[Closed] films you shouldn't have seen?

I thought Bridesmaids was great.

However;

Tomb Raider
Kill Bill

The Exorcist. I missed a maths lecture to go and see that. It was rubbish. The lecture would have been more interesting (and far more frightening).

Animal Farm.

No, not the George Orwell adaptation.

Terminator Genysis

The human centipede (boxset ;))

Armageddon
The Devil Wears Prada

The Exorcist when I was 10 years old. Didn’t sleep for a week.
Salem’s Lot when I was 11 years old. See above.

Snake Eyes. Nicholas Cage stole 2 hours of my life.
Wings of the Apache. See above.

Avatar - utter sh1te

Pixels, unbelievably sh1te

Inspector Gadget

Hot Tub Time Machine 2, lasted ten minutes and turned it off.

Elf.

Elf is awesome!

+1 love Elf!

GI Joe
Armageddon

(Mrs S has a thing about Bruce Willis, I get to see some unremitting dross as a result).

Nicholas Cage stole 2 hours of my life.

I was 8 and we were moving house. My parents we still up packing and I couldn't sleep. I cam through to the main room to witness Xenomorphs crashing through the ceiling.

Seven with Brad Pitt..

Bloody horrible film.. disturbed me for years after that..

Shouldn't as in wish you hadn't / shite, or you shouldn't have been allowed as too young etc?

The latter - The Omen, around 9 or 10 I think. A kid had one of those rare video recorder things and we went round to watch that. Was Betamax too! Good film though, but at the time we just flicked through to the scary bits.

We got shown 1984 at school which was a bit disturbing at the time and sure we were under age for the rating.

Wish I hadn't... Highlander 2!

Robocop. It's a great film, it's just, we got shown it in class at primary school when I was about 12.

The Godfather. I've seen worse films but I've not seen any boringier films. At least with bad films you'll usually get a laugh.

Original Gangsters.
88 Minutes.

Cool as Ice starring Vanilla Ice.

Even the tagline makes no sense;

When a girl has a heart of stone, there's only one way to melt it. Just add Ice.

American Werewolf in London.

Its not a comedy if you are 8yrs old.

I still cant watch it now, terrifies me.

Interstellar - just painful.

Seven with Brad Pitt.

awesome film but I understand it disturbing some people

fifty shades of grey.

well, some of it. quite why, I don't know.

Burn after reading...Utter drivel

Enter The Void.

I was taken to see it by a friend who loved Irreversible (which I hadn't seen). I found it extremely boring, about an hour too long, and it made my eyes hurt.

Mamma f***ing Mia. Mrs_D was given it as a xmas present one year. What a pile of cack. Pierce Brosnan has a worse singing voice than me, and that's saying something 🙄

I never did like ABBA anyway

jon1973 - Member

When a girl has a heart of stone, there's only one way to melt it. Just add Ice.

That's not melting it, that's freeze-thaw erosion.

Solaris: What a load of navel gazing, faux intellectual, drippy-arsed rubbish

Margaret with Anna Paquin.

Never before, in the history of cinema, has such an obnoxious character been allowed to afflict a mass audience for a couple of hours to such a painful degree.

It must never be allowed to happen again.

My mates parents home movie when we were around 12-13.

Watching his mum and dad at it was a fairly strange experience. But not half as strange as his insistence that we watch it again and again, basically anytime there was nothing better to do his first suggestion would be "Let's watch my dads film".

Solaris: What a load of navel gazing, faux intellectual, drippy-arsed rubbish

Which? The George Clooney remake? Or the Tarkovsky original? Tarkovsky is a genius.

Another vote for Se7en most unpleasant

Solaris! I'd forgotten about that.

The missus won tickets to see it from the local paper. A week after I was in the pub and an old school friend of mine, that worked at the afore mentioned paper, came up to me and apologised.

Closet Land - A more disturbing film I've yet to see. Alan Rickman is superb in it though.

