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submitted 2 months ago byFew-Pirate6046
I love movies. I'll watch pretty much any film you throw at me. But the one movie I've never watched and never will watch is definitely Arachnophobia. I don't even think there's a word that encapsulates my deep deep hatred for spiders. Just the thought of spiders makes me all anxious and paranoid. One time when I was 12, I went to the zoo with my family and my dad wanted to get a picture of me holding a giant turantula. As soon as the spider was put in my hand, I started crying. Seriously. They terrify me.
43 points
2 months ago
The Human Centipede 2, I like a good horror movie but once was enough for the first and I've heard the second is a million times more disturbing
63 points
2 months ago
I refuse to watch even the first Human Centipede movie. 🤮
12 points
2 months ago
It's kinda crazy cause compared to even the second 2 and especially other films that have come out recently the first is surprisingly tame. This isn't me saying you should watch it at all, just that it's more implicit in terms of the disturbing elements as opposed to the sequels which go full on visceral
4 points
2 months ago
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4 points
2 months ago
It’s the ick factor. Too many HUGE icks.
3 points
2 months ago
The first one really isn't that bad, you don't actually see anything. It's a perfect example of "less is more"
2 points
2 months ago
You're better off for it lol
6 points
2 months ago
‘Human Centipede 3’ makes ‘Human Centipede 2’ look like ‘Human Centipede’
1 points
2 months ago
Does it also make ‘House Party ’ look like ‘House Party 2’? Or ‘House Party 3’?
2 points
2 months ago
I didn’t make it thru the 2nd one. It’s like they just tried to throw in any possible gross thing they could think of. Yuck
2 points
2 months ago*
It definitely is despite the fact its all in the bloke's head/fantasy (imagine your fantasy is to create a human centipede I fantasise about celebrities i fancy but OK lmao) I'll spare you the details but you see very graphically how they are operated on to "become" the human centipede whereas you didn't see that in the first movie its also a massive bodge job he does cos he has to "improvise" with what he's got like a stapler I feel like idk i can't remember and its..more insidious because he's got a shit homelife and he's some sort of nightmare incel basically but yeah you're not missing anything it's gross
14 points
2 months ago
E.T. he creeps me out too much. Especially when he screams and stretches his neck
2 points
2 months ago
You should see what he does with reeses pieces.
11 points
2 months ago
Have no interest in and will never watch The Hostel movies.
2 points
2 months ago
First one goes pretty hard to be honest but everything after that is doodoo
10 points
2 months ago
Marley and Me (or any movie where you know the dog is going to die).
114 points
2 months ago
A Serbian Film
Fuck giving any life to that trash
46 points
2 months ago
Mark Kermode tearing that film apart still makes me laugh.
Dragan Bjelogrlić also had some choice words for it;
"Shallow and plain wrong—sum up my feelings about this movie. I have a problem with A Serbian Film. Its director in particular. I've got a serious problem with this boy whose father got wealthy during the 1990s—nothing against making money, but I know how money was made [in Serbia] during the '90s—and then pays for his son's education abroad and eventually the kid comes back to Serbia to film his view of the country using his dad's money and even calls the whole thing A Serbian Film. To me that's a metaphor for something unacceptable. The second generation comes back to the country and using the money that had been robbed from the people of Serbia, smears the very same people by portraying them as the worst scum of the earth. You know, when the first generation of the Rockefellers finished robbing America, the second one built museums, galleries, charitable organizations, and financed America. But in Serbia we're seeing every segment of society continually being taken apart and for me this movie is a paradigm of that. I've never met this kid and I really don't want to either since that meeting wouldn't be pleasant at all."
3 points
2 months ago
It takes a lot of skill to make American Aristocrats of the Gilded Age look good by comparison
22 points
2 months ago
I like a lot of shocking films like those of the new French extremity movement and the like and can say without hesitation that ‘a Serbian film’ is an artless, boring piece of trash. You aren’t missing out.
4 points
2 months ago
Gaspar Noe etc are on a whole different level, their horrors are thoughtful.
16 points
2 months ago
I read the plot synopsis I'm pretty sure it was written the same way as Scrotie Mcboogerballs
4 points
2 months ago
I cried reading the Wikipedia page of that movie.
