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Movies That You Hate: An Anti-Recommendation Thread

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Several movies have been released recently that have failed to live up to the supposed hype. I see many "I can't wait for this movie" type reviews and threads, but I think this forum needs a place to have all out rants about how terrible some films are. (I am looking at you The Force Awakens)

What are your most hated films and why?
 

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Paranormal Activity. It isn't remotely scary, or even atmospheric. It's just really boring and cheap. It's the only movie I ever walked out on. There's not much good that can be said about the movie when the most interesting about it are the stupid cloven-hooved flour prints. And they made more of these.

The Force Awakens had flaws, but I enjoyed Finn, Rey, Poe and Maz Kanata and am looking forward to the next one. The movie surpassed my expectations in some respects, but had some of the problems I anticipated. I could have personally done without the third Death Star or the rehash of the Darth Caedus storyline from the E.U.. (For the uninitiated, it's not the first story about Han and Leia having a son who turned to the dark side and killing a popular character.) The parts with Harrison Ford were some of the slowest, most awkward parts of the Force Awakens, but then, I always liked Luke better, anyway.

I get the feeling the next movie will be more confident to go off in a new direction rather than constantly showing the fanbois that it isn't the prequels.
 
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Requiem for a dream is definitely the worst movie I have ever seen
 

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Really? That's something I don't hear very often. Elaborate.

It seems very hard to enjoy watching. It starts of dull and uneasy, then when I thought it couldn't get any worse it did. I'm so used to films going in the right direction, to a positive ending, which doesn't help my liking for this film. It must have had some meaning behind it, but even then it's far too depressing/disturbing. I don't watch films so I can feel that way. The only reason I kept watching it was because of my naive expectation that the situation will go right. I'm more curious as to why someone would enjoy the film. I don't understand why it's ratings are high.
 

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These threads aren't necessarily bad, but typically what one person thinks is indisputably bad will be considered by another person to be really great, so in my experience they typically just become arguments over the validity/value of certain films.

case in point:

It seems very hard to enjoy watching. It starts of dull and uneasy, then when I thought it couldn't get any worse it did. I'm so used to films going in the right direction, to a positive ending, which doesn't help my liking for this film. It must have had some meaning behind it, but even then it's far too depressing/disturbing. I don't watch films so I can feel that way. The only reason I kept watching it was because of my naive expectation that the situation will go right. I'm more curious as to why someone would enjoy the film. I don't understand why it's ratings are high.

Here are my thoughts, spoilered since this is supposed to be the "why this film sucks" thread:

 

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this is a useful thread if you look at posts of people who have very similar tastes to you in movies. if you have opposite tastes you're gonna be mislead. that being said i can't think of any, because if i hate a movie i forget what it's about. I don't have room in my brain for such filth
 

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It seems very hard to enjoy watching. It starts of dull and uneasy, then when I thought it couldn't get any worse it did. I'm so used to films going in the right direction, to a positive ending, which doesn't help my liking for this film. It must have had some meaning behind it, but even then it's far too depressing/disturbing. I don't watch films so I can feel that way. The only reason I kept watching it was because of my naive expectation that the situation will go right. I'm more curious as to why someone would enjoy the film. I don't understand why it's ratings are high.

This is one of my most favorite films of all time.
The film is far from anything near bad. What's bad is the lives depicted in it. I always find it quite humorous when somebody hates a movie that realistically depicts aspects of life.
Happy endings belong to Disney and Pixar. In the real world it is rare to see "happy endings", and there isn't always a satisfying answer or a solution to everything. Life doesn't solely consist of protagonists and antagonists, the heroes and the bad guys, and Jesus.
I don't know about other avid movie watchers, but as for myself, I enjoy any film that makes me feel and makes me think, even if the story puts me on edge or what's happening is difficult to digest. The majority of what's going on in the real world is difficult to digest.

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Movies I personally hate:

Star Wars franchise (sorry guys)
Star Trek fanchise
Prometheous
Anything that has got J.J. Abrams involved
Anything that has got James Cameron involved
Amélie
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Inception
The Dark Knight Rises
Locke
All of the Bond movies except Skyfall
Wall-E
 

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K-19: The Widowmaker

Outrageously painful--great script, excellent acting, just pain, pain, and more pain. Like Schindler's List, it's one of those movies I am glad that I saw but that I never want to see again.

K-19: The Widowmaker (2002) - IMDb
 

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Saving Private Ryan.

A wonderful experiment in cinematography and attempting to convey the horror of war, mired in a truly awful plot. The acting might have saved it, but the premise is too ridiculous.

PS: Band of Brothers is very good though.
 

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Hate is a strong word for it, but Wes Anderson's stuff comes to mind because I've tried to enjoy his work. It's somewhat entertaining, visually, but I find watching his movies are like flipping through vintage interior design magazines. Besides, his actors are basically puppets who don't really even need to make facial expressions because it's all deadpan so I don't bother anymore.

I do hate everything to do with Adam Sandler and I hate the Judd Apatow movies.

Also starting to hate Terrence Malick.
 
