…even though it was clear in the first ten minutes that you weren’t going to like it.
I watched Then She Found Me last night. I like Helen Hunt, I like Bette Midler, I like Colin Firth, I don’t mind Matthew Broderick.
What an annoying movie – so many people doing stupid things. Not a single admirable character, not a single character I liked. (Even Colin Firth, whose character was the only one I didn’t want to smack around – hardly a ringing endorsement.)
Not sure why I kept watching, but I did.
Have you ever kept going on a movie you disliked in the first ten minutes and have it turn out to be worth watching?
I do this way too often. For some reason I just can’t bring myself to turn it off, even if I know it’s not going to get any better. Like I think I’m going to hurt the DVD’s feelings or something.
My most recent one was Blue Velvet. I got this as a recommendation from Netflix. I normally like trippy movies, and I liked Mullholand Drive by the same director (which is why Netflix recommended it). But Blue Velvet focused a bit too much on being weird, and not enough on story. I mean, Mullholand Drive was plenty weird, but it also made me interested in the characters and in what was going on. Blue Velvet did not.
I don’t do this anymore. I have so many movies to watch, that if I’m still pining for the FF button at the ~20 minute mark, I generally scan through the rest of the movie looking for points of interest.
I’m not sure this counts ( or should count) but I watched The Thirteenth Floor recently with my brother. The first few minutes seemed like a historical movie–which is fine, but baffling that Brother liked it (he owned the DVD in question). And then stuff happened which didn’t make sense and which I didn’t like.
I said that I was confused.
He assured me it would make more sense later, and gave me a few clues as to what was going on–who the characters were.
I stuck it out. It was ok, not great, but not a horrible use of my time, I guess.
Too many lately to count. I watch while I’m on the elliptical as something to keep me from becoming unmotivated. Unfortunately, there aren’t enough good movies to keep me entertained, so I watch whatever I come in, even if it sucks.
Just yesterday I finished *A Scanner Darkly. *I had hopes for it, I had heard good things. It was terrible - right from the beginning.
I watched the movie *Brick *without reading any reviews, and 10 minutes in I was almost ready to turn it off. It features high school students, but the dialog and characterizations are heavily stylized in the fashion of a hardboiled detective story, and I was not prepared for that. Eventually I caught on and ended up enjoying the movie, but I wish I had read a little about it ahead of time.
Can’t help you. It’s very rare I watch a DVD for a movie I haven’t already seen in the theater or somewhere else. I made it halfway through Rent before I realized it didn’t merit any more of my time.
Most recently, Tommy.
I kept thinking, “Oh, this stupid fucking movie…”, but stayed with it for awhile. When baked beans started flying all over what’s-her-name, I made it halfway to the stop button, but then Jack Nicholson showed up and I stuck around to see what he was going to do. I really hated the movie.
Can’t Hardly Wait. There was never a time I figured I would like it (I generally hate teen comedies), but I was curious to see those guys from Six Feet Under. Ugh! At least I was working on something while watching it.
My brother stuck it out through The Tower of the Firstborn–which appeared to be an 1980s-ish Indiana Jones type movie without any of whatever it was that made Indiana Jones irrisitable. (His wife and I did not).
Actually, I’m not sure that he didn’t like it, but he admitted that it’s faults included being long, slow moving, highly predictable, overly dramatic and badly acted.