Films you never got past the first 5 minutes of...

[MontyVeda]

Yes, true, good call. I'm beginning to think I'm a closet Carey fan.

In truth, it's just his trademark silly gurning face that I really dislike! If he doesn't rely on that then the film stands a chance.

a good point well put!

Truman show = good
Eternal sunshine = brilliant
mask, grinch, dumb and dumber and all the other films where gurning is the substitute for acting = no interest

 

[MontyVeda]

just remembered.... Babel. Saw the 1st 20 minutes or so and i've no interest in seeing any more, unless i get severe insomnia.

 

[MissTillyFlop]

I watched it all the way through, because I was sure something good had to happen at some point...but:

The 51st State is one the most offensive films I have ever seen.

Same goes with Antichrist - I am sure that somewhere Jeremy Beadle was sitting on a cloud and laughing at everyone in the cinema...

 

[Trembler49]

Braveheart

 

[threebikesmcginty]

mask, grinch, dumb and dumber and all the other films where gurning is the substitute for acting = no interest

All classics!

 

[Chromatic]

I thought the same, till I saw The Truman Show. I LOOOVE that film!

Yes, that is a good film.

I've never been able to stick The Rocky Horror Picture Show through to the end despite trying 3 or 4 times many years ago. I have given it longer than five mins, but not much longer, it is sh1te.

 

[Herbie]

Trapped In Paradise..Nicholas Cage.
In a hotel room, Fox Movies, precious little else to watch...i'd not heard of the film but like Cage.

5 minutes in, i was so so annoyed with his supporting actors who played a coupe of cretinous thieving brothers, really annoying accents and pathetic laughing, i just had to turn it off.

That recent film New Years Eve...i would have left before 5 mins if i had the choice but as i'm a Support Worker and i was supporting a client who wanted to see it and who has to supported 24/7 i had to watch it..At least i was being paid and got in for free...but what a pile of poo it is

 

[Herbie]

Mamma Mia, as soon as Brosnan opened his mouth and tried to sing.

I agree...utterly dreadful film

 

[brokenflipflop]

Honey I Shrunk The Kids 2

 

[vernon]

I managed to sleep through best part of the first Starwars' prequels. So immemorable that I can't even remember its name.

 

[BigonaBianchi]

slumdog millionaire...on now...I los tinterest several times already...yawn

unlike th eone on before that... A good year with russell crow..really liked that...'cos I'm a big softy really

 

[vernon]

slumdog millionaire...on now...I los tinterest several times already.

I tried to watch it last year and having seen around ten minutes of it before getting up and leaving the living room I just can see why it was so highly rated.

 

[MontyVeda]

Honey I Shrunk The Kids 2

don't you mean Honey I Blew Up The Kid? That's my favourite film!



ps... I quite enjoyed Troll Hunter, but then again I quite enjoyed Blairwitch, Cloverfield, Diary of The Dead... even The Last Dragon... I'm not proud.

 

[NormanD]

I went to sleep at the cinema about five minutes into some desperate shite with Mel Gibson as a pilot.... can't even remember the name of the film. Mrs C told me off for a) snoring and b) swearing at her for waking me up to tell me I was snoring.

Air America ... I watched it for the aircraft only

I've lost count of the amount of films I've not got past five minutes watching, I think I watched three films in total last year all the way through and found them rather good ... The Kid ... Harry Brown and Rise of the planet of the apes.

 

[yello]

I've lost count of the amount of films I've not got past five minutes watching

I think most of us, if we sat down and thought about it, would say something similar. Maybe not that we've walked out on a film but got to the end thinking that it was a waste of our time.

There are a hell of a lot of very ordinary (competent but ordinary) films made. And many that suck. You don't see most of them because you have no inclination to. Some you watch and think it was enjoyable (and I reckon that's a good place to be, an honest expectation). The ones you remember as bad are the ones you expect to be good - they almost hurt, the pain of disappointment.

My personal favourite category is the no-expectation gems. Films you know nothing about, have no expectation of and then they turn out to be great. Could be a wet Sunday afternoon hangover film perhaps. Or a 'nothing else on tele' film. A recent example for me was a Nicolas Cage film (and I find him hit and miss, more often miss!) 'Lord Of War'.

I feel very worried that I'm getting perilously close to 'known unknowns' here!