Film Room 101

Anything that has Chainsaw, Killer or Revenge in the title... not that I would ever watch these. I can only assume they are not for me, probably shouldn't be for anyone. It concerns me that so many people like junk. What goes on in their minds afterwards?

I'm fairly picky about what I see and if I start to dislike a film, well... I walk out or turn it off.

I agree with you there; such films never have a plot, just copious amounts of gore. Why people like such films is beyond my reasoning; perhaps it's because people have unhealthy fantasies, or because for some people a plot is in the way of destruction. There are millions who like to see ultra-violent, destructive films; fear for the children.

I usually choose a film that I would like- I end up seeing the real clangers when I'm with someone, and obliged by courtesy to stay. Some people would say that one just has to stay until the end, in case the movie improves, but I feel that, if you dislike a film in the first forty minutes, the chances are stacked against you disliking the rest.

I always try to keep a "Films We Hated, Hated, Hated" thread in the Featured Topics and you might check this out as unless I'm missing your intent, yours is a duplicated topic:

http://www.able2know.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15386

My intent is different- if barely-; the movies that one could choose in this topic aren't essentially ones that critics adored, and the intensity of dislike is different. Everyone dislikes one movie or another, but one must have strong feelings to want a movie completely banished from memory.

Nevertheless, I do appreciate the similarity between the two posts.

Any movie which features a B.E.M. My husband loves sci-fi, even the most cheaply made. On occasion he has induced me to go to one of those abominations. I usually end up making many trips to the powder room, or I fall asleep.

I never really 'got' Sci-Fi; I probably didn't try to, either. I wonder why some people like it so much; it always seemed to me as if it were a crummy script being matched with bad acting...

The other forum also includes films that did big box office (and not necessarily critical acclaim) like "Titanic" but the poster doesn't like them. The topic is always going to be rather generalized because it doesn't always depend on what the critics wrote or what the box office did if one just hates the film.

I choose films to go see very carefully and they are often independent or foreign films so I don't really plunk down the money at the box office and walk in on a "blind date." I generally go by several critics whose opinions I nearly always respect and some relatives or friends who recommend the film, never by how much box office it's doing.

But as far as films I have wandered into from years past that I regretted paying the admission, "Die Hard 3" comes to mind. Of course, this is sequel syndrome.

Me too; in fact, the last mainstream movie that I watched on my own accord was eight or nine years ago. Did you catch Vendredi Soir, lightwizard? Or Elephant? Although they obviously lacked what the nouvelle vague had, they were just.. breathtaking.



I never go by Box office; in no way does popularity mean that something is good. If that were true, everyone would acclaim boy bands and Big Brother. I sometimes dip my feet into the wells of critics' opinions- especially when I'm considering one film against another- but the decisive thing would be whether I think the film would grab me in, its merit, etc. One must be careful about critics; although having one's opinion informed by good critics can't be bad, sometimes you have to consider things on the basis of what you'll think of the movie.

Ugh, sequels; I have avoided them like the plague.

The last Aliens film, "Aliens Resurection". the first three were defenetly good films, they should have left it a that.

I have just sat through 2 hours of "the fellowship of the ring" This has to be the most pretentious piece of clap in cinematic history, with the obvious exception of "2001 a space idiocy"

Is there any amount of hype the public wont believe?

It's not just the public, then, kev -- Tolkien readers also love the films. Polls taken on Tolkien sites reveal more than an eighty-five percent approval of the films which is actually lower than the rating on IMDb which places the films in the top ten every made! I'm not sure what is pretentious or "clap" in the films unless it is the experience I had of one of the few movies where the audience stood and applauded at the ending (well, "The Two Towers," at least). It never ceases to amaze me how one dismisses these films and "2001" as pretentious without any explanation whatsoever. One liner reviews just don't cut it.

BTW, "FOTR" is nearly 3 hours long. 3 hrs. 40 min. if one watches the Extended Version.

I know how long it is LW, I gave it up after 2 hours because I couldn't take any more of this pretentious rubbish.

By the way LW I'm not looking for a scrap, it's interesting dont you think how people percieve films so differently?

Not finishing a film and pronouncing it "pretentious crap" is beyond the fray. Can't really debate about something one hates.