I really like the Time Machine remake, went to see it at the cinema three times with different people who all really enjoyed it, and every time I’ve watched it with someone on DVD they’ve really enjoyed it. I don’t think it’s that bad a film.
I walk out of films quite frequently. We have a nice cinema nearby with a good bar that I go to with my wife. I’ll usually watch the first half or so then go for a pint, catch up with my wife afterwards. Sometimes I walk out because the film is dumber than owlshit and just cannot be tolerated. More usually, though, the film is OK but I’m fine just getting the gist of it then going for a quick bevvy and a read of the newspaper.
I can see using “gross” as an antonym to “intricate” or “fine”, in this case. It’s often used by filmmakers (not, actually, Kevin Smith*) instead of using other more appropriate and/or articulate language. Need to convey a character is shocking? You could have him weave a fine web of anti-establishment accusation, or you can have him say “fuck” a lot.
I recently pointed out to another poster that using swearwords is not inherintly indicative of a limited intelligence or vocabulary, but, y’know, sometimes it is indicative of lazy writing.
No, it really doesn’t. It keeps getting worse and worse - and I say that as someone who *liked *the movie!
*Kevin Smith *can *weave a fine net of anti-establishment accusation, he just then seasons liberally with "fuck"s.
The worst movie I ever saw was Shark Boy and Lava Girl. The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D - Wikipedia
I knew it was gonna stink, but the kids wanted to see it, and I recall feeling almost gaggy when I heard they were planning to ride “the train of thought” to " The Land of Milk and Cookies".
I wish I could share the plot with you, but I’m not sure there was one.
Supposedly, the idea/script was the idea the director’s 10 year old child. Poor kid.
This one was pretty awful. Reportedly, even the director, Robert Rodriguez, has admitted that it was bad, and he put it together quickly. IMDb claims it was Rodriguez’ seven year old son who came up with it.
My daughter, MilliCal, insisted on showing me this one. She knows of my love for Bad Movies, but I’m not suirre this one falls into the category of “entertainingly bad”, because it pretty much lacks the “entertaining” part. It does, however, have pretty impressive special effects for a movie this awful.
I didn’t walk out. I almost never walk out of movies, even really rotten ones. And I was watching this one at home, anyway.
I have no great objections to profanity - I use a good bit of it myself - but I had a similar reaction to White Men Can’t Jump. The sheer quantity of profanity was really off-putting.
E.T.
I went to the lobby and played video games until it was over, as my date wanted to stay and see it. I still hate that movie.
Oh, well I didn’t mean to imply that **The Time Machine **wasn’t an enjoyable movie; just that it was pretty dumb. This is not a bad thing in and of itself. Whereas Wells’ source novel used the premise to examine notions of progress and class conflict, the 2002 movie was a fairly generic cheesy adventure movie. I don’t have a big problem with that; some of my favorite movies are the kind that were seemingly produced solely for the entertainment of the graphic designers. The Time Machine itself was impressively brassy and 19th-century retrofuture, and I wish I had a little model of it for my desk.
I was thinking in particular of the interpolated romance that drives the script-- can’t a guy travel into the future just because it’s a cool thing to do? Evidently not; he has to be on some sort of goofy quest to save his doomed true love from the jaws of Fate. This is the part that struck me as similar to The Butterfly Effect. Think of what **The Time Machine **movie would have been like if, instead of using his invention to travel millions of years into Earth’s future to fight post-apocalyptic mutants and a psychic albino Jeffrey Irons, the Time Traveller used it to travel to 1978 and burn someone’s dog.
I guess my point is that The Time Machine has redeeming qualities in my eyes, whereas **The Butterfly Effect **has none to speak of. I will concede that someone who isn’t especially interested in SF art design, but who is really into dog-burning, might see it the other way around.
Lawnmower Man 2. The first Lawnmower Man wasn’t too hot, but since I was into the new cyberspacey stuff back then, I enjoyed it. I thought LM2 might be a similar oeuvre but it wasn’t, so I just walked out. I think that’s the first and only movie that I ever walked out on.
I must have good luck with movies because I’ve only ever walked out on two. The first was The Silence of the Lambs. Not because it was bad – far from it, in fact. But because my girlfriend, who was a psychology major, was completely freaking out. I walked out of The Big Chill on my own volition, though. The dullest piece of crap I’ve ever tried to sit through.
I have not a single clue why I didn´t walk out of Solaris. It was such a bad piece of crap movie. I think I was severly high, or extremely sleepy, and just sat there, but I would have rather watched a movie about Algebra. In fact, looking at a white wall for 3 hours would have been more fun.
