When do you give up and decide a movie is too fucking stupid to continue?

Mira Sorvino, you've sunk to depths I never would have imagined. I cannot decide whether to finish this silly movie or not. The Last Templar sucks! Thank goodness I got it from the library and didn't rent it. No available subtitles for the hearing impaired should have been my first clue.

It's too bad because she can act, but either no one is offering her any good roles or she needs to find a new agent.

she doesn't even look like herself any more and it becomes distracting looking at her.... that's when I turn it off.

That movie was just not funny.

What a horrible piece of crap that show is.

Anyone in the field of history, archeology or church history would be out for blood. I see it was based on a novel. Why anyone would want to take this plot and put it onto screen, big or small, is beyond me.

The author can't write for squat. The number of grammatical errors and misused words was astronomical. A few here and there is one thing, but several egregious examples per page reminded me of one of Dorothy Parker's infamous reviews: "this is not a novel to set aside lightly. It should be flung with great force!"

doesn't care who he or she screws, eh?

I can't stop, or look away. I always hate myself afterward too. Plus I have to eat while I watch and I sure as hell don't need that on top of staring at garbage for several hours. I try to stick with a movie I want to see once in a while, but I can't just leave if it sucks. Have to see the whole thing. Ugh.

Now I'm just counting the factual errors. There is about one every 18 seconds.

It's just taking a while to catch on.

especially if it involves animal masturbation, eating mice, licking open wounds, etc.

minutes if you are watching a film.

It's very subjective.

There are a lot of great films I would have stopped watching if I obeyed the alleged rules.

ON EDIT:

Changed "two" pages to "three pages".

aaargh....



Or a Mah Jonng mystery film from Hong Kong! :rofl:

funny--( the Get Smart movie) both about halfway through em. Oops-meant to post as reply to OP...

Get Smart I missed- are you saying it was a good thing I missed it? I suspected it wasn't going to be as fun as the series was...

yeah, I loved Get Smart as a kid, and like Steve Carrell (sp.?) in the little I've seen of his work, but by halfway through the movie, and still waiting for something even remotely clever or funny, I gave up and never finished it. For all I know it suddenly became hysterically funny in its second half, but somehow I doubt it. So yeah,for as far as I got through anyway, it was definitely worth your while to be doing pretty much anything else besides watching it. Guess we'll agree to disagree about Borat. Gross , up to a point doesn't bother me, although like you, I can live without it too... I disliked Borat not for the grossness as for what I saw as a real meanness to it; taking advantage of nice, if sometimes idiotic and stupid people; exploiting people whose only crime was to try to be friendly and helpful to a stranger ( and yes, sometimes to people who DID deserve it, like the good ol boys that agreed with rounding up them there queers) . Again , didn't see it all, by choice, so can't comment on anything but the 1st two thirds or so. BTW, I also agree, and maybe then some re: your post about Jarmusch. I haven't seen many of his movies, but that's because the ones I saw were so pointless and boring that I never had the desire to see any more. Similar to what you said about Strummer( who is a genuine hero of mine btw; I literally cried when he died, so my inclination is to like anything he was a part of); any film maker that can make Tom Waits boring has a serious problem. Not sure how or why I made it all the way through Down By Law or Mystery Train;maybe just too stoned to find the remote and turn em off, but more likely because of my artsy friends who raved about him, and thought I'd suddenly "get it" when they were over... (more than one of my actor/artist/film enthusiast friends think Jarmusch is brilliant). Trying to remember even which one Strummer was in (was it Mystery Train? saw both quite a few years ago,and also am suffering from a common post-60's and 70's ailment: CRS, or can't remember shit).

through it. Stranger than Paradise is wonderful and I love Night on Earth. I think it's his European-type take on things and his whimsy that intrigue me, also his NYC punk culture background. I think his films remind me of Wim Wenders...


I feel the same way about Strummer- it still makes me sad.



yeah, I know you were replying to the OP, but what the hey...

as Down By Law, although at least a few amusing scenes if I remember ...was Strummer in that one? I just don't remember but it would sort of make sense I suppose .Come to think of it, Rude Boy was pretty pointless I thought too, and would have never sat through it had it not been for the great Clash performance scenes ( and for that matter, didn't get all the way through it till the 3rd try; for one thing, it needed English sub-titles; I barely understood a damn thing anybody was saying). From a fellow Strummer fan, have a great day, Tigereye, been an enjoyable little conversation........abq e streeter:hi:

:hi:

:D

common sense experience of accepting or not accepting a work of art, because it might be great, mediocre, or ludicrous.

And common sense says we don't have to absorb hours and hours of a work of art in order to ascertain that it is useless to us?

Or just plain stupid or garbage, based on private opinion. Right?

Life is too short.

The premise sounds horrid.

I've only turned a movie off a few times. "The Number 24" was just so awful I had to turn it off after about 30 minutes. For some reason, I decided to watch "Prom Date" and I only lasted 10 minutes. That one was my own fault...I knew it would be awful and I turn it on anyway.

When it's dumbed down to the point where, for the sake of the viewer, characters explain things to each other that you know they would and should know, I leave.

A+ for action. Everything else might have been better had I not been a native speaker of English, but probably not. Even my kid didn't like that movie, and she has a crush on Christian Bale.

like a Redbox choice in a few months.

Sometimes this turns out to be a bad move (Carol Reed's "The Third Man" has Joeseph Cotten wandering around uselessly to annoying music for what seems like forever -- but once Orson Welles shows up, it gets interesting). Generally, though, if we're still developing characters and setting up what's actually going to happen at what is usually between 1/3 and 1/2 way in, I give up.

