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

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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xp fuck

THE PATRIARCHY HAS WON AGAIN

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HISTORY: THE DELETED SCENES

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.