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thaggas · 08-12-2002, 08:18 PM

Okay, here's an interesting thread. I bought the Searchers a while back. My wife agreed to sit through it after hearing Spielberg rave about it. (My opinion, doesn't count , I guess) Well, my wife is part native american, and I tried to warn her about the film's racism. But, she wound up really hating it. Now every bad movie she sees, is compared to "The Searchers...echk!" (as she now calls it.) I still love the movie, but it's better off unmentioned in our house.

So the thread is this: Are there any titles out there that your significant other just won't let you forget?

destinyhope · 08-12-2002, 08:28 PM

I can honestly say I don't have that problem..

I don't tend to compare movies to other movies either as to how good or bad they are.. they each deserve to be judged individually.. well that's just my opinion.

rolisme · 08-12-2002, 08:31 PM

I don't have a significant other

, but I have had that problem with girlfriends before. One I remember was the time I seen Notting Hill in the theater. She wanted to go, so I went and she just hated it. So everytime we saw a bad movie, she was like 'well it wasn't quite as bad as Notting Hill' or she was 'that was worse than Notting Hill'

It annoyed the hell out of me....

kimfair · 08-12-2002, 09:24 PM

My first date with my now wife was to see a double feature of Tod Browning's Freaks (1933) and Eraserhead (I figured if that didn't drive her away from me, she was a keeper!). She spent about 2 hours going off on how much she hated Eraserhead (she really liked Freaks).

Fast forward now a few years, we're recently married, and I talked her into seeing Blue Velvet with me, (not telling her until AFTER we bought our tickets it was the same director who brought us Eraserhead!). About 20 minutes in she asked me what time it was. This pattern repeated about every 20 minutes until the film was over. I of course loved it, but I looked at her and asked her what she thought. She looked at me like a dog that's just been shown a card trick, and said simply "I liked Eraserhead better!". End of story. She did really like Mullholland Drive, though!

UFO · 08-12-2002, 11:45 PM

It goes both ways. While in England a couple years ago my wife (a Shakespeare nut) hauled me to "Loves Labours Lost" because it opened there while we were there and it wasn't opening in the U.S. until months later.

Needless to say it was one of the worst movie going experiences...ever. Hey, I dig Shakespeare...but setting his play as a 1930s musical? Thoughts of suicide ran through my head as I watched it.

So I badmouth LLL every chance I get.

DancinDave · 08-13-2002, 01:21 AM

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Originally posted by UFO
It goes both ways.

Yeah... my girlfriend got REALLY upset with me, because I couldn't stop talking and joking while watching A Walk to Remember -- meanwhile, she is usually very considerate and polite while watching "my" movies.

Now, if I make a slight against AWtR (which I often do because I'm a bit of a bastard) she flips out.

Welles and Ford Fan · 08-13-2002, 02:12 AM

First off: The Searchers is indeed a masterpiece. I don't think your wife watched it very closely. The racism depicted in the movie was supposed to be a negative trait. It is such a rich movie on so many levels, I enjoy it everytime I watch it. Wayne was never better, and I think it took a lot of courage on his part to play such a (sometimes) negative character as Ethan Edwards.

My wife does not care for any particularly violent or tense movie. Her idea of a good movie is Legally Blonde, where, aside from a few catty remarks, nothing bad happens and everything works out alright in the end. Anytime I am watching Glory, Saving Private Ryan, The Patriot,, or Braveheart, she goes to the other TV and watches sitcoms. Over all, if there is any one movie in the collection she truly despises, I think it is A Clockwork Orange. She agrees that The Searchers is a great film, though she does not like to watch it because she finds it intense and disturbing.

Oscar Antonio M · 08-13-2002, 02:13 AM

My wife Lorena really does have a strong attitude against The Fifth Element.
Which is one of my favorite films, but she isnt of the chick flick kind of woman, she likes all kinds of films.
But she absolutely hates TFE

Riedenschneider · 08-13-2002, 02:33 AM

My girlfriend hated Fight Club (*guess I'm not gonna marry her*) but then she loved Panic Room (*guess I'm gonna reconsider*).
So now it's up to Mission: Impossible 3

Paul.n3w · 08-13-2002, 03:10 AM

not exactly my sigifigant other

but my brother and I watch almost all the movies I buy on DVD together. He couldn't believe that I picked up Beverly Hills Ninja for like 8 bucks at walmart one day... Now whenever he doesn't like some other movie he'll say 'well it's not as bad as B.H.N.!!!'

