In the movie the sixth sense, during the most important part, a brawl broke out by teenage girls, the cops were called.... 20 minutes later it quieted down and we missed the big reveal....
More like a bar brawl especially when the boyfriends got involved....I wanted to leave but of course my wife wanted to see the movie..... They should have turned on the lights and stopped the movie but the projectionist was probably split among multiple movies......that was the last time I went to that theatre... That city is known for crime issues.
My worst experience was probably seeing Halloween(2018) on opening night and somebody brought their baby to the movie… a horror movie. And it cried the entire film and they didn’t take the baby out of the theatre a single time.
Siskel once said if the projector light is so poor at a movie, walk out. ....The theater is going to close and the movie theater doesn't want to spend money on power. ....That happened to me......I walked out and the theater permanently closed a week later.
There was a movie at Sundance called Walden. 2 hours long, 12 shots. Each shot was an uncut shot of a location, the camera rotating on a tripod, no dialogue.
The worst movie experience I've ever had was a movie by Andy Warhol called chelsea girls. It is without question the worst movie ive ever seen and was so horrible I couldn't finish it. What's most bizarre is that the only reason I watched this was because I challenged myself to watch all of the sight and sound top 250- to think some people voted this as one their favourite movies!!! Without question the worst out of the 250!
Shirin by Kiarostami I am a fan of Kiarostami's movies, but I did not know what the plot of this movie was before I watched it, and it still traumatizes me. The whole movie is about watching women's facial expressions as they watch a traditional Persian play in a theater. Well, I guess the whole movie is like that because I stopped watching after 30 minutes. I haven't seen anything more pretentious than that. It's interesting that Kiarostami talks a lot about how certain movies feel like the director takes the audience as hostages by overstimulating them and not giving them much to think about after the movie is finished. I've never felt more like a hostage by any other movie
Gerry is one of my favorite films of all time and I usually really agree with your opinions. For long time I noticed you had it at half a star on letterboxd with no review and wondered why.. now i got my explanation (: I like it because of its simplicity and the undertone and vibe of it. The cinematography is absolutely stunning and some of the most beautiful shots I’ve ever watched are in this thing
I respect how open-minded you are allowing yourself to have your mind changed. You're taking that possibly utmost valueable kind of chance Henry Fonda did in 12 Angry Men. @@LearningaboutMovies
Watching Civil War (2024) in the theater and listening to the couple next to me "whisper" about how much it was affecting them and how good it was a pretty miserable experience.
Went to see Young Guns with my cousins in 1988. As my mom was driving away, they told us it was rated R and they wouldn't let us in unless an adult said it was ok. So we went to Mac and Me. The entire theater was empty, except for my cousins, an old German woman in the very back, and the German woman's grandson. Through the entire movie, the German woman kept saying to her grandson, "Zis is zuppozed to be like E.T. Ziz is zuppozed to be like E.T." She must have said it dozens of times, and since the theater was empty, it was very easy to hear her. Her grandson never said a word through the entire movie. Neither did we. Suffice it to say, it was NOT like E.T.
Seeing "The Batman" these high school kids in the very front row, laughing, phones on, just absolutely loud, ruining the movie for the packed theater. Finally I stood up and screamed, "HEY IN THE FRONT ROW SHUT THE HELL UP WE'RE TRYING TO WATCH MOVIE!" The entire theater stared. And you know what? It worked. They shut up. I told my cousin, "yo there's like 8-9 males among em, if they wanna throw down I'm old, I'll just be running and calling 911."
I wrote about this on the relevant video you posted two years ago, but I’ll write about it again. My worst movie experience is pretty ironic because I was watching one of the better films I’ve ever seen in the theater. It was Everything Everywhere All at Once, which I somehow coerced my friends into going to see with me. We had seen Multiverse of Madness the previous week, which I had not enjoyed and may even be the worst MCU film I’ve ever seen, though I haven’t seen that many, and not any since that one. So my mindset was, “Okay, you made me sit through that, now I’m gonna show you real cinema.” I actually decided to see it because of your review on Letterboxd, so I was sure it was going to be great. We got to the theater right before the trailers started, and when they did, the first one up was Nope. I thought it was going for some sort of retro 70s vibe because the picture quality was pretty low, but then the trailer for Marcel the Shell with Shoes On came up, and that was also low-quality, as were the remaining trailers. They were all really grainy and out of focus, and the text was difficult to read. Once the movie started, I knew there was something wrong with the projector or some other mechanical error because that had the same problem. I think one of my friends brought it up to someone at the theater-at least a few people in the audience must have-but it never got fixed. It was still a great film, but it was frustrating to watch this thing that should be visually exciting shown to me so blurrily.
For me it was Cameron's Titanic. The movie had just opened that week. It was December. I live in Arizona. That day my boyfriend at the time took me to do some Christmas shopping. It was a horribly cold, wintry, rainy day. But we went shopping. He took me home and said I have to go, I have some stuff to do. I said no you don't, lets go see Titanic. So off we went. We got in line, got our tickets and walked in the theater. There were ushers making sure people were filling the theater in an organized methodical way. We sat maybe 10 seats in from the aisle. We sit down and get situated. I took off my coat, gloves, and scarf. Right about the time of the 1st class dinner party I noticed it was chilly in the theater. The air conditioner was still on. Like I say it was a cold blistery day in Az. The more I sat there the colder I got. I started putting everything back on as best I could without bothering people I was hiding most of my face with my coat. My scarf was around my ears and my gloves were on. It got so bad my teeth started to chatter. Then right about the time Titanic hits the iceberg the theater started warming up. By the time the movie was over I was almost hot. I told my boyfriend, they had it backwards. They should have had it nice and cozy the whole time, then when it hits, that's when it should have started getting cold. It would have made a much more emotional dramatic effect instead of being a major annoyance. If I had been on the aisle I would have walked out.
I went to see Antichrist and I felt so awkward sitting watching it. Felt like a pretentious idiot. Also i was literally blushing with shame. Probably says more about me than the film tbh
A few weeks ago I was rewatching The Thin Man at my local theatre and it was packed. The movie started and the only seat not filled was the one next to me. Well, a few minutes into the movie, that changed. The gentleman who sat down next to me was the loudest snacker I have ever heard in my entire life. He had 3 large popcorns (not joking) and he finished them before the movie was halfway over. He was quite literally grabbing the popcorn by the fistful and throwing it into his mouth, just to chomp on it like he was eating legos. For the entire movie he continued to pull snacks out of thin air. All the while, he was grunting, burping, etc. To add to this, I was coming down with an illness (didn't realize it yet), and by the end of the movie I knew I was legitimately sick; I went home and vomited five times, which I never do. So yes, it was the gift that kept giving -- the experience was so bad that it followed me home, in a way.
First Cinema Paradise i saw it when i was a child, dont judge the poster where you see a child on a bike, so is not a movie for children, but i remember i felt empty at the end of the movie because the last 30 minutes are tedious, and depressing instead of sad. Second Dancer in the Dark, we see Bjork being hanged and dropped like a cheap doll, every spectator and me too was so annoyed when we lift our fat _ sses, just a BLEAK ending, everyone with that poker face trowing popcorns you know poor Bjork. See you cute!!
I used to write movie reviews for a small website and was invited to an advanced screening of the movie Pixels. The theater was filled with a lot of local celebrities like radio DJs and local news anchors. I clearly remember the movie being awful and hating it, but what added to my hatred of the movie was all of these media "professionals" laughing and enjoying the film like it was a comedy masterpiece. Occasionally I'd hear some half-whisper of "oh, that's great" and I knew who said it because I could recognize their voice. So, the movie was bad and I could also never really listen/watch to the local radio and television stations anymore because I lost all respect for them.
