Are there really any scary movies?

• Manhattan Buckeye

  hasbeen;1521546 wrote:Knocked Up scared me.

  Scared me as well when I realized we spent $18 on that piece of crap film. I trusted Judd Apatow to deliver and it didn't do it...that was one of the 3 worst films we paid money to see in a theater in the last 5 years or so.
  
  Back to good horror films, rent Jacob's Ladder (very underrated) and John Carpenter's The Thing with Kurt Russell. Better yet buy them. And obviously The Shining is outstanding for a Halloween rental.
• Fab4Runner

  

  Manhattan Buckeye;1521795 wrote:Scared me as well when I realized we spent $18 on that piece of crap film. I trusted Judd Apatow to deliver and it didn't do it...that was one of the 3 worst films we paid money to see in a theater in the last 5 years or so.
  
  Back to good horror films, rent Jacob's Ladder (very underrated) and John Carpenter's The Thing with Kurt Russell. Better yet buy them. And obviously The Shining is outstanding for a Halloween rental.

  It has a 7.1/10 on IMDB and a 91% on Rotten Tomatoes. Unless you never go to the movies, I have a hard time believing it was one of the three worst you paid to see in the last five years.
• Manhattan Buckeye

  Rotten Tomatoes loved Indy 4 which caused me to cry on the drive back to our house (that is one of the 3). Knocked Up was another one. The Dark Night Rises was the third. I love, love Christopher Nolan for the most part but that movie sucked donkey balls.
• Fab4Runner

  

  Manhattan Buckeye;1521850 wrote:Rotten Tomatoes loved Indy 4 which caused me to cry on the drive back to our house (that is one of the 3). Knocked Up was another one. The Dark Night Rises was the third. I love, love Christopher Nolan for the most part but that movie sucked donkey balls.

  Lol, okay. I am not saying those sites or critics in general always get it right, but you are seriously the only person I know who hates Knocked Up enough to call it one of the three worst movies you've paid to see in the last five years.
• SportsAndLady

  

  Fab4Runner;1521854 wrote:Lol, okay. I am not saying those sites or critics in general always get it right, but you are seriously the only person I know who hates Knocked Up enough to call it one of the three worst movies you've paid to see in the last five years.

  This. Never met someone who hated knocked up. That movie was hilarious and great.
• Fab4Runner

  

  As for scary movies, Scream scared the shit out of me when I saw it in theaters in 6th grade. Shouts out to the dollar theater in Mansfield, which obviously doesn't ID 12 year olds going to rated R movies.
  
  The Strangers was definitely scary. Still need to the The Conjuring.
• Manhattan Buckeye

  Fab4Runner;1521854 wrote:Lol, okay. I am not saying those sites or critics in general always get it right, but you are seriously the only person I know who hates Knocked Up enough to call it one of the three worst movies you've paid to see in the last five years.

  Don't have time to go the theater much but from memory:
  
  Despicable Me - very good film, haven't seen the second one yet (so don't spoil it)
  Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol - fun film, even with Tom Cruise, I liked the Dubai scenes
  Toy Story 3 - perhaps Pixar's best
  Sherlock Holmes 2 -- I enjoyed it, but on the one hand I love Robert Downey
  The Avengers - see comment about Downey..he is Tony Stark
  
  Unfortunately the negatives:
  "Brave" - that was Pixar?
  Dark Knight Rises - I could write a dissertation as to how much that movie is awful, like Avatar awful
  Indiana Jones 4 - OMG
  Knocked Up - the problem with the movie is that no one is sympathetic. Everyone is a jerk or loser, I loved 40-year old virgin because Carell's character was sympathetic.
• thavoice

  Scariest I had ever been wasnt even at the movie. Friend's dad took us all to see one of the Friday teh 13th movies when I was maybe in JH. SUrprised my parents let me as it was R.
  
  On the way home the car "stalled" out in the country and he went to go for help at the next house, then jumped on the back of the car and scared the shit outta us.
• reclegend22

  

  If anyone likes movies about extraterrestrials, Fire in the Sky with D.B. Sweeney was excellent. The film is about a logging crew who, upon returning back from a job deep within the mountains of Arizona, encounters a UFO and the aftermath that follows. It contains the most disturbing and convincing alien abduction scene in any movie I've seen. It's an older film, so it was pre-CGI stuff, which made the special effects so much better by IMO providing more realism. Really a solid film.
  
  The Fourth Kind was pretty good also. And as a bonus, it featured Milla Jovovich.