# What in the Heck Did I Just Watch or 134 Minutes I'll Never Get Back **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [September 15, 2020, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-in-the-heck-did-i-just-watch-or-134-minutes-ill-never-get-back/920693 "2020-09-15T13:56:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2020, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-in-the-heck-did-i-just-watch-or-134-minutes-ill-never-get-back/920693/21 "2020-09-15T18:28:57Z")
I would also like to recommend the Christian Bale/Russell Crowe remake of “3:10 to Yuma” and the Peckinpah classic “The Wild Bunch”. A couple other Peckinpah westerns that I love are “Ride the High Country” and “The Ballad of Cable Hogue”, but they are an acquired taste. Some of the long drawn-out close-ups that people complain about from the spaghetti westerns were overdone, but oftentimes they are my favorite shots. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2020, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-in-the-heck-did-i-just-watch-or-134-minutes-ill-never-get-back/920693/22 "2020-09-15T19:40:03Z")
ITT: People who don’t “get” spaghetti westerns and Charlie Kaufman. I watched _I’m Thinking of Ending Things_ and thoroughly enjoyed it. I was tripping hard over all the time shifts in the farm house then the school stuff happened and that loooooooooooong ending shot of the pickup truck covered in snow as the credits rolled and I was all “Oh, so THAT’S what that was!” Sorry you didn’t like it, but if you think it’s all just “two people talking in a car” you really didn’t watch it. Do you really think the drive up ice cream stand was open in a blizzard with three teenaged girls managing it? Do you actually think that when there was a sequence with dancers dressed like the main characters those dancers were physically present in the school? Did you not wonder how it was that the young female character seemed to have about fifteen names and went from a highly intelligent discourse to nearly braindead dialogue identical to what the mother was saying? Did you not think the disappearing dog was odd? Sorry, but you did not actually watch this movie at all. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2020, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-in-the-heck-did-i-just-watch-or-134-minutes-ill-never-get-back/920693/23 "2020-09-15T19:49:28Z")
> [@TRC4941](#): > > Has anyone else slogged through “I’m Thinking of Ending Things”? I kind of liked it, but I like Charlie Kaufman stuff. Maybe a bit long. For instance, I liked catching how a cigarette appeared out of nowhere as she channeled Pauline Kael in the car. I understand that the book is a horror book, and Kaufman changed the ending. You could see how the last part in the school could turn into horror pretty easily, and there was the don’t go into the basement bit. ---
**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2020, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-in-the-heck-did-i-just-watch-or-134-minutes-ill-never-get-back/920693/24 "2020-09-15T19:55:23Z")
> [@TRC4941](#): > > Has anyone else slogged through “I’m Thinking of Ending Things”? I haven’t seen it yet. I used to enjoy Kaufman’s movies, but the last couple (“Anomalisa”, “Synecdoche, New York”) have been tough to get through. ---
**Author:** ![Mallard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Mallard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mallard)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2020, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-in-the-heck-did-i-just-watch-or-134-minutes-ill-never-get-back/920693/25 "2020-09-15T20:00:01Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > I have never been into westerns, they had their heyday before my time. But movies like Django Unchained and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs piqued my interest a bit. > > I tried watching The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, Clint Eastwood is a legend right? First there was a scene where a bunch of people who aren’t Eastwood look like they’re going to have a showdown, a lot of distant glares and slowly walking towards each other. Then instead of a showdown they rob a place. Ok. > > Then there is a scene at a house in the desert, a grizzled old guy who isn’t Eastwood and a woman and a child live there, presumably his wife and child. A dapper looking gunslinger who isn’t Eastwood comes to the door menacingly, and he and the old guy wind up not fighting but sitting down at a table and eating and staring at each other for like 10 minutes. Ok not really but it felt like it. And they loved doing that close-up on pained faces like the original Star Trek. I noped out at that point, I’ve got better things to do. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is a total classic Spaghetti western. I loved it but yes, you have to like those “man with no name” movies from that era. I’m 67 so I enjoy them. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2020, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-in-the-heck-did-i-just-watch-or-134-minutes-ill-never-get-back/920693/26 "2020-09-15T20:01:13Z")
> [@TRC4941](#): > > Has anyone else slogged through “I’m Thinking of Ending Things”? We watched it, and it was very confusing. It really helps if you read an analysis such as [this one](https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/im-thinking-of-ending-things-ending-explained/) prior to, or after, viewing. ---
