[Closed] films you shouldn't have seen?

Shawshank Redemption.

Dull shit.

Scum

"Lucky" a comedy about a dead dog which talks an alcholic comic book writer into committing acts of necrophilia.

Most of them coz they are free on telly as I don't want to be rip off at cinema ... 😆

Another vote for Event Horizon

Can't put my finger in what it is about that film but it's uneasy from the very start

Apparently the flickering video of what happened to the crew was meant to go in a whole lot longer and porn stars and amputees were hired for certain parts to make it all sort of descent into hell horror. I'm paraphrasing but look up what I mean in the trivia section on IMDB

@ lovewookie

I'm pretty certain that scene isn't him: I think I heard they got some porn actors in to do those scenes.

In terms of "shouldn't have seen because I was too young: American Werewolf in London. We convinced my Mum it was a comedy when I was about 10. Many sleepless nights later.....

In terms of terrible films it probably has to be Paranormal Activity something or other. The one with the Hispanic family. It was just simply awful.

Se7en, as some have mentioned, gave me a huge adrenaline rush at the time. I loved it. Still do.

The prequel to Carlitos Way, it was worse than one of those made for TV movies starring that guy that used to play Superman in the 90's TV series.

The Thing when I was about 12, scared the b'jesus out of me.

Jaws - completely changed the way I see sharks, the sea & my place in the sea. Amazing film (& one of my favourites) but the waters never been the same since..

Jaws was probably the worst thing to happen to sharks.

Kick ass 2, the first one was brilliant the sequel was just unpleasant.

Sharknado. From the trailer it seems all [i]So bad it's actually hilarious!!11!!1[/i], but in reality it's just shite.

Event Horizon is superb, dunno what you lot ^ are on about.

The things that for me cannot be unseen are two movies I watched mamy years ago. I was an intern at a well-known manufacturer of passenger jets, a bunch of us went out on the lash and ended up round at the flat of one of the senior engineers. He had Saving Private Ryan on DVD (back when DVDs were still pretty flash) and a bonkers home cinema set-up. Sounded like the tanks were about to come through the wall of his apartment, you could feel them rather than hear them. This is not about that film.

Afterwards - and after many more 1664's and a bottle of Pastis - he brought out some 'speciality movies'. One was called [i]Dilatations Hors Normes[/i] and was, well, a bit of an eye-opener. Very, very NSFW by the way, if you are thinking of googling a translation. Then came a VHS he'd picked up on his travels in Mexico, which was basically a snuff movie. To be fair, it was clips of 'public' stuff (punishments in certain parts of the world etc.) rather than filmed to order, and was way, way tamer than you see in a typical episode of your average crime thriller post-watershed, but still is oh-so vivid in my mind. We didn't get too far into that one and left sharpish.

Back in the real world, I saw [i]Aliens[/i] when I was about twelve, it was a big new year's do at a relative's place, the adults were all drunk somewhere else and a few of us cousins put a movie on... nightmares aplenty for a while after that!

Jaws - completely changed the way I see sharks, the sea & my place in the sea. Amazing film (& one of my favourites) but the waters never been the same since..

And after last night, Revolver, 2.5 hrs I will never get back

The kids watched Pixels last night, I was forced to watch.
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Event Horizon is superb, dunno what you lot ^ are on about.

+1
its a great movie

if you want a bad movie then try torturing yourself with 3 headed shark attack....absolute shite!!

The Shawshank Redemption is a great film -it's even better once you realise Dufresne is guilty as hell.
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Irréversible for the fire extinguisher scene
thats easier to watch than the one in the subway!

I got to the subway part and had to turn it off.

Highlander 2

scarred for life

Jaws - completely changed the way I see sharks, the sea & my place in the sea. Amazing film (& one of my favourites) but the waters never been the same since..

As somebody who will go out of his way to swim with sharks, I can tell you that they are much more likely to swim away than try to eat you.

That said, I won't swim near a seal colony 😯

Who is this strange "carol" poster with their haiku-like poetic messages??

