Famous B-Movie That You Have No Interest in Seeing?

[The Burgomaster]

I really can't think of any . . . someone help me out here.

[jmc]

It's not a B movie but I've never seen THE MATRIX and I don't know if I'll ever get around to doing it.

Never seen BRIDE OF REANIMATOR either....

[The Strange German]

Any Italian cannibal flick depicting actual animal killings ranks very high on my "no-intention-to-see"-list - entertainment value does have its limits.

cheers
Markus

[fireal]

jmc wrote:
>
> It's not a B movie but I've never seen THE MATRIX and I don't
> know if I'll ever get around to doing it.
>
> Never seen BRIDE OF REANIMATOR either....

You don't want to see it...

[Pete B6K]

I have know plan to see Cannibal Ferox or Holocaust, or anything by Fulci, Deodato or Lenzi for that matter.  Nothing against Italians, but they seem to have carved  out a sick little niche market there.  I've also no plan to see the rest of Bloodsucking Freaks (the first couple of minutes were too much).

One film I have to admit I STILL havent seen, but will do is 'Night of the Living Dead'.  Just never got round to seeing it. Love Dawn, like Day, never seen Night.

Pete

[Neville]

"The Rocky horror Picture Show" ------> Saw a picture of Tim Curry in lingerie on a magazine and I am still trying to erase it from my poor mind.

[Bernie]

I can think of a hell of a lot of so-called "A" pictures I will never see....

Among the "B"s, I'll never watch any slasher/gore flicks.  Just don't entertain me.  (Though, Pete, I can heartily recommend Night of the Living Dead -- it's what a low-budget flick should be, and scared the hell out of me in high school, besides.)

Not big on foreign flicks, good or bad -- there's still so many American films I've never seen....

[Fearless Freep]

Among the "B"s, I'll never watch any slasher/gore flicks. Just don't entertain me.

Same here...I'm just not into gore

[SkullNinja]

Titanic.

[Funk, E.]

I have a personal staning moritorium on Speilberg. Thus I've not seen Schindler's List, Private Ryan, AI, Minority Report etc.

[Bernie]

Funk, I can highly recommend the BOOK Schindler's List.  I enjoyed (if that's the right word for so harrowing a topic) it so much I never felt any interest in seeing the movie.

[Funk, E.]

Books are fine as long as they are nor written by Spielberg. In fact, that is the entire reason why I hate the f**ker. I read The Color Purple with all of it's grit and lesbian overtones and then I watched white boy berg whitewash it and remove the homo-erotic subtext and then... then he has the audacity to say he didn't feel mature enough to do Schindler until he did. So he can butcher a black woman's book any time, but he had to wait to do a movie about fellow European Jews? f**king hypocrite! Hate him! hate him, hate him, hate him!

[editorial note: this is in no way shape or form a slight against Jewish people. I have many Jewish (as well as black) friends and feel no animosity towards them as a race or a religion. I just hate Spielberg. That is all.]

[Fearless Freep]

Sheesh, lighten up.  To have some much emotional vitriol for someone who's probably never heard of you and probably doesn't give one whit of care for your opinion of him is...not the healthiest way to live.

Books are always editied when brough to the screen.  Sometimes it's for legitimate reasons in transling from one media to another, sometimes it's just that some parts don't fit the story as the way the director wants to tell it.  Sometimes the studio doesn't want to include parts.  Whatever.  Both "Jaws" and "Schindler's List" were not the same as the book either, or for that matter neither were "Beastmaster", "Starship Troopers", or "The Fellowship of The Ring"

To hate a guy because his movie representation of a book is edited in way you personally don't like is...kinda silly

[Funk, E.]

Well, first off I don't actually hate HIM personally, I just don't care for his movies or his directing style. I don't sit up nights with a voodoo doll of the man stabbing it with a pin and he's never going to end up dead in my entryway. I was being melo-dramatic.

In fact I don't actually get that worked up about things that do not effect me directly. He's done me no harm. I know that. I'm not off the deep end about it. I just think he's a really bad film maker and get's way more money and credit than he disearves. Is this just my opinion? Yes. Does anyone else including himself care? No. Am I alright with that? Of course.

If I became over exuberant in my expression it was simply for effect not out of any genuine loathing. Like hating liverworst or something. It's fun to overreact sometimes.

Plus, I've been under inordinate stress lately and it's a lot less harmful to vent on someone that will never know and it will never come to anything than venting on a friend, family member or fellow poster on favorite message board. It's safe and harmless.

Okay?

[The Burgomaster]

Wow! I didn't think I'd stir up such rousing responses!

Anyway, my take on Spielberg is that, like him or not, he knows how to entertain people better than any other director (just look at how much money his movies have generated . . . you can't argue with the numbers).

Now, for my personal opinion, there aren't many Spielberg films that I dislike. On the other hand, there are no Spielberg films in my top 10 or probably even my top 25. Neither is he one of my 10 favorite directors (he may not even be in my top 15).

The guy goes to work and makes money. Tons of money. I wish I could be as successful at my job as he is at his.

As for books vs. movies, it is an unfair comparison. One thing I learned in film school is that the movie is NOT supposed to be like the book. They are completely different methods of storytelling. Look at THE SUM OF ALL FEARS. The book & movie have, MAYBE, 1% in common with each other. Yet they were both successful. Personally, I hated the movie because I read the book first. If I had NOT read the book first, my opinion probably would have been different.

Whew!