films you couldn't finish

[spoon]

it takes more effort to get up and walk out of a cinema having paid than it does to hit stop on a film you downloaded. nonetheless, what movies have you given up on before the end?

i got to about 29 minutes into Diary of the Dead tonight. just fucking wow.

[Konx-om-Pax]

transformers 2

[WON'T DO IT]

me and chuck plethora walked out of a screening of that exorcist prequel thingy about 2004/5

[soulcheck]

transformers 2

Thank god i downloaded it from torrent.

Still couldn't watch it through.

[Konx-om-Pax]

i left after 1hr 58mins in... i couldn't take anymore. just wanted it to end.

[Scoz]

alexander - the one with colin farrel and angelina jolie in it. No idea how far into it I got but it felt like for ever, and I couldn't take any more.

jesus there's an almost four hour version, surely no one has the stamina for that.

[Sheridan]

Waking Life

It was boring and pretentious. I made it like 20-30 mins and turned it off.

[Laszlo]

Slumdog Millionaire was on for 25 mins before I deleted the whole film from my drive and I walked out of 'Bigfish' by Tim Burton.....christ what a couple of tedious shit films.

[soulcheck]

I'm not sure if I ever watched 2001 in one seeing.

[Irrungenwirrungen]

The first LOTR, but due to actual arse ache rather than boredom (well a bit of both actually).

[Hectic Cum Balthazar]

I watched Hot Fuzz on Saturday night, good for 30 mins and then exactly the same for anoter 90 mins and got stupidly tedious. I never stop watching a film once I've started, no matter how bad. It's an affliction.

[emef]

i switched off the wrestler cos i wanted to go to bed and the wrestling scenes were annoying me
never bothered finishing it

[The Real Grim Shadesy]

I never stop watching a film once I've started, no matter how bad. It's an affliction.

I'm the same. Wish I wasn't cos then I wouldn't have had to watch the whole of 2001 maniacs last week. Fucking hell. One of the single worst films in existence. So, so bad. The high pitched hillbilly voices were total fingernails down blackboard material and just utterly ridiculous.

[joe pinapples]

I'm the same. Wish I wasn't cos then I wouldn't have had to watch the whole of 2001 maniacs last week. Fucking hell. One of the single worst films in existence. So, so bad. The high pitched hillbilly voices were total fingernails down blackboard material and just utterly ridiculous.

you'll be happy to hear about this then, coming out next year:

2001 Maniacs: Beverly Hellbillys

[dan gulberry]

Depends on the kind of film. Hollywood-type films - I tend to think that if they turn shit (which usually means: it's getting seriously predictable) they're not going to get any better. Non-bullshit-films I give more of a chance, thinking - as with novels that take hundreds of pages to really get into - that the ending could offer something that totally defines the rest of the film.

Recently, I started to watch Pineapple Express, got about 40 mins in, laughed a little, then saw *exactly* where it was headed so gave up. Life's too short.

[wheezer]

does passing out during the screening count? if so, starship troopers, la confidential and the devil's advocate

[Konx-om-Pax]

Waking Life

It was boring and pretentious. I made it like 20-30 mins and turned it off.

i love that film!

[Orang Utan]

i like 2001 Maniacs

i'm a bit of a glutton for punishment and like to finish films too.

but i did have to stop watching london - that was truly dreadful

[Hectic Cum Balthazar]

I liked London. But you do have to be in the mood. It might not be a mood you are ever in I guess.

[Orang Utan]

I liked London. But you do have to be in the mood. It might not be a mood you are ever in I guess.

i'm talking about this london:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0449061/
not the patrick keiller, which is brilliant:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110377/

[JE:5]

300, tried to watch it about 3 times and just fell asleep after 20 minutes each time.

[Sheridan]

I would have walked out of Star Wars Phantom Menace had the first three Star Wars films not existed.

[Hectic Cum Balthazar]

i'm talking about this london:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0449061/
not the patrick keiller, which is brilliant:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110377/

good :)

[The Real Grim Shadesy]

you'll be happy to hear about this then, coming out next year:

2001 Maniacs: Beverly Hellbillys

Seriously? Bet I end up watching it too.

[Brownthing]

Alien Vs Predator. But it wasn't the film that persuaded me to leave, it was the very disabled person who sat next to me in the cinema and kept trying to talk to me, but I couldn't understand what he was saying. I figured the only way to minimise offence yet end the uncomfortable experience was a walkout.

[spoon]

you're a bad person.

;_;

[Orang Utan]

it's ok to tell a disabled person to shut up you know

[spoon]

shut up.

[skosh]

don't think i've ever walked out of a cinema but i've never been able to watch dances with wolves

[mdk]

never walked out either but at home I gave up on every part of lord of the rings. just too boring.

and i watched the first 5 minutes of Keane and found the whole premise too disturbing to continue. not a situation i want to contemplate.

