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Post by Ryan_MYeah on Feb 12, 2019 21:47:48 GMT
And I’m not talking about yourself. I had one a few weeks ago while rewatching The Favourite. Apparently some of the audience didn’t know what kind of movie they were in for, so when Anne and Sarah get into bed with each other, at least 3 or 4 people went to the exit and didn’t come back. I’ve never seen that before.
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Post by DeepArcher on Feb 12, 2019 21:51:46 GMT
Quite a few times. About 80% of the people who were seated at the beginning of my screening of Hail, Caesar! had left by the end of it. That's definitely the most extreme example I've witnessed and always the first to come to mind. And then there's stuff like the guys who made a big show out of leaving when Peter was crowned King Paimon in Hereditary -- not sure if it counts as a proper "walkout" as there were only 20 seconds left in the film, but still.
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Post by mrimpossible on Feb 12, 2019 21:54:02 GMT
Mother!, It Comes At Night, Transformers The Last King and Age of Extinction, these are just some of the recent examples.
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Post by Viced on Feb 12, 2019 21:54:06 GMT
Yes... a few drinks thrown in my face as well.
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Post by HELENA MARIA on Feb 12, 2019 21:56:47 GMT
Yup (recent examples) : SHAME and BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR because of the sex scenes . And CONTAGION and UNDER THE SKIN because people got really bored .
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Feb 12, 2019 22:00:13 GMT
I think an old couple walked out of my Favourite showing. Too many "cunts" I guess
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Feb 12, 2019 22:05:28 GMT
Quite a few times. About 80% of the people who were seated at the beginning of my screening of Hail, Caesar! had left by the end of it. That's definitely the most extreme example I've witnessed and always the first to come to mind. And then there's stuff like the guys who made a big show out of leaving when Peter was crowned King Paimon in Hereditary -- not sure if it counts as a proper "walkout" as there were only 20 seconds left in the film, but still. I heard about things like this but my Hereditary audience was surprisingly respectful and engaged and the theater was pretty full. It was so much fun hearing all the reactions. There were a couple chuckles but I think the movie warrants that because it's so unrelentingly high-wire that it borders on camp. Mostly it was just a lot of appalled groans during the movie's more fucked-up bits, which I loved.
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Post by countjohn on Feb 12, 2019 22:21:05 GMT
I used to go to University screenings of arthouse classics like Bergman and Fellini movies. They'd start out somewhat crowded but like half the audience would end up walking out. It made me a little
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Post by Zeb31 on Feb 12, 2019 22:22:37 GMT
Way too many times to keep count.
The most dramatic instance I can recall was during Alain Guiraudie's Staying Vertical. When it started there was only me and 5 other people there. Two got up and left after the totally unnanounced smash cut to a 1-minute extreme closeup of a real-life child birth; another two walked out near the end, during the (unsimulated?) explicit gay sex scene involving a dying 80-year-old. When the lights came back up, I and the other remaining survivor (a middle-aged woman) looked at each other with a mixture of "what the fuck did we just watch, huh?" camaraderie and a twinge of discomfort because what we'd just seen felt too weird to witness with anyone around us, even if it was only a handful of strangers.
Another one was during The Counselor. I watched that with my dad, and there was a group of like three or four adults sat in the row right behind ours. The trailer for Blue Jasmine came up, and one of them said out loud that they couldn't stand Woody Allen's films, and that they hated artsy cinema; the others agreed. I told my dad, I bet you 10 bucks they're not gonna stick around to watch the whole film. About 1 hour in, they all decided to get up and leave. Without taking his eyes off the screen, my dad just silently opened his wallet, took out 10 bucks and handed it to me without saying a word.
Oh, and literally 3/4 of the audience left at various points during Cristi Puiu's Sieranevada. At one point the image blacked out, but the audio kept going; some people thought that was just the director being artsy and that the film was over, so they picked up their stuff and got ready to leave. Turns out it was actually something to do with the projector, and the image came back after like 15 seconds. They all hesitated, but decided it wasn't worth it and quit. Something similar happened during Hong Sangsoo's Right Now, Wrong Then, which has a title card at the exact halfway point; one dude said "that's it? Shit", got up and left. Then the second half began but he was already long gone, which I thought was amazing.
Oddly enough, I saw no walkouts during mother!, Nymphomaniac, The House That Jack Built, Blue is the Warmest Color or Gaspar Noe's Climax, all of which I expected to see some people bothered by.
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Post by Christ_Ian_Bale on Feb 12, 2019 23:06:20 GMT
Saw Spring Breakers at an arthouse theater that was about half full. Everyone stayed. Saw it again when it came to my local Regal. Five walkouts before half an hour.
Two people left shortly after the jump scare in Nocturnal Animals.
I saw a couple shamed out of Looper. The girl was loudly chatty through the trailers and then the first 20 minutes of the movie. Finally someone behind them gave them a loud "DO YOU MIND??" The girl got up and left almost immediately with the guy trailing behind. They never came back.