Roadhouse 2: Last Call

Anything with Steven Seagal or Jean-Claude Van Damme in it.

My Best Friend's Wedding.

It remains, truly my most insulting cinema experience. I was dragged along, stupidly hoping for some carnal recompense afterward.

As for the film experience, I can only describe it as like being suspended by the ankles over an open sewerage works and being repeatedly dipped head first into slurry. For ninety minutes.

Inbetweeners 2 did not redeem itself sadly. Hope they don't get to make any more.

2012 - wasted three hours watching that drivel last night

Who is this strange "carol" poster with their haiku-like poetic messages??

is it Jamie in disguise??

Event Horizon is superb,

No. No it isn't.

I understand it's having a bit of a renaissance, and there's some hefty revisionist acclaim for it, but for the most part, it's just gore...I read one critic who tried to make a case that it was a sort of "shinning in Space", which it is, sort of: apart from the lack of suspense and foreboding, the lack of claustrophobia (impressive, as it's set in space), and acting and cinematography, and any sense of knowing what it's actually for or about, or coherent plot

Terrible terrible film.

No. No it isn't.

Blah blah...

Terrible terrible film.

It is superb, has my hanging off my seat everytime!

then it's great film!

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😆 good job we all like different things, one of my friends thinks it's crap too

The only two films I nearly walked out of the cinema, but sadly didn't, were Blair Witch and 2012. As the credits started on Blair Witch somebody shouted "I want my money back" and I'm sure the entire audience joined in.

I understand it's having a bit of a renaissance, and there's some hefty revisionist acclaim for it, but for the most part, it's just gore...I read one critic who tried to make a case that it was a sort of "shinning in Space", which it is, sort of: apart from the lack of suspense and foreboding, the lack of claustrophobia (impressive, as it's set in space), and acting and cinematography, and any sense of knowing what it's actually for or about, or coherent plot

You've obviously been watching a different film as it has all of those things you suggest it is missing. Excellent film. I thought so when it first came out, I still think so now. Nothing revisionist about it.

Don't get me wrong - I think Event Horizon is a great film but it has had a very lasting effect because I was expecting something different (no spoilers!)

@ lovewookie

I'm pretty certain that scene isn't him: I think I heard they got some porn actors in to do those scenes.

yeah figured that. though anything with Charlotte Gainsbourg in it is questionable.
stunt dicks, see rammstein's pussy video.
or don't.

Trancendence

Just not Johnny Depps finest out boring as sin

Requiem for a Dream

Just a wrist slashingy depressing film.

Blair witch project....jesus what a waste of a date

Oh and as someone else has commented

Event Horizon....also a waste of a date with the same Woman.

Requiem for a Dream

I quite enjoyed that one 🙁 .

Independance Day or Volcano are my nominations for the most awful films of all time. I am physically unable to articulate how bad they are.

As for things I probably shouldn't have seen, someone getting hit by a train. Can't remember the year but it left me pretty much unshockable since.

+1 to Every Nicholas Cage film ever.

You've obviously been watching a different film as it has all of those things you suggest it is missing.

when the main actor has to tell you that "It's claustrophobic" it's mostly because it isn't...

but life would be dull if we all liked them same things 8)

Another one for Jaws, love the film but saw it when I was very young. Still have a bit of fear when swimming in the sea, I used to windsurf a bit and when I fell off it was like the water was scolding me I was so quick to get back on the board.

The Shining, watched this at a friends house one afternoon in winter. When it finished it was dark and snowing, I have never pedalled as fast home since.

Anything with Tom Hanks. Anything by Peter Greenaway. Con Air and Twister were pretty heinous.

Managed to forget Transcendence, cheers for the reminder I wasted a small portion of my life 🙂

Babadook is one I really regret - utter sh!te. Terrible acting and a horrible mixed bag of dubious plots lines made it neither a psychological or a real horror film. Not even worth making the disc into a coaster as people would realise you had it.

Citizen Kane.

Why this is in every film buff's top 5. Dull dull dull.

Anything by Peter Greenaway.

Works of art. Totally barmy and sometimes unintelligible, but brilliant.

