Poll of the Day > ITT: Name a movie that disrespected your time

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Name a movie that completely disrespected you time as an individual

I want to say it was Jay and Silent Bob strike back where they're making their movie and Ben Aflecks like "I cant believe anyone would be stupid enough to pay for this" as he looks into the camera.

Valerian and the city of a thousand suns or whatever the fuck that film was called. Absolute garbage of a movie

Magnolia.

Three hours of drama/boredom, then it rains frogs. The end.

I like bad movies. Although I seem to recall hating some 'dating' movie where the guy had a vision of thousands of condoms falling from the sky. Can't remember what movie it was.

dedbus posted...

I want to say it was Jay and Silent Bob strike back where they're making their movie and Ben Aflecks like "I cant believe anyone would be stupid enough to pay for this" as he looks into the camera.

they're filming good will hunting 2 lol so funny

wpot posted...

Magnolia.

Three hours of drama/boredom, then it rains frogs. The end.

thats one of my favorite movies lol, but I understand why youd be angry, its not for everyone

for me The Lovely Bones. I wanted to scream at Mark Wahlberg for not trying harder to look for his missing daughter. And I walked out of the theater half way through lol

The 3rd hobbit movie (the 1st 2 too but that's the worst of the 3)

Napoleon Dynamite
Titan (weird Netflix sci-fi movie that had an interesting enough premise but never went anywhere with it)

Probably one of those generic War movies from like the late 00's/ early 10's about the Middle east conflict made solely to propogate, justify and glorify said conflict.

I don't really watch films unless I know they will be good beforehand.

Cube 2

It took what was a great initial concept and turned into a very bad episode of PSI Factor

FrozenBananas posted...

thats one of my favorite movies lol, but I understand why youd be angry, its not for everyone

Maybe I'd like it more now, but my college self hated that movie.

FrozenBananas posted...

for me The Lovely Bones. I wanted to scream at Mark Wahlberg for not trying harder to look for his missing daughter. And I walked out of the theater half way through lol

Yeah, that wasn't good. The Happening with Wahlberg would be another contender: not much worse than a horror/suspense movie that isn't, you know, suspenseful.

War of the worlds
the butterfly effect
failure to launch

The Seeker.

I saw it for free in a theater, and still almost walked out three times to demand my money back.

Afterwards, I basically wished really, really hard that anyone and everyone involved in making it would die of painful testicular cancer. Even the women.

If I ever win the lottery, I will spend all of the money hiring assassins to hunt them all down like dogs and kill them in the street.

I didn't like the movie, is the point I'm making here.

Most of the Harry Potter movies

40 year old virgin..... I'm not 40

ANON on Netflix. Interesting premise, but between the pacing, and the ridiculous plot hook going into the second act I was annoyed. No antagonist that is that savvy should also be that oblivious unless they had the attention span of a goldfish. Especially if the whole McGuffin relies on how fastidious the antagonist is about details.

The Godfather. Most boring 3 hours of my life.

Girl, Interrupted

One of the few movies I left the theater before it was over. Not even sure I made it an hour

Pollock

10,000 BC.

I can't think of a more vapid movie.

I mean. . . pretty much any of the transformers movies apart from the original one in 1986.

Les Mis

The Hangover 2 because it was literally the exact same movie but worse

Dune

The Fountain
The Artist

Mostly when directors want to be mastabatory about their work or the film industry.

Was the Artist the silent one? I liked that one.

Blightzkrieg posted...

Dune

New Dune, old Dune, or both?

Eternal Sunshine

Sausage Party

I feel like I wouldn't have laughed at it even if I was high at the time

Talented Mr. Ripley. Gods, the time and mental energy I'll never get back...

FrozenBananas posted...

for me The Lovely Bones. I wanted to scream at Mark Wahlberg for not trying harder to look for his missing daughter. And I walked out of the theater half way through lol

you should go back and watch the rest, it's a pretty good movie.

as for me, that movie called 9.

fuck that movie

The Last Samurai (spoiler post)

At the end, during the final battle, the samurai charge head on into gatling guns with a limited firing arc without making any attempt, while on horses, to flank there firing position. A lifetime of warfare, a moment of failure.

