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...but then switched off in disgust. (Im only talking about films you've rented/bought/seen in a cinema (i.e. paid to watch in some form), not just surfing on tv because that doesn't count)

I've just switched off TIMBER FALLS after being told it was good and buying the DVD. christ, yet another unoriginal new horror that could have all its characters and scenes replaced with pretty much any other unoriginal new horror...so unoriginal, I don't care how it ends or what happens to the characters. help me feel less bad by posting some times this has happened to you guys..........

Rocky V.
Sisterhood.

Sicklove Lovesick..I finally finished yesterday. Wish I hadn't.

Ive never seen a single Rocky to be honest. Ill remember to steer especialy clear of that one then...

As painful as it may seem, even if I turn a movie off I always go back and finish it later.  Sometimes, I'll watch a movie in 3 or 4 small increments over a period of a week or more.  My most recent effort is CONQUEST (1983), a horrible, boring Lucio Fulci sword-and-sorcery movie.  I've already sat through 2 segments of it and I have about 40 minutes to go.  The entire movie is headache-inducing.  It uses hazy, foggy cinematography that's really difficult to watch and extremely annoying.  But I'll get to the end of it one way or another . . .

I know what you mean, I think this is the first time Ive ever bought something and decided not to finish it...hence the thread really. talking of Fulci I bought THE RED MONKS about a month ago and that was a real struggle, It got so tedious, but I did finish it.

Reign of Fire

Well actually, I managed to sit through it once when I was completely obsessed with dragons, but every other time...

Underground comedy movie - after the first 20 minutes, I promptly took the DVD out of the DVD player and put it away never to watch it again.

Borat - Watched the first 20 minutes and then took the DVD out and sold it off.
 

Spice World...though I may take it on again for review purposes. 

I thought it was alright.
But some of the cameos, I'm guessing, Americans won't get.

Phantasm IV (which is a shame cos the Phantasm Sphere case is ace)
Epic Movie
Aliens (tried to watch the directors cut on Boxing Day but didn't make it to the end)
What Lies Beneath (I fell asleep watching this at the cinema and wasn't even tired)
Freddy Vs Jason (I bough this cheap, have watched it and forgotten about it so thought I would watch it again when I got it back from a friend who borrowed it. Silly me)
The Fellowship Of The Rings (this just doesn't stand up to repeated viewings for me)
Apocalypto (or whateve it's called)
Somersault
The Killing Floor
Prey


There's probably more.

I Remember Renting The Movie THE ISLAND Cause It Sounded Really Good
I Watched It For About Thirty Minutes Before Turning It Off

Ewan McGregor And Scarlett Johansson Should Be Ashamed Of Themselves For This Movie!

I've Heard So Many Good Things About Michael Bay's Movies , But After Seeing This
I Know None Of It Is True

Star Wars- Really quite dull in the first twenty minutes or so.  Couldn't finish it.
Big Money Hustlas- Really, any movie starring The Insane Clown Posse is doomed to fail.
Indiana Jones and The Temple Of Doom- George Lucas's work doesn't really appeal to me.
Lord of The Rings- Mess of a movie from what I did watch.  Swore not to watch the sequels as a result.

yeah I suppose they're classed as "must see" movies but I agree they're overrated, only seen each of those once I think...but at the same time I could probably sit through them again

yeh cheers for the replies, in general. I feel a bit better now   :thumbup:

btw if anyone has actually walked out of a cinema during a film, tell about it.........

You heard GOOD things about Michael Bay films?  Really? I mean, like, you know, from somewhere other than, like, the food court at the mall?  Not a shot at you, but at the bubbleheads that would like his...why am I even talking about Michael Bay?

"The Island" was a blatant rip-off of "Parts: The Clonus Horror" so I'd recommend watching that.  It is a bit cheese, but much, much better overall, in my opinion.

Walked out of a theater during a movie? 

"Godzilla 1984" when the idiots ran to the elevator after Godzilla smashed half of the building they were in.

Clint Eastwood's "Unforgiven". How this was hailed a great Western is beyond me.  And, yes, I did go back and watch it on DVD and still feel the same way.

I'm with you.  I've never turned a movie off for good, though there are a few that were so bad it took two sittings.  I refuse to let the badness of the movie defeat me.  I can take whatever Hollywood can throw at me: even HEAVEN'S GATE!

There have been quite a few throughout the years.

The most recent one I can think of, is Edmund with William H Macy.

I was given a page from the script for my acing class a couple of years ago.
I couldn't find the character's motivation, so I rented the movie.

'Round about the brothel scene, I decided this guy had no motivation, & turned it off.
I found it hard to believe that anybody could be that stupid. I think we were supposed to hate the character in Edmund, but it worked a little too well for me. So, afterwards I started trying to play the character with this "Early Bart Simpson" attitude.

