Constantine with Keanu Reeves, less than halfway through left the girlfriend and went and got stoned in the car. When I came back in the rest of the film seemed a little more bearable
I once went on a date to the cinema (Odeon, Kingston Retail Park, worst cinema ever, save perhaps for the one at Pocklington) with my then girlfriend (talking ten years ago) and we didn't really see anything that jumped off the page. In the end, I went for a cig and told her to just pick a film. Came back in and she'd got tickets for Brokeback Mountain, which I'd never heard of, nor had any idea of it's content. So on the way in, I pass a mate coming out of another picture and upon telling him what I'm off to see, he shouts "it's about gay cowboys mate!". I thought he was taking the piss. Two anal sex scenes later, the rage was so immense that I went out into the foyer and played Time Crisis until it was over/my brain had turned to mush. She made up for it by giving me a rocking blowjob. So, you know, swings and roundabouts.
Two for me... Some Highlander sequel, probably 3. It was awful. Mario van Peebles ? The other film was Bad Lieutenant, the original Harvey Kietel one. Quite hard hitting. As I got out into the foyer the woman working there said that half of the weeks audience had walked out. An honourable mention must go to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. A sacrilegious choice for some, I know, but I thought it was pants, and I so wanted to leave, but stayed all the way through because I was stuck right in the middle of a packed cinema.
I once starred as an Iconic Leading Man in a movie on the silver screen After Nearly 2&1/2 hours Onscreen. I walked offset and as I re-entered the picture, the audience had all left. Thats all folks.
Some film with Kate Winslett about an Australian girl getting brainwashed by a cult and Harvey Keitel has to bring her back. Think it was called Holy Smoke. Utter garbage.
All this thread has done is make me think how many **** films there are. I think it's largely overlooked really as people always go on about their favourite films but if you think about it, we're lucky to get 2 or 3 really good films a year and considering cinemas show about 9 at a time think how much dross there must be. Back on topic and the nearest I came to walking out was Transformers 2. Dont know why i went to see it but Jesus it was bad.
There's more than 2 or 3 good films a year mate, Hollywood films and big pictures are on a rapid decline though. The amount of times over the last few years I've said to me lass "let's go cinema" then the whole menu is nowt but complete and utter ****e... I swear 15 years ago we were spoiled for choice with loads of good stuff on at once...
Well yeah but that's kind of what I meant. Of course there are more good films made every year but your average multiplex just doesnt show them. There's been a few films recently I wanted to see that were meant to be fantastic - Under The Skin for example - but it was shown for 3 nights in just 1 cinema in Leeds and I was away with work then. On the flipside you get the turgid blockbuster shown in every cinema in the same city for months on end. When you've got many cinemas in one city why dont more of them deliberately show different stuff to offer a wider choice instead of them all just showing the same thing?
Hey don't knock the Pocklington Cinema, I spent some great afternoons and evenings in there during my youth in the early '70's. Saw "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" there (best Bond film for me but worst Bond). You did have to contend with the odd inappropriate comment/laugh from one of the two brothers who probably wouldn't be allowed out and about these days. One of my strongest memories from the time, although I can't possibly imagine why, was a poster showing the appropriately named "Chesty Morgan" in all her glory (well not quite of course but at that age I was pretty impressed).