I'm never going to hear the end of that

redshifter · 08-13-2002, 03:48 AM

my s.o.a.f.f. (significant other acceptance factor film) is john carpenter's "the thing". i'm a fan of monster movies, and this one is the best imho. if a new girlfriend can stand watching the whole thing and still love me, she's a keeper. my girlfriend (now wife) took 2 viewings before she could watch the whole thing. she is someone who gets really involved with the movie, so she tends to like romances and comedies. a movie like "the thing" or "prince of darkness" is often too much for her. when i brought home "some like it hot" she said "hooray, a movie where nobody dies!" (which is actually not true...)

one movie she will absolutely not watch is "ferris beuler's day off", because growing up her brother played it hundreds of times.

downhuman · 08-13-2002, 05:04 AM

Hey, check this out. After my then girlfriend-current wife and I watched Dark City in theaters some 5 years ago she said that she would avoid watching that movie again whenever possible. So a couple of months ago, we invited her father over for lunch and a movie (his choice). Well much to my wife's chagrin he picked Dark City as he had never seen it before. He loved it....... and so did my wife. She said she enjoyed it a lot more the second time. I was so relieved to hear her say that because that movie is one of my favorites and because of her dislike, I usually watch it alone.

I still can't get her to go near Blade Runner though. And that one is my favorite.

theta · 08-13-2002, 04:13 PM

My girlfriend would like to go to a Star Trek convention, and I'd love to take her. BUT, I know for a fact she has yet to see "The Wrath of Khan", and while she likes romances, musicals, and gross-out comedies...I dunno. I'm worried because I love "Wrath of Khan." Any experience with this?

Nexus 6 · 08-13-2002, 04:39 PM

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originally posted by theta:

My girlfriend would like to go to a Star Trek convention, and I'd love to take her. BUT, I know for a fact she has yet to see "The Wrath of Khan", and while she likes romances, musicals, and gross-out comedies...I dunno. I'm worried because I love "Wrath of Khan." Any experience with this?

A couple of friends-who-are-girls of mine finally got my brother and me to watch Grease one time (which I kind of enjoyed; don't tell anyone

), and of course, we turned it around and had them watch Wrath of Khan. They ended up liking quite a lot, and came back to watch Search for Spock and Voyage Home, too. So you never know.

If people don't know much about Star Trek, I usually tell them to start with Khan, as it can function as a standalone movie, or as part of the series. That's the reason it's so popular, I guess. Voyage Home has a lot of mainstream appeal, but you kind of have to see II & III to understand everything in it.

LBPound23 · 08-13-2002, 05:16 PM

I hate The Searchers too! One of the two worst films from the 62 I have seen off AFI's 100 list.

You probably didn't want to hear that, though.

limacharliewhiskey · 08-13-2002, 05:35 PM

The one film that my brother rips all the time is Event Horizon. "That movie was almost as bad as Event Horizon" or "At least it wasn't as bad as Event Horizon, the worst film of all time", that's pretty much what I hear from him whenever he sees a bad movie.

I thought the movie was semi-bad, but not as bad as he claims it to be.

I don't normally rip a movie in that manner, saying it was as bad as this or as bad as that. Here are some movies I have listed on DVD Aficionado that I put in my sub-category "rentals_suck_badly", which is my equivalent of a zero-star rating.

If I picked a movie to rip on, it'd be one of these:
Superman 4: The Quest for Peace
The Specials (I saw this on the Sci-Fi channel, and it was really bad, B-movie version of Mystery Men)
Millennium (the Kris Kristopherson film, not the TV series)
Screamers (worse than Ghosts of Mars)
Hideaway (despite Jeff Goldbllum and Alicia Silverstone)
Fist of the North Star (live-action with Gary Daniels, Van Damme wannabe)
8mm (worst Nic Cage film I've seen)
Blair Witch Project (I've seen much better low-budget indie films)

08-13-2002, 06:18 PM

this is a great thread!!

my girlfriend can't stand to watch Unforgiven. And this is one of my favorite movies!! She just simply says she doesn't like 'westerns' My mouth just drops and all I can say is, it's not the era of the movie that really matters. It's the turmoil (sp) and the ultimate explanation and answer if people can really change who and what they are!, oh well. She will just keep watching Grease!

jp

The Ghost · 08-13-2002, 07:10 PM

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Originally posted by Riedenschneider
My girlfriend hated Fight Club (*guess I'm not gonna marry her*) but then she loved Panic Room (*guess I'm gonna reconsider*).

