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Have You Ever Walked Out on a Movie?
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jay718 wrote: I walked out of Black Panther a few weeks back before it had even started. Although I'd bought roughly $30 worth of concessions, the ticket taker told me that unless I allowed him to search my 8 year old son's backpack for outside food and/or beverages he wouldn't allow us into the showing.
Jeez, is this a thing in America? I never buy food at the cinema, because it's so hideously overpriced. I just go in with my pockets bulging with enough drinks and popcorn for the whole family. Sometimes I even make it fresh at home before we go. No-one's ever batted an eyelid.
To answer your question: once, that I recall, in a cinema. It was an arthouse film based on The Tempest called Prospero's books and it was garbage.
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I don't know what I've expected, maybe this movie is illustration for those who have read the novel (I haven't)
It was both boring and chaotic
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jay718 wrote: I walked out of Black Panther a few weeks back before it had even started. Although I'd bought roughly $30 worth of concessions, the ticket taker told me that unless I allowed him to search my 8 year old son's backpack for outside food and/or beverages he wouldn't allow us into the showing.
Wow. Not sure what's more annoying about this, the presumed authority a ticket taker gets, or the manager pulling his puppet strings and firing him if he doesn't do stuff like this.
Next time bring a blonde with a large purse. I knew a gal who used to bring entire wine bottles and glasses into theaters. Years of free drinks and drugs were probably fun for her at the time, but I know she struggles immensely with being taken seriously in professional environments. Lots of Weinstein wannabes out there.
I don't think I've ever actually left a theater. It's way easier to turn things off, change the channel, or fast forward through boring parts at home. I only go to the theater maybe 3-5 times a year these days, so I'm really careful about researching stuff, or it's something we're going to see for the kid.
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ubarose wrote: The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover. It's very disturbing. It's a good, possibility a great film, but difficult to watch.
I saw that one at home and did not get through half of it.
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jay718 wrote: I walked out of Black Panther a few weeks back before it had even started. Although I'd bought roughly $30 worth of concessions, the ticket taker told me that unless I allowed him to search my 8 year old son's backpack for outside food and/or beverages he wouldn't allow us into the showing.
Did you get a refund for everything?
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Movies are so fucking expensive. I live around the corner from a Regal Multicineplex 99 or whatever that has all the mod cons- stadium seating, “gourmet” nachos, couches, and everything. It’s like $17 a ticket there. 3D is over $20. So instead I go to this janky little Movie Tavern place and it’s $8. Or to this old AMC mall theater where they show Indian musicals alongside the Hollywood stuff and it’s a $5 matinee.
I have never walked out of a movie.
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