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

[RoninFox]

Stopping Megatron was the one part of the action I seemed to understand, that the power of the Allspark was so powerful it would overload a transformer if pushed into their chest, where their own "personal spark" resided. 

This sounds very silly indeed.

So would the equivalent for humans be to attack someone with a giant heart?

Hmmm... no, it's probably more like plugging an American appliance into an outlet in Europe without a converter, i.e. more power would be flowing through the system than the system was designed to handle. It makes "movie sense" to me.

And for the record I know what Ronin's getting at and completely agree... I'm sick to death of watching fight scenes with the camera zoomed up someone's nose.

Exactly.  Back in the day (a wednesday) you'd watch a Bruce Lee movie, or even an early Jackie Chan movie and the camera would be pushed back so you could see every movement made.  When the camera gets too close, I take it as a sign that the fight isn't as good and they're trying to cover for it.

[stansimpson]

I have a big problem with walking out of movies in theaters, because I know I'm losing both money and credibility (how can I even carry a conversation with somebody who saw the whole thing?). 

I had to leave "Ghostbusters II" (right when the goo was coming out of the bathtub).  No movie has ever scared the crap out of me that bad before or since (I was quite young, keep in mind).  It's weird because I loved the first one so much.  For YEARS, I had nightmares of Vigo!  *shudders/cries*

My date and I also walked out of "Million Dollar Baby"; not that it was a bad movie.  It's closer to that "Seinfeld" ep with Jerry and "Schindler's List." 

[RoninFox]

I have a big problem with walking out of movies in theaters, because I know I'm losing both money and credibility (how can I even carry a conversation with somebody who saw the whole thing?). 

I had to leave "Ghostbusters II" (right when the goo was coming out of the bathtub).  No movie has ever scared the crap out of me that bad before or since (I was quite young, keep in mind).  It's weird because I loved the first one so much.  For YEARS, I had nightmares of Vigo!  *shudders/cries*

My date and I also walked out of "Million Dollar Baby"; not that it was a bad movie.  It's closer to that "Seinfeld" ep with Jerry and "Schindler's List." 

Vigo was pretty freaky for the youngsters.  I was a kid too watching that in the theater and he scared the crap out of me.  Now when I watch that movie he just looks like an uglier Triple H.

[Cosmic Muse]

Stopping Megatron was the one part of the action I seemed to understand, that the power of the Allspark was so powerful it would overload a transformer if pushed into their chest, where their own "personal spark" resided.  As for the rest of the action, I agree it followed the recent unfortunate trend of the past several years of bad camera work that obscures the action rather than highlighting it, as if the craziness of the camera moves will draw you into the intensity of the fight instead of just confuse you and wonder why you were just shown a robot's ass or whatever it was.  That was one of my main complaints about Batman Begins too, just back the damn camera away and let me see the fight.  You don't have to go all Matrix on us, the best fight scenes I've ever seen on film were shot from a distance back for most or all of it.

I think it would have worked if Bay backed away from the project entirely.  I tend to think the reason why the CGI was so blurry was because it's hard to animate all that kibble on Bay's robots without spending a lifetime doing it.

[ScottotD]

Forrest Gump

[Cibernético II]

The Producers and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Both of these were rentals that I had hopes for. I thought the Producers would be funny because Mel Brooks was involved, but there weren't any laughs. Actually it was my parents who turned it off, I was willing to give it a try til the end but everyone else in the room were irritated by the musical numbers and possibly the wierd homo chemistry between Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick

The Life Aquatic was just pure dry, boring, depressing drivel. I thought that Bill Murray would guarantee some comedy, but I literally only chuckled once during the whole thing and that was for the "Jaguar Shark" line. That movie will leave its awful dry taste on your tongue for weeks.

[Phantom of Krankor]

That was one of my main complaints about Batman Begins too, just back the damn camera away and let me see the fight.  You don't have to go all Matrix on us, the best fight scenes I've ever seen on film were shot from a distance back for most or all of it.

You know, it seems like every film these days does that with its cinematography. Apparently the logic behind this is to give a sense of being "in the action." Heh, I don't give a crap about feeling like I'm "in the action."  I just wanna see the amazing choreography!

Braveheart is an example of a good use of cinematography though. They use the shakey camera effect, but not too much so you can perfectly see the choreography and action.

[stansimpson]

The Producers and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Both of these were rentals that I had hopes for. I thought the Producers would be funny because Mel Brooks was involved, but there weren't any laughs. Actually it was my parents who turned it off, I was willing to give it a try til the end but everyone else in the room were irritated by the musical numbers and possibly the wierd homo chemistry between Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick

The Life Aquatic was just pure dry, boring, depressing drivel. I thought that Bill Murray would guarantee some comedy, but I literally only chuckled once during the whole thing and that was for the "Jaguar Shark" line. That movie will leave its awful dry taste on your tongue for weeks.

