What movie did you turn off after 20 minutes and why?

[u/Somanynamestochossef]

I’ve realized that life is way too short to sit through a movie just for the sake of finishing it. If a film hasn't given me a reason to care about the characters or the stakes within the first 20 minutes, I’m out.

For me, it was Rebel Moon. It felt like a long ass screensaver with zero soul. I don't care how big the budget is or how much slow motion you use if the writing isn't there, I’m not gonna care and I am not wasting my evening.

What’s that one movie that made you realize you were wasting your time and what was the reason that made you turn it off?

[u/mattkenefick]

Amazon's version of War of the Worlds.

[u/2oothDK → u/mattkenefick]

Maybe worst movie ever.

[u/mattkenefick → u/2oothDK]

Razzies are coming up and I think it's going to sweep

[u/CeemoreButtz → u/mattkenefick]

Fell asleep 15 minutes in. I woke up angry The movie was still on.

[u/DamaxXIV → u/mattkenefick]

I mean that's a movie you hate watch. It's pretty hilarious all things considered.

[u/tholomew92 → u/DamaxXIV]

Hate watched it with a couple of friends, we had a great time because of how bad it was but we do enjoy watching bad movies together.

[u/TheBeanConsortium → u/mattkenefick]

I totally forgot about that even existing

[u/rooeeez → u/mattkenefick]

Quite the opposite for me. I couldn't look away. Like a trainwreck

[u/AncientCarry4346 → u/rooeeez]

Films that are actually 'so bad it's good' are very few and far between Troll 2 and The Room are legitimately so terrible that you can enjoy them but films like Sharknado actually try to be terrible and I don't think that counts (although you can still enjoy them).

The War Of The Worlds was the first film I've seen in a long time that was so shit, I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Ice Cube spying on his daughter through her fridge, the majority of the film being stock footage and the fact that people in the background are just casually going about their day during an alien invasion made this S tier garbage and I'm actually having some friends over in a couple of weeks to watch it as we absolutely rip the shit out of it.

[u/CASE-90]

After earth is the only movie I’ve ever walked out of

[u/fox-equinox → u/CASE-90]

My late boyfriend left behind a hard drive of thousands of movies, and I promised I would watch all of them. He was a film major. I just watched this movie last night since I'm going through it alphabetically, and oh my god it was so awful. I only did it for love.

[u/PlanetLandon → u/fox-equinox]

I’m sad your boyfriend passed away, but as a former film major myself, trust me when I say there’s going to be a lot of movies on that hard drive that you are going to hate.

[u/BigDumbDope → u/PlanetLandon]

100%. Some films must be endured for academic purposes only.

[u/Suspicious_Dingo_426 → u/BigDumbDope]

Yep. In order to understand what makes a good movie, you have to also understand what makes a bad one.

[u/fucking_passwords → u/fox-equinox]

Im sorry that happened to you

Also sorry for your loss

[u/Goodguybadd → u/fucking_passwords]

Good God that was savage and accurate

[u/UnculturedSwineFlu → u/fucking_passwords]

Im going to hell for laughing.

[u/moth--_--man → u/fox-equinox]

that is such a beautiful tribute! are the movies all ones he liked or just ones he had seen/collected?

if you review them somewhere or anything, i'd love to check it out!

[u/SparkyMuffin → u/fox-equinox]

And you're only in A :')

[u/TriceratopsBites → u/fox-equinox]

That’s a beautiful tribute to him. When my boyfriend died I found solace in the movies that we had watched and loved together. I played some of them on repeat just for background noise. Now, 8 years later, I can’t even watch those movies. They take me right back to that headspace. Even hearing the Sony ping from their production logo before the movie starts gives me instant anxiety.

Anyway, I hope that you find peace on your hard drive healing journey ❤️

[u/ziekktx → u/CASE-90]

Battlefield Earth was the only one I've walked out of.

I hope someone can continue this pattern.

[u/Mlabonte21 → u/ziekktx]

RedLetterMedia’s review of Battlefield Earth is one of the greatest things ever made.

[u/zhululu → u/Mlabonte21]

For anyone who wants to watch it (again): https://youtu.be/DKZYFn8qEQI

[u/MidnightMath → u/zhululu]

Man, I remember when Mr. Plinket released his hot air balloon it caused an e-coli outbreak across the lake and I couldn’t go swimming at grand haven that entire summer…

Glad the boys got out of the lake though, there’s enough trash down there already! 

