Thursday Movie Picks #237: Movies You Walked Out Of

This being Thursday, it's time for another edition of Thursday Movie Picks, the blogathon run by Wandering Through the Shelves. This week's theme is "Movies You Walked Out Of". For me, the theme is going to be slightly different, in that as I don't actually go to the theater very often to see movies, I don't actually walk out of movies. Instead, I'm picking three movies that I DVRed or watched on TV that I found so bad that I gave up the first time I tried to watch them:

The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969). Katharine Hepburn plays a woman living in Paris who finds that a group of wealthy men are trying to buy up the oil rights under the city. She tries to put a stop to it. Hepburn is playing the same obnoxious character she did in Bringing Up Baby, a selfish blankety-blank who doesn't care about anybody else, and the whole farce is so unfunny I gave up on it.

Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977). Diane Keaton plays a teacher of deaf children who had a very devout Catholic upbringing and, now that she's an adult, she wants to escape from that, which she does by going from bar to bar and engaging in a series of one-night stands. I didn't care about her character or what happened to her, and found the whole thing incredibly tedious. Well, I only found half of it tedious because I deleted it off the DVR and never watched the second half.

Being There (1979). Peter Sellers plays a mentally challenged gardener whose boss dies and who gets taken in by a big-time politico (Melvyn Douglas). Sellers' character watched a bunch of TV and speaks in idiotic platitudes that the political class thinks are genius. No, they're not; they're just plain dumb. So dumb that I shut this one off halfway through. I did eventually watch the whole thing. It didn't get any better.