Films that you left unfinished

I think it'd be interesting to know what films were left unfinished ny ILX-ors. Or intended to be watched later but never had the will to. The ones I can remember are:

The Wild Bunch
Rio Bravo
The Leopard
Fanny and Alexander
La Terra Trema
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Rabbits

Apocalypse Now
Wedding Crashers

Pretty sure they're the only two films I've ever said "fuck this" and turned off.

ny >> by
watched later >> continued later

Citizen Kane, a fortnight ago. May finish tonight, but only because gf is on at me to. ZzzzzzzzZZzzzzz.

Miller's Crossing, have tried 3 times now, but always seem to either fall asleep or wonder off to do something else.

now i realise that CK is canon etc but wow leaving MC unfinished 3 times.

Not feeling either is o_O in our house

The 1930s version of 'The 39 Steps'.

Thread of SB

The Killing of a Chinese Bookie

^^ me too

also 'a christmas tale', 'the barbarian invasions', 'a funny thing happened on the way to the forum' (no it didn't)

why watch films when you can watch gifs

chinese bookie is great, but i won't spoil it just in case

i like some cassavetes -- faces ne way

feel that my SB should be mitigated by feelings of knowing that i should be rapt etc.

The 1930s version of 'The 39 Steps'.

― Davek (davek_00), Friday, 5 March 2010 11:07 (4 minutes ago)

are you kidding?? why? it's fun and fast-paced.

what is SB?

Anchorman

Then there are quite a few films that I just lost interest in, and focused on something else like a newspaper, magazine, internet or whatev, and just let the film play out, ignored. Oh yeah, films like Once, Nick + Norah's Infinite Playlist, The Wackness. Lots of schmindie films now I think of it.

So far, have managed to abandon "Spotless Mind" at the same point, twice.

Both times, because of the heavy eyelids, not because of the bored.

I almost turned Anchorman off, but it was on DVD so it was only 90 minutes long so I stuck it out. Wedding Crashers, on TV with ad breaks, is nearly 2 and a half hours long, which is fucking ridiculous. I've got much better things to be doing than watching that.

xpost I was in the wrong mood, I have it on a dvd free from the newspaper, so I'll give it another go. Nowhere near prime-Hitchcock though, come on?

Wedding Crashers might well win a poll on this, because yeah although I have high tolerance for these guys goofing off it lasts forever

39 Steps is totally prime Hitch, get with the PG

Wedding Crashers made me really hate Vince Vaughan.

39 steps is prime pre-50's hitchcock.

Best scene in Wedding Crashers is the Ferrell cameo though, and that's deep into the final act. Wld agree it has serious longeurs throughout.

I don't think I've ever sat through the entirety of either The Mummy or The Mummy Returns, both of them having a powerful soporific effect on me regardless of the time of day.

The Mummy Puts You To Bed

mmm rachel weisz

Dude, it certainly feels that way. The sand starts rising up and my eyelids start drooping down.

xp

Even RW cannot keep my attention!

I would just like to state, for the record, that I have never hit SB for someone giving a personal opinion.

Ran - it looked great and <3 king lear but its so... soo... sooo... fucking long.

I would just like to state, for the record, that I have never hit SB for someone giving a personal opinion.

― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Friday, 5 March 2010 11:46 (21 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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I would just like to state, for the record, that I have never not hit SB for someone giving a personal opinion

SB'd xxxp

sam you mf i sb'd u for fucking up the decade tv poll and u no it imo

Miami Vice. Our Netflix copy started glitching right around the raid on the trailer park, and I never asked for a replacement.

Nowhere near prime-Hitchcock though, come on?

― Davek (davek_00), Friday, March 5, 2010 11:23 AM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark

it's top ten. i don't rate american hitchcock pre-'rear window' though.

I checked out (500) Days of Summer during a long flight a few months ago, but only got 10 minutes in before deciding that I had other, better ways to drain my laptop battery.

