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Macbeth (2015)
I couldn’t make myself sit through it. The play already stretches my limits for Shakespearean drama, and I wasn’t excited by anything else to enough of a degree to overcome it.

Gladiator II (2024)
I hated the first one, why the fuck would I watch the second one? It’s the most useless sequel ever to be made, and Ridley Scott just needs to retire before he totally ruins his reputation for good filmmaking. This film looks like it would reek of unwashed male.

The Lighthouse (2019)
I think it’s fair to say that we are pretty generally pro-Robert Eggers films here at Frock Flicks. We love his uncompromising eye for historical accuracy and the fact that, even when he takes liberties with history, he’s still unapologetically true to whatever period he’s playing around in. That said, there is absolutely nothing about this film that holds any appeal for me.

Oppenheimer (2023)
I really tried with this one, y’all. In fact, I watched a good chunk of it before my will to live outweighed my will to sit through four hours of a film that, while incredibly well acted and deserved all the praise it got, just could not hold my attention. [Note from Kendra: watched it on a plane because I’m weird! Definitely gripping, but not much to say beyond what we’ve already written.]

Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
Yes, I agree, this is an Important Movie™ but, akin to eating my vegetables, I am a grown-ass adult and I don’t wanna watch it. I just don’t. I have zero interest. Sorry, not sorry. [Note from Kendra: I watched it! There’s nothing to say that isn’t in my top 5 post!]

What films are you just never going to watch? Tell us in the comments!
Don’t come at me, but I just couldn’t get into “Hail, Caesar!” I wanted to love it, but wound up turning it off after about 20 minutes.
Same!
BURN THE HERETICS, they’re multiplying!👹
I wasn’t expecting The Spanish Inquisition! :)
I just watched “Killers of the flower moon”. It’s good, but my god it is too long. Ever since “The Irishman” (which was also too long) did so well, nobody has told Scorsese to get a grip and get an efficient editor. And they should, ’cause fuck, it was a chore to sit through. Same with “Oppenheimer”. m
I get that Scorsese has actors he likes to work with – De Niro and DiCaprio for this film – but Killers of the Flower Moon was a let down after reading the original book. Too much focus on the characters who ultimately were the villains of both the fictionalized and real story (and really minor characters in the grand scheme of things) and not enough on how the Osage were the ones to really try and take matters into their own hands to put a stop to the murders. That being said, the Osage women’s costumes were gorgeous and clearly a lot of work went into researching them, so I will give Jacqueline West and Julie O’Keefe applause for that.
I’m absolutely watching Gladiator II because the Roman empire is, well, my Roman Empire. Gladiator I is deeply flawed but inspired a lifelong love of Rome. The Severans are my period of expertise so I’m eager to see all the ways they eff it up.
Killers of the Flower Moon was soooo dark. It inspired me to read the book, however, which was fascinating and horrifying and better than the movie. I loved the Osange costumes.
Osage, sorry. What a mistake.
Any and all Woody Allen movies. I just can’t even. Also When Calls the Hairpins!
I’ve seen and much appreciated both MACBETH (2015) and KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON – both hit me square in the feelings, which I count as a point in their favour.
The latter is particular lingers with me, as something almost as much a horror movie as a crime film: a hideously fascinating study in the smallness of the criminal soul, of stubborn resolution in the face of crime and (one must admit) a film with one of the more satisfying “As it turns out, these boys will NOT keep getting away with it” moments in cinema.
It possibly helps that, having not yet read the original book, I was able to appreciate the film purely on it’s own terms (Rather than seeing the plot developments coming and pondering how I might have executed an adaptation).
We tried to watch “Killers of the Flower Moon” but after 2 hours of brutality toward women, and learning we were only half done, we quit.
I’ve seen Killers of a Flower Moon, and I was basically annoyed through the whole thing (at the white people, not the Natives). I’m slowly watching Gladiator II, and I’ll never watch Oppenheimer.
I read the book on which Killers of the Flower Moon is based. It’s such a sad, painful story for the victims that I don’t think I can sit through it a second time in movie form, no matter how good the movie.
Most of the “new” costume drama shows… which are just modern chicks in terrible clothes pretending it’s 2025 when really it should be 1803.
Re: Oppenheimer. It was pretty awesome to see Pence’s wife do a reenactment of Emily Blount declining to shake RDJ’s hand at President Carter’s memorial recently.
I can recommend Oppenheimer. You could watch it piece-meal too. It was really good.