Have You Ever Watched a Movie and Realized You Didn't Enjoy It? if So, What Movie?

SnowDragon on 08/09/2020 - 08:13
Last edited 09/09/2020 - 16:12

I watched I'm Thinking of Ending Things last night after seeing the trailer on YouTube. The trailer made me hopeful - it seemed somewhat like the movie Get Out where a man is meeting his girlfriends family and strange things begin to happen.

What I got was two hours of pretentious dialogue and not much else. A suspenseful thriller becomes a 10 minute long dance number (apparently from the musical "Oklahoma"). The whole time I was waiting for something interesting to happen. The movie has a rating of 7/10 on IMDB and I just don't understand why. It's not a drama nor a thriller. It's a surreal movie that achieves nothing and I wish I had seen something else. You could argue that the point of a movie is to make you feel something and it achieved that by making me feel angry. It reminds me of the time I slogged through an hour of The Lobster.

Maybe I just don't appreciate art. I've never been one to walk into an art gallery and marvel at someone who has thrown paint at a canvas.

Anyway, what films have you hated/walked out of the theater/returned to the DVD store in disgust?

Edit If you disagree with people's opinions, write a comment. Don't just neg vote them because they hate a movie you like.

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      • arislan on 29/09/2020 - 21:23

        Actually I didn't mid the new f4. Its not great for sure but wasn't half bad.. unlike X-Men Dark Phoenix. Spiderman far from home was a bit boring as well, no real super villain

  • Melb69 on 08/09/2020 - 08:58

    Beverly Hills Cop 2. Sat through it when released as paid for it, but wanted to leave. It was that bad.

    • BargainCowboy on 09/09/2020 - 15:14
      +6

      How dare you!

    • Yamai on 10/09/2020 - 21:13
      +1

      Do do doo do do doo do do doo doo do doo May have left out a doo or two but you get the point

    • blorx on 11/09/2020 - 08:38

      DDOJSIOC. the what, the DDOJSIOC. [BHC3 tho]

  • SnowDragon on 08/09/2020 - 09:04
    +12

    I'm a fan of Avatar: The Last Airbender TV series

    I was excited to see the live-action movie and hadn't read any reviews. I purchased a ticket an hour earlier and hung around with some friend and when I went to watch it I had somehow lost the ticket. I had to pay for a ticket again because I was seeing it with friends. That was a painful and expensive experience.

    • Lanushi on 09/09/2020 - 09:07

      I feel for you. I hear it was a dumpster fire of a film

    • blehgg on 09/09/2020 - 20:27
      +3

      ouch ~ paying double for last airbender live action…

      I thought watching it once for free was harsh enough

    • EnALup on 10/09/2020 - 09:32
      +1

      Avatar is one of the best TV series ever made. Luv it.

    • Munnie on 11/09/2020 - 00:38

      This and Mother! are the worst movies I've ever seen.

  • swimmingtoad on 08/09/2020 - 09:09

    Torque. The only movie I've walked out on in the cinemas.

  • ihbh on 08/09/2020 - 09:33

    Kong: Skull Island

    Trying to cater to a Western audience and a Chinese one (with Chinese financing) and dropping in a token actress with no relevant story line.

    Matt Damon in the Great Wall not too dissimilar but at least he's an actor.

    • Cave Fire on 09/09/2020 - 14:48
      +2

      Kong skull island is 8/10 for me. Cinematography is great plus a good story and graphics. Was one of the best movies I had seen in 2017 and I did see quite a few that year. That actresses role was reduced, not sure why.

  • [Deactivated] on 08/09/2020 - 09:43
    +10

    Chappie, what a terrible piece of crappie.

    • Speckled Jim on 09/09/2020 - 07:48

      Oooooh Cheppie, he's such a good egg.

    • StickMan on 09/09/2020 - 12:22

      If you just take it to be a movie-length music video for Die Antwoord it has merits. They are whacky band.

      • [Deactivated] on 09/09/2020 - 12:43

        luckily work had a "movie party" and i got 2 500ml ciders, a choctop, large sprite and large popcorn out of it.
        it was an early finish and i lived a 15min walk away from the cinema. I was home before the movie ended.

      • lddv04 on 09/09/2020 - 14:51

        Bit rich calling Die Antwoord a band…..

    • jacross on 09/09/2020 - 13:54
      +7

      I love love love Chappie but Im not going to knock anyone who didnt like it. Its quite niche.

