Movies You Turned Off Before The End

[uc pseudonym]

On the whole I can't really think of movies I "turned off" except maybe 2001: A Space Odyssey. Not because it was boring or depressing or anything bad. It's just that whole technicolor nightmare ending was just too much for me. Yes, I turned it off five minutes before the end!

I didn't turn it off, but I did fast-forward through that part. Same with many of the earlier non-speaking parts. Such absurdly slow pacing...

[Scarecrow]

2001 is the only one I can think of where I actually started it and never finished. Usually like to finish movies once I start em but this just went too slow. It was boring IMO. Took like 15 minutes for that space ship to actually land, I couldn't believe it. Dont know why I never fast-forwarded. Turned it off about 1 1/2 hours into it when I found out I still had another hour left.

[bigsleepj]

I didn't turn it off, but I did fast-forward through that part. Same with many of the earlier non-speaking parts. Such absurdly slow pacing...

Actually, I liked the movie's slow pace. Quite frankly I admire it.

Most deliberately slow movie I've ever seen though was Aguirre: the wrath of God. The movie is literally "maddening slow", and because of the movie's "descent into madness" subject matter (and maybe because the main actor really was insane) I believe that this is one of the few movies that can drive the viewer crazy. I sat through it, but I knew someone who despite his best efforts just couldn't make it past the first 45 minutes. Movie does have an insane ending, though.