What movie most deserved you walking out of the theater?The Rules:Post your answer as a comment. Whoever gets the most likes by Saturday wins the fight. The winner gets the honor of posting the next question the following Monday.
I immediately thought of the films I fell asleep in the theater during (Fire in the Sky, Bram Stoker's Dracula) and the ones I actually did walk out on (Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, a few others) but one that I should have walked out on but didn't was very recent: Terminator: Dark Fate.
I wanted so bad to love this movie that I subconsciously talked myself into thinking it was good. I'm a huge Terminator fan and I've longed to see someone take the franchise where it can and should go with better writing. I squirmed in my seat in the opening sequence when they completely decimated the hard fought victories of the original trilogy. I convinced myself it was good, that the older Sarah Connor wasn't an unwatchable sourpuss. Only after rewatching it did I realize how terrible it was and how it deserves to be cast into the fires of Mount Doom lest it cause any more damage. I knew it in that opening scene, but I rationalized myself into liking it. Booooooo.
I feel both ways about this one. I think that T3 "Rise of the Machines" was far worse. I thought the female terminator in that one was definitely the worst. I mean seriously... How can your acting as a terminator be that bad! She nailed it though... Lol!!!
I really liked Gabriel Luna's version of the terminator in Dark Fate! A mix of the T1000 and the T2000 was pretty awesome. And it came in black!
T3 is terrible overall but it has one HUGE redeeming aspect: the final sequence. The way they set up John Connor as the resistance leader was suprising and consistent. They had the guts to let them lose and only the Terminator protector succeeded in his mission. Also the visuals and music of judgement day makes it just barely worthy in my estimation and rolls up nicely into Terminator Salvation, which I think is criminally underated.
I can usually find something to like about a movie -probably because the expectation bar is set pretty low. I tried to like this spin with Sarah Connor, I could have connected with her mom-to-mom. But, they made her character come across as mundane and predictable, borderline Cindy Sheehan. I've seen too much "Bitter ol' hag," done in person on the political stage to make excuses for a fictional character.
Scream. I should’ve driven off and left Vin to take a cab home. 😁 I worked evenings at a large coffee shop and was the only closer in this big cafe of huge windows, just blackness beyond, with a hallway and a couple walls that it was way too easy to imagine anyone could be lurking behind. (He has apologized MANY times since.😂🤍)
I don't think I need to defend my answer haha I think the majority would agree. I was a young teenager with my boyfriend when we went to see it. We were one of maybe 8 couples in the theater and when it was over, we were one of 2 couples left..... why I stayed? not even sure.
This one was a hard one for me because the reason that I walked out of only one movie as far as I can remember. The production value may not have been terrible, I don't know. I walked out. It was because I just got a weird vibe off the movie. It didn't feel good in my spirit. But, it's the only movie I have actually walked out on.
I think leaving the theater versus turning off the stream is a bigger deal because it's easy to just turn it off. When you go out to a movie theater you've invested more time, more money, and more emotions into the experience. I only go to the theatre once or twice a year so those are big events for me and for a movie to be THAT bad to warrant me scrapping that investment it has to be really really bad. I turn off streams that are just so-so all the time and just find something else.
What?? I totally agree if you were watching this with family. Kids especially.
That said... This movie had amazing character development, filmography and overall concept. It's a movie that I normally wouldn't watch because of the amount of language, but I ended up actually really loving the movie! It felt so wrong to love it so much.
I would agree- i absolutely loved Bullet Train, unexpectedly as it were lol. My husband put it on at random and I was busy with too many other things to pay attention. It caught my attention halfway through and I ended up having to go re-watch it.
Probably 99.9 percent of the time I would agree. I was actually surprised that I like this movie so much. Had I not read a lot of positive reviews, I may have turned it off too. The intertwining of the story line mixed with great comedic timing, made it for me.
I also would have said it was a dud movie, but my wife really enjoyed it too.
I immediately thought of the films I fell asleep in the theater during (Fire in the Sky, Bram Stoker's Dracula) and the ones I actually did walk out on (Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, a few others) but one that I should have walked out on but didn't was very recent: Terminator: Dark Fate.
