Name five films you regret seeing

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It popped up in one of the other movie threads and I had to put it here.

The Sound Of Music - Technically a very well done film, though dated by modern standards, and a tour de force performance by Andrews, it’s a ghastly overly sentimental film. It’s almost as if the film were created out of pure saccharine.

A dishonorable mention also goes to

Life is Beautiful A bad idea, this should have been killed at the initial pitch meeting with fire, lots of fire. Does a comedy set in a Nazi concentration camp sound like a bad idea?

And finally.

Crash (1996) - Based on the JG Ballade book of the same name, and cause of a minor moral panic, and I believe still banned in the City of Westminster I give you David Cronenberg’s Crash. This film has one the single most disturbing sex scenes in my experience, without getting to graphic Rosanna Arquette’s character Gabrielle has an open scar on the back of her thigh, you can guess the rest of that.
 
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I went to see 12 Monkeys because… Brad Pitt. It was a shocker.
I loved 12 Monkeys; I have been a lifelong Gilliam fan. Perhaps it’s not the most Catholic of films but it has a surreality to it.

In 1996 when I left the mental hospital, I was placed in a group recovery home. I was not allowed to drive my car. We had occasional “outings” to the corner store for ice cream and such. One day they suggested that we rent a movie. So I chose 12 Monkeys and nobody was able to veto that before we got it home. I put it on and immediately the other patients were horrified, triggered, the staff was in a tizzy, it was chaos. Shrug – I thought it would’ve been cool.
 
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