Movies you wish you hadn't bothered watching

[Questions]

So you sat through Twilight thinking there was a chance you might like it ?

I'd do a little research before you watch films mate.

edit :in fact looking at your list I'd do a lot of research.

 

[Acker79]

So you sat through Twilight thinking there was a chance you might like it ?

I'd do a little research before you watch films mate.

The first one I watched because it was on TV and it was a popular film so thought I'd check it out because I figure a) I might like it (there are a lot of films that split opinion, or are widely disliked that I actually enjoy), b) I didn't want to join in criticising it without watching it. I watched the rest of the twilight films for two reasons: 1) I'm a bit of a completest 2) My friend and I often watch films we're not expecting to like mostly just to make fun of them

 

[Questions]

The first one I watched because it was on TV and it was a popular film so thought I'd check it out because I figure a) I might like it (there are a lot of films that split opinion, or are widely disliked that I actually enjoy), b) I didn't want to join in criticising it without watching it. I watched the rest of the twilight films for two reasons: 1) I'm a bit of a completest 2) My friend and I often watch films we're not expecting to like mostly just to make fun of them

I've started 2 films this weekend and given up within 20 minutes on both of them. One starred Will Smith so that's natural. Cut your losses I say.

 

[MJsGhost]

Donnie Darko
Solaris

Absolute tosh, the pair of them

 

[Shatner's Bassoon]

I think I might actually hate the person who made me sit through Lord of the Rings.

 

[Spun Cuppa]

Raise The Titanic

Without wishing to spoil the end, an appalling bad model of the WHOLE ship surfaces in a plain to see tank of water

One of Lord Grade's bigger turkeys

 

[Spun Cuppa]

Donnie Darko
Solaris

Absolute tosh, the pair of them

Was that the Tarkovsky or Soderberg version? The former is mustard

 

[Jim Van Winkle]

Green Street 3: I watched this visual masterpiece last night. I didn't bother with the sequel went straight for the third installment. I didn't realise it was a comedy though. Apparently the world of football violence is now a underground MMA circuit littered with martial arts experts, squaddies and bent coppers who like to fight. Who knew?

Don't ask me why I watched this. Some sort of morbid curiosity got the better of me.

 

[horshamite]

Saw the film version of Les Mis a couple of days ago as love the songs. Russell Crowe actually had me laughing his acting and singing were so bad. Would have walked out if I hadn't been watching it at home.

 

[jonny.rainbow]

The Shawshank Redemption - truly the emperor's new clothes of films.

An overly long cliched narrative, capped off with one of the most implausible (though at the same time utterly predictable) plot twists in cinema history.

 

[pasty]

The Sixth Sense

Get Shorty

The Devil Wears Prada (although I got a fist full of brownie points for taking Mrs P to see that)

Ted (see Devil Wears Prada)

Bridesmaids (see Ted)

 

[Telscombe Seagull]

The Blair Witch Project. Kept getting told its awesome, future of cinema, clever etc etc. found it to just be a cameraman with the shakes!

 

[Spun Cuppa]

Ring

Advertised as the scariest film of all time, which finished without a whimper

 

[Acker79]

The Sixth Sense

How could I forget the M Night Shyamalan repertoire...

Unbreakable, Signs, Devil (as producer or presenter or something). (I actually don't regret sixth sense or the happening, and didn't see lady in the water or last airbender)

 

[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

I watched Oblivion yesterday afternoon and it was a total yawn! The only redeeming point were the special effects and landscapes.

 

[Questions]

The Shawshank Redemption - truly the emperor's new clothes of films.

An overly long cliched narrative, capped off with one of the most implausible (though at the same time utterly predictable) plot twists in cinema history.

Not a complete waste of time for me but certainly never unstandard the plaudits it gets on NSC. It's ok.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Raise The Titanic

....Without wishing to spoil the end

Thanks!

 

[drew]

Pearl Harbour.

 

[StonehamPark]

Gravity
The Matrix Revolutions
Terminator 3
School of Rock
Tropic Thunder
Bruno
Shrek 3 & 4
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Die Hard 5
Sin City
& anything with the word 'Movie' at the end.

 

[StonehamPark]

Bit of a shocker that one - a great sci-fi drama!

I watched it for a second time hoping I'd like it but I just couldn't enjoy it.
I do love Jim Carrey though, but whilst we're here, I'll add 'The Number 23' in there.