I wanted so bad to love this movie that I subconsciously talked myself into thinking it was good. I'm a huge Terminator fan and I've longed to see someone take the franchise where it can and should go with better writing. I squirmed in my seat in the opening sequence when they completely decimated the hard fought victories of the original trilogy. I convinced myself it was good, that the older Sarah Connor wasn't an unwatchable sourpuss. Only after rewatching it did I realize how terrible it was and how it deserves to be cast into the fires of Mount Doom lest it cause any more damage. I knew it in that opening scene, but I rationalized myself into liking it. Booooooo.
I feel both ways about this one. I think that T3 "Rise of the Machines" was far worse. I thought the female terminator in that one was definitely the worst. I mean seriously... How can your acting as a terminator be that bad! She nailed it though... Lol!!!
I really liked Gabriel Luna's version of the terminator in Dark Fate! A mix of the T1000 and the T2000 was pretty awesome. And it came in black!
T3 is terrible overall but it has one HUGE redeeming aspect: the final sequence. The way they set up John Connor as the resistance leader was suprising and consistent. They had the guts to let them lose and only the Terminator protector succeeded in his mission. Also the visuals and music of judgement day makes it just barely worthy in my estimation and rolls up nicely into Terminator Salvation, which I think is criminally underated.
Terminator Salvation was really good.
I've never understood why some people hate on it.
I can usually find something to like about a movie -probably because the expectation bar is set pretty low. I tried to like this spin with Sarah Connor, I could have connected with her mom-to-mom. But, they made her character come across as mundane and predictable, borderline Cindy Sheehan. I've seen too much "Bitter ol' hag," done in person on the political stage to make excuses for a fictional character.
Scream. I should’ve driven off and left Vin to take a cab home. 😁 I worked evenings at a large coffee shop and was the only closer in this big cafe of huge windows, just blackness beyond, with a hallway and a couple walls that it was way too easy to imagine anyone could be lurking behind. (He has apologized MANY times since.😂🤍)
I would have said this but I knew it would be your pick.
Still tied at the final bell which means Shannon gets to decide who wins. Awkward. 😏😂
A couple of answers tied for first. Anybody want to break the tie?
The Hills Have Eyes.
I don't think I need to defend my answer haha I think the majority would agree. I was a young teenager with my boyfriend when we went to see it. We were one of maybe 8 couples in the theater and when it was over, we were one of 2 couples left..... why I stayed? not even sure.
This one was a hard one for me because the reason that I walked out of only one movie as far as I can remember. The production value may not have been terrible, I don't know. I walked out. It was because I just got a weird vibe off the movie. It didn't feel good in my spirit. But, it's the only movie I have actually walked out on.
Event Horizon is my final answer.
I think leaving the theater versus turning off the stream is a bigger deal because it's easy to just turn it off. When you go out to a movie theater you've invested more time, more money, and more emotions into the experience. I only go to the theatre once or twice a year so those are big events for me and for a movie to be THAT bad to warrant me scrapping that investment it has to be really really bad. I turn off streams that are just so-so all the time and just find something else.
What?? I totally agree if you were watching this with family. Kids especially.
That said... This movie had amazing character development, filmography and overall concept. It's a movie that I normally wouldn't watch because of the amount of language, but I ended up actually really loving the movie! It felt so wrong to love it so much.
I would agree- i absolutely loved Bullet Train, unexpectedly as it were lol. My husband put it on at random and I was busy with too many other things to pay attention. It caught my attention halfway through and I ended up having to go re-watch it.
Probably 99.9 percent of the time I would agree. I was actually surprised that I like this movie so much. Had I not read a lot of positive reviews, I may have turned it off too. The intertwining of the story line mixed with great comedic timing, made it for me.
I also would have said it was a dud movie, but my wife really enjoyed it too.
I give it a thumb's up for the humor. And I agree with Maggie that the violence could have been scaled down as it came across as, "one-up-em-ship."