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Movies i can't finish..
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Rae



Joined: 10 Oct 2007

PostPosted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 6:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

VanIslander wrote:
Braveheart I just had to fast forward through the endless gratuitous pointless detailed killing scenes and that Benjamin Button film I had to leave the theater twice because taking a leak I could have waited to do and getting more popcorn was more fun than watching it.

loralh wrote:
... anything by Clint Eastwood...

Shocked .... Shocked ....


I didn't care much for that movie either. I made it halfway ... I don't understand why people like it so much, aside from Brad Pitt. I'd rather watch Troy a few times over.
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Missihippi



Joined: 22 Oct 2007
Location: Gwangmyeong

PostPosted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 10:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You can add Lord of the Rings to this. Yawn
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reactionary



Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Location: korreia

PostPosted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 10:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mulholland drive
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Carmy



Joined: 12 Apr 2007
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 1:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

mulholland drive
zoolander

Going to try and watch those again.
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JoelCosmeJr



Joined: 01 Mar 2006

PostPosted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 1:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

300, I could not keep watching after the 100th slow motion scene within the first 15 minutes.
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greedy_bones



Joined: 01 Jul 2007
Location: not quite sure anymore

PostPosted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 1:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Barbarella. I can take bad movies, and I can take long slow moving movies, but when you combine the two, I can't make it all the way through.

Also, The New World. I realize the movie was more about cinematography than it was about plot or characters, and that the movie had great cinematography, but there was absolutely no plot and I hate Colin Farell with a passion.

There are also a ton of terrible Kung Fu movies which I've only seen about 20 or 30 minutes of either because they were really bad or they were just different episodes of a random HK tv series spliced together and packaged as a movie.
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roybetis1



Joined: 13 Jun 2005
Location: Not near a beach like my recruiter promised.

PostPosted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 2:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

"Klimt" with John Malkovich, who otherwise is brilliant.
Also can't stand Colin Farel.
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tefain



Joined: 19 Sep 2007
Location: Not too far out there

PostPosted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 7:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The History Boys
Tried to get through it a few times but it's not happening.
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movybuf



Joined: 01 Jan 2007
Location: Mokdong

PostPosted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 6:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have never started and then stopped watching any movie. If I paid to see a movie, I'm surely not going to walk out! Even if it is horrible.

When I was in university I wrote film reviews for the school's newspaper, so I got to go to every movie for free (nice perk especially when you are a poor student). Usually I had to write a review for the movie, so I couldn't walk out. But even if I just went to waste some time, I would stay until the end of the credits.
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Tux



Joined: 14 Feb 2008
Location: The smallest one room ever in Guri City

PostPosted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 6:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Johnny Depp flick called "Dead Man." Just seemed to go no-where.

Tropic Thunder too. Just couldn't understand why it received so much acclaim. Turned it off within 15 mins.
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blurgalurgalurga



Joined: 18 Oct 2007

PostPosted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 10:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I fell asleep to dead man maybe three times, back in the days of videotapes, but eventually I watched the whole thing. Now it's one of my favourites and I watch it about once a year. It is very slow though...except for when it's not.
Ditto 2001...slow as molasses in winter but if I'm in the right spaced-out, forgiving kind of mood, it's as good as They say.

Now that I download stuff like mad I have no patience for bad movies. If it doesn't grab me in the first ten minutes, it's over.
When they eventually figure out a way to make me pay for movies again I suppose I'll be a lot more likely to sit through some mediocre loaf of a flick, but in the meantime, to hell with it. Life's too short to watch something I don't like...or to read books I don't like, for that matter.
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MissMaggie



Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Location: Jeju

PostPosted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 1:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I second the clint eastwood thing... I could fall asleep waiting for him to finish a sentence.

I absolutely cannot get through Amelie. I downloaded a version without subtitles, and for the most part, I can understand it (I've watched a few movies in French, didn't think I missed much) but for the life of me I just can't get past the 45 minute mark.
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grainger



Joined: 21 Sep 2006
Location: Wonju, Korea

PostPosted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 4:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

I tried, I really did.
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BreakfastInBed



Joined: 16 Oct 2007
Location: Gyeonggi do

PostPosted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 4:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

grainger wrote:
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

I tried, I really did.

Insanely overrated. Spike Jonze handles Charlie Kaufman material much better.
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lisac1983



Joined: 14 Dec 2008
Location: sydney, australia

PostPosted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 12:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

cj1976 wrote:
Lost in Translation. Snooze-tastic.


Wow, Lost in Translation is one movie that I can watch over and over again. One man's trash is another's treasure!

I couldn't watch more than 20 mins of The Blair Witch Project. Just awful.
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