Die before seeing

[LMNO]

Private Ryan is best ingested in pieces, it's pretty brutal start to finish.  Don't watch the last bit either.  Spielberg kept his cock out of the film for as long as possible, but the last part just makes me wince.

I dunno... I've always thought that, as a whole, it was a fairly trite and cliche'd movie; but it had a magic trick in the beginning.

The first 15-20 minutes is so mind-bendingly chaotic, jarring, and realistically horrific that it wipes your brain of coherent thought, which causes it to yearn for a broad and obvious narrative with hit-you-over-the-head tropes.  And that's what the remainder of the movie is.

[BadBeast]

Seriously, Rocky was huge when I was a kid and I never went. Eventually, I never went out of stubbornness.

At this point, I am 39 and if I give in and see that fucking film I FUCKING LOSE.

I've got the same thing going with Lord of the Rings. People would not shut the fuck up about it when it(or they) came out so I didn't want to see it, and now I just refuse to watch it by principal. 

We should start an online "Oppositional Defiance Syndrome" support group, y'know?   As  kind of a joke support group, and create a bogus mental health demographic of Right contrary Bastards. Then someone else could pick it up, and try to get funding for long, expensive research into what I'm sure could be a real and relevant syndrome, given the right kind of research.

[AFK]

Seriously, Rocky was huge when I was a kid and I never went. Eventually, I never went out of stubbornness.

At this point, I am 39 and if I give in and see that fucking film I FUCKING LOSE.

I've got the same thing going with Lord of the Rings. People would not shut the fuck up about it when it(or they) came out so I didn't want to see it, and now I just refuse to watch it by principal. 

Go see it.  Sure, it's like the Queen of movies.  It's a little overblown in places.  But it's still a good entertaining series of movies.  And yeah, they take some liberties with the books, but just forget the books and you'll be fine.   

[BadBeast]

Seriously, Rocky was huge when I was a kid and I never went. Eventually, I never went out of stubbornness.

At this point, I am 39 and if I give in and see that fucking film I FUCKING LOSE.

I've got the same thing going with Lord of the Rings. People would not shut the fuck up about it when it(or they) came out so I didn't want to see it, and now I just refuse to watch it by principal. 

I   put LOTR off for as long as I could, because I thought the Movie could not possibly live up to all the hype. Also, it seemed like an impossibly ambitious project, that had failed before.
And having had my hopes  of anything I actually liked reading, translating well to Film, ground to a horrible, shit coloured paste under the obviously inappropriate heel of Sly Stallone, in "Judge Dredd" I was cynically loath to repeat the experience.

But I'm glad I did. I couldn't find any fault with it, thoroughly enjoyed it, and would happily watch any, or all of the films again. Just not at one big sitting. Sean Bean, although his acting abilities are limited,  was not stretched too hard as Boromir, and surprised me how much it took to kill him. He dies really well in it, and I can't think of a better  "Aren't I hard to kill?" scene in any film.  (perhaps Scarface)
And the location was stunning. The only other thing I'd seen filmed in NZ, was Xena.

[Richter]

Private Ryan is best ingested in pieces, it's pretty brutal start to finish.  Don't watch the last bit either.  Spielberg kept his cock out of the film for as long as possible, but the last part just makes me wince.

I dunno... I've always thought that, as a whole, it was a fairly trite and cliche'd movie; but it had a magic trick in the beginning.

The first 15-20 minutes is so mind-bendingly chaotic, jarring, and realistically horrific that it wipes your brain of coherent thought, which causes it to yearn for a broad and obvious narrative with hit-you-over-the-head tropes.  And that's what the remainder of the movie is.

I thought it was a bit more engaging than similar work, like the arguably more accurate and researched "Band of Brothers".  I'll have to watch it again with an eye to the tropes. 

[NWC]

Seriously, Rocky was huge when I was a kid and I never went. Eventually, I never went out of stubbornness.

At this point, I am 39 and if I give in and see that fucking film I FUCKING LOSE.

I've got the same thing going with Lord of the Rings. People would not shut the fuck up about it when it(or they) came out so I didn't want to see it, and now I just refuse to watch it by principal. 

Go see it.  Sure, it's like the Queen of movies.  It's a little overblown in places.  But it's still a good entertaining series of movies.  And yeah, they take some liberties with the books, but just forget the books and you'll be fine.   

Didn't read the books for the same reason. All I know about LOTR is the synopsis that they made in Clerks(I forget which one). Basically during the first two movie they walk alot, and in the last one they walk and drop a ring in a volcano. I'm perfectly fine with my level of ignorance.

[Adios]

Wow. I enjoyed a lot of the movies on everybodys lists. Guess my head is on backwards again.

[Eater of Clowns]

I so totally get that. I keep being told I should see Schindlers list, "Because everyone should see it"  Fuck that then. After being told this, any cinematic merits the film may, or may not have, are immaterial! I will NOT be watching it.
I Don't care how good anyone says it might be. Or how many Oscars it's won. 

A River runs through it?  (Another one I won't be watching)

Or The Bridges of Madison County either.

Or Avatar. James Cameron's films have all been shite so far, so I'm not holding out for Avatar.

I will admit to seeing the last ten minutes of Titanic though,  just to watch that grizzling Witch Winslett drown.  I wanted Leo to go down too, so even that was a tainted joy.

Aliens is fantastic.  Also, Hype Aversion ITT.

[MMIX]

Braveheart,
Braveheart, 
Apocalypto,
The Passion of the  . .  omg, Jebus who wrote this shit?
 
oh, and anything else even tangentially connected to that creep/ drongo Mel Gibson

[BadBeast]

The Passion of the  . .  omg, Jebus who wrote this shit?
 
oh, and anything else even tangentially connected to that creep/ drongo Mel Gibson

Absolutely. Only Mel Gibson, is so fucking humourless, that he could do a re-make of "Life of Brian" that is so spectacularly unfunny!
I didn't laugh once.

[hooplala]

Avatar, and anything M Night Shyamalamadingdong made after The Village.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Seriously, Rocky was huge when I was a kid and I never went. Eventually, I never went out of stubbornness.

At this point, I am 39 and if I give in and see that fucking film I FUCKING LOSE.

I've got the same thing going with Lord of the Rings. People would not shut the fuck up about it when it(or they) came out so I didn't want to see it, and now I just refuse to watch it by principal. 

We should start an online "Oppositional Defiance Syndrome" support group, y'know?   As  kind of a joke support group, and create a bogus mental health demographic of Right contrary Bastards. Then someone else could pick it up, and try to get funding for long, expensive research into what I'm sure could be a real and relevant syndrome, given the right kind of research.

I bet there's already an Oppositional Defiant support group online.

Funny thing, someone mentioned hype aversion. I have no kind of hype aversion whatsoever. What I have is some switch in my head that makes me, when someone says "I can't believe you've never seen XYZ!" with that "what rock have you been hiding under?" incredulity, as if it's simply unfuckingbelievable that any civilized person alive hasn't seen it, respond with "no, and I never will."

[Jenne]

That's sorta why I stayed away from Titanic and the like.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Wow. I enjoyed a lot of the movies on everybodys lists. Guess my head is on backwards again.

It has nothing to do with the movies being good. It has everything to do with refusing  to see them, for various reasons including but not limited to a sheer desire to be contrary and difficult.

[AFK]

That's sorta why I stayed away from Titanic and the like.

Titanic mostly sucked.  But there were two good parts in the movie.   

Three if you count the boat sinking.