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Transformers..... I like big action movies as much as the next guy, but empty, soulless CGI pornfests just bore me. Give me something more.....

As to movies in general, I don't need a happy ending. I don't need a positive message. I like well crafted films.

But I often dislike well made films for other reasons. No matter how well crafted some movies are, they just don't work for me....
 

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This is one of my most favorite films of all time.
The film is far from anything near bad. What's bad is the lives depicted in it. I always find it quite humorous when somebody hates a movie that realistically depicts aspects of life.
Happy endings belong to Disney and Pixar. In the real world it is rare to see "happy endings", and there isn't always a satisfying answer or a solution to everything. Life doesn't solely consist of protagonists and antagonists, the heroes and the bad guys, and Jesus.
I don't know about other avid movie watchers, but as for myself, I enjoy any film that makes me feel and makes me think, even if the story puts me on edge or what's happening is difficult to digest. The majority of what's going on in the real world is difficult to digest.

The real world is not always that negative. The film shows the reality of drug addiction, that's true, therefore it must be why it has good reviews. It's credible in that respect. Even so, I just strongly disliked watching it. Some of the films you listed are actually some of my favorite movies. Except I didn't like Prometheous and The Dark Knight rises either.

Some more movies I don't like;
The Virgin suicides. Highly romanticized and plot doesn't build up until the ending.
Green Lantern
The notebook
Moonrise kingdom
and most horror films
 

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It seems very hard to enjoy watching. It starts of dull and uneasy, then when I thought it couldn't get any worse it did. I'm so used to films going in the right direction, to a positive ending, which doesn't help my liking for this film. It must have had some meaning behind it, but even then it's far too depressing/disturbing. I don't watch films so I can feel that way. The only reason I kept watching it was because of my naive expectation that the situation will go right. I'm more curious as to why someone would enjoy the film. I don't understand why it's ratings are high.

I thought this movie was incredibly effective at what it set out to do. I've only seen it once, and it was the first NC-17 movie I saw, but it stuck with me, and I think that's a sign of its quality. I'm of the opinion that there is nothing wrong with movies or art or music that is more of a "downer" (I wonder if my clinical depression might play a role in that perspective), although I appreciate the alternative view more than I used to.
 

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When I was quite young, I saw one of the Pokemon movies. I believe I fell asleep, and was not really upset that I dozed off because I could not follow whatever the plot was supposed to be. If you are a kid and you are not even annoyed with yourself for dozing off during a movie, you know it sucked, and you know it sucked badly.


Also, the ten minutes I saw of Freddy Got Fingered.
 

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and most horror films

I notice that most SxJ do not enjoy horror movies and most movies that don't have happy endings. I wonder why that is.

Hate is a strong word for it, but Wes Anderson's stuff comes to mind because I've tried to enjoy his work. [...]

I do hate everything to do with Adam Sandler and I hate the Judd Apatow movies.

Also starting to hate Terrence Malick.

I can't agree more.
Even though I guiltily enjoyed The Cobbler, Adam Sandler works suck.
Judd Apatow is not that funny.
Terrence Malick is becoming more and more pretentious

With Wes Anderson, I know I should like him because I like quirky films with stunning cinematography, and that I am an INF. But I give up on him. I don't enjoy anything he has ever made. His stuff remind me of Amélie, and as I've mentioned, I hate Amélie.

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More movies I personally hate:

2001: A Space Odyssey
Forrest Gump (People: Life is like a box of chocol... - Me: Shut your mouth!)
Interstellar (Nolan's later works are just a handful of big budget, corny, unoriginal mess with weak characters and too much dialogue)
Finding Nemo (the most annoying animation I've ever watched)
Crash (the worst Oscars' winner of all time)
Chicago
 

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I watch a lot of horror. There are three horror films/franchises that had been very much hyped to me, but all decidedly blew goats.

1) Insidious - The first of these movies was dumb. All subsequent films were also dumb.
2) The Conjuring - This movie was also very, very dumb.
3) It Follows - I was dumber for having watched film.

It Follows holds a special place in my heart for its awfulness. I had seen it very favorably reviewed at either Toronto or Sundance almost a full year before its release. I think I learned about it, Goodnight, Mommy and The Witch all around the same time, and was very excited for them to be released.

Of those, one was decent but predictable, one was arguably one of the greatest horror films I've ever seen, and the third culminated in some dumb children trying to trick a ghost into chasing one of them into a pool...so they can electrocute it to death by pushing in toasters. This fails when the ghost instead begins to throw the toasters at the children. This was the high point of the film.

I don't care if I just spoiled the movie for you. It is horrible and you have the most salient thing to know about the film is in the title. People in cake makeup follow a bunch of twits. The end.

It was like if Diablo Cody decided to make a horror movie and it sucked as much as everything else she does. I hate It Follows. I hate the random, pointless and utterly pretentious addition of an Eliot poem at random points in the film. I hate it and I will think less of you if you enjoyed it. That is all.
 

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I watch a lot of horror. There are three horror films/franchises that had been very much hyped to me, but all decidedly blew goats.

