What Causes You to Hate a Movie?

[Chainsawmidget]

What I can't stand are characters that are just @$$holes for no reason. 

I'm not talking about the over the top exaggerated jerks like you might find in 80s teen comedy's picking on the nerdy lead character, or the ones that are just a inch away from twirling their mustaches and tying a woman to railroad tracks, but anyone coming from the R. Lee Ermey school of character acting.  The kind where a character is just nothing but a pure @$$hole for no reason other than being an @$$hole, and isn't even a funny one. 

I can't stand that stuff. 

[Trevor]

Any film made about SA's supposedly unique and unjust racial past by a foreign filmmaker who (a) ignores the problems in his / her own country and focuses on ours instead and (b) when confronted about (a) tries to hide behind the hoary old "this is not an anti-South African film, but an anti-apartheid film" excuse. Sorry: back in the day, apartheid was SA and SA was apartheid. 

[ChaosTheory]

This is a good question, I'd never really thought about it that much but my reasons seem to be much like the others' on the board.
It depends a little on the genre.  I can forgive anything from an action movie as long as it doesn't bore me.  For drama (or horror), if I can't be moved to care about any of the characters I will write a movie off pretty quickly.  I guess I really hate any movie where the characters are just presented as stock Types, rather than being given any actual personality. I can't enjoy a lot of comedies for this reason. 

When a movie's whole purpose just seems to be the director showing off his kinks, or grievances/prejudices, I hate that as well.  Can't stand directors like Neil LaBute or Lars Von Trier; I realize they're talented but everything I've seen from them just feels like reel after reel of whining.

Mofo and Hammock mentioned laziness from filmmakers; I agree, and it's worse if you know the movie had all the resources and budget in the world and still produced lousiness.  Number one offender: Michael Bay. 

I do tend to resent movies that I personally don't care for but that everyone around me seems to praise. I had the exact same reaction to BUG that hellbilly did, and I probably would have hated it a little less if it hadn't been so hyped.  Hated American Beauty when it first came out too.

Bad CGI doesn't usually take me out of a movie, but if it's painfully obvious that they should have gone with practical effects instead, that'll turn me.  Example: I AM  LEGEND.  I was going WTF every time those creatures showed up; how hard would it have been to cake some blood and latex onto a group of skinny extras??

And since I've brought up I AM LEGEND I'll confess that lousy adaptations inspire hate in me.  I know it's kinda unfair and I should judge a movie on its own terms, but sometimes I just can't help it, especially if it's a book I loved, or if the movie didn't even get the book's general theme/message right - like the godawful Demi Moore-starring version of THE SCARLET LETTER.  I could spend hours discussing how many things that movie did wrong.

[bionica]

@ scumbag: ha you should catch that "i am legend" spoof, "i am virgin" no bad cgi there, just bad humping

i hate any movie that has drama in it. just watched "edge of darkness" last night which could have been a decent action movie except for all those scenes that are supposed to make you sad

i hate any movie that tries to evoke emotions out of you just for the sake of evoking emotions aka emotional pornography

also a lot of ppl mentioned "mtv" type effects. YES! it drives me crazy when the camera won't focus so my eyes are trying to focus and start to ache from it. also any scenes that are strobe or too fast for the brain to comprehend so i feel like i'm being subliminally bombarded

[Jim H]

Any film made about SA's supposedly unique and unjust racial past by a foreign filmmaker who (a) ignores the problems in his / her own country and focuses on ours instead and (b) when confronted about (a) tries to hide behind the hoary old "this is not an anti-South African film, but an anti-apartheid film" excuse. Sorry: back in the day, apartheid was SA and SA was apartheid. 

I don't want to put words in your mouth Trevor, so I have a question.

It's pretty obvious you're not and almost certainly never have been anti-South Africa.  According to you, being anti-apartheid makes you anti-South Africa.  So, the logical inference here is you are not and have never been against apartheid.  Is that right?