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Have you ever walked about on a movie?

Have you ever walked about on a movie?

The only movie I've ever walked out on was The Last Air Bender.

What about you? What movies have you walked out on, why?

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Reply #26 Top

Unfortunately when I first saw paranormal activity I thought it was "supposed" to be real.

Didn't help that it was around Halloween ;)

 

Later ofc, it was obvious it was all fake, but talk about a scary drive from the theatre :P

Reply #27 Top

Quoting Cauldyth, reply 15
You're thinking of No Escape.  No Way Out was Kevin Costner.

 

 

You are right and I apologize. Been awhile.

 

 

TREE OF LIFE SUCKED SO BAD I COULD KILL THE WRITER OF THAT WAste of film and electricity.

 

Natural Born Killers sucks...

 

Pulp fiction rocks.

 

Ever seen LOST IN YONKERS,  great movie.

 

 

Kevin Costner sucks too.

Reply #28 Top

I've never walked out on a movie, but I've had the fortune experienceing a whole school being thrown out of a theater....

The scenario took place in the mid 80's (I think).
My school was invited to watch Gandhi at the local theater.

Picture this.... a theater packed with 150-200 restless teens watching an utter boring movie.... a massive fight breaks out on the screen.
Everyone goes abso-friggin-lutely nuts, cheering at the fight and throwing popcorn, boxes, empty cups everywhere.....

10 min later we were all standing in the street - still cheering.

Best movie experience of my life. It. was. EPIC.

Reply #29 Top

Fish Named Wanda....

Reply #30 Top

Quoting Lantec, reply 30
Fish Named Wanda....

I don't like you...

;)

 

Reply #31 Top

A fish 'called' wanda ;)

I haven't seen it, but it seems decent enough.

Reply #32 Top

Lol--I liked it.

 

Reply #33 Top

Quoting doortech1, reply 27
TREE OF LIFE SUCKED SO BAD I COULD KILL THE WRITER OF THAT WAste of film and electricity.

 

People who know nothing about film often think that. To each their own. I really enjoyed it, but it was more from a technical standpoint. I can see how a casual viewer would find it off-putting. 

 

Pulp Fiction was well made but derivative as all hell. I honestly think Tarantino is the reincarnation of the guy that invented calculus. 

Reply #34 Top

I'm like starkers...haven't been to the movies in years. Last flick I saw was with my two younger sisters. It was The Exorcist. I fell asleep and my baby sister thought it was hilarious. She laughed through the whole movie.

Reply #35 Top

I just watched hellraiser yesterday on bluray, and if this was in a movie i would of walked out. I cant believe people told me this was good. beurk...

 

And i loved signs too :)

Reply #36 Top

The GF walked out on the Star Trek Blu-Ray last night.

 

It's ok though, I've got lots of insurance on her... ;p

Reply #37 Top

Quoting seanw3, reply 34
...People who know nothing about film often think that. To each their own. I really enjoyed it, but it was more from a technical standpoint. I can see how a casual viewer would find it off-putting.
There is a difference between films for fun, and films for art.

I like both films for fun and films for art, but there are much different thresholds of enjoyment that moviegoers experience based on their expectations, and transcend how they respond to a film.  The Thin Red Line was a technical masterpiece, as well as a tour de force of acting in certain roles. The cinematography in TTRL is stunning, as is the acting, although the character study by Sean Penn pales in comparison to Adrian Brody, and even the guy who played Private Witt.  This is not your typical popcorn movie, and a lot of audiences were blindsided at the theater expecting a hero story instead of an esoteric treatment of the destructive nature in man.

TTRL was nominated for seven (7) Oscars along with Best Picture, and it came out the same year (1998) Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan (which was also nominated for Best Picture).  Neither won Best Picture, but TTRL became known as "the other war movie" of 1998.  The big difference was SPR was intended as a realistic gritty portrayal of war, where TTRL was much more philosophical in its approach to revealing the human condition.  SPR was an artfully done war hero-movie, where TTRL was an extremely artistic anti-war art film.

Again, expectations are like the uncertainty principle as to how they effect your movie experience.  I personally revel in the cinematics of sweeping landscapes and turbulent emotional themes.  Dramatic efforts are all about impact and emotional bearing.  As an art form, cinema is one of the most dynamic, but some films disappoint on many levels.  I try to always glean some redeeming aspects in a film because it *is* such a rich medium.

