Movies you just couldn't sit through

ionapaul · 13-07-2005 4:35pm #1

Now I'm a real movie lover, any old crap is watchable to me (god knows how many times I've seen Bring It On, you'd think that I'd be sick of it after two viewings, even with the sweet sweet cheerleaders) but I was just thinking of the one movie I can remember being simply*unable* to sit through. And to put this experience into context, I was on a flight from San Francisco (where I lived at the time) to Hong Kong, 16 hours by myself with very very little to do on the plane full of non-English speakers. The movie? The Truth About Charlie. I just couldn't believe it was possible to film something so horribly awful. I should re-iterate I normally can sit through ANY old rubbish, so this was a memorable experience for me!

Any other movie lovers / those with low standards find themselves in such an situation in the past? What were the offending movies?

Chalk · 13-07-2005 4:40pm

only film ive ever walked out of was "the sum of all fears"

qz · 13-07-2005 4:41pm

Assault on Precinct 13
Oceans 12
Oh and I left the cinema during Kingdom of Heaven.

Utter bollocks, all of them.

Mitch Connor · 13-07-2005 4:42pm

The Talented Mr Ripply - found it so boring.

But the one film i have left the cinema during because it was so bad is 13 ghosts - that was so poor.

Retr0gamer · 13-07-2005 4:43pm

I usually watch any old rubbish all the way through. The only film that I couldn't bear to watch any further was Junior with Arnie. A satanic cacophony for the visual and aural senses. Fortress 2 came close last night as did Leprachaun 4: in space.

monkeyfudge · 13-07-2005 4:51pm

Far From Heaven is the only film I've ever walked out of the cinema from.

Just found completely uninteresting and I'd seen pretty much the same story played before in far better ways.

On a recent trans-atlantic flight I found myself unable to stomach Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. But if fairness to it that was most like down to the fact that all the dark scenes made it difficult to see on the crappy LCD displays on the airplane.

Kevin_rc_ie · 13-07-2005 4:52pm

I have never walked out on a film in the cinema because it was crap.

soma · 13-07-2005 4:52pm

I left the cinema during 'joe vs the volcano' - I think I was about 16, which says alot cos 16 year olds will usually sit thru any ****e if they've just paid for it..

Earthhorse · 13-07-2005 4:57pm

2001.

Yeah, I know it's supposed to be a classic but every time I sit down to watch it there's this painstakingly slow bit about monkeys and then there's a painstakingly slow bit set in a spaceport where one guy says, "John?" and half an hour later someone else says, "What?".

Or at least it felt that way. I'm sure it gets better later on.

Rev Hellfire · 13-07-2005 5:01pm

Ninja Squad

monkeyfudge · 13-07-2005 5:04pm

Earthhorse wrote:

2001.

Yeah, I know it's supposed to be a classic but every time I sit down to watch it there's this painstakingly slow bit about monkeys and then there's a painstakingly slow bit set in a spaceport where one guy says, "John?" and half an hour later someone else says, "What?".

If you ask me it's not a proper film unless it has a painstakingly slow scene involving monkeys.

captain P · 13-07-2005 5:09pm

ive watched some unbearable crap but the only thing i ever turned off was glen or glenda. never walked out on anything in the cinema though.

Tusky · 13-07-2005 5:42pm

13 ghosts.

ObeyGiant · 13-07-2005 5:54pm

I have a feeling that this is going to be one of those threads that annoys the hell out of me.

Retr0gamer · 13-07-2005 5:56pm

monkeyfudge wrote:

Far From Heaven is the only film I've ever walked out of the cinema from.

You should have stuck it out. One of those films that is worth it in the end.

Tobias Greeshman · 13-07-2005 5:56pm

About Schmidt, it was brutally depressing, watched half of it and just couldn't take anymore of it!

zAbbo · 13-07-2005 5:59pm

Sideways,

Overhyped rim job of a flick

ixoy · 13-07-2005 6:02pm

Although I've never walked out of a movie, I do regret not walking out of 'Rules of Engagement'. It sickened me. Even more so than people putting '2001', 'About Schmidt' and 'Sidways' in this thread...

superfly · 13-07-2005 6:03pm

the one film i nearly walked out of because i accidentally went to see it thinking it was going to be like Indy Jones was "a passage to India" sheer torture to a 14 year old
the only film i've turned off on video was "Happiness" it wasn't

kinkstr · 13-07-2005 6:05pm

Debbie does Dallas, didnt really walk out, got what i wanted out of the first 15 minutes.

