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last night I rented this movie "womens' prison" . no , not it wasn't an awesome womens prison movie, it was about an iranian wmens prison and was very 4 star and heralded  but I just culdn't handle it ona friday night and sent it back without watchng it.

There is one kind of movie I typically do not finish and that is Bollywood.  not only are these things 3 hours long, they are really the antithesis of my whole thing. I like Fatal Attraction, Closer and stuff like that and cannot relate to the saccharine storylines that are pretty muhc totally mandatory in Bollywood. I try, but it's like watching a whole season of saved by the bell or something.

be honest, what movies have you not been able to get through recently and why?

I make it a point of honor to watch every movie I rent/buy to the end.  If it's horrible I may not pay much attention, but I'll at least leave it on, and celebrate when it's over.

The only movie that nearly defeated me was HEAVEN'S GATE.  I couldn't watch it in one sitting, and I had to turn it off halfway through to save my sanity.  The following night I forced myself to watch it to the end.  I won't have it said that Michael Cimino broke my spirit.

Among Us (2004) - Described on Netflix as:  
I didn't see anything like that.  You start out with some laughably stupid bigfoot attack, maybe it was footage from some other zero budget movie?  I dunno.  Then some guy (the filmmaker?) is being interviewed, prattling on about some crap, then he prattles some more and some more.  I don't know if it was supposed to be a mockumentary or what.  It took all my willpower to make it through a half hour of it, holding on to that desperately thin hope that it might eventually turn into an actual movie.  It's a Polonia brothers film, if that gives you some idea.

Dreamland (2007) - A couple of people I didn't like were driving down a road, near Area 51.  The car broke down or something and they started wandering around and hallucinating.  I hate movies where people are always hallucinating.  Considering the title, I imagine the whole stinkin' mess was a dream.  The girl saw Adolf Hitler walking around out in the desert - I guess it had some time travel aspect to it.  I didn't stick around long enough to find out.  It was just too stupid, pointelss, and I really didn't care what happened.  At all.  Somebody on Netflix called it a "poop bomb".

Good Chemistry~ A guy makes the mistake of picking up a couple of bad people.. a girl and her "boyfriend". I made it about 35 minutes and had to turn it off.  It was lame. The acting was laughable, the behavior by the main guy was stupid, and he had the most annoying voice.

So far the only movie I wasnt able to finish is Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)... I wasnt in the mood to watch it. Story looked good but it also required my full attention, which I didnt have at the time.

bought KILLSWITCH dvd the other day. Steven Segal, 2008. had to stop watching because the fight/action sequences employed that damn awful type of flick-screen editing that the Saw films used  in the 'trap' sequences. this gets on my nerves so much I'm not finishing it. only spent £2 on it second hand so no big loss really...

rev powell- I do that too. soldier through movies.  sometimes I will turn it off at night. then go back the next morning and I'll be like this is okay.

bollywood movies are so long though. the first bollywood movie I ever saw "khudde gawa" I loved. I've seen a doezn since then and suffered through all of them for the most part.

Uh, damn near any "Made by" the scifi channel movie...

Eh, you didn't miss that much really.  Better off just reading the book on that one.

Like Rev and lester I try to make it a point to soldier through on a movie, and I try not to rent anything that I don't really have an interest in seeing.  There's been a handful I never finished though, and ironically they are pretty well-regarded movies.
The Good Shepherd - Made it about 40 minutes in, despised all the characters, got bored, shut it off.
Cider House Rules - this one has the unique distinction of being the only movie that literally put me to sleep.  Never felt a need to revisit it.
Rented one recently, it had Liam Neeson and Antonio Banderas in it, I think it was called The Other Man or something like that, just couldn't stay interested and shut it off.

Cathy's Curse.
The picture quality was just awful and distracting.

Movies I couldn't finish ... pretty much almost any movie on the Syfy channel.

Why? Usually lame stories, bad acting, bad CGI ....   :lookingup:

Let's just say I couldn't finish Return of the Boogeyman (1994) in one sitting. I watched the first half and had to turn it off because yeah, it's simply one of the worst ever made.
Two years later I watched the final half. If anybody is ever thinking about checking this movie out I suggest to do it the same way like I did.

