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

[ianrauk]

Don't Mess With The Zohan. I was flabberghasted at how shyte this movie was even in the first 5 minutes. In fact that reminds me... anything with Adam Sandler is shyte.

 

[Nearly there]

Stardust I cant believe robert de niro did this appaling film,also dont want to see Thatcher It looks very tv like plus i couldnt listen to that drone for long

 

[MontyVeda]

No apologies for resurrecting this thread.

Just watched The Troll Hunter.. beautiful Nowegian scenery, but utter, utter dross !! You have been warned.

I have to admit to going beyond 5 minutes in the hope that it would improve, which it eventually did, as the end credits rolled up the screen.

well I'm still looking forward to seeing it.

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

I tend to watch them just so I don't look judgemental!

Event Horizon - Every horror movie trick and cliche in one easy lesson.

Steven Seagal movies - Big bloke flattens everyone while playing the same character every time.

Three Kings - Total drivel with pretty blokes in it.

Swordfish - Look at the wheels of the bus when it's dropped on the roof at the end, sorta sums up the film (but if you want to persuade me to do some hacking, don't bother with the gun, the other incentive will do nicely...). Oh and you do get Halle Berry topless (is this that film?).

Braveheart - No comment.

 

[wiggydiggy]

No apologies for resurrecting this thread.

Just watched The Troll Hunter.. beautiful Nowegian scenery, but utter, utter dross !! You have been warned.

I have to admit to going beyond 5 minutes in the hope that it would improve, which it eventually did, as the end credits rolled up the screen.

I loved this film, but I do get the impression its very marmite - some love it, some hate it. My advice, try it and see, if your a fan of 'Grimn Fairy Tales' style mythology and like Norway, chances are you'll love it.

To answer the OP - I caught the start of Dr Zhivago many many times on TV but always turned off as I didnt have the 3hrs+ to watch it, eventually made time and loved it

 

[Cubist]

Most. But not anything involving a rubber glove (just one), an electric egg whisk, a crotchless gimp suit and fully two kilograms of warmed vaseline with deluxe applicator.

Isn't a crotchless gimp suit kinda missing the whole point?

 

[accountantpete]

I've started watching Highlander over 20 times and still not made it to the finish.

 

[Cubist]

Anything with Jim F*cking Carey in it.

 

[martint235]

The Matrix. I've actually tried about 10 times but 5 mins in my brain just shuts down.

 

[Theseus]

Mrs T used to be in the film & TV biz and we got invited to the premier of a film she had had a small involvement with called The Life of Stuff. I wanted to walk within 5 minutes, but couldn't because of how it could have affected Mrs T in her future contracts. The most painful 90minutes I have had to endure in a cinema.

 

[Cubist]

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.

 

[MissTillyFlop]

There are very few films that I couldn't manage to watch until the end, but here are the ones which even I couldn't get through:

Spy Hard
Silence of the Hams
House of a Thousand Corpses
Crocodile Dundee 3
Hostel
Carry on Columbus

My high tolerence comes from the time my best friend and I, aged 15, watched "Don't Look Now" with his evangelist parents. HOW LONG DOES A SEX SCENE NEED TO BE????!!!!!

 

[yello]

The Stuff of Life did go on a bit, it's true. Not without value but it did seem to take the long path around the park, if I can put it like that... and it wasn't a particularly profound or original park either!

I recall being in a similar situation with 'Mars Attack'. We'd been invited (work related) to a private showing so I couldn't really walk out. That just made it worse.

The odd thing about these sorts of nominations is that they do miss out the numerous, and unremittingly poor, daytime TV films. You know, the sort of thing that that women from 'Charlies Angels' is ALWAYS in, the one whose name you can never quite remember. They're pay cheque stuff for jobbing actors and invariably dire. Every now and again there's one you quite like, but never more than that.

There can be a b-movie charm about some of the straight to DVD market films but these TV films take some beating for sheer lameness!

 

[Maz]

I've started watching Highlander over 20 times and still not made it to the finish.

Sorry to hear that. Is there a scratch on the DVD, perhaps?

 

[Mr Phoebus]

My high tolerence comes from the time my best friend and I, aged 15, watched "Don't Look Now" with his evangelist parents. HOW LONG DOES A SEX SCENE NEED TO BE????!!!!!

Be thankful it wasn't dwarf porn.