Films that are best left unwatched

I thought Mad Max Fury: Road was bad.  Then I watched Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga and that made Fury Road look like a masterpiece.

6 Underground.

Actually, anything Michael Bay has directed with the exception of ‘The Rock’

I’m in the middle of watching The Holdovers
Still not got around to that. Might wait till Christmas now.

I’m only an hour in but it’s excellent! Looking forward to finishing it tonight.

6 Underground.

I reckon that scrapes into the “so bad it’s good” category, mostly cos the continuity is appalling and that makes for quite entertaining watching.

I’m in the middle of watching The Holdovers

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

I’d recommend you do, it’s got a real Christmas vibe to it, I liked it a lot. Although if this thread illustrates anything, it’s that any one person’s opinion counts for nowt.

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.

If you just take the story at face value then yeah, you’ve missed the point!! BR poses the question, “what does it mean to be human”? There is no definitive answer, thus various aspects of the film are up for interpretation. It’s thinking-man’s sci-fi, that is to say, proper sci-fi.

Lost in translation

I loved that

Strange – usually on threads about recommending stuff I can sort of nod along, but when it comes to films I seem to be living in anothe universe from the STW demographic.

I’m only an hour in but it’s excellent! Looking forward to finishing it tonight.

I’d recommend you do, it’s got a real Christmas vibe to it, I liked it a lot. Although if this thread illustrates anything, it’s that any one person’s opinion counts for nowt.

I’m a big Paul Giamatti fan ever since I saw him in Sideways. It’s the sort of thing that’s right up my street but I have to be in the “right” mood for certain genres. I can spend an hour looking through films and still not actually be happy with my choice for the night. It used to be embarrassing when I went to hire videos back in the day!

I’m a big Paul Giamatti fan ever since I saw him in Sideways

That’s the reason I’m watching it! 😀

Revisiting my yoof I rewatched the Crow as I saw it was streaming. I recomend not bothering.

Where as I went to the cinema to watch it on Sunday and thought it was ace, as good as 30 years ago.

A Serbian Film. Utterly grim.

Longlegs – an utter bore and just silly.

There was a good film in there somewhere. The fact that they took every trope imaginable and lobbed them in over the last hour utterly ruined it.

That film where Brad Pitt gets hit by a bus and death wears him as a suit is the most boring film I’ve ever seen. So bad, I can’t even recall the name of it!

Alien Covenant and Prometheus, although well shot and have lovely cinematography, are complete shite from a writing and character perspective.

Open Water.

Just fill up your bath and stare at it for two hours, it’ll be much more entertaining.

That film where Brad Pitt gets hit by a bus and death wears him as a suit is the most boring film I’ve ever seen. So bad, I can’t even recall the name of it!

Meet Joe Black ?

The David Lynch Dune. It’s the only film that I have fallen asleep in a cinema whilst ‘watching’

jimw
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The David Lynch Dune. It’s the only film that I have fallen asleep in a cinema whilst ‘watching’

Definitely outing myself here but I prefer it to the recent reboots.

That’s the reason I’m watching it! ?

Love that film, Sideways, not seen it in ages. Might have to schedule a rewatch.

Most of Marvel’s movie output since Endgame. The exceptions, IMO, are Shang-Chi and GotG3. Worst garbage: Thor: Love and Thunder, and Quantumania. Although I revisited Multiverse of Madness the other day and it wasn’t as bad as I remembered it.

Death Race 2000

Human Caterpillar.

Centipede, surely?

Meet Joe Black ?

That’s the one. Like having two hours of my life stolen!

Revisiting my yoof I rewatched the Crow as I saw it was streaming. I recomend not bothering.

Sure you’re not mistaking the new remake for the original? I have seen the original film a number of times, and it still stands up as a good film.

I thoroughly enjoyed Fury Road! It does what films like that are supposed to do – entertain without requiring deep analysis.

Deadpool vs Wolverine. A true turd

I’ll take that under advisement, I’ve seen the trailers and laughed out loud, I’ll be watching it on Disney+ very soon.

Deadpool vs Wolverine

I’ll take that under advisement, I’ve seen the trailers and laughed out loud, I’ll be watching it on Disney+ very soon.

I think it’s easily the best of the three. The sense of humour was so good it almost felt like it had been written especially for me. Lol

I think it’s a fantastic watch personally.

Anything with Nicholas Cage or Adam Sandler in it. I can think of 2 films that were so hysterically awful that we watched them just to take the piss out of how truly terrible they were. Cage and Travolta? Who thought that was a good idea?

Battleship.

Nicholas Cage

I did actually like that film he was in a few years back, The Color of Space I think it was called. An SF/ horror mashup. It was actually a little unsettling at times.

Two films I rented on DVD from Blockbusters without knowing anything about them. Admittedly highly unlikely anybody will ever watch them again as it’s more entertaining to describe how bad they are than watching them:

Lucky (2004) – alcoholic-cartoonist’s dog tells him to murder his date and bury her in garden, dig her up to perform sex acts from time to time, and possibly also feed* bits of her to the dog.
*I might have made that bit up but also likely I didn’t.
Strong why am I watching this vibes.

Bug (2006) – couple have sex in motel room then become paranoid about bugs and don’t leave the room thus reducing required movie budget.
Just remember it being as dull as dishwater.

Definitely outing myself here but I prefer it to the recent reboots.

I haven’t seen the second part yet, but I kind of feel similar. There’s a weirdness to it that I feel is present in the books. The first part of the remake was good in its own way. But it polished out the weird bollocks. Sort of like The Isle of Dr Moreau, the weirdness of the original was better than the shit with Val Kilmer.

jeff
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Jeezus, you’ll practically get poison pen letters for disliking that on here! Monster

Battleship.

I enjoyed that

simondbarnes
Full Member
Battleship.

I enjoyed that

Ditto. Worth watching if only for the whole “let’s drop some lead on that mo********er!” sequence.

Hitch hikers guide to the galaxy.

Utter

Like the film I just can’t be bothered to fini

Hitch hikers guide to the galaxy.

Another good one

There are some films that are best left unwatched though.

Dune. Any of them.

Irreversible just felt like a high brow excusr for an exploitation flick

The Idiots is on very sketchy ground indeed

Blair Witch Project bored the pants off me

More recently, i didn’t really get much out of The Lobster, and for something billed as a black comedy it was woefully short of laughs, or even light relief tbh

6 Underground

the car chase was EPIC though.

Anything with Nicholas Cage…

Go and watch Raising Arizona if you haven’t seen it. If you have seen it, what is wrong with you? 😉

Lol, i hate Nicholas cage too, but Raising Arizona is genuinely good!

Not for the same reasons but Nil by Mouth and Tyrannosaur.

Utterly brutal films that drain you.