We all have a movie that we will never watch for any reason. Mine is "Southside with You" (2016)
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I don't know how anyone could think that a movie about Barack and Michelle Obama's first date would be something people would be interested in. I wouldn't even watch it for free.
Any obvious Oscar bait (Sully, Lincoln, Shakespeare in Love, La La Land, Boyhood, etc). I hate Oscar bait movies.
I especially refuse to watch Boyhood. What a pretentious idea for a movie. And I resent this idea of someone from a specific socioeconomic demographic shooting a movie that supposedly captures a universal experience. This is a very arrogant, privileged thing to do, to think that your experiences represents those of everyone else's.
Boyhood is more of a gimmick movie. There's not much story, just focus on him aging.
shareThe King and I (1956)
shareWhy that one?
shareMy favorite movie is The Searchers (1956) which wasn't even nominated for Best Film and John Wayne wasn't nominated for Best Actor. Yul Brynner won Best Actor in The King and I - a friggin musical. Best Picture went to Around the World in 80 Days - another movie I won't watch.
shareThe Accused . I saw 30 min? left.
shareYou made the right call. It's nowhere as good as anyone says it is. After the initial rape scene, it turns into an embarrassingly cheesy, hamfisted TV movie-of-the-week movie that states the obvious (rapists are bad and should be punished). Like, seriously--who in the 1980s was still thinking it was acceptable for a woman to get brutally raped and for the rapists to go free?
shareThat movie was about getting punishment for the ones who encouraged it and cheered it on. That was the main focus of it.
shareI understand that. Again, it's stating the obvious.
For example, imagine a movie where it was rape and not murder. It would be stating the obvious if a movie was about going after the people who encouraged a gang of people to brutally beat someone to death. It goes without saying.
Not really. Times were waaaay different then than now. You're looking at it from today's standards.
shareYou have no idea what you're talking about. I was alive and well when this movie came out (1988). Why do so many kids keep thinking that no one who is alive today was alive 20, 30, 40 years ago and therefore can't provide insight into what the past was like?
shareI guess I missed the part where I said you weren't alive back then. ππππ
You're original comment focused on letting the rapists go free. You mentioned nothing about the real focus of the movie which was trying to get punishment for the ones who clapped and cheered. This was a real case from 1982. And again, times and standards were much different back then. Hence why they had to fight so hard to try to get justice. That's why it doesn't go without saying.
And since you decided to add to your original comment of "You have no idea what you're talking about. I was alive and well when this movie came out (1988)"
then allow me to add that sometimes old age can warp ones memories and perception of things that happened in the past. ππππ
Editing again to add.... Oh and thanks for thinking I'm so young. I'm a child of the 70s so it's a compliment LOL ππππππππ
I love Greg Kinnear, but I will never watch "Heaven Is for Real" (2014).
shareA Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. Love Tom Hanks, but...
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