The Walkout [Lex]

Before this year, the only movie I remember walking out of was Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill (2003). Undoubtedly there were others, but I can’t recall any specifically. I’m sure I wanted to walk out of many movies in my film school years, but I took naps instead of earning poor grades.

Why do I remember, so sharply, bailing on Kill Bill? For one thing, I was having a hard time believing Uma Thurman could battle twenty men with swords, and, even more, I was having a hard time believing the man who gave us Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction couldn’t do better in his maturer years. The older Tarantino got, the more juvenile his pictures became, and I’d had enough of him.

Fast forward to July 2025 when I walked –flew— out of Superman.

It would take an entire post to detail what was wrong with the movie, but let me summarize by saying this: the writing was lousy. Its effects and action were not memorable and its glibness was irritating. Story, mise en scene, dialogue. When all three fail to intrigue early in the going, how can a movie recover?

I hadn’t thought there was much meaning behind my walkout of Kill Bill—only that I didn’t like it. But now, with the landscape of cinema irreversibly changed, I was inspired to muse on the walkout: if I was abandoning an American icon and the greatest super hero of them all that had to mean something.

What is the cultural meaning of a walkout then and now? Does the act still have relevance? Did it ever?

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When thinking about walkouts, I keep coming back to that scene from Singin’ in the Rain, where Don Lockwood looks on in horror, as an audience leaves the end of his first talkie with Lina Lamont. The people are mocking her voice, and he knows he’ll be ruined if he continues to work with her in the post-silent era. That scene was not so much about a walkout, but an indicator that audience opinion mattered and producers lived in fear of it.

Test screenings and sneak previews still occur, but somehow I don’t think James Gunn or David Korenswet were ever waiting at a theater exit, hoping to gauge the vibe on Superman.

Of course, movies have changed since Covid. We are going to the theater less. We are streaming and downloading more. We are viewing entire films on our phones and watches. A walkout these days, might mean swiping away from a video three seconds into it.
Despite the alteration of the movie viewing experience, people still go to the cinema. Box office does matter, and James Gunn surely pours over the digital trades to see what each weekend’s returns are.

What really has been lost is the communal experience of going to a movie—and along with that the power of the walkout.

There are profound psychological phenomena that occur when watching a film with others, whether friends or strangers. There is shared joy and displeasure. There’s the cut up and the too-loud whisperer. There’s something you might not laugh at unless someone else did. Yawns can be contagious and stray comments can be affirming or annoying.

And on that rare occasion: the mass walkout. But did the mass walkout hurt or harm a picture? Public relations flaks surely could reframe a mass walkout as “see what’s got everyone so worked up,” but Don Lamont didn’t even consider putting lipstick on a pig. No, a mass walkout was the kind of word of mouth that was bad for business.

Is it the same today? I think not because the theater-going experience, even in its diminished state, is far different. In many cineplexes, a seat barely touches the one adjacent to it. They recline and have foot rests. It’s more like flying first class than watching a film.

These changes, I’m hazarding a guess, have made the mass walkout –once an emphatic and noteworthy statement—highly unlikely. A stray departure here and there is always the way it’s going to be, but as I left Superman I thought, perhaps in days gone by, others would have followed.

I grew up in Concord, Massachusetts –in the shadow of Henry David Thoreau— but in the darkness of the movie theater I’m not sure a “majority of one” means anything.
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What may have been more noteworthy about my walkout was the reaction on social media when I announced I had left the movie.

I didn’t intend to stir up trouble, but relating my early departure from Superman turned more heads than the act of leaving itself.

Kill Bill was released in 2003, and back then I had nowhere to post my thoughts. Yes, the internet existed, but it was nascent. I’m not even sure I had a cell phone in 2003. And even if I did there were no apps, and social media’s hottest thing going was My Space (remember that?).

Two criticisms emerged above others. First: how could I know Superman was bad if I left at the mid-point? Second, so I was admonished: “it’s a movie; just go with it, bro (or brah).”

Let’s take the second part first. By this rationale, anything put on screen, simply because it’s there, deserves praise. No matter how illogical, no matter how ill-conceived or expositional, you have to dismiss all of this because “it’s a movie.” Have the fanboys no limit beyond which they can be pushed?

As for not thinking I can criticize a movie because I didn’t remain for all of it, my simple reply has been, ‘if you can’t interest me in the first hour, how will you change my mind in hour two?’ There are slow burns and then there are flame outs, and for me Superman ran out of oxygen after forty-five minutes.

After some back and forth with my interlocutors, I realized debate was going to be difficult. Like almost everything these days, discussion has become tribal and pseudo-religious. My walkout on Superman was less a departure from a disappointing movie and more akin to spitting on someone’s deity.

Of course, Superman did well financially, and my walkout, whether trumpeted or not, was never going to be harmful. Movies surely bomb, but that’s because no one goes to see them in the first place, so walkouts might not be harmful because they occur after the theater has your money.

When critics had immense cultural cache a bad review could derail a film. If Pauline Kael announced she had walked out of a certain picture that might be enough to sink a movie’s fortunes. But then again, she also couldn’t understand how Nixon won because no one she knew voted for him.
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If you sense my ambivalence about the walkout, you are on point. It’s an immeasurable thing. Instinct tells me it may have had more impact in the past, but a hunch doesn’t always solve the case.

Perhaps a political film could inspire a walkout, but since opposing camps generally refuse to see one another’s work at all there is no singing in the rain—only singing to the choir. Michael Moore fans are more likely to boycott a Dinseh D’Souza film, not attend it and walkout. And vice versa.

At this stage, there are no facts in evidence, so I can only solicit opinions. What are your thoughts on the walkout, past and present? What in-theater films have you abandoned? Turning the channel, pausing the stream, or swiping off don’t count.

If you’ve made it to the end of this post, I know you will have not walked out on me, and I’d like to hear other opinions on this subject.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 07:30 PM

Comments

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1 ST.

Posted by: Biss Moss at September 27, 2025 07:32 PM (4eutJ)

2 Fuck.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 27, 2025 07:32 PM (4eutJ)

3 I’m definitely not a physical girl power fan but I saw Kill Bill as the exception I make for supernatural /fantasy powers . Kill Bill barely falls into that category as do all Kung Fu films do. And that is what Kill Bill was . Tarantino’s Kung Fu film.

Posted by: The way I see it at September 27, 2025 07:36 PM (EYmYM)

4 Walked out on Blair witch project. My then teenage daughter wanted to see it. She walked out with me. I was getting motion sickness from th camera jouncing while dying of boredom. I was rooting for the witch. .also walked out eyes wide shut. What a boring pos and the music was Noriega torture material.

Posted by: Dewayne Finn at September 27, 2025 07:37 PM (qG9JI)

5 I didn't hate Kill Bill or Superman. I knew they weren't documentaries when I went in. Although I was not crazy about Kill Bill, there was one part I really liked, when Bill asks the Bride which superhero is best.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, [0] Day(s) Since Leftist Terror Attack! at September 27, 2025 07:37 PM (L/fGl)

6 I almost walked out of There Will Be Blood but I kept thinking something was going to happen . Never did.

Posted by: The way I see it at September 27, 2025 07:38 PM (EYmYM)

7 I watched a half hour of Pulp Fiction. I think Tarantino is way overrated. I did watch Inglorious Bastards and Once Upon A Time in Hollywood, but not a fan

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 27, 2025 07:38 PM (kUxzU)

8 I've mentally walked out on a lot of shit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 27, 2025 07:39 PM (Q4IgG)

9 I don't see how anyone can go to one of these superhero movies still expecting them to be good.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 27, 2025 07:39 PM (fd80v)

10 Well i almost walked out of strange days

Yeah james gunn doesnt get superman much better than snyder

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at September 27, 2025 07:39 PM (bXbFr)

11 I kept falling asleep during eyes wide shut, only to be awakened by the piano.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 27, 2025 07:40 PM (4eutJ)

12 didn't hate Kill Bill or Superman. I knew they weren't documentaries when I went in. Although I was not crazy about Kill Bill, there was one part I really liked, when Bill asks the Bride which superhero is best.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, [0] Day(s) Since Leftist Terror Attack! at September 27, 2025 07:37 PM (L/fGl

I like Lucy Liu in everything. She was the cutest in Lucky Number Slevin.

Posted by: The way I see it at September 27, 2025 07:40 PM (EYmYM)

13 Kill Bill and Kill Bill 2 are Quinten Tarantinos best films, and my favorite Tarantino films.

Tastes vary, but walking out of Kill Bill likes it's Hollow Man is wild.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 27, 2025 07:41 PM (XV/Pl)

14 Yeah that one has its moments but it has weird tonal shifts

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at September 27, 2025 07:41 PM (bXbFr)

15 I’m definitely not a physical girl power fan but I saw Kill Bill as the exception I make for supernatural /fantasy powers . Kill Bill barely falls into that category as do all Kung Fu films do. And that is what Kill Bill was . Tarantino’s Kung Fu film.
Posted by: The way I see it at September 27, 2025 07:36 PM (EYmYM)

Yeah, Kill Bill was not so much a "straight" movie, as it was catching a vibe, a mood from a bygone era, and trying to do something other than just tell the story.

I kinda think that's been most of Tarantino's career. I understand people who don't like it, but it's art. In its own way, it is an artistic approach to filmmaking, with homage to other's work, a fantasy of one man's musings. Like him or not, it ain't boring.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2025 07:41 PM (IDn5S)

16 Cannonball Run II. While out of town. In a duplex theater where they wouldn't allow me to check out the other movie.

Lonely are the travelling salesmen.

Posted by: Auspex at September 27, 2025 07:42 PM (Y8DZL)

17 Tarantino is who he is, but I expected his films to continue to get better and give us really great stuff. Scorsese didn't make a Kung Fu movie at age 50. Speilberg. Ford. Hawks. Et al. I don't know. It seemed QT peaked when he was 30. Or maybe he never had it in him to reach empyrean heights

Posted by: Lex at September 27, 2025 07:42 PM (y4H1r)

18 And you have to remember, Tarantino is a fantasy film director, all of his movies save Jackie Brown are fantasticical and not grounded in reality.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 27, 2025 07:42 PM (XV/Pl)

19 I wanted to walk out on Chariots of Fire, but I fell asleep first.

Posted by: Crewman #6 at September 27, 2025 07:42 PM (vydmm)

20 You need one of those pinboards to figure out whats going on

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at September 27, 2025 07:43 PM (bXbFr)

21 IMO Tarantino’s best film is the one he wrote but didn’t direct.

True Romance

Posted by: The way I see it at September 27, 2025 07:43 PM (EYmYM)

22 Have not seen a movie in a theater since" The Sound of Music".
Life is too short to tolerate crap.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2025 07:43 PM (kurEY)

23 I don't recall ever walking out of a movie. I have walked out of a lot of concerts and a handful of plays.

I'm kind of on the fence about walking out of a movie, For starters, I've paid the bill so I may as well see what my money bought. Your point about viewing the movie from first class seating is well taken, as the theater where we attend has food delivery and a full bar. If the movie is not to my liking, then I can at least get drunk and maybe it will improve the show, even if I am uninterested in the outcome.

On the other hand... your time is valuable to you if nobody else. There is no obligation or sense of duty to finish an expensive movie just to get the 135 minute experience or whatever. Perhaps there is something more valuable that you can be doing with your time.

And on the gripping hand: if I've decided to see a movie, then I've already decided there my time can be wasted staring at the screen and stuffing my face.

Posted by: Semper Why at September 27, 2025 07:43 PM (nKug+)

24 Cannonball Run II. While out of town. In a duplex theater where they wouldn't allow me to check out the other movie.

Lonely are the travelling salesmen.

Posted by: Auspex at September 27, 2025 07:42 PM

We went to watch the matrix with my SIL and BIL. After about 20 minutes my SIL went to the movie theater down the hall and watched the lion king.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 27, 2025 07:44 PM (0N4FZ)

25 I don't see myself going to a theater again in this lifetime, so it comes down to a much higher bar now, for me to keep watching a film I start.

You better grab me quick, otherwise I'm turning you off, and finding something else.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2025 07:44 PM (IDn5S)

26
Smash wanted to watch Stupidman this evening, now that it is finally free to us on the streaming subscription service.

"Damn, this is awful shit. What did the Morons say about it?"

I told her all y'all said it sucked.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at September 27, 2025 07:44 PM (QVmho)

27 I mean whose really the villain at the end of slevin

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at September 27, 2025 07:45 PM (bXbFr)

28 I fell asleep during the Matrix. Admittedly it was midnight and I think there was some substance intake before it, but I was never a huge fan of that universe.

Posted by: Lex at September 27, 2025 07:45 PM (y4H1r)

29 I've been teaching myself FreeCad while the movie is on, so it isn't hurting me to have it on.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at September 27, 2025 07:46 PM (QVmho)

30
I grew up in Concord, Massachusetts –in the shadow of Henry David Thoreau—

I grew up in Waltham, in the shadow of the "watch" and the stink of the Charles River.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 27, 2025 07:46 PM (rVkEy)

31 18 And you have to remember, Tarantino is a fantasy film director, all of his movies save Jackie Brown are fantasticical and not grounded in reality.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 27, 2025 07:42 PM (XV/Pl)

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Revenge porn is what Tarantino does best, and the best of it works very well on a visceral level.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 27, 2025 07:46 PM (mFWV4)

32 I only started walking out of movies when they created multiplexes. If the movie didn’t grab me I’d walk over to another movie. Didn’t mean I hated it but rather they gave me other choices.

Posted by: The way I see it at September 27, 2025 07:46 PM (EYmYM)

33 It was very dissapointing hoult is not terrible as luther well better than eisenberg (what was that)

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at September 27, 2025 07:46 PM (bXbFr)

34 I admit the salkind superman. Spoiled me

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at September 27, 2025 07:48 PM (bXbFr)

35 In The Bad and the Beautiful viewers rushed out at the end of the flick to fill out comment cards which were used by the studio to find out what they did wrong and right.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 27, 2025 07:48 PM (63Dwl)

36 I have found @f_CookieMonster to be an entertaining critic. Speaking of Superman reboots

Cookie Monster movie review: Man of Steel (2013)

Watching dis movie be like taking in spectakular fireworks show. In sepia. While your girlfriend breaks up wit you over de phone. For two and a half hour

Posted by: Kindltot at September 27, 2025 07:48 PM (rbvCR)

37 Perhaps because i first saw it on the small screen sround 1980

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at September 27, 2025 07:48 PM (bXbFr)

38 4 Walked out on Blair witch project. My then teenage daughter wanted to see it. She walked out with me. I was getting motion sickness from th camera jouncing while dying of boredom. I was rooting for the witch. .also walked out eyes wide shut. What a boring pos and the music was Noriega torture material.

Posted by: Dewayne Finn at September 27, 2025 07:37 PM (qG9JI

Yeah, I have to believe that would be near the top of the list just because of the bouncing camera.

A while back, I did watch a very nasty movie that was basically people with a camera filming their very evil deeds. I survived and was tempted to watch Blair Witch but couldn't find it free.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at September 27, 2025 07:48 PM (Sco7b)

39
Walked out on Blair witch project. My then teenage daughter wanted to see it. She walked out with me. I was getting motion sickness from th camera jouncing while dying of boredom. I was rooting for the witch. .also walked out eyes wide shut. What a boring pos and the music was Noriega torture material.
Posted by: Dewayne Finn

We actually stayed for that one. It was very mean of us to do so. There were three stereotypical yass slay queens in front of us, and they were so wound upmthat every little noise made them shriek with fear and make 'oh lawd we gone die' noises.

So Smash & I entertained oirselves at their expense for the show.

Damn that was fun.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at September 27, 2025 07:49 PM (QVmho)

40 And you have to remember, Tarantino is a fantasy film director, all of his movies save Jackie Brown are fantasticical and not grounded in reality.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 27, 2025 07:42 PM (XV/Pl)

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I think you can include True Romance with Jackie Brown.