[thepigjockey]

Cronenburg's Dead Ringers. But I was in a bit of an altered state so I don't think I can fully blame Cronenburg. Having said that I would never ever wacth it again. Feeling megaqueasy just writing about it uuuurgh.

[Hectic Cum Balthazar]

Cronenburg's Dead Ringers. But I was in a bit of an altered state so I don't think I can fully blame Cronenburg. Having said that I would never ever wacth it again. Feeling megaqueasy just writing about it uuuurgh.

It's a good film though.

And contains the great quote "slaving over the hot snatch"

[love_tempo]

never walked out either but at home I gave up on every part of lord of the rings. just too boring.

and i watched the first 5 minutes of Keane and found the whole premise too disturbing to continue. not a situation i want to contemplate.

fair enough, though as keane goes on the story changes a bit. and you wonder if there is even a missing child and not just a suffering badly mentally ill man.

[mdk]

i do want to watch it at somepoint, but i probably have to do it 5 minutes a day :)

[ivan]

sly - judge dread.

[love_tempo]

i do want to watch it at somepoint, but i probably have to do it 5 minutes a day :)

watch it when your children are 18-year old teenagers having parties in your studio and you can't wait to send them away to uni :)

[love_tempo]

The Devil and Daniel Johnston was a hard one for me to finish with a family full of manic depressives.

[Orang Utan]

i find i have to watch any film about severe disability/terminal illness alone cos i can find it too overwhelming

[penciLneck]

Cronenburg's Dead Ringers. But I was in a bit of an altered state so I don't think I can fully blame Cronenburg. Having said that I would never ever wacth it again. Feeling megaqueasy just writing about it uuuurgh.

I think I may have been responsible for that, soz.

[penciLneck]

mine covers both threads.

August Underground, couldn't get past the first torture scene.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0412467/

[kams]

I made my uncle leave Flash Gordon at the pictures when I was 7 or so.. Peter Duncan putting his hand the tree of death was just too scary.

[Hectic Cum Balthazar]

I made my uncle leave Flash Gordon at the pictures when I was 7 or so.. Peter Duncan putting his hand the tree of death was just too scary.

and pretty homoerotic

that whole film was filthy

[joe pinapples]

Hectic Cum Balthazar, pictured yesterday:
http://www.nerf-herders-anonymous.net/images/BrianBlessed_FlashGordon_Vulta n.jpg

[Hectic Cum Balthazar]

great beard, look at the width of that 'tache

[kams]

Brian Blessed with wings

[joe pinapples]

can your beard do this?
http://bboylimping.files.wordpress.co m/2009/03/beard.jpg

CAN IT FUCK

[kams]

haha

that weirdly looks a lot like Luca

[Orang Utan]

flash gordon is way better than star wars.
eta: i think i've probably started a thread about this before. the shame.

[Hectic Cum Balthazar]

luca don't need a crash helmet when I do it

[kams]

Flash!! Aaaahh Aahhh

[Hectic Cum Balthazar]

flash gordon is way better than star wars

werd

[Hectic Cum Balthazar]

Actually, the bit in ET when the ball came rolling back out of the shed.. that whole first section of the film... with the creepy spielberg lighting. I wanted to run out of the cinema.

[joe pinapples]

http://talkkok.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/flesh-gordon-0022.jpg

[joe pinapples]

luca don't need a crash helmet when I do it
http://www.scripting.com/images/2001/09/30/yesTheyreRelated.gif

[Hectic Cum Balthazar]

Actually.. reading this article made me remember I turned Transformers off after 30 mins.

"It was like being pinned to the ground while an angry dishwasher shat in your face for two hours."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/aug/03/hollywood-ideas-charlie-brooker

[gen-eral]

Waking Life

It was boring and pretentious. I made it like 20-30 mins and turned it off.

likewise.

[gen-eral]

I wish oh wish I'd walked out of M. Night Shyamalan's The Village. Utter shit.

[Daddys Girl]

Actually, the bit in ET when the ball came rolling back out of the shed.. that whole first section of the film... with the creepy spielberg lighting. I wanted to run out of the cinema.

I'm repeating myself here, I know - but I wish I'd never seen ET.
It is a creepy film. The idea of watching that on the big screen freaks me out.

[V Knid esq]

Pret A Porter. Piece of shit. SHAME on Robert Altman.

Fashion is unsatirisable.

[spoon]

Pret A Porter. Piece of shit. SHAME on Robert Altman.


it's only worth watching for the brilliant all nude catwalk procession at the end. Altman you old dog!

[Sheridan]

I wish oh wish I'd walked out of M. Night Shyamalan's The Village. Utter shit.

That guy sucks big time. The Sixth Sense was mildly interesting, but that is it. I remembering watching Unbreakable and just feeling offended because it was so bad.

[penciLneck]

his last film was unmitigated crap. even worse than normal.