It's one thing to stop a video on your computer, or even shut off a DVD. It takes a lot more to carry yourself out of a theater after driving there, paying for the movie, possibly buying food, and knowing that "I didn't like it" is not sufficient cause for a refund. I have never left a theater before the movie ended. Have you?
Nope, I never have. I don't see the point in not finishing something that you paid around $10 for, even if it's bad. Plus...I've never even really seen a really dreadful movie in theaters before. I don't go to movies a lot, and I choose wisely when I do.
I try not to go to see a film unless I know I'll like it, especially as tickets are so expensive now. But I came close to walking out during Spiderman 3.
I try not to go to see a film unless I know I'll like it, especially as tickets are so expensive now. But I came close to walking out during Spiderman 3.Bourbons3
Truth, movies are so darned exspensive, its a small fortune just for dinner and a movie
I haven't been to a movie since August of 2001. If I ever did go again, being older, I'm fairly sure that this would happen. It takes me ~3-5 sittings to get through a given movie, usually because I'm not at all interested... movies just aren't for me.
Well, once I was an hour early for the movie I was actually going to see, so I stepped into a few other movies, none of them caught my attention though.
Not by my own will. My friend and I had to leave an R movie once because the staff made us. We were under 17 at the time, but we assumed the fact that since my friend's dad bought us the tickets that we had permission to see the movie, but apparently wasn't good enough for the theater. Even though his of-age brother was with us. I understand where the theater was coming from, but it was lame nonetheless. At least we got a refund. I can't remember if we went to see another movie instead, since this was quite a long time ago.
Yea only one the skelleton key worst movie ever my freinds were dumb and said it was scary most boring pice of crap I have ever seen. Good thing I didnt pay I went in through the back.
I forget the title of the movie, but it was some martial arts movie and it was subtitled. I didn't know it was subtitled if I did know that I wouldn't have watch it. Anyways I ended up sleeping off and on through out the movie.
[QUOTE="D3nnyCrane"]I thought you were supposed to walk out of Transformers 2 30mins in...barcx17
Believe me, I wanted to... but then I thought about those $15 that I had paid (IMAX) and I just stayed sitting down.
I actually stood up to leave, despite the fact I'd paid for tickets and was driving friends. It was only a chorus of frantic, whispered "noooo..." that made me sit down and play phone games.
I felt tempted watching terminator 4.Worse film i have ever seen in my life,and i go out of my way to find bad films as they funny as hell when watched in 1.5 speed.Yet 1.5 speed wouldnt be enough to save terminator 4
Lost In Translation. I tried. Bill Murray... BILL MURRAY. How on earth can you have a film with Bill Murray and only wring one tiny laugh from the audience, and that within the first 5 minutes of the film? I survived about 45 minutes before realising this film wasn't going anywhere.
Yes, I walked out of Bruno yesterday. It's not a waste of money, my time is more valueable to me than sitting through something so bad, and $10 is not that much.
No, but I would have walked out of Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen had I not been there with friends. Same with Knowing. I haven't hated any films that much in a while.
nope never have, since usually im with someone, and well my money isnt quite disposable as i have to make sacrifices to have the money to go to the movie
Yes, I walked out of Serenity. Really... really bad.
I would have also walked out of The Matrix Reloaded, but I needed a ride home with my friends. After the film was over, everyone else said they wanted to walk out as well.
Yes, I walked out of Serenity. Really... really bad.
I would have also walked out of The Matrix Reloaded, but I needed a ride home with my friends. After the film was over, everyone else said they wanted to walk out as well.
I think last time was back to the last Lord of the rings movie, not because it was bad but because they dragged the ending on for ages and the constant fade to black left me thinking " Oh now it's done" I think I stood up and sat down like a moron five times durring that ending.
I definitely walked out of The Island of Dr. Morrow. It was horrifically bad. I would have walked out of A.I., but I went with my wife, and didn't think she would want to walk out, so I dealt with it. It turned out she told me afterwards that she would have walked out, but didn't think I would want to! I was close to walking out on Gattica, but decided to stick with it. The last 15 minutes were good, but the first hour and 45 sucked.
My bigger problem is falling asleep at movies, I have slept through parts of plenty of movies and wound up wasting money that way. The most notable was The Usual Suspects. I fell asleep about 1/3 of the way through and woke up just as they were revealing the surprise ending. I remember falling asleep in the Mortal Kombat movie and Lord of Illusions. There were definitely others, but I don't remember which ones they were.
Me and 3 friends walked out of the theater during World Trade Center. One of the worst movies I have ever seen. I (unfortunately) did end up finishing it a few months later when it was shown on TV.
Yes, I walked out of Serenity. Really... really bad.
I would have also walked out of The Matrix Reloaded, but I needed a ride home with my friends. After the film was over, everyone else said they wanted to walk out as well.
I understand why someone who didn't watch Firefly might not like Serenity, but for those of us who did, we loved those characters. They were better and more developed in the TV show than the film, but we still love those characters any way we can get them.
[QUOTE="NBSRDan"]It's one thing to stop a video on your computer, or even shut off a DVD. It takes a lot more to carry yourself out of a theater after driving there, paying for the movie, possibly buying food, and knowing that "I didn't like it" is not sufficient cause for a refund. I have never left a theater before the movie ended. Have you? Nope, I never have either.
I understand why someone who didn't watch Firefly might not like Serenity, but for those of us who did, we loved those characters. They were better and more developed in the TV show than the film, but we still love those characters any way we can get them.
patsrule316
Well, as someone who had never even heard of Firefly when I saw Serenity, I went in with no expectations one way or the other. I watched it purely as someone hoping to see a good film, and that isn't what I got. From the completely unbiased perspetive of the average cinema-goer, I thought it was atrocious.
I understand why someone who didn't watch Firefly might not like Serenity, but for those of us who did, we loved those characters. They were better and more developed in the TV show than the film, but we still love those characters any way we can get them.
broken_bass_bin
Well, as someone who had never even heard of Firefly when I saw Serenity, I went in with no expectations one way or the other. I watched it purely as someone hoping to see a good film, and that isn't what I got. From the completely unbiased perspetive of the average cinema-goer, I thought it was atrocious.
Same here. I got dragged to see Serenity not knowing anything about Firefly, and it felt like I was seeing half a movie. The movie relies too much on assuming that the audience already knows and cares about it's world and characters, which is frankly ridiculous considering the extremely low viewing figures Firefly received.
They tried to make it not rely so much on knowing the characters, but failed. That effect wound up still leaving non-viewers in the dark, but leaving the viewers (or at least this viewer) a little disappointed that they weren't the fully dimensional characters they were in the show. But I was still happy to see the characters in another adventure, even if it wasn't as good as the original adventures.
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