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to think that I have started to watch the worst film ever made?

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Dohee · 21/02/2019 00:57

It's called Fences.
It's essentially a monologue from Denzel Washington.

Perhaps it's supposed to be a study on social injustices at the time, but I have endured 40 minutes of it and literally can't take one more second!

Please don't tell me that this is some sort of award winning film and that I'm a bit thick or something?

I'd heard the title before which is why I thought it would be good. 40 minutes in, and literally nothing has happened. Except yer man ranting on and fucking on and fucking on.

I love Denzel usually, and his acting is good, but fuck me, the writing is pure and utter unadulterated shite!

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Doublevodka · 21/02/2019 06:14

Dohee, I saw Fences last year. I could not agree more with you. I love Denzel, but I loathed it. Complete and utter garbage. I don't know how I endured the whole film. I kept waiting for something to happen. Then it didn't. I realise it's meant to be powerful, with lots of messages in there about poverty, the daily struggle and so on, but God it was painful. No doubt I'm not intelligent enough to get it.

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Dohee · 21/02/2019 06:15

Well I've just started my day. Watch the film (if you can endure it) and then I'd be interested to hear your apology.

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Dohee · 21/02/2019 06:16

Doublevodka That's exactly what I was thinking while I was watching. Am I too dumb to be watching this? Lol.

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Dohee · 21/02/2019 06:21

The characters don't even react realistically as they would given the character traits. It's just a soliloquy with characters surrounding Denzel who would not react the way they do to him in real life. I think that's more why I hated the film. If it was realistic, Denzel would be beating his son and wife up. As it is, you have a ranting know it all, with a chip on his shoulder who apparently is gentle with his wife and hard on his sons. It's a stupid film. It's not representative of any realistic relationship dynamic.

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Dohee · 21/02/2019 06:25

Can you tell I hated wasting 40 minutes of my life trying to watch it? This is why I hate going to the cinema. You pay out £10 each more or less and you could end up watching pure shite for an hour and a half.

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Dohee · 21/02/2019 06:26

If anyone hated Fences, can you give me recommendations for my next movie (as you've obviously got good taste). Grin

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Dohee · 21/02/2019 06:29

If it's any help to guide you, the last film I saw in the cinema was the new Mission Impossible one and God but that was predictable too.

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Tixywixy · 21/02/2019 06:51

Definitely Inception, The Shape of Water and Unbreakable by M Night Shymalan. All three complete and utter shite trying to be artsy.

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Dohee · 21/02/2019 06:56

I tried watching Inception too! But I thought I didn't like it because it was sci-fi.

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LunafortJest · 21/02/2019 07:02

Chocolate was mine. I sat watching for around 30 to 40 minutes on Foxtel. Then turned it off. I couldn't understand one fucking thing that was happening. It made no sense. I remember feeling so disappointed as it had huge hype behind it, too.

thatmustbenigelwiththebrie · 21/02/2019 07:12

Yes! The Sandra Bullock in space one! I just wanted her to float off and die by the end.

Pywife2 · 21/02/2019 07:25

Dogville. The most pretentious film I've ever seen. Watched it on TV with DH and brother, we still use it as a benchmark for awfulness. At the time, I hadn't realised that Nicole Kidman will appear in anything she thinks is intellectual, no matter how crass and boring.

Bittermints · 21/02/2019 07:35

I liked Gravity (don't think I'd bother watching it again, though) and I really liked Inception, but 2001 has some very long, boring bits.

Most tedious and pretentious film I've ever seen is Last Year at Marienbad, which I saw as a student. Did not have the confidence to walk out of the student film society - I would now! It was endless. Saw a snatch of it again a few years ago and it hadn't improved.

Magicstar1 · 21/02/2019 07:35

@HostessTrolley that’s Heartbreak Hotel...I love that movie.
My fave shite film is Con Air Grin

HipHipHippo · 21/02/2019 07:38

The Room anyone? Grin

Harveyrabbit76 · 21/02/2019 07:41

Don't watch titanic, perfect storm or the alien sequel Prometheus. All such a waste of time. I also tried to watch django, could not get into it.

Didn't mind shape of water actually but I watched it at home. If I had paid to go to a cinema then I might feel differently!

lottielady · 21/02/2019 07:44

I tried watching Mamma Mia 2 on a plane recently.

I lasted 12 minutes.

Gwenhwyfar · 21/02/2019 07:45

"This is why I hate going to the cinema. You pay out £10 each more or less and you could end up watching pure shite for an hour and a half."

The cinemas where I live cost a lot less and I STILL don't bother. TV is free (once you've paid licence for BBC) so why go and sit in a cold room and an uncomfortable chair.

Funkyslippers · 21/02/2019 07:45

You pay out £10 each more or less and you could end up watching pure shite for an hour and a half. Vue cinema is £5 now for all films, every day, at least it is in Bristol. That means we get to go much more than we used to but it also means we get to discover films we wished we hadn't! We were fairly underwhelmed by The Favourite.

I loved Gravity though.

Gwenhwyfar · 21/02/2019 07:47

Don't understand the hatred for Titanic. It's not great, but it's an OK watch. You can't say it's too boring.
Worst film of my life was The House of Mirth.I wanted to walk out of the cinema, but thought my friends were enjoying it.

OMGithurts · 21/02/2019 07:47

Dogville is the absolute low point of my cinema going history. I felt sullied. Solaris was tedious tripe, and a film called The Spanish Prisoner. Yaaaaaawn.

I was thinking of taking the kids to the cinema today to see Hey Duggee. That's more my style.

dancinfeet · 21/02/2019 07:53

The Babadook. Sat through the entire thing, waiting for the final reveal of the terrifying monstrosity that is The Babadook, only to find it was essentially a jacket on a skateboard. A complete waste of an evening.

Mummyoflittledragon · 21/02/2019 07:59

I liked shape of water but I like most of the cast members and the work they’ve done. Doug Jones - amphibian man - was the weak link there imo. Sally Hawkins was very good.

That film sound boring and I like DW. Gravity also crap. One of the worse films was After Earth. Jaden Smith was dire and he seems to lack his fathers wittiness and comedic timing.

Whatjusthappenedthere · 21/02/2019 08:04

Anyone remember The Road to Wellville? Good cast but the only movie I have ever walked out on. All I remember is it being about cornflakes and some dodgy therapies.

rightreckoner · 21/02/2019 08:08

Another Lars Von Trier one - Dancer in the Dark. Relentlessly awful, bleak, humourless.

I have actually seen Fences and didn’t hate it. But I was on a plane which always makes me overemotional and maybe that means you think you saw something in the film that wasn’t really there (fear that this potentially could be your last moment on earth making you more likely to see meaning in whatever pretentious shit they want to serve up?) I’m not even all that bad a flyer but I have noticed I cry a lot at films on a plane Confused