What Causes You to Hate a Movie?

[InformationGeek]

There are lot of a moments in a movie that can annoy, bore, frustrate, anger, or make you feel negative.  Maybe it is a lack of structure in the plot, horrific special effects that go beyond fake, a lack of excitement or interest that the film should provide, or maybe it could be something else.  Still, there are some parts that can make you start hating a film.

So, what I am getting at here, at what point/part in a film or with what thing in a film would cause you to start hating the movie you are watching?

Things that start making me a hate a film is an overusage of stock footage (Frogs), one too many terrible musical numbers (Titantic: The Legend Goes On), the feeling that film is just getting more pointless and less interesting with each passing scene (Blood Beach), or the lack of tension or excitement that should be found in the film but isn't (Shark Swarm).

[El Misfit]

for me, it's the amount of blood, car chases, and/or my tastes, which varys at times

[sideorderofninjas]

A movie with the number of "Too Dark To See" scenes like Alien Vs Predator: Requiem.  A movie that could actually have enough lighting to see what's going on but doesn't. 

[retrorussell]

With me, it's a number of things:
1. Stock footage, like IG stated.  That's a super-cheap tactic used in old movies.  No excuse to pad your film with this crap.
2. Bad, bottom-of-the-barrel acting.  Some cheese acting is good.  When it's down at the bottom of the trash can with the grime, rancid bits of meat with maggots on it, slime from bad produce, etc., it's not okay.
3. Lame special effects.  You can constantly see wires, boom mikes, hands pushing things over, shadows of the crew, blood looks like paint, etc.
4. Plot devices that either go nowhere or have nothing to do with anything.  Why did he/she decide to do that?  How did the director pull that idea out of his @$$?  What kind of teleportation/ESP powers does the killer have?  How did that person not know that was going to happen?
5. When I can guess EVERYTHING that will happen.  Just watch them jump through that window.  Smash!  Yeah, that girl is gonna be dead pretty soon.  Three minutes later, stab!  Yeah, I bet in a 'twist' ending, that guy is the killer.  Shock!  Surprise! 
6. Long moments without dialogue where it's needed, because nothing is happening.
7. Dumb endings.  Especially LAME setups for sequels.

Usually at least a few of the above have to happen in a movie for me to hate it.  I'm generally pretty patient with films unless I'm really tired.

[hellbilly]

I generally don't hate things about a movie when watching a movie. I guess sometimes it's people that make me 'hate' a movie.

For example I watched Friedkin's Bug and thought it was awful. Yet people kept raving and calling it a masterpiece. So I watched it again with a crowd. The movie was still bad and the crowd was actually laughing at the movie and making fun of it. Evidence enough for me that Bug was a stinker, even though I already knew on my first viewing.
The Bug praise continued however, and got more bizarre. People I knew online suddenly broke down admitting how touched they were from watching Bug, one even shared that he actually cried during a showing. I felt like I was stuck in a bad Twilight Zone episode.
In the end it was all the people drooling over a lousy movie that made me dislike it even more.

Amusingly enough, Bug was voted recently into the Hall of Shame at the very same forum that praised Bug when it first came out  

[SPazzo]

It varies.  I don't like the stupid comedy genre.  Things like the Will Ferrel movies and the Epic Movie series are just terrible.  I guess it's the twelve year old jokes that p**s me off.

Also, little or no plot and movies that rely heavily on special effects.  For instance, Transformers 2, no friggin plot.  I walked out.  Another example, Children of Men.  Loads of special effects, but an amazingly interesting story.  I loved it.

Also no sympathy for characters.  That can, in part, be bad acting or just characters who are all arseholes who I don't care about.

[Mofo Rising]

Interesting question. Actually, a great question.

If I had to sum it up in one word, that word would be mediocrity. I've watched pretty much every type of movie you can think of, with budgets from what looks like several hundred dollars to hundreds of millions, and the one thing that always grates is the unwillingness to try.

For instance, I have seen many no-budget films which are god-awful, but at least you get the sense that they are trying. I might not like them, but I can sense the filmmakers were at least trying. On the other hand, I've seen purported hundred-million dollar films which were worse, because you can sense the filmmakers never ventured beyond the tried-and-true.

Usually it boils down to the writing, and the writing builds up to the final film. If that core is not there, what was the film made for? Once I realize there is no real core, every moment of a film will grate on me until I'm gritting my teeth in anger at the filmmakers. Then I hate a film, because it's garbage disguised as an entertainment product. This can be the case for both no-budget films and so-called blockbusters.

It's not the only reason, but watching a film the filmmakers don't even care about? Torture.

[Cthulhu]

Interesting question. Actually, a great question.

If I had to sum it up in one word, that word would be mediocrity. I've watched pretty much every type of movie you can think of, with budgets from what looks like several hundred dollars to hundreds of millions, and the one thing that always grates is the unwillingness to try.

*Cough* Surrogates *Cough*

[vukxfiles]

I hate movies with too many childish scenes, such as The Master of Disguise.

[Psycho Circus]

CGI

[Jack]

Characters that are self-righteous, argumentative, conceited - but the writer and director apparently thought we're supposed to like these people.  No, I find them detestable.  Please kill them immediately.

MTV style editing, where the action scenes are nothing but an incomprehensible strobe effect.  Or any of that "artistic" crap done be people who are making sci-fi originals.  Don't make the movie look grainy and washed out, don't fast forward the film as we're watching it, don't play with all the controls on the editing machine until your movie looks like a demo for the software.

[InformationGeek]

CGI

So does that mean you hate Jurassic Park? 

[hellbilly]

MTV style editing, where the action scenes are nothing but an incomprehensible strobe effect.  Or any of that "artistic" crap done be people who are making sci-fi originals.  Don't make the movie look grainy and washed out, don't fast forward the film as we're watching it, don't play with all the controls on the editing machine until your movie looks like a demo for the software.

That pretty much sums up almost every movie made in the past 8-9 years 

[The Burgomaster]

I agree with these previously-mentioned factors:

* MTV-style editing (and camerawork, for that matter).  I hate all those spinning, diving, swooping camera shots, edited together in rapid-fire fashion.  I believe filmmakers are saying, "If there isn't constant fast motion of some kind on the screen, the brain-dead audiences of today won't enjoy the movie."  Maybe they are correct.

* CGI (but I only hate unnecessary CGI).  CGI has it's place in sci-fi movies and such, but we don't need it to create car chases (I'd much rather see stuntmen doing real driving) or to add clouds to a blue sky. 

I also hate when a movie is advertised as the "feel-good movie of the year" or the "must-see movie of the year."  When I hear these phrases, it makes me NOT want to see the movie.

[Psycho Circus]

CGI

So does that mean you hate Jurassic Park? 

No. I loved it when I was younger, but they only used a little, mostly green screen stuff. Now it's all blue screen and everything relying on the computer and actors talking to themselves. Look at kids films now, every single one is some CGI monstrosity about some goofy animal. Making films is about telling a story, working with camera and getting a performance out of your actors. Not about a team of fat guys sat infront of a PC, until you have a "film" a few months later ready for the summer and ready to guzzle money out of f**king morons who'll settle for flashy bulls**t.