What popular movies of all time have you REFUSED to see (for whatever reason)

[hlthe2b]

Mine:

Old Yeller
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AND


Marley & Me



The loss of a beloved dog is just too REAL for me. Sort of my version of PTSD


Yours?

[unblock]

1. bravehart.

because... mel gibson.

doesn't help that mrs. unblock's a brit....

[BlueTsunami2018]

2. The sound of music

Titanic
Gone with the wind

Lots of them really.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. My father refused to see any Ingrid Bergman movie after her affair with Rossellini.

Her libertine choices so morally offended him . . . . .

[dhol82]

53. Wow! Must have been a major republican. n/t

[MFM008]

4. Titanic

The new James Bonds.

[OnDoutside]

17. Same on both points for me. Last Bond movie I saw had

Roger Moore in it ! The 1997 Titanic one is a bit too close to home for me, as my granduncle drowned on it. I will get round to it in time.

[brush]

33. The new Bond, actually he's not new anymore, is really good in the role. I wasn't a fan...

of how they ditched Pierce Brosnan either but Daniel Craig does a good job in the role.

[lunasun]

70. Agree -Craig as Bond is nothing to avoid

[crazycatlady]

41. My mom refuses to see Titanic

I was obsessed with that movie when it came out. I did my (HS) senior research paper about the Titanic because of the movie.

[d_r]

85. i have never seen titanic nt

[MFM008]

113. Me either

And I love Leo and Kate

historical fact:
a girl with my exact name (all 3)
Survived the disaster.

[ProfessorGAC]

95. Titanic

My wife and i were laughing out loud in the theater and left before people got mad at us. Sorry we went. What a piece of melodramatic dreck.

[Stuart G]

122. Titanic

[mucifer]

154. I wish. Unfortunately I saw that crap.

[Chipper Chat]

5. the matrix

Mrs. Miniver.
The movie where the girl's head does a 360 - can't remember title

[femmocrat]

8. The Exorcist?

I don't watch horror movies either.

[Chipper Chat]

12. bingo

I had nightmares just thinking about it. Don't like horror flicks either. Except one: I Know What You Did Last Summer.

[femmocrat]

6. Schindler's List.

Saving Private Ryan.

Any other movies about war and suffering.

[MontanaMama]

78. With you on that.

I have never watched The Godfather either due to the abject violence. Real life is violent enough.

[mitch96]

109. Schindler's List.

I saw it as a matinee in North Miami beach. Lots of older Jewish people in the audience. The sobbing in the theater was heart wrenching.. I could only watch that one once.. Very moving.
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[Paladin]

114. Brilliant movie---but I'm with you: One viewing was enough. (nt)

[mucifer]

155. Yeah, I'm Jewish I got physically ill. It hit me to the core. Once was enough.

But, that Seinfeld episode where he made out with his girlfriend during Schindler's List really cracked me up.

[Stuart G]

123. Schindler's List...

[Polly Hennessey]

7. Any movie where an animal dies.

I’m with you when it comes to dogs — too many times have I suffered the loss of a pet. I don’t need to go to a movie and re-live the terrible sadness of memories. If only I could have twenty minutes once again with the pets I have lost.

[hlthe2b]

9. Exactly...

Memories and sense of loss remain raw even decades later

[blue cat]

10. +1

"A Dog's Purpose", can't even think about watching.

[demmiblue]

26. Same.

[ProfessorGAC]

96. That Would Be Us

Cannot/Will Not watch something like that.

[randr]

11. Any movie with Adam Sandler or Sylvester Stallone

[Snackshack]

13. None.

However “The Decendants” I had to stop and come back too at a later time. That one was a hard one to watch after going thru the last stage (IV) of a family members terminal illness. It is a ver good movie just has some double tough scenes.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

14. Forrest Gump.

Mainly because it got best picture when I felt the Shawshank Redemption should have gotten it.

[Glorfindel]

15. I saw Old Yeller when I was very young. Still haven't got over it.

I also won't see "Marley and Me."

And especially:

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[alarimer]

88. Wait. Is it THAT Dave Matthews?

I had no idea he was an actor. I just looked it up on IMDB and apparently it is.

[longship]

16. Disney or Pixar animation flicks!

Childish rubbish all.

I include Gravity in that category, albeit with Sandra Bullock's and George Clooney's faces animated into some scenes. Also childish rubbish.

