Films you refuse to watch.

Teetonetal

I avoid comedies, so few are actually funny. But anything with Adam Sandler is on my NEVER watch this list

Remakes.

Myranda

equalsql said:

"Come and See".. that is just too real and therefore truly disturbing.

Any gorenography, I just cannot stomach it. Life's shitty enough as it is without sitting down to watch people being ripped apart for 'entertainment'.  unless it's sooo.. tongue-in cheek . i,e, like Bad Taste.

Mama Mia.. , Sex in the City.... oh Lord NO!

And finally... any Michael Bay movie

Gorenography may be the worst word I've ever read.

Torture-porn, gore-porn and "gorenography" are terms we could do without - they mean FUCK ALL.

gore-for-your-entertainment ... so a film with gore in... hmm what else could we use this logic for?

Halloween - Knife-porn

Transformers - Explode-porn

Fist Full of Dollars - Sand-and-shoot-porn

Spinal Tap - music-joke-porn

Schindler's List - sad-porn

Paranormal Activity - Loud-noises-porn

Rush - Wheel-porn

You see? The appending of "porn" or some derivative of pornography means nothing... ALL films are for our entertainment and titillation. The people who first coined these useless terms should be beaten to death with a thesaurus.

Not liking a film because it's gory is fine... but don't become one of "them" the people who sit there smugly sniffing their own arseholes because they think their shit smells better. Dislike gorey films because you don't like them, or because quite a lot are terrible movies... but disliking a film because a reporter came up with a shitty meaningless portmanteau of words that don't add meaning to each other is the sort of thing that should see you and the reporter banned from ever seeing films again

DesVegas

Well thank you for your input Myranda, i'm so very pleased i got to read all that - "people who sit there smugly sniffing their own arseholes because they think their shit smells better" 

Stunning.

Myranda

DesVegas said:

Well thank you for your input Myranda, i'm so very pleased i got to read all that - "people who sit there smugly sniffing their own arseholes because they think their shit smells better" 

Stunning.

Glad to help

CabbageCat

Myranda said:

equalsql said:

"Come and See".. that is just too real and therefore truly disturbing.

Any gorenography, I just cannot stomach it. Life's shitty enough as it is without sitting down to watch people being ripped apart for 'entertainment'.  unless it's sooo.. tongue-in cheek . i,e, like Bad Taste.

Mama Mia.. , Sex in the City.... oh Lord NO!

And finally... any Michael Bay movie

Gorenography may be the worst word I've ever read....etc

I would venture that the "<prefix>nography" implies "nothing but <prefix>". So the movie is devoid of any cinematic substance (story/acting/creativity etc) and is simply a vehicle for <prefix>. So, aside from Transformers, your other example wouldn't fit too well.

That's my interpretation, anyway.

Myranda

CabbageCat said:

Myranda said:

equalsql said:

"Come and See".. that is just too real and therefore truly disturbing.

Any gorenography, I just cannot stomach it. Life's shitty enough as it is without sitting down to watch people being ripped apart for 'entertainment'.  unless it's sooo.. tongue-in cheek . i,e, like Bad Taste.

Mama Mia.. , Sex in the City.... oh Lord NO!

And finally... any Michael Bay movie

Gorenography may be the worst word I've ever read....etc

I would venture that the "<prefix>nography" implies "nothing but <prefix>". So the movie is devoid of any cinematic substance (story/acting/creativity etc) and is simply a vehicle for <prefix>. So, aside from Transformers, your other example wouldn't fit too well.

That's my interpretation, anyway.

Except I can think of almost no films with no cinematic substance... even the Saw movies have a detective-movie-plot (not a great one) and a revenge-against-cancer-and-people-wasting-thier-not-dying-of-canceryness plot

Braindead probably has more gore/violence/blood than say Hostel does... but people don't say that's just a vehicle for gore... Even Ichi The Killer has a plot that can be followed (mostly) and a story which half endears and half sickens you about the main character leaving you morally ambivalent about the gore and violence.

High School The Musical is just a cynical vehicle for making money with no substance* but we don't here that called "money-porn"

* I assume... well actually I don't. Not even the worst Ewe Boll film is totally devoid of cinematic substance, and it's dismissive to say that any film is totally lacking in story/acting/creativity...

Chuffola

Rather than "gorenography" I prefer the more accurately descriptive term "big bags of horse spunk", for that is what these movies are. 

