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Author Topic: Movie's you've walked out of... Matt Hale Expert Film Handler Posts: 123 From: Vancouver, Canada Registered: Dec 2002 posted 01-14-2004 08:40 PM                        Daryl said: quote: It's hard to go running out when the customer is in the mixing theatre, eh? Yeah there have been a few like that but I wont name names 'cause I want to keep my job Mind you any film will be hard to sit through after you've screened it 4-5 times a day for a couple of months. The worst ones are when you see an early cut and its really a work of art, but they keep chipping away at it version by version until whats left is an utter waste of celluloid (or polyester... whatever...)  |  IP: Logged JC Cowles Film Handler Posts: 77 From: St. Paul, MN Registered: Jun 2001 posted 01-15-2004 02:54 AM                     The first movie I ever walked out of was The Accidental Tourist, right about the time one of the characters started alphabetising her cupboards. The most recent movie I've walked out of was Godsford park, pretty much as soon as Ryan Phillipe opened his mouth.  |  IP: Logged Ron Keillor Expert Film Handler Posts: 166 From: Vancouver, B.C. Canada Registered: Jul 2003 posted 01-15-2004 01:17 PM                     The Nicol Williamson version of HAMLET , with Marianne Faithful as Ophelia. Unintelligible, soporific.. As an eight-year-old, HUCKLEBERRY FINN, at the sight of the Klan.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 01-16-2004 10:07 AM                       I generally give movies a wide berth, but I absolutely cannot tolerate late-model horror/gore pictures. They bore me to tears. Herschell Gordon Lewis campy kind of things, Hammer Horror, yes, but not today's stuff. Too much going on, too much blood... effects for the sake of effects. Stories are built around different ways of mutilating people. (Yawn!) Uninteresting, unrealistic. Boring. Movie I can recall walking out on... "The Green Mile". It was an interesting prison story at first, but lost credibility (and me) when they had the "bees" come out of his mouth! I actually laughed out loud in the auditorium because it was such a stretch (given the timbre of the story). The ground "rules" need to be established in the setup, so audiences will accept a film's logic. You can't start out as a story about social injustice and then switch to a supernatural fantasy midstream!  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 01-16-2004 12:13 PM                     Tim, have you seen "What Lies Beneath"?  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 01-16-2004 02:10 PM                       No, Brad, I'm not even sure I've heard of it. Is it a new picture?  |  IP: Logged Chris Byrne Expert Film Handler Posts: 102 From: Kirwan, Australia Registered: Jan 2003 posted 01-17-2004 08:25 PM                     One that I wished I had walked out of was Stephen King's "Rose Red." After 4 and a half hours you'd expect to come out with some sense of what you had just sat through. It was More recently I think 'Intolerable Cruelty' was a little bit short of the mark.  |  IP: Logged Bob Peticolas Film Handler Posts: 73 From: Mesilla, New Mexico Registered: Jan 2000 posted 01-18-2004 02:25 PM                        The only one I can remember walking out on was "Three Kings", a total waste of talent, an implausable and cruel movie. "Ishtar" was another, I didn't walk out, but spent the last eight or nine reels (it seemed like it would never end) wishing it would end.  |  IP: Logged

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