Man, have you two got things backwards...

Rhettmatic · 08-13-2002, 07:43 PM

My girlfriend and I have pretty identical taste in movies... However, she absolutely cannot stand chick flicks, so if I want to watch When Harry Met Sally or Say Anything, I do it alone...

***Istagi*** · 08-13-2002, 08:32 PM

As far as "The Searchers" IMHO it is a pretty horrific display... I kept telling myself it is only a movie but thaggas your wife and I are in the same boat, it becomes very hard not to take such things personaly.... I know I did and think "The Searchers" is a terrible film because of it.

Racism is present in many many movies...especialy westerns but watching the Searchers was like being in a heavy weight championship fight.

Now my wife will not discuss A.I., Alien3 or if you mention Jurassic Park Lost World she will go into an hour long tirade about how fucked up and stupid it was.

***SeanL*** · 08-13-2002, 09:42 PM

My g/f has made me promise not to make her watch any movie that football is a main part of the plot.

Morticia · 08-13-2002, 10:15 PM

I'll watch anything, and so will Gomez

But I'm pretty sure he's a bit confused at my William Castle collection, tho he's never dissed it! And he 'accused' me of buying A.I. simply because Jude Law is in it,

, but that's all he said.

***Wirehed*** · 08-13-2002, 10:29 PM

The first date with my wife was watching A Clockwork Orange and Evil Dead II.

I think pretty much we always like the same things. although she really doesn't like Doctor Strangelove or A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, two of my favorites.

Dogstyles · 08-13-2002, 10:58 PM

My first date with my girlfriend, we went to go see Dark City. We both loved the Crow. I said "hey, the guy who made the Crow just came out with a new movie, let's go see it." She hated it so much. She still does.

And that was like 3/4 years ago....

theta · 08-14-2002, 05:41 AM

I personally think we have to try, with some movies, to separate our feelings from our viewing. Of course, nobody's insisting that we watch "The Searchers", or "Birth of a Nation" (which was almost impossible for me to take, for a very wide variety of reasons, and I'm white and politically incorrect!), or "Triumph of the Will" (which has lost a lot of power over the years...Thank God) or a whole host of other movies more than once. Once is usually enough.
But like it or not, it's a part of our history and part of being a film freak. Sure, it makes us uncomfortable, but let's not forget that now it can actually be ACKNOWLEDGED that we're uncomfortable.

Personally, I think the biggest disaster is when a movie like "The Searchers" or "Birth of a Nation" is released without any sort of real historical context. If you're going to put the movie out there, you should discuss its aspects, both positive and negative. Don't treat it as entertainment, treat it as an artefact for scholarly analysis. It won't soften the blow, but it'll make the audience aware somebody's getting hit.

MARVEL · 08-14-2002, 05:57 AM

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Originally posted by Istagi
As far as "The Searchers" IMHO it is a pretty horrific display... I kept telling myself it is only a movie but thaggas your wife and I are in the same boat, it becomes very hard not to take such things personaly.... I know I did and think "The Searchers" is a terrible film because of it.

Racism is present in many many movies...especialy westerns but watching the Searchers was like being in a heavy weight championship fight.

I can understand what you are saying. I as a black man always find it funny when someone tells me I just have to see American History X when there is nothing that is appealing to me about it. It may be a great movie but it's just a subject that I don't want anything to do with. Even if it's heart is in the right place I still don't want to see it.

XtrueX · 08-14-2002, 09:16 AM

My wife absolutely hates "Enemy Mine". Anytime I want to do a little playful torturing, all I have to do is repeat a line from that film & she goes berserk!

thaggas · 08-14-2002, 01:49 PM

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Originally posted by theta
If you're going to put the movie out there, you should discuss its aspects, both positive and negative. Don't treat it as entertainment, treat it as an artefact for scholarly analysis. It won't soften the blow, but it'll make the audience aware somebody's getting hit.

