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Post by moviemouth on Jul 14, 2020 23:06:04 GMT
I think some people walked out of The New World. I am generally too focused on the movie I am watching and don't notice when people don't come back from leaving.
Ironically I also left the movie, but because I was not feeling good. I was already sick but I really wanted to see the movie, but I got worse while at the movie. I finished it on a rental.
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Post by millar70 on Jul 14, 2020 23:09:42 GMT
I watch the movie, not other filmgoers.
I've walked out of two movies: About Polly because it was so awful, and Factotum because I felt it wasn't a good representation of a great book.
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Post by marth on Jul 15, 2020 0:47:07 GMT
Inception. I guess some people didn´t pay the proper attention, and they got totally lost.
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Post by bravomailer on Jul 15, 2020 0:51:08 GMT
It was an army theater overseas.
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Post by moviemouth on Jul 15, 2020 1:07:56 GMT
The Witch Edit: I walked out of Australia to walk around the movie theater lobby for like 20 minutes. The movie was that painful to watch. I had to leave and take a break before going back in. That is actually the only Baz Luhrmann movie that I can tolerate.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Jul 15, 2020 1:59:34 GMT
I wasn't there, but I once heard about a special engagement showing of the Pier Paolo Pasolini film Salo. The theater was originally packed but throughtout the movie people were leaving in droves. Eventually there were like maybe three people left in the theater, including the guy who told me about this.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Jul 15, 2020 2:22:44 GMT
Wow... reading this thread it seems far more frequent than I've ever witnessed, & I've been to a boatload of movies.
Maybe not a Canadian thing? I always read about applause/standing ovations, &/or ppl talking/yelling at the screen... Nearly never seen that myself. The only times I've ever seen applause was for Star Wars, for early bird 8am viewings or whatever, when it's just adrenaline.
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on Jul 15, 2020 14:32:39 GMT
Natural Born Killers. I was one of them Hee, yep, me too, and I'm a Olly Stone fan! Only seen it happen twice in all my years of going to a theatre, NBK was one, I lasted till the 45 minute mark out of loyalty to the director, most of the punters had gone at the half hour mark. It's still the only film I have ever bailed out on. The other one was Last Man Standing, I was kind of angry to see people leaving, it's a good film, with Hill's trademark style in full effect.
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Post by Vits on Jul 15, 2020 18:53:13 GMT
2 people walked out of I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS almost at the beginning when Jim Carrey had a gay sex scene. Did they not know what the movie was about? I mean, there was a poster right outside that made it very clear.
2 people walked out of SOMEWHERE almost at the beginning when Stephen Dorff's character watched a striptease for the second time. They probably thought "There won't be a real plot and they'll just repeat these things over and over."
Hey, they were both released around the same time! Coincidence?
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 15, 2020 19:13:48 GMT
There was a revival showing of Pinocchio... several parents had to take terrified kids out of the theater and wait in the lobby until the whale was gone and it was safe to return.
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Post by Fox in the Snow on Jul 15, 2020 23:04:32 GMT
I notice it a lot at festivals, where people are probably seeing a lot of films in a short amount of time.
Most noticeable recent example was A Ghost Story. Large, very packed multi level theatre. In my section alone there would have been a few hundred people. For the first half hour or so, people were constantly walking out, by the time it got to the infamous "pie scene", I think close to 50 would have left. After that everyone stayed.
For the record it's my personal #1 of 2017, and my #1 English language film of the 2010s.
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Post by Fox in the Snow on Jul 15, 2020 23:07:25 GMT
First time I saw Eraserhead at a midnight screening, the two friends I dragged along left about halfway through, and they weren't the only ones. To their credit, they were nice enough to wait around for me, as I was relying on the ride home.
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Post by Fox in the Snow on Jul 15, 2020 23:09:10 GMT
I watch the movie, not other filmgoers. It's not always that easy to ignore.
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Post by lostinlimbo on Jul 16, 2020 0:00:43 GMT
I can only think of two occasions.
Alien; Director’s cut
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Color out of Space
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