Films You Switched Off Before The End

[DukeDeMondo]

I honestly can't remember the last time I was properly sat down to gawk at a particular film and turned it off before the end with no intention of ever finishing it. There are plenty of films I've put on just to get a look at and then turned off ten minutes in or whatever, but I wasn't intending to watch them through at that particular time in the first place.

Even if I really hate a film - in fact especially if I really hate it - I'll stick it out, for the desire to bark on and on about how wretched it is will override the desire to be rid of it and to get on with the day, and I know I can say very little of worth about it unless I've actually seen it. Also, there's the very real possibility that the thing will erupt with all the wonderment under the sun just as I'm about to turn it off, and I wouldn't want to miss that, either. 

Been tempted plenty times though. Off the top of my head: Benny's Video and Jeff Who Lives At Home. Desperately wanted to be rid of both of those awful rotten wankers of things by about fifteen minutes in, but again, I also wanted to be able to splutter and choke and hiss about how much I hated them should anyone for whatever reason ever bring them up in conversation.

And anyway, you often get as much out of hating something's guts as you would get out of loving it to kingdom come, as evinced by the 9 million and 40-odd pages of CaB blather devoted to Derek.

[checkoutgirl]

Baise-moi was fucking awful

Is that the one where the guy repeatedly has sex with his mother for some reason? That one was on my radar a couple of years ago when I was working my way through the new extreme French films. I must have missed that one.

[Lisa Jesusandmarychain]

Is that the one where the guy repeatedly has sex with his mother for some reason? That one was on my radar a couple of years ago when I was working my way through the new extreme French films. I must have missed that one.

Nah, no motherfucking in this 'un. This is the film about two bad girls (well, one of them's clearly on the wrong side of 30) who go off on a fucking and murdering spree all due to being wrong uns, but SOCIETY is to blame. It's a porn fim with pretentions, and is absolutely abysmal. One of the main actresses topped herself shortly afterwards.

[chand]

I gave Human Traffic about twenty minutes, I think, before I concluded I did not care even the tiniest amount what happened to any of the cunts. The drugs dialogue was particularly unbearable, I dunno if it had just dated really badly by the time I saw it. Loads of reviews insisted it was an accurate portrayal of reality, in which case it's reality I hated.

[phantom_power]

Is that the one where the guy repeatedly has sex with his mother for some reason? That one was on my radar a couple of years ago when I was working my way through the new extreme French films. I must have missed that one.

That is Ma Mere I think

[checkoutgirl]

I gave Human Traffic about twenty minutes, I think, before I concluded I did not care even the tiniest amount what happened to any of the cunts. The drugs dialogue was particularly unbearable, I dunno if it had just dated really badly by the time I saw it. Loads of reviews insisted it was an accurate portrayal of reality, in which case it's reality I hated.

It felt accurate at the time and it was very deliberately of its time, trance music, pills, that kind of thing. It's all poppercandlefarts and dubsteps these days. It's not a bad if you're 20 years old and watching it in 1999 with a few mates and you understand the references (this might be difficult to do now). I actually gave this a rewatch a couple of years ago and thought it held up reasonably well, but I thought it was okay the first time around. I can completely understand people getting irked by John Sim, he's a bit of a bell in it.

[checkoutgirl]

That is Ma Mere I think

Oh yeah, I'm going to hunt that one down now and watch it. I remember reading some seriously scathing reviews, reviews bad enough to make me want to watch it. It's about a bloke who's sexually obsessed with his mother. I think there is also simultaneous crying and wanking in it. What's not to like?

[Bored of Canada]

Citizen Kane.

Hunger.

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

THE GODFATHER PART 2.

You didn't expect me to sit through those END CREDITS did you? Hahahaha!

[Egyptian Feast]

I gave Human Traffic about twenty minutes, I think, before I concluded I did not care even the tiniest amount what happened to any of the cunts. The drugs dialogue was particularly unbearable, I dunno if it had just dated really badly by the time I saw it. Loads of reviews insisted it was an accurate portrayal of reality, in which case it's reality I hated.

I switched off once the main characters had done their introductory monologues at the beginning. The film could be brilliant for all I know but I couldn't suffer another minute in their company. John Simm was particularly unbearable, although I should've known that already from the stupid fucking face he's pulling on the poster.

[Blumf]

THE GODFATHER PART 2.

You didn't expect me to sit through those END CREDITS did you? Hahahaha!

Your loss. You missed the cold-close segment that featured Dr Strange and Spider Woman. Can't wait for Part 3 now.

[BlodwynPig]

Dusty Springfield: The Musical (theatre not movie)

and a Korean film Ban...? can't remember the title, bored to tears after 10 or 20 minutes

All others I have persevered with.

[checkoutgirl]

Dusty Springfield: The Musical (theatre not movie)

You switched off the theatre? You madman.

[Kane Jones]

You switched off the theatre? You madman.

Yeah, he just ran round the back and pulled the plug out.  It were mental.

[Lost Oliver]

I remember watching Human Traffic about seven years ago and enjoying it but when I revisited it with Mrs LO last year we had to switch it off.

I told my friend about this and he got in a mood with me and told me that I just didn't want to enjoy myself and was being over-critical for the sake of it. Prick.

[stunted]

The only film I've ever walked out the cinema during is Star Wars ep2. I was only 11 and still knew that Anakin was too insufferable to sit through. I've probably become less discerning as I've aged.