Posted by: The way I see it at September 27, 2025 07:49 PM (EYmYM)

41 Cavill needs to fire his agent out of a cannon

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at September 27, 2025 07:50 PM (bXbFr)

42 The villains are canceled out in Slevin.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2025 07:50 PM (kurEY)

43 ONE LIB AFTER ANOTHER: STORM AND FURY SIGNIFYING NOTHING.

Agree, concur and applaud on your assessment.
It proves only one thing, People are your Best Entertainment value in watching them justify a narrative (and movie) which seeks to negate their existence and raise'd etre.

That even fungus, Dirt, and worthless FISH are more worthy of existence than you -- because you are conscious, because you have a consciousness that can be recruited as a 5th column against you -- to enrich them!

It is truly amazing, but not surprising how much money is funneled into the anti-american, sponsor&defend your adversary and contempt for the meaning of life and existence itself.

Bottom Line:
LIBs want you to hate the man who has a dollar more than you, hate the man who has the realization that Life does have Meaning, and that those who purport otherwise need only do Absolutely Nothing -- and let Nature take its course.

Like the LIB Bozo's going on hunger strike in Kalifornia against the proliferation of AI -- good luck with that!

LIB Strategic Insanity must be debanked, Defunded and DEFEATED! Period.
The only common ground they seek is to put you in it! Period.

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at September 27, 2025 07:50 PM (Del6/)

44 You bought your ticket. You knew what you were getting in to. I say watch the movie!

Posted by: Jack Kirkpatrick at September 27, 2025 07:51 PM (63Dwl)

45 Walked out on 'Ishtar'. Still the only movie I've walked out on. It was bad.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 27, 2025 07:51 PM (xA5g+)

46 Who didn't get a thrill when DeCaprio took a blowtorch to Manson groupie Susan Atkins in Tarantino's Once Upon A Time In Hollywood?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 27, 2025 07:51 PM (mFWV4)

47 I should also add that after you sit through 30 minutes of previews your patience is tried. I took my seat for Superman at 7pm but I don't think it actually started until 7:35.

Posted by: Lex at September 27, 2025 07:52 PM (y4H1r)

48 Yes that was satisfying

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at September 27, 2025 07:52 PM (bXbFr)

49 I have not watched it again but Looking for Mr Goodbar has been on the top of my list of worst movies I’ve seen . I saw it when I was 17 so maybe I might have a different take now.

Posted by: The way I see it at September 27, 2025 07:52 PM (EYmYM)

50 I walked out of Martin Short's Clifford and and Tom Green's Road Trip.

Posted by: banana Dream at September 27, 2025 07:54 PM (3uBP9)

51
Walked out on Pay It Forward.

Others, but I can't remember.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 27, 2025 07:54 PM (n7CIX)

52 Someone dropped a turd into the thread.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2025 07:54 PM (XP28L)

53 >>I wanted to walk out on Chariots of Fire, but I fell asleep first.

Posted by: Crewman #6 at September 27, 2025 07:42 PM

That and Ghandi. What was it about the early 80s and the dead boring and very long movies?

Posted by: Joe Biden at September 27, 2025 07:54 PM (98kQX)

54 You might wonder why i almost walked out of strange days because it was unrelenting grim product

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at September 27, 2025 07:55 PM (bXbFr)

55 It seems every year at the Cannes Film Festival there are multiple walk-outs. Just perusing the list, I'd say in those cases 99% are due to gore, and sexual violence, not to mention those that audiences still recognize as pornography.

BUT, there is one film that sticks out in that regard. "Taxi Driver" was not received well at all at Cannes. It debuted in 1976, and solicited some walk-outs as well as outright booing from the audience when it was announced that it won the Palme d'Or.

However, I'd say Cannes is an outlier. Those that usually attend the premiers there are self-important idiots who like to make a spectacle of themselves.

Posted by: Orson at September 27, 2025 07:55 PM (dIske)

56 Who didn't get a thrill when DeCaprio took a blowtorch to Manson groupie Susan Atkins in Tarantino's Once Upon A Time In Hollywood?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 27, 2025 07:51 PM (mFWV4)

I’m in the minority that that scene did nothing for me but if you’re going to rewrite history why not do that to Mason?

I do though think Brad Pitt’s visit to the ranch is one of the best made scenes in movie history.

Posted by: The way I see it at September 27, 2025 07:55 PM (EYmYM)

57 53 >>I wanted to walk out on Chariots of Fire, but I fell asleep first.

Posted by: Crewman #6 at September 27, 2025 07:42 PM

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Hah!

I would have run out, but in slow motion.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 27, 2025 07:55 PM (mFWV4)

58 Someone dropped a turd into the thread.

Posted by: BurtTC

Seen the nic before, but never seen that kind of crap posted.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at September 27, 2025 07:55 PM (QVmho)

59 Reboot Prometheus as a western. Or a musical. With show tunes.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 27, 2025 07:56 PM (auR21)

60 The screenplay for hollywood in showing the back story of the characters

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at September 27, 2025 07:57 PM (bXbFr)

61 I walked out of "Cloverfield" because the shakey-cam made me want to hurl. As did the annoying characters, but mostly the shakey-cam.

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at September 27, 2025 07:57 PM (kpS4V)

62 The best part of Once Upon A Time in Hollywood was when Brad Pitt fought Bruce Lee.

Other than that I don't get QT's rewriting history in movies. I think Hitler was shot in the face in Inglorious Basterds.

I'm not generally a fan of altering history to that much of a degree in movies, but he seems to like to do it.

Posted by: Lex at September 27, 2025 07:57 PM (y4H1r)

63 I have a collection of DVD 's purchased for a buck from the pawn shop that I enjoy watching many times over and the popcorn is cheap

Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2025 07:57 PM (kurEY)

64 Reboot Prometheus as a western. Or a musical. With show tunes.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 27, 2025 07:56 PM (auR21)
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Hear me out: Muppet Prometheus

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at September 27, 2025 07:58 PM (kpS4V)

65 Thx Lex. Never walked out of a film though I've been tempted. I did turn off several while watching them on TV including Blair Witch Project because of the bouncing camera
The last 15 years or so I just watch them to see how much they remind me of video games or past great movies that the new ones are poorly imitating.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 27, 2025 07:58 PM (Won9F)

66 Your prayers have been answered! Trailer for the Avatar threequel!

https://is.gd/dJwOJX

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, [0] Day(s) Since Leftist Terror Attack! at September 27, 2025 07:58 PM (L/fGl)

67 After alien earth covenant isnt that bad naw its terrible but at a lesser level

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at September 27, 2025 07:58 PM (bXbFr)

68 50 I walked out of Martin Short's Clifford and and Tom Green's Road Trip.
Posted by: banana Dream at September 27, 2025 07:54 PM (3uBP9

_____________________

I, actually, enjoyed the campy nonsense of "Road Trip." Sure, it was stupid, and seemed to be inadvertently be going after the 5th grader demographic. But, it had its moments. The other night we were talking about sending food back to the kitchen at a restaurant, and why that might be a bad idea. "Road Trip" has a scene in that light...and it convinced me never to send anything back to the kitchen.

Posted by: Orson at September 27, 2025 07:58 PM (dIske)

69 I accidentally went to see Eat, Pray, Love with my cousin and her friend. I'd have left but my cousin was driving and it was 45 miles home. I did fall asleep. It was better that way.

Posted by: huerfano at September 27, 2025 07:58 PM (98kQX)

70 59 Reboot Prometheus as a western. Or a musical. With show tunes.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 27, 2025 07:56 PM (auR21

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Call my girl. We'll set up a meeting.

Posted by: Bloom & Bialystok at September 27, 2025 07:58 PM (mFWV4)

71 If you are not enjoying the movie why suffer through it? Same with sportsball.

Posted by: fd at September 27, 2025 07:59 PM (vFG9F)

72 Don't think ever walked out of a movie

Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2025 07:59 PM (+qU29)

73 My wife and I looked at each other about 45 minutes into "Oppenheimer" and said " Fuck this".

Posted by: Ib1netmon at September 27, 2025 07:59 PM (vTTFR)

74 Honestly those south park dolphins have been writing the scripts

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at September 27, 2025 07:59 PM (bXbFr)

75 It is odd to me how film critics can miss events like Star Wars. But I don't know Cinema.

Rotten Tomatoes screwed the pooch by putting their thumb on the scale, but it guess it was inevitable. If there really are only a dozen stories to tell, then critics must get bored revising the 4 or 5 critiques to each one, eventually SOME outside force will have a seat at the table. How can it NOT go corrupt.

Only movie I walked out of was a Monty Python that was all farts and vomits. Didn't pay attention to the summary because we were 16 looking for a place to makeout. Never made that mistake again.

But I don't member the last time I went to a movie theater

Posted by: Fenrisulven6 at September 27, 2025 07:59 PM (ciYHQ)

76 I heard today that our DEI Vice President Kami said she did not pick BootyJudge because...... Get This........

"He was "TOO MUCH OF A FLAMING HOMO"....

Posted by: Jackson at September 27, 2025 07:59 PM (xl8DV)

77 Nightfall. (1988, with David Birney)
Based on a solid short story by Isaac Asimov,
It was a horrible movie, that I kept watching, thinking, "surely, this will get better"
It didn't, and I finally did leave before it was over.
Truly, a rancid reimagining of a story I knew well and liked.

Lordy, I just went to IMDB and watched the trailer. Even the trailer sucked.

Posted by: Appycay at September 27, 2025 07:59 PM (EdYR/)

78 >>Reboot Prometheus as a western. Or a musical. With show tunes.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 27, 2025 07:56 PM

Get Mel Brooks to direct.

Posted by: huerfano at September 27, 2025 08:00 PM (98kQX)

79 Thunderbirds Prometheus!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 27, 2025 08:00 PM (auR21)

80 I’m in the minority that that scene did nothing for me but if you’re going to rewrite history why not do that to Mason?

I do though think Brad Pitt’s visit to the ranch is one of the best made scenes in movie history.

Posted by: The way I see it at September 27, 2025 07:55 PM (EYmYM)

Just curious, what's your objection to the scene?

Not unlike Inglorious Basterds, there's certainly an "ultraviolence" aspect to it... if I can borrow that term.

I have to admit though, apparently I'm the target audience for Tarantino flicks.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2025 08:00 PM (XP28L)

81 73 My wife and I looked at each other about 45 minutes into "Oppenheimer" and said " Fuck this".
Posted by: Ib1netmon at September 27, 2025 07:59 PM (vTTFR)

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Why do you hate SCIENCE?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 27, 2025 08:00 PM (mFWV4)

82 I didn't see Kill Bill in a theater but when I finally got to see it I was done 30 minutes in.

Posted by: fd at September 27, 2025 08:01 PM (vFG9F)

83
I liked the new Superman.

Was it great? No. But, it was a good, solid Superman movie.

I was grew up in and was a fan of Silver Age Superman. I read the comics.

James Gunn gets Silver Age Superman more or less. Snyder didn't get him at all.

Yeah, Gunn's snarky and jokey in the same way that Tarantino is, so I get why you'd walk out on both if you don't like that kind of dealio.

I'm glad the audience liked the movie so we'll get another one in '27???

Posted by: naturalfake at September 27, 2025 08:01 PM (iJfKG)

84 Flouncing out of a darkened suburban movie theater just doesn't have the same impact as storming out of a Broadway production dressed to the nines a la the audience in "Springtime For Hitler".

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at September 27, 2025 08:01 PM (kpS4V)

85 I, actually, enjoyed the campy nonsense of "Road Trip." Sure, it was stupid, and seemed to be inadvertently be going after the 5th grader demographic. But, it had its moments. The other night we were talking about sending food back to the kitchen at a restaurant, and why that might be a bad idea. "Road Trip" has a scene in that light...and it convinced me never to send anything back to the kitchen.
Posted by: Orson at September 27, 2025 07:58 PM (dIske)

Yeah, I can't imagine going into "Road Trip" and being disappointed. What would you expect.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2025 08:02 PM (XP28L)

86 Honestly those south park dolphins have been writing the scripts
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at September 27, 2025 07:59 PM (bXbFr)

Dolphins have an intrinsic sense of fun.

The South park writers were manatees

Posted by: Kindltot at September 27, 2025 08:02 PM (rbvCR)

87 I watched Palm Springs for the 3rd time . It’s a Groundhog Day based movie that I liked as much as Groundhog Day. That is probably also a minority opinion as much as my opinion that I liked Predators more than Predator.

Posted by: The way I see it at September 27, 2025 08:02 PM (EYmYM)

88 I kept falling asleep during eyes wide shut, only to be awakened by the piano.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 27, 2025 07:40 PM (4eutJ)

Nicole Kidman's backside was worth keeping your eyes open for...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo [Flying the American Flag!] at September 27, 2025 08:02 PM (n9ltV)

89 Thunderbirds Prometheus!
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Supermarionette Aliens!

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at September 27, 2025 08:03 PM (kpS4V)

90 well, most of the audience stayed past "Springtime For Hitler" and it became a hit in the end
speaking of, never go full Candace
youtu.be/NIjMGZ4ws7c

Posted by: gKWVE at September 27, 2025 08:03 PM (gKWVE)

91
James Bond belongs in the 50's - 70's.

Superman belongs in the 40's - 70's.

Most characters Do Not work out of their timeline.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 27, 2025 08:04 PM (rVkEy)

92 84 Flouncing out of a darkened suburban movie theater just doesn't have the same impact as storming out of a Broadway production dressed to the nines a la the audience in "Springtime For Hitler".
Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at September 27, 2025 08:01 PM (kpS4V)

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It's all in the feather boa action.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 27, 2025 08:04 PM (mFWV4)

93 >>I have to admit though, apparently I'm the target audience for Tarantino flicks.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2025 08:00 PM

I am not, but I love Reservoir Dogs. Michael Madsen was terrifying.

Posted by: huerfano at September 27, 2025 08:04 PM (98kQX)

94 "The Night Strangler" is on Svengoolie. Now THIS is entertainment.

Posted by: fd at September 27, 2025 08:04 PM (vFG9F)

95 >>> Reboot Prometheus as a western. Or a musical. With show tunes.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 27, 2025 07:56 PM (auR21)

Scene: A gigantic wagon wheel very slowly rolls towards Deputy Sheriff Elizabeth Shaw who moseys a perfectly straight line in its path.

Posted by: banana Dream at September 27, 2025 08:04 PM (3uBP9)

96 Asimov has never been properly adapted dont get me started on foundation

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at September 27, 2025 08:05 PM (bXbFr)

97 That is probably also a minority opinion as much as my opinion that I liked Predators more than Predator.
Posted by: The way I see it at September 27, 2025 08:02 PM (EYmYM)
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I really liked Predators too.

Also "Prey".

Looking forward to "Predator: Badlands",

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at September 27, 2025 08:05 PM (kpS4V)

98 Svengoolie is showing the second Kolchak movie The Night Strangler.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 27, 2025 08:05 PM (63Dwl)

99 I've walked out of two movies, because they were stupid. And the idea that I had to watch them despite their stupidity, because art needs space, didn't pass the OK test.

The first was James Toback's "The Gambler" with James Caan. I have a problem with movies about gambling, because they never make the disease clear and compelling. I get it, it's an addiction, but present that better in your film.

The second was Horde-fave "An American Werewolf in London." I couldn't believe I was watching something so stupid, and so determined to shove its stupidity relentlessly in my face. (After everyone said what an awesome movie it is, greatest ever in fact, I bought the 4K. Still stupid. Yes, the effects are great. I can say "The effects are great" about Day of the Dead, too.)

