Never seen so many people walk out!

I don't care how much I hated a movie, I would never walk out. What's the point? You've paid for an experience - there was no guarantee you'd like it. Just soak it up either way, and let it be what it is.

Movies are getting ridiculously expensive. Leaving is a waste of money. (Someone said above "my time is valuable too", but I suspect many people who walk out of movies don't make very good use of that extra time...)

And even a "bad" movie gives you something to talk about - if you leave in the first 20 minutes the most you can say is "I hated it so much I left," and that's the end of your story; boring. Watch it to the end, then you can REALLY gripe about it ;-)

Anyone here seen many Cronenberg movies? Alot of them are very strange, out there movies that do not cater to the mainstream audience in any way. Most of his movies do poorly at the box office but later on are cult classics. The same could be said of Stanley Kubrick.

Dear Warden, You were right. Salvation lies within.

Good thing you finished by saying "I haven't had this less fun since I watched Synecdoche New York", I ALMOST made the mistake of believing you had a valid opinion.

Yeah, the one thing I do agree with you about is the fact that I haven't seen so many people walk out of a movie in quite some time. But they were all old couples, some literally with walkers - I'm sure they didn't know what they were getting themselves into.

But, I don't agree with you about anything else. First of all, Synecdoche New York was a mindblowing film and by far my favorite film of 2008. Next, I too was slightly bored by Cosmopolis but I would never call it a bad film. The structure of the film, the dialogue, and the concepts were all exceptional - but it wasn't enough to make it wildly entertaining. I need some more monsters or violence in there personally, but I would never ever call this movie awful. I can tell it was a fantastic film, just didn't cater to my personal tastes so well. It was definitely the most original movie I have seen all year. It doesn't exist to entertain us, Cronenberg's art is more personal than that - and it was obvious with this that he had some pretty forward-thinking *beep* to say.

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Three people walked out of my screening tonight. I thought it was ok.


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Totally agree with your assessment, all this movie made me think about was how long it would take to end. I've been in enough film classes to distinguish a film actually teaching me a lesson and a film that's too pretentious and preachy for its own good. A dull film is a dull film and the trailer gave away all the interesting moments. 95% is pointless banter (although I admit I liked some of Samantha Morton's scene and moments here and there) and the remaining 5% was the trailer.


I'm a Cronenberg fan so I'm totally bummed out, but leave it up to him to at least make a memorably terrible film. Saw this 4 days ago and its god-awful aura is still lingering, so I guess that means it was a success... Yay? Now here's hoping he gets his stuff together on his next movie.

Well I think it was an intriguing movie that still has me thinking about the things it had to say. It put across the paranoia and sickness of contemporary life, which is something I always wonder about. Yes, many people walked out, but after the movie, when I asked people what they didn't like about it, they answered that it was the way the movie was made that bothered them, not necessarily the message. The writing and dialogue reminded me of a play, as did the settings in a lot of the scenes. I guess I'm a big theatergoer, so I appreciated the fact that it was just as much about the words as it was about the visuals. Maybe this is something that most film fans aren't used to. Overall, the picture had fascinating, and occasionally beautiful things to say about consumerism, economy, cultural desensitization, capitalism, technology, and violence.