I can understand not liking Life Aquatic.  I think most people misunderstand it.  Like dry humor and slapstick, Wes Anderson defines his own genre of comedy uncalculable just by pure laughs.  It's not Anderson's greatest, but it certainly shouldn't be judged by how many laughs it gets (I made the same mistake with Royal Tenebaums).  And if you just want LOL comedies, then I'm really glad you didn't suffer the whole way through!

As for The Producers, did everyone know it was a Broadway musical?  It lives up to everything Broadway is today.  If everyone knew that in the first place, you probably wouldn't have rented it at all.  (Personal sidenote:  It's the least 'Mel Brooks' thing he's ever done... very strange). 

A little research makes the better movie choice.

[RoninFox]

As for The Producers, did everyone know it was a Broadway musical?  It lives up to everything Broadway is today.  If everyone knew that in the first place, you probably wouldn't have rented it at all.  (Personal sidenote:  It's the least 'Mel Brooks' thing he's ever done... very strange). 

A little research makes the better movie choice.

How does this version compare to the original movie though?  I haven't seen either one yet, but I'm curious about both.

[Chaos]

A little research makes the better movie choice.

It's a little pretentious to assume that someone doesn't like something just because they "don't understand" it. Furthermore, if you need to "research" a movie before you go and watch it, then the movie is fundamentally flawed as an out on the town entertainment experience.

For the record, I've seen The Producers on stage (not on Broadway, because I don't live in New York, but a professional production), and I've seen the movie. I've enjoyed both well known and obscure plays and musicals... I strongly disliked The Producers, and the movie doesn't even do a good job of capturing the play's vibe.

As for Life Aquatic, I said earlier in this thread that it was so effing bad, my wife literally went into labour to avoid having to watch the whole thing. Really, seriously, literally. We were about 20 or 25 minutes in and she came out with "We need to go to the hospital, my water just broke." My response? "That's a lucky break. Let's get the hell out of here."

Oh, and we both really enjoyed Tenebaums. Anderson isn't the problem, it's just that Life Aquatic is a really crappy movie.

[RoninFox]

A little research makes the better movie choice.

It's a little pretentious to assume that someone doesn't like something just because they "don't understand" it. Furthermore, if you need to "research" a movie before you go and watch it, then the movie is fundamentally flawed as an out on the town entertainment experience.

For the record, I've seen The Producers on stage (not on Broadway, because I don't live in New York, but a professional production), and I've seen the movie. I've enjoyed both well known and obscure plays and musicals... I strongly disliked The Producers, and the movie doesn't even do a good job of capturing the play's vibe.

As for Life Aquatic, I said earlier in this thread that it was so effing bad, my wife literally went into labour to avoid having to watch the whole thing. Really, seriously, literally. We were about 20 or 25 minutes in and she came out with "We need to go to the hospital, my water just broke." My response? "That's a lucky break. Let's get the hell out of here."

Oh, and we both really enjoyed Tenebaums. Anderson isn't the problem, it's just that Life Aquatic is a really crappy movie.

Well it seems you don't quite understand what Stan was going for with that post you see...

Okay, I got nothing, just the beginning of the joke really.

[BathTub]

Well my initial impression of complaining about songs in a musical does perhaps suggest a lack of understanding what they were getting into.

[Auraveda]

The only movie I have ever walked out on in the theater was The Cell.  The advertising for the movie made it seem as if it was going to be some sort of strange and beautiful art film about dreams and the subconscious, but in reality it was really just a lot of pointless and gratuitous gore.  I really tried to stick it out because I don't like leaving movies, but I finally had to leave when the murderer was using some guy's intestines for harp strings.  I went and laid down in the car while my boyfriend watched the rest of it. 

I don't know why it affected me so badly, I was getting really light headed by the time I had to leave.  I think it was the surprise perhaps.  If I had known ahead of time that it was going to be a gory movie I could have dealt with it, but the advertising was completely misleading.

[Chaos]

Well my initial impression of complaining about songs in a musical does perhaps suggest a lack of understanding what they were getting into.

Yes, but they weren't really complaining about the fact that songs were in it, they were complaining about how bad and dragging those songs in particular were.

[DarthSeaBass]

The only movie I have ever walked out on in the theater was The Cell.  The advertising for the movie made it seem as if it was going to be some sort of strange and beautiful art film about dreams and the subconscious, but in reality it was really just a lot of pointless and gratuitous gore.  I really tried to stick it out because I don't like leaving movies, but I finally had to leave when the murderer was using some guy's intestines for harp strings.  I went and laid down in the car while my boyfriend watched the rest of it. 

I don't know why it affected me so badly, I was getting really light headed by the time I had to leave.  I think it was the surprise perhaps.  If I had known ahead of time that it was going to be a gory movie I could have dealt with it, but the advertising was completely misleading.

I'd have walked out after finding out jennifer lopez was in it.