The Wiz (1978) was the only movie my wife and I walked out on, and at less than the halfway mark. We both like musicals but The Wiz didn't do anything for us.
My worst movie experience ever was seeing the Winnie the Pooh horror movie. I thought it could be funny in a shock value kind of way but: the nearest theater was almost an hour away, the tickets were over twice as expensive as my local theater, the place smelled of public restroom, and the movie itself was not even fun bad, not even bad bad, but absolutely atrocious and degenerate. The best part of the movie was when the projector stopped working halfway through the show. To this day I shudder in disgust that I ever made such a poor decision. Shock value is something that I will never again be interested in thanks to this.
The worst experience that I had going to the movies was I went to see The Dark Knight Rises. I remember that the theater was almost empty, but a lot of people came in an hour and a half into thr movie, then a group of teenagers started shouting and making stupid jokes during the film, and two idiots were sitting behind us, when their feet on the back of my chair, and started making cringeworthy comments and fart noises with their mouths (they were teenagers as well). It completely ruined it for me.
The worst movie experience I ever had was seeing "I, Robot" when it came out in 2004. I was a big fan of Isaac Asimov's 1950 novel, which I read way back in 1964 when I was 8 years old. It was the first science fiction book I ever read, and it made a big impression on me. I waited 48 years, nearly 5 decades, for Hollywood to finally turn it into a movie. But when I read that it starred Will Smith, I wondered how he was going to play Dr. Susan Calvin, the middle-aged woman who is the heroine of Asimov's book. She is the leading expert in robopsychology, and whenever something goes haywire with the robots, she's the wise, knowledgeable, level-headed woman they call to fix the problem. I was hoping she might be played by Meryl Streep or Frances McDormand or Helen Hunt or Jodie Foster, etc. It turns out that Will Smith plays "Detective Spooner," a wisecracking hot-headed cop who doesn't even appear in Asimov's novel. There is little if any resemblance between Asimov's story and the Hollywood movie version. It's as if these astonishingly inept filmmakers never even bothered to read Asimov's book, they just borrowed the title and then made up their own mediocre story about a violent robot revolution (which also never happens in Asimov's book). They gave "I, Robot" a lobotomy, removed all the science, logic, originality, and cleverness, and threw in a bunch of car chases, explosions, and gunplay. Sadly, everyone seems to agree that "I, Robot" the movie is a masterpiece. I seem to be a minority of one in thinking it's a POS. Even worse, they've made a sequel, due to be released in 2025. SMH.
Sitting down to watch Skyfall at the cinema I didn't notice the family right in front of me. They did get my attention when their son sang along to the whole theme tune. Very loudly indeed. Things went downhill from there.
Watching M Night Shyamalan’s “The Village” as a young teenager in theaters. It was so boring. I was promised to be scared. It’s my earliest memory of hating a movie and it turned me off to MNS for a decade.
No, Megaflopolis is extraordinarily bad. It fails on almost every numbered line in the test of true storytelling. 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ "Before I start, I must see my end. Destination known, my mind's journey now begins. Upon my chariot, heart and soul's fate revealed. In time, all points converge; hope's strength resteeled. But to earn final peace at the universe's endless refrain, we must see all in nothingness... before we start again." 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ --Diamond Dragons (series)
Came here to say the same thing. Megalopolis is perplexing in its awfulness. It has a great cast that delivers horrible acting. But the sets are beautiful, so its all intentional. I feel like we're all being trolled by a writer-director who isn't letting us in on the joke.
I never even heard about Gerry. I could see that being a good pick because the worst movie experiences are the boring ones. It tends to be the films that are pretentious but also competently made enough to not be a laughing stalk that I generally hate the most. Seems like this falls into that category. Skinamarink was a pretty unbelievably bad horror film that I still cannot believe was released in theaters and people actually found to be watchable. Home video horror with the shittiest, graniest texture, and it's mostly a guy just filming his house with various, almost random shots, and audio that's so bad they use subtitles, despite being in English. It's one of those horrors that relies on editing gimmicks and and very obvious but entirely unremarkable camera tricks. Legos moving around, and it's like the kind of things my brother and me made when we were kids. Rob Zombie Halloween is another hellish experience. This wasn't as boring, but the dialogue and a bunch of trashy, belligerent hillbillies with extremely low intelligence instead of likable characters. It's like a 12 year-old wrote the script who just discovered obscenities for the first time and wanted to impress the other trash talkers, and it's way overly brutal and realistic, whereas the original was not nearly as violent but much more imaginative and competently made.
Worst experience was by far Pearl Harbor in 2001. The movie isn't the worst film ever made, but it is a pretty lousy film, and is certainly my worst moviegoing experience. There's the cheesy, cringe love triangle between the nurse, Josh Hartnett & Ben Affleck, there's sloppy editing, bad acting, a terrible script and overall poor direction. I was a teenager at the time and wanted to see the battle scenes, which make up something like 20 minutes of the 3 HOUR film (which is itself a travesty apart from brilliant movies like Lawrence of Arabia or Oppenheimer).
In some ways I get what youre saying - I cant stand Gone with the Wind and Coen Bros flicks due to their pacing and (IMO) pointlessness. But, I dont think this is a masterpiece - this is still technically a sound film and can be enjoyed (although you have to be in the mood for it). This definitely captured the experience of a walk across the desert for a day. And if that was the intention of Van Sant, then it does what it meant to. Although our feelings about the movie and rewatchability should be factors, I dont think ratings should be based on them alone - otherwise we'd only end up with popcorn cinema.
The one year anniversary for my worst theatre experience is coming up soon. it was during The Iron Claw. Very good movie, worst experience. Classic “two-groups-won’t-stop-talking-during-the-quiet-emotional-moments” including one guy just randomly snorting wide awake for like 5 minutes. You could tell that that was the first time they went to a movie in like five years. Couldn’t tell them to shut up cuz they were at the front of the theatre and I was in the back.
I remember the first movie that I had a vitriolic response to was the 1990's Super Mario Bros.: The Movie with Bob Hoskins as Mario and what'shisname as Luigi. I hated, hated, hated this movie. I hated it so much it shocked me. Since then there have been other movies I really hated (some I had to see twice to ensure my hatred was founded), but nothing like watching that horrible Mario movie.
5 minutes into the film, the film melted.. so they put another reel(or second reel) and we started about 20 minutes into the movie... It wasn't later, that I found out we missed a lot...
I like Gerry but I got around to it in my 40s when I already knew I liked slow cinema and experimental films, and I went in knowing the movie was unconventional. But if I’d had it sprung upon me in my teens or early 20s, I’d probably have not liked it. I’ve been fortunate not to have any notably bad theater experiences, but the worst kind of experience I’ve had is when I’m watching a movie with another person, and I’m into it but can sense they’re not - especially if I picked the movie. I’m still sorry that of all the movies I asked a friend to see with me, it was Catherine Breillat’s Fat Girl. This was back when a group of French directors seemed to be in a contest to see who could make the audience most uncomfortable, and Catherine did just that. We didn’t talk about the movie afterwards or ever.
