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Filthy, filthy lucre.

So...the new Pirates is bad compared to the previous Pirates movies? I was afraid that would happend since Gore Verbinski was no longer on board and they'd surely try to imitate whatever he had going instead of letting the new director shape it in his own style.

I walk out of movies alot I guess. Mostly to get drinks. Sometimes I go back in. Last movie I saw (Battle LA) I wouldn't have been able to sit through without alcohol. We ended up laughing our asses off during most of the scenes, it was fun. Movie was shit though, like most movies. But that's how it's always been.

I find it extremely rare that a movie is worth the twelve bucks it cost to see in a theater. I usually wait to rent them for a dollar from a red box kiosk. If they suck I don't feel like I've wasted my money on top of my time(what do you want for a dollar). As I don't go to the theatre that often, I have walked out on one film that I can recall. Star Wars episode 1. OMG how big of a piece of shit was that?! I also got my money back.

Lots of opinions.

I liked movies before they were cool.

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What's the dealio?>> ^blankfist:

Lots of opinions.

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They do seem to be getting much worse. I try to rely on Rotten Tomatos, but this time I was confused by the relatively high audience rating. 72% of the people thought this movie was great. I think that depresses me most of all.

>> ^campionidelmondo:

So...the new Pirates is bad compared to the previous Pirates movies? I was afraid that would happend since Gore Verbinski was no longer on board and they'd surely try to imitate whatever he had going instead of letting the new director shape it in his own style.
I walk out of movies alot I guess. Mostly to get drinks. Sometimes I go back in. Last movie I saw (Battle LA) I wouldn't have been able to sit through without alcohol. We ended up laughing our asses off during most of the scenes, it was fun. Movie was shit though, like most movies. But that's how it's always been.

FYI - Just saw Thor. What a smelly giant turd that was. I would steer clear.

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I steer clear of superhero movies in general.>> ^eric3579:

FYI - Just saw Thor. What a smelly giant turd that was. I would steer clear.

Dude, Where's my Car. The kissing scene was not enough to redeem an otherwise horrendous attempt at comedy.

one of the young women i work with has the most horrific taste in movies and a netflix account.
a good way to get her to do her lower extremity stretches without a fuss is just to let her watch a movie during them.

i have seen the worst movies ever as a result.

1. home alone 3
2. ski patrol
3. soccer mom
4. father of the bride 2

etc, etc, etc

i would beg her to watch highlander II.

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I'm loving Netflix as a source of good movies that didn't get a chance at the Cineplex though. Watched this the other night -it was great.>> ^peggedbea:

one of the young women i work with has the most horrific taste in movies and a netflix account.
a good way to get her to do her lower extremity stretches without a fuss is just to let her watch a movie during them.
i have seen the worst movies ever as a result.
1. home alone 3
2. ski patrol
3. soccer mom
4. father of the bride 2
etc, etc, etc
i would beg her to watch highlander II.

I'm a bit of a cinephile, and so far I've never walked out of a movie. I may not enjoy it, but I think it's important to see the whole thing - to see what the director intended from the complete thing. You never know, the ending may surprise you, or the film might significantly pick up in the second half.

I've just never been annoyed at a film enough to even consider walking out.... maybe I just pick the right films to see?

btw dag, my kids just saw your avatar and asked if dr. who regenerated again. ummm.... >> ^dag:

I'm loving Netflix as a source of good movies that didn't get a chance at the Cineplex though. Watched this the other night -it was great.>> ^peggedbea:
one of the young women i work with has the most horrific taste in movies and a netflix account.
a good way to get her to do her lower extremity stretches without a fuss is just to let her watch a movie during them.
i have seen the worst movies ever as a result.
1. home alone 3
2. ski patrol
3. soccer mom
4. father of the bride 2
etc, etc, etc
i would beg her to watch highlander II.

Can't say I've ever walked out of a theater before the movie was over but, I have fallen asleep during a few (Inglorious Bastards was one). A couple movies I have not liked enough to stop watching are Breakfast of Champions and The Road to Wellville.
As I'm writing this I remembered a movie I saw in the theater and hated (but watched in it's entirety) was Supernova.

I normally watch movies at home but, on my rare visits to a theater, I tend to steer clear of hollywood blockbusters. And most of the movies I watch at home are either independent, low budget or foreign. Or all of the above.

>> ^dag:

I'm loving Netflix as a source of good movies that didn't get a chance at the Cineplex though. Watched this the other night -it was great.>> ^peggedbea:
one of the young women i work with has the most horrific taste in movies and a netflix account.
a good way to get her to do her lower extremity stretches without a fuss is just to let her watch a movie during them.
i have seen the worst movies ever as a result.
1. home alone 3
2. ski patrol
3. soccer mom
4. father of the bride 2
etc, etc, etc
i would beg her to watch highlander II.



In that respect, Dag, you should check out The Chaser, if you haven't already seen it...

I've learned that if I expect anything good from a movie then I'm mostly disappointed. But if I barely know anything about it before I see it, I tend to be positively surprised more often than not. Also, depending on the movie, trailers and previews can give away too much.