[Laffy Kat]

18. Me too. I call them cartoons. nt

[greatauntoftriplets]

126. I don't see those either.

I didn't like cartoons when I was a kid, so why would I now?

[longship]

143. Then there's Bugs Bunny.

The Warner Studios got animation right. One has to have Mel Blanc doing the voice characterizations. That's just plain good shit!

Witness:

But Disney is just schlock.

[greatauntoftriplets]

144. I guess there were moments and some great talent.

But I did not like the violence in them, even though the characters always lived.

[longship]

145. Wabbit Season!!! Duck Season!!!

[greatauntoftriplets]

148. I was a weird kid.

[Va Lefty]

19. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

Reason: Will Ferrell

[Initech]

22. Really?

Will Ferrell is awesome but he does make a lot of crap (*COUGH* Daddy's Home *COUGH*). Those are two of his best.

[Va Lefty]

25. Comedy is very subjective..I just don't think he's funny

[Initech]

20. I can't watch any dog movies like that.

I've had too many go over the years and it does suck. So I can't watch any dog movies like that for that reason.

[First Speaker]

21. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Hostel, Night of the Living Dead...

...that sort of thing. My dreams are bad enough as it is...

[TexasBushwhacker]

66. Yeah, I can deal with violence but not cruelty

Walked out of Reservior Dogs during the ear cutting scene. I can't listen to the song "Stuck In the Middle" anymore either.

[Basic LA]

23. Clockwork Orange

Can't get past the sadistic violence in the beginning segments.

[smirkymonkey]

65. I have always refused to watch that movie as well.

I really don't think I could handle it.

I also don't think I could watch "The Accused". For pretty much the same reasons. I think it would just be too disturbing for me.

[pnwest]

24. Anything animated, and anything with

Angelina Jolie (I was team Jennifer).

[KPN]

27. Gone With the Wind.

[RandomAccess]

128. I've seen it 3 times, and it was amazing to me to see the difference

in my understanding and appreciation of it.

The first time I was like 13 and I thought Scarlett was NUTS for being so mean to Rhett and running him off like she did.

The second time I was -- hmm, maybe about 27 a fairly newly minted feminist and I was impressed with her strong vow, "As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again."

And the third time I was maybe late 30s, and what got me was that she was honoring and going back to the earth. Of course, this was as a property owner, but it still echoed my own understanding of the importance of the land.

Now, of course, it's been so criticized for its light touch treatment of slavery, etc., that it would probably be completely ruined for me.

[KPN]

140. Well -- that sounds like a recommendation!

You've piqued my interest. Maybe one day.

[RandomAccess]

166. There's a reason

it has endured all these years and was so popular to start with. It's one helluva story -- IF, as I alluded, you can forgive the gentle treatment of slavery.

[Farmer-Rick]

160. I wish someone would do the real Gone With the Wind

Near the end of that horrible institution of slavery, those uber rich ladies weren't even living on those plantations. They lived in New York city with the other uber rich. It was the caretakers like the concentration camp commandants who lived on and ran the southern plantations. They were hot, muggy dirty places not suited to wealthy ladies.

The plantation caretakers were not particularly rich but did enjoy some prestige. They were mostly noted for being particularly cruel and horrible people. Many of them enjoyed sexually torturing their slave victims.

[AJT]

28. The Matrix and Fight Club

[McCamy Taylor]

106. I too refused to see The Fight Club---but it is not what you think.

The best way I can describe the disconnect between the ads and the film is imagine they used the ads for The Green Berets to advertise Apocalypse Now. The Fight Club is disturbing in a way you do not expect it to disturb.

[DetlefK]

29. Avatar

I figured, if a movie contains that much CGI, it cannot be good.

[Cartoonist]

30. Godfather 2

I didn't like the first.

Jaws, The Exorcist, any other must-see movie.

[brush]

31. "American Sniper". Don't need the "we're No. 1" militarization the industry seems to deploy...

to weaponize impressionable teens into joining the service.

These type of propaganda movies come out periodically as if there's some hidden pact with the Pentagon to boost the military.

[Freddie]

32. The more recent James Bond films

And any movie that's all car chases, explosions, etc. (seems like most of them anymore). The old Bond movies were clever and humorous.
Sci-fi also leaves me cold. Give me a movie with real people and a real plot, thank you.

