It's slow and nothing happens soon enough to hold my attention. I have that problem with a lot of movies. I'll never understand how I made it through 2001: the Space Odyssey, though. Watching paint dry would've been more interesting, yet I did it. If I can handle that, maybe someday I can use that will power to get through the rest of The G-dfather...or maybe I'll just watch Scarface again.
Another film is Mission Impossible 1, 2 and 3. Not because they were bad, they're probably good, but the only way to keep me watching is to have a good beginning, and the M.I. series did not have good beginnings... I guess I was expecting something like a Bond film.
Bond movies on the other hand, they are timeless! I was watching Tomorrow Never Dies and it was slowly building to a huge beginning... and that's what gets me hooked, as soon as the missile was heading for the weapon caches also loaded with nuclear war heads, it got my attenton instantly and couldn't tear my eyes away!
The only Indiana Jones movies I've watched all the way through is the Temple of Doom. I don't know why, I guess whenever I watch them, I fall asleep because it's late at night.
So many Nintendo Lifers putting down the Godfather.
Yes, this shocks and horrifies me. Godfather 1 and 2 are two of the all-time greats. People seem to hate it for silly reasons, too. "It's long." "It's about bad guys." Be reasonable now, people; lest you wake up with a horse's head in your bed
Length is a genuine problem if a film is too long. The Godfather movies are glacial, and they're just not entertaining. They're not really deep, either - there's precious little entertainment or educational value in those films.
They are well made films, and aspiring film makers would do well to discect it frame by frame, but for the rest of us there's really are better, more entertaining or more enlightening films out there.
Interesting that no one has replied with a cartoon movie lol. It seems to be mainly the more grown up movies with violence and shiz.
There is also the Dare Devil film... I like most Marvel comic movies, but that never appealed to me in the slightest. Bad beginning, bad acting (for me anyways) and just a very slow movie. Never ever finished it and I really can't be arsed to either.
One movie I started watching but just had to stop was The Other Guys.
Watched that recently, one of the funniest movies I've seen in a long time. What didn't you like about it?
Not sure. It was funny but I just couldn't watch the whole thing for some reason. I'm sure I just wasn't in the mood at the moment. (and maybe the crappy quality of the screen on the airplane made me not want to watch it.)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: Watched a little bit of it but never finished. I'll have to get back to this one some day. Attack of the Clones: Have seen bits and pieces of it but that's about it. I'll doubt I'll be watching the whole thing though.
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Disaster Movie, I walked out of the cinema halfway through, the other one is Twilight, my sister dragged me to the cinema to watch it with her and I fell asleep 30 minutes into the movie and the last one was Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 1 so boring.
I have actually graduated in film studies with a bachelor of Arts majoring in Film Studies (theory). It was awesome. Watched tonnes of movies I never would have ever even heard of. Good times.
Alien - I got halfway through a gazillion times, but to this day I've never seen the ending.
A lot of films that people have mentioned here are ones I enjoy to varying degrees, but this is the only one I see that I really love. It'd certainly be on my list of all-time favorites, and it would be one of only two science fiction films to make that list.
I'm not questioning your opinion on it, Mickeymac. If you didn't enjoy it enough to finish it, that's of course your right as a viewer. But I was surprised to see it here!
As for the question at hand...it's rare that I don't finish a movie. Even if I'm enraged by its awfulness (which has happened!) I'll keep watching, if only so I can more fully deconstruct the aspects of the film that are not working. It's often beneficial as an artist to watch films (or read books) that you aren't particularly enjoying. It gives you an education (if you approach it that way) that you can only get from a product whose components don't correctly align.
That said, I came very close to walking out on Spanglish, and was more than a little tempted to turn off Midnight Express, Tapped (a documentary about bottled water that may well be the single most incompetent documentary I've ever seen...and I'm including youtube stuff in that), and Stranger Than Fiction.
^It's not because it was bad, but because it was terrifying! I've seen some scary movies before, but Alien was by far one of the scariest I've seen! If anything it's a testament to how great it is when I keep trying despite freaking out every single time.
^It's not because it was bad, but because it was terrifying! I've seen some scary movies before, but Alien was by far one of the scariest I've seen! If anything it's a testament to how great it is when I keep trying despite freaking out every single time.
Ah, okay. That has certainly put my mind at ease somewhat. haha
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