Movies You Couldn't Finish

[Lobo]

Really? I thought Brooklyn's Finest was pretty great. And I wasn't expecting it to be.

No for fakesies lol. Now in all seriousness as you could not finish Wall E or Tenebaums, it's safe to say we have VERY different tastes in movies.

 

[Kane52630]

That god awful George Clooney so-called Batman movie. I hate it so much that I refuse to speak its name.

 

[Sundancer]

Holy **** at some of the movies posted here....especially Wall-E. Opinions are bla bla bla but.....

I like dialogue. A lot of these movies listed aren't bad, but a matter of taste. I can see how someone not into fantasy would get bored with LotR.

Come to think of it, I turned off 2001 as well.

 

[Rowsdower!]

I turned off Stoker after about 20 minutes or so but I'm going to give it another shot. i was watching it on a tiny screen on an airplane, so that might have added to the issues I had with it.

 

[DarkKnight]

Malibu's Most Wanted

 

[Hyde]

2001: A Space Odyssey. I always get around 70 minutes into it before I'm done

 

[mackblack01]

A Serious Man. Very boring.

 

[Homer J. Fong]

I can't remember the last movie I didn't finish. If I'm not sure I can finish it, I don't start it. Also, this is indeed a depressing thread - I've seen 2001 in here more than once. I've only seen that masterpiece once, but I was actually surprised at how easy it was to watch and how...well, if not fast, then surprisingly NOT slow/tedious it was. But that's me.

 

[GremlinZilla89]

I can't remember the last movie I didn't finish. If I'm not sure I can finish it, I don't start it. Also, this is indeed a depressing thread - I've seen 2001 in here more than once. I've only seen that masterpiece once, but I was actually surprised at how easy it was to watch and how...well, if not fast, then surprisingly NOT slow/tedious it was. But that's me.

I had the same reaction many people in this thread had to it my first time. My relationship with 2001 is the most bizarre I've ever had with a film. I first tried watching it early on in my movie loving life. I couldn't make it an hour in and turned it off, dismissing it as overrated poo. "A classic? One of the best films of all time!? HA! YA RIGHT!"

A year or so later I was more informed on the history and theory of the film and tried it again and got through it that time. I still didn't like it and struggled through it but I felt accomplished I at least got through it and had put another classic film under my belt.

After that viewing I would think about it from time to time. It would come up in forum conversations, I would hear filmmakers talk about how influential it is and all that and I would think "What is it about this film?" I was stubbornly against the film for being nothing but a well shot bore. I forcibly rejected its intent and tone and just said "I hate it because it doesn't go anywhere and that's it. There is nothing to get." I would arrogantly put it on "my most overrated films ever" list and smile with a smug satisfaction of defying the popular consensus. Ya, I went through a bit of a movie snob, contrarian phase that was blessedly short.

One day I got a bug up my butt to watch the film again after being taken by a well written piece on a forum from a fan of the film. All of a sudden I felt like I just had to see the film again. I went to the store and got it on Blu. This is going to sound pretentious and made up but I swear it's true. As I sat there watching it again, I just sort of...got it. I was loving it. I was swept up in the visuals and the sound and I was enjoying coming up with my own theories on the film. 2001 is not a movie you can just passively watch once. It really is an experience that demands your attention. You can't just be in the mood to sit and catch a flick and come away satisfied. You have to want to really experience a film. Again, I sound pretentious but I really don't mean to, it's just how I feel.
I totally understand why some would dismiss the film and not even finish it. It defies all of the story telling standards we are used to from 99% of the films we watch. Even the more enigmatic films we may watch and enjoy have more of a standard structure than 2001. There very little dialogue and what dialogue there is doesn't do much to further the plot of help us understand what is going on. There is no protagonist until the film is reaching it's end, no character arc of development, the story is all told in visuals and interpretation and is not made clear once throughout the run time. It's just not like most films.

I think 2001 was startlingly ahead of it's time. I'm shocked it was allowed to be made the way it was. I think every film buff owes it to themselves to watch it once all the way through and leave preconceived notions at the door and just it let it happen to you. I think anyone can at least appreciate the visual marvel that it is, if nothing else.

 

[DyeLorean]

I had the same reaction many people in this thread had to it my first time. My relationship with 2001 is the most bizarre I've ever had with a film. I first tried watching it early on in my movie loving life. I couldn't make it an hour in and turned it off, dismissing it as overrated poo. "A classic? One of the best films of all time!? HA! YA RIGHT!"

A year or so later I was more informed on the history and theory of the film and tried it again and got through it that time. I still didn't like it and struggled through it but I felt accomplished I at least got through it and had put another classic film under my belt.

