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Post by stinkybritches on Feb 13, 2019 16:06:08 GMT
Two instances come to mind off the top of my head, though there have definitely been more I can't place right now:
Killing Them Softly (2012). A woman in the row behind me felt the need to loudly announce her exit, saying something like "this movie stinks" for basically everyone around to hear, and claiming that she was gonna try to ask for her money back. What a cunt; if you don't like the film, just get up and leave quietly, no need to interrupt others who may be enjoying the film just to satisfy your need for attention. Did I say she was a cunt?
Inherent Vice (2014). There were only 2 other people in this screening, the others being a young couple. They stayed through the first two hours or so, leaving with about a half hour to go so I saw the rest with the theater all to myself.
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Post by ibbi on Feb 13, 2019 17:04:10 GMT
The trouble I have is I'm not paying much attention to people so while folks often walk out it's tough for me to notice if they're leaving outright, or just going to take a piss.
Only times I can genuinely recall people walking out were This Is England where some old fella gets up to go and on his way out yells "LOAD O' RUBBISH!", Control, where the second the first image comes up in black and white this teenage couple look at each other in disbelief, get up and run out, and Les Miserables where these two guys who obviously couldn't handle I Dreamed a Dream left during.
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Post by wilcinema on Sept 11, 2019 17:08:23 GMT
Inland Empire. 2000-seat venue. Full house. Over 50% cleared out. That's 1000+ people pouring out of the theatre. Inland Empire. Very first screening. Full house. 1000 people. No one left. We were all Lynch devotees
But I do remember massive walkouts during Moulin Rouge. We were like 500 people in the theater and at the end at least 60-70 people had left.
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Post by stephen on Sept 11, 2019 17:20:39 GMT
Inland Empire. 2000-seat venue. Full house. Over 50% cleared out. That's 1000+ people pouring out of the theatre. Inland Empire. Very first screening. Full house. 1000 people. No one left. We were all Lynch devotees
But I do remember massive walkouts during Moulin Rouge. We were like 500 people in the theater and at the end at least 60-70 people had left.
Both of those examples are proof that humanity has a chance.
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Post by TerryMontana on Sept 11, 2019 17:50:00 GMT
Ghost Ship (2002). Not a massive walkout, maybe fewer than 10 people left.
Can't blame them...
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Post by Sharbs on Sept 11, 2019 17:59:12 GMT
I've walked out once. It was Adrift. Once the final twist happened I went hahaaa and left. But I imagine there were only like 5 minutes left anyhow.
Most recently, Serenity. Only 3 people in the screening, myself and a couple sitting in the same row as me and they left like 20 minutes in BEFORE THE BATSHIT EVEN BEGINS, poor saps
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Post by TerryMontana on Sept 11, 2019 18:20:04 GMT
I've walked out once. It was Adrift. Once the final twist happened I went hahaaa and left. But I imagine there were only like 5 minutes left anyhow. Most recently, Serenity. Only 3 people in the screening, myself and a couple sitting in the same row as me and they left like 20 minutes in BEFORE THE BATSHIT EVEN BEGINS, poor saps Are you sure they didn't just move to another row to make out in private?
