Movies that you almost or walked out on. It was that bad. - Page 3

*winter* · #1 11-19-2011, 10:47 AM

Paranormal Activity. Actually, I stuck around, only because I was enjoying the "commentary" by the other people in the theatre. But I thought it was HORRIBLE!

christiangirl · #2 11-20-2011, 01:19 AM

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Originally Posted by ASUADPi

I have stopped watching rentals if within the first 20 minutes I'm either confused or bored out of my mind.

I rented Love in the Time of Money and promptly fell asleep. Sooooo didn't get it.

cjburris93 · #3 11-19-2011, 11:30 AM

I walked out on "The Adventures of Ford Fairlane". To date, it's the only film I've ever gave the order to abandon ship. No clue why I even bothered to see it.

KKGCaroline · #4 11-19-2011, 06:36 PM

Sex and the City 2...... just terrible

MysticCat · #5 11-19-2011, 07:12 PM

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Originally Posted by ASUADPi

I've never walked out of a theater because of the money I've spent to see the movie.

I have stopped watching rentals if within the first 20 minutes I'm either confused or bored out of my mind.

Same here.

Lost in Translation and The Big Lebowski both got cut at the 20-30 minute mark.

AZTheta · #6 11-19-2011, 11:28 PM

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Originally Posted by MysticCat

Lost in Translation and The Big Lebowski both got cut at the 20-30 minute mark.

You made it further than I did on both those. I do not get what the deal is about The Big Lebowski. It's just weird.

knight_shadow · #7 11-19-2011, 07:48 PM

Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (had to Wiki the name)

I am not a fan of the series, but decided to see it with 2 fraternity brothers I was working with at the time. I fell asleep within the first 10 minutes.

AGDee · #8 11-20-2011, 10:24 AM

Back when I used an actual video store for DVDs, I was trying to rent The Notebook. The wrong movie was in the case though so I ended up with I <3 Huckabees. Most awful movie ever.

Sciencewoman · #9 11-20-2011, 11:58 PM

I'm noticing a theme here of weird movies that are just too "out there" with their time travel, incomprehensible time/space continuum distortions, "magical" plot elements, etc. Vanilla Sky with Tom Cruise was the only movie I just couldn't wait to be done. There's one scene where he's contemplating jumping off the roof of a building, and someone in the theater actually yelled out, "Just jump already and get this over with!"

ASTalumna06 · #10 11-21-2011, 01:09 AM

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Originally Posted by MysticCat

Same here.

Lost in Translation and The Big Lebowski both got cut at the 20-30 minute mark.

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Originally Posted by AzTheta

You made it further than I did on both those. I do not get what the deal is about The Big Lebowski. It's just weird.

Thank you! What IS it about this movie that people love so much? I saw it years ago, shortly after it was released to rent... so.. 12 years ago? I was about 15. Within the last year, I've had a bunch of people quote the movie and say how hysterical it is. I remembered that I hated it when I was younger, but I thought maybe it'd be like asparagus.. I couldn't stand it as a kid, but now I love it. So I gave it another shot..

I got 30 minutes in (after contemplating since minute 10 whether or not I should turn it off), and I just couldn't take it anymore.

I don't get it.

KSig RC · #11 11-21-2011, 07:08 PM

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Originally Posted by ASTalumna06

I don't get it.

The Big Lebowski occupies a weird place, because it's both an auteur work and an oddball (semi-stoner) comedy. It may be the Coens' weirdest film, which is saying a lot given their catalog.

It's definitely, definitely a polarizing movie - I think it's an insanely clever combination of disparate forms (heist/mistaken-identity tales, anti-hero noir, slapstick, a sort of faux Americana, and to top it off, the story itself is an adaptation of Chandler's The Big Sleep).

At the same time, the film is bizarrely reliant on mood/atmosphere, and the characters are quixotic at best - I can completely see why some wouldn't be able to embrace any of the individual elements, particularly when one of the keys is the soundtrack.

AOII Angel · #12 11-21-2011, 07:28 PM

I just saw one yesterday. "Drive" with Ryan Gosling. It was so bad. I think the script was 5 pages...maybe. So little dialogue. The worst part was, he didn't even take off his shirt.

ElieM · #13 11-21-2011, 12:20 AM

I wanted to walk out on Avatar, but instead suffered a 3D headache caused by excessive eye-rolling

Psi U MC Vito · #14 11-21-2011, 12:55 AM

Almost walked out of the second second movie about Neo and Morphus (I refuse to call it the Matrix. IT IS NOT!) Sorry but the scene with the party and sex scene kind of ruined it for me.

PeppyGPhiB · #15 11-21-2011, 02:57 AM

The only movie I've ever walked out of was Spice World, when I was in college. We snuck into As Good As It Gets just as it was starting. At the end, one of my friends yelled, "That was waaaay better than Spice World!"

An example of a movie that makes you work hard to understand it, but it's worth it: Momento.

Examples of movies that make you work too hard to understand them, and I still don't get it: Vanilla Sky, Magnolia, Mulholland Drive. Vanilla Sky was a tough one for me, because I otherwise love Cameron Crowe.

On the other hand, I like many of the movies mentioned earlier in this thread and even own a few of them (Moulin Rouge, Eyes Wide Shut, Gladiator, Catch Me If You Can, The Hangover).