If this counts, some kids snuck into The Conjuring 2 about 45 minutes after it had started. I guess they got scared because they all left soon after.
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Feb 12, 2019 23:12:32 GMT
Definitely a good handful but I’m struggling to recall specific examples.
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Post by DeepArcher on Feb 12, 2019 23:18:54 GMT
and one of them said out loud that they couldn't stand Woody Allen's films Aside from being a disruptive asshole, this guy sounds like a man of taste tbh.
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Post by Zeb31 on Feb 12, 2019 23:49:40 GMT
and one of them said out loud that they couldn't stand Woody Allen's films Aside from being a disruptive asshole, this guy sounds like a man of taste tbh. I can't force you not to be wrong, so you're free to have that opinion.
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Feb 13, 2019 1:01:28 GMT
I don't go to the theaters very often, but I distinctly remember when I saw Black Hawk Down a few people leaving during the impromptu surgery scene.
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Post by jakesully on Feb 13, 2019 1:36:26 GMT
when I went to see Only God Forgives in theaters (back in 2013) I counted at least 2 couples and 2 other people that got up and left in the middle of it. I guess they just couldn't handle the brilliance of Refn ....their loss.
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Post by TheAlwaysClassy on Feb 13, 2019 1:41:59 GMT
I went to see Superbad with some friends and we weren't sure if we were in the right theater cause it was full of old people. Probably around 10-12 got up and left after the first 10 minutes.
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Post by Mattsby on Feb 13, 2019 2:08:16 GMT
A lot of them for me too. Some more recently that come to mind..... Blue Valentine during the shower scene (really not that bad, right?) an old woman yelled "Disgusting!" and walked out. Blue is the Warmest Color, yup, who knew an NC17 movie might show some skin? Old couple walked out very angry. And um... Killing of a Sacred Deer, halfway thru a 40 year old guy said right to the audience "Biggest waste of money of my life!" Just a few examples.
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Post by avnermoriarti on Feb 13, 2019 3:10:25 GMT
All the time. The last pone was Vice, after the fake ending a guy loudly said I’m not gonna tolerate this sh it, lol.
But the most memorable was Force Majeure. The poster and the title confused a lot of people I think, and on my screening was a couple of dudes, my impression is that like more action driven films, so, the movie started and they were clearly uncomfortable, shaking their heads and making a few noises, I think they endure the pain for 3/4 of the film and when the father starts to cry like Magdalene they couldn’t take it anymore and left the room. They weren’t the only ones though, about three more coupled were doing strange movements of awkwardness, like, it was hitting to close to home, none of them left but at the end it was dead silence.
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Post by eyebrowmorroco on Feb 13, 2019 3:40:19 GMT
Inland Empire. 2000-seat venue. Full house. Over 50% cleared out. That's 1000+ people pouring out of the theatre.
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Post by JangoB on Feb 13, 2019 11:28:21 GMT
Pretty much never - Russian audiences usually stay throughout. I do remember a couple walking out of "Munich" about 90 minutes through but I think I can also remember them whispering something to each other about having to leave for another commitment so maybe they went into the theatre just to waste some time.
But yeah, other than that I don't quite remember even witnessing that. My buddy told me that when he went to see "The Wolf of Wall Street" some idiot family brought a bunch of their small daughters with them and left in shock about two minutes in. I guess a straw sticking out of a whore's ass did the trick.
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Post by ingmarhepburn on Feb 13, 2019 11:36:04 GMT
Last time it happened was when I went to see At Eternity's Gate. Two girls walked out after nearly thirty minutes and they didn't come back.
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Post by jimmalone on Feb 13, 2019 11:41:22 GMT
Sometimes. I think there were a few at a movie last year. But don't remember which film. Maybe "Todos lo Saben". But honestly I probably wouldn't notice most of the time if it wasn't a mass exodus. I'm mostly focused on the film, not on other viewers.
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Post by Miles Morales on Feb 13, 2019 14:19:01 GMT
Pretty much never, actually. I initially thought that a group of boys who came to watch First Man walked out of the film after the interval had ended, but it turned out that the group just went further back. It was a late night show (11:15 pm) and the theatre was like 35-40% full, so it was understandable.
The only genuine walkout I remember was when a couple went out of the theatre during the interval and never came back, but I can't remember for which film.
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Post by speeders on Feb 13, 2019 14:27:44 GMT
Clerks II (only maybe 12 people but everyone left) Only God Forgives (At least 1/3, if not half, of a crowded screening walked out) Silence (I heard angry "Where is Liam Neeson?!" and "I thought this was supposed to be an action movie?!" as a group of 6 douchebags walked up and left) Blade Runner 2049 (At least 1/4 left)
Oddly no one seemed to walk out of mother!
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Feb 13, 2019 14:29:13 GMT
I think an old couple walked out of my Favourite showing. Too many "cunts" I guess Sounds like they walked out.
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