Name five films you regret seeing

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The only films I regret watching is faces of death - they are haunting - everything else is fantasy.
 
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RogueSemicolon said:
Cape Fear (1991): I’ve yet to enjoy a single Scorsese film.
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Yes, this was a movie that should have been left alone and not remade. The casting was terrible in my opinion. The worst was DeNiro and his horrible bad southern accent. Cringeworthy.
 
I forgot about that one.

I couldn’t finish it.

But, I did appreciate the cameos by Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum.
 
I agree that I couldn’t take DeNiro’s character or performance seriously at all in this film. It undermined any sense of thrill or suspense Scorsese may have tried to achieve.
 
Not really the same thing, more like taking the Apollo 11 landing, and making it like the whole thing was French.
 
DING, DING, DING… I think we may have a winner! If the short clip from “Gerry” is in any way an indication of the rest of the movie, kudos to @Mike_from_NJ for not having gone truly mad watching it. You Sir, have my admiration on your super-human ability to withstand torture. :medal_military: 🏆 :1st_place_medal: 👏 👏
 
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Anything with Adam Sandler , lol .
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One Upon A Time In Holywood. I was waiting for something to happen and then…all of a sudden, it didn’t.

Superman IV. I was a huuuge Superman fan when I was a kid. This was crushingly bad.

Any Adam Sandler film - except his last: Uncut Gems, which was pretty good.

The Lone Ranger

Batman and Robin. Aaargh…
 
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Not really the same thing, more like taking the Apollo 11 landing, and making it like the whole thing was French.
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If it too was presented as alternative historical fiction (they never had a moon program), then as Americans say, “C’est la vie.”

There is another movie I am kind of ready to see, if I ever can - Greyhound. It too is fictional. You just have to accept that historical fiction is fiction first. How much of this is alternative, is a question for producers in critics. I just want a good movie where the good guys win and the morality is held in value.

Consider this, most WWII movies made in the U.S. tend to focus on Americans. The bigger problem is our ignorance. I would be most people would not know how long the British fought Germany in Europe before the U.S. entry.
 
Update: I asked my son about the pre-1942 WWII. He knew that the British had been fighting for two years; that they were the naval opposition to Hitler in the Med, the Baltic, and North Atlantic; and that the were the ones that broke Enigma (we had watched a documentary on this). So I have cleared him to watch U571.

All entertainment should come with an exam to allow viewing.
 
LOL. That was not a trend as much as a foundational principle. The best thing to happen to movies was the de-fanging of Hollywood as other countries developed competing and quality movie industries.

So which would be worse, and American capturing an enigma machine, or an American Dr. Who?

I have also noticed we only usurp the good guys. Well, John Wayne did play Genghis Khan, a movie I am surprise no one has panned (The Conqueror).
 
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I too want to see Greyhound. It’s based upon the book “The Good Shepherd “ by C. S. Forester that I read as a kid. The book is supposed to be an accurate description of the tactics during the Battle of the Atlantic, except for the German that comes on the radio taunting the Allies.
 
One more.

The original “Carrie.”

I managed to live up until two days ago without ever seeing this film.

I saw it this weekend staying with my sister.

I knew the premise, Carrie was an outcast with an abusive mother. Carrie discovers she has telekinesis.

Maybe it was plausible in the 70’s that the characters seemed somewhat believable?

Piper Laurie was a nut.
The bullies were cartoonishly one dimensional.
John Travolta was attempting somtype of accent.

January The mom from “Eight is Enough” I guess was supposed to be seen in positive light? Except I guess for smacking students and getting away with it.

And all the Catholic imagery? Carrie’s mom didn’t seem Catholic.

I’m glad her prom date was able to recover and become a superhero. 😉

And the one scary jump scene? I already saw that one scene years ago.

Bleh.
 
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Interesting that you identified Forest Gump.

I have major problems with that film, mostly in how they treat the whole situation with Jenny. Jenny is about as bad to Forrest as she can be - then waltzes into his life in time to get pregnant; waltzes out again; then waltzes BACK IN AGAIN In time to die of AIDS and essentially makes him responsible for the son she hid from him for several years.

As an aside, I tend to like movies (what few there are) that depict the consequences of sin. I tend to hate films that depict sin as “no big deal.”
 
Agreed!

I do think that it shows indirectly the outcome of her lifestyle in that she dies. Since the movie is from Gump’s retarded pov you have to infer that. However, it should have been handled a little different.
 
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Fast Times At Ridgemont High. Everybody else thought it was the coolest thing, but I found it depressing.

Home Alone 3. Actually walked out on that one. It wasn’t offensive, just way too boring and silly.

Rocky Horror is a different case. It’s so cartoonish and over the top, I thought it was very funny (in my college years).
But then I went to a special anniversary screening, Bryan Bostwick was a guest speaker, and it should have been interesting.
But because of the internet, all the formerly regional shout-backs are easily researchable and the audience shouted back to every line. Plus they were trying to out-crude each other. And finally, because I’ve been through so much Safe Touch/Safe Spaces/Mandatory Reporter training, I realize what a predator Dr Frankenfurter is 😱
 
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  1. Noah (Walked out)
  2. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (walked out)
  3. Day After Tomorrow ( glad I didn’t pay to see this in a theater)
  4. The Great Wall (husband had loads to trash with this one)
  5. Cheri (love Michelle Pfeiffer, but hate this movie. Pathetic and cruel)
 
egretps said:
Cheri (love Michelle Pfeiffer, but hate this movie. Pathetic and cruel)
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Thanks for the warning on that one. I’m a Pfeiffer fan too, but that movie didn’t sound good to me. You confirmed my instinct was right.
 
Oh, a Pfeiffer movie I regret seeing. The Witches of Eastwick. Yuck. Rarely have I ever been so disgusted by a movie.
 
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