<p>I forgot. I really wanted to walk out of “Roller Babies” - didn’t though cause my whole extended family went (WHY?) and I didn’t want to cause a scene. </p>
<p>Fargo? Well, maybe I’ll give it another try sometime. I don’t mind violence in a movie if it makes sense and isn’t too graphic. I loved movies like Sling Blade and a Simple Plan. I just have an issue with framing this kind of violence in a comedy…moral center or not.</p>
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Gah! I had almost blanked that one out, and you have to remind me.</p>
<p>Another movie I hated was “Blow Out,” starring John Travolta. One of the most depressing movies I’ve ever seen.</p>
<p>I fell asleep on the most recent Sherlock Holmes movie.</p>
<p>I did not see the Sherlock Holmes movie, but my son went to see with a friend. They both liked it. Thanks for the heads up, because I thought that I missed a good movie and thought that I should watch it at some point.</p>
<p>I thought the new Sherlock Holmes movie was pretty entertaining (and loud–I can’t imagine how anybody could sleep during it). The Holmes character is quite different from previous portrayals, so some people may not care for it.</p>
<p>I’ve only walked out of one movie (but I only see maybe one or two movies in theaters a year, including the Harry Potter movies - sometimes twice). It was last summer and I don’t even know what it was called. It was about ethanol, and one guy was being charged with espionage. It didn’t match the description at all.</p>
<p>“I’m not bothered by violence in films if it isn’t used for purely sensationalistic or exploitative reasons. It is a violent world, and people wonder where violence comes from - it’s a compelling theme in many great films.”</p>
<p>I am on the same page, which is why I loved Pulp Fiction and hated Kill Bill Part I. I thought the genius of Pulp Fiction was showing the different personality layers inside gangster assassins. They have water-cooler repartee like the office IT guys. They worry about the impression they make on the boss’s wife. Then they kill some people, and later they stop at a diner for breakfast. It was a convincing picture of the complex, crazy mess that is a human character.</p>
<p>I once had this argument with a man who argued that it was wrong to watch movies about evil people doing bad things. I said, “What about ‘Macbeth’?” A really good script and actor can make you understand or even admire the villain, whether it’s Lady Macbeth, Iago, or Dracula. (And when it comes to sadistic torture, the eyeball-gouging scene in King Lear puts most horror movies to shame.)</p>
<p>YMMV, of course – and no one has to justify hating a movie. If you want your money back, you should get it back.</p>
<p>lol, We rented the Sherlock Holmes video and I was stretched out on the couch late at night while watching. I guess I was too pooped to keep up with the accents and the rapid pace of it.</p>
<p>I loathed Dances With Wolves. I was pregnant and mostly on bed/couch rest for 6 months. I got permission from the doctor to go the movies and I wasted on this Kevin Costner vanity piece. To this day I hate Kevin Costner and his giant ego.</p>
<p>I fell asleep quickly to Dances With Wolves (at home). To Braveheart too, much to the amazement of my husband. Star Wars is like Ambien to me. I tried to watch it again when they had the prequels out in the late 90s and my kids were so into it. Glazed right over.</p>
<p>The Ice Storm, War of the Roses, Dusk to Dawn, King Solomon’s Mines – proof that you should not pick a movie based on the actors involved. My wife loves Kevin Kline (Ice Storm), and Richard Chamberlain (King Solomon’s Mines) and we went without reading any reviews. We went to Dusk to Dawn with a couple who loved George Clooney, also not having read the reviews. War of the Roses was my fault, I liked Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner, and the one review I read called it a comedy. I rarely go to the theatre any more, just wait and rent it in the comfort of my own home.</p>
<p>Yeah, we do most movies at home too. I usually check them out on the Tomato Meter (Rotten Tomatoes) before I watch…not perfect…but pretty good. They gave a super high rating to Don’t Look Now (with Donald Sutherland). HATED it. Turned it off after about an hour. And I’m sure they liked Fargo too. :)<br>
Hunt, I will say again that I don’t mind violence in movies if it’s done right. I don’t think comedies mix well with gruesome violence. And I thought Pulp Fiction was over-hyped, more style than substance, and offensive. Again, I’m clearly in the minority here. Perhaps I lived in Europe in a previous life…I like their slow-paced talky films. Films other folks would probably walk out on :)</p>
<p>“Perhaps I lived in Europe in a previous life…I like their slow-paced talky films.”</p>
<p>I feel the opposite way. In fact, I think that part of the federal government’s foreign aid program should be millions of dollars to filmmakers in Sweden and France so that they can afford to put at least one car chase or gunfight in each movie.</p>
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But I won’t vote for it unless you add laser battles.</p>
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<p>An unfortunate minority caught on right away. I was part of majority that didn’t see it coming, and so to me this film was a masterpiece. Apparently the only one M. Night Shyamalan will ever make, alas.</p>
<p>I’ve never walked out on a film, probably because I wouldn’t see a film that didn’t seem beforehand as though it would appeal to me somehow. Even films that have a reputation for being “offensive” or “controversial” always end up seeming tame to me. I figure, “Eh, it’s just a movie.” Limbs being hacked off? I’m busy trying to work out how they did the special effects.</p>
<p>The only thing I really hate to see depicted in a film is cruelty; I can imagine walking out on that. Films are primarily entertainment. Why would I watch one that fills me with misery?</p>
<p>“Rachel Getting Married” with Anne Hathaway. If I wasn’t there with a friend of mine, I would have walked out. A truly dysfunctional family with a main character who was very hard to like…I felt like we all needed therapy by the time it was over. Never understood why it was so popular.</p>
<p>I have walked out on the following movies that made me sick to my stomach. Literally. </p>
<p>**The Island ** [The</a> Island (1980)](<a href=“http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080934/]The”>The Island (1980) - IMDb)</p>
<p>An American Werewolf in London[An</a> American Werewolf in London (1981)](<a href=“http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082010/]An”>An American Werewolf in London (1981) - IMDb)</p>
<p>The Beastmaster [The</a> Beastmaster (1982)](<a href=“http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083630/]The”>The Beastmaster (1982) - IMDb)</p>
<p>the only thing keeping me from walking out on “The Grinch Who Stole Christmas” (Jim Carey version), was the fact that I was seated next to the wall and would have had to walk over the rest of my family to get out. Interesting thread though, to see so many different opinions.</p>
<p>There’s no way on earth you will ever get me to see the movie version of the Grinch. Respect for Seuss, combined with the icckk factor of what i read about it, make that a certainty.</p>
<p>I think I used to have a much stronger stomach.
Nobody mentioned the Blair Witch Project- that made me queasy.
( or Eraserhead- which I have never seen- but I know too much already)
I did stay till the end of Jacob’s ladder- and all the way through the Care bears & My Little Pony movies!</p>
<p>I have never seen Rocky Horror Picture show all the way through- but that is because I fall asleep- not too hard to do when it starts @midnight.</p>
<p>I would have loved to have walked out of the second Pokemon movie. The things we do for our kids!</p>