I was the only one who didn't walk out of Norman Mailer's "Maidstone" when it played at the AFI theater. It was an endurance test and I wasn't going to let that film--the worst film ever made, IMHO--beat me.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 27, 2025 08:06 PM (CHHv1)

100 Back to catch the tail end of "Ratatouille". Charming little movie.

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at September 27, 2025 08:06 PM (kpS4V)

101 Honestly those south park dolphins have been writing the scripts
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at September 27, 2025 07:59 PM (bXbFr)

Dolphins have an intrinsic sense of fun.

The South park writers were manatees
Posted by: Kindltot at September 27, 2025 08:02 PM (rbvCR)

And just to be pedantic, the episode of South Park had manatees as the writers of Family Guy.

It also featured a Bart Simpson who teams up with Cartman to try to get Family Guy taken off the air, because, in a meta sense, they were both tired of having their characters and story lines compared to the dreck that was and is, Family Guy.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2025 08:06 PM (XP28L)

102 Looking for Mr Goodbar

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OK, I'm going to step my toe over the Iine here for a minute. Fans of true crime may be interested to know that they have a suspect in the 1991 Austin Yogurt quadruple homicide of four young girls case. DNA identified a rapist /murderer who killed himself when police surrounded him.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, [0] Day(s) Since Leftist Terror Attack! at September 27, 2025 08:06 PM (L/fGl)

103 Everything is relative. I found "Zone of Interest" to be a fascinating film (even though Glazer is a blowhard), and one of the most haunting I've ever seen.

Posted by: exonfixer_94 at September 27, 2025 08:07 PM (8Xy/A)

104 I don't remember ever walking out on a movie but I'm not the most adventurous about choosing the ones I go see.

But I will say that I do really miss the tribal experience of being in a darkened theater when the house lights go down and the big curtains part, and the 20th Century Fox Fanfare cuts loose and you have a feeling that you're going on a great ride with a whole bunch of wonderful people in the dark.

But this Nostalgia is based on going to the movies in the 70s and '80s and '90s. If rude audience members have ruined the experience, shame on them. I do remember a thoroughly unpleasant experience when I went to see a re-release of Gone with the Wind and a couple of asswipes were down in front, young white males, and when Melanie's death scene was playing, which is a real heartbreaker, they were laughing and giggling and making stupid remarks and I wanted to crack their skulls together. They ruined the entire movie.

Posted by: Beverly at September 27, 2025 08:07 PM (Epeb0)

105 91. I suppose it's assumed everyone now knows Superman's origin, so they really dispense with all that and leap right into the middle. It's probably hard to hold any Superman movie next to the Christopher Reeve version, but there was a great sense of wonder and certainly creativity with the opening Krypton scenes. These new versions might not want to cover that ground, but (although I think Man of Steel may have) they also have nothing to say or communicate (which was the subject of my first post on AoS some months ago), so it just comes off as pat nonsense.

Posted by: Lex at September 27, 2025 08:08 PM (y4H1r)

106 Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at September 27, 2025 07:50 PM (Del6/)

1. It's a movie thread.
2. It's supposed to be fun and interesting.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo [Flying the American Flag!] at September 27, 2025 08:08 PM (n9ltV)

107 Oh, and I also turned off "Punch Drunk Love" after about 20 minutes and sent the disk back to Netflix. Remember when Netflix would send you DVDs? Not sure that counts as a walk out though.

As for Paul Thomas Anderson, a hearty NO.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 27, 2025 08:08 PM (CHHv1)

108 Stipulated the manatees could probably not get aftra representation

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at September 27, 2025 08:08 PM (bXbFr)

109 Titanic. Husband and i kept looking at our watches wondering when something would happen. He said he was leaving, I said I wanted to see all these people die. We were rooting so hard for the iceberg.

Posted by: Megthered at September 27, 2025 08:09 PM (kueL3)

110 Stipulated the manatees could probably not get aftra representation
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at September 27, 2025 08:08 PM (bXbFr)

Your sense of humor is so dry

Posted by: Kindltot at September 27, 2025 08:09 PM (rbvCR)

111 The second was Horde-fave "An American Werewolf in London." I couldn't believe I was watching something so stupid, and so determined to shove its stupidity relentlessly in my face. (After everyone said what an awesome movie it is, greatest ever in fact, I bought the 4K. Still stupid. Yes, the effects are great. I can say "The effects are great" about Day of the Dead, too.)

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 27, 2025 08:06 PM (CHHv1)

Again, I'm genuinely curious, what was wrong with it?

It's standard issue werewolf story, with modern (at the time) special effects.

Given the title, which tells you EXACTLY what you're going to see, I can't understand how one would be disappointed with what you got.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2025 08:10 PM (XP28L)

112 I remember at college in the late 1970s, the campus cinema was a great experience because they programmed classic Hollywood great movies. I remember when they played "Duck Soup" and the theater was packed and students were even sitting on the floor in the aisles and we roared with laughter together. Comedies in particular are so much more fun with an audience.

But seeing a movie like that was special that then because you couldn't see it anywhere else! We didn't even have VCR players yet, let alone infinite movie availability on internet or cable, and cable didn't exist yet either. You either caught it at the theater or you never got to see it so the excitement level was quite high.

Posted by: Beverly at September 27, 2025 08:10 PM (Epeb0)

113 What I’ve recently realized is I like a lot of Matthew McConaughey movies.

Lincoln Lawyer
The Gentlemen
Interstellar
Mud
Killer Joe
Frailty
Surfer,Dude
Contact
Angels in the Outfield
Dazed and Confused

Posted by: The way I see it at September 27, 2025 08:10 PM (EYmYM)

114 After Sean Connery left the Bond Movies it was just not the same......

Posted by: Jackson at September 27, 2025 08:10 PM (xl8DV)

115 "second Kolchak movie The Night Strangler.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr."

Such great characters in this.

Posted by: fd at September 27, 2025 08:11 PM (vFG9F)

116 Snyder made krypton a desolate place instead of the crystaline beauty the late terence stanp was understated as zod in his menace something sheehan cant do

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at September 27, 2025 08:11 PM (bXbFr)

117
Spaceballs sequel?

No Joan Rivers. No John Candy.
But Mel Brooks will be Yogurt & the President.
And Daphne Zuniga returns as princess whoeverthefuck.

Good? Who cares?

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 27, 2025 08:11 PM (rVkEy)

118 (Show of hands)

Who here went and saw "Brokeback Mountain" thinking it was a western, and ended up watching the whole film?

Not this guy.

Posted by: Orson at September 27, 2025 08:11 PM (dIske)

119 Oh yeah -- David Lynch's "Wild at Heart". Saw it with friends, wanted to leave midway but didn't want to be a buzz kill.

When the credits rolled everybody admitted to hating it and would have gladly flounced.

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at September 27, 2025 08:11 PM (kpS4V)

120 22 Have not seen a movie in a theater since" The Sound of Music".
Life is too short to tolerate crap.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2025 07:43 PM (kurEY

Mom was a Nun for 14 years. I've only seen that movie about 20 times in it's entirety.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at September 27, 2025 08:12 PM (Sco7b)

121 my walkout, whether trumpeted or not, was never going to be harmful

Well, two things.

First, you already paid your money, so it doesn't hurt the film much at all. (Unless you have "influence.")

Second, how many people won't walk out because they paid a ridiculous amount to watch it?

Posted by: GWB at September 27, 2025 08:12 PM (Dvcu+)

122 Hated American Werewolf on London but I obviously wasn't the target audience. Husband loved it but I hate body horror so I zoned out of it.

Posted by: Megthered at September 27, 2025 08:12 PM (kueL3)

123 I think it's interesting that these days there's no director like Ken Russell who went out of his way to offend audiences.

Not just to offend the squares, but "his sort of people" as well.

And not in a half-assed John Waters kind of way.

Watch "The Devils" or "Mahler" and you'll see what I mean.

I kinda love "Altered States" though. Probably, the studio put him on a leash cuz in was a Paddy Chayefsky (Network) screenplay from his novel.

So, Ol' Ken could make a crowd-pleaser when he wished he just didn't wish to I guess.

Same dealio with Lindsey Anderson with "If..." and "O Lucky Man" and (barf) Brittanica Hospital.

Walk outs probably don't mean much cuz all movies are previewed and audience-proofed to death or crammed into a political box.

Gimme the wild and wooly 70s and 80s movie making.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 27, 2025 08:12 PM (iJfKG)

124 Oh, and I also turned off "Punch Drunk Love" after about 20 minutes and sent the disk back to Netflix. Remember when Netflix would send you DVDs? Not sure that counts as a walk out though.

As for Paul Thomas Anderson, a hearty NO.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 27, 2025 08:08 PM (CHHv1)

Hmmm, ok. I like his films, but for some reason don't generally want to rewatch. I don't know what that means.

I think "Inherent Vice" is way underrated.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2025 08:12 PM (XP28L)

125 The second was Horde-fave "An American Werewolf in London." I couldn't believe I was watching something so stupid, and so determined to shove its stupidity relentlessly in my face.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 27, 2025 08:06 PM (CHHv1)

It was mildly fun, but definitely not worth the reputation.

But...a young Jenny Agutter was in it, and I recall she was quite sexy! So there's that!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo [Flying the American Flag!] at September 27, 2025 08:12 PM (n9ltV)

126 Who here went and saw "Brokeback Mountain" thinking it was a western, and ended up watching the whole film?

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Did you keep the Special Edition Commemorative Popcorn Bucket with the hole in the bottom?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 27, 2025 08:13 PM (mFWV4)

127
Oh, and Rick Moranis returns as Dark Helmet.

Also, the Spinal Tap can go horsefuck. I ain't watching no Meathead shit movie.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 27, 2025 08:13 PM (rVkEy)

128 Might be movies if I had gone to see in a theater I might have walked out on. There are lots of stupid movies in last 30 years

Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2025 08:14 PM (+qU29)

129 I quit going to movies about 15 years ago. I realized that Hollywood no longer made movies (or television) for people like me. I've seen two movies at the theater since then, both anime movies. Nor do I have any desire to stream newer movies at home. I watch anime, old movies and television shows. Between that and youtube I have plenty to keep me entertained.

Posted by: LKP at September 27, 2025 08:14 PM (ylpKQ)

130 109 Titanic. Husband and i kept looking at our watches wondering when something would happen. He said he was leaving, I said I wanted to see all these people die. We were rooting so hard for the iceberg.
Posted by: Megthered at September 27, 2025 08:09 PM (kueL3)
______________________

That's hilarious.

Personally, I thought the dialogue in that movie was, absolutely, atrocious. There is a scene where the cabin is filling up with water and the two main characters are intensely trying to escape....and every single piece of dialogue starts with the other character's name even though they are the only two in the room. No one talks like that.

Posted by: Orson at September 27, 2025 08:14 PM (dIske)

131 Asimov has never been properly adapted dont get me started on foundation

"I, Robot" was a faithful homage to the Three Laws if robots do get to be more powerful than men.
It was a bad movie but I'd argue it was a "proper" adaptation. Might be about as good as you can get from the material.
I think that Asimov tends to be more of an indirect source of ideas than a direct source, true. The Galactic Empire and the Mule inspired Dune. Star Wars too.
Back to "I, Robot": where movie androids exist who aren't the baddies they do tend to namecheck the Three Laws. Data cites them in TNG.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 27, 2025 08:14 PM (gKWVE)

132 You don't have to walk out if you never walk in.

Do not go behind enemy lines.

Posted by: Next2Nothing at September 27, 2025 08:15 PM (tA1/w)

133 Funny thing, I just finished watching the latest rifftrax, Guns of El Chupacabra, that Mike billed as the worst movie they've ever seen, which knowing these guys, really means something. I wouldn't say it was the worst, "Things" was definitely worse. Guns' had Robert Z’Dar and Joe Estevez so you know you're in for it but Mike, Kevin, & Bill made it funny.

Posted by: banana Dream at September 27, 2025 08:15 PM (3uBP9)

134 Mom was a Nun for 14 years. I've only seen that movie about 20 times in it's entirety.

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There are probably lines in it you can barely recite by heart.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 27, 2025 08:15 PM (mFWV4)

135 What I’ve recently realized is I like a lot of Matthew McConaughey movies.

Lincoln Lawyer
The Gentlemen
Interstellar
Mud
Killer Joe
Frailty
Surfer,Dude
Contact
Angels in the Outfield
Dazed and Confused

Posted by: The way I see it at September 27, 2025 08:10 PM (EYmYM)

I finally watched The Gentlemen recently. Don't know why it took me so long, I really like Guy Ritchie films, and while I don't really look for any particular actor in anything, generally like McConaughey's work.

Is that the right spelling? Something looks off.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2025 08:15 PM (XP28L)

136 Cicero that's my point, I didn't go see that

Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2025 08:16 PM (+qU29)

137 I did like Boogie Nights but the other renowned Anderson films are meh to me.

Posted by: The way I see it at September 27, 2025 08:16 PM (EYmYM)

138 Yeah spinal tap has lost the plot

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at September 27, 2025 08:16 PM (bXbFr)

139 Test ip

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2025 08:16 PM (x+vu/)

140
all Gerard Butler movies are good

fight me

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 27, 2025 08:16 PM (rVkEy)

141 welcome back, master Servo

Posted by: gKWVE at September 27, 2025 08:17 PM (gKWVE)

142 I don’t go to movies anymore until I’ve completely reviewed them . I’m not gonna risk having to walk out.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2025 08:17 PM (x+vu/)

143 all Gerard Butler movies are good

fight me
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 27, 2025 08:16 PM (rVkEy)
____________________

Tomb Raider Cradle of Life.

Posted by: Orson at September 27, 2025 08:18 PM (dIske)

144 I think "Inherent Vice" is way underrated.
Posted by: BurtTC

First time I watched it, I didn't care for it. I saw it again a few months ago and quite liked it.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, [0] Day(s) Since Leftist Terror Attack! at September 27, 2025 08:18 PM (L/fGl)

145 Butler seems to endure in terrible material like dracula 2000

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at September 27, 2025 08:18 PM (bXbFr)

146 Last movie I saw in a theater was Keanu .

Key and Peele crack me up.

Posted by: The way I see it at September 27, 2025 08:18 PM (EYmYM)

147
Who here went and saw "Brokeback Mountain" thinking it was a western, and ended up watching the whole film?

I went to see Silent Running thinking it was a submarine movie.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 27, 2025 08:18 PM (63Dwl)

148 Have you seen den of thieves

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at September 27, 2025 08:19 PM (bXbFr)

149 And I didn't watch much of Lincoln either. Just didn't grab me.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 27, 2025 08:19 PM (kUxzU)

150 (Show of hands)

Who here went and saw "Brokeback Mountain" thinking it was a western, and ended up watching the whole film?

Not this guy.
Posted by: Orson at September 27, 2025 08:11 PM (dIske)

Heh. I had to watch it for a class I was taking.

It's an ugly film, in every sense of it. I don't care if you are generally in favor of gay cowboys, it's just a miserable piece of garbage of a film.

The only sympathetic character is the wife, and she just gets treated like a throwaway.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2025 08:19 PM (XP28L)

151 I’m traveling and I’ve got a new hash.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2025 08:19 PM (x+vu/)

152
Have you seen den of thieves
Posted by: Miguel cervantes

Si.
Me gusto.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 27, 2025 08:19 PM (rVkEy)

153 Although earthstorm challenged that notion

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at September 27, 2025 08:20 PM (bXbFr)

154 Its a good update to the heat chase

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at September 27, 2025 08:20 PM (bXbFr)

155
Reboot Prometheus as a western. Or a musical. With show tunes.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats
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Scene: A gigantic wagon wheel very slowly rolls towards Deputy Sheriff Elizabeth Shaw who moseys a perfectly straight line in its path.
Posted by: banana Dream

It must be absolutely slaying] TJM to not comment on this thread tonight.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at September 27, 2025 08:21 PM (QVmho)

156 Silent Running, Solaris, and Colossus: The Forbin Projecr are three 1970s SF movies I still need to watch

Posted by: gKWVE at September 27, 2025 08:21 PM (gKWVE)

157 I know this is heresy here but I really liked LOTR. Of course, I didn't read the books and I did fall asleep at the second movie, but I have the dvds now and have watched them all many times. I love the story and its a really beautiful movie.

