Xander ,'End of Days'
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Seeing both an Ideal Husband and Whale Rider were both tainted by talky people who talked. Seeing Titanic was pretty grim.
I probably ruined a few movies myself going with my friend, the Loud Inappropriate Laugher. There were times when I laughed with her, but there were times when she was too much, even for me.
Oh I forgot Crash (the Cronenberg one). I went with a friend who I was going through a bit of a rough patch with. I could feel both our moods sinking lower and lower as the movie got worse.
I've seen Grindhouse, Battlefield Earth, and Catwoman. I wish I could unsee all of them.
So what are your least favorite movie viewing experience ever?
The only time I ever walked out on a movie was a college midnight showing of Sid and Nancy, which I was talked into seeing with my friend and her boyfriend. I was already tired, there were obnoxious drunk party boys in the audience whooping it up, the print was lit really dimly, and I hated everyone I saw on the screen. Finally, after about 20-30 minutes of sheer detestation for the film and everyone in the theatre other than me and my friend, I leaned over to her and told her I had to leave. It was one of her favorite movies, so she didn't get my loathing of the film.
The only other time I ever wanted to walk out of a film was the really bad film about Kellog and the Battle Creek sanitarium whose title escapes me at the moment. I apologized to my mom for taking her.
was the really bad film about Kellog and the Battle Creek sanitarium whose title escapes me at the moment.
The Road to Wellville? Matthew Broderick plus the hilarity of enemas?
The Road to Wellness? x-post with misremembered title, woo!
Yes! The Road to Wellville. The only character that I really liked in that film was Camryn Mannheim, playing the woman who really loves to ride her bicycle.
The book is really, well, clever-funny. They played the movie too broadly.
Last Tango in ParisI don't regret much in this life, but wasting time on that steaming pile of inexcusably overhyped rubbish? Yeah. That's a regret.
I have seen all the flops except for Land of the Lost. Not sure what that says about me.
I've had many bad movie viewing experiences but the very worst was at Union Station when the ex-friend I was with screamed at, and then actually stood up and struck a mother struggling down the aisle with a baby carriage. Yes, I said 'struck' and 'ex'.
My least favorite moviegoing experience was probably The Blair Witch Project. I've certainly seen worse movies (see above, re: Battlefield Earth), but Blair Witch was the only one that made me literally sick to my stomach. I didn't walk out, but I had to take more than a few bathroom breaks.