Oh, but she is.
Nordic, I thought Gladiator was easily forgettable, to be honest.
It struck me as one ofthose movies that isn’t entertaining, but is hyped up to make you believe it is much better then it really was. But they didn’t trick me!
The 13th Floor.
The movie wasn’t actually that bad, but it needed an editor worse than Kill Bill 2. It was so long I left halfway through, chatted with some friends in the lobby, hit on a concession stand girl, went back to my seat, dozed a bit, woke up and still hadn’t missed anything.
I’ve never walked out of a movie, not in the theater. I’ve walked out during rentals(if others wanted to keep watching) or turned them off(nobody else wanted to watch it).
I’ve walked out of:
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. It was near the end, but my suspension of disbelief just wasn’t holding up.
Final Destination: About the time where the kid gets killed in the bathtub. I just found the entire thing stupid and left. I later saw the rest of it on TV, so now I know I haven’t missed anything.
Recently, I tried to watch **Wicker Park ** with somebody else, and after about a half hour or so, we asked each other: “Do you have any idea what’s going on? Do you care?” We both answered no and turned the movie off. I had heard bad things, but it’s bad when, after a half an hour, nothing seems to have happened, and what has happening is confusing and uninteresting.
This is going to sound like Heresy, but I didn’t make it through Ray. I felt Jamie foxx did a great job and deserved the oscar…my problem is…I don’t know much about Ray Charles and frankly, I don’t have much of an interest in him. And while there was stuff that should have been interesting like drug use, racism and womanizing, for some reason(I blame direction), it was DULL. I had the same problem with Pollock(though, strangely, I made it through that one, just barely).
I’m a male in my early 20’s, and it was at the top of my zombie list for a while.
Why? Because it was the first movie I had seen up till that time where they actually are smart enough to bring plenty of firepower to use on the zombies. The “Aliens with Zombies” factor went a long way. I also appreciated the fact that the Computer was actually the smart one for a change(She doesn’t want to let you out because she doesn’t want to risk contaminating everything else. Why can’t you see that?)
Now that I’ve seen the Dawn of the Dead remake, and Shaun of the Dead, it’s fallen considerably in my list of zombie movies.
You’re kidding right? RIGHT?
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Special Award to Tracy Lord for RENTING a movie she previously walked out of. That’s hilarious.
Blame the genre. That’s how I feel about every bio-pic I’ve ever seen. Aviator is the only one I’ve really come close to liking. The forest is never greater than the trees.
I really don’t think the bio-pic makes for good entertainment. They’re always just a sequence of events from a persons life. So what!
Try watching “When We Were Kings”, a documentary about the Ali-Foreman fight in Zaire and then try watching “Ali”, the Will Smith overload, and you’ll have all the shortcomings of the biopic on full display.
3 come to mind right away…
Top Gun (Started my life- long dislike of Tom Fooze)
3 Amigos… :eek:
The Crossing Guard ( a friend and I were having a hard go with this one and once we saw Robin Wright, we looked at each other and said “That’s enough”.
I’d never been a big Ray Charles fan. A friend of mine was, and took me to see him perform live in what would be his last stop in town before he died. It kind of added an additional incentive to see the movie, and to try to look under the surface of the artist.
I didn’t walk out on it, but yeah, it was pretty damn bad.
I’m another who’s pretty selective about what movies I’ll pay 8 bucks to go see, so generally I like my choices enough to stick it out.
the only movie I’ve ever walked out on was Dracula 2000. just… utterly fecal.
I wish like hell I’d walked out of Matrix Revolutions. I wish I had never seen that movie. then I’d be forever in a state of suspended awe from the first two, and fill in the gap with fanfiction or imagination or ANYTHING but that plate of steaming asspuke I was forcefed.
I very much wanted to walk out on Crash, but my then-girlfriend insisted on staying.
It wasn’t that I was offended by the overtly sexual subject matter (I’m probably in the bottom 1% of being easily offended by sex).
Rather, I couldn’t understand why on earth anyone thought this picture would be the least bit interesting – I thought the characters were completely dull and unsympathetic, the premise absurd.
I walked out of Hunt for Red October*.
At the time, however, Ivyboy was just a baby and he wouldn’t stop fussing, so I took him home. (Yes, I shouldn’t have brought him, but Ivylad was on leave and we wanted to spend some time together.)
I don’t think we got more than 10 minutes into the movie.
Does ripping off the headphones and donning a sleep mask during the in-flight movie count? 'Cause that’s what I did during Around the World in 80 Days, the one starring Jackie Chan. God, did that movie blow. It made the original with David Niven and Cantinflas (which I hate, too) look brilliant by comparison.
Ha! I did the exact same thing! They were showing that movie on my flight to Italy…stupidest thing I have ever seen.
I never walk out on movies though. I don’t go out often, and when I do, it’s only to see a movie I really genuinely long to see. But even if I got caught in an unexpectedly horrible movie, my husband would never let me walk out. He doesn’t believe in wasting food or money, and he’ll suffer greatly before he does. This is the man who sat through an entire screening of Lawnmower Man II that he only paid $1 to see.
Hah, no one mentioned New York, New York which Mrs. J. and I walked out of years ago. What a dog.
I have sat through and sometimes enjoyed a number of movies with lots of violence, but only walked out of a film for being too violent one time. That was Young Guns (with Emilio Estevez and Kiefer Sutherland). I liked the characters and didn’t want to see them getting shot to bits any more.
If you can walk out of a video rental, I did so for My Beautiful Laundrette.
The one I should have abandoned early on but stayed to the bitter end in the theater: Three Women. No doubt it is one of the sensitive cinematic triumphs of all time, but in terms of festering, excruciating boredom, it is #1 on my all-time hit parade.
Gone With the Wind
I’m convinced that movie’s main selling point was it being in color.