'Potential'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
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.
I think that list left out some obvious flops, like Glitter. And Basic Instinct 2. And this is an... odd interpretation:
[The Spirit] was killed by comic fans, who wanted Miller to go back to comics
I've seen Grindhouse (several times), but didn't catch it when it was in theaters.
Worst movie experience would probably be Jurassic Park, because I was ill and had to go curl up on a sofa in the bathroom/lounge for large portion of it. I saw it later and it was kind of interesting to go "Ah, that must have been what happened when I heard the whole theater gasp. Okay." But it worked out, since now I can say that the last Spielberg movie I saw made me sick.
Do comic fans have enough power to kill a movie?
Did Glitter come out in the right time period?
It seems like there has always been Glitter to make fun of, but IMDB says it came out in 2001.
Worst movie-going experience was seeing The Rainmaker while sitting in the movie with both little kids up too late AND Snoring Drunk Guy. But I did actually like the movie.
how many of those top 10 movies have y'all seen?
I've seen the Death Proof part of Grindhouse. I liked it okay.
So what are your least favorite movie viewing experience ever?
Dune
Last Action Hero
The second
Star Wars
sequel/prequel/whatever
and also
Last Tango in Paris
Comic book fans don't even have the power to get Spider-Man's web shooters done correctly.
We're a weak lot.
Wow. I really thought Glitter was mid-nineties.
So, I read reviews ahead of time because I don't like seeing bad movies in the theater. So I don't really have a "bad movie experience" tale. However, there are two negative viewing experiences that come to mind:
a) The Pillow Book which is a movie I absolutely HATED. OMG. That is one movie I wish I could unwatch. A couple of professional colleagues asked me to see the movie, so I couldn't leave at the halfway mark.
b) in 1987, I went on a first date to a double feature of Near Dark and The Living Daylights and I learned through conversation before the movie that I did not like the man I was on a date with (at all, he was a pig) and would have preferred never to speak to him again, but I had to sit through 2 movies and find a way for him not to touch me the whole evening.
I never ever went on a movie on a first date again because of this. Come to think of it, I don't think I've seen a double feature since.