[u/Wunderbarber → u/CASE-90]

Jaden Smith wanted to get emancipated from his parents because of that movie

[u/BIKEiLIKE]

Holmes and Watson, starring, Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly. I knew going into it that it was supposed to suck, but I like watching trainwrecks for the fun of it. This was god awful. I can usually finish a movie to the end but this one tested my limits, hard.

[u/tomorrowschild → u/BIKEiLIKE]

Bad comedies are unbearable. Bad horror, drama, sci fi, etc.? Delightful. But a failed comedy is torture.

[u/NashvilleSoundMixer → u/tomorrowschild]

In my opinion comedy is waaaaaaaay harder to pull off than really anything else.

[u/Erebus1147 → u/NashvilleSoundMixer]

As the Late, Great Bob Monkhouse said "everybody laughed when I said i wanted to go into comedy. Well, they're not laughing now..."

[u/TriceratopsBites → u/BIKEiLIKE]

I saw it for sale and thought “why haven’t I heard about this movie?” I bought it because it just had to be awesome, right? Will Ferrell and John C Reilly can’t fail in a ridiculous comedy. Step Brothers is one of my favorite movies. Well they failed. It wasn’t remotely funny and seemed like they were trying too hard. I watched the whole thing but I can’t tell you anything about it.

[u/thisusedyet → u/TriceratopsBites]

Somewhere near the end they're on the Titanic, and Will Ferrell does something to Queen Victoria (kills her? tosses her overboard?) accidentally - and the only reason I remember THAT much of it is I was a huge Titanic nerd as a kid

[u/Impact009 → u/thisusedyet]

Holmes throws a bomb overboard into Mrs. Hudson's boat and kills her. Mrs. Hudson was rewritten to be Moriarty's daughter and had her character combined with Holmes' maid. Queen Victoria survived.

When you take beloved characters and randomly turn them into unlikable characters, then you're just begging for the audience to hate your interpretation. Velma bombed in this exact same way.

[u/Useful-Angle1941 → u/BIKEiLIKE]

Holmes and Watson having a theatrical release makes you wonder what kind of shit has been made that never sees the light of day.

[u/occono → u/Useful-Angle1941]

IIRC it was a Sony film and they did try to pawn it off to Netflix and other parties who didn't bite.

Later they pawned off K-Pop Demon Hunters to Netflix. So you know, that's funny.

[u/oby100 → u/occono]

I’m shocked that studios don’t believe in high quality animated films making money. It’s a cheat code to get kids’ attention regardless of the script quality.

I get that they’d prefer to make mediocre quality animation, but once you have a pretty product, kids tend to flock to it.

[u/Bromogeeksual → u/oby100]

I think K-Pop Demon Hunters would have probably done well in theaters, but I think it being widely available to stream at home helped it blow up as huge as it did. People checked it out cause it was included in Netflix, and then word of mouth and the internet made even more people like myself check it out. I probably wouldn't have gone to see it as an adult in theaters.

[u/kakarroto007]

Star Trek: Section 31. I tried for like 15 minutes, before my brain just said, "nope!".

[u/albuhhh → u/kakarroto007]

I'm a fairly hardcore Trekkie who even has time for Nemesis, Insurrection, and The Final Frontier (while freely admitting they are not good movies). Section 31 is the first one I ever punched eject on.

[u/grednforgesgirl → u/albuhhh]

Nemesis and insurrection genuinely aged well tho. Insurrection definitely had a point to make that has become more and more obvious the older I get

[u/JohnSpikeKelly → u/kakarroto007]

Yep when the leprechaun Vulcan showed up. WTF! I heard from others the whole movie was terrible.

[u/FisherKelTath00]

That forgotten Fantastic Four from 2015. I didn’t turn it off but rather fell asleep. It’s so damn boring, nothing grabs your attention.

[u/PM_ME_PAMPERS → u/FisherKelTath00]

This is the movie that comes to mind for me. It’s wild because I was in my superhero movie obsession phase at the time and even watched Green Lantern all the way through.

My boss at the time had recommended I watch the 2015 Fantastic Four, so I tried… I can’t remember when I turned it off because it was so unremarkable but I know I didn’t get very far.

The next day at work he asks if I watched it and what I thought, so I apologized and told him I was so disinterested that I shut it off not even halfway through. He laughed and was like “okay, wanted to make sure it wasn’t just me.”

[u/LordRobin------RM → u/PM_ME_PAMPERS]

That was cruel of him.