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Post by chris3 on Sept 11, 2019 19:41:28 GMT
All the time, and it's almost always older people. I tend to see movies in the afternoons during the week (since I can't stand teenagers), so the audience is usually made up of the elderly, and whenever a drama film either gets artsy or edgy I always hear complaints or witness walkouts. The Tree of Life- I was partly responsible for this. An older couple sitting next to me kept complaining about the movie for the first half hour so I told them to be quiet because I didn't pay $12 to listen to their commentary. They got really mad and left immediately afterwards, exclaiming: "What the hell is this movie about?" Brokeback Mountain- This one made me laugh. After the first sex scene, almost half of the audience walked out in disgust. What the hell kind of movie were they expecting? Inside Llewyn Davis- This was the most annoying. It was opening night at a packed arthouse theater, and an older couple were split on the film. The wife hated it and walked out, but the husband stayed. She kept coming back into the theater, loudly demanding that he leave so they could go home. The entire audience ended up yelling at her to shut up. It was infuriating. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon- Twenty minutes into the film a group of people in the front row left noisily, one of them yelling: "I didn't know we had to READ!" The Talented Mr. Ripley- Another matinee with a largely older audience. Many of them walked out after the brutal murder of Dickie Greenleaf , apparently unaware of the plot of Highsmith's novel. Another vaguely related phenomenon I've noticed: at the end of most Coen brothers movie I've seen in theaters, I've heard at least one audience member BOO the film. This happened after O Brother, Where Art Thou?, The Man who Wasn't There, No Country for Old Men (all three times I saw it), Burn After Reading, A Serious Man, and Hail, Caesar!. Though oddly enough, this didn't happen at the end of Intolerable Cruelty or The Ladykillers. And for the record, I myself have walked out of plenty movies, including Transformers, The Expendables, Battle: Los Angeles, Dinner for Schmucks, Wanted, Booksmart, Suicide Squad, and The Other Guys, so I don't blame people for leaving early. I just wish they wouldn't make a scene while doing so.
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Post by wilcinema on Sept 11, 2019 19:55:43 GMT
It wasn't a walkout but I'll never forget the audience reaction to some of the final scenes of mother! at the public screening at Venice. People were literally screaming and cursing at Aronofsky (who wasn't there, but still)
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Post by Sharbs on Sept 11, 2019 20:07:03 GMT
How could I forget this gem: An Elephant Sitting Still @ the MSPIFF (noone cares about it but still get to see some films way prior to release date)
Three hours in. An old lady went and leaned over to her husband without any notion of what a whisper is said "I'm going to take a walk outside I can't take it anymore." He asked if she could find out when it ended, she snapped back "never". Then they left after sinking three hrs and change into it.
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Post by getclutch on Sept 11, 2019 23:05:49 GMT
The Place Beyond the Pines – A group of 6-7 females walked out of the theater once Gosling’s character got killed. What did they expect/pay for I thought?
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Post by Martin Stett on Sept 12, 2019 4:58:55 GMT
It wasn't a walkout but I'll never forget the audience reaction to some of the final scenes of mother! at the public screening at Venice. People were literally screaming and cursing at Aronofsky (who wasn't there, but still) I was getting hit with uncontrollable bursts of laughter at the end. Seriously, the "eating" scene almost saved the rest of the movie on the basis of it being so ridiculously shock heavy that I just lost it and laughed my ass off. Would have been fun to be there with that crowd, I think hearing people cursing at the screen and screaming would have made it funnier.
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Post by fiosnasiob on Sept 12, 2019 12:12:27 GMT
Often, especially during sex scenes...even in France and we are (or were) easy about nudity, sex and things like that, I mean we put naked women on TV advertisements to sell yogurts. Lust, Caution is one of the movies where I saw many walkouts, I remember that old lady who was mad and yelled "I DIDN'T PAY TO WATCH A PORN !!" while walking out of the room Sometimes, in small theaters, when the movie is reaaaally good and that someone walkout it kind of disturbs me, I'm like "WTF ? Ok...he just went to restroom, he will come back..." ...and he doesn't come back
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Post by sterlingarcher86 on Sept 12, 2019 16:53:51 GMT
Ghost Ship (2002). Not a massive walkout, maybe fewer than 10 people left. Can't blame them... Though if you go to a movie called Ghost Ship what exactly are you expecting?
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Post by TerryMontana on Sept 12, 2019 17:16:48 GMT
Ghost Ship (2002). Not a massive walkout, maybe fewer than 10 people left. Can't blame them... Though if you go to a movie called Ghost Ship what exactly are you expecting? Surely you couldn't expect something much different plot-wise but why not expect a better movie overall? Personally, I didn't like the SFX, and hated the script, the direction, some of the performances.... Apparently, some of these guys felt the same!!
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Post by sterlingarcher86 on Sept 12, 2019 18:01:32 GMT
Though if you go to a movie called Ghost Ship what exactly are you expecting? Surely you couldn't expect something much different plot-wise but why not expect a better movie overall? Personally, I didn't like the SFX, and hated the script, the direction, some of the performances.... Apparently, some of these guys felt the same!! I didn’t think it was a good movie either but what you expecting when you go to a movie called Ghost Ship...
