Criteria for avoiding films
- Thread starter Tenacious Sloth
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John the Monkey
Frivolous Cyclist
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- Crewe
Anything with Adam Sandler.
Post Jackie Brown Tarantino.
Post Jackie Brown Tarantino.
Brandane
The Costa Clyde rain magnet.
Possibly, but I would say a preference not to suspend my disbelief rather than an inability. As I said, there are the odd exceptions. But the thought of going to the cinema just to pass an evening, then pick a film to watch is alien to me. If I go to the cinema, it is because I really want to see a particular film (last visit was to see Spectre, and despite looking forward to it, I still fell asleep).
Supersuperleeds
Legendary Member
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- Leicester
The Green Mile
Mission Impossible - the first two, the rest were crap
Mrs Doubtfire
Matt Damon - give you that one, The Bourne films were his chance to make some great films, but unfortunately they were not true to the books.
My general rule:
Book adaptations - Lord of the Rings Trilogy was brilliant, but again missed/changed vital bits from the book. Harry Potter was pretty true to the books, but apart from those I tend to find most very disappointing.
Lullabelle
Banana
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- Midlands UK
Not necessarily, it is hard to follow a film if you are reading subtitles, you can miss some of the action.
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
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- Lancaster... the little city.
the green mile bored me shitless... who wants to watch Tom fecking Hanks struggling to pee for god knows how many hours???
mission impossible... the TV series was ok in a nostalgic kind of way, the films were crap
mrs doubtfire... I'd rather eat my own ears than watch that again
each to their own
Seems like you dont take the rules seriously, you wouldn't have seen T2 if you did.
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Tenacious Sloth
Guru
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- Huntingdon, UK
I like the sound of this. Do you have any examples?
Lullabelle
Banana
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- Midlands UK
The Green Mile was a fantastic story to read but so much was lost in the film, I rather enjoyed it but then I filled in a lot of blanks because I had read the story.
summerdays
Cycling in the sun
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- Bristol
I wouldn't agree with that... I tried watching one with subtitles a few weeks ago.... I spent the whole time reading the bottom of the screen that I gave up as I was missing all the visual stuff, facial expressions and body language. Mr Summerdays and baby Summerling did enjoy it, and I just asked questions occasionally to find out where the plot was going. Whereas I put subtitles on for one on Friday where I was occasionally missing some bits due to strong accents and that was fine as I didn't need to continually watch the bottom of the screen.
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
they take a bit more effort but I won't dismiss a film because it's foreign.
Supersuperleeds
Legendary Member
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- Leicester
the green mile bored me shitless... who wants to watch Tom fecking Hanks struggling to pee for god knows how many hours???
mission impossible... the TV series was ok in a nostalgic kind of way, the films were crap
mrs doubtfire... I'd rather eat my own ears than watch that again
each to their own
Okay - what about Bridge of Spies?
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Tenacious Sloth
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- Huntingdon, UK
I was almost tempted to add Tom Hanks to the list. Saving Private Ryan is the only thing that saved him. Should have done named the film " Saving Tom Hanks".
As for Castaway? Total Pish!
I did think his son was excellent in that episode of Band of Brothers though.
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Tenacious Sloth
Guru
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- Huntingdon, UK
vickster
Squire
Yep he's another one to avoid
And the whole cast of American Pie
