Have You Ever Watched a Movie and Realized You Didn't Enjoy It? if So, What Movie?

I watched I'm Thinking of Ending Things last night after seeing the trailer on YouTube. The trailer made me hopeful - it seemed somewhat like the movie Get Out where a man is meeting his girlfriends family and strange things begin to happen.

What I got was two hours of pretentious dialogue and not much else. A suspenseful thriller becomes a 10 minute long dance number (apparently from the musical "Oklahoma"). The whole time I was waiting for something interesting to happen. The movie has a rating of 7/10 on IMDB and I just don't understand why. It's not a drama nor a thriller. It's a surreal movie that achieves nothing and I wish I had seen something else. You could argue that the point of a movie is to make you feel something and it achieved that by making me feel angry. It reminds me of the time I slogged through an hour of The Lobster.

Maybe I just don't appreciate art. I've never been one to walk into an art gallery and marvel at someone who has thrown paint at a canvas.

Anyway, what films have you hated/walked out of the theater/returned to the DVD store in disgust?

Edit If you disagree with people's opinions, write a comment. Don't just neg vote them because they hate a movie you like.

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  • +2

    Most recently has to be Murder on the Orient Express. Had just finished Knives Out on Prime the day before and was looking for another whodunnit and tried this one. Not sure whether it might have been good as I stopped watching half an hour in. Even with all the well known actors it was just too much of a slog and Poirot's accent was starting to grate on me - sounded like the actor was having too much fun doing a caricature of a Belgian/French accent and just felt flat. I also saw Deadpool at the cinema and felt the humour was way too close to 'edgy YouTube comment section humour' but must've been the minority as it got excellent reviews. Transformers 4 was horrible but that was my fault for going to it in the first place. The Lego Movie was also another snoozefest.

    • Murder on the Orient Express was forgettable. Glad when it ended.

      • +1

        Spoiler Alert

        The real killer in this movie was the director

  • -1

    Everything Star Wars - hate it so much I never saw it.

  • +3

    Mulan. What complete rubbish.

    • I am going watching it because of the lead actress, don't care about everything else. She was born and raised in the US by the way.

      • She was born in Wuhan…..

      • She was terrible. lol

        She spent 4 years in the USA I think. Her English is kinda tacky compared to an All American. She Moved back to China after that and is a full blown communist.

      • Asian fetish?

  • First Man. What a (profanity) mess of a film. Turned the most exciting event in mankind into a snoozefest. Multiple people left the cinema and I wanted too.

  • -1

    Super Troopers
    Blues Brothers
    The Ring

  • +2

    Gravity. That's some boring cinema.

    • +1

      I was surprised by the negative reaction online after I watched it. Seemed like a good one.

      • It is highly rated on imdb. I'd give it a 4

        • on movie forums it gets shit on

  • Suicide Squad. I won tickets for gold class and I wish I gave them away. Awful movie.

    Resident Evil The Final Chapter. Whoever cut that? Different camera angle every second. I'm a fan of the games and series but that movie could have been so much better. Ruined.

    Lord of the Rings.. I dont know how people get stabbed with swords and no blood. No gore.. nothing. Would have been good to see a hobbit murdered.

    Hunger Games… again no blood. Just wasnt Battle Royal

    • Agree on Suicide Squad and Resident Evil. I don't know why directors think shakycam makes things more "real" except that you make elaborate action sequences unintelligible and a waste of the effort!

    • Would have been good to see a hobbit murdered.

      =O

  • I'm a big Adam Sandler fan BUT Jack and Jill? I can't Fn believe Pacino agreed to make that garbage.

  • +1

    Have never walked out of a movie yet (if I've paid for it may as well watch it), but I came close when we went and saw 'it comes at night'.

    Gotta be one of the worst movies I've watched at a cinema to date.

  • All my unfinished movies on Netflix.

  • Blair Witch Project. Walked out after 20 mins, handy cam shaking was giving me motion sickness and I normally don't get motion sickness (can read in the car no problems)

  • I went to the cinema to watch open water and it was absolutely terrible

  • Darkness Falls 2003.

    First ever movie I watched together with my then partner.

    She was a horror fan, I wasn't.

    The things I do for love.

    I think we bonded a little bit more over how wtf was that about.

  • +2

    Tenet. So disappointing.

    • The more I think about this movie, the less I like it. If you don't think too hard about how the time "inversion" works, it's a well shot but pretty bland spy thriller IMO. If you DO try to understand the time stuff though, it all falls apart pretty quickly.

