Movies You Can't Stand

[Mojochi]

Whatever the hell that movie is with Marlon Wayans' face super-imposed onto the body of a midget. Just cut it the F### out, seriously

Speaking of Marlon Wayans, who manages to annoy me rather frequently... I also have to nominate The Ladykillers remake. Alec Guinness & Peter Sellers are rolling over in their graves. & I'm actually a huge Coen brothers fan, including their quirky comedy stuff, but this just sucked the wind out of every attempted laugh, and left me queasy from discomfort. It took a long time before I made an attempt to see the end, and it wasn't worth the effort

 

[Kelthaz]

Forrest Gump.

Such an infuriating movie.

 

[Sparkle Fabulosa]

Twilight- It makes me cringe that young girls are gaga over it. Yes girls, let's all be damsels in distress. Having a boyfriend is the most important thing in the world! And if he dumps you, contemplate suicide! Lovely.

The Hunger Games- The story of kids killing other kids for the sake of entertainment, it sickens me.

 

[Joel_Kirk]

Movies I can't stand, off the top of my head:
*Pacific Rim
*Avatar
*Friday
*The Avengers
*The Hobbit movies
*Hook

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

Forrest Gump.

Such an infuriating movie.

For some reason, I loved that movie when I saw it when it first came out. I was 11 at the time. I saw it 5 or 6 years later when I was in high school and was just appalled at how emotionally manipulative it was.

I also have to nominate The Ladykillers remake.

I liked it, but mostly for J.K. Simmons.

Rushmore: I'm sorry,but I don't get it.

Ouch. Take thy beak from out my heart! Rushmore is probably my #1 favorite movie.

I've never heard of, let alone seen A Christmas Story.

Really? It's not an unavoidable, endlessly rerun Christmas staple in England? Huh. I might just have to immigrate.

1. The Goonies - Boring. Annoying. Not funny. I get that people feel some connection to their childhood through it, but there's better options out there for that. Never want to watch this movie again.

2. The Princess Bride - Also annoying and not funny. This one was hyped to me too much and when I finally watched it I thought, "well that was really not very good." There are so many better comedies out there that I would rather spend my time on.

Agreed. I think both of those movies are ones that you need to have grown up on in order to see the appeal. I didn't see them until years later, so the charm is lost on me. Add Labyrinth to that pile.

 

[CaptainMurdock]

Star trek generations. (one of if not the worst movie's I have seen.)

Battleship: Terrible excuse for a movie. Bad acting, dialogue and special effects. complete utter trite.

Man of Steel: Terrible treatment of the superman character.

 

[Joel_Kirk]

Star trek generations. (one of if not the worst movie's I have seen.)

Battleship: Terrible excuse for a movie. Bad acting, dialogue and special effects. complete utter trite.

Man of Steel: Terrible treatment of the superman character.

Good choices...although, I'm going to have to brave through "Man of Steel" someday to be able to actually give a thorough, subjective opinion on why it doesn't work. (Even though I've seen many reviews that have already stated such).

 

[martok2112]

E.T.------ Largely for one reason....As a kid, I had to miss the big screen showing of The Wrath of Khan to watch this excremental experiment in sugar laden comatosis.

Add to the list any artsy fartsy movie ever made that draws audiences who act all pretentiously intellectual, as if us mainstreamers are so beneath them.

 

[JediKnightButler]

I don't know that I would say that there are a lot of movies that "I can't stand", mostly just movies that I've watched and find them either boring/stupid/depressing and I never want to see them again (mostly direct-to-DVD Redbox rentals) or movies that I'm really excited about and can't wait to get on Blu-Ray and add them to our permanent movie collection (mostly a lot of movies from my childhood that I'm nostalgic for). I'll usually try to watch anything once and I'm a sucker for some franchises (i.e. Star Wars, Star Trek, Transformers) but if I don't like a movie, it will usually NEVER get a re-watch.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I hate to say this, but the theatrical cuts of the SW original trilogy almost qualify.