Two movies that I've recently come across by chance and enjoyed:

Exam
High Life

Remember when the only movies that would make it to their fourth sequel were things like "Jaws" and "Friday the 13th"?

I don't think I've ever walked out of a movie, but I don't need much. Just put some moving pictures in front of me and the old brain shuts right down.

I'm not going to bother with Pirates 4, since 2 and 3 were so shitty.

Movies I've walked out of:

Drop Dead Fred
True Lies
Queen of the Damned

Drop Dead Fred? Why, was it too immature for you? It's children's film.

I don't think I've ever walked out of a movie. I've seen others walk out of movies in disgust though (e.g., Audition, Kinsey).

I rarely go to the movies now. Too expensive, and there's the problem of Other People ruining things with their phones ringing or chatting to their friend or generally just being assclowns.

Why do most movies suck?

I have never walked out of a movie, although I've felt many were crap.

I don't subscribe to the 'all hollywood blockbusters are terrible' though.

I thoroughly enjoyed the first two Pirates movies, and I think I even thought the third one was ok (I can't really remember, but have it on DVD to watch again at some stage... I buy the dvds sometimes for the making of features moreso than the movies ), I thought the first Transformers movie (not the cartoon) was great fun, while the second one was a steaming pile of putrescent weevil pooh.

But it really is all subjective, I see above someone fell asleep during Inglorious Basterds, whereas I thought that was a brilliant movie, just wonderfully paced and beautifully shot.

Also, it can be very much as to your 'time of life' when you see a film, or just mindset at the time.

But a person's overall taste in movies can be a good indicator of how easily you may get along as people

To say that Hollywood isn't making any real films is a bit of fallacy though. Pretty much any Pixar film is great, and that's Disney, can't get much more mainstream than that. The Social Network, that was a very entertaining flick, also pretty mainstream. Inception, great flick, in fact most of Nolan's work. It's fair to say that there's an awful lot of dross out of Hollywood, but there's also a huge amount of independent dross too. Self involved, arty for arty's sake, navel gazing drivle. So both sides make shit, both sides make great stuff.

I watched Gigli the other night, from beginning to end, of my own free will, which means I have won this 'debate'.

Years ago, Kids was so bad I was rooting for the AIDS.

I would have happily walked out of the latest Pirates. I was bone deep bored by the first big scene. But I went with friends who had dressed as Pirates, so I felt I needed to stay.

Plus, it was paid for, so might as well stay.

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@spoco2 - no, not all of them. Just the vast majority. It's true that if I'm already in a funk - I'm likely to feel a movie is worse - but it never makes a good movie bad - just a bad movie worse.

I agree with @campionidelmondo that not knowing anything nor expecting anything - can sometimes lead to pleasant surprises. That's happened to me with three films:

The Matrix
Knowing
Limitless

I enjoyed all 3 so much more because I had no expectations at all.

I was a kid at the time. It was my very first walk out - very empowering. >> ^kymbos:

Drop Dead Fred? Why, was it too immature for you? It's children's film.

Also, I've got a bone to pick with dag. Although you generally have great taste in movies, Knowing was fucking horrible. Fuh. King. Whore. Ih. Ball.

Issy and I had some friends over, and I said "Hey, I've got Knowing on DVD from Netflix."
"It got bad reviews"
"A friend with good taste recommended it"

Then we started it up and, like.... WOW. The plot, the twists. Yikes. The best part was the flaming moose...




... which we rewinded 5 or 6 times. It wasn't boring. I'll give it that much.

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What can I say - I enjoyed it. Maybe because I had really low expectations - for the first half, I thought I was watching a crappy supernatural thriller. The plane crash was a scene right out of one of my nightmares. Alex Proyas, the Director (Dark City) shot it beautifully - in a dreamlike way. It really was like watching a dream - the plane crash and flaming moose being just a couple of examples of that. >> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
Also, I've got a bone to pick with dag. Although you generally have great taste in movies, Knowing was fucking horrible. Fuh. King. Whore. Ih. Ball.
Issy and I had some friends over, and I said "Hey, I've got Knowing on DVD from Netflix."
"It got bad reviews"
"A friend with good taste recommended it"
Then we started it up and, like.... WOW. The plot, the twists. Yikes. The best part was the flaming moose...<

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The critics are with you. Sigh. What the hell do I know.

If it makes you feel better, I enjoyed 'Southland Tales' (which got a 35% on rt) and I couldn't stand 'A Beautiful Mind' (which won an Oscar). There is no accounting for taste.

There is another good blog topic: Movies you liked that everyone else hated.

For me Knowing was just ok. The plane crash scene from it was damn good though.

I went to see it because of the director too, Dark City is one of my all time fave's.
(I never did see I-Robot though)

When I heard the basic plot idea for Knowing (except back then it was children's drawings in that capsule instead of crazy cryptic numbers), I was intrigued. I guess mainly because it was from the creator of Dark City. Maybe I would've enjoyed Knowing if I hadn't known who made it, but Dark City put the bar way up there. So yeah, pretty disappointing movie.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

There is another good blog topic: Movies you liked that everyone else hated.


OK, I'll go 1st, I liked Who's That Girl? with Madonna.

