Happy Hump Day Survey!

I can't recall the name of the movie, but it was an anime that involved tentacle porn and other rather violent depictions of sex - he thought he was showing me how cultured he was that he watched things with subtitles.

Guh.

Mimble wrote:

I can't recall the name of the movie, but it was an anime that involved tentacle porn and other rather violent depictions of sex - he thought he was showing me how cultured he was that he watched things with subtitles.

Guh.

I'm going to guess Ninja Scroll or La Blue Girl; those were the big VHS hits, back in the day.

Tanglebones wrote:
Mimble wrote:

I can't recall the name of the movie, but it was an anime that involved tentacle porn and other rather violent depictions of sex - he thought he was showing me how cultured he was that he watched things with subtitles.

Guh.

I'm going to guess Ninja Scroll or La Blue Girl; those were the big VHS tits, back in the day.

That's how I read that at first.

Twilight

After it was over, I looked at my date and said "You can never criticize anything I watch ever again."

sr_malo wrote:

Twilight

After it was over, I looked at my date and said "You can never criticize anything I watch ever again."

We said that with my wife to my sister-in-law after 20 minutes she made us watch it (on DVD).

I once took someone to see Wing Commander. In my defense it was one of several choices pulled out of a hat, but in the end it was still me responsible for suggesting it.

CptDomano wrote:

I think I'm going to have to go with She's All That or My Super Ex-Girlfriend. *shudder*

She's All That is a tragedy. Look at it that way, and it's not bad.

DiscoDriveby wrote:

HAPPY HUMP DAY!!!!!

What is the worst movie a date or partner made you watch?

Worst movie? Probably whatever Harry Potter I volunteered to see in order to spend another couple hours next to E Hunnie.

Worst movie date? Romeo Must Die—my date was way too sexually aggressive.

By far, the worst date movie I ever saw was Lakeboat. It was what was playing when we arrived at the theater, and despite being a theater major I somehow missed that it was adapted from a Mamet script (hence the rampant celebrated misogyny throughout).

Without going to obvious red flag bad date movies like Eraserhead, I'm hard pressed to think of worse choices than freaking Lakeboat.

sr_malo wrote:

Twilight

+1

Tanglebones wrote:
Mimble wrote:

I can't recall the name of the movie, but it was an anime that involved tentacle porn and other rather violent depictions of sex - he thought he was showing me how cultured he was that he watched things with subtitles.

Guh.

I'm going to guess Ninja Scroll or La Blue Girl; those were the big VHS hits, back in the day.

At this point, whenever people talk about how bad all the popular anime is, I just say "Ninja Scroll".

There are some anime that just weren't all that good. Then there was Iria, which I will one day hunt down on DVD.

sr_malo wrote:

Twilight

After it was over, I looked at my date and said "You can never criticize anything I watch ever again."

I actually made my wife watch Twilight. Granted, it was in its canonical RiffTrax form...

Alongside Transformers -- another movie I would never watch un-riffed -- it's one of the funniest things I've ever seen them do.

... line?

Popeye

I could write a whole book of backstory about this particular night, but I'll try to be brief: I was visiting a long-distance sweetheart, she had to work the night shift at a fast food restaurant (I would jokingly say she worked "10 to 6... 10 PM to 6 AM"), I decided to be a dope and stay up to wait for her. She comes home at something like 4 AM and remarks very flatly, "Oh my god, you're still awake?" She changes out of her uniform and crashes on the couch, turns on Netflix and starts surfing for movies. She sees a live-action Popeye movie, with Robin Williams, and was like "DO WANT" (I think she may have been searching for Robin Williams, we had been listening to his stand-up earlier in my visit). All I saw was the two star review on Netflix and knew I was in for it.

I was already very tired, and this movie was bad, bad, BAD. I couldn't even make it the whole way, I bailed at about the hour mark to take a shower, when I came out the movie was almost over (they were singing the theme song and hip-hip-hooraying) and I just went to bed.

I only remember bits and pieces about it: I remember it was painstakingly slow to get going, most of the acting was insufferable, the plot made zero f*cking sense (Popeye's a drifter in some random seaside town trying to find his father?), I think there may have been a baby involved, and Wimpy sells said baby to some unseen figure (Popeye's father?) for a sack of cheeseburgers or something (I remember that part because my host commented out loud what a slimebag Wimpy was for doing that). All in all, a very forgettable movie as far as I was concerned.

I've never seen the Popeye movie but damned if they didn't cast Olive Oyl perfectly with Shelley Duvall.

I actually kind of love Popeye. But I had a professor who was a clown, and that movie is all about clowns.

The Notebook. This was my punishment for taking my (now ex- no connection) wife to see Sin City. In fairness, I did warn her that it was based on a comic book with a highly stylized look and some violence, but I don't know that I really knew how much violence was there. I think she was getting uncomfortable by the first castration, and the cannibalism and threat of rape didn't help. I might have been spared my fate if not for the second castration - I think that was the final straw.

Back when the wife was still my girlfriend she took me to Se7en, and I still don't think I've forgiven her to this day. I like the people involved, I wasn't in the right mindset for that subject matter.

Jucofett wrote:

Back when the wife was still my girlfriend she took me to Se7en, and I still don't think I've forgiven her to this day. I like the people involved, I wasn't in the right mindset for that subject matter.

I've probably seen that more than any other movie in my life, due to working as an usher when it was in theaters. I knew exactly when to walk in the back for the jump scare at each showing to see the audience react. The same talent also helped in movies with boobs in them, as this was pre-internet. At my house, at least.

"Along Came Polly."

So I couldn't come up with an answer for myself on this one and realized that apparently I'm the one who's always making people watch movies. I'm going to say the 2 movies I've dragged Domano through begrudgingly that I think he MAY not have appreciated are:

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: I loved it as a kid, but perhaps it is a bit odd without the childhood nostalgia factor going for it!

Titantic: I do really like it, but made him watch it more because it is an iconic film that is parodied all of the time. Like it or not, someone who came of age in the 90s should see it and form his opinion. I plan to eventually watch The Notebook for that very reason (though I keep putting it off...does that one have a Rifftrax...)?

IMPORTANT NOTE: His answers were NOT movies I made him watch. That was in the before-times

DiscoDriveby wrote:

I plan to eventually watch The Notebook for that very reason (though I keep putting it off...does that one have a Rifftrax...)?

That reminds me of the advertisement they'd show before the featured movie with an alternvative voice over for Gosling's line during the rain scene.

Ugh--I can't find the clip on the 'Net. My google-fu is weak. Hell, I can't even remember what the advertisement was for, now.

CptDomano wrote:

Ugh--I can't find the clip on the 'Net. My google-fu is weak. Hell, I can't even remember what the advertisement was for, now. :(

No talking during the movie.

There we go. Thanks, cces!

The Blue Lagoon

PRG013 wrote:

The Blue Lagoon

That's so sad. *shudder*

Late to the party. Worst date movie ever that wasn't my idea.

HAPPY HUMP DAY!!

Going food themed today. Answer as many as you want

(Courtesty of ccesarano) What is the most interesting ice cream flavor combination you've had?

Most unusual flavor of beer you've tried?

Weirdest flavor of potato chips?

Boring answers from me. Look forward to reading the truly fascinating.

Ice Cream: Bubble Gum
Beer: pumpkin
Potato chips: pickle

Lame.

I had a beer made with old bay seasoning. It was actually really good.

Ice Cream: Sea Salt
Chips: Octopus