If we're talking shouldn't have watched as it was drivel....recently,

Pirahna 3DD
American Pie - the *something* mile.

Not so recently

Indiana Jones & the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
The 3 bloated Hobbit films
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

Films that freaked me out...

Watched Robocop at a mates house while still in junior school, so maybe 10 years old - felt very ill during the scene where he gets shot to bits before being Robocop-ified.

The Fly round at a mate's house, which required a walk through a dark alley to get back home. My sprint record from my house to his was 32 seconds, but I think I beat it that night....

stumpy01 - Member
Watched Robocop at a mates house while still in junior school, so maybe 10 years old - felt very ill during the scene where he gets shot to bits before being Robocop-ified.

And that's considering it was likely the cut version. I find the scene funny now, even the full uncut one. The whole film is mocking violence and attitudes towards it. The stuff is just relentless.

I have only ever walked out of two films in my life Alien Nation and the second Matrix film.

I wish I had never seen the Texas Chainsaw Massacre - I was 12 or 13 and at home on my own during the day. Slept with the light on for months !

john_drummer - Member
Mamma f***ing Mia.

'I was having a drink then...'
Spat tea everywhere. 😆
It sounds a bit 'specialist' that does.

The one with Jill from Admin in a major role! 😳

The Deer Hunter - nothing happens in the many hours it is long.

Wolf Creek, great film but in the unlikely event of going to Australia, a trip to the outback is out of the **** question. Watched part of it from behind the sofa, every so often screaming, "what the * are you doing, just run!".

After struggling through Close Encounters of the Third Kind the other week we now just avoid anything labelled a "cult classic" because they're almost all tediously slow films that have aged very badly.

Men In Black II, Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull, the Matrix sequels and the Pirates of the Caribbean sequels (2 and 3, didn't see the fourth one). Not just bad but their existence also manages to diminish their forebears.

The Deer Hunter - nothing happens in the many hours it is long.

Glad I'm not the only one who thinks this.....3 hours long, most of which was just dull. You could fast forward the first hour without missing anything.

Film I regret watching - A Serbian Film.
I've tried washing my eyes, drinking the memory away but no, there are images from that film that are burned into my soul.
Doesn't help that, as well as being proper disturbing, it is also a cack film...

Although the worst film I've ever seen is Nativity 3. It really is the worst. Surprisingly long too...

Texas Chainsaw Massacre - I have never been able to forget the scene where the murderer heaves the girl onto the meat hook.

Animal Farm when I was 17...not the George Orwell version 😯

Event Horizon - the bit with the scrambled video and eyeballs

Lost in translation - lost the point.

Showgirls...i even went to the cinema with some friends to watch it...one of them talked the rest of us into it...he still owes me the ticket money for that!!

Se7en is an awesome film.

Kill List on the other hand gave me the right willies (at 38).

Solaris: What a load of navel gazing, faux intellectual, drippy-arsed rubbish

Which? The George Clooney remake? Or the Tarkovsky original? Tarkovsky is a genius.

George clooney one, although i didn't make it through the russian one, it was a least better.

I've read the wikipedia plot synopsis of a serbian movie and that bothers me enough, never mind watching the thing. Mate of mine did watch it and then had night terrors for a few days after.

Something about Mary.

Didn't like it,and I despise that tedious Wee Evans,talentless muppet.
I wish I could edit his bit out of the 5th Element as well.

Currently watching inbetweeners 2 in installments.

The only reason I'm gonna make it to the end is in the hope that it might redeem itself.

Assassin with Danny Dyer - winner and thread closed.

Event Horizon - the bit with the scrambled video and eyeballs

slo-mo through it though and it's not actually that bad. The speed and the flickering makes it seem worse than it is

House on haunted hill is another one. there's something about nutters and nutters with needles that makes me feel uneasy 🙂

Jupiter Ascending - what a pile of ****

Irréversible for the fire extinguisher scene

Film I regret watching - A Serbian Film.
I've tried washing my eyes, drinking the memory away but no, there are images from that film that are burned into my soul.

