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We've talked a lot about favourite films and films we've watched a few times but which film would you recommend avoiding.

In Friends someone says Mrs Doubtfire is two hours of their life that they'll never get back and got to agree - it's not one that I'd rush to watch again.

And have you ever given up half way through a film?

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Yes, but not without a struggle I usually get a hint after she gives me a black eye and puts me in an arm lock!

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Main one that comes to mind is American Psycho ....... what a load of pooh! To me the film was made just to see how sick they could get away with being!

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alien , what a boring tedious piece of crap that movie was

aliens however was a vast improvement

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I must admit that I would rather curl up with a really good book than watch a film. I really love to find one that I'm unable to put down, especially when I have nothing much to do. Then, I go make coffee, get all snuggled in my bed and read....................

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I know most people loved it but I fell asleep watching Men in Black. Another more recent one I was bored to tears with was Brothers Grimm. Wish I'd saved my money for something better.

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I struggle to watch films full stop. Unless it catches my imagination in first 10 mins I get really restless. So hardly watch any. Although I could have sat all day watching the lord of the rings films

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The Full Monty.

The film that suposedly revitalised the British film industry.

Everyone raved about it, but I thought it was just dire. It could have been so good, but it just went for the lowest comic, common denominator all the way through.

It could have really said something poigniant about the demise of British industry, and the emasculation of the once working man. Most people would have even missed that the character played by Hugo Speers, [the well endowed one,] was gay, except for one brief line when he declared his love for the ginger one. It certainly didn't have the whimsical charm of Calender Girls.

Vastly over rated. Never again.:(

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four weddings and a funneral ...i gave up after the first ten minuets ,,, think it was the choice of words that did it ....

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American Phsyco was a wonderful film!

If you really want to see a bad film then it would have to be the Neverending Story. My God they got the title of that film right!:mad:

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The worse films ever have got to be Terminator 1,2,3,4,5,1001,3076,907,1,0002..............07 at least it seems to go on for that long. The saying " I'll be back" bloody hell fire, he took that to the extremes.

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Loved it as well, as I did the book.

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The Book was great as was the film though I thought that the film missed out a few of the social comments that the book was trying to get accross about 80's society! Still, a damn good film!

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any film by steven king usualy bores the crap out of me but i hear the books are always better

too lazy to read a book though i do all my reading on the internet

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Talking of films missing out good points. I read the book Angela's Ashes, which was a very, very good book indeed. But then i watched the film, and was very disappointed as they missed out huge amounts of the story that actually made the book fantastic.

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I read the review of the book in the Sunday Times and it said do not buy this book under any circumstances.

Red rad, bull, of course I bought it.

The gimmick was cheap, but very effective. After reading page after page about the vacuous life of these empty people, and you're bored stupid with the lists of what his friends were wearing, the graphic, sadistic violence really was like an almighty punch in the face. Like most movies it wasn't quite as good as the book, as your imagination is replaced by that of the director's.

All Bret Easton Ellis's books are worth a read, in my opinion.

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It is the only book of his that I have read!

I would like to spend more time reading but unfortnatley I do not get the time!
Not for fiction at least!

Would his other books make just as gory a film as American Phsyco?

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No his other books are still about the empty lives of the American rich, still good though.

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Slightly off the point I know, but if you really want to waste two hours of your life try Wanadoo chat!

You will feel your time to be totally wasted!

Though there was one more than worthy exception!

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Can you cam chat?

A lot of the Arab world like to see me dance for world peace.

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Would they indeed?

I personally can not cam chat! Which is a shame. I should imagine your dance would be one worth seeing.

