Films you won't watch on principle?
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The Internship ticked every box I can imagine.
As if two actors I can't stand in the lead wasn't bad enough, there were the aggressive YouTube and poster campaigns (etc) headed by dual idiots and sell-outs Vaughan and Wilson, and that was before the subject matter.
As if two actors I can't stand in the lead wasn't bad enough, there were the aggressive YouTube and poster campaigns (etc) headed by dual idiots and sell-outs Vaughan and Wilson, and that was before the subject matter.
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Pretty much this, and despite me absolutely loathing both Wilson & Vaughn i am actually interested in seeing The Internship.
How are principles involved in these examples? They're just films you don't like the look of.
Also anything that is advertised over and over and over again on the telly or in the newspapers.
I was just about to post "Anything starring one of the Wayans brothers"
How about an American Rom-Com staring Steven Segal? You have to admit it would be interesting to see how it would turn out.
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I've gotten a few 'Omg how can you have never seen Titanic?!' moments, which somehow put me off it even more.
I also don't watch any Horror films.
Pretty much this. There are plenty of films I probably wouldn't watch because they look crap. That's not quite the same as avoiding a film on principle. If it showed real rape, torture, murder or something along those lines, then I'd only entertain it on the basis that I might get the seller arrested for their efforts. But I certainly wouldn't watch it.
Anything else, I don't really assign "principles," to fictional film.
Well, considering that not a single one has ever been found, I'd say you're on pretty safe ground.
Not out of principle but rather that they're desperately unfunny from the few I've seen, I don't watch Hollywood comedies. Also, largely because it's become such a lazy genre, I don't watch horror films.
A lot of people will disagree but 'American History X'.
The murder scene is just too much for me and spoils a film that I may have otherwise enjoyed.
Richard Curtis/Hugh Grant/Aniston etc - twee romcom pigswill.
Sub-Guy Ritchie/Winstone/Vinnie Jones/Dyer (inevitably) etc - subnormal, knuckle-dragging, mockney 'Hardman' crap.
The next Terminator film I will be giving a wide berth to considering how the franchise has deteriorated so far.
I agree with previous post on Richard Curtis films. Sloppy, puke-inducing, sentimental, posh, stereotyped and totally unbelievable bollocks.
Adaptations of Jane Austen novels - usually starring a posh girl like Kate Winslet or Keira Knightley - see Richard Curtis films for same reason.
Also will not watch any more of The Amazing Spidarman films, as I hated the first film so much. And that's quite unlike me!! As I watch anything and enjoy super hero movies. But that recent movie was just so boring and just don't like the characters created.
I get somewhat miffed when I hear some say they won't watch something because or arbotery rules.
You shouldn't not watch chick flicks just because your a fella. To everything an open mind........
Taken 2 at the cinema due to the child friendly 12A rating.
A Good Day to Die Hard (Die Hard 5) at the cinema due to the child friendly 12A rating.
The upcoming RoboCop remake at the cinema due to the child friendly PG-13/12A rating it's meant to be aiming for.
The later Terminator films.
I also try to avoid the J. J. Abrams Star Trek movies as the timeline reboot / destruction of Vulcan etc... wiped out everything that happen post that event in the original Kirk tv series, TNG, DS9, Voyager and the previous cinema movies with the exception of Enterprise.