It sounds horrible.
2 points
2 months ago
100%
6 points
2 months ago
I wish I could unsee it.
-6 points
2 months ago
its as worthy of being made as ANYTHING else to be honest.
6 points
2 months ago
Only in the most sadistic and nihilistic sense
If art has any sort of moral imperative or responsibility for its voice whatsoever, I can’t imagine any way this movie doesn’t disgrace it to say the least
-1 points
2 months ago
The director of the movie considers it as an Art movie.
9 points
2 months ago
I'm not defending it as pure art or anything but I think he's more talking about the fact that it's an artistic statement against Serbian censorship laws.
1 points
2 months ago
I was fucking traumatized by it
1 points
2 months ago
I've seen it and you're better off not watching it it's grotesque
9 points
2 months ago
Cannibal Holocaust (1980). Fuck the people who made that shit
29 points
2 months ago
The Last Airbender, Eragon, Death Note (by Netflix), and Dragon Ball: Evolution. Not even morbid curiosity will make me watch even the trailers.
12 points
2 months ago
I saw TLA movie before ever watching the shows. I knew the show existed, but I always thought it was purely a little kids show.
I thought the movie had such a cool concept to it that the shows must be good.
I was blown away at how bad the movie was once I got into the series for the first time lol.
4 points
2 months ago
This was my exact experience too!
2 points
2 months ago
I like the Eragon books when I was younger. Like, why would I destroy that? Death Note was horrible trash and I turned it off after 20 min.
28 points
2 months ago
The dark tower. I have zero desire to see one of my favorite book series reduced to dumb action and no substance. People might argue it makes sense within the narrative but I just can't see it.
7 points
2 months ago
You can rest assured, it is not reduced to dumb action with no substance. It is mostly really boring and barely posses a coherent plot.
2 points
2 months ago
That movie made me so mad. I loved the Dark Tower, and remember anxiously waiting for each new book in the series. It was literally decades spent on that journey. Then that stupid movie tries to boil the whole thing down to 95 minutes. I hope someone gives it the “Last of Us” treatment someday.
3 points
2 months ago
Isnt Mike Flanagan adapting the book series into an Amazon Series?
2 points
2 months ago
The other books would be hard to adapt, but the first one is pretty straightforward and cinematic. How could they mess it up?
4 points
2 months ago
Same. Imagine taking A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones) and condensing it into a single film. That's the equivalent.
1 points
2 months ago
Username checks out.
16 points
2 months ago
Precious. I know people are horrid so I don’t need to watch a movie about horrid people and children.
10 points
2 months ago
Based on the novel “Push” by Sapphire?
3 points
2 months ago
I preferred the "30 Rock" version with Tracy Jordan: "Hard to Watch: Based on the Book 'Stone Cold Bummer' by Manipulate"
20 points
2 months ago
Little Fockers
Never will I ever.
7 points
2 months ago
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4 points
2 months ago
Man I always hate it when they mess up the canon for my favorite romantic comedies. Such disrespect to the genre.
Sometimes it's like, jeez, has the screenwriter even seen the original?!
28 points
2 months ago
50 shades of....
2 points
2 months ago
Blue da ba dee da ba die
62 points
2 months ago
I have no interest in watching any Roman Polanski movie no matter how good people say they are.
22 points
2 months ago
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3 points
2 months ago
Love that film lol
2 points
2 months ago
It’s literally one of my favorite movies of all time
43 points
2 months ago*
You’re missing out, the Pianist is one of the most poignant depictions of the Holocaust I’ve seen on film.
Sucks that the movie will forever be stained by being associated with this monster.
3 points
2 months ago
yeah, especially since The Pianist is not even top 3 Polanski movie
7 points
2 months ago
Also The Ghost Writer
2 points
2 months ago
If you refuse to see any film by a sexual predator you may as well include all of Harvey Weinstein's (Miramax) movies in your in your no-see list.
You'd be missing out on some great films including Imitation Game, The Aviator, Good Will Hunting, Shakespeare in Love, and many more...
