Movies you couldn't make it through

[sarahbot]

I rented Mary Shelley's Frankenstein today and had settled down for some good old entertainment, when something started to go terribly wrong. It was so bad. So, so, so very very bad. So bad I turned it off just when the movie should have been getting good (Frankenstein awakes). Mostly, I was just annoyed that what had seemed like such a great movie (just check out the cast!) was so awful. Way too much Branagh and people dancing about spouting wooden dialogue. Boring! How could a Frankenstein movie be boring?! (It was also gross in a very non-fun, amniotic fluid, Robert DeNiro naked sort of way, but I'm not going to go into that.)

I can count the number of times I've stopped watching a movie halfway through on one hand. I've wandered in and out with a lot of movies, but the last time I can remember actually stopping the movie in anger was Mission: Impossible II, which came out how many years ago? And I've never walked out of the movie theatre, even though I may have wanted to once or twice (The Recruit, I'm looking at you).

I guess the point I'm driving at here is, how often will you 'quit' a movie? Have you ever walked out of a theatre? Or do you feel the urge to keep on and see the thing to its end?

[blinkfan]

I know people are going to hate me for it but The Usual Suspects. I just couldn't get into it. I'll again sometime.

[Head Mutant]

I don't recall ever leaving a theater early -- I'm sure it's happened -- but I've certainly stopped watching movies halfway through. Usually due to boredom. Freddy Got Fingered was the only film I've shut off in absolute disgust.

[Lissa]

The closest I've ever come to leaving a theater early was "Hanging Up." The only reason I didn't was because I went with my sis, and I thought she was enjoying it. Sadly, she thought I was enjoying it, and was wishing we could leave early. Oh well.

[sunsetryder]

"What Women Want", sadly. I was at a sleepover party, and my friend and I just couldn't take the sap they were dishing out on our heads around the end.
I did come VERY close to leaving the theater for The Aviator, but my mother was liking it, so I had to stay. But by the end all four of us (my parents, my friend and I) didn't think it was worth the money.

[Genetic Mishap]

Funny thing, the movies I shut off in disgust, are the ones I never committed to memory. Because, y'know, they sucked. Y'know?
I do remember doing that to Unusual Suspects, so blinkfan, you ain'ts alone. Being one of the most spoiled movies in pop culture, it couldn't keep my interest.

*spoiler*
KEYSER SOZE IS PEOPLE!

[Genetic Mishap]

Also- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
I have trouble understandng dialogue when people aren't mumbling...so naturally I got confused and frustrated.

[blinkfan]

I didn't make it through Big Trouble in little China or The Thing. I barely made it through the fog. As you can tell I don't like John Carpenter too much. I do however love Halloween and They Live.

[StarOpal]

Million Dollar Hotel, Paycheck, and Boogeyman are three movies I remember turning off. I know there's been others, but, like Genetic Mishap, I don't bother to remember them.

I would sort of agree on Usual Suspects. I thought it was a bad movie (I just finished watching for the cast), until the end. The end just kinda pulls the movie together and I can't tell you how many times I've watched it since - from the beginning.

[blinkfan]

I made it through Boogeyman (unfortunatley). Your lucky you did. It sucks hardcore!!.

[Head Mutant]

I was certainly nodding off at the end of Paycheck... you didn't miss much.

[pfrsue]

Grave of the Fireflies is at far and away the top of my list. I've never walked out on a movie in a theatre, but I know I slept through part of Bewitched. I bought AI - Artificial Intelligence about three years ago on a whim and for some reason I can't even make myself crack the case open, let alone watch it. (That has to be some kind of record.)

[Big T]

I have rarely ever walked away from a movie at home and never have i left the theater. The times that I did walk away were only because I was not in the mood for movie watching or because i had already seen it. I have yet to see a movie so horrible that I turn it off in disgust, or maybe i just have a strong stomach.

[eatmyshorts]

WOW. This is a HUGE coincidence, because I've been trying to get myself to watch the usual suspects all day. I haven't seen it yet...this thread isn't helping very much.
Onto the topic at hand, I walked out of Lord of War because I felt this it was stupid, and I also walked out of superman returns but only missed about 5 minutes of the end...I should've walked out sooner. I wanted OH SO badly to walk out of Scary Movie 4 but I had friends with me. I couldn't finish watching 1941 because it just plained sucked, and I couldn't finish watching "The Return of Spinal Tap" not that it was bad, but...just not really that good.

[Spiderdancer]

I really liked the Usual Suspects, oddly enough. And I sat all the way through Mary Shelley's Frankenstein because it was a little closer to the book and I have a sad Shakespeare-fangirl squeeage for Kenneth Branagh, though I agree wholeheartedly with Sarahbot about the amniotic fluid stuff. Ick.

I started on both The Lost Boys and Big Trouble in Little China and just never finished them. Lost Boys didn't seem able to make up its mind about whether or not it wanted to be a horror movie, and Big Trouble was just... junk. I didn't find it funny, I couldn't get around how the female characters were treated, and it wasn't flippant enough to be forgivable (a la James Bond).

I think the only one I've quit on in disgust recently was Napoleon Dynamite. It just wasn't funny and the characters' voices were giving me a headache.