Films that are best left unwatched

Amy (Amy Winehouse story)

Tried to watch it last night but gave up.

To be fair I think it’s always difficult playing an iconic person like that.

Bone Tomahawk

Hereditary

I don’t think I’ve ever been angrier after watching a film.*

The base requirement of a horror film is it should be scary. It isn’t. Not on any level. Any pretentious arse that tries to claim it’s “intelligent horror” is a try hard edge lord. The young daughter character was abysmal, but is surpassed by her brother who may be the worst character in anything I’ve ever watched. Not even Toni Collette can save it.

(*Midsommar comes a very close second, which is also by the same director…)

Deadpool vs Wolverine. A true turd

Hush your dirty mouth child.

The Expendables

Time I won’t get back.

Avatar 2. It’s rare we turn a film off not even half way through but what a steaming pile.

There’s been a few other Netflix ones but they were so poor I can’t remember the title…one had Mark Wahlberg in it so it was never going to be brilliant.

Real Steel. One of the most thumbed up films on Netflix, apparently. Heartwarming, apparently. Actually soulless, schmaltzy toss.

There’s been a few other Netflix ones but they were so poor I can’t remember the title…one had Mark Wahlberg in it so it was never going to be brilliant.

The Union…. it was utter carp

Anything with Jason Statham in it, avoid if it’s the last thing you do.

montylikesbeer
Full Member
Anything with Jason Statham in it, avoid if it’s the last thing you do.

Ordinarily is agree but I actually like the Crank films. 😐

antichrist (not due to the controversial nature of the film) or any film by lars von trier for that matter as i thought they were all terrible.  (pretentious/self indulgent tosh imho).

Deadpool vs Wolverine. A true turd

This proves monsters are real. They are real. 😉

The Matrix sequels and the Pirates of the Caribbean sequels.

The Expendables

Time I won’t get back.

Just as well you haven’t seen the sequels then 🙂

United Passions. I haven’t seen it and never will.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Passions

I really struggled with the schmaltz of Its A Wonderful Life

George Bailey loses his hearing in one ear, is forced out of business, and seriously contemplates suicide. You may not like the film but the idea of it being Christmas schmaltz doesn’t quite fit the film’s plot IMO.

Get Out.

Really bigged up. Absolutely cringe.

montylikesbeerFull Member
Anything with Jason Statham in it, avoid if it’s the last thing you do.

Nooo… They’re not good films, but perfect on a Sunday night with some wine as you try to distract yourself from the impending Monday

Sharknado  !

Truly appallingly bad.  So bad it’s not actually good, it went right past that and continued on to be even badder.

Batman is hardly in it, and in the occasion when he does arrive, he has the mobility of a Dalek and all of the brooding menace of Bungle the Bear. Good job he only had to go up against Jack Nicholson doing his panto dame routine and not Tom Hardy’s Bane.

If your reference point is Tom Hardy and not Adam West then you’re never going to get that film, regardless of whether it’s good or not. 😀

Also, The Road.

Great film but I couldn’t watch it again, think I’d need counselling.

It’s the same with his (Cormac McCarthy) books. I have to mentally prepare myself before I start reading them, and then wonder whether I need counselling once I’ve finished them. Some of them are utterly fantastic, though.

I’d say any sequel, or franchise after the first film, is likely to be crap. In general they are taking what was probably a decent original idea and leaching the last few million dollars from it.  There may be the occasional honourable exception, but I can’t think of any.

Amy (Amy Winehouse story)

I thought that wasn’t too bad. Especially compared to Mission Impossible 437 or the Bourne [insert random word here].

Get Out.

Really bigged up. Absolutely cringe.

We went as a family, Mum Dad and teen twins. A unanimous verdict of utter, utter shite. And as you say, hyped up beyond hype.

Hmm now ya see – I enjoyed Get Out. A mad idea but at the same time creepy and crazy.