Have endured "u mad" from friends since then, etc., but that shit grates.

Film trilogies I've left unfinished:

The Star Wars prequels
The Matrix trilogy

After seeing the second episodes in these two I just never bothered to watch the third ones.

Delerious
Shrek

Tuomas- good decisions

With the SW prequels, at least the second one was better than the first one. But it still wasn't good enough to make me want to see Episode 3, and besides, we already know how the story is gonna end with that one. With Matrix, I never thought the first movie was a masterpiece or anything, but at least it was very good entertainment compared to the second one.

burn after reading

burn before watching more like

for a second I thought tuomas had directed a movie called good decisions

usually I watch movies on my laptop so if it gets insufferable then I'll go in the interwebs. the last movie I really thought about turning off completely was anchorman, but as mentioned upthread it's only 90 min so I just decided to sit through it (and liveblog my discontent).

yeah i turned that thread off halfway through sorry mang ;_;

otmuas, btw, regarding SW prequels especially

what the hell are these anchorman haters on?

it's an ILX thing, early 2010 vintage iirc

hating fun has always been an ILX thing iirc

steve carrell was the funniest guy in that movie iirc

ferrell/dude that married phoebe axis imo

Let The Right One In. I think I was watchign this wth a group of friends but no one was in the mood for it and it was rather slow moving for the portion we saw to make them pay attention. I do intend to watch it in solace one of these days.

^^watching it in solace won't make much of a difference. it's slow and boring.

Planet Of The Apes, the marky mark version only because I fell asleep. I've yet to get around to watching it again. Is it worth it?

Only if you have a magic DVD player that only plays bits with Paul Giamatti in it.

Gran Torino. I'll watch some real bullshit, but I think I finally turned old a couple of weeks ago when about 20 minutes into it I was like, nope, don't want to be on my deathbed thinking about what i could've been doing instead of watching *this*

Citizen Kane, a fortnight ago. May finish tonight, but only because gf is on at me to. ZzzzzzzzZZzzzzz.

Exactly the same w me! Minus the gf part...

Same with Citizen Kane.
Ahahaha I forgot I also left Lakeview Terrace unfinished. What exactly is wrong with Sam Jackson these days?

why do people who never ordinarily watch old films feel obliged to watch citizen kane

Because it's fucking awesome?

they seldom find it so

sucks for them

It's one of my favorite films but I have had some real problems getting through Vertigo awake. There's a long stretch early on that can easily go from "hypnotic, fascnating" to "do not operate a motor vehicle or heavy machinery" depending on the circumstances.

Xpost How can anyone find Citizen Kane boring?! It's nonstop showoff style, hugely broad (and really fucking great) acting, fast-paced, all that good stuff. Plus the part where Rosebud explodes and Joseph Cotten runs away in slow motion.

can only assume they do if they leave it at halfway

touch of evil probably better for welles/old films neophytes maybe

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
The New World
Speed Racer
Kicking & Screaming (w/Will Ferrell)
Meet the Fockers

Haha, there's one HUGE one for me and my best friend! Namely Rivette's Celine Et Julie Vont En Bateau which we attempted to watch while both knackered at 1 in the morning and both fell asleep on about halfway through. We have a mutual pact to finish it off, and it's been built up rather massively for us - it will be a great event when we do see it in its entirety.

What we have established on the 90 minutes we've seen is that it is totally and utterly brilliant, and that we must give it its proper dues on the re-run. It must be perfect.

I walked out of a theatrical screening of "Last Tango in Paris" years ago, only time I've ever done such a thing. Don't know if was my bad mood that night, headache, or the film itself, but I've never had a desire to rewatch.

Miami Vice - was amazed at how highly it polled in the best of the decade poll.
To Live and Die in LA.

All I can say is, when I quit on a film the only reason to recall anything about it, let alone its name, is if it were horripillificatingly bad that it seared itself on some part of my poor defenseless brain. Luckily for me, I seem to have buried the corpse of these experiences so deep that they show no signs on the surface.