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oh god where do i start!?

sooooo many!! titanic was such drab! only the scenes of the boat splittin up were interesting. then all that rose i'm dyin for u crap!

the talented mr ripley - walkout
legally blonde 2 - how cud u do that witherspoon?!
dukes of hazzard - no more undercar shots pls!
all hte police academy's apart from the first one
street fighter - not even kylie rescued this one!
battlefield earth - that one wiht john travolta as an alien
gi jane
striptease
batman and robin
tango and cash
road trip

oh i cud go on

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the new war of the worlds was a severe let down and to be honest the cd musical gave more of an impression of action

to me the film was severely lacking action especialy as it didnt show any fighting between the military and the aliens , granted they showed a few tanks going up a hill and getting destroyed but with todays effects and big budgets they could have had jet fighters taking on the aliens and showing a few dogfights etc and maybe some battle cruisers getting wiped out at sea

naturaly of course the papers gave it amazing reviews and almost everyone agreed because it was war of the worlds and oh it had tom cruise in it soo it must be good

ive seen bigger wars in my back yard between my tub of salt and the local slugs , never mind the world :rolleyes:

oh while ive got my grumpy head on

every single batman film totaly blew chunks apart from the lastest effort batman begins which is how batman should have been filmed from the begining

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i dunno bout that one chav

the first batman had alot of promise

it wasnt until joel schumacher came and gave batman nipples that the trouble began

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I fell asleep in the flicks during the first of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. I had just come off nights and not even Sean Bean could keep me awake...:D

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Shock/horror, shame on you!:D

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A few years back we used to run a video club at the place I worked,staff would pay £1 a week into a kitty,we had a list of payees who would each have a turn at choosing a video to buy.All the group would have the video to view then afterwards the person who picked it kept it,then the next listed person would pick a video.
This worked well until the fateful day someone picked The Wolves of Willoughby Chase.Without a doubt this was the most boring unwatchable film ever made,it stopped the club in its tracks,never again was this person to pick a title.If you read this David,repent.

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Horses for courses.

Mani walked out, but I loved the talented Mr Ripley. I've seen it four times.

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The Talented Mr Ripley is a superb film. I was so impressed I bought the DVD!

Mr Remmington

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Lol, very funny Victor Kiam.;)

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Totally agree with that Chav, about War Of The Worlds.
I also found Terminal with Tom Hanks a real boring dissapointment. I was so bored i wished i was a kid again with a pea-shooter :D

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Only film I ever walked out of was Fatal Attraction. I had just broken up with someone at the time because he cheated on me so perhaps wasn't the best film to distract me.

Couldn't get into Troy - even Brad Pitt's legs couldn't keep my attention.

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I have to say I was not particularly gripped by Brad's legs either!

Though very probably for different reasons to your good self!

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The house on haunted hill, what a load of dribble the film was sealed at asda and it was in a sleeve so we could not read the write up on the film but the front cover looked really good you know all this previously banned and all that so we bought it on a whimm boy did we regret it. The biggest load of rubbish i have ever watched was supposed to be scary cr*p.

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me and Anne got this out to rent the other night all i can say is i am glad i did not buy it.
it was very slow the origenal version was much better i was waiting all through the film for some action but was very disapointed totally agree with you chav1 its rubbish

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If MUMMIBOO wasnt scared then it must have been rubbish.
She spends half of scarey films behind a cushion.
I have even known her ring me in the middle of a film because she's a scaredie cat.
Spiders now they are scarey.
Mick's right War of the worlds was a let down.

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I rather enjoyed War of the Worlds. If you want to really waste your time watch Van Helsing. The remake as opposed to the Peter Cushing!

Awful!

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Got to say I enjoyed Van Helsing, got it on dvd.

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Ah well never mind, there is always one!

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Me 2 Im affraid I did enjoy Van Helsing apart from the campest Dracula ever I definately think they could have done better there.:D

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Open Water.A true story of 2 people stuck out in the ocean surrounded by sharks but both of them die.Hmmm was ther a fish writing a diary for them?The worst film of all time.

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Only saw the 'trailers'....some relative bought me the video one Christmas...... it's still in the cellophane!!

(Thinks..... will it be worth putting on E-Bay?? A pristine example?)

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Completely agree with you there the only film ive watched in recent history with my finger firmly on the fast forward button.

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A complete washout that one is.

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I saw the trailer for Open Water. It said it was based on a true story but how? Surely,if the two people were abandoned and both died, who would be able to tell us what happened to them? They might not have had to fight sharks, they might have simply got tired and sunk, or a passing alien ship might have picked them up and taken them to planet Zarg - who knows????