Movies That You Hate: An Anti-Recommendation Thread

[laterlazer]

Salmon Fishing In The Yemen; I still don't know what possessed me to watch it, and actually stick it the whole way through. It really is as boring as it sounds.

 

[D'Ascoyne]

Only slightly off-topic, some people are saying that this is Johnny Depp's best performance ever:

(Context: they tried to illegally smuggle their dogs into the country. This video is part of their punishment.)

LOL, this story is ridiculous! I wonder who wrote what they're saying.

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Salmon Fishing In The Yemen; I still don't know what possessed me to watch it, and actually stick it the whole way through. It really is as boring as it sounds.

Dumbest title ever.

 

[Totenkindly]

I was going to volunteer "Annabelle" as a hate-able horror movie... except that it was so flat and boring and predictable that I don't really hate it, I'm completely apathetic.

(In "Boy, That's Ironic," news however, the lead actress who is trying to thwart the doll Annabelle in the movie is named Annabelle IRL. That's about the most interesting aspect of the movie and hopefully contributed to some enjoyable level of confusion while shooting the script.)

 

[Kingu Kurimuzon]

Godfather III?

Superman IV (naw, that one's fun in a so-bad-it's-good way)

Jaws 3 and 4?

 

[meowington]

Salmon Fishing In The Yemen

LMAO possessed really is the word here. Can't think of any other possible reason.

Jaws 3 and 4?

My 8 year old me strongly disagrees with Jaws 4. I loved that one. Could be juvenile bias.

Bad Boys 2 is particulary high on my dislike list cause in the last 5 minutes, out of the blue, they blame everything on Castro.
Nymphomaniac

 

[Kingu Kurimuzon]

LMAO possessed really is the word here. Can't think of any other possible reason.



My 8 year old me strongly disagrees with Jaws 4. I loved that one. Could be juvenile bias.

Bad Boys 2 is particulary high on my dislike list cause in the last 5 minutes, out of the blue, they blame everything on Castro.

Yeah, I much preferred Bad Boys 1.

Jaws 4 is actually more entertaining than Jaws 3, IMO, although the cheesy 1983 3-D effects are pretty fun in Jaws 3.

Jaws 2 is decent, but the whole thing feels like a slasher/serial killer film turned into a shark movie.

 

[Totenkindly]

Yeah, I much preferred Bad Boys 1.

Jaws 4 is actually more entertaining than Jaws 3, IMO, although the cheesy 1983 3-D effects are pretty fun in Jaws 3.

Jaws 2 is decent, but the whole thing feels like a slasher/serial killer film turned into a shark movie.

How does the shark hold the knife?

 

[Kingu Kurimuzon]

How does the shark hold the knife?

Realizing you're just joking but I'll explain it anyway.

The whole "revenge" implication is silly. In the first movie it was just a rogue shark with no motive other than hunger. It places the film less in the realm of monster movie and more in line with Halloween and Texas Chainsaw type films, which were just becoming popular around that period.

Even some of the POV camerawork when it's supposed to be the shark is stupid, because the camera will be still for various scenes, as though the shark is sitting still behind seaweed or a few 100 feet from the beach (notice the scene when Roy Scheider pulls the body from the water--are we to believe the shark is watching Brody, or is the director just being inconsistent with the visual narrative style?), waiting to strike like Jason Voorhees or Michael Myers. In the first film, the "Shark-o-vision" was usually in constant motion, so we got the sense of a beast in perpetual movement (also fits with Sharks' biological design, since they will sink if they cease swimming).

The teenagers who are harassed by the shark all fit the classic slasher movie victim archetypes (nerdy kid, practical joker, jock, whiny blonde, etc).

Not to mention the cheesy burn scars on the shark after the boat explosion.

 

[Totenkindly]

Realizing you're just joking but I'll explain it anyway.

The whole "revenge" implication is silly. In the first movie it was just a rogue shark with no motive other than hunger. It places the film less in the realm of monster movie and more in line with Halloween and Texas Chainsaw type films, which were just becoming popular around that period.

Even some of the POV camerawork when it's supposed to be the shark is stupid, because the camera will be still for various scenes, as though the shark is sitting still behind seaweed or a few 100 feet from the beach (notice the scene when Roy Scheider pulls the body from the water--are we to believe the shark is watching Brody, or is the director just being inconsistent with the visual narrative style?), waiting to strike like Jason Voorhees or Michael Myers. In the first film, the "Shark-o-vision" was usually in constant motion, so we got the sense of a beast in perpetual movement (also fits with Sharks' biological design, since they will sink if they cease swimming).

The teenagers who are harassed by the shark all fit the classic slasher movie victim archetypes (nerdy kid, practical joker, jock, whiny blonde, etc).

Not to mention the cheesy burn scars on the shark after the boat explosion.

Did the shark dress up in his mom's clothes and wear a wig before stabbing a coed to death in the beach shower room?


