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| RockGolf |
Posted - 11/08/2007 : 16:06:40
They had a forum for people to tell about movies they walked out of. From hundreds of submissions, 27 were selected for today's Photo Gallery front page feature, and my submission was included as the dead last of 27 used on the website, or the grand climax. Take yer pick.
http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20158993_26,00.html
(It's a true story. Happened on opening night, which may have been the only night this film had a substantial audience. Varsity Theatre, Toronto.)
So what movie have you walked out of? |
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| randall |
Posted - 11/26/2007 : 00:57:19
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Originally posted by Yukon
And Sorry,I'm not sold on Will Farrell. I liked Blades of Glory but Talledega Nights and even Anchorman just weren't that funny. I find Will Ferrell just says stupid things instead of actually delivering jokes.
Wow, I had the opposite opinion on all three of those movies. Guess that's what makes horse races... |
| duh |
Posted - 11/24/2007 : 04:43:06
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Originally posted by Yukon
And Sorry,I'm not sold on Will Farrell.
Same here. |
| demonic |
Posted - 11/24/2007 : 01:07:01
As for Happiness - yes, it's a fairly shocking scene, but only if you've bought into it. Happiness is definitely a comedy, it just concerns itself with darker kinds of sexuality in a frank way that many people can't deal with - hence the shocks, and the laughs. The way I see it, if it happens in the world, it's justified and should be explored in the arts. In the hands of a lesser director it probably would have been tasteless - but think of it this way - you don't see anything happen at all - all you've reacted to are words. There's the darkest strand of humour in there which I think makes sure that scene remains palatable, also the script and the acting are phenomenal. I think its one of the great scenes of the last ten years. If only all films were so bold.
Great Expectations - that's some people's experience of unrequited love all over, but you have to blame Charles Dickens really, because that's what Estella does in the book, and sort of the point of the story. Without that will to win her love Pip/Fin wouldn't have become as successful as he does. Also it's far more interesting seeing him struggle...
Will Ferrell - couldn't agree more. Duuuullll. |
| Yukon |
Posted - 11/22/2007 : 04:21:27
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Originally posted by dem8nic
You found Happiness boring?
I know it's a love it or hate it film, but apathy is a new one on me. Surely the acting is too good and the situations too hilariously toe-curling for that? And if nothing else it's worth it just for the astonishing scene between father and son at the end.
I have to say I like the Ethan Hawke "Great Expectations" too.
I'll correct myself, Happiness wasn't boring but definitely disgusting. I am by far no way a prude. I watched Pink Flamingos and thought the chainsaw scene in Scarafce was great. But Happiness went too far. That movie was revotling. I want to watch a father talking about fucking little boys. And I hate the fact that that movie made me feel disgusting because I usually mock prudes who make comments like "That movie was disgusting."
Hated Great Expectations because I couldn't understand why Ethan Hawke wanted Gwyenth Paltrow. She treated him like shit for the entier movie. Get a backbone and go pick up some other chick, Ethan!
And Sorry,I'm not sold on Will Farrell. I liked Blades of Glory but Talledega Nights and even Anchorman just weren't that funny. I find Will Ferrell just says stupid things instead of actually delivering jokes. |
| MisterBadIdea |
Posted - 11/21/2007 : 03:13:55
Cuaron's "Great Expectations" is one of my favorite films of all time. Like seriously, I have so much love for that movie.
I gotta agree with demonic here, none of those movies strike me as boring at all. Talladega Nights is hilarious, Happiness is soul-scarringly depressing, and Hulk is a misguided disaster of epic proportions -- but boring? |
| demonic |
Posted - 11/21/2007 : 01:45:16
You found Happiness boring?
I know it's a love it or hate it film, but apathy is a new one on me. Surely the acting is too good and the situations too hilariously toe-curling for that? And if nothing else it's worth it just for the astonishing scene between father and son at the end.
I have to say I like the Ethan Hawke "Great Expectations" too.
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| Yukon |
Posted - 11/20/2007 : 13:58:12
The only movie I ever wanted to walk out of was At Play In The Fields of the Lord -- a three hour, 15 minute snore fest. The only reason I didn't was because I was reviewing the film for my campus newspaper. Wanted to walk out of Great Expectations (Ethan Hawke version)but I was with friends.
