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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.
I saw Santa Sangre on what might have started out as a date, but the movie addled my brain so much I couldn't bear the thought of physical contact. Dreamy guy, too. But he was always the Santa Sangre boy.
I'd totally see a comic movie on a first date, if I dated. I can talk about those forever even if they suck.
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.
If I'm thinking of the right movie, I did turn this one off at the halfway mark.
Last night's post-dinner DVD was Capitalism: A Love Story, which was about what I expected. I have decided that Michael Moore is the left-wing equivalent of Glen Beck. He finds these little snippets of footage, goes "OOH!" and then jams them into his preconstructed narrative whether or not they actually support his point. (Unfortunately, working in broadcast footage sales means I know exactly where most of his clips come from, and I know what the original context was. I also know how much of a cheapskate he is both in terms of footage and labor, so for him to claim capitalism is the root of all evils and we should all work for socialist coops is pretty fucking hilarious.)
Michael Moore is the left-wing equivalent of Glen Beck
Oh my, yes.
I think it started out differently, but maybe Glenn did too?
erika, Beck was on Y95, of all things. [link]
I almost never hate a movie when I see it in a theater, though sometimes the hatred seeps in later. (See both The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones which I felt pretty okay about immediately after watching, but upon rethinking realized were, well, shitty.)
The second Matrix sequel was bad, because I went in with no hopes after the first Matrix sequel sucked so it just continued my hatred.
But my worst movie-going experience was probably Superman Returns. I hated it so much. And every second of it I was thinking "THIS is why we're not getting the third X-Men movie I really want? Really?"