I like a good horror movie, in fact, I love em. But violent and sometimes sexual torture for entertainment? No thanks. 

Chuffola

And although Nicolas Cage is almost always annoying, Matchstick Men with Sam Rockwell and directed by Ridley Scott is superb. Highly recommended. 

Edit: Clearly, nothing to do with my previous comment!! 

Sassafras

No but Avatar came close.

Myranda

Chuffola said:

Rather than "gorenography" I prefer the more accurately descriptive term "big bags of horse spunk", for that is what these movies are. 

I like a good horror movie, in fact, I love em. But violent and sometimes sexual torture for entertainment? No thanks. 

So don't watch Basic Instinct, Batman (fairly sure all three Nolan films has a torture scene), Robin Hood Prince Of Thieves, Princess Bride, Fargo, Taken, Three Kings, Severance, Hellraiser, virtually any film set in a war, virtually any action film, virtually any corrupt cop films... all of these have violent torture or in... as for horror films WITHOUT violent torture? We're down to only a few. And as Hellraiser is considered a classic horror film then I'm not sure you do like good horror movies

CabbageCat

Myranda said:

Except I can think of almost no films with no cinematic substance... even the Saw movies have a detective-movie-plot (not a great one) and a revenge-against-cancer-and-people-wasting-thier-not-dying-of-canceryness plot.

OK then, not no cinematic substance. Perhaps cinematic substance equivalent to that of movies where <prefix> = "por". Saw and Final Destination have stuff going one under the sticky red surface but it's not massively more than, "Hello Miss, did you call a plumber? I understand your pipes need servicing." They are still quite watchable because I like the gore - but then I like the plumber movies too.

randomhandclaps

Jeez, I'm shocked how many people won't watch a film because it's about Jews, has a black guy in it, in the case of Sex And The City focuses on issues faced by women or lastly films that are about individuals clearly displaying complex mental issues who may or may not torture and slay good looking teenagers.  It's like the fucking KKK film club around here. 

randomhandclaps

CabbageCat said:

I like the gore - but then I like the plumber movies too.

Sounds like a Dennis Nilsen biopic would be right up your street then.

Myranda

CabbageCat said:

Myranda said:

Except I can think of almost no films with no cinematic substance... even the Saw movies have a detective-movie-plot (not a great one) and a revenge-against-cancer-and-people-wasting-thier-not-dying-of-canceryness plot.

OK then, not no cinematic substance. Perhaps cinematic substance equivalent to that of movies where <prefix> = "por". Saw and Final Destination have stuff going one under the sticky red surface but it's not massively more than, "Hello Miss, did you call a plumber? I understand your pipes need servicing." They are still quite watchable because I like the gore - but then I like the plumber movies too.

But then the plot of almost every action film is no better... and in Saw there are three to four main characters who's lives intersect in a way that is given by the end, all the characters have a degree of development, we know for instance that one of the two men in the room throughout the film is a doctor who has a wife and child, that he has a poor bedside manner, and he almost had an affair, though his love and loyalty to his wife stopped him...

This is more than some action films - where the plot is "a Crime is happened let us do a shooty at the bad-men" but we don't call these shoot-porn we call them "explosive action films"

Christ the plot to Rocky was "man goes to box, loses, but trains a bit and then doesn't lose" and that's listed in top 100 films of all time lists all over the place is that Box-porn? Punch-porn? Pugilismography? Running-up-steps-to-music-porn?

DesVegas

Erm Forrest Gump was neither black nor a jew nor a woman nor a torturer (probably, as of course i have not seen it)

Myranda

DesVegas said:

Erm Forrest Gump was neither black nor a jew nor a woman nor a torturer (probably, as of course i have not seen it)

It's got a black man in it though!

randomhandclaps

And Forrest does have complex mental issues.

octatonic

Virtually every blockbuster- never seen Titanic, Mama Mia or any of the chick flick films. Most of the superhero movies bore the fuck out of me. I like older films, esp 1950's/60's or offbeat, cult stuff- Love and Human Remains is a good example.

DesVegas

So now i'm a racist for something i haven't done ?? .. 

Sarge

Surely this has to be the most absurd thread title ever?

On a side note, I occasionally work at sheltered accommodation places, and the lifts in some of these are made by Shindler.....in big letters on the threshold... Shindlers lifts, I kid ye not.

I wonder if that's in place to keep the steady flow of old folk coming/going?