ZOMBIE TOWN on Chiller the other day. It started as an OK zombie genre flick with the somewhat unique premise of the zombification being caused by gruesome little slug-like parasites, but it quickly descended into a really stupid comedy. When the movie and I parted company the 'heroes' were in the 'party warehouse' randomly shooting people - zombie or not.

I had high hopes for that Chiller Channel (or whatever it called) when we first got it a month or so ago, but so far it seems pretty lousy to me, featuring mostly edited version of the lousy movies Comcast's On Demand offered for free.

When I was in high school, I went to see THE GRIM REAPER and it scared me so bad I walked out!

There's lots of movies I've started and couldn't finish. I have a 2 1/2 year old boy and a 2-month-old boy.

I caught about the first twenty minutes or so of THE CAT IN THE HAT the other day, which included about ten minutes of Mike Myer's uncomfortably weird performance. Was he supposed to be channelling both Bert Lahr and Jack haley from THE WIZARD OF OZ?

Anyhoo - that's about all I could take. I understand after getting a load of this the estate of Dr. Suess put the kibosh to any other live action versions of his works that didn't first get their complete approval.

Alexander.  I could never finish it.  I remember Oliver Stone and his Americans can't deal with the subject matter that is why it didn't perform so well.  However, I could not have been more bored watching paint dry.  I probably would have cut my fingers if I had continued watching just for the sensation of something beyond boredom. 

I force myself to watch every movie all the way to the end.  Sometimes a movie is so dull I need to watch it in 15 or 20 minute increments over a period of days or weeks to get all the way through it.  Recently I had to do this with Lucio Fulci's CONQUEST, which quickly zoomed into my top 5 worst movies of all time list.

conquest was really terrible I agree

There was one movie I could not make it through.   :hatred:  I can't remember the name now, but it was about the character that came over to the US.  He was some Iranian person that came to make it big (??).  Talked about making sexy with Pamela Anderson.  There was a scene where his chicken escaped on a subway.  I want to say Bruno, but I don't think this is it.  I rented this movie with my wife and I stopped it about ten minutes into the movie.  I sent it back to NetFlix.  I have seen horrible movies and made it through, but this was the braking point.  I will ask my wife what the movie is.

Later,

John

BORAT.  Sorry you didn't like it, I loved it!

I thought it was hilarious.

I walked out of The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. I can't stand movies that try so hard to be "different".This movie was just crap in my opinion.

I finally made it through Killing Birds (1987) last night. It was a chore and I thought I could never finish it but yeah, I did. I guess there is no movie I can't finish, no matter how awful.

Hmm...I fast forwarded at the end of El Topo..does that count?
Why? Seriously, have you SEEN El Topo? I have SEEN it. I've got to KNOW it.
Since then, greater pains have come to be KNOWN by me, but that was a mind shattering experience. My sanity...it was gone.


I've just got Conquest....a new contender for the worst movie I've ever seen?
Is it worse than Night of Horror?

I mentioned on another thread about leaving Billy Madison at the theater early.  I had to pee but I didn't go back.  Just dreadfully stupid.

I only made it a half hour into Ghost Machine last night.  Some Irish film about people who swear constantly, aren't the least bit likable, and want to play some virtual reality military simulation game which will undoubtedly turn out bad.  I was just completely uninterested and I've seen that plot several times before.

I have fallen asleep 3 times during Armageddon...never gotten through that piece of crap. Beyond that the wife bought "two lovers" for $5 pre-viewed since it got some critical acclaim...both of us thought the movie should be ending soon at 48 minutes in...we haven't gotten back to it since.

Crocodile (1981)

I remeber watching it FFWD on video when I rented it but even then it was not over soon enough.
effects, acting, story :one worse than the other..

Years ago my parents and I were watching Gosford Park.  I gave it about thirty minutes or so, and then just went downstairs to my room and did something else.  It was just plain BORING.  The description said something about it being a murder mystery, but if you get a half hour into a film and no one's been killed yet, then there's not much murder to it.

I turned off Waking Life after about five minutes.  The film was boring as hell, and the animation style just gave me a damn headache.  

