The Town of Odyssey

The book burning thread needed a silver screen companion. Seen a movie you thought was so terrible that you feel compelled to warn everyone else about it? Share your concerns here!

1. The Master
2. Brave
3. Safety Not Guaranteed
4. Moonrise Kingdom
5. Ruby Sparks
6. Life of Pi
7. Blue Like Jazz
8. Cloud Atlas
9. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
10. The Words
11. Sinister

I knew I should have just waited for someone else to start this thread.

Anything Roger Ebert ever enjoyed is generally not to be recommended.

The Last Mimzy.
Eragon. (if you've read the book)
The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James.

Petrichor wrote:9. The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Don't even read the book

Citizen Kane
Gone with the Wind
Toy Story
The Wizard of Oz
It's A Wonderful Life
Weekend at Bernie's 2

The Top Crusader wrote: Gone with the Wind
Toy Story
The Wizard of Oz
It's A Wonderful Life

*blinks* Why?

It should go without saying that everything Kirk Cameron has loaned his "talents" to should be avoided. That and anything that says "Sherwood" and isn't referring to Robin Hood should be thrown on the floor, as you run screaming in the other direction.

Also, the first Hunger Games was pretty bad.

IrishTiger wrote:

The Top Crusader wrote: Gone with the Wind
Toy Story
The Wizard of Oz
It's A Wonderful Life

*blinks* Why?

Top is possibly at least somewhat kidding, but I actually totally agree on "Gone with the Wind." I only saw it once, and it was years ago. My sister and I had it on a list of classics that we hadn't seen but wanted to, and when we finally watched it, we wished that we hadn't. I expected a little more happiness and positive character growth. I wasn't familiar with the story, so I understand that a big part of the problem was that my expectations and what the movie actually is did not match, but I did not enjoy it at all, and have no desire to watch it again to give it another chance. Now my expectations would be a lot more accurate, but I already know that I would not like all the same things, so I have no interest in wasting my time. I know that there are people out there who love the movie and think it is amazing, and you can disagree with me....but I will won't watch it again voluntarily, at least not in the foreseeable future.

Eragon. (if you've read the book)

*Shivers* Amen. The books were awesome, but the movie sucked massively.

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

I wasted 112 precious minutes of my life on possibly the most useless film ever made.

Petrichor wrote: 2. Brave

What? That's a surprise. Why in the name of all that's holy could anyone blashpeme such a charming, ambitiously formula breaking, breathtakingly animated, with such a gorgeous score and... Anyhow, I'll stop.

Pound Foolish wrote:

Petrichor wrote: 2. Brave

What? That's a surprise. Why in the name of all that's holy could anyone blashpeme such a charming, ambitiously formula breaking, breathtakingly animated, with such a gorgeous score and... Anyhow, I'll stop.

My new favorite person on the ToO.

Pound Foolish wrote:

Petrichor wrote: 2. Brave

What? That's a surprise. Why in the name of all that's holy could anyone blashpeme such a charming, ambitiously formula breaking, breathtakingly animated, with such a gorgeous score and... Anyhow, I'll stop.

I like Brave. It is also the only movie I have seen out of the 11 that I posted here. Coincidentally, Jelly has elsewhere stated that he likes all those movies.

The only ones that come to mind at the moment are Life of Pi and The Notebook. I did not enjoy those movies at all.

Life of Pi is pretty incredible actually. I'm with you on The Notebook.

Also, Scott Pilgrim is far from useless. At the very least, it's highly entertaining.

Jelly wrote:Life of Pi is pretty incredible actually.

It just wasn't my kind of film. I got extremely bored watching it. The visual effects and cinematography, however, were amazing!

The Last Airbender is possibly the worst movie I've ever seen, though I admit that much of my disdain for it stems from the fact that I enjoyed the cartoon so much. It didn't resemble the original show at all, and the best that can be said for it is that the comments on the play at the end of "The Ember Island Players" describe the movie perfectly (though with the exception of the effects being decent).

Jelly wrote:Also, Scott Pilgrim is far from useless. At the very least, it's highly entertaining.

To each his own. I definitely wouldn't use the words "highly entertaining" to describe that film.