That's a good point, and that is something I tried to do. I live in a town of 3,000 and once a month I hosted a film screening at the library to introduce films people wouldn't otherwise see. I talked for about ten minutes about the significance of the film and then watch and discuss. This is where she saw it, and still no luck. But I certainly agree with you. Birth of a Nation is going to extremely tough.

interfxrence · 08-14-2002, 02:04 PM

no spouse... but me dear and i despise 'pleasantville' (i think. the one where witherspoon is a slutty... that part i didn't mind though). that was a bit of a task to sit through. as for me brother and friends, it's "buffalo 66" which i'm not sure if they just trashed just for the piss or if they TRULY hated that film. as for ME refering back, its fast and the furious. that movie made me wanna FIGHT.

flix · 08-14-2002, 10:27 PM

My wife hates anything written by David Mamet. IF I want to mess with her, I just start talking like a character out of House of Games or Spanish Prisoner. Recently, she picked up Heist at the local BB. "How about this," she says as she flips it over to read the back. I watch her out of the corner of my eye, and she puts it down and mutters "Oh, never mind."

Newbomb Turk · 08-15-2002, 01:27 AM

The Sicilian starring Christopher Lambert. I dragged her to the show to see that and have regretted it ever since.

Riedenschneider · 08-15-2002, 03:00 AM

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Originally posted by flix
My wife hates anything written by David Mamet. IF I want to mess with her, I just start talking like a character out of House of Games or Spanish Prisoner. Recently, she picked up Heist at the local BB. "How about this," she says as she flips it over to read the back. I watch her out of the corner of my eye, and she puts it down and mutters "Oh, never mind."

...Tomorrow morning, when she asks you "coffee honey?" you know what to answer

3DMan · 08-15-2002, 03:40 AM

My girlfriend said Raiders of the Lost Ark was "boring". I almost got my childhood bullwhip out of the closet and bitch-whipped her.

"Everybody needs David Mamet! That's why they call him David Mamet!!"

Mr. Furious · 08-15-2002, 02:56 PM

I've got a slightly different twist to this... my wife won't even see a movie because she "hates it". My wife refuses to even watch StarShip Troopers because she assumes it's a gross out violent, boob-fest, with spiders.

I really enjoyed it - mostly because it was poking fun at itself and its great special effects. However, my wife is irrationally hateful of this movie - one that she has NEVER SEEN!

thaggas · 08-15-2002, 04:45 PM

Really? Starship Troopers? Well, I'm gonna have to go with your wife on this one, because of one little reason: Paul Verhoeven.
:barf:

I mean the "it's-funny-because-it's-so-stupid" argument is fine for one film, but for cryin' out loud, this guy's canon since '87 reads like a Razzie's history.

Hollow Man

Starship Troopers :barf:
Showgirls :barf:

Basic Instinct

Total Recall

RoboCop :barf:

NotEd · 08-15-2002, 05:25 PM

The current gf hates The Princess Bride. I can't fathom how anyone could hate it, but apparently it was her sister's favorite film and she used to watch it all the time on their only TV. Still I would've just left the room. :p

I did the same thing to my last gf. We went to see AI. I hated it because of the last act. She didn't. She dumped my a$$ a few weeks later. Was there a connection? I dunno.

My Father is great. He walked out of a showing of Buckaroo Banzai when I was a kid and spent the second hour of the film watching some kid play on a Tapper machine in the lobby. Now whenever he ends up leaving a film he hates we say he's gone to look for Tapper.

jmo410 · 08-16-2002, 03:06 AM

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Originally posted by 3DMan
My girlfriend said Raiders of the Lost Ark was "boring".

I would have broken up with her then and there. No discussion. No apologies. I would have temporarily acted like things were cool, had some great make-up sex, then kicked her ass out the door as I sat down to watch Raiders for the millionth time.

My girlfriend can't stand the 50's sci-fi stuff I like. I break out in a rash whenever I see the words "Meg" and "Ryan" featured in the opening credits. I also got dragged to that Streisand vomit, The Mirror Has Two Faces, on a first date. On the second date, she said I could choose the movie. I chose Space Jam. There was no third date.

TwistedByDesign · 08-16-2002, 03:51 AM

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Originally posted by Welles and Ford Fan
Over all, if there is any one movie in the collection she truly despises, I think it is A Clockwork Orange.

*drops jaw*

That's one of my favorite movies!!!

Eric · 08-16-2002, 02:00 PM

In my case, the ol' ball and chain hates Brazil. She actually made me shut it off halfway through. But she loved the Godfather part 1&2 (I wisely avoided showing her part 3).

