• @[email protected]
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    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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    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 because I just don’t care. Vesper and Battle Angel Alita fall into that category, I could have finished them but the tiny effort to resume was too much.

    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.

    • Blaze (he/him)OP
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      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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        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 and I assume it stayed faithful for the rest.

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          If memory serves, in the movie she only breaks his ankles with a sledgehammer instead of cutting off his foot (feet?).

          • snooggums
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            I would call that a minor difference that was necessary for the adaptation at that time. Same end result of being unable to walk.

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    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. When I got to the bar scene the second time I tried to watch the film I remembered why I stopped the first time.

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

    • Blaze (he/him)OP
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      I had completely forgotten about that movie, thank you for bringing it up

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          I’m going to admit I’m one of them. I think it’s a nice movie for teenagers.

  • @[email protected]
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    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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      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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    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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      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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        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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        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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          Morbius was boring AF! I loved Madame Web though, made me laugh both times she drove a car through a wall into a randomly barefoot badguy

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

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    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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      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.

  • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝M
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    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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    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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      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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    The last Godzilla/Kong movie. I barely made it a half hour before bailing out.

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

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    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.

    Special effects or not it was nothing but a big overblown cartoon. I felt like I was living through a real life The Emperor’s New Clothes.

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      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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          No reason to be bothered. But i think that if a scale exist that measures how much a movie benefits from being seen on a big screen with the right projection technology, the avatar movies have to be on the extreme end of benefiting a lot. Because imo they are maybe the only big blockbuster movie that is specifically made for the 3D technology, rather than it just being bolted on. This goes especially for the first one, when you compare it to other movies of that era.

          I can definitely see how it is non-immersive when watched at home, because the the narrative is nothing to write home about. But to me the story more or less just serves as a non-offensive background to the visual spectacle.

          And while the progress of TVs has closed the quality gap between home theaters and cinema, it really hasn’t done anything for the 3D aspect. On that note i do wonder how avatar 1 and 2 look when using a VR headset.

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            Exactly. For me it was a nice action flick, nothing more (I quite like the wolf-dancing theme though), but also a technological revolution. I would compare it to my beloved Jurassic Park - simple action plot, perfect execution with revolutionary effects.

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    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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    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 so I picked something else.