The Beatles - Help

seul contre tous (i stand alone) - gaspar noe
about halfway through decided the most appropriate response to the film was to quit watching.

wild at heart
can't remember why exactly other than david lynch being david lynch and i hate that.

oh and the watchmen film. i wasn't particularly interested in the first place (i don't read comics.. not hating, i just don't). but a lot of my coworkers were very excited about this so i figured, just to be in on the conversation i should check it out. left a little over an hour into it. they really needed to step up the pace, it was just flat and dead and miserable.

ANDREI RUBLEV

david lynch being david lynch and i hate that]

feel u dogg

I'm usually pretty good about finishing movies I start.

I'm sure there's others, but the only one I can think of at the moment is Diary of a Country Priest.

always thought Citizen Kane was pretty engrossing and not zzz at all. you folks are mad.

Wild Bunch is one that i turned off cuz it's looong and i had plans to go out. never got around to finishing it.

I turned Magical Mystery Tour off as well. I was pretty drunk and Victor Spinetti was really spinning me out.

also the last sequence in ANDREI RUBLEV is like some transcendent shit. finish that thing. xposts.

absolutely finish ANDREI RUBLEV, it is amazing and one of my favorite films ever

the handke film where they destroy all the shit in the house

Running Scared. so epically awful.

oops i mean Haneke.

absolutely finish ANDREI RUBLEV, it is amazing and one of my favorite films ever

I couldn't stop falling asleep

try harder not to

er.. seriously, sometimes patience is required. i confess to putting off rewatching solaris due to being confused and/or half asleep the first time i saw it. (original version.. i'm not a fan of soderbergh so not looking to watch the remake)

admittedly I watched it at like 1 am and I was in hs

but it did really just feel like a movie that was trying to get me to fall asleep

he is scuuuuuuuullpppppppptttttiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnggggggggg iiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnn tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimmmmmeeee

Gorp

painful, awful stuff. in the few minutes i did manage to watch despite my discomfort with the whole business, i was truly amazed at how young nobody dennis quaid looked and acted exactly like 1980's sean william scott. it was uncanny.

why do people who never ordinarily watch old films feel obliged to watch citizen kane

― nakhchivan, Friday, 5 March 2010 20:18 (1 hour ago) Bookmark

rong? most of my dvd viewing is older movies. CK is just boring pompous seen-it-before stuff. putting it on right now btw!

Tarkovsky's Stalker
Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplantz (granted this is like 16 hours long or something)

movies I wished I hadn't finished:
Brick
Crash

leave Crash unfinished.

( i assume you mean the newer one with Bullock etc)

too late already watched in on an airplane

Stalker seconded. DVD fuckup the other night.

there will be blood, funny enuf.

got about halfway thru, it was late. never felt the need to go back and see what was next. i didn't even dislike it, just didn't care enough. sat on the dvd for months and then said fuck it, back to the flix u go.

The Big Red One. Tried watching it twice and couldn't do it, but I think I'll be successful one day. It's my Infinite Jest of movies.

That's about it. I'm usually too ocd to not finish a film.

Speed Racer

― Chooglin'alCarbon, Friday, 5 March 2010 20:28 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I know this film is kinda headache inducing but it really is the greatest looking thing I have ever seen (fuck an jim cameron) and totally worth sticking with.

