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Title: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: respectmeordye3 on January 04, 2008, 11:17:18 AM
Any movies you were not able to get through from start to finish?, I am lucky I was able to make It through Napoleon Dynamite---talk about stupid and unfunny-still don't see how the hell it got such rave reviews when it wasn't funny for one second, had bad acting, a lame story--and...well was lame from start to finish-but regardless I actually made it through that one.


Sadly however, I cannot say the same for Delta Farce--even had the usually hilarious Bill Engvall and D.J. Qualls (You notice I did not include Larry "The Cable Guy" ....when he starts being funny let me know) but I just had shut it off after about twenty or thirty minutes. Pure torture--for once a movie critic knew what they were talking about--shocking.


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: The Burgomaster on January 04, 2008, 11:35:30 AM
I don't think I have ever intentionally stopped watching a movie before the end.  No matter how bad a movie is, I need to watch it all the way through.  If a movie is really bad, I may need to watch it in 15 or 20 minute segments.  But I always force myself suffer right up to the end.  One example is THE DEVIL OF THE DESERT AGAINST THE SON OF HERCULES.  I have this in Mill Creek's WARRIORS 50 MOVIE PACK.  It took me 3 or 4 sittings over a period of a few weeks to get through it, but I finally made it to the end.  The closest I have ever come to walking out of a movie theater was when I went to see DUNE.  That was a painful experience, but I stayed until the end.


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: asimpson2006 on January 04, 2008, 11:58:40 AM
I started watching both Borat and Underground comedy movie.  Watched 20 min of both movies and refuse to finish them.  It took me maybe 10 sittings to finish Heaven's Gate.  I still have to finish Empire of the Sun, but I haven't had a lot of time to sit down and finish it (I want to though, I like what I see so far).



Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: Justy on January 04, 2008, 12:05:24 PM
I can't remember the name but I know that it was a Pauly Shore movie.


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: peter johnson on January 04, 2008, 12:08:52 PM
I walked out of "2010" after about 20 min.:
An astronaut afraid of heights and noise in space drove me out of the theatre.
"Howard the Duck" -- Lasted about an hour.  Heard that the monster at the end was cool/worth waiting for, but I ducked out --
"The Valachi Papers" -- Pointlessly violent & bloody to no end.  After the 9th or 10th Gratuitous murder I just said "Who cares?" and bailed --
Then there was some Italian "Exorcist" ripoff, whose name escapes me, that opened with a woman vomiting in the toilet & closed for me when her tongue got ripped out --
I'm sure there are others, but these stand out in my memory.  Usually, though, if I can't make it through a film, I don't remember it because that usually means the film was pointless enough to forget about.  The ones I name weren't merely forgettable, just gawdawful --
peter johnson/cenny drane


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: Jack on January 04, 2008, 01:16:33 PM
Stick It - this has the additional distinction of being the only movie I couldn't sit through, even while while fast-forwarding through 90% of it.  They've got this 24 year old actress portraying an obnoxious, self-worshipping 15 year old.  The annoyance level was agonizing.

Anacondas:  Hunt for the Blood Orchid - So bland, generic and cliched I actually became somewhat angry after about an hour.  Just to make it worse, there's this horrible comic relief character that seems to get killed, but then it turns out he lived.

Death Tunnel - The whole thing's edited like an MTV video, with no scene lasting more than a few seconds.  Then it's off to a new scene, which will only last a few seconds.  Various editing gimmicks are used ad nauseum

Shaun of the Dead - I don't get the humor in this at all.  It just bored the living hell out of me.

Sleepy Hollow - I kept puzzling over why Edward Scissorhands was Ichabod Crane.  Then they showed a flashback of the headless horseman, back when he still had his head.  It made me laugh.  I figured that was enough of that.


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: respectmeordye3 on January 04, 2008, 01:23:56 PM
I have also made it through very few Will Ferrell movies--goes for Hallie Berrie too-or Wanda Sykes and Queen Latifa.

None of these folks are very funny--granted I found Ferrell funny in Elf but that was about it.


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: Ed, Ego and Superego on January 04, 2008, 01:44:50 PM
Funny that, i loved Shaun of the Dead, but thats me.  My two, I finished them and wished I hadn't:
1) Requiem for a Dream
2) Wild Aces. 


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: Oldskool138 on January 04, 2008, 01:53:37 PM
Funny that, i loved Shaun of the Dead, but thats me.  My two, I finished them and wished I hadn't:
1) Requiem for a Dream
2) Wild Aces. 

Requiem had a great ending.  The film has a great flow to it as it get more and more frantic as the characters sink deeper and deeper into Hell.  But it's not for everybody.


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: Pilgermann on January 04, 2008, 02:05:12 PM
I think I left in the middle of Delta Farce 'cause it was only a technical screening, and I wanted to go home in the first place.  A co-worker came in about 20-30 minutes into it and finished watching it.  Even when movies are horrible I usually finish watching them if it's at a theater.


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: respectmeordye3 on January 04, 2008, 02:59:53 PM
I shut it off just after they found out where they really where.....


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: KYGOTC on January 04, 2008, 03:09:15 PM
I hosted an after school b-movie club in high school and one day i showed STAR ODDOSEY and 2 people besides me showed up. I got bored and left before it ended.


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: RapscallionJones on January 04, 2008, 04:29:11 PM
I pride myself on a particularly resilient nature when it comes to awful movies.  That said, there are four movies which have bested me in one on one combat.

The Pest - Whoever thought this would be a good should probably be shot.  I have tried this one a couple of times and can never make it past the opening credits.  I s**t you not.  Sheer willpower is not enough to endure the stupidity of this movie.

Underworld - If I were a vampire or a werewolf and I had to spend eternity surrounded by other vampires and werewolves in the world of Underworld, I would throw myself on a wooden stake or shoot myself with a silver bullet, whichever applied to my particular affliction.  It would seem that life as a monster involves speaking to others in accents of undetermined origin with a very abrupt cadence.  Everyone sounds so angry at one another in that movie for no particular reason.  The action also sucked.

Freddy Got Fingered - There is a part of me that wants to believe that this movie contains some kind of hidden, Andy Kaufman style joke that will dawn on everyone twenty years down the road when it is hailed as a cult classic but I just can't find it.  It's not even like I think Tom Green is obnoxious.  The guy has his moments but I just cannot figure out what is going on in this movie.  I don't even know what it's about.  Something about a cartoonist.  Tom Green susbscribes to the loud = funny school of comedy and does a fair bit of yelling in this movie.


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: RCMerchant on January 04, 2008, 06:39:33 PM


Freddy Got Fingered - There is a part of me that wants to believe that this movie contains some kind of hidden, Andy Kaufman style joke that will dawn on everyone twenty years down the road when it is hailed as a cult classic but I just can't find it.  It's not even like I think Tom Green is obnoxious.  The guy has his moments but I just cannot figure out what is going on in this movie.  I don't even know what it's about.  Something about a cartoonist.  Tom Green susbscribes to the loud = funny school of comedy and does a fair bit of yelling in this movie.

