Bad theater experiences

[Joanne Collins]

> > Anyway, I wanted to ask you all (if you're down here
> > by this point): 
> > if any of you have ever walked out of a movie, which
> > one was it?
>
>My most recent walkout was from "The Mexican."  It was the worst waste 
>of celluloid to which I had ever been subjected.  Even Julia Roberts 
>(for us guys), Brad Pitt (for you ladies) and James Gandolfini (for 
>all us "Soprano's" fans) couldn't ressurect this dead dog of a film!

Thanks, Haggridd. I didn't have the chance to catch that one at the
theatre, and I was wondering if it was something I would have liked. I
might have, except for the fact that I loathe Brad Pitt, and the alternate
choice the one week it was feasible was Head Over Heels, which was a cute
romantic comedy. I think I'll avoid it till I can rent it on video. I don't
think I want to shell out the money for the DVD.

As for walking out - never. I go to the movies at least every two weeks,
sometimes every week. I never go to a movie that I don't know something
about beforehand, and have been known to ask people about them if I can't
make up my mind through what I find online. And I've never been to a movie
that wasn't worth the admission price, which is my standard. I've been
lucky, most are much more than that, but I've never found one that I didn't
think was worth the ticket price, though I will admit there have been a few
that only just had that qualification.

Rentals are different for me. I rarely rent movies that I don't want to see
for a specific reason. I've been known to rent all the movies of a
particular actor or actress who catches my interest (*much* easier when
they're just starting out *grin*). I just don't waste my time with things
I'm not interested in in the first place. I can get twenty recs of a movie,
but if I'm not interested, I'll wait till it's on TV, and then only watch
it if it's convenient for me to do so.

The only movie in recent memory that I didn't like (though I kept watching
to the end) was a rental of Phantoms, with Peter O'Toole and (okay...so
this is why...) Ben Affleck, as well as Joanna Going, who is an actress I'm
very fond of and have always liked in the movies I've seen her in. It was
pretty bad. It didn't make much sense and the characters were so boring. I
like characters to have depth, whether they're good or bad people. I
probably won't watch it again.

I did have a bad theatre experience, though. Early this year, I was in
Canberra and my best friend who lives there and I decided to go and see a
movie in the time we had to spend together (I was there for a family
wedding). We went to see The Legend Of Bagger Vance. We were sitting there,
waiting for the movie to start when there was an announcement that there
was a technical problem and the movie would be delayed fifteen minutes. It
wasn't a bad personal experience, actually, because we got an extra fifteen
minutes of incomprehensible to anyone else talk (incidentally, I took POA
on this trip to read), including some HP discussion. But it was really
pretty unnerving, it was the first time it had happened to either of us. We
did wonder if there had been some kind of fire or something like that.

Joanne.

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