08-12-2002, 08:18 PM	#1 (permalink)
thaggas Actor Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Nebraska	Why can't my spouse drop it? Okay, here's an interesting thread. I bought the Searchers a while back. My wife agreed to sit through it after hearing Spielberg rave about it. (My opinion, doesn't count , I guess) Well, my wife is part native american, and I tried to warn her about the film's racism. But, she wound up really hating it. Now every bad movie she sees, is compared to "The Searchers...echk!" (as she now calls it.) I still love the movie, but it's better off unmentioned in our house. So the thread is this: Are there any titles out there that your significant other just won't let you forget? __________________ Dear Ndugu...

08-12-2002, 08:28 PM	#2 (permalink)
destinyhope Actress Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Canada	I can honestly say I don't have that problem.. I don't tend to compare movies to other movies either as to how good or bad they are.. they each deserve to be judged individually.. well that's just my opinion. __________________ In my dreams or in your nightmares

08-12-2002, 08:31 PM	#3 (permalink)
rolisme Actor Join Date: Feb 2002	I don't have a significant other , but I have had that problem with girlfriends before. One I remember was the time I seen Notting Hill in the theater. She wanted to go, so I went and she just hated it. So everytime we saw a bad movie, she was like 'well it wasn't quite as bad as Notting Hill' or she was 'that was worse than Notting Hill' It annoyed the hell out of me.... __________________ If you don't like my opinion, don't ask the question. If you never asked the question, just ignore my post. "A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer." - Seneca 55 BC-39 AD

08-12-2002, 09:24 PM	#4 (permalink)
kimfair No World Series Ring Since... Last night! Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Boston,MA USA	My first date with my now wife was to see a double feature of Tod Browning's Freaks (1933) and Eraserhead (I figured if that didn't drive her away from me, she was a keeper!). She spent about 2 hours going off on how much she hated Eraserhead (she really liked Freaks). Fast forward now a few years, we're recently married, and I talked her into seeing Blue Velvet with me, (not telling her until AFTER we bought our tickets it was the same director who brought us Eraserhead!). About 20 minutes in she asked me what time it was. This pattern repeated about every 20 minutes until the film was over. I of course loved it, but I looked at her and asked her what she thought. She looked at me like a dog that's just been shown a card trick, and said simply "I liked Eraserhead better!". End of story. She did really like Mullholland Drive, though! __________________ Pray, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner, confessedly unworthy. -Ambrose Bierce Kimfair's CD List

08-13-2002, 02:13 AM	#8 (permalink)
Oscar Antonio M Loves his "family" Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Heaven & Hell coalition	My wife Lorena really does have a strong attitude against The Fifth Element. Which is one of my favorite films, but she isnt of the chick flick kind of woman, she likes all kinds of films. But she absolutely hates TFE __________________ DVD's

08-12-2002, 11:45 PM	#5 (permalink)
UFO Actor Join Date: Feb 2002	It goes both ways. While in England a couple years ago my wife (a Shakespeare nut) hauled me to "Loves Labours Lost" because it opened there while we were there and it wasn't opening in the U.S. until months later. Needless to say it was one of the worst movie going experiences...ever. Hey, I dig Shakespeare...but setting his play as a 1930s musical? Thoughts of suicide ran through my head as I watched it. So I badmouth LLL every chance I get.

08-13-2002, 02:12 AM	#7 (permalink)
Welles and Ford Fan Actor Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Houston, TX USA	First off: The Searchers is indeed a masterpiece. I don't think your wife watched it very closely. The racism depicted in the movie was supposed to be a negative trait. It is such a rich movie on so many levels, I enjoy it everytime I watch it. Wayne was never better, and I think it took a lot of courage on his part to play such a (sometimes) negative character as Ethan Edwards. My wife does not care for any particularly violent or tense movie. Her idea of a good movie is Legally Blonde, where, aside from a few catty remarks, nothing bad happens and everything works out alright in the end. Anytime I am watching Glory, Saving Private Ryan, The Patriot,, or Braveheart, she goes to the other TV and watches sitcoms. Over all, if there is any one movie in the collection she truly despises, I think it is A Clockwork Orange. She agrees that The Searchers is a great film, though she does not like to watch it because she finds it intense and disturbing.