After that viewing I would think about it from time to time. It would come up in forum conversations, I would hear filmmakers talk about how influential it is and all that and I would think "What is it about this film?" I was stubbornly against the film for being nothing but a well shot bore. I forcibly rejected its intent and tone and just said "I hate it because it doesn't go anywhere and that's it. There is nothing to get." I would arrogantly put it on "my most overrated films ever" list and smile with a smug satisfaction of defying the popular consensus. Ya, I went through a bit of a movie snob, contrarian phase that was blessedly short.

One day I got a bug up my butt to watch the film again after being taken by a well written piece on a forum from a fan of the film. All of a sudden I felt like I just had to see the film again. I went to the store and got it on Blu. This is going to sound pretentious and made up but I swear it's true. As I sat there watching it again, I just sort of...got it. I was loving it. I was swept up in the visuals and the sound and I was enjoying coming up with my own theories on the film. 2001 is not a movie you can just passively watch once. It really is an experience that demands your attention. You can't just be in the mood to sit and catch a flick and come away satisfied. You have to want to really experience a film. Again, I sound pretentious but I really don't mean to, it's just how I feel.
I totally understand why some would dismiss the film and not even finish it. It defies all of the story telling standards we are used to from 99% of the films we watch. Even the more enigmatic films we may watch and enjoy have more of a standard structure than 2001. There very little dialogue and what dialogue there is doesn't do much to further the plot of help us understand what is going on. There is no protagonist until the film is reaching it's end, no character arc of development, the story is all told in visuals and interpretation and is not made clear once throughout the run time. It's just not like most films.

I think 2001 was startlingly ahead of it's time. I'm shocked it was allowed to be made the way it was. I think every film buff owes it to themselves to watch it once all the way through and leave preconceived notions at the door and just it let it happen to you. I think anyone can at least appreciate the visual marvel that it is, if nothing else.

Very well said. I completely understand you.

I also think that as we get older, and as we get to understand a few more things about... life itself, our interpretation of things also change. So, something that didn't interest us at the time, it does now. And 2001 tackles so many subjects -in a non-regular way- that maybe you actually need to watch it a few times just to 'get' it.

 

[Tequilla]

Anyone minimally interested in film as a visual medium finds something to appreciate in 2001. Off course a lot of people are much more interested in the storytelling structure of films , so i understand some alienation the movie might create.

Seeing 2001 in a movie theater is just an incredbile experience , pushing cinema way way beyond the medium boundaries. I cannot imagine how incredible it might have been watching it in the 60's.

Not only its a magnificent picture , it is to me , the biggest accomplishment in the art of filmmaking.

 

[MrMaooz]

Every time I try to watch Brooklyn's Finest I inevitably fall asleep about 15-20 minutes in. Also War of the Worlds with Tom Cruise.

Really? That movie is really entertaining IMO. Starts out a little slow but really picks up once the aliens arrive.



Battlefield Earth

 

[Marvel Spider]

All of the Star Wars movies.

*Takes cover*

 

[DyeLorean]

Grown Ups 2.

 

[moviedoors]

I may have actually posted in this thread before, but **** it:

Bad Boys
Universal Soldier

Bored the **** out of me.

 

[BH/HHH]

Be Cool, its the only film I went to see at the cinema that I've walked out of

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

None, I finish all the films that I buy/download even the bad one but I sometimes fast forward them.

 

[Senator Pleasury]

I actively tried to take a nap during the first hour of Peter Jackson's "King Kong." It was so damn terrible.

And if the theater hadn't been packed, I would have walked out of Spielberg's "A. I." I couldn't believe it.

 

[DCW]

^ Agreed on both. Though I know it's appreciated by some, A.I. is one of the worst movies I have ever seen.

 

[mclay18]

Transylmania
The Aviator
Grown Ups
Grown Ups 2
That's My Boy

Before someone crucifies me for listing a Martin Scorsese film with the awful films, The Aviator just couldn't sustain my interest and I felt myself getting sleepy. Maybe I should give it another shot.

 

[gwynplaine]

Recently:

_ Pain and Gain
_ The Man with the Iron Fists
_ White House Down

 

[MMMMM...Pancakes]

Finally finished The Mist last month after starting it many years ago. I liked it. The ending though.

 

[Warhammer]

I may have actually posted in this thread before, but **** it:

Bad Boys
Universal Soldier

Bored the **** out of me.

That's a damn shame.

 

[-Arya-]

Jackie Brown

I'm a fan of Tarantino, but this movie failed to pique my interest even slightly

 

[gwynplaine]

I may have actually posted in this thread before, but **** it:

Bad Boys
Universal Soldier

Bored the **** out of me.

Which one? Sean Penn or Will Smith?