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Old 09-19-2024, 12:14 AM  
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I just walked out of a movie for the first time ever.

I walked out of my first movie ever last night. I hated to do it, because it was a "World Premiere" and the director spoke before the airing. It was locally produced.

I'll describe the movie now, fuzzing up some details because it's not my intent to embarrass the director, who seemed nice.

It opened with a an aerial shot of a rivulet of water. Very pretty.

Two minutes later, I was thinking, "Uh, time to move on from this shot."

Then the sound started. It was people doing a chant in monotone notes.

Based on my estimate afterwards, we got 12 minutes of running water and monotonic chants. 12 minutes. Stare at some running water for 12 minutes while ringing your doorbell continuously and you'll see the challenge.

Then the scene switched to an aerial shot of some frozen body of water. One minute, two minutes, .... then the sounds came on, and they were random wildlife sounds. And when I say random, we're talking random. There were dogs barking, for example. Dogs barking while we looked down at the frozen water.

That went on for another 12 minutes or so and nothing on the screen ever moved.

Then we went to the third scene. This one had a boat on a lake, and I thought, "Okay, we're going to start hearing some narration now."

Nope. It was 12+ minutes of the boat sitting on the water, very slowly drifting slightly to the right, which was the most exciting scene of the night to that point.

The sound started for this scene, and it was someone saying sentences. I couldn't tell what was being said, because the director recorded five or six different voices saying the same sentences, and then she offset each voice by half a second. The result was cacophonic noise that was rhythmic enough to be really annoying, and you couldn't understand the words. That went on for almost ten minutes and I finally put my fingers in my ears because it was so annoying. Then she started strobing in bright pictures, still images that flashed so fast that you couldn't tell what the image was. Fast-flashing movie scenes really bother me, so now I had to either cover my eyes or my ears and I needed to cover both. I finally leaned over to my wife and said, "I can't take this any more. I'll wait outside." She decided to go with me and we left.

When we walked out, I looked at my watch and we'd been there for 48 minutes, minus ten minutes for the intro speech. They were still showing the boat on the lake when we left.

I'm fine with avant-garde stuff. It's not always my thing, but I can tolerate it. But this? This was painful. It was essentally 48 minutes of looking at three photos surrounded with nonsensical sounds. I can't figure out how that director put that together and decided that it was ready for the public. I felt like a meanie for walking out when the creator was in the audience, but life is too short for that, man.
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Old 09-19-2024, 07:18 PM   #46
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Why didn't you go then? You should have known after that was just getting all their goodbyes in.
I never read the books, so I had no idea what was going to happen next. Plus, I just wanted to see the end of it.
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Old 09-19-2024, 07:46 PM   #47
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Honestly, I rank Rogue One right alongside the original Star Wars as the best movies of the franchise. I give the slight edge to the original (which I refuse to call "A New Hope") because I still remember the absolute joy of seeing it in the theater, many times, when I was a child.

You really should give Rogue One another go. It's awesome.
Nah, just left a bad taste in my mouth. The "all old white guys are bad, everyone else is a good guy" stuff makes it not worth it especially me not being a Star Wars fan boy anyways.
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Old 09-19-2024, 07:52 PM   #48
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Thin Red Line was such a total mess, philosophical meanderings about nothing... the perfect Sean Penn vehicle
Thin Red Line was terrible, absolutely terrible. And I think it was made worse because it came out at about the same time as some really good war movie, maybe Private Ryan? Or Forrest Gump, to the extent that it had war scenes? Regardless, my wife and I had recently enjoyed some war movie and went to Thin Red Line with high expectations, and it was a slog to sit through it.

Even so, I was never tempted to walk out. In contrast to the one I walked out of, at least something was happening on the screen. People were walking and talking and stuff.

At home, I tend to be pretty impatient these days with on-demand movies. If they don't keep me engaged, I'll give up on them pretty quickly. I also get distracted easily at home, which makes the movie's job harder. So that's a different animal.

At the theater, I've never given up until this week. But I can think of a few movies where I was impatiently waiting for it to end so I could go do something interesting. Off the top of my head, I can think of ...
  • Some Almodovar movie that I don't recall the title of - He was supposedly a big deal so we went to one of his movies. First off, it was in Spanish with subtitles, which doesn't help. But that wasn't the main problem. I don't know if Spanish people are just dumb, but it was a really stupid plot with overacting that seemed more appropriate for a children's TV show than an adult movie. It was kind of embarrassing at parts when the actors were mugging for the camera.

