Film & TV: Who's on your Do No Watch list?

[Joe Neglia]

I think all of us have a few people involved in making films and television that, regardless of how much love that director/actor/whatever gets, you refuse to watch any films they make.

I don't consider myself an elitist by any manner...I can watch La Strada and Corpse Grinders back to back. But there are a few film-makers whom I've learned to avoid at all costs. I even keep a list. No actors, as I've yet to find one that pisses me off enough to put on the list; but the following is a list of directors, writers and producerst that, if they're involved in a film, I simply will not watch. Ever.

Michael Bay
Paul Verhoeven
Joe Eszterhas
Jim Jarmusch
Dean Devlin
Roland Emmerich
Uwe Boll
Lars von Trier
Larry Clark
Harmony Korine
David Lynch

So...who's on your "Do Not Watch" list?

[Lick Ness Monster]

Agree with Michael Bay and Roland Emmerich. Good God, their movies suck all kinds of ass.

Uwe Boll's movies are actually kind of fun to watch in the "So bad they're good" way.

I'll take heat for this, but I avoid ANYTHING with Joss Whedon's name attached to it. What an overrated hack job that guy is. Just how there's so many people that worship "Buffy" I'll never know.

[Joe Neglia]

thomasrigby said:

I'll take heat for this, but I avoid ANYTHING with Joss Whedon's name attached to it. What an overrated hack job that guy is. Just how there's so many people that worship "Buffy" I'll never know.

I didn't "get" Buffy or Firefly/Serenity either, and while I hated most of the Angel series, the last season of that show is one of my favorite tv picks of all time. Because of that, I can't quite put him on my list.

[Joe Neglia]

thomasrigby said:

Uwe Boll's movies are actually kind of fun to watch in the "So bad they're good" way.

I have to disagree on this one. I'm a huge fan of "bad but good" films...I have hundreds of old drive-in/grindhouse horror, sci-fi and exploitation films on DVD, but the two of his I watched before quitting just really bored me until I was all kinds of pissed off.

[boiledewokthe3rd]

Film: Wes Craven, what's the deal?

T.V: Peter Engel: does he think we have the brains of goldfish?

['Foretold' Joker]

Just going by Madison's list here to start with ...

Michael Bay - He did The Rock which is an excellent film.

Paul Verhoeven - No way, Total Recall & Robocop are great films!

Joe Eszterhas - Okay I'll agree on him.

Jim Jarmusch - I haven't seen ay of his films, so no opinion.

Dean Devlin - He was invovled with 8-Legged freaks, I can't not like him as that was a ridiculously stupid yet fun film.

Roland Emmerich - His big disaster films aren't that bad, if you ignore the speech at the end Independance Day is a decent film.

Uwe Boll - Agreed, he brings nothing to the world of film or TV.

Lars von Trier - Haven't seen any of his stuff, so can't comment.

Larry Clark - Haven't seen any of his stuff either.

Harmony Korine - Again, i haven't seen any of his stuff. Although he seems to have done something for David Blaine so I alreaady don't like him.

David Lynch - Can't agree, Twin Peaks is quite good for a TV series. While The Elephant man is a cult classic.
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Myself here's a few that usually mean I avoid the film ...

Hugh Grant - It's the same role over and over again, Irritating man.
Paul Weitz - He spawned a film that became far too popular, and isn't even that good. Plus he did About a Boy which had the above actor in it a double whammy of dislike.
Sean Penn - Slowly but surely this guy has taken my soul when watching films with him in. the final straw was The Interpreter in which he was terrible.

[aguamoose]

Wasnt Bad Boys 2 by Michael Bay? I thought that was awsome.

Anyway on my boyott list there is errrr. TBH i dont know many writers, directors or producers but I really cant stand Irvin Welsh. Ok Twin Town was awsome but everything else he ever done was dog poo on a stick.

[chibidiablo]

Wayans Brothers

[Timmy8271]

Andy Dick
Reality Shows. I try my best to watch no reality shows because I find them horrible. But damn it if I don't love Flavor of Love.

[willywonka666]

I've become so disgusted by tv I hardly watch it anymore-some of the things that drove me away include:
Reality Tv-the only show I ever liked was the first season or so of "Cheaters"-then it went to Hell
Any special featuring the VH1 "comedians" though sometimes I'll watch just to see if my suspicions are still correct-they always are
Andy Dick too-he just pisses me off to no end

f*** television

[Jiren]

Eli Roth - After Cabin Fever & Hostel i've given up on the guy

Michael Bay - I like "the Rock" (Connery & Ed Harris mark) but the rest suck

Paul WS Anderson - "Resident Evil" pissed me off to no end

[Brain Of F'n J]

Seeing the same names over and over again. Here, allow me to add some incendiary material to the mix:

Directors:

Steven Spielberg
Tim Burton
Martin Scorcese
Woody Allen

Actors:

Zack Braff
Hugh Grant
Lindsay Lohan
Ryan Reynolds
Dane Cook
Angelina Jolie
Jennifer Aniston
Hillary Swank

Jed Shaffer
~No, I'm not pulling your leg. I really do think all of these people suck ass.