Juno. 30 minutes of oh-so-self-consciously-quirky dialogue and eminently hateable "characters" was all I could stand. Only hung on that long for Bateman tbh.

turned off barry lyndon abt 1/2 way through & go back n forth on whether i shld try rewatching it again. thats probably the only movie ive never finished watching but a lot of movies i watch @ home ill >> thru boring parts but i usually finish them

What's the boring part? When the two ppl are talking or when the dinosaurs are chasing them over cliffs?

rong? most of my dvd viewing is older movies. CK is just boring pompous seen-it-before stuff. putting it on right now btw!

not trying to secondguess your particular motives! but to answer my non question, obviously there are some people who see it listed #1 film etc etc and feel obliged to watch a movie 30 yrs older than any other they've seen just to say IT'S NOT ALL THAT

this thread is littered with so many great films

heh btw we watched the '50 greatest magic tricks' on e4 instead.

and yeah that's how i decide to pick a certain older movie a lot of the time (canon lists and what have you) and usually it's a safe bet, but in that one case it's just not drawing me back.

sat through all of 'key largo' last night, for instance, waiting for something to happen, and then 'bringing up baby' (which i had to be talked into putting on) absolutely blew me away.

CK is just boring pompous seen-it-before stuff.

wtf

i can udnerstand most choices itt but not 'kane'. and though i like 'touch of evil', i don't think it's any more compelling. i think it's fair enough to watch what are regarded as the best old movies, though, really! why not?

should say i'm not one of those terrible souls who think people should be damned for falling asleep during some interminable canonical classic, shit happens

i just make sure i look at the runtime first

had a few netflix fails, only one i remember recently is lawrence of arabia
at a theatre the only movie i ever walked out on iirc is midnight in the garden of good and evil. i was drunk and it was boring or it was too boring for a drunk dude

lol Key Largo is pretty much about waiting for something to happen

The short film a friend and I attempted as an extra-credit assignment for our junior-year German class sadly never reached completion.

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

as good as checked out on this, went to ilx

don't get 'celine and julie go boating'. got to the end tho, so i could say i got to the end.

well, isn't 'citizen kane' seen-it-before now because.. it was v innovative then & so many later filmmakers took ideas from it. but if you try and think back to what cinema was like at the time it was made, it's interesting. yes? like the way they make cuts, set up scenes, all sorts of stuff - it doesn't call attention to itself since as an audience we've kind of adapted. so sometimes it helps to read up a bit on the history & then try to appreciate

oh an netflix online movies are bad habit making, i start one movie and browse for others and start one of them instead until i get too antsy for any movie and go back to web browsing. i only finish the ones where i put the wireless headphones on and watch it from my bed across the room (which sucks if you want to rewind something real quick. if i had a wireless keyboard/mouse i would be golden

taojjbtcrf is alright in an oldtime realness fetishism kinda way, until the epilogue which is shit

that's the paradjanov film about the ingushetian leper btw

daria- yeah i totally accept that and i can appreciate it for that, but i'm not a film student or anything and i'm not watching it for a project.

gf consistently telling me that i have all of his facial expressions wasn't helping- particularly as he progressed into a fat old grouch.

i will finish it this week- all in all the 'watch old movies' push has been a big success with far more hits than i would have predicted, tbh.

re key largo enjoyed the performances and the understated aspect of a lot of it, but strike me down if i didn't start thinking of the fast show travelling inca band whenever the incas appeared and it ruined the heaviness somewhat

eh the second 'incas' is obviously a typo, they were extremely noble savages iirc.

turned off barry lyndon abt 1/2 way through & go back n forth on whether i shld try rewatching it again. thats probably the only movie ive never finished watching but a lot of movies i watch @ home ill >> thru boring parts but i usually finish them

― sbing is the only love (Lamp)

this is makin my brain explode for two reasons:
why the hell would you bother to finish a movie you're already ffing through
and
barry lyndon is fuckin awesome, c'mon!

i need to try 'barry lyndon' again. i know it "is" awesome and i f/w kube. but god be damned if it doesn't play like a monged-out 'three musketeers'

wd see it on big screen in a heartbeat

if you didn't get barry lyndon the first time
i dunno

nah i spose it is slow and ryan o'neal is catatonic

oh yeah i checked out of the first 'dr mabuse'. historically interesting. but the mania for 'original' or director's cuts has got out of hand. this was 4h long or something. originally it was shown in two parts, but pretty soon after that it was cut way down by the distributor. would rather have that version.