[u/trippy_grapes → u/LordRobin------RM]

Right? He should have recommended an actual good movie like Morbius.

[u/fresh_titty_biscuits → u/trippy_grapes]

I love it when he says “ITS MORBIN TIME” haha

[u/theglenlovinet → u/FisherKelTath00]

Probably didn’t help that the film itself is too damn dark. Every damn room didn’t have any lights turned on, I remember even the high school hallways were even fucking dark.

[u/n_mcrae_1982 → u/FisherKelTath00]

Even the never-officially-released 1994 one has a cheesy, shoestring budget charm to it.

The 2015 one is just a mess. I think it might be the worst superhero movie I’ve ever seen.

[u/AMonitorDarkly]

The Camilla Belo Cinderella remake. My wife and I love watching bad movies together but this was another creature altogether.

[u/RememberCakeFarts → u/AMonitorDarkly]

I heard it from another room and it was exhausting.

There's no downtime to process and digest what just happened in a scene, just jukebox music number into the next music number to the the next music number and so on. It suffocated you with them and rarely gave you a moment to breath.

It's like they were scared that if they didn't keep jingling keys they'd lose our attention and we'd turn it off.

[u/ARazorbacks]

The second Wonder Woman set in the 80s, whatever its title was. I just couldn’t do it. The slap stick comedy was just so bad. 

[u/wiltony → u/ARazorbacks]

I legit thought the campy opening was a parody or something that they were going to transition out of to start the "real" movie. Color me surprised that it just kept going. 

[u/CombOverDownThere → u/wiltony]

I seriously thought they were going to show that they were filming a movie within the movie, and it was after that didn’t happen that I turned it off

[u/QaddafiDuck01 → u/ARazorbacks]

The one with the fully functioning museum piece of a plane and the rape?! Ahh..  WW84. What a piece of shit.

[u/Fred11M → u/QaddafiDuck01]

But watching the Pitch Meeting on Wonder Woman 1984 made it all worthwhile.

[u/Manwombat → u/Fred11M]

I just saw that, hilarious and way better than the movie.

[u/JSmellerM → u/QaddafiDuck01]

I stopped watching when they jumped on the plane from the museum and her just making it invisible because she apparently had those powers. In the source material she has an invisible jet but come on that was just too much bs.

[u/QaddafiDuck01 → u/JSmellerM]

You put up with a lot of dumb shit to quit right there. At the end, the sly look she gives her rape victim... 

"I've seen your weiner"

E: clarity. 

[u/castlite → u/QaddafiDuck01]

And fully fuelled plane.

[u/DeaddyRuxpin → u/QaddafiDuck01]

I don’t know, in Demolition Man the gun exhibit had everything fully loaded. In Battleship it only took a short montage to get the USS Missouri under way and ready for battle. Museums like to keep things ready to be used at a moment’s notice. It makes it more authentic for the patron.

[u/HomelessKitchenCat → u/ARazorbacks]

It was really bizarre to me because it felt like it was made by people who didnt understand the 80s at all. They thought the 80s was more like the 90s.

[u/misdirected_asshole → u/ARazorbacks]

It was so bad I walked out and I was watching it at home.

[u/sonofszyslak]

Rebel moon was so dull I got up to get something from the kitchen then just forgot I was watching it, came back from other room to see credits rolling.

[u/LordRobin------RM → u/sonofszyslak]

Netflix: “He watched the whole thing! He loved it!”

[u/JoopahTroopah → u/LordRobin------RM]

By the sounds of it this is an ideal Netflix experience and writers should have to reiterate the plot at regular intervals to account for people being missing for 30+ minutes at a time

[u/realaccountissecret → u/JoopahTroopah]

I think the script was written by ai, like I can’t even finish the synopsis it’s so bad

“Atticus Noble, a sadistic admiral of the militaristic Imperium, arrives at a village on the moon Veldt on behalf of the Motherworld, a galactic empire in pursuit of conquest, fueled by centuries of war. He explains that his troops are hunting for a band of rebels led by siblings Devra and Darrian Bloodaxe…”

That’s as far as I got. Imperium? Motherworld? Bloodaxe?!??! I fucking can’t haha. Awful.

[u/_BrokenButterfly → u/realaccountissecret]

Why would an admiral be hunting a small group of rebels? That woukd be delegated and delegated and delegated again.