I got up and walked out of " without a paddle " seven years ago or whatnot.

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Nobody ever wants to watch Logan's Run with me - but I love that movie so much.

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Nobody ever wants to watch Logan's Run with me - but I love that movie so much.


Oh! Great movie, I downloaded it recently to watch again, but it has to be one of those I watch alone as my wife has only so much ability to watch dated Sci Fi (current sci fi no probs).

Knowing had good bits, but I disliked the resolve. Also had high hopes because it was Alex, and, well, shot in Melbourne Yeay for the museum that me and the kids go to regularly.

Alex has done some stunning work, Dark City and the Crow, some ok work, iRobot was pretty good as long as you didn't actually expect it to be anything to do with Asimov, and some dribble... Garage Days was pretty crap.

I'd love to see him get back on top with an awesome, high concept, visually thrilling film again. Dark City is just so damn awesome.

Oh, but yeah, the plane crash scene in Knowing was awesome, very awesome.

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I have high hopes for Proyas as well. I think our best bet though, for smart speculative fiction on the screen is Duncan Jones. Director of both Moon and the recent Source Code - his next film is supposedly a homage to Blade Runner set in Berlin - which sounds just awesome.

>> ^spoco2:

>> ^dag:
Nobody ever wants to watch Logan's Run with me - but I love that movie so much.

Oh! Great movie, I downloaded it recently to watch again, but it has to be one of those I watch alone as my wife has only so much ability to watch dated Sci Fi (current sci fi no probs).
Knowing had good bits, but I disliked the resolve. Also had high hopes because it was Alex, and, well, shot in Melbourne Yeay for the museum that me and the kids go to regularly.
Alex has done some stunning work, Dark City and the Crow, some ok work, iRobot was pretty good as long as you didn't actually expect it to be anything to do with Asimov, and some dribble... Garage Days was pretty crap.
I'd love to see him get back on top with an awesome, high concept, visually thrilling film again. Dark City is just so damn awesome.
Oh, but yeah, the plane crash scene in Knowing was awesome, very awesome.

>> ^dag:

I have high hopes for Proyas as well. I think our best bet though, for smart speculative fiction on the screen is Duncan Jones. Director of both Moon and the recent Source Code - his next film is supposedly a homage to Blade Runner set in Berlin - which sounds just awesome.
>> ^spoco2:
>> ^dag:
Nobody ever wants to watch Logan's Run with me - but I love that movie so much.

Oh! Great movie, I downloaded it recently to watch again, but it has to be one of those I watch alone as my wife has only so much ability to watch dated Sci Fi (current sci fi no probs).
Knowing had good bits, but I disliked the resolve. Also had high hopes because it was Alex, and, well, shot in Melbourne Yeay for the museum that me and the kids go to regularly.
Alex has done some stunning work, Dark City and the Crow, some ok work, iRobot was pretty good as long as you didn't actually expect it to be anything to do with Asimov, and some dribble... Garage Days was pretty crap.
I'd love to see him get back on top with an awesome, high concept, visually thrilling film again. Dark City is just so damn awesome.
Oh, but yeah, the plane crash scene in Knowing was awesome, very awesome.




Moon was pretty darn awesome, proper sci fi, dealing with 'concepts' rather than just flying cars and lasers. Source code looks cool, haven't seen it yet. But a 'love letter' to Blade Runner sounds ok by me

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You'll probably like Source Code. It's a tight SF thriller- a bit on the short side - and a little more mainstreamy than Moon - but still good and validates Duncan as someone who can direct a fairly complicated movie and have it make sense to to a general audience without dumbing it down.

I wish someone good would do a reboot of Bladerunner making a version more true to the original book Do Andriods Dream of Electric Sheep which had so much more in it:

Source Code is pretty enjoyable.

I have never walked out of a movie because most of the time I was sneaking into them.

Even when the movie is shit I still stay around and hate on it.

The worst one i watched this year has to be Zack Snyder's sugar... what the fuck was it called? SUCKERPUNCH yeah.

Walked out on the director's cut of "The Abyss". I saw the mainstream release and liked it. Then took my wife to see the director's cut at a local film festival. That was in 1994, she still hasn't forgiven me.

Can't say that I blame her.

Suckerpunch was definitely in the so bad it's good category. Zach is skilled at adaptations, but he can't write worth shit.

i love movies too much to ever walk out..even the crappy ones.
gives me an excuse to bitch and eviscerate the director.
didnt proyas also direct "the crow"?
that boy has chops.
the only movie this year that really grabbed me was "let the right one in".
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081111/REVIEWS/811129995/1023
seen it three times so far and every time something new pops out at me.
i even liked the americanized version with chloe moretz.

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That's on my list - I've got to see that one.>> ^enoch:

i love movies too much to ever walk out..even the crappy ones.
gives me an excuse to bitch and eviscerate the director.
didnt proyas also direct "the crow"?
that boy has chops.
the only movie this year that really grabbed me was "let the right one in".
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?
AID=/20081111/REVIEWS/811129995/1023
seen it three times so far and every time something new pops out at me.
i even liked the americanized version with chloe moretz.