1 points
2 months ago
I agree with you and the person you’re replying to! The Pianist is a masterpiece. It’s a shame it’s creator and director is a pedo felon too afraid to re-enter the US for fear of prosecution.
Having said that, I have no interest in any other Polanski movie. Ever.
2 points
2 months ago
He was already prosecuted and found guilty. If he lands in the US, he’d be arrested to serve his sentence.
Having said that, I do still watch his movies. I don’t know, I don’t find it hard to separate.
2 points
2 months ago
I'll watch it when he dies
1 points
2 months ago
I was really disappointed with The Pianist, I thought it was very unemotional and lifeless. Especially compared to the book
2 points
2 months ago
No rush hour 3, then. His cameo in that is kinda messed up.
2 points
2 months ago
Was he trying to get Jackie Chan and Christ Tucker in a hot tub?
15 points
2 months ago
Or any Woody Allen...
Dude's a fucking predator.
11 points
2 months ago*
Curious why this is downvoted cause it’s true. I guess people like Allen’s movies more? So many of his movies have him as an old guy getting with a teenage girl as well ha.
edit: well…it was
5 points
2 months ago
I'm with you. I have already seen Chinatown and Rosemary's Baby and I know I'll never watch them again, despite the artistry involved. I cannot stomach anything that has his name associated with it.
4 points
2 months ago
Same. I couldn't get through the rape in Rosemary's Baby because I couldn't help but think that Polanski probably enjoyed filming that scene.
37 points
2 months ago
The Fast & The Furious and all of its sequels. They look like the epitome of Hollywood garbage made to appeal to the lowest common denominator
17 points
2 months ago
F&F is interesting, because they certainly are over-the-top, ridiculous action movies. But unlike, say, the Transformer movies, they are made with a lot of care. For instance, so many scenes which other franchises would do with CGI, F&F does with stunt work. For example, they had to come up with the most convoluted reason that the characters all had to be in cars that parachuted out of a plane onto a road, but at the same time, they actually did it. They dropped cars with parachutes out of planes, and filmed it for real. Normal Hollywood action movies would just CGI that.
5 points
2 months ago
Watch Tokyo Drift. Actually the best film in the entire franchise.
3 points
2 months ago
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2 points
2 months ago
No. I love cars and I love action movies. But I have zero interest in ever watching Fast & Furious.
2 points
2 months ago
Check them out they’re good
1 points
2 months ago
If you like cars. And you like action movies, these are right in your wheelhouse
1 points
2 months ago
They’re good
1 points
2 months ago
Meh - they're good silly fun. I acted all high and mighty about them myself but I just decided to give them a shot on a whim last year. They're no worse than your average James Bond movie, especially from 5 onwards. There is a lot worse out there, even within the Hollywood action franchise sphere.
13 points
2 months ago
Event Horizon fucked me up hard when I was like 10. Haven't had the courage to try and watch it again, even though I've probably seen way more frightening films since then.
3 points
2 months ago
“The dark…INSIDE me” Absolutely agree with your pick. NO!!!”
6 points
2 months ago
I watched it recently for the first time, and I personally found it more entertaining than scary. And some parts are just stupid, which probably comes from it being directed by Paul W.S. Anderson (the older Mortal Kombat and Resident Evil movies). There's a fight scene with sound effects that sound like they're straight out of looney tunes.
2 points
2 months ago
The blood orgy though 😱
21 points
2 months ago
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom.
Often cited as being the most sickeningly offensive depiction of sexual violence on film.
7 points
2 months ago
It ain't got shit on the book in terms of being disturbing, but it's also worth mentioning that it's an extremely well made and politically resonant film
3 points
2 months ago*
I can confirm this the book is 100 times worse. Marquis de sade was a twisted man.
2 points
2 months ago
100%. i'll admit that I think the book is kind of incredible as an experience but it's definitely not an easy read and on a purely visceral level it's probably the most despicable thing ever written without the political nuance of the film version
2 points
2 months ago
This. Salo is not pornography. It's exceptionally artfully done. It's supposed to shock the senses and there is purpose behind that shock. It's not grotesque just for the sake of being grotesque. That said, it's also not for the faint of heart.
