Wadey Wilsoney Posted November 23, 2012 Share Posted November 23, 2012 Ever had a movie you liked suddenly become tainted by forces beyond your control?I love(d) Dodgeball, but knowing that Lance Armstrong's highly ironic speech provides a turning point in the movie really sucked the fun out of it.Then there's Rambo III. While I wouldn't call it a great movie, I still enjoyed it when I was younger. Then came the Taliban...Have you ever had a movie ruined like this where reality just kicks you out of the experience? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baumer Posted November 23, 2012 Share Posted November 23, 2012 Good topic. Yep...I've had that with a few films as well. The biggest one is Apocalypse Now. Great film artistically but when I found out about nuts Francis went on the set, killing animals, it really just turned me off completely, from him and the film. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grim22 Posted November 23, 2012 Share Posted November 23, 2012 Fair warning - TV Tropes link ahead. They have a trope page for this, called "Harsher in Hindsight" http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/HarsherInHindsight/Film Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baumer Posted November 23, 2012 Share Posted November 23, 2012 Fair warning - TV Tropes link ahead. They have a trope page for this, called "Harsher in Hindsight" http://tvtropes.org/...nHindsight/FilmThat's a cool site but it doesn't have much to do with the thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoolioD1 Posted November 23, 2012 Share Posted November 23, 2012 That's a cool site but it doesn't have much to do with the thread.Huh? That list of movies is pretty much what this thread is about, isn't it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baumer Posted November 23, 2012 Share Posted November 23, 2012 Huh? That list of movies is pretty much what this thread is about, isn't it?Maybe I was reading something different...can you post the link to what you read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoolioD1 Posted November 23, 2012 Share Posted November 23, 2012 I read the link posted above. It's a list of movies that were fucked up by some bad shit that happened IRL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baumer Posted November 23, 2012 Share Posted November 23, 2012 I read the link posted above. It's a list of movies that were fucked up by some bad shit that happened IRL.Maybe my work computer will not let me open certain things or see certain things because I don't see any of that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moviedweeb Posted November 23, 2012 Share Posted November 23, 2012 Finding out that The Hurricane was historically inaccurate was a real bummer; same with Braveheart since they are both great movies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wadey Wilsoney Posted November 23, 2012 Author Share Posted November 23, 2012 While I have never seen it I would think that Mel Gibson's anti-semitic rants could have ruined Passion Of The Christ for a whole lot of people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeCee Posted November 24, 2012 Share Posted November 24, 2012 I'm surprised a certain someone has mentioned a certain actress in a certain film about rings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SchumacherFTW Posted November 24, 2012 Share Posted November 24, 2012 I had Fight Club ruined for me by my film studies course. Loved it before then, I can't watch it at all now thiugh, it's been completely tainted by a piss poor teacher. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wadey Wilsoney Posted November 24, 2012 Author Share Posted November 24, 2012 I'm surprised a certain someone has mentioned a certain actress in a certain film about rings.Too busy staking out said actress's home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishstick Posted November 24, 2012 Share Posted November 24, 2012 (edited) I'm surprised a certain someone has mentioned a certain actress in a certain film about rings.That goes without staying because it`s a known general ruiner of movies, not something that bugged one individual.On purely individual basis, movies are ruined for me when hero and his love interest share an obligatory kiss in the end although they were barely together and didn`t have any chemsitry. Case in point the horrible Xavier/Moira kiss at the end of FC. The movie didn`t even try to hide that Xavier and Lensherr were a gay couple and then comes the het kiss out of blue to please Fox homophobes. No wonder Vaughan left FC2. Edited November 24, 2012 by fishnets Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeCee Posted November 25, 2012 Share Posted November 25, 2012 Phew, I can relax now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookie Posted November 25, 2012 Share Posted November 25, 2012 (edited) Good topic. Yep...I've had that with a few films as well. The biggest one is Apocalypse Now. Great film artistically but when I found out about nuts Francis went on the set, killing animals, it really just turned me off completely, from him and the film.That's just the tip of the iceberg regarding the recklessness of that film's production. Edited November 25, 2012 by C00k13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatebox Posted November 26, 2012 Share Posted November 26, 2012 I don't condone the killing of animals for artistic purposes, but Apocalypse Now's fucked up production only adds to the film's aura IMO. Ditto The Shining. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Toymaker Posted December 2, 2012 Share Posted December 2, 2012 Gladiator Thought it was the best thing I have ever seen when at the cinema. Then at home I spotted the mistakes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Gary Scott Posted December 8, 2012 Share Posted December 8, 2012 Finding out that the fourth kind wasn't really at all made me hate it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt Disney Posted December 8, 2012 Share Posted December 8, 2012 While I have never seen it I would think that Mel Gibson's anti-semitic rants could have ruined Passion Of The Christ for a whole lot of people.That's actually a good one. I thought the movie Passion of the Christ was fine, until I heard Catholic Priests explain why it was anti-semetic and not what they believe at all. Then, they went on to show how the events could not of taken place the way Mel Gibson portrayed them b/c of what we know historically about that emperor. So the movie turned from acceptable in my mind to an anti-semetic piece of garbage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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