It's not that I "can't stand" them as such, I just love the Special Editions SO much better. I can't even watch the theatrical versions anymore.

 

[martok2112]

Any movie with Seth Rogen in it.

 

[Davros]

I hate to say this, but the theatrical cuts of the SW original trilogy almost qualify.

It's not that I "can't stand" them as such, I just love the Special Editions SO much better. I can't even watch the theatrical versions anymore.

The theatrical versions are the only ones I can watch and only the original of those.

Greedo never got a shot off.

 

[Joel_Kirk]

excremental experiment in sugar laden comatosis.

Basically what I think of Speilberg films overall....save for the amazing Indiana Jones films (1 - 3).

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Greedo never got a shot off.

Okay, I'll give you that one. That's the only part of the theatrical OT that I prefer vis-a-vis the SE.

And I don't actually give a shit who shot first - the SE version is just badly edited.

 

[Davros]

Greedo never got a shot off.

Okay, I'll give you that one. That's the only part of the theatrical OT that I prefer vis-a-vis the SE.

And I don't actually give a shit who shot first - the SE version is just badly edited.

The original is the one that changed the way movies are made and marketed. To understand it's place in film history one would have to watch the original in my opinion.

 

[CaptainMurdock]

Star trek generations. (one of if not the worst movie's I have seen.)

Battleship: Terrible excuse for a movie. Bad acting, dialogue and special effects. complete utter trite.

Man of Steel: Terrible treatment of the superman character.

Good choices...although, I'm going to have to brave through "Man of Steel" someday to be able to actually give a thorough, subjective opinion on why it doesn't work. (Even though I've seen many reviews that have already stated such).

What's really funny is that I wasn't a superman fan and I still hated the film. Then I saw the original 1978 film for the very first time several months later and was completely blown away by how good it was. It's sad how much of a missed opportunity MOS was. They could have done something fantastic but instead decided to ride Nolan's and Whedon's coattails.

 

[DimesDan]

The Hunger Games- The story of kids killing other kids for the sake of entertainment, it sickens me.

Is it the concept that turns your stomach or the execution of the books/films?

 

[Mojochi]

Any Steven Seagal ego stroke where his bloated face is trumped up as an environmental crusader, dressed like a Navajo Elvis impersonator

 

[mimic]

The Notebook. I expected to see it get mentioned in here, but I don't think anyone has yet. The words that come to mind for me are 'tripe' and 'ugh.'

 

[Shaka Zulu]

Star trek generations. (one of if not the worst movie's I have seen.)

Battleship: Terrible excuse for a movie. Bad acting, dialogue and special effects. complete utter trite.

Man of Steel: Terrible treatment of the superman character.

Good choices...although, I'm going to have to brave through "Man of Steel" someday to be able to actually give a thorough, subjective opinion on why it doesn't work. (Even though I've seen many reviews that have already stated such).

What's really funny is that I wasn't a superman fan and I still hated the film. Then I saw the original 1978 film for the very first time several months later and was completely blown away by how good it was. It's sad how much of a missed opportunity MOS was. They could have done something fantastic but instead decided to ride Nolan's and Whedon's coattails.

Considering that Superman Returns failed at the box office, and nobody was nostalgic for the Donnerverse movies that it was a continuation of, I'd have to say that it was an inevitable movie that was going to be made.

Also, the comic books contain the same curb-stomp battles that Man of Steel had, and what Superman did to Zod was already done in a 1987 story arc (Superman had to use Kryptonite to kill alternate versions of Zod and two other Kryptonoians after they'd laid waste to an alternate reality Earth and were going to come the prime DC Comic reality and destroy it; of course, this weighs heavily on Superman later on.) I like to think of this as Superman's Kobayashi Maru moment, and one that focused him into a hard decision with no easy ways out or deus ex machina solutions, as well as a callback to what Jor-El said before about how flawed Krypton was in creating a population.