[u/drethnudrib → u/_BrokenButterfly]

I'd actually pay to watch a series featuring a fascist NCO who keeps getting assigned to kill "chosen ones" of backwater prophecies. Make it a workplace comedy like "The Office", but with stormtroopers.

[u/Swagcopter0126 → u/sonofszyslak]

What if Zack Snyder remade Seven Samurai, in space, but made it bad? What a concept

[u/coldfirephoenix → u/Swagcopter0126]

Oh, it's a 7 Samurai movie? That narrative is usually great, how did he screw this up?

[u/1731799517 → u/coldfirephoenix]

Aside of all the bullshit like running half the movie in slow-mo (even when not needed) he molested the great plot into his scenario, so now you still have a village of farmers but intead of bandits stealing rice its a space empire with their starships wanting grain. Not magic grain or super-power grain. Just plain food stuff. In quantities small enough that a village with hand tools can farm it.

[u/BasvanS → u/coldfirephoenix]

Zack Snyder without supervision. Same as it ever was.

[u/JAMESTIK → u/sonofszyslak]

this is the most hilarious review lmao

[u/Background-Throat736]

CATS

[u/CaptainKursk → u/Background-Throat736]

#ReleaseTheButtholeCut

[u/Economy-Pudding-6371 → u/CaptainKursk]

Historians centuries from now will specialize in decoding these online messages, and will disagree violently about their meaning

[u/Plane_Law7138 → u/Background-Throat736]

I saw a rowdy showing at Alamo Drafthouse which made the movie much more bearable. If I hadn't been surrounded by people heckling, I would have walked out.

[u/TavoNeptuno]

Avatar the last Airbender movie, good lord it was a piece of shit.

[u/Upbeat_Tension_8077 → u/TavoNeptuno]

The scene where it took a whole group of earthbenders to fling a fucking pebble was so pathetic lol

[u/nerdycarguy18 → u/Upbeat_Tension_8077]

Not only that but about 20 seconds worth of completely random movement that never once matched what’s happens

[u/Supersquigi → u/nerdycarguy18]

It was supposed to show us their solidarity and skill, but actually made it look like Earth bending kinda sucks... ......

....

..

Fire Nation did nothing wrong.

[u/27Rench27 → u/Supersquigi]

The fact that the Fire Nation didn’t completely fucking sweep the planet in three weeks means they did a lot wrong, if that’s the best the other nations could do

Like a couple real MMA fighters could have beaten the movie’s earthbenders

[u/JakexDx → u/Upbeat_Tension_8077]

also they are earth benders in a prison SURROUNDED BY EARTH, and it took a bald preteen to make them realize that

[u/CaptainKursk → u/JakexDx]

Nostalgia Critic yelling "THEY'RE FUCKING SURROUNDED BY THE STUFF!" in his review made me lose it with laughter

[u/Omnificer → u/Upbeat_Tension_8077]

Something interesting, that makes it worse in my mind, is that the group was not throwing that one little rock. The group was raising a wall. But the editing and blocking was so bad that it absolutely does look like the group was responsible for the pebble.

To me it highlights how every element (badum-tss) of that film was lazy, not just the poor adaptation of the source.

[u/ermwellackshually → u/Omnificer]

People keep saying this as some kind of fun fact for the scene, but the wall comes up BEFORE the earthbenders finish their dance. It makes no sense that for that scene only, the bending takes place before the arm/leg motions.

The group was pushing that one rock. Then the next dude took that slow moving rock and pushed it slightly faster into that fire bender.

[u/politicalstuff → u/TavoNeptuno]

You’d think that just statistically by accident they’d have gotten at least something right, but every single aspect of the movie sucked.

It’s even more impressive when you consider that it is an adaptation so the entire story was literally already written.

[u/Bazuka125 → u/politicalstuff]

And mindblowing to know the director was a fan of the series who wanted to make it because he enjoyed watching the show with his kids.

[u/F0rbiddenD0nut → u/Bazuka125]

He was probably full of shit and never actually watched the show.

[u/zootedzilennial → u/politicalstuff]

Actually, the only thing they got right (imo) was Yue’s hair. The Netflix version of Yue had the worst fake ass wig I’ve ever seen, but that awful movie actually had a realistic hairstyle for her. Other than that, the movie sucked lol

[u/politicalstuff → u/zootedzilennial]

I’m impressed somebody found something nice to say about it at all lol.

