Your most hated film

[Johnnytheboy]

Occasioned by a discussion with the OH on what to watch at Xmas, and what we could put on if we really hated each other.

After some thought I decided any one of the Pitch Perfect films.

Literally everything about those films makes me want to hurt things.

Runner up: any of the Harry Potter films.

She surprised me by choosing The Red Shoes. As a huge Powell/Pressburger fan I protested vaguely, but have to agree that while it's visually stunning, the plot is dire.

So PH: what is your most hated, nails-on-blackboard film or series of films?

Awaits inevitable edgelord's choices

[Legacywr]

Way up there, without doubt are Inception and Dunkirk.

I'm sure I'll be back with more

[toasty]

First thought is Prometheus. So much promise, so little delivered.

[Johnnytheboy]

Just to add: reasons would make this more entertaining, particularly if it's a film generally considered popular.

In the case of the Pitch Perfect films, it's the helium voices and the rather frenetic pace of the dialogue, rather than the musical element that for some reason just sets my teeth on edge.

Harry Potter - it's the 'acting' of the child protagonists, and the revolving door of smug British character actors and actresses. Plus the climax of each film just seems to be Daniel Radcliffe shouting made up words and shooting lightning out of his wand.

[Theraveda]

The entire MARVEL canon. The cinematic equivalent of a Krispy-Kreme donut.

Edited by Theraveda on Tuesday 7th December 11:11

[Halmyre]

The last film I watched that made me think "what a load of ste" was The Happening.

[Craig W]

There are plenty of bad films, but I dislike quite a few popular films not to be a contrarian, but because of needless complexity in place of a well structured story.

Most of Nolan's films are needlessly complicated and terrible. Recent ones that I strongly dislike are Inception and Tenet.

[smithyithy]

Tricky one..

There are films that I think are utterly, unredeemable st, but I don't necessarily hate them for being that way, and then there are films that should be good, but ended up being dreadful, Prometheus above is a great example - on paper there are many far worse films, but that one particularly annoys me too because it was a let down..

Star Wars - The Rise of Skywalker is a recent one that comes to mind... "Someone Palpatine returned.." oh fk off please

[anonymous-user]

I seem to hate an awful lot of film genres... which is annoying at times because I have far less available films to watch than everyone else

Hate:
Sci-Fi (especially the unrealistic or far fetched stuff)
Superhero stuff.
Anything derived from a comic book.
Horror
Fantasy (Any ste with dragons, wizards, mythical lands, and other bks that doesn't exist)
Romance
Comedy (Unless it's old school stuff like Naked Gun)
Musicals (I could literally smash the TV up if I ever saw another musical)

Love:
Spy/Espionage/CIA
Gangster/Mafia
Thriller
Crime
Action/war
Financial movies (Big Short, Wall Street, Margin Call etc)

Essentially I'm the same as the annoying Viz character 'Mr Logic'. I dislike anything that isn't realistic or plausible.

[Johnnytheboy]

smithyithy said:

There are films that I think are utterly, unredeemable st, but I don't necessarily hate them for being that way, and then there are films that should be good, but ended up being dreadful...

As I say, it's more about whether you hate something than whether it's objectively quite good.

Lots of people like the Pitch Perfect films, and I imagine they made lots of money, but for me there's just something about them that makes me squirm.

[P5BNij]

Lord Marylebone said:

I seem to hate an awful lot of film genres... which is annoying at times because I have far less available films to watch than everyone else

Hate:
Sci-Fi (especially the unrealistic or far fetched stuff)
Superhero stuff.
Anything derived from a comic book.
Horror
Fantasy (Any ste with dragons, wizards, mythical lands, and other bks that doesn't exist)
Romance
Comedy (Unless it's old school stuff like Naked Gun)
Musicals (I could literally smash the TV up if I ever saw another musical)

Love:
Spy/Espionage/CIA
Gangster/Mafia
Thriller
Crime
Action/war
Financial movies (Big Short, Wall Street, Margin Call etc)

Essentially I'm the same as the annoying Viz character 'Mr Logic'. I dislike anything that isn't realistic or plausible.

I can sort of understand that Lord M, I just can't be bothered with the Harry Potter / Tolkein stuff whereas my Mrs laps them up. I do like a fair bit of older comedies and sci-fi though - most of Peter Sellers stuff, the Ealing comedies like Passport To Pimlico etc, Forbidden Planet, Silent Running, 2001, Alien, Bladerunner etc but the more up to date stuff is just a CGI-fest and I switch off all too easily

I recently had to pack away all of my dvds to get some decorating done and going through them (very slowly!) with the exception Inspector Montalbano and another Italian crime series (Romanzo Criminale) the TV series box sets are all from the '60s, '70s and early '80s while the films are nearly all older crime, true stories, spy thrillers and loads of Italian 'giallo' mysteries from the same period like Point Blank, Robbery, Get Carter, Villain, Day Of The Jackal etc. Some of the giallos are shockingly bad in many ways although still strangely enjoyable, but in answer to the OP I'd have to go with Fight Club, I've tried watching it twice and it leaves me totally cold.

[mat205125]

Most American comedy films, that have lost and hint of intelligence, and substituted with just being loud or crude.