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Riedenschneider Actor Join Date: May 2002 Location: Hamburg, Deutschland	My girlfriend hated Fight Club (guess I'm not gonna marry her) but then she loved Panic Room** (guess I'm gonna reconsider). So now it's up to Mission: Impossible 3 __________________ "The Hughes wealth, power and sex appeal devastated scores of broken-hearted movie stars and made grown men shudder with envy and anxiety every time he entered a room. Mr. DiCaprio just makes any logical person over 14 wonder if he ever graduated high school." -Rex Reed

08-13-2002, 03:10 AM	#10 (permalink)
Paul.n3w Actor Join Date: May 2002 Location: Upstate NY	not exactly my sigifigant other but my brother and I watch almost all the movies I buy on DVD together. He couldn't believe that I picked up Beverly Hills Ninja for like 8 bucks at walmart one day... Now whenever he doesn't like some other movie he'll say 'well it's not as bad as B.H.N.!!!' I'm never going to hear the end of that

08-13-2002, 03:48 AM	#11 (permalink)
redshifter Actor Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: the emerald city	my s.o.a.f.f. (significant other acceptance factor film) is john carpenter's "the thing". i'm a fan of monster movies, and this one is the best imho. if a new girlfriend can stand watching the whole thing and still love me, she's a keeper. my girlfriend (now wife) took 2 viewings before she could watch the whole thing. she is someone who gets really involved with the movie, so she tends to like romances and comedies. a movie like "the thing" or "prince of darkness" is often too much for her. when i brought home "some like it hot" she said "hooray, a movie where nobody dies!" (which is actually not true...) one movie she will absolutely not watch is "ferris beuler's day off", because growing up her brother played it hundreds of times. __________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Did you ever hear of "The Seattle Seven"? That was me... and six other guys.

08-13-2002, 05:04 AM	#12 (permalink)
downhuman Actor Join Date: Oct 2001	Hey, check this out. After my then girlfriend-current wife and I watched Dark City in theaters some 5 years ago she said that she would avoid watching that movie again whenever possible. So a couple of months ago, we invited her father over for lunch and a movie (his choice). Well much to my wife's chagrin he picked Dark City as he had never seen it before. He loved it....... and so did my wife. She said she enjoyed it a lot more the second time. I was so relieved to hear her say that because that movie is one of my favorites and because of her dislike, I usually watch it alone. I still can't get her to go near Blade Runner though. And that one is my favorite.

08-13-2002, 04:13 PM	#13 (permalink)
theta Cheap Cerebral Paralysis Join Date: May 2002 Location: In aintnosin's basement	Haven't run into this yet... My girlfriend would like to go to a Star Trek convention, and I'd love to take her. BUT, I know for a fact she has yet to see "The Wrath of Khan", and while she likes romances, musicals, and gross-out comedies...I dunno. I'm worried because I love "Wrath of Khan." Any experience with this? __________________ "I need bling, I tell you, BLING!!!" --Palmerlime Theta's discs, 300 mark crossed, 400 here we come!

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LBPound23 Actor Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: New York, USA	I hate The Searchers too! One of the two worst films from the 62 I have seen off AFI's 100 list. You probably didn't want to hear that, though. __________________ UltimateDisney.com: The Ultimate Guide to Disney DVD - News and views on all of Disney's movies.

08-13-2002, 05:35 PM	#16 (permalink)
limacharliewhiskey FryMaster Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: The O.C.	The one film that my brother rips all the time is Event Horizon. "That movie was almost as bad as Event Horizon" or "At least it wasn't as bad as Event Horizon, the worst film of all time", that's pretty much what I hear from him whenever he sees a bad movie. I thought the movie was semi-bad, but not as bad as he claims it to be. I don't normally rip a movie in that manner, saying it was as bad as this or as bad as that. Here are some movies I have listed on DVD Aficionado that I put in my sub-category "rentals_suck_badly", which is my equivalent of a zero-star rating. If I picked a movie to rip on, it'd be one of these: Superman 4: The Quest for Peace The Specials (I saw this on the Sci-Fi channel, and it was really bad, B-movie version of Mystery Men) Millennium (the Kris Kristopherson film, not the TV series) Screamers (worse than Ghosts of Mars) Hideaway (despite Jeff Goldbllum and Alicia Silverstone) Fist of the North Star (live-action with Gary Daniels, Van Damme wannabe) 8mm (worst Nic Cage film I've seen) Blair Witch Project (I've seen much better low-budget indie films) __________________ "Believing oneself to be perfect is often a sign of a delusional mind." - Data in Star Trek: First Contact DVD Aficionado collection.