Now, The Eiger Sanction. That was crap.

thestabiliser - Member
Highlander 2

scarred for life

I would go quite [i]that[/i] far! But, having really enjoyed the romp that was the first film, for the first time ever I genuinely thought about asking for my money back! Crushing disappointment, inexplicable how someone could have made such a dreadful sequel.
Pan's Labyrinth - now, I'm not suggesting for a second that it's a bad film, because it isn't; however, I found parts of it to be very disturbing, to the extent that it's unlikely that I'll ever be able to watch it again.
And it's not the Pale Man I was most unsettled by, it's the behaviour of one particular human.

Keith Lemon: The Film. I didn't know who Keith Lemon was. Mrs doordonot insisted we see it. It would be hilarious, she said. We left after ten minutes and got our money back after the cinema cashier agreed it was rubbish.

Event Horizon n+1. Brilliant film.

Blair Witch Project: shouldn't have gone riding in my local woods at dusk, on my own, just after watching it for the first time.

I found E.T. really upsetting and a bit disturbing. As an 8 year old-ish I wasn't ready for that emotional stuff. Have never watched it in full since.

I remember watching a film called Demons when I was a bit too young. Didn't sleep for weeks afterwards.

Edit: A quick scan has reminded me about what happens. Demons
http://imdb.com/rg/an_share/title/title/tt0089013/

The Harry Hill Movie

Fast and furious. I walked.

Also walked from one of the Start Wars films.

The omen when I was young.

Many of the films mentioned I've never seen. Some I never will, others I want to buy not sure I should....

Oh... And some Turkish film I watched in some independent Berlin cinema... 4 hours long, in Turkish with German subtitles. Two coppers sat in their panda car over looking a crime scene.
I was high, it was shit.

Animal Farm,

30 years on I can still remember the horse the bin bag and the girl.

Shocked that anyone would go to see the Keith lemon movie.

Grounds for divorce there I'd say.

The remake of Clash of the Titans is one I nearly walked out of. Possibly the worst film I have seen at the cinema.

I saw Cronenberg's [url= http://http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0115964/ ]Crash[/url] in 1996 at the age of 17 or 18. I was alone in the cinema well before the end. I don't think the experience did my sexual development any huge favours. I'm still unreasonably aroused by women with prosthetic limbs, and it probably planted the seeds for tattoos 10 years later.

[url= http://http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0421238/?ref_=m_ttmi_mi_tt ]The Proposition[/url] has absolutely haunted me. I don't think I'd ever really thought about being stabbed before.

In terms of things that were a huge waste of time, I find my memory of them fades pretty swiftly. Battle for Los Angeles was pretty dire.

Earthquake (70s film) - the lift scene. Freaked me out as a kid. Not sure how old I was, maybe 7 or 8.

Now I watch it and it's comedy.

BigDummy - Member
I saw Cronenberg's Crash in 1996 at the age of 17 or 18. I was alone in the cinema well before the end. I don't think the experience did my sexual development any huge favours. I'm still unreasonably aroused by women with prosthetic limbs, and it probably planted the seeds for tattoos 10 years later.

I rember watching a scene from Cathy Come Home, back in the early 70's, when they forcibly take the children off them.
It was around the time my parents were arguing a lot, usually about my drunken Dad. One afternoon, reeking of booze, my Dad sat me down to tell me I may have to go in to a children's home. I was sobbing, he just left me there alone, in my room. I've never felt so alone & frightened.
I was 5 yrs old.
That film did me no favours. ?

Battle Los Angeles is the only film I've ever left a cinema from. And I'm a very patient and tolerant type.

Quantum of Solace almost ruined every other Bond film for me.

Forest Gump dragged on so much that after an hour, i thought my watch had stopped

Aged 16, with a couple of mates in one of their big old houses, The Haunting ( the 60's version). Scared the bejezzers out of us.

Rocky Horror Picture Show. ..... Utter shite

After it being mentioned on here I stupidly watched 2 girls I cup -I managed 30 seconds before switching off
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