I hated that movie...couldn't stick with it either.


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: Dave M on January 04, 2008, 07:23:48 PM
I'm sure I've said so many times here before, but the only movie I couldn't make it through was Terror Toons. I was like George C. Scott in Hardcore (pretty sure I used that exact analogy before too). "Turn it off, turn it off!" Actually kind of gave me a headache. My prime example of a bad movie that dosen't feel like it meant well, like a bad movie should.


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: indianasmith on January 04, 2008, 08:02:10 PM
Let's see . . . I rented something called THE INVISIBLE that I just could not finish, and then there was ISHTAR . . .

Now if you start a thread of "Movies I WISH I hadn't finished", I'll have a LOT more entries!


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: akiratubo on January 04, 2008, 08:52:08 PM
2001 - The ape men scenes were pretty good.  After that, 2001 became unforgivably self-indulgent on Stanley Kubrick's part.  I don't care how impressed he was with the sets and models, there is absolutely no excuse for the endless sequence of lengthy shots of that spaceship from every conceivable angle -- inside AND out.  I didn't make it past that.

Borat - I don't even understand what's supposed to be funny about this.  It's just some guy talking with a fake accent.  Are we supposed to find it amusing that the ignorant Amerikkkans don't relate to foreign cultures?  That's a pretty cheap shot considering that Borat and the culture he represents are fictitious, isn't it?

The Jar - A man comes into possession of a jar with a rubber monster toy in it.  Looking at the thing makes him insane ... I think.  Nothing much happens.  It was painfully boring.  It hurt me.  I might have watched it through anyway if not for the scene of the guy walking around nude with his dong flopping around.  That's just not my thing.

Firefly - The two-hour premiere movie.  I ejected the DVD about five minutes or so before it ended.  I hadn't liked it, so I just didn't see any reason to finish watching it.


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: Oldskool138 on January 04, 2008, 09:16:13 PM
Man, there's a lot of hate for Borat on these boards.  I thought it was hysterical.  It's a stupid comedy a la Jackass.  I guess it's not for everybody.

2001 does drag (this is coming from a big Kubrick fan)...but if you watch it under the influence *ahem* it's a lot better.  Plus, I think that he was going for a natural sound-scape (outside of the classical soundtrack) and since there's no sound in space, he juxtaposed the beeping of the pod and Dave's breathing with the utter nothingness.  I'm guilty of fast-forwarding the movie when watching it...sober.   :wink:


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: CheezeFlixz on January 04, 2008, 09:54:15 PM


Freddy Got Fingered - There is a part of me that wants to believe that this movie contains some kind of hidden, Andy Kaufman style joke that will dawn on everyone twenty years down the road when it is hailed as a cult classic but I just can't find it.  It's not even like I think Tom Green is obnoxious.  The guy has his moments but I just cannot figure out what is going on in this movie.  I don't even know what it's about.  Something about a cartoonist.  Tom Green susbscribes to the loud = funny school of comedy and does a fair bit of yelling in this movie.

I hated that movie...couldn't stick with it either.

Yep watched about 15-20 minutes of it couldn't take it any longer.


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: D-Man on January 04, 2008, 09:58:08 PM
I have Borat on DVD, and I once loved it after seeing it in the theater with a bunch of other people...but now I can barely get past the first 20 minutes now, because I realized how repetitive and dumb the gag is ...Sacha Baron Cohen's entire shtick of making racists and homophobes uncomfortable, going back to the Ali G Show, gets really old after a while. 

Some people may hate me for this, but I only watched about the first 10 minutes of "Little Miss Sunshine" as well...to me, it just seemed like one of those "Oh, look how quirky and tragic we all are...aren't we funny?" films, like "The Royal Tennenbaums", which I could only sit through once.   It just looked too much like a Wes Anderson movie to me, and I just don't think I can stomach another one like that. 


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: HappyGilmore on January 04, 2008, 09:58:59 PM
I pride myself on a particularly resilient nature when it comes to awful movies.  That said, there are four movies which have bested me in one on one combat.

The Pest - Whoever thought this would be a good should probably be shot.  I have tried this one a couple of times and can never make it past the opening credits.  I s**t you not.  Sheer willpower is not enough to endure the stupidity of this movie.


I kinda liked the Pest.  Watched it recently on FX.

I haven't been able to watch Star Wars parts 3, 4, 5, 6.  Only seen Episode 1 and 2, and if I didn't spend 10 bucks on the ticket for 1, I'd have walked out of the theater.


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: JPickettIII on January 05, 2008, 01:25:13 AM
The only movie I can not sit through is Manos, The Hands of Fate.  I litterally fall asleep watching that movie.  I have it on the MST3K Essentials Disk Set, but even with the help of the satellite of love, I can not defeat the nulling  :buggedout: effects of the movie.

I can make it through anything else.

Maybe I should try on of those 5 hour energy drinks.  :cheers:

Later,

John


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: BeyondTheGrave on January 05, 2008, 01:38:23 AM
Theirs only three movies I coudn't make it through that I remember: A Japanese movie called Whispering Corridors which I have on DVD that was so boring I took it out about the hour mark and one of the later Hellrasiers don't know which one because it was so damn boring I fell asleep. Finally a Anime movie called Samurai X: Trust and Betrayal. My friend wanted to see it and she was screaming at me to fast foward it because it was so slow.


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: peter johnson on January 05, 2008, 01:43:20 AM
Oh, jeez . . .
I promised myself I would say NOTHING if someone on this thread walked out on a movie I loved . . . buuuttt . . .
Really?  "2001"?  One of the most single elegant, grandiose, insightful, technically groundbreaking, visionary, omnicontented films ever made?  
Cheez Whiz, akiriturbo,  . . .  better not watch "Battleship Potemkin", or "Eraserhead", or anything else that explores Mechanism as symbol of Humanity . . .
Seriously, I'm sorry you didn't like the picture.  I know, of course, that not everyone will enjoy the same things, but I do wish you'd give that one another chance -- if for no other reason than people have been stealing from it for decades.  I saw it at age 9 when it first came out on Cinerama -- 3 screens bent together/120mm film stock . . . all the Cinerama theatres are gone now.  Also saw "Mad Mad. ..World" and "How the West Was Won" in Cinerama in New York -- and it's never left me.  Yes, it's always fun to be all drooged up when seeing it, but it still holds up straight as an interpretation of Arthur C. Clarke's vision of Alien Intelligence.  
Get past the spaceship exploration & get to the Giant Baby at the end.  Not many images in cinema can match that one . . .
peter johnson/denny oh what's the point . . .


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: Ash on January 05, 2008, 02:16:20 AM
Chasing Amy
The only film I've ever walked out of the theater on.

