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DeLuman Guest-Star Party Member from Nor Cal Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
#1: Feb 18th 2011 at 10:22:00 AM

What movies did you start watching and had to stop it in the middle and say "no... just no. I can't watch the rest of this."

Last night I tried to sit down and watch Cinderella Man. Maybe I've just seen too many boxer/fighter/Rocky-type movies over the past few years but this one seemed to lack a certain level of common sense or heart or something.

I had absolutely no sympathy for the main character, I could feel the way the plot was going to move into such a predictable way and more importantly then anything else I was bored by it. Sometimes I'll stomach through a movie that is a little boring in places, but that one, I just could not do it.

I'm sure it wasn't a horrible movie, the acting seemed mediocre but not bad. The plot was watered down, but it was a watered down version of a very good and effective plot that people the world over seem to love.

In the end I just couldn't finish it.

edited 18th Feb '11 10:22:59 AM by DeLuman

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#2: Feb 18th 2011 at 10:42:42 AM

... You DO know it was based on a true story, right?

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#4: Feb 18th 2011 at 11:25:32 AM

2001: A Space Odyssey. I lasted an hour and gave up out of boredom.

edited 18th Feb '11 11:27:20 AM by Accela

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#6: Feb 18th 2011 at 12:37:02 PM

Mall Cop. Though that may have had more to do with wanting to fool around with my GF instead of the movie's actual quality, though what little I saw of it wasn't that great.

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#7: Feb 18th 2011 at 1:11:59 PM

Free Willy. Granted I only tried watching it for the first time a couple months ago and it is something I probably would have liked as a kid. But, it was just an average family film with a boy and his x that just didn't capture my interest.

Gvzbgul from Middle Earth Since: Jul, 2010
#8: Feb 18th 2011 at 2:25:38 PM

I can't remember. But Generally if it's something on TV and it's on late I'd weigh up in my mind, "Is this movie good enough to justify me staying up?" Usually the answer is no.

Bowyn Sshh! Be vewy vewy quiet from Canada Since: Jun, 2010
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#9: Feb 18th 2011 at 2:27:18 PM

Doomsday

Mainly because it was awful.

edited 19th Feb '11 6:37:54 AM by Bowyn

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apassingthought Moments Like Ghosts from the Fantasy Ghetto Since: Aug, 2010
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#10: Feb 18th 2011 at 2:58:13 PM

Shutter Island. Everyone seems to like this movie but it just couldn't draw me in and I quit halfway through out of boredom.

Furry Vengeance. Just absolutely awful.

Thoroughly Modern Millie. I liked the stage musical. The movie is just too long and not very creative in it's stage-to-film adaptation. Got bored and fell asleep.

An Inconvenient Truth. Had to watch it in school. Yes, I was expecting it to be anvilicious. I also expected it to have beautiful Planet Earth -esque Scenery Porn that would hold my attention. What I got was ... a POWERPOINT PRESENTATION.

Buscemi I Am The Walrus from a log cabin Since: Jul, 2010
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#11: Feb 18th 2011 at 4:23:27 PM

Shutter Island seems to get a Love It or Hate It reception. Mostly due to the Shyamalan-esque ending that the film did not need (I think most audience members wanted to see the supposed government conspiracy be real). Also, 15 minutes could have easily been deleted (example: the World War II flashbacks that didn't serve a purpose to the story).

Also, I don't understand the hate for Doomsday. Yes, it is stupid but it's stupid in a fun way. In fact, I would go out on a limb and say Doomsday was one of the best films of 2008. But then again, it might be the way that I saw it that made it so special (I saw it on opening night on a large screen with the excellent DTS-ES soundtrack cranked up full blast).

Anyways, here's a list of movies that I walked out on:

  • How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days
  • New York Minute
  • Mean Girls (snuck in and walked out after 15 minutes due to the badness)
  • King Arthur (due to a combination of the bad movie and lower back pain as I had surgery done a few days later)
  • Diary of a Mad Black Woman
  • The Da Vinci Code
  • Chalk (a bad attempt at the Christopher Guest mockumentaries)
  • September Dawn
  • Lake Dead (the worst thing I've ever watched in a theatre)

Possibly a few others that I'm forgetting.

A few I wanted to walk out on (but couldn't):

  • My Big Fat Greek Wedding
  • Brown Sugar (I was not feeling well that night but stuck out to see if it could get better)
  • Hot Rod

A few in which staying in made things better:

  • When A Stranger Calls (I said loudly at the end "Well that sucked" and everyone in the theatre started laughing)
  • Sarah Landon and the Paranormal Hour (the six people in the theatre, myself included, going MST 3 K-style on this awful vanity project from a Canadian trust fund kid)

edited 18th Feb '11 4:24:10 PM by Buscemi

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#12: Feb 18th 2011 at 5:34:08 PM

Being John Malkovich, because I couldn't stomach the main character anymore.

