What movies have you seen that made you wish you had those 2 hours of your life back?
Here's mine: "Old Gringo". OMG. It will remain on my list of worst movies ever for all time.
I love Gregory Peck, I like Jane Fonda - and will root for her whenever the opportunity arises - but this movie truly made me want to barf. Just a horrible mish-mash of a bodice ripper trying to be politically relevant (I think), and a total waste of talented actors.
I went to see it when it was first released, thinking, "Cool! Mexican revolution! Jane Fonda! Gregory Peck!". Ugh. What a turkey!
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Jan de Bont's venture was one of the worst films I ever paid to see.
I was disgusted by the fact that Shirley Jackson's novel could be so thoroughly trashed when Robert Wise had honored it so wonderfully in 1963.
And don't get me started about the remake of Wise's 1951 "The Day the Earth Stood Still". It'll really piss me off.
It was not a ghost story, it was a psychological drama... and a damned scary one at that.
"My God! What was holding my hand?" (The biggest chill in the flick.)
To this day I avoid sticking my hand out over the edge of my bed. 
But you're absolutely correct. It was a psychological drama, not a ghost story.
Hand hanging over the edge of the bed? Then I guess I shouldn't bring up showering alone.
Wise kept Theo's ("Just Theo" homosexuality as a sotto voce plot element, as it was in Jackson's novel. It was one of the aspects of The Haunting which made it work so well. Furthermore, apparently Bloom and Harris got into character so thoroughly that it caused problems. (So they say.)
It is one of my favorite flicks.
A friend of mine scored some free passes for a sneak preview through her volunteer work at the San Jose film fest, and we trustingly took our seats, expecting at the worst some brainless entertainment.
Wrong! Brain bleach required. Inexplicable tortuous garbage, Even for a Jim Carrey movie.
We kept looking at each other and expecting some improvement, but help never came.
It has been bookmarked in my "Favorites" ever since. 
A day doesn't go by that I don't visit IMDb at least once. It is undoubtedly my most-visited site. An invaluable asset, and a good site to just navigate around and see where it takes you
There's a thread - what movie can they never remake?
I'd only allow West Side Story to be made again if Baz Luhrman put his touch on it.
They can remake Charade or even Breakfast at Tiffany's on if Adrian Lyne directs.
The cinematography plays a role in it for me too. Even Lyne's Unfaithful had this beautiful imagery woven into the grittiest parts.
I could never see West Side Story or Charade remade. And speaking of I tried, I really tried. I could never get into Breakfast at Tiffany's. And I LOVE Audrey Hepburn. I LOVE everything she did, and I've seen everything she did, except Two for the Road and Tiffany. Go figure
The two on your list that I've seen are 2001, A Space Odyssey and Eyes Wide Shut (if I'm recalling correcting that it's that weird movie directed by Kubrick with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman).
Wizards and Treasure Planet are two I can't remember ever hearing about, and I don't know anything at all about them.
Of the two I've seen - Eyes Wide Shut just seemed really weird. I kept thinking there must be some kind of profound point that Kubrick was trying to make, but I couldn't figure out what the hell it might be.
2001, on the other hand, I will always think of fondly. But I suppose it's because of the times. I saw it at a Cinerama theater when it first came out, with a group of friends and we were all tripping on acid. I saw it 4 times altogether that year, but it was always when I was either very stoned or tripping. Each time was a fabulous experience - maybe not so much because it was a particularly good movie, but it most certainly was a movie that lent itself to having an intense psychedelic experience. 
Thanks for clueing me in on Wizards and Treasure Planet - it's no wonder they weren't familiar to me, I have absolutely no interest in animated films and have never gone to see one.
Regarding 2001, I'm pretty sure that being very high may probably be the only way to see it and be impressed. (the same might be said of Zardoz, the subject of my very first OP in this Group)
And I'm so out of it - popular culture-wise - that I wouldn't know Amy Adams from, well, Adam. 
As for Hall Pass and Club Paradise, it seems to me that most modern American comedies are fairly vapid and dumb. The Big Lebowski excepted, of course!
Mostly I'm glad I did, so at least I would know what everyone was talking about. I wouldn't bother seeing it again, but I don't regret that I went.
got the hots for Sandra Bullock. But it just screamed "stinker" to me, so I kept coming up with other things to do, like treating him to dinner at a nice restaurant or going on scenic drives when we could just simply talk about stuff together.
I live 100 miles away, so when I make the drive to spend time with him, I try to plan cool stuff to do that he'll enjoy. I kind of felt bad for not taking him to see that movie, but I made sure that the others things we DID do were things he enjoyed. And it spared me the problem of having to feign enthusiam for a turkey in order to spare his feelings for Sandra Bullock (of whom I am not particularly fond).
the film -- and Bullock -- are great.
BTW, I can imagine you had a better time doing all those other cool things. 
Prior to making Titanic, Winslet had appeared in several movies, most notably Heavenly Creatures. No questionTitanic made her a star. But she's never struck me as the "star" type, having taken more character-driven roles throughout her career (other than Titanic, of course). I guess we'll never really know, but the smart money is probably on how you see it
Not quite "Old Gringo" awful - after all, Tchaikovsky's music was lovely as always - but awful enough.
Thanks for mentioning it, I guess I had blocked that one out of my mind.
for I did enjoy some of his other films. Haven't seen "Old Gringo," and think it'll remain that way.
"Nature's Grave" (aka "Long Weekend" - The most dislikable husband & wife characters ever, coupled with sickening animal abuse. You can't wait for them to die, and the movie to be over.
"Skyline" - A sci-fi movie which ripped off Independence Day, War of the Worlds, and others. Plus, the terrible ending was like the director just pulled the plug to euthanize the movie.