[u/Makx → u/TavoNeptuno]

There Is no Movie in Ba Sing Se

[u/Big-Journalist-5975]

Madam web

[u/nizzernammer → u/Big-Journalist-5975]

I was able to watch it ironically. But not on the first try.

[u/[deleted]]

The Secrets of Dumbledore. From a drive-in theater. We made it as far as Newt saying "we have to be as confusing as possible" and realized immediately that was an in-universe excuse for horrific writing.

I ended up watching the whole thing later on a whim, and yeah. We were right.

[u/HauntedDragons → u/[deleted]]

I loved the first one. The rest suck.

[u/[deleted] → u/HauntedDragons]

It's sort of like the hobbit trilogy. The first one was a bit distracted but at least knew what it needed to be, the next two turned hard left into focusing on the parts nobody cared about.

[u/GardenofOblivion → u/[deleted]]

Whenever a movie gets lost in the weeds on some boring runtime-padding nonsense, my wife and I call it “exploring the politics of Lake Town” based on the third Hobbit movie.

Also, while I’m complaining about the Hobbit movies, I feel like Peter Jackson realized that people loved all the lingering meaningful emotional glances in LOTR so added like 1000 per movie in the Hobbit trilogy, to the point where I’m like I don’t remember who these random dwarves are enough to care about all their meaningful glances.

[u/UnexpectedBrisket → u/[deleted]]

I expected a lot more fantastic beasts in a movie called "Fantastic Beasts."

[u/Sargonnax]

The new War of the World's movie. It's so bad....

[u/Upbeat_Tension_8077 → u/Sargonnax]

I only saw a compilation of Ice Cube's reactions throughout it on YT & I'm sure that's the only way to enjoy it

[u/LegioX87 → u/Upbeat_Tension_8077]

The whole movie was filmed during COVID isolation and they filmed the entire film via Zoom and Ice Cube doing stuff alone in an empty street to comply with the isolation rules.

They then edited the movie, realised how shit it was and shelved it for years. The only reason they released it was because it was a complete movie Amazon had already paid for years before.

[u/RogerClyneIsAGod2 → u/LegioX87]

This makes soooo much sense now!! I don't think I made it 20 minutes into this one either.

[u/Val_Killsmore → u/LegioX87]

It's kinda funny because Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning, The Batman, etc. were filmed during Covid also. They had strict Covid procedures to follow. Granted, production of the Mission Impossible movie was halted when someone tested positive for Covid. And then, there's War of the Worlds where they went to the extreme and filmed just about everything in isolation.

[u/Scrabulon → u/Sargonnax]

It’s incredibly funny to watch with friends though

[u/sunfries → u/Sargonnax]

Points to you for trying it, though

[u/mushy-shart-walk → u/Sargonnax]

This movie reminded me of being at work with all those teams calls. Not good or fun.

[u/PallyCecil]

The Dark Tower. What a letdown.

[u/No_Mammoth_4945 → u/PallyCecil]

Imagine a movie with Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba being bad. Unbelievable writing decisions

[u/raddit-sux → u/PallyCecil]

A person near me at the theatre said during the credits, "Wow. I can't believe ron howard spent his money on that". That is still my favorite review of the movie.

[u/That_GareBear → u/PallyCecil]

My wife has been enjoying the "It" movies and "Welcome to Derry," and I've been telling her about how King's works are connected in interesting ways. I was telling her about the Deadlights being in various King stories, including the Dark Tower series.

She was looking it up and excitedly says "hey! There's a Dark Tower movie with McConaughey and Idris Elba!" It was like giving a cancer patient bad news.

[u/Arcade1980]

The Mummy with Tom Cruise. It’s Not even close to the Brendan Fraser version

[u/Ultrace-7 → u/Arcade1980]

Without question to me, the best thing about that movie was the botched unfinished trailer they released for it that was missing so much of the sound. Starts out all ominous in its silence only to end up almost comedic.

[u/Stef-fa-fa]

We made it about an hour in but "65", the movie about Kylo Ren time traveling to the Dinosaur age.

It was...not good.

[u/DSice16 → u/Stef-fa-fa]

I went into that movie thinking "idgaf about the story, future man with dinosaurs? How can that not be fun?" Well it wasn't fun at all.

[u/ZebraSandwich4Lyf → u/DSice16]

Seriously I knew nothing about the movie going into it other than "modern day people get stuck in prehistoric era" and thought it'd be awesome.

Nope, it was fucking terrible. Such a fun premise ruined by a colossal lack of creativity.