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HopelessRomance I'm not dead yet! from Minnesota, USA. Since: Mar, 2010
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#13: Feb 18th 2011 at 6:50:52 PM

Grease2. It was on TV and I went into knowing it didn't get good reviews, but I gave it a try because I loved the original. I didn't make it past the first number. A SONG DETAILING THE PLOT OF THE FIRST FILM IS NOT IN ANY WAY NECESSARY. YOU ONLY HAD 3 OF THE ORIGINAL CAST MEMBERS IN THE FILM.

edited 18th Feb '11 6:51:19 PM by HopelessRomance

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#14: Feb 18th 2011 at 7:30:00 PM

The Big Lebowski.

I try to watch it to see what the big deal was and then I was like. "What? Wha.....? No... Just... No thank you, I don't think I care about the big deal."

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#15: Feb 18th 2011 at 8:13:22 PM

The Doom Generation. The main characters were so fucking gross as human beings.

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#16: Feb 18th 2011 at 8:23:53 PM

Return Of The King and Blade Runner. Not that either of these are bad movies, but I never got around to watching them all of the way through.

Gvzbgul from Middle Earth Since: Jul, 2010
#17: Feb 18th 2011 at 9:51:22 PM

I think I started fast forwarding Dune (David Lynch version) towards the end. Or was the movie doing it? I can't quite remember.

I did the same thing with Star Wars III. I fast forwarded any scene with Padme.

faradayangel electrifying from Gallifrey Since: Nov, 2010
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#18: Feb 18th 2011 at 11:50:55 PM

[up]yeah lynch's Dune has that effect on most people

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#19: Feb 19th 2011 at 3:34:45 AM

  • Ferngully 2 - I actually liked the first one.

  • 102 Dalmations - Probably about the stupidest movie I've ever seen.

  • Grease 2 - And I don't even really like the first one to be honest.

  • All Dogs Go To Heaven 2 - Now I'm noticing these are all sequels.

(Wanted to but couldn't:)

edited 19th Feb '11 3:36:21 AM by Surenity

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#20: Feb 19th 2011 at 6:52:30 AM

I knew 102 Dalmatians would suck the minute I found out Pongo and Perdita died and that they got new owners with no explanation at all. I was trying to figure out where the hell Jeff Daniels and Joely Richardson went.

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#21: Feb 19th 2011 at 7:54:18 AM

Zombie Land. I swear to god the people who made this think I'm stupid to know what they made think they can make me laugh, but instead it leaves me pissed to see stupidity being shown all around Hollywood.

Avatar(Jame's cameron's movie)- THIS is what people were excited about?? Jesus, and I thought the Potter and Twilight fanbase was worst compared to this. Overrated and obivous knock-off of Ferngully. The fact that this made the bone movie as a CG motion capture film over 2D animation makes me hold a grudge on the film to this very day.

Swan Princess- I can tell you this, I hate it when people decide to copy Disney over doing their own art style. Then again, this one was made by a former Disney worker so that makes sense.

edited 19th Feb '11 7:54:49 AM by Theoriginalblader

faradayangel electrifying from Gallifrey Since: Nov, 2010
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#22: Feb 19th 2011 at 8:03:49 AM

[up] I seriously thought it was Disney if you thought it was bad there are worse sequels

actually i liked Anastasia and it's often confused with a disney movie

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Buscemi I Am The Walrus from a log cabin Since: Jul, 2010
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#23: Feb 19th 2011 at 8:07:08 AM

Zombieland was an extremely overrated film with a terrible performance from Jesse Eisenberg (the fact that he is easily the dumbest character in the film and somehow survives is one of the two main problems, the other is that it is a blatant ripoff of Shaun of the Dead and Scream).

And yes, The Swan Princess is bad. The director is a utter hack who is way too proud of his film (he actually expected it to be a bigger film that The Lion King) and even worse, he was so convinced that people liked it that he did two sequels. He also produced the awful Alpha and Omega.

Last, I don't understand the Avatar/Ferngully comparisons. It's a lot more like The Last of the Mohicans in space (Jake is Daniel Day-Lewis, the Na'vi is the Native Americans, the RDA is the colonists and so on).

edited 19th Feb '11 8:08:41 AM by Buscemi

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#24: Feb 19th 2011 at 8:12:43 AM

[up][up] Most people often don't even bother seeing the film, or even look at the credits to know that Disney didn't do Swan Princess. Didn't Disney try to do Swan Lake once before Richard Rich got the shot of doing it? I thought that the name was familiar. Anatasia looked like it was trying to be on the edge of Bluth's Beauty and the beast(meaning that he wanted to do something in the veins of that). Funny thing is, he planned on doing Beauty and the beast but Disney beat him to the punch.

[up]I can't believe he'd make Alpha and Omega. Its just Balto given the CG treatment.

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#25: Feb 19th 2011 at 9:51:24 AM

I walked out of Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. I watched Indie with my Dad when I was young, and I just thought it was rather boring. I didn't walk out in rage, but I walked out in more of a "Meh, I have better things I could be doing with my time." attitude.


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