Films you gave up on before the end

[Patrick Thistle]

Last night I gave up watching the film 'Criminal'. It had an intriguing premise - a criminal has the memories of a CIA Agent implanted in his brain. Looked like a good cast - Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman, Tommy Lee Jones, Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot.

It wasn't utterly terrible but it was close. Costner was hammy - all grunts and face spasms. We'd recorded it off the telly and by the second ad break I decided I'd watched enough.

What other films have you lot given up on?

[Jah Womble]

Can't recall offhand, although I absolutely should have given up on The Piano.

[Felicity, I guess so]

Infamously bad amongst me and my pals: Ransom a late-70s Sean Connery 'thriller'.

We sneaked in for nothing to the only cinema on the RAF camp and it was a miserable autumn night outside, but still we decided it was better to huddle in the bus shelter than watch the rest.

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

I gave Fight Club about 15 to 20 minutes. I'll never get those 20 minutes of my life back.

[Gerontophile]

The one after the Phantom Menace.

And I've tried and I've tried, but I still can't get past the first 40 minutes of the Blade Runner sequel.

[Eggchaser]

Jackie Brown.

[Bored Of Education]

I think I gave up on "The Piano" but it was on TV so probably doesn't count. I think that National Lampoon's Summer Vacation is the only time I have walked out of a cinema for.

[Stumpy Pepys]

Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris. Yawn.

[San Bernardhinault]

Both Solarises.

And every Star Wars film made after Phantom Menace that I've tried to watch (I think I've tried three now).

[Ginger Yellow]

It's extremely rare for me not to finish a movie (that I haven't seen before) once I've started, to the extent I can't remember the last film I gave up on. I've never walked out of a theatre. I did however fall asleep halfway through Attack of the Clones.

[elguapo4]

Jeff Bridges film "against all odds " that was boring as a horses arse, that shit hooligans film with Warren Clarke "I.D",That was on video,I wouldn't say gave up on but I was removed from the cinema when I was about 6 after having a screaming fit of hysterics when the child catcher appeared in "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang "

[Gangster Octopus]

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[tracteurgarcon]

The Hurt Locker.

Cliched, unrealistic bollocks. Lethal Weapon in Baghdad masquerading as some sort of "truth telling" war film.

I got to the bit where the bomb disposal engineers rescue the SAS from an ambush and just couldn't be arsed with the rest of it.

[Benjm]

Infamously bad amongst me and my pals: Ransom a late-70s Sean Connery 'thriller'.

We sneaked in for nothing to the only cinema on the RAF camp and it was a miserable autumn night outside, but still we decided it was better to huddle in the bus shelter than watch the rest.

I watched this all the way through on London Live a couple of months ago. They seem to have some deal going, possibly with the BFI, which enables them to dig far deeper into the vaults than is probably advisable, They also show a lot of '70s British soft porn, which looks (from the guide) just as grotty and unarousing as readers of Matthew Sweet's mighty Shepperton Babylon might expect it to. Anyway, Ransom benefitted from the period charm (cars, clothes, etc) afforded to any 40 year old enterprise but god alone knows why anyone would have paid to see it in a cinema at the time.

[adams house cat]

"Man Of Steel". Before that "There's Something About Mary."

[Simon G]

I've only walked out of a cinema once, and that was Godsend. Absolutely dreadful film and and I can't believe Robert De Niro actually signed on to do it.

On the TV I started watching Bad Neighbours a couple of months ago and gave up at the first ad break, but that's more because I can't stand Seth Rogen than anything else.