Brazil
I know a lot of you guys love this movie, but I lasted all of 20 minutes before I ejected it and returned it to the person I borrowed it from.
I just didn't like the visual style and humor.

High Fidelity
Rented this one with a group of friends while I was down in Australia several years ago.
After a half hour of nothing but people sitting around talking in a record store, I had had enough.


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: Pilgermann on January 05, 2008, 04:29:41 AM

Brazil
I know a lot of you guys love this movie, but I lasted all of 20 minutes before I ejected it and returned it to the person I borrowed it from.
I just didn't like the visual style and humor.


Stab me in the heart!  Oh well, I know that the style isn't suited to everyone, but it hits all the right notes for me.  Probably my favorite film.

Anyhow, as for 2001: Space Odyssey, I'm with Peter on this one.  I'm blown away by it just from watching it on an average sized tube television.  I'm almost afraid to see its awesomeness on a big theater screen.

You know what Warner Bros. ought to have done?  Since we're coming up on the film's 40th anniversary, and IMAX is popular stuff these days, they should've struck some 70mm IMAX prints for the occasion.


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: Mr. DS on January 05, 2008, 07:11:21 AM
Spice World...the minute Elton John appered in a cameo I decided it was all I could take.

I almost walked out on Titanic but I kept saying I need to see this ship sink. 


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: akiratubo on January 05, 2008, 07:44:20 AM
A Japanese movie called Whispering Corridors

Whispering Corridors is a Korean movie.


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: HappyGilmore on January 05, 2008, 09:44:41 AM
Chasing Amy
The only film I've ever walked out of the theater on.

Brazil
I know a lot of you guys love this movie, but I lasted all of 20 minutes before I ejected it and returned it to the person I borrowed it from.
I just didn't like the visual style and humor.

High Fidelity
Rented this one with a group of friends while I was down in Australia several years ago.
After a half hour of nothing but people sitting around talking in a record store, I had had enough.
I actually like Chasing Amy and High Fidelity.  My own personal likes though, differ from a lot of peoples.


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: Jack on January 05, 2008, 10:42:56 AM
It's good to see some hate for 2001.  Personally I'm a sci-fi nut and could sit through it 100 times, but it makes no effing sense at all and man is it ever slow moving. 


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: damnote on January 05, 2008, 12:46:05 PM
I pride myself on a particularly resilient nature when it comes to awful movies.
Same but there was one I nearly couldn't finish...The Man With Screaming Brain!
I love Bruce and whole Rami crew but this was just the pits.


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: peter johnson on January 05, 2008, 02:26:45 PM
The sense of 2001:
     Millions of years ago, an alien race seeded the galaxy with obilisques that were supercomputer triggers.  The one on Earth boosts the evolution of humanity.  Fast forward to the present day:  2001.  When one of the obilisques is uncovered on the moon, it sends a signal to its companions on Jupiter.  The premise is that curiosity & knowledge for its own sake is paramount to the development of intelligent life -- that once sensing the signal, the builders of the obilisques presumed that we, the human race, would seek out the destination of the signal in an attempt to discern what its meaning was.  Once the astronaut leaves the confines of his ship in the escape pod, above the planet Jupiter, he is thrown into the next phase of evolutionary acceleration & becomes a new form of Being, presumably resembling the nature of the builders of the obilisques/the space-seeders.
     He is representative of the coming New Nature of Humanity, when the confines of Earth and Space are not the restrictive things they are to us now.
     Frankly, I've never gotten that people don't get this.  If they have trouble with the film, pick up Arthur C. Clarke's book & its sequels, wherein this idea and more are all spelled out pretty explicitly.
peter johnson/denny carl sagan ripped me off


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: Shadow on January 05, 2008, 03:14:34 PM
I can only think of two examples.

The only movie I ever walked out on in the theater was Leonard Part 6. Once that gang of frogs "jumped" that car, I was outta there. I have never bothered to watch the rest of the film since then.

As for rentals, the only one I gave up on part way through was Will Ferrell's Talladega Nights or whatever that Ricky Bobby thing was called. About 10 minutes into the film, I just could not handle the preponderance of stupid and annoying characters and shut it off, promptly placing it in the Netflix return envelope and walking to the mail box to send it on its way.


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: Rev. Powell on January 05, 2008, 03:16:49 PM
The only movie I ever walked out on was MESSAGE FROM SPACE (http://www.badmovies.org/movies/messagespace/).  I was but a foolish child at the time, and expected it to be just as "good" as STAR WARS.  Now, of course, I've been meaning to watch it again, as an enlightened adult.

I understand how some people wouldn't like 2001, although it's one of my favorites.  One person's "slow" is another person's "hypnotic."


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: KYGOTC on January 05, 2008, 04:25:33 PM
I pride myself on a particularly resilient nature when it comes to awful movies.
Same but there was one I nearly couldn't finish...The Man With Screaming Brain!
I love Bruce and whole Rami crew but this was just the pits.

Yea, it was pretty slow.


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: Intangible Skeleton on January 05, 2008, 06:12:43 PM
Am I the only one who finds 2001 slightly chilling? It's triumphant and it's most crucial point is to tell a plot with very little words, but for seemingly no reason at all I get a dark vibe along with the awe.

As for the actual question: I have a vague memory of walking out of Blues Brothers 2000, but that was only because of my mum and cousin. I actually wanted to finish it despite thinking it was absolute dregs of the highest order.


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: GrandMaster on January 05, 2008, 06:30:24 PM
   I often turn off movies 20 or so minutes in but try and make it a point to finish them, the only one i didnt come back to recently was Fulci's New Gladiators.


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: voltron on January 05, 2008, 08:10:16 PM
I couldn't make it all the way through the Black Christmas remake. Truly awful.


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: KYGOTC on January 05, 2008, 08:20:49 PM
Im seeing a few people ragging on 2001 and I toatally agree. I didnt make it thru this one either. I left after that pointless scene where that one lady SLLLLOOOOOWWLLYY walks around in that vertical circle. After seeing that I decided I should go do the dishes or something. 


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: TyTBone on January 05, 2008, 10:19:44 PM
Any movies you were not able to get through from start to finish?, I am lucky I was able to make It through Napoleon Dynamite---talk about stupid and unfunny-still don't see how the hell it got such rave reviews when it wasn't funny for one second, had bad acting, a lame story--and...well was lame from start to finish-but regardless I actually made it through that one.

Napoleon Dynamite is funny because of it's stupidity. I think a lot of the humor can only be truly appreciated by the

youngest of generations; I'm not even 21 yet. (Not that it's my place to guess your age. I'm just saying.)  The writer and

producer himself - Jared Hess - isn't even thirty yet. It's that whole generational gap of taste in humor. I don't like Dick Van

Dyke (which my dad loves) , but I usually find South Park hilarious (which my dad abhores).