Pirates of the Carribean 3 was pretty bad as well, and me and two of my friend just left that one.
Some people may not like me because of this, but *There Will be Blood *also made me and my friends leave the thearter. It was so DAMN slow and boring.
Never walked out of a theater movie, but my husband fell asleep during the first D&D movie. Dull, overacted, and with a Wayans brother. Bad, bad movie. Sad thing is, the second D&D movie, which was made on a seriously restricted budget, TV-quality, with no-name actors, was a far superior film.
Most recent one I stopped watching was Crank. Ugh. I was semi-bored up until I stopped, but when the hero starts to rape his girlfriend, on a public sidewalk, in full view of dozens of people, and not one single person tries to help her…that’s when I couldn’t take it any more. And then she starts to enjoy it. Stupid, stupid, stupid. Makes me angry just thinking about it.
Also, I realize Jason Statham’s movies aren’t necessarily the height of storytelling, but when you can find a half dozen holes in the villain’s evil scheme without trying, there’s something seriously wrong.
For instance:
[spoiler]The villain injects our hero with a poison that will kill him as soon as there’s no adrenaline pumping through his bloodstream. He leaves him a DVD letting him know what he did. But…
He had the hero unconscious. Why not just pop two in the back of his head? Or, why not tie him to a chair, torture him a while, then pop two in his head? Or, why not tie him to the bed with the remote next to his hands so you can gloat after he wakes up? BUT WHY IN THE HELL WOULD YOU LEAVE HIM FREE TO COME AFTER YOU?[/spoiler]
I’ve never walked out on a movie in a theater. However, last weekend someone else had Seed of Chucky playing on his TV, and had I been in a theater, I’d’ve walked. The entire premise was too stupid for me to suspend my disbelief, and this is coming from someone who can shut off his higher brain functions to actually enjoy Independence Day.
The ONLY redeeming quality to Seed of Chucky was watching Jennifer Tilly jiggle.
Honestly, I don’t understand why more people DON’T get up and walk out. If you’re alone, you have nothing to lose but more time wasted at a movie you can’t stand; and, if you’re dishonest and anal about wasting the money, you can always go to the next movie over. If you’re with friends, you can always wait at a nearby coffeeshop or bookstore or whatever.
Unless you’re with kids who need supervision, why put yourself through more unpleasantness?
I haven’t walked out on very many movies in my life, but I did walk out on one recently. It was “Righteous Kill” with Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro. Absolutely terrible, and I love those two guys. I might have actually sat through the whole thing, but it was my birthday and my husband said it was my call so we left.
I’ve never walked out of a movie in a theater, but the closest I came to leaving was “Little Nicky”. The first 10-15 minutes were just horrible. After that it went from “walkoutable” to just not very good (but parts were mildly amusing so I’m glad I stayed).
Everyone has for the last 80 years.
I walked out on The Hollow Man, thanks to the power getting knocked out. I was getting ready to pass out at the scene where Kevin Bacon is pulling out his fingernails and everything went black. We got free tickets to a later movie, my at-the-time boyfriend (who was really getting into THM) chose The Sixth Sense. That was about the point when I realized our relationship was doomed.
I also walked out on Across the Universe, but that was because it was showing at a pizza place/movie house and my friend and I just came in to pick up a pizza. I plan to watch the whole thing one day, it looked pretty good.
I saw The Thin Red Line on DVD and ejected it before the end, not for the lack of content so much as for the content being bafflingly stupid. I have a rant on this somewhere…ah, here it is.
Sailboat
I walked out of The Other Boleyn Girl as well. It wasn’t offensively bad, it just wasn’t holding my interest, and I thought, “I have better ways to spend my time. I could be grocery shopping.”
The first film I walked out of was Sphere.
And I probably won’t get a lot of support on this one - I walked out on March of The Penguins. I like nature documentaries, I like actual animal behavior and the reasons behind it. Stop anthropomorphizing the frakking birds for me! They’re not in the mood for romance and looking for love!
No.
I walked out of Little Shop of Horrors. Went in high school with a bunch of friends- Rick Moranis, Steve Martin- how bad could it be? (in my defense, Rick was funny back then. At least to a 16-year old.) Holy crap. It was bad.
I should have walked out of Shayamalamadingdong’s Signs. Jesus H. Christ on a popsicle stick, that was a terrible movie.
We don’t see too many movies in the theater these days, but there have been several DVD’s we shut off, and would have walked out of in the theater. Most recently, Secondhand Lions and Running With Scissors. Great big steaming piles of suck.