Something About Mary. Fratboy humor and Ben Stiller. What crap.
This one surprises me but after falling asleep each of the three times I attempted it, I gave up on Godfather II. I just could not get into it.
Agreed, but isn’t “fratboy humor” and “Ben Stiller” redundant? (come to think of it and “what crap”?)
Bah. You wouldn’t happen to be related to this guy would you?
I’m usually not afraid to turn off a movie or walk out of the theater. I figure I’ve already wasted my money, I’m not going to waste my time as well. But if I really dislike a very popular movie I’ll force myself to watch it all the way through. That way I avoid people trying to cajole me into watching it again with the whole “It really picks up in the third act” argument. The only movie I’ve not been able to do that for is The Matrix. I fall asleep during the scene in the white room every time.
That was David Lynch’s WILD AT HEART- the first time I saw it was a video rental, and I immediately apologizeg to the friends I had talked into watching it with me. The next day, I re-watched it on my own. It then became a favorite.
My wife doesn’t drag me to many chick flicks, and I’ve stayed to the end of all of them (even Legally Blonde 2)… except Stepmom. I felt OK doing it, because one of her friends had come with us.
Possibly. I’m not familiar with many of his films. I can proudly say that I’ve NEVER made it through an Adam Sandler movie.
I could not get through Superbad.
It really lived up to it’s name.
Only one: Metropolis. I left after an hour or so.
I feel lucky, have not seen any of the movies mentioned upthread except for the Bond flicks (most of which are palatable) and Empire Strikes Back (which is good).
I wish I had walked out of Blair Witch Project. I’m still pissed about that.
I turned off **Napolian Dynamite ** on TV. What the hell was that?
Which reminds me–I turned off Eraserhead too. I actually liked it. I loved the long shots of him walking down the street, etc., I loved the acting, the cinematography, etc., but all the awkwardness in his girlfriend/wife’s house was too much for me. It’s not the weirdness of the movie that got me, it’s that it was creepy that Lynch perfectly nailed every guy’s worst fears about meeting the parents. Of course, the living mini-chicken and the makeout session were weird, as were some other things, but they were kind of like blanks you could fill in with any number of things that could go wrong. It was just way too real for me, like a good drug trip that takes a bad turn.
Meet the Parents - Went with friends, disliked it so much, I wandered over to another theatre to watch the end of some bad Stallone film. I found it unfunny and I really hate movies where everything hinges on a stupid misunderstanding or assumption.
Gone in 60 Seconds - Same deal, went with friends (hmmm, come to think of it, the same friends, I should stop seeing movies with them) and was bored out of my skull. Wound up wandering in and out of other theatres until it was over.
I am glad to see I am not the only one who detested this movie [Knocked Up]. I see it listed now in many year-end 10 best columns and I just shake my head.
Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation. I watched the first 5 minutes before I left to find some vodka and a dull spoon to dig the memory out with.
There’s a Starship Troopers 2??!! OMG, kill me now, or lend me your spoon so I can dig out my eyes.
Mel Brooks’ History Of The World, Part I. Got tired of all the barfing and walked out about 45 minutes into it.
As stated earlier, Battlefield Earth. Fortunately it was at a drive in double feature and we’d already seen the movie we wanted to see, so it was no big loss. But what a snoozer…
Napoleon Dynamite. Rented it, popped it in, watched about 10 minutes of it, looked at Kathy, and we both said “WTF???” It went back the same night.
And I would have walked out of The English Patient, but I was dating a girl at the time who was an Academy member, and we were watching a preview at the Academy’s theater in Beverly Hills. I only really figured out what was happening in that flick about 5 minutes from the credit roll.
The two I can remember walking out of in theatres are “Batman Whatevers” with the Penguin in it, and “Great Expectations” with Gwyneth Paltrow. I don’t like Gwyneth Paltrow, and I don’t much like Shakespeare; that was a deadly combination for me.
Movies I taped and turned off: let’s see, I remember turning off “The Avengers” and “The Cable Guy,” at the very least. I’m sure there are others I can’t recall. I do remember renting “The Producers” which is supposed to be one of the best comedies ever made, and my husband and I sitting through the whole thing, waiting for it to get funny. I think we chuckled a tiny bit once. I don’t try to sit through movies I’m not enjoying; life is just too short for that.
The only movie I’ve ever walked out on was *Good Morning Viet Nam. *
Another one I had mostly forgotten about already: the Dark Backward.
I sooo wanted to like this movie. I loved the look of it. I remembered wanting to see it way back when it came out. But it was so awful.
They must have both used the same line, because it’s in Face Off too. IIRC, the scene has a vicious killer disguised as this teenage girl’s father, she doesn’t know about the switch, and he makes this lascivious comment to her. Brr.