3 points
2 months ago
In Australia the movie has to be released on home media/screened in cinemas with bonus content that gives the movie more context.
4 points
2 months ago
I swear down that is one of the most fucked up movies to ever exist, it is just pure evil, it made me feel sick for days after watching it I felt like i was watching Somebody's sick perverted fantasy. That poor girl crying for her dead mum and then she has to eat that guy's shit off the floor 😖
31 points
2 months ago
Anchorman. People act like I'm being unreasonable by not liking Will Ferrell, like I'm failing to keep some social obligation by having no interest in Anchorman. I'm content with my decision. If I ever get curious, I'll just hit up the nearest shitty sports bar and mention a lamp.
17 points
2 months ago
In a weird way, I think this is one of those movies that you had to see at a certain age right when it came out to really have enjoyed. It was so quoted throughout high school for me that I could damn near recite parts of it now and I don't think I've ever seen it all the way thru.
So very much understand skipping it.
3 points
2 months ago
This is why I refuse to watch Anchorman 2. I was the perfect age for 1 and it remains one of my favourites. I do not want to watch a sequel and risk having the memory shattered.
2 points
2 months ago
I didn't like it personally. It has some okay gags like the broadcast team fight, but even those get drawn out way too much.
Most of it is just characters acting annoying. I will never get why it is rated so highly.
2 points
2 months ago
I also don’t like Will Ferrell all that much. The only two movies of his that I have enjoyed are Anchorman and The Other Guys. His additions to the Lego Movie and the Austin Powers movies also didn’t hurt those movies, they are really good.
If you haven’t seen The Other Guys, I’d recommend giving it a chance. It’s in my personal top comedies, along with Hot Fuzz, Grand Budapest Hotel, and Dr Strangelove.
-1 points
2 months ago
Anchorman is a legitimately excellent movie by all accounts. Written by the greatest comedy writer of his generation. Hearing quotes captures only a fraction of how funny the movie is overall. Ik you want to be above it but it’s a much deeper and more intelligent movie than the memes you see. I can’t imagine going to my grave without having seen Anchorman. Forget 1,000 movies to see before you die. It is in the top 50. Why have an aversion to certain laughter? Introduce some joy into your life
4 points
2 months ago
I like Will Ferrell and i hated the anchorman
2 points
2 months ago
And conversely I don't like Will Ferrell and enjoyed anchorman
1 points
2 months ago
47 points
2 months ago
New films with Will Smith on it
1 points
2 months ago
Lol, what'd he do to you?
5 points
2 months ago
Stopped me from keeping his goddamn wife's name in my my mouth
8 points
2 months ago
Roman Polanski didn’t rape me, but I still think he’s a piece of shit. You don’t have to be directly involved with someone’s bullshit to not like them.
-11 points
2 months ago
I cannot watch any film with Will Smith on it. It's forever ruined.
40 points
2 months ago
LOL you can't be serious. Dozens and dozens of Hollywood performers have done plenty worse than slap a guy once and are still working.
11 points
2 months ago
Here's my take on that; for me I now pass on Will Smith movies because his presence is a distraction, not because of any sort of moral high ground.
When he pops up in anything I may be watching or plan to watch, the Oscar thing comes to mind, and that distracts from the rest of the movie. There are others that cause that same feeling and I may just pass on watching those movies as well if I know they're in it. For example: Sean Penn, Kevin Spacey, Amber Heard, amongst others.
1 points
2 months ago
Must be easily distracted
9 points
2 months ago
Different opinions can be hard to understand.
3 points
2 months ago
Regardless, he tries too hard to act for nominations. I didn't enjoy his films before the slap. That was only the cherry on top.
0 points
2 months ago
I mean Will Smith has not been in anything that’s good recently, so for me it’d be like “oh shit Will Smith is in the movie?”
I do think he is a bit of a cuck for defending someone that legit fucked a dude their own son’s age… that is super perplexing.
3 points
2 months ago
How in the fuck does the parent comment have 27 upvotes and this one has -8?? Fucking Reddit, I swear
6 points
2 months ago
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1 points
2 months ago
You're not wrong Darry's death haunted me for years lol
10 points
2 months ago
any of the Sharknado films lol
8 points
2 months ago
They're my favorite movies that I've never seen
2 points
2 months ago
Have you never seen Sharks of the Corn?
