Which movie did you turn off within 15 minutes?

I think Steven Spielberg saw Animal House and said, "That looks like fun. I'd like to take a crack at that."

Animal House director John Landis made his career directing comedies with sometimes up to 100 people on screen, and those scenes work. 1941 looks like a cluttered mess when more than a handful of folks are up on the screen. Spielberg's wheelhouse is scenes with 2 to 3 actors TOPS.

 

Inception.

 

I think it's a clever concept but not a very interesting movie, and it loses steam as it goes:

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead [Blu-Ray] (1990)

 

It was totally boring and embarrassingly unfunny.

 

Different strokes, I guess. I've seen it quite a few times and always enjoyed a lot.

 

Zack Snyder's Justice League.

 

Closer (2004)

 

The novel on which it's based isn't very good either.

 

Films I tend to check out reviews from critics who have similar taste to mine so rarely see a stinker, but tv series on Amazon and Netflix in particular there are so many where I don’t make it past 15/20 minutes.

 

I have YouTube on my big screen TV. There are too many movies that I have started to watch and turned off within 15 minutes to recall. Many had interesting titles/subjects, but the acting was so dull and one-dimensional, it was easy to turn these "B" movies off.

 

Talk about overrated movies....

 

Dune (1984)

 

Rocketman (2019), the Elton John biopic. Now, maybe I was expecting something else. I don't much like the kind of musical where they break into a big singalong in the middle of the street like it's the zombie apocalypse, and I think I like biopics more than I actually do.

 

Marvel crap personified.

 

JL is DC Comics actually

 

I have only ever quit 2 movies midway through. Jack And Jill starring Adam Sandler and Adam Sandler in drag and Wonder Woman 1984. Jack & Jill I walked out the theater after about 30 minutes due to the pitiful quality. Wonder Woman I had on HBO Max and turned off after 1 hour of the most excruciating film I had ever watched. Every minute felt like 5.

 

ah, but it got better at 11 min! : )

 

Oh , God... so , so many.

 

I don't turn on movies that I will turn off in 15 minutes...I just look at the date, plot, and know what has to be done... NOTHING. I DON'T play it...I spare myself the anger.

 

The video version of the play "Hamilton."

 

Probably every Oscar nominee since 2005.

 

Theatre walkouts:
Milagro Beanfield War
Q&A
Turk 182
Grease

STILL can’t make it through Grease.

 

Maybe Grease 2 is more up your alley.

 

What a dull, poorly acted , poorly directed movie. Sidney Lumet , what happened here?

 

A couple that come to mind for me are Lord of the Rings and the Star Trek reboot. I don't like to live in the past or be a backward, reactionary thinker, but I'm a 20th-century boy in some ways and heavy-duty CGI is an instant "no" for my brain.