08-13-2002, 06:18 PM	#17 (permalink)
JP	this is a great thread!! my girlfriend can't stand to watch Unforgiven. And this is one of my favorite movies!! She just simply says she doesn't like 'westerns' My mouth just drops and all I can say is, it's not the era of the movie that really matters. It's the turmoil (sp) and the ultimate explanation and answer if people can really change who and what they are!, oh well. She will just keep watching Grease! jp

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Rhettmatic Actor Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Toronto	My girlfriend and I have pretty identical taste in movies... However, she absolutely cannot stand chick flicks, so if I want to watch When Harry Met Sally or Say Anything, I do it alone... __________________ My finger's on the pulse, but where's the beat? My CD Collection

08-13-2002, 08:32 PM	#20 (permalink)
*Istagi* Producer/Admin Speaks for himself Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha	As far as "The Searchers" IMHO it is a pretty horrific display... I kept telling myself it is only a movie but thaggas your wife and I are in the same boat, it becomes very hard not to take such things personaly.... I know I did and think "The Searchers" is a terrible film because of it. Racism is present in many many movies...especialy westerns but watching the Searchers was like being in a heavy weight championship fight. Now my wife will not discuss A.I., Alien3 or if you mention Jurassic Park Lost World she will go into an hour long tirade about how fucked up and stupid it was. __________________ Chew, if only you could see what I've seen with your eyes Istagi's DVD's DDS 351

08-13-2002, 09:42 PM	#21 (permalink)
*SeanL* Producer/Admin Got BMG? Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: NW Florida	My g/f has made me promise not to make her watch any movie that football is a main part of the plot. __________________ Forum Administrator "You can never go home again, Oatman... but I guess you can shop there."

08-13-2002, 10:15 PM	#22 (permalink)
Morticia Administrator Emeritus Film Class Goddess Part-Time PRN Princess Panty Thief Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Devil's Point. Burn baby burn!	I'll watch anything, and so will Gomez But I'm pretty sure he's a bit confused at my William Castle collection, tho he's never dissed it! And he 'accused' me of buying A.I. simply because Jude Law is in it, , but that's all he said. __________________ Nope, you really haven't lived until you've fed a naked Fire Dancer a S'more...cooked from her own flaming baton. I reject your reality and substitute my own! "Freeze dried moles. Price as marked." -- Nixon, Suicide Girl

08-13-2002, 10:29 PM	#23 (permalink)
*Wirehed* Producer/Admin NSFW Off 'the list' Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Sacto, Ca --Near Galt, home of LeVar Burton	The first date with my wife was watching A Clockwork Orange and Evil Dead II. I think pretty much we always like the same things. although she really doesn't like Doctor Strangelove or A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, two of my favorites. __________________ The Order of the Zombie. The world's greatest zombie culture website. "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wagn'nagl dominos" In his house in R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits for the pizza delivery guy.

08-13-2002, 10:58 PM	#24 (permalink)
Dogstyles Actor Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: San Diego, CA	Dark City My first date with my girlfriend, we went to go see Dark City. We both loved the Crow. I said "hey, the guy who made the Crow just came out with a new movie, let's go see it." She hated it so much. She still does. And that was like 3/4 years ago.... __________________ Got bitches out for me, Bring 'em home, give 'em they choice of balcony, She said "We can have more fun", I said "How can we?", Then she brought her girl in and ate her out for me, wow (Wow!) - The Clipse My Collection

08-14-2002, 05:41 AM	#25 (permalink)
theta Cheap Cerebral Paralysis Join Date: May 2002 Location: In aintnosin's basement	Racism in movies I personally think we have to try, with some movies, to separate our feelings from our viewing. Of course, nobody's insisting that we watch "The Searchers", or "Birth of a Nation" (which was almost impossible for me to take, for a very wide variety of reasons, and I'm white and politically incorrect!), or "Triumph of the Will" (which has lost a lot of power over the years...Thank God) or a whole host of other movies more than once. Once is usually enough. But like it or not, it's a part of our history and part of being a film freak. Sure, it makes us uncomfortable, but let's not forget that now it can actually be ACKNOWLEDGED that we're uncomfortable. Personally, I think the biggest disaster is when a movie like "The Searchers" or "Birth of a Nation" is released without any sort of real historical context. If you're going to put the movie out there, you should discuss its aspects, both positive and negative. Don't treat it as entertainment, treat it as an artefact for scholarly analysis. It won't soften the blow, but it'll make the audience aware somebody's getting hit. __________________ "I need bling, I tell you, BLING!!!" --Palmerlime Theta's discs, 300 mark crossed, 400 here we come!