wd be interested to see % who completed satantango, disregarding those who had financial interests involved

I got the box with the Mabuse trilogy for Christmas but I am all in favour of stupidly long sprawling snail-paced ambient movies tbh

but wd rather the cut version was available as well, agree

idk i remember thinking barry lyndon was really vapid and uncompelling just couldnt get into it. watched it while i was on a deep k rick binge & its the only one i felt that way abt

ill ff thru like in her shoes or smthn just 2 finish it esp if theres like 1 storyline that i like but others that are really boring. also shit like eagle eye which has these really slow talky parts but some kinda interesting stuff too

xp i really liked the criterion ed of doc mabuse dont remember being partic long?

barry lyndon is v funny, the protagonist is vapid, the plot meanders appropriately. but if you don't find it funny or aren't into the period piece spectacle then i could see how you wouldn't like it.

v funny, almost like dumas on diazepines iykwim

i walked in the room while my friend was watching 'the iceman cometh', picked up the netflix sleeve, saw the length, quietly backed away

made it 40 mins into the first Pirates of the Caribbean

also bailed on both Bill & Ted movies about 20 mins in.

the first pirates is just about worth finishing but you're better off not going all in on the trilogy

uh no, it wasn't. as P.Kael said, life is too short.

7 years later I still have to finish the 7th Seal

From not quite as long ago, The Lost Weekend

truth, the #1 deciding factor for whether or not I'll watch a movie is how long it is

Time Traveler's Wife. Enjoyed the book.. the movie just didn't feel right at all, I think I lasted about 30 minutes. Got bad vibes from it and haven't returned to it. Probably won't.

True Lies. Mr Veg will watch it if it's on TV...I sit down for about half, and then I end up leaving the room. I think the idea of Jamie Lee Curtis & Arnie hooking up just creeps me out.

I think my film buff friend managed to sit out Out 1 when it played in NYC a few years ago

xxpost, I'm very ashamed to say this, for me, is OTM. :(

uh no, it wasn't. as P.Kael said, life is too short.

*last word alert*

life is http://www.amoeba.com/dynamic-images/blog/too_short_blow-1.jpg

ADVENTURELAND

eisenberg is cute, kstew is cute, the soundtrack is cute, but like.

Gentlemen Broncos. The only movie I walked out of last year (though there were at least a dozen or so others that I shoulda.)

http://t.douban.com/lpic/s1484366.jpg

I never finished Blue Velvet, or Being Jon Malkovich - both times because the movies were entirely about terrible awful people and I just can't handle movies like that if they aren't comedies.

I'm sure there's plenty of films I never finished because I found them too boring, but I can't really remember them. I only once walked out of a film in a theater and that was Nixon. I went to see like a 10:00 showing with my sister and we had no idea how long it was and I just remember at one point we realized it was like one in the morning and the movie was still going and we left because we both had school in the morning and mom was gonna be pissed! Now I want to watch Nixon again because I remember I never did finish it (I wonder what happened!)

In theaters, Requiem for a Dream, likely on the same terms as anyone else who disliked it, and The Brothers Solomon (had to check the title just now) because fuck that.
Think those are the only two.

i'm struggling to think of an example of this. i've fallen asleep during enough screenings that i suppose those might count as 'unfinished' but i've never walked out of a movie that i can remember

want to add this:

river kwai
l'age d'or
brick
watchmen, had i not watched it with my gf.

Taste of Cherry for me.

Truly amazed that anyone can't get through the 39 steps- it's short, it's fast paced, it's awesome.

And if you can't get through Apocalypse Now, you need to save for a better TV/stereo.

