Ever Walked Out?

[Your Usual Table]

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[hobbes]

Ever Walked Out?

The Thin Red Line.

I mentioned my antipathy for it in threads passim.

I found it unbearably pretentious and full of the sort of abject earnestness that makes 5th form drama classes so horrid. It was also so stupifyingly dull that when the actual war scenes did happen I was too comatose from endless scenes of Jim Caveizel mooning meaningfully into the middle distance, for them to engage me in any way at all. I would recommend it as a trigger for meditation or self-hypnosis, if only the script weren't so knuckle-gnawingly awful that's it almost impossible not to scream at the screen.

[Gerontophile]

Ever Walked Out?

Attack of the Clones.

[Mumpo]

Ever Walked Out?

Walked out of a posh restaurant the other week (it was at the hotel in which we were staying), after looking at the menu but before ordering, because the food on offer sounded vile.

[Slightly Brown]

Ever Walked Out?

I got dumped by a girl during Forest Gump, so left her to enjoy the rest of the picture. She said that Forest's character made her realise that she needed to follow her heart. I dunno what fuqing film she was watching. I'm pretty sure it was during the ping-pong scenes, too. Who dumps someone during a film?

[matt j]

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Mentioned elsewhere multiple times, but we walked out of the Coen Brothers' version of The Ladykillers.

I've not seen a Coen Brother movie since. Trust issues.

[Slightly Brown]

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matt j wrote: Mentioned elsewhere multiple times, but we walked out of the Coen Brothers' version of The Ladykillers.

I've not seen a Coen Brother movie since. Trust issues.

Yeah, I never understood why they remade that. I mean, who watches the original and thinks "mmm, that needs improving."

[Incandenza]

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Would have walked out during Moulin Rouge if not for seeing it with a big group, and I would have to have waited around in the lobby for more than 90 minutes waiting for it to end. Also before everyone had a cell phone, so I couldn't jump into a movie in another theater and then find out later where everyone was going.

[MsD]

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Slightly Brown wrote: I got dumped by a girl during Forest Gump, so left her to enjoy the rest of the picture. She said that Forest's character made her realise that she needed to follow her heart. I dunno what fuqing film she was watching. I'm pretty sure it was during the ping-pong scenes, too. Who dumps someone during a film?

I don't know why, but that's really tickled me.

[Amor de Cosmos]

Ever Walked Out?

Slightly Brown wrote: I got dumped by a girl during Forest Gump, so left her to enjoy the rest of the picture. She said that Forest's character made her realise that she needed to follow her heart. I dunno what fuqing film she was watching. I'm pretty sure it was during the ping-pong scenes, too. Who dumps someone during a film?

Well it's dark, so you don't have to see the tears.

[Borracho]

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It was apparently fashionable in the late 1980s to walk out of screenings of The Cook, The Thief, His Wife And Her Lover.

[Amor de Cosmos]

Ever Walked Out?

When the sexually graphic (for 1967) I Am Curious Yellow played in Leicester, the same elderly couple walked out in disgust every night.

[WOM]

Ever Walked Out?

We were 3/4 through Minions when my son (9 at the time) turned and said "How long till we can leave?"

[Reed John]

Ever Walked Out?

Turned off a lot of rentals and on-demand movies, but never left a theater. I'm fairly selective about what I see in the theater, I suppose.

Sometimes it takes me a few minutes after a film has finished to process how terrible it was.

[Benjm]

Ever Walked Out?

I, with friends, walked out of schlocky British B movie Warlords of Atlantis. We must have been about ten at the time. To be fair to the Doug 'Troy' McClure vehicle, it was in a double bill with the equally underwhelming Arabian Adventure so our enthusiasm was waning before it even started.

Can't think of a cinema walk out since then. I've left theatres during the interval a few times.

[Calvert]

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Doug McClure

Rhyming slang in this neck of the woods for a lady of ill repute.*

Around ten minutes into Sacha Baron Cohen's The Dictator, myself and Mrs.C. looked at each other and decided life was too short to waste any more of it on this dreadfully unfunny nonsense of a film. We went drinking earlier than planned.
Fuck cinemas anyway, I don't think I've been back since. Crappy extortionate hell holes populated by gits making loud eating noises and rustling sweetie packets.

*see also Bobby Moore

[Donnchadh Ghairdinéir]

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Calvert wrote:

Doug McClure

Rhyming slang in this neck of the woods for a lady of ill repute.*

Heh. Is his 'boutique' Trampas in Bel Air Centre still trading? I love 70s timewarps.

[Calvert]

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I believe Tramp Ass to be well deceased, m'lud.

At least I assume so. I'm allergic to the city centre and try never to venture there.
I'm boycotting it until they return the fountain at Corn Market and have that mad oul Christian cunt with the home made sandwich board and megaphone shrieking at passers-by.

[Calvert]

Ever Walked Out?

I mean, there's just no frisson of excitement any more.
The imminent threats of no-warning bombs or being chased around by hordes of angry Mods are long gone.

[Benjm]

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Trampas is a very good name for a slightly out-of-time swinging gents boutique but, for me, Swansea's Moustache (est. 1969 and still trading) is the heavyweight outfitting champion.

[elguapo4]

Ever Walked Out?

I was escorted out of a cinema by my aunt after having a screaming mickey fit of hysterics at the child catcher in "chitty chitty bang bang " (still one of the scariest cunts I've ever seen on screen )
Years later there was a double bill of "gregorys girl "and "chariots of fire" ,went to see the former twice and to this day I've never seen chariots, sorry lord puttnam.

[WOM]

Ever Walked Out?

I remembering recoiling at the childcatcher, too. He's still off-putting.

[MsD]

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Haha! Trampas! That's like Slutbutt! Hahaha!

Hurr.

[Lang Spoon]

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elguapo4 wrote: I was escorted out of a cinema by my aunt after having a screaming mickey fit of hysterics at the child catcher in "chitty chitty bang bang " (still one of the scariest cunts I've ever seen on screen )
Years later there was a double bill of "gregorys girl "and "chariots of fire" ,went to see the former twice and to this day I've never seen chariots, sorry lord puttnam.

You didn't miss much. If I'd been allowed to drag the family out of the pictures age 6 I would have. Had to settle for shifting in my seat and making bored noises. Chariots of Fire wasn't much better when I caught it on Sunday afternoon telly a few years back.

[Reed John]

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Lang Spoon wrote:

I was escorted out of a cinema by my aunt after having a screaming mickey fit of hysterics at the child catcher in "chitty chitty bang bang " (still one of the scariest cunts I've ever seen on screen )
Years later there was a double bill of "gregorys girl "and "chariots of fire" ,went to see the former twice and to this day I've never seen chariots, sorry lord puttnam.

You didn't miss much. If I'd been allowed to drag the family out of the pictures age 6 I would have. Had to settle for shifting in my seat and making bored noises. Chariots of Fire wasn't much better when I caught it on Sunday afternoon telly a few years back.

I've seen Chariots of Fire about 20 times. I really like it. Of course, I was eight the first time I saw it so there may be a sentimental attachment, but I often like films about the 1920s.