What do You Hate about Movies?

My Warren | 01/01/2002 | Mad Bunny

[Amore]

Agreed. I wait until they come on tv, then watch them for free. The networks have to clean up the language and cut out the sex scenes to run them. I do know of a conservative film company here in Central Florida making decent movies. One they made is Hoover, starring Ernest Borgnine as J. Edgar. Excellent flick!

[cincinnati_Steve]

Apparently, y'all have never read any of Mr. Cranky's movie reviews! Full of insight, humor, and intelligence<!>. I have it bookmarked to keep up with the most recent...although I haven't been to a movie theatre in 20 years. Can't fathom why anybody would want to rent a seat in a dark room full of chatty bastiches they don't know so they can pay $3 for a 2 oz. box of Goobers. I've lived years without seeing whatever movie, I can sure wait another 3 months for it to come out on videotape or DVD.

[Joe Hadenuf]

We watch very few movies, due to the fact that most are unbelievable garbage.

Off topic slightly, I think its laughable how on television they portray male whites as bumbling, helpless, geeks that many times are given a feminine character. Its pathetic to the point were we watch very little TV.

[tubebender]

I have an answer waiting for this question for years. I hate it when those Sixshooters never run out of ammo!

I hate it even more when my wife won't let me buy the jumbo size popcorn with that yukkie yellow stuff on it.

The last movie I went to was Chicken Run with the Grandkids.

I too hate the disgusting profanity, especially Eddie Murphy.

[Doctor Stochastic]

The Movies

Actually it's the lack of plot. Plot has been replaced by speeches or car chases or explosions or gore.

[goodnesswins]

What do I hate about movies? That some STOOPID Americans BELIEVE them....

[LibertarianLiz]

Okay, there are actually quite a few things I hate about movies at this point in time. One is that I used to just love going to movies and now I simply cannot find one worth the money. It may be age; but, I was so excited about LOTRs and was not disappointed. So, they can make a good movie that I will go see, they just don't do it very often.

This brings me to one theory, which is actually another indication of the decay of our educational system. The writers just do not know how to write a compelling story. We have dumbed down the educational process so that children are not taught how to write well; and, we now suffer for this by having to watch crappy movies. Minimal plots, shallowly drawn characters are the result of not being able to write well.

Now, the trend in movies that I really, really, really hate is: Vomiting. Why, oh why, do I have to watch people vomit? Couldn't they just have the noise and let me imagine what is going on. Why do I have to actually watch vomit coming out of people's mouths. Stop with the vomit!

[kitkat]

Bratty kids who are rude to their mothers and a script that gives the impression that such behavior is acceptable. It is NOT acceptable in my home. Why do parents think they have to put up with this?

[Pablo64]

We don't go to the movies very often, in fact, we just went one time this year (went to see LOTR). Too much money to shell out when I can wait for them to come out on video or DVD. Watching them at home keeps me from having to deal with people talking, walking back and forth, and generally disrupting the movie (doesn't anyone control thier children anymore....rhetorical question only).

I don't go to movies that are supposed to "enlighten" me or "make a statement" or any other crap like that. I want a movie to suspend reality for me. I have to live in reality every day, so I prefer movies that provide pure escapeism (sp?). That being said, I probably put up with more cinematic "flaws" than more discriminating movie watchers, but that's fine.

What I absolutely detest, however, is going to a movie theater and having to sit through a bunch of STINKING TELEVISION COMMERCIALS!!! Not only are they TV commercial, but they are OLD ones, and they stink to high heaven!!

Someone, PLEASE, stop this! I wish everyone in the theaters would stand up and loudly boo those #%%$#*&!!! commercials all the way through them (and then sit down and sit quietly through the movie!). Maybe if enough people did this the theater owners would get the message and pass it along to the industry. (I know, I know....but I can dream, can't I??)

[LibertarianLiz]

plus, lets face it - any thing with Meg Ryan in it gets my complete attention

Even with her current hairstyle? Well, perhaps style is stretch. What is with that stringy hair and way too much eyeliner? She looks like a heroin addict. Oh, wait --- is she just behind the times and is doing "heroin chic" a bit later than everyone else?

[LadyDoc]

Nobody's gonna buy that some pinhead liberal, who's probably too stupid to coordinate a sock drawer, has hatched a plan which threatens to lead them into control of the earth.

Don't generalize too much. The baddie that lets all the ghosts lose in Ghostbusters is from the EPA.

Come to think of it, that's the last liberal baddie I've seen in films, so you might have a point...

[veronica]

I work in Hollywood - and YES - movies are annoying these days - MOSTLY because they are just BAD MOVIES.

It is very true that for the most part Liberals run Hollywood and the Liberal point of view is the agenda. And many the time a good movie has been runied for me when suddenly a character makes a 'Newt' or 'Nixon' joke - ha ha not. It's just the way it is.

Mostly the scripts are bad. But I will tell you I try not to let my Conservatism ruin movies for me.

I do not like the nicotine Nazis but The Insider was a superb movie. Movies do reflect the times - and we've had 30 years of Liberalism infecting the pop culture and of course that is reflected in movies. I am not against sex or violence in movies - they are both part of life and art should examine life. BUT when either is there for no reason, that is offensive. One great movie out there now - Ocean's 11. Really great.

Besides bad movies - people who talk drive me mad, and loud chewers. I glare at them until they stop.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

The price of a box of Non-Pareils. It really leaves me miffed.

[balrog666]

I have an answer waiting for this question for years. I hate it when those Sixshooters never run out of ammo!

Me too! I hate how the trained firearms users (police, soldiers, FBI, mafia hit-men, aliens) fire half a dozen shots and can't seem to hit the broad side of a barn at 10 yards range (parodied nicely by "Police Squad" many times). Look at Star Wars! Those highly trained Imperial Storm Troopers can't hit anything but each other and that armor seems completely useless in stopping the opponents from killing them - totally laughable.

[denydenydeny]

1) Universal acceptance of leftist values (capitalism is bad [Wall Street], the environment is in dire danger, tort lawyers are selfless altruists [Erin Brockovich, The Rainmaker,A Civil Action] , etc.)

2) Any religious character, except for black preachers and non-Christians, is invariably corrupt and/or a sexual predator. (The Shawshank Redemption)

3) The "Magic Negro" (e.g. Will Smith in The Legend of Bagger Vance, Cuba Gooding Jr. in What Dreams May Come, and Whoopi Goldberg in about half of the roles she ever played, especially Guinan in Star Trek.)

4) Anyone ever accused of being a Communist in the fifties is an innocent victim of evil witchunting right-wingers. (The Majestic, Guilty By Suspicion, The Front, etc.)

[altura]

I dreamed last night I was writing a script and making a movie. It was about a gorilla, a ghost and a baby.

The gorilla sometimes dressed up in fancy outfits, but usually he wore a jumpsuit. I think he was gay. At any rate, he was quite prissy.

I dreamed the whole movie; unfortunately I forgot it all after I woke up. I also dreamed the trailer, which I thought was pretty original.

It said, "if you have recently seen a movie about a gorilla, a ghost and a baby, you might want to skip this one."

Actually, I do write screenplays, but nothing that good.

[Billy_bob_bob]

Ok, so a gorilla, a ghost and a baby walk into a bar.
The bartender says, "Hey, kids aren't allowed here".

Anybody else want to take it from here?