What was the last movie you stopped watching partway through?
Mine was Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. It was on Netflix Instant Play and at a certain point I realized that I cared so little about what was happening, I’d just as soon turn it off. So I did. I think Meet the Fockers was the last one before that.
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Sara and I netflixed the last Indiana Jones movie, it was terrible and was putting me to sleep so I went to bed instead after about 30 minutes.
Good decision. I wish I’d stopped watching. It only got worse.
You know, I don’t think I’ve ever walked out of a movie theater. And if I rent a movie, I always watch the whole thing.
But with the advent of streaming, on-demand movies, I easily cut movies out now. Sam and I put on that faux-Tarnatino film with the gang of woman you shoot guns and step out of cars in slo-mo. I don’t remember the name right now, but phew was that bad. We cut it after 20 minutes or so.
On the other hand, Sam and I pushed through Troll 2 last weekend.
I’ve never walked out of a theater. I rarely turn off DVD’s or don’t see them all the way through. But like Paris said, aborting a netflix watch instantly movie is a pretty common practice for me. Especially with horror movies. I enjoy really bad, b-movie horror, but sometimes they are just so boring as to be unwatchable and I don’t bother finishing them. I find documentaries to be the same way, if they take too long to set up.
Only movie I’ve ever walked out of in a theater was Casino, but that was a whole ’nother weird scenario that contributed. But otherwise, yeah. I made it through Paranormal Activity, I can make it through almost anything in a theater. But watching movies all day on netflix… quite a few get shut off.
I couldn’t make it through Kick Ass.
The only time I came close to walking out of a movie theater was during LOTR: The Two Towers. I was just about to leave and then the trees starting attacking things.
I left Return of the King shortly after the movie ended, but before the Hobbits getting gay with each other did.
Lollilove, Jenna Fischer’s independent movie about yuppies trying to fight homelessness with lollipops. Maybe I wasn’t in the right mood but the characters were just too awful, which I think was the point.
I dated a guy who was constantly turning movies off in the middle; I still need to find out what happened in Teeth, District 9, The Ugly Truth, and several cheap horror movies.
That movie was called Bitch Slap by the way.
Travis said:I couldn’t make it through Kick Ass.
Was it the way Nicholas Cage screams?
I turned off Doctor Horrible’s Sing Along Blog halfway through, and that thing is only about 45 minutes long.
alycia said:
I dated a guy who was constantly turning movies off in the middle; I still need to find out what happened in Teeth, District 9, The Ugly Truth, and several cheap horror movies.
I’m glad it was “dated” and not “dating” – wotta douche. Teeth was pretty good, but District 9 is one of the greatest modern sci-fi movies ever made – WATCH IT.
Evan said:I left Return of the King shortly after the movie ended, but before the Hobbits getting gay with each other did.
hehehehhehehehheehhe. yeah. I only made it through that movie once. I don’t think I could ever stomach the 17 endings again.
mandy said:I turned off Doctor Horrible’s Sing Along Blog halfway through, and that thing is only about 45 minutes long.
This is completely baffling to me. I don’t understand what’s not to absolutely love about it.
John said:mandy said:I turned off Doctor Horrible’s Sing Along Blog halfway through, and that thing is only about 45 minutes long.
This is completely baffling to me. I don’t understand what’s not to absolutely love about it.
It was kinda boring. And I maybe had a headache.
I got bored of The Fountain and had to go to the kitchen and pretend to do stuff while Mandy kept asking if she should pause it for me.
I feel I can now tell you the answer -No, the movie is shite.
I don’t know if there is a movie I could ever stop watching halfway through. There were a few bad ones and at times I did want to stop watching but seeing as I can watch any Seagal or Van Damme movie (yes, even the ones that go straight to video) from beginning to end, I almost feel obligated to watch every movie beginning to end.
Boondock Saints 2 really tested my patience though….
The Norton Project.
L`Kevin said:The Norton Project.
Hahahaha, me too.
John said:mandy said:I turned off Doctor Horrible’s Sing Along Blog halfway through, and that thing is only about 45 minutes long.
This is completely baffling to me. I don’t understand what’s not to absolutely love about it.
I like it, but it’s a case of Joss Whedon shamelessly rerunning his own oeuvre. Musical numbers? Mad scientist supervillain geek with a freeze-ray trying to make it to the big leagues? Who accidentally causes a very specific tragedy? All of that was strip-mined from the sixth season of Buffy, where it had a lot more poignancy and a Dark Phoenix arc to boot. I think Dr. Horrible might even use the same van (sans airbrushed Death Star).
To answer the post question: yeah, I turn off movies all the time via Netflix Instant Watch. Sometimes because they’re terrible, sometimes because I get distracted, or sometimes because I get annoyed that there’s a specific cut of the movie that I dislike and dammit I wish it was the original cut (this happens a lot with Italian horror movies, which usually float around in at least twenty-zillion different formats and titles).
here’s a movie a few of us sat down to watch and enjoy and turned off after about 45 minutes.
the wolfman
starring the always-great-but-not-in this benicio del toro, anthony hopkins, emily blunt and hugo weaving.
man that movie was a pile of dog shit.
Date Night.