what movie was so terrible, that you walked out of the theatre

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Permalink Reply by pterosaur on February 20, 2009 at 3:03pm

Charlie's Angels. While I was getting the link for this POS, I ran across this review which pretty much sums it up:

It's like a mountain dew commercial stretched out. It will make you wish Drew Barrymore OD's back in the 80's. If you want to see these over-the-hill starlets prance around in skin-tight suits, just google them and save 100 minutes of your life...

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Permalink Reply by Pihk on February 21, 2009 at 9:04am

Ha ha! Isn't the director of this one also the one for Terminator 4 (i.e. the one where Christian Bale lost his shit on set)?

I know its Hollywood, but what kind of 40+ year old man insists on being called "McG"?

However, I take exception to the following phrase from that review: over-the-hill starlets. Gimme a break...I'm guessing this was written by some idiot teenager who would have probably messed his pants if one of those "over-the-hill" starlets even so much as glanced in his direction. Note that I'm not suggesting that Cameron Diaz is anything but the ditziest of stupid Hollywood bimbos, but she (and the rest of the cast) are hardly past their prime.

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Permalink Reply by JDoors on February 20, 2009 at 6:22pm

I was seven or eight when a manic witch in some King Arthur-like tale scared me so much I walked out of the theater. Only THEN did I figure out: How am I going to get home without my big brother? Wahh!

In my late teens we all went to see a teen comedy, natural enough, right? Hog Wild -- S.T.U.P.I.D. We walked out, asked for the manager and requested a refund. Guess nobody'd done that before 'cause he appeared to be very confused, "What? You want ... your money back? ... What?" He relented in the end.

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Permalink Reply by ASCAPEGOAT on February 20, 2009 at 9:36pm

Aww, it wasn't that bad, was it? Not half as bad as this thread...hafr but seriously my only problelm was with the way the i got suckered into watching the Matrix, i just had to know what "it" meaning the Matrix was, and let me tell you WHAT A WASTER. The whole premises is that we are all batteries for the soul purpose of giving life to robots. I mean c'mon how Fucking Stupid can you be? Yeah sure the acting is so so for a futuristic movie and the special effects were phenomenal, but aside from all that is sucked! Maybe i watched more than half of it before walking then i don't remember if was almost over before i reached the exit. Never have i left a show before seeing the conclusion but now i was gone for good. I also had to go to little men's room too.

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Permalink Reply by JDoors on February 21, 2009 at 8:49am

Oh, that witch! She was stirring a cauldren, making incantations, smoke was rising ... Gahhh!

*****

I've noticed a lot of movies mentioned in this thread that SOME people loved, while others couldn't stand. Odd.

Re: The Matrix. Yeah, the concept of keeping humans alive to "feed" off the electricity they generate is re-donk-ulous. What? The machines found THAT easier to accomplish than just building nuclear reactors or tapping the Earth's heat? Doh!

But, in my opinion, I don't think the "Coppertop" plot was all that important to the story (regardless of how much screen time it got). The movie was about philisophical questions more than anything else. Or, at least, that's what the machines told me.

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Permalink Reply by ASCAPEGOAT on February 21, 2009 at 10:18am

i do, generally watch every piece of crap the theater throws at me. Like i must not miss out on how Jigsaw plans on disemboweling his next victim for our amusement. There are lots of movies where i stayed through the hole thing and thank god, because they r awesome! Some i wished i had escaped. One comes to mind The Thin Red Line and Empire of the Sun were two that are brutally honest and boring. But that makes up for the truly exciting ones that glue me to the seat like a bug on a windshield.

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Permalink Reply by JDoors on February 21, 2009 at 5:47pm

Wow! We could NOT be more opposite in movie taste! :D

The Matrix? One of my favorite movies of all time. Empire of the Sun? One of my favorite movies of all time. I haven't seen The Thin Red Line, but on your dis-recommendation perhaps I should queue it up. Slasher flicks? BORING. STUPID. :D

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Permalink Reply by JDoors on February 22, 2009 at 8:39am

I know! When I found out it was Bale as a kid it made a lot of sense, considering his career since. Also, I immediately had to watch one of my top-ten favorite movies SCENES of all time: When he climbs to the top of that war-torn building to cheer the coming of the allied warplanes: "P-51! Cadillac of the sky!" I'm tearing up just writing about it!

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Permalink Reply by ToxicDon on February 21, 2009 at 8:03pm

I have never walked out on a movie...

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Permalink Reply by CL on February 21, 2009 at 8:06pm

You must not have went to see Wild, Wild West.

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Permalink Reply by ToxicDon on February 21, 2009 at 10:33pm

I've seen some bad movies, but if I pay the money, I'm staying until the end.

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Permalink Reply by CL on February 22, 2009 at 5:49am

Yeah, I didn't pay to see it. We snuck in, thank Jeebus!

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