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Post by TerryMontana on Sept 12, 2019 18:31:59 GMT
Surely you couldn't expect something much different plot-wise but why not expect a better movie overall? Personally, I didn't like the SFX, and hated the script, the direction, some of the performances.... Apparently, some of these guys felt the same!! I didn’t think it was a good movie either but what you expecting when you go to a movie called Ghost Ship... I just answered! Look at the bold ones. Probably these people had high expectations and were disappointed.
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Post by sterlingarcher86 on Sept 12, 2019 19:58:16 GMT
I didn’t think it was a good movie either but what you expecting when you go to a movie called Ghost Ship... I just answered! Look at the bold ones. Probably these people had high expectations and were disappointed. You are missing my point. My point is why would you have high expectations for a movie called Ghost Ship. Why would you expect high art from a movie who’s entire plot is summed up in the two word title.
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Post by TerryMontana on Sept 12, 2019 20:14:54 GMT
I just answered! Look at the bold ones. Probably these people had high expectations and were disappointed. You are missing my point. My point is why would you have high expectations for a movie called Ghost Ship. Why would you expect high art from a movie who’s entire plot is summed up in the two word title. You're not expecting high art, you expect something decent. Or you don't, I don't know. I know I didn't.
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Post by cheesecake on Sept 13, 2019 17:46:50 GMT
I saw The Passion of the Christ with my parents a few weeks into release. There were still lineups so long people were waiting outside but we eventually found our seats in this packed, sold out theater. The movie opens with some scripture and this very obnoxious man behind me starts clapping and yelling "Amen! Praise Jesus!" Cut to minutes later when Jesus is getting the shit whipped and beat out of him and the man stormed out and never returned.
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Post by The-Havok on Sept 14, 2019 16:59:05 GMT
I saw The Passion of the Christ with my parents a few weeks into release. There were still lineups so long people were waiting outside but we eventually found our seats in this packed, sold out theater. The movie opens with some scripture and this very obnoxious man behind me starts clapping and yelling "Amen! Praise Jesus!" Cut to minutes later when Jesus is getting the shit whipped and beat out of him and the man stormed out and never returned. You probably wouldn't stand watching God's Not Dead with a full house Christian audience then
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Post by The-Havok on Sept 14, 2019 17:08:41 GMT
Several actually.
Matrix Reloaded, right after Neo fucks Trinity I remember a family walking out
Hulk, lmao me and my nephew walked out cause he was afraid of the title character. I got scared of the quality of the movie.
Wedding Crashers, me and my dad walked out because it was so boring
The Good Shepherd had several. I don't blame them at all.
I remember people walking out of Borat which I saw with my family and my grandmother who if not wheelchair bound would have walked out.
Birdman had a family walkout right after the kiss between Naomi Watts and Andrea Riseborough
Macbeth from some fucking imbecile who had never read Shakespeare in his life.
BR2049 had a couple walking out as well. Just right before the pew pew boom Mesa scene.
More recently, my second screening of Once Upon A time in Hollywood had one fat ass and her orbiter walking out.
Lots of plebs in Mexico.
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Post by Film Socialism on Sept 14, 2019 20:51:37 GMT
i used to go to the monthly stan brakhage screenings and like every other time there would be a couple young people there and i would be like "oh i should talk to them after the screening and see what other kinda movies they're into" and they left 20 minutes in every time lmao
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Post by cheesecake on Sept 17, 2019 0:37:23 GMT
I saw The Passion of the Christ with my parents a few weeks into release. There were still lineups so long people were waiting outside but we eventually found our seats in this packed, sold out theater. The movie opens with some scripture and this very obnoxious man behind me starts clapping and yelling "Amen! Praise Jesus!" Cut to minutes later when Jesus is getting the shit whipped and beat out of him and the man stormed out and never returned. You probably wouldn't stand watching God's Not Dead with a full house Christian audience then Couldn't pay me.
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