Movies you regret showing to people?
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The Last Seduction is a good movie, but the main character is very much an anti-hero and the movie doesn't have a typical happy ending. It's the sort of film where bad things happen to good people. Since that incident with my friend I've become much more wary of recommending it to people, but if you like film noir and can deal with some moral ambiguity you may enjoy it. Plus it features a great performance from Linda Fiorentino as the quintessential bad girl.
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Nah, she'd shown me some terrible movies...or at least movies I thought were terrible...in the past.
Watching Star Trek Nemesis with my friends who weren't Star Trek fans, It took a long time before I've got to choose a movie again
I tried to drag a bunch of my non-Trekkie friends to see Star Trek: Nemesis on opening night. Unfortunately, this was in the days before we all had cellphones, so some wires were crossed and we all ended up seeing it but most of us ended up not seeing it together. No one hated it but most of them felt that it was a waste of time seeing it without me. If I had been there, they would have at least felt it was worth it in order to indulge me. Thankfully, there was no substantial fallout from that. We'd had much worse communal theater experiences the prior year sitting through tripe like Jurassic Park III and Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within.
Hmm. Interesting. I just watched the trailer. Kinda reminds me of Bound but without the hot lesbians. I'll put it on my list. (It's a very long list, so I have no idea when I'll get to it, but it's on there.)
Coulda been worse. For a moment there, I had this confused with Last Tango in Paris. Then she would be totally justified in chewing you out. No one deserves to see that much Brando-related nudity!
Yes! I love it! We perpetuate the thread by recommending dicey movies to each other!
I just remembered that my friend & I took another friend to a Rifftrax Live event. Normally, I think she would enjoy most of the kinds of movies that they do on Rifftrax. But this particular live event happened to be The Room.
The sex scenes were so hideous that she no longer trusts us at all and hasn't been to a Rifftrax event since. (Probably should have tried luring her back when they did Doctor Who: The Five Doctors. At least I can swear on a bible that there's no nudity in that.)
You can't fully appreciate The Disaster Artist without having seen The Room first. Anyone who hasn't seen The Room would just naturally assume that the filmmakers of The Disaster Artist are at least kinda exaggerating how bad the movie is. But we who have seen it know better. My god, do we know better.
Although, based on the Disaster Artist book, the movie does take some liberties. The bit where Greg ruins his chance to guest star on Malcolm in the Middle by shaving his beard never happened. And you get the sense from the book that the real Greg Sestero would never have let something like that happen. But, mostly the sense that I got from the book is that the reality was even weirder than what the movie depicted. (I'm especially disappointed that Greg's mother wasn't portrayed with a French accent.)
Although, based on the Disaster Artist book, the movie does take some liberties. The bit where Greg ruins his chance to guest star on Malcolm in the Middle by shaving his beard never happened. And you get the sense from the book that the real Greg Sestero would never have let something like that happen. But, mostly the sense that I got from the book is that the reality was even weirder than what the movie depicted. (I'm especially disappointed that Greg's mother wasn't portrayed with a French accent.)
We used to have Saturday movie nights with our friends, rotating around our various houses, and the movies were host's choice. The rule was you don't get to complain about the movie choice, just watch the damn thing. My wife and I LOVE The Lion in Winter, a wonderful historical play with incredibly sharp, witty dialog delivered by the likes of Peter O'Toole and Katherine Hepburn. Since it takes place on Christmas (1183), we always watch it ourselves Christmastime. So that's what we chose for our turn, which was around Christmas that year. Well, about half our friends are real all-round movie buffs, so they were fine with it, but the other half only like action or sci fi, and disdain "arty" films. 12th century dysfunctional royal family drama wasn't doing it for them, no matter how well-written. They sat thru the film in stony, glowering silence, emanating waves of hate into the room. About halfway, I offered to stop and put something "more fun" on. One friend wised off "Oooh, nooo, I wanna see what happens with the Aquitaine." 