[genxlib]

34. Saw and all the sequels and similar.

Because torture and murder should never be considered entertainment

[MustLoveBeagles]

47. I'm with you on that

I don't like torture porn even if it isn't graphically violent.

[Iggo]

92. Yep....Torture Porn.

I ain't watchin' it.

[Runningdawg]

35. Anything with Tom Cruise

Something about his voice...it's like fingernails on a chalkboard.

[eissa]

36. Anything directed by Woody Allen eom

[flibbitygiblets]

57. Because he AND all his movies are God-awful, amirite?

[eissa]

93. Yes, never understood his appeal

And the pedophilia was the nail in the coffin for me.

[ProfessorGAC]

98. I'm With You

Other than Sleepers (very early) and Zelig, i find his movies pedantic, tedious and slow.

[TexasBushwhacker]

137. And self indulgent!

His relationship with Soon Yi always grossed me out. I remember enjoying "Manhattan" when it first came out, but I was only 22! I watched it again recently and just found it so unfunny. Diane Keaton's character, talking about beautiful she was, made no sense to me. And of course the relationship with Mariel Hemingway was unrealistic and gross.

[TeapotInATempest]

37. No movies where an animal dies - I can't even watch Bambi anymore.

No horror movies, no Sophie's Choice, no Schindler's List.

I have a hard enough time compartmentalizing the horrors that I know happen every day in the real world, thank you very much.

[McCamy Taylor]

107. So no movie where people eat or cook steak or burgers, right?

[TeapotInATempest]

118. Why the snark?

I'm a vegetarian, personally, but I don't lecture others about their food choices.

[mucifer]

157. The cognitive dissidence of eating eating animals but not being able to watch

movies where animals are harmed. It really doesn't make sense if you think about it.

[TeapotInATempest]

164. No, I get your point.

But since I don't eat animals, I don't have that cognitive dissonance.

[mucifer]

168. ;)

[jalan48]

38. All of the Rocky movies

[lunasun]

71. Come to think of it I never saw one but not even trying to avoid . Just life and choices I guess

[jalan48]

91. I always found the premise odd. I think the Rocky movies were intended for a white

audience who wanted a white heavyweight boxing champion but couldn't see it happen in the real world.

[lunasun]

94. HA Could be why it never appealed to me personally .....those movies started in the 70s Hmmm

You are right in the real world the 70s started with Joe Frazier, Foreman and Ali
and the decade ended with Larry Holmes etc
All being household names

Rocky Sequels in the 80s when Tyson was around

[jalan48]

97. I think Stallone tapped into something that made him a multi-millionaire.

[Loki Liesmith]

102. A white heavyweight non champion you mean.

There are no rocky movies after the first one afaic

[lunasun]

120. I never saw one but I know there were multiple Rocky movies in that era

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[Loki Liesmith]

121. That never happened

[lunamagica]

39. Agree with the movies where an animal dies. Also, movies with "Epic battle scenes", movies where cgi

is the star (Avatar, superhero movies)

[Tommy_Carcetti]

40. Private Parts (the Howard Stern biopic), Borat.

Refused to see Private Parts because Stern is just such a narcissistic blowhard.

Borat just seemed stupid and insulting towards foreigners.

[Orange Free State]

69. I found both pretty funny

And Congressman Bob Barr’s appearance in Borat was worth the price of admission. During the naked chase and wrestling scene between Sansa Baron Cohen and Ken Davitian, the theater was so loud with people screaming and laughing that my ears were ringing. Cohen is a string bean and Davitian looks like a giant hairy coconut, so to see them wrestling naked was quite a hoot.

[kairos12]

42. The Sounds of Music.

[csziggy]

43. Any of the Godfather or Rocky movies

I detest boxing and don't even want to watch commercials about it. And I never could get into the idea of following a crime family.

I also will not watch any modern horror movie - and that includes many so-called science fiction movies that have a lot of gore, such as the Alien franchise.

[Glorfindel]

89. I totally agree with you about boxing. I haven't seen any of the Rocky movies

or even the one for which Morgan Freeman won his Oscar.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

44. I'm probably going to eventually get dragged into watching them b/c of my wife

but I find the whole Fifty Shades movies thoroughly boring and unwatchable. And I have no desire to read the books either.

[hlthe2b]

46. No appeal to me either. I guess I'm old fashioned enough to think

"less is more" on that score and that I really go to movies for a story line. I've never understood why these books and movies are considered so cutting edge (and not simple <XXX porn)

[Ron Obvious]

45. Superhero movies, Star Wars sequels/prequels, Zombies, Remakes...

To start with.

