Name five films you regret seeing

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Meet the Spartans - This is worth five entries all on its own. I would have preferred to spend the 90 minutes chewing off my own arm and beating myself into unconsciousness with it.
 
Closer with Natalie Portman and Jude Law. Talked in to seeing it by friend. I squirmed thru the entire thing.

Twilight Breaking Dawn… pregnant vampires…God help us all!

Seven with Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman. That is one disturbing movie. Went with friends while in college. Room was packed. I couldn’t get out of my seat or throw up.

Chappaquiddick … 2017 historical drama about Ted Kennedy…the ultimate downer of a movie. I should have known better to watch this. I should have watched a movie about Spider Man that night. Everybody loves Spider Man.

The Blair Witch Project…Extraordinarily boring, but irritating enough that you can’t fall asleep.
 
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Twilight Breaking Dawn… pregnant vampires…God help us all!
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I was quite the Twi-hard for a little while. Even met Stephenie to have a novel autographed “for my niece”.

I was profoundly disturbed by Edward’s behavior going forward. When he demanded Bella have an abortion, that was the last straw. It wasn’t a good look on him. He was already a creepy violent stalker. I dumped Twilight like a ton of bricks, and have never looked back.
 
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Seven with Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman. That is one disturbing movie. Went with friends while in college. Room was packed. I couldn’t get out of my seat or throw up.
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I saw that film when it came out with a group of friends. We were so disturbed we couldn’t go home afterwards. We went to a diner to have coffee and talk.
 
When I saw that movie, it was at home. It ended and my first thought was “Why? Why would anyone think that was a good idea for a movie?”
 
Battlefield Earth- Given its heavy use of ‘Dutch Tilt’ an experience not unlike being drunk, but with none of the fun. A serviceable film could be made from the source material, but this is far from it.

Robocop (2014) - A lacklustre reboot of the original following the 30 year nostalgia cycle of such things. It shouldn’t have been made.

Song of the South - Long, boring and racist. The best thing about this film is Zip A Dee expletive Do Dah.

Cats- Oh, My, Word. My eyes, my eyes.

Phantom of the Opera - Dreadfully miscast, and a director who can’t decide whether to push the melodrama and style (ala Moulin Rouge) or go for realism and grit (Les Mis). The result is an awful compromise that is neither fish nor fowl, add to that a domineering creator and you end up with a mess of awfulness.
 
Honestly I thought the movie (though a ton of gore) was brilliantly made and was fantastic
 
I think he’d be pretty cool with the stage show, but the film doesn’t work. Theres no narrative thread in the show, which kinda works on stage as a revue type performance. That is horrible for a film, also its criminal negligence to underserve Idris Elba and Judi Dench in that way. Have I mentioned the burning in my eyes yet?
 
A ridiculous, depressing, and unrealistic ending for the sole purpose of shock and twist.

A great movie for masochists. It would have been on my list if I had thought of it, maybe the top.
 
Hereditary. Went in thinking it would be a ghost story. Got a family tragedy with a ghost story in the second half. Ended with blasphemy. No thanks.
 
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Fifty Shades of Grey : Yes, I’ll disclose to a Catholic forum that I saw it. But I’ve worked with too many domestic violence victims to find it even remotely amusing or titillating. I am a (Gasp! Faint! Clutch pearls!) feminist and couldn’t believe that anyone would find this backlash against women acceptable.
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This is an interesting one, I know a not insignificant number of people involved in the Ds scene and they hated both the book and film. It essentially displays an abusive relationship. I wish Stephanie Meyer would have gone for the jugular as soon as 50 Shades started to gain traction, it could have been nipped in the bud early on.
 
A vastly superior film, but its actually a lift of the Twilight Saga. Can I also stress the sheer stupidity of the safe word being “stop”, I believe a co-writer (who later quit/was fired) suggested “red”, which is better but still not great.
 
English actually, but he’s not got many friends north of the border either. Braveheart is a joke for historical accuracy, to put it in context putting the Scots in kilts, is as accurate as putting an American soldier from the Battle for Independence in a 1950’s style grey business suit, while they drive around in a Buick Roadmaster.
 
I’m surprised he didn’t ask the Irish Air Corp to supply some helicopters for filming.
 
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