movies

For the most part I will finish out any movie just to see how it ends, but sometimes I get interrupted and never go back because I just don't care. Vesper and Battle Angel Alita fall into that category, I could have finished them but the tiny effort to resume was too much.

The last movie I can remember turning off intentionally was Misery, because it was too intense. This is weird because I love a lot of gory and brutal horror, like Bone Tomahawk was absolutely a fun ride! This one was just a bit to real and grounded. When Kathy Bates was about the break his legs the anticipation was just too much and I turned it off.

Alita: Battle Angel.

It starts off bad but when Alita signs up to be a hunter or whatever they are called and dons the coat and goes to the bar it's just embarrassing. I feel sorry for everyone involved. When I got to the bar scene the second time I tried to watch the film I remembered why I stopped the first time.

Madame web. I really wanted to give it a chance. I couldn't make it past 15 minutes. Dakota Johnson is such a terrible actress, she ruined it for me.

Hundreds of Beavers.

I knew nothing about it going in other than good buzz, and it never drew me in at all. Made it about twenty minutes.

Way back in the day? My mom and I walked out of Death Becomes Her in the theater. It's a very tonally confused movie, but the main issue was that it had been days or weeks since her mom had died.

Arthur (1981). I really like the theme song when it comes up so I thought I'd give it a go, especially considering it won an Oscar. The titular character sucks, which I'm aware is the point but it's just aged so poorly. I have no sympathy for this effective billionaire, I don't care that nobody loves him for his personality, I don't care that he's drowning himself in booze, and frankly, he annoys me. I'm sure he gives up the money and booze for love at the end but that still doesn't redeem him being so fucking annoying. I'm predisposed to dislike him and nothing he does in the first 45 minutes changes that

Human Centipede. Right about the time he unveils his creation of when my wife and I called it.

The last Godzilla/Kong movie. I barely made it a half hour before bailing out.

Avatar. James Cameron's avatar. I still can't believe anyone watch that movie and was engaged. It was as ridiculous a concept as I've ever seen and as non-immersive a movie as I've ever experienced.

Special effects or not it was nothing but a big overblown cartoon. I felt like I was living through a real life The Emperor's New Clothes.

Dunkirk, extremely boring

I try and finish any film I start. I've never walked out of a film.but I came close with Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer.because the friend whose idea it was got.close to leaving buy she knuckled down and got.through it. I should have left the Valentine's Day screening of Nekromantik as it.was far too loud and.it.can't have done my hearing any good.

My friend and I walked out of Mad Max because it was so bad. Later we walked out of Road Warrior because we didn’t realize it was Mad Max 2 and it was also bad. When Thunderdome came out we knew it was Mad Max 3, but decided to walk out of it anyway to get the hat trick.

I have a hot take that if I can’t even make it through the trailer…

This only happened to me once: with the live action Tom & Jerry film. What a horrible movie.

Borderlands and Dead pool & Wolverine. The former I put on when it was free on streaming cuz I was sick in bed and curious. Made it about halfway through paying like 80% attention. The latter I was really excited to stream and had a spare couple hours on evening so I threw it on and I loved the previous Deadpool and Wolverine/XMen movies but to me the jokes weren't funny and guess I don't know enough about 20thCenturyFoxs and Marvels IP to be in on the rest of the jokes so I picked something else.

Never happened.

If I start a movie, I've already organized things so I have nothing else to do. So why not finish it?

Besides, if you haven't finished a movie, you can't claim to have a valid opinion of it.

I couldn't make it through the first 5 minutes of the remake of The Crow. Absolutely awful.

Wonderwoman 1984 was also pretty cringe and I didn't make it more than 10 minutes.

Three last ones were:

Some blatant ripoff of Silence of the Lambs/ generic serial killer movie with Martin Lawrence and John Malkovich. Got 30 mins in and they may as well have used the same sets as SotL because somehow serial killers get the largest cells in the world so they can paint and look at files for murder cases and make phone calls to detectives just before they go to the execution chamber. - Mindcage

The last Die hard move, Barely mentally there Bruce Willis destroying moscow during a car chase just so he can yell at his son. - A good Day to Die Hard

Some Garbage Marky Mark movie set in Boston where he was a private eye or something, we got 30 mins in and it was so bad we guessed how obvious they were being and how bad it was going to be and skipped to the end to see if we were right. (we were) - Spenser Confidential

I think there has only been one movie that I haven't finished, even if it was only because I was comfortable on the sofa with a bowl of popcorn: You Don't Mess With the Zohan

I think the wife and I made 15 minutes before calling it quits l.

Pretty much the epitome of " I expected nothing, and I was still disappointed"