But some films make us fret about spending two hours of our lives on them, whether out of dissatisfaction or because we always want the fresh experience of seeing them for the first time. This list is a collection of responses from people online who didn’t hold back their strong sentiments.
Like in the previousBored Pandalist, you may see some familiar titles here, which can bring back a flood of memories, good or bad.
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A Serbian Film.I remember reading a professional review that ended basically with (not verbatim, and I may be misquoting, but it’s close) “And if after reading this review you still want to see it I have completely failed you as a journalist. This was not a movie, it was 2 hours of having my soul r*ped”.
Human Centipede. One and done, I always say.
Whenever this topic comes up, so do the usual titles. If we’re talking aboutmovies that changed the way we view life as a whole, Steven Spielberg’sJawspops up in everyone’s minds—so much so that even clinical psychologists from Columbia University were made to believe that their lingering phobias of sharks and the open sea are “as sensible as fearing a T-Rex attack in Manhattan.”TheFinal Destinationfilm series likewise created a similar impression. The story revolves around impending doom from freak accidents like slipping into a bathtub or getting cooked alive in a tanning bed, which hascaused some deep-seated trauma.
Whenever this topic comes up, so do the usual titles. If we’re talking aboutmovies that changed the way we view life as a whole, Steven Spielberg’sJawspops up in everyone’s minds—so much so that even clinical psychologists from Columbia University were made to believe that their lingering phobias of sharks and the open sea are “as sensible as fearing a T-Rex attack in Manhattan.”
TheFinal Destinationfilm series likewise created a similar impression. The story revolves around impending doom from freak accidents like slipping into a bathtub or getting cooked alive in a tanning bed, which hascaused some deep-seated trauma.
Scary movie 5. Walked out 5 mins in.Watched it as an inflight movie.
Probably get some hate, but the first twilight movie.
Avatar…for me, it was unwatchable it was so stupid. (I really tried).
Sausage Party, hands down. That’s some messed up s**t going on in there.
Then there are the cringeworthy movies that left an unpleasant taste in the mouth. These films felt like nothing but wasted time and money. But what exactly makes a ‘bad’ movie?Film directorPeter Markham, whose credits includeThe English PatientandGangs of New York,wrotean articlewhere he laid out some descriptions of what he thinks makes a film unpalatable.“[It] proselytizes. Evades the moral questions it prompts. Has story problems. Shifts genres to fix its story problems. Uses transitions to avoid story issues. Churns out the same old tropes and clichés. Pulls its punches. Has no punches to pull.“Leaves no traces in one’s memory, no heart, no challenge, no sense of itself, nothing. Panders shamelessly to contemporary culture and assumptions, whether they be facile or laudatory.”
Then there are the cringeworthy movies that left an unpleasant taste in the mouth. These films felt like nothing but wasted time and money. But what exactly makes a ‘bad’ movie?
Film directorPeter Markham, whose credits includeThe English PatientandGangs of New York,wrotean articlewhere he laid out some descriptions of what he thinks makes a film unpalatable.
“[It] proselytizes. Evades the moral questions it prompts. Has story problems. Shifts genres to fix its story problems. Uses transitions to avoid story issues. Churns out the same old tropes and clichés. Pulls its punches. Has no punches to pull.
“Leaves no traces in one’s memory, no heart, no challenge, no sense of itself, nothing. Panders shamelessly to contemporary culture and assumptions, whether they be facile or laudatory.”
Grave of the fireflies. I get weepy whenever I used to see the little tin cans of candy at the Asian super markets.
Starship troopers so I can get high and watch that s**t again. .
The Mist. The ending sticks with me until this very day….
Tastes in films vary from one person to another. Critics weren’t a fan ofScarfacewhen it first hit theaters in 1983. Simply put, they weren’t fans of the violence. Here’s what Newsweek’s David Ansenwrote about the filmat the time:“If Scarface makes you shudder, it’s from what you think you see and from the accumulated tension of this feral landscape. It’s grand, shallow, decadent entertainment, which like all great Hollywood gangster movies, delivers the punch and counterpunch of glamor and disgust.”Fight Clubis a similar case. With a budget of $63 million, it grossed a mere $37 million at the box office. Critics havedeemed it a flopbecause of these poor numbers at the onset.
