Avoiding Movies

.. or, ignorance is bliss.


Every once in a while, a movie comes out and I think "wow, I have no desire to see that whatsoever" and I make it a point to avoid watching said movie. Anything of the Vampires in Latex Kung Fuing Eachother comes to mind. Sometimes I'm succesful, sometimes I end up getting suckered into watching at least a couple minutes of it. Not counted on this list are really crappy movies that I went to see on purpose, either because they looked not crappy, or because I'm stupid. (See Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Super Troopers, The 2nd and 3rd Crow movies, Daredevil or Scream 3.)

Movies I've succesfully avoided seeing:
Armageddon
Underworld
Blade II and Blade Trinity
House of the Dead
The Fast and the Furious and The Faster and The Furiouser
Alexander
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
Legally Blonde
Forrest Gump
Damn near every movie starring Merryl Streep and/or Glen Close.
Chicago
Cold Mountain

Movies I've failed to avoid seeing, at least in some small bit:
Titanic (About 20 minutes, which seemed to last days. Damn you ex girlfriend!)
Queen of the Damned (About 5 minutes. Damn you Joe!)
Batman & Robin (About 10 minutes. Damn you old roommate!)
Manos the Hands of Fate (The whole damned thing, TWICE! Damn you MST3K!)
Bridget Jones' Diary (The whole damned thing. Damn you mom!)
Austin Powers (I've managed to avoid the sequels though.)
Dude, Where's My Car? (Damn you my little cousins!)



[Edited on Jan 13, 2005 by inscrutable]

[Edited on Jan 13, 2005 by inscrutable]

i banned the shit out of The Usual Suspects when it first came. i came as close as the parking lot to the movie theatre. i saw it a couple of years later and i was glad i banned. so predictable it was boring

Really? I loved that movie.

Me too.

nobody's going to believe you predicted he was making up the entire story on the spot.

subtitle for this thread:

ignorance is bliss

Done.

You're right about most of your movies, inscrutable. But I liked Forrest Gump. And its message. However corny and hamfisted.

I can't tell you how many times people say to me, oh you didn't see chicago whats wrong with you/ Gimme a break, its a freaking musical.

Anything made by a Wayans not named Keenen Ivory.

Anything with Jennifer Garner, Jessica Biel, Hillary Duff, Julia Styles, Reese Witherspoon, Lindsay Lohan, Kirsten Dunst (cat's meow being the exception), um i think you're getting the picture here... bad actresses ruin movies.

Passion of the Christ, Rush Hour, Rush Hour 2, more Julia Roberts movies than i can list. eh, that's all i can list right now but there are plenty more.

[Edited on Jan 13, 2005 by randomcharacters]

I fucking hate Armageddon

But I have to disagree on Super Troopers. That movie is great! I laugh my ass off everytime I see it. But I'm a Broken Lizard fan. I bought Club Dread as soon as it came out on DVD and saw it in the movies.

[Edited on Jan 13, 2005 by crazypills]

ohhhhh, I do this SO MUCH
my reasons for it have gotten so simple and outrageous too

I've blown off movies because I hate the song in the trailer
(read: ooh, a horror fli-EWW DMX!!)

I refuse to see anything with a post 1996 rapper starring in it
(read: IF JA RULE IS IN IT, IT SUCKS)

I avoid romantic comedies

anything with Meg Ryan in it

anything with Vin Diesel in it

aything featuring "bullet time" and people running around in trenchcoats and sunglasses

anything based on a comic I was reading when I was 12

anything based on a first person shooter

the "Will Smith Summer Blockbuster" (if it doesn't have martin lawrence)

and anything with WB kids in it



[Edited on Jan 13, 2005 by KMFCM]

I love cheese movies. "Hey look at me...love them."

Ready to Rumble was sweet, and most named hold a special place in my heart.

Meh...The only bashing I can do is Ben Stiller in Dodgeball. Ya, I love the hell out of him, but dodgeball was only so-so. Vince made the movie.

I agree with stockula (just this one time). Gump was a good movie. Sure it was full of cliches. But it really was entertaining.

Edited to say that the rest of the movies on your list are either the shittiest movies ever, or movies that I, too have avoided.

[Edited on Jan 13, 2005 by gutterman]

I avoided I Robot. That shit looked lame. Unfortunately, I went to see Underworld. I felt like Alex in "A Clockwork Orange" when he was forced to viddy war films.

I liked that movie because Rose mcGowan got hit in the face with. . . . . . .something. . .I don't remember now. . . .


I tend to like cheese movies too . . .if they make no sense.
I'm probably the only person here that appreciates Freddy Got Fingered and Dude Where's my Car

[Edited on Jan 13, 2005 by KMFCM]

Casablanca and Gone With The Wind for some unknown reason.

Finally got around to watching Citizen Kane on a flight recently and loved it.

I know Fatal Attraction was bad and creepy, but you really should see something by both of these actresses. They're two of the best in Hollywood and have been for years. It's like avoiding a Dustin Hoffman or Warren Beatty film- why would you do that?

I tend to avoid the cinema. Too much hype and formula

I've managed to avoid every movie starring someone who was a cast member on Saturday Night Live between 1990 and Present who wasn't named Mike Myers. I liked Wayne's World. Couldn't help it.

I avoid every movie that looks like it was made for "punks" or "goths" by someone with absolutely no understanding of either beyond a marketing concept [Underworld, Pieces of April, etc]

I avoid all movies where the entire plot is that a nerdy girl gets turned into a preppy or a princess -- and [according to the movie] that's a GOOD thing.

I avoid comedies where the "humor" revolves around someone screwing their face up and talking in a "funny" voice, bodily functions, and parodies of other bad movies. Any movie that I would feel like a dumbass for laughing at -- Adam Sandler flicks, for example. Any comedy that can't even make a 30 second commercial for itself without someone falling down or a bodily function. Obviously, I don't get to see many new comedies.

[Edited on Jan 13, 2005 by Keith]

super troopers is pure comedy gold.

I avoided seeing Rules of Attraction until I saw something about it on the Independent Film Channel that made it look like a completely different movie than it was being advertised as on MTV.

I saw it and liked it. Anyone who thought it was going to be a silly teenage sex movie like it was depicted on MTV would have been terribly disappointed.

I'll watch pretty much anything. I've seen all these shitty movies and many, many more.

[Edited on Jan 13, 2005 by DiamondGeezer]

I did the same thing. I was like... it's got a kid from Dawson's Creek in it, teenagers, sex, and college. NEXT! But then I heard so many good reviews that I had to check it out..

white chicks
I Robot
Dude, Where's my car