Film Have you ever walked out of a cinema or theatre showing in protest/disgust?

Jippy said:
:lol: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.
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I think they might have been on something like Britain's Got Talent. Which for a 5 to 10 minutes segment on tv the show its probably impressive to watch but as a complete show it was torture.


Rooney in Paris said:
... 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?
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:lol:

I mostly doing this

 
Not in the cinema, but at home—Red Dawn and Opera were two of the worst movies I’ve ever watched. Deserved to be turned off but I’m one of those who’ll hate-watch it just to confirm how terrible they’ll pan out.

Only watched Red Dawn for Jennifer Gray but she barely had any dialogue, and the cold setting made it that she was always bundled up—don’t hate me; she’s one of my celebrity crushes. Then you have the premise and the plot looking like Cold War equivalent of something that DW Griffith would draw up.

With Opera, I was excited because of the previous Argento films I’ve seen, and the cover looked like it would be crazy in the good for horror type of way. Turns out that everything was a giant WTF—the acting, the plot, the most nonsensical ending I’ve ever seen, the fact that an Italian film had Spanish actors with poorly dubbed English. It’s like he wanted to torture the audience. Can’t trust that Argento family…
 
I was a hairs breadth from walking out of Asteroid City, decided to just knock back a few whiskeys and power through.

Awful experience (pre whiskey).
 
The Wolf of Wall Street. It's trying too hard to be funny/obscene. And I didn't find the girl Wolfie gave up his ex wife for (was quite annoyed by it) that hot anyway, but apparently everyone wanted to have sex with her. Every time there's a scene with her I rolled my eyes. I rewatched it during covid because of stocks market crash because my idiot friend told me I could learn a thing or two about stocks from that movie. I didn't learn that much.
 
tenpoless said:
The Wolf of Wall Street. It's trying too hard to be funny/obscene. And I didn't find the girl Wolfie gave up his ex wife for (was quite annoyed by it) that hot anyway, but apparently everyone wanted to have sex with her. Every time there's a scene with her I rolled my eyes. I rewatched it during covid because of stocks market crash because my idiot friend told me I could learn a thing or two about stocks from that movie. I didn't learn that much.
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Proper munter that Margot Robbie, she'd sleep on the couch.
 
tenpoless said:
The Wolf of Wall Street. It's trying too hard to be funny/obscene. And I didn't find the girl Wolfie gave up his ex wife for (was quite annoyed by it) that hot anyway, but apparently everyone wanted to have sex with her. Every time there's a scene with her I rolled my eyes. I rewatched it during covid because of stocks market crash because my idiot friend told me I could learn a thing or two about stocks from that movie. I didn't learn that much.
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tenpoless said:
The Wolf of Wall Street. It's trying too hard to be funny/obscene. And I didn't find the girl Wolfie gave up his ex wife for (was quite annoyed by it) that hot anyway, but apparently everyone wanted to have sex with her. Every time there's a scene with her I rolled my eyes. I rewatched it during covid because of stocks market crash because my idiot friend told me I could learn a thing or two about stocks from that movie. I didn't learn that much.
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Incredible that any person who has watched The Wolf of Wall Street thinks it has actual lessons about the stock market.
 
Fortitude said:
Got sent this:

Joker 2 is causing ‘mass walk outs’ after fans make realisation about sequel​


https://www.ladbible.com/entertainment/film/joker-2-reviews-walk-outs-musical-178388-20241007

:lol:
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I’ve noticed that even a lot of movies that are clearly, unavoidably musicals - like that recent Mean Girls remake - are hiding that fact in the trailers, almost like they’re embarrassed about being a musical. I guess the studios don’t care if people walk out in disgust if they’ve already bought a ticket.

Not that I was going to see this hot mess anyway - I thought the first Joker was possibly the most overrated movie of all time.
 
Eric_the_Red99 said:
I’ve noticed that even a lot of movies that are clearly, unavoidably musicals - like that recent Mean Girls remake - are hiding that fact in the trailers, almost like they’re embarrassed about being a musical. I guess the studios don’t care if people walk out in disgust if they’ve already bought a ticket.

