Movies you want to erase from your brain

[Capn Flukie]

So, last week I was talking to my friend Brian about what a horrible trailer I saw (thanks to TrekBBS) for a movie called 'The Human Centipede'. I told him to avoid the movie if he came across it cuz it's uber nasty. I visited him the other night and he had 'acquired' it and I ended up watching it.

Ughhhhhhhhh^3. Disgusting. Don't even think about looking it up.

The phase 'you can't unsee what you have seen' comes to mind.

What movies do you wish you could 'erase from your brain'?

Hopefully, not the same one!

 

[Gaith]

^^ Made for a great Ebert review, though:

No horror film I've seen inflicts more terrible things on its victims than “The Human Centipede.” You would have to be very brave to choose this ordeal over simply being murdered. Maybe you'd need to also be insane.

I am required to award stars to movies I review. This time, I refuse to do it. The star rating system is unsuited to this film. Is the movie good? Is it bad? Does it matter? It is what it is and occupies a world where the stars don't shine.

 

[tharpdevenport]

"The Matrix Reloaded"
"Star Trek: Nemesis"
"Scary Movie 4"

(sweet merciful crap -- WHY did I see that last one???!!!)

 

[NCC1701]

The Matrix Reloaded and Revolutions
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Batman & Robin

 

[auntiehill]

"Old Boy."

Sweet Merciful CRAP---that was so, so very messed up. Maybe not a bad film per se, but it was so disturbing, so very, very wrong on so MANY levels, I really wish I hadn't damaged my psyche by seeing it.

 

[C.E. Evans]

I actually can't think of any--probably because any movies like that my brain failed to save in my memory anyway.

But one movie that I wanted to simply erase seeing the trailer of however, was the Wayans' Little Man. You couldn't even get me to see that one if I was drunk...

 

[Vasquez Rocks]

Prom Night (2008)
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Spawn
Be Kind Rewind

 

[Joeman]

I only had to think about this for about 2 seconds.

Caligula.



Roger Ebert wrote:

"...this film is not only garbage on an artistic level, but that it is also garbage on the crude and base level where it no doubt hopes to find its audience. "Caligula" is not good art, it is not good cinema, and it is not good porn."

I couldn't have said it better myself. This film should have been burned before anyone was ever subjected to it.

I consider myself one of the least offendable people on the planet, and even I was totally flabbergasted by it. It was so bad, it took me several days to stop thinking about, very similar to having witnessed some horrible atrocity. I still cringe when I think about it.

Just about any other film that has been made, no matter how much I hated it, I can always understand how someone else might like it. Everyone has different tastes. This film however, I have absolutely no understanding at all as to how anyone could appreciate it on any level, short of being seriously psychologically disturbed.

 

[Chaos Descending]

Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever

 

[Caleuche]

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Batman & Robin

Throw in Day After Tomorrow, Signs, Brazil and Tango and Cash and thats pretty much my list.

I can't think of a movie I'd erase for my mind because its gross or sick. Not that there hasn't been one, I remember throwing up outside a cinema once, but can't remember which film it was.

 

[pork3]

Apocalypse Now
Jesus Christ, Superstar
Titanic
Kill Bill (all)
The Legend of Ron Jeremy
King Kong
Lord of the Rings
Sex and the City
Star Wars (prequels)

 

[Mojochi]

Anything with live people playing the Flintstones

 

[John Picard]

Cujo.

 

[RandyS]

Unbreakable. The only movie I've ever seen that I never want to see again. If I could, I'd send everybody involved with it to prison for 1,000 years, and make them pay an income-crippling fine. I can't even put into words how much I hate that movie. My one consolation is that the passage of ten years coupled with my own lousy memory has already largely erased this movie from my brain.

 

[Mary Ann]

Some 20 years ago while flipping tv channels I came across a spectacularly awful film called The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, or some such, starring Vanessa Redgrave. I'd watch a bit, change to watching something else because of the awfulness, but return to the film to see if it was still as awful, kinda like returning to a train wreck. I've seen loads of crappy films since then but this has branded itself on to the inside of my skull.

 

[ambessalion]

Striptease....Snake Eyes...Star Trek: Nemesis (i keep watching it, painful as it is, ONLY because it's a star trek movie....)

Batman and Robin

it's very rare that i watch a movie i regret watching afterwards...i know what i like and don't get disappointed often....

and there's a TV show (based on the one episode i caught that i'd like to add...): VIP

 

[Fist McStrongpunch]

The One
Bound
Commando
The Zombie Diaries

 

[Geck]

How Stella Got Her Groove Back.

 

[Mr. B]

Space Rage, Star Trek

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Fight Club
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Local Hero










... so that I can watch them for the first time.