Worst audience ever? - The Sitter (2011) Discussion

[–] 12 years ago

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Let me see if I understand you correctly...

The movie sucked and it's the audiences' fault?

You seemed confused which would explain why you would pay money and waste 81 minutes on pee-pee and poo-poo jokes.

Also, I took the liberty to correct your subject heading.

No, no...no need to thank me. Just promise you'll avoid movies like this in the future.

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[–] moviemaniac008 12 years ago

@GooGooTheDinosaur: I guess you didn't understand correctly. I wasn't discussing the overall greatness of the movie. If you hated it, it's your right. I was just thinking that even in my younger days when I attended movies like Epic Movie and Meet the Spartans there was at least someone laughing, which wasn't the case this time.

It's in no way the audience's fault if they hated the movie. I was just expecting the audience to react a bit more positively to the movie. I wanted to see if the audience was the same everywhere else.

I was not going to thank you and I do not need to promise anything to you. But thanks for contributing constructively to our discussion.

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[–] mikeyflatley 12 years ago

light chucklez sparinly. unfor not a rotfl comedy ala horrible bosses

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[–] scorpion-52 12 years ago

Well the audience at my theater was laughing pretty hard, comedy is subjective, so there's bound to be a few theaters that don't find certain films funny.

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[–] Defenseman13 11 years ago

Let me make it clear to the OP and the kids defending it.

THIS MOVIE IS A SAD, UNFUNNY, DISAPPOINTMENT.

It follows a tired formula, there are never any standout moments, and it is as bland as can be.

The reason the audience sat there without laughing is the same reason I sat here without laughing. BECAUSE IT SUCKED.

Let me quote another reviewer, as I'm done talking about this bomb.

"The Sitter is a deflated comedy robbed of all laughs, jokes, and originality. It knows formula well, but doesn't know where to go from there. It also knows how to pick a lovable lead actor who is consistently funny in everything he does.

Even since Your Highness, David Gordon Green has successfully put me in a state of never-ending puzzlement. Here's a guy that has made back to back acclaimed independent features, and now, chooses to use his time directing lame, directionless comedies without wit or a soul."

There you go. *Best audience ever

http://us.imdb.com/name/nm2339870/

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[–] DonnerParty808 12 years ago

Younger days? Those movies only came out a few years ago. Lol...

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[–] moviemaniac008 12 years ago

@Miriclemaker22: True...I'm not very old either :P(I'm 15 years old, going to be 16 soon). But when I was 12 or 11 years old for example, believe it or not, I was part of the target audience for these ''movies'' and I did attend a few of them. I just like to say my younger days because since then, my taste in movies has changed greatly. I watch a lot of Hollywood mainstream movies, but I have bought and watched many of the movies from the Top 250 list and other foreign films (although I do like a goof off comedy, such as the sitter, for example, once in a while).

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[–] brendanfoy 12 years ago

If you want good goofy comedy, then watch Mel Brooks. Specifically, watch Young Frankenstein. I'm sure you've seen Spaceballs since it's a Star Wars spoof. Those are great films someone as young as you should get.

Airplane and Naked Gun are no brainers if you haven't seen those.

And give the Pink Panther movies a look as well. With Peter Sellers, not the Steve Martin remakes.

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[–] JesterSevens 12 years ago

Epic movie and meet the Spartans are both ph ucking terrible films, not even slightly funny.
your opinion is the wrong one!

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[–] Defenseman13 11 years ago

No, it's that bad.

"The Sitter is a deflated comedy robbed of all laughs, jokes, and originality. It knows formula well, but doesn't know where to go from there. It also knows how to pick a lovable lead actor who is consistently funny in everything he does. It's the second film to be released by independent filmmaker David Gordon Green this next to Your Highness. Both will earn a special place on my list of worst films for 2011.

Even since Your Highness, David Gordon Green has successfully put me in a state of never-ending puzzlement. Here's a guy that has made back to back acclaimed independent features, and now, chooses to use his time directing lame, directionless comedies without wit or a soul. The Sitter takes an already mediocre premise and refuses to push it off its feet into something more original or fresh. It understands the formula inside out, but proceeds to disregard everything else."

http://us.imdb.com/name/nm2339870/

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[–] mariondowning-427-469344 10 years ago

Thankyou for clearing that up with the original poster. The whole movie is disgusting right from the first filthy scene. The original poster must be very easily entertained and a teenaged boy to enjoy toilet humour and "jokes" about a guy giving BJs. I bet they also believe parents tell their kids that their babysitter didn't turn up because she has a urinary tract infection (any excuse for gross "humour" and eluding to the fact that women have genitals and breasts).