I agree with MGuyx, as I get older, with a busy job and three kids, my time is more valuable so I find myself turning off boring DVDs all the time: Talledega Nights, The Hulk, and yes, Happiness.
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| RockGolf |
Posted - 11/14/2007 : 20:08:14
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Originally posted by K8li
I've just been through all 27 and yours was the funniest and best entry by far. I'd have sat through the film a second time just for that moment.
I can't be sure that I've ever walked out of a film screening. I'm too mean. But if I did it was probably Pokemon (also among the 27), which I found absolutely appalling. I think I drew the short straw while my wife was fortunate enough to take the older offspring to see a different movie in the same multiplex. 
Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it. I would have walked out on Pokemon except I couldn't leave my son alone in the theatre at that age. To stay awake I listened in on the cellphone call that some ignoramus in the row behind was on for most of the movie. She was, I think, speaking in Polish, and I couldn't understand a word. It was still more interesting than the film. |
| Koli |
Posted - 11/14/2007 : 19:50:54
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Originally posted by thefoxboy
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Originally posted by d8m8lc
Does skipping part of a dvd count? after a few minutes of the rape in "Irreversible," i had to go to the next chapter.
I didn't skip any of that, but I hear you.
I'll second that. I didn't skip any of it but it was a pretty disturbing experience. I understand why it went on as long as it did, but five minutes would have been less unpleasant. |
| Koli |
Posted - 11/14/2007 : 19:43:46
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Originally posted by R o � k G 0 1 f
They had a forum for people to tell about movies they walked out of. From hundreds of submissions, 27 were selected for today's Photo Gallery front page feature, and my submission was included as the dead last of 27 used on the website, or the grand climax. Take yer pick.
http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20158993_26,00.html
(It's a true story. Happened on opening night, which may have been the only night this film had a substantial audience. Varsity Theatre, Toronto.)
So what movie have you walked out of?
I've just been through all 27 and yours was the funniest and best entry by far. I'd have sat through the film a second time just for that moment.
I can't be sure that I've ever walked out of a film screening. I'm too mean. But if I did it was probably Pokemon (also among the 27), which I found absolutely appalling. I think I drew the short straw while my wife was fortunate enough to take the older offspring to see a different movie in the same multiplex. |
| thefoxboy |
Posted - 11/13/2007 : 00:10:19
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Originally posted by d8m8lc
Does skipping part of a dvd count? after a few minutes of the rape in "Irreversible," i had to go to the next chapter.
I didn't skip any of that, but I hear you.
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| MisterBadIdea |
Posted - 11/12/2007 : 14:48:51
Man, most of the people in that Entertainment Weekly thing come off as complete assholes. "Wahhh, Sin City was violent." Grow up. "Boo hoo hoo, Eyes Wide Shut was long and drawn-out." Well, hi, everyone, you went to an art film, sorry Julia Roberts isn't pushing Richard Gere face first into a wedding cake.
Not knowing how a film ends annoys me more than any film could. I couldn't fathom actually paying money to see a movie and not finishing it, even outright shit like The Covenant or Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.
By the same token, I can't imagine having to endure Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band any more than 1.0 times, even to set up a good joke. |
| Sal[Au]pian |
Posted - 11/12/2007 : 13:46:30
I didn't walk out of In the Name of God on Saturday night. I'm mentioning this because it would have been quite natural - when the film started it had no subtitles! This was even though they were specified in the cinema leaflet (and they often don't specify them there when a film does have them, which every non-English film I've seen at the cinema has done). I didn't want to look like the stupid white person by leaving, so I stuck it out (for three hours). Some scenes were in English, the Urdu conversations contained some English and I could understand a small amount of the Urdu via Hindi via Nepali, so I could follow what was happening, though only at a rudimentary level. It was also less of a problem for me than everyone else when the sound kept cutting out. Anyway, it was an interesting experience.  |
| Chris C |
Posted - 11/11/2007 : 18:47:43
Never walked out on one, but stopped watching on TV/DVD plenty of times. |
| Tori |
Posted - 11/11/2007 : 14:24:47
I walked out of Talledegah Nights. |
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