31 Movies That Were So Hard To Watch, People Literally Couldn't Finish Them

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17-02-2025

A while back, we wrote a post where people shared the movies that are so bad, they had to stop watching them midway. In the comments, even more people chimed in with the films they also couldn't finish. So, here are some of their "bad" movie choices, as well as the ones that caused quite a stir in the comments:
1. Wonder Woman 1984 (2020): "I LOVED the first movie. I can still rewatch it happily. Sure, it had a couple of issues, but overall, it was truly the Wonder Woman movie I had waited 40 years to see. Wonder Woman 1984 was TERRIBLE and incredibly disappointing. The script was just god-awful and had so many holes."
2. The Perfect Date (2019): "I saw Noah Centineo as Peter Kavinsky in To All the Boys and thought he was great. I found The Perfect Date on Netflix, watched about 15 minutes of it, turned it off, and put To All the Boys I've Loved Before on 😂."
3. The Nice Guys (2016): "I've seen a lot of terrible movies in my life to the end, but that is the only one I just turned off and walked away. Don't remember any of the plot, but I know it was terrible."
4. Men in Black: International (2019): "I loved the original and thought it'd be fun, but no, it was terrible. Maybe it was seeing Thor and Valkyrie playing lesser versions of themselves, I don't know. It was awful."
5. The Nun (2018): "After about 20 minutes, we walked out of the theater. I knew it was going to be awful like all the other ones in the sort of Conjuring universe and all that, but this was just ridiculous."
"We just sat there whispering to each other, 'Now, there's going to see a shadow in the right corner,' and three seconds later, that happened. 'The bell is going to ring in a second,' and three seconds later, that happened, too. It was just laughable at how predictable it was."
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6. The Beach Bum (2019): "Amazing cast, but it didn't go anywhere, and I watched nearly an hour before I couldn't take it anymore. It made no sense, and it was so unrealistic. I can suspend disbelief for a lot of things, but this was awful. What a waste!"
7. Ella Enchanted (2004): "It was one of my favorite books as a kid, but ooh, the movie was awful.
— grouchyoctopus55
"I hated the random '70s musical numbers and the cheesy plot with the evil uncle. They did poor Ella dirty!"
— books_baking_broadway
8. Fifty Shades of Grey (2015): "I wanted to see what the hype was about. Started the movie, realized how terrible it was after 15 minutes or so, and turned it off. Decided to give the book a try. Realized how terrible that was, too, and gave up after a few chapters. I don't get it — it's just not good."
9. Holmes & Watson (2018): "I actually sat through the entire thing. Why? I'm a glutton for punishment, I guess.I think the thing that hurt the most was that there were a few good jokes and bits in there. When Steve Coogan showed up with a tattoo gun grafted to his arm, I chuckled — especially because Steve Coogan has a talent for taking even terrible things and making them watchable. Plus, the idea of a villain with a tattoo gun on his arm is actually kind of cool. Also, Hugh Laurie as Mycroft Holmes wasn't bad. Not remarkable, but not bad."
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" Everything else, especially everything involving Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly trying to play off each other, was awful. With Will Ferrell in particular, it felt like he kept needing to show up anyone else who was in a scene with him, so he'd just add on to an already terrible joke and keep going. It was like he dared everyone on set to try to keep up with him, and even when they got tired of the joke, he kept insisting that he could be funnier and just kept doing the same thing. I felt awful for both John C. Reilly and Lauren Lapkus as they both had to do that horrible onion gag. Not worth a watch. See Cats instead."
— u/SimonCallahan
"I turned it off after 20 minutes and apologized to everyone for putting it on."
— u/LastOfSane
10. Divergent (2014): "My wife and I have been having movie nights at home during quarantine and decided to give it a shot since Hunger Games was decent. Watched about 45 mins before stopping. The film (and I assume books) are such a blatant ripoff/poor amalgamation of Harry Potter, Hunger Games, and every other young adult dystopian series that your eyes roll to the back of your head every 30 seconds."
11. The Divergent Series: Insurgent (2015): "The movies were so much worse — especially the last movie. They had like three scenes from the book, and the rest was just random. Even the ending wasn't the same."
— u/Strawberryjam2525
"The Insurgent movie. The book was decent, the movie was boring."
— u/Iseeasong
12. Knock Knock (2015): " Knock Knock involves, among many things, two women sexually assaulting Keanu Reeves to get him to cheat on his wife. Then, the women acting like some Harley Quinn/Jack Nicholson's joker from the old school B atman as they hold him hostage. It was atrociously bad and impressively terrible acting by Reeves. Worst acting I've seen from him, tbh."
13. The Last Airbender (2010): "I tried to watch it once, and I managed to force myself to watch it for 15 minutes. I then turned it off and never finished it. Gosh awful. Not representative of the show AT ALL."
— u/YouSpokeofInnocence
"I tried to watch this movie; only made it to the first line of dialogue. Immediately turned it off."