Tastes in films vary from one person to another. Critics weren’t a fan ofScarfacewhen it first hit theaters in 1983. Simply put, they weren’t fans of the violence. Here’s what Newsweek’s David Ansenwrote about the filmat the time:
“If Scarface makes you shudder, it’s from what you think you see and from the accumulated tension of this feral landscape. It’s grand, shallow, decadent entertainment, which like all great Hollywood gangster movies, delivers the punch and counterpunch of glamor and disgust.”
Fight Clubis a similar case. With a budget of $63 million, it grossed a mere $37 million at the box office. Critics havedeemed it a flopbecause of these poor numbers at the onset.
The Rise of Skywalker. The entire thing is just bad fanfiction.
The Ring traumatized me as a child. Specifically the scene when they open up the closet to the girl being dead.
Requiem For A Dreamtbf, I was tripping pretty heavy when I saw it, and s**t went south quick.
Mad Max: Fury Road, so I could experience it for the first time all over again.
Despitefurther criticismsabout promoting stereotypes against Cubans,Scarfaceeventually became a cult classic that everyone began quoting. “Say hello to my little friend” became a notable catchphrase. A-list rappers like Jay-Z and Nas saw themselves in Manolo Ribera and Tony Montana, respectively, the film’s main protagonists.For the late renowned critic Roger Ebert, the film depicted realism that people could relate to. As he wrote inhis review, “[director] Brian DePalma and his writer, Oliver Stone, have created a gallery of specific individuals, and one of the fascinations of the movie is that we aren’t aren’t watching crime-movie clichés, we’re watching people who are criminals.”
Despitefurther criticismsabout promoting stereotypes against Cubans,Scarfaceeventually became a cult classic that everyone began quoting. “Say hello to my little friend” became a notable catchphrase. A-list rappers like Jay-Z and Nas saw themselves in Manolo Ribera and Tony Montana, respectively, the film’s main protagonists.
For the late renowned critic Roger Ebert, the film depicted realism that people could relate to. As he wrote inhis review, “[director] Brian DePalma and his writer, Oliver Stone, have created a gallery of specific individuals, and one of the fascinations of the movie is that we aren’t aren’t watching crime-movie clichés, we’re watching people who are criminals.”
I went to Battlefield Earth on opening weekend.
Crystal Skull. South Park was right….
Jaws. Changed the way we went swimming at the beach.
The hills have eyes , I watched it when I was about 7 and a certain scene won’t get out of my head.
The Final Destination.At least not when I was 8. Had nightmares for about week and was scared of escalators for years.
As forFight Club, critics credit its success to the affinity it developed with the younger market. Here’s an excerpt of Variety’sreview of the film in 1999:“Despite certain hostility from some sectors, especially in the U.S., this bold, inventive, sustained adrenaline rush of a movie about a guru who advocates brutality and mayhem should excite and exhilarate young audiences everywhere.”
As forFight Club, critics credit its success to the affinity it developed with the younger market. Here’s an excerpt of Variety’sreview of the film in 1999:
“Despite certain hostility from some sectors, especially in the U.S., this bold, inventive, sustained adrenaline rush of a movie about a guru who advocates brutality and mayhem should excite and exhilarate young audiences everywhere.”
Threads 1984Its a movie that makes you feel like grime or sludge on a ball of insane people. Unlike a lot of movies this is one where all of the worst s**t thrown at you in this depressing movie you know could happen, it might never happen but it’s reminding you there is a cloud of terrible death out there there could be unleashed and if you survive you’ll wish you was dead.
The emoji movie.
Shrek, but just so i could watch it for the first time again.
