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films you started but never finished?


What are some films you've started watching but never finished for one reason or another? For me, I chose to divide mine into two categories:

Ones I Enjoyed and Will Go Back to Some Day:

The Abyss
WALL·E
The Adventures of Tintin
Elle
My Fair Lady

Ones I Didn't Enjoy and Probably Will Never Return to:

Reds
The English Patient
The Big Short
Hail Mary
Network

What's yours?

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I have NO qualms about walking out on a movie. I haven't been going to the theater much, so I have to go back to Arrival (2016). Bored the hell out of me and I didn't like anyone in the cast.

Haven't been renting much, either. House of Gucci (2021) last movie I didn't finish, despite a solid performance by Lady Gaga.

For me not to finish a movie is not uncommon at all, I don't readily recall most instances, so I can't easily make a list.

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An old housemate of mine owned the VHS of the movie "Brazil" and would watch it often(it was a favorite of his...) I must have tried to watch it at least a half dozen times and EVERY SINGLE TIME I would fall asleep! I eventually gave up trying...

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Bohemian Rhapsody. I was bored after 15 minutes, and stopped watching.

🤨

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The Scorpion King: too dumb
Avatar 2: pretty but terribly written story and bad acting
Feast 3: perverted and stupid

There are many more but these came to mind.

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DUDE...PERVERTED AND STUPID IS RIGHT IN YOUR WHEELHOUSE.🤔

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In some cases yes. But there's a limit. I think honeypie's head being shit out left a bad taste in her mouth.

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The Engish Patient was really difficult to get through, but it does get better towards the end.

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Could never get past 10 minutes of the Godfather

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Conan the Barbarian (1982)
Barry Lyndon (1975)

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I think "dirty dancing " and "Top gun".

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Many but the best known movie I could not finish was 2001: A Space Odyssey.

It was so boring I would rather watch grass grow than watch that whole movie.

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