On the other hand, Dynamite is also a love-it-or-hate-it film. There isn't any real in-between...


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: horseshoe crab on January 06, 2008, 02:54:09 AM
I tried to watch One Hour Photo twice and couldn't get past five minutes either time. It was just too cringeworthy and it made me uncomfortable...even though nothing had really happened. Otherwise I'll sit through anything once I commit to it, no matter how boring, stupid, poorly made, or just generally s**tty.


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: Jack on January 06, 2008, 08:55:54 AM
The sense of 2001:
     Millions of years ago, an alien race seeded the galaxy with obilisques that were supercomputer triggers.  The one on Earth boosts the evolution of humanity.  Fast forward to the present day:  2001.  When one of the obilisques is uncovered on the moon, it sends a signal to its companions on Jupiter.  The premise is that curiosity & knowledge for its own sake is paramount to the development of intelligent life -- that once sensing the signal, the builders of the obilisques presumed that we, the human race, would seek out the destination of the signal in an attempt to discern what its meaning was.  Once the astronaut leaves the confines of his ship in the escape pod, above the planet Jupiter, he is thrown into the next phase of evolutionary acceleration & becomes a new form of Being, presumably resembling the nature of the builders of the obilisques/the space-seeders.
     He is representative of the coming New Nature of Humanity, when the confines of Earth and Space are not the restrictive things they are to us now.
     Frankly, I've never gotten that people don't get this.  If they have trouble with the film, pick up Arthur C. Clarke's book & its sequels, wherein this idea and more are all spelled out pretty explicitly.
peter johnson/denny carl sagan ripped me off


Did you read the book before seeing the movie?  Because that's cheating  :teddyr:  I'm just talking about what was explained in the movie.  For instance: 
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an alien race seeded the galaxy with obilisques that were supercomputer triggers
  That's not explained in the movie at all.  Obviously they're from an alien race, but we don't know that the galaxy is seeded with them, nor is there anything about supercomputer triggers.  In prehistoric times, there's an obelisk that seems to boost the intelligence of one group of cavemen.  In the present day, we don't know what happened to the obelisk on earth, but there's one on the moon.  It sends a signal to Jupiter, which left me with the impression that...well, I have no idea.  It could be anything, and there are numerous possible reasons it could be sending a signal to Jupiter.  I don't mind the fact that's it's all very mysterious, it's one of the best aspects of the movie and I wouldn't have it any other way.  As far as: 
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The premise is that curiosity & knowledge for its own sake is paramount to the development of intelligent life -- that once sensing the signal, the builders of the obilisques presumed that we, the human race, would seek out the destination of the signal in an attempt to discern what its meaning was.
  That's not explained in any manner whatsoever in the movie.  You could have 100 people watch the movie 10 times each and probably 15% of them would come up with that, but they wouldn't be the least bit certain about it. 

What bugged me the most was why did HAL kill everybody?  It's explained in 2010, and I liked the explanation and it made perfect sense, but it was a complete mystery in 2001.  I mean, the most basic facts are there, that HAL wasn't supposed to tell the crew about the obelisk at Jupiter, and after HAL is deactivated we find out that there was a message left explaining that they knew about the second obelisk, but to expect people to intuit that HAL had a dilemma about not knowing how to lie, that's expecting them to be psychics.  Nobody could have figured that out, and so half of the movie made no sense.

The ending was suitably mysterious, and I didn't mind that at all, but its interpretation was left entirely up to the viewer.  I remember people saying they watched the movie 20 times and finally figured out the ending, but they were just guessing.


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: respectmeordye3 on January 06, 2008, 12:08:03 PM
Any movies you were not able to get through from start to finish?, I am lucky I was able to make It through Napoleon Dynamite---talk about stupid and unfunny-still don't see how the hell it got such rave reviews when it wasn't funny for one second, had bad acting, a lame story--and...well was lame from start to finish-but regardless I actually made it through that one.

Napoleon Dynamite is funny because of it's stupidity. I think a lot of the humor can only be truly appreciated by the

youngest of generations; I'm not even 21 yet. (Not that it's my place to guess your age. I'm just saying.)  The writer and

producer himself - Jared Hess - isn't even thirty yet. It's that whole generational gap of taste in humor. I don't like Dick Van

Dyke (which my dad loves) , but I usually find South Park hilarious (which my dad abhores).

On the other hand, Dynamite is also a love-it-or-hate-it film. There isn't any real in-between...


I am 28, and actually I love many "stupid humor" films--heck I watch a lot of Hulk Hogan films for crying out loud! I just never saw where one was supposed to laugh In Dynamite.

I don't like South Park myself--but The Simpsons I love(My folks HATE it, Every time we talk they ask why I keep watching "crap like that"  I am also a pro-wrestling fan which is DEFINETLY stupid just in itself. But for some reason It has attracted me.

As for Dick Van Dyke--he's done a couple of "okay" things here and there but when it comes down to brass tacks....

I gotta agree with you Dick Van "Break out into a idiotic song and dance routine every five seconds" Dyke is actually very annoying to me.

He's just on par with Queen Latifa, Hallie Berrie, Wanda Sykes, and Will Ferrell--IMHO.

All of them are annoying as heck,

Never liked Latifa, Sykes,  or Berrie in ANYTHING they ever did--Latifa is just a bullying creep in almost every role I have seen her in,

Wanda Sykes I simply do not find funny--ever,

And Hallie Berrie--in my opinion cannot act and was the worst choice for Storm or Catwoman--heck Storm is supposed to be royalty and someone that is thought to be a goddess by the tribes of Africa--that kind of thing but Berrie didn't give that kind of impression at all.


As for Will Ferrell--well the only thing I ever liked him in was ELF--he has not impressed me as a "funny guy" since then....and I am still waiting for him to do something so that I know Elf wasn't just a "one funny film" type of actor.


And while I didn't like Jon Heder in Napoleon Dynamite I do like him in other movies I have seen-I even have two of them--Monster House and Surf's Up--I actually loved him in those movies.

He's better than any of those other actors I just mentioned though--I will give him that.


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: HappyGilmore on January 06, 2008, 12:35:01 PM
Any movies you were not able to get through from start to finish?, I am lucky I was able to make It through Napoleon Dynamite---talk about stupid and unfunny-still don't see how the hell it got such rave reviews when it wasn't funny for one second, had bad acting, a lame story--and...well was lame from start to finish-but regardless I actually made it through that one.

Napoleon Dynamite is funny because of it's stupidity. I think a lot of the humor can only be truly appreciated by the

youngest of generations; I'm not even 21 yet. (Not that it's my place to guess your age. I'm just saying.)  The writer and

producer himself - Jared Hess - isn't even thirty yet. It's that whole generational gap of taste in humor. I don't like Dick Van

Dyke (which my dad loves) , but I usually find South Park hilarious (which my dad abhores).

