I just walked out of 2 different movies in less than an hour...

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On business in LA and I decided to catch a movie that I knew my wife probably wouldn’t ever want to see, The Expendables.

What a piece of shit…I got about 15 minutes into the movie and couldn’t bear it anymore. This is coming from a huge 80s action movie fan. I loved all these guys back in the day. Dolph Lungdren seemed borderline retarded or something. Sly and Mickey looked so ridiculous with all of their plastic surgery that I couldn’t take them seriously. Especially Sly with the beret. Or was it Mickey with the blonde highlights. I dunno. Randy Cotoure could barely deliver his lines and Jet Li was, well, Jet Li. The story was weak, but I expected that. Bruce Willis had that “I can’t believe I’m actually in this shitty movie” look on his face during his brief scene. Arnold still looks cool though. Much better than sly.

So I got up, for the first time EVER, and walked out of the movie. I’ve NEVER done this. I had nowhere to be and nothing to do but I knew I didn’t want to be here and I didn’t want to do this. So I decided to walk across the hall to catch Scott Pilgrim…

Now, I was a huge comic book guy and grew up on Nintendo. I’m in this movies demographic.

I couldn’t sit through it. I got about 20 minutes in and found the story to be boring and the “alternative” film style to be mostly annoying. Michael Cera needs to branch out and start playing characters different from George Michael or I’ll never watch another movie with him again. Even though the characters may be different his delivery is the same in all movies and this is really distracting. So 20 minutes in I walked out on my SECOND movie in my life.

How wiers is that? I walked out on my first and second movies in the same day?

Anyone else ever done this?

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You are heading into another stage of maturity in your life.

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You’re getting old.

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Meh.

I saved myself the trouble of having to walk out by not even bothering with obvious dreck. Maybe it’s time to fine tune your standards a bit?

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You are a Cubs fan. You should be very used to watching crap by now.

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Damn, I wanted to watch both those movies.

I don’t think I’ve ever walked out of a movie. I saw The Matador with a friend and we both wanted to leave but thought the other guy was enjoying the movie so we didn’t say anything to each other. And I fell asleep during Transformers. But it was during hour 4 of a 16 hour layover in Portland, so I had nothing better to do.

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Are you going to listen to your wife’s opinion from now on??

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Scott Pilgrim was beyond awesome. Maybe you’re just grumpy.

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I really want to see Scott Pilgrim, but I have the same reservation: namely that I am sick of Michael Cera.

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I haven’t seen either movie, but I was going to ask the same thing. Sounds like a case of the grouchies.

Also, did Arnold and Bruce really show up that early in The Expendables?

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Scott Pilgrim and The Matador are both beyond awesome. I can’t blame you for The Expendables though. It made The A-Team look like Oscar material.

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I haven’t seen Expendables, but Scott Pilgrim was awesome.

Now granted, during the first 12.5 minutes or so, I was like, “Michael Cera is playing Michael Cera again” and, “everyone is kind of lame and/or a dick” and even “exactly what sort of movie is this anyway?”.

But then, it became clear, he’s supposed to be a slightly dickish lame ass slacker hipster. And those parts suddenly become very funny because they are intentional. And also meaningful, because they are the starting point to eventual character growth.

And then the movie goes full tilt with it’s ‘teen romance as an action video game’ premise and becomes super kick ass. I’ve heard other reviewers actually utter the phrase “better action movie than Expendables”. Because the fight scenes were both really well done, and also super absurd and hilarious.

You either 1) Just are immune to the charms of Scott Pilgrim or 2) Should have stuck it out and kept in mind that the ‘lame’ and/or ‘:confused:’ parts were intentional…

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Maybe you were just not in a good mood to see a movie.

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I have not seen Scott Pilgrim, but it’s apparently becoming a film that provides a strong dividing line for people in responses to the film, re determining who is “old” and who is not. A lot of the film and it’s references are incomprehensible artistically to people who like to think they’re still young, but they’re really not. This even includes some thirty somethings.

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I’ve never walked out of a movie. Oh, I’ve *wanted *to, but I have resisted the urge.

I just know that if I do, I’ll always have that nagging doubt that maybe, just maybe, it got better after I left. And I’d rather suffer through a couple hours of total crap and be able to pass judgement than save myself a few moments of pain, but never able to be self-righteously judgmental about it.

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Why walk out when you can just take a nice nap?

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I simply do not understand why anyone would go to a movie theater in 2010.

There has been a great movie since the 1990’s. Hollywood is just all tapped out of ideas. I haven’t seen The Expendables and probably wont. Seems like they took an old 1980’s action formula and then hired actors, who, granted are pros in this genre but are now over 60 years old. Bruce is the youngest one at 55. Why would I want to watch a bunch of old farts, and mediocre actors?

Why go to a movie theater? A movie costs about 10 dollars, the price of the DVD of the shitty movie which will be in a bin at Wal Mart in 6 months. You cannot bring your own food and drink in, nor smoke. Their food is junk food that is horrifically expensive. A tub of popcorn is the price of a t-bone steak. A $5 dollar popcorn costs about 10 cents to make, if that. I believe in free enterprise and profit, but that’s bullshit, considering the low pay of the workers.

Sitting inside the theater, I have to put up with the general public, with their babies, cell phones, talking, teens making out. The occasional loud person. Most of the time the theater wont do anything because they are manned with minimum wage workers who do not care.

Most people these days have quality television sets with Blu-Ray and all that other stuff. For about $5,000 bucks (if that), one can have a kickass home theater system. $5,000 seems a lot, but that is one movie a week at $10 for one year. At home, I can eat what I want, smoke a joint, drink alcohol and not having to be around the denizens of the street.

As I mentioned before, the movie you are watching today will be on sale in 3 to 6 months. There are also websites out there with “bootleg” copies of films, or just older movies in archive. It is very possible to connect a computer with a television.

Movie theaters should go the way of the dinosaur. Let it die.

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Ten years, more like (50x10x10).

You could have said one movie almost every night for 18 months.

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I pretty much agree, but it’s better to have at least one friend who builds the home theater system and then go over to his place to watch the movies; saves you a buttload of cash, and all you have to provide are drinks/smokes/snacks or whatever.

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It is? I thought that as more like 9 1/2 years, not one.

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Yep, quite a lot in fact.