Films you won't watch on principle?

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  • JusticarJusticar Posts: 1,620
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    I can't think of anything I wouldn't watch on principle. You're likely to miss some good films doing that.
  • CBFreakCBFreak Posts: 28,602
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    Probably any movie with Kristen Stewart in it. I've seen Snow White and saw part of Twilight and frankly she is very off putting as an actress.
  • jeff_vaderjeff_vader Posts: 938
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    She's actually not bad as Joan Jett in that Runaways movie. And the one with she did with the late Gandolfini. But yes, Snow White was awful and the Twilight flicks are crap (though a bit of a guilty pleasure :))
  • jabegyjabegy Posts: 6,201
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    I personally won't watch slasher movies.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 1,429
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    Justicar wrote: »
    I can't think of anything I wouldn't watch on principle. You're likely to miss some good films doing that.

    Not if you went by my original criteria for the thread. I was citing a film for being an unsubtle advertisement for Google. From the trailers and the people starring in it I know I've done myself a favour by avoiding it. :)
  • JusticarJusticar Posts: 1,620
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    Not if you went by my original criteria for the thread. I was citing a film for being an unsubtle advertisement for Google. From the trailers and the people starring in it I know I've done myself a favour by avoiding it. :)

    My post still stands. I'll decide which films I want to watch based on various factors, but I can't think of any overriding principle that would dissuade me from watching something.
  • RorschachRorschach Posts: 10,818
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    U-571 for completely rewriting history.

    I know most US films do this, in fact several UK ones probably do too, but for some reason the complete lies told by this particular film infuriated me so much I decided never to watch it.

    Titannic almost qualified because it turned the Scottish First Mate into a gun wielding coward instead of a brave man who is recorded as having saved many people on the night. In the end however the reason I haven't watched it is because it didn't interest me anyway.

    There are many other films I wouldn't watch because they are rubbish, or because they don't interest me at all, but that's the only one boycotted because of a principle.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 1,429
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    Justicar wrote: »
    My post still stands. I'll decide which films I want to watch based on various factors, but I can't think of any overriding principle that would dissuade me from watching something.

    Bully for you.
  • JusticarJusticar Posts: 1,620
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    Bully for you.

    Why be like that? I was just answering your question, no need to get in a huff about it.
  • Residents FanResidents Fan Posts: 9,204
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    Rorschach wrote: »
    U-571 for completely rewriting history.

    I know most US films do this, in fact several UK ones probably do too, but for some reason the complete lies told by this particular film infuriated me so much I decided never to watch it.

    Titannic almost qualified because it turned the Scottish First Mate into a gun wielding coward instead of a brave man who is recorded as having saved many people on the night. In the end however the reason I haven't watched it is because it didn't interest me anyway.

    I have a friend who works for Amnesty International, and
    she told me not to see "Zero Dark Thirty" because she
    claimed the film falsely depicted torture was necessary to
    defeat Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda.

    The whole furore over the film made me decide I'd wait for ZDT to come out on DVD before watching it.
  • TakaeTakae Posts: 13,555
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    Note: I usually make my choices on consistency. If a problematic issue appears in almost all of a filmmaker's films or method, then he's removed from my to-watch list. If it crops up once in a while, then I don't mind.

    Sergio Leone - I have seen most of his films, but I never felt comfortable with the misogynistic streak in those. Once Upon a Time in America became the last straw, so I decided not to watch the rest and re-watch the ones I saw.

    Quentin Tarantino - all style and no substance, and I'm tired of him fetishising anything 'exotic'. And of course, there is his army of fanboys, who rabidly attack anyone who dares to criticise their precious darling, which deepens my indifference towards him and his films.

    George Lucas (Star Wars only) - do I even need to explain? Some say he's a perfectionist, but I say he's a coward. Unless there was studio inference, a film should be left alone after its release. Own it and move on.

    M. Night Shyamalan - lost his mojo after Unbreakable. Every film since then didn't work. The last NMS film I saw is The Happening. I was planning to see The Last Airbender, until the casting disaster happened. I refuse to see his films since then.

    Michael Bay - this is just my personal taste in films: I refuse to see any more Bay film after Pearl Harbor and Armageddon (a.k.a. a long coffee TV advert). I tend to avoid seeing jingoistic and nationalistic action films, regardless of each film's nationality, and Bay's films are this type.

    Zack Snyder - his films are usually rampantly sexist, racist, homophobic and plot-wise, a mess. Sucker Punch was pretty much the final straw. Haven't seen any of his films since. He's the only director I nurse a personal dislike towards.

    Lastly, I tend to avoid films that glorifies violence against women and teenagers (male and female). That includes torture/slasher films. For me, there's nothing fun about seeing half-naked, crying women or teen being terrorised, tortured and/or killed. I don't get it. What's the purpose? It's similar to watching someone torturing a kitten that can't defend itself.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 10,561
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    Hollywood comedies are always the exact same. They just rely on the old cliches such as emphasising how AWFUL it'd be if something had to happen, someone replies saying "what are the chances of that?" and then of course, it happening. I've never laughed at that cliche as it's used all the time (especially in Friends). Throw in some toilet humour, being caught having sex, jokes about mothers and guys tripping over things in front of their crushes (usually in slow motion) and you pretty much have any Adam Sandler film.

    Other cliches such as characters saying "yeah I heard John has gotten really rich since high school we should go check his place out. It'll be awesome! Just us four guys, chilling in the yard, sun shining..." then the scene instantly cuts to the characters sitting in the rain outside a run down old barn or something. :rolleyes:
  • Grabid RanniesGrabid Rannies Posts: 4,588
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    Ken Champagne Socialist Loach's films 80s onwards.

    Lars Von Trier and his set's self-important 'dogme' nonsense. Whatever happened to the guy who used to make films The Element Of Crime?
  • zwixxxzwixxx Posts: 10,295
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    Attack the Block - plenty of people i've spoken to who have seen this have all said how funny it is but I will never watch a film with chavs as 'heroes'.
    even if they redeem themselves by the end of the movie ? :confused:
    cos they don't :mad:
    Technically you could say they did save the woman from the aliens, but (and imho this is a very big but) they never apologize for mugging her at the start of the movie, never showed even an inkling of remorse. They even go so far as (1) blame her for their actions and (2) dismiss her "being all terrified cos he was brandishing a knife" with a "but it was obvious I wasn't gonna cut ya" - I have no doubt that had she struggled, had she pushed him and tried to get away, that he would have gutted her.:mad:
    You've made a good choice. :cool:
    Powder, Clownhouse, Jeepers Creepers 1&2 - basically anything directed by Victor Salva.
    It puzzles me greatly why anyone would choose to work with him. :eek:
  • AbominationAbomination Posts: 6,483
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    I will never watch the Twilight films. I read about twenty to thirty pages of the first book, and it was utterly awful - the fastest I've ever felt able to judge a book, and the fastest I've ever put one down that never got finished. I won't ever watch an adaptation of something so poorly written and simple.

    As a minor aside, from what I've seen when my sister's have it on... there's just a constant excuse to have loads of guys going around with their top's off. People have been working so hard to make sure women are rightfully worth more than that in films that they forgot to defend guys in the process - it's not as if Taylor Lautner is remembered for his Oscar-level acting skills :rolleyes:
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