was forced to watch them by my wife but had no interest in them at all)
The Harry Potter series (see Lord of the Rings)
Lost In Translation
Battle Royal
 
The Wicker Man (the one with Nicolas Cage)

Highlander: The Source (Highlander was always sort of supernatural, but this takes it too far)

Mortal Kombat Annihilation (given the silly special effects, it was a lot funnier than it was suppose to be)

Artificial Intelligence (worst movie I've ever seen)
 
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Faster and Death Race 2...

Perhaps the one I dissapoint the most is Death Race 2. The first one was fantastic but the second one is like... going backwards of the original Death Race. Too little actions, more boring talking and.... Just dissapointed overall. Well not just regretting wasting my time watching it, but also regreted spending my money for it despite a catchy trailer :ouch:
 
Carry On Columbus... to this day the only film I've walked out on. And believe me, I've watched some s***! :lol:
 
PeterJB
Human Centipede. Took me a little while to get over that.
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That one I'll never watch. Seen a few clips of it and I don't get what the point is. It just seems sick and disgusting.

As for a movie I regret seeing, I can't think of one at the moment, but I'm sure there are quite a few.

Well, I saw Drive a couple of weeks ago and thought it was awful, mainly because of the horrible sound effects.
 
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Super Mario Bros: The Movie.:yuck: I watched for the first time last year. It will be my only time. My childhood died a little that day.:(
 
Wyvern89
Super Mario Bros: The Movie.:yuck: I watched for the first time last year. It will be my only time. My childhood died a little that day.:(
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Really, is it that bad? I love the Mario Bros.

Anyways on topic, I must say that Death Race wasn't all I thought it was going to be, the plot was weak and the cars didn't look real to me.
 

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