Also gave up on that Irma Vep shit real fast.

i once fell asleep in an NFT screening of UGETSU MONOGATARI and was - quite rightly! - elbowed awake by a nearby punter disgruntled by mY snoring - its really one of my favourite films too

dont think ive ever managed to stay awake watching GERTRUD by dreyer, a majestically soporific movie

v funny, almost like dumas on diazepines iykwim

― nakhchivan, Saturday, March 6, 2010 12:53 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark

hey:

god be damned if it doesn't play like a monged-out 'three musketeers'

wd see it on big screen in a heartbeat

― the archetypal ghetto hustler (history mayne), Saturday, March 6, 2010 12:36 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark

the movies were entirely about terrible awful people and I just can't handle movies like that if they aren't comedies...Now I want to watch Nixon again because I remember I never did finish it

Objection!

Yeah if you can't watch 39 steps yr retarded, deal w it

that had been observed (xxp)
how does a history kinda mayne confuse xvii w/ xviii like that anyway?

both 'three musketeers' and 'barry lyndon' were published in 1844!

Yeah, Musketeers is historical fiction, Lyndon more like contempo social satire.

on the fourth wilson government

lester's 'three musketeers' is pretty dece. want to see 'royal flash' now.

I think that might work. Might work even better as a Go Go 80s Guys satire.

also bailed on both Bill & Ted movies about 20 mins in.

Why would you watch the second Bill & Ted if you only got 20 minutes through the first one?

Thought the darker more sombre tone of the sequel wd be more his bag.

cuz I heard it was better! Not.

I never finished Blue Velvet, or Being Jon Malkovich - both times because the movies were entirely about terrible awful people and I just can't handle movies like that if they aren't comedies

uh, one is a comedy and the other is close enough.

lester's 'three musketeers' is pretty dece. want to see 'royal flash' now.

― the archetypal ghetto hustler (history mayne)

No, no you don't. Any love you might have for Lester will be seriously tarnished by the abysmal Royal Flash. Oliver Reed is unsurprisingly good as Bismarck, but the rest is god-awful and charmless.

I just pretend the Stewart Granger Prisoner of Zenda is actually Flashman. It makes more sense that way then to think he's supposed to be Rudolf Rassendyll.

just remembered this: Hitchcocks's Marnie.

i got one: my private idaho. couldn't hear what anyone was saying

A thousand xposts, hope I'm not heading for a SB. Can anyone explain what is so disarmingly brilliant about 39 steps, and how it stands out in a filmography full of classics. I will defend Barbarella in return.

Or maybe I've just made a horrible mistake and I must be put right.

Can anyone explain what is so disarmingly brilliant about 39 steps, and how it stands out in a filmography full of classics.
― Davek (davek_00), Sunday, 7 March 2010 14:01 (4 hours ago)

The chemistry of the two leads.

if falling asleep counts, I've fallen asleep during teh following movies (and not because they were bad, but because it's just something I tend to do):

Being John Malkovich
The Skeleton Key (ok this was because it was bad)
Mortal Kombat
that one movie about the little kid who does screwed up stuff, featuring Sam Rockwell
Happy People
Phantoms
The Invention of Lying
Thank You for Smoking
Futurama movie

haven't revisited any of em....

ive purposely turned all these off (i think some were prob bad judgment 2 even start):

female perversions
branded to kill
putney swope
code unknown
beerfest
awakening of the beast
young yakuza
they shoot horses, dont they?
alone in the dark
death race
smile
the brown bunny
JCVD
alice
the guatamalan handshake
the night they raided minsky's
the blood of heroes
man bites dog
roadside prophets
next

The Blind Side
L'Intrus

L'Intrus

;_;
i mean the second half does lag a bit.. but it's so pretty

i and my ex left the theatre abt 20 mins in to the 3rd lord of the rings. we'd been the pub and i couldn't bear another 3 hrs of the gobbledeedob of larasthynx or whatevs. in fairness she watched it on blag dvd a wk later and cried her poor heart out while i slept drunken and heartless.