The most recent "I give up" was "Elizabeth: The Golden Age".

buck up and watch the whole movie...My regrets though are

Meet Joe Black

The Postman

WaterWorld

Batman and Robin

I wish I did walk out of those...

I also have seen "The Deer Hunter" in bits but can't imagine sitting through the entire thing

and MI:2...I tried about 5 or 6 times to watch through MI:2 and I just couldn't do it...I'd last about half an hour and then realize, I'd rather watch the flies in the dumpster.

I don't play movie roulette. It either comes recommended or it doesn't come on at my house.

And even gotten my money back on some ;)

Little MB is following int footsteps too. Life is too short to sit through a bad movie.

However I have watched a few movies so bad that I had to stop watching almost immediately. Two recent examples: Meet the Spartans and Role Models. I really hate the cheaply made parodies such as Disaster Movie and Superhero Movie. I don't understand how anyone older than 18 can watch those without being drunk.

the opening scenes jumped around so randomly I had no earthly idea what was going on.

murdered the seven people standing in his way to get to her. :puke:

Every now and then I'll see a film where the credits start and then stop. I'll forget all about the credits and start getting into the movie and then after a couple whole scenes the credits start up again. That's so incredibly jarring and annoying.

make your own running gag commentary!

to justify the cost of a ticket...

but i did walk out of the new Wolverine movie (granted, it was the unfinished pirated pre-release a friend was showing)

When it feels like an hour has passed but only 10 minutes. Then another hour, and the timer is showing 12 minutes. Finally another hour, and it's showing 14 minutes. Then it's time to bail.

The first sign that I'm bored with a movie is when I pick up the remote to see how much time is left.

The best movies are the ones where I don't get a chance to think about when it will end.

:boring:

:-|

hard to follow and wasn't as funny as I thought it would be.

About an hour into The Matrix I simply left. Couldn't take it anymore. Rented it once since then and watched it all the way through-- still sucked brown underwear.

A horrible (to the nth power) cover of an adequate movie based on a good poem.

But if I realize I'm sitting through a stinker, I just suck it up and keep watching, because at the very least I can provide my friends with an entertainingly scathing warning/review afterward.

The hands-down worst movie I've ever sat through was "Godsend." Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad. Just don't see it. Ever.

My friend and I also went to see "In the Name of the King," which was a Uwe Boll videogame movie, so we went in knowing it'd be shite. We basically MST3K'd it in the theater the entire time, which was way more entertaining than trying to take the movie seriously would've been.

And I love sci-fi movies

I'm sure that they're doing their best to kill the genre

you know, "Giant grizzly attacks random teens and hikers" one. I can't stand the ones with monsters or anything that requires CGI since they usually go with the cheapest CGI possible.

I usually HATE it when people open their cell phones in the theater, but I couldn't stand the movie and didn't want to walk out after spending 10 bucks.

so I rarely happen upon a clunker.

For example, I automatically eliminate any movie based on an old TV series, any movie whose previews consist mostly of explosions and car chases, any modern horror movie, and any movie with a Roman numeral after it, unless a trusted friend tells me that the movie is worth watching.

I have saved so much money that way.

I have walked out of three movies that I can remember:

1. One of the early Batman movies. It was showing at a $1 theater, and it still seemed like a waste of money, so I left.

2. A British film of Shakespeare's As You Like It, filmed in a junkyard. Not only was the premise stupid but the audio was so bad that all I could hear was vowels. No consonants.

3. I had never seen an Indonesian movie, so when the Portland Film Festival showed one a few years ago, I went. Big mistake. It consisted entirely of a series of unnarrated black and white still photographs of plantation scenes during the Dutch colonial era accompanied by gamelan music. I can tolerate gamelan music--for a while. I can imagine pictures of old Indonesia that would be interesting, but a bunch of Dutch people in pith helmets standing next to their sugar mill, no.

I got as far as the hair removal scene and I hadn't laughed once. From what I could tell up to that point, the writers seemed to think that the sound of Asians and Middle Easterners swearing profusely was inherently and reliably funny. I don't know how I made it through the nightclub scene with the black guy giving the main character lessons on how to conduct himself in order to attract women; stupid shit like standing around clutching your crotch and avoiding looking directly at the woman you're attracted to. Har de har har. Fucking painful.

I actually wanted to murder the Huckabees and anyone whose name appeared on the credits.

With a dull and rusty hatchet.

The YouTube videos of the on-set arguments between the director Russell and Lily Tomlin were far more entertaining that the entire waste of celluloid that the film turned out to be.

I have RLS.... and sitting through a 2 hour + movie can be excruciating

I probably have seen a lot of bad movies and there are very few that I despise. I guess I am pretty easy to entertain. Usually I finish even the movies that I don't like. Perhaps the ending will redeem them. A movie that I recently have not finished was "Benito" which I have the DVD of. I also did not make it through "Amadeus" even though I am sort of a piano player/musician. Spider man was a movie that I would have liked, in spite of the liberties it took with the comic strip (Gwen Stacy for example) but the ending ruined it for me.

I recently watched Anna Karenina with Vivian Leigh and did not really care for it, even though I had a good date.

Other movies that I hated
1. Best in Show
2. Matrix reloaded
3. Pleasantville
4. The Big Lebowski

but I, unfortunately, watched the whole thing.