I watched part of Cruel Intentions, but turned it off soon as well.  Boy, douchebaggy people plotting to do douchebaggy things to other people, there's a plot for ya.  (Although I did watch a clip on the internet later of those two chicks kissing, that was pretty cool.)

has anyone seen "Never On Tuesday"? My girlfriend chucked this one on the other day, we got 25 mins in and had to put it to sleep..  :thumbdown:

Black Sheep

I had wanted to see this movie for quite a while, so I got it from Netflix and started watching it yesterday.

I found the movie to be quite dull, cliche, and predictable.  How they managed to make a movie about zombie sheep seem so mundane is really quite an accomplishment when you think about it.

After watching it about halfway through, I stopped to do something else, and thought I would finish the movie today.

Today, when I thought about watching the rest, I figured why bother?  So I'm sending it back half watched.  The movie is so mediocre that I'm not in the least bit curious about how it turns out.

I started watching some low-budget cannibal picture a while back and when they cut open a live alligator about ten minutes in, I chucked it.

Anyone who tortures an animal needs to suffer harshly.

  I felt the same way. I left the theater and walked in to either Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind or Mean Girls. They were both far better movies.

Mine would have to be MOONTRAP. I tired ever so hard to make it to the end but admittedly I lost all interest the second Bruce Campbell died. With out him it was just a crazy ass gross movie about Chekov banging some million year old hot alien on the moon while some stupid out of control robot tries to kill everyone.... oh wait..lol that sounds so much more awesome then it really was..lol

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/Pooh-bear121/6tCOV6Te3bFeU4v.jpg)

Superbad with Michael Cera and Johanh Hill.  I gve up at about the scene where they go to the liquor store.  I didn't find it funny at all, and couldn't see why everone was giving it such great reviews.

The Evil Dead. I love the later entries in the series, but I found myself just getting annoyed with the first one.

I think thats Cannibal Ferox?

Survival of the Dead.

Half an hour in and I was feeling like a corpse...  :bluesad:

Psycho.

The good parts had turned up in so many "best of" compilations throughout my youth, & was so deeply embedded in pop culture, that by the time I was old enough to see it, I couldn't help but find the set up painfully dull.

Bruno

I could not be held entertained by random gay sexual acts.

-Jimmybob

bad cop no Donut- I am usually game for ultra lowe budget things but right away i didn't buy the premise. It was a "bad cop" allegedly being filmed for a documentary doing all this stuff, snorting coke, breaking into peoples apartments. I just didn't buy it. They should have just made it a regular movie without the shockumentary schtick

Sex Galaxy- MST3K meets Sealab 2021 minus the humor. no thanks

This one is just to easy for me.  Anybody else want to make the joke?

In all honesty, the best parts of the movie involve the two cops driving around with McLovin.  The rest sucks.

Wonder Woman (1974): I was working on watching this movie for a future review and after about 15 minutes, I had to stop watching.  This movie was just so boring and uninteresting.  I couldn't keep focus while watching it.  I will actually get back to it, but for now, I just can't finish watching it.

Shark Swarm: This is an interesting case.  I did watch the movie 3 times, but when it came to watching it once more for the review, I had to stop the movie.  I couldn't take anymore.  The flaws were so obvious now and everyone acted completely unrealistically that I couldn't stand it anymore.  I gave up.  I litterally gave up and watched off the movie and the review at once.  It's the only time I ever done that before.  Don't regret either.

i second that

*cough* AVATAR *cough*



 :teddyr:

 :cheers:

It just came on cable, and I've tried to watch it, but it just wasn't doing anything for me. There were moments that I saw that looked like just that, a CGI fest that's supposed to wow us with CGI. Boooooring. It's like "wow, illuminated creatures that look like miniature jellyfish floating through the air. I'm stunned with CGI brilliance.

I don't know how it's the highest grossing flick of all time.  Avatar and Titanic, both horribly done, yet highest grossing.

People are sheep.  I don't get it.  Then again, I'm not a fan of Cameron.

You didn't like the Terminator series, Aliens or the Abyss? :(

No.  I give him credit though.  Him and Spielberg made a career out of making really terrible movies.

says the guy with the Howard the Duck avatar. awesome!

Meaning? 

