I saw Young Einstein on opening weekend…for some reason. No one left the theater but there were only about 4 of us in there to begin with.
Didn’t walk out, but wish I had: the first Wonder Woman movie with Gal Gadot. They managed to make a Wonder Woman movie that was more about her boyfriend than Wonder Woman. Wtf.
I once took my grandfather, a retired commander of the Land Army, to watch a leftist comedy. While I liked it, he was somewhat uncomfortable, but we watched it till the end.
A couple months later, he wanted to take me to watch a documentary on the life on a wooden ship over months, maintained for historical conservation. I’m not going to say it was the biggest turd I had ever seen in my entire life, but it was a serious contender, but nonetheless I had committed myself to watch it till the end because my grandpa did the same effort for me. In the end, it was him who asked me to leave early because he was bored.
The only time I’ve ever experienced this was with Skinamarink, had two different people walk out of it. I completely understand why people don’t like it, but I was in the 50% of people who saw it that it totally worked for. It got under my skin in a way no other horror movie has (even amongst some really good ones that I really loved/was scared by!), and it was the first one in a while that scared me as an adult. For a long time after seeing it, I hated walking around my house at night for any reason.
I watched it with friends and one of us fell asleep during the first few minutes. We all ended up envying her because we fall solidly in the “nothing about this movie works for us” camp. It’s rather telling that we started making Look Around You jokes after the basement scene.
But yeah, it’s interesting about how polarizing this movie is not for its content or message but for how it’s made. For some people it really seems to hit a nerve, for others it’s an extremely badly shot movie about a ghost with severe ADHD alternating between gluing things to walls and tormenting chatbot approximations of human children.
Not a bad movie at all, but it was so fun watching people with kids leaving the Sausage Party: what were they expecting?
Something similar happened when I saw the Final Fantasy movie. This blue-haired old lady walked in with her 7-8 year old granddaughter. They left shortly after a demon tore a soul from a living human.
No idea why she thought it would be appropriate for a kid that age.
An older lady and a kid were at South Park in the row in front of me. They didn’t make it 10 minutes.
I think that a lot of people in the Boomer and older age ranges never really understood the idea of adult animation, so they just assume that animated shows and films are made for kids.
(But my favorite Parker/Stone walk-out was the obviously Mormon couple who sat in front of us for the first 30 minutes of The Book of Mormon. The guy had the word “Mormon” embossed on his belt. They didn’t do their homework before they bought those tickets.)
(But my favorite Parker/Stone walk-out was the obviously Mormon couple who sat in front of us for the first 30 minutes of The Book of Mormon. The guy had the word “Mormon” embossed on his belt. They didn’t do their homework before they bought those tickets.)
Was it released as a movie? Or do you mean the musical? If so, that’s the absolute best thing I’ve ever seen on stage. Also the only one that was so good I went to watch it a second time :-D