      But walking out of the cinema I was very confused, but still thought it was cool.

  • What is even with the title btw. Of this thread.

    • Have You Ever Watched a Movie and Realized You Didn't Enjoy It? if So, What Movie?

      Just wanted to know if anybody had watched a movie through to competition and then looked back and regretted it because it was crap.

      • “Have you ever tried a flavour of milk and you drink a few sips and then realise that you didn’t like that flavour of milk?”

        • Yeah - strawberry.

          The title is a bit chaotic I agree. I was still salty about watching the movie.

  • +1

    I thought Vanilla Sky would have had a few mentions by now.

  • +1

    After i watched Parasite, i went on Korean movie binge. Two highly acclaimed films that i didn't like we're The Handmaiden and The Wailing.
    Watched Hereditary after watching Unbelievable, didn't interest me.
    Stopped The Grand Budapest Hotel around 45 mins in. Very boring.
    Dunkirk made me think too much.

    • +2

      Watch My Sassy Girl (2001). It's such a cute film that reminds us of simpler times.

      • thanks. has good reviews as well 😁

        • +1

          Yeah i'v seen it is is some good korean drama- have a look at too beautiful to lie

    • +1

      Check out The Good, the Bad, the Weird from 2008.

      Awesome movie.

    • Did you watch the one about hte huge pig?

      • nah didn't seem that interesting. reviews weren't too good as well

  • +1

    John Wick 3

    To recreate John Wick 3 all you need is three clips of Keanu Reeves stabbing, punching and shooting some unnamed person and then put all three clips on repeat for 2 hours and 10 minutes. I watched it on Netflix and was constantly checking how much time was left. I think I actually gave out an audible laugh when the ending came and I realised a 4th one is coming. I don't have anything against movie violence, but two hours of someone pressing down on a gun trigger gets boring really fast. Really don't understand the 90% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

    • Keanu Reeves has a cult following

      • He’s in every second cult sci-fi movie.

  • Shoplifters was so bland. Only mildly interesting towards the end.

  • +2

    Isnt this just same as saying "Which movie did you hate"

  • I just watched the new Bill and Ted movie, what a joke. I cant believe i wasted 90 minutes, on that rubbish

  • Birdemic.
    Despite its obvious cinematic excellence, I just couldn't get into it.

  • "Mulholland Dr" just didn't do it for me. Also "The Neverending Story 2" (the weird shiney people).

  • Most movies.

    Terminator dark fate. After the first car cashe scene I turned it off.

  • +1

    Watchmen…. It was <not very good>.

    Edited in case there's a profanity filter I successfully avoided.

    • +1

      What didn't you like about it? It's very long and brooding, but I enjoyed it.

      • I don't remember a lot of it, I may have fallen asleep. Perhaps my perception was distorted by the insane amount of hype it received prior to release.

        I guess it was promoted as a superhero movie, but they were practically all human except for Dr Dong.

  • +1

    1914 - terrible and most boring movie ever watched in cinema.

    • +2

      Wow I thought it was great. The whole one shot cinematography was mesmerising and the movie was well paced in suspense and drama.

      It's something I want to watch again to see if I can spot where the camera changes hands/cuts to a different shot. It won't be the same as seeing it in cinema though.

      • -1

        The one shot is done with a trick and it is an illusion

  • +2

    For me it was He’s Just Not That Into You…. the only movie I’ve ever walked out on in a cinema. I’ve fallen asleep during movies, scrolled my phone but never before walked out.

    Having said that, I walked straight out of it, and wanting to get my value for money walked into Gran Torino which was about 20 minutes progressed.

    No regrets.

  • Venom, by far the worst use of someone's time ever

  • The Gentlemen. I expected better but I have watched it to the end anyway. Any Mission Impossible. Also the Joker was quite shite

  • I remember seeing The Black Dahlia in a cinema with a friend. Got to the point where I was so bored I lifted up the armrests in the seats next to me and lay down to sleep. After we left the cinema my mate mentioned to me that the old women sitting next to him leant over and looked at me lol, maybe I snored.

  • Sorry to Bother You was one I just didn't get in to. The themes and symbolism were so on the nose, it was distracting.

    • It was interesting for the first half but the second half was just dumb.

      Completely forgot I had watched it only a few weeks ago until you mentioned it.

  • The Mule.
    Was hopefully after how good Gran Torino was but the script was predictable, wooden acting, stereotypes throughout and a pointless story.

  • "Have You Ever Watched a Movie and Realized You Didn't Enjoy It? if So, What Movie?"

    What kind of question is this? LoL

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