What movie is most likely to get caught in your challopian tube?

juno was totally inoffensive for the most part and reasonably watchable

Star Wars, for its influence on American film. On its own terms, I like it. But I think it was the turning point when studios discovered that they could make huge returns by marketing films directed solely towards pre-teens and teenagers.

The second half of Juno was pretty solid, I thought. I can see how it would make a bad first impression.

(Don't) try sitting through this sometime:

http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/film_review.asp?ID=3341

A Perfect Storm and Apollo 13? Those are as inoffensive and mainstream as modern films get. I can understand maybe seeing through their more emotionally manipulative aspects, but hating them? That just means you have too much animosity towards the world in the first place.

your second sentence is onto something!

That Tony & Tina thing was playing below the Second City Training Center for the better part of a year, and it always looked and sounded suuuuuuuper obnoxious.

but the "play" was AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION! what a property to make into a film!

Hey, they're making films of a wide array of Milton Bradley board games. Seems like anything's fair game at this point, however little sense it makes.

you know what, I think I hated forrest gump even more than forest gump

Well, let me tell you: don't even bother with Forrrest Gump. Although Forrrrest Gump was actually pretty good.

Fight Club. Hate it so damn much.

Nothing brings me closer to ILX than it's blanket condemnation (or thereabouts) of Crash.

Requiem for a Dream

not quite blanket condemnation (where's Dan...)

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In terms of wishing the characters were killed in the first fifteen minutes thus ending the movie: "The Strangers," "Saving Private Ryan," "Boogie Nights," "Apollo 13," "Forrest Gump," "American Pie 2," "Spice World," and "It's a Wonderful Life."

A special kind of loathing is reserved for "Southland Tales."

Watchmen. Ergh, 3 hours of bad speeches, absolutely no fun, 4 penii, just everything wrong wrong wrong. Have to hate movies that could be potentially great and fuck up in every single way more than movies that were always going to be crappy.

If The Fountain didn't have Hugh Jackman literally turn into a tree, I think I would hate it more than Watchmen.

Signs

jesus h christ people apollo 13 is not a good answer

well why don't you tell us what movies we should hate then?

peter jackson's King Kong! fucking horrible

Serendipity.

xxp i just don't see how one can find it contemptible unless it's very MOR-ness is what makes it contemptible for you in which case whatever

Love Potion No. 9 with Sandra Bullock is some shit

I forgot - the one with the pianist, drillbit taylor, and that smarmy guy with bad facial hair on a train in India.

have any of you successfully gotten your money back for hating a movie? this seems like a fun thing to do and would almost be worth hating a movie for.

i just don't see how one can find it contemptible unless it's very MOR-ness is what makes it contemptible for you in which case whatever

That's a large part of why I dislike it (and It's a Wonderful Life).

Conspiracy Theory but I'd have a hard time explaining why exactly

Saw Watchmen for free. Asked my friend who works at the odeon if I could get those 3 hours of my life back, she called me an ungrateful cunt.

Paid for The Golden Compass though ;_;

it smells like challops in here.

I can't really work up much vitriol for boring mainstream movies that are boringly mainstream.

I can if I've wasted hours of my life watching them.

I'm generally too forgiving of boring mainstream movies, because I like almost all the ones sarahel listed above (especially Spice World which is delightfully campy, actually). I agree on the It's a Wonderful Life hate, though.

"i love everything"

I hated the concept of It's a Wonderful Life for a long time, and then I actually watched it and thought it was great.

I love It's a Wonderful Life--it's a wonderful movie!!!!

yeah this is me not touching this thread with a ten-foot pole

awwwwwww c'mon

also it's hard for me to hate a movie because i like movies and i love bad movies

The Dark Knight.

it smells like challops in here.

with the title of this thread, what did you expect? It's like being shocked to find challops in a thread with "Pitchfork" in the title.

with the title of this thread, what did you expect?

challops with less of a fishy smell, I guess.

so I shouldn't suggest scallops as a viable pizza topping then?

Self-importance is the only quality in a movie that brings out hatred imo. Things that are just dull or poorly made I just don't care for (or I love, like Tiptoes.)

Ferris Bueller. or maybe Kids.

it smells like challops in here.

with the title of this thread, what did you expect?

Mods, change thread title, plz

I hated Knowing because Nic Cage yelling his way through a movie is a quality in a movie that brings out my hatred.

how's that for a title

And to balance the universe I will see them in your stead. Ah. harmony!

I don't know if everyone a) saw this or b) raved about it but I didn't like 'Tell No One'. And I kind of liked it even less for having had it RAVED to me that it was omg awesome. Really not. You don't get a pass just for having subtitles.

Lost in Translation. I really hate this style of under-scripted movie which then gets praised for being subtle and meaningful cos it's so lacking in substance that people just project whatever they want on to it.

i dunno, i liked it in a 'don't mind spending time with these characters + listening to this music + watching the pretty lights' sort of way but 'under-scripted' still doesn't seem fair. (or at least changes in your direction would prob have doomed what *I* like about it). its charms are fragile but not slight if that makes any sense.

I just didn't think there was anything there beyond "It can be a bit lonely being in a foreign country on your own and incidentally aren't those Japanese crazy?" You could take a walk round any big city at night with some My Bloody Valentine on your iPod and get the same experience.

number none, there is a thread for that POS film where I blather on endlessly but echoing your sentiments in poorer fashion.

Yeah i'll shut up about it now. It just bothers me when something so half-arsed gets feted to such a degree.

I really liked Lost In Translation the first time I saw it, then a negative review by Momus made me change my mind. His most OTM point IMO is his objection to the film's portrayal of Bill Murray's character as someone likeable, while he's really just a smug, racist prick. And so is Scarlett Johansson. Yet, it's still a beautiful film with an amazing soundtrack, so it's hard to completely hate it.

surprised that fucking huckabees movie has not been mentioned yet

Has anyone mentioned "The Squid and The Whale" yet?

No, but thanks for mentioning it. HORRIBLE!

Huckabees was a big bag of WTF.

human traffic, requiem for a dream

i think i just hate all 'young people take drugs' films

I started off taking Huckabees seriously and hated it, then I slowly realised it was completely taking the piss, and decided it was grebt.

"about schmidt"