      • solidussnake on 10/09/2020 - 12:46
        +3

        Chappie was great I like how it had that District 9 and Elysium feel to it

    • GordonR on 11/09/2020 - 20:08
      +1

      What I remember most about Chappie (which I liked ok) was finding out that the actors playing Ninja and Yolandi are actually Ninja and Yolandi basically playing themselves, and then subsequently learning about Zef culture….

  • hikaru78 on 08/09/2020 - 09:57
    +7

    street fighter the live action movie

    i left the cinema in tears… crying i paid for this .

    • jacross on 09/09/2020 - 13:55
      +5

      No way man. That movie is a classic…that Im going to put on right now!

      • Baghern on 11/09/2020 - 13:57

        rewatched it recently, they did a decent job

    • skittlebrau on 10/09/2020 - 20:59
      +1

      Street Fighter really falls into the 'so bad that it's good' category. Raul Julia (Bison) completely steals the show.

      • Ghost47 on 19/09/2020 - 20:33

        He was amazing. Really carried the movie, but I do agree that it's so bad it's good haha.

    • blorx on 11/09/2020 - 08:40

      young blorx, was a big fan of kylie minogue in that … hhnnnggg

    • AustriaBargain on 11/09/2020 - 20:01

      Were you a fan of or familiar with the games? Did you stick around for Kyle at least.

  • Nugs on 08/09/2020 - 10:05
    -4

    Forgetting Sarah Marshall
    .

  • huncho on 08/09/2020 - 10:16
    +4

    Bruno, Huge Sacha Baron Cohen fan loved borat but bruno was a big letdown

  • slknv on 08/09/2020 - 10:17
    +3

    Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. Such a painfully boring, unimaginative movie coming from Luc Besson, who's done some amazing work (Leon, Fifth Element)

    • Aureliia on 09/09/2020 - 09:15

      Totally agree. It was awful.

    • jacross on 09/09/2020 - 13:56
      +3

      I loved it I have to say. My best mate (hated it) and I argue about it at least once every six months. Neither of us have shifted the other in any sense.

    • ruddiger7 on 10/09/2020 - 11:34

      Most of Besson's work is crap though. Those films are more exceptions

  • justdigi on 08/09/2020 - 10:36
    +1

    The Number 23. Interesting premise that could have been good, but figured out the plot twist too early and it just became a slog to sit through.

    • mrdevil on 11/09/2020 - 00:23

      Agree! Had high hopes for that one as you're right - the premise could have been very interesting, but I lost interest towards the end as it was just too boring and predictable.

  • DashCam AKA Rolts on 08/09/2020 - 10:36
    +1

    The House of Mirth. Went with wife, as she was keen to see it. Spoiler alert, no mirth, none what so ever. Most depressing film ever….

  • Rockets84 on 08/09/2020 - 11:43
    +26

    The Last Jedi. A truly awful Star Wars movie that takes a massive dump on established lore and turns one of films most hopeful characters, Luke Skywalker, into a space cow milking grumpy pessimistic old bum. As a Star Wars fan for over 35 years I walked out of the theatre dumbfounded at how bad and preachy it was. I liked the prequels, I enjoyed The Force Awakens even though it was just a soft reboot of A New Hope. I skipped Solo, glad I did having seen it on Blu-ray and same for The Rise of Skywalker which was just plain dumb. Disney has taken a mighty franchise and run into the ground in just 8 years.

    • saltypete on 09/09/2020 - 09:24
      +4

      Yeah, I had given up on the films. I went to the latest one with my son and was irritated. It is basically the same plot etc as the first one except they changed the names. What is irritating to me is that there is so much talent out there and so many amazing ideas in sci fi, and all they wanted to do was remake and add better cgi.
      I’m sure it sells, I would rather watch haemorrhoids wax and wane….

    • Speckled Jim on 09/09/2020 - 10:01
      +14

      If Rogue One is the only bright spot in the Disneyfication of the franchise, worth it.
      We stop at Ep 6 because our imaginations are far better.

      • Rockets84 on 09/09/2020 - 10:07
        +4

        Yeah Rogue One was good. The first half was a bit of a slog but the battle of Scariff makes the movie worth while. Amazing considering the behind the scenes drama. CGI Tarkin and Leia a bit creepy though. The first season of The Mandalorian was good enough, lets hope they can keep it up with S2. I've gone back to reading EU "Legends" books because if you think the Disney era movies are bad, the books are far far worse.

        • Speckled Jim on 09/09/2020 - 10:51
          +1

          On books, I found an intriguing paperback in my school library in 1980, Splinter of the Mind's Eye. It had Darth Vader on the cover!
          That's the only SW book I've ever read.