[amsiraK]

*looks at list, makes plans to later marry Brain of McJ*

Though I don't know if I agree about Spielberg. At least pre-90s Spielberg. I can't not love JAWS.

Someone stick Stanley Kubrick on the list for me. Aside from a select few films of his, I've never been able to tolerate his work. Pretension ahoy.

And Jake Gyllenhaal and Josh Hartnett get my acting nods for "God, Get That Man Off My Screen." I can't watch them.

[The OP]

It'd be faster to list what I do watch. I don't watch much. I'm willing to sit through:

Star Trek (Original, TNG, and DS9)
Soap
What's Happenin'!
Fraggle Rock
ALF
1980s teen movies (especially those with a sc-fi or horror element)
Marx Brothers movies
Most 1980s cartoons
Scrubs
Growing Pains
Wrestling
MMA

That's basically it.

[oldschool712]

willywonka666 said:

I've become so disgusted by tv I hardly watch it anymore-some of the things that drove me away include:
Reality Tv-the only show I ever liked was the first season or so of "Cheaters"-then it went to Hell
Any special featuring the VH1 "comedians" though sometimes I'll watch just to see if my suspicions are still correct-they always are
Andy Dick too-he just pisses me off to no end

smurf television

I agree! Reality shows ruined television for me, too. It seems like all I watch now is BBC America!

I can't think of any specific directors I avoid, but I do share the Hugh Grant hate. lol

His posh act has worn very thin. He's is the epitome of the one note actor. The weird thing is he has convinced many Americans that this is how all English people act and talk!

[Brain Of F'n J]

karisma888 said:

*looks at list, makes plans to later marry Brain of McJ*

Though I don't know if I agree about Spielberg. At least pre-90s Spielberg. I can't not love JAWS.

Someone stick Stanley Kubrick on the list for me. Aside from a select few films of his, I've never been able to tolerate his work. Pretension ahoy.

And Jake Gyllenhaal and Josh Hartnett get my acting nods for "God, Get That Man Off My Screen." I can't watch them.

Well, first I have to divorce my wife, then marry and divorce Lauren Graham. So, if you don't mind waiting, I'm all yours.

And I'm in total agreeance for Kubrick, Gyllenhaal and Hartnett. Except in "O". Hartnett was cool in that.

Jed Shaffer
~All these divorces are gonna cost me. RD, can I get a raise?

[Mr. Backlund]

Movies:
Anything that's a remake
Anything that features the Redneck Comedy Tour
Anything with the Waylon Brothers
Anything that's a _________ Movie (Epic, Date, Scary, etc.)

Actors:
Tom Cruise
Dakota Fanning
Haley Joel Osment
Orlando Bloom
John Travolta


Directors:
M. Night "What a Twist!" Shyamalan
Michael Bay
Joel Schumacker
Uwe Boll
Eli Roth

And here's where I catch flack....
Slowly, Quentin Tarantino is slowly becoming an "avoid at all costs" director

[Brain Of F'n J]

mrbacklund said:

And here's where I catch flack....
Slowly, Quentin Tarantino is slowly becoming an "avoid at all costs" director

Not from me you won't. I haven't liked anything of his since Pulp Fiction.

Jed Shaffer
~Scratch that. I don't like anything of his BESIDES Pulp Fiction.

[J-Man R.]

my watch list

Director's: Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell, John Waters, Tim Burton, Eli Roth (He helped make 2000 Maniacs, the guys who made the SAW series, and Wes Craven.

Actor's: Bruce Campbell, Ted Raimi

Don't list

Director's: Ford Copela, Sylvester Stallone, Penny Marshall, Mel Gibson
Actor's: Sylvester Stallone, Sean Penn, Don Rickles, The Govenator, Mel Gibson.

[Wolfpack Bitch]

I won't watch anything animated. King of the Hill, Family Guy, Futurama, Simpsons etc. The last one of those I even remotely cared about was older South Park stuff, but that was only because the ex made me watch it.

Won't watch any of the Survivor type shows. In all of the reality show hype that's gone on over the past few years the only shows I've ever bothered to watch were Celebrity Fit Club (with Jani Lane) and Rockstar Supernova. Not because I enjoyed the shows, but because I wanted to see Jani, Jason & Tommy

Never found any interest in the huge hits on TV that everyone makes a fuss over. Never saw a single ep of Sex in the City, Friends, Office, Seinfeld or any of that stuff.

Movies are hit or miss, depending on what the plot looks like. I won't discount a movie simply because of who is in it or who made it, but it takes a hell of a lot to get me into a movie theater.

And for the record.. I can look at Josh Hartnett any day of the week He doesn't have to speak or act, just stand there with those big brown eyes of his and look cute.