I just walked out of a movie for the first time ever.

[ToxSocks]

Only movie i ever saw people walk out of was Irreversible. Pretty sure because it was just too graphic.

[ToxSocks]

Anyway....you can't tell use all that and not tell us the name of the movie. At this point, i want to stream it just to see how bad it is.

[Frazod]

My main problem with the LOTR movies was that the third one should have ended with the "you bow to no one" scene. Instead, it droned on for another pointless half an hour while I HAD TO PEE REALLY REALLY BAD.

Nearly pissed myself getting to the john.

[alanm]

Originally Posted by Frazod

My main problem with the LOTR movies was that the third one should have ended with the "you bow to no one" scene. Instead, it droned on for another pointless half an hour while I HAD TO PEE REALLY REALLY BAD.

Nearly pissed myself getting to the john.

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

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by alanm

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

I never read the books, so I had no idea what was going to happen next. Plus, I just wanted to see the end of it.

[TinyEvel]

Rainman, what did the director say in their intro? Any conceptual hoo-hah that might've given you some insight in how to receive this?

Sounds more like a film art installation than a "movie", I've been to art museums where you walk into a dark room and something like this is playing on the wall.

Only movie I walked out on was THE MASTER. Waste of two good actors in a terribly boring film. also, one other film around 2001 was called the Dinner or something about a dysfunctional family gathering after one family member died. It was dark and depressing, can't remember the name.

[Easy 6]

It was hurting my head just reading the op this morning, did you get the sense other audience members around you were about to die rolling their eyes as well?

Either way, you clearly made the right call... yeeesh

[Easy 6]

The one and only movie I've ever walked out of was The Royal Tenenbaums

The trailers somehow made it look brilliantly witty, but good grief that thing was suuuch a crushing bore... Andersons worst movie by far, probably didn't even make it halfway through

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by Easy 6

The one and only movie I've ever walked out of was The Royal Tenenbaums

The trailers somehow made it look brilliantly witty, but good grief that thing was suuuch a crushing bore... Andersons worst movie by far, probably didn't even make it halfway through

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.

[Easy 6]

Originally Posted by Frazod

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.

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

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by Easy 6

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.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Easy 6

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

Thin Red Line was terrible, absolutely terrible. And I think it was made worse because it came out at about the same time as some really good war movie, maybe Private Ryan? Or Forrest Gump, to the extent that it had war scenes? Regardless, my wife and I had recently enjoyed some war movie and went to Thin Red Line with high expectations, and it was a slog to sit through it.

Even so, I was never tempted to walk out. In contrast to the one I walked out of, at least something was happening on the screen. People were walking and talking and stuff.

At home, I tend to be pretty impatient these days with on-demand movies. If they don't keep me engaged, I'll give up on them pretty quickly. I also get distracted easily at home, which makes the movie's job harder. So that's a different animal.

At the theater, I've never given up until this week. But I can think of a few movies where I was impatiently waiting for it to end so I could go do something interesting. Off the top of my head, I can think of ...

• Some Almodovar movie that I don't recall the title of - He was supposedly a big deal so we went to one of his movies. First off, it was in Spanish with subtitles, which doesn't help. But that wasn't the main problem. I don't know if Spanish people are just dumb, but it was a really stupid plot with overacting that seemed more appropriate for a children's TV show than an adult movie. It was kind of embarrassing at parts when the actors were mugging for the camera.
  
  
• Kill Bill - I didn't care for any of the characters. It was boring and bloody and the plot was nearly non-existent. I like almost all of Tarantino's stuff, but this one was a major swing and miss.
  
  
• War of the Roses - If I wanted two nonstop hours of people arguing, I'd visit my parents. Plus, it was an early date with my future wife, and the subject matter wasn't conducive to dating.
  
  
• The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover - I saw this decades ago and remember nothing about it other than being bored out of my skull.
  
  
• One of the later Star Wars movies. The first three movies were legendary. I think (not sure) that I watched the fourth and was unimpressed, and then the fifth one was excruciating to the point that I never watched another one. It could have been the fourth movie, but I think it was the fifth. I just remember a scene with Natalie Portman (or was it Keira Knightley?) and some dude talking about politics that seemed to last hours.
  
  
• Pretty much any Woody Allen movie made after about 1985. That guy jumped the shark bad.
  

I'm sure there are others, but these pop out in my mind as near-walkouts.

Every one of them was 500 times better than what I saw last week, though.

[trndobrd]

Originally Posted by Easy 6

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

That movie was awful. Only movie I've walked out of due to boredom.

[Cheater5]

Originally Posted by Easy 6

The one and only movie I've ever walked out of was The Royal Tenenbaums

The trailers somehow made it look brilliantly witty, but good grief that thing was suuuch a crushing bore... Andersons worst movie by far, probably didn't even make it halfway through

Then you haven't seen Asteroid City. It is utter trash, and my wife and I lasted about 25 or 30 minutes. Horrible film. Abomination, really.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Cheater5

Then you haven't seen Asteroid City. It is utter trash, and my wife and I lasted about 25 or 30 minutes. Horrible film. Abomination, really.

That a beautiful movie visually. I got distracted about halfway through and lost track of what was happening, so the movie pretty much finished up in the background of my vision. I've been wanting to go back and actually pay attention. So I guess I can't agree or disagree other than to say that the cinematography is nice.