          Oh, and with the Uncanny Valley of the CGI? Lower resolutions are your friend. Target were clearing the DVD for $2 and that's the one to watch IMO.

        • SydStrand on 09/09/2020 - 20:32
          +1

          Star Wars EU is bonkers and largely terrible. One galaxy-ending superweapon after another, terrible romance, and implausibly stupid lightsaber designs. Disney made the right call to scrap it.

          • Randolph Duke on 10/09/2020 - 08:20
            +1

            @SydStrand: X-Wing series was good

          • Rockets84 on 10/09/2020 - 11:00

            @SydStrand: I'm going to disagree on that about the EU. Yep there's some bad storylines but with over 150 books and more comics there's also some very good stories in it like the X-Wing series, the Thrawn Trilogy, the Old Republic and Legacy. Far more good than bad. I'm not a fan of the Dark Empire storyline which even EU fans would acknowledge it's not universally liked and then LucasFilm take that controversial storyline and use a lot of it for The Rise of Skywalker. So stupid.

        • ankor on 09/09/2020 - 20:47

          Apparently they don't focus on the Mandalorian halfway through season 2. There's rumours of a dispute of some sort.

    • whatgift on 09/09/2020 - 20:48
      -3

      I can see why people didn't like it, but I personally loved how it completely changed the generic nature of the Star Wars movies (especially after the prequels) and did something genuinely new and interesting.

      The problem with the trilogy is that it lacked any cohesion or consistency, making three very different movies which didn't fit together well.

    • macrocephalic on 09/09/2020 - 22:53

      I remember liking the original star wars when I was a kid in the 90s, but I find all of them pretty bad as an adult. The originals were breaking new ground in the 70s but they just feel like cheap sci-fi now. The new ones (of which I have only seen a couple) just feel like generic Disney movies now, I can't get invested in the characters at all.

    • FW190 on 10/09/2020 - 07:12
      +3

      +1

      30 mins into the movie and I was thinking "WTF is this sh!t?", but bad movie happens, and I was ready to move on.

      but the subsequent attack on fans has turned me off SW entirely, still haven't seen TROS, didn't pirate it, didn't bother to sign up for D+'s free trial just to see it, I used to call in sick just so I could go to the mid night screening of new SW movies, but this time, F them.

      • Rockets84 on 10/09/2020 - 10:55
        +3

        I was concerned after the first battle scene with those stupid bombers, there was a lot of things wrong there.But it was when Jake Skywalker appeared on screen that I was like this is just so wrong.

        The trolling of fans by LucasFilm employees like Pablo Hidalgo and Rian Johnson with their "Your Snoke theory sucks" post it notes or the lady with the fan boy tears mug has created a lot of hostility within the fandom. But Rian is master of trolling or gaslighting the fans with things like his "If the Empire Strikes Back was released today it would get roasted" comment.

        • FW190 on 10/09/2020 - 16:19
          +1

          no doubt the people at Lucasfilm thought they have managed to stick it to the "toxic misogynistic racist man babies", but when TROS didn't even had it's own dedicated toy line (anyone remember going to those mid night launch for the new toys?), and the movie barely made more money than Rogue One, we know who has "won" (in the meantime, Star Wars was the collateral damage).

    • sparkles on 10/09/2020 - 09:13
      +1

      Force Awakens was good. The Last Jedi was dumb. And Rise Of Skywalker just ruined everything. If I was a true Star Wars nut I'd be angry.

    • henrikoez on 10/09/2020 - 10:15

      At least The Last Jedi makes you feel something, anger and disappointment.
      The Rise of Skywalker is just plain flat and hollow.

      • Rockets84 on 10/09/2020 - 10:48

        The Rise of Skywalker was just flogging a dead horse at that point. I've seen it twice. It's so cringey and the story is awful but some how it was still just better than The Last Jedi. It's a common theme I've heard from people who saw it - "At least it was better than the last one".

    • ruddiger7 on 10/09/2020 - 11:35

      Rise of Skywalker was even worse than the last jedi imo.

    • jmi on 10/09/2020 - 15:57
      -2

      I had a real blast with the Rise of Skywalker movie. When they showed Rey levitating in the beginning of the movie, at every dumb plot contrivance, I constantly shouted,"Rey, you can levitate!"

      eg.
      Scene where they are pursued by stormtroopers. "Levitate some rocks and drop on them, Rey!"
      Scene where she and the crew stuck in quicksand. "Rey, you can levitate everyone!"
      Scene where she needed to steal the boat to go to the abandoned ship. "You can levitate across water, Rey!"
      Scene where she jumped from one pillar to another. "Don't jump. You can levitate, Rey!"
      Scene where she fights Emperor. "You can levitate the Emperor, Rey!"

