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Have you ever been to a movie so terrible that you saw people leaving the theater? Which one was it?
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Unpopular opinion, but I left Oppenheimer at the 40 minutes mark. The main character was so unlikable, the movie pretentious, and I hated there was some kind of trial going on, but I had no context. So I left and did something better with my time.
I am so glad I waited for streaming on this one. It was fine, but way longer than it needed to be and convuluted as hell. I am glad to not be alone. That movie sniffs its own farts.
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Quite a few times, and I've also left a bunch.
We'd 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 they'd screen some otherwise straight to DVD movie just so that the publisher could advertise with "limited theatrical release" instead. Those were almost universally shit, and most people would leave within the first 10-20 minutes.
Edit: I'm afraid I don't 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 "ghetto" by joining a boxing club and turning professional. The dialogues and acting were incredibly terrible.
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I left the theatre for House of the Dead, along with my friend, who demanded a refund.
Saw an old couple walk out after the opening credits of Swiss Army Man lol
Dude, where's my car?
We saw it after we went to see the shaft movie and got free passes because film burned - it really did that! - at a quiet point with palmieri. We lost the 5 slow minutes in that film.
We saw it on free passes and I still wanted my money back; but I sat through every minute and hated it instead because the tickets were still ours and formerly-poor kids don't waste stuff like that.
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The Nun. Imagine a horror movie where the pitch is "nothing happens for 2 hours"
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A Rough Draft, a Russian movie based on a Russian book. The book is quite good, but the movie... Let's say I didn't see people leaving the theater, because I left it first.
Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd.
Hear me out. I love Sweeney Todd but these people didn't know it was a musical. About 15 minutes in one guy said "Are they going to sing the whole time?!". 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.
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I was really close leaving the cinema twice in my life. First time was the movie "2012". Second time the First "Hobbit" Movie
Legends of the Fall
X-Men 3 The Last Stand
I think I got like 45 minutes into it and left. No way I was going to sit through another hour of that.
Going back a bit, but that old Bruce Willis 'classic' Hudson Hawk. The projector film broke about an hour in, and everyone cheered and about half the people in the cinema took the opportunity to walk out, never to return.
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