A poll online recently asked what was worst movie ever, and i answered The Counselor. Past few days, Paperboy came to mind too. But seeing this recommendation brought back the memory of me renting Gerry at a young age. What you described is how terrible i remembered it. It was silent, 2 men walking through the desert, muttering the title to each other and they get picked up by a car at the end. I'd be curious to see how short the screenplay was. It was indeed one of the worst movies I've ever seen and nowhere near a 60 on RT. 2 others that i haven't seen in ages but i remember hating at the time were Hurly Burly & Equus. Miserable people and a boy who loves a horse. No thank you.
Like a few folks on here, I remember finding Gerry pretty interesting when I watched it for the first time. What I find most interesting about your story, though, is that it seems like the collective experience (the particular audience, the high expectations, etc) was so overwhelming that it would’ve been impossible for *anyone* in that context to judge the film positively. I feel like I’ve seen you talk rather positively about slow films on this channel (ceylan, I think?) so it seems like you’re mostly channeling the aesthetic memory not just of yourself as a college student, but of a college student audience member caught up in the contagious spirit of hating this artistically boring movie. I’m certain if I were in that context, I would’ve hated it too, which kind of suggests a lot about how much context - all kinds of context - plays into one’s judgment of a movie.
Absolutely. The audience is often a major influence. You can experience a film anew by seeing it in a loving crowd, or by yourself. Also I just watched Hamaguchi's Evil Does Not Exist twice in three weeks. It's possibly slower than Gerry.
For me, it was gladiator 2 for the worst experience. A guy in my row actually answered the phone and started talking during the movie. He was also really drunk to the point he kept yelling at the screen. I walked over to shush him multiple times
My worst movie going experience was going to Take This Job and Shove It. I was an hour away from home. My ride was with two people on a date that I respectfully sat away from. We were the only people in the theater. I don't think they wanted to be there once we all knew what we were up against. This was an awkward first date in high school for them, so they didn't know what to do. We all sat to the end. It was a long silent ride home.
My worst experience: Taking my little brother on Christmas Day 1984 to see ‘Johnny Dangerously’. It was a packed house, everyone in a great mood, and then the film started. There was not a single laugh for the entire running time. Gag after gag fell flat to dead silence. At the end, over 200 people marched back to the lobby having had the joy of the season completely wrung out of them by boredom. It was a physically painful experience.
When I think of bad movie experiences, I think of those times where I'd visit the local Blockbuster with my girlfriend and I'd blindly select a movie neither one of us have seen and, of course, the movie I pick ends up being either utterly boring or would have really disturbing subject matter. There's no other feeling like sitting on that sofa, wanting to crawl into a hole out of embarrassment, sneaking a peek at my girlfriend's stone-faced grimace as she's watching the screen! 😂
Worst experience was watching Babel. I hated the movie to my core, made worse that it was an outdoor screening with friends. I was bored, exhausted (from work), uncomfortable and couldn’t leave. Haunts me to this day.
Mine was the Richard Donner film "The Toy with Jackie Gleason and Richard Pryor. My late partner's Mother used to get us invited to studio screenings back in the 80's. This particular screen was big and held at the AMPAS theater in Beverly Hills. Lots of celebrities were in attendance and there was an open bar serving wine and cocktails and hors d'oeuvres getting passed around. The only people who weren't there was the principal actors and the Director. Normally, Donner was always in attendance at the Industry screenings of all his film and always standing in the rear of the theater to make sure everyone stay until the end credits. This partucular film, he wasn't there. It was suppose to be a comedy, but no one was laughing after the first 10 minutes of the film, and it got worst. with DEAD silence from the audience. But everyone was polite and stayed until the end with no applause afterwards.
Coffee and Cigarettes, about 20 minutes into the movie, I realized that Jim Jarmusch has complete disdain for his audience, and dares them to watch this ███, just a laundry list of celebs smoking and acting bored. The reason I hate Jarmusch is the reason I love Scorcese and Tarantino, they have TOO MUCH to say, Jim… nothing.
I feel there is a strong divide between the average youtube viewer and some in this audience like you who would like this movie. I try to cater to both, because I am both! Tarkovsky to the masses is a tough sell. Imagine being a marketer in 2003 and trying to get audiences to see Gerry!
The only film that was a bit of a slog in any of my film courses was Tropical Malady from 2004 so I get the feeling that Gerry may be just a slowly-paced.
well, also nothing happens, except one thing. It's about movie about two guys getting lost that I think tries to generate various feelings of getting lost
I haven't had any really bad movie experiences, although going to The Northman with my son - both of us huge Eggers fans after The Lighthouse - was deeply disappointing. Perhaps I could mention going to a midnight screening of Eraserhead not long after it was released. My friends and I were in equal parts amazed and horrified as it played out. About halfway through, though, when the chipmunk lady was singing, the soundtrack went silent although the lady kept singing. This went on for some time, and we were thinking it was deliberate - a weird lady singing in silence was hardly the freakiest thing we had been exposed to up to that point - but then the projectionist came out and apologised for a fault on the reel. We were given free tickets to another showing, but even though what I had seen of the film astonished me, I didn't go back, and to this day I've never rewatched it. I feel like I've seen the film the way I was meant to see it...
I was in the hospital watching Blood Red Sky on Netflix. I'd rather stay in the hospital for a year right now, than having to watch that non-sense, unentertaining vampire plane hi-jack movie made out of garbage that not even Wall-E would recycle and no raccoon would dare eating, again. They spoke multiple languages with weird, inauthentic accents on top of the most uninteresting overacting every person did. The cherry on top was that the father of a girl that I went to school with was an actor in it too which made me feel even more embarrassed about both the German filmmakers and actors of the 2000s.
Probably my worst experience was the 6th of January 2024. I went to my city's art house cinema (I don't really know if this is the exact term). I bought tickets for a british movie called Accused. I hadn't watched the trailer but I had read the plot, so I was interested. Well, I won't spoil it for those who have not watched it, but I connected a lot with the main character and felt every single emotion he went through (I don't like tension nor horror movies for this reason). I really liked the movie at the end but I felt a bit shaky.Fifteen minutes later, I watched Fallen Leaves and almost felt asleep, but it helped me reduce the anxiety of the previous movie. I went back home and had a panic attack in the bus. So, yeah, a good start of the year and the worst movie experience of my life (yet).
I’ve seen Gerry. I saw it at a video store and wondered why I had never heard of a Van Sant movie starring Matt Damon. Then I watched it and realized, “oh, that’s why.”
I consider myself a film buff, but I have never heard of "Gerry." My worst movie experience was watching "Freaks." The audience included a bunch of drunken college students who kept chanting: "Freaks! Freaks! We want more freaks!" (As a consequence, I have never bought into the idea that "Freaks" is a "humanistic film about the differently abled.")
Wow I was so surprised to hear that the answer was Gerry this is one of my favorite movies ever!! I can see why people wouldn’t like it but the movie is so beautifully photographed and I love the meditation on death. Gus Van Sant’s entire death trilogy with Gerry, Elephant, and Last Days is one of the best things an american filmmaker has done in the last 20 years. Justice for Gerry!!!
I was watching,UP with my boyfriend at the theater and he shamed me for crying at the first part where the wife dies. Did I mention he was my EX-boyfriend? I guess my experience is prettyild.
My worst movie experience at a theater: Powder. It had some good moments but completely uneven with over-performed and under-performed scenes. I still didn’t walk out. Most offensive movie? Gods and Generals: It frankly puts forwards Confederate propaganda.
