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#1

Why Do People Walk Out Of A Movie 2 Minutes Before It Ends?

Posted: 2/2/10 at 2:51pm

I've never understood this. It happens every time I go to the movies that 2 or 3 minutes before the movie ends, handfuls of people get up and leave.
A friend and I went to see LEGION this afternoon (which I guess I could have understood with that film) but it's every movie I go to.

What is that??? And why does it bother me so much? lol
#2

Why Do People Walk Out Of A Movie 2 Minutes Before It Ends?

Posted: 2/2/10 at 3:06pm

In the good old days when we had "Adult" theaters, Guys who had seen "Powertool 6" before would get up and leave after the last sex scene, giving the rest of us the cue to get up and leave too, before the lights came up.

But other than that...never seen it happen.
#4

Why Do People Walk Out Of A Movie 2 Minutes Before It Ends?

Posted: 2/2/10 at 5:42pm

Well, at the screening of NINE I attended 4 or 5 of the ten of us in the theatre left after "Be Italian"...

I do agree, Jordan. I'll never forget when 2 people in front of me got up and left at the start of the final scene of THERE WILL BE BLOOD... missing the whole "milkshake" speech and Kubrick homage and everything... though I get the feeling it wasn't their sort of thing, anyway. Why sit through a boring movie when you can incessantly text and twit, TWIT being the operative term... ugh...

It drives me up the wall, as well. Same with leaving at intermission.

P
#5

Why Do People Walk Out Of A Movie 2 Minutes Before It Ends?

Posted: 2/2/10 at 5:48pm

My philosophy is that I paid $10 to see this movie and dammit I am going to sit until the end, even if it kills me.


Funny story: When my girlfriend and I went and saw Godzilla in the movie theaters when I was in High School, a few of our friends were there and all they did was make out. The guy turned around and said, "DJ, why aren't you two making out?" I said, "I paid $6 to see this movie. If I wanted to make out, I would have gone somewhere for free."
"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2

Updated On: 2/2/10 at 05:48 PM

#6

Why Do People Walk Out Of A Movie 2 Minutes Before It Ends?

Posted: 2/2/10 at 6:01pm

I see it constantly. Maybe it's just a NYC thing.

And when I saw ROCKY HORROR in Chelsea last Friday night two people in the back row were having sex. Full out sex. They were beyond drunk and let me tell you, it was HILARIOUS.
#9

Why Do People Walk Out Of A Movie 2 Minutes Before It Ends?

Posted: 2/2/10 at 6:43pm

I've noticed it but it doesn't piss me off nearly as much as the a**holes that CHARGE for the exits the second the lights go down at the end of a play. I hate people who won't stay for the curtain call.
RIP Natasha Richardson. ~You were a light on this earth ~
#10

Why Do People Walk Out Of A Movie 2 Minutes Before It Ends?

Posted: 2/2/10 at 6:50pm

I hate when I go to a concert and people start leaving before the encore. I mean duh. The lights haven't come up. They are coming back out. And probably going to perform a few of their biggest hits.
KFTC!!!!!
#13

Why Do People Walk Out Of A Movie 2 Minutes Before It Ends?

Posted: 2/2/10 at 7:13pm

I have a friend who cures depression by spending a full day at the movies. She buys one ticket to an early show (only $6 at the Empire on 42nd) and theatre hops. To dodge the staff, she has to leave the movie a minute or two early to avoid being caught.

"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert
#16

Why Do People Walk Out Of A Movie 2 Minutes Before It Ends?

Posted: 2/2/10 at 9:56pm

I think that the only movie I have ever walked out of early was Nine. And, that was due to the fact that the character of Guido was one that was pissing me off to no end. Never have I hated a character so much. And, I didn't walk out after Be Italian, I walked out after Cinema Italiano.

I have been raised that I don't leave something until it is done. I have grown up going to Jets games all my life and we never left until the clock ran down to zero in the fourth quarter, regardless of the outcome. Same thing when we go to baseball games.
"If you try to shag my husband while I am still alive, I will shove the art of motorcycle maintenance up your rancid little Cu**. That's a good dear" Tom Stoppard's Rock N Roll
#17

Why Do People Walk Out Of A Movie 2 Minutes Before It Ends?

Posted: 2/2/10 at 10:05pm

This is a problem I have ONLY encountered in New York theatres. It doesn't matter if I'm at the Empire 25 or a hole-in-the-wall art house, New Yorkers are by far the most self-important filmgoers. They talk throughout, text, and almost always rush out the second the image fades out, if not moments before.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#18

Why Do People Walk Out Of A Movie 2 Minutes Before It Ends?

Posted: 2/2/10 at 10:30pm

I used to attend a lot of local press screenings and critics would leave early ALL the time.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
#19

Why Do People Walk Out Of A Movie 2 Minutes Before It Ends?

Posted: 2/3/10 at 4:16pm

I wanna know why people leave WICKED right before "Defying Gravity". Two people left, but not together, right before "Defying Gravity" started and they didn't come back.

Really? You're gonna miss the best song in the show?
"I want a lap dance from an octopus."

-JG2

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