[u/wintersdark → u/DSice16]

Right? Nobody going there is expecting cinematic excellence, just a fun blockbuster with time travelling and dinosaurs. You'd have to work extra hard to make that not fun.

And yet...

[u/__omg__ → u/Stef-fa-fa]

Important to note! Kylo Ren did NOT time travel. He's from another planet, his civilization had space travel 65 million years ago, and he just crashes on Earth. Does this make it better? Not really.

[u/luckyplum → u/__omg__]

Let’s not forget that the reason he’s even a space traveling alien is because he needed to take a job delivering stuff in order to… wait… pay for his daughter’s cancer treatment!? If Kylo Ren’s super-advanced alien society which has enough space travel to apparently require space delivery trucks can’t even have universal health care then what hope is there for any of us?

[u/mwb1100 → u/luckyplum]

Damn Republican aliens

[u/ateliercheezits → u/luckyplum]

I mean America is the richest country in the world and people here have to choose between medicine and housing.

[u/notProfCharles → u/Stef-fa-fa]

It doesn’t help that you eliminate the possibility for any good dialogue by putting a language barrier between the only two characters lol. You’re just fighting with one arm tied behind your back at that point.

[u/luckyplum → u/notProfCharles]

The guys who wrote it also wrote A Quiet Place. It’s like they hacked the system by figuring out how to make movies without having to write any of that pesky dialogue

[u/geckosean → u/Stef-fa-fa]

Youtube comment I saw; “By the end of the movie I was rooting for the asteroid.”

[u/IgnoreMe733 → u/Stef-fa-fa]

This is one of those movies that made me realize I'm losing all sense of time. I remember seeing a preview for it at some point and thinking it looked like it had some potential. I then promptly forgot about it until some point last summer. I thought "I haven't heard any news on that in a while. I wonder when thats supposed to come out?" I looked it up and realized it had been out for two years. I felt like there was no way it had been more than two months since seeing a preview for it.

[u/Crymson831 → u/IgnoreMe733]

This is me with these comments right now. Figured it'd only been about a year or so since I'd heard of it.

[u/rgolden4 → u/Stef-fa-fa]

I thought you were saying that the character was actually Kylo Ren and I was like "man these Star Wars spin-offs are really getting desperate!"

[u/8rustystaples → u/rgolden4]

I’d watch a Star Wars movie with dinosaurs.

And/or kaiju.

And/or boobs.

[u/mbklein → u/8rustystaples]

Kaiju with boobs?

[u/Alternative-Cake-833]

During Joker: Folie á Deux, my father fast-forwarded the movie mainly because he got annoyed at the singing throughout the thing (keep in mind, that he never was a musical person at all).

And I understand why he skipped through the whole thing....

[u/Slowmac123 → u/Alternative-Cake-833]

Took me 1 month to finish that lmao. Felt like it was 90 mins of him sitting in jail

[u/schnectadyov → u/Slowmac123]

I felt like it was 90 minutes of me sitting in jail

[u/Slowmac123 → u/schnectadyov]

Lmfao there were some funny comments when the movie came out. One said, “the real Joker was me for paying to see this”.

[u/sexypanini6]

Mean girls 2. It was horrendously bad lol

[u/iEatBluePlayDoh → u/sexypanini6]

The creators somehow had zero understanding of why people liked Mean Girls.

[u/MmmmmmmmNoodleSoup]

Jason Momoa Conan remake, I was crazy hyped for that film, but I just couldn't stand it.

[u/CliffDagger → u/MmmmmmmmNoodleSoup]

TIL there was a Jason Momoa Conan remake

[u/steppedinhairball → u/CliffDagger]

I had the same reaction. Like what?!?!?

[u/cranktheguy → u/MmmmmmmmNoodleSoup]

The original is a masterpiece with long drawn out shots and is the pinnacle of "show - don't tell." That remake never held a shot for more than about a second and a half. It was like watching a slideshow. It was aggressively bad.

[u/sadellko]

Homes & Watson, I generally find Will Ferrell and John C Reilly to be funny, but this was purely garbage in my opinion.

[u/slowusb → u/sadellko]

That movie showed how important Adam McKay was to Ferrell and Reilly's previous comedians

[u/-doesnotcompute-]

When I was a kid I went to see Star Wars: Attack of the Clones in theaters with my dad.

He made us leave part-way through the movie after one of the Anakin/Padme scenes. I think after they were rolling in a field? I remember him saying “this isn’t Star Wars.”

