# Movies that you have watched but never bothered finishing. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 2, 2011, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-have-watched-but-never-bothered-finishing/573206 "2011-03-02T12:35:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-have-watched-but-never-bothered-finishing/573206/21 "2011-03-02T22:12:30Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > _The Others_. Got about 10 minutes in before guessing the “twist,” so I turned it off and confirmed my guess on the internet. I guessed the twist very early on as well, but it didn’t ruin the movie for me. In fact, the twist is so obvious I’d wager that the viewer is (more or less) assumed to see it and that the story is driven by the main characters realizing what is going on. \*Colombo \*gone gothic, if you will. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-have-watched-but-never-bothered-finishing/573206/22 "2011-03-02T22:42:40Z")
_The Godfather_. I’ve tried. I’ve really tried. I’ve made several attempts to actually watch this “epic,” but I can never get more than 45 minutes into it before I just can’t take it anymore. It strikes me as too pretentious. And it seems like it’s a victim of the hype that people have built up about it. I keep expecting to fall immediately into the story, and I find myself bored shitless each time. ---
**Author:** ![Purd\_Werfect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@Purd\_Werfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purd_Werfect)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-have-watched-but-never-bothered-finishing/573206/23 "2011-03-02T22:59:26Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > _The Godfather_. > > I’ve tried. I’ve really tried. I’ve made several attempts to actually watch this “epic,” but I can never get more than 45 minutes into it before I just can’t take it anymore. > > It strikes me as too pretentious. And it seems like it’s a victim of the hype that people have built up about it. I keep expecting to fall immediately into the story, and I find myself bored shitless each time. Have you tried Godfather II? I like The Godfather, but it’s thoroughly outdone by the sequel. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-have-watched-but-never-bothered-finishing/573206/24 "2011-03-02T23:50:03Z")
No, I never have. Perhaps I should. I just always figured that, if I hadn’t made it through the first film, I’d completely lost in the sequel. Maybe not. ---
**Author:** ![LC\_Strawhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@LC\_Strawhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LC_Strawhouse)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-have-watched-but-never-bothered-finishing/573206/25 "2011-03-03T00:07:26Z")
I thought _Woodstock_ was too ponderous to watch. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-have-watched-but-never-bothered-finishing/573206/26 "2011-03-03T00:44:24Z")
Pretty much all porn movies start out boring, then get kinda interesting, then quite interesting, then very interesting, then extremely interesting, then boring again. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Not\_Appearing\_on\_This\_Site](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7cd45c/32.png) [@Sir\_Not\_Appearing\_on\_This\_Site](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Not_Appearing_on_This_Site)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-have-watched-but-never-bothered-finishing/573206/27 "2011-03-03T00:46:45Z")
It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. I watched most of it, but the DVD was scratched and stopped working. I think I missed the last 20 min. That movie was so long an boring, I didn’t even bother to get a replacement disc from Netflix to finish it. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-have-watched-but-never-bothered-finishing/573206/28 "2011-03-03T01:15:04Z")
Nicolas Cage’s _The Weather Man_. I got about halfway into it, decided that Cage’s character was not only unlikeable, but uninteresting, and I had no real need or desire to see how the story played out. Turned off the DVD. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-have-watched-but-never-bothered-finishing/573206/29 "2011-03-03T02:35:03Z")
I rented _The Trip_, an LSD movie with Peter Fonda. Total yawnfest. Maybe you had to be on LSD to appreciate it. Anyway, rented it, didn’t even get halfway through, rented it again years later because I never finished it. And again, couldn’t get all the way through it. Another one I couldn’t finish was _Adam’s Rib_, with Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. It just seemed lame. And that one’s considered a classic. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-have-watched-but-never-bothered-finishing/573206/30 "2011-03-03T03:07:50Z")
I’ve started watching \*Dances with Wolves \*three or four times. They should rename it _Plods Along Endlessly with or without Wolves._ ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-have-watched-but-never-bothered-finishing/573206/31 "2011-03-03T03:47:16Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > I’ve also never been able to get all the way through _Apocalypse Now_, for sme reason. Same thing happened to me. I first saw this movie at a sleep-over when I was 12 or 13; couldn’t keep my eyes open. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-have-watched-but-never-bothered-finishing/573206/32 "2011-03-03T03:54:53Z")
Reservoir Dogs. I love the first third or so, but it really starts to drag after the famous Michael Madsen ear-cutting scene. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-have-watched-but-never-bothered-finishing/573206/33 "2011-03-03T14:08:16Z")
_Princess Mononoke_. I’m a big fan of Miyazaki but for some reason I can’t get through that one. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-have-watched-but-never-bothered-finishing/573206/34 "2011-03-03T14:18:18Z")
> [@FrigidLizard](#): > > I still need to finish **Stand By Me** :eek:😕 ---
**Author:** ![Double\_Foolscap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85e7bf/32.png) [@Double\_Foolscap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Double_Foolscap)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-have-watched-but-never-bothered-finishing/573206/35 "2011-03-03T14:22:44Z")
_Blade Runner_. I started watching it alone one Christmas holiday, and found it too slow-moving to keep me interested without somebody else to watch it with. ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-have-watched-but-never-bothered-finishing/573206/36 "2011-03-03T14:26:28Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > :eek:😕 Believe it or not, kayaker, I was in the same boat with \*\*Stand By Me \*\*for a long time. It’s a good movie, but I was never motivated enough to dedicate two hours to it until my gf wanted to watch it one day. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-have-watched-but-never-bothered-finishing/573206/37 "2011-03-03T14:52:19Z")
Wow. A few of these films are on my all time favorite list. I’ve seen **Stand By Me** , **Bladerunner** , **Reservoir Dogs** each over the years at least 6 times ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-have-watched-but-never-bothered-finishing/573206/38 "2011-03-03T15:36:33Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Wow. A few of these films are on my all time favorite list. I’ve seen **Stand By Me** , **Bladerunner** , **Reservoir Dogs** each over the years at least 6 times Well, maybe _you’re_ boring and nobody bothers to finish a conversation with y ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-have-watched-but-never-bothered-finishing/573206/39 "2011-03-03T16:03:49Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Wow. A few of these films are on my all time favorite list. I’ve seen **Stand By Me** , **Bladerunner** , **Reservoir Dogs** each over the years at least 6 times _Reservoir Dogs_ is actually one of my favorite movies. I just only like the first part. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-have-watched-but-never-bothered-finishing/573206/40 "2011-03-03T16:29:40Z")
> [@Sir\_Not\_Appearing\_on\_This\_Site](#): > > It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. I watched most of it, but the DVD was scratched and stopped working. I think I missed the last 20 min. That movie was so long an boring, I didn’t even bother to get a replacement disc from Netflix to finish it. This is the one that surprises me. However, if you watched that much and didn’t enjoy it, I wouldn’t recommend that you go on. It’s not like the ending makes it a substantially different movie. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-have-watched-but-never-bothered-finishing/573206.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-have-watched-but-never-bothered-finishing/573206.md?page=3)