You Ever Walk Out of the Theater?

Insane... I love The Truman Show.

I really really REALLY wanted to walk out of a batman film (the one with Bane I don't remember or care what it was called) I was literally begging my friend for us to leave but he was having none of it and he provided the transport so I had to sit through the entire god awful thing. On way home my mate was like that wasn't very good, I was like I HATE YOU.


Oh and Independence 2, whatever the **** it called itself, dear lord that was dreadful.. again a friend who refused to let me leave.


I don't go to cinema often, I never seem to have much luck but I think in future I may go alone...

Around the turn of the century, in the pre-streaming times, I was going to see just about every mainstream horror film that came to theaters. As you might imagine, there were quite a few stinkers in there. I never walked out of one, but I sure did mentally check out on a few. Silent Hill, The Ring Two and The Grudge 2 are examples that come to mind. Now, with streaming, you can reach that point where you just know you're watching garbage and you can get up for a snack and check your texts and so on, but there's nothing worse than realizing 15 minutes into a film you've paid for that it's going to be terrible and you already drove to the theater so you might as well stick it out. Then there's another hour and a half of just shifting in my seat and checking the time and vowing that I'd never do it again.

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So the future as depicted in Rollerball was just as corrupt, yet a bit more honest than the system we have now.

And we can't walk out of our movie.

I have walked out of the theatre many times...once the movie was over (but never before!)

There is nothing quite so liberating as walking out of a movie that is wasting your time, especially if you paid money to see it (it's a repudiation of the sunk costs fallacy and a declaration your time IS worth MORE than your money).

Hell no. I paid good money for those seats. I'm not leaving them.

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I did once when I watched Yesterday (2019) in a movie theater. It was an emergency and so I have to go home. I rewatched the movie again a few months after that.

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I walked out of Mike Figgis's The Loss of Sexual Innocence. It got a big write up in the paper. It had all kinds of heat around it. But it was terribly boring and felt like it wasn't going anywhere. I don't know how long I gave it because I certainly wasn't one to walk out of a movie. I asked my friend if she wanted to leave but she definitely didn't walk out of movies. I left and strolled into another theater in the multi-plex where they were playing That Winslow Boy. What a wonderful movie with a great script by David Mamet, Also Jeremy Northam was in it. I had a big crush on him at the time.