Tammy, i think the only movie i left early.

Depends, how much am I to blame for my own movie choices?

The Spirit actually comes to mind. I paid money and dragged my friends to that.

CyborgSage00x0 posted...

Depends, how much am I to blame for my own movie choices?

The Spirit actually comes to mind. I paid money and dragged my friends to that.

I dont think it was that bad. It just wasnt great either

Entity13 posted...

Talented Mr. Ripley. Gods, the time and mental energy I'll never get back...

Tommy Tommy Tommyhows the peepin, Tommy?

CyborgSage00x0 posted...

Depends, how much am I to blame for my own movie choices?

The Spirit actually comes to mind. I paid money and dragged my friends to that.

I saw that in a theater as well, I think. I don't remember it being that bad.

Cheesy, sure. Kind of lame, absolutely. Nowhere near as good as other superhero movies that came out around the same time? Definitely.

But I always saw it as just inoffensive mediocrity with moments of ridiculous overacting from Samuel L, not really rage-inducing terribleness.



BEERandWEED posted...

At the end, during the final battle, the samurai charge head on into gatling guns with a limited firing arc without making any attempt, while on horses, to flank there firing position. A lifetime of warfare, a moment of failure.

Wasn't the point of that scene that they were basically deliberately committing suicide because they knew their cause was lost? Combined with a bit of a hamfisted metaphor for the old ways of the noble warrior philosophies giving way to modern sterile military combat? It wasn't just a tactical failure on their part.

It's also, if I remember correctely, at least somewhat based on an actual historical rebellion, which ended with pretty much everyone dead. So it's basically what happened in real life (just under different circumstances, but same outcome).

I'm not 100% sure, though, because I remember thinking that movie kind of looked like shit when it came out, and I was already really meh on Tom Cruise, so I never watched it.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I saw that in a theater as well, I think. I don't remember it being that bad.

This should be qualified with me explaining that I *rarely* see truly bad movies, due to owning a very good BS detector when it comes to films. So even my worst-seen films might be a meh and a shoulder shrug to others.

That said, it was pretty bad. The story was a mess, and comic parts were very cringe, and it failed to capture the style and engagement of Sin City, which The Spirit was definitely paying homage to, fresh off of Miller's time with said movie. Some of the action scenes were fine, but it was fairly blrh.

Zareth posted...

Sausage Party

I feel like I wouldn't have laughed at it even if I was high at the time

I was high at the time and hated it

Halloween kills

I'm used to dumb movies but damn that one treats its audience like they're braindead

CyborgSage00x0 posted...

which The Spirit was definitely paying homage to

I'm not even sure I'd go with "paying homage to" - it was Miller actively aping the style of Sin City because Miller was the driving force behind getting The Spirit made (and possibly the only person on Earth who actually cared about the franchise).

Up to that point Miller's only real experience with film was Sin City and 300 (both ridiculously overstylized green-screen films), so that was kind of the only frame of reference he had to work with when he became both writer and director for The Spirit. Maybe having a more experienced screen-writer or director might have helped salvage it, because they would have been able to compensate for Miller's weaknesses.

If anything, that might be my biggest complaint about the film - it was trying to do The Spirit as if it was Sin City, but The Spirit had a radically different tone/feel as a comic, so it wasn't a good fit. Less green-screen and a different tone might have worked better.

Then again, maybe not. It might have been doomed no matter what tone it took, because it was a franchise most people didn't remember/care about anymore. Sort of similar to how Dick Tracy kind of flopped in the 80s... it was a product of its time, but it's time had already passed.

Same reason I tend to loathe whenever people talk about doing remakes of 80s cult films - most of them are films that only work because it was the 80s, and any attempt to redo them now will run into the brick wall of tonal dissonance and shifting values and expectations, resulting in inevitable disappointment and dreck. Leave the past in the past. Or let the past inspire you to do new things, not just ape the old.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I'm not even sure I'd go with "paying homage to" - it was Miller actively aping the style of Sin City because Miller was the driving force behind getting The Spirit made (and possibly the only person on Earth who actually cared about the franchise).

Yeah, this was more of what was in my head/meant to say.

It's been a day.