Movies you wished you had never watched.

[Nathan Dodge]

Exactly! What happened to the days of the couple would start kissing and they'd pan over to the curtains?

I prefer when they cut to a train entering a tunnel.

 

[scottyrocks]

Right, or as Robert Klein used to say, hot dog chasing donut through the Lincoln Tunnel.

 

[Doctor Strange]

George Carlin once had a similar comment: "...and they cut to a train going into a tunnel. You don't have to be Fellini to figure that one out!"

 

[Yeps]

Hear hear!! I didn't mind the Ewoks, but Jar Jar B pretty much ruined that movie for me.

Honestly, I think Jar Jar had very little to do with why that movie was horrible. It was mainly that Lucas decided to stomp on all the continuity he had set up in the original trilogy, and then refused to hire an actual screenwriter to come up with convincing dialog. Also, why did we have to meet 10 year old Anakin? Why are there Midichlorians? Why are the jedi so common when nobody believes they are real in 30 years? Why....

I have to stop or I might hurt myself. I go back into denial now.

It is a shame that Lucas never made that prequel trilogy, it could have been really cool, although it is an even bigger shame that they never released the original trilogy on DVD, I wish I could watch it, but it simply isn't available.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

lol That's a pretty blatant implication!

I prefer when they cut to a train entering a tunnel.

 

[jamespowers]

lol That's a pretty blatant implication!

True but if you are watching something with a five year old then it is not likely they will get it.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

Unless they go to a seedy school!

True but if you are watching something with a five year old then it is not likely they will get it.

 

[jamespowers]

Unless they go to a seedy school!

Well there is that.....

 

[AtomicEraTom]

I dunno, even in my small town school, I was pretty well schooled in the birds in the bees by 7 or 8 years old.

Well there is that.....

 

[jamespowers]

I dunno, even in my small town school, I was pretty well schooled in the birds in the bees by 7 or 8 years old.

Great. Make my life harder.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

If I have kids, home school or Catholic school.

Great. Make my life harder.

 

[jamespowers]

If I have kids, home school or Catholic school.

Well, I am working on the last one.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

We all remember when Mom and Dad had that little talk with us about the birds and bees -- Boy, did they learn a lot!

 

[Edward]

Honestly, I think Jar Jar had very little to do with why that movie was horrible. It was mainly that Lucas decided to stomp on all the continuity he had set up in the original trilogy, and then refused to hire an actual screenwriter to come up with convincing dialog. Also, why did we have to meet 10 year old Anakin? Why are there Midichlorians? Why are the jedi so common when nobody believes they are real in 30 years? Why....

I have to stop or I might hurt myself. I go back into denial now.

It is a shame that Lucas never made that prequel trilogy, it could have been really cool, although it is an even bigger shame that they never released the original trilogy on DVD, I wish I could watch it, but it simply isn't available.

You mean the sequel trilogy? It's a shame anyone let the man near a filmset after Episode IV. That was the only one he directed. It was fine in its own right, but.... monkeys and Shakespeare and all that. Look at The Lost boys and how Joel Schumacher's career went from there.... The best of the original Star Wars films was Empire, and it's no coincidence that was also the one into which Lucas had the least input.

We all remember when Mom and Dad had that little talk with us about the birds and bees -- Boy, did they learn a lot!

I count myself eternally lucky that dad basically decided I obviously had the notion of it (and had done for three years by that point - learned off an educational television programme while in hospital with dyssentry at age ten, no less) and figured it was best left up to my teachers.

 

[Mario]

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,...dreadfully boring. Watched it when I had a cold and couldn't get to sleep otherwise.

I hope you're referring to the new version? I really liked the BBC mini series with Alec Guinness.

 

[jamespowers]

The worst had to be The Abyss. Long, boring, drawn out and just plain sloooowwww. Save yourself the agony. :eusa_doh:

 

[Flicka]

I cannot believe anyone actually remembers a time when they didn't know about the birds and the bees!

I was a child in Sweden in the 70's. In order to reach even the mature age of 6 and not know every single detail (with variations), I would have had to live under a rock. Not to mention that my uncle and his wife gave my sister a book with detailed info (and I do mean detailed) and all the necessary photos when I was born (and she was two) so i grew up with that. I have no concept of what it would be like not to know. You mean you guys do?

And yet, in my 30s, I still blush when people snog on tv if I'm watching with my mother... [huh]



I never even bothered to see the SW prequels. I suffered through the first and then decided that I would simply pretend that they had never happened. As far as I'm concerned, there are only three Star War movies.

 

[Undertow]

...Exactly! What happened to the days of the couple would start kissing and they'd pan over to the curtains?

Or what about in To Catch a Thief where Hitchcock uses fireworks? Boy, those were the days. Just sayin'.

Oh, and careful with the homeschooling. Not that Catholic school's any better! lol (Heck I turned out just fine...just fine...)

 

[LizzieMaine]

We all remember when Mom and Dad had that little talk with us about the birds and bees -- Boy, did they learn a lot!

I never had that conversation at all. When I was ten, I read the book my mother had hidden under the dishtowels and learned everything I needed to know. And that was enough to keep me chaste all thru high school.

 

[Son_of_Atropos]

This site picked apart all of the problems with the prequels. Worth a look.

http://redlettermedia.com/plinkett/star-wars/star-wars-episode-1-the-phantom-menace/