... but yeah, "revenge." eeehhhh.... obviously there's no revenge or choice involved, it's all just things doing what they were programmed by nature to do. Like eat.

Sometimes that can be scarier. Because you have no real recourse; you cannot change the creature's mind.

 

[Kingu Kurimuzon]

Did the shark dress up in his mom's clothes and wear a wig before stabbing a coed to death in the beach shower room?


... but yeah, "revenge." eeehhhh.... obviously there's no revenge or choice involved, it's all just things doing what they were programmed by nature to do. Like eat.

Sometimes that can be scarier. Because you have no real recourse; you cannot change the creature's mind.

Exactly. They took it further in Jaws IV and made the whole film about a personal vendetta against the Brody family. I suppose the shark was cousins with the 3 previous sharks? I dunno.

The first one is awesome because of the whole monster-driven-by-pure-instinct aspect. That's what makes the first few Alien and Jurassic Park films awesome.


A giant hockey mask on the shark would've been funny though.

 

[meowington]

They took it further in Jaws IV and made the whole film about a personal vendetta against the Brody family.

Yeah true. I liked the movie but that was indeed ridiculously farfetched. But hey in the 80ties you could get away with anything and people were still thrilled about it.

I just looked through his IMDB records, and the best I saw was "Good Will Hunting", which was a pretentious piece of crap in my opinion (but apparently won a couple Oscars - being pretentious is a good tactic for winning Oscars).

So true.

Birdman
Revenant
Hurt Locker
All best motion pictures can be placed in this thread.
Hollywood needs to learn that you can't sugarcoat subtlety (contradictio in terminis) or art, because it loses its magic. At least to me.

 

[Kingu Kurimuzon]

I kind of find The Deer Hunter to be overrated. The Russian Roulette scenes are harrowing, but otherwise, fucking snoozefest.

Meryl Streep cries. Robert DeNiro hunts.

 

[SearchingforPeace]

Taxi Driver. I had read so much about the film being so powerful and groundbreaking, but watching it was shocking about how average it was overall. Of course, I saw it years later after watching Tarantino films and such, but still..... just not that good....even for a 70s era film.....

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

Donnie Fucking Darko. The people that love that movie, love it in an obnoxious way. I don't like the film itself, but the fans make it worse.

 

[Kingu Kurimuzon]

Taxi Driver. I had read so much about the film being so powerful and groundbreaking, but watching it was shocking about how average it was overall. Of course, I saw it years later after watching Tarantino films and such, but still..... just not that good....even for a 70s era film.....

I imagine that it was more powerful in 1976, but film makers have since pushed the envelope to a degree that it is pedestrian by current standards.

Donnie Fucking Darko. The people that love that movie, love it in an obnoxious way. I don't like the film itself, but the fans make it worse.

It's okay but hardly memorable or quotable. I watched it again recently and it hadn't aged well.

I like that it's a period piece though. I like period pieces set in recent decades because they're reminders of how much and how little we have changed.

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Deathproof

 

[Kingu Kurimuzon]

Skyfall. Somehow people thought this was the best Bond movie since Connery?


I've always been a Timothy Dalton guy...

 

[Crabs]

Only slightly off-topic, some people are saying that this is Johnny Depp's best performance ever:

(Context: they tried to illegally smuggle their dogs into the country. This video is part of their punishment.)

"Declare everything when you enter Australia." He looks like he's trying to keep a straight face while amusing himself with his own insincerity.

Donnie Fucking Darko. The people that love that movie, love it in an obnoxious way. I don't like the film itself, but the fans make it worse.

Same with the Nightmare Before Christmas. I didn't dislike either movie, but their cult following is annoying.

Though I admit, I have been obnoxiously passionate about certain movies from time to time.

 

[SearchingforPeace]

"Declare everything when you enter Australia." He looks like he's trying to keep a straight face while amusing himself with his own insincerity.



Same with the Nightmare Before Christmas. I didn't dislike either movie, but their cult following is annoying.

Though I admit, I have been obnoxiously passionate about certain movies from time to time.

I hated Nightmare Before Christmas. My friends dragged me to opening night show in Hollywood when the original came out. The theater was all decorated like the movie. I hated it.

Edward Scissorhands......

 

[Crabs]

I hated Nightmare Before Christmas. My friends dragged me to opening night show in Hollywood when the original came out. The theater was all decorated like the movie. I hated it.

Edward Scissorhands......

If someone genuinely likes a movie, that's fine. But I get the sense that a lot of kids, and adults, who identify with a particular subculture became super fans of the Nightmare Before Christmas because of its popularity within that subculture.

 

[SearchingforPeace]

If someone genuinely likes a movie, that's fine. But I get the sense that a lot of kids, and adults, who identify with a particular subculture became super fans of the Nightmare Before Christmas because of its popularity within that subculture.

Pretty much.