**Author:** ![Mallard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Mallard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mallard)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2020, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-in-the-heck-did-i-just-watch-or-134-minutes-ill-never-get-back/920693/27 "2020-09-15T20:05:39Z")
I’ve seen some boring movies over the years but for me the most boring ever was 2001 a Space Odyssey. I was 16 and went to see it at the movie theatre and fell asleep. ---
**Author:** ![Pancake\_Robot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f08c70/32.png) [@Pancake\_Robot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pancake_Robot)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2020, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-in-the-heck-did-i-just-watch-or-134-minutes-ill-never-get-back/920693/28 "2020-09-15T20:17:16Z")
If some could take Cloud Atlas and take all the scenes that go together and edit them into 4 concise stories, I’d appreciate it very much. I think that movie had something to say but my cut-the-shit meter was at 11 with all the random bouncing around in time. Uncut Gems was tough to get through at the time but the more I think about it, the more I like it. ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2020, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-in-the-heck-did-i-just-watch-or-134-minutes-ill-never-get-back/920693/29 "2020-09-15T23:08:08Z")
> [@Rob54](#): > > I lost my time watching The Lighthouse I just watched that, after putting it off for months. It was certainly an interesting movie, and both characters were well done. However, it does tend to drag, and the finale is… unimaginative. Still, I don’t regret watching it. > [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](#): > > remake of True Grit with Jeff Bridges & Matt Damon I had forgotten about that one! I see it’s on Amazon Prime free, so I know what I’m watching tonight. (I’ve been waiting years to use the “the ugly one is \_\_\_ and him uglier still is \_\_\_” line in real life, but alas the opportunity hasn’t presented itself.) My father loves old cheesy westerns. I grew up watching every stupid western imaginable and frankly it pretty much ruined any love I have for the genre. I can’t stand John Wayne and Clint Eastwood always looks like he’s trying to pass a particularly hard BM. There are a few that I like — the above-mentioned _True Grit_ remake, _Tombstone_, _Dances with Wolves_— but most are just a waste of time. And I agree that _2001_ is phenomenally stupid. I guess it’s one of those “you had to be there” things. The two worst, completely pointless, wasted-two-hours-of-my-life movies I’ve actually forced myself to sit through were _Gosford Park_ and _Mulholland Drive_. 10 minutes into each I was ready to commit harakiri. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2020, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-in-the-heck-did-i-just-watch-or-134-minutes-ill-never-get-back/920693/30 "2020-09-15T23:39:16Z")
> [@Lancia](#): > > _Mulholland Drive_ . Well, that’s because you are incapable of understanding the genius of Lynch. You have to be informed to understand… Naw, I can’t do it. MF is an untelligible mess, and anyone that says different lives inside of Lynch’s head. I happen to enjoy the mess, mind you, but it makes no sense. I just like the ride. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2020, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-in-the-heck-did-i-just-watch-or-134-minutes-ill-never-get-back/920693/31 "2020-09-16T00:27:04Z")
Netflix has a new series called _Somewhere Between_. Starring Paula Patton. Holy shite, she’s so bad. I think the story might be ok, but I just can’t watch her. I gave it 24 minutes and I want those minutes back. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2020, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-in-the-heck-did-i-just-watch-or-134-minutes-ill-never-get-back/920693/32 "2020-09-16T00:46:41Z")
> [@TRC4941](#): > > Has anyone else slogged through “I’m Thinking of Ending Things”? I started watching it Sunday and gave up within 5-10 minutes. It was boring - 2 people in a car talking. I decided to give it another shot yesterday. They finally reached their destination and were out of the car, thankfully. Then it took a very strange, weird twist and I was intrigued. I had to see what was going to happen. Then the last 20 minutes or so was really crappy. I looked it up on IMDb where I found that it was based on a book. Sure glad I never tried reading that book. The book was interesting and disturbing, but the longer it went on, the longer it became. It felt as though the last fifth of it was never going to end. ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2020, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-in-the-heck-did-i-just-watch-or-134-minutes-ill-never-get-back/920693/33 "2020-09-16T01:08:13Z")