— u/XignaChronos
" The Last Airbender movie. [For me,] it was after the group of earthbenders did Zumba to levitate a pebble."
— u/NiamhHA
14. Charlie's Angels (2019): "I watched about 10 minutes of it and just could not do it. I was there for the original TV series. I was there for the Cameron Diaz, Lucy Liu, Drew Barrymore movie, which was FABULOUS — but the 2019 one just lacked any charisma and energy...In my opinion, the show was simply miscast."
"After having actors like Angelina Jolie, Milla Jovovich, and Charlize Theron in action roles, the actors chosen for Charlie's Angels (2019) seemed like high school cheerleaders."
— u/superbloggity
15. Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017): "When Leia force-pulled her way through the vacuum of space."
"At first, I was like, 'Oh wow, so that's how they're going to kill off Leia,' and thought it was a decent send-off. But then, the Mary Poppins sequence happened, and I pretty much lost all interest in the movie."
— u/AscensoNaciente
16. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009): "The second Transformers movie. I can't recall which scene exactly, but it was definitely one of those cringey jokes from those two robots."
— u/gaboduarte
"I cut it off as soon as the girl grew a robot tail. Killed the entire series for me. Never saw another one."
— u/2smart2argue
17. Sausage Party (2016): "Not halfway, but I couldn't make it past the opening song of Sausage Party. I like dark and edgy humor. Carlin was a favorite comedian of mine. Sausage Party was just...numbing. I remember getting weirdly embarrassed and hoping that my roommates wouldn't hear what I was watching through the walls."
18. The Hottie and the Nottie (2008): "I was in a mall in the UK and got asked to go to a free screening of The Hottie and the Nottie. This had never happened to me before, so I went for the experience...No way I was staying through that monstrosity."
19. Artemis Fowl (2020): "I stopped watching Artemis Fowl at around the time the child says he's better than Einstein and everyone agrees."
20. The Kissing Booth (2018): " My mom thought it would be like a funny rom-com, so we decided to watch it together. Plot twist: It wasn't funny or romantic."
21. Jupiter Ascending (2015): "Walked out of a movie theatre two hours into its 2.5 hour runtime. It's literally just a [hot mess], not complemented by Oscar Winner (that year) Eddie Redmayne's bland performance."
22. The Poison Rose (2019): "I saw this years ago when it first came out and was so bored with it that I blocked it from my memory. Maybe I fell asleep — I dunno. Then, a few months ago, I saw it on Netflix, didn't even look familiar, but it had Travolta and Freeman so I thought I'd give it a shot. Was 30 minutes in before I realized I'd seen it, and it wasn't going to get any better. So yeah, that movie was so bad, I accidentally saw it more than once."
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— u/bandastalo
" The Poison Rose. It's got John Travolta, Morgan Freeman, Brendan Fraser. Twenty minutes in, I got fed up with the bad film noir attempt and switched it off."
— u/SubtleStutterDude
23. The Spirit (2008): "Frank Miller's The Spirit. It's completely ridiculous. The story, the dialogue — all terrible. And I have pretty low standards."
24. The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D (2005): " Sharkboy and Lavagirl — as an adult. Which sucks, because as a kid I thought it was the coolest movie I'd ever seen, but not even the nostalgia aspect saved it for me after growing up."
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— u/throwaway304596824
"That's the only movie I can think of that is both legitimately 100% a bad movie and needed to be made that way anyway."
— u/KeplerNova
25. Kangaroo Jack (2003): " Kangaroo Jack is trash, and I was practically crying with boredom when I saw it. And yes, I'm an Aussie."
— u/Zeruvi
"Aussie here and I feel your pain. One of the worst Australian movies we've had the misfortune of producing."
— u/Arkady2009
26. Eragon (2006): "Dragon goes into the sky as a baby, comes down fully grown, and says her name is Sapphira. Just, no. Eragon getting the name from Brom was a HUGE deal later."
27. Steel (1997): "While in high school, I watched Steel, a completely forgettable movie starring Shaq, with a group of friends on its opening night. About one-third of the way through, we all decided that we weren't going to waste any more of our time watching that trash heap of a movie, so we got up and left. As we were leaving, a bunch of other moviegoers also left."
28. The Internship (2013): " The Internship with Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn. It felt like a Google commercial with the occasional joke thrown in."
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— u/extramustardy
29. Spring Breakers (2012): "I saw it at the theater with a friend of mine, and we walked out of it 30 minutes in. Can't remember the exact moment, but I just couldn't watch it any longer lol."
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— u/amiffedcat
30. Boo 2! A Madea Halloween (2017): "A woman I was dating at the time and her friends wanted to watch it. I loath Tyler Perry movies, and watching this one was a marathon of the senses of sight and sound."
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— u/gil_beard
And finally...
31. Cats (2019): " Cats. After three minutes."
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— u/General_Kenobi-66
Whew! Which "bad" movies would you add to the list? Let us know in the comments below.
Note: Some responses have been edited for length and/or clarity.