Your LEAST favorite movies... time for a little levity I think

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Another movie I really didn’t care for was Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind." The thing with the mashed potatoes was so stupid. And it was a boring movie.
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Count me as another non-fan of Close Encounters, even though I generally like Spielberg otherwise. I was bothered by the way Richard Dreyfuss’ character’s obsession caused him to abandon his family.
 
200 cigarettes. A friend made us go to that. We dished him for years after that.
 
Anyone remember Plan 9 from Outer Space. An Ed Wood effort that was once voted the worst movie of all time by some movie rating organization. It is so bad, it is campy and a cult thing.
 
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ShowersofRoses:
How about the way they started bungling up the new Narnia movies? They started off SO GOOD!! Loved the actors and the cinematography. But by The Voyage of the Dawn Treader they were adding in the junk about the green mist…such a disappointment. And no one has even bothered to continue the series. 😭😭
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Actually, The Silver Chair is scheduled to start filming later this year.
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The Silver Chair is my favorite of the Narnian Chronicles, followed closely by The Last Battle. I am hoping against hope that they don’t screw it up.
 
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The Silver Chair is my favorite of the Narnian Chronicles, followed closely by The Last Battle . I am hoping against hope that they don’t screw it up.
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If that means you hope they don’t feel a need to invent a teen romance between Eustace and Jill that never existed, I’m not holding my breath. (On the other hand, the character of Eustace isn’t anyone’s idea of a heartthrob.)
I will not be surprised if they decide to inject Susan into the Last Battle, considering how many people think the charge of obsession with shallow vanity against her is somehow misogynistic.

Speaking of least favorite movies, I’d have to say it is the ones where they converted a book into a movie and changed the story. The more you like the original story just as it is, the more it drives you crazy. Prince Caspian is an example. Caspian shouldn’t have looked like he was in his mid-20s. (Don’t get me started on the other changes, LOL.)
 
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The Silver Chair is my favorite of the Narnian Chronicles, followed closely by The Last Battle . I am hoping against hope that they don’t screw it up.
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If that means you hope they don’t feel a need to invent a teen romance between Eustace and Jill that never existed, I’m not holding my breath. (On the other hand, the character of Eustace isn’t anyone’s idea of a heartthrob.)
I will not be surprised if they decide to inject Susan into the Last Battle, considering how many people think the charge of obsession with shallow vanity against her is somehow misogynistic.
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Eustace and Jill in a romance!? Heaven forfend! The very idea is distasteful!

I have never understood the charge of misogyny vis-à-vis the fate of Susan. Philip Pullman even went so far as to charge that Lewis condemned her to Hell for liking lipstick and nylons. This is utter nonsense. First of all, just because Susan is not present in the apotheosis after the final destruction of Narnia does not mean she is suffering in eternal perdition. She could as well have survived the accident and be the only living member of the Pevensie family left, having been granted more years of life in which to develop and grow, hopefully, into the Christian woman Aslan wants her to be. Secondly, I am so tired of hearing that Lewis was misogynistic. He allowed the querulous, selfish Mrs Moore to dominate his every waking hour and render his existence miserable merely because he had promised her late son he would care for her after the son’s death. And the charge of misogyny falls apart completely when one examines Lewis’ relationship with Joy Davidman. There is also the question of the strong, positive female characters in the Narnia books: Lucy, Susan(before her turning), Jill, Aravis, Caspian’s old nurse, Ramandu’s daughter, Aunt Letty…the list goes on. Admittedly, Lewis was impatient with what he saw as the sillier aspects of traditional feminine concerns in his day, such as excessive concern with appearance and status: this can be seen in many of the vignettes in his fantasy novel The Great Divorce. But to expand this into an accusation of full-on misogyny is sophistry of the vilest sort.

Edit: I neglected to mention, in defense of Lewis against the charge of misogyny, the narratrix of Till We Have Faces, perhaps the most vivid and fully drawn character in all his fiction. And a woman! No misogynist he, nope nope nope.
 
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Plan 9 is noted for the time period and the history of the production of it. I watched part of it and had to stop.
 
