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What are your least favourite films of all time

CliffH said:
'Grease' benefits from having yet another underrated actor in it. Once again, Tarantino used 'Pulp Fiction' to remind people of great actors/performances of the past.
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Travolta? He understand the irony of the business. Oddly. Ryan Reynolds recently may have revived careers of actors in the recent Deadpool over 1.3 billon making movie like Wesley Snipes? (Just as a cameo.)
 
CliffH said:
I have a similar reaction to the film 'Seven': there are lots of bits about it that I like but I'm too squeamish to cope with other bits of it :( .
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My wife’s friend misheard the line in that movie as, “he choked on his dong.” (“Tongue?”)
The movie also reminds me of the plot in “theatre of blood.” “Poodle pie..”
 
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Satan’s little helper said:
My wife’s friend misheard the line in that movie as, “he choked on his dong.” (“Tongue?”)
The movie also reminds me of the plot in “theatre of blood.” “Poodle pie..”
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Oh yes! I love that film: it's so OTT. The only time I've actually seen 'Titus Andronicus' I kept smiling, thinking of Robert Morley :rofl:
 
Any musical 😱

They just don't work for me. I'm there getting into the plot, the characters ... then everyone just starts singing and dancing .. NO .. just stop it and get back to the plot! It just feels like an interruption to the film to me.

The only exception for this was the Little Shop of Horrors, bringing little gems like 'son be a dentist', and the classic line 'I'm a big green mother from outer space, and some of you deserve to die'.
 
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Ham burger hill i saw the opening 5 mins and the last closing credits best sleep i ever had
 
I am very VERY forgiving with films, but I happened to watch "Kong, Skull Island" a week or two ago, and it was absolutely awful.
 
As an historian, there are some films I have refused to watch. I think this stems from an horrendous trip to the cinema to see Braveheart. My girlfriend at the time kept telling people afterwards that she was having to nudge and shush me when I was laughing out loud or when I muttered things like "They're wearing Tartan?", "He wasn't a poor farmer he was a Lord!" As one critic wrote "they should have stuck a plasticine dog next to him and called it William Wallace and Gromit"

Anything with the name Mel Gibson anywhere near it should at best be taken with a pinch of salt (Braveheart, We Were Soldiers) or is actually 'dangerous'/ pernicious in is intent (Patriot, Apocalypto, The Passion of the Christ).

A few other 'questionable' films for historians:
Pearl Harbour
JFK
Imitation Game
 
Ivostas66 said:
As an historian, there are some films I have refused to watch. I think this stems from an horrendous trip to the cinema to see Braveheart. My girlfriend at the time kept telling people afterwards that she was having to nudge and shush me when I was laughing out loud or when I muttered things like "They're wearing Tartan?", "He wasn't a poor farmer he was a Lord!" As one critic wrote "they should have stuck a plasticine dog next to him and called it William Wallace and Gromit"

Anything with the name Mel Gibson anywhere near it should at best be taken with a pinch of salt (Braveheart, We Were Soldiers) or is actually 'dangerous'/ pernicious in is intent (Patriot, Apocalypto, The Passion of the Christ).

A few other 'questionable' films for historians:
Pearl Harbour
JFK
Imitation Game
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I guess it depends whether or not the intention is to 'hoodwink' the audience. In terms of theatre/film being entertainment rather than documentary, Shakespeare drew attention to that difference with the use of the 'unreliable narrator' in Henry V.
 
gail2 said:
Ham burger hill i saw the opening 5 mins and the last closing credits best sleep i ever had
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I completely understand what you mean @gail2 .A good friend told me I should watch this film back in the day. I personally think it's one of the most boring and underwhelming war movies ever made...it was the movie that made me want to become a film critic in the first place.
 
Satan’s little helper said:
My wife’s friend misheard the line in that movie as, “he choked on his dong.” (“Tongue?”)
The movie also reminds me of the plot in “theatre of blood.” “Poodle pie.
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Ah..What a great film you mention in your post @Satan’s little helper ."Theatre of Blood" is one of all time favourite British horror films...and shows Vincent Price at his brilliantly evil best..and the supporting isn't bad either...Arthur Lowe,Robert Morley and Diana Rigg(as Vincent Prices daughter)amongst them.But yes the Poodle Pie scene with Robert Morley choking to death on the Poodle Pie filling when Price force feeds him the rest of it is funny and wickedly macabre.
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Robin Hood Prince of Thieves at the time it came out I had a thing about shaun connery I was told he was in it I sat watching all of it and was gutted when he was only in it for the couple of mins yours gutted of Watton
 
gail2 said:
Robin Hood Prince of Thieves at the time it came out I had a thing about shaun connery I was told he was in it I sat watching all of it and was gutted when he was only in it for the couple of mins yours gutted of Watton
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My partner at the time fancied both Kevin Costner and Alan Rickman - and so loved that film :rofl:
 
CliffH said:
I guess it depends whether or not the intention is to 'hoodwink' the audience. In terms of theatre/film being entertainment rather than documentary, Shakespeare drew attention to that difference with the use of the 'unreliable narrator' in Henry V.
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I understand the likes of Hamilton and Gladiator - both produced for maximum entertainment, and they are excellent. They are historically authentic, but inaccurate.

Mayan civilisation was very sophisticated, yet in Apocalypto, Gibson portrays them as barbaric savages. Much of the Mayan culture included is completely out of place - architecture, dance, rituals etc. The Spanish then ruck up for good measure, hundreds of years early. Lazy or deliberately trying to push a narrative of uneducated savages?

The America Revolution is complex. In the Patriot, Gibson gives an over simplified version of events. The British are Nazis/ Vadar's Empire/ stormtroopers - all are evil. The revolutionaries are as pure as the driven snow/ Luke Skywalker. Sadly, history s not black and white - for example the main character (supposed to be Francis Merion) was extremely cruel, committing many atrocities during his life and treating indigenous people appallingly.

@HistoryBuffs on Youtube is worth a watch. He has covered many films and TV series for accuracy and authenticity.
 
My sister is a huge Kevin Costner fan and went to see it...she thought I was nuts when I gave it a two out of five in a film review newsletter I used to work on...I stick to what I said all those years ago..
this films only saving grace is the late Alan Rickman as The Sheriff of Nottingham.

"And call off Christmas"
 
I dislike
Westerns
Science fiction
Dystopian films/programmes
Fantasy
Horror (though i don't mind psychological horror, its the slasher/gory films i don't like)
 
Far too many to list but i think no 1 would be Dirty Dancing.....dont know why but i just cant stand that movie
 
Oh and anything with either adam sandler or sascha baron cohen in it......least funniest people on the planet imho
 
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