This wins hands down for the most depraved sick filth I have ever seen. Just read the IMDB parental guide (it contains spoilers but as I highly recommend no one ever watches the film it shouldn't really matter)

I downloaded an un-editted version and started getting paranoid that I was going to be on some government watch list and getting a visit from the police and ending up on some sort of register.

Its supposed to be an arty allegory for the Serbian war but its actually just about trying to be as ****ed up as possible.

also +1 for watching American werewolf as a kid and being terrified!

Irréversible for the fire extinguisher scene

thats easier to watch than the one in the subway!

deadkenny - Member

[i]stumpy01 - Member
Watched Robocop at a mates house while still in junior school, so maybe 10 years old - felt very ill during the scene where he gets shot to bits before being Robocop-ified.[/i]

And that's considering it was likely the cut version.

I don't think it was the cut version - it was the same version I've seen any time since - although perhaps I just haven't ever seen the full version. What happens in the full version then, that isn't in the cut version?!

"Knocked Up": a 'comedy' full of unlikeable, unfunny characters, goes on at least an hour too long. Utterly shite, but seems to get good reviews everywhere. I will never watch another film with Seth Rogan in it.

and "Ted". A tiny idea, dragged out over 2hrs+, containing a few mildly amusing moments. Shit.

DezB spot on about Knocked Up, I really didn't care about anyone in that film, so really didn't understand why anyone even half-attractive would go anywhere near Seth Rogan's character

also - pretty much everything by Peter Jackson - LOTR was indulgent toss and everything else had me shouting 'get on with it' (King Kong and the other lotr films that have been put on the telly in our house and I've browsed here whilst on)

Bring it on - a film so tediously shit I'd have walked out if it was an in-flight movie. But I couldn't leave as I was stuck with my girlfriend and her sister, I was sobbing with boredom by the end.

Nightmare on Elm Street when I was 8...

Wouldn't go anywhere dark alone for 2 weeks...

Event Horizon is one of my of my favourite films and still makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up at times!

Animal Farm
Aliens 3
Terminator 3
quite a few Nick Cage films .

surroundedbyhills - Member

Event Horizon - the bit with the scrambled video and eyeballs

Mrs D and I saw that at the cinema. it was utterly and thoroughly traumatising and, retrospectively, we've never been able to explain to anyone else why. So I'm glad it's got a few votes on here.

I wouldn't actually say I regret seeing it, although it was extremely bleak, but I think the Mrs would rather not have.

I also found Paranormal Activity pretty scary too. Was even more freaked out when a night or two after one of the dogs dragged the bedspread of our bed in the middle of the night to build himself a nest.

cubist - Member

thats easier to watch than the one in the subway!

God, yeah that was a long scene as well! I think the fire extinguisher bit stood out more in my memory for how the weird music and uncomfortable lighting of the scene captures the out of control rage feeling. Just as close to pure aggression or hatred as I could imagine being put onto film.

It's still the only scene I've ever had to ffwd through. Brilliant film and a necessary scene but just horrible to watch.

Antichrist.

biggest jump scare in the first few minutes was witnessing for a split second Willem Dafoe's penis, in full action artsy penetration. Didn't see that...erm...urh..coming. 🙁

I don't care if it was a stunt dick, it still scared me.

'Trainwreck' and it friggin was,that Amy whatsherface that wrote and starred in it is possible the most unfunny comedienne after Mel and Sue, 2hrs of my life that I'll never get back.

Most likely won't be watching Eraserhead again if I can help it...

Another vote for Event Horizon. I remember going to cinema to see a sci-fi film, none of us had any idea of what it was actually about

Jesus, what a ****ed up film. 😯

Sharknado

2 girls 1 cup. You can't un-see some things....

Cannibal Holocaust - Disturbing!! Watched it out of curiosity after hearing so much about it and regretted it ever since.