I walked out after 29 minutes...

buried

Baby Driver 2017

I thought this was awful. An IDIOT friend of mine recommended this to me as I'm a big fan of crime films. The only good aspect I got out of watching this thing was gaining the knowledge never to listen to that person's "crime" film recommendations ever again. "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" is a more edgier crime film than this. I knew I was going to have problems right from the musical-ish get go. I left after 29 minutes and was glad to be out. The derivative, gimmicky, cartoon colour cheese nearly suffocated me. Also, even though a big music fan myself, there is nothing worse than having to listen or even remotely hear what somebody else is listening to on their own headphones as they prance about like a t!t, either on-screen or in reality. It's not funny, clever or cool, its just plain annoying. Awful awful stuff

zero out of 10

Mod note: this post and the following discussion was originally posted in the recently watched thread.

RocketRaccoon

buried wrote: »

