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Tried watching The Last Jedi for the first time as it was broadcast on Channel 4. Knew I probably wouldn't like it from the moment there was a child piloting an X-Wing. Nope! Might catch it later, but right now have better things to do (including absolutely fuck all - it shot down my list of priorities with that right away, let me tell you).

 

But that became the start of the idea of a "Nope" moment. The time you just give up on something as  a bad job. I may well be wrong, but calling it early and getting out is a decent skill to have. Say Nope, and then fuck off and leave it the fuck alone.Would be interested to know the times you decided to eject from a film early. The moment you knew you'd probably hate to carry on. Even if it's a good film. Especially if it's a good film. Especially if it turned out you were wrong too. That would be fun.

 

 

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That's crazy to me as TV shows take longer to build a world as they dont need set stuff up in 15minutes like a film might . Some of the best TV shows ever probably don't have amazing first 15 minutes.

 

I've only bailed on two films early the last few years as the opening 15-20mins were enough for me to know I hated it. They were 6 Underground and Carter.

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My Nope moment for The Walking Dead was the best feeling in the world. Can't remember when it was exactly, during the season after baseball bat lad did his thing to Glenn I think, anyway half way through one episode it hits me. Nope. Fuck this shit.

 

Bliss.

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2 hours ago, Sponge said:

My Nope moment for The Walking Dead was the best feeling in the world. Can't remember when it was exactly, during the season after baseball bat lad did his thing to Glenn I think, anyway half way through one episode it hits me. Nope. Fuck this shit.

 

Bliss.

 

Almost around the same place for us. The mid season break right after 

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Coral died, we just said fuck this. 

 

Wasn't even because he died because he was a bellend, we just realised it was the same thing over and over and just dull.

 

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33 minutes ago, Benny said:

Kept wishing for the nope moment to happen with Star Trek Discovery and Picard, but the moment never came and we all got trapped in a cycle of abuse. Horrific.

 

The Picard thread was like a support group for those of us unable to pull away from the train wreck 😆

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When I was about 13 I got super into movies, and decided to watch hundreds of them (I think I had a “100 best movies ever book” and I started by watching them all). I made a rule for myself that I would never stop watching a movie before the end. I might have to stop it and pick it up later that day, or the next day, but I was seeing the movie out no matter how bad I thought it was. I also used to impose upon myself the rule that if I happened to catch the start of a movie on TV, I had to go watch the rest of it, but when I met my current partner I had to give up on that one, because her parents just have the sky movies channels on all the time and every time I went there I ended up with one or two awful looking movies on my list that I didn’t want to watch. It was getting a bit irritating then I went round one day and there was an Adam Sandler movie I hadn’t seen on and I just refused to watch that shit. 
 

My other rule though, I’m still sticking by. Since I was 13 (I’m 36 now) I have only once started watching a movie that I didn’t finish, and even then I did end up watching the whole thing a few years later. That film was Moulin Rouge. I really didn’t want to see it but some friends were going and I got roped in. I was in a terrible mood due to something else I can’t remember. I went in sure I was going to hate it. Early on, they’re doing a bunch of cover versions of pop songs in the style of the movie (I think it’s literally one of the first few scenes), and they broke into a cover of Smells Like Teen Spirit and I just got up and left. That moment just made me cringe so hard and I couldn’t bare the idea of sitting through more of that shit. So I guess that is my single nope moment in my entire life.

 

I watched the movie a few years ago with my ex. It was fine I guess. 

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Most recently with Fear on Netflix, a 1996 thriller with Mark Wahlberg and Reese Witherspoon. It was just generally shit, but Wahlberg in particular was unwatchably bad. When he's supposed to be acting sensitive and romantic at the start, he mostly just comes off as drowsy. I gave up after 20 minutes. My wife later watched the rest, and it sounds like I made the right choice.

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I'll take a bit of flack for these this but:

 

1. In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the special effects when they are escaping the planes and one crashes through a tunnel and the other is brought down by Indian Jones' Dad are so laughable, that at the time in the cinema I just noped out.

 

2. In The Matrix Reloaded, the second the live action switched to plastic Neo special effects totally totally broke my engagement with the entire idea of those movies.

 

Both completely irrational, both completely irredeemable.

 

To qualify, I didn't walk out.  But my brain did.  And forever.

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On 08/10/2022 at 23:11, Dark Soldier said:

Bar Fantastic Mr Fox which is great.

 

Funny you should mention this one because it's one of the few films I've noped out on, mostly thanks to a very bored child. This was when my son was small and he absolutely loved the book and was really looking forward to seeing the film. But it didn't seem to have any relation to the story that he loved. We gave up 15 minutes in when the fox was getting a mortgage.

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2 hours ago, Bucky said:

To qualify, I didn't walk out.  But my brain did.  And forever.

 

Mine was with the first Matrix film, when I pre-empted Agent Smith saying "you are a virus".  To be fair, that line did tip me over the edge as I was thinking it was sixth-form philosophical horseshit wrapped up in shiny packaging well before then.

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I have one of these - me and the missus started watching Scandinavian crime drama, the killing. We’d done about 6 episodes and we were getting a bit bored of the endless earnest conversations about the titular killing. Went to check how much was left, expecting a couple of episodes…there was 14 left. Nope!

 

On 08/10/2022 at 21:07, MarkN said:

Knew I probably wouldn't like it from the moment there was a child piloting an X-Wing.


Are you talking about tallie lintra? Yeah, 24 as @Stigweard said. The average age of RAF fighter pilots in WWII WAS 20! 

 

 

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I just remembered I noped out of Haunting of Bly Manor with only 1 epsiode left. To be fair I'd been watching most of the 2nd half of the series over my phone anyway, but something happened in the penultimate episode which I thought was terrible so I told my wife to just finish it without me cause I cared so little about the outcome.

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2 hours ago, Plissken said:

Mine was with the first Matrix film, when I pre-empted Agent Smith saying "you are a virus".

 

On my first viewing, I thought he was going to say "cockroach" or "locust" (like the description of the aliens in Independence Day).

 

2 hours ago, Plissken said:

To be fair, that line did tip me over the edge as I was thinking it was sixth-form philosophical horseshit wrapped up in shiny packaging well before then.

 

Still miles better than Escape from New York, though. :P

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4 hours ago, Garwoofoo said:

Funny you should mention this one because it's one of the few films I've noped out on, mostly thanks to a very bored child. This was when my son was small and he absolutely loved the book and was really looking forward to seeing the film. But it didn't seem to have any relation to the story that he loved. We gave up 15 minutes in when the fox was getting a mortgage.

 

Fantastic Mr Fox came out at around the same time as Where The Wild Things are (late 2009), which prompted a minor debate among film critics and bloggers about who exactly those films were aimed at, and whether it's right for popular children's books to be adapted into films that might be appreciated more by adults than children.

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I would have, i desperately wanted to nope out of Speed 2 at the cinema but i chose it as my birthday thing instead of a party or whatever. I knew there was something up when i saw the advert on tv and Keanu Reeves wasn't there but some other guy with black hair was.

 

I noped out of Moonfall, deleted the file, never to return, everyone says it's so stupid it's funny but it just did my head in, i wasn't finding the fun.

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