Worst first-date movie?

[Bossy Monkey]

My previous girlfriend and I, for our first date, saw "Saving Private Ryan." Admittedly not "A Clockwork Orange," but a little intense for a first date on retrospect.

Whatchagot? If you don't have any anecdotes about inappropriate first-date movies, feel free to share what you think might be such a movie, or share other first-date misadventures you've had.

[hfojvt]

1. Funny when I clicked on this thread to read it

my machine locked a little and the "Jesus Camp" movie was the only thing on my screen for about five seconds.

I will take that as a sign. :scared:

[petronius]

2. No anecdote, but I nominate 'The Woodsman'

or perhaps 'The Accused'...

[Wetzelbill]

28. tough to beat those choices

definite buzzkills there. :)

[sarge43]

3. Se7en

Definitely not a feel good movie

[yewberry]

4. 9 1/2 Weeks.

That didn't actually happen to me. My husband actually took me to see "The Santa Clause" for our first date.

[Haole Girl]

11. I agree. Thankfully, I saw it with a friend and not a first date!

:blush:

[LynneSin]

51. I have a funny 9 1/2 weeks story

I was staying with my friend down at her beach house a few years ago. Along with us and her daughter, she also invited along a guy she was dating at the time to hang out with us. They had only been dating for about a month but after the first night at the beach she realized she had nothing in common with this guy whatsoever.

The second night she decided to stay in for the night and rent some videos and the soon-to-be-ex-boyfriend pretty much made himself scarce all day because even because of a commitment he made with friends at the shore. So my friend runs over to the video store across the street and grabs a video for her daughter and another one for her for when her daughter goes to bed. That movie was 9 1/2 weeks.

I questioned my friend's sanity about why she would rent such a sexually explicit movie and her reply was basically the choice was sucky and she had never seen this movie before. I gave her a brief synopsis of the movie and said that her date was aware that she rented the movie he might think she was up for something 'interesting'.


Needless to say we returned the video immediately

[Left Is Write]

5. Fatal Attraction.

[wildhorses]

18. that was my first thought also but, I see you beat me to it!!

GMTA :hi:

[sweetheart]

6. "war of the roses" nt

[SKKY]

7. "Unfaithful"....

It's also a terrible movie to watch while on Deployment.

[Arkham House]

8. The Passion of the Christ

...if that doesn't get you into a romantic mood, what will?

[CBHagman]

9. The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (SPOILER ALERT)

Back when I was at university, the Australian film industry was in a particularly interesting period, in no small measure due to government support and the plethora of talented directors. So it was perfectly natural that I and my friends would go to see Australian films either at the student union or at the local arts theater.

Well, one Saturday night I went on a first date to the Nickelodeon to see The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, which of course was critically acclaimed. I hadn't been feeling well that day but still wanted to keep the date.

What I didn't realize was that during the course of the movie, the title character would have a breakdown and start commiting ax murders. Against women and children. I have a mental image of blood spattering across a wooden table and into mugs of milk while my date murmured an apology about the choice of the movie.

There was no second date. :-( But I still like Australian movies. :shrug:

[NewJeffCT]

10. Silence of the Lambs

When it came out, a woman I had a first date with requested we go to that movie. I'm not joking, either.

[tigereye]

12. Looking for Mr Goodbar

many years ago.



I would say that Play Misty For Me would also be a poor choice. However, they would have to be at a Retrospective movie house.

As for newer films, I have no clue.

[Kutjara]

13. "Dirty Weekend"

The Michael Winner (of "Deathwish" fame) film about a woman who, after being abused by one man too many, goes on a serial killing rampage, taking her bloody revenge on a collection of increasingly sleazy men.

[pauliedangerously]

14. Scarface

I can't imagine watching that on a fifth date either. But if you really want to knock her out, watch "The Unbearable Lightness of Being." That one will make it or break it the first night; either way, it's a winner.

[dolo amber]

15. "Vulgar"

Unless your date is into gang anal-rape. By clowns. :shrug:

[Blue-Jay]

17. By CLOWNS?!? Hell no.

Hobos...... :shrug:

[haf216]

16. Damn I can' remember the name of the movie

... it the one with Sharon Stone and the ice pick. I can't believe I cant remember, but anyway I went to see it on my first real date ( we were friends for a while before we got together), with my ex boyfriend . He picked the movie, that should have told me to run right there.

[Divameow77]

26. Basic Instinct

[Fuzz]

19. Heh, took my now wife to see Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me

on our first real date (met her on a cruise, this was the first post-cruise date) and we're still married after more than 12 years. So that f'd up movie didn't screw up the relationship thankfully. ;)

[HEyHEY]

20. That one Travis Bickle took Cybil Shepard too

[JVS]

24. No way! The Swedish Guide to Marriage is the best movie ever!

[mitchum]

29. C'mon , she didn't even give it a chance!

[Deja Q]

21. What everybody else said...

Assuming I did date, and I'm more likely to win the lottery and I can cite more reasons than everyone else put together for deserving it, I'd never take anyone out to a movie. You're trying to get to know each other. Not looking at some overpaid actors blustering around... :D

[RetroLounge]

22. My first wife and I on our first movie-date

Watched "Lust in the Dust" with Divine, followed by "The Hunger" with Bowie and Deneuve...

