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

  • Thread starter Thread starter 2towers
  • Start date Start date
Status
Not open for further replies.
My favorite. Movies

Passion of the Christ
Last Jedi
Force Awakens
Star wars episode IV to VI
Phantom of the Opera(movie)/ or
Dracula (musical) Frank wildhorn
Love never dies (musical)

Titantic 1997

I like romance films

Beauty and the beast

Princess bride

Beauty and the beast 2014

Avengers Iffinty War
Lord of the rings
Into the storm
Hunger games
San Andreas
Fifth wave
Wrinkle in Time

My favorite childhood movies

Shrek
Barbie
 
Last edited:
tuscany said:
Nothing against Greece or Greeks, honest, but I just hated both “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” and “Mama Mia”. 🤢
Click to expand...
I love those!! MBFGW was so funny, and the music and scenery in Mama Mia is great!
 
I thought Lucy with Scarlett Johansson was awful. Such a disappointment because I been looking forward to it.
 
I liked both “Never on Sunday” and “Zorba the Greek”. I like Greece and have Greek friends, so it’s just a coincidence that I hated the other two movies. I was told over and over how hilarious and great “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” was. I didn’t think it was very funny and just didn’t like it. That “Mama Mia” had great music and nice scenery in it are the ONLY good things I can say about such a stupid story in that stupid movie.
 
I have trouble summoning my least favorite movies because I’ve started to forget most movie plots. I didn’t know how much working memory I was squandering until it was too late.

Movies that betrayed their books deserve mention. So, I hated the movie World War Z. Betrayed a terrifying, thinky book at every level.
 
Agree.

Another that was a traitor to the book (well, novella) was “I Am Legend”
 
tuscany said:
I liked both “Never on Sunday” and “Zorba the Greek”. I like Greece and have Greek friends, so it’s just a coincidence that I hated the other two movies. I was told over and over how hilarious and great “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” was. I didn’t think it was very funny and just didn’t like it. That “Mama Mia” had great music and nice scenery in it are the ONLY good things I can say about such a stupid story in that stupid movie.
Click to expand...
Humor is an extremely personal taste, I find. I cannot count the number of times friends have told me ‘Oh, watch this comedian’s standup routine, you’ll wet yourself laughing’, or have recommended the latest Adam Sandler/David Spade/Pauly Shore vehicle as the latest thing in hilarity, and I sit there stonefaced, mentally planning my dinner menu, and wondering whether I’ll have time to do laundry after the snoozefest is finished. If it’s W.C. Fields, Woody Allen or the Marx Brothers, then I know I’m guaranteed a good time. Anybody else…meh.
 
Last edited:
The second hand embarassment in the Meet the Parents/Meet the Fockers type of movie is too cringeworthy for me. So I’d list those.

I think that type of humor only works if the protagonist is narrating their own story from a safe distance in the future so that you feel like you are reminiscing and laughing with them instead of delighting in their suffering.
 
DisorientingSneeze said:
Movies that betrayed their books deserve mention.
Click to expand...
I almost always, 99% of the time, agree with this. However, The Bourne Identity completely changed the plot from the book, but in that case I didn’t care. I love the Bourne movies.

I haven’t read World War Z yet. My son made me watch the movie with him and I was surprised how much I liked it.

I also thought the spoof movie Pride and Prejudice and Zombies movie was pretty funny, even though when I first saw the book on the shelf at Barnes and Nobles, years ago, I almost fainted at the audacity of tampering with my favorite book that way.
 
I had to watch a lot of lousy movies for a Spanish classes. A lot of films with no plot, no likeable characters, and boring as hell. Apparently, doing the opposite of what makes a movie successful comercially is what makes one an artistic genius.

One of the worse ones was “Animalada,” an Argentine movies about a man that falls in love and has sex with a sheep and kills anyone who gets in his way. Now, if this was animated, it’d be another South Park episode. But, it’s live action. I can’t laugh at the ridiculous concept because I’m too busy gagging on the imagery.
 
DisorientingSneeze said:
Movies that betrayed their books deserve mention.
Click to expand...
The Lord of the Rings films by Peter Jackson differ in substantial areas from the books on which they are based, but in this instance I’m inclined to forgive the filmmakers, for two reasons:
  1. In the main, the changes made from book to screenplay were in the interest of clarifying the narrative flow, which admittedly can sometimes be windy and clunky in Tolkien. The filmmakers were also quite honest about the fact that, rather than trying to make movies that faithfully portrayed every incident in the books, they were interested rather in creating a focused narrative in which the Ring quest was paramount, and nothing was allowed to distract from that.
  2. In my humble opinion, and I say this as a fervent fan of the books, Jackson and Co were successful in mining a deep, rich vein of emotional power that is somewhat subdued in the books. The high emotion in the books tends to come from great epic scenes and to be on an exalted plane, whereas in the films it is a more accessible, everyday, ‘normal-person’ type of emotion. For me, this was a vast improvement in atmosphere and relatability over the books, and for that alone I think the films as well as the filmmakers have deserved every accolade they have received.
 
Last edited:
Blazing Saddles 🍴 pass the beans

American Graffiti

Grease – I might have liked it if I had given it more than 15 minutes

Rocky Horror Picture Show

And someone already mentioned Zardoz, but yes, absolutely on my list

(sorry, I didn’t mean to hit the reply button! 🙃)
 
Last edited:
You can definately depart from the book some without full on betraying it. I’d say the movie Ms. Peregrine’s School for Unusual Children improved the plotline considerably.
 
Last edited:
DisorientingSneeze said:
The second hand embarassment in the Meet the Parents/Meet the Fockers type of movie is too cringeworthy for me. So I’d list those.
Click to expand...
I agree with this 100%. I hate watching those movies that make you cringe in embarrassment or have you close your eyes in desperation while waiting for the stupid actor to just EXPLAIN what’s going on. So I skip most modern “comedies.” A good director, though, can make Shakespeare-type blunders enjoyable.
 
Just caught the very end of this on Starz Encore and was reminded of one of my least favorite superhero movies.

X-Men: The Last Stand

After Bryan Singer’s first two X-Men films, both of which are among my favorites, The Last Stand – with a different director, Brett Ratner – was a considerable step down in quality. (Ratner came on after Singer went over to Warner Bros. to make Superman Returns.)

Thankfully, Singer eventually came to his senses and returned to the franchise with X-Men: Days of Future Past,
the ending of which retconned The Last Stand’s events out of existence.
 
Last edited:
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top