The Walk, which I tried to watch last night. I like Joseph Gordon-Levitt very much, and the movie even looked cute, but his attempt at a French accent was so murderous I had to bail. Mind you, I think I actually got more than five minutes into it--most movies nowadays, it's two minutes and I'm out.
Obsessed with facial symmetry.
I wish I could say "Twilight" but watched it till the credits... Same thing goes for "Sharknado 1 and 2" and "Birdemic".
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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Batman Returns comes to mind first, though I'm sure I'll come up with more.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I watched the first volume of the Betty Boop collection. I should have bailed in five minutes, but then I figured I needed to get cultured. I might have slept through some of it.
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Forgot to mention that LOTR movies put me to sleep as well.
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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Mamma Mia. Oh Christ, Mamma Mia.
"I should only believe in a God that would know how to dance. And when I saw my devil, I found him serious, thorough, profound, solemn: he was the spirit of gravity- through him all things fall. Not by wrath, but by laughter, do we slay. Come, let us slay the spirit of gravity!" - Nietzsche
Although I seldom watch films that I'm likely to turn off in five minutes, I have noticed an increasing tendency not to watch films through to the end; this goes for books also.
Unless the film is so absurd as to compel watching anyway, e.g Fire Maidens from Outer Space, I have a fail safe way of avoiding falling asleep while watching: experience has taught me that virtually anything made post 1963 is likely to prove a regular snooze fest; especially films that rely on CGI rather than genuine camerawork and direction, or with jumped up 'superstar' actors with big muscles and poor diction, or the female variety with big you-know-whats, and who also have names like Charlize Theron or Hilary Swank. While they may win awards ( doesn't everyone nowadays?), I avoid switching them off in less than five minutes by ruling them out of court in less than five seconds.
"L'art de la statistique est de tirer des conclusions erronèes a partir de chiffres exacts." Napoléon Bonaparte.
"Je crois que beaucoup de gens sont dans cet état d’esprit: au fond, ils ne sentent pas concernés par l’Histoire. Mais pourtant, de temps à autre, l’Histoire pose sa main sur eux." Michel Houellebecq.
Mad Max: Fury Road.
Why was the chase sequence, at the start, speeded up? It made it look like the Keystone Cops. It didn't improve after that.
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