Posted by: Megthered at September 27, 2025 08:22 PM (kueL3)

158 I did like Boogie Nights but the other renowned Anderson films are meh to me.
Posted by: The way I see it

This commentator says his latest is a great movie that sucks.

https://is.gd/kPJTVc

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, [0] Day(s) Since Leftist Terror Attack! at September 27, 2025 08:23 PM (L/fGl)

159

"I, Robot" was a faithful homage to the Three Laws if robots do get to be more powerful than men.
It was a bad movie but I'd argue it was a "proper" adaptation. Might be about as good as you can get from the material.
Posted by: gKWVE

Liked that movie for exactly that reason too.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at September 27, 2025 08:23 PM (QVmho)

160 >>> I’m traveling and I’ve got a new hash.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2025 08:19 PM (x+vu/)

It looks like a cryptic regex.

Posted by: banana Dream at September 27, 2025 08:23 PM (3uBP9)

161 Related to the walkout is the dvd-rental fast-return. (There are still a few independent DVD rental places around, my town has one.)

For me it was the movie "Drag me to Hell". I'd rented it because the cover looked interesting, and I thought, "Maybe it's akin to Evil Dead?" I couldn't have been more wrong.

The movie opened with a scene where someone was was torturing a small helpless kitten.

NOPE. Eff this. I hit eject on the remote, put the DVD back in its case and drove right back to the store. I told them I wasn't watching it, and why.

To their credit, the store refunded me my money and credited my account for two more movie rentals, on the house. (Smart people, they didn't want a customer who had had a bad movie experience to associate that with the store.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 27, 2025 08:23 PM (O7YUW)

162 157 I know this is heresy here but I really liked LOTR. Of course, I didn't read the books and I did fall asleep at the second movie, but I have the dvds now and have watched them all many times. I love the story and its a really beautiful movie.
Posted by: Megthered at September 27, 2025 08:22 PM (kueL3)

I liked them also and didn’t read the books. But I’m a sucker for bravery, sacrifice , good vs evil movies.

Posted by: The way I see it at September 27, 2025 08:24 PM (EYmYM)

163 156: I liked Solaris (original version) a lot but it can be a slog. A Soviet era movie so it's production values are slightly better than 70s era Dr Who. It's not an action movie. Very cerebral but also well done. The sense of dread and general weirdness kept my interest anyway.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 27, 2025 08:25 PM (xA5g+)

164
The last movie I remember seeing in a thee-ay-ter was 101 Dalmatians with Glenn Close. At one scene, I whispered to Her Majesty, "Admit it, you're watching their movement." And I was right.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 27, 2025 08:26 PM (tgvbd)

165 Kill Bill was so over the top which is what made it fun.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 27, 2025 08:27 PM (wrRTB)

166 The small town theater nearby died during Covid and is now closed. We would go occasionally to support their business. There wasn't much we wanted to see. Mostly we watch what is free online, or just read a book.

Posted by: ScaryMary at September 27, 2025 08:28 PM (Hvd9a)

167 6 I almost walked out of There Will Be Blood but I kept thinking something was going to happen . Never did.
Posted by: The way I see it at September 27, 2025 07:38 PM (EYmYM)

I drink your milkshake!!!

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 27, 2025 08:28 PM (syz1S)

168 Well more of a gypsy curse on a hapless banker

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at September 27, 2025 08:28 PM (bXbFr)

169 I've only walked out of a few movies, but a lot more I've just avoided.

As for walking out of Superman 2025, well different strokes for different folks. It was pretty innocuous. I'm not sure I feel like disputing every point the poster made above.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 27, 2025 08:28 PM (xcxpd)

170 "I, Robot" was a faithful homage to the Three Laws if robots do get to be more powerful than men.
It was a bad movie but I'd argue it was a "proper" adaptation. Might be about as good as you can get from the material.
I think that Asimov tends to be more of an indirect source of ideas than a direct source, true. The Galactic Empire and the Mule inspired Dune. Star Wars too.
Back to "I, Robot": where movie androids exist who aren't the baddies they do tend to namecheck the Three Laws. Data cites them in TNG.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 27, 2025 08:14 PM

I robot was one of the few ScFi movies that did not stray completely away from the book that inspired it. It reached in a few places but for the most part stayed on theme from the book.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 27, 2025 08:29 PM (0N4FZ)

171 Quentin Tarantino has probably gotten more actresses our of their shoes than any other director.

Posted by: Duncanthrax, a mid-tier AoSHQ commenter, according to Grok at September 27, 2025 08:30 PM (0sNs1)

172 "all Gerard Butler movies are good"

Well, I don't want to fight you, but I do have 2 words: Dracula 2000

I confess, I watched the whole thing, but I felt a little guilty about it.

Posted by: Appycay at September 27, 2025 08:30 PM (EdYR/)

173 I love horror but not body horror or animal torture. We just watched Weapons, and it was pretty good. Very bloody but interesting and so much better than the directors movie Barbarian. I shut Barbarian off after about 45 minutes because it was so stupid and insulting.

Posted by: Megthered at September 27, 2025 08:30 PM (kueL3)

174 I'm not too interested in seeing movies in theaters but I go for my kid. Last two movies I've seen are FNAF and the kpop demon hunters. That last one I get to hear in the car, sung loudly by a headphone wearing teen from the backseat.

Posted by: banana Dream at September 27, 2025 08:30 PM (3uBP9)

175 I know this is heresy here but I really liked LOTR. Of course, I didn't read the books and I did fall asleep at the second movie, but I have the dvds now and have watched them all many times. I love the story and its a really beautiful movie.
Posted by: Megthered at September 27, 2025 08:22 PM (kueL3)

Oh, I think heresy is a wee bit strong. There are book nerds who complain about it, what got changed, what got left out, but it's not unlike the "sharp elbows" meme here.

You wouldn't really kick the Jackson films out of bed for eating crackers.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2025 08:31 PM (pfOyM)

176
There Will Be Blood
No Country For Old Men

Garbage, both of them.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 27, 2025 08:31 PM (rVkEy)

177 Rewatched "Taken" and I would have let Maggie Grace go to the Albanians.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2025 08:31 PM (kurEY)

178 Let's see, what have I walked out on?

McHale's Navy with Tom Arnold. Didn't even make it 5 minutes in that one. Left and had a pizza instead.

Godzilla 1997. Left when the velociorapters in MSG appeared.

Pan's Labyrinth. I left when the Spanish cop got his cheek flensed.

There might be more, but like I said, mostly I just avoid movies I may not like instead of walking out of them.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 27, 2025 08:32 PM (xcxpd)

179 I'm libertarian on Brokeback Mountain. Though one's politics might chart your reaction, I didn't see it as trying to shove a lifestyle down your throat (bad pun). It was simply about two guys who couldn't live the lives they wanted, which many people can relate to, and is the theme and metaphor to many great movies. It worked for me.

Posted by: Lex at September 27, 2025 08:32 PM (y4H1r)

180 Shakey-Cam.

I am so very, very glad that fad has run it's course and is gone.

Posted by: davidt at September 27, 2025 08:33 PM (i0F8b)

181 Well he was in on the camp of the project christopher plummer thought he was in a whole nothet film

Theres a reason wes craven disowned it

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at September 27, 2025 08:33 PM (bXbFr)

182 There are probably lines in it you can barely recite by heart.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 27, 2025 08:15 PM (mFWV4)

Even after all these years.

I lost my keys when I took my god-daughter, her sister and their two friends to the movies. They were about ages 6 to 10. We saw the first movie and I realised the keys were gone and called their father asking him to bring my spare.

Good mews for the girls. Double Feature! Starship Troopers it is.

That lasted about 15 minutes before we left. They let us in to see Baby Geniuses. I just kept walking in and out to see if my friend was there and to check on the girls. Horrible movie. Wantes to claw my eyes out and puncture my eardrums.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at September 27, 2025 08:33 PM (Sco7b)

183 Nightfall. (1988, with David Birney)

There's a good reason Meredith Baxter Birney was an alcoholic and now bats for the other team.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 27, 2025 08:33 PM (cYBz/)

184 Movies I never thought about walking out of:

Star Wars (The first one)
Pacific Rim (The first one)
UHF (The only one)

Posted by: fd at September 27, 2025 08:33 PM (vFG9F)

185 >>>I’m sure I wanted to walk out of many movies in my film school years
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Fell asleep in Dangerous Liaisons on a date - college years. Date was not impressed.

Posted by: scampydog at September 27, 2025 08:34 PM (9RHNH)

186
156: I liked Solaris (original version) a lot but it can be a slog. A Soviet era movie so it's production values are slightly better than 70s era Dr Who. It's not an action movie. Very cerebral but also well done. The sense of dread and general weirdness kept my interest anyway.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work

Have you seen Citizen X? It's streaming on HBO and rentable on Prime. Steven Rhea totes channels the 80s Soviet hoplesness.

Link goes to imdb for the movie details.
https://is.gd/My0wiP

Posted by: BifBewalski - at September 27, 2025 08:34 PM (QVmho)

187 Rewatched "Taken" and I would have let Maggie Grace go to the Albanians.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2025 08:31 PM (kurEY)

I hate car chases in movies and of course they had to ruin Taken for me by having a very stupid one.

Posted by: The way I see it at September 27, 2025 08:34 PM (EYmYM)

188 Didn't walk out but bailed on a streaming watch of Ken Russell's The Devils. Got a half hour into it and stopped in disgust. Next day I told myself I had to give it another chance -- twenty more minutes and I was convinced my original reaction was correct.

Posted by: Darles Chickens at September 27, 2025 08:34 PM (vOKvj)

189 Nightfall. (1988, with David Birney)
Based on a solid short story by Isaac Asimov,
It was a horrible movie, that I kept watching, thinking, "surely, this will get better"
It didn't, and I finally did leave before it was over.
Truly, a rancid reimagining of a story I knew well and liked.

Lordy, I just went to IMDB and watched the trailer. Even the trailer sucked.
Posted by: Appycay at September 27, 2025 07:59 PM
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Never read the story, but my friends and I all read the Foundation series and Robot series at that point and thought it would be good. You are not lying about how bad it was. I did make it to the end however, it never got any better.

Posted by: Darth Randall at September 27, 2025 08:34 PM (pBcQY)

190 Do you guys and gals remember that movie that came out in 2020, "The Hunt" ? The premise was a bunch of liberals (hardcore) kidnapping a bunch of "right wingers" and hunting them down throughout the movie.

A couple of things. #1 it was only theaters a week before it was shut down by COVID. However, in that week there were a bunch of walk-outs because the story ended up making the Liberals look like lunatics and the main protagonist was on the right, ex-military and a mistake because she had the same name as someone they wanted to kidnap. Liberals went to the film thinking they would have their vengeance and the liberals not only got that collective posteriors kicked, the were shown to be unhinged.

Imagine if the release day on this film was right now.

Posted by: Orson at September 27, 2025 08:35 PM (dIske)

191 I bounced off Sicario twice. Didn't like the girl power FBI agent. But the third time, it stuck. Now it might be one of my top 100 movies.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 27, 2025 08:35 PM (xcxpd)

192 The only time(-s) I ever felt like walking out of a movie was when I was aught but an wee Teen-Ayjer with raging hormones and not much 'sensitivity training'. The worst were the 'romance' movies … or the ones with Annette and Frankie during the Disney years. I really tried to like the 'beach blanquette' style, but it was just turgid and piss-offery that I had to sit thru 'til it was over. As for 'Kill Bill', I too found it to be turgid and gooey and melty-sticky as it tried to cohere around some sort of unrealised plot (or plot point). I never felt that it did - and I never felt Uma could do swordsgirlship the way she did it. Sometimes, Reality kicks in …

Posted by: Dr_No at September 27, 2025 08:35 PM (ayRl+)

193 If I've gone to the theater to see a flick, I'll sit through the whole thing. If it's horrible, I figure that's my punishment for being dumb enough to pay for a ticket. Started to watch Spielberg's Lincoln and bailed within half an hour -- thing felt like a not-very-good high school play (no, actually, it felt worse than that).

One I did consider walking out on although I'd paid for the ticket was Scorsese's remake of Cape Fear. A butchery of good source material.

Think I read that Tarantino was going for a Texas Chainsaw feel in the Once Upon a Time scene where Brad Pitt visits the ranch. And he caught it nicely too. Just for fun, compare that scene with the scene in the original Texas Chainsaw where they first enter the psycho family's house.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 27, 2025 08:35 PM (q3u5l)

194 all Gerard Butler movies are good

fight me
Posted by: Soothsayer
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Phantom of the Opera?

Really, are we going to fight over this?
I found it embarrassingly bad. I'm embarrassed that I allowed the femme du jour to drag me to it.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2025 08:35 PM (XeU6L)

195 Wasn't Kill Bill the movie Tarantino almost killed Uma Thurman while filming? Car crash on scene or something?

Posted by: Reforger at September 27, 2025 08:35 PM (oFukc)

196 >>> Godzilla 1997. Left when the velociorapters in MSG appeared.Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 27, 2025 08:32 PM (xcxpd)

I almost walked out of that one too. I just didn't have anything better to do and I was with friends. Really bad.

Posted by: banana Dream at September 27, 2025 08:35 PM (3uBP9)

197 I liked the original Solaris; many people do not understand it. He wanted it to be a first contact movie like 2001; but he wanted to have the protagonist be truly alien. It is not a horror movie, the alien intends no harm; but it is as confused by us as we are by it, and is just trying to communicate.
And the entire planet which they are orbiting is the Alien.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2025 08:36 PM (YMMPC)

198 Superman did not do well - by my calculations it fell hundreds of millions short of the $900 million it needed to break even...

Posted by: kjl291 at September 27, 2025 08:36 PM (R6UJF)

199 Yeah thats unsalvageable and almost never aired anywhere

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at September 27, 2025 08:37 PM (bXbFr)

200 Phantom of the opera

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at September 27, 2025 08:37 PM (bXbFr)

201 Titanic. Husband and i kept looking at our watches wondering when something would happen. He said he was leaving, I said I wanted to see all these people die. We were rooting so hard for the iceberg.
Posted by: Megthered at September 27, 2025 08:09 PM (kueL3)
______________________

Saving Private Ryan

Rooting for the Germans at the bridge because stupid yanks should have just blown it up like they were told too... and before that at that Krauts radar/radio site with the machine gun, just go around stupid yanks...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 27, 2025 08:37 PM (/lPRQ)

202 Hey everybody. Hey Lex.

I consider myself fortunate, I've never wanted to walk out of a movie. I *was* bored out of my gourd the first time I saw Stand By Me, in the theater, in 1986. It's not horrible but IMHO is very overrated.

In the meanwhile, I just ordered a copy on DVD of Ellen Burstyn's forgotten 1981 flick, Resurrection. I always heard good things, and even remember my pastor at the time raving about it, during my teenage confirmation classes.

Posted by: qdpsteve at September 27, 2025 08:37 PM (8z6SV)

203 195 Wasn't Kill Bill the movie Tarantino almost killed Uma Thurman while filming? Car crash on scene or something?

Posted by: Reforger at September 27, 2025 08:35 PM (oFukc)

That may have been Deathproof.