[billtheburger]

Bridesmaids.
I was watching it for research purposes - I wanted to know what this high grossing movie did that appealed to women, so much.
The entire comedy is either bitching or gross out. It nearly made me make sexist remarks until I realised it was the producers who were sexist, by not giving their audience the respect their intelligence deserves.

[billtheburger]

The Mist
It was too slow for my patience and the tentacles came beneath some roller shutters looked really CGI-y, I had to stop it, skipped to the end, saw the twist and released a sighed, "thank fuck".

[checkoutgirl]

Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)

About a half an hour I lasted with this one. I'm sure I've posted about it before in a shitty films thread. Such listless performances and crap dialogue and stupid costumes. Mila Kunis's hat alone was enough to get on my nerves. Big stupid floppy thing flopping about all over the place.

Exterminator 2 (1984)

A well know crappy cult film. I thought I'd do it properly and watch The Exterminator (1980) first, it was surprisingly okay. Not great but it was perfectly fine for casual bargain bucket scrapers like me. The sequel is a fucking mess, terrible dialogue, awful sound and the performances are beyond belief. It's like a wedding video. The goodwill from the first film carried me to about 3 quarters of the way through at which point I gave up. It's amazing the difference in quality of performance by Robert Ginty between the first and second film. It's like two different people.

[Kane Jones]

The only film I've ever walked out the cinema during is Star Wars ep2. I was only 11 and still knew that Anakin was too insufferable to sit through.

I did the next best thing; I fell asleep in the cinema.  I was 26.

[garbed_attic]

Been tempted plenty times though. Off the top of my head: Benny's Video and Jeff Who Lives At Home. Desperately wanted to be rid of both of those awful rotten wankers of things by about fifteen minutes in, but again, I also wanted to be able to splutter and choke and hiss about how much I hated them should anyone for whatever reason ever bring them up in conversation.

I'm vaguely interested in hearing of your hatred for those films!

I think the only films I've given up on were ones in which I missed at least a portion of the beginning, such as Sin City and Saw... I can see the merit in the latter's stream-lined, economic approach, I suppose, but the former just seemed smug and loathsome and faux-ironic, faux-misogynist and since I've never enjoyed any Miller I've read and my friend also wanted to leave the cinema, I left.

[Puce Moment]

I would say probably 50% of films I watch I turn off well before the end. The only reason is boredom. Therefore, most recently I turned off the following:

The Purge: Anarchy
Tron
The Avengers
Man of Steel
Thor
That horror film with the redhead from Doctor Who
That Hammer film with students set in the 1960s

Usually it is just mainstream Hollywood films which are so generic and formulaic I simply cannot put myself through them. A few weeks ago I tried to watch Beyond the Sea - the story of Bobby Darrin by Kevin Spacey but the first 15mins are fucking appalling.

[Blumf]

I did the next best thing; I fell asleep in the cinema.  I was 26.

Done that with two Harry Potter films (2^nd and 3^rd I think), 30-something I was, wife has never forgiven me for snoring.

They are unrepentantly dull and predictable.

[Kane Jones]

Done that with two Harry Potter films (2^nd and 3^rd I think), 30-something I was, wife has never forgiven me for snoring.

They are unrepentantly dull and predictable.

Oh I agree.  My wife has tried to make me watch all of the fucking things.  I usually drift off after about 50 minutes and wake up 10 minutes from the end.  I still don't really have any idea what the hell is going on.  I just find them so fucking boring.  In fact, I rarely switch films off if I don't like them.  I just use them as an excuse to have a nap.

[DangledTeeth]

There probably are a few films I've switched off before the end but can't remember right now (probably due to the films being appallingly shit enough to be completely forgettable).

But one film I should have turned off before the end is The Exorcist 2: The Heretic.

[clingfilm portent]

Exterminator 2 (1984)

The sequel is a fucking mess, terrible dialogue, awful sound and the performances are beyond belief. It's like a wedding video.

My good man, I've seen films that make Exterminator 2 look like Barry Lyndon..... if I'm thinking of the right one. Mario van Peebles?

[clingfilm portent]

The Exorcist 2: The Heretic.

Ooh yes. 20 minutes I think I made it. That phrase ill-conceived doesn't do that film justice.

[Pit-Pat]

I've seen the first 140 [nb]of 164[/nb] mins of Munich twice but can't quite be bothered to watch that last little bit.

Kinda reminds me of a guy I knew who dropped out in the last term of the last year of university. You've got this far!!

[BlodwynPig]

That reboot of Dawn of the Dead deserves a switch off UNTIL the credits, which are great.

[non capisco]

I saw 'Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps' at the cinema and needed a dump halfway through. I had a sudden revelation pretty much on plopping point and actually said out loud in the cubicle 'You know what? I'm not going back in.' This was shortly followed by a swelling feeling of satisfaction in making a positive decision. Strode out of that Cineworld feeling like a winner. Didn't even look up the end online, just left it. Previously I'd been the kind of schmuck who sits through all of something like 'The Fourth Kind', the alien abduction film with no aliens and no abductions in it. They didn't have any money for alien effects so the big bad in that is an owl looking through a window.

[Egyptian Feast]

I caught the last half of Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps on TV a while back, so between us we've seen the whole movie. Even though you don't care, just thought I'd let you know Gordon Gekko turns out to be a nice guy in the end and everyone lives wealthily ever after.

Sorry, SPOILERS.