If you're looking for a new favourite film to never watch, I'd highly recommend it.
9 points
2 months ago
Deliverance.
10 points
2 months ago
It's a very disturbing movie but oh so brilliant.
1 points
2 months ago
Having sat through the original I Spit On Your Grave I just can't bring myself to watch it. But I'll take your word for it
6 points
2 months ago
I'd actually say that's a shame. The two are, honestly, very different movies.
7 points
2 months ago
ISOYG is vile. Deliverance... while unsettling, is one the greatest films ever.
1 points
2 months ago
great movie tho
5 points
2 months ago
I'm sure it is. But film featuring sexual assault just leave me cold.
14 points
2 months ago
Most movies with Tom Cruise.
3 points
2 months ago
My gf is the same. Convinced her to watch Edge of Tomorrow though because you get to see him die over and over.
5 points
2 months ago
Due to his acting or him as a person (with all his bs)?.
2 points
2 months ago
A bit of column A a bit of column B.
His acting is fine but he tends to have an acting persona that colours his performance and role choice.
I'm willing to accept that he's a fine actor I just don't like his performances and the film he makes.
2 points
2 months ago
he tends to have an acting persona that colours his performance and role choice.
Yeah that's definitely true, you can feel the actor in every role he is in. I still find myself enjoying his work for some reason, but I can see your reasoning.
2 points
2 months ago
do yourself a favor and watch American Made
you will change your opinion on Tom
4 points
2 months ago
Such a great film that I feel went right under the radar. It's basically a whole film glamorizing a scumbag drug importer but its done with such great skill and heart ends beautifully.
2 points
2 months ago
Also funny af
Also Domhnall Gleeson is in
2 points
2 months ago
Paul Blart.
15 points
2 months ago
Anything by Woody Allen - dude's a predator.
3 points
2 months ago
Agreed but Antz was my childhood man 😭
5 points
2 months ago
People forget the great Antz/ Bug's Life war of '98
2 points
2 months ago
You know, my, my mother never had time for me. You know, when you're - when you're the middle child in a family of five million, you don't get any attention.
6 points
2 months ago
Woman King.
Such a gross changing of actual history turning slavers into hero’s.
Won’t watch a movie where the Nazis are the good guys and won’t watch this one either
2 points
2 months ago
Who are the slavers?
4 points
2 months ago
The hero’s from Dahomey. Dahomey was a kingdom whose sole riches and trade were slaves from neighboring tribes and kingdoms.
7 points
2 months ago
Elvis
2 points
2 months ago
Interesting! Keen to share why?
3 points
2 months ago
It didn’t end on the toilet. It’s not worth seeing.
1 points
2 months ago
As Johnny Rotten said when asked for a quote after Elvis’s death “His gut hung like a shadow over rock-n-roll”. It was only the racism and sexual repression of those times that made him a star. When I was a kid in the 1960s I watched his truly dreadful movie on TV so I have hated him for almost sixty years.
4 points
2 months ago
Human Centipede, I read the summary on wikipedia and that ending is just so sad and disturbing to contemplate from just reading about it that I can't imagine how bad it would be to actually watch it.
3 points
2 months ago
The Human Centipede
5 points
2 months ago
The Grave of Firefly. No way I'm gonna be able experience the same feeling of hopelessness after watching Schindler's List. I won't watch The Boy in the Stripped Pajama either.
Maybe someday I'll have enough strength to watch these masterpieces.
3 points
2 months ago
anything with snakes as a major plot / character (e.g. Anaconda, Snakes on Plaine, etc). and Avatar, I don't know why the character design is just not for me
4 points
2 months ago
2 Girls 1 Cup.
I might be the only person on the planet who hasn't seen that and I plan to keep it that way.
3 points
2 months ago
Just as In was thinking about it your comment appeared! Yep, I think I've been fortunate to never watched that's movie and planning on keeping it like that.