On the other hand, Dynamite is also a love-it-or-hate-it film. There isn't any real in-between...


I am 28, and actually I love many "stupid humor" films--heck I watch a lot of Hulk Hogan films for crying out loud! I just never saw where one was supposed to laugh In Dynamite.

I don't like South Park myself--but The Simpsons I love(My folks HATE it, Every time we talk they ask why I keep watching "crap like that"  I am also a pro-wrestling fan which is DEFINETLY stupid just in itself. But for some reason It has attracted me.

As for Dick Van Dyke--he's done a couple of "okay" things here and there but when it comes down to brass tacks....

I gotta agree with you Dick Van "Break out into a idiotic song and dance routine every five seconds" Dyke is actually very annoying to me.

He's just on par with Queen Latifa, Hallie Berrie, Wanda Sykes, and Will Ferrell--IMHO.

All of them are annoying as heck,

Never liked Latifa, Sykes,  or Berrie in ANYTHING they ever did--Latifa is just a bullying creep in almost every role I have seen her in,

Wanda Sykes I simply do not find funny--ever,

And Hallie Berrie--in my opinion cannot act and was the worst choice for Storm or Catwoman--heck Storm is supposed to be royalty and someone that is thought to be a goddess by the tribes of Africa--that kind of thing but Berrie didn't give that kind of impression at all.


As for Will Ferrell--well the only thing I ever liked him in was ELF--he has not impressed me as a "funny guy" since then....and I am still waiting for him to do something so that I know Elf wasn't just a "one funny film" type of actor.


And while I didn't like Jon Heder in Napoleon Dynamite I do like him in other movies I have seen-I even have two of them--Monster House and Surf's Up--I actually loved him in those movies.

He's better than any of those other actors I just mentioned though--I will give him that.
I like Napolean Dynamite.  The humor is very bizarre.  I can't quite explain what it is about the movie that people like.  Might be because it's so odd that people like it.

As for Ferrell, I love him.  Anchorman was hilarious, in my opinion.  If you haven't seen it, check it out.  It's got Paul Rudd, Steve Carrell, and David Koechner.  Old School was good, with Vince Vaughn, Jeremy Piven and Luke Wilson.  Only movies I haven't seen with him are Blades of Glory, which coincidentally stars Jon Heder and Talladega Nights.


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: respectmeordye3 on January 06, 2008, 05:04:34 PM
So you have seen his newest movie Semi-Pro?

Also---as it turns out guess who is gonna be in a remake of Land Of The Lost?--(a B-grade television show) Will Ferrell--as Park Ranger Rick Marshall!


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Post by: horseshoe crab on January 06, 2008, 07:55:13 PM
Am I the only one who finds 2001 slightly chilling? It's triumphant and it's most crucial point is to tell a plot with very little words, but for seemingly no reason at all I get a dark vibe along with the awe.
No, I understand. I don't think it's mentioned enough how ominous a film it is. Also, the two finding-the-monolith scenes, with that wailing Ligeti music, are quite scary.


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: Killer Bees on January 06, 2008, 09:32:35 PM
I forced myself to sit through Rosemary's Baby to the end.  I will never again have such willpower as long as I live.

Movies  I could only watch in small batches until the end:

Dude, Where's My Car
Beerfest (didn't even make it to the end of this one)
40 Year Old Virgin
Starship Troopers 2
Ultraviolet
Aeon Flux

I'll post more as I think of them.


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Post by: Killer Bees on January 06, 2008, 09:52:31 PM
I thought Will Ferrell was funny-ish in SNL.  The only movie I actively like him in is Stranger Than Fiction and it's not a comedy at all.  As for his other comedies, it looks like he's just going through the motions most fo the time and by and large they're not overly funny.


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Post by: akiratubo on January 07, 2008, 07:12:02 AM
it looks like he's just going through the motions most fo the time

I get that impression, too.  It's almost like he doesn't really enjoy doing comedies.


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Post by: frank on January 07, 2008, 07:56:39 AM


I'm with Burgomaster, RapscallionJones, damnote, ... and usually watch every movie to the end. But then, I'm quite picky in what I watch and frankly it's not that much. So, I guess I wouldn't have conquered movies like Borat and the like.

But all that is just for cinema and DVD/VCR. Another story is movies on TV. I cannot possibly count the times when I actually forgot to switch back to a movie after the commercial break, because I simply forgot that something was on...

Otherwise interesting examples here. The controversies about 2001 are quite understandable, I guess. I had a very large questionmark floating above my head most of the movie and ended up with that familiar WTF-feeling afterwards. In fact, it's still the same at every viewing. To me, that is quite refreshing from time to time, it was similar while and after Donnie Darko. I absolutely do not understand a loathing of High Fidelity, I think it was great, but then people are different...


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Post by: Jack on January 07, 2008, 08:51:32 AM
Also---as it turns out guess who is gonna be in a remake of Land Of The Lost?--(a B-grade television show) Will Ferrell--as Park Ranger Rick Marshall!

Oh man, that is just...words fail me.  If anybody ever wonders why I loathe and detest Hollywood, it's stuff like this. 

You could make a fairly interesting movie about two kids and a park ranger who wind up in a strange land populated by dinosaurs and mysterious beings called sleestacks.  The creative possibilities are quite promising.  But no, that was never even considered.  We get another idiotic comedy with Will Farrel.


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Post by: Joe on January 07, 2008, 10:32:40 AM
the jar and inexchange.


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Post by: HappyGilmore on January 07, 2008, 12:15:56 PM
So you have seen his newest movie Semi-Pro?

Also---as it turns out guess who is gonna be in a remake of Land Of The Lost?--(a B-grade television show) Will Ferrell--as Park Ranger Rick Marshall!
Haven't seen Semi-Pro, but it comes out in February.  Looking forward to it, too.  I'd be interested in the Land of the Lost movie though.  Oddly enough, in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, he played Federal Wildlife marshal, named Marshall Willenholly, named after Will and Holly Marshall from Lotl.  I'm only really familar with the Nickelodeon remake from the early '90s though.


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Post by: respectmeordye3 on January 07, 2008, 12:24:27 PM
Also---as it turns out guess who is gonna be in a remake of Land Of The Lost?--(a B-grade television show) Will Ferrell--as Park Ranger Rick Marshall!

Oh man, that is just...words fail me.  If anybody ever wonders why I loathe and detest Hollywood, it's stuff like this. 

You could make a fairly interesting movie about two kids and a park ranger who wind up in a strange land populated by dinosaurs and mysterious beings called sleestacks.  The creative possibilities are quite promising.  But no, that was never even considered.  We get another idiotic comedy with Will Farrel.


Lotta folks think it will go the "Bewitched" route(also starring Will Ferrell) and be a parody type of remake of the original idea as opposed to an actual "true" remake--such as The Fugitive.....