But seriously i turned off elephant, utter tripe.
Batman 3 and 4 - why you ask.... joel schumacher

Nidge · 13-07-2005 6:14pm

kinkstr wrote:

Debbie does Dallas, didnt really walk out, got what i wanted out of the first 15 minutes.

But seriously i turned off elephant, utter tripe.
Batman 3 and 4 - why you ask.... joel schumacher

You saw elephant too! I saw it twice, i watched it once with my friend then with my mom, i think it may well be the worst film i have ever seen. Freddy and Jason is also up there, that film ran til 3am or something and took my precious sleep away.

Chad ghostal · 13-07-2005 7:30pm

i can watch almost anything, and i have..
but i walked out of "a nightmare before christmas"..
i know alot of people love this movie,
but i can't stand musicals..
and (at the young age) i didn't know it was a musical..
still hate it..

weemcd · 13-07-2005 7:36pm

Mad max (any of them)
A clockwork orange. I always mean to sit down and watch it but an hour or so in i just get pissed off and watch something else

Raiser · 13-07-2005 7:47pm

Only one I walked out on was Shaft (2000) - was so scarily formulaic and insulting to its audience, everything about brutalised my nerves.

Would have to have my balls nailed to the seat to sit through 99% of the slush romantic comedies. Women are odd, odd creatures.

* Tip rent A very long engagement from the Amelie stable - great stuff & theres romance to keep herself from complaining

djmarkus · 13-07-2005 7:48pm

Jeepers Creepers , i had a nice knap the 2nd half of that pile of pollution

cosgrove80 · 13-07-2005 7:52pm

Never actually walked out of a film but the Robin Williams remake of The Birdcage was one I wished I did

herobear · 13-07-2005 8:00pm

films i wish i walked out of(but didnt):
bl,,m !!
alien versus predator
the sea inside
a very long engagement :P
downfall !!!!!!
and that really annoying russian film with the 2 boys that ixoy loves(damn cant remember the name)

CuLT · 13-07-2005 8:12pm

I am also a lover of terrible films, but...

I fell asleep during that 15 fifteen minute long psychedelic trip to another dimension in 2001.
Hypnotic, it was.

ixoy · 13-07-2005 8:56pm

herobear wrote:

downfall !!!!!!
and that really annoying russian film with the 2 boys that ixoy loves(damn cant remember the name)

You didn't like 'Downfall' or 'The Return'

And people here don't like... Oh damn you ionapaul for starting this thread! It's breaking my heart and faith in boards.ie readers

Sleepy · 13-07-2005 9:05pm

superfly wrote:

the only film i've turned off on video was "Happiness" it wasn't

Out of 5 people that sat down to watch that movie, I was the only one to stick it out, hoping in vain that the end would justify the rest of that terrible movie. It didn't. Shocking waste of an extremely talented cast.

Raoul Duke · 13-07-2005 9:51pm

I thought some of you had a decent taste in movies before I started reading this thread.

The only film that I stopped watching in, say, the last 10 years was The War of the Worlds. Not the Spielberg version. This was also released this year but it is set in the time of the book. After 30 minutes I'd had enough and there was 2 1/2 hours left! I found this quote in a review I read on the film "Rex is certain that the sequence involving the Narrator and Ogilvy is, perhaps, the most wooden and staged interaction between two actors in the history of cinema." I couldn't have agreed more. You might be tempted to watch it some time out of curiosity or some love for the book, but don't....ever!

Edit: Just found a review that sums it up and this reviewer couldn't finish it either!

Bunny · 13-07-2005 10:00pm

SIN CITY
spawned by some sexually frustrated 35 yr old paedophile, and such incredible special effects which channel4 could reproduce for some crappy trailer in half an hour...

grimloch · 13-07-2005 10:12pm

Can't think of too many off the top of mo cheann but Battlefield Earth, the paper said "unimaginably bad" and as usual not listening to the paper I proceeded to view. O my non religion-specific God.

/comic book guy voice. Worst movie ever.

yermandan · 13-07-2005 10:28pm

oh my god i cant believe no-one has mentiones " little nicky "...Adam sandler is normally very funny but this mooovie sucked ass like no other i've ever seen....eeuuuurgh

by the way,just watchin aliens at the moment and i'm at the scene where ripley nearly gets impregnated by the HUGE insect type thingy!!!!MINGIN!!!

