Serial Mom was quite awful. Because the family had rented it (why they made this choice I'll never know, but I wasn't in on that decision), we at several points decided to stick it out till the end, and we've regretted that every day since. There's just a repulsive sickness to the movie that makes it not a black comedy, but more like watching a live show of Vlad the Impaler at work. Disturbing on a lot of levels, particularly where it tries to be funny.

Another movie I regret is Nothing But Trouble. I'm proud to say I had the brains to leave the room eventually. This was when I was younger, and the family computer was out in the dining room in view of the TV. I was on the computer at the time, and in the middle of something, but the movie was making me so physically ill that I left--whilst making the statement in no uncertain terms that I couldn't stand to keep watching the move--and went to another room. I was fantastically appalled. To this day I want to hit anyone who so much as put a comma into the script of that abortion.

The Scout is one I regret watching, not because it was disturbing but because it was praised so often as a comedy (and it still airs on Comedy Central) when it was nothing of the kind. It wasn't even coherent. This horrendously unfunny piece of crap convinced me that not only should Albert Brooks have never been allowed to make another movie (and the tepid success of his later works bears me out), but he should have been drawn and quartered at the premiere.

The Alien Movie That Shall Remain Unnamed I also regret. I paid money to see that in the theater. The opening sequence alone should cost somebody their life; it thoroughly betrays the second movie (Aliens), which was a cinematic masterpiece and should never have suffered the humiliation of such an unworthy sequel. After killing off the other survivors of the Sulaco, for reasons that still aren't at all clear to me, the script then descends into a cloud of truly forgettable two-dimensional characters who only express any personality whatsoever seconds before getting eaten, a plot better described by substituting a D for the T--with the T used instead to spell "thin". After the strong plot and excellent characterization of Aliens, one was left to wonder who could have possibly thought this was any good as a movie, let alone a long-awaited sequel to a very good movie.

Event Horizon I regret. What the trailer promised would be a cool concept turned out to be a cool concept twisted into a very very lame excuse for a cheap horror flick, with a premise lifted all too readily from Doom. It just turned into a stupid gore-fest for no reason instead of remaining the engaging mystery it was billed to be. But I can forgive Laurence Fishburne because he made the Matrix 2 years later. It's no surprise that IMDB recommends the Alien Movie That Shall Remain Unnamed to people who liked this. Ugh.

There's a bad, bad, bad bad bad bad BAD drama "starring" Christine Lahti called Housekeeping. It's a 50's period piece about, well, dysfunction. The black flag on this one was Christine Lahti; I knew it was trouble going into it, but watched the whole thing anyway. I want my will to live back. I also want to throttle the twit at the video store who decided this should go in the comedy section, and the idiot reviewer who called it one. This made the Scout look like a Marx Brothers film. I'd use the phrase "drop dead boring" but it doesn't deserve such noble praise. I pox on thee and all of thy films, Christine Lahti!

I'll let Jingle All The Way speak for itself.

There are probably others I regret nearly as much as some of these, but if I go on much longer I'll start frothing.

Lummox JR

Actually, if that's the Pinnochio movie I'm thinking of, it has already made a lot of money... it's a record-setting blockbuster in Italy.

The bionacal man or somthing (The one where robin williams is a robot) That movie kinda just dragged on... it should of ended after the first half a hour Also the commercials where very misleading as to what the movie was about

Cemetary Man. It hurt. My friend and I, figuring that it only had 15 minutes left, tried to wait it out. It went on for about another hour. It hurt. The box in the rental place said it was like Evil Dead II. Die box. Filthy, lying box. It hurt.

That was a good comedy, to bad it wasnt supposed to be.

I think that the producer is ultimately wanting the viewer to wonder why the people were being put in the Cube. Personally, I think a group of people or one person is doing it for their own enjoyment/entertainment. A sadist. Even worse. A sadist with a whole lot of money and a wild imagination. If I may quote a little-known song, "My suffers are entertainment," Anyways, I liked it. A lot.

Bicentennial Man

Lummox JR wrote:

The cube had no video pickups. People were being put in and left there, but not watched.

Are you completely sure? Those traps were undetectable by any human sense (besides the number procedure, and the unsafe boot procedure) so the cameras could have been built in the same way. Evidence?

The sound-activated trap had completely invisible spike-producers in the walls. The spikes seemed to come out of the little colored circles in the walls, so why isn't it possible to have a hidden camera in one of those little holes in all of the rooms? If they can hide a ton of spikes in a wall, I'm sure they can hide a camera in one.

In the intro, there was a big wire-mesh fence trap that 'cubed' the guy. It folded up and into the ceiling. Later on, there were incinerators hidden in the walls, there was a spraying device loaded with acid. There was a grouping of wires, referred to by Quentin as "the sushimachine". If they can hide all of these neat little traps completely undetectable in walls, why not cameras?

Just because they weren't shown in the movie doesn't mean they are not there.

I didn't like Sphere as much as Event Horizon. I saw Event Horizon long after any advertising so I was not expecting anything. It's not one of my favorites, but I can sit through it. However, the ending of Sphere ruined the entire movie for my friends and I. (I'd explain, but I don't want to spoil it for others.)