[flibbitygiblets]

58. Ron, you literally took the words out of my mouth.

The superhero thing has GOT to stop, and so does the nerd-tastic Star Wars franchise.

Apparently todays' movie producers think that movies are mostly watched by 12-year-olds.

[LeftInTX]

62. Me too!!!

They were talking about this on NPR and said that this is the future of Hollywood.

Those movies are very popular in foreign markets and make alot of money for the studios.

[Midwestern Democrat]

75. As a film lover, it depresses me that these kinds of movies are dominating the industry to the

extent that they are. Every year at Oscar time, you hear same the complaint "Why doesn't the Academy nominate films that people have actually seen instead of artsy little seen films?" Well, because - quite frankly - the vast majority of the most popular films of the year don't deserve to be nominated. I took a look at the Top 20 box office films of 2017 and I'm not seeing anything that I think got unfairly snubbed by the Academy - basically, they nominated the only two films from the Top 20 that they could have:

1 Star Wars: The Last Jedi - franchise sequel
2 Beauty and the Beast - children's movie
3 Wonder Woman - juvenile superhero stuff
4 Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle - kiddie stuff
5 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 - juvenile superhero stuff
6 Spider-Man: Homecoming - juvenile superhero stuff
7 It - pretty good Stephen King adaptation, but not Best Picture nominee worthy
8 Thor: Ragnarok - juvenile superhero stuff
9 Despicable Me 3 - cartoon
10 Justice League - juvenile superhero stuff
11 Logan - juvenile superhero stuff
12 The Fate of the Furious - franchise sequel
13 Coco - cartoon
14 Dunkirk - WWII movie that WAS NOMINATED
15 Get Out - horror movie that WAS NOMINATED
16 The LEGO Batman Movie - cartoon
17 The Boss Baby - cartoon
18 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales - franchise sequel
19 Kong: Skull Island - action/fantasy not remotely Best Picture nominee worthy
20 The Greatest Showman - a musical I know little about, but appears to be forgettable

[flibbitygiblets]

100. Now I'm depressed too. I'd actually rather watch paint dry than anything on that list.

Idiocracy (the movie) was so prophetic.

[MustLoveBeagles]

48. 12 Years a Slave

Benedict Cumberbach is one of my favorite actors but still don't think I could watch it. It would just make me angry.

[Proud liberal 80]

56. Agree

[Zen Democrat]

139. This one and the Mel Gibson movie about the crucifixion. Simulating human torture is not my thing.

[LeftishBrit]

49. I won't either see the film of 'Jude the Obscure' or read the original book...

because of what I know happens to the children.

[Skittles]

50. Pretty Woman

romanticizing prostitution

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

61. Same here - and imho it should be called Average-Looking Woman - honestly I just dont get the whole

Julia Roberts thing - not like a great actress or anything either. I think I saw a couple of things with her in it - totally forgettable movies, cant even remember the names of them..

[Maraya1969]

146. They used a body double at least once during that film. It was her walking

in the hotel with a bunch of shopping bags from the back.

Apparently Julia Roberts was too, "Hippy" for the shot

[TexasBushwhacker]

67. Oh but it was a Cinderella story

my friend said. And I said, "Yeah, if Cinderella did blowjobs."

[Skittles]

72. you got it

[kimbutgar]

51. The Batman movie with Heath Ledger

The picture of him as the Joker always unsettled me. Then when he died I was even more, “ oh hell no”. The times I have seen scenes I was even more adverse to seeing it.

[CottonBear]

52. Titanic and any & all slasher/ horror movies.

I just cannot.

[Turbineguy]

54. Titanic.

[dhol82]

55. Anything where people get killed and dismembered

Never wanted to see any zombie apocalypse movies.
They just don’t appeal to me. I don’t want to have to look under my bed before going to sleep.

[pansypoo53219]

59. anything by oliver stone.

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

60. Anything with cannibalism in it - or too much gore. Im willing to avert my eyes some, but not if

its like half the frikken movie.

[IrishEyes]

63. Jaws

I just can't watch it. I have a fear of water.

