King Ralph
I was 14 or 15 with a group of mates and even the peer pressure of that situation couldn't keep me from walking. What a pile of shite.
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Cinematically gorgeous but nothing to hold on to. It was an hour in and my wife turned and said "this is a wank, I'll meet you outside." I didn't need to see anymore.
At a French Film Festival in maybe 04/05 I saw some tedious pile of merde that had some guy escaping with a suitcase of cash? through some snow and falling in a crevice. I didn't need to hang around to see the end although it couldn't have been much longer.
The others that I remember were due to technical issues with out of sync audio. Both of these I got a refund and saw the entire film again.
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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LetMeSleep wrote:King Ralph
I was 14 or 15 with a group of mates and even the peer pressure of that situation couldn't keep me from walking. What a pile of shite.
The Argonaut wrote:King Ralph was the first DVD my family ever bought, and for that reason it will always hold a special place in my heart.
Suck it, OP!
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Avengers (probably very near when the big alien thing shows up, from what I've read)
the third Hobbit movie (somewhere just after the dwarves on pigs join in, but I was ready to go twenty minutes in)
I did have to bite the bullet and sit through the beginning of the second transformers movie, but my friend realized his mistake and we watched less than 30 minutes.
Avatar. I fatigued hard on this movie. Such a wearying combination of caricatures, cartoons, and supersized drama. I did eventually see the end on tv.
I'm forgetting some. And there are lots of movies I would have left if I wasn't there with friends, but most of those I wouldn't have watched in the first place except for said friends. The flip side is there are plenty of movies that turned out good that I might have missed, otherwise.
Good call on Avatar. The minute they first said "unobtainium" or whatever it was called, my eyes were stuck permanently rolled in the back of my head for the next 2 1/2 hours but unfortunately I cannot say I walked out.
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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A festival movie named Boarding Gate, with Michael Madsen and Asia Argento. It wasn't that bad, just very slow and laborious. It was like my fifth movie of the day and I was tired.
Also at a festival, some unbearable Chilean documentary about Rumble Fish.
More recently, I walked out 30 minutes into Josh Trank's Fantastic Four. This wasn't because I really hated it-- something came up at work and I had to tend to it. I never felt the need to revisit it.
There may be one or two others that I'm not remembering. I usually just ride it out.
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