Didnāt walk out, but wish I had: the first Wonder Woman movie with Gal Gadot. They managed to make a Wonder Woman movie that was more about her boyfriend than Wonder Woman. Wtf.
Hear me out. I love Sweeney Todd but these people didnāt know it was a musical. About 15 minutes in one guy said āAre they going to sing the whole time?!ā. More than a few people got up and left and I honestly had never seen that before.
I guess the marketing for it at the time just completely left out that it was a musical.
If I had gone and seen it in theatres I would not have known that it was a musical based on the advertisements.
The same thing happened with me and my mate when we went to see Chicago. I guess we didnāt catch any of the trailers that showed it was a musical, so we went in thinking it was going to be a gangster film akin to Goodfellas. We stayed for the whole viewing though.
Justā¦ In general musicals never seem to advertise as musicals. I had no idea the new Mean Girls was a musical after watching the trailer, and only found out through word of mouth. The new Wonka was also a musical, I thought it would be cause the previous two were, but you never know. Trailer didnāt seem to indicate. I just saw one the other day that looked like it was a musical cause it showed a lot of dance ensemble, which these trailers really should do. EDIT: IF. Thr new Ryan Reynolds movie about imaginary friendsā¦ is it a musical? A lot of ensemble dancing in the trailer but I donāt see anything indicating itās a musical. Why canāt musicals just be up front with this?
I once took my grandfather, a retired commander of the Land Army, to watch a leftist comedy. While I liked it, he was somewhat uncomfortable, but we watched it till the end.
A couple months later, he wanted to take me to watch a documentary on the life on a wooden ship over months, maintained for historical conservation. Iām not going to say it was the biggest turd I had ever seen in my entire life, but it was a serious contender, but nonetheless I had committed myself to watch it till the end because my grandpa did the same effort for me. In the end, it was him who asked me to leave early because he was bored.
Not a movie, but when I was dating my wife, our college had āThe Fantasticksā musical that came to town. The production was so terrible I would guess that 1/3 of the audience left at intermission. This was a professional traveling group and it had to be obvious to them that so many people didnāt return for the second half.
Nightmare 2 was in the mental institution where Freddy grabs some girl and pushes her head into the TV and shit, right? Probably the only good part of the whole move.
Absolutely. And I was so in love with a student of history/culture studies that I went in there twice with her. Our relationship failed after less then 6 months. So I endured this abomination of a movie twice and suffered from real bad heartache all within a year. Life isnāt fair.
Only time I ever fell asleep during a movie, it was an all night b-movie marathon, and I slept through plan 9 from outer space. Iāve tried to go back and watch it again, but I canāt ever get more than 10 minutes in. Some movies are so bad theyāre good, thatās not one of them.
Tinker Tailor Solider Spy. Iāve never been so painfully bored at the cinema. Left after 30 minutes, which triggered a small flood of people to follow.
Weād have sneak peak movie nights in my local cinema on Wednesday at 10 PM for like 5 bucks, and regular showings would start from Thursday. You never knew which movie you got to see, sometimes it was a blockbuster, sometimes it was bust. That was the appeal of it though.
Occasionally theyād screen some otherwise straight to DVD movie just so that the publisher could advertise with ālimited theatrical releaseā instead. Those were almost universally shit, and most people would leave within the first 10-20 minutes.
Edit: Iām afraid I donāt really remember many titles, but one that stuck was Elephant Heart, some family drama about a neglected kid from a troubled family in Germany who was fighting his way out of the āghettoā by joining a boxing club and turning professional. The dialogues and acting were incredibly terrible.
One of my favorites though. I like how the foreground is not sacrosanct ground thatās reserved to be empty for sake of the camera. Yeah, just throw some sausages and a few peasants right up in the lens.
