Just a short post, as that’s all this film deserves. We sat down to watch Wrong Turn 2 on Monday evening. Granted, we knew it was going to be a daft gore fest, but we loved the first film, so decided to give it a try. The first film was clever, tense, perfectly gory and had decent performances that carried you through the movie. The second movie had…nothing. It was dreadful. After about 20 minutes we just switched it off.
Now, I have sat through some amount of crap over the years and rarely have I switched off (or left the cinema). What films have you just given up on? Let’s get a definitive list of films that are so bad, we can’t even watch them to conclusion.
There has only been one movie that I just turned off about 20 mins into it - The Devils Own. What a pile of complete goddy poo poo mixed with a large pile of cat wee wee.
I think it all came down to the isish accent attempted by Brad Pitt. Horrible
The one that rises above all others this year is the steaming pile that is Year One. Nary a decent gag, sub-Mel Brooks humour and some decent talent slumming it (Ramis, Azaria, Black etc). Avoid like it was a Boyzone album.
I fell asleep halfway through ‘Knowing’ and then ended up turning it off as it descended into complete and utter nonsense. My God do I HATE Nic Cage. I haven’t watched a movie as bad or heard a script that poor since, oh I don’t know…’Next’? ‘It’s the Whisper People’ cries one of the kids an hour into the movie…I laughed. A lot.
Blah…Can you tell I’m still annoyed?
First time I watched 10,000 BC I turned it off. Rewatched it then later and I really shouldn’t have bothered.
Lady in the Water and Shawn of the Dead are about the only two DVDs I can remember starting to watch, and never finishing. Still have them both, though, so maybe one day!
Like yourself, it isn’t often that I switch off or leave a cinema. But @dearoldhouse and I could not endure ‘Burn After Reading’.
I know some people will shoot in my general direction for slating the ‘god-sent Cohen brothers’ (my sister, for one!), but it was pointless, drivel filled with no decent plot, bad acting and terrible editing/composition.
@Calum: Shaun of the Dead?! Sacrilege!
Only movie I walked out on was Black Hawk Down. Same thing kept happening over and over again.
Shoot ‘Em Up. I left the cinema after 20 mins. (I had the UGC card back then so didn’t really care). Also, “The history boys”, untenable, impossibile to watch, left after 5 or 7 mins.
Is it bad to say that I fell asleep during The Matrix, and decided that, given what I’d already seen, it wasn’t worth watching again…?
@Peter I think I watched it all, but it was fairly forgettable. Yeah, his accent was brutal. Have you heard Gere in The Jackal though?
@Bob Really? I’ve been looking forward to that.
@Venn Even the trailers looked bad for that. Did you see the Happening? If it wasn’t for Zooey Deschanel I’d have switched it off. Even she was bad in it though.
@Niall Fair play to you for giving it another go. I will never be watching Wrong Turn 2 again.
@Callum Are you serious? Shaun of the Dead was brilliant. And Lady in the Water - I loved it.
@Pluincee Burn After Reading was a bit disappointing alright. I hoped for so much more from it.
@Anthony I haven’t seen it. Sounds like I shouldn’t bother.
I have never walked out of a cinema but the closest I’ve ever come was during “Final Destination”. That last scene just kept going and going and going.
Similar experience with “Saw”.
As for DVD? “Wanted” 25 minutes in I realised life was too short and I nuked it.
Watched Watchmen there again at the weekend with some friends at home. Kept falling asleep. Not a good film.
Don’t think I’ve ever walked out on a film in the cinema though.
Liquid Sky is the last film I abandoned. After 10 minutes I decided to give it another 5, and I barely made it to the quarter-hour before bailing out. I’m all for experimental, underground and just plain odd films, but this was annoying, tedious and completely inept.
From the sublime to the ridiculous. I had to turn Deuce Bigalow European Gigolo off as I began to have a panic attack that I was losing the will to live. Even my housemate, who will watch absolutely ANYTHING agreed.
I also turned off Tarkovsky’s The Sacrifice and was labelled a philistine by my friends who were taking it all very seriously indeed. I subsequently read that the opening shots wer some of the longest and slowest he’d ever done. Perhaps I should have begun with Solaris?
I am becoming muchy less tolerant in my old age and find myself turning off quite a lot if it doesn’t at least mildly impress within the first few quarter.
Wrong Turn 2 - SHIT
How to Loose Friends & Influence People. Simon what were you thinking?
Walked out of the cinema a few minutes into The Singing Detective
Confessions of a Shopaholic - I love a good chick flick from time to time and had high hopes for this. Fail!
Fell asleep during The Incredible Hulk.
And finally, I really wish I had left Transformers 2.
The Day the earth stood still, the remake.
Chronicles of Riddick, tried twice.
Speed Racer.
Street Kings.
The older I get, the less patience I have for shit films!
@rubot Aw! I enjoyed all of those films. I’ve watched Final Destination a few times.
@Dav I can’t understand that at all. Watchmen is among my favourite films.
@Stan I checked out Liquid Sky on IMDB and got the following:
I’ll probably give that film a miss.
@Daddy or Chips Sounds like you made the right decision in all cases.
@Lottie We really should have left Transformers 2. The pub was calling to us, and we just ignored it’s sweet voice.
@Travors I actually loved Riddick. I’m still hoping for another followup to Pitch Black.