[Lint Head]

64. The Passion of the Christ

[Atticus]

130. Absolutely agree. Had a Fundy in-law who insisted we just HAD to see it. She stopped

insisting when I finally told her I'd read about it and could not see how any minor could be allowed to see such gory sado-masochistic nonsense (busloads of church youth groups were allowed to view it in our area) and, furthermore, I thought Mel Gibson was likely the biggest hypocrite in recent memory. I'm sure I'm on her list of "people she won't be seeing in heaven"!

[Lint Head]

133. It seems there are so many who have that list. I don't think they really understand that arrogance

is a sin in the Christian religion. That judging is supposed to be left to the Creator. Not left to someone who has bigoted ideas.

[TalenaGor]

163. yep same

[Orange Free State]

68. The Legend of the Lone Ranger

The one with Klingon Pilsbury or something like that. The producer got an injunction to prevent Clayton Moore from appearing in the Lone Ranger mask so I decided they were not getting any of my money. By most accounts it was pretty bad, and it was a major money loser. Good for them.

Also, anything with that drunken hateful piece of shit Mel Gibson.

The one I wish I had not seen was Titanic. Such a chick flick as I never saw before, I could feel the testosterone draining from my body as I watched it. Truth be told I was hoping for the damn thing to sink so I could go home. When we left there was a long line for the next showing. I said to them “Don’t waste your money. It sinks in the end.”

I DID use that for ten years to get my spouse to go to things she did not want to go to, by saying “Remember, I took you to see Titanic”

[TlalocW]

77. Oh, Lone Ranger was soooooo bad

And I don't like how they dicked around Clayton Moore. He wore wrap-around sunglasses afterwards with the costume because the injunction was just very specific to the mask, but people say that you couldn't see his eyes, and blind kids who were fans were always thrilled when he let him touch the mask while he was wearing it.

I was stuck on a bus unable to sleep that was showing, "Titanic," so I decided to grit my teeth and watch it, and it was torture.

TlalocW

[UTUSN]

73. Anything with John WAYNE (including the vaunted "The Quiet Man") - and *any* Western

no matter how the Western "speaks" to deeper human conditions.

Here's where I go wrong: No to 1950s musicals, even the most brilliant, superior human specimen that I believe Gene KELLY to be. I just detest American 1950s everything, the cuteness, the accent/dialect, everything. Although the Lib side of the '50s - the anti-McCARTHY, the MURROW, the beleaguered Leftiness - is fantastic.

[hlthe2b]

86. well, there is the scenery of John Ford movies--that alone is worth a look, I think

Simply magnificant

[McCamy Taylor]

108. Have you seen "Bad Day at Black Rock"? Spencer Tracy's best film.

It's a western in the truest sense of the word, one man against a whole town and its dirty rotten secret. Watch it.

Also, "Johnny Guitar." Sterling Hayden is eye candy and Joan Crawford gets to have a shoot out with Mercedes McCambridge. Love that flick.

And "Blazing Saddles" is a western, too. You have to like "Blazing Saddles.

Don't ever dismiss a genre. But you can dismiss John Wayne. Sterling Hayden was much more handsome and a much better actor.

[UTUSN]

142. I *luerve* Blazing Saddles, & it never occurred to me to classify it as a Western.

It's a "Mel BROOKS" not a Western. And it might be a matter of actors, but I'll never see the ones you mentioned because I would as soon watch a block of wood as Spencer CRAWFORD and Joan TRACY, and I might as well throw Kathryn HEPBURN in with those two. Although I was thoroughly hooked on two things ABOUT Joan, the thing about her and Bette and Mommy Dearest. Also, dumpster for James STEWART, Grace KELLY. I don't even count Dennis HOPPER and COPPOLA's nephew as anybody to watch (a.k.a. "actors" ) .

As for watching something because of one theme ("one man against a whole town and its dirty rotten secret" ) or because of somebody's looks ("eye candy" and "handsome" ) - uh, completely loses me.

I should really stay out of threads about things that don't appeal to me. I like awards shows but don't like 98% of movies, and certainly not being chained to a screen for 2 or 3 hours, where I the viewer am turned into a lump of play dough and am expected to suspend disbelief.

Let's see, what are movies I've liked (over a lifetime) : Topsy Turvy (about making a GILBERT and SULLIVAN musical); Lawrence of Arabia; The Shining; The Third Man; several Mel BROOKS things; Network; the STREEP one about the opera non-singer; Chinatown; A Fish Called Wanda; Gladiator; Fanny (the one about the French girl who marries an old man) .