Posted by: davidt at September 27, 2025 08:37 PM (i0F8b)

204 I nearly walked out of the Fellowship of the Ring. I hated it. Never saw the rest in theaters, I managed to see them once. I am one of those Tolkien purists.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, in a hotel in ATL at September 27, 2025 08:38 PM (Si6el)

205 Double Feature! Starship Troopers it is.

That lasted about 15 minutes before we left. They let us in to see Baby Geniuses. I just kept walking in and out to see if my friend was there and to check on the girls. Horrible movie. Wantes to claw my eyes out and puncture my eardrums.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at September 27, 2025 08:33 PM (Sco7b)

You walked out of Starship Troopers?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 27, 2025 08:38 PM (xcxpd)

206 Wasn't Kill Bill the movie Tarantino almost killed Uma Thurman while filming? Car crash on scene or something?

Posted by: Reforger at September 27, 2025 08:35 PM (oFukc)

That may have been Deathproof.
Posted by: davidt at September 27, 2025 08:37 PM (i0F8b)

That was Kill Bill 2. She still hasn't forgiven him.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 27, 2025 08:38 PM (xcxpd)

207 I am looking forward to seeing Eddington. Call me crazy.

Posted by: qdpsteve at September 27, 2025 08:38 PM (8z6SV)

208 I'm libertarian on Brokeback Mountain. Though one's politics might chart your reaction, I didn't see it as trying to shove a lifestyle down your throat (bad pun). It was simply about two guys who couldn't live the lives they wanted, which many people can relate to, and is the theme and metaphor to many great movies. It worked for me.
Posted by: Lex at September 27, 2025 08:32 PM (y4H1r)

I think you give the film way too much credit. Nothing shown would have given anyone any good reason to have sympathy for those two. They were alone on a mountain, and started rutting like animals. Then they would get together every now and then and rut some more.

If that's what passes for "love" between gay men, it says a helluva lot more about what's wrong with homosexuality than it may have been trying to.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2025 08:39 PM (pfOyM)

209 Yes you are crazy

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at September 27, 2025 08:39 PM (bXbFr)

210 186
156: I liked Solaris (original version) a lot but it can be a slog. A Soviet era movie so it's production values are slightly better than 70s era Dr Who. It's not an action movie. Very cerebral but also well done. The sense of dread and general weirdness kept my interest anyway.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work

Have you seen Citizen X? It's streaming on HBO and rentable on Prime. Steven Rhea totes channels the 80s Soviet hoplesness.

Link goes to imdb for the movie details.
https://is.gd/My0wiP

Posted by: BifBewalski

I have the book and the DVD. I've watched it many times. IMO, best movie about a serial killer. Movie should have been more popular. Book is excellent.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 27, 2025 08:39 PM (xA5g+)

211 There's a good reason Meredith Baxter Birney was an alcoholic and now bats for the other team.
Posted by: Tonypete
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This is really about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Kelly McGillis at September 27, 2025 08:40 PM (XeU6L)

212 You know what, this is getting really negative. I love movies, even though there are movies I do love to hate, I think I'll go watch something I'll enjoy instead of wallowing in movies people have walked out on.

Alchemist Diaries beckons.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 27, 2025 08:40 PM (xcxpd)

213 I would have walked out of my last film if I could have found my legs.

Posted by: Vic Morrow at September 27, 2025 08:41 PM (dIske)

214 @ 205 Double Feature! Starship Troopers it is.
______________________________________

Attaboy! I tried to last more than 15-20 minutes with this one, but it was like waiting for snot to jell on one's finger. Heinlein woulda hated this one … the glitzy Broadway Show Tunes 'uniforms' were way off-base - they shoulda been like the ones in the original 'Alien' …

Posted by: Dr_No at September 27, 2025 08:41 PM (ayRl+)

215 "Girl with the Dragon tattoo " 1 and 3 . 2 was a piece of shit

Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2025 08:41 PM (kurEY)

216 This is really about me, isn't it?
Posted by: Kelly McGillis at September 27, 2025 08:40 PM (XeU6L)
____________________________

Heh...I gave Kelly McGillis tennis lessons when she lived in PA for a while.

Posted by: Orson at September 27, 2025 08:42 PM (dIske)

217 You know what, this is getting really negative. I love movies, even though there are movies I do love to hate, I think I'll go watch something I'll enjoy instead of wallowing in movies people have walked out on....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 27, 2025 08:40 PM (xcxpd)

That's it, I'm walking out on your comment.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2025 08:42 PM (AM1Jd)

218 Brokeback Mountain - the one movie that truly does merit an all female remake.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2025 08:42 PM (YMMPC)

219 I love Silent Running, only seen it twice

Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2025 08:43 PM (+qU29)

220 Drag Me To Hell was kino tho'

Posted by: gKWVE at September 27, 2025 08:43 PM (gKWVE)

221 214 @ 205 Double Feature! Starship Troopers it is.
______________________________________

Attaboy! I tried to last more than 15-20 minutes with this one, but it was like waiting for snot to jell on one's finger. Heinlein woulda hated this one … the glitzy Broadway Show Tunes 'uniforms' were way off-base - they shoulda been like the ones in the original 'Alien' …

Posted by: Dr_No

You both missed an epic set of tits.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at September 27, 2025 08:43 PM (QVmho)

222 I would have walked out of my last film if I could have found my legs.
Posted by: Vic Morrow at September 27, 2025 08:41 PM (dIske)

It was an explosive performance, Vic.

Give yourself a hand... if you can find it.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2025 08:44 PM (AM1Jd)

223 One thing I've been wanting to tell y'all about: A few years ago, during Covid, I joined an online meetup.com group called Screenwriting Tribe. We would get together via Zoom, read each other's scripts, and analyze them for (a) how enjoyable they are (b) if they're sellable in Hollywood.

It was overall a good group, although the leader, John, was your typical lefty doucebag. Also a vegan who more or less made it clear he didn't care for food at all really.

Near the end of my time with this group (I spent about two years joining them almost every Sunday night), John shared his own script, about oppressed women living in an abandoned California mining town, run by a crazy (and of course, closeted gay) minister. The church was about the only business left in town.

Was bullshit of a story, and gotta love the ending. It took place in 1960, and when the women finally rebel against said minister, he gets in his car and immediately rushes to San Francisco, meets a tall dark stranger, and they make love on the beach.

But THEN... thel dark stranger immediately stabs the minister to death. Yeah, that's a great ending. Let's portray the one out-and-proud gay person as a murderous psycho.

Posted by: qdpsteve at September 27, 2025 08:44 PM (8z6SV)

224 I am not sure Superman 2025 did all that well.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 27, 2025 08:44 PM (dQQ+V)

225 Romeo and Juliet couldn't be together because their clans told them not to be. I'm not comparing the two directly, but I didn't seem Brokeback as about two horny guys. That feels reductive to me, but I grant many see it as affirming a lifestyle that don't particularly want to affirm.

The novella was also very well written, so I think that's worth checking out as well.

Posted by: Lex at September 27, 2025 08:44 PM (y4H1r)

226 Heh...I gave Kelly McGillis tennis lessons when she lived in PA for a while.
Posted by: Orson
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Geebers! What did you do to her?

Hold it...I don't suppose that you also gave lessons to Billy Jean King?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2025 08:45 PM (XeU6L)

227 Brokeback Mountain - the one movie that truly does merit an all female remake.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2025 08:42 PM (YMMPC)

I wouldn't even object to keeping Anne Hathaway in the cast.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2025 08:45 PM (AM1Jd)

228 191 I bounced off Sicario twice. Didn't like the girl power FBI agent. But the third time, it stuck. Now it might be one of my top 100 movies.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 27, 2025 08:35 PM (xcxpd)

I couldn’t get past killing the kids in revenge .

Posted by: The way I see it at September 27, 2025 08:45 PM (EYmYM)

229 Watched "Rhinocerous" based on a previous movie thread recommendation. Made me walk out of my own house.

Posted by: Jolly Rancher Stuck on my Tooth at September 27, 2025 08:46 PM (cnpqA)

230 I would have walked out of my last film if I could have found my legs.
Posted by: Vic Morrow at September 27, 2025 08:41 PM (dIske)

It was an explosive performance, Vic.

Give yourself a hand... if you can find it.
Posted by: BurtTC
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Cold, dudes...cold.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2025 08:46 PM (XeU6L)

231 Pug:

Did you know the Beatles wanted to produce, and star in, a Lord Of The Rings movie in 1969? And they wanted to hire Stanley Kubrick to direct.

Didn't work out obviously. Tolkien hated rock music; the band was already breaking up anyway; and Kubrick enjoyed LOTR but felt the novels were unfilmable.

Posted by: qdpsteve at September 27, 2025 08:46 PM (8z6SV)

232 120 22 Have not seen a movie in a theater since" The Sound of Music".Life is too short to tolerate crap.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2025 07:43 PM (kurEY

Agathe Von Trapp was one of my kindergarten teachers (she was the oldest daughter). My Dad asked her at the Catholic School Christmas Bazaar in 1965 if she was going to see "The Sound of Music" , she said quietly "No. There were no cartoon Nazi's ".

HandToGod true story.

She pre-walked out.

Posted by: retropox at September 27, 2025 08:47 PM (6sNb7)

233 I am not sure Superman 2025 did all that well.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 27, 2025 08:44 PM (dQQ+V)

I don't either. I don't know if I just stopped paying attention, or if the emphasis on box office receipts has fallen out of favor with corporate media.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2025 08:47 PM (AM1Jd)

234 "Let’s take the second part first. By this rationale, anything put on screen, simply because it’s there, deserves praise. No matter how illogical, no matter how ill-conceived or expositional, you have to dismiss all of this because “it’s a movie.” Have the fanboys no limit beyond which they can be pushed?"
- - - - - - -
"The #1 movie in America was called "Ass." And that's all it was for 90 minutes. It won eight Oscars that year, including best screenplay." - Idiocracy (2006)

Posted by: Another Anon at September 27, 2025 08:48 PM (4h45B)

235 Well better call it and stay close to my bedtime, seems get up time doesn't change ever
Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2025 08:48 PM (+qU29)

236 Watched "Rhinocerous" based on a previous movie thread recommendation. Made me walk out of my own house.
Posted by: Jolly Rancher Stuck on my Tooth at September 27, 2025 08:46 PM (cnpqA)

Bad very bad. Even knowing the analogy the director was going for it was bad.

Posted by: The way I see it at September 27, 2025 08:48 PM (EYmYM)

237 If it didnt have such a ridiculous budget plus marketing it mighr have done a decent profit

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at September 27, 2025 08:48 PM (bXbFr)

238 Starship Troopers is one of the movies I hate to enjoy. The bug effects are delightful, anything that gives Michael Ironside and Clancy Brown some screen time can't be all bad, and Dina Meyer looks spectacular out of uniform. (Some day a director's cut will be released that will include scenes explaining why anybody would be wasting time on Denise Richards when Dina Meyer is in the room.)

But yes, Heinlein is probably still spinning today over that one. And rightfully so.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 27, 2025 08:48 PM (q3u5l)

239 You walked out of Starship Troopers?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 27, 2025 08:38 PM (xcxpd

I was with 4 girls ages 6 to 10. My car keys were lost and I was keeping them busy. I was enjoying it but it became pretty intense so Baby Geniuses it was.

I apologised afterwards for all the drama with the lost car keys and everything. One of the older girls replied that they were kids that just saw two movies. They were good.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at September 27, 2025 08:49 PM (Sco7b)

240 Same with doomsday although it seems already on tbe way to foundering

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at September 27, 2025 08:50 PM (bXbFr)

241 Book

Armor > Starship Troopers

Posted by: The way I see it at September 27, 2025 08:50 PM (EYmYM)

242 Starship Troopers is one of the movies I hate to enjoy. The bug effects are delightful, anything that gives Michael Ironside and Clancy Brown some screen time can't be all bad, and Dina Meyer looks spectacular out of uniform. (Some day a director's cut will be released that will include scenes explaining why anybody would be wasting time on Denise Richards when Dina Meyer is in the room.)

But yes, Heinlein is probably still spinning today over that one. And rightfully so.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 27, 2025 08:48 PM (q3u5l)

I can understand why fans of the book hate it, but it's satire. Verhoeven just took the book, and made his own movie. I think it works spectacularly.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2025 08:51 PM (AM1Jd)

243 Well he does get with dina

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at September 27, 2025 08:52 PM (bXbFr)

244 How do you distinguish a fellow moviegoer doing a walkout rather than a bathroom break?

Posted by: pookysgirl tends to get absorbed in movies at September 27, 2025 08:52 PM (Wt5PA)

245 BurtTC, that's what Kubrick did with The Shining.

Better than King's novel IMHO.

Posted by: qdpsteve at September 27, 2025 08:52 PM (8z6SV)

246 The only film I can recall *wanting* to walk out of was the Jacob's Ladder thing with Tim Robbins. halfway through I realized I didn't care about any of the characters or what might happen to them. I stayed with it because I'd paid for the ticket, which was quite a bite out of my disposable income in, what, 1989? When the ending proved to be, I thought, the same as Bierce's "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," I was disgusted.

I've been bored by certain films in the theatre or cineplex, but I don't recall ever walking out on one. Wanting to, maybe, but I don't think I ever have.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2025 08:53 PM (cCu74)

247 244. That sounds like a set up for a joke. What's the punch line?

Posted by: Lex at September 27, 2025 08:53 PM (y4H1r)

248 About a really ridiculous dystopia

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at September 27, 2025 08:53 PM (bXbFr)

249 Agathe taught us to sing an Austrian folk song (in kindergarten), and we sang it for Maria when she came to visit. 1962.

BTW - the Von Trapp Family finished their performance at the Salzburg Music Festival, went home and closed up the house, and took a train to Italy.

No mountains. No climbing. No twirling in meadows.

Posted by: retropox at September 27, 2025 08:53 PM (6sNb7)

250 Wolfus:
I've wanted to see Jacob's Ladder, but keep hearing/readikng that it tends to leave most depressed people like me, even more depressed and feeling hopeless. In fact that seems to be the theme of it: "it's all hopeless anyway."

Posted by: qdpsteve at September 27, 2025 08:54 PM (8z6SV)

251 Oh wow the bum in The Night Strangler is Al Lewis! I never knew that. I can see it now that Sven clued me in.

Posted by: fd at September 27, 2025 08:55 PM (vFG9F)

252 Lex, here in SoCal?

Guy just needs a bathroom break? He leaves, goes to a restroom urinal, pees.

Guy hates the movie? He walks up to the screen, pees on it, leaves the theater.

Posted by: qdpsteve at September 27, 2025 08:55 PM (8z6SV)

253 That sounds like a set up for a joke. What's the punch line?
Posted by: Lex at September 27, 2025 08:53 PM (y4H1r)

I'm too sleep-deprived to think of one.

Posted by: pookysgirl needs Lil Pooky to actually sleep at September 27, 2025 08:56 PM (Wt5PA)

254 I kept falling asleep during eyes wide shut, only to be awakened by the piano.
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 27, 2025

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I didn't see it in the theater, but on DVD. Kubrick, except for a couple of films, is not a director I care for -- but I was riveted to EWS, and not because of Nicole Kidman's nude scene. She's actually not in the film much at all.

But I can understand that it's not to everybody's taste. It's not a movie I would have cared for when I was in my twenties or even forties.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2025 08:56 PM (cCu74)

255 I have never walked out. Have been thrown out for laughing too loudly during bad movies. I really couldn’t help myself. Knowing. Clue.

Posted by: Jimmy Mucnulty at September 27, 2025 08:57 PM (ZLsTV)

256
I have never understood why so many movies and TV shows about lawyers get made. The gap between what is portrayed and the reality of the profession is stupendous.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 27, 2025 08:57 PM (tgvbd)

257 Wolfus, to say nothing of the fact that Full Metal Jacket is basically two Vietnam movies in one.

Posted by: qdpsteve at September 27, 2025 08:57 PM (8z6SV)

258 A bit ago, for movie night with family, someone picked up "World's Greatest Dad". We still miss Robin Williams, and hey, here he was in a comedy we never even heard before!

We didn't get far at all.

And it wasn't for any viewers being under 18; it was just from the content just being so bad and distasteful.

