<p>Went to a preview of Health Ledger’s The Order (when it was still named The Sin Eater). I told them what I thought of it by leaving after 10 minutes.</p>
<p>I couldn’t stay through Schindler’s List. Just couldn’t handle it.</p>
<p>I have managed to remain in my seat for several Harry Potter films but it has been agony.</p>
<p>I think Guy Ritchie made the last Sherlock Holmes film. We love anything by Guy Ritchie. In fact, we’ve watched his Sherlock Holmes film twice.</p>
<p>Movie taste is so unpredictable.</p>
<p>My husband adores Film Noir. I fall asleep within five minutes of the start of any Film Noir.</p>
<p>Blair Witch Project–was just terminably annoying. Walking around in circles for two hours, then “something” happened. And all the hype about it being “real” when it so obviously wasn’t.</p>
<p>Anybody ever walk out on a movie because you fell for what I call the “fallacy of outdoor temperature”? That is, it’s hot as hell outside so you go to a movie theater lightly dressed and freeze your ass off because they have the air conditioning cranked up. I walked out of Fiddler on the Roof because I just couldn’t stand the cold, even though it was like 95 degrees outside.</p>
<p>My kids thought I was crazy when I started advising them to take a sweatshirt to a movie theater when it was hot outside. After about ten brushes with mid-summer frostbite, they started to think maybe I wasn’t so crazy after all.</p>
<p>The fallacy also applies in winter, where people wear their Iditarod-worthy winter parkas to the mall…so they are warm for the 2-minute walk from their car to the mall, then they sweat for 2 hours while wearing the parka INSIDE the mall. I advise my kids to leave the heavy coat in the car and wear a heavy sweater or light jacket while walking from car to mall and back again. Better to be slightly chilly for 2 minutes than to wear or carry a big coat for 2 hours. Caution: It sucks if you forget where you parked.</p>
<p>I wanted to walk out of Beloved. I was going with 2 friends and we were chatting with someone else who had seen it and he said he would rather stick needles in his eyes than ever see it again. One of the friends that was going decided not to because of this. Myself and the other friend foolishly went and wished we had not. We were planning to go eat desert after the movie but both felt too queasy.</p>
<p>I left halfway through The best little Whorehouse in Texas, not really voluntarily but because the Cinema (it was in England) caught fire. We were really hating the movie so when they offered us rain check tickets or our money back we took the money. Had no desire to sit through the first half again.</p>
<p>I’m surprised nobody’s mentioned the Crying Game. I think it is a wonderful movie, but it seems to be very polarizing. Another movie surprisingly absent here is a low-budget endurance contest known as “Stranger than Paradise.”</p>
<p>Atlantic City, King of Marvin Gardens, and Five Easy Pieces are also movies that are not very uplifting.</p>
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I agree that this was a bad movie, but I’m glad I saw it, because we enjoy shouting, “Play, monkey, play!”</p>
<p>My husband recently purchased a number of DVDs (contemporary and classics) that are part of the Criterion Collection–a group of high-quality DVDs and Blu-ray films. I don’t know who compiled the group of films, but there several I’ve watched recently were awful–Repulsion (an early Roman Polanski film), The Man Who Fell to the Earth (with David Bowie) and The Unbearable Lightness of Being (didn’t like the book either). I would have walked out, except I was already at home.</p>
<p>You should have walked out anyway. That would send a message indeed! “It was so bad I walked out of my own home to avoid watching it!” :D</p>
<p>I loved The Hurt Locker in the theater, but I can’t stand to sit through it at home. Maybe I need a bigger TV?</p>
<p>How about certain actors or actresses you can’t bear to sit thru?</p>
<p>I’ll start. Drew Barrymore.</p>
<p>Adam Sandler.</p>
<p>So, sewhappy, you and I won’t be seeing 50 First Dates or Wedding Singer together.</p>
<p>^^^^Aw, really? I loved him in Spanglish and* Mr. Deeds*. Haven’t seen the other movies you mentioned.</p>
<p>I like Adam Sandler although I admit I haven’t seen many of his movies.
But I cannot stand Will Ferrell . At all.</p>
<p>Michael Douglas. And, as previously mentioned, Steven Seagal. (But does he really count as an actor?)</p>
<p>I cannot stand Tom Cruise or Nicole Kidman. Both of them in one truly awful movie? (Eyes Wide Shut) Torture!</p>
<p>I hate those freezing movie theaters too Schmaltz. A while back I took a continuing ed class where I was so cold I ended up spending the lunch break looking for a store where I could buy something to keep me warm.</p>
<p>For me that would be Jim Carey.</p>
<p>*Eyes Wide Shut *- that’s the one! Yech! Blech!</p>
<p>I cannot stand Tom C., Nicole K. and Jim C. either!</p>
<p>ditto on Will Ferrell and Jim Carey - pretty much any adult male that acts like an immature child. I can’t think of any movies where the female lead is cast in a role similar to those in Dumb & Dumber or that genre. Anyone? </p>
<p>And speaking of females, I am probably in the minority here, but can’t stand Angelina Jolie.</p>
<p>Will Ferrell
Keanu Reeves (cute but a zero in the acting dept)
Ben Affleck (same as above but slightly better actor)
Katherine Hepburn (the voice, accent, and head shake drive me crazy)
Tom Cruise
Mel Gibson (a no-brainer)
Kirstie Ally
Debra Winger
Sandra Bernhard (eewww…spooky)</p>
<p>Generally not crazy about Jim Carey but loved him in Liar Liar</p>