First season had it’s moment but it was poorly structured, almost felt episodic. Anything after is complete crap. I didn’t really see any SW influences either other than the lone protagonist, it was the usual disney slop, just a bit more of a western.
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OK … let’s not get off topic here - ‘Classic Films I Never Need To See Again’
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Two movies that are definite classics that I never want to see again are The Matrix and Shawshank Redemption. Both movies (especially Shawshank) are put on a pedestal. I saw The Matrix in the theater when it first came out and I’ve never had any interest to watch it again. I appreciated the message of the film about reality being an illusion. Other than that, I thought it was an ugly, dark (lighting wise) film. Too many people sing the praises of Shawshank Redemption as if Stephen King was the first storyteller to talk about how: 1. people are wrongfully sent to prison for things they didn’t do; 2. a constant focus on the minds of prisoners is not getting raped; and 3. prisoners tend to feel a lot better after they escape. In my opinion, old school prison movies like Brute Force (1947) with Burt Lancaster and Hume Cronyn and the HBO TV show Oz (1997-2003) are much more powerful than Shawshank Redemption and without it being insisted upon that they’re classics.
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Good call … I wasn’t a fan of ‘The Matrix’, I thought it very overrated and slightly pretentious.
Shawshank … I did like very much, but the last time I put it on (Had a new Blu Ray) I couldn’t get past the first half hour. Just seen it too many times … it’s an enjoyable feel good / bad, then good again adventure … but you have to be in the right frame of mind and despite all the hardships portrayed in the film, it still has that cozy buddy movie vibe, like ‘The Great Escape’, which makes life in prison look like great fun!
I might leave it for 10 years and see how I feel about it then … if I’m still around!
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I appreciate your thoughts on both movies and am glad that I’m not the only person who could do with out ever seeing Matrix or Shawshank again. Or, at least 10 more years for the latter film, like you said 
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Now we’re talking!
When it comes to films I wouldn’t touch now with a barge-pole, a special mention goes to 'Mamma Mia’ and ‘Happy Feet’ - not classics by any means, but certainly ones that you couldn’t pay me to sit down and watch…once was enough!
I’ll also mention ‘The Accused’, starring Jodie Foster - a nasty re-enactment of a savage, brutal rape…
Lastly…‘The Rookie’ and ‘Pink Cadillac’, both starring Clint Eastwood. Awful films…
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That’s in a league all it’s own … putrid doesn’t even cover it!
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Lol! Former roommates of mine were fans of Mama Mia. Joining them for the first 15 minutes was enough to realize that life is too short 
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‘Mama Mia’ is simply atrocious … and it says a lot that it was the most successful British film and DVD release up that point … Just incredible and a little depressing that so many morons enjoyed it so much ( I include members of my own family )
I really like ABBA and their music, so how could this project have become such a fiasco !
Never managed to get through the whole thing … ejected and binned (the copy I’d picked up at a charity shop), after about 30 minutes.
A real head boiler!
LOL
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Shouldn’t Mama Mia be in the Films you never need to see folder?
And Classic?
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Good idea! … of course one person’s ‘Classic’ is another’s torture chamber … Most chick flicks are just routinely crap, and should be avoided at all costs, but this is ‘Super Trooper Crap’, to coin a phrase … and has to be seen to be believed.
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Ever since I was forced to watch the atrocious Sargent Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band with my classmates in music appreciation class in 9th grade I’ve been leary of movies made around songs and albums.
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