•  Gerudo   ( @Gerudo@lemm.ee ) 
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    79 days 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.

    • 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

    • 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.

  • 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.

    •  golli   ( @golli@lemm.ee ) 
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      28 days 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

        •  golli   ( @golli@lemm.ee ) 
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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.

  • 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.

    •  oldfart   ( @oldfart@lemm.ee ) 
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      18 days 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

  •  Steve   ( @Steve@communick.news ) 
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    Never happened.

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

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

    •  ursakhiin   ( @ursakhiin@beehaw.org ) 
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      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, nor 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.

        • Incomplete doesn’t mean invalid, though. I can say I didn’t enjoy the first half so much that I didn’t give the second half a chance. I will have enough information to explain why I didn’t enjoy the first half and my opinion of the movie is completely valid.

          I don’t have to continue to subject myself to something I don’t enjoy. I can explain what I don’t enjoy. People don’t need more than that to have a valid opinion of something. The only people I’d expect to have done more is somebody professionally critiquing movies.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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"