Hate watching movies

[Dan From Smithville]

Okay, so this might be a bit weird but does anyone have a movie that they think is really bad but just watches it anyway? Like so bad it’s good?
Well I have a movie that I thought was awful but I found enjoyment not out of its awfulness but by the experiences I had watching it with certain people

That film is God’s not dead. And if you like the film, more power to you. I’m exceptionally happy for you.
But for me, I’ve actually watched this film multiple times for a couple reasons. I always gain an interesting insight and it tortures my family friends, who I will point out are themselves Christians. They also happen to be all employed or retired teachers. One in arts, one in literature, one in math, one in SOSE and one in History. So a broad range of perspectives I think.

In case you were under a rock, God’s not dead is a pureflix film that centres around Hercules trying to teach a College level philosophy class. He’s the strawman atheist who constantly breaks teacher codes of conduct and apparently hates God. When a student refuses to sign a piece of paper that declares God is dead, he decides it’s a good idea to have said student prove the opposite position or lose 30% of his grade. Because that’s totally how the Socratic method works you guys. /s
Anyway shenanigans ensue and the student tried valiantly to defend God to the class. By invoking Steven Hawking and Dostoevsky for some reason.

In addition to watching my cousins’ souls collectively leave their body out of sheer embarrassment I’ve gained all sorts of insights due to their responses. My Literature teaching Uncle immediately commanded me to read the Brothers Karamazov. My arts teaching cousin balked at the professors inaccurate uses of various philosophers. My maths teaching cousin went into full lecture mode in order to “defend what Hawking actually said” and my History teaching uncle gave me a list of sources he thought countered the films thesis. And my SOSE teaching Aunty gave me a pile of “homework” as punishment for making her view the film.

Are there are films you hate watch? For any reason. I just thought to share something that amused me.

I have never watched the movie, but now I want to see it.

I cannot think of a hate/watch movie, but there are about 15 or so movies that I will watch almost any time and I have seen them multiple times.

 

[Brickjectivity]

Maybe it's just old age, but I find that the next day I couldn't tell what movie I watched the night before, or what it was about.

I would be a little worried about this except that I suspect it's not a failure of my memory so much as it's a lack of significant content in nearly all the contemporary movies being made.

Once upon a time, movies were made with the hope of creating something meaningful, and significant. Now, they are made solely in the hope of their being profitable. (Same goes for houses, cars, groceries, clothing, appliances, and everything else we humans spend our lives making.) So it's no surprise that what we create is generally insignificant, and meaningless. Including even what passes for "art" these days.

There are people trying to make meaningful things though. Full length films are typically not artistic, but I see lots of meaningful short films usually released on the internet.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Probably Battlefield Earth.

Its a gawd awful scientology flick with John Travolta. but it did have some good scenes in it.

 

[JustGeorge]

I almost had a heart attack! Don't like movies.

Shawshank is good. Why a bad movie?

Nono, that is one of only two movies I like! I like Shawshank, and Lets Go To Prison. Most other movies are...somewhat like Prison to me.

After I passed age 35 my ability to like movies dropped off significantly. I stopped expecting them to be good. I saw flaws and old routines and directing problems, casting problems, producing problems, lighting problems, odd phrasing etc.

I have that problem, too... "How can you focus on the movie when they tint the screen blue half the time?"

 

[Unveiled Artist]

Nono, that is one of only two movies I like! I like Shawshank, and Lets Go To Prison. Most other movies are...somewhat like Prison to me.



I have that problem, too... "How can you focus on the movie when they tint the screen blue half the time?"

I haven't seen Let's go to Prison before. Growing up, that's all we had was VHSs and DVDs. I don't have a VCR now and I realized my laptop doesn't have a CD drive (completely forgot).

 

[JustGeorge]

I haven't seen Let's go to Prison before. Growing up, that's all we had was VHSs and DVDs. I don't have a VCR now and I realized my laptop doesn't have a CD drive (completely forgot).

Growing up, I read so many books my mom got mad at me because she couldn't keep up to provide me new reading material....

My sisters were big into movies, though... a lot of 90s kids classics, all VHS.

 

[Unveiled Artist]

Growing up, I read so many books my mom got mad at me because she couldn't keep up to provide me new reading material....

My sisters were big into movies, though... a lot of 90s kids classics, all VHS.

Books! Have you read the Count of Monte Christo? I'm reading that now. I've always been a bookaholic. It started dying out for a good couple years ago but I'm coming back. Too much going on back when.

 

[JustGeorge]

Books! Have you read the Count of Monte Christo? I'm reading that now. I've always been a bookaholic. It started dying out for a good couple years ago but I'm coming back. Too much going on back when.

I haven't, but I remember you mentioning at one point you were reading it!

Its nice to be able to have time to do either...books or movies, whatever your preference.

 

[Unveiled Artist]

I haven't, but I remember you mentioning at one point you were reading it!

Its nice to be able to have time to do either...books or movies, whatever your preference.

Yeah. It's a thick book. If I read a book made into a movie, I rarely watch the movie since it messes up the book. It is personal preference. My best friend doesn't like music. I never heard such a thing.

 

[PureX]

There are people trying to make meaningful things though. Full length films are typically not artistic, but I see lots of meaningful short films usually released on the internet.

I agree. But they can be difficult to find. And you have to "kiss a lot of frogs", if you know what I mean.

 

[SomeRandom]

Yeah. It's a thick book. If I read a book made into a movie, I rarely watch the movie since it messes up the book. It is personal preference. My best friend doesn't like music. I never heard such a thing.

Ahh Dumas. I was introduced to him oddly enough through a translated French children’s cartoon spoofing the adventures of the Three Musketeers. It took me a couple attempts to read the book. Though to be fair I was like 7 the first time I tried.
Th Count is on my to read list.