SWMBO read the book and even she commented on the thread title nearly word for word. The only movies I can think of that even come close to being as much of a waste of time as this are Glengarry Glenross and The Brown Bunny. Turds all. I like offbeat movies and a lot of dialogue has never deterred me but these three are now my top 3 worst wastes of time. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2020, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-in-the-heck-did-i-just-watch-or-134-minutes-ill-never-get-back/920693/34 "2020-09-16T01:39:25Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > **The Lobster** Single people are transported to a hotel in the middle of nowhere and will be turned into an animal of their choice if they do not find a partner in a month. Apparently a commentary on relationships in the modern world or something, but…huh? That one was so bizarre I actually liked it. But on that basis I watched one of Yorgos Lanthimos other films, _Dogtooth_, which I found pretty excruciating. I must admit that I hadn’t realized the Lanthimos directed _The Favorite_, which was relatively conventional (but still pretty odd) and which I like quite a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2020, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-in-the-heck-did-i-just-watch-or-134-minutes-ill-never-get-back/920693/35 "2020-09-16T09:01:11Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > **The Lobster** Single people are transported to a hotel in the middle of nowhere and will be turned into an animal of their choice if they do not find a partner in a month. Apparently a commentary on relationships in the modern world or something, but…huh? Very strange movie. And depressing. And WTF? I have no idea what it was trying to say but it destroyed my trust in the review site that recommended it, and I mean permanently. ---
**Author:** ![Rob54](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rob54/32/4665_2.png) [@Rob54](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rob54)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2020, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-in-the-heck-did-i-just-watch-or-134-minutes-ill-never-get-back/920693/36 "2020-09-16T09:32:51Z")
I was also a little puzzled and amazed at the same time by the film of the French director Quentin Dupieux - Deer Skin (this is his penultimate film) Surrealism, absurdity and comedy - this is a cocktail that I think will not be for everyone, but if you like it, enjoy it !! ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2020, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-in-the-heck-did-i-just-watch-or-134-minutes-ill-never-get-back/920693/37 "2020-09-16T09:44:21Z")
> [@Pancake\_Robot](#): > > cut-the-shit meter was at 11 Stealing, stealing… stolen. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2020, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-in-the-heck-did-i-just-watch-or-134-minutes-ill-never-get-back/920693/38 "2020-09-16T12:38:04Z")
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**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2020, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-in-the-heck-did-i-just-watch-or-134-minutes-ill-never-get-back/920693/39 "2020-09-16T13:50:08Z")
Excuse me, but I did actually watch the movie. I never said that it was just about 2 people talking in a car. I said the first 5-10 minutes of the movie were 2 people talking in a car. I also said that when they arrived at their destination the movie took a strange twist and had me intrigued. That is why I continued to watch it. It became eerie and had me trying to figure out what was happening or going to happen. And no I didn’t think that the dancers at the school were actually there nor the ice cream shop was really open. That’s why I said it took a weird twist. It was creepy and unsettling. FOR MY TASTE it was too long, especially the school part. I did enjoy the middle of the movie. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2020, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-in-the-heck-did-i-just-watch-or-134-minutes-ill-never-get-back/920693/40 "2020-09-16T17:54:32Z")
Fair enough, but the OP did sound like you were bagging on it unnecessarily. And movie lengths have been creeping up steadily so the 134 minutes actually seems compact compared to a lot of these crashy fighty superhero movies that seem like they’re about eight hours long. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-in-the-heck-did-i-just-watch-or-134-minutes-ill-never-get-back/920693.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-in-the-heck-did-i-just-watch-or-134-minutes-ill-never-get-back/920693.md?page=3)