1) Insidious - The first of these movies was dumb. All subsequent films were also dumb.
2) The Conjuring - This movie was also very, very dumb.
3) It Follows - I was dumber for having watched film.

It Follows holds a special place in my heart for its awfulness. I had seen it very favorably reviewed at either Toronto or Sundance almost a full year before its release. I think I learned about it, Goodnight, Mommy and The Witch all around the same time, and was very excited for them to be released.

Of those, one was decent but predictable, one was arguably one of the greatest horror films I've ever seen, and the third culminated in some dumb children trying to trick a ghost into chasing one of them into a pool...so they can electrocute it to death by pushing in toasters. This fails when rather the ghost instead begins to throw the toasters at the children. This was the high point of the film.

I don't care if I just spoiled the movie for you. It is horrible and you have the most salient thing to know about the film is in the title. People in cake makeup follow a bunch of twits. The end.

It was like if Diablo Cody decided to make a horror movie and it sucked as much as everything else she does. I hate It Follows. I hate the random, pointless and utterly pretentious addition of an Eliot poem at random points in the film. I hate it and I will think less of you if you enjoyed it. That is all.



My problem is that I have trouble watching movies I think suck. For example, I tried watching "Vacation" (the last year remake) last night on HBO because it just came out, and I thought what the hell. Even though I found myself laughing at bits here and there (sometimes just because it was so outrageously ridiculous), I had to turn it off after 35 minutes because I just didn't give a shit about it anymore. It was just really BAD. Really, poor Christina Applegate; she's better than this movie (which is something, considering she first found infamy as Kelly on "Married with Children".)

So I usually have a decent idea what I'll be watching and avoid the obvious trash, and I've started to more take Ebert's comment to heart (or was it Siskel? Don't remember) about how watching a terrible movie is throwing away two hours of your life needlessly and it's not worth it to lose that time when you could be doing something else.

Jupiter Ascending really sucked too, considering what it might have been if they hadn't cast Mila Kunis and Channing Tatum and actually had a decent script, and... well, redone the entire movie from scratch. Sometimes I can watch not-so-great movies (like Underworld Evolution) because there's something I still like about it despite it being a dumb movie; Jupiter Ascending had some great visual production values and three royal family folks, but I found much of it just unbearable.

Here, I just looked at my reviewed list. At the bottom:

47 Ronin: Keanu Reeves' dog of a movie. God this sucked.

The Host: Niccol can be a good director, in general... wtf happened here? I even liked the BOOK, for what it was, and the movie/script was just phoned in. I felt bad for Ronan; again, a good actress stuck in a shit movie.

Terminator 3: No. Just, no. It was like someone who had no clue about the Terminator mythos watching the earlier two movies and trying to replicate them ... badly. The only thing worth seeing is the last minute of the movie, because of the twist, and it's not worth watching the rest of the movie.

Fantastic Four (2015): Sigh. I wavered on this one (was it just MARGINALLY palatable?), and now I hate it again. I think the first hour was potentially interesting, and then it was like they had to make release and tossed all the remaining footage into a bag, shook it up, then glued it together. And the footage wasn't even good, and is missing parts of the plot.

Dream House: One of the first movies I remember that totally gave away the twist halfway through the trailer. (Terminator Genysis was another, in Trailer 3.)


These were movies I watched with hopes of them being better than projected. Nope.

There are other movies I was just disappointed in. Like "Across the Universe" for example -- I was hoping it would actually have an interesting story, like Moulin Rouge... nope, it was really just a montage of someone's idea of Beatles covers/videos, and I didn't care at all about any of the characters. Never finished it, I only made it an hour in. The videos were actually quite gorgeous, and some of the covers were pretty cool too... but... it's not a movie.

Also, probably some wont' agree with me... I didn't like Vanilla Sky. It didn't help I watched the original the night before. Vanilla Sky had a higher budget and a cooler soundtrack, but I felt it was very shallow and disjointed, and I felt no sympathy for Cruise's character. The components didn't really add up to something meaningful. Crowe's a good director, but his style wasn't necessarily good here. it all felt very superficial and pre-chewed.
 

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This is one of my most favorite films of all time.
The film is far from anything near bad. What's bad is the lives depicted in it. I always find it quite humorous when somebody hates a movie that realistically depicts aspects of life.
Happy endings belong to Disney and Pixar. In the real world it is rare to see "happy endings", and there isn't always a satisfying answer or a solution to everything. Life doesn't solely consist of protagonists and antagonists, the heroes and the bad guys, and Jesus.
I don't know about other avid movie watchers, but as for myself, I enjoy any film that makes me feel and makes me think, even if the story puts me on edge or what's happening is difficult to digest. The majority of what's going on in the real world is difficult to digest.

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Movies I personally hate:

Star Wars franchise (sorry guys)
Star Trek fanchise
Prometheous
Anything that has got J.J. Abrams involved
Anything that has got James Cameron involved
Amélie
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Inception
The Dark Knight Rises
Locke
All of the Bond movies except Skyfall
Wall-E

All this time I thought, I agree with this girl's tastes.

Holy mother of god how wrong was I.
 
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