I have never watched science fiction (except for 2001) - how's that for dismissing an entire genre - war movies, let's see what else, might as well check out of here.

[jmowreader]

74. Gran Torino

This is my Trump-loving brother's favorite movie. On the few times when he and I are in the same house, he will stand there and quote lines from this movie. Unfortunately, the only lines he ever wants to quote are the "get off my lawn" ones.

His other favorite movie is The Shawshank Redemption. I'm not watching it either.

[ProfessorGAC]

99. Don't Let That Dissuade You, J

It's a touching movie. Just because he likes it for the wrong reasons, doesn't mean you should dismiss it.

I will warn you that there is a scene and aftermath of a brutal attack on his young woman neighbor that sets up the climax, but i found it excellent and so did my wife.

[TexasBushwhacker]

138. You're missing out by skipping Shawshank Redemption n/t

[TlalocW]

76. Anything by Tarantino and Die Hard and Bond movies

Something about Quentin just annoys the hell out of me, part of it is just the fanboys telling me I HAVE to see it, and part of it, I don't get the appeal of two hitmen talking about how you can get beer at McDonalds in Europe with your, "Royale."

As for Die Hard, I have a like-mostly hate relationship with Bruce Willis. Stuff where he steps out of his wheelhouse of being a squinty-eyed, pseudo-tough guy I like - I'm thinking Unbreakable and the Sixth Sense. Otherwise, I can't help but see him as Hudson Hawk.

I have never seen a Bond movie either nor plan to. I have seen and enjoyed the Austin Powers movies, In Like Flint, and even Operation Kid Brother where they got all the Bond characters and had Sean Connery's brother, Neil, be the secret agent.

TlalocW

[thbobby]

79. Jaws and Saturday Night Fever

Stupid irrational fear and disco. Gag!

[McCamy Taylor]

105. Saturday Night Fever because disco sucks. You should watch Jaws.

Robert Shaw is great! Greater than great! If I was shark, I would want to eat him, too! Grease because it had John Travolta in it, and he was in Saturday Night Fever (and disco sucks).

[k8conant]

110. Those two for me too!

[Jokerman]

165. Those were both on my list until last year.

I still haven't seen jaws but when my sister visited last year I foolishly told her she could pick which movie to watch, forgetting that my wife owns a copy of SNF.

Thanks to a long day, a boring movie and several ounces whiskey, I managed to fall asleep well before the end.

[steve2470]

80. Silence of the Lambs

I know there's no cannabalism but the chianti sentence has always creeped me out.

[Stuart G]

124. I refulse to see that one too...

[ExciteBike66]

81. I refuse to see Avatar because I have already seen Dances with Wolves...nt

[hlthe2b]

84. Care to expand on that?

[ExciteBike66]

87. Same story, no need to see it more than once!

[kedrys]

82. E.T.

I was never interested in seeing it, and at this point it’s the principle of the thing.

[MaryMagdaline]

83. American Sniper

Titanic
Saving Private Ryan
Spider-Man

Name any blockbuster for the last 50 years

[Tikki]

90. I dont do mafia movies...

Tikki

[TygrBright]

101. Titanic

I couldn't hack the whole gag-worthy sappy 'love story' aspect.

"A Night to Remember" was THE quintessential Titanic disaster film for me.

diffidently,
Bright

[RandomAccess]

129. I read the book in High School. Quite good.

[longship]

161. A Night to Remember. Great book, great film.

The only version of the story on film remotely historically accurate. Plus, a great British cast.

[Heartstrings]

103. American Sniper

Glorified a man who enjoyed killing people way too much. Yes, I know it was his "job" but still.....

[Freethinker65]

104. Walt Disney Animated anything after Alladin. (Have seen a few Pixar after the merge tho.)

[gopiscrap]

111. any Sci Fi

I like historical, biographical, sociological and comedy

[McCamy Taylor]

112. "One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest"

because I find insane asylums creepier than haunted houses. I will watch horror films over and over, but the thought of someone being doped up and getting a lobotomy for being a nonconformist is scary.

[Fix The Stupid]

116. It's such a great movie though...

The acting is top notch..seriously - everyone in that movie gives the performance of their lives...

Every.scene.

It's amazing.

[McCamy Taylor]

125. I know. I will have to be in the right mood.

[aquamarina]

115. 50 Shades of Gray and all the sequels

[Laffy Kat]

117. Two types: Dog movies (they ALWAYS die a the end).

And Holocaust movies because I' have to have six-months of therapy afterward.