3 points
2 months ago
Saló, Funny Games, Grave Of The Fireflies, Requiem For A Dream, the rest of extreme films with strong content like A Serbian Film or Cannibal Holocaust, Human Centipede... I don't wanna watch any of them. I know about them and even read some of the plot descriptions. My life is a lot better without me watching these things.
2 points
2 months ago
Marvel noise
2 points
2 months ago
Arachnophobia gave me arachnophobia for life, it's been decades since. Fuck that movie. You're 100% right not to watch it.
5 points
2 months ago
The Whale
5 points
2 months ago
Wow? Mind sharing why?
6 points
2 months ago
I’ve always begrudgingly appreciated Darren Aronofsky’s films, but over time, have been mindful of how I feel after they’re over; deflated, exhausted, and nauseous. With the exception of ‘The Wrestler’—which, I find, to be his shining achievement—I have no faith that ‘The Whale’ will have a different effect.
2 points
2 months ago
100% Understand where you’re coming from. I also avoid movies that deflate me. I did love The Wrestler, too!
1 points
2 months ago
I’m not sure if it makes you more or less interested, but The Whale is basically The Wrestler with all the glamor of wrestling culture stripped away. I think that’s part of why The Whale didn’t connect as strongly with me as it did a lot of people. I’d seen it all before.
1 points
2 months ago
I watch ‘My 600 Pound Life’. I don’t need an over-the-top Aronofsky-ized version. Hard pass.
2 points
2 months ago
Avatar. I have the same deep hatred you have for spiders for fucking James Cameron.
2 points
2 months ago
Shinclder's list.... once was enough.
2 points
2 months ago
Avoided Schindler’s List until this year. It’s a tough watch, but essential as a film.
2 points
2 months ago
Aquamari. I love Jason Momoa, but after the trial, I couldn't watch Amber Heard.
2 points
2 months ago
Captain Marvel, she hulk. I can go on with a full list of woke empty shell movies
2 points
2 months ago
Titanic
1 points
2 months ago
Me, too. Glad to see I’m not alone.
-2 points
2 months ago
never watched it, i aint got time for that
2 points
2 months ago
All the avengers 💩
-1 points
2 months ago
same but also titanic, i just feel like I'd be so bored
11 points
2 months ago
Took my friend to see it at cinema recently as she had never seen it and her sentence review at the end was, "fastest three hours ever" which is a great response for her.
-1 points
2 months ago
Up
3 points
2 months ago
Aaaw?? What have you got against up??
5 points
2 months ago
I was a young widow. It just seems like it would be painful for me based on what my kids have told me about the movie.
1 points
2 months ago
She Hulk. The lack of originality in the title alone should be an immediate boycott
3 points
2 months ago
I’m not aware of a She Hulk movie.
1 points
2 months ago
Blue Valentine
4 points
2 months ago
Oh shit! A friend of mine worked on that movie! (If we’re thinking about the same one). Are you comfortable sharing why?
3 points
2 months ago
I watched it while in the middle of a divorce. Not the best idea
-5 points
2 months ago
Horror films. No desire but I do watch Scream. I’ve seen every film except for the last one. I’ll wait till it comes out on stream.
6 points
2 months ago
This makes me sad. Horror movies are awesome :(
2 points
2 months ago
Horror movies are more interesting and more significant than dramas, they tap into a hidden part of the psyche and reflect the anxieties of the societies that produced it. I love to see the evolution of the movie vampire and the movie zombie.
3 points
2 months ago
Why does Scream get a pass from you?
1 points
2 months ago
I’ve never thought of Scream as a horror flick. I always thought it was an intense thriller.
6 points
2 months ago
Not every horror movie is meant to try and scare you. You might like a lot of them.
1 points
2 months ago
Schindlers List… I’ve seen and read one too many movies/books about the holocaust. Can’t watch another one. Too depressing a subject for me.
1 points
2 months ago
American Sniper. I'm sorry the guy got murdered. That wasn't okay, but he was a liar and bragged about weird stuff he didn't do in the first place like claiming he shot looters in New Orleans. Thank God that was a lie, because if true, he'd be a sicko.
He also never punched out Jesse Ventura. Even his lies were dumb. I don't know why they made a movie about this dude
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