'Ariel'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
Only movie I ever walked out of: "Rudy."
I wasn't really there to see the movie. A friend and I were casing the joint to see if we wanted to rent it for a theater project we were working on. About halfway through the movie, he looked at me and said, "Do you care about any of this?" And I thought about it and said, "No. No, I don't." So we left.
I don't think I've ever walked out of a movie, but it was funny to see people leaving Sweeney Todd after ten minutes, when it became apparent that they'd accidentally gone to see a musical.
it looks like Starship Troopers without the funny parts
There were funny bits in Starship Troopers? Other than standard "we're having witty banter now" moments?
There were funny bits in Starship Troopers?
Yes! Dougie Howser, Nazi!
Oh, yes, Crash...the latest best picture nominee to remind me that cocaine is still a factor in the film business.And yet it got all those "I laughed," "I cried" reviews...wtf?
Movies I have walked out of: Muppet Movie
GASP!
I was 10.
I love the Cronenburg Crash. In fact I own it.
Pay It Forward.
Euchhh. I can't remember what compelled me to watch that but it skeeved me like that children's book I'll Always Love You with the adult infantilism.
The Muppet Movie? But it's got Steve Martin as a bad waiter and the standard rich and famous contract and a bear in his natural habitat.
Branagh's Hamlet
I saw it on TV not long ago. Looked beautiful, but how in the name of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern does the story belong in an Edwardian setting?
I mean, in college I helped out a professor who staged a couple of scenes of Richard III for a thesis. He used a 1960s Vietnam setting, but he explained the reasons for his choice to the committee. (Short summary for the curious: The government and society of Vietnam in the 1960s paralleled those of England during the Wars of the Roses.)
People like to play with the settings of Shakespeare. I've got a book of Shakespeare in Performance, and I think there's a punk rock version of one of the Henry V or IV plays.
Nothing is worse than the Mikado set at a 20s British seaside resort, although Carmen with a disco ball came close.