[mireaux7]

have you ever walked out of a theatre cause the film was soooo bad?

have you ever fell asleep in a theatre, because the film was horrible (not because you were tired, that doesnt count)

have you ever demanded a refund at a theatre because a film was soo rotten?

this also goes for at home too,..movie rentals, movies on tv/cable/satellite, etc etc

please list the title of the movie.

as for me, a few films come to mind...

ace ventura:when nature calls
hudson hawk
billy bathgate
dreamcatcher
batman begins
dude wheres my car
critters
harry and the hendersons
things to do in denver when youre dead

[Bond]

I almost walked out of (but didn't out of common courtesy):

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Spider-Man 3
Ocean's 12
The Matrix Reloaded

[J m HofMarN]

Walked out of:

Rat Race

Almost:

Spider Man 3
POTC 2

[TheOrator]

You walked out of Batman Begins?

That film was art!

And not in the general sense that all films are art, in the sense that that film was awesome as hell!

[J m HofMarN]

Yeah I noticed that too... Also, you actually entered a theater with the intent of viewing Ace Ventura When Nature Calls?

[mireaux7]

Batman Begins is overrated. The whole Batman franchise went down shit hill with the rest of pretty much anything else DC related around 1995, when Batman Forever premiered.

Batman Begins was a good idea, but sourly executed. The whole film was trying to have this sort of dark setting to it. The problem is, its a little bit too dark. So dark, you pratically need a halogen flashlight to see some of the characters hiding in some of the almost pitch black scenes. Dark City, anyone?

The batmobile looks hideous. Me and a friend had this same discussion when Begins came out, and his answer to my question about how the batmobile looks in Begins pretty much went something like this:

"well, do you really expect the first batmobile to really look like a suped-up corvette, like it did in Returns, or rather have it look realistic, like something Bruce Wayne actually threw together like a science experiment in the batcave?"

my answer to that is, yeah, i can see where he was trying to go with his rationale regarding the design of the batmobile. but on that same bat-token, the first batmobile shouldnt look like a late 1970's Baja Desert Dune buggy soldiered with black stainless steel plates all around it. Thats queer. The only thing that could have made this movie more queer is a dark metrosexual emo Robin to accompany Christian Bale in his suppressed suicidal tendencies.

Wow, this film has Katie Holmes. Wow. Oh boy Oh Boy Oh BOy. Katie friggin Holmes. Wowzers. Shine the Bat Signal over Gotham City, cause Katie Holmes is gonna go topless in the batcave tonight like she did in "The Gift'". What the hell, can we cast Tom Cruise in this flick to play as the Joker. Cause believe me, the performance given by the Scarecrow, was just about as stiff as,.well..a scarecrow.

Christian Bale talks in this sort of mellow, monotone voice all thorough the film. wow, kickass..you rock dude. Can you pass the bat bong when youre done with it, cause whatever youre so pissed off about, I want to know. Youre probably pissed that your Batmoble looks like a shoddy Dragstrip car. Hey, Id be pissed too. Hopefully, if theres a sequel, they can fix that abnormality. Maybe even get a better director in the batcave.

[Bond]

Meh. Batman Begins could've been a little better...


Oh, and no Katie Holmes in The Dark Knight: what a shame!

This post has been edited by Bond: 14 July 2007 - 10:11 PM

[TruJade]

Im pretty sure my un-dying love
for the Dark Knight has permanently
blinded me to the salt all you haters be throwin'

furthermore i have never walked out
of a movie but i came disgustingly
close in Miami Vice. In fact i almost

wish i had just to erase the harmful feelings
i now have towards Jamie Foxx and Colin Ferrel.
It was just a huge disappointment

and i stuck by Colin through Daredevil AND Alexander
(the jurys still out on The New World)
but no more! he has some serious work to do
to get back on my good side

[Slade]

I pretty much disagree with you on every major point, concerning Batman Begins, Mireaux.

Your argument boils down to:
-A dislike of Katie Holmes

-apparently poor lighting of the projector in the theater you watched the film in (I've never had a problem distinguishing anything in the movie)

-poor choice of the batmobile's first draft (I freely admit a giant tank-thing with rocket boosters is a bit over the top)

-Christian Bale's acting somehow making him appear stoned

-Cillian Murphy's performance as the Scarcrow I guess just didn't contain enough insane psychiatrist vibe?

-Oh, and the thrust of the argument, it's just "queer".

You might as well complain that Ra's al Ghul wasn't a 500 year old mystic who revives himself in a magic pit and wants to take over the whole world, the way you were going. I think you could do much better in critiquing the film.

The fact that Holmes as a love interest was 95% extraneous to the plot, typical cliché predictable hollywood one-liners and plot elements (how if they mention something, it's either very important to the plot, or never mentioned ever again, and how the protagonist always turns a phrase the antagonist used earlier in the film against him/her), and the fact that the movie ends with complete chaos in most of the streets and Gotham City's railway ruined and the water supply contaminated and also ruined, and that's all brushed aside to make way for the reference to the Joker showing up in the next film. Let's not forget that it's almost completely ignored that half of the supplies used by the antagonists are branded with "Wayne Enterprises". (Are they just going to ignore such rampant corruption?)

I contemplated walking out of Dark Water and Alien Vs. Predator. I know I probably shouldn't have bothered to see either of them, but I was bored with my best friend the summer before he left for the army and we went to a cheap theater for them.

Edit: (sp)

This post has been edited by Slade: 16 July 2007 - 04:45 PM

[Bond]

I never saw 2001: A Space Odyssey in theatres, but when I first saw it, I felt like walking out of the living room. Really. It was that bad.

[Dorothy]

I try not to make a practice of walking out of theaters, because its a waste of money, but I have fallen asleep during: Tarzan; 2001; anything with Jackie Chan; Erin Brockovitch (sp); Runaway Bride. Falling asleep seems like less of a waste.

[Bond]

My parents fell asleep during 2001. Damn you, Stanley Kubrick!

[Sailor Abbey]

ace ventura:when nature calls
hudson hawk
billy bathgate
dreamcatcher
batman begins
dude wheres my car
critters
harry and the hendersons
things to do in denver when youre dead

You walked out of Batman Begins???

You're film critiques can no longer be taken seriously.

I've never walked out of a theater just because I only go to the movies unless I've carefully screened the trailers for crap, and if its just one of those movies where you HAVE to see it on the big screen.

I almost asked for my money back for Matrix Revolutions. What a shit piece of film.

[georgelucas4greedo]

Striptease (did not live up to its name)
Nearly walked out on Revenge of the Sith

Other than that, I do what Sailor Abbey does.

This post has been edited by georgelucas4greedo: 18 July 2007 - 01:37 PM

[Spann]

Someone once walked out of a film I was involved in. It's called EXPIRY DATE.

Linky:
http://www.expirydate.co.uk/menu.html

My band wrote one of the songs.

EDIT: I fell asleep during Meet The Fockers. Twice. Oh, and the second time I saw Star Wars Episode 3 (Wow, thats how good it was - I can't remember it's title.)

This post has been edited by Spann: 18 July 2007 - 01:46 PM