Gobbledeedob of Larasthynx

coming to theatres summer in 2010, directed by Tim Burton

Only made it through 10 minutes of Waking Life.

putney swope is hilarious! may also be a complete mess

i am really stubborn about sticking it out and watching movies til the bitter end - no matter how long. some of the hardest movies i can remember sitting through: The Holy Mountain and Goodbye, Dragon Inn.

the only movie i ever walked out of at the theater: Alien Resurrection (we sneaked into the next theater which was showing Midnight In the Garden of Good and Evil, which i would have walked out of on any other day).

have to admit when I first saw this thread title I thought it was directed at amateur filmmakers, to see what types of movies they began shooting on and didn't finish. THAT could be interesting.

Walked out of Sideways.
Turned off Wet Hot American Summer which I expected to love.
Made my mom leave the theater with me during Ghostbusters because I was too scared to watch it all the way through. Only within the last couple years have I seen it in its entirety.

^^^^^^^ wtf

lol - which part?

Oh and turned off Me and You and Everyone We Know.

Walked out of Sideways.

my hero

pretty much all but the last one, cuz I did the same with Ghostbusters due to the openign scene!

Ha good. Glad to know I wasn't the only wimp.

Sideways bored the hell out of me and Paul G. saying Pinot Noir roughly 20,000 times made me want to stab someone.

WHAS is a weird one. It has all the makings of something I would love but I just found it unbearably unfunny. Maybe I need to give it a 2nd shot.

try it again i think? it's p. funny

i felt the same way abt WHAS, watched it again, liked it a bit but still dont totally get the love 4 it

huh. I probably will give it a second viewing at some point just to see because it's one of those things where ppl look at me like I'm crazy when they find out I didn't like it and I always feel weird.

it's all about the talking can

voiced by H. Jon Benjamin

oh i have a good one, bound to garner a few SB's- Rear Window. TBF, I will actually go and finish that one again soon. Also, on a theme- Vertigo, which I may not.

Give Rear Window another chance. Why? Because it is awesome. Vertigo too for that matter.

Walked out of Sideways.

awesome.

WHAS has its longeurs (anything involving that guy from frasier) but elizabeth banks and paul rudd are solid gold

I think I can be excused for not making it through Satantango yet, but I feel really bad for falling asleep twice during attempts to watch Werckmeister Harmonies (in the daytime, no less).

xp's yeah i'll definitely go back to rear window. picked up a hitchcock boxset last night so that'll be my week.

i am really stubborn about sticking it out and watching movies til the bitter end - no matter how long. some of the hardest movies i can remember sitting through: The Holy Mountain and Goodbye, Dragon Inn.

you don't say..

and yeah, i didn't finish sideways either.

No need to be a film student - or to read about - to 'appreciate' Kane. Kane is one of those films where you read the writing and think the writer just had a good time riffing about it. So its fun to read about, if you like reading about movies.

I only fell asleep on the cinema once (Wong Kar-wai movies which I was enjoying but was incredibly tired), and never walk out (although I came close during 'There will be Blood')

oh and the watchmen film. i wasn't particularly interested in the first place (i don't read comics.. not hating, i just don't). but a lot of my coworkers were very excited about this so i figured, just to be in on the conversation i should check it out. left a little over an hour into it. they really needed to step up the pace, it was just flat and dead and miserable.

Was just wondering this about whether to borrow for similar reasons.

it feels like it vanished w/o a trace, kinda. the opening credits sequence is worth a watch.

they shoot horses, dont they?

waht

El Norte
Atarnajuat The Fast Runner
Bubba Ho-tep
Serendipity
City of God (might give it another chance)

that's it for the DVD era. i have never walked out of a cinema early.

they shoot horses, dont they?

waht

well, the dvd is out of focus.

Oh man, I loved City of God.