DAN :cool:

gandalf · 13-07-2005 10:31pm

Never walked out of a film in my life.

Came close to walking out of 21 Grams after the first half hour, then soon after that the movie started to make sense and I was really glad I stuck with it !!!

monkeyfudge · 13-07-2005 11:03pm

superfly wrote:

the only film i've turned off on video was "Happiness" it wasn't

Ha... It's probably one of my favourite films.

simu · 14-07-2005 11:16am

Happiness? That's an excellent film!

I rarely walk out of the cinema because I choose my films carefully beforehand. I did however walk out of the recent Batman film. Also, ended up watching Hitch last night and couldn't stomach it. Rom-coms bring out my inner Pat Bateman.

Gangsta · 14-07-2005 11:31am

simu wrote:

Happiness? That's an excellent film!

I rarely walk out of the cinema because I choose my films carefully beforehand. I did however walk out of the recent Batman film. Also, ended up watching Hitch last night and couldn't stomach it. Rom-coms bring out my inner Pat Bateman.

What!? Batman begins and hitch are class! Movies that I couldn't finish were Hero (total s h i t e and boring) and Chocolate (omg so boring and pointless).

marshmallow · 14-07-2005 11:41am

Cursed - I walked out of the cinema when I went to this. My friends said it looked good, I said it looked crap and who turned out to be right? :rolleyes:

Is there a film The Animal? I think that's the name.. It's a comedy and it was recommened in X-tra Vision so my friends and I rented it. We turned it off after 20mins - utter sh*te

RobertFoster · 14-07-2005 12:35pm

qz wrote:

Assault on Precinct 13

The original or remake?

I've never walked out of the cinema because of a film.

I started watching Amadeus (I got it because of the cover) - stopped it to have dinner, but never returned.

Necronomicon · 14-07-2005 12:57pm

I came very close to leaving the cinema during Van Helsing.
I did leave during Revenge of the Sith--I fell asleep after about half an hour and when I woke up towards the end I didn't have a clue what was going on and had a bit of a headache so I strolled out.
Also, I turned off Oceans 12....load of crap I thought.

TerrorFirmer · 14-07-2005 1:33pm

I've never walked out of a movie in my life, and indeed would more then likely never consider it.

Fact being I dont go to a movie, EVER, Unless its a genre I like and the film looks relatively enjoyable.

Ive seen crap films in my favourite Genre, Like the absolutely dreadful House of the Dead and Alone in the Dark, but I wouldnt even dream of walking out of them.

I have however turned off a few DVD's, such as Total Reality, Deep Freeze, Ninja Squad, and a few other appallingly bad B-Movies.

koneko · 14-07-2005 1:40pm

Same. I wouldn't ever walk out of a film in the cinema. Even at home I've sat through some awful crap to see if it would pick up towards the end, or to at least be informed when I slate it online. Oceans 12 is a great example. Boy am I ever glad I didn't go to see that in the cinema, what an awful awful film.

godtabh · 14-07-2005 1:53pm

I was in Iceland and went to see The Inscribables. Was out on the beer the night before and had a mild dose of alcohol posing.

Film was in subtitles.

The mixture of fast moving subtitles drink and not feeling the best meant I left after 10 mins. Ended up getting sick for the rest of the film. Sweet!

Still haven’t seen the film so couldn’t tell you if it’s good or bad!

kjt · 14-07-2005 1:53pm

The Cooler, What a piece of crap... and making the viewers watch that wrinkly sagging ass of his... AWH AWH AWH get me outta here.

Devious · 14-07-2005 11:12pm

I tend to stick out most films to the end, but the closet I came to switching off was that Adam Sandler one, Bulletproof. I mean, iv seen a fair share of dreck in my life but I can safely say without hyperbole that this was the single greatest lump of faecel matter iv had the misfortunate to set eyes on. Avoid like ebola.

Necronomicon · 14-07-2005 11:19pm

I liked that film! Different strokes for different folks I guess

Kingp35 · 15-07-2005 3:13pm

The only film I ever walked out of was the Blair Witch Project. What an absolute load of arse. I only went because of the hype surrounding it and no words can be formed to describe how bad it was.

I usually sit through most films though in the hope that they will eventually get better so i think thats the only one, well off the top of my head anyway, that I havent watched through