Leaving amovie before it's over...what's up with that?
I thought it only happened in the US but I just saw a film where half the audience left.
What is that? Can't people show a little respect a stay? They spend 8-12 bucks on it.
It doesn't matter how bad it is, you should not leave a film before it's done.
It totally ruins it for me if people complain during a (for me) good movie. Same thing with leaving.
It makes me so mad...who leaves a film?
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I've done this exactly once. "Rough Cut" starring Burt Reynolds. Original theatrical release.
Yeah, I'm old.
I sit through shitty movies, because then it's fun to point out bad stuff if you're with friends. I imagine I would just leave if it was just me, but I usually go with people.
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Hehe...exactly.
Quote from: XIXAXI've done this exactly once. "Rough Cut" starring Burt Reynolds. Original theatrical release.
Yeah, I'm old.
Never saw that one...I almost walked out of Blair Witch Project...I'm hip and young...and I
didn't like it.
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I've only walked out of one movie,"Clockstoppers." Yeah, I should have known better.
I think walking out of a movie is better than walking out of a movie, back in, out again, back in, etc. I don't understand if it is just the people's bladders or attention spans. Walking out is fine, just dont distract me when I'm trying to watch the movie.
i have never walked out of a movie but not because im against it, i just havent ever had the urge
this should go in "Everything Else Cinema"
I've NEVER left a film. My thinking is that even in the worst films, there might be one tiny, little nugget of a great shot, a great line of dialogue, or an actor's look, etc.; something that might just be the only thing to remember.
Quote from: kotteI thought it only happened in the US but I just saw a film where half the audience left?
What film was that?
from www.digitallyobsessed.com
On the movie Black Sheep:
In researching this film's reception I noted many very negative reviews, including the claim that Gene Siskel referred to this as the only movie he walked out on in 26 years of movie reviewing.
Wow. Thats something.
I only walked out on The Thin Red Line when I was like 13, mainly because my parents' movie had long finished before TTRL was done, and they wanted to leave. I didn't think it was so good then, and I don't now, for different reasons of course.
almost did at atanarjuat...(sp?)...but i felt committed so i stayed
I almost walked out of Ali.
What a long horrible mess.
Quote from: Gamblor the ManwhoreI only walked out on The Thin Red Line when I was like 13, mainly because my parents' movie had long finished before TTRL was done, and they wanted to leave. I didn't think it was so good then, and I don't now, for different reasons of course.
...i gotta disagree w/you on that one..
i went with about four friends to see this ..they ALL fell asleep...except for me..this film is gorgeous......
ANOTHER UNDERATED MALLICK CLASSIC..and deserved that acad. award for best pic......this whole film has a surreal dreamilike feel to it which gives it a unique experience during the scenes of violence....
I have no problem with walking out. I walked out of A Walk To Remember. I had read the book and enjoyed the pure innocence of it and looked forward to the movie because Mandy Moore is charming to me. The film updated its story from the 1950s to now and added so much graphic content all in the name of teen movie cliche. It just pissed me off. Oh, and don't ask me what the fuck I was doing reading that book in the first place.
Quote from: The Gold TrumpetI walked out of A Walk To Remember.
..I love irony..... 8) .or things that are in an ironic tone/display......
the only movie i ever almost walked out of (but didnt) was mission impossible 2, which i found so beyond horrible i couldnt believe my eyes. by the end of the movie i said if he takes off his mask and its tom cruise AGAIN! for like the third time in the movie, we should leave. and he did, but my friend wouldnt go. also, speed 2: cruise control my friend wanted to leave but i stayed in case there was anything in the final shots.
The closest I've come was Rock Star. I had a burning desire to run away, but I knew it would be wrong.
At least a few of the times I saw Magnolia, people left at the exact moment Jim Kurring wiped the frogs off Donnie's car.
Quote from: SHAFTRI almost walked out of Ali.
What a long horrible mess.
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the only movie i ever almost walked out of (but didnt) was mission impossible 2, which i found so beyond horrible i couldnt believe my eyes.
I couldn't agree more, I hated those movies so much. I didn't walk out on MI:2 though, my friends and I wanted some more laughs. MI:2 ruined MI, which I thought was so good.
Quote from: SHAFTRI almost walked out of Ali.
What a long horrible mess.
Ali was awful, but I was with a friend, and we laughed at the guys playing Don King and George Foreman who looked nothing like them.
I don't walk out of movies. I like to watch the whole thing, even if it sucks. I never know if something over halfway through the movie will make the rest of it more interesting.
For as long as I live, I will never understand why someone would get up and walk out of a movie they paid to see. Even if a movie is free, and I'm not digging it, I'll stick around until the end. It's the nature of the medium: you have to get the whole thing to be able to render a verdict. It just boggles the mind, sometimes, how people could see it another way. People just make me giggle sometimes. I mean, if a movie is bad, that's understandable, but if it makes you uncomfortable, challenges you, that's a whole other story. Like the frogs thing: why oh why after spending 2.5+ hours in a film would you leave at the "end?" Why wouldn't you stick it out for another 20-ish minutes? People are weird.
To walk out of Magnolia at that scene is deplorable move. But to walk out of a deplorable movie is understandable.
Quote from: The Gold TrumpetI have no problem with walking out. I walked out of A Walk To Remember. I had read the book and enjoyed the pure innocence of it and looked forward to the movie because Mandy Moore is charming to me. The film updated its story from the 1950s to now and added so much graphic content all in the name of teen movie cliche. It just pissed me off. Oh, and don't ask me what the fuck I was doing reading that book in the first place.
GT, what were you doing reading A Walk To Remember?
I too, have never walked out of movie, for the same reasons MacG have listed. If I payed for shit, goddamnit, I'm gonna sit in it and get my money's worth.
And young filmmakers should never walk out of movies, no matter how bad they may seem. You can learn just as much from watching a failure (if not more) than from watching a masterpiece. You can avoid missteps and turn someone's fuck-up into your stroke of genius.
I've only walked out of one movie that I've paid for, a British import called Human Traffic. I was in a bad movie, the movie felt tired and limp. I turned my pager on (shows how long ago this was) to see how much time it had left, noticed that someone had paged me, and decided I'd rather call them back than sit through the rest of the movie.
But I've walked out of a lot that I haven't paid for. They were all utterly unredeemable, though. Like Dumb & Dumberer.
I've never walked out of a movie, but my supposed "movie-buff" friend walked out of Kill Bill... he was with his girlfriend, and he said she was about to throw up... please...
Quote from: TheVoiceOfNickand he said she was about to throw up... please...
Then it's ok to walk out...but who am I to decide what's ok and what's not :)
I'd NEVER left a movie!!! No way! even in the worst movie i've watched in my life, even in the most unpleasant movie, i think is a lack of respect, i don't know but i never did it and maybe i never will
I walked out of "The Phantom", but I was with my family... thing is, while it was a matinee... they're not rich... they paid for 4 people to go see it and hated it that much.
Quote from: kotteQuote from: TheVoiceOfNickand he said she was about to throw up... please...
Then it's ok to walk out...but who am I to decide what's ok and what's not :)
No... he should have let her barf right then and there! He wimped out... :P
Hmm I dont think I ever did it... when a movie is really bad I just stay and hope there is something that I would like...
With Dreamcatcher it was so damn boring and stupid I was hoping by the end I would get surprised or something good had to happen... it didnt... I wasted a lot of time and money on that film...
I remember when I went to see Crossroads with my ex-girlfriend... oh my god... first scene was Britney Spears in her underwear and I though well thats not so bad... but then I wanted to kill myself