I think I've seen The Lion in Winter twice, and my conclusion is that I really need to be in the right mood to appreciate it. I'm not sure how long it is, but it felt really long both times I watched it...longer than my patience for dialog-heavy movies could hold out for. And to be sure, I can definitely appreciate a dialog-heavy film...but I need to know that's what I'm being set-up for, and I need the option to say "Hey, can we do this when I'm more in the mood for it?"
On that note, has anyone here ever seen Knightriders? Because if you have, I have a great/terrible story about it that also involves people not being in the right mood for a film.
On that note, has anyone here ever seen Knightriders? Because if you have, I have a great/terrible story about it that also involves people not being in the right mood for a film.
I haven't seen Knightriders but I wanna hear the story anyway!
So one of my friends with "higher notions" of stories (he loved The Lion in Winter, Narnia, LotR, etc.) showed us KR because we were all doing medieval reenactment together and there are certain aspects of that in the film...sort of.
Well, the film exceeded our attention spans/interest levels, and some light MST3King occurred, which probably irked our host but amused us.
Toward the end of the film the main character rides off on his motorcycle in search of a better dream, let's say, and he has the 1,000-foot stare going, and one of our less respectful and more sarcastic friends said, "Watch him get hit by a truck..." which caused us to chuckle...
...but not as much as we chuckled when ten seconds later he did in fact get hit by a truck.
We thought it was hilarious, but our host was livid and stormed off to his bedroom.
Well, the film exceeded our attention spans/interest levels, and some light MST3King occurred, which probably irked our host but amused us.
Toward the end of the film the main character rides off on his motorcycle in search of a better dream, let's say, and he has the 1,000-foot stare going, and one of our less respectful and more sarcastic friends said, "Watch him get hit by a truck..." which caused us to chuckle...
...but not as much as we chuckled when ten seconds later he did in fact get hit by a truck.
We thought it was hilarious, but our host was livid and stormed off to his bedroom.
I love when you riff on the most ridiculous thing that could possibly happen in a movie only for it to actually happen a few seconds later. I've even seen that happen in some actual Rifftrax movies. Guy from Harlem comes immediately to mind.
A friend tried to show me one of the Peter Cushing Doctor Who movies a while back. It just felt so wrong!
I'm pretty sure Stephen King has a cameo as well!
I bought a copy of it a couple of years ago since it included, IIRC, a decent number of special features, and it's actually fairly well-reviewed. For better or worse I have yet to open it.
My wife and I are very different when it comes to movies. She doesn't like going to the theater and rarely watches them on TV. She is the kind of person who doesn't like to sit still for extended periods of time.
We're both Doctor Who fans, and she especially likes Peter Capaldi. So I thought I'd introduce her to one of my favorite movies, "Local Hero," which features a very young Capaldi. I saw it in the theater as a kid and have loved it ever since. Though I have to admit the fact that Wedge Antilles is in it was one of the reasons that I loved it (as an 11 year old). Anyway, about 20 minutes into the movie, I look at my wife on the other side of the couch and she's fast asleep. I wasn't upset so much as I was disappointed. I woke her up and she tried to stay awake but just couldn't.
To be fair, she does pretty much any time I watch a movie in the evening. lol
We're both Doctor Who fans, and she especially likes Peter Capaldi. So I thought I'd introduce her to one of my favorite movies, "Local Hero," which features a very young Capaldi. I saw it in the theater as a kid and have loved it ever since. Though I have to admit the fact that Wedge Antilles is in it was one of the reasons that I loved it (as an 11 year old). Anyway, about 20 minutes into the movie, I look at my wife on the other side of the couch and she's fast asleep. I wasn't upset so much as I was disappointed. I woke her up and she tried to stay awake but just couldn't.
To be fair, she does pretty much any time I watch a movie in the evening. lol
Young Peter Capaldi is weird. I saw him in Neverwhere a number of years ago his face just looks so unfinished. It's like he needs all of those wrinkles in order for his face to make sense.
It's a WHOLE lot of fun. I mean a WHOLE lot of fun. When the first trailers hit TV, we wondered what kind of time-travel fantasy hallucination trip it was going to be. Pleasantly surprised to discover it was firmly seated in reality (even if King Billy's dream wasn't). And who would have guessed (back then) Tom Savini could act?
