Armagedon isn't a great film but it is far less dumb than Face/Off (even though it is very dumb). I hate John Woo. Even managed to feck up his attempt at Mission Impossible, the film equivalent of paint by numbers.
Film Have you ever walked out of a cinema or theatre showing in protest/disgust?
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This is me. If it's shite, I'm great at just falling asleep. Happened several times and my wife and kids are used to me dropping off if I don't find the movie engaging. Can't remember the proper movies where it's happened which says everything about them really, although it definitely happened during a rubbish horror movie because I kept getting woke up every time my wife jumped.
A few Sunday morning showings of kids movies like the Incredibles 2, and some movies about garden gnomes for sure.
I like him for his Hong Kong stuff. His Hollywood stuff not so much.
Oh, the good old days of carefree youth. We used to call it "the tenderness cocktail". Get a 2 liter coke, drink/pour out the half of it, fill the rest of the bottle with vodka...
I wouldn't be able to drink that now
But it worked wonders if you didn't want to get caught with alcohol in public places.That sounds on a par with a colleague moaning about being pressured to go see the history of the routemaster bus told through interpretative dance.Can't remember if he got out of it in the end. It was a few years ago and made the local rag Sounded awful.
https://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/n...ecker-routemaster-bus-to-be-told-using-dance/
Hell of a ratio.
We always bought 1.5 litre bottles of Lambrusco (cheap sweet white wine) and chugged that before going out.Oh, the good old days of carefree youth. We used to call it "the tenderness cocktail". Get a 2 liter coke, drink/pour out the half of it, fill the rest of the bottle with vodka...
I wouldn't be able to drink that now
Good times.
I don’t know about Oppenheimer. I will never watch it. I’ve been burned too often.
What stayed with me about Dunkirk was that torpedo scene. They showed this party on the ship and instead of showing the torpedos impact by having that party rocked, they actually cut to another shot of the ship being hit on the outside. That was the worst directorial choice I have ever seen. It made no sense whatsoever. They showed this important and impactful moment in the dullest way possible. It made me so angry.
Other than that, I just didn’t care about any character in that movie. Horrible writing. Horrible direction. And that director is supposed to be one of the best of our time? Don’t think so. The guy is a fraud. He’s an even more boring version of Spielberg with even less to say. He’s worse than marvel movies. Because with marvel, no serious person actually claims they are masterpieces. But in his case people will genuinely claim that some shit like Interstellar is a modern 2001 and feel no shame at all. Disgusting. God do I hate Nolan.
Oh god! Nightmare stuff. I’ve yet to see any interpretative dance that isn’t shite. My family got me the tickets because they all think I’m a art snob with is close minded and enjoys slagging off other people taste(No idea how they have this impression of me!)
This was the show I went to
They have a projector and it puts different images onto the giant cube/box they climb on.
Russian teenagers! It was the most cost-efficient.
For me the biggest problem with Dunkirk is the best story was the small ship flotilla, many of which went to France multiple times during the evacuation, and not just once as shown in the film.
People that dislike Interstellar should be made to register on a list and have to knock on the doors of new neighbours' houses when they move to a new area to explain themselves.
The second Silent Hill movie.
I watched that in the same weekend that I watched Arrival and Annihilation, Interstellar was the third one we watched.
And it was, by a very long way, the most obvious and dumb. It felt like an Shyamalan movie from the off and actually turned into one at the end. I wouldn't say I disliked it, but it is classic Nolan "I think I'm smart, but actually it's all pretty stupid" fare. Especially the fact most of the characters could join the team from Prometheus and fit right in.
Might of liked it more and perhaps even found it mildly clever...if I watched it as a sci-fi standalone, after 20 Marvel films on the trot.
You're on the list.
I already do that. People need to be warned about this steaming pile of shit movie, that’s an insult to every thinking person. The movie is science fiction for fans of the Big Bang theory.
I bet you wear a Bazinga shirt while discussing how brilliant that movie is with your AI friends.
Was very close to it for Hail Caesar. Absolute dirge movie.
@Wibble is on your team.
At least Big Bang had that James Earl Jones episode. 20-odd more minutes of entertainment than Interstellar had.
Thor:love and thunder for me.
I get embarrassed if a film is too silly or too predictable. At home I fast forward certain parts or turn off. Walked out of that movie after 25mins. Was too much for me. I haven't rewatched either
Always hard to tell with that madman.
Eerily accurate.
Fair
I hated Interstellar.
Oh god! Nightmare stuff. I’ve yet to see any interpretative dance that isn’t shite. My family got me the tickets because they all think I’m a art snob with is close minded and enjoys slagging off other people taste(No idea how they have this impression of me!)
This was the show I went to
They have a projector and it puts different images onto the giant cube/box they climb on.
That really does not look like my cup of tea either. It looks very professional and West End - more like a series of gymnastic dance routines, like those acts off Britain's Got Talent. Three hours is way too long...The Routemaster thing may have a amateurish charm in comparison and was way shorter.Didn't walk out but slept through Batman and Robin.
Battlefield Earth was/is the only film Ive ever left the cinema due to how bad it was.
And this was before I knew about Scientology!
And this was before I knew about Scientology!
Hope you had an ice sleep
Never walked out. But Mission to Mars was so bad the best part was the end in my packed theatre nearly EVERYONE looked at each other at the end like what a POS movie. And we all laughed that we agreed how awful it was. Except my roomate at the time thought we were nuts and he liked it. That actually is what made the experience memorable how we all collectively comforted each other with laughs and it didn't seem like we wasted our money.
... to get home as fast as possible so you could log onto the Caf and post a post-modernist review of it drawing parallels with John Woo, Battleship Potemkin and Bergman's the Seventh Seal, telling us it's great but not really but we should all recreate it in the form of a flash mob, right?
The only thing we’ve ever actively walked out of was a theatre showing we paid top whack for tickets for, trying to expand our horizons and become more cultured (shudder) and being greeted by what looked like an am’ dram’ class who hadn’t fully rehearsed. Lots of eye contact with us too as well as flubbed lines and unsynchronised dancing. It was set to go on for 3hrs. We left at the first intermission.Yes. Myself and then GF walked out of "Shakespeare in Love" we just found it overly boring.
You have to be in love to understand it
Not me, but I still chuckle at the old man who walked out right after the sex scene in Moonlight.
Didn`t walk out because i assumed my wife enjoyed it and i didn`t have the balls to maybe destroy her experience, but damn, Life of Pi bored the absolute living hell out of me.
She told me outside that it was unbearable and that she didn`t dare to tell me then. A lesson was learned, do not pick crap movies again. And well, do not go to the cinema at all.
Still angry about it, how are they allowed to spend big money on pretentious borefests like that.
She told me outside that it was unbearable and that she didn`t dare to tell me then. A lesson was learned, do not pick crap movies again. And well, do not go to the cinema at all.
Still angry about it, how are they allowed to spend big money on pretentious borefests like that.
Hair, round about 1970. It was one of the first, if not the first, theatre performances with full frontal nudity, so being young lads of course we booked it. Absolutely dire, went for a beer at the interval and decided not to bother with the second half, even though it meant missing the nude stuff completely.
Good idea as one of the puzzles for the next Saw film.I like beer. But I wouldn't want to drown it it
I also have a very high tolerance for action silliness. Con Air, Armageddon, The Rock and The Day After Tomorrow are all action nonsense I can turn my disbelief off and enjoy. Face/Off just made me want to tear my own face off to make it stop.
Surely the lesson should’ve been communicate so that you can make an informed decision to leave together in future l if needs be?