Agreed, the only good thing about Gerry is the Arvo Part soundtrack. Honestly. In fact, when I watched it, I wondered if Van Sant listened to Arvo Part and loved the music and decided to make a movie of drawn out mountain scenes where he could add the music. If you want to watch this movie and see the best part, its the opening scene, they are shot from behind driving a car, with a beautiful sky above them, to Arvo Part's 'Spiegel im Spiegel' - thats the only good part of the entire movie.
@@LearningaboutMovies i dont think Part was part of the crew, just that 2 of his songs from the late 70's were used in it (Spiegel im Speigel and Fur Alina), if thats what you mean, apologies if I am misunderstanding.
I can't remember the movies.. but I walked out of two movies... for the intense depressing nature of the films. I can take a lot.. but when the tone continues to "play with emotions and keeps pulling you down into despair without letting up" .. well life is too short for that ! 👉 I Just found your channel.. 👏🎥.. I have a favorite movie with Anthony Hopkins and Cuba Gooding.. called Instinct. He hives with Apes for 3 years. It is amazing, the filming of it, and the acting,.. but not sure why we can't find it? Would love to see your take on it. 🙏
I loved watching Gerry through my mid to late teen years and the film was very important for me, and funnily enough, though I haven’t seen it for a long time or thought about it (I’m in my mid thirties right now), I recently made a personal top 10 list and put it in, then your hate video on Gerry pops up. I approach it as an audiovisual experience rather than a conventionally narrative one, though it does get more and more intense as it progresses. I think it might be the closest experince to a deep psyhedelic existencia trip in cinema.
When I was a student I remember I went to the movies to see "Angel heart" totally unprepared. I did not know anything about the film but it was with DeNiro (who I love) and Mickey Rourke and expected a private eye story. Could not be bad, right? I was so shocked! 😮 I think I will never ever watch this movie again. I absolutely dislike supernatural topics like that and horror movies are my least favorite genre. Beside really great ones like e.g. Jordan Peele's "Get out" or "Us" or "The shining" I usually avoid them. And also back in my student days the only film that make me walk out of the theatre and think of wanting my money back was Woody Allen's "Everything you wanted to know about sex but were afraid to ask". I think it is not funny at all, not intelligent just goofy and flat, really full of stupid nonsense. I could not laugh a single time. 🧐 But it seems I missed the real bad movies... LOL.
I quite liked Gerry, but I knew what I was getting into - he said he was influenced by Bela Tarr, nuff said - nothing like as good though, Tarr's films do have a point
Read a book! 🙂 Especially a series that is exemplary in nearly every aspect of storytelling. 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ "Before I start, I must see my end. Destination known, my mind's journey now begins. Upon my chariot, heart and soul's fate revealed. In time, all points converge; hope's strength resteeled. But to earn final peace at the universe's endless refrain, we must see all in nothingness... before we start again." 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ --Diamond Dragons (series)
I have seen godawful films in cinema. I have seen really boring things. I have seen movies that defies all kinds of senses. That feel like they are made by grifter aliens. But. In a cinema experience? There's one singular film I felt genuinely targeted by. A movie that got in my face screamed at me. Cackling. Insisting it was hilarious. I just wanted it to stop. I just felt alienated by the whole earthly community of humanity. A movie that made me hate a whole kind of cinema I had until then tolerated. It fumes me up just thinking about that cinema experience. That is. The movie is... Deadpool. I do not care what anyone else thinks of me. That movie made me understand what true cinematic suffering could be. And I have no clue whatever movie everyone else saw.
Frozen 2 is a bad movie. The first one is good, but the second one is about the worst Disney movie plot I've ever seen. It makes very little sense. I remember watching it with my kids at home during the pandemic and just being bored out of my mind and sometimes confused. Even the music wasn't good.
Unfortunately quite a few, Romy and Michelle, (almost walked out), End of the World (walked out after a half hour), Tales of Despereaux (tales of depressing more like it), 200 Cigarettes, too many
Right so this is more a TH-cam short film but Lana Del Ray's Tropico. A friend of mine from college days chucked it on and others there were liking it. But for me, so pretentious, just a load of ooo American Iconography, Jesus, Elvis, American Culture bla bla bla ultimately just a load of meaningless "that'll be cool" moments that felt so wanky. In terms of real films Fast and Furious 6 was another where I felt a massive disconnect as the audience were fans of the franchise and holding it in high esteem because, what I felt, was just because Paul Walker died. As a film its just Hollywood BS. I think feeling that disconnect is what defines a bad viewing experience for me.
Might be a hotake but, I'll go with first installment in before trilogy "Before sunrise" .... I know it's widely & critically acclaimed movie but that movie gave me my most boring movie experience ever....
Could you suggest any online courses that would be of value for people interested in watching films as a hobby? What should I learn to be a better viewer?
Thanks. Other than the many free videos here, I've got a few writings on Substack, including "How to Watch a Movie" for paid subs only. I have only two posts in that series so far. You are reminding me to write more! And I will take your comment into serious consideration.
The Evil Dead remake was a miserable time. It wasn't a scary movie. Although it's a slasher movie, those elements weren't good either. There were a couple slasher scenes all in close-ups so they're more of special effects demonstrations than being a film.
Me and friend went to see the late showing of Sicario when it came out it was so long and boring got out after 1am. The movie was so serious without any character that we cared. Same with prisoner. Never likes Dennis since
This sounds like The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Was so hyped for this and from what I recall, it went NOWHERE. just some outlaws roaming around on horseback for 3/4 the movie. Was clueless to why all the praise it got at the time
I remember wanting to see this when I first heard about it because I usually love Gus Van Sant movies, but it kind of fell off my radar and I forgot about it until now. Guess it's a good thing I didn't waste my time!
Maybe this movie sucks, but your argument that sucks because is people walking on the dessert without barely talking is not enough, I'm sure you have more thoughtful reasons
@@LearningaboutMovies There weren't enough cactus around for them to truly suck --- how do you think Harry Dean Stanton survived all his years of wandering in "Paris, Texas"? Everyone knows we've got to schlump through all the sagebrush & alkali flats to find our Nastassja Kinski....
In the movie the sixth sense, during the most important part, a brawl broke out by teenage girls, the cops were called.... 20 minutes later it quieted down and we missed the big reveal....
What
--- WAS THAT GIRL-FIGHT . . . like the fistfight in "Airplane" (1980)?
More like a bar brawl especially when the boyfriends got involved....I wanted to leave but of course my wife wanted to see the movie..... They should have turned on the lights and stopped the movie but the projectionist was probably split among multiple movies......that was the last time I went to that theatre... That city is known for crime issues.
@@tfred6403 --- AWESOME! . . . I've only witnessed brawls in bars, never in a cinema. Cool story.
My worst experience was probably seeing Halloween(2018) on opening night and somebody brought their baby to the movie… a horror movie. And it cried the entire film and they didn’t take the baby out of the theatre a single time.
Audiences are horrendous these days. My trick is to try to find as empty screenings as possible and avoid opening weekend crowds for bigger movies.
Siskel once said if the projector light is so poor at a movie, walk out. ....The theater is going to close and the movie theater doesn't want to spend money on power. ....That happened to me......I walked out and the theater permanently closed a week later.
There was a movie at Sundance called Walden. 2 hours long, 12 shots. Each shot was an uncut shot of a location, the camera rotating on a tripod, no dialogue.
The worst movie experience I've ever had was a movie by Andy Warhol called chelsea girls. It is without question the worst movie ive ever seen and was so horrible I couldn't finish it. What's most bizarre is that the only reason I watched this was because I challenged myself to watch all of the sight and sound top 250- to think some people voted this as one their favourite movies!!! Without question the worst out of the 250!
