Well, I tried: Famous movies you just couldn't make it through.

I’m embarrassed to say it, but “Heat.”

I’ve tried several times and all the actors are favorites. But I just can’t get into it.

Streisand is unwatchable in this. She's in her self-righteous mode. You want to stifle her with a sofa pillow.

Casablanca

Citizen Kane

2001

I couldn't make it through Citizen Kane either.

I'll add A Face in the Crowd. I've read that it's a very important movie, especially in today's political environment, but I just can't get more than 30 minutes into it. And that southern accent makes my ears bleed.

A Clockwork Orange. And I love Kubrick.

The Color Purple.

I’ve seen it on stage three times (not my choice any of the times), but I cannot get past twenty minutes into the film.

Gone With the Wind

I've never made it through The Way We Were, either, OP.

Unforgiven

Speaking of Babs, I've tried twice to watch Prince of Tides, but seeing Barbra in her soft lighting and resplendent nails and sucking all the air out of the movie, I just can't will myself to get to the end.

Jaws: The Revenge

I fell asleep in the middle of The Substance and I haven't been motivated to go back and finish it.

To continue with the Babs bashing: couldn't make it through Prince of Tides, The Way We Were, Funny Girl and my friend and I walked out of Nuts.

R13 Nuts is well worth watching, if only to see Babs trying to portray a bipolar high class hooker.

R4 It took me a few tries to get through Citizen Kane. You have to be in the right mood. When I finally did make it through, I was glad I watched it. It is an amazing movie.

Same with Welles' other classic, The Magnificent Ambersons. That one took me a couple of tries, too, but again, ultimately worth it.

Dances with Wolves.

Jesus, what a slog.

Doctor Zhivago

Ben-Hur

Gone With The Wind

Dr. Zhivago

Night Of The Iguana

Mamma Mia.

The Godfather.

The Aviator and Gangs of New York. I love Scorsese but, gosh, those are two big ass sleeping pills. He totally made an improvement with The Departed.

I never saw GWTW. I didn't think I'd like it.

However, I did love the Carol Burnett version.

R15 I had the same experience with Chinatown. It took the 3rd or 4th try to finally get thru it. But it was finally worth it. I agree with those that say it's a masterpiece and I love it more every time I see it.

I still haven't been able to make it all the way thru Casablanca, and most recently, Oppenheimer.

Singing in the Rain.

I got bored about 15 minutes in.

Maybe I was just in a shitty mood that day, I don’t remember, so I think I should give it another try. Eventually.

The Wiz.

It's one of only two movies I've ever walked out on before the end. The first one was a bloody horror pic.

Christopher Nolan movies bore me.

R25 Stick with Singing in the Rain. Jean Hagen steals the movie, and you don't want to miss the scene where she and Gene Kelly try and film their first talkie.

I know this wino got up and walked out cursing up a blue streak when he realized "Streetwalkin'" was not X-rated. Personally I could not suspend my disbelief that Melissa Leo was cute enough to make money that way.

R19 I watch Night of the Iguana every time it's on TCM. I love it so much.

Oppenheimer.

Anora the Whora (biggest joke in Oscar history and that includes Crash)

R13: What about The Mirror has Two Faces?

p.s. We can agree to disagree about Funny Girl.

Another one here for Citizen Kane and Magnificent Ambersons. I have decided I need to watch these in 15 min chunks.

I can't stand any kind of Western.

The Lord of the Rings and the Godfather.

Those movies are too long!

White Christmas.

Jesus, those musical numbers are endless.

R22: The Irishman and Killers of the Flower Moon make those films look like infomercials.

I love Citizen Kane but there's a certain WWII era boisterousness to it that's too corny and cringe for 21st century sensibilities. Ditto Hellzapoppin, Arsenic and Old Lace, and the films of Preston Sturges.

The Dark Knight. Oh, my God. Heath Ledger doing his Al Franken impression for the better part of three hours.

Twenty years ago, OP, you would have been hysterically denounced on DL for expressing that opinion.

For many gay men of the Silent and Boomer Generations, "The Way We Were" was indisputably a [italic]classic,[italic] because it showcased Barbra as (a) winning the heart of the man considered the handsomest WASP movie star at the time, Robert Redford, and (b) as like she is in real life, forever uncompromising, always certain she is right, and unwilling to pipe down, even when's she's annoying the hell out of everyone else around her.

Not as famous as the others cited in this thread, but Everything Everywhere All At Once. Couldn’t make it through. Hated it.

Jesus Christ, The English Patient was so tedious, I got 30 minutes in and left. PAINFUL.

Chinatown. I found it boring after 20 mins. I tried again later but same.

Citizen Kane. Fell asleep about 30 mins in.

I did recently an finally watched Godfather 1 and 2. Tried with 3 , but when Andy Garcia started making out with Sofia Coppola I was out! God that woman can't act.

Platoon

I actually walked out of a press screening. Only about 20 minutes in. Disgusted by the wanton violence.

Only movie I ever walked out of.

The Usual Suspects.

I walked out on Deadpool (whichever version I saw). Boring as fuck. Just noise.

And I’m with R27 on Christopher Nolan flicks.

I'll add a vote for The Godfather. Also, I tried to watch that last Avengers movie (Infinity War?) a couple of times and it just confused me to the point where I said fuck it.

Titanic

Lawrence of Arabia. I made it 90 minutes in and tapped out.

@reply 2 "Streisand is unwatchable in this. She's in her self-righteous mode." When is la Streisand ever in any other mode?

Rain Man. Noooope.

Dr. Strangelove

Bonnie and Clyde

Umbrellas of Cherbourg

8 1/2

Reds

Shampoo

The Apu Trilogy

I walked out of Evita after 20 minutes.

"Dawson's 50-Load Weekend."

I've never last ed past Load #37,

LOTR

And the Datalounge (mostly straight female) craziness over possible gay entanglements at the time made it ugly.