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Have you ever walked out of a film? (shitfilmcentric)

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by olegrich

I did last night. Happy Go Lucky was a pile of cunt. How is 'Poppy' (the worst character ever) supposed to be likeable? Eurgh.

So yeah, renege me with stories of terrible films.

olegrich | 02 May '08, 09:29 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Please

tell me what is good about it. I woud genuinely like to hear your opinion.


Poppy is like she is for a reason

At the end (which it seems you didn't see!) her and her flatmate are in a rowing boat, her flatmate says "you can't make everyone happy" and Poppy replies "I can try though". And that's pretty much the crux of the film and the character, for me at least.

The plot's incidental, it's all about the people and I thought Eddie Marsan was magnificent as the horrific driving instructor.


he was the only mildly amusing character

I wanted Poppy to crash the car and be sent through the windscreen. That'll learn her.

I think the lesson is cynical bastards like me shouldn't watch films like that.


I'm as cynical

as it gets and I was still warmed by it!

The last 20 minutes are really powerful, should have stuck it out.


I'll wait for it

to come free with the Guardian and watch the last 20 minutes then.


Out of interest

have you seen any other Mike Leigh's films?


Yeah

well, I've seen Secrets and Lies, which I liked. What with that, and the positive things I have heard about Vera Drake, I thought I could trust this film.


A lot of people

who have seen it saw it as a bit of "relief" after Vera Drake and All or Nothing, both of which are great but pretty bleak. Maybe that's why some people have wamred to it as much as they have. Ah well.

See 'Naked' - one of my favourite films ever and dark as fuck.


Will do *makes note*

I'm sure if they would have had another actress in the lead role, I maybe could have enjoyed it. But she was Unbearable.


Naked

is fantastic, David Thewlis is great in it, shame he's done nothing worth a toss since!


Oh and

I walked out of Evita, because it is the most boring film ever made.


I think it was called 'Sphere'

but I don't remember anything apart from leaving


I watched Sphere all the way hrough

but it was because we were 14 and they kept saying 'helmet'

It has the worst ending ever


no

i made it all the way through both Catwoman AND Van Helsing.

although i did spend the former groaning and loudly criticising the poor dialogue and inane plot.


Nah

I don't think you've really got the right to rip into a film unless you've seen it through til the credits.


Thats a bit silly

so you are telling me you have never turned a film off ever, because it was bad?


A. I haven't paid for it if it's on TV

B. I tend not to say how bad films are unless I've seen them all the way through. It's like listening to 3 songs on an album and saying it's shite.


I've

sat through some tripe in my time (Blair witch 2, brokeback mountain, da vinci code, sweet home alabama, legally blonde 2), but seriously, it was beyond terrible.


god

Blair Witch 2 was bad wasn't it.


I have no doubt

It looks like saccharine bullshit and I fucking hate Mike Leigh, I'd like to punch his fat beard off.


oh my god

Brokeback Mountain is sooooo bad

I kept laughing because it was so shit and ridiculous. Everyone must've thought I was some kind of immature homophobe though.


Batman and Robin

Jesus it was dire

Nearly walked out of Moulin Rouge in the first 15 minutes, it was making me feel ill. Glad I didn't though


did you make it as far as the bit

with the bat credit card?


There's a bat credit card? WTF?

So glad I bypassed this movie altogether!


it's either the greatest moment

in cinematic history, or an all time low for humanity. i'm undecided.


I walked out of Jumper the moment the certificate came up on screen

but that was because I thought I was in the screen for Juno. Some advice: when you're speaking to a box office attendant, always remember to speak slowly and clearly when giving the title of the film you wish to see.


I stupidly went to see Gigli

And literally walked out 5 minutes in.


From the adverts

Happy Go Lucky looks like a film that would royally annoy me. So I didn't see it. Saw My Brother is an Only Child instead. Was pretty good.


Nope.

Although I nearly left halfway through Underworld, but due to the horror of having to push past people I stayed and sat it out. Urgh. One of my friends walked out 10 minutes into Long Time Dead. He made the right decision.


No, I walked in half way through a film.

Me and some friends were a little drunk and thought the starting time was an hour later than it was, we were really confused when we got there


We did this with Land of the Dead

We got allowed in during the last scene of the showing before ours.

We (being a bit drunk) didn't look at the screen, thought it was the adverts before the film and noisily found a seat.

It was a little embarrassing after the truth dawned on us, lucky it was a dark room :D


The ironic thing is:

If I wasn't a little drunk I would have been embarassed.
If we wern't drunk we wouldn't have been an hour late in the firat place. :)


No but that's because I find getting angry cathartic

so I sit it out to have the release.

