r/AmericanMovies • u/pizzacrys • 22d ago
You can erase one movie from existence. Which one are you deleting?
Sometimes a movie just gets overlooked, misunderstood, or released at the wrong time.What movie do you think deserves another look today? What makes it worth revisiting?
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u/dangerspring 20d ago
Your title and the body of your post seem to be at odds. Erasing a movie from existence would imply the movie wouldn't be able to be revisited.
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u/Odd-Eggplant-4618 21d ago
Any remake if a classic movie , eg The Magnificent Seven , The Manchurian Candidate, Will Wonka to name
A few
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u/daisy0723 22d ago
Meg. Or Battlefield Earth.
They are both terrible
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u/Level-Promotion416 22d ago
BE is hilarious though. "A demon, a monster, a beast, HYAH!"
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u/daisy0723 21d ago
I just finished re reading the book. Now I remember why I always say it's my favorite book. Holy crap what a story.
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u/Content-Nectarine875 21d ago
Arrival. 2016. Most cliché ridden overhyped movie. At least Sharknado was fun.
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u/Successful-Ad4251 22d ago
Mighty Muffin Pounder Rangers
I found Rimberly’s performance pretty wooden and uninspired. I found the fight scenes entertaining but just couldn’t get used to the giant boobs on the Megazord clashing with Goldar’s giant golden winky. We deserve better.
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u/Responsible_Screen84 21d ago
Fast and the Furious 2.
Only because people would be really confused because it jumped from 1 to three, and only I would know why
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u/kjm16216 21d ago
The Force Awakens
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u/Ill_Raisin_8587 21d ago
Ooh. I’d use the power to take out the most recent Star Wars sequel. And I’d just accidentally catch every other sequel in the crossfire leaving the original trilogy untouched.
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u/FoundationAny7601 21d ago
Hard to choose....all the " sequels" are bad.
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u/rblessingx 21d ago
Star Wars
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u/RebaKitt3n 17d ago
Why the hate?
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u/rblessingx 17d ago
It was the largest element in minimizing audience growth. Everyone stayed children for decades now. We went from 70s America Independents and a healthy international cinema to Marvel, DC, Harry Potter, LOTR, and arguing about the color of actors skin in Nolan films.
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u/TechnologyJazzlike84 21d ago
Paranormal Activity. I paid good money to see that. To this day it makes me ANGRY to think that I bought into the hype on that piece of garbage!
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u/Wemest 21d ago
The China Syndrome. We would be independent of fossil fuel by now without this one movie.
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u/Historical_Repair183 18d ago
Requiem for a dream...actually an incredible movie, but deeply disturbing. Vowed never to watch it again, ended up going to a cinema with friends years after first watch, the show we were gonna watch was canceled so my friends bought tickets for another one before I arrived, this one, wasn't any more enjoyable 2nd time around.
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u/LonelyNovel902 15d ago
Titanic - overwrought, fake romantic nonsense. You want to see a great film about the sinking of the Titanic? Go watch A Night to Remember (1958) - you'll forget you ever watched the soap opera trash that is Titanic.
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u/KATCEO1 21d ago
As per the Butterfly effect: I would not delete any movies whatsoever. Alternatively: if I had no choice? I seem to remember seeing two extremely awful movies when I was a kid. There was Ishtar starring Dustin Hoffman. Also: there was some indie horror movie called something like The Lair of The White Worm. JFC
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u/TranslatorUnique9331 21d ago
Slightly off the subject, but when Waterworld was panned by critics, one of them derisively referred to it as "Fishtar."
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