Eh, not really. They are character studies, and not just the main character, but nearly all the characters in his films. They are fully fleshed out yet, in some aspects, we’re only given hints of their lives - to the point of longing to learn more.
I can certainly understand why that may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but to the target audience there isn’t much better.
EDIT: to remain on topic, I never walked out of a movie, but my dad did when he took me to see Time Bandits.
We walked out 15 minutes into the film. It was horrible. And I’m pretty sure we didn’t even ask for our money back. It was a life lesson learned. Sharon Stone and James Woods were even worse than Sylvester.
Oh my. That was my pick. Especially after reading someone mention Driven. Those are two absolutely wretched movies.
I haven’t actually ever walked out of a theater though –guess I’m too stubborn or just too much of a cheapskate– so these are just cases where I seriously considered the idea. But if I had to choose a controversial pick, I’d have to go with American Beauty. I know it is highly regarded but I hated its preachy, artsy guts with a passion and couldn’t wait for it to end.
Buncha lightweights in this thread. I’ve seen Chupacabra Terror, like, a half dozen times – on purpose! – and you guys can’t even muster the gumption to sit through a lousy Star Wars prequel?
-Tom
Pearl Harbor?
Doesn’t really count because I didn’t walk and fell asleep instead, but I took my kids to see the Yu-Gi-Oh (sic) movie. I felt like I was on an acid trip, but not in a good way. I had no idea what was going on in the movie so I shut my eyes and slept.
Gangs of New York. Too violent.
Interesting. Was it you or the group that made the call?
I’m really angry with myself for not walking out of Eddie Murphy’s Nutty Professor remake.
I straight-up unambiguously love Snowpiercer. Its preposterousness is in your face from the opening moments, and I had no trouble swallowing what was told I would have to swallow. From that point on it’s just a surreal allegorical black comedy, like The Disccreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie.
The worst movie I’ve ever seen is without question Oliver Stone’s Alexander, a movie that makes Crank 2 look like Au hazard Balthazar.
I have walked out of one movie ever. With my girlfriend at the time (now wife).
What a godawful piece of crap.
That is kind of a sign that a relationship could be built to last.
I’ve never walked out. Closest was falling asleep during a free screening of
Nodded off when she was trapped in an ancient ruin, woke up and she was skydiving in Shanghai or something.
It genuinely was. We both just looked at each other , nodded and walked out. (with some others who were equally non entertained I might add). It made our relationship better as we realised both of us have good taste in movies :)
I hear you. In my Micheal Bay walkouts named above, the marriage didn’t last.
I dragged my wife to go see Bubba Ho-Tep pretty early on in our relationship. She came pretty close to walking out on it, and me.
Some of you have too much anger.
I cannot say I have wanted to walk out of too many movies. My daughter grew bored with The Lego Movie and we left but a couple of years later she quite enjoyed the DVD.
Probably the most horrific movies I can remember seeing are Independence Day II which was a big pile of shit. But the worst was a movie I saw many years ago - Defcon 4 which was some horrible movie about astronauts and Armageddon. The best part of that movie was a trailer for The Stuff, which looked like a movie about killer yogurt. I even found the trailer for it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE6Z1nBqLwo
Granath, that may be true, most of my anger was used on Michael Bay, I will say that in my defense.
The Pearl Harbor thing was vexing because I warned her, I said “look, its probably going to be bad history, and that will really trigger me; I can’t abide it. Can we please see something else?” But she was dead set on the Affleck and would brook no compromise. She can have him!
Not just bad, but boring!
And the irony is it is bad in ways that are typically un-Bay like. There is coherent filming, a lack of constant shaky cam, even intentionally and carefully framed shots. It isn’t running with a constant series of stupid action points, there is a story there that obviously they cared about.
It’s just boring dross. Poorly written, and spends far too much energy on things people didn’t come to see. I came for a movie about a historical battle, and got three hours of turgid love triangles.