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I am late to this thread, so pardon me if someone has already mentioned “Eyes Wide Shut”, the movie that killed Tom and Nicole’s marriage.
The thought of seeing Nicole Kidman naked was a draw, but once I did…meh…she’s built like a 12 year old boy.
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::: valiantly resisting the urge to make obvious joke :::
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I forgot that I walked out of Nightwatch and caught the last hour of the far-better Brokeback Mountain.
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::: valiantly resisting the urge to make obvious joke :::
No offense intended, tuckerfan
After about 20 minutes of “They Live”, my brother and I headed for the door.
I’ve never been able to make it through “Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back”.
I turned off Dude, where’s my car? after 30 minutes. But then doesn’t everyone?
[QUOTE=Illuminatiprimus]
[Nitpick]Great Expectations is by Dickens.[/Nitpick]
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Of course. :smack: I do actually like Dickens. I guess I just REALLY don’t like Gwyneth Paltrow.
My mom walked out of the Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover. I rented it (years later), but I really loved it.
I walked out of a movie called P2 (I think?) because of a disruptive audience.
I turned off Marie Antoinette at about the fifteen minute mark. Too damned dull.
I’m going to commit blasphemy here, but:
The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
I didn’t get any single aspect of it.
I also walked out of Rebel Without a Cause. I found it ridiculously overblown.
[QUOTE=HeyHomie]
…The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
I didn’t get any single aspect of it.
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Not even Susan Sarandon’s tits?
I walked out of Lethal Weapon 4. The great mystery is why I bothered to buy a ticket for it in the first place.
I’m surprised someone walked out on Nightwatch (Nochnoi Dozor). At least I presume that is the film discussed, there is another crappy old film named Nightwatch also. Certainly there are better films, but it at least was interesting for its non-Hollywood take on the good vs. evil supernatural thriller genre.
I’ve heard that Daywatch is a step up as well, although I haven’t had a chance to view it yet.
[QUOTE=Krokodil]
Funny you should say that. I respect his ability, but there’s something about his work that’s so uncomfortably on-the-mark that I can’t watch The 40 Year Old Virgin all the way through. I felt the same way about Superbad, but was in a theater and stayed through the end. Mortifying memories of my teenaged years, I guess, but it just feels like such emotional sadism at so many points. I was in the mood for lightly raunchy entertainment, and got something else.
Still plan to see Walk Hard, though.
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Walk Hard is probably the least funny of these films. You should be able to tolerate it though, as it really won’t ever seem “uncomfortably on-the-mark” regarding your unhappy teenage years.
I’m really hoping you weren’t/aren’t as terribly geeky and sex-obsessed as the characters in Superbad or a collector of dolls as in 40 Year Old Virgin. 
I feel that JA puts things so far over the top to make it very clear that the characters and situations are tongue-in-cheek.
Sin City - All the visually interesting graphics could not redeem the utterly vile, unrelentingly sadistic, totally hackneyed sleaze that passed for stories. Watching this flick was like watching an old-time sideshow geek show - it was all about how much you garbage you could stomach.
I loved the subtitles in the middle of the screen! Definitely made up for whatever might have been lost in translation.
[QUOTE=Hostile Dialect]
I loved the subtitles in the middle of the screen! Definitely made up for whatever might have been lost in translation.
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Yes, that was a nice artistic touch. I had seen both the Russian and American versions of this film, and the Russian version didn’t have those animated subtitles, of course.
[QUOTE=GoneTheSun]
Yes, that was a nice artistic touch. I had seen both the Russian and American versions of this film, and the Russian version didn’t have those animated subtitles, of course.
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IMHO, whomever came up with those deserves an Oscar. That is how you subtitle a foreign film, not by randomly sticking the subtitles where ever, having them be static, and, occasionally, blending in with the background so you have no idea what the frick anyone’s saying. With the ones for Nightwatch, you not only could tell who was saying what, but also the intended tone of what they were saying. They blended in so well with the movie that I completely forgot that I had to “read” it to understand what people were saying to one another.
I walked out of ‘Death Trap’. It had good reviews which said ‘don’t ruin the plot twist for your friends’. I knew it was ‘intellectual’ but knew absolutely nothing else about the plot at all. I was 14 and had gone with someone who I thought was a friend with a car, but who turned out to be was more of a f-o-f/predator in hindsight. Knowing that I was very straight, he came out to me mid-movie when Michael Caine & Christopher Reeve locked lips, by trying to move in the same way on me!
Ick, ick, ick…fast walk to the lobby and some very embarassing calls home asking for a ride from the multi-plex along with mandatory head-slaps and speeches like “Its Your fault! You shoulda Known! What were you THINKING!?” Thanks, Dad.
I didn’t walk out on ‘Misery’. I was watching it in my living room at the time. However, I Did pop the tape out of the VCR and throw it against the wall after the ‘hobbling’ scene. Eventually I watched the rest, but I was very disappointed that Bates was just shot and allowed to die so easily. I was thinking that cutting off her face, frying it up in front of her and feeding it to her in a nice ‘dirty bird’ sauce over the course of a few days as she bled to death was in order, but maybe that’s just the writer in me.
[QUOTE=Count Blucher]
I walked out of 'Death Trap’Knowing that I was very straight, he came out to me mid-movie when Michael Caine & Christopher Reeve locked lips, by trying to move in the same way on me!
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Maybe he was just caught up in the emotional energy of the movie - every think of that? 
[QUOTE=HeyHomie]
I’m going to commit blasphemy here, but:
The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
I didn’t get any single aspect of it.
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With you here - the only reason to see it is to see the nut-cases who dress up for it.
I gave up pretty quickly on Jarhead. It just seemed a little sterile to me.
I would have walked out of the ca. 1996 “Crash” (not the one with Matt Damon, which I haven’t seen), the one about people who get erotic thrills being in car crashes, but my girlfriend wanted to stay. People were leaving every few minutes.
I’ve never seen a film that took itself so freaking seriously. The characters were utterly unlikeable and seemed to be saying, “Aren’t we shocking you?” with subject matter that was more kooky than shocking.
Highlander 2
Starflight 1
Any Elvis movie