Your worst experiences with media

Fell asleep in the theater watching battlefield earth while on a date. It was a shitty book I couldn't finish, the movie wasn't any better. I only went to see it because it was the only movie playing in town and going out to see a movie was one of the few things for teenagers to do in town on a date. The movie was so bad we both started dozing off. I've never fallen asleep in a theater before or since then.

I hated avatar because I went and seen it in theaters when the 3d movie fad was going on and it was the only way to see it and the 3d shit hurt my eyes and my brain and made the movie completely unenjoyable.

I was pressured into watching the newer tron movie by an old friend of mine from out of town who was in town for a job interview the next day and needed a place to stay. Unbeknownst to me at the time when I said yes before I met up with him, he had at some point in the recent past been prescribed seroquil because for some reason he decided he needed to go and tell a therapist that he was worried that he might one day have the thought that he would want to just go and walk into traffic. Not that he had those thoughts, just that he was worried about the possibility of one day having those thoughts.

Anyway, the seroquil completely fucked his brain and made him insane. Like couldn't keep track of time properly, or conversations or reality. After spending a few hours down at the pub where he got pretty drunk and a trip down to the pharmacist to argue for a while until they gave him an emergency seroquil dose, I hesitantly let him come back and stay the night on my couch just because he had a job interview and I already told him me and my wife had to be up at 5am for work and he had to be up and ready to go when we left so no late drinking and shit. We all get back around midnight and he decides he that we all need to watch tron, right then.

It's not just a movie. It's an experience, it changed his life forever. That fucker's like a three hour movie or something. We told him we'd watch a bit of it but we were going to bed soon. So we put the movie on and from the moment it started he wouldn't shut the fuck up about whatever the fuck was going on on the screen. We put up with that shit for about a half hour then we decide to go to bed. We tell him he can watch the movie but he needs to be ready to leave at 6am no fucking around. He gets mad at us for not appreciating the amazing profound work of art that is tron. I get pissed and rant a bit then go to bed.

I get up in the morning and the first thing I notice is the bedroom door's open a crack and one of the bottles from a case of pop I had sitting there was missing. Go out to the living room and my buddy's just sitting there wide awake staring at the wall. Tells me how he didn't sleep, he just sat there and watched tron 3 times in a row because of how amazing it is. The movie is 3 hours long or so. We started the movie after midnight. This was at 5am I was talking to him. There was literally not enough time for him to even watch the movie twice let alone 3 times.

It gets better though, our roommate got home from work around 2 am. He said when he got home he found my buddy just sitting on the couch staring at the blank tv smoking a cigarette. He didn't even say hi or even acknowledge that our roommate had walked in. Not only was the TV off but he had also unplugged the WiFi router and from what we could figure out he unplugged the router shortly after we went to bed so pretty much he'd just spent the entire night staring at a wall hallucinating that he was watching tron over and over again.

Even after all that and despite him being wide awake he still fucked around come 6 o'clock when I needed to leave and I found out that he decided he was too tired to go to his job interview at 10 so he didn't go and just got on the bus back home instead.

I haven't seen him since but he'll occasionally text me once every few years or so annoying insane shit until I tell him to fuck off again. Last time I talked to him was during covid and he was trying to figure out how he could produce and sell fake vaccine passports. That was actually the most sane he'd seemed for a while and we had a mostly pleasant conversation. There's also this random annoying bunch of texts I got at some point after that I'm like 99% sure were from him but could have been someone else.
 
Titanic. A Night To Remember it is not. :roll:

It was so boring. I didn't care about Jack and whatsherface. Her boyfriend was so punchable. I just wanted him to get eaten by sharks. I know you are supposed to hate him. But jeez. What a colossal assmonkey. I was just waiting for the boat to sink. Paint me like one of your French girls.🤪

If you want a good film about the Titanic watch A Night To Remember.
 
I've ranted before about this, but "Mavka: The forest's song" gave me literal snaids and I hope the people involved have gotten blacklisted from the international movie industry.

Was promising from the trailers, and I used to watch this kind of thing a lot with my grandfather when I was young so I wanted to relive it a bit - Got shoved " Ukrainia is so unique and wholesome 100" propaganda, shit characters with no thoughts in their heads and shit conclusion to the story if you can even call it that.

The only funny thing about it is that the main villain is a blonde woman obsessed with deforestation, which leads me down the theory that the main funding for this movie came 50/50 from the Ukrainian Board of Propaganda, and that fucking degenerate Murrlogic.

The scene I liked
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I still regret paying for tickets for I am Legend (first half was okay, though) and Kingdom of Crystal Skull, particularly the latter. Not saying it killed the previous Indy movies for me, but the distaste still lingers.
 
During the height of retarded teenage feminism, I went to see Incredibles 2 with some girls. I got bait and switched so fucking hard expecting a good follow up to the first movie. The worst treatment of a male protagonist I had seen up to that point. I wonder what the reaction from the ladies would have been if miss stretching cunt had been sent back to the kitchen.

Truly awful, completely does away with the message of the first film, and its what made me realize that things were really not okay anymore when even movies were propaganda garbage.
 
Man, most people would call that nostalgic. What makes you so bitter about it?
I would not call it bitterness, and in some cases it is nostalgic, but the quality/usefulness of them was very questionable, and in the case of tutorials, outright wrong.

Years passed so now it's comical, but at the time I would have been very wary of any explanation with the Dreamscape song as the background.
 
Only God Forgives. The most pretentious, nonsensical, piece of shit movie I've ever seen in my life. Not even Ryan Gosling could save it. Nicolas Winding Refn is a fucking hack, and even his "best" movie Drive is a pale imitation of Walter Hill's "The Driver" from 1978.
 
One time I was showing my friend a funny video and then he made me watch this really gay vegan rap video.

Another time I went over to another friend's house to watch Neon Genesis Evangelion (I hadn't watched it in about a decade at that point) and he insisted on watching it subbed because autism.
 
I hated all of the Austin Powers movies after the first one. The problem is, people love the sequels because they have the exact same style of comedy as the first movie, but with none of the charm or character growth. I felt the sequel film was looking at me and saying "Fuck you for taking our story seriously!"

Titanic. James Cameron made the right call to insert an anachronistic romance with car-fucking into his movie, as it netted him a billion dollars, but I can't help but feel the film would have been a lot better if the young romantic leads had just been part of the bigger ensemble cast. No one watches the movie today for the romance. They watch it for the spectacular sinking scenes.
 
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Iron Man 3, I love comics and this one had all the hype and a great actor as Mandarin, finally Tony facing his true antagonist but we all know how that turned out. Even beyond the twist, it had all the MCU quips at full force, all the silly tropes of the MCU and for me, it was already annoying and lazy. Had to watch it 3 fucking times as I made reservations to watch it with different people.

The Last Jedi, completely killed my interest/love for Star Wars, I don't even want to touch it or discuss about it anymore. Had to watch this shit 2 fucking times.
 
Another time I went over to another friend's house to watch Neon Genesis Evangelion (I hadn't watched it in about a decade at that point) and he insisted on watching it subbed because autism.
Well, to be fair, watching anime subbed is the only CORRECT way to watch it...

And now that I've kicked over several hornet's nests, I'll see myself out! LOL
 
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Well, to be fair, watching anime subbed is the only CORRECT way to watch it...

And now that I've kicked over several hornet's nests, I'll see myself out! LOL
Watching subbed anime is only acceptable when the dub is so shitty and horrible like most dubs were back in the 80's and early 90's (Akira's first dub being a good example) but NGE's dub was made in 2003 or something and it was perfectly fine and I will die on this hill.
 
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