{"id":13746,"date":"2019-01-24T21:13:45","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T02:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=13746"},"modified":"2022-12-10T23:20:23","modified_gmt":"2022-12-11T04:20:23","slug":"movies-i-didnt-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/movies-i-didnt-finish\/","title":{"rendered":"Movies I didn&#8217;t finish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are lots of movies I didn&#8217;t finish, but here are some of them, to give you an idea of the kind of movies I&#8217;m not particularly interested in. I watched half an hour to an hour of most of these before giving up. In the old days I would watch a movie all the way through but these days I stop if it&#8217;s not doing it for me.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/movies-that-are-supposed-to-be-funny\/\"><strong>After Hours<\/strong><\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>OK at first, but then bad things keep happening over and over.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Before I Fall<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>I didn&#8217;t find it interesting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>The BFG<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It wasn&#8217;t for me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Box<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It didn&#8217;t grab me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bright<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Not very interesting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Colossal<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It took a dark turn and I lost interest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Criminal<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It didn&#8217;t grab me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Despicable Me 3<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Despite my enjoyment of the 1st 2 movies, this one was boring.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/movies-that-are-supposed-to-be-funny\/\"><strong>Duplex<\/strong><\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Bad things keep happening over and over.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Early Man<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Unfunny and uninteresting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/movies-that-are-supposed-to-be-funny\/\"><strong>Evil Roy Slade<\/strong><\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Very silly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ferdinand<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Just for kids.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Fifth Wave<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It didn&#8217;t grab me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ghostbusters<\/strong> (2016)\n<ul>\n<li>Mildly amusing at best, some aspects of it were distasteful.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo<\/strong> (2011)\n<ul>\n<li>Too disturbing for me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Gods Must Be Crazy<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Not funny at all.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/movies-that-are-supposed-to-be-funny\/\"><strong>It\u2019s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World<\/strong><\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Unfunny.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Long Kiss Goodnight<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It was basically <strong>The Bourne Identity<\/strong> but less interesting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Murder on the Orient Express<\/strong> (1974)\n<ul>\n<li>I didn&#8217;t care who the murderer was.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ronin<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It didn&#8217;t grab me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>A Simple Plan<\/strong>&nbsp;\n<ul>\n<li>I could see where it was going, and I didn&#8217;t want to go there.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sin City<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Senseless violence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Space Between Us<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It was strangely boring.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Suicide Squad<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Interesting premise but the story is not.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thoroughbreds<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>I stopped when the main characters were going to be violent towards Anton Yelchin&#8217;s character.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Timecrimes<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The protagonist was too stupid.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tomb Raider<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It was strangely boring.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Two Faces of January<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It didn&#8217;t grab me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Upstream Color<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It didn&#8217;t grab me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are lots of movies I didn&#8217;t finish, but here are some of them, to give you an idea of the kind of movies I&#8217;m not particularly interested in. I watched half an hour to an hour of most of these before giving up. In the old days I would watch a movie all the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[42,6],"class_list":["post-13746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-thoughts","tag-lists","tag-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13746"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20205,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13746\/revisions\/20205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}