Name five films you regret seeing

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Oh, okay. I got one. I didn’t like Pulp Fiction. I like it’s overrated, and I can’t understand the appeal.
 
Sunbreak said:
-Unforgiven (1992 western) - horrible violent film with no redeeming qualities
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So that’s one of my favorite movies. Maybe we need to sit down with shots of whiskey and discuss this, lol! (What will especially baffle you is that I’m female - this is considered more of a “guy” movie).
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Another movie I used to love, but I later soured on it because of the pro-abortion subplot.
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Those abortion-preachy movies really gnaw at me, too. You won’t see a single pre-1967 abortion on BBC without the woman dying or nearly dying.
neophyte said:
I’ve yet to see a Tarantino film that I didn’t want to see again.
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We’ll part ways here. Pulp Fiction tried so hard to be “artsy” that it ended up kitschy.
Jimbo said:
She felt that she had worked for years for men to view her for her mind and what she could do; and that movies like this that were somehow ‘empowering’ just cut her off at the knees.
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Hollywood has long been terribly misogynistic. (Have you heard of the Bechdel Test? Bechdel test | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary )

But FSoG is especially awful in how it tries to normalize stalking and abuse and even portray is as sexy.
 
Tis_Bearself said:
Yeah, that Red Pony book was just another in a long series of tropes where kid has a special relationship with an animal and it tragically dies.
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There are some people who consider making a kid read the Red Pony as literally child abuse. I’m one of them. Adults, let alone children, don’t need the whole “child gets cute animal; they bond; cute animal dies cruelly” -trope.
 
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Knowing - Nothing that happens in this movie matters. The same things would have happened if the characters stayed at home and drank beer- except for a redemption arc that was so thin it wasn’t an arc. The only thing interesting about this movie is a CGI moose on fire.

Batman and Robin - The last time I saw this it made me physically sick. That’s not an exaggeration, even though it should be.

Dude, Where’s My Car? - Painfully unfunny. I could feel parts of my nervous system shutting down as I watched it. That is an exaggeration this time.

Transformers, The Last Knight - My brother and I would deliberately watch these to laugh at them. This one was just as bad as the others, but somehow missed being so bad it is funny.

In Time - So much potential killed in committee. Clearly meant as social commentary, but it didn’t manage it because nothing actually made sense. The travesty is you could see what they were going for but whoever rewrote it couldn’t.
 
Ladybird (walked out)

Days of Heaven (walked out)

The Hobbit (Peter Jackson absolutely ruined a beautiful book. I thought he did well with the Lord of the Rings movies though)

Any Woody Allen movie made after 1990 (I keep trying to give him a chance)

Julie & Julia
 
Never even heard of the Mr. Mike Mondo Video. However, Sweeney Todd should have been on my list. I absolutely hated it. That is probably one of the most disturbing movies I’ve ever seen.
 
There was a Liam Neeson movie I saw many years ago and walked out of the theater. It was truly that bad. I can’t remember the name of it. I had a major crush on him during this period, but I couldn’t stand this movie.
 
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There are some people who consider making a kid read the Red Pony as literally child abuse. I’m one of them. Adults, let alone children, don’t need the whole “child gets cute animal; they bond; cute animal dies cruelly” -trope.
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Thank you!
Just off the top of my head, the list of tragically-dead-animal books and movies includes The Red Pony, Old Yeller, JT, A Girl Named Sooner, Sounder, A Day No Pigs Would Die, Kes, The Yearling, It’s Like This Cat (the titular cat lives but a kitten gets crushed to death). I’m sure I’m forgetting about 50 more.

There’s even one novel for tweens called “No More Dead Dogs” where the young narrator observes that if you pick up any book with a dog and an award sticker on the cover, the dog is going to die before the end of the book.

Even if one believes that subjective view of the world (joyous Christians don’t, and wouldn’t teach their kids that lesson), resorting to killing off a beloved animal is a cliched deus ex machina way of getting that across.

 
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Yeah, I know. I’ve actually watched “Poor Cow” (I had read the book before I watched, he did a pretty good job of putting the book onto film), “Cathy Come Home”, and “The Wind that Shakes the Barley”. I enjoyed the first two and was neutral on the third because while I felt he was portraying things reasonably accurately, I also felt he was beating the audience over the head with the point.

I think after a while he got more predictable and for that reason I tend to prefer his earlier work, Kes aside.
 
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Tis_Bearself said:
Just off the top of my head, the list of tragically-dead-animal books and movies includes The Red Pony, Old Yeller, JT, A Girl Named Sooner, Sounder, A Day No Pigs Would Die, Kes, The Yearling, It’s Like This Cat (the titular cat lives but a kitten gets crushed to death). I’m sure I’m forgetting about 50 more.
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Were the adults in our lives just out to get us? I got very few recommendations of things to see/read as a kid and you just listed 4 of them that I received! No wonder I liked my uncle’s “hero stories” where the kids always did something fun!
 
anything with cheech and chong,
animal house
black sunday
The bridges of Madison county
goodfellows
 
Sorry, disagree, life is hard enough without forcing death and cruelty down kids’throats.
 
If a kid wants to pick up X book, who am I to argue? I had to read the Red Pony for school, and to me that constitutes forcing.

The other issue I have with that book in particular is that the death is so unnecessary - it’s almost like the author set out to force kids to grow up via cruelty. The book IIRC is divided into segments and the first segment (the death) so outweighs the others as to imbalance it.
 
And speaking of trauma potential, here’s a movie some might regret: Bambi. Talk about having to grow up fast…
 
The evil octopus lady? Girl sells her voice? Her tail becomes legs? I dunno, kinda seems it could be traumatic to kids.
 
Ishtar - the only reason I didn’t leave the theatre is because there was still popcorn in my bucket.
 
I generally don’t regret seeing any films. If I think it’s going to be too boring / offensive / immoral / disturbing etc, I just get up and walk out (or use the remote).

What I do find problematic is when a “captive audience” is subjected to a film. For instance, I insisted that my high school daughter not have to sit through Gibson’s “Passion” in a religion class.
 
MrZoom said:
Pretty much what the subject says … five movies you wish you hadn’t wasted your time on.
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Do they have to be feature-length movies? Do they have to have been made for the big screen?
 
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