Movies you wished to had stopped watching after a specific point?

[SweetShark]

Sometimes, in a strange way, it is better to leave some movies unfinished. After a point in a movie, your expectation are so high that you wish to get better and better. Sadly this also is our doom because after this specific moment you wished stop watching the movie, it get started to suck HARD. HARDCORE HARD!!!

Do you have this kind of movie? Stop watching it, so have only happy memories from it?

Me:

Harriet the Spy

Yeah, for me this movie will always the greatest example which I suggest to STOP the movie at a specific point.

Spoiler: BIG spoiler for heartbreaking moment

Do you know why it sucks when you have a private diary? Because like in this movie , someone can find it and start revealing to anyone your true feelings for your family and friends . This happened to our hero of the movie and let me tell you , it was DARK! I was terrified how heartbreaking was seeing our hero get emotionally wrecked from her own friends. The bullying was so heavy on her that at some point she jumped inside a water somewhere, I don't remember. THAT was the moment I should had left the movie. A dark conclusion of a kid having secrets from everyone. But no, the movie needed to have a more "happy" ending and it ruined for me .

 

[tippy2k2]

Two movies immediately spring to mind

10 Cloverfield Lane
I say this in my review of the movie [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/326.936094-tippy2k2-tells-you-what-to-think-10-Cloverfield-Lane] and it is still 100% true; the movie is 103 minutes that should have ended at the 83rd minute. It seriously went from my favorite movie of the year to an above average movie at best. I do not understand how a movie can have something be completely out of left field in being completely unexpected WHILE still being incredibly predictable and easy to see coming. That is absolutely amazing and the film crumbles apart because of it. What an absolute waste.

I am Legend

Spoiler: Spoiler? I guess? I mean, it is from 2007 people, if you have not seen it, you are not going to. Fine, here is your spoiler

I suppose this one could have gone a couple of different ways as removing the girl from the movie would drastically change it. For the first 3/4 of the movie, I absolutely loved watching Will Smith deal with the crushing loneliness that is being the last person in the world. Losing his dog, the only companion he's had for a few years now and watching him react is wonderful (in a depressing sort of way) and Will Smith is brilliant. Then they add the second person and it turns into a long escort mission action movie rather than the psychological thriller that we were watching earlier...

 

[Scarim Coral]

Ang Lee Hulk but only because the first time I watched it, it was at the cinema. I told my parent I be back as a specific time and I thought the film wasn't going to be long (this was before I start using broadband).
Anyway the stopping point was probably when Hulk was just sulking while jumping the first few times (he does it alot). That when I did started to walked out but for some reason was compell to stayed (I guess was just to see it finish once and for all).

 

[madwarper]

Crystal Skull
I should have stopped watching after the refrigerator. But seriously, I should have stopped watching before all the, you know...

Spoiler

Peter Jackson's *mumble* *mumble* movies
I should have stopped watching after the birthday party. No, seriously. Did he even read the books?

 

[Evonisia]

"War of the Worlds" (2005) was a suspenseful alien invasion flick with compelling characters and an atmosphere of genuine terror and confusion.

I seen the warnings. I've read the complaints. I knew I should have stopped about half way when

Spoiler

Robbie decides the best course of action when the military is attempting to fight back is to walk into utter annihilation. So we spend most of the second half of the film twiddling our thumbs in a ruined house before an ending that decides that Ray should face no consequences for his inadequate parenting.

But now I'm left with a film that could have been fantastic and is instead just good if flawed.

 

[Parasondox]

King Kong and Transformers Age of Extinction.

Fucking yaaaaaaawwwn!! Sorry, I was meant to talk about the movie but I forgot what happened.

 

[votemarvel]

Metro with Eddie Murphy.

I wish I had stopped watching after the first five minutes. Nothing happens in the movie, nothing at all, it's like a fell asleep (I didn't) and missed all the excitement.

 

[Catnip1024]

I'm sure there are a few, but the one that springs to mind is Goemon:

Spoiler

The ending, where he gets within sight of home and then dies. Sure, I get that it's supposed to be a tragedy and all, but it seems rather artificially done.

 

[Neurotic Void Melody]

Jupiter Ascending, after the first... hmm, maybe 20 minutes. It went from interesting sci-fi premise to utterly predictable CGI action save-the-special flick. I demand a reboot, by Ridley Scott!

 

[Dornedas]

Starship Troopers 3 should have stopped after they first sang the song.


Or alternatively: Just loop the song for 90 minutes.

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

Starship Troopers 3 should have stopped after they first sang the song.


Or alternatively: Just loop the song for 90 minutes.

Yay Starship Troopers! I should rewatch it.

Although to be fair to Marauder, the topless scene was totally necessary to the plot.

 

[ObsidianJones_v1legacy]

Starship Troopers 3 should have stopped after they first sang the song.


Or alternatively: Just loop the song for 90 minutes.

Wait... wait...