[NewJeffCT]

119. Top Gun

came across to me as an advertisement for the air force, so i wasn't interested.

[Stuart G]

127. Psycho..1960..I walked out of it when it first came out..

About 2/3 of the way through, I just got up and walked out....Once, about 15 years ago, I watched the last couple of minutes when he goes into the room, but that is it. I will never watch any that again..

[RandomAccess]

131. I saw it when it first came out

And I could not take a shower when I was alone in the house without GREAT fear for YEARS. Literally years. (And I wasn't alone in that.)

When Psycho II came out, my husband and I thought it would be fun to rent both the original and the new one, to show our kids how scary it was.

Hah! Guess what. We'd all been so inured to that kind of suspenceful violence that the first Psycho was like -- WTF? We were scared by THAT?? The kids were NOT amused.

[Stuart G]

134. I remember sitting in the movie theater, watching Psycho on that huge screen. You have to have been

there. It was more than the story. It was the music, the direction which was incredible. The idea of watching on a big screen and being part of it. I remember the cop was walking up the stairs to see someone and go into a room, about 2/3 of the way in..and I just got up and walked out. My family stayed in and watched it all, but I waited outside in the lobby of the movie theater. Now keep in mind, I have seen much worse since then, ..but I don't want to go into a movie for entertainment and be scared sh**less.

...I got to add this about your experience. Watching a film on TV...is not the same as watching in a movie theater. There is something overwhelming about the large screen and the special sound effects that take you in.

Let me give an example. I remember watching the entire film..Alien..the first one, in a movie theater. Yes, I was scared sh**less. So, when the 2nd came out, "Aliens" and I read the review, I never saw it in a movie theater...why be scared sh**less again?....And.....
...When it came out on video tape...I rented it from the library..(yes I waited till I could get it at the library), and then played it backwards..looking at the last 5 minutes..playing that and so on. Then, after I knew what was going to happen..cause I had watched parts of it..........
........Then I played it from the beginning on my home TV video tape machine...with the sound up, and guess what???. .I was still scared sh**less, even though I knew exactly what was going to happen. That is the sign of an incredibly well directed movie.

[RandomAccess]

135. Just to be clear

I did see it on the big screen. That's all that was available when it first came out.

And while I think you have a point I'm also sure that our capacity for suspenceful violence is much greater now than it was back then. Back then it was SHOCKING that such a thing was even in a film. Later, it was commonplace.

[Stuart G]

136. About totally "horrific films".. Nothing worse than "Night and Fog"

.. 32 minutes of actual footage of the holocaust. I really can't describe it.

Read the first 10 reviews....here is a link to this film, at IMBD..(Internet Movie Data Base):
warning: If you watch this film, you will never forget it. I remember thinking before I saw it,,what can be shown in 32 minutes?...a whole lot of horror.... totally beyond description, after I saw it. By a director who knew how to arrange it. In French, with English subtitles.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048434/

[kysrsoze]

132. 13 Hours (of absolute horse shit)

Need I say more?

[nocoincidences]

141. Help for the animal lovers:

check this site before you see a movie, any movie:

https://www.doesthedogdie.com/

It lists every movie where an animal dies, any animal.

[hlthe2b]

149. we clearly aren't alone...

I just can't have my heart ripped out just to see a movie. No matter how "good"...

[Maraya1969]

147. The Passion of the Christ, The Exorcist, The Matrix, Gravity.

All movies that are too violent or would just upset me.

[edbermac]

150. Stormy Does Donald.

That would put me off sex for the rest of my life.

[3catwoman3]

151. I don't care for creepy stuff, violent...

...stuff, depressing/angsty stuff, gory/horror stuff, or sad stuff.

That doesn't leave much when it comes to movies. Make mine musicals and intelligent comedies.

[Ferrets are Cool]

152. Saving Private Ryan

No need to be reminded of what savages humans can be.

[bitterross]

153. Passion of the Christ

Anything by Mel Gibson. But that one in particular.

[Ferrets are Cool]

158. +1

[Binkie The Clown]

156. I can't imagine ever refusing to watch a particular movie; good, bad, or indifferent. nt

[muntrv]

159. Passion of The Christ.

[TalenaGor]

162. Titanic, all the twilight's....

[eShirl]

169. Anything with Tom Cruise.