      The whole audience just laughed everytime I shouted.

      • Baghern on 11/09/2020 - 14:03

        The whole audience just laughed everytime I shouted.

        Now this is what I call unbelievable…

      • SteveBuscemi on 11/09/2020 - 16:14
        +3

        And then the whole bus clapped

    • Pacify on 10/09/2020 - 22:28
      +1

      Add the Force Awakens and The Rise of Skywalker.

      All 3 of the recent trilogy were just terrible and didn't need to exist.

  • skid on 08/09/2020 - 11:47
    -2

    The Harry Potter movies. I don't see the appeal.

    Attack of the Clones. Didn't make it through the whole thing on my first two attempts. Scraped through on the third.

  • Jugganautx on 08/09/2020 - 13:48
    +4

    nah, i have never seen a bad movie
    …

  • Moneyinthebank on 08/09/2020 - 14:29
    +1

    The time travellers wife

    • ozbjunkie on 09/09/2020 - 07:21
      +6

      I see what you did there.

      Well played.

  • Tamtim on 08/09/2020 - 20:49

    Buried

  • miwahni on 08/09/2020 - 21:07
    +2

    I'm a fan of RDJ so I foolishly went to see Dr Doolittle and cringed all the way through.

    • monky on 10/09/2020 - 19:03

      With you on this one. Snooze-fest. Can barely hear him talking with that god-awful croak he's doing.

  • Mummy2 on 08/09/2020 - 21:11
    +3

    Holmes and Watson … I normally like Will Ferrell movies too.
    But having paid to see it at the cinema, I stayed until the end and just played games on my phone to keep myself entertained.

    • jacross on 09/09/2020 - 13:59

      I haven't seen it yet but I just cant accept a film with Ferrel and Reilly could be bad.

      Despite all reports to the contrary.

    • miwahni on 09/09/2020 - 20:23

      I bailed on that after ten minutes. I feel your pain.

  • papachris on 09/09/2020 - 00:59
    +2

    I remember going to see The Thin Red Line. A fan of WW2 movies, but that one had me looking at my watch after 20 minutes. It didn't help that Saving Private Ryan came out at a similar time - no clock-watching for the first 20 minutes of that one…

    • funeste on 11/09/2020 - 00:34

      I’m not a fan of war movies but I loved the Thin Red Line. Very anti-war. My favourite moments are the backstories of the soldiers, for example when the one soldier gets a letter from his wife (Miranda Otto if I recall) who tells him she’s so lovesick and lonely that she’s going to divorce him. Heartbreaking stuff.

  • ozbjunkie on 09/09/2020 - 07:24
    +3

    Signs (M Night shyamalan with Mel Gibson)

    Paid to see it at the movies as a teen.

    Asked for my money back at the end of the film feeling fairly confident that the film was so bad (preachy soft propaganda for religion) that my request would be considered. But God(s) were not with me in my mission.

  • Lanushi on 09/09/2020 - 09:17

    Get Him to the Greek. Saw it with my family cos dad thought it looked good. Cringed the whole way through. Even considered walking out, but I was still a kid and wouldn't know what to do.

    • Randolph Duke on 10/09/2020 - 08:21

      Should have had a Jeffrey before heading in to the cinema

      • Lanushi on 10/09/2020 - 19:17

        Probably should have hey

  • Talos2005 on 09/09/2020 - 09:18
    +4

    Can't believe no one said Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey.
    Man what a piece of total shite.

    • SnowDragon on 09/09/2020 - 09:20
      +4

      Was an upgrade from Suicide Squad though.

      The whole DCEU is a slog to get through.

      • henrikoez on 10/09/2020 - 10:17

        Wonder Woman was good on the first half but that's it.
        You should try to watch Harley Quinn the animated series one.

    • ozzguy on 09/09/2020 - 20:23

      Yeah I remember waiting for the final showdown at the end and it lasted all of 30 seconds and thinking "is that it?"

  • Aureliia on 09/09/2020 - 09:24

    We watched a movie last night recommended to us by my FIL. It was called The Crew and it was truly awful. I couldn't understand the strong Liverpool accents for what felt like a decent chunk of the movie and at half way through neither my husband or myself could quite gather what was happening.

  • Speckled Jim on 09/09/2020 - 09:49
    +1

    Michael Clayton: suffered the Boston Legal effect for us, as we were enjoying that at the time. This was dry, slow and boring. Stopped around 30 minutes in.