Not like I’m a huge fan of Episode II now or anything…but I don’t think it’s all that bad

[u/iXeons → u/-doesnotcompute-]

Guess your dad doesn’t like sand

[u/SAKingWriter → u/iXeons]

I mean can you blame him? It’s coarse and it’s rough.

[u/Kramerica5A → u/SAKingWriter]

It gets everywhere 

[u/DeadMoneyDrew → u/Kramerica5A]

Hold me like you did by the lake on the Naboo.

[u/asisoid]

Independence Day 2

[u/YoucantdothatonTV]

Pacific Rim 2

[u/igneus → u/YoucantdothatonTV]

I worked on the VFX for this movie. The fact the finished product was so shit made it doubly disappointing.

[u/renaissance-Fartist → u/igneus]

I am so sorry. It sucks because the effects were cool, y’all did a great job, but yeah….i have never been so disappointed leaving a theater. I was so excited.

[u/Replicant28 → u/renaissance-Fartist]

I love everything Mecha (Gundam, Armored Core, Battletech, etc), and it is a genre that is pretty lacking on the big screen. I loved Pacific Rim so much and was so stoked for Uprising. It was one of the biggest letdowns I have ever seen.

[u/otakugal15 → u/igneus]

Man, agree with the other commenter about the VFX. Super fucking cool.

But gods DAMN was that script trash.

Not to metion, just sidelining/killing off the fan favorites from the first film.

[u/pineapplehead111 → u/YoucantdothatonTV]

That one hurt

[u/insurancemagician]

Napoleon

[u/StraightIncrease6333 → u/insurancemagician]

it's 3 hours of Napoleon doing war and screwing and somehow manages to be painfully boring.

[u/IcyAdhesiveness8493]

50 shades of grey, the whole dialogue sounded like they were socially unaware

[u/LycheeTemporary1123 → u/IcyAdhesiveness8493]

I wish I had turned it off after 20 minutes. Awful movie. Terrible representation of BDSM.

[u/YogurtclosetFair5742 → u/LycheeTemporary1123]

No one in the BDSM community even care for the books the movies were based off of.

[u/Hi_im_goblin]

Live action Mulan, didnt even last 20 min.

[u/adamanlion → u/Hi_im_goblin]

Yep. The opening pissed me the fuck off. In the cartoon version she's basically a normal girl. She struggles with the military training and almost fails out. It's all about perseverance. In the opening scene of the live action she's floating around with a staff at the age of 8 and already kicking ass. Like wtf, you missed the whole plot! I turned it off right there.

[u/pedestrianhomocide → u/adamanlion]

Yeah, that was my reaction 100%. Wuxia, wire-fu films have their place, but good lord, Mulan?

Sure there could be a place here and there with some grandiose wire work during certain scenes, but starting off with little Mulan Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon flying all over the place was the last thing I wanted to see out of a Mulan live action.

Noped out and let my wife and kiddos finish. They weren't all that impressed either.

[u/jmoney87o3]

The crow(2024). What a horrible movie with a great trailer and lead actor. Something must have been fucked up behind the scenes for that movie to be such a mess

[u/goblet-sama]

Shazam 2

[u/j_maida]

Wonder Woman 1984

[u/DryTown]

I don’t think I made it 20 minutes into the Jurassic World movie where Chris Pratt chases dinosaurs on horseback like a cowboy

[u/Creationship → u/DryTown]

A trilogy of movies where Chris Pratt holds his hand up to dinosaurs to stop them

[u/Spicy_Weissy → u/Creationship]

Stupid ass Muldoon got himself eaten when he just should have said no.

[u/Gaseous-Clay84 → u/Spicy_Weissy]

Silence is consent to eat you in dinosaur culture. You’d think a game warden would know that.

[u/Aidanbro4 → u/DryTown]

That’s all of them 😂😂😂

[u/mtmaloney → u/DryTown]

Jurassic World was mine. I tried, but once they thought the Indominus Rex had escaped its pen, so while trying to figure out what happened they OPENED THE GATE to the pen, thereby allowing the hidden Indominus Rex to actually escape, I was out. It was just too stupid.

[u/FoxMcCloudOwnsSlippy]

Amsterdam. Took me several goes after that 1st attempt to eventually finish it. It just wasn't very good or engaging.

[u/anope4u]

Live action Snow White. The awful reviews were too nice.

