As a follow up to my “Honest review of these movies please” I’d like to ask a related question. If someone would like to add a link to the above question for those that haven’t responded and would like to, I’d be most grateful. (I just don’t know how to myself. Thanks.)
The Question:
Which movie(s) sucked so bad you actually got up and left the room. How long did you watch before abandoning ship? What was the last straw? Unstanding that some of us will not actually leave the theatre “I came thisclose to leaving” will be acceptable.
I’ll go first: HARDWARE (1990). Set in an oppressive, post-apocalyptic future world dominated by debris and clunky hardware.
We didn’t leave the theatre (driving 35 minutes one way, paying $10+ each) but the four of us were the ONLY people left. Kept waiting for it to get better, then it ended. Can’t believe it got four stars!
PS - in case your wondering, I have an alterior motive - as part of my public speaking course (a requirement in my company for advancement up the managerial ladder) we’re to present “A Difference of Opinion”. We are to ask a varied group the same question and present our results. This, and my movie review question, are my topic and you guys are my “varied group”.
South Park-the movie. I watched the show occasionaly and was coerced into going. What a waste of money. I ditched my friend and saw “Big Daddy” after I heard the, “Uncle Fucker” song.
Fist of the North Star…I rented it and watched the first 5 minutes.
I have never walked out on a movie. I read up on films before I see them, so I have a pretty good idea if it’s something I’d like to see in the first place. Oh sure, it has happened that the movie wasn’t that great; it’s just never been so awful that I booked.
I have stopped watching a video because I couldn’t stand it. About 75% of the way through “Slackers”, I had to stop. It took me that long to figure out that nothing was going to happen, so it didn’t matter if I made it to the end or not.
It’s my duty; my duty as a complete and utter bastard.–Arnold J. Rimmer.
Oliver Stone’s Nixon - I consider myself pretty smart when it comes to political stuff. That thing was about as understandable as a quadraplegic mime.
Bridges of Madison County - This was a rental, and mainly because my wife (girlfriend at the time) wanted to watch at. Amazingly, she was the one to stand up, stop it, and proclaim it the most boring movie she ever saw.
We went right out there and refused to do accoustical versions of the electrical songs that we had refused to record in the first place.
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover. The actions of the husband made me sick; the last straw was when he was forcing the lover to eat a book by tying him down and stuffing pages down his throat, one after another, with a wooden spoon. Nothing had made me so sick in a movie up and until then and nothing has since. I think that was about 1.5 hours into the film. I don’t care if it was artistic; it just made me want to throw up.
Nightmare before Christmas. Tim Burton claymation’s piece of drivel. I’ve met many people who loved it, but I was bored out of my mind. And grossed out. And bored.
A little persistance goes a long way. Announcing:
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MLAW, I don’t know if you’ll believe me, but my husband and I had the exact same experience with Hardware! We lived in Merced, CA and drove 30 minutes north up Highway 99 to Modesto, thinking it would be worth it. The previews were SO misleading. Crappy crappy crappy movie.
The only movie I’ve ever walked out of is Sibling Rivalry with Kirstie Alley. Friends say that it’s not that bad when you watch it all the way through. I wouldn’t know.
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I walked out of a screening of “Dream Lover” (1994), with James Spader. Yikes, what a piece of cheese! Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse or any more pretentious, they’d throw in a dream sequence with clowns in it!
A few days after I saw it, I came down with an irregular heatbeat and my date had a brush with cancer. We both blame that movie. Shame I never wound up reviewing it: “Dream Lover is so bad it will give you cancer!”
Uh oh, this doesn’t bode well for this Saturday’s NYC Dope Meeting…A NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS is a personal favorite, and ERASERHEAD was, um, interesting.
The only movie I can remember walking out of a theater on was AN UNMARRIED WOMAN. Jill Clayburgh getting divorced and then leaping into the famously forgiving NYC Dating Pool and IMMEDIATELY surfacing with Alan Bates, a Cool Soho Artist who also seems to be swimming in cash was bad enough, but when we got to the scene where she and her little daughter are banging on the piano and singing Paul McCartney’s “Maybe I’m Amazed,” that was it for me, Jack.
Armegeddon with Bruce Willis on Pay-Per-View. My husband wanted to watch it for the special effects. I had to leave the room after 10 minutes because I couldn’t take it anymore. He shut it off not long after because he just couldn’t wade that deep through the garbage to get to the special effects!
The movie Beaches with Bette Midler is by far the most awful movie I’ve ever been forced to endure. This movie was made for women, by women and there is no way in hell a man could ever enjoy it. I had nothing against the movie, I’m sure that if I were a woman I would have loved it. I just think it should have come with a pre-emptive that said…“If you are not female, you will be confused, bored, and in pain for the next 2 hours!”
I had to finish it though because I sat down to watch it with my best friend of 10 years (she’s a girl), and she had noted it as her all-time favorite insisting that I see it if I loved her(a joke, cruel but efficient). She knew I didn’t like it afterward, but I explained it as because it wasn’t a man’s movie and she smiled at that…Whew :eek:
-SS
If “knowledge is power,” why does stupidity reign?
Pulp Fiction. My husband and I walked out after what seemed like six hours, but was really about one hour. And my husband NEVER walks out on movies, no matter how awful!
I almost walked out on Hexed, but it was a very hot day and I wanted to stay in the nice air-conditioned theater.
“The analyst went barking up the wrong tree, of course. I never should have mentioned unicorns to a Freudian.” – Dottie (“Jumpers” by Tom Stoppard)
I walked out of a wretched pile of garbage with Richard Dreyfuss and TV’s Dharma. Dreyfuss (who also produced, I believe) played a single father who fakes the discovery of a primitive tribe in africa or something. I don’t remember the name of the movie but it was a dumb pun on the name of the family, I think. I went with four other people and we all got up about forty minutes in and walked out.
Avoid this film at all costs. Don’t even watch a few minutes on cable because you’re too lazy to change the channel. You have been warned.
Now, lest you think I saw this on purpose, we were going to see Gross Pointe Blank and this was the only movie not sold out. I spent $8.50 to have my intelligence roundly and crudely insulted. Ack.
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Well, blessed is just about everyone with a vested interest in the status quo, as far as I can tell.
When I was in my early 20’s I walked out on Caligula… Just too gross.
I was on a cross-country flight with no book and no cigarettes, and I actually took the $4 headphones off about 20 minutes into "Four Weddings and a Funeral and read the airsick bag instead.
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.