    A Mighty Wind: Grabbed this as it has Harry Shearer and a few other notables. Had to stop just over an hour in (folk music will do that).

    What Just Happened: Indeed. As the credits rolled, we inherited the paralysis of the characters. Even a great cast cannot overcome a lousy script.

    • SnowDragon on 09/09/2020 - 10:03
      +4

      What annoys me is that those first two have ratings of 7/10 or higher so you expect it to actually be good.
      I honestly don't care about great acting. I care about the plot and if it's interesting.
      If I reviewed movies I'd have a scale like this:

      1-4 avoid
      5-6 you may like it depending on genre preferences
      7-8 most people will enjoy it
      9-10 everybody will love it

      • Randolph Duke on 10/09/2020 - 08:24

        Thats’s pretty much how IMDB rankings line up in my experience

    • Speckled Jim on 10/09/2020 - 10:37
      +1

      Forgot to add Dark City.

      It's essentially an Aussie film with international talent and mostly local crew. It was shot at the Fox Sydney showground studio. In 1998, a buddy and I were loitering at the Sebel for the ARIA after-party.

      Richard O'Brien was there (Molly too) and it was a weird night. There were sing-alongs at the foyer piano with various…creative types present.

      Richard was upset at the prospect of the movie not hitting the mark. Rocky Horror was his peak, and he knew it. His anxiety was amplified as it used a combination of mattes and chromakey for the backdrops, so he didn't have a physical sense of the post-production visual aesthetic. He was also resentful that the pew-pew, action-heavy Sci-fi did all the big business, and theirs was a more cerebral affair that would fail to resonate.

      I first saw it two years later, and understood his reservations. It reminded me of contemporary third-person video games (including Res Evil). It seemed disjointed in flow, like a series of short TV ads strung together in an attempt to tell a story. I like the cast and underlying ideas, not the execution and editing.

      • funeste on 11/09/2020 - 00:39
        +1

        Nice memory. When I saw it on TV, 10-13 years ago, I couldn’t take my eyes off the screen. I think what you describe as “short tv ads strung together” was what did it, it was hypnotic and immersive for my eyes. These days everything is edited in that way but back then it wasn’t so common, especially for a far more dreamy, 40s-style sci fi. Not sure I’ll like it so much if I watched it today.

      • OzBarAnon on 11/09/2020 - 23:41
        +1

        I watched it recently and really enjoyed it, though with Proyas's other big work (The Crow), it really is carried by its visual style and atmosphere. Having watched it not long after I rewatched the Matrix, I found it hard to believe that the Wachowskis weren't at least influenced by it considering the strong similarities.

  • Lanceswift on 09/09/2020 - 10:11
    +4

    Highlander 2. A huge letdown from the original. Everything about it was bad…

    • conan2000 on 09/09/2020 - 10:30
      +2

      Highlander: Endgame I didn't mind too much. but 2, 3 and 5 are beyond awful (5 - The Source is possibly the worst movie I have watched in my life).

      Other than that, the most overrated movie I have seen is "Children of Men" was well reviewed and I and everyone I watched it with were bored out of our minds.

      • FW190 on 10/09/2020 - 07:31

        yeah, the original was all time classic for me, but the subsequent ones………..

        but yeah Endgame was bearable, probably because they have sprinkled a heavy dose of nostalgia on it.

        • conan2000 on 10/09/2020 - 10:08

          I was also quite a fan of the TV series, so it seemed to fit in fairly well with that, and ignored the nonsense of 2 and 3. I watched a bit of the TV series recently, it hasn't aged particularly well!

          • FW190 on 10/09/2020 - 15:06

            @conan2000: yeah I looked up the TV series after watching Endgame (Highlander had that name first! :), it was alright, but I have only managed to find the first 2 seasons I think.

            I think there was another movie starring Duncan after Endgame but I never got around to watching it.

            but still, the problem with all the Highlander sequels/spin-offs, so Connor won and claimed the prize, there can be only one! but wait, there is another, and another, and another……………..

            • conan2000 on 10/09/2020 - 17:36

              @FW190: Yeah. The other one was Highlander: The Source. It's the worst of all of them!

    • bardlee on 09/09/2020 - 14:14

      Big fan of the original. The sequel is unwatchable.

  • Boogerman on 09/09/2020 - 10:27

    Blade Runner
    2001 A Space Odyssey
    A Clockwork Orange
    The Shining

    • Speckled Jim on 09/09/2020 - 10:56
      +5

      You have listed four epoch-making films.
      Favourites or stinkers?

      • Boogerman on 09/09/2020 - 11:05

        Stanley Kubrick is the most overrated director in cinema history

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