The 50 Day Movie Challenge asks one question every day, to be answered by a few paragraphs and a clip, if possible. Click here for the full list of questions.
Today’s prompt: What’s a movie you refuse to see?
There aren’t too many movies I refuse to see – in the right mood and with the right people, even bad and stupid movies can be really fun. And I’m not too easily offended, but one movie that I’m pretty much not willing to test that out with is Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Salo: 120 Days of Sodom, based on the writings of the Marquis de Sade (from who we get our word “sadism”). I saw and hated Quills, a movie that’s merely about the Marquis de Sade, and I’m not willing to subject myself to anything else related to him. Simply not my thing, even if it is endorsed by the Criterion Collection. I don’t even want to look for a clip from it.
Mythical Monkey
Funny, I saw the title of the post on my blog roll, had a conversation in my head that ended with me saying “Well, I guess I’d have to go with 120 Days of Sodom” and then I clicked over here and read a verbatim transcript of what I’d been thinking.
Jandy
Ha, that’s funny. Guess we think alike on this. I mean, there are lots of films in the torture porn type category that I wouldn’t really ever see, too, like Hostel and all those, but in terms of films that are highly regarded critically and I won’t see, this is the obvious choice.