Spoiler

Wasn't that Dizzy? didn't she die in the first movie? Bug Magic? Was it ancient alien bug magic that brought her back?

 

[FalloutJack]

"War of the Worlds" (2005)

To be fair, the original H.G. Wells story does involve waiting out a load of Martian activity in a basement. It is, of course, not the same as in the book, but we can't really blame the movie for going there. We CAN blame some of the characters for being Too Dumb To Live and just plain stupid. Fortunately, there's so much creepy Martian activity that we mostly don't care.

Starship Troopers

These movies should've been killed at birth. I don't even know why they exist, 'cause it's NOT to do Heinlein any credit.

OT: Naturally ANY movie worthy of some serious riffing, along the style of MST3K, has gone on far too long to accept its existence, except as an example of How Not To Do Film.

 

[Hawki]

Well, almost none for me, because I'd rather watch a movie to the end, regardless of quality, so as to at least say I'd seen it. But I guess if I had to choose specific points:

Spoiler

Ice Age (cut it right before Diego shows up again. His magic revival makes no sense, undermines the moment, character development, etc.

Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (as in, don't play it at all, because a cliffhanger for the first film is still preferable to the material of the sequel

-2001: A Space Odyssey (end it with the monkeys. Oh god, just end it with the monkeys)

Star Trek: Generations (end it after Kirk's supposed death, because that might be preferable to dealing with the rest of the movie)

Terminator 3: Maybe don't play it at all? As in, forget the movie that completely undermines the first two? Or, at the least, cut out the ending sequence and assume that John stops Judgement Day, because at the least you're still left with a derivative action flick.

Terminator: Genisys (cut out the end credits scene)

The Bourne Legacy (end it before it's established that Landry's been labeled as a traitor. That would probably leave issues with the film's pacing, but at the least, the film could exist without undermining the ending of Ultimatum)

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

SNIP

Actually no. It was a chick named Lola Beck, who like Dizzy had a fling with Rico at one point, although she lived to tell it. My guess is she was a stand-in for Denise Richards who wouldn't reprise her role as Cameron, because Beck is a Fleet captain who knew Rico from 'back in the day' and remembers all the friends they lost.

 

[BrawlMan]

A Wind Named Amnesia

One of the worst animated movies with a warped view on morality I have ever seen. I saw it on the International Channel back in 2005. It was just another shlocky, straight-to-video 90s anime with an excellent premise executed horribly. The plot involves everyone on Earth losing memories to the point of being regressed mentally to the stone age. There's only one survivor who knows who he is (after getting zapped back in to modern mental condition once we find out how) and functions perfectly and later meets up with a woman with white hair. The reason why this happened is really stupid.

Apparently, aliens sent everyone back into to the stone age (mentally) because they were afraid humans would discover them and attack them. Despite the fact when this takes place, it's obviously in the late 1980s, and humanity would not have the means or technology to find them even then or now. And the other reason was to "free" mankind from misery for "our own good". Gee, thanks for sending human evolution all the way back to the near begging. This is pointed out as a positive thing. That's not the worse part; there is an awkward sex scene between the main protagonist and the white haired woman (she's part of that same alien race by the way) that was tagging along with him, just after telling what she and her species did to him. I was so disgusted I don't know why I watched the last 8 minutes after that scene. I wished I did change the channel. If it's any compilation I dreamed that powerful beings such as Galactus or Unicron destroyed them for even pettier reasons.

The writer(s), director, and nearly anyone else involved with the product can go fuck themselves, you pretentious bastards! Because lord knows your insightful advice has not done jack shit, and did nothing to help mankind evolve as a species.

 

[Worgen]

The only one that comes to mind now is Bruce Almighty. About half way or so, it was really funny when he first got god powers and is abusing them. Then it starts trying to be serious and show how being god is hard and make excuses, but it all really comes down to Bruce just sucking at playing the sims.

 

[FalloutJack]

2001

Man, that's a little harsh to put on a Kubrick film. And because of that, I'm gonna need the reason behind it.

Bruce Almighty

That's tough, but fair. Would it be fair to say that Evan Almighty is a little more balanced and fun?

 

[Hawki]

2001

Man, that's a little harsh to put on a Kubrick film. And because of that, I'm gonna need the reason behind it.

Can I just leave it as "I just don't enjoy 2001, as I think it's a film with a good plot that's told with excruciating tedium, especially in the second act, that the first act by itself functions in isolation of everything else and therefore doesn't need continuation, and I think the novel version is absolutely excellent which makes me even less pre-disposed to like the film than I already did?"

I ask because the alternative is to give a step by step account of the film, explaining why I don't like despite said plot, and that's a guarantee of "you just don't get it" at best, coupled with a lot of typing time.

 

[Battenberg]

Surprised no one has said this already but The Dark Knight rises is the obvious pick for me. Pretty sure I don't need to explain why/ where it fell apart for people who've seen it.