Movies never to watch.
Original and Obsolete Purpose: My Private Comments on Movies I've Seen
Rather than writing full reviews (to satisfy IMDb's minimum length requirements), these were comments to remind me of why I gave each movie the rating I did.
Moved previous contents to Check-Ins to continue Original Purpose.
Now: Movies never to watch and why.
Rather than writing full reviews (to satisfy IMDb's minimum length requirements), these were comments to remind me of why I gave each movie the rating I did.
Moved previous contents to Check-Ins to continue Original Purpose.
Now: Movies never to watch and why.
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- DirectorValie ExportStarsSusanne WidlPeter WeibelJosef PlavecAnna, an artist, is obsessed with the invasion of alien doubles bent on total destruction. Her schizophrenia is reflected in the juxtapositions of long movie camera takes with violently edited montages: private with public spaces; black & white with colour, still photographs with video, earsplitting sounds with disruptive camera angles. Anna uses her body like a map; after a devastating quarrel with her lover, she paints red stitches on herself. Watching their scenes together, we realize how seldom, if ever before, the details of sexual intimacy have been shown in film from the point of view from a woman. Export privileges rupture over unity and never settles for one-dimensional solutions (Artforum, Nov. 1980)Scene from Women Make Film 10: (Melodrama) / Sci-Fi / (Horror & Hell). Woman decapitating fauna on kitchen table. [There were very few female-directed films in the Sci-Fi category and the best that were were modern (e.g., Wonder Woman).]
- DirectorKira MuratovaStarsSergei PopovOlga AntonovaGalina ZakhurdaevaIn the old days it was called hypochrondria, or black melancholia. Now, apparently, it's termed the Asthenic Syndrome. Whatever it is, Nikolai, a teacher has got it, and it's not much fun.Scene from Women Make Film 10: (Melodrama) / (Sci-Fi) / Horror & Hell. Scene near the end: 9 dogs in poor shape locked in a cage, the first, blind in left eye.
- DirectorSamira MakhmalbafStarsSaid MohamadiBehnaz JafariBahman GhobadiKurdish teachers Said and Reeboir roam Iranian villages near Iraqi border during war. Said guides displaced men, marries widow Halaleh. Reeboir joins child smugglers. Amid danger, they try teaching nomadic students while soldiers patrol.Scene from Women Make Film 10: (Melodrama) / (Sci-Fi) / Horror & Hell. Kurdish teachers leading villagers crawling in pain away from their village near the Iraqi border during the Iran-Iraq war trying to avoid a chemical warfare attack.
- DirectorKatrin GebbeStarsJulius FeldmeierSascha Alexander GersakAnnika KuhlInspired by horrifying true events, Nothing Bad Can Happen follows Tore, a young lost soul involved with an underground Christian punk movement who falls in with a dysfunctional family who test his seemingly unwavering faith.Scene from Women Make Film 10: (Melodrama) / (Sci-Fi) / Horror & Hell. Two women torturing a Christian male.
- DirectorMara MattuschkaIn NavelFable Mara Mattuschka subjects herself to a second birth through endless pairs of tights. Her body struggles so hard and in such a deformed manner from out of the layers of nylon that the sheer struggle for survival becomes visible. (Peter Tscherkassky)Scene from Women Make Film 10: (Melodrama) / (Sci-Fi) / Horror & Hell. A 4-minute short of a face peeling from asphyxiation in Hell. Mara Mattuschka's 1st of 19 shorts. Probably, don't watch any of them. And avoid certain of her films, too.
- DirectorJennifer KentStarsEssie DavisNoah WisemanDaniel HenshallA single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book titled "Mister Babadook" manifests in their home.Scene from Women Make Film 10: (Melodrama) / (Sci-Fi) / Horror & Hell. Psychological horror throughout. Not my kind of film.
- DirectorJanicza BravoStarsTaylour PaigeRiley KeoughNicholas BraunA stripper named Zola embarks on a wild road trip to Florida.Tried to watch but couldn't stand the tawdry atmosphere.
- DirectorsDan GarciaMike MayhallStarsKyanna Mai-Lee BosworthTerrell CarterWhitney ClarkRicky and Tara are a recently divorced couple navigating the challenges of co-parenting their young son while recovering from the wounds of their failed relationship. But after moving on to new partners, they soon find the grass isn't quite greener and they might just want that old thing back. Will they take a second shot at love?Watched it and found that it lived up to neither its title nor its rating.
- DirectorChristopher LeitchStarsJason BatemanKim DarbyJohn AstinTodd Howard is a struggling college student. Nothing seems to be going very well for him, until he turns into a wolf.A cheap follow-up to https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090142/.
- DirectorsNever left development. Perhaps an extraneous entry for https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29392874/.
- DirectorCoke DanielsStarsTaryn ManningCory HardrictJasmine BurkeKaren attempts to displace the new Black family that moved into the neighborhood, but they won't back down without a fight.Poor rating, and probably responsible for trashing the respectable name of "Karen."
- DirectorDevin Fei-Fan TauStarsKristy Dawn DinsmoreSydney WinbushDarielle MasonTwo half-sisters who bitterly hate each other become trapped in a farmhouse during a storm, as a couple of murderous intruders terrorize them from outside as they look for their $1M inheritance check.Poor rating.
- DirectorAnthony DiBlasiStarsJessica SulaCandice CokeChaney MorrowA rookie police officer willingly takes the last shift at a newly decommissioned police station in an attempt to uncover the mysterious connection between her father's death and a vicious cult.Violence, gore, frightening, and intense.
- DirectorJames OakleyStarsDot CosgroveUma ThurmanTim RothIn an effort to avoid paying off a massive gambling debt to a notorious mobster in England, a couple flee to Los Angeles and hatch a jewel theft plot.Name actors but poor rating.
- DirectorTom DeNucciStarsLucas TillRuby RoseDon JohnsonA young recruit to a mysterious agency of assassins finds himself going rogue on his first assignment, tracking down a dangerous group of human traffickers.Poor rating.
- DirectorMatt ShapiraStarsChord OverstreetOlivia CulpoLuke WilsonA groom-to-be accidentally books his destination wedding and honeymoon at a swingers resort in Jamaica.Very low rating + cheap, sophomoric sex.
- DirectorMichael FeiferStarsJay PickettGattlin GriffithMason McNultyBritt MacMaster, a U.S. Marshal who rarely brings them back alive, returns home from the trail to discover his 12-year-old son, Chad has been kidnapped by outlaws Jed Blake and his gang.Very low rating.
- DirectorDenise Di NoviStarsRosario DawsonKatherine HeiglGeoff StultsA woman sets out to make life a living hell for her ex-husband's new fiancée.Average rating + not a fan of either female star.
- DirectorMathieu KassovitzStarsVincent CasselHubert KoundéSaïd Taghmaoui24 hours in the lives of three young men in the French suburbs the day after a violent riot.Highly rated violence.
- DirectorIan Iqbal RashidStarsRutina WesleyTre ArmstrongBrennan GademansFollowing her sister's death from drug addiction, a high school student is forced to leave her private school to return to her old, crime-filled neighborhood where she re-kindles an unlikely passion for the competitive world of step dancing.