Watchmen is better than The Dark Knight, imo, but that's far from a universal view!

rear window is one of my 10 favourite films ever, read into that what you will

aside from the isolated and unique instance stated way upthread, i barely if ever fail to finish a movie, although, and here's an embarrassing confession, i did fall asleep during 'his girl friday'. not because i wasn't laughing uproariously at points but because i was already knackered and the sheer quantity of dialogue did for me

also because the feminist in you objected to the ownership implied in the title

maybe it means that his friday was filled with girls - why are you reinforcing the patriarchy with your patriarchal interpretations, darraghmac

his girl friday, emancipated saturday

we chilled on sunday

haven't seen it in forever but 'his girl friday' is a stone classic

why are you reinforcing the patriarchy with your patriarchal interpretations, darraghmac

ok, it's about time i fessed up. i am richard littlejohn.

xpost to maynrq yeah i know! i was laughing mao for half the movie then my eyelids drooped and i was gone for about 20 minutes, recovered in time for final act, need to see again

laughing mao is now my favourite thing

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THE PATRIARCHY HAS WON AGAIN

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anyone else beside me didn't finish A Prophet?

My girlfriend kept getting antsy but I made her finish it.

It took me a year to watch In The Mood For Love all the way through. I would put it on at least once a month, but it would lull me to sleep every time. Same with Last Year at Marienbad. Both films are in my top ten btw.

if I had a TV in my bedroom I would probably go to sleep to In the Mood for Love and 2046 every night.

Totally had to stop There Will Be Blood after 45 minutes. sorry, guys :/

there will be blah

I soaked up every minute of that movie. In retrospect, something bothered me about the end, but I'll have to see it again.

the two times i have walked out of a movie at the theater:

Bringing out the Dead
Caligula

the most urgent and immediate "fuck this wheres the remote" reaction of recent memory: 10 minutes into Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist

the last movie I saw where I went "oh fuck no" and turned it off was "I Accidentally Domed Your Son"

someday I may be able to watch the entirety of "Halloween" but I'm not holding my breath

Bringing out the Dead

!!! prolly like top 3 scorsese for me

yeah I got a kick out of that movie, and it's still fairly fresh in my memory after only seeing it once like 10 years ago.

yeah, i've never seen the entirety of Caligula either. a friend lent it to me years and years ago - i didn't know much about it except that it was a 'classic' and there were togas in it - and, i mean, my brother and i were roommates at the time and so were like hey let's watch this! and then after about 20 min were like, okay NO. just ain't right.

The unrated version, available in the U.S. and mainland Europe, running 156 minutes (N.T.S.C.) and 150 minutes (P.A.L.), is the most widely seen cut of the film. It enjoyed a limited, albeit highly profitable, run in the U.S. cinema. This version contained significant sexual and violent content, including orgies, masturbation, fellatio, cunnilingus, anal fisting, homosexuality, transvestism, incest, rape, urination, as well as scenes of decapitation of prisoners by a giant "killing machine," infanticide, implied fratricide, and penile as well as testicular castration.

okay no

also, peter o'toole

that movie must have been a blast and a half to do fx for tho

implied fratricide

i probably would have watched it on my own just fine tbh

i am amazed whenever anyone reps for bringing out the dead, it would probably make my bottom ten for sure

I guess watching implied fratricide with your brother could be unsettling

can't image it being more unsettling than the anal fisting and the penile/testicular castration but ymmv

implied comparison

yeah we watched the 20-min orgy scene together no prob but damn that implied fratricide was just too much

hahaha

Knew someone who saw "Weekend At Bernie's" at the cinema, and by the end of the movie the entire audience had walked out apart from a dozen people.

Just remembered another couple:

Closer (on a plane and it cut out because it had to land)
Radio Days (at my grandfather's house when I was about ten; really enjoyed it...no idea why I didn't get to the end. I'm an Allen stan)
Pineapple Express (garbage)
Easy Rider (what do people get from this movie? Fwiw, maybe Jack Nicholson's supposed appearance in the second half could've swayed me)

it's a mad mad mad mad world. terribly dated.