That said, if I pay the prices seats go for nowadays, I am going to pay the price of paying the price and bear it till the lights come up.

 

Reply #38 Top

God I hate that movie.  Clearly not made for me.  I was an 18 year old literature major when I watch it, and found it pompous, confusing, and pretentious.  Rambling and boring... I can't think of a movie I enjoyed less.  As an 18 year old Freshman English Lit major, I often found myself desperately deluding myself into liking anything the plebeians would find too arty and high brow.  I couldn't do it with this movie.  But, to be fair, I laugh at dick and fart jokes a lot, so I really doubt I was this movie's target audience.

Reply #39 Top

Quoting Tasunke, reply 32
A fish 'called' wanda

I haven't seen it, but it seems decent enough.

 

Quite a good film, objectively speaking, as a matter of writing, pacing, acting, and no-nonsense directing.  Something of a mix of modern comedy and classic Ealing Studios farce from the 1940s and 1950s.  But a person can dislike a movie for any number of good, subjective reasons, and these include anything from a personal dislike of a given performer to not enjoying a film genre.

Reply #40 Top

Quoting Protoplazm, reply 38


Again, expectations are like the uncertainty principle as to how they effect your movie experience.  I personally revel in the cinematics of sweeping landscapes and turbulent emotional themes.  Dramatic efforts are all about impact and emotional bearing.  As an art form, cinema is one of the most dynamic, but some films disappoint on many levels.  I try to always glean some redeeming aspects in a film because it *is* such a rich medium.

 

I like that this comes from the guy with an 'Eraserhead' avatar. I still don't know what to make of that movie. David Lynch is either some sort of artistic genius or crazed sociopath. Maybe a bit of both. I can say that it was enjoyable, if nothing else for the shock and 'What the...?' factor.

Also, A Fish Called Wanda is a great movie. 

 

I've only walked out on Pineapple Express. It was at a drive-in movie theater with the kids... we were supposed to see a double feature of Wall-E and Kung-Fu Panda. Wall-E was great, but the geniuses in the projector room I guess thought that Seth Rogan = Jack Black and instead of Kung Fu Panda we got Pineapple Express. The kids weren't finding "cross joints" and dick jokes any more enjoyable than I was, so we left 15 minutes into the movie.

Reply #41 Top

I had a date once to a movie. As it turned out, both were forgettable. I walked out on both of them. I hope ol' what's her name enjoyed whatever movie it was. I went home and got drunk and left her there and never saw her again. Now that is a happy ending. :)

Reply #42 Top

Quoting Uvah, reply 34
I'm like starkers...haven't been to the movies in years. Last flick I saw was with my two younger sisters. It was The Exorcist. I fell asleep and my baby sister thought it was hilarious. She laughed through the whole movie.

Hehe, 'The Exorcist' was the 4th last movie I ever saw in a cinema.  Hmmm, back in the early 70's.

From around 14 'til 16 I went to the movies [we called 'em 'flicks' back in them days] dozens upon dozens of times.  It was a weekly thing, me and the mates, but since moving to Oz in 1969, I've been in a cinema just 5 times.  First to see The Exorcist; second to see The Good the Bad and the Ugly; third to see Hang 'Em High; fourth to see Flesh Gordon... my soon to be missus at the time thought is was a sci-fi.   Well it was... sort of!  Don't remember what was even showing the 5th time... had a big blue [argument] with my then g/f and walked out and went home just after we bought the tickets.  Can't say it was something I really wanted to see, then.

Reply #43 Top

So was your fiance during the 4th movie the same gf that you walked out on during the 5th movie?

and were the circumstances around the 5th movie part of the reason you don't bother going to the movie theatre any more?

Reply #44 Top

Quoting Tasunke, reply 43
So was your fiance during the 4th movie the same gf that you walked out on during the 5th movie?

Nope, there was quite a few years between them... by the 5th I'd had 2 kids, divorced and was a single [custodial] parent for a couple of years.

The circumstances with the 5th had no bearing on my decision to give cinemas a miss.  No, that was more to do with arthritic and spinal issues, the damned uncomfortable and cramped seating with eff all leg room if you're 6' plus.