Not an auspicious start.

RL

[Susang]

23. "Baise Moi"

Baise-moi
Cast: Raffaela Anderson, Karen Lancaume, Delphine MacCarty, Hervé P. Gustave, Marc Rioufol, Lisa Marshall, Estelle Isaac and Ouassini Embarek
Directed by: Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Tri
Screenplay by: Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Tri
Distributor: FilmFixx
Runtime: 77 min
Rating: NR
Year: 2000

It would be impossible to discuss Baise-moi without mentioning Abel Ferrara. Baise-moi is the kind of film that Ferrara would have made during the '70s, when Times Square was something more than a Disney theme park. Baise-moi is an audacious piece of feminist empowerment, a Dogma-style experiment that mixes in Russ Meyer playfulness with dramatic elements from numerous popular films, from Thelma & Louise to Natural Born Killers. It's polemical but completely unpretentious, unlike, say, Catherine Breillat's Romance and Leos Carax's Pola X. Baise-moi may appeal to extremists but this feminist howl is more necessary than ever because of the conservative retrenchment we're experiencing in this country. The film is less polished than Ferrara's Ms. 45 but if Zoe Lund ever aimed her gun lower and, say, into a man's ass, Baise-moi would be the result. Directors Coralie Trinh Tri and Virginie Despentes tell the story of a rape victim who goes on a countrywide killing spree with a female companion she randomly meets on the street. There isn't much of a plot but the attention to detail, however subconscious, is remarkable. While she's being raped, Nadine (Karen Lancaume) refuses to allow her rapist to see her squirm, evoking her reactionary spirit. Far more fascinating is the fact that the man stops raping her because of her act of retaliation. Baise-moi has been called irresponsible when it champions self-respect and moral responsibility. Save for the curious deaths of Nadine's best male friend and a woman on the street, every man in the film is murdered because of his bad behavior. Viciously hell-bent on avenging female scars, Baise-moi likens guns to female tools of empowerment, not unlike what men have between their legs. Even when Baise-moi is seemingly undermined by Thelma & Louise-style self-defeatism, the film ends on a hauntingly ironic note. Evocative, cocky and downright riveting, Baise-moi is exploitative 'til the every end. The directors strip one of their main characters of her final emotional release and suggest that a female's ownership of her body is an ongoing, elusive struggle.

Ed Gonzalez
© slant magazine, 2001.
http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/film_review.asp?ID=34

[sofa king]

25. Bloodsucking Freaks.

Never should have let her talk me into renting it on DVD. Particularly since I already had it on VHS. I coulda saved three bucks, and still be out on my ass the next day.

[BlueIris]

27. Natural Born Killers.

I had a friend who went on a date with a guy who took her to that film to "surpise" her. YECH. And the really creepy thing was that she said the date up until that point was excellent. ?? Needless to post perhaps, it was their only date.

[mitchum]

30. "Star 80"

[Skittles]

44. that was filmed in the real apartment Ms. Stratten was murdered in

c r e e p y

[mitchum]

60. I didn't know that...

Eric Roberts turned in an incredible performance in that movie. He was totally despicable and unsympathetic, but he was brilliant at capturing the character's bewilderment as to why he was considered a sleaze while Hefner and the Bogdanovich character were deemed respectable. They were all in the business of exploiting beautiful women. Pimps of degrees.

[Skittles]

63. yes

from what I remember, Ms. Stratten truly was a sweet, innocent girl who was terribly exploited - yes, by all of them.

[mduffy31]

47. I usually put that on during a first date

and if she stays I know that I'm in the house

[benny05]

31. My Best Friends Wedding n/t

[Deja Q]

32. "Sleeping with the Enemy"

Can't get worse than that one... :P

[Vidar]

33. Sophies Choice--great movie, but bad for first dates.

[ashling]

34. I took a first date to

"A Bridge Too Far" - hey, it had Robert Redford ....

[philosophie_en_rose]

35. The Collector

:bounce:

[Rob H.]

36. Fatal Attraction

In my defense, it was a blind date and the other couple chose the movie. There was no second date, either.

[Nikia]

37. We saw "In and Out"

It wasn't a bad movie but I wondered if there was some reason that we were seeing a movie about a man who discovers that he is gay after a student outed him and calls off his wedding.
My husband said that we saw that one because the other movie that we could get to on that evening because of our schedules was "Kiss the Girls" about a guy that rapes and kills women.

[northzax]

38. Hello, people? The Crying Game?

hmm?