Not that I was going to see this hot mess anyway - I thought the first Joker was possibly the most overrated movie of all time.
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It's mad that exec producers greenlit it and poured £200m into a project that had the hallmarks of abject failure from the moment they announced it was a musical. I reckon they thought they were onto a concept that might revolutionise a genre and ran with it with dissenting voices being hushed along the way.

At some point in production they know they're making a stinker and from that point on, it's damage limitation, which I think ties into your point of trying their best to mask their own film in the hope of still enticing viewers to the cinema off of name alone. That's a terrible strategy though because, sure, you'll dupe a throng of unsuspecting viewers initially, but then word of mouth gets out and your movie is toast. Unlike the old days, word of mouth is now a global network of irate people online absolutely panning something.

Apparently it's made $114m off a near $200m budget. There's no way this thing breaks even. It's a living breathing meme now and will go down in lore as Waterworld levels of awful. It'll rightly earn its place in this pantheon: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_biggest_box-office_bombs with just how bad it performs being left to determine.
 
Wibble said:
Jukebox musical? Bold choice. Didn't think much of the first film so maybe a good idea?
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Would have quoted you in my response to Eric, as I reckon this was a bold gamble that has gone badly wrong.

I bet they didn't study what made The Greatest Showman a success whilst developing their movie. Terrible execution.
 
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Fortitude said:
It's mad that exec producers greenlit it and poured £200m into a project that had the hallmarks of abject failure from the moment they announced it was a musical. I reckon they thought they were onto a concept that might revolutionise a genre and ran with it with dissenting voices being hushed along the way.

At some point in production they know they're making a stinker and from that point on, it's damage limitation, which I think ties into your point of trying their best to mask their own film in the hope of still enticing viewers to the cinema off of name alone. That's a terrible strategy though because, sure, you'll dupe a throng of unsuspecting viewers initially, but then word of mouth gets out and your movie is toast. Unlike the old days, word of mouth is now a global network of irate people online absolutely panning something.

Apparently it's made $114m off a near $200m budget. There's no way this thing breaks even. It's a living breathing meme now and will go down in lore as Waterworld levels of awful. It'll rightly earn its place in this pantheon: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_biggest_box-office_bombs with just how bad it performs being left to determine.
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Wash your mouth
 
Fortitude said:
No way!? Are you telling me I need a re-watch? I haven’t seen it again since release.
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No I'm kidding it's terrible :lol:

But in an oddly fascinating, watchable way - although, that's what my very hazy recollection of it is, admittedly I must have watched it for the last time over 15 years ago, so...
 
Maybe they could just stop making movies about some angry comic clown.
 
Fortitude said:
It's mad that exec producers greenlit it and poured £200m into a project that had the hallmarks of abject failure from the moment they announced it was a musical. I reckon they thought they were onto a concept that might revolutionise a genre and ran with it with dissenting voices being hushed along the way.

At some point in production they know they're making a stinker and from that point on, it's damage limitation, which I think ties into your point of trying their best to mask their own film in the hope of still enticing viewers to the cinema off of name alone. That's a terrible strategy though because, sure, you'll dupe a throng of unsuspecting viewers initially, but then word of mouth gets out and your movie is toast. Unlike the old days, word of mouth is now a global network of irate people online absolutely panning something.

Apparently it's made $114m off a near $200m budget. There's no way this thing breaks even. It's a living breathing meme now and will go down in lore as Waterworld levels of awful. It'll rightly earn its place in this pantheon: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_biggest_box-office_bombs with just how bad it performs being left to determine.
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I put it down to ‘2019 syndrome’. Hollywood saw nine movies make a billion in 2019 (including Joker) and that success went to their collective heads and led to some pretty rash decisions - decisions that look even more rash post-pandemic.

The direct sequels to two of those 2019 billionaire movies have now been box office bombs of historic proportions.
 
A woman sat next to me walked out of Gone Girl during that throat slitting scene. Strange decision as there was only 15 minutes left of the movie. She could've just closed her eyes for a few seconds. Perhaps she couldn't hold in a poo any longer.
 
