Movies you couldn't make it all the way through.....................

[damnote]

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.

[peter johnson]

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

[Shadow]

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.

[Rev. Powell]

The only movie I ever walked out on was MESSAGE FROM SPACE.  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."

[KYGOTC]

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.

[Intangible Skeleton]

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.

[GrandMaster]

   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.

[voltron]

I couldn't make it all the way through the Black Christmas remake. Truly awful.

[KYGOTC]

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. 

[TyTBone]

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...

[horseshoe crab]

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.

[Jack]

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    I'm just talking about what was explained in the movie.  For instance: 

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: 

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.

[respectmeordye3]

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.

[HappyGilmore]

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.

[respectmeordye3]

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!