I’ll only say that aside from certain scenes, the first Matrix had the marks of excellent world building and was quite dynamic. Straddling the line between reality and pseudo-reality is hard to do.

Pre-1966 Disney is very good to great.
 
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Admittedly, Lewis was impatient with what he saw as the sillier aspects of traditional feminine concerns in his day, such as excessive concern with appearance and status: this can be seen in many of the vignettes in his fantasy novel The Great Divorce . But to expand this into an accusation of full-on misogyny is sophistry of the vilest sort.
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Consider, though, how his Screwtape commented that faults in women have their parallel in men:
The real value of the quiet, unobtrusive work which Glubose has been doing for years on this old woman can be gauged by the way in which her belly now dominates her whole life. The woman is in what may be called the “All-I-want” state of mind. All she wants is a cup of tea properly made, or an egg properly boiled, or a slice of bread properly toasted. But she never finds any servant or any friend who can do these simple things “properly”—because her “properly” conceals an insatiable demand for the exact, and almost impossible, palatal pleasures which she imagines she remembers from the past; a past described by her as “the days when you could get good servants” but known to us as the days when her senses were more easily pleased and she had pleasures of other kinds which made her less dependent on those of the table. Meanwhile, the daily disappointment produces daily ill temper: cooks give notice and friendships are cooled. If ever the Enemy introduces into her mind a faint suspicion that she is too interested in food, Glubose counters it by suggesting to her that she doesn’t mind what she eats herself but “does like to have things nice for her boy”. In fact, of course, her greed has been one of the chief sources of his domestic discomfort for many years.

Now your patient is his mother’s son. While working your hardest, quite rightly, on other fronts, you must not neglect a little quiet infiltration in respect of gluttony. Being a male, he is not so likely to be caught by the “All I want” camouflage. Males are best turned into gluttons with the help of their vanity. They ought to be made to think themselves very knowing about food, to pique themselves on having found the only restaurant in the town where steaks are really “properly” cooked. What begins as vanity can then be gradually turned into habit. But, however you approach it, the great thing is to bring him into the state in which the denial of any one indulgence—it matters not which, champagne or tea, sole colbert or cigarettes—“puts him out”, for then his charity, justice, and obedience are all at your mercy.

Note he doesn’t say “being a male, he won’t be caught…” Rather, he says, “Being a male, he is not so likely to be caught…” Lewis doesn’t fall into rigid gender stereotyping. He realizes that although there are broad trends in behavior that can be noticed according to gender people are very variable.

But again…I digress. Sorry…
 
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Mmmmm, another, though I don’t know if it still falls in the most-or-at-least-many people love it category?

Gravity (2013) Sandra Bullock, George Clooney

I remember every publicity appearance I saw on the talk shows raved about this live-changing movie. Wha-a-a-att…???

I got just two words:
Stink
er
roo

😡 🍿
 
I liked it. 😳

I liked Interstellar, too, so maybe there’s no hope. 🙃
 
Citizen Kane and Cassablanca. 🤣 JK.

The real answer is a pair of sequels to movies others mentioned: Bad Santa 2 and Dumb and Dumberer
 
ShowersofRoses said:
I liked it. 😳

I liked Interstellar, too, so maybe there’s no hope. 🙃
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I cried through that movie because it was the first movie I went to see after my kids were born. The whole one minute on this planet is 7 years back home made it seem like my 2 and a half hours away from them could be a costly mistake! 😆
 
Any time I read C.S. Lewis writing about sin, I think: “Oh crud, he’s talking about me again…” 😳

I don’t know why this is supposed to be a fun thread. Y’all have some really bad taste. 🔥🔥🔥😉

My husband is anti- A Christmas Story, while I think it is hilarious. He also dislikes Napoleon Dynamite, which gets funnier and funnier to me every time I watch it. I think he just has never known weird characters like in those movies.

I also tend to be rather forgiving toward highly theatrical/stylistic/over-the-top movies, but yeah, they aren’t movies you just watch to be entertained by.
 
I am going out on a limb here. I have always thought Gone with the Wind was really overrated. No I don’t hate it and it is not even a least favorite. I am just saying that because I think this thread is the appropriate place for this comment; I am curious if others feel the same or are horrified by this comment.
 
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