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Post by: peter johnson on January 07, 2008, 02:14:23 PM
Re.  2001 again --
No, I got everything about the film first time I saw it at age 9 and no I had not read the book first. 
I had read Rendezvous With Rama, though, so recognized Clarke's themes.
To be fair, I do think my understanding of films was a lot clearer when I was younger -- for instance, I didn't get Mulholldand Drive.  I get PARTS of Mulholland Drive, but it doesn't spring into my brain fully-formed the way 2001 did.
I also saw Le Sangre de Poete as a young teenager, and got everything right away -- up to a point where the group I was with had had enough & wanted to leave -- To this day, I only understand the film completely up to the point I stopped watching it at age 15 -- after that 'tis all a blur --
A point I want to make is that you do NOT need everything "spelled out" in a film for it to make sense.  You are allowed to make logical inferences based on the evidence in front of you.
I reread my observations & your objections & I still think that everything I say is right there in the film for everyone to see, and I do NOT think that "only 15%" of viewers would agree with me.  The fact that the books bear out what I saw in Kubrick's direction is gravy.
Also, I think it's very clear from HAL's own statements that his AI has evolved & that the mission is paramount.  Also, he seems not to have been given any sort of Asimovian directive concerning his interactions with people, eg. Don't kill them.  Ergo, remove threat to mission.
Well, if people find the film obtuse, that's their business.  I still think if they just let it wash over them, the clarity of what's what will pop up of its own accord.  Really, if "only 15%" of viewers would agree with my interpretations, I certainly haven't heard of any others -- Have you?  Can you give any examples?
peter johnson/denny pod bay door


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: Mortal Envelope on January 07, 2008, 03:40:06 PM
As a 30something, I loved Napolean Dynamite - so much of it reminded me of the goofiness that was growing up in the 80s.  Loved 2001 as well although it is a bit slow; just a different type of movie.  I liked some scens in Borat but overall didn't exactly fall in love with it.

Movies I couldn't make it through:

Top Gun
Dirty Dancing
Beaches

and a bunch more I'm not remembering at the moment.

and after about 20 years and many many attempts, I've just recently made it all the way through Shocker lol.


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: AndyC on January 07, 2008, 03:42:01 PM
Just had a recent example of this. Bought Shrek the Third on pay-per-view. My wife and I shut it off by mutual agreement after holding out as long as possible, waiting for it to get good.

We loved the first two Shrek movies. The third seemed to ditch a lot of the clever fairy tale parody of the first two and became a movie about the characters each doing their familiar schtick. The Arthur story seemed kind of sloppily thrown in, and the addition of babies mirrors many a hit TV series that ran out of good ideas (not to mention upping the ante for gags based on bodily functions). We found it unwatchable.


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: raj on January 07, 2008, 03:53:45 PM
I couldn't make it through Air America or Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead (1990).  I even tried watching the latter twice, though both times it was at the end of a long evening of movie watching and many beverages of an adult nature had been consumed.  And I sat through Prospero's Book, thinking it couldn't be as bad as it was.


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: HappyGilmore on January 07, 2008, 05:04:03 PM
Also---as it turns out guess who is gonna be in a remake of Land Of The Lost?--(a B-grade television show) Will Ferrell--as Park Ranger Rick Marshall!

Oh man, that is just...words fail me.  If anybody ever wonders why I loathe and detest Hollywood, it's stuff like this. 

You could make a fairly interesting movie about two kids and a park ranger who wind up in a strange land populated by dinosaurs and mysterious beings called sleestacks.  The creative possibilities are quite promising.  But no, that was never even considered.  We get another idiotic comedy with Will Farrel.


Lotta folks think it will go the "Bewitched" route(also starring Will Ferrell) and be a parody type of remake of the original idea as opposed to an actual "true" remake--such as The Fugitive.....
Don't forget Starsky and Hutch and The Brady Bunch Movie, both of which, more so with Brady's, the parody route. 



Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: CheezeFlixz on January 07, 2008, 07:33:30 PM
I think I could count the number of movies I've just turned off and never tried to watch again (barring TV aired movies). As a rule I watch all of every movie I get or go see. Maybe not the first time but at least the second or third time.
Very little annoys me more in the wide, wide world of film then going to a review site (IMDB and Amazon are the worst) that a reviewer post a review of a movie that claim they couldn't make it through or turned it off after a few minutes. Ok you didn't like it, fine! Don't post a review of a film you've only seen 15 minutes of before you turned it off. (Just ran across about 4 of those on Amazon, so it was on my mind.) 


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: Hollis on January 07, 2008, 07:56:20 PM
Dead Clowns... It was awful. I tried, (thrice, no less!) to make it through, but I couldn't.

Beware, friends... fear the dead clowns, they'll kill you with boredom!


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: Allhallowsday on January 07, 2008, 10:38:18 PM
"2001"?  One of the most single elegant, grandiose, insightful, technically groundbreaking, visionary, omnicontented films ever made? 
Seriously, I'm sorry you didn't like the picture.  I know, of course, that not everyone will enjoy the same things, but I do wish you'd give that one another chance -- if for no other reason than people have been stealing from it for decades.  I saw it at age 9 when it first came out on Cinerama -- 3 screens bent together/120mm film stock . . . all the Cinerama theatres are gone now.  Also saw "Mad Mad. ..World" and "How the West Was Won" in Cinerama in New York -- and it's never left me.  Yes, it's always fun to be all drooged up when seeing it, but it still holds up straight as an interpretation of Arthur C. Clarke's vision of Alien Intelligence. 
Get past the spaceship exploration & get to the Giant Baby at the end.  Not many images in cinema can match that one . . .
CLARKE's book was developed while he and KUBRICK worked on the screenplay, but published after the movie... I do see a lot in 2001 that others seem bored by. 

I almost walked out on Titanic but I kept saying I need to see this ship sink. 
:bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:  That dopey movie !!!   :thumbup: 

It's good to see some hate for 2001.  Personally I'm a sci-fi nut and could sit through it 100 times, but it makes no effing sense at all and man is it ever slow moving. 
Slow moving, yes, but it does make sense. 

You could have 100 people watch the movie 10 times each and probably 15% of them would come up with that, but they wouldn't be the least bit certain about it. 
That's the filmmaker's intention, cryptic interpretation.  You do get it. 

I really despised CANNIBAL FEROX, but made it through it, and really hated LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT (yes, it's important, but I loathe the thing.)  MARS ATTACKS was painful, though parts are damned funny, I saw it in a theatre with a friend who despised me for suggesting we go look at it!  I'm liable to take some hits here, but I don't like MARY POPPINS or THE SOUND OF MUSIC, the former of which I have yet to sit all the way through...  :twirl:


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: respectmeordye3 on January 08, 2008, 12:53:32 PM
Just had a recent example of this. Bought Shrek the Third on pay-per-view. My wife and I shut it off by mutual agreement after holding out as long as possible, waiting for it to get good.