[bif]

39. "Saving Ryan's Privates"

Or "On Golden Blonde"

[Bryan]

40. David Cronenberg's "Crash"

Actually, I don't think any of Mr. Cronenberg's films are appropriate for a first date (that said, if I ever do meet a woman who's willing to watch Crash and digs it, I may have to propose on the spot).

[HEyHEY]

43. Worst date movie, not worst movie ever

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

58. "Dead Ringers" would be another interesting choice

Instruments for Operating on Mutant Women

[Guy Fawkes]

41. Caligula

[Writer]

42. Basic Instinct

Because I've done it and it wasn't a pleasant experience. It wasn't my first date, either. :(

[ScreamingMeemie]

45. OMG! That's the first movie that MrG and I went to see together...ahem...

and we were about 5 minutes late so we walked in right during the opening "scene"... talk about an ice breaker. :blush:

[haf216]

67. Well things seem to have worked out better for the two of you!

I'm glad.

[mduffy31]

46. Requiem for a Dream..

Wanted to kill myself....do depressing

[file83]

54. That would have to be up there in the top 10 most depressing of all time.

[FormerDittoHead]

48. Conan the Barbarian.

This is a thread about movies that people ACTUALLY went on a first date to see, right?

[file83]

55. LOL - if you were dating a body builder, you might get lucky!

[Deep13]

49. Silence of the Lambs, also it was the last date movie.

Just as well.

[Lautremont]

50. The Cook, The Thief, His Wife And Her Lover

I wrote a friend telling him how much I'd enjoyed the movie (which I'd gone to see with a woman I'd been dating for some time already, thank goodness) and he went and took a first date to see it. Needless to say, things didn't go well, and he half jokingly/half seriously blamed me. He's single to this day, sixteen years later.

I went on a first date to see Pet Sematary once, and that was a bit of a bust; then again, I also went on a first date to an obvious date-movie candidate (it was an insipid, calculated bit of fluff called Benny & Joon) and that was also a dead end. At other times I've taken dates to bizarre or horrifying movies with no backlash whatever. Conclusion? The movie itself doesn't matter that much: it's the sparkling conversation afterwards that counts.

[Cannikin]

52. Porky's

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[MamaBear]

53. Boys Don't Cry

A great film, but not on a date. Ditto "Monster" -- not if you have to get in the same car.

[Merrick]

56. Irreversible

Unless your date is the kind who gets turned on by the graphic, realistic depiction of a man getting his head caved in with a fire extinguisher or a woman being raped in a deserted subway tunnel in a scene that lasts about seven minutes.

Saw it with my girlfriend on DVD awhile ago and she spent half of the movie hiding behind the bookshelf, asking "Is it over yet?" over and over

For sure, if you're going to watch a Gaspar Noe film on a first date, "I Stand Alone" is a much safer bet - the main character only punches his pregnant girlfriend in the stomach and shoots his daughter in the neck in that one.

[edbermac]

57. Deep Throat

She was so offended she almost walked out...:rofl:

[Recovered Repug]

64. That was my first thought too...

my second thought was, it might be the PERFECT first date movie.

[Lady President]

59. Indecent Proposal

I went on a first date to "Indecent Proposal". It would have been fine, but we ended up disagreeing about what Demi Moore should have done. I thought one night with Robert Redford for a million dollars sounded pretty damn good. I ended up with a lecture on God's will and the sacrament of marriage.

Maybe it was a good first date movie-- weeded out one Bible-banger.

[mitchum]

61. The movie was a bit of a cheat. Now, if Danny DeVito or Joe Pesci...

had played the Redford character, maybe there would have been a real dramatic dilemma

[ironflange]

62. Cries and Whispers

She has a hot one, don't even know how I managed to get a date with her, then I took her to this. Boy, was that a mistake.

[leftofthedial]

65. the one robert deniro took cybill shepherd to

in taxi driver

[Ilsa]

66. "Freejack" horrible flick. very loud! waaaay over-hyped. nt

[LTR]

68. "Disclosure"

Went on a first date to see it. We both agreed it was a strange choice.

Otherwise, I think "Faces of Death" would be up there, along with "Showgirls".

[jmowreader]

69. Ladies, I have the perfect "first date" movie for you

This is a suitability test.

Just take the man to a neutral location, slip into something comfortable (I recommend track shoes and sweats, for reasons you will understand in just a few seconds) and drop "Day of the Woman" (aka "I Spit On Your Grave") into the VCR.

If he likes it, run. Very, very fast.

(Yes, this is the film that opens with the female lead being raped by four men for 30 minutes, and closes with her hanging one, cutting one's dick off, killing one with an axe and disemboweling one with an outboard motor. Lots of good clean fun for kids of all ages.)

Now guys? I recommend not taking your newly-found girlfriend to see Robocop. She won't like that.

[Hand]

70. "Reservoir Dogs" seems like rather a bad idea.

Not really a chick flick, I suppose. Might raise questions about you, too. :rofl: