What are some movies that you just couldn't get through?
And can you say why?
Bonus points (conceptually speaking) if you actually left the movie theater, rather than just quitting the video.
Here are some I couldn’t finish:
The Year of Living Dangerously
The Age of Innocence
The Wind and the Lion
Once Upon a Time in the West
and, much more recently,
Dunkirk
The Leisure Seeker
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
If it’s too violent, or the script is too awful, or I can’t be made to care about any character, or absolutely nothing is happening (despite a lot of activity), I’ll ditch a movie without remorse. Likewise if there’s a major character that I just don’t want to look at for two hours, all other factors aside.
And yes, I have walked out of a theater a few times. One of those, as I recall, was “Igby Goes Down.” Another was “Gosford Park.” I just did not care.
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