Rooney in Paris said:
No I'm kidding it's terrible :lol:

But in an oddly fascinating, watchable way - although, that's what my very hazy recollection of it is, admittedly I must have watched it for the last time over 15 years ago, so...
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:lol: Had me doubting my memory for a minute there, although I do wonder what my take on some 1-watch films would be. 15 years is a long time and the lens we look at things through can change quite a bit… although I reckon it’ll still be crap!
Eric_the_Red99 said:
I put it down to ‘2019 syndrome’. Hollywood saw nine movies make a billion in 2019 (including Joker) and that success went to their collective heads and led to some pretty rash decisions - decisions that look even more rash post-pandemic.

The direct sequels to two of those 2019 billionaire movies have now been box office bombs of historic proportions.
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But Joker is was a license to print money with a huge fanbase who would have been prepared to follow Arthur’s journey at least a couple more times. Joker was also removed from comic book/superhero fatigue so I don’t think it was lined up to go down with that particular ship; this tanking is wholly of their own devising as people have about turned in their droves because of an executive decision, and even those who have knowingly gone in are mostly panning the film for the decision made.
 
Fortitude said:
But Joker is was a license to print money with a huge fanbase who would have been prepared to follow Arthur’s journey at least a couple more times
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Nah, no such thing these days. The first movie’s success was an anomaly, even by 2019 standards. And no IP is guaranteed to be a box office hit in the current climate. A $200m bet on a Joker sequel always carried a huge amount of risk.
 
Fortitude said:
Just had a bombardment of texts off a friend who went to watch Joker 2 saying he was so appalled, he’s walked out of the cinema 50min into the film and that he wasn’t the first to do so during the showing :lol:. Says he’s never walked out of a cinema before, and that set me off thinking as I’ve never actively got up and left a movie I’ve paid money to watch, whereas at home an awful movie simply gets turned off. Fell asleep a number of times during disinteresting films in the cinema, which is effectively the same thing I suppose, but getting up and walking out? Only ever done that with a theatre production, never a film.

So what about you, has anything been such an affront to your sensibilities that you’ve elected to leave in protest? If you have, what was the movie?
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It's only happened once and funnily enough it was also a musical. Evita starring Madonna. I just couldn't handle the singing and walked out. It was one of the first movies I went to by myself as well so that made it easier.
 
tenpoless said:
The Wolf of Wall Street. It's trying too hard to be funny/obscene. And I didn't find the girl Wolfie gave up his ex wife for (was quite annoyed by it) that hot anyway, but apparently everyone wanted to have sex with her. Every time there's a scene with her I rolled my eyes. I rewatched it during covid because of stocks market crash because my idiot friend told me I could learn a thing or two about stocks from that movie. I didn't learn that much.
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Are you sure your mate wasn't recommending that other film with Margot Robbie in? The Big Short might teach you a little more about the stock market than a movie known for scenes depicting drug taking and dwarf throwing competitions.
 
Eric_the_Red99 said:
Nah, no such thing these days. The first movie’s success was an anomaly, even by 2019 standards. And no IP is guaranteed to be a box office hit in the current climate. A $200m bet on a Joker sequel always carried a huge amount of risk.
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Disagree. Joker should have made the studio realise that an audience will go to watch Indie versions of existing comic book material. They had a whole new market open up. They could have very easily made more Joker movies that are akin to the new Penguin series. Small, dark, character driven pieces that aren’t really superhero or supervillain.

Instead, they pissed all that up the wall with a truly awful movie, torpedoing audience faith, and ending any chance of making a third.

It’s hubris of the highest order and they deserve to lose their arse on it.

An audience literally said ‘More of this please’ at a time they seem to be growing tired of cgi filled superhero offerings. And they put their fingers in their ears, and somehow spent $200m on a musical. It’s so bad. So so very bad.
 
I was pretty close with the first Joker movie as it was terrible until the last 5 minutes but the only film I’ve ever walked out on was The Tree of Life. Absolute trash.
 
I walked out of Holmes and Watson. Don’t find Will Ferrell funny at the best of times so wasn’t expecting much but my word was it abysmal.
 
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