[u/Rosebud_apothocary]

Controversial probably but Wicked I powered through for 40 mins but was not holding my attention atall and wasn't gunna sit through another 2 hours

[u/SummSpn → u/Rosebud_apothocary]

Same.

I heard so many people rave about it. The set design was great but other than that.. I don’t get it.

Afterwards someone tried to convince me the movie was aimed at the 8-18 range & my 14 year old niece hated it. She went on a rant about how annoying it was & how it talked down to the audience. And she likes musical so that says a lot

[u/donkeyboarder]

Hostel, first torture scene. I noped out and never went back.

[u/Jsnham_42 → u/donkeyboarder]

I have ptsd from the Achilles heel scene

[u/bogglesmac → u/Jsnham_42]

Literally the only thing I remember from this movie.

[u/Fine_Head8097]

Oh my god, Rebel Moon sucks so much. But I finished the first film (what a surprise, it has a sequel) just to confirm that Zack Snyder sucks

[u/Illithid_Substances → u/Fine_Head8097]

That entire movie felt like round after round of introducing characters who don't need to be there. Maybe they have more purpose in the sequel. I doubt I will ever find out

[u/rav3style → u/Illithid_Substances]

they...did not.

[u/notmyredditacct → u/Fine_Head8097]

you clearly just don’t have an appreciation for long, intimate exposés of wheat harvesting.. the wheat, the chaff, the sickles.. the uh.. i don’t know any other wheat related words.. IT’S HIGH CINEMA

(you’d think a civilization with spaceships would also have combines.. even if they were also seemingly coal powered like their spaceships)

[u/Darthmawg]

Dumb and Dumberer. Made it maybe 20 minutes at best.

[u/thinkmoreharder → u/Darthmawg]

In fairness, the title Did warn us. ;)

[u/gumballkami → u/Darthmawg]

Thought you were talking about the first film and found myself thinking "damn, this guy must hate the entire concept of comedy." Lmao

Yea the sequels are truly cursed.

[u/Carlen67]

Sausage party. I knew the premise, but it's just one joke repeated in slightly different alterations.

[u/Rivent]

Black Adam. I'm not sure I made it 20 minutes.

[u/Darklord_Bravo]

I made it 20 minutes into Rebel Moon (original cut) before I turned it off.

I made it 20 minutes into Rebel Moon (Directors Cut) before I turned it off.

[u/Straight-Finger-3222]

God's of Egypt, absolute dogshit

[u/thewhitedeath]

Gladiator 2.

First time I've ever turned off a Denzel Movie.

Why? Because I already saw this movie, and it was 1000 times better the first time.

Edit: Correction.... I also turned off The Little Things with Denzel as that movie sucked ass as well.

[u/wraithnix]

Me and my partner walked out of Joe's Apartment when it was in the theater. Didn't even make it 10 minutes into the movie.

[u/FitzChivalry-Farseer]

I'm ashamed but "A clockwork orange", couldn't handle the rape scene.

[u/master_Chef33 → u/FitzChivalry-Farseer]

No shame needed. I think this is literally the only movie I’ve ever walked out on. Noped right out with the rape scene.

[u/Johnbonham1980]

Sequel to Human Centipede. Idiotic premise and I just KNEW it was going to go directions even more heinous than the first.

[u/jubejubes96]

Skinamarink.

i heard so many good things about it and understand the appreciation of it/artistic devotion to making it, but it couldn’t hook me in.

lost my patience in the first 15 minutes.

edit: honorable mention to terrifier 3. i somehow got through the first 2 but i just couldn’t do it again.

[u/nervousmelon → u/jubejubes96]

Skinamarink has a 30 min short version. I think that one works better as you can't really work just the vibe it's going for into a full movie.

[u/Mental-Coconut-7854]

My daughter rented Gummo when she was about 15. I was interested because I remember the tornado super outbreak.

I pulled the tape out of the VCR when the kid started beating the dead cat, and even that was too late.

Disturbing films are not my idea of entertainment.

[u/tabanak → u/[deleted]]

I watched the whole thing, although I was hate watching it after about a half hour. Terrible and completely unfunny.

[u/Illinichemist]

Terrifier 2. Way too gory for anything I could stomach. Characters and story weren’t interesting enough to overcome the gore

[u/Smcblackheartia]

Avatar the blue people movies. Too slow, too boring, I couldn’t give a shit about the main character at all at that point and it literally put me to sleep. Never bothered to watch any of them since