08-14-2002, 09:16 AM	#27 (permalink)
XtrueX Actor Join Date: Mar 2002	My wife absolutely hates "Enemy Mine". Anytime I want to do a little playful torturing, all I have to do is repeat a line from that film & she goes berserk!

08-14-2002, 02:04 PM	#29 (permalink)
interfxrence Actor Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Toronto, Ontario	no spouse... but me dear and i despise 'pleasantville' (i think. the one where witherspoon is a slutty... that part i didn't mind though). that was a bit of a task to sit through. as for me brother and friends, it's "buffalo 66" which i'm not sure if they just trashed just for the piss or if they TRULY hated that film. as for ME refering back, its fast and the furious. that movie made me wanna FIGHT.

08-14-2002, 10:27 PM	#30 (permalink)
flix Actor Join Date: Sep 2001	My wife hates anything written by David Mamet. IF I want to mess with her, I just start talking like a character out of House of Games or Spanish Prisoner. Recently, she picked up Heist at the local BB. "How about this," she says as she flips it over to read the back. I watch her out of the corner of my eye, and she puts it down and mutters "Oh, never mind."

08-15-2002, 01:27 AM	#31 (permalink)
Newbomb Turk Actor Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Downriver "Big Lake"	The Sicilian starring Christopher Lambert. I dragged her to the show to see that and have regretted it ever since. __________________ Uhhh......FRAH-JEE-LAY. That must be Italian!

08-15-2002, 03:40 AM	#33 (permalink)
3DMan SOex Anonymous Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Dallas, TX	My girlfriend said Raiders of the Lost Ark was "boring". I almost got my childhood bullwhip out of the closet and bitch-whipped her. "Everybody needs David Mamet! That's why they call him David Mamet!!"

08-15-2002, 02:56 PM	#34 (permalink)
Mr. Furious Ticking Time Bomb of Fury -- Now with Boundless Rage! Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Eden Prairie, MN USA	I've got a slightly different twist to this... my wife won't even see a movie because she "hates it". My wife refuses to even watch *StarShip Troopers* because she assumes it's a gross out violent, boob-fest, with spiders. I really enjoyed it - mostly because it was poking fun at itself and its great special effects. However, my wife is irrationally hateful of this movie - one that she has NEVER SEEN! __________________ Mr. Furious!!! "Don't mess with the Volcano my man... cause I will go Pompeii on your butt!" "Right now, I'm kinda like a powder keg, and you're the match..."

08-15-2002, 04:45 PM	#35 (permalink)
thaggas Actor Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Nebraska	Really? Starship Troopers? Well, I'm gonna have to go with your wife on this one, because of one little reason: Paul Verhoeven. :barf: I mean the "it's-funny-because-it's-so-stupid" argument is fine for one film, but for cryin' out loud, this guy's canon since '87 reads like a Razzie's history. Hollow Man Starship Troopers :barf: Showgirls :barf: Basic Instinct Total Recall RoboCop :barf: __________________ Dear Ndugu...

08-15-2002, 05:25 PM	#36 (permalink)
NotEd NotActor Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Spittin' distance from Washington, DC	The current gf hates The Princess Bride. I can't fathom how anyone could hate it, but apparently it was her sister's favorite film and she used to watch it all the time on their only TV. Still I would've just left the room. :p I did the same thing to my last gf. We went to see AI. I hated it because of the last act. She didn't. She dumped my a$$ a few weeks later. Was there a connection? I dunno. My Father is great. He walked out of a showing of Buckaroo Banzai when I was a kid and spent the second hour of the film watching some kid play on a Tapper machine in the lobby. Now whenever he ends up leaving a film he hates we say he's gone to look for Tapper. __________________ "We fear change." -Garth Algar My horribly neglected DVD list Last edited by NotEd : 08-15-2002 at 06:42 PM.

08-16-2002, 02:00 PM	#39 (permalink)
Eric doubting my own existence Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Detroit, MI	In my case, the ol' ball and chain hates Brazil. She actually made me shut it off halfway through. But she loved the Godfather part 1&2 (I wisely avoided showing her part 3).

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