"Well, that's two hours of my life I'll never get back..."

[barsoomcore]

Here's a new direction:

Movies You Walked Out Of

Now, that's walked out of. As in, saw in the theatre, and before it got to the credits, you stood up, put on your coat and walked on out. If you didn't see it in the theatre, you can't list it. If you stayed till the credits, no matter how much you may have hated yourself, you can't list it. If you'd later WISHED you'd walked out of, you can't list it.

For me:

Red Dragon

Okay, I liked Rush Hour just fine -- but it in no way proved that its director was ready to handle either a complicated story or competent actors. This film proved that he wasn't. I guess we got in about an hour and just gave up, bored and annoyed and since, of course, we already knew how it ended (being a remake of Manhunter) there was honestly no reason to keep sitting there. So we went out and had a beer.

I know there's a couple of others but I can't think of them now.

I thought the very opening scenes of Resident Evil (with the frenzied attempts to escape) where the best part of the film. Oh, and Milla naked. And the final shot. I agree there was a lot of pointless crap in the middle, though. Peuw.

 

[reapersaurus]

I agree -
League of Extraordinary Gentleman and Underworld were both VERY easy on the eyes, eminantly watchable. Very bad examples of stuff that's painful to see.

I mean - LXG's set design and art direction alone should exempt it from this particular category, much less Kate Beckinsale's as.... umm... assets make Underworld completely immune from inclusion in this thread.

 

[Viking Bastard]

Here's a new direction:

Movies You Walked Out Of

I have never walked out of a movie. If I start watchin' something I have to
finish it. It's just how my brain's wired. It doesn't really make much an impact
on what movies I watch, but makes me picky about what I read (and why I'm
so scared of multi-book epics).

Also, I'm so such a Film Freak, that I even enjoy watchin' crappy movies. Even
only to study the whys of the crappyness. Plus, I like to scan movies for
any kind of inspiration or neat ideas. Most movies have something goin' for it,
especially the big budget slugfests.

Personally, I feel that people don't walk out of movies quite enough. If you're
not enjoying yourself, just piss off, don't moan about it loudly or make an arse
out yourselves. Had too many cinema trips on artie fartie movies ruined by
people actin' like total twits.

 

[kirinke]

Really, these threads are revealing MUCH more about the people posting, and reflect mush worse on the person, than about or on the movies that are listed.

I mean COME ON - FIVE MINUTES?
What possibly was on screen in 5 minutes that made you want to gouge your eyes out? You couldn't handle people working in a lab, a container breaking, people getting sealed in and dying, and then seeing a naked Milla Jovovich in the shower?

Yeah - really difficult frames of film to watch there.... why don't you take up a collection to pay for your psychiatric therapy bills to purge the memory from your brain.

lol i have a good instinct for bad movies? hmmm not gonna work.

it was more like thirty minutes that progressively got worse. some video games should Never be turned into movies. this was one of them.

it was like see zombie shoot zombie. do not let zombie scratch you, spit on you exchange bodily fluids with you or you turn into zombie and repeat process.....

it was also the only movie i walked out on. i even sat through House on Haunted Hill (the vincent price remake)....
and i walked out to avoid the pyschiatric bills.....

 

[Silver Moon]

Clear & Present Danger

Great book, awful film. I knew they would be doing a hatchet job on the book as soon as I heard that Harrison Ford was being paid $10M for the film, when in the book the Jack Ryan character doesn't even show up until over half way through! It would have worked better if they had flipped the casting between Ford and Defoe, instead they had an actor in his 50's playing a character who was supposed to be in his 30's and vice versa. Of course, It would have been even better if the screenplay writer had actually read the book.

My nomination for two hours I want back is the film "Natural Born Killers".

 

[Rozman]

Highlander II: The Quickening

"There should have been only one"

 

[Bass Puppet]

Here's a new direction:

Movies You Walked Out Of

Now, that's walked out of. As in, saw in the theatre, and before it got to the credits, you stood up, put on your coat and walked on out. If you didn't see it in the theatre, you can't list it. If you stayed till the credits, no matter how much you may have hated yourself, you can't list it. If you'd later WISHED you'd walked out of, you can't list it.

The Blair Witch Project. I simply could not watch it after 15 minutes.

"There should have been only one"

That my friend, was classic. *tip's hat*

 

[Tsyr]

Highlander II: The Quickening

What are you talking about? There is no Highlander II... never has been.

 

[Bass Puppet]

What are you talking about? There is no Highlander II... never has been.

I wish the trauma could help me forget.

 

[Hypersmurf]

What are you talking about? There is no Highlander II... never has been.

There's a persistent rumour, though. Some people even claim to have seen it.

I think a lot of people just take the (admittedly logical) step of assuming that if you have "The Highlander" (excellent film) and "Highlander III: The Sorcerer" (not an excellent film), that there must have somewhere been a "Highlander II".

And it seems so logical that they actually manage to convince themselves it exists.

You could probably do a Psychology thesis on the phenomenon.

-Hyp.