Movies you walked out of the theaters/turned off the player on

[RoninFox]

Hmm... I'd have it as my number one, personally.  I was never a huge fan of Princess Bride.  They Live would be second though, I saw it again the other day and thought it was pretty darned good. 

Predator has Jesse "The Body" Ventura in it...  That would be in my top 5.

Hm, would be an interesting list to be sure.  Not sure where I'd put Predator on mine, only seen it with rifftrax lately, was never a big fan of it.

[Plastic Self-Cleaning Duck]

Wow, I cant remeber 1986, I was 4 years old

I was 10 but thankfully that film never registered on my consciousness.

Man you guys are making me feel old... I graduated high school in 1977.

I graduated in 1976....you're not alone.

[Dim of the Yard]

But seriously, how can you say you only made it through the first 15 minutes of Fear and Loathing?  The beginning is the funniest part.  Obviously you have a "different" sense of humor.

Whoa, easy now, tiger.  Gilliam's a bit of a hit-or-miss director, so I can't fault him for switching off Fear and Loathing.  The films that Gilliam makes just don't hit the mark with some people.  (Or, if you're judging by his more recent works, a lot of people, really.  QUITE a lot of people.  I'm looking at you, Tideland.)

Methinks rm31d tried to watch the movie while not in a compromised state of mind.  Apparently, it only gets better when you're drunk/high/drunk AND high.  I wouldn't know personally, but one of my friends swears that the only way to watch that movie is when you're stoned out of your mind.  Maybe that will help?

[LadyKenobi]

Andre was the pure inspiration for the Fezzik character,

I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure Fezzik was in the original book by William Goldman, which was written in1973.  AtG really didn't become famous in the U.S. until a little bit after that.

[bettertomorrowamy]

But seriously, how can you say you only made it through the first 15 minutes of Fear and Loathing?  The beginning is the funniest part.  Obviously you have a "different" sense of humor.

Whoa, easy now, tiger.  Gilliam's a bit of a hit-or-miss director, so I can't fault him for switching off Fear and Loathing.  The films that Gilliam makes just don't hit the mark with some people.  (Or, if you're judging by his more recent works, a lot of people, really.  QUITE a lot of people.  I'm looking at you, Tideland.)

Methinks rm31d tried to watch the movie while not in a compromised state of mind.  Apparently, it only gets better when you're drunk/high/drunk AND high.  I wouldn't know personally, but one of my friends swears that the only way to watch that movie is when you're stoned out of your mind.  Maybe that will help?

Never watched that movie on drugs or drunk so I wouldn't know, but I have read Thompson voraciously.  Maybe you do have to have an idea what you're going in for.  Tideland was strange, and I can't say I made it all the way through it.  Fear and Loathing was about as close to the book as ANY director could ever get, so if anything rm31d just doesn't like Hunter Thompson which is even worse in my book.

[RoninFox]

Andre was the pure inspiration for the Fezzik character,

I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure Fezzik was in the original book by William Goldman, which was written in1973.  AtG really didn't become famous in the U.S. until a little bit after that.

He was still on tv, perhaps not a household name yet, but he was touring the nation by then.  By the time the 80s came around and wrestling went into one of it's bigger boom periods, Andre had already had a well established career and was already past his prime.  William Goldman saw him, probably fairly soon after he had arrived in the US, and more or less wrote the character with his look in mind, though he'd never heard Andre speak at that time, so he made the character a Turk without knowing about Andre's incredibly thick French accent.

[rm31d]

Methinks rm31d tried to watch the movie while not in a compromised state of mind.  Apparently, it only gets better when you're drunk/high/drunk AND high.  I wouldn't know personally, but one of my friends swears that the only way to watch that movie is when you're stoned out of your mind.  Maybe that will help?
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Never watched that movie on drugs or drunk so I wouldn't know, but I have read Thompson voraciously.  Maybe you do have to have an idea what you're going in for.  Tideland was strange, and I can't say I made it all the way through it.  Fear and Loathing was about as close to the book as ANY director could ever get, so if anything rm31d just doesn't like Hunter Thompson which is even worse in my book.
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Terry Gilliam should have realized that tripping is more fun than watching other people trip.  This is also my philosophy for pornography.

He should also have realized that people who never take acid wouldn't be able to relate. The movie's so damn static and lethargic (to convey the effect of drugs, I suppose) that it was just a limp, dead old thing.  Weird, because the book goes at a mile a minute.

Besides, if you think you disagree now, you should hear what I think of "Star Wars."   

[elogotar]

I don't walk out on bad movies, I just tear them apart, riff style (note: I've been doing this since before I saw my first episode of MST3K). Bad movies just make it so damn easy. Politeness and decency be damned!!

[LadyKenobi]

He was still on tv, perhaps not a household name yet, but he was touring the nation by then.  By the time the 80s came around and wrestling went into one of it's bigger boom periods, Andre had already had a well established career and was already past his prime.

Oh, OK, you mean the shading of the character in the movie.   I'm talking about the book version. 

[Hebs]

He was still on tv, perhaps not a household name yet, but he was touring the nation by then.  By the time the 80s came around and wrestling went into one of it's bigger boom periods, Andre had already had a well established career and was already past his prime.

Oh, OK, you mean the shading of the character in the movie.   I'm talking about the book version. 

Does anyone know why Shepard Fairey chose him for the OBEY posters?  Was it just because he liked him?

[Tripe]

He was still on tv, perhaps not a household name yet, but he was touring the nation by then.  By the time the 80s came around and wrestling went into one of it's bigger boom periods, Andre had already had a well established career and was already past his prime.

Oh, OK, you mean the shading of the character in the movie.   I'm talking about the book version. 

No, he means the character in the book. Though I'm going to say this is a grey area. The book was published in 1973 and Andre debuted for the WWF at Madison Square Gardens in March of that year. So I could see him becoming the basis for the character in the book (similarly to how Sting is the basis for John Constantine) but I'm not sure if that's the case or not.

[LadyKenobi]

I highly doubt he was the basis for the book manifestation.  The book was published in 1973-- not written.  It started as a bedtime story for his kids.

[Tripe]

It started as a bedtime story for his kids.

I'm not sure that there's much veracity in that claim either considering the high level of artifice that surrounds the book.

[Steve-O]

[Does anyone know why Shepard Fairey chose him for the OBEY posters?  Was it just because he liked him?

Fairey's stated goal was to just create some sort of phenomenon.  I haven't heard his specific reasons for choosing Andre', but I would guess it was because of his striking appearance, and his pre-existing cult status.

The OBEY thing came later, by the way.  The original posters just said, "Andre' the Giant has a Posse" along with a greyscale picture of Andre' and his height and weight.  Then Fairey got sued for using the copyrighted name "Andre' the Giant", so he changed the image and added the "OBEY" motif.

[msmpls]

I fell asleep during 300.  Yeah, you heard me right.  Three.  Hundred.  Suck on that.  I also kept falling asleep during Yojimbo, but that might have more to do with how exhausted I was and less with how bad the movie was.

Fell asleep in the theatre during The Life Aquatic twice, Transformers, that one where Theron wears vinyl pants, Pan's Labyrinth, Simpsons Movie, 300...there are more but I can't remember...