We loved the first two Shrek movies. The third seemed to ditch a lot of the clever fairy tale parody of the first two and became a movie about the characters each doing their familiar schtick. The Arthur story seemed kind of sloppily thrown in, and the addition of babies mirrors many a hit TV series that ran out of good ideas (not to mention upping the ante for gags based on bodily functions). We found it unwatchable.

Then you will be happy to know that a Shrek TV movie--a spin on the Christmas Carol story with Shrek being the Scrooge more or less has been done.


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: JaseSF on January 08, 2008, 03:22:54 PM
Well I cannot think of any I couldn't watch all the way through although some were particularly painful. The ones I've most felt like shutting off or walking out on included THE WATERBOY (Adam Sandler is excruiating), ARMAGEDDON, NATIONAL LAMPOON'S SENIOR TRIP (came very close to walking on that), NATURAL BORN KILLERS, INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE and ACCIDENT. Those last three also put me to sleep at one point as did well ORGY OF THE DEAD.


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: AndyC on January 08, 2008, 04:59:12 PM
If we're going to include movies that put us to sleep, I'll have to add Gosford Park.


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: HappyGilmore on January 08, 2008, 09:15:04 PM
Well I cannot think of any I couldn't watch all the way through although some were particularly painful. The ones I've most felt like shutting off or walking out on included THE WATERBOY (Adam Sandler is excruiating), ARMAGEDDON, NATIONAL LAMPOON'S SENIOR TRIP (came very close to walking on that), NATURAL BORN KILLERS, INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE and ACCIDENT. Those last three also put me to sleep at one point as did well ORGY OF THE DEAD.

I liked Senior Trip and Waterboy.  As for the others, well, I'd agree with you.


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: Mr. DS on January 08, 2008, 09:32:40 PM
Movies  I could only watch in small batches until the end:

Dude, Where's My Car

You know what, my wife (then girlfriend) rented this and I fell asleep right around the "Dude" "Sweet" tattoo thing.  I don't think I ever really caught up with what happened after that. 



Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: ulthar on January 08, 2008, 09:56:25 PM
I've never walked out on a movie in a theatre.  But, I was HURTING when we sat through THE WILD at the drive-in.  My daughter (4 or so at the time) even hated it.

I do remember the first movie I hated at the theatre.  It was ONLY WHEN I LAUGH (1981) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082853/), significant for me only in that it was the first R rated movie my girlfriend's parents let her go to.  I probably WOULD have left that one, but, well, you know...

There's been a few rentals I did not "watch" all the way through - including MARY POPPINS, MARY REILLY (1996) and some others.  Sleeping through is my prime way of not watching it all the way through.

Movies on tv?  Too many to name.  I often have a movie "on" just for the noise, and drift in and out, especially if it is not interesting.

So for some of the "hit or misses" listed in the thread.

2001: Loved it, big fan; memorable viewing was  scared and alone in a hospital bed not knowing if I was gonna live or die; actually 'flatlined' the next morning....
NAPOLEAN DYNAMITE: really liked it, almost loved it.  Very quotable if you relate to the story, which I THINK might be easier if you grew up in a small town.
Wil Ferrell: I don't "get" him.  His movies seem more angry than funny to me.  I've not seen many of his movies, but that's my take.




Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: Killer Bees on January 08, 2008, 10:38:33 PM
Movies  I could only watch in small batches until the end:

Dude, Where's My Car

You know what, my wife (then girlfriend) rented this and I fell asleep right around the "Dude" "Sweet" tattoo thing.  I don't think I ever really caught up with what happened after that. 



Don't worry Darksider, you didn't miss much.  It just got worse and worse until I seriously considered hiring a hitman to take out Kutcher and that other bonehead


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: Killer Bees on January 08, 2008, 10:40:58 PM
I've never walked out on a movie in a theatre.  But, I was HURTING when we sat through THE WILD at the drive-in.  My daughter (4 or so at the time) even hated it.

I do remember the first movie I hated at the theatre.  It was ONLY WHEN I LAUGH (1981) ([url]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082853/[/url]), significant for me only in that it was the first R rated movie my girlfriend's parents let her go to.  I probably WOULD have left that one, but, well, you know...

There's been a few rentals I did not "watch" all the way through - including MARY POPPINS, MARY REILLY (1996) and some others.  Sleeping through is my prime way of not watching it all the way through.

Movies on tv?  Too many to name.  I often have a movie "on" just for the noise, and drift in and out, especially if it is not interesting.

So for some of the "hit or misses" listed in the thread.

2001: Loved it, big fan; memorable viewing was  scared and alone in a hospital bed not knowing if I was gonna live or die; actually 'flatlined' the next morning....
NAPOLEAN DYNAMITE: really liked it, almost loved it.  Very quotable if you relate to the story, which I THINK might be easier if you grew up in a small town.
Wil Ferrell: I don't "get" him.  His movies seem more angry than funny to me.  I've not seen many of his movies, but that's my take.





I worked with a girl who said Napoleon Dynamite was her favourite movie of all time.  I've been too scared to watch it since.   :bouncegiggle:    That girl was seriously deranged.


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: HappyGilmore on January 09, 2008, 08:05:50 AM
Movies  I could only watch in small batches until the end:

Dude, Where's My Car

You know what, my wife (then girlfriend) rented this and I fell asleep right around the "Dude" "Sweet" tattoo thing.  I don't think I ever really caught up with what happened after that. 



Don't worry Darksider, you didn't miss much.  It just got worse and worse until I seriously considered hiring a hitman to take out Kutcher and that other bonehead
Seann William Scott is the other guy.  I liked it.  Have the dvd.


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: Joe on January 09, 2008, 01:41:17 PM
Quote
NATURAL BORN KILLERS


would you be so kind as to elaborate why?


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: HappyGilmore on January 09, 2008, 09:33:32 PM
I've never walked out on a movie in a theatre.  But, I was HURTING when we sat through THE WILD at the drive-in.  My daughter (4 or so at the time) even hated it.

I do remember the first movie I hated at the theatre.  It was ONLY WHEN I LAUGH (1981) ([url]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082853/[/url]), significant for me only in that it was the first R rated movie my girlfriend's parents let her go to.  I probably WOULD have left that one, but, well, you know...

There's been a few rentals I did not "watch" all the way through - including MARY POPPINS, MARY REILLY (1996) and some others.  Sleeping through is my prime way of not watching it all the way through.

Movies on tv?  Too many to name.  I often have a movie "on" just for the noise, and drift in and out, especially if it is not interesting.

So for some of the "hit or misses" listed in the thread.

2001: Loved it, big fan; memorable viewing was  scared and alone in a hospital bed not knowing if I was gonna live or die; actually 'flatlined' the next morning....
NAPOLEAN DYNAMITE: really liked it, almost loved it.  Very quotable if you relate to the story, which I THINK might be easier if you grew up in a small town.
Wil Ferrell: I don't "get" him.  His movies seem more angry than funny to me.  I've not seen many of his movies, but that's my take.





