What do You Hate about Movies?

My Warren | 01/01/2002 | Mad Bunny

[Enough_Deceit]

We don't go to the theater very often. Usually we don't like the ratings, the plot looks stupid, we are boycotting some liberal actor, etc.

I took two of my daughters to see Kate and Leopold yesterday. I can't get over how LOUD it is in the theater. It is overwhelming. I am talking about the sound itself.

BTW, we enjoyed the movie for the most part. I couldn't get past Meg Ryan's hair, though. I can't believe that someone actually gets PAID to do that to her hair. It looked stringy and like my 4 year old niece cut it. I enjoyed seeing the contrast of the cultures between Kate and Leopold. He was so refined and she was a woman of today. It really pointed out to me how crass we have become as a society. Of course, this is just my opinion. Perhaps at the age of 44, I have become an old coot-ette. Take care, God bless, and Happy New Year!

[Petronski]

Sticky floors
Dirty prints/projectors
Seeringly high volume
Narrow/wobbly seats
Bad writing
Parking for the protagonist right in front of his destination
Gigantic fireballs from car collisions
Escaping the auto 'just before' the blast
Sequels to films that had tight endings
Laser battles of any kind
Space ships that execute 'banking' manuevers as though flying in an atmosphere
Gratuitous nudity
Love scenes that are integral to the plot but carefully 'conceal' anatomy
Scientologists as actors or writers (watch out for films that have both!)
Happy endings to films based on books with sad endings
Fight scenes which are obviously and unnaturally choreographed
Heroes who kill--video game style--with no hint of humanity
Scenes with camera shots that linger to prove that the horrific blast/collision actually harmed no one
Hip-hop soundtrack/attitude
Lazy/shabby reuse of plotlines from 'It's a Wonderful Life' or 'Roshonon' or 'High Noon'
Cliches like the 'crusty curmudgeon' or the 'crazy police partner' or the 'huggy bear streetwise informant' or the 'hooker with a heart of gold'

I could go on and on, but my hands are tired.

[Montfort]

The de rigueur urination scene.

I think that Austin Powers may have been making fun of the bathroom scenes with its "who are you working for, number two" scene.

[Osinski]

What do You Hate about Movies?

Movies nowadays are bland predictable drivel. Same looking women, same smug all-knowing facial expressions, same almost too thin bodies, same stupid comments. You even know when Julia Roberts will be letting loose with her phoney whooping hee-haw laughs. Same non-men 30 somethings like Brad Pitt and Matt whats-his-name and Ben somebody. Even Disney animations have the same stupid plot, and similar looking characters...strong jawed, yet dumb, men and doe eyed women who must prove something.

It's pathetic, and now I'm even intentionally boycotting the likes of Roberts and Spacey and Sarandon, Asner, Danny Glover along with the pointless gratutitous violence. I still like Robert Deniro, though.

[MinuteGal]

What I hate about movie theaters is that there are no double features. No short subjects. No Movietone News. No cartoons. No Flash Gordon or Jungle Jim serials. No Blondie films. No cute ushers with flashlights. No sing-a-longs with the bouncing ball. No five-cent Holloway suckers. No free dishes on Wednesday nights. No projectors jammed up for ten minutes in that mysterious little room way up there in the dark.

Guess this dates me, huh?

Leni

[Petronski]

Well, I don't remember newsreels, but I do remember seeing Jaws as a ten-year-old in a gigantic moviehouse that was jam packed. Nowadays, theaters are so small I look around on the wall for the glory hole...

[Joe Hadenuf]

That type of propaganda is another reason why our expensive DVD player has an 1/8 inch of dust on it.

It was given to us as a gift about two years ago and I think we have used it twice. I personally have never even turned it on or used the remote. I would have returned it for something else but I didn't want to offend the in-laws.

[rockfish59]

what i hate is they don't make 'em like they used to:

'shane'
'best years of our lives'
'sunset blvd.'
'treasure of the sierra madre'
'the sand pebbles'
'the yearling'
'true grit'
'mr. roberts'
'scarlett st.'
'the jungle book' (sabu)

and that john wayne isn't here to make any more films!

[EveningStar]

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.)

I'm surprised you made that comment. You risk being called a racist. White liberals, in an effort to atone for racism, feel it necessary to have wet dreams over black people. They create these ludicrous, patronizing caricatures.

[pfflier]

Explosions and fires tirelessly repeated. These are always in slow motion with millions of stuntmen flying with their arms outstretched while our hero outruns the flames the others are too stupid to avoid.

The exploding car crash. Hollywood must have bought every car recalled for exploding even if involved in a fender-bender.

[Exigence]

for instance, it takes less than a minute for the average 12-year old to crack into computers programmed by adults with Masters Degrees in Software Engineering from MIT

And every interface has a huge menu in large type and lots of graphics. Like in "The Net" where Sandra Bullock just had to point and click a fire alarm exactly where she wanted it. As if...

I'm willing to "suspend belief" when I go to a movie, but I'd like a *little* reality. I don't appreciate movies that rely on having idiots in the audience for their accolades.

[exmoor]

Please say it isn't so, I audtioned for that movie.

[exmoor]

Please say it isn't so, I audtioned for that movie.

[joathome]

"dislike the irrelevent sex scenes...."

Actually, even if the scenes don't show anything, they still "say" something. I was watching "You've Got Mail" with my older kids, and was very mad when I remembered that both lead characters were living with someone. The movie could have been just as great without that. Nothing like going from one bed to another........arrggghhhhhh Even "clean" movies preach Hollywood values. Yuck

[exmoor]

Please say it isn't so, I audtioned for that movie.

[I still care]

I have a million things I hate about movies - but up there at the top of the list is dripping slime. I hate movies where the monsters drip slime. In real life I don't like to look at anyone with a runny nose, why should I pay to watch it on the screen?

[Mr.E]

Lord of the Rings was a good one.

I have a studio copy of the movie all should see..AI.. one of the worst flicks ever. And all of the reviews on how it was the greatest film ever....hahahahah

What an industry. Only the Music industry tops it...

[Osinski]

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

I can relate. Went to the movies after a long hiatus to see Monsters, Inc. Believe me I was shocked, shocked I tell you, to see a smaller box of Milkduds priced at $3.25. $ 3.25 ! ! ! Not to mention the sticker price shock at $8.25. (The theater was deluxe, however.)

[Emmanual_Goldstein16]

What I hate most about movies is that they have to put sex in almost all of them. Sex, suggestive material, the glorification of promiscuity and adultery, the high content of foul language and lack of anything deep. That's why when I went to see LOTR, it was like a breath of fresh air. But I digress. Also, anyone notice how when the good guys get cornered or caught or something and the bad guy has to talk before shooting them instead of just shooting them? I notice this way too much and it's so annoying.

[pattycake]

They cost too much, $5.50 for popcorn, $4.00 coke, Milk Duds $3.50, and most of the time the movie is meaningless. That's why I don't go very often. Tonight is the last time.