[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Bad theater experiences

[Jen Faulkner]

On Sun, 5 Aug 2001, Joanne Collins wrote:

> 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*). 

*grins* We've all been there, done that, right?  *thinks about some of
the absolutely awful movies she's rented to see a fave actor/actress,
even when their part is 'blink and you'll miss them' tiny* I think most
recently I watched... eXistenZ, to see Callum Keith Rennie.  And I
adored all, what?, 5 mins?, he was on screen, but I wasn't too impressed
with the movie itself.  (And I don't like Jude Law, particularly, though
he creeped me out less in this movie than in some I've seen him in.)  
As much as it pains me to recommend the Hollywood big-budget blockbuster
over the quirky, independent Canadian film, I liked the Matrix much
better.  (And besides, it had Carrie Anne Moss. *g*)

Has anyone seen the new Angelina Jolie/Antonio Banderas movie yet?  Is
it unbearably bad?

I've never walked out of a movie but once, and even then, it wasn't my
choice.  (I have walked out of several plays, though.  My standards for
real theater are much higher, and there's an intermission when no one
will notice.)  This must have been my freshman year, maybe, of high
school, and my best friend at the time and I had been planning for
months to go see "Interview with a Vampire."  She hadn't read the book,
but she did like Brad and Tom...  So we went, paid the $7 at the local
multiplex.  Well, not 20 mins. into it, she leans over to me and says,
"I can't sit here and watch one guy suck on another's neck for one more
minute.  It's gross."  And she got up and left.  I didn't want to be
alone and had no other way home, so I had to leave too.  It still irks
me, to this day, to think about it.

--jen, who tends not to leave during bad movies, but fall asleep :)

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