Can't remember what we did, but probably just pulled up YouTube and watched older clips of Robin from happier times, like from talkshows.

Posted by: Another Anon at September 27, 2025 08:57 PM (4h45B)

259 Wait till you find out whose the strangler

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at September 27, 2025 08:57 PM (bXbFr)

260 Hadrian, Hollywood LOVES lawyers.

If it weren't for lawyers, a lot more of them would be in jail for tax evasion, assault/battery, or just being chomos.

Posted by: qdpsteve at September 27, 2025 08:58 PM (8z6SV)

261 Verhieven took the book and shit in its mouth.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2025 08:58 PM (YMMPC)

262 Hadrian, thoughts on My Cousin Vinny?

Posted by: gKWVE at September 27, 2025 08:58 PM (gKWVE)

263 BurtTC, that's what Kubrick did with The Shining.

Better than King's novel IMHO.
Posted by: qdpsteve

Stephen complaining about being a victim of censorship.

https://is.gd/q09VMY

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, [0] Day(s) Since Leftist Terror Attack! at September 27, 2025 08:58 PM (L/fGl)

264 Im not going to spoil it this time

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at September 27, 2025 08:58 PM (bXbFr)

265 Watched "Rhinocerous" based on a previous movie thread recommendation. Made me walk out of my own house.
Posted by: Jolly Rancher Stuck on my Tooth at September 27, 2025 08:46 PM (cnpqA
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😆

Thank goodness it wasn't an inflight movie!

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at September 27, 2025 08:59 PM (kpS4V)

266 I liked 'Jacobs Ladder'. I had 'The Sixth Sense' figured out in minutes because of 'Jacobs Ladder'.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 27, 2025 08:59 PM (xA5g+)

267 The only movie I wanted to walk out of was The Swarm (197

. Crappy killer bee flick. I was only 7 so was a captive audience.

Posted by: ScaryMary at September 27, 2025 08:59 PM (Hvd9a)

268 The only film I can recall *wanting* to walk out of was the Jacob's Ladder thing with Tim Robbins. halfway through I realized I didn't care about any of the characters or what might happen to them. I stayed with it because I'd paid for the ticket, which was quite a bite out of my disposable income in, what, 1989? When the ending proved to be, I thought, the same as Bierce's "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," I was disgusted.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2025 08:53 PM (cCu74)

I saw it not long after I got out of the service. It really hit me hard.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2025 08:59 PM (LZ0R8)

269 Oh wow the bum in The Night Strangler is Al Lewis! I never knew that. I can see it now that Sven clued me in.
Posted by: fd

Margaret Hamilton is also in that film as "Professor Crabwell".

Posted by: Tonypete at September 27, 2025 08:59 PM (cYBz/)

270 I have not watched it again but Looking for Mr Goodbar has been on the top of my list of worst movies I’ve seen . I saw it when I was 17 so maybe I might have a different take now.
Posted by: The way I see it at September 27, 2025

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It's quite gripping for a literary novel. Don't think I've ever seen the film.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2025 08:59 PM (cCu74)

271 Jacob's Ladder was actually supposed to be considered a Vietnam movie. It's just that it all takes place within a tormented soldier's mind, after the war.

Posted by: qdpsteve at September 27, 2025 09:00 PM (8z6SV)

272 Anon, Stephen can go cry all the way to the bank. :-P

Posted by: qdpsteve at September 27, 2025 09:00 PM (8z6SV)

273 Brokeback Mountain was poorly researched, which made it unwatchable for me. Studs like the two leads were not sheepherders in that time and place, they were working construction of I-90 for mucho dollars. Sheepherders were Basques who lived in colorful wood wagons saving up money in the States to go back home and be rich.

Posted by: Wenda at September 27, 2025 09:01 PM (GPYyj)

274 I didn't see it in the theater, but on DVD. Kubrick, except for a couple of films, is not a director I care for -- but I was riveted to EWS, and not because of Nicole Kidman's nude scene. She's actually not in the film much at all.

But I can understand that it's not to everybody's taste. It's not a movie I would have cared for when I was in my twenties or even forties.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2025 08:56 PM (cCu74)

It's basically a documentary.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2025 09:01 PM (LZ0R8)

275 brb, writing about another train run on a 11 year old girl

Posted by: Stephen King, your moral superior at September 27, 2025 09:01 PM (gKWVE)

276 Back in the day, we didn't exactly walk out of the films but we did the next best thing. During a stag party the blue movies were so bad - bad 'acting', torn, dirty underwear, horrendous film quality and camera work - that we wound them such that we could play them from ending to beginning. That only lasted for so long and then we switched to view one of the guy's work films. They were sales materials for earth moving equipment.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 27, 2025 09:03 PM (cYBz/)

277 I tend to read up on movies before going to the theater, so I'm usually not unpleasantly surprised.

"One Battle After Another" is garnering sploogerrific reviews by almost all critics. Thank goodness we have alternate media.

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at September 27, 2025 09:04 PM (kpS4V)

278 "Margaret Hamilton is also in that film as "Professor Crabwell".
Posted by: Tonypete"

All the characters in this are great. Why can't they do this anymore?

Posted by: fd at September 27, 2025 09:04 PM (vFG9F)

279 271 Jacob's Ladder was actually supposed to be considered a Vietnam movie. It's just that it all takes place within a tormented soldier's mind, after the war.
Posted by: qdpsteve

Not quite. It was during the war. The rest is correct.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 27, 2025 09:05 PM (xA5g+)

280 "The Night Strangler" is on Svengoolie. Now THIS is entertainment.
Posted by: fd at September 27, 2025

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Darn. The hotel's cable does not offer MeTV.

On the other hand, TCM has The Third Man w/ Welles and Cotten, so there's that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2025 09:05 PM (cCu74)

281 Asimov has never been properly adapted dont get me started on foundation
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at September 27, 2025

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On YooToob there is a poor quality (but watchable) video of a 1962 BBC production of "Little Lost Robot," one of his best robot tales, with a mystery tucked into it. The production was not great, but I'm amazed it was done at all.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2025 09:08 PM (cCu74)

282 What in-theater films have you abandoned?

I have only walked out of one in theater film - 1982 "Partners". I wasn't ready for gay themed movies and it blind sided my date and me. We left and had a much better time.

Most movies now, I'll just stream a few minutes, then read the wiki to see if the movie gets any better. If not I will abandon it. "Overboard" was one recent example.

Other movies are so predictable and the directors often waste time on hackneyed formulas that most movies I'll fast forward 15 seconds at a time. 90 minute movies are usually seen in under 30 minutes if I don't flat walk out them.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 27, 2025 09:08 PM (a4flb)

283 I never walked out of a movie but I did turn off Pacific Heights in disgust.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at September 27, 2025 09:09 PM (98lqn)

284 About the only good thing I'll say about "Brokeback Mountain" is that the Aussie actor did a good job conveying emotion from such a quiet, repressed character. Actors will try to speak through their eyes but this character found it hard to make eye contact.

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at September 27, 2025 09:09 PM (kpS4V)

285
I'm reading The Luck of Barry Lyndon by Willam Makepeace Thackeray, on which the Kubrick movie is based. A rare example of what I think is a really good book being made into what I think is a really good (or at least really beautiful) movie.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 27, 2025 09:10 PM (tgvbd)

286 Kinda liked Eyes Wide Shut (2 hours and 40 minutes, but doesn't feel that long at all). The Shining is almost that long, but also doesn't feel as long as it is (though I didn't think the movie's finish is as strong as the ending of King's novel).

Other long flicks that don't feel as long as they are: The Great Escape, The Guns of Navarone, The Sand Pebbles, Bridge on the River Kwai, The Wages of Fear.

Sometimes, I think a movie that doesn't feel as long as it is is probably a pretty decent picture.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 27, 2025 09:10 PM (q3u5l)

287 "Actors will try to speak through their eyes but this character found it hard to make eye contact."

No problem making brown eye contact.

Posted by: fd at September 27, 2025 09:11 PM (vFG9F)

288 Forgot about Titanic. Didn’t walk out, just hated it. Hubby liked it so we stayed.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at September 27, 2025 09:11 PM (2NHgQ)

289 Walked out on Buckaroo Banzai

Posted by: Halfhand at September 27, 2025 09:11 PM (XCxTH)

290 The second was Horde-fave "An American Werewolf in London." I couldn't believe I was watching something so stupid, and so determined to shove its stupidity relentlessly in my face. (After everyone said what an awesome movie it is, greatest ever in fact, I bought the 4K. Still stupid. Yes, the effects are great. I can say "The effects are great" about Day of the Dead, too.) . . .

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 27, 2025

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I was not as thrilled with it as my friends were. There were good moments, but the music used did not always match the mood of the action on screen. Van Morrison's "Moondance" did; "Blue Moon" by the Marcels, while our tragic hero lies dead, did not.

But then there was the young Jenny Agutter.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2025 09:11 PM (cCu74)

291 I can understand why fans of the book hate it, but it's satire. Verhoeven just took the book, and made his own movie. I think it works spectacularly.

Same. I find it far more entertaining than the book.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 27, 2025 09:12 PM (aUxYo)

292 Things you cannot do in a theater, fart, Belch, pause the movie for a bathroom break or a trip to the kitchen

Posted by: Ben Had at September 27, 2025 09:12 PM (kurEY)

293
It's standard issue werewolf story, with modern (at the time) special effects.

Given the title, which tells you EXACTLY what you're going to see, I can't understand how one would be disappointed with what you got.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2025

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For me the humor and horror were not well juxtaposed. We're used to that now, and it has been done more seamlessly (Ghostbusters, for instance). But then, the combination jarred.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2025 09:14 PM (cCu74)

294 "Walked out on Buckaroo Banzai
Posted by: Halfhand"

At the end, with everybody else, right?

Posted by: fd at September 27, 2025 09:15 PM (vFG9F)

295 When my lil sis was in jr. high, she begged & begged to see some bloody-gore flick-- Halloween? or something like it. *All the kool kidz* were going, because Rated R! Mom didn't want to take her, so called me up. OK!

Sis was sitting quietly, about halfway through the movie (I thought it was lousy, but whatevs) and she was absolutely white with terror and was ready to cry. I put my arm around her and whispered: "Want to leave? It's okay if you don't want to stay. I think this movie is pretty stupid anyway."

She nodded in the affirmative, so we left. Let her have a good cry in my car & then we went to Dairy Queen. I promised to not tell her friends that we walked out.

Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2025 09:15 PM (rdVOm)

296 Why so many lawyer movies? My guess: because that way they get to lecture the audience in the courtroom scenes?

Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 27, 2025 09:15 PM (q3u5l)

297 Walked out on Buckaroo Banzai
Posted by: Halfhand
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Well, no matter where you go, there you are.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2025 09:15 PM (XeU6L)

298 Especially when Denise Richards is a cheating bitch.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 27, 2025 09:16 PM (zZu0s)

299 I've walked out on two movies my entire life. Both came out around the same time in 1990. I was in the Air Force and at tech school learning my job. Out of convenience and low cost, I would often go to the base theater. The two I walked out on were House Party and Cry-Baby. I just did not find either of them entertaining at all.

During that time, I did also see Hunt for Red October and Die Hard 2. At least I had that going for me.

Posted by: Brian448 at September 27, 2025 09:17 PM (H46jI)

300 But seeing a movie like that was special that then because you couldn't see it anywhere else! We didn't even have VCR players yet, let alone infinite movie availability on internet or cable, and cable didn't exist yet either. You either caught it at the theater or you never got to see it so the excitement level was quite high.
Posted by: Beverly at September 27, 2025

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In about 1972, before the nostalgia for the '50s ramped up everywhere, there was a vogue for the '30s and the early '40s. I recall going to a double-feature revival of High Sierra and Treasure of the Sierra Madre. The audience was very appreciative.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2025 09:17 PM (cCu74)

301 >>> I grew up in Concord, Massachusetts –in the shadow of Henry David Thoreau

Lex, what does the shadow of Thoreau mean to you? Is the spirit of transcendentalism, as he was a leading practitioner, and not seeing that in films like Superman is jarring?

Posted by: LizLem at September 27, 2025 09:18 PM (TSP+e)

302 It's standard issue werewolf story, with modern (at the time) special effects.

Given the title, which tells you EXACTLY what you're going to see, I can't understand how one would be disappointed with what you got.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2025

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For me the humor and horror were not well juxtaposed. We're used to that now, and it has been done more seamlessly (Ghostbusters, for instance). But then, the combination jarred.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2025 09:14 PM (cCu74)

I liked it a lot, but then I have a warped sense of humor in the first place.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2025 09:19 PM (AM1Jd)

303 Buckaroo Banzai is one of those movies you just have to enjoy with no expectation of anything deep. Simply a fun, goofy movie.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, in a hotel in ATL at September 27, 2025 09:19 PM (Si6el)

304 was Eyes Wide Shut that decades 50 Shades of Gray? Because I saw for the first time this summer and it was kind of stupid, along the 56 colors of the same crop stupid.

Posted by: Fenrisulven6 at September 27, 2025 09:19 PM (ciYHQ)

305 Why so many lawyer movies? My guess: because that way they get to lecture the audience in the courtroom scenes?
Posted by: Just Some Guy
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OTOH, at least we got a setup for Jack Nicholson's outrage in 'A Few Good Men'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2025 09:20 PM (XeU6L)

306 Why so many lawyer movies? My guess: because that way they get to lecture the audience in the courtroom scenes?
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 27, 2025 09:15 PM (q3u5l)

Same reason there are movies about the movie business, movies about cops, military, politics.

The powers that be know how to propaganda.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2025 09:20 PM (AM1Jd)

307 Although there were many movies I wished I'd walked out of in hindsight, the only movie I remember where my wife and I looked at each other and got up and left was "Nine to Five." What a waste of Dabney Coleman.

Posted by: jayhawkone at September 27, 2025 09:21 PM (DJEwO)

308 She nodded in the affirmative, so we left. Let her have a good cry in my car & then we went to Dairy Queen. I promised to not tell her friends that we walked out.
Posted by: JQ
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DQ = 100% recovery rate. Well done on all fronts, JQ!

Posted by: scampydog at September 27, 2025 09:21 PM (9RHNH)

309 OTOH, at least we got a setup for Jack Nicholson's outrage in 'A Few Good Men'.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2025 09:20 PM (XeU6L)

I never understood people cheering that scene:

"You damn right I ordered that Marine killed."

"Fine, you go to jail."

"What a hero."

Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2025 09:22 PM (AM1Jd)

310 The Dairy Queen chocolate malt could probably cure most known diseases. Wish we still had a DQ in this town.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 27, 2025 09:23 PM (q3u5l)

311 301...it was perhaps an expression stretched. I did grow up in Concord, and of course it is a town that has been home to many great authors. Shadow could be taken to mean I feel overmatched or somehow his shadow is a negative. Far from it. "The majority of one" is from Thoreau's 'Civil Disobedience' essay. He was clearly a radical individualist, and he felt to protest something did not require a movement or a PAC or whatever. A single, strong and well stated opinion and the conviction to stand behind it was enough to be as powerful as a majority.

Maybe I thought it was a cute turn of phrase for the essay, but it was perhaps a non sequitur.

Posted by: Lex at September 27, 2025 09:24 PM (y4H1r)

312 Kolchak is an old school journalist and I bet he didn't even go to journalism school.

Posted by: fd at September 27, 2025 09:25 PM (vFG9F)

313 This is the best Bama has looked under DeBoer.

Posted by: Accomack at September 27, 2025 09:25 PM (IG7T0)

314 Key and Peele crack me up.
Posted by: The way I see it at September 27, 2025

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I'm intrigued by Steele 'n' Holmes on the HomeTitleLock commercials! We need a crossover spot with them and the perfect-faced, oddly-accented blonde in her car.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2025 09:26 PM (cCu74)

315 If not finishing a movie you've rented sorta counts as walking out, I've walked out of Lost in Translation. Bill Murray and Scarlett's characters just seemed so feckless and pointless. Maybe I need to go to Japan to get it. But intensely disliked it.