‘Many Saints’ served as a prequel to the series, as it centered around the race riots in the 1960s and ’70s. Dickie Moltisanti, who became an uncle to Tony Soprano, held the lead role, as the film showed snippets of the characters that comprised the show that fans grew to love.
Passion of the Christ.
Poor Things. What the f**k.
Saw.
The film featured actors like Screen Actors Guild award winner Alessandro Nivola, Jon Bernthal, andGoodfellasstar Ray Liotta, among many others. However, it garnered predominantly unsatisfactory reviews.
For critics, the film was ‘overplotted’ and ‘much less interesting’ than its television counterpart.AV Club’s reviewparticularly focused on the Dickie Moltisanti character arc.
Both Percy Jackson movies because you know something is messed up when even the authors ask them not to release the movie because that is no longer his story.
Mother! with jennifer lawrence. absolutely horrendous.
Tusk.
Cats!
Human Centipede 2. Seriously, as a fan of graphic horror, even I said WTF I’m turning this st off.But I’d rather be tied to a chair at gunpoint, max volume, throbbing headache, a shirtless & smiling Diddy holding a strap on, then EVER watch the Cuties. fuuuuuck that movie. I’m sorry but If you purposely turn that st on, I’m kicking you out ASAP because there’s no way you haven’t gotten the memo.
Dear Zachary .
The Day After, a movie about nuclear war.
Marley and me. The never ending story.
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Open water.
Hatchi I cried the entire movie.
Madame Webb. I ain’t getting that time or money back.
Hereditary. i don’t wish i never watched it, i just wished i hadve waited a few more years to watch it. 15 was too young.
Midsommar.
We need to talk about Kevin.
Martyrs [2008].
Springbreakers with Selena Gomez. Up until the day the most stupid, vapid wannabe movie that had no right being as bad as it is. If it was a parody and didnt take itself serious then maybe. But it wants to be a serious movie and it fails spectacularly at it. I still sometimes weep at the 1.5h which were lost and that i will never get back.
Maze runner…. 1st one decent, 2nd 3rd there are no maze even.
Old Boy.I wish I could forget that plot.
Caligula.
The Lobster.
The Fourth Kind.
The Many Saints of Newark. I don’t think I’ve ever been more disappointed with a film I was really excited about.
Antichrist.
Ultraviolet.I’ll never get that money back.
Suspiria - that was one f-up movie.
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Directors cut of The Professional. I watched it with my parents. 🤢.
Dancer in the Dark. Anyone who has seen it would understand why.
Vivarium.
The girl next door (horror movie not the other movie).
Event Horizon.
I didn’t see the whole thing but I heard about it and just watched the last 15 minutes because that’s what the commotion was about. I think it’s called Megan is Missing? Yeah, f**k that movie tbh.
People under the stairs.
When I was quite young boy (I guess 10-12 years old, 1985), I was flipping through the channels and there was this movie where I saw a flash of skin, maybe a breast on a French channel. I thought: “Hum, intriguing…I want more” and watched the movie. But 10 minutes into the movie, at some point two guys started kissing, drinking champagne and letting it spill into each others mouths, while moving and breathing heavily. My young mind was traumatized, it was not what I wanted….! Was I excited? Was that sex? Is this normal? And I remember feeling very perturbed and very sick to my 10-year old stomach, unable to fall asleep. Please Remember : I WAS 10 YEARS OLD, and that’s in the 80s. I am 50 now and all I am trying to say is that some of my “sexual teachings” were smooth and natural, but some were brutal, like this introduction to homosexuality way too graphic for my young self. I did not turn gay or homophobe or whatever. It is just an event in my life that was significant and I wish it had happened differently.Still remember vividly as I type this. I think the movie is called “My beautiful launderette” or something like that.EDIT: Holy s**t, this is a movie with Daniel Day-Lewis. The universe makes sense now.
The Thomas the Train movie. My kid wanted to go, but he was bored as s**t halfway through. I demanded we stay just to torture him for making us go.
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