films you turned off midway through

I try not to turn films off incase they get better & redeem themselves, but I turned the Grudge off cos it scared the bejeesus out of me & I wished I'd turned off The Good Shepherd after 5 minutes. What a waste of an hour & a half or so! :D
 
I forgot to add:

The English Patient (fell asleep in that one).

and

2001 Space Odyssey (yawn).

Edit: also, Gerry (Matt Damon and Casey Affleck walk in the desert for 2 hours, the latter dies, the end).
 
I never leave a movie, or switch off half way through. I guess it's the optimist in me. I keep hoping it will get better. Then again, the pessimist in me tells me if I do walk out folks are bound to tell me how much better it got just after I left.

RegarRAB

Mark
 
Seldom switch off a film once I make the decision to watch it but the Stallone remake of Get Carter was a disgrace. I love the original so that probably didn't help.

The last Rocky effort was one I should've switched off but didn't. Utter cack.
 
AI ... total rubbish (stayed till the end as I can't bear not knowing the ending, but it was the worst film I've ever seen at the cinema).

The Dahjeeling Limited (stayed again as I needed to know the ending, don't know why, it was rubbish, tosh masquerading as art).

The last Pirates of The Caribbean film, that woman only has two face expressions and ruined the whole film (Keira Knightly).
 
Lost in Translation and Crash. Once my brain registered the patronising and pretentious drivel i was watching, my intelligence felt far too insulted to continue with the films...Saying that, i stuck with Lost in Translation longer than Crash.
 
Texas Chainsaw Massacre 4-Realised how crappy it was about 15 minutes in.

The Godfather 3-Seen it now and it is'nt bad at all but first time I watched it unlike the first 2 it just did not hold my attention for the duration.

The Fly-Brilliant movie but on first showing I just could not stomach the intensity until the end.
 
Meet the Parents.
American pie.
The Last Samurai.
A Scanner Darkly.
The Matrix Revolutions(I almost didn't make through nr. 2 in that series, should have known better....)

And that is just the ones I can remember now! There are many more...
 
Me and my girlfriend sat through The Black Dahlia on DVD and we both said "Thank God" when the credits rolled. A complete waste of time. I saw Grid Iron Gang on TV as well, every cliche in the book is trotted out without any irony, even the slow-motion-last-minute-of-the-game-where-the-underdogs-win scenes. Utter rubbish.
Other than that I still try to get something out of a film, even if it is unbelievable bad as I am learning to be a script writer and can learn what makes a script good or bad.
 
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