As for the argument, it was over cinema snacks... and the damned exorbitant prices for what is essentially junk.  We had just been to dinner and had already spent enough on food, so I saw no rhyme or reason to spending another 30 bucks on crap.  Shoot, a 200ml paper cup of coke was $5.50, and there was no way I was coughing up twice that and more for chockies or popcorn, etc, so I walked out and went home to my kids.  Hehe, she somehow got a refund on the tickets and turned up at home half an hour later.

Did I get any that night?  Nope!  :S   But it couldn't have been too serious... we lasted 8 years after that.

Reply #45 Top

Rocky Horror Picture Show, audience participation is annoying. I went to watch Heavy Metal instead.

Reply #46 Top

In hindsight, not sure why I walked out, given I *like* the actor, but I walked out on Good Morning Vietnam, making it not even thirty minutes into it.

Reply #47 Top

there was a bad movie called twilight i walked out on about halfway through.

 

ive been a proud hater since and make fun of every man who has to retort to twilight to get sex.

 

i mean, it's more fun to find a female who also hates twilight and not have to embarrass yourself.

Reply #48 Top

I walked out on the same movie . .twice.  What Lies Beneath.

Went with a female friend of mine, she freaked out about a third of the way through, and I told her we could leave if she wanted.  A few days later I took another female friend, thinking "this one is made of sterner stuff."  Got about halfway through.  Luckily it was at a dollar theater so I could catch the end without too much pain.

For sheer badness I probably would have walked out of Deathproof/ Planet Zombie (or whatever it was called) by Tarintino if I had seen that in the theater.  I watched so much MST3k as a kid that I'm pretty immune to bad movies, though those around me might end up annoyed at my innapropriate snorts of laughter as I imagine Crow heckling particularly bad scenes of whatever I see.

Reply #49 Top

My friends wife works in medical billing and coding and she was unable to watch Sicko, or any part of the debate about insurance scamming in the medical industry because it made her feel guilt.

 

I could never call my friend a punk for letting her not watch it (and he even went to 'console' her), let alone tell her that she should feel bad.

 

Sure i understand, she is "no more guilty" than the clerk at BP is for the oil spill, but transference indicates responsibility. If i buy drugs, the law will say that i am supporting a gang. If i sell drugs and use the profit to buy a car, which gets stolen, the court will tell me it is my loss- i have no right to the car, which came from illegitimate income.

 

Thus, through transference, she does participate in denying claims to medical patients for the profit of her company just as paper-pushers in Nazi Germany were sending people to death camps; the "just doing my job" line did not cut it at Nuremberg and it doesn't sell here either. Instead, i just disassociated myself from them because i could no longer stand her "fluffiness", this is a woman who has a sister with a husband named John who served in Afghanistan so she used to go dope up on emotions with that movie.

 

She just dopes up on fluffiness and overemotional reactions. For instance, she "just couldn't hear anything about climate change" because of "Poor Al Gores wife" and "Just can't be bothered to talk about taxation because her dad is a republican". You know those types who make ridiculous reasons to refuse to challenge their own thinking, by playing the "i was traumatized so i can't talk about it" with every freaking issue. And my friend used to be totally intelligent until she poisoned his mind and now he doesn't talk about issues that matter, or even pretend to care about ethos and logos. He just allowed his mind to become hers because it was "less painful than thinking about it" so he just numbs himself and keeps working at a bank where he scams customers who lack the financial knowledge he has.

I tried to talk to him about "moral agency" and the idea of the moral agent/moral patient, and the responsibility of the banks, and insurance companies as agents is to act in benefit of the patient, not to screw the patient. I even told him that there is plenty of honest money in banking as long as he doesn't "work against people" - to which he smiled and said "I know how to tell the difference of working for someone or working against them, and i love it; it's like playing a game and totally pwning your opponent with a technique they think is cheating because of a lack of meta game knowledge."

 

He described how fun it is to look at someone in the eyes and know within 2 years, even if they make every payment on time, they will go bankrupt. His only concern is making sure the person has something to seize.

Reply #50 Top

The worst movie ever made in my opinion is now The Tree of Life.

 

What a load of shit!!!!!