What do You Hate about Movies?

My Warren | 01/01/2002 | Mad Bunny

[Psycho_Bunny]

Additions?

[exmoor]

What do You Hate about Movies? auh...I'm not in them.

[mombonn]

What do I hate about movies?

The actors, the producers, the directors, the studios, the sponsors, the viewers willing to spend money on all of the above.

Did I miss anything?

[Pharmboy]

Well (since you asked) for me it is the inevitable cop who is ALWAYS at odds with his immediate superior. This is so old that it is laughable at this point. Hasn't ANY detective in the movies EVER had a boss he liked??

Memo to Hollyweird: let this cliche go. It's awful and BOR-ing.

[habs4ever]

Such conventional predictability in the script that rarely rings true to life.Too many inconsistencies in plot lines that substitute cleverness for authenticity, ie Usual Suspects.Characters no one in their right mind would care about.Elevation of those with disabilities to an exhalted plain, including the deification of all gay characters.Lousy actors with no screen presence, such as Kevin Costner or Ben Affleck.Bimbo models getting leading roles, such as Cameron Diaz.Anything with a Baldwin.Too much product.

[Libertarian_4_eva]

Why would someone hate movies? I still remember that they are fantasy made up by writers and brought to life by directors and actors. You do understand its just a movie right? Superman really can't fly its all just a blue screen.

[Rebelbase]

My beef is not the movie itself but the theatre charging $4.50 for 2 cents worth of popcorn and paper.

[Dante3]

I dislike the irrelevant sex scenes or and/or the subtle and often not so subtle agenda of promoting sex outside of marriage and of being a Peeping Tom. And this in this age of AIDS and other incurable STDs. As Bill O'Reilly has said, sex should be a private matter.

[who knows what evil?]

What do I hate about the movies? The smell...and the knowledge that my money is going to fund the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton. That is why it's one movie every two years for the wife and I...a Bond flick in 2000; Spider-Man in 2002...IF the smell hasn't gotten any worse.

[Gil4]

$7.50 per ticket

[goodieD]

"What do I hate about movies? The actors, the producers, the directors, the studios, the sponsors, the viewers willing to spend money on all of the above. Did I miss anything?"

Amen to all of that! The rampant moviegoers on here who would rather die than miss going to the movies, or take the attitude of "nobody can tell me what to do", don't seem to care that their dollars are going to fund leftwing causes. Hollywood is more politically active than before, and they spend their money on these causes..money that YOU, the movie goer, provide. So next time you see a left wing flick (nearly all of them), pat yourself on the back for contributing money to the Free Mumia fund, Planned Parenthood, the Democratic Party, Handgun Control Inc., and lots of other nice causes.
Money talks in this world, so instead of seeing some film that makes conservatives look evil or stupid, I'll send my 8 bux to a conservative cause.

[goodieD]

The movie might be a fantasy, but the money they make and send to left wing organizations is not a fantasy.

[KC_Conspirator]

2)  Why are Bad-Guy Politicians ALWAYS conservatives?  Well, there's two reasons for this:  the primary factor is, of course, Hollywood Liberalism. 

Did you know that the script for the movie "The Candidate" was originally written about how one democrat was trying to take out another democrat by airing her dirty laundry? Well, that changed of course by the time it got to screen with and evilRepublican taking out an innocent democrat. I believe that the star of the movie, Gary Oldman, was outraged enough to call his own film a "piece of propaganda".

[Mr. Jeeves]

Arnold Schwarzenegger's "Last Action Hero" mocked this beautifully, with a stereotypical captain (black, of course) who shouted all the time and had steam coming out of his ears. Hollywood just keeps doing it, though.

[backtobasics]

What I hate the worst is that it seems to be mandatory to cram in so much bad language per movie.

I guess talent is not what it used to be so they have to spice it up in some way.

[Long Cut]

That every hero must have a "flaw" of some sort- drinking, drugs, divorce, unsure of himself. Also, that all male and female leads MUST be under thirty and stunnigly beautiful (what happened to John Wayne and Maureen O'hara type charecters?). One more: a genius-rocket scientist-physicist played by a 23-year old big-haired girl. And why are all movie women so God-awful skinny?

[The Great Satan]

Poor temporal resolution. 24 fps just doesn't cut it.

[Nogbad]

I detest the foul language that is a requirement of all 'serious' American movies.

The last movie I attended was about a child prodigy
called "Good Will Hunting"

I took my mother to it and sat through it in acute embarassment.

I vowed never to attend an American movie ever again.

I have upheld that vow.

[Rocko]

The phrase "based on a true story" I too often see.

[Slyfox]

I went to see Fantasia when it was at the theater for the last time before coming out on video. I wanted to experience the surround sound the way Walt had always wanted Fantasia to be experienced. I purposely went to the theater when hardly anyone else was going to be there and I sat right in the middle so I could really hear and feel the elephants jumping over my head. No sooner had the picture begun when two people with HUGE bins of popcorn and JUMBO drinks sat right behind me and proceeded to crunch their popcorn and slurp their drinks while I was trying to hear and feel Fantasia. I wanted to sit in the middle so I could really experience the movie. That was the last time I ever paid full price for a movie.