I just walked out of a movie for the first time ever.

[Rain Man]

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.

[Fish]

Originally Posted by BigCatDaddy

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.

You're offended that one of the good guys was a woman? Why?

They aren't portraying the Empire as the Boomer generation. Good grief, dude. Go back and look at the original Star Wars films. Every single person on an Imperial ship was an old white British dude.

It sounds like you are trying to be offended.

[notorious]

Originally Posted by Fish

You're offended that one of the good guys was a woman? Why?

They aren't portraying the Empire as the Boomer generation. Good grief, dude. Go back and look at the original Star Wars films. Every single person on an Imperial ship was an old white British dude.

It sounds like you are trying to be offended.

[Bowser]

"What's a Nubian?"

"SHUT THE **** UP!!"

[loochy]

Originally Posted by BigCatDaddy

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.

Andor - white
Erso - white

Vader - black AF

You're a reerun

And who cares what color they are? It's an entertaining story

[Donger]

Originally Posted by BigCatDaddy

The only movie I ever walked out of was Rogue One.

The Master and that horrible movie with Michael Douglas, Rain something.

[ThrobProng]

The worst movie I've ever seen in a theater was "Shark Boy and Lava Girl in 3D", when my kids were young. Intolerable.

[Easy 6]

Originally Posted by ThrobProng

The "Greatest Generation" lived in a galaxy far, far away?

They absolutely are the generation better than you and you your ilk

You're a pale imitation of a man, your Grampa would hide his head in shame at what you've become

[notorious]

Originally Posted by ThrobProng

The worst movie I've ever seen in a theater was "Shark Boy and Lava Girl in 3D", when my kids were young. Intolerable.

I bet they played that mother ****er on a loop for what felt like a week straight.

Mine did until I blocked it.

[Bowser]

Originally Posted by Donger

The Master and that horrible movie with Michael Douglas, Rain something.

Black Rain? 80's flick, IIRC?

[BigCatDaddy]

Originally Posted by loochy

Andor - white
Erso - white

Vader - black AF

You're a reerun

And who cares what color they are? It's an entertaining story

I took it as an attack on old white guys which was all the crazy back then.

I didn't tell anyone to not go see it. I did not attempt to cancel it. I didn't like the message and thus couldn't enjoy the movie so I left.

I apologize if me leaving upset some of you.

[Donger]

Originally Posted by Bowser

Black Rain? 80's flick, IIRC?

That's it.

[Bowser]

Originally Posted by BigCatDaddy

I took it as an attack on old white guys which was all the crazy back then.

I didn't tell anyone to not go see it. I did not attempt to cancel it. I didn't like the message and thus couldn't enjoy the movie so I left.

I apologize if me leaving upset some of you.

It's all good (with me anyway, lol).

I'll leave you with this regarding Rogue One - it absolutely puts the "war" in Star Wars, maybe better than any other film in the series. I'll give you a little taste for of what you're in for in you decide to give it another go....

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by BigCatDaddy

I took it as an attack on old white guys which was all the crazy back then.

I didn't tell anyone to not go see it. I did not attempt to cancel it. I didn't like the message and thus couldn't enjoy the movie so I left.

I apologize if me leaving upset some of you.

Maybe it's a good thing if it shows that white men are ruling humanity for thousands or millions of years.

[kc rush]

Walked out of one and left another.

My phone kept going off during Deadpool, so I finally checked it and my mom was calling because my sister nearly died. Left that one to handle family things.

The only one I walked out on was a piece of shit movie called Perils of PK. Back in the day (every once in awhile) we'd go to the theater and figure out what we wanted to see. We got to Bannister Square late and most of the films were in progress, we chose this movie because it hadn't started and we were teenage boys and the poster featured a woman with big boobs.

When we ordered the tickets, the sales guy tried to talk us out of it. Now, we were B-movie connoisseurs, so we figured "how bad can it be?", plus big boobs.

There was a group of 5 or 6 of us that went together plus another handful of people there, so maybe a dozen there to see a movie on a Friday night.

Not sure how long we lasted, but it couldn't have been more than 45 minutes. We weren't even the first to leave and we never saw any naked boobs in the movie. What a wasted night. Perils of PK did become a punchline for our group for years though.

[BigCatDaddy]

Originally Posted by Bowser

It's all good (with me anyway, lol).

I'll leave you with this regarding Rogue One - it absolutely puts the "war" in Star Wars, maybe better than any other film in the series. I'll give you a little taste for of what you're in for in you decide to give it another go....

Yeah, I'm sure the action was cool. But it's like trying to watch another football game after the Chiefs lose... you are still pissed and it just isn't the same as after a W.