Discussion - what is the last movie you couldn't finish?

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• maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Alita: Battle Angel.

  It starts off bad but when Alita signs up to be a hunter or whatever they are called and dons the coat and goes to the bar it’s just embarrassing. I feel sorry for everyone involved.

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  • Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    7.3 on IMDb. I don’t remember much about it but I remember watching it and liking it except for the ending. The ending was a total wreck and made the entire movie a waste of time. I guess that’s why some people were looking for a sequel.

    Did you dislike it because you had a reference and it didn’t live up to it or did you just dislike it as a movie?

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    • maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Disliked it as a movie.

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  • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s where I was interrupted and when I got ready to resume just didn’t feel like continuing.

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  • Blaze@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I had completely forgotten about that movie, thank you for bringing it up

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    • maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I have seen comments from folks wanting a sequel. I just.

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• spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  For the most part I will finish out any movie just to see how it ends, but sometimes I get interrupted and never go back. Not really a couldn’t finish, but more of a ‘why bother’ reaction.

  The last movie I can remember turning off intentionally was Misery, because it was too intense. This is weird because I love a lot of gory and brutal horror, like Bone Tomahawk was absolutely a fun ride! This one was just a bit to real and grounded. When Kathy Bates was about the break his legs the anticipation was just too much and I turned it off.

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  • Blaze@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The last movie I can remember turning off intentionally was Misery, because it was too intense. This is weird because I love a lot of gory and brutal horror, like Bone Tomahawk was absolutely a fun ride! This one was just a bit to real and grounded. When Kathy Bates was about the break his legs the anticipation was just too much and I turned it off.

    I watched that at school, definitely not my best memory. That story is really horrifying

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    • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I read the book back in the 90s and didn’t try to watch the movie until a couple years ago because I just didn’t believe it could live up to the book despite the critical acclaim that the movie has.

      Holy hell it was right on track up to the point I stopped.

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• Gerudo@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Madame web. I really wanted to give it a chance. I couldn’t make it past 15 minutes. Dakota Johnson is such a terrible actress, she ruined it for me.

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  • Artyom@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As one of the unfortunate ones who watched the whole thing, would you believe me if I said it got worse from there?

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  • DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I unfortunately watched the entire movie. I hadn’t heard of it before my girlfriend put it on for us. The entire time I thought it was a parody or a cheap marvel spinoff. When they butchered the famous uncle Ben line, I knew it had to be a joke. Even as a joke movie, the ending was abysmal. Then at the very end I found out it was actually a marvel movie lol

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    • angrystego@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well, it’s not Marvel Marvel, it’s Sony Marvel. In the context of other Sony live-action it makes a lot of sense.

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    • realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s overhyped as a “so bad it’s good” movie. Morbius is a little better at that, but Venom 3 is really where it’s at. I almost bursted out laughing while in the theaters multiple times.

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  • ursakhiin@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is the last one for me as well. Though, my partner and I didn’t even finish the first episode of Dune: Prophecy if you want to count that.

    Dakota Johnson isn’t what ruined Madame Web for me, though. The writing was truly awful from the plot to the dialogue. The costumes were really bad as well and the action was just terrible. It looked like poorly done wire tricks on CGI.

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• Pronell@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Hundreds of Beavers.

  I knew nothing about it going in other than good buzz, and it never drew me in at all. Made it about twenty minutes.

  Way back in the day? My mom and I walked out of Death Becomes Her in the theater. It’s a very tonally confused movie, but the main issue was that it had been days or weeks since her mom had died.

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  • porotoman99@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I would recommend finishing Hundreds of Beavers. The beginning is pretty slow, but it starts picking up later and really becomes a strange spectacle by the end.

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  • Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeesh. That would do it.

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• makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Arthur (1981). I really like the theme song when it comes up so I thought I’d give it a go, especially considering it won an Oscar. The titular character sucks, which I’m aware is the point but it’s just aged so poorly. I have no sympathy for this effective billionaire, I don’t care that nobody loves him for his personality, I don’t care that he’s drowning himself in booze, and frankly, he annoys me. I’m sure he gives up the money and booze for love at the end but that still doesn’t redeem him being so fucking annoying. I’m predisposed to dislike him and nothing he does in the first 45 minutes changes that

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• Steve@communick.news ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Never happened.

  If I start a movie, I’ve already organized things so I have nothing else to do. So why not finish it?