I'll tell ya', the Meisner method of acting is different, but it never really did it for me quite as well as the "Too Darned Much Television" method.

Since then, I've started notice certain things about the directing & editing of movies based on works originally meant for theatre & not cinema. (Particularly, I've learned there actually is a difference.)

Maybe I should give Devil Girl from Mars another chance.

Lessee...

Tomie- Boring.  Just boring.  Couldn't get into it, and eventually found that I didn't want to.

Ultra Violet- I quit when she got to the cemetery and the one guy she'd been fighting throughout the movie said, "Are you serious?" with far too much emphasis behind it.  That had been enough.

The Craving- Just couldn't get into it.

Cheerleader Massacre- Never before have I shut a movie off because it had too much plot.  This really should have just been a mindless gore flick. 

The Heirloom- Also couldn't get into it.

And I've never walked out of a theatrical movie, though I've come close before.  I wanted to walk out on Primary Colors, but my ride still wanted to watch the movie. 

Recently started watching Saw IV and just got totally bored with it even in all the gore.  Stopped halfway through and don't really care to finish it.

Anaconda - Hunt for the Blood Orchid - This was so clichéd is made me angry.  I was correctly predicting the next line of dialog, and I'd never seen it before.  Got to utterly clichéd scene #15 and I just couldn't take it any more.

Death Tunnel - bah!  Unwatchable.  Turned it off after 10 minutes.

The Demon - some totally lame, boring slasher.  After about 20 minutes, the lead actress took her top off and I was like "Please, put it back on".  That was enough.

Happy Birthday to Me - I heard this was a real classic.  I didn't care for the characters or the overall atmosphere.  It was really stupid, but not in a good, cheesy way - it was taking itself WAY too seriously, like it was a quality movie or something.  Just couldn't make it all the way to the end.

Rush Week - An '80s slasher with too many groan-inducing comedy elements to take.  Hey, if I wanted to watch Animal House, I would have bought Animal House. 

Hard Hunted - An Andy Sidaris film, it had plenty of bombs, boobs and bullets.  It was such a farce that I couldn't see much point in watching the end, just more bombs, boobs and bullets.  Sorry, but I don't believe that you can control the world's nuclear arsenals with a fake jade statuette from a souvenir shop.

Agreed with this guy.  I've heard nothing but NEGATIVE reviews of Michael Bay movies.  And, wasnt he a producer behind the remakes of Friday the 13th and Texas Chainsaw Massacre?  That kinda explains them, I feel.

Did you get to the scene where the are three cheerleaders in the tub licking sauce off each other ?
It was the only thing that didn't make the film a total waste of time.

I'm the same way. I simply REFUSE to not finish a movie once I've started it.

Never has a movie been so quickly taken off and then put back on my "to watch list" as this one has due to this thread.

You have to watch a lot of boring duff to get to that point !
The police have nothing to do with the film,  you can fast forward all the police bits as they don't serve the narrative at all.

lol


LOL!

I just went through all my DVDs today and found 2 more that I suddenly realised I have never actually finished: ALI G: THE MOVIE, and TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 3...

That's on my to buy list.

...

It's still on my to buy list. :wink:

Mulholland Drive. My interest completely dried up after the Lesbo scene. The key word is AFTER. .

Which Lesbo scene ?

Shame... That's when it starts getting good... :wink: And, it's almost over. :bouncegiggle:

The Magic Sword: I bought it because the box art looked cool and included a dragon. I forgot the 3rd rule, obviously :tongueout:. After watching it for about fifteen minutes I began to get the feeling that I'd wasted $3 and seen this somewhere before... Oh god! It's MST3K without Mike and the bots! I seem to have this idiotic ability to buy crap movies and not remember where I'd seen them until it's too late.

Horrors of Spider Island: I have never, ever been able to finish this movie :hatred:

Aztec Rex: This movie single-handedly destroys both tyrannosaurs and the spanish accent :bluesad:. The pyramid is made of cinderblocks and concrete and Cortez and his army consists of 9 guys from the mid-west with horrible tans. The only thing left of the horse is a leg and Cortez thinks it must have "tripped over an animal burrow." I watched the first fourty-five minutes in 5-minute intervals over the course of four month before finally getting rid of it.

Asylum Movies: Some of them are ok but the majority of 'em have earned my everlasting spite.

Dungeons & Dragons: I saw this one in theaters and wasn't as impressed with it as I thought I'd be. Owning it didn't improve the deal either as out of the many times I've started to watch it I've only sat through it maybe two or three times.

Alien VS Predator Requiem :IT was an ok experience for theaters but the second time I tried to watch it at home it proved too dark, too long between action sequences, and too boring to finish. Once you've seen the first couple of predator-kills-aliens moments you're seen the entire movie.

you forgot...da turd roool???

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