One film I wish I'd walked out of was Voices. Dark, ugly, and mocked Christianity in an ugly way. I hated Ryan Reynolds for a long time just because he agreed to be in it. I figured anyone choosing to be in that dreck had a major flaw in their character.

Posted by: LizLem at September 27, 2025 09:26 PM (R7LBw)

316 Over 25 years ago, I took my then very young son to see the "Grinch who Stole Christmas."
Haven't been to a movie theater since.
Will not return. And I don't miss the "experience".

Posted by: MkY at September 27, 2025 09:26 PM (cPGH3)

317 The Bride doesn't take on 20 people with a sword until about 20 minutes to go in the film. When the hell did you walk out?

Posted by: ... at September 27, 2025 09:27 PM (E0p3T)

318 317..I guess at that point. I was probably itching to go prior to that and that was the last straw. I don't remember anything about the movie other than that was the point I left. Just wasn't for me.

Fun discussion tonight everyone! Hopefully the rest of 2025 and 2026 are walkout free!!!

Posted by: Lex at September 27, 2025 09:31 PM (y4H1r)

319 I did not even walk out of Cutthroat Island.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 27, 2025 09:31 PM (zZu0s)

320 I robot was one of the few ScFi movies that did not stray completely away from the book that inspired it. It reached in a few places but for the most part stayed on theme from the book.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 27, 2025

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I, Robot was a varied collection of short stories where humans have to figure out, and deal with, gaps in the Three Laws, or survive under conditions where they mysteriously don't work. I don't recall much of the Will Smith movie except robots running amok, which doesn't sound like Asimov's work.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2025 09:31 PM (cCu74)

321 Fun discussion tonight everyone! Hopefully the rest of 2025 and 2026 are walkout free!!!
Posted by: Lex
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Thanks for the post / fun content, Lex.

Posted by: scampydog at September 27, 2025 09:31 PM (9RHNH)

322 If not finishing a movie you've rented sorta counts as walking out, I've walked out of Lost in Translation. Bill Murray and Scarlett's characters just seemed so feckless and pointless. Maybe I need to go to Japan to get it. But intensely disliked it.

Posted by: LizLem at September 27, 2025 09:26 PM (R7LBw)

Hmmm, seems to me you might have to be able to relate to one or the other of the characters to really appreciate it.

Older man, successful and bored, younger woman, unappreciated by her husband, both in a strange place, neither fit in at all...

Only to find another human you can relate to, and have a relationship with that is not sexual, but it's also not NOT sexual.

Throw in a Kevin Shields (My Bloody Valentine) score... it strikes me as an accidental masterpiece.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2025 09:33 PM (AM1Jd)

323 Quentin Tarantino has probably gotten more actresses our of their shoes than any other director.
Posted by: Duncanthrax, a mid-tier AoSHQ commenter, according to Grok at September 27, 2025

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Good for him. That's a part -- a small part, but a part -- of the reason I went to see Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2025 09:33 PM (cCu74)

324 Nine to Five." What a waste of Dabney Coleman.
Posted by: jayhawkone at September 27, 2025 09:21 PM (DJEwO)

I remember going to it thinking maybe we would get to see some of Dolly's boobage. I believe we were teased with that. I distinctly remember being let down by it.
Nothing!

Posted by: Reforger at September 27, 2025 09:34 PM (oFukc)

325 I'm libertarian on Brokeback Mountain. Though one's politics might chart your reaction, I didn't see it as trying to shove a lifestyle down your throat (bad pun). It was simply about two guys who couldn't live the lives they wanted, which many people can relate to, and is the theme and metaphor to many great movies. It worked for me.
Posted by: Lex at September 27, 2025

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Dunno about the film, I haven't seen it, but the novelette it's based on was sad and not revolting about the gay stuff.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2025 09:34 PM (cCu74)

326 The Rockies lost.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 27, 2025 09:36 PM (gKWVE)

327 Nightfall. (1988, with David Birney)

There's a good reason Meredith Baxter Birney was an alcoholic and now bats for the other team.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 27, 2025

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She was an alcoholic? I never knew that.

They met when they were starring as comically star-crossed lovers in Bridget Loves Bernie in around '72. The show was highly rated, but some complaints convinced CBS to drop it, or so I recall reading.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2025 09:37 PM (cCu74)

328 Good for him. That's a part -- a small part, but a part -- of the reason I went to see Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2025 09:33 PM (cCu74)

The foot scene in that movie was when Pitt picked up the Manson hitchhiker girl.

Posted by: The way I see it at September 27, 2025 09:38 PM (EYmYM)

329 Like everything they do, they think they can improve on the original thing. No matter what that 'thing' is. Movies in particular. I'm 76, by the way, and I tell you True Grit with John Wayne was the best.

Posted by: Eromero at September 27, 2025 09:39 PM (LHPAg)

330 One I did consider walking out on although I'd paid for the ticket was Scorsese's remake of Cape Fear. A butchery of good source material. . . .

Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 27, 2025

***
+ 100

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2025 09:39 PM (cCu74)

331 118
‘ Who here went and saw "Brokeback Mountain" thinking it was a western, and ended up watching the whole film?’

I didn’t but I did try to get a coworker who a gullible kiss up to go see it but he didn’t fall for it. I told him a western buddy movie.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 27, 2025 09:39 PM (fd80v)

332 I remember being in a packed theatre and someone near the front ripped a huge fart and you could hear the people around the perp all groan and go “ohhhhj” and groan. But then about 20 seconds later all the people about 5 rows back went “oooh! And groaned. And again, and again, all the way back.. The stench held together in this dark little cloud and traveled all the way across the theater!

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2025 09:39 PM (wwIHX)

333 Walked out of eraserhead. Ew

Posted by: Vivi at September 27, 2025 09:41 PM (cpunl)

334 119
‘ David Lynch's "Wild at Heart"’

Willem Dafoe’s character really flips his lid in that movie.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 27, 2025 09:42 PM (fd80v)

335 There is a good reason Smell-O-Vision never caught on.

Posted by: fd at September 27, 2025 09:43 PM (vFG9F)

336 331 118
‘ Who here went and saw "Brokeback Mountain" thinking it was a western, and ended up watching the whole film?

I always see "Snatch" on the tv guide.

But I'm pretty sure it's not what I'm hoping for so I skip it.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at September 27, 2025 09:43 PM (Sco7b)

337 I stopped watching the Matrix and John Wick movies after 2 1/2 .

Posted by: The way I see it at September 27, 2025 09:43 PM (EYmYM)

338 I was thisclose to walking out of "Amistad". But I perservered. I already knew the story. I think I was trying to impress my future wife by telling her what was going to happen, only way to kill the time.

Posted by: Lincolntf at September 27, 2025 09:43 PM (vV6n9)

339 October 10th I may need to go the theater for the first time in about six years. To see Tron: Ares.

Posted by: Gref at September 27, 2025 09:43 PM (5rh/l)

340 The novella was also very well written, so I think that's worth checking out as well.
Posted by: Lex at September 27, 2025

***
The same author, Annie Something (I can never spell her name without looking it up), also produced a tour de force: a short short story with only three sentences, the third a stinger and a half. It's called "55 Miles to the Gas Pump."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2025 09:44 PM (cCu74)

341 I always see "Snatch" on the tv guide.

But I'm pretty sure it's not what I'm hoping for so I skip it.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at September 27, 2025 09:43 PM (Sco7b)

It's a Guy Ritchie film. A rip snorting good time, if you're into that sort of thing.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2025 09:45 PM (8i1Xd)

342 >>> 157 I know this is heresy here but I really liked LOTR

Wait? There are people that hated the movies??

Posted by: LizLem at September 27, 2025 09:46 PM (7xvM4)

343 Well, at least Penn State won't have to wait for the OSU game to lose. They're probably going to lose tonight. They can't move the ball and Oregon can, a bit. It helps that refs ignore obvious holds.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 27, 2025 09:47 PM (xA5g+)

344 133 Funny thing, I just finished watching the latest rifftrax, Guns of El Chupacabra, that Mike billed as the worst movie they've ever seen, which knowing these guys, really means something. I wouldn't say it was the worst, "Things" was definitely worse. Guns' had Robert Z’Dar and Joe Estevez so you know you're in for it but Mike, Kevin, & Bill made it funny.
Posted by: banana Dream at September 27, 2025 08:15 PM (3uBP9)

I just saw that advertised. I'll likely pick it up next time there's a sale. One of the latest RiffTrax movies I watched was Fight to Win. It was profoundly disappointing...as a movie, not necessarily as a RiffTrax episode. It was almost a really cool kung fu movie (with Cythia Rothrock and a bunch of Hong Kong guys) but then it developed a stuuuuupid subplot with a little kid and a magical living-rock with the voice of a woman pretending to be a kid. Completely out-of-place, and completely killed the mood, in a way that even jokes couldn't cover.

Imagine mashing up Rambo with Mac & Me, with no effort made to integrate the differing tones....

Posted by: Castle Guy at September 27, 2025 09:47 PM (Lhaco)

345 I've wanted to see Jacob's Ladder, but keep hearing/readikng that it tends to leave most depressed people like me, even more depressed and feeling hopeless. In fact that seems to be the theme of it: "it's all hopeless anyway."
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 27, 2025

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That's still my impression of it, thirty-six years or so later.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2025 09:47 PM (cCu74)

346 Best movie of all time "Kentucky Friend Movie".

That's evaluation is made from the perspective of a young kid who wanted to see boobs and hear raunchy jokes.

Posted by: Orson at September 27, 2025 09:48 PM (dIske)

347 Fried

Posted by: Orson at September 27, 2025 09:48 PM (dIske)

348 Well, outta here for the evening.

Thanks for the thread, Lex.

Have a good one, Horde.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 27, 2025 09:48 PM (q3u5l)

349 Orson, yup.
John Landis is weird, but funny.

Posted by: qdpsteve at September 27, 2025 09:49 PM (8z6SV)

350 There's no profound psychological phenomena at play.

They're just movies. They're good, they're bad, they're indifferent.

Don't try to church it up.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 27, 2025 09:49 PM (BI5O2)

351 335 There is a good reason Smell-O-Vision never caught on.
Posted by: fd at September 27, 2025 09:43 PM (vFG9F)

“I can smell Uranus!”
- Professor Farnsworth

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2025 09:50 PM (wwIHX)

352 Best movie of all time "Kentucky Friend Movie".

Kentucky Friend Movie was a terrible mashup of Deliverance and Brokeback Mountain

Posted by: Gref at September 27, 2025 09:50 PM (5rh/l)

353 Annie Proulx I think it is. The Brokeback novella is effective and touching and the guys are not at all hunky. If one can set aside one's feelings on the subject matter it's a great piece of work. I think she is a fine western writer in the vein of Cormac McCarthy, Thomas Savage and McMurtry

Posted by: Lex at September 27, 2025 09:50 PM (y4H1r)

354 332 I remember being in a packed theatre and someone near the front ripped a huge fart and you could hear the people around the perp all groan and go “ohhhhj” and groan. But then about 20 seconds later all the people about 5 rows back went “oooh! And groaned. And again, and again, all the way back.. The stench held together in this dark little cloud and traveled all the way across the theater!
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2025 09:39 PM (
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The ghost of William Castle tips his hat to the farter.

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at September 27, 2025 09:51 PM (kpS4V)

355 movies??
Posted by: LizLem at September 27, 2025 09:46 PM (7xvM4)

Me. Guilty as charged.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, in a hotel in ATL at September 27, 2025 09:51 PM (Si6el)

356 I liked the Kill Bill movies. QT and I are the same age and seemingly watched a lot of the same stuff growing up. One of the three channels on Sunday afternoons in the 70's always had a kung-fu movie and it was always a topic of discussion on the playground on Monday. Towards the end of KB I realized that it was a mash-up of those 70's movies and the spaghetti westerns. When KB 2 started out with using Morricone's "L'arena" score I knew I was right. Recall that even before KB we had Xena Warrior Princess and Buffy the Vampire Slayer so small women thrashing bunches of dudes around at one time was not particularly new territory.

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at September 27, 2025 09:52 PM (V362x)

357 Phantom of the Opera?

Really, are we going to fight over this?
I found it embarrassingly bad. I'm embarrassed that I allowed the femme du jour to drag me to it.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2025 08:35 PM (XeU6L)

Didn't like it as a movie? Or didn't like it as an adaptation of the musical?

I enjoyed it. The actress playing Meg was surprisingly hot. Made me wish she had a bigger role.

Posted by: Castle Guy at September 27, 2025 09:53 PM (Lhaco)

358 lol we just rewatched the first Superman (well, the one with Reeve) because I LOVED the new one and he insisted that one was better!

I really like the new one so! the old one sort of held up, but dragged in places and the ending made zero sense.

regardless

only walked out of one film - we had been invited to an early screening of The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover (or whatever the hell). BLECH. we were all there on free tickets anyway. Half the place walked out and when we saw the reviewer walk out we figured, let's book it! Terrible movie.

Posted by: Black Orchid at September 27, 2025 09:53 PM (FHttA)

359 The Tron sequel was really disappointing, I liked the f/X but all the way through I was thinking of all the obvious plot lines they ignored , and how much better it would have been with even a moderately competent screenwriter.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2025 09:54 PM (wwIHX)

360 Who remembers Phantom of the Paradise?

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2025 09:55 PM (wwIHX)

361 The foot scene in that movie was when Pitt picked up the Manson hitchhiker girl.
Posted by: The way I see it at September 27, 2025

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And Margot Robbie as the young Sharon Tate, barefoot in the movie theater.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2025 09:55 PM (cCu74)

362
Didn't like it as a movie? Or didn't like it as an adaptation of the musical?

Posted by: Castle Guy
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As a Gerard Butler movie.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2025 09:55 PM (XeU6L)

363 Walked out of Natural Born Kilers. What trash.

Posted by: Shoefly the Boxing Mule at September 27, 2025 09:56 PM (ufJfM)

364 Annie Proulx I think it is. The Brokeback novella is effective and touching and the guys are not at all hunky. If one can set aside one's feelings on the subject matter it's a great piece of work. I think she is a fine western writer in the vein of Cormac McCarthy, Thomas Savage and McMurtry
Posted by: Lex at September 27, 2025

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That's it. And I agree. I'm no fan of McCarthy and have never read Savage, but she is quite good.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2025 09:57 PM (cCu74)

365 One forgotten movie that I know Hordies have a soft spot for:

A Perfect World. Costner meets Eastwood.

Posted by: qdpsteve at September 27, 2025 09:57 PM (8z6SV)

366 Oregon scores a TD. PSU thought they had a fumble and returned to mid field. After a review, the Oregon RB's knee just barely brushed the grass and was called down, Oregon's ball. They just scored, Oregon is leading. PSU can't move the ball. Check the Draft Kings accounts of the Refs. Also, Franklin can't win big games.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 27, 2025 09:58 PM (xA5g+)

367 I will cop to liking the second Tron movie mostly for the music by Daft Punk.

I understand the third Tron movie will have polka music.

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at September 27, 2025 09:58 PM (kpS4V)

368 Best movie of all time "Kentucky Friend Movie".

--

Zinc Oxide and You was a classic. And Cleopatra Schwartz.

Posted by: ScaryMary at September 27, 2025 09:58 PM (Hvd9a)

369 359 The Tron sequel was really disappointing, I liked the f/X but all the way through I was thinking of all the obvious plot lines they ignored , and how much better it would have been with even a moderately competent screenwriter.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2025 09:54 PM (wwIHX)

I haven't watched that because my impression from the trailers and pre-reviews was it was a bust. Tron: Ares may also be a bust but I plan to give it a go. Senior discount, will bring a flask of Jack Daniels and buy a large Coke. No big loss if it's lousy.