It's the only flick Lucas was involved in that I can tolerate/watch on a regular basis.  It's not great, but I found it vastly more entertaining than any of those stupid Star Wars things.  Friggin guy can't make a good movie either.

I just don't like the Alien series, the Terminator series, Avatar was 3 hours of s**t on a stick.  I didn't watch anything of the Abyss, mainly cause Cameron was involved and I wasn't a fan of his other works. 

In fact, most 'big' flicks are ones I've never personally enjoyed.  My dvd collection is considered God-Awful by most.

I also think Cameron is very overrated. Personally while I do like Terminator and Aliens, he clearly used other ideas for those films ("Outer Limits" episodes and the book Starship Troopers) and I wouldn't be at all surprised to discover he borrowed ideas for his other films too...I think Titanic is just sad with how it turns a huge disaster into a sappy romance movie.

I'm never one to quibble over directorial preferances. People don't like what they don't like. But Spielberg? I understand the man has been going down the path of evil lately, but I think most people can reasonably agree his body of work is pretty damn impressive.

I really couldn't watch Journey to the Center of Time from beginning to end. The main problems for me was the pacing (so slow, aaaaarrrrrrgggggghhhhh!!!), the acting (so damn weak and cheesy) and the dinosaur FX (a komodo dragon with roaring noises inserted? Come the f*** on!).

I firmly believe that this is the worst movie I've ever seen.

You're a strange, strange little man.

The man has some strong opinions on Cameron. That's his prerogative. I'm hit or miss, myself. I have a nostalgic fondness for both Aliens and the Terminator series, to be sure, but I totally agree with lester's assessment of Avatar, and I did not care for The Abyss, but then I have such a strong aversion of Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio that I'm not going to like ANYTHING she is in. Except for Scarface. She wasn't able to destroy that one. I don't know why she annoys me to the extent that she does, she just does.

And lester, your DVD collection being God-awful isn't much of a statement. It is a bad movies site after all, isn't it?  :cheers:

I give Spielberg some credit, he's found success in the directorial career.  Doesn't mean I necessarily have to like his movies.  But, I can't honesly name one movie he's done I've watched til the end. :buggedout:

Count me in for Avatar.  I honestly gave it about an  half hour to an hour and gave up.  Its like Dances With Wolves with CGI that looks like a video game.

My dad basically forced me to watch it with him.

Gees, people are really critical here about Avatar (And all over the Internet, which is really starting to annoy the hell out of me).  I have yet to see it (that surprises most everyone I tell) and I am actually interested in it.  Then again, my tastes are radically different then most of you (I actually like live action Cat in the Hat and Cool World and find Psycho to be very overrated), I'm not into bashing things because everyone seems to (Except with those guys who made Disaster Movie.  Screw them), and I do not have that problem with CGI a lot of people do.

Avatar not original huh?  Well I suppose, but then again, a lot of films aren't if you noticed.  Everyone loves The Hangover, but isn't it really similiar to say; Dude, Where's My Car?

FU*K the Hangover.  Unfunny overblown piece of sh*t cinema.  Never once in that two hour time frame did I even crack a smile.

I saw part of Avatar and it wasn't horribly bad, but it was in no way as amazing as most people say it is. It just felt sort of bland. "Bland" is the best word I can think of. To be fair, I was watching on and off (it was on the bus ride on my senior field trip) and when I was not watching I was listening to music, but I still didn't really care for it. If you genuinely want to see it though, go for it! You seem to have an honest desire to see it, not just because it's "the big thing to do", so good for you! Let us know what you think.

I couldn't finish Raging Bull.  I like DeNerio, but his character in this one just really didn't interest me.  (shrugs)

The Fifth Element.

Not only was it long but I didn't like it.

Especially Chris Tucker. I thought I was going to die of aneurysm.  

I liked AVATAR.  No, the plot wasn't original, but the action sequences were great and the CGI was impressive to say the least.  Certainly not one of the greatest movies of all time but good for what it was. 

Except I could tolerate and enjoy The Hangover.

Not to further derail this thread into more Avatar discussion, which it should really move on from, but I also liked it.