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  • ursakhiin@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Besides, if you haven’t finished a movie, you can’t claim to have a valid opinion of it.

    I’m sure you didn’t mean it to sound this way, but this kind of gate keeping sounds very elitist. I can have a valid opinion of a movie I didn’t finish.

    Usually, me not finishing it means that through the portion I watched I was disliking it so much I decided finishing it was a waste of my time. It doesn’t happen often, but it does happen. I don’t need to see the ending to know i didn’t enjoy the journey. The onus is on the creators of the movie to ensure I enjoy or am at least engaged throughout and I don’t, not does anybody else, owe it to them to see though the time I’ve set aside to watch it. Especially if they could be bothered to hold up their side of the bargain.

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    • Steve@communick.news ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If you don’t know how it ends, your opinion is necessarily incomplete. You can only speak to the portion you’ve seen. There’s no real way around it.

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• DemBoSain@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The last Godzilla/Kong movie.

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  • Gerudo@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I managed to finish it, but I was brutal to get through.

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• Simulation6@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My friend and I walked out of Mad Max because it was so bad. Later we walked out of Road Warrior because we didn’t realize it was Mad Max 2 and it was also bad. When Thunderdome came out we knew it was Mad Max 3, but decided to walk out of it anyway to get the hat trick.

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  • oldfart@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s important to make sacrifices for the big cause, i wasn’t as strong as you and getting bored to death on one of the parts, i refused to ever watch it again

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• Emperor@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I try and finish any film I start. I’ve never walked out of a film.but I came close with Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer.because the friend whose idea it was got.close to leaving buy she knuckled down and got.through it. I should have left the Valentine’s Day screening of Nekromantik as it.was far too loud and.it.can’t have done my hearing any good.

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• FUBAR@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Dunkirk, extremely boring

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  • golli@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I only saw it once, so i am a bit hesitant to voice an opinion, but i’m inclined to agree that it really didn’t do much for me. Even though i’ve seen it be praised on a number of occasions online.

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• Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Avatar. James Cameron’s avatar. I still can’t believe anyone watch that movie and was engaged. It was as ridiculous a concept as I’ve ever seen and as non-immersive a movie as I’ve ever experienced.

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  • golli@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    as non-immersive a movie as I’ve ever experienced.

    I assume you didn’t watch it at a cinema in 3d?

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    • Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No. I didn’t. I guess if that was required I missed my chance. Not bothered.

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• realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This only happened to me once: with the live action Tom & Jerry film. What a horrible movie.

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• beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have a hot take that if I can’t even make it through the trailer…

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• Aphelion@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I couldn’t make it through the first 5 minutes of the remake of The Crow. Absolutely awful.

  Wonderwoman 1984 was also pretty cringe and I didn’t make it more than 10 minutes.

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• Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Human Centipede. Right about the time he unveils his creation of when my wife and I called it.

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• Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Three last ones were:

  Some blatant ripoff of Silence of the Lambs/ generic serial killer movie with Martin Lawrence and John Malkovich. Got 30 mins in and they may as well have used the same sets as SotL because somehow serial killers get the largest cells in the world so they can paint and look at files for murder cases and make phone calls to detectives just before they go to the execution chamber. - Mindcage

  The last Die hard move, Barely mentally there Bruce Willis destroying moscow during a car chase just so he can yell at his son. - A good Day to Die Hard

  Some Garbage Marky Mark movie set in Boston where he was a private eye or something, we got 30 mins in and it was so bad we guessed how obvious they were being and how bad it was going to be and skipped to the end to see if we were right. (we were) - Spenser Confidential

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• dmention7@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think there has only been one movie that I haven’t finished, even if it was only because I was comfortable on the sofa with a bowl of popcorn: You Don’t Mess With the Zohan

  I think the wife and I made 15 minutes before calling it quits l.

  Pretty much the epitome of " I expected nothing, and I was still disappointed"

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• keyez@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Borderlands and Dead pool & Wolverine. The former I put on when it was free on streaming cuz I was sick in bed and curious. Made it about halfway through paying like 80% attention. The latter I was really excited to stream and had a spare couple hours on evening so I threw it on and I loved the previous Deadpool and Wolverine/XMen movies but to me the jokes weren’t funny and guess I don’t know enough about 20thCenturyFoxs and Marvels IP to be in on the rest of the jokes

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