Posted by: Gref at September 27, 2025 09:58 PM (5rh/l)

370 Walked out on Soapdish

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 27, 2025 09:58 PM (9ipOP)

371 The Tron sequel was really disappointing,
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As a marginally relevant aside, I was in the R&D Dept. of this company when that was made:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromatics_Inc.

"A CGC 7900 system was used to generate preliminary (wire-frame) animation artwork for the Disney movie, Tron."

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2025 09:59 PM (XeU6L)

372 All Hail Eris, I will cop to loving Jumping Jack Flash.

Yes, a WHOOPI GOLDBERG flick. Also happens to be a great Bond spoof.

Posted by: qdpsteve at September 27, 2025 09:59 PM (8z6SV)

373 Recall that even before KB we had Xena Warrior Princess and Buffy the Vampire Slayer so small women thrashing bunches of dudes around at one time was not particularly new territory.
Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at September 27, 2025

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Buffy has supernatural strength and speed. As for Xena, I think they'd mentioned in some episode that one of her parents was an Olympian god, so she was technically a demigod like Hercules.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2025 09:59 PM (cCu74)

374 Underground Seattle is remarkably well lit.

Posted by: fd at September 27, 2025 09:59 PM (vFG9F)

375 My first was Robin Hood with Costner - the breached baby scene was the end of political correctness that I could stomach

Posted by: chicagovota at September 27, 2025 10:00 PM (baPXJ)

376 Who remembers Phantom of the Paradise?
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2025 09:55 PM (wwIHX)
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I do! Saw it when it came out and again a few years ago. It holds up and the musical numbers are great, like the one that looked all German Expressionist-y.

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at September 27, 2025 10:00 PM (kpS4V)

377 Xena was... really something for a while.

The producers even liked to hint that she was a scissor sister...

Posted by: qdpsteve at September 27, 2025 10:01 PM (8z6SV)

378 Bollywood is always better.

Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at September 27, 2025 10:01 PM (wHIsE)

379 Isn't every Bollywood flick resolved with a huge dance-off??

Posted by: qdpsteve at September 27, 2025 10:02 PM (8z6SV)

380 Our Man in Havana w/ Alec Guinness is about to start on TCM.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2025 10:02 PM (cCu74)

381 Alec Guinness > Alec Baldwin

Posted by: qdpsteve at September 27, 2025 10:02 PM (8z6SV)

382 Ha! Was going to mention Natural Born Killers too as the ONLY movie I walked out of. Mostly because my friend who drove us there hated it and left. I didn't have another ride so I followed him. I read somewhere recently that Juliette Lewis who was IN NBK also walked out of it. Not sure what she thought she was filming at the time but whatever it was it wasn't what showed up on the screen.

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at September 27, 2025 10:03 PM (V362x)

383 351 335 There is a good reason Smell-O-Vision never caught on.
Posted by: fd at September 27, 2025 09:43 PM (vFG9F)

“I can smell Uranus!”
- Professor Farnsworth
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 27, 2025 09:50 PM (wwIHX)
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"Uranus is big and gassy" - Crow T. Robot

Posted by: Jolly Rancher Stuck on my Tooth at September 27, 2025 10:04 PM (cnpqA)

384 I thought "Prometheus" was a stupid, terrible, braindead movie that wanted to ruin the original "Alien" so bad it ran right into a wall in its enthusiasm so to do.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 27, 2025 10:05 PM (CHHv1)

385 Xena was... really something for a while.

The producers even liked to hint that she was a scissor sister...
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 27, 2025

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People have been saying for two decades that Xena and Gabrielle, the redhead who traveled with her, were lovers. I couldn't see any subtext like that; they were close friends who'd survived a slew of dangers together, that was all. (There are Man From U.N.C.L.E. fans who similarly love to portray Solo and Illya in their fan fiction as gay men. Gah.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2025 10:05 PM (cCu74)

386 I walked out of 'Billy Jack' in 1975. I was 17 years old. I found the violence repulsive. Now, I understand why it wasn't.

Posted by: thefritz at September 27, 2025 10:06 PM (orIN9)

387 Watched a Hindi movie this evening. 3 dance numbers. It was war film, with 3 dance numbers. Loved it.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at September 27, 2025 10:08 PM (2NHgQ)

388 Willem Dafoe’s character really flips his lid in that movie.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 27, 2025 09:42 PM (fd80v)

I just made my wife watch To Live And Die In L.A. last night. Dafoe had a good turn as the villain Rick Masters in that one.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 27, 2025 10:08 PM (BI5O2)

389 Billy Jack is a tedious fuckin' lecture of a movie.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 27, 2025 10:09 PM (BI5O2)

390 Lex, I think I understand your distinction between movies we've paid to see but walked out on, vs. ones we turn off or lose interest in watching. With the former we have an investment -- money, and time spent driving to the theater and waiting to get in and for the film to start. With ones on TV, or DVDs from the library, our investment is much less and there's less to lose. If you rise up and walk out of a film in a theater, that's much more of a statement.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2025 10:09 PM (cCu74)

391 Xena had a big lesbian following for sure. Lucy acknowledged this in interviews and while some episodes strayed close to it they never crossed that line.

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at September 27, 2025 10:10 PM (V362x)

392 I went to see Mad Max in its first run. I was about to walk out when it suddenly ended and saved me the trouble.

I wanted to walk out of Tootsie, but the then wife would have gotten upset. So I took a nap.

Posted by: ChupaMe at September 27, 2025 10:10 PM (tL/ii)

393 Billy Jack is a tedious fuckin' lecture of a movie.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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Fist bump

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2025 10:11 PM (XeU6L)

394 my wife's father passed this morning. He endured very little pain and died in his sleep. His type of cancer was very aggressive and all the wise women I know warned me to prepare the wife for the same horror my Father went through, but God was merciful. This was the best path we could hope for.

Wife is strong. Thank you for the prayers. I focused her attention on being a rock for her Mother, that seemed to help her cope with her first loss.

I don't rate to toast Joe. He's a Cowboy at heart who loved the Wizard of Oz. Lt Col Army Intel , Texas Border Patrol and Dallas Police Det. He was hard to read but what impressed me most was how kind he could be. We've lost one of the good ones. Reepicheep will watch over him tonight.

Posted by: Fenrisulven at September 27, 2025 10:11 PM (ciYHQ)

395 Solo & Illya, Kirk & Spock, and Xena & Gabrielle are all examples of Kipling's Thousandth Man, who will "stand with you to the gallows foot -- and after!" Not gay couples.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2025 10:12 PM (cCu74)

396 Billy Jack is a tedious fuckin' lecture of a movie.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

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Cool theme song/hit single, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2025 10:13 PM (cCu74)

397 328 Good for him. That's a part -- a small part, but a part -- of the reason I went to see Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2025 09:33 PM (cCu74)

The foot scene in that movie was when Pitt picked up the Manson hitchhiker girl.

Posted by: The way I see it at September 27, 2025 09:38 PM (EYmYM)

Also when Sharon Tate (Margo Robie) was in the movie theater watching herself.

Posted by: UltraChad SnizzMaster at September 27, 2025 10:13 PM (Yt3ED)

398 Nood ONT

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2025 10:14 PM (cCu74)

399 Alec Guinness > Alec Baldwin
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 27, 2025

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Hard to picture even a young Guinness playing Jack Ryan as well as Baldwin did, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2025 10:15 PM (cCu74)

400 I walked out on “Out of Africa”, but it was because the a.c. in the theatre was not working. In August.

Posted by: NCDave at September 27, 2025 10:16 PM (mAiNO)

401 When I was in college, I walked out of Wild at Heart. David Lynch was all the rage, but I hit my limit with that one. I should’ve walked out on Hook. Almost asked for my money back during Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

Posted by: NB at September 27, 2025 10:19 PM (88kff)

402 "Xena was... really something for a while."

I got sucked into it, thankfully Im not a girl and am immune to lesbianism but I wonder how many girls were seduced by they - they were always having so much fun. If I could find something that fun turning gay might almost be worth it but I was never here and never said such a thing

Posted by: Fenrisulven at September 27, 2025 10:19 PM (ciYHQ)

403 "Xena was... really something for a while."

I got sucked into it, thankfully Im not a girl and am immune to lesbianism but I wonder how many girls were seduced by they - they were always having so much fun. If I could find something that fun turning gay might almost be worth it but I was never here and never said such a thing
Posted by: Fenrisulven at September 27, 2025

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Lucy Lawless really sold the role. And Xena had a dark past she was trying to atone for, like Angel on Buffy and other characters of the time. It made her more three-dimensional.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2025 10:21 PM (cCu74)

404 comically star-crossed lovers in Bridget Loves Bernie in around '72. The show was highly rated, but some complaints convinced CBS to drop it, or so I recall reading.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 27, 2025 09:37 PM

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The self-appointed media watchdogs of both Jews and Catholics objected to it. And CBS didn't stand behind it. It was actually a cute show.

Posted by: Bigsmith at September 27, 2025 10:23 PM (1Au9i)

405 Unfortunately I was with my wife when she took me to see "New Moon". 5 minutes into the movie, I was hoping and imagining ways to kill Bella. I was squirming in my seat. I finally just closed my eyes and went ro sleep. Was in trouble for that. If I wasn't with the wife, that would have been a 10 minute walkout.

Posted by: PrettyDVicious at September 27, 2025 10:29 PM (6IvXb)

406 My understanding is that Superman did well, given WB’s expectations as far as digging out of the deep grave the character was left in by Zack Snyder.

Posted by: Open Channel D at September 27, 2025 10:37 PM (yma0/)

407 Should be noted, and has been by many people on Youtube, that James Gunn's Superman is actually a failure financially. $600 sounds excellent, but it cost way too much to produce and market to have made money.

Posted by: rjthom5 at September 27, 2025 10:38 PM (pWNs3)

408 Product placement, digital and physical media, tax breaks all get factored in to the success of a movie. WB stated at the outset that they wanted to revive interest in a flagship character that had been all but abandoned. But really, why does it matter what you think of a movie’s box office? All that really matters, if you liked the movie, is that it did well enough to fast track a sequel.

Posted by: Open Channel D at September 27, 2025 10:43 PM (yma0/)

409 >>> he felt to protest something did not require a movement or a PAC or whatever. A single, strong and well stated opinion and the conviction to stand behind it was enough to be as powerful as a majority.

Maybe I thought it was a cute turn of phrase for the essay, but it was perhaps a non sequitur.
Posted by: Lex at September 27, 2025 09:24 PM (y4H1r

Ahh, gotcha! I like that.

I've been studying the philosophies that drove Poe's works lately, and he was a raging anti-transcendentalist. So that's the angle my mind was in when I read your comment. I was just not catching where your thought was coming from, as it was from a different starting point than me. It was well worded! And intrigued me. Thanks for clarifying.

It would be cool to be from the location of so many literary greats!

Posted by: LizLem at September 27, 2025 10:44 PM (gWBY1)

410 Walked out on Blair witch project. My then teenage daughter wanted to see it. She walked out with me. I was getting motion sickness from th camera jouncing while dying of boredom. I was rooting for the witch. .also walked out eyes wide shut. What a boring pos and the music was Noriega torture material.
Posted by: Dewayne Finn at September 27, 2025 07:37 PM (qG9JI)

I couldn’t watch Blair Witch past the girl looking into the camera and panting, “I’m so scared!” over and over. Someone else telling me they’re frightened doesn’t get me to vibrate in harmony.

I turned off Natural Born Killers because there was no meaning behind the violence. Even Tarantino has a point to his violence. NBK was just a spree into psychosis.

Posted by: Advo at September 27, 2025 11:36 PM (jO4mz)

411 .
My wife and I walked out on Al Pacino in, "Scarface." When we left, the violence was too unpleasant and nothing indicated that anything worthwhile would come from staying. I have since watched the entire film with the realization that my wife and I were right to bail.

Posted by: Marooned at September 28, 2025 12:05 AM (kt8QE)

412 Always enjoy your thoughtful posts, Lex -- thank you!

First movie I remember walking out of was Natural Born Killers (Tarantino strikes again!); nihilistic gratuitous blood & gore for blood & gore's sake.

I almost walked out of No Country For Old Men (Coen Brothers movie and again Woody Harrelson) as well, but will often stick around 'til the end of a movie I'm not enjoying HOPING for some redeeming great and/or twist ending. Alas, 'twas not to be ...

The wifey and I have probably quit watching a handful of DVDs and/or streaming movies over the past couple of years -- but I can't remember them off the top of my head.

Cheers!

Posted by: ShainS -- Leftist Language is a Dehumanizing Permission Structure for Political Violence at September 28, 2025 12:17 AM (YqCDc)

413 I turned off Natural Born Killers because there was no meaning behind the violence. Even Tarantino has a point to his violence. NBK was just a spree into psychosis.

Posted by: Advo at September 27, 2025 11:36 PM (jO4mz)

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Delayed Horde Mind!

Posted by: ShainS -- Leftist Language is a Dehumanizing Permission Structure for Political Violence at September 28, 2025 12:18 AM (YqCDc)

414 My friend and I walked out of a 'cult-classic' showing of Eraserhead when we were in high school. Some of the 'sophisticated' members of the audience angrily asked where our babysitter was. It was a glorious moment and one of the few wise decisions I made back then.

Posted by: CtG at September 28, 2025 12:57 AM (P9C4k)

415 You walked out of Kill Bill?

Blasphemy.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 28, 2025 01:23 AM (EL2O4)

416 James Bond belongs in the 50's - 70's.

Superman belongs in the 40's - 70's.

Most characters Do Not work out of their timeline.
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 27, 2025 08:04 PM (rVkEy)

James Bond is not a character. He’s an archetype. (H/t, TCD) and he fits…anywhere.

I do t get the fascination with making period piece Bond. If that happens, I am OUT.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 28, 2025 01:31 AM (EL2O4)

417 Walked out of "the Road". Quit watching No Country for Old Men after about 30 minutes. Cormac McCarthy is nihilist trash.

Posted by: Taft at September 28, 2025 05:23 AM (IMtLx)

418 I walked out to . It got stupider and stupider

Posted by: oldsatcat at September 28, 2025 05:45 AM (ejqmb)

419 I was in the PI, and "Pluto Nash" was playing at the SM Mall. After about 20 jokes that fell absolutely flat, I thopught, "Self, I could be watching this piece of flotsam, or maybe even jetsam, or I could be out downing San Miggies on Fields chasing the local talent." Not a touch call.

Posted by: Tommy Shanks at September 28, 2025 06:09 AM (KDpmu)

420 I walked out of Life of David Gale and One Hour Photo. Literally the worst movies I ever spent money on. I’ll never get that time back.

Posted by: David Rasbold at September 28, 2025 09:49 AM (Vx7bz)

421 Ode to Billy Joe and Marathon Man.

Posted by: Deep Sea Endiver at September 28, 2025 01:17 PM (rSMVi)

422 I don't go to the movies to walk out anymore, but I remember walking out on Summer Rental back in the day. My buddy and I went to the next theater for the last half of Cocoon, which was a lot better.
I do the streaming version of walking out - If I make it through the first 15 minutes of a comedy and don't laugh once I turn it off. A few that immediately come to mind are Step Brothers, Grandma's Boy, and Ricky Stanicky. Another virtual walkout is the first unnecessary interracial, gay, or for bonus points, interracial gay couple. If you're establishing early on that your movie is prioritizing a lecture over story tellling I'm done

Posted by: Brother Bob at September 28, 2025 01:25 PM (tBfGm)

423 I walked on Pulp Fiction.

Leonard Maltin once described a movie as, "A disaster but not unwatchable." That was the moment I decided that critics weren't just worthless but possibly evil.

Posted by: Brian Mckim at September 28, 2025 04:18 PM (xi0cP)

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