I came close during Spawn though


Just try and watch that tripe

I'm sure you wouldn't last.


Christ

I'd forgotten about that sack of shit


Spawn

terrible film, but a class soundtrack!


The bit where he goes to hell

And there's all those bad guys and I was like OH YEAH! SOMETHING IS ACTUALLY GOING TO HAPPEN IN THIS FILM, then he just shot out loads of chains. Then it finished. Really abruptly


I didn't care by that point

The flame screen wipe thing they used about a billion times made me want to start actual fires


i bought a load of wank films from blockbuster the other day

they were:
wilderness - crap
albino alligator - poo
one for the road - ok, but a bit shit
heartlands - abysmal
deliverance - ok, but dull+too long

but then i watched get shorty and everything was ok.

on the + side tho they were only £2 and are guaranteed money back, so ill be taking them all back tonight!


Rancid Aluminium

Has anyone seen this? Terrible.


I made it through

Matrix Revolutiuons, but it was close. I wanted to see how it ends, but was probably so shellshocked by the shitness of it all, I can't remember if it even had an ending. It just went on and on, and then the credits rolled.


I walked out of

Police Academy 7- Mission To Moscow on account that it was awful and i hadn't seen anyone of the other ones.


only walked out of one film ever

The War Zone

it was when Ray Winstone was fucking his daughetre in the arse, and she yelped "why don't you do it to me, like you do it to mum?".

I hated the unremitting bleakness and that was the final straw.


Is that a real scene?

fucking hell, sounds wrong


all too real


I walked out of ratatouille

we went on a drunken whim and left on a drunken whim to take part in other drunken whims involving 8 story beer bongs.


Ratatouille's amazing

you fool!


I know,

I was in London aswell so it cost me like £10. Such good times after we left though.


At least a dozen times

I have a short tolerance for being bored (partly my bad). Lord of the rings and meet joe black spring to mind.

I prefer to have it on on DVD so I can clean the fridge/alphabetize my cds/defrag my hard drive at the same time.


no never

paid money and all that


i knew H-G-L would be shit

was it really worse than juno?


I was going to text you last night

It really, really is. We actually left it was that bad.


I walked out of Get Over It

after pretty much being able to guess what happens in the whole film from the opening sequence. It also stars Sisqo.

We walked out of the cinema leaving the girls there (it was their choice of film) and went and watched Delta Force.


SisqLOL

I was massively disappointed that he didn't sing 'thong song.'


Surely sisqo would be a big reason to stay?

Didn't he have silver hair in this film?


I can barely remember!

I've blanked that episode from my memory. I bet he didn't even get blown up/eaten by zombies/kniferaped/kneecapped/tarred and feathered/run over by a tank/thrown off a cliff/shelled/buried alive or anything!


Yeah but,

SILVER HAIR.


There's only two people with silver hair I respect

and that's The Colonel and Korean winger Lee Chun-Soo.


You don't have to respect

just enjoy.


Never walked out of the cinema.

Deliverance and Brokeback Mountain are classics.


never

I have contemplated walking out of 3: Batman and Robin (worst film of all time), Jumanji (Robin Williams is shit) and some Japanese thing I saw at an indie festival last year which totally totally sucked and was the most boring film I have ever seen.


Ok

go and watch happy go lucky


I generally try to stick it out

til the end, no matter how shit the film is. Recent exception: '21' with Kevin Spacey. Biggest pile of cliche-ridden dogshit I've seen in a long time.


I walked into Wild Wild West

halfway through and didn't notice


that it was halfway through that is.

Not that I didn't notice that I'd walked into a cinema where Wild Wild West was playing.


because that would make me

mentally sideways


:o

You missed the bit where he drives over the house in a monster truck!

Did you at least stay for the Sammo Hung cameo?


no

i didn't even walk out of Pearl Harbor, though this has more to do with the fact i'm a tight-fisted, bloody-minded northerner determined to get his money's worth


Happy-Go-Lucky was great.

Creep, however, was so shite i walked out. I'd also have walked out Hostel but i was sandwiched between hostile men who i didn't want to provoke.


what was that film

where there was a couple in the ocean for like an hour and a half? i left about halfway through that.


Open Water!

Worst ending ever!


i walked out of Unleashed

Jet Li and Bob Hoskins were doing my nut in. And I had a great chance of getting laid if i left. Wasn't really a decision to be made.