404
Have you ever been to a movie so terrible that you saw people leaving the theater? Which one was it?
(lemmy.world)
Spice World
this post was submitted on 23 Mar 2024
404 points (100.0% liked)
Movies
8959 readers
20 users here now
Welcome to Movies, a community for discussing movies, film news, box office, and more! We want this to be a place for members to feel safe to discuss and share everything they love about movies and movie related things. Please feel free to take part and help our community grow!
Related Communities:
[email protected] - Discussing books and book-related things.
[email protected] - A place to discuss comic books of all types.
[email protected] - LW's home for all things MCU.
While posting and commenting in this community, you must abide by the Lemmy.World Terms of Service: https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
-
Posts or comments that are homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, ableist, or advocating violence will be removed.
-
Be civil: disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally insult others.
-
Spam, self promotion, trolling, and bots are not allowed
-
Shitposts and memes are allowed until they prove to be a problem.
Regarding spoilers; Please put "(Spoilers)" in the title of your post if you anticipate spoilers, as we do not currently have a spoiler tag available. If your post contains an image that could be considered a spoiler, please mark the thread as NSFW so the image gets blurred. As far as how long to wait until the post is no longer a spoiler, please just use your best judgement. Everyone has a different idea on this, so we don't want to make any hard limits.
Please use spoiler tags whenever commenting a spoiler in a non-spoiler thread. Most of the Lemmy clients don't support this but we want to get into the habit as clients will be supporting in the future.
Failure to follow these guidelines will result in your post/comment being removed and/or more severe actions. All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users. We ask that the users report any comment or post that violates the rules, and to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
I didn't see this in the theater, but if I had...
Showgirls. It was kind of a big deal when it was new because there was so much nudity and one of the stars had been in a very wholesome sitcom as a young actor. I was young enough that even though I'd heard it was awful I kinda wanted to see all that nudity, I thought how bad could it be? It was so terrible. So very terrible. The nudity couldn't begin to make up for how terrible it was.
load more comments
(2 replies)
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.
load more comments
(2 replies)
I walked out of the first lord of the rings an hour and a Half in when it was still character building. I mentioned to my gf at the time and she said it'll prob be 3 years before the second part and 6+ for the third. And no, obviously I never read The books.
I hate watching series waiting a week between cliffhangers... Couldn't care less to wait years.. Still haven't caught up.
Lord of the Rings?! Some of the answers in this thread really make me sad lol.
load more comments
(1 replies)
load more comments
(5 replies)
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.
load more comments
(1 replies)
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.
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.
load more comments
(4 replies)
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.
Didn't walk out, but wish I had: the first Wonder Woman movie with Gal Gadot. They managed to make a Wonder Woman movie that was more about her boyfriend than Wonder Woman. Wtf.