Add to that anything with CGI superheroes and tedious and never ending fight scenes. Just hideously boring

[toasty]

Quite a few Wes Anderson films irritated the hell out of me - Tenenbaums, Zissou, Darjeeling etc. but I quite like the animated ones.

Pitch Perfect has Anna Kendrick in it so very hard to hate.

[Rotaree]

I tried Dunkirk the other day and found it very difficult to watch, I gave up after about half an hour. The worst recently (ish!) is Manchester by the Sea which I really did hate, I found it to be one of the most miserable, depressing things I had ever had the misfortune to see: I'd have walked out but I was with my wife, only to find out as we left that she'd hated it too and was hoping I'd make the first move!

[Bacon Is Proof]

Titanic, or anything with Nic Cage.
Thinking of films we didn't finish, Pacific Uprising? People in big mech suits fighting monsters. That got turned off, utter horse st and I fking hate horses.

I don't mind a good kids/family movie but yes, the Harry Potter films were dire for all the aforementioned reasons.
Oh, and Daniel Craig is a terrible Bond. Not a patch on Moore/Dalton.

[nealeh1875]

Shutter Island
That Will Smith film with the dog and he's alone.. hate it.
The Holiday - had a bad first date to that film

When I watch a bad film it really does put me in a mood.. time wasted over nothing.

[The Hypno-Toad]

Sleeping With The Enemy - Julia Roberts playing with a dressing box, he's dead, No he isn't, he's dead, no isn't, now he's dead, no he isn't, now he is.
fk off film.

Avatar - Dances With Smurfs. ste

Marley & Me. - its about a dog. That dies. Its supposed to be a comedy. The main joke of the film is that a dog sts in the sea. That's it. Jennifer Aniston plays an award winning journalist which I guess is kind of funny in itself. But generally its about as funny as coming home to find your wife playing finger cuffs with a couple of Alsatians.
fk off film.

Highlander 2 - Incomprehensible. We're immortals. No we're not turns out we're aliens.
fk off film

Prometheus - Worst spaceship crew evah wander off on a mission that makes no sense at all to piss all over the Alien franchise. & run to the side you stupid bh.

The Predator - 4 word review. fk You Shane Black.

Anything to do with Harry Potter - Basically the Jennings books (that dates me) mixed with Dungeons & fking Dragons. All these kids go to school to learn to be wizards, why? What the fk purpose does it serve if they can't show it off in the normal world? Just a load of self righteous bks to make parents feel good that their children are reading 'proper' books and watching 'proper' films. And it is for fking kids, not adults.

Edited by The Hypno-Toad on Tuesday 7th December 12:41

Edited by The Hypno-Toad on Tuesday 7th December 12:46

[housen]

the new bond


what a miserable bond

with a gf and a kid !!!!



how i miss the roger days

always in a white tux enjoying his tour and dinners and women

[Pitre]

Father of the Bride.

I don't like Steve Whatshisface.

I don't like unashamed tear jerkers.

Utter, utter garbage. Will never watch it again.

[Douglas Quaid]

P5BNij said:

Lord Marylebone said:

I seem to hate an awful lot of film genres... which is annoying at times because I have far less available films to watch than everyone else

Hate:
Sci-Fi (especially the unrealistic or far fetched stuff)
Superhero stuff.
Anything derived from a comic book.
Horror
Fantasy (Any ste with dragons, wizards, mythical lands, and other bks that doesn't exist)
Romance
Comedy (Unless it's old school stuff like Naked Gun)
Musicals (I could literally smash the TV up if I ever saw another musical)

Love:
Spy/Espionage/CIA
Gangster/Mafia
Thriller
Crime
Action/war
Financial movies (Big Short, Wall Street, Margin Call etc)

Essentially I'm the same as the annoying Viz character 'Mr Logic'. I dislike anything that isn't realistic or plausible.

I can sort of understand that Lord M, I just can't be bothered with the Harry Potter / Tolkein stuff whereas my Mrs laps them up. I do like a fair bit of older comedies and sci-fi though - most of Peter Sellers stuff, the Ealing comedies like Passport To Pimlico etc, Forbidden Planet, Silent Running, 2001, Alien, Bladerunner etc but the more up to date stuff is just a CGI-fest and I switch off all too easily

I recently had to pack away all of my dvds to get some decorating done and going through them (very slowly!) with the exception Inspector Montalbano and another Italian crime series (Romanzo Criminale) the TV series box sets are all from the '60s, '70s and early '80s while the films are nearly all older crime, true stories, spy thrillers and loads of Italian 'giallo' mysteries from the same period like Point Blank, Robbery, Get Carter, Villain, Day Of The Jackal etc. Some of the giallos are shockingly bad in many ways although still strangely enjoyable, but in answer to the OP I'd have to go with Fight Club, I've tried watching it twice and it leaves me totally cold.

I wouldn’t put Harry Potter and lord of the rings in the same bracket. Lord of the rings are amazing films in my opinion, love everything about them. I can’t find anything about the potter films to like.

Fantasy doesn’t have to mean childish. Game of thrones was not childish in any way, it was basically political manoeuvring between important houses. However it does have dragons in it which I think turns people off the genre immediately as they associate that sort of thing with kids cartoons.