  • Kill Bill - I didn't care for any of the characters. It was boring and bloody and the plot was nearly non-existent. I like almost all of Tarantino's stuff, but this one was a major swing and miss.

  • War of the Roses - If I wanted two nonstop hours of people arguing, I'd visit my parents. Plus, it was an early date with my future wife, and the subject matter wasn't conducive to dating.

  • The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover - I saw this decades ago and remember nothing about it other than being bored out of my skull.

  • One of the later Star Wars movies. The first three movies were legendary. I think (not sure) that I watched the fourth and was unimpressed, and then the fifth one was excruciating to the point that I never watched another one. It could have been the fourth movie, but I think it was the fifth. I just remember a scene with Natalie Portman (or was it Keira Knightley?) and some dude talking about politics that seemed to last hours.

  • Pretty much any Woody Allen movie made after about 1985. That guy jumped the shark bad.

I'm sure there are others, but these pop out in my mind as near-walkouts.

Every one of them was 500 times better than what I saw last week, though.
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Old 09-19-2024, 08:02 PM   #49
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I had a similar experience with War of the Roses. I knew nothing about it except the main cast, all of whom had starred in Romancing the Stone, so I thought it was a sequel to that movie. Took my fairly new girlfriend to see it. What an absolutely polarizing movie. All the guys were in Douglas's camp; all the women were rooting for Turner. The tension and growing anger in the theater were palpable. We got in our first real fight later that night (the first of many as it turned out - what a bitch she ended up being, but I digress).

Worst date movie ever!
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Old 09-19-2024, 08:21 PM   #50
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Thin Red Line was terrible, absolutely terrible. And I think it was made worse because it came out at about the same time as some really good war movie, maybe Private Ryan? Or Forrest Gump, to the extent that it had war scenes? Regardless, my wife and I had recently enjoyed some war movie and went to Thin Red Line with high expectations, and it was a slog to sit through it.

Even so, I was never tempted to walk out. In contrast to the one I walked out of, at least something was happening on the screen. People were walking and talking and stuff.
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Old 09-19-2024, 08:23 PM   #51
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Thin Red Line was such a total mess, philosophical meanderings about nothing... the perfect Sean Penn vehicle
That movie was awful. Only movie I've walked out of due to boredom.
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Old 09-19-2024, 08:29 PM   #52
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I'm pretty sure you're just trolling about 70% of the time.
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Old 09-19-2024, 09:02 PM   #53
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Nah, just left a bad taste in my mouth. The "all old white guys are bad, everyone else is a good guy" stuff makes it not worth it especially me not being a Star Wars fan boy anyways.
What on earth are you talking about? Every single Star Wars film has featured a white man as the villain. Star Wars has plenty of woke garbage as of late, but I've never heard anyone complain about Rogue One. Weird.
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The one and only movie I've ever walked out of was The Royal Tenenbaums

The trailers somehow made it look brilliantly witty, but good grief that thing was suuuch a crushing bore... Andersons worst movie by far, probably didn't even make it halfway through
Then you haven't seen Asteroid City. It is utter trash, and my wife and I lasted about 25 or 30 minutes. Horrible film. Abomination, really.
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Then you haven't seen Asteroid City. It is utter trash, and my wife and I lasted about 25 or 30 minutes. Horrible film. Abomination, really.
That a beautiful movie visually. I got distracted about halfway through and lost track of what was happening, so the movie pretty much finished up in the background of my vision. I've been wanting to go back and actually pay attention. So I guess I can't agree or disagree other than to say that the cinematography is nice.
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What on earth are you talking about? Every single Star Wars film has featured a white man as the villain. Star Wars has plenty of woke garbage as of late, but I've never heard anyone complain about Rogue One. Weird.
From what I recall like every bad guy on a ship was old and white. All the good guys were minority except maybe 1... I don't remember exactly.
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From what I recall like every bad guy on a ship was old and white. All the good guys were minority except maybe 1... I don't remember exactly.
The color of the bad guy didn't change.

The color of the good guy did. Why that bothers you is up to you to figure out.
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The color of the bad guy didn't change.

The color of the good guy did. Why that bothers you is up to you to figure out.
Wasn't the good guy a woman? Again it's been 10 years or so maybe. I don't recall, just remember I thought it was bullshit to portray the generation that gave so much for this country in that manner and left. I don't recall all the details.
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Wasn't the good guy a woman? Again it's been 10 years or so maybe. I don't recall, just remember I thought it was bullshit to portray the generation that gave so much for this country in that manner and left. I don't recall all the details.
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