I remember walking out of movies when I was young and my mom realized I was bored by whatever it was we were seeing. Song of the South and White Fang were movies I seem to remember walking out on. I'm fairly sure my mom didn't ask for a refund.
As an adult I've never walked out on a movie because I was with someone who I thought was enjoying it. The horrible American version of Godzilla, Mission Impossible II (though I later found out everyone else in my group wanted to walk out on it as well), Transformers 2 (NEVER seeing another Michael Bay film again!). Actually with Transformers I went and hung out in the bathroom because I couldn't stand to watch another minute of it but my husband was enjoying it so much.
The only times we got free tickets to another show was during Independence Day when someone in the audience had a grand mal seizure and they had to stop the movie to get him the medical care he needed and they gave the rest of us tickets to a later showing. And when we saw one of the Lord of the Rings movies, the audience was SO horrible that we were complaining about them amongst our group as we were leaving the theater and the manager heard us and gave us free tickets to whatever we wanted to see. We weren't expecting it, and we certainly weren't going to ask for it, but we sure as hell weren't turning them down!
It's not like you can return a movie you see in the theater...or get 2 hours of your life back. And since I've never seen a movie alone, there's also a I'm-spending-time-with-people-I-love element that a bad movie can't detract from, and good or bad, I'm going to have something to discuss with whomever I've seen it with after it's over!
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Date: 2011-07-13 06:43 pm (UTC)As an adult I've never walked out on a movie because I was with someone who I thought was enjoying it. The horrible American version of Godzilla, Mission Impossible II (though I later found out everyone else in my group wanted to walk out on it as well), Transformers 2 (NEVER seeing another Michael Bay film again!). Actually with Transformers I went and hung out in the bathroom because I couldn't stand to watch another minute of it but my husband was enjoying it so much.
The only times we got free tickets to another show was during Independence Day when someone in the audience had a grand mal seizure and they had to stop the movie to get him the medical care he needed and they gave the rest of us tickets to a later showing. And when we saw one of the Lord of the Rings movies, the audience was SO horrible that we were complaining about them amongst our group as we were leaving the theater and the manager heard us and gave us free tickets to whatever we wanted to see. We weren't expecting it, and we certainly weren't going to ask for it, but we sure as hell weren't turning them down!
It's not like you can return a movie you see in the theater...or get 2 hours of your life back. And since I've never seen a movie alone, there's also a I'm-spending-time-with-people-I-love element that a bad movie can't detract from, and good or bad, I'm going to have something to discuss with whomever I've seen it with after it's over!