Yes, the story is trite and stupid. It's the typical Western fantasy, where some guy from a "superior" civilization finds himself in an aboriginal society. He eventually comes to understand the beauty of their way of life, but not before sleeping with the chief's daughter and eventually becoming their king. Real Rudyard Kipling stuff here. I'm Native American and I can tell you we hate to see stuff like this.

But, eh, stupid story, nothing I've overlooked before.

However, the technical artistry at work in Avatar was astounding. As far as I'm concerned, the synthesis of CGI and real film, combined with the exploration of the possibility of using 3-D as more than a gimmick has not been surpassed. Avatar may be a tech demo, but what a tech demo it is. Every scene in Avatar was an exploration of just how far they could push these new techniques.

Yes, Avatar was stupid, but if you can't appreciate the artistry at work here, I suggest you look with somebody else's eyes.

I dunno, the CGI wasn't that impressive to me in Avatar.  Matter of fact it felt very video game like once the humans were taken out of the film.  I've personally seen better graphics on Xbox 360. 

Also all the special effects in the world can't save you if you can't build a sense of tension, excitement and intresting characters. Call me stupid, but stoytelling is more important than visual artistry*.

Avatar is very middle of the road.






*They were big and blue. They also had a tail. Thats it. Thats all they could come up with ? *yawn*

I loved Avatar, mainly for it's anti imperialist politics. It was very moving.

My reaction too, I could even seem the pixels and jaggies on the clothes in some shots!

The Hangover.  Dreadfully dull and unfunny.

I know everybody and their brother like it, and apparently it's 'hip' to like it.

I didn't laugh.

Really?  Such as?  I'm honestly curious, as I've never seen anything nearly as convincing in a video game as any of the Na'vi.

(http://www.treehugger.com/avatar-navi-blue-photo1.jpg)

Here's a still from Avatar.  I'd like to see something organic and created with CG that was better. 



I think you're imagining things.  Both visible pixels and jagged polygons are such a trivial thing to avoid today it's baffling to me to think a $300 million heavy CG movie would have them.  Even The Last Starfighter pretty much avoids this.  If you can post a picture of this though, it'd be a fascinating case of a huge oversight in the special effects of the film. 

Anyway...

One movie I couldn't really finish was Wings of Desire.  It was just so dull and boring I was barely staying awake and barely able to pay attention after a while.  I did technically see it all, because I was sitting there while it finished, but I don't think I really "finished" it.

I couldn't finish Frankenstein Island because Netflix sent me a scratched up version of the movie that frozen halfway through.  Of course considering I didn't see anything that had actually interested me up until that part, I didn't ask for a better version either. 

(http://unrealitymag.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/t-rex-jurassic-park.jpg)

That too me looks more convincing than a na'vi. Less annoying too.  :lookingup:  :teddyr:

T-REX INVALIDATES ALL ARGUMENTS!  :tongueout:

Well, the shots in the dark are greatly helped by how..  Dark they are.  Jurassic Park still looks good, but look at the T-rex CG shots in the parts where it is daytime (you might notice there aren't many of them, probably for this reason) and there's a little "pop" from it not perfectly blending into the shot.  It's there in the night shots too, just better covered.  And of course, it's always obvious when they switch from animatronics (probably the best ones ever made) to CG and back.  

I will say I find some of the CG effects in Jurassic Park to be better than some of the creature work in Avatar - particularly the "dog" things, which have great texture and lighting effects work on them, but some of their motion isn't as up to snuff.  But not the Na'vi, especially Neytiri, who's to date the most believable effects creation of her kind I've seen in any format.  I'll not comment on how annoying they may be though.  :teddyr:

In any case, I meant video games.  I've never seen a video game with graphics nearly as convincing as Jurassic Park, either.  They don't normally even try, going for a quasi-cartoony look even in most "realistic" video games like Call of Duty and so forth.  For this reason, I don't think it's even a good comparison, but it was made so...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAPyipuT-Jg&feature=related

There's swearing.  :teddyr:

AVATAR was waaaay to long. I feel asleep.
I was at my neighbors watching SHERLOCK HOLMES (2009). I walked out! Horrible revisioning on Conan Doyle's wonderful charecter. :hatred:
The Beatles MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR (1967). They showed it at school in the auditorium when I was in high school. I walked out. Embarassing.