I worked with a girl who said Napoleon Dynamite was her favourite movie of all time.  I've been too scared to watch it since.   :bouncegiggle:    That girl was seriously deranged.

You should watch it.  It has my favorite insult, ever.  "Your mom goes to college."


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: Zapranoth on January 09, 2008, 09:57:09 PM
My wife walked out of "Pulp Fiction" before Pumpkin and Honey Bunny stood up to rob the diner.  (F-word flying too thick and furious for her.)   I, on the other hand, laughed my fool head off throughout most of the film.

She shut off the Streetfighter movie too.  I never saw it, but I'd have to believe I'd shut it off too.

Haven't yet managed to finish "The Brain That Wouldn't Die."   I've tried but.... tedious...

Fell asleep during "Shanghai Surprise," I think, and I was a teenager then.

Didn't think Titanic was the greatest movie ever, but wouldn't be able to turn it off!  It has a nude side shot of Winslet in it!

Almost didn't make it through Ang Lee's version of "Hulk."    F*** the Onion's review.  I think that movie was trash, and the ending utterly nonsensical, even for a movie pretending to be a comic book story.


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: frank on January 10, 2008, 04:35:07 AM

Haven't yet managed to finish "The Brain That Wouldn't Die."   I've tried but.... tedious...



Just seen this a couple of day ago. I admit I enjoyed it a lot! For one thing, it's the only movie I can think of that has two titles ("The brain that wouldn't die" at the beginning, "The head that wouldn't die" at the credits at the end). In between it's awkward bad acting, lousy editing, senseless dialogues, plot-twists that don't make sense, etc, etc. - exactly what I like, although quite bloody for that time. If you have the dvd, watch the scene right before the two girls in the night club start fighting in slomo, preferably picture by picture - the scene where one girl slaps the other in the face - you'll be surprised...I was rolling on the floor!

SPOILER following!

The end was somewhat weird. I wonder where the mutant is going with the victim and what will happen to her.


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Post by: RCMerchant on January 10, 2008, 06:22:37 AM

Haven't yet managed to finish "The Brain That Wouldn't Die."   I've tried but.... tedious...



Just seen this a couple of day ago. I admit I enjoyed it a lot! For one thing, it's the only movie I can think of that has two titles ("The brain that wouldn't die" at the beginning, "The head that wouldn't die" at the credits at the end). In between it's awkward bad acting, lousy editing, senseless dialogues, plot-twists that don't make sense, etc, etc. - exactly what I like, although quite bloody for that time. If you have the dvd, watch the scene right before the two girls in the night club start fighting in slomo, preferably picture by picture - the scene where one girl slaps the other in the face - you'll be surprised...I was rolling on the floor!

SPOILER following!

The end was somewhat weird. I wonder where the mutant is going with the victim and what will happen to her.

On the 8th day, Gawd made the BRAIN that WOULDN'T DIE. Amen.

The smarmy music as he's cruising around looking for some-BODY is graet. It's called 'the Web', I believe...I can't recall who's playing or who wrote it. I find myself humming it sometimes...

 Ooooohhh Wah wah Ohhhh wah wah dig it dig it Wah wah wah wah wAH...
And the monster in the closet scared the crap outta me as a kid!
One of,if not THEE,best movies of all time. EVER. Yes-I'm serious...and don't call me Shirley. (sorry Ulthar....I know that's your line...)


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: Fishasaurus on January 10, 2008, 11:22:32 AM
I had a hard time getting through Barn Of The Blood Llama but after taking a breather I finally prevailed.  I figure not being able to get thru it all at once counts for something.   Gothic was another story.  It was just so revoltingly effete and melodramatic.  I think I only got through 20 minutes and ripped it out of the player.


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: ulthar on January 10, 2008, 12:43:28 PM

One of,if not THEE,best movies of all time. EVER. Yes-I'm serious...and don't call me Shirley. (sorry Ulthar....I know that's your line...)


'Sokay.  I dig this movie, too.   :cheers:


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: odinn7 on January 10, 2008, 01:04:19 PM
I walked out of U2 Rattle and Hum as I considered it to be a self serving load of crap...

I fell asleep during Star Trek The Motion Picture in the theater and I was a kid at the time...not prone to sleeping during films but this one bored the hell out of me! Later in life I have watched it again a few times and It's really not all that bad.

I fell asleep during Lord of the Rings in the theater...I wanted to like this film...I really did...but hell, it bored me bad. I have tried to watch the others on DVD and can't make it through them either.


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: Rev. Powell on January 10, 2008, 05:27:54 PM

Haven't yet managed to finish "The Brain That Wouldn't Die."   I've tried but.... tedious...



Just seen this a couple of day ago. I admit I enjoyed it a lot! For one thing, it's the only movie I can think of that has two titles ("The brain that wouldn't die" at the beginning, "The head that wouldn't die" at the credits at the end). In between it's awkward bad acting, lousy editing, senseless dialogues, plot-twists that don't make sense, etc, etc. - exactly what I like, although quite bloody for that time. If you have the dvd, watch the scene right before the two girls in the night club start fighting in slomo, preferably picture by picture - the scene where one girl slaps the other in the face - you'll be surprised...I was rolling on the floor!

SPOILER following!

The end was somewhat weird. I wonder where the mutant is going with the victim and what will happen to her.

On the 8th day, Gawd made the BRAIN that WOULDN'T DIE. Amen.

The smarmy music as he's cruising around looking for some-BODY is graet. It's called 'the Web', I believe...I can't recall who's playing or who wrote it. I find myself humming it sometimes...

 Ooooohhh Wah wah Ohhhh wah wah dig it dig it Wah wah wah wah wAH...
And the monster in the closet scared the crap outta me as a kid!
One of,if not THEE,best movies of all time. EVER. Yes-I'm serious...and don't call me Shirley. (sorry Ulthar....I know that's your line...)

I agree with Frank & RC... BRAIN is an absolute bad movie classic.  You should give it another chance, Zap.  Or at least watch the MST3K version. 

"I'm just a head... and you're whatever you are... but together, we're strong!"


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: Zapranoth on January 10, 2008, 09:27:01 PM
It *is* the MST3K version I'm trying to get through...  nnnngh...

I've got to admit that the scene where he's cruising looking for women was one of the true "WTF?" moments of the film for me, though. 


Title: Re: Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................
Post by: Rev. Powell on January 11, 2008, 04:42:59 PM
It *is* the MST3K version I'm trying to get through...  nnnngh...

I've got to admit that the scene where he's cruising looking for women was one of the true "WTF?" moments of the film for me, though. 

Ah, then try it without the commentary, so its unfiltered badness can wash over you...