Movies you couldn’t watch til the end..

[Bard6817]

Rather than movies you got bored with - this is more a couldn’t watch to the end.l, and why, and did you ever get over it and watch it theough.

as always…. I will start.

Trainspotting….

Too close to home. I’m Scottish, grew up in poverty, drink, drugs, violence were the norm for me, so when I was in my twenties and this came out, with a ‘banging’ soundtrack, I had to make sure I saw it. It was the toilet scene that made me turn off and away, as it seemed to show the depths of depravity of the society I grew up in, and had just left by that point. I guess I still knew too many people still in that life.

I did watch it later In life and was a bit more jaded by life and happier in my bubble and so it seemed distant and other worldly to me - overall I’d say a 5 on the IMDb scale.

DS and I tried to watch the school for good and evil. We gave up. All this crap were good = pretty and evil = ugly was too irritating. It was obvious that the message was that the school got it wrong but it was just handled so clumsily and badly.

And it was impossible to care in the least about any of the characters.

There’s a popular book series it’s based on. Surely the film has totally misrepresented it. Otherwise, why is anyone reading it?

The Autopsy of Jane Doe. I normally love a good horror but it was too scary for me!

The Lobster, Me and You and Everything We Know, and Pulp Fiction are three deeply unpleasant and unsettling films that I had to stop watching because they were so horrible.

A Clockwork Orange is a satire about free will and moral choice, state treatment of offenders and whether taking away somebody's free will and replacing their natural instincts and behaviour with artificial ones via brainwashing 'rehabilitation' techniques does either them or society any good, particularly when the state washes it's hands of them as soon as their prison figures are looking better.

It's not for everyone, but to reduce it to a handful of brief violent scenes - all of which are in the first twenty minutes or so - is pretty lazy stuff. The book (like American Psycho) is far better, having said that.

Recent unfinished films; I walked out of Free Guy after twenty minutes because it was absolute shit, and fell asleep about half an hour from the end of Bullet Train. I still haven't bothered finding out what happened at the end.

I also walked out of Signs, Reign of Fire, About A Boy, Scary Movie 3 (I think), the first Lord of the Rings film and quite a few others. I wish I'd walked out of La La Land, but somebody else paid me in so I didn't feel I could 😕

@SocksAndTheCity pretty lazy stuff? There's no need to be rude. Your reply is patronising as if I couldn't possibly be intelligent enough to understand. Sorry I couldn't stomach the violence. That doesn't make me stupid. I'm sure if I watched it all I'd have understood the "message" but it felt all kinds of wrong.

In the cinema I think the only film I've walked out of was The Tree of Life. What a load of shite.

On the small screen there's so so many but a recent one that springs to mind is Bullet Train. Really boring from the get go.

Mines slightly different, I watched Help, about the care home crisis during the pandemic, I watched it to the end and it really upset me, I felt unsettled into the next day too, I'm not usually affected by movies but crikey it was hard watching

The Menu. DH continued to watch it but I went in the other room to watch something else. Just grim. Couldn’t see the point in continuing. No overall meaning or plot line to make sense of the ridiculous violence.

The Netflix series about Chernobyl. It was just distressing - particularly as it’s true, of course.

Oh yes that was a hard watch! I think I missed out part of the second episode while DH kept watching, but then I went back to it and was glad I did. There were glimmers of hope in there like the incredible divers and the miners who managed a slight sense of humour in the face of this true nightmare. When you think how much worse it could have been without their efforts, it brought me a bit of comfort. And it seemed like potentially a good analogy for the covid disaster which made it extra interesting to reflect on in subsequent months and renewed my commitment to democracy somewhat.

Er, you asked what the point of A Clockwork Orange was and I replied? I can do so because I've seen it; if that's 'patronising' then I must be the stupid one, because I thought that was you did when you see a question you can answer on a discussion board.

There are plenty of great films that are basically nonstop male violence unencumbered by plot or character development (The Raid, for example), but A Clockwork Orange isn't one of them.

Oh, and don't watch Martyrs.

Assumed you meant the Sky Chernobly series from 2019 but see you said Netflix so could be different.

Fear and loathing in Las Vegas. Had never seen it but DH said it was good. What a load of druggie crap I've still no idea what the point was and switched off near the end

Not a movie, but a series. Handmaid's tale. I have watched it all but had to regularly pause and leave it for a while. Knowing that everything that happened in the series was a reality that people in real life experienced, in some way shape or form, made me watch it all. I read the book as a teen and it didn't really bother me, but that was before I had a child. Now I don't think I could read it again.

@SocksAndTheCity

You called me lazy. Not necessary to explain your point.

Agree. I think anyone saying 'what is the point of A Clockwork Orange' must not have got the point in the first place. Its very political and had great meaning. Nothing wrong with not understanding it though, I've watched many films that I didn't understand and when someone explained it to me the message clicked.

Titanic. I wanted to drown the pair of them by about three quarters of the way through.

😂

There Will Be Blood. I wish we had walked out but I kept hoping it would make sense. {spoiler alert ahead}

Basically, a horrible greedy man (overacted by Daniel Day Lewis) starts an oil company and adopts a son with whom he wants to continue the horrible greediness. The son is completely bampot as well and becomes an evangelical preacher who opposes the horrible greedy man. Stuff happens. Bampot son kills horrible greedy man in his personal bowling alley by stomping on his head or something. DH and I both wish we could get those 3 hours of our life back.

Whoever said Tree of Life, I second that! It was my first night out alone after giving birth. It was my friend's first outing since having her baby too. We lasted about 30 minutes and decided that our first night of freedom was not going to be watching a self-indulgent wankfest of shite.

I lasted about 20 mns through this film.
Utterly boring ,pretentious crap, a film I had high expectations of because of the actors.
Just a pile of shite .🤷‍♂️

I wanted to walk out of I Am Legend but I was with DP so stuck it out. I really don't like these tense movies, not my kind of thing.

I turned off Pan's Labyrinth for the same reason, it was so relentlessly grim and I found the monsters scary. We had about 15 mins left but I couldn't bear it.

And 6 Underground we turned off after about 10 mins as we just couldn't grasp at all what was going on and didn't care enough to carry on!

I couldn't get beyond the first scene of clockwork orange. I've read the book so I get the concept but I still don't see the point of that level of violence on screen.

Criminal minds. Which is a shame because I love it I just cant watch it.

Nowadays any kind of violence I struggle with. I experienced a violent attack a year ago I've turned off goodness knows how many things, got to the point I ask DD17 if I'm going to be able to watch it before I do.

The Exorcist is vile.

La La Land...can't get through more than about 20 minutes.
Armageddon - dreadful tosh
The Royal Tennenbaums - my god it was awful

Dr Sleep. Utterly horrific

The Holiday. I've tried twice. Won't waste my time again