I recently watched 10 minutes of Fresh – that horrible thing has been in my head for weeks now and I can’t get rid of it. Nor can I get rid of the idea that maybe I should watch the whole film!

Get Out was great (not sure it’s a “family trip to the cinema” sort of film though!) As is ’89 Batman (at least, it has a lot of good points, the best Batmobile ever being one of them!)

Finally got around to watching “cult classic” Nightbreed the other day. Now that is a bad movie. Decent idea & great makeup effects though!

I recently rewatched an 80’s film called ‘No Retreat No Surrender’ and god that was awful.

I once had a sleepover off of the ’90s where we watched No Retreat No Surrender 3. I’ve no desire to ever see any of the series, it was so poor.  The continuity was… Spectacular.

I am probably going to get flamed to within an inch of my virtual life here but the 2 films I wish I had never bothered watching, but which nearly everybody in the universe (or so it seems) raves on about how good they are, are :

Withnail and I
and
Blade Runner.

Hours of utter boredom that I will never get back.

not sure it’s a “family trip to the cinema” sort of film though!

I think the kids were 19 or 20……

The Expendables

Top film, as were the sequels

Sharknado  !

Again, top film, as were the sequels (all 5 of them)

^^

Right. simondbarnes is going on ze list. 😉

I once had a sleepover off of the ’90s where we watched No Retreat No Surrender 3. I’ve no desire to ever see any of the series, it was so poor.  The continuity was… Spectacular.

No Retreat, No Surrender 2 is one of my all time faves. Cynthia Rothrock! Loren Avedon! So bad it’s good.

ThePinkster
Full Member
I am probably going to get flamed to within an inch of my virtual life here

Withnail and I
and
Blade Runner.

My God. My God! I’ll let you off Withnail but Blade Runner?!

Let me know if you ever need a blood transfusion.

😉

To be honest i’ve always thought of Blade Runner as a fairly boring run of the mill story wrapped in amazing visuals and soundtrack with one good monologue.

Anything with Jason Statham in it, avoid if it’s the last thing you do.

We did Meg and Meg2 recently… oh my… were they REAAAAAAALLLLY bad.

scammell
Free Member
To be honest i’ve always thought of Blade Runner as a fairly boring run of the mill story wrapped in amazing visuals and soundtrack with one good monologue.

I’ve always been utterly fascinated by it. Luke everything though, it’s subjective.

I can’t stand the sequel though. It’s a competent SF film but it’s just not a Blade Runner film/sequel to me. There is another film and even a TV series planned but I’m just going to pretend they don’t exist.

Started watching Independence Day:Resurgence the other day.

It’s rare that I actually turn a film off. I turned it off.

Absolute garbage.

Let me know if you ever need a blood transfusion.

LOL, cheers. :o)

LOL, cheers. :o)

I was afraid I might have taken the joke too far but I’m glad you took it the way it was meant. Lol

To be honest i’ve always thought of Blade Runner as a fairly boring run of the mill story wrapped in amazing visuals and soundtrack with one good monologue.

A killer hunts down some ‘others’. I mean, it’s a slight story, but, as you say, add in the great ancillaries and you get a great film. Isn’t that the same as huge numbers of films though? I’m in the middle of watching The Holdovers – a few people stuck in a snowbound school over Xmas 1970. It would be a terrible film if it didn’t have a good script and impeccable acting, but it does, so it’s a good film. Take a few elements out of Alien and you end up a rubbish alien-horror B-movie and not a classic.

I’m in the middle of watching The Holdovers

Still not got around to that. Might wait till Christmas now.

Lost in translation

Independence Day (post above reminded me.. aliens travel across the galaxy but we can hack there code…)

Rebel Moon.. we watched the first but couldn’t finish the 2nd, and now I see there an extra 2hrs+ of directors cut we could watch…

Mad max furiosa, I kinda enjoyed fury rd

TBH I’ve given up on new films