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[–] perkoff 12 years ago

I saw this movie last Saturday, about 10 people in the theater. We all laughed at the same spots pretty much. One guy laughed really loud a couple of times, like way too hard. I thought it was a very good movie, held my interest the whole time. Some movies you go to and are just waiting for them to end, like just about any Will Ferrell movie besides Step Brothers.

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[–] rorysa 12 years ago

Anyone who laughed more than once or twice during this movie is way too easily entertained.

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[–] bhobnine 12 years ago

Perhaps they were not easily amused. I rarely laugh loud enough to be heard across a theater, even if there is a funny part. Most comedies will give me a 'bemused' smile, but thats about it, and Im fine with it. Its a blue moon rare event when I see something that cracks me up, you know, the kind of thing where five minutes later you start laughing about it again. Yah, that stuff.

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[–] soccerxc91 12 years ago

That or they have a different sense of humor then you. As was said before, comedy is subjective. You make it sound like your opinion is better than everyone elses.

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[–] slim_craig_e 12 years ago

you say easily entertained like its a bad thing?

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[–] joshfarcone 11 years ago

rorysa you must be GOD! I laughed 3 times I think... I must be a moron

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[–] RayDennisStecklerRules 12 years ago

Sounds like the greatest audience ever to me. A whole audience that realised the film was crap? Fantabulous.

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[–] soccerxc91 12 years ago

While you are entitled to your opinion, I really don't think Avatar, The Hangover, and Inception are movies that should be used as examples of crap films. Having said that, I did enjoy The Sitter, but no where near as much as the films you listed. Also, humor is subjective. If everyone had the same sense of humor, the world would be a pretty damn boring place.

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[–] lockon_stratos 12 years ago

OP and his thread are hilarious. He seems to have some kind of deep connection with movies. And then clearly states that he's just 15 and really isn't supposed to be watching most of the movies he's seen including this one. We're going to have to give him time to grow. Literally and figuratively.

And about the audience in your theater. They sound like my kind of people. They are the ones who grew up with the original movie Adventure in Babysitting and thought this one might be some kind of homage but it sorely wasn't.

The only good comedy now comes from serious movies where they incorporate humor here and there like Iron Man, X-Men, Avatar, Titanic, Good Will Hunting, Tucker and Dale vs Evil, Mission Impossible, Harry Potter, Lord of the Ring, Fast and Furious, Prince of Persia, Tron, Clash of Titans and others. Real comedy is dead.

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[–] moviemaniac008 12 years ago

Just because I'm 16 doesn't make me less mature than any other film fanatic. I love movies. I have a passion for films by Scorsese, Fincher, Tarantino, Kubrick, Coppolla, Nolan, Leone, Spielberg, Ritchie, and more. I've seen more movies than any person my age and seen more foreign movies than many people do in their entire lives.

I live in a country where I am legally allowed to see most of these movies...but whatever.

Real Comedy is dead? are you serious? Good comedies come out every year, and you manage to say that the only good comedy nowadays comes mainly from ''serious'' movies (which most of them happen to be blockbusters)?

A few good comedies that come to mind are (500) Days of Summer, Crazy, Stupid, Love, Horrible Bosses, 21 Jump Street...and those are only a few.

And seriously...Tucker and Dale vs. Evil is supposed to be a serious film? Tron, Clash of the Titans and Avatar are supposed to have funny bits?

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[–] dollfacecrafter 12 years ago

this movie was not funny, that is probably why no one was laughing!!

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[–] moviemaniac008 12 years ago

I know it wasn't a great comedy...But I see many comedies in theaters, and trust me, it was the first time I heard an audience that silent during a comedy...and I've seen some pretty awful ones.

I didn't think the Sitter was awful, it just wasn't very good.

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[–] wunderdunder 12 years ago

Hopefully it's a sign that the audience (general public) is tired of paying $10 to watch a piece of *beep* movie that never should have been made in the first place.

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[–] Gdub33 12 years ago

That's because it's terrible maybe? There are maybe 5 chuckles in the movie.

This movie is so bad it's almost embarrassing to watch.

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[–] Gdub33 12 years ago

LOL!!! Yeah WE don't have a good sense of humor?

You think, this sad joke of a movie is better than Avatar or The Hangover?

Forget a sense of humor, you need to get your sense of reality checked!!!

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