Shirin by Kiarostami
I am a fan of Kiarostami's movies, but I did not know what the plot of this movie was before I watched it, and it still traumatizes me. The whole movie is about watching women's facial expressions as they watch a traditional Persian play in a theater. Well, I guess the whole movie is like that because I stopped watching after 30 minutes. I haven't seen anything more pretentious than that. It's interesting that Kiarostami talks a lot about how certain movies feel like the director takes the audience as hostages by overstimulating them and not giving them much to think about after the movie is finished. I've never felt more like a hostage by any other movie
Gerry is one of my favorite films of all time and I usually really agree with your opinions. For long time I noticed you had it at half a star on letterboxd with no review and wondered why.. now i got my explanation (:
I like it because of its simplicity and the undertone and vibe of it. The cinematography is absolutely stunning and some of the most beautiful shots I’ve ever watched are in this thing
Okay, I should rewatch it now
I respect how open-minded you are allowing yourself to have your mind changed. You're taking that possibly utmost valueable kind of chance Henry Fonda did in 12 Angry Men. @@LearningaboutMovies
I completely agree. I thought it was a fantastic film.
@@LearningaboutMoviesthere's no need for sarcasm
@@Larry-z2g yeah I watched "gerry" after "elephant" and I really liked elephant but it just blew my expectations
Watching Civil War (2024) in the theater and listening to the couple next to me "whisper" about how much it was affecting them and how good it was a pretty miserable experience.
Already bad enough that the movie was ASS!!!
Went to see Young Guns with my cousins in 1988. As my mom was driving away, they told us it was rated R and they wouldn't let us in unless an adult said it was ok. So we went to Mac and Me. The entire theater was empty, except for my cousins, an old German woman in the very back, and the German woman's grandson. Through the entire movie, the German woman kept saying to her grandson, "Zis is zuppozed to be like E.T. Ziz is zuppozed to be like E.T." She must have said it dozens of times, and since the theater was empty, it was very easy to hear her. Her grandson never said a word through the entire movie. Neither did we. Suffice it to say, it was NOT like E.T.
Seeing "The Batman" these high school kids in the very front row, laughing, phones on, just absolutely loud, ruining the movie for the packed theater. Finally I stood up and screamed, "HEY IN THE FRONT ROW SHUT THE HELL UP WE'RE TRYING TO WATCH MOVIE!" The entire theater stared. And you know what? It worked. They shut up. I told my cousin, "yo there's like 8-9 males among em, if they wanna throw down I'm old, I'll just be running and calling 911."
I wrote about this on the relevant video you posted two years ago, but I’ll write about it again. My worst movie experience is pretty ironic because I was watching one of the better films I’ve ever seen in the theater. It was Everything Everywhere All at Once, which I somehow coerced my friends into going to see with me. We had seen Multiverse of Madness the previous week, which I had not enjoyed and may even be the worst MCU film I’ve ever seen, though I haven’t seen that many, and not any since that one. So my mindset was, “Okay, you made me sit through that, now I’m gonna show you real cinema.” I actually decided to see it because of your review on Letterboxd, so I was sure it was going to be great.
We got to the theater right before the trailers started, and when they did, the first one up was Nope. I thought it was going for some sort of retro 70s vibe because the picture quality was pretty low, but then the trailer for Marcel the Shell with Shoes On came up, and that was also low-quality, as were the remaining trailers. They were all really grainy and out of focus, and the text was difficult to read. Once the movie started, I knew there was something wrong with the projector or some other mechanical error because that had the same problem. I think one of my friends brought it up to someone at the theater-at least a few people in the audience must have-but it never got fixed. It was still a great film, but it was frustrating to watch this thing that should be visually exciting shown to me so blurrily.
For me it was Cameron's Titanic.
The movie had just opened that week. It was December. I live in Arizona.
That day my boyfriend at the time took me to do some Christmas shopping. It was a horribly cold, wintry, rainy day. But we went shopping. He took me home and said I have to go, I have some stuff to do. I said no you don't, lets go see Titanic. So off we went.
We got in line, got our tickets and walked in the theater. There were ushers making sure people were filling the theater in an organized methodical way. We sat maybe 10 seats in from the aisle.
We sit down and get situated. I took off my coat, gloves, and scarf. Right about the time of the 1st class dinner party I noticed it was chilly in the theater. The air conditioner was still on. Like I say it was a cold blistery day in Az. The more I sat there the colder I got. I started putting everything back on as best I could without bothering people I was hiding most of my face with my coat. My scarf was around my ears and my gloves were on. It got so bad my teeth started to chatter.
Then right about the time Titanic hits the iceberg the theater started warming up. By the time the movie was over I was almost hot.
I told my boyfriend, they had it backwards. They should have had it nice and cozy the whole time, then when it hits, that's when it should have started getting cold. It would have made a much more emotional dramatic effect instead of being a major annoyance. If I had been on the aisle I would have walked out.
I went to see Antichrist and I felt so awkward sitting watching it. Felt like a pretentious idiot. Also i was literally blushing with shame. Probably says more about me than the film tbh
A few weeks ago I was rewatching The Thin Man at my local theatre and it was packed. The movie started and the only seat not filled was the one next to me. Well, a few minutes into the movie, that changed. The gentleman who sat down next to me was the loudest snacker I have ever heard in my entire life. He had 3 large popcorns (not joking) and he finished them before the movie was halfway over. He was quite literally grabbing the popcorn by the fistful and throwing it into his mouth, just to chomp on it like he was eating legos.
For the entire movie he continued to pull snacks out of thin air. All the while, he was grunting, burping, etc. To add to this, I was coming down with an illness (didn't realize it yet), and by the end of the movie I knew I was legitimately sick; I went home and vomited five times, which I never do. So yes, it was the gift that kept giving -- the experience was so bad that it followed me home, in a way.
First Cinema Paradise i saw it when i was a child, dont judge the poster where you see a child on a bike, so is not a movie for children, but i remember i felt empty at the end of the movie because the last 30 minutes are tedious, and depressing instead of sad. Second Dancer in the Dark, we see Bjork being hanged and dropped like a cheap doll, every spectator and me too was so annoyed when we lift our fat _ sses, just a BLEAK ending, everyone with that poker face trowing popcorns you know poor Bjork. See you cute!!
I used to write movie reviews for a small website and was invited to an advanced screening of the movie Pixels. The theater was filled with a lot of local celebrities like radio DJs and local news anchors. I clearly remember the movie being awful and hating it, but what added to my hatred of the movie was all of these media "professionals" laughing and enjoying the film like it was a comedy masterpiece. Occasionally I'd hear some half-whisper of "oh, that's great" and I knew who said it because I could recognize their voice. So, the movie was bad and I could also never really listen/watch to the local radio and television stations anymore because I lost all respect for them.
The Wiz (1978) was the only movie my wife and I walked out on, and at less than the halfway mark. We both like musicals but The Wiz didn't do anything for us.
My worst movie experience ever was seeing the Winnie the Pooh horror movie. I thought it could be funny in a shock value kind of way but: the nearest theater was almost an hour away, the tickets were over twice as expensive as my local theater, the place smelled of public restroom, and the movie itself was not even fun bad, not even bad bad, but absolutely atrocious and degenerate. The best part of the movie was when the projector stopped working halfway through the show.
To this day I shudder in disgust that I ever made such a poor decision. Shock value is something that I will never again be interested in thanks to this.
The worst experience that I had going to the movies was I went to see The Dark Knight Rises. I remember that the theater was almost empty, but a lot of people came in an hour and a half into thr movie, then a group of teenagers started shouting and making stupid jokes during the film, and two idiots were sitting behind us, when their feet on the back of my chair, and started making cringeworthy comments and fart noises with their mouths (they were teenagers as well). It completely ruined it for me.
The worst movie experience I ever had was seeing "I, Robot" when it came out in 2004. I was a big fan of Isaac Asimov's 1950 novel, which I read way back in 1964 when I was 8 years old. It was the first science fiction book I ever read, and it made a big impression on me. I waited 48 years, nearly 5 decades, for Hollywood to finally turn it into a movie. But when I read that it starred Will Smith, I wondered how he was going to play Dr. Susan Calvin, the middle-aged woman who is the heroine of Asimov's book. She is the leading expert in robopsychology, and whenever something goes haywire with the robots, she's the wise, knowledgeable, level-headed woman they call to fix the problem. I was hoping she might be played by Meryl Streep or Frances McDormand or Helen Hunt or Jodie Foster, etc. It turns out that Will Smith plays "Detective Spooner," a wisecracking hot-headed cop who doesn't even appear in Asimov's novel. There is little if any resemblance between Asimov's story and the Hollywood movie version. It's as if these astonishingly inept filmmakers never even bothered to read Asimov's book, they just borrowed the title and then made up their own mediocre story about a violent robot revolution (which also never happens in Asimov's book). They gave "I, Robot" a lobotomy, removed all the science, logic, originality, and cleverness, and threw in a bunch of car chases, explosions, and gunplay. Sadly, everyone seems to agree that "I, Robot" the movie is a masterpiece. I seem to be a minority of one in thinking it's a POS. Even worse, they've made a sequel, due to be released in 2025. SMH.
Sitting down to watch Skyfall at the cinema I didn't notice the family right in front of me.
They did get my attention when their son sang along to the whole theme tune. Very loudly indeed.
Things went downhill from there.
Watching M Night Shyamalan’s “The Village” as a young teenager in theaters. It was so boring. I was promised to be scared. It’s my earliest memory of hating a movie and it turned me off to MNS for a decade.
Renting Megalopolis last night.. Oh damn.
It's really not that bad
Megalopolis is hilarious, like watching a high school film project that cost $100 million. It's wall to wall wtf moments. I'd watch it again.
No, Megaflopolis is extraordinarily bad. It fails on almost every numbered line in the test of true storytelling.
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Came here to say the same thing. Megalopolis is perplexing in its awfulness. It has a great cast that delivers horrible acting. But the sets are beautiful, so its all intentional. I feel like we're all being trolled by a writer-director who isn't letting us in on the joke.
I never even heard about Gerry. I could see that being a good pick because the worst movie experiences are the boring ones. It tends to be the films that are pretentious but also competently made enough to not be a laughing stalk that I generally hate the most. Seems like this falls into that category. Skinamarink was a pretty unbelievably bad horror film that I still cannot believe was released in theaters and people actually found to be watchable. Home video horror with the shittiest, graniest texture, and it's mostly a guy just filming his house with various, almost random shots, and audio that's so bad they use subtitles, despite being in English. It's one of those horrors that relies on editing gimmicks and and very obvious but entirely unremarkable camera tricks. Legos moving around, and it's like the kind of things my brother and me made when we were kids. Rob Zombie Halloween is another hellish experience. This wasn't as boring, but the dialogue and a bunch of trashy, belligerent hillbillies with extremely low intelligence instead of likable characters. It's like a 12 year-old wrote the script who just discovered obscenities for the first time and wanted to impress the other trash talkers, and it's way overly brutal and realistic, whereas the original was not nearly as violent but much more imaginative and competently made.
Worst experience was by far Pearl Harbor in 2001. The movie isn't the worst film ever made, but it is a pretty lousy film, and is certainly my worst moviegoing experience. There's the cheesy, cringe love triangle between the nurse, Josh Hartnett & Ben Affleck, there's sloppy editing, bad acting, a terrible script and overall poor direction. I was a teenager at the time and wanted to see the battle scenes, which make up something like 20 minutes of the 3 HOUR film (which is itself a travesty apart from brilliant movies like Lawrence of Arabia or Oppenheimer).
In some ways I get what youre saying - I cant stand Gone with the Wind and Coen Bros flicks due to their pacing and (IMO) pointlessness. But, I dont think this is a masterpiece - this is still technically a sound film and can be enjoyed (although you have to be in the mood for it). This definitely captured the experience of a walk across the desert for a day. And if that was the intention of Van Sant, then it does what it meant to. Although our feelings about the movie and rewatchability should be factors, I dont think ratings should be based on them alone - otherwise we'd only end up with popcorn cinema.
The one year anniversary for my worst theatre experience is coming up soon. it was during The Iron Claw. Very good movie, worst experience. Classic “two-groups-won’t-stop-talking-during-the-quiet-emotional-moments” including one guy just randomly snorting wide awake for like 5 minutes. You could tell that that was the first time they went to a movie in like five years. Couldn’t tell them to shut up cuz they were at the front of the theatre and I was in the back.
I remember the first movie that I had a vitriolic response to was the 1990's Super Mario Bros.: The Movie with Bob Hoskins as Mario and what'shisname as Luigi. I hated, hated, hated this movie. I hated it so much it shocked me.
Since then there have been other movies I really hated (some I had to see twice to ensure my hatred was founded), but nothing like watching that horrible Mario movie.
5 minutes into the film, the film melted.. so they put another reel(or second reel) and we started about 20 minutes into the movie... It wasn't later, that I found out we missed a lot...
I like Gerry but I got around to it in my 40s when I already knew I liked slow cinema and experimental films, and I went in knowing the movie was unconventional. But if I’d had it sprung upon me in my teens or early 20s, I’d probably have not liked it.
I’ve been fortunate not to have any notably bad theater experiences, but the worst kind of experience I’ve had is when I’m watching a movie with another person, and I’m into it but can sense they’re not - especially if I picked the movie. I’m still sorry that of all the movies I asked a friend to see with me, it was Catherine Breillat’s Fat Girl. This was back when a group of French directors seemed to be in a contest to see who could make the audience most uncomfortable, and Catherine did just that. We didn’t talk about the movie afterwards or ever.
A poll online recently asked what was worst movie ever, and i answered The Counselor. Past few days, Paperboy came to mind too. But seeing this recommendation brought back the memory of me renting Gerry at a young age. What you described is how terrible i remembered it. It was silent, 2 men walking through the desert, muttering the title to each other and they get picked up by a car at the end. I'd be curious to see how short the screenplay was. It was indeed one of the worst movies I've ever seen and nowhere near a 60 on RT. 2 others that i haven't seen in ages but i remember hating at the time were Hurly Burly & Equus. Miserable people and a boy who loves a horse. No thank you.
Like a few folks on here, I remember finding Gerry pretty interesting when I watched it for the first time. What I find most interesting about your story, though, is that it seems like the collective experience (the particular audience, the high expectations, etc) was so overwhelming that it would’ve been impossible for *anyone* in that context to judge the film positively. I feel like I’ve seen
you talk rather positively about
slow films on this channel
(ceylan, I think?) so it seems like you’re mostly channeling the aesthetic memory not just of yourself as a college student, but of a college student audience member caught up in the contagious spirit of hating this artistically boring movie. I’m certain if I were in that context, I would’ve hated it too, which kind of suggests a lot about how much context - all kinds of context - plays into one’s judgment of a movie.
Absolutely. The audience is often a major influence. You can experience a film anew by seeing it in a loving crowd, or by yourself.
Also I just watched Hamaguchi's Evil Does Not Exist twice in three weeks. It's possibly slower than Gerry.
For me, it was gladiator 2 for the worst experience. A guy in my row actually answered the phone and started talking during the movie. He was also really drunk to the point he kept yelling at the screen. I walked over to shush him multiple times
My worst movie going experience was going to Take This Job and Shove It. I was an hour away from home. My ride was with two people on a date that I respectfully sat away from. We were the only people in the theater. I don't think they wanted to be there once we all knew what we were up against. This was an awkward first date in high school for them, so they didn't know what to do. We all sat to the end. It was a long silent ride home.
My worst experience: Taking my little brother on Christmas Day 1984 to see ‘Johnny Dangerously’. It was a packed house, everyone in a great mood, and then the film started. There was not a single laugh for the entire running time. Gag after gag fell flat to dead silence. At the end, over 200 people marched back to the lobby having had the joy of the season completely wrung out of them by boredom. It was a physically painful experience.
When I think of bad movie experiences, I think of those times where I'd visit the local Blockbuster with my girlfriend and I'd blindly select a movie neither one of us have seen and, of course, the movie I pick ends up being either utterly boring or would have really disturbing subject matter. There's no other feeling like sitting on that sofa, wanting to crawl into a hole out of embarrassment, sneaking a peek at my girlfriend's stone-faced grimace as she's watching the screen! 😂
"or maybe if you're into very, very, very slow cinema?!" LOL! Is that a thing?
You bet!
Worst experience was watching Babel. I hated the movie to my core, made worse that it was an outdoor screening with friends. I was bored, exhausted (from work), uncomfortable and couldn’t leave. Haunts me to this day.
I liked Gerry much more than babel
Mine was the Richard Donner film "The Toy with Jackie Gleason and Richard Pryor. My late partner's Mother used to get us invited to studio screenings back in the 80's. This particular screen was big and held at the AMPAS theater in Beverly Hills. Lots of celebrities were in attendance and there was an open bar serving wine and cocktails and hors d'oeuvres getting passed around. The only people who weren't there was the principal actors and the Director. Normally, Donner was always in attendance at the Industry screenings of all his film and always standing in the rear of the theater to make sure everyone stay until the end credits. This partucular film, he wasn't there. It was suppose to be a comedy, but no one was laughing after the first 10 minutes of the film, and it got worst. with DEAD silence from the audience. But everyone was polite and stayed until the end with no applause afterwards.
For me, it’s Jack and Jill
Coffee and Cigarettes, about 20 minutes into the movie, I realized that Jim Jarmusch has complete disdain for his audience, and dares them to watch this ███, just a laundry list of celebs smoking and acting bored. The reason I hate Jarmusch is the reason I love Scorcese and Tarantino, they have TOO MUCH to say, Jim… nothing.
To each his own. I loved this film but I was NOT being distracted by a restless or unhappy audience because I watched it in the quiet of my home.
I feel there is a strong divide between the average youtube viewer and some in this audience like you who would like this movie. I try to cater to both, because I am both! Tarkovsky to the masses is a tough sell. Imagine being a marketer in 2003 and trying to get audiences to see Gerry!
@@LearningaboutMovies Yeah also with 2 big mainstream actors as the leading roles.. it can be very misleading
Wild wild west at the cinema at 14, the day that I understand that movies can really suck, sad but helpful life lesson
The only film that was a bit of a slog in any of my film courses was Tropical Malady from 2004 so I get the feeling that Gerry may be just a slowly-paced.
well, also nothing happens, except one thing. It's about movie about two guys getting lost that I think tries to generate various feelings of getting lost
I haven't had any really bad movie experiences, although going to The Northman with my son - both of us huge Eggers fans after The Lighthouse - was deeply disappointing.
Perhaps I could mention going to a midnight screening of Eraserhead not long after it was released. My friends and I were in equal parts amazed and horrified as it played out. About halfway through, though, when the chipmunk lady was singing, the soundtrack went silent although the lady kept singing. This went on for some time, and we were thinking it was deliberate - a weird lady singing in silence was hardly the freakiest thing we had been exposed to up to that point - but then the projectionist came out and apologised for a fault on the reel.
We were given free tickets to another showing, but even though what I had seen of the film astonished me, I didn't go back, and to this day I've never rewatched it. I feel like I've seen the film the way I was meant to see it...
I was in the hospital watching Blood Red Sky on Netflix. I'd rather stay in the hospital for a year right now, than having to watch that non-sense, unentertaining vampire plane hi-jack movie made out of garbage that not even Wall-E would recycle and no raccoon would dare eating, again. They spoke multiple languages with weird, inauthentic accents on top of the most uninteresting overacting every person did. The cherry on top was that the father of a girl that I went to school with was an actor in it too which made me feel even more embarrassed about both the German filmmakers and actors of the 2000s.
Probably my worst experience was the 6th of January 2024. I went to my city's art house cinema (I don't really know if this is the exact term). I bought tickets for a british movie called Accused. I hadn't watched the trailer but I had read the plot, so I was interested. Well, I won't spoil it for those who have not watched it, but I connected a lot with the main character and felt every single emotion he went through (I don't like tension nor horror movies for this reason). I really liked the movie at the end but I felt a bit shaky.Fifteen minutes later, I watched Fallen Leaves and almost felt asleep, but it helped me reduce the anxiety of the previous movie. I went back home and had a panic attack in the bus. So, yeah, a good start of the year and the worst movie experience of my life (yet).
Happy Christmas Josh 😎
I’ve seen Gerry. I saw it at a video store and wondered why I had never heard of a Van Sant movie starring Matt Damon. Then I watched it and realized, “oh, that’s why.”
I consider myself a film buff, but I have never heard of "Gerry."
My worst movie experience was watching "Freaks." The audience included a bunch of drunken college students who kept chanting: "Freaks! Freaks! We want more freaks!" (As a consequence, I have never bought into the idea that "Freaks" is a "humanistic film about the differently abled.")
Okay, "Gerry" sounds about as exciting as "Waiting For Godot".
Wow I was so surprised to hear that the answer was Gerry this is one of my favorite movies ever!! I can see why people wouldn’t like it but the movie is so beautifully photographed and I love the meditation on death. Gus Van Sant’s entire death trilogy with Gerry, Elephant, and Last Days is one of the best things an american filmmaker has done in the last 20 years. Justice for Gerry!!!
I liked Gerry when i watched as a teenager. Ive always wanted to rewatch it tbh.
I was watching,UP with my boyfriend at the theater and he shamed me for crying at the first part where the wife dies. Did I mention he was my EX-boyfriend? I guess my experience is prettyild.
I walked out of Little Shop of Horrors and fell asleep at Dick Tracy. Terrible.
Thought I knew all about Gus Van Sant but I'd never heard of this one. It must have been disappeared.
Not sure about the theatrical release history of this one, or what happened when it came out in rental stores...
My worst movie experience at a theater: Powder. It had some good moments but completely uneven with over-performed and under-performed scenes. I still didn’t walk out. Most offensive movie? Gods and Generals: It frankly puts forwards Confederate propaganda.
Greaser's Palace (1972). The only movie that ever made me walk out of the theater. Pretentious garbage.
You should give Gerry another shot. After the third or fourth viewing it really starts to sink in!
What substances do I need to ingest? 😀
Agreed, the only good thing about Gerry is the Arvo Part soundtrack. Honestly. In fact, when I watched it, I wondered if Van Sant listened to Arvo Part and loved the music and decided to make a movie of drawn out mountain scenes where he could add the music. If you want to watch this movie and see the best part, its the opening scene, they are shot from behind driving a car, with a beautiful sky above them, to Arvo Part's 'Spiegel im Spiegel' - thats the only good part of the entire movie.
I didn't realize Part was a part of this! Never looked at the crew. I will have to check that out. Thanks!
@@LearningaboutMovies i dont think Part was part of the crew, just that 2 of his songs from the late 70's were used in it (Spiegel im Speigel and Fur Alina), if thats what you mean, apologies if I am misunderstanding.
I can't remember the movies.. but I walked out of two movies... for the intense depressing nature of the films. I can take a lot.. but when the tone continues to "play with emotions and keeps pulling you down into despair without letting up" .. well life is too short for that ! 👉 I Just found your channel.. 👏🎥.. I have a favorite movie with Anthony Hopkins and Cuba Gooding.. called Instinct. He hives with Apes for 3 years. It is amazing, the filming of it, and the acting,.. but not sure why we can't find it? Would love to see your take on it. 🙏
I loved watching Gerry through my mid to late teen years and the film was very important for me, and funnily enough, though I haven’t seen it for a long time or thought about it (I’m in my mid thirties right now), I recently made a personal top 10 list and put it in, then your hate video on Gerry pops up.
I approach it as an audiovisual experience rather than a conventionally narrative one, though it does get more and more intense as it progresses. I think it might be the closest experince to a deep psyhedelic existencia trip in cinema.
Yes, it's an ambient Bela Tarr like movie. Back in 2003, with Matt Damon, I don't think that made the marketing department happy.
I loved Gerry
When I was a student I remember I went to the movies to see "Angel heart" totally unprepared. I did not know anything about the film but it was with DeNiro (who I love) and Mickey Rourke and expected a private eye story. Could not be bad, right? I was so shocked! 😮 I think I will never ever watch this movie again. I absolutely dislike supernatural topics like that and horror movies are my least favorite genre. Beside really great ones like e.g. Jordan Peele's "Get out" or "Us" or "The shining" I usually avoid them.
And also back in my student days the only film that make me walk out of the theatre and think of wanting my money back was Woody Allen's "Everything you wanted to know about sex but were afraid to ask". I think it is not funny at all, not intelligent just goofy and flat, really full of stupid nonsense. I could not laugh a single time. 🧐
But it seems I missed the real bad movies... LOL.
for me the ending of Spielberg's AI - I wanted to hiss-boo at the screen, but I'm English so obvs I didn't
I quite liked Gerry, but I knew what I was getting into - he said he was influenced by Bela Tarr, nuff said - nothing like as good though, Tarr's films do have a point
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Yeah, i actually remember liking that movie
I knew there were Gerry fans! I'd probably like some portion of it today, or would at least get its film style and predecessors
I would be interested in your review of the film if you were to rewatch it now.
I have seen godawful films in cinema. I have seen really boring things. I have seen movies that defies all kinds of senses. That feel like they are made by grifter aliens. But. In a cinema experience? There's one singular film I felt genuinely targeted by. A movie that got in my face screamed at me. Cackling. Insisting it was hilarious. I just wanted it to stop. I just felt alienated by the whole earthly community of humanity. A movie that made me hate a whole kind of cinema I had until then tolerated. It fumes me up just thinking about that cinema experience. That is.
The movie is...
Deadpool.
I do not care what anyone else thinks of me.
That movie made me understand what true cinematic suffering could be.
And I have no clue whatever movie everyone else saw.
Casey Affleck was also in Good Will Hunting with his brother.
Yeah, I didn't even remember him at the time.
Frozen 2 was a bad movie experience in the theatre mainly because it's just not a movie for me at all
Frozen 2 is a bad movie. The first one is good, but the second one is about the worst Disney movie plot I've ever seen. It makes very little sense. I remember watching it with my kids at home during the pandemic and just being bored out of my mind and sometimes confused. Even the music wasn't good.
Unfortunately quite a few, Romy and Michelle, (almost walked out), End of the World (walked out after a half hour), Tales of Despereaux (tales of depressing more like it), 200 Cigarettes, too many
I remember walking out on Jonah Hex and Stigmata.
@@charlieparker5678 is there a time limit when you can get a refund? LOL
Right so this is more a TH-cam short film but Lana Del Ray's Tropico. A friend of mine from college days chucked it on and others there were liking it. But for me, so pretentious, just a load of ooo American Iconography, Jesus, Elvis, American Culture bla bla bla ultimately just a load of meaningless "that'll be cool" moments that felt so wanky. In terms of real films Fast and Furious 6 was another where I felt a massive disconnect as the audience were fans of the franchise and holding it in high esteem because, what I felt, was just because Paul Walker died. As a film its just Hollywood BS. I think feeling that disconnect is what defines a bad viewing experience for me.
Might be a hotake but, I'll go with first installment in before trilogy "Before sunrise" .... I know it's widely & critically acclaimed movie but that movie gave me my most boring movie experience ever....
Could you suggest any online courses that would be of value for people interested in watching films as a hobby? What should I learn to be a better viewer?
Thanks. Other than the many free videos here, I've got a few writings on Substack, including "How to Watch a Movie" for paid subs only. I have only two posts in that series so far. You are reminding me to write more! And I will take your comment into serious consideration.
Conclave worst movie experience
Madame Web? Likely you could pick a random wide release from this year and odds are you would have had a worse time.
Gerry is a great movie
Roger Ebert's review of it is a classic piece of writing, imo
Hahahaha I’d forgotten this movie it’s soooo bad!!!!
The Evil Dead remake was a miserable time. It wasn't a scary movie. Although it's a slasher movie, those elements weren't good either. There were a couple slasher scenes all in close-ups so they're more of special effects demonstrations than being a film.
Me and friend went to see the late showing of Sicario when it came out it was so long and boring got out after 1am. The movie was so serious without any character that we cared. Same with prisoner. Never likes Dennis since
This sounds like The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Was so hyped for this and from what I recall, it went NOWHERE. just some outlaws roaming around on horseback for 3/4 the movie. Was clueless to why all the praise it got at the time
for years, people have telling me on this channel to rewatch it. I felt the same as you, watching it when it came out. Maybe I will try again.
I remember wanting to see this when I first heard about it because I usually love Gus Van Sant movies, but it kind of fell off my radar and I forgot about it until now. Guess it's a good thing I didn't waste my time!
Anyone who didn’t appreciate the wit and cleverness of “A Mighty Wind” no matter what your age at the time, shouldn’t be critiquing movies.
I related a story about when I was younger. You failed to listen.
I saw that film when I was 19 years old and I got it. Besides I was just teasing you. I like a lot of your reviews so don’t get so testy.
Going to see Passion of the Christ with the in-laws was rough. 2 1/2 hour Christian snuff film, no thank you.
Maybe this movie sucks, but your argument that sucks because is people walking on the dessert without barely talking is not enough, I'm sure you have more thoughtful reasons
That is how I felt at the time.
@@LearningaboutMovies There weren't enough cactus around for them to truly suck --- how do you think Harry Dean Stanton survived all his years of wandering in "Paris, Texas"? Everyone knows we've got to schlump through all the sagebrush & alkali flats to find our Nastassja Kinski....