Lord of the Rings is the most awarded movie series in history. Your opinions are just the worst.

Only movie I ever walked out on was when I was a kid and my parents took me to see terry gilliams “Brazil”.

My parents hated it and I was way too young to get it.

Start drinking heavily.

Saw the first Borat in theatres.

Started off with The Running of The Jew bit and people got up and left in decent numbers. Don't know what they expected but it wasn't that. My friends and I stayed and had a fantastic time

The director's intro was pretty routine, just thanking people and talking very briefly about the process of making the movie. The one key foreshadowing statement she made was something like, "I didn't intend this to be a documentary (on the nonfiction subject matter). My goal was to present how (the nonfiction subject matter) makes me feel."

My wife's theory after the movie was that the director was intentionally making the movie uncomfortable and disturbing to reflect the fact that she felt uncomfortable and disturbed about the subject matter (which, I'll reveal, is climate change). I can see that if she was going for pure avant-garde, but I don't think I fully agree with it.

I think each of the three scenes was meant to portray human impacts. The first scene was nothing but water, and that was pre-human. The second scene with the still scenery and random wildlife sounds was the introduction of people (or maybe wildlife) into nature. And the third scene with the boat was intended to show humans beginning to exploit nature. That would kind of make sense as a literal interpretation, but jimmy Christmas, you can do that a lot more efficiently than making us stare at nothingness for 48 minutes. Maybe if I had stayed longer, I would have cracked the code with confidence.


I'm looking for it, and I don't see it yet. Since this was a "world premiere", I'm guessing it's not available anywhere yet. I'll be curious to see if it actually makes it to a public screening, because I don't think it should.

You're even more right than you think. I'm almost positive that they introduced her as a professor of film studies.

My theory is that she was going for something really deep and symbolic. However, if people eventually get frustrated and annoyed enough to leave, you're not going to deliver your message. I think she tried to go high art and didn't acknowledge that it also has to engage the viewer in some way.

There was no context of anything in the 48 minutes that I saw. If she didn't say in the intro that it was about climate change, I would've never known.

I was really curious if we were the only people who walked out, or if we emboldened others to do so. Maybe I'm projecting my own tastes, but I can't see how anyone would have enjoyed it. It was just staring at a non-moving screen while annoying sounds played, and it went on interminably. Who would find that interesting?

We were sitting in the front and the entry was near the screen, so it was mercifully a short walk to get out. I couldn't see how others were doing, but I could tell that the couple next to me were bored, because they were doing surreptitious thumb-wrestling or something below the level of the seat backs.

If the director chased me down to yell at me, my diplomatic plan was to say that I have trouble with flashing lights, and that's true. They issued a warning as it started that flashing lights would be happening, and I wasn't happy to hear that.

I have no real desire. I watched 7 but after hearing how they shit on Luke I gave up on the franchise.


My grandpa had just passed away and while watching Rogue 1 I just kept thinking how that movie was totally shitting on him and his generation. I couldn't do it. Left maybe 30 minutes in. I don't remember it's been so long.

There's a movie I would have walked out on had I seen it in the theater. Rented it and quit watching after about 20 minutes. What a turd.

Same with Thin Red Line. Like Moonstruck, it was another critical darling that was just awful. I lasted about 45 minutes, which seemed to include nothing but blowing weeds and overwrought voiceovers.

Had to walk out of Multiverse of Madness but that was because my dad's truck had just been stolen.

Honestly, I rank Rogue One right alongside the original Star Wars as the best movies of the franchise. I give the slight edge to the original (which I refuse to call "A New Hope") because I still remember the absolute joy of seeing it in the theater, many times, when I was a child.

You really should give Rogue One another go. It's awesome.

It's pretty sad to see just how badly Disney has mauled Star Wars. From Cultural Icon to being reviled or treated with indifference.

If I had to guess I'd bet most of them were too personally connected in the local artsy scene to the director, to even dare walk out in her face

I'm glad your perp walk was short, remember feeling the exact same way leaving Royal Tenenbaums... the crowd mostly seemed to be 10 years and older than the ex wife & I on our dinner date

It was one of the strangest feelings I've ever had in public... ok maybe we're just not smart enough to get this piece of crap, but we just can't bring ourselves to care here, well bye

Thin Red Line was such a total mess, philosophical meanderings about nothing... the perfect Sean Penn vehicle

Yeah, I like a little actual war in my war movies.

Why didn't you go then? You should have known after that was just getting all their goodbyes in.