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Here's a little topic for those movies that you started watching but got tired or bored of part of the way through and shut off.  (bonus points if you actually walked out of a theater.)

Recently I checked out a movie called Lake Fear. 

If you have ever seen a horror movie, you've seen this.  Period.  The closest thing this movie has to an original idea is that one of the group of friends (that curiously can't seem to stand each other) likes to wear cat ears. 

So after calling each other things that I'm sure the language filter here would stop me from saying, they all go to an old abandoned cabin in the woods... well, actually it looks more like a home in the suburbs, but they have to cross some woods to get to it.  They dod have to strip down to their underwear to cross a stream or something first.  Surprisingly the director decides NOT to linger on this, which kinda defeats the point. 

When they get to the cabin they find a tape recorder that plays and unleashes the special effects from Jacob's Ladder, Evil Dead, the Ring, and others. 

Oh yeah, and the movie has the editing style of a music video.   

In just reached a point watching this where I thought to myself, not only is there no original ideas in this movie, I don't care for any of the characters, and it's just not fun.  At all. 

So, what movies have you ducked out on lately?

I sometimes fast forward through boring movies, but I rarely fail to finish them.

I've never not finished a movie I started. I refuse to let a movie defeat me no matter how bad. Very occasionally I have divided them up into two nights, but that's only if I get very tired or the movie is very long.

Closest I've come to not finishing a movie was MESSAGE FROM SPACE, which I walked out on at age 10. I did finish it in my 40s, though. My 10-year old self was not ready for the bounty of badness in that movie.

I haven't walked out of a movie [except for Sex and the City 2 but thats because I discovered I was told to go into the wrong cinema.]

That being said I've fallen asleep through plenty, some of which haven't been finished yet. The most recent of these is 'The Double'. I also tried watching the mini series remake "Rosemary's Baby" but it was pretty awful I don't think I'll try part 2.

recently I watched Mullholland Drive for the first time and thought it was so great I went straight out and bought Lost Highway on dvd, cause it was described as similar from Lynch. I couldn't even finish Lost Highway... just got bored.

Never walked out of a cinema mid film but have fallen asleep through a few. The Excorcist for one. Also during The Girl With The Pearl Earring I fell asleep at least 3 times in the cinema!

Some movies I couldn't finish in one sitting:

Ice from the Sun (1999)
Space Zombie Bingo!!! (1993)

and I believe it took me nearly ten years to finish Shatter Dead (1994). Not kidding.

Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead
Warewolf in a Girls Dormitory
Track of the Moonbeast
Superbabies
Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2
Zombie Nation

When I was about 17 or so, I went to see ANTHROPHAGUS (U.S. title, THE GRIM REAPER).
That movie scared me so badly I walked out on it.
Watched it again in my 30's and it didn't make much of an impression at all.

Transformers (2007)

964 Pinocchio

Batman v. Superman

John Carter of Mars, even after fast forwarding to the Barsoom bits.

Drive In Massacre and Graduation Day. I think I made it only 15 minutes of both.

I've expressed my mixed feelings about this before, but I couldn't finish The Hobbit (2012).  It was far less of the serious and slightly grim Lord of the Rings trilogy, and more like a Disney kids adaptation.  I'll have to sit down and watch it again.

It surprised me that I couldn't finish Terence Malick's Tree of Life (2011).  I'd read so many great reviews for it, and I was very keen to see Lubezkis' cinematography, but I just couldn't get into it, and kept falling asleep.  Admittedly, it was late at night, and I had just finished watching Innaritu's Birdman (2014), so perhaps I wasn't in the mood for long sequences and cryptic meaning.  I'll give that another go.

I walked out of The Descendants (2011) to answer a phone call, but I was itching to ditch that appalling trash for ages before.  I ranted about the movie here:

http://www.badmovies.org/forum/index.php?topic=136941.0 (http://www.badmovies.org/forum/index.php?topic=136941.0)

My Dad has never been able to finish Inception (2010).  He gets about ten or fifteen minutes in, and falls asleep.  At least three attempts have been made to watch Inception, and I think the longest he has lasted was 22 minutes.  Rather appropriate, given the content of the film!

The first time I saw this miserable pile of anti-South African poo, I walked out.

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It must have scarred you so badly that you refuse to show the gif, and thus spare us your pain.  I can't see it?

me neither.

Strange: no .gif, just a poster. I should add that I have seen it since and while Attenborough's intentions with it were good, it was (and is) a bad film.

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Somehow I forgot to list all three Lord of the Rings movies.


And like others, as far as I can tell Trevor didn't survive X.

Sounds a little too obvious, but Twilight

It was on tv a couple of years ago, so I decided I was going to watch it to see what the big deal was.

I turned it off after about 15 minutes.

Sound of Music! That film is so damned boring. I would absolutely love to make it to the Nazi part, but I can't watch it if the first 40 hours of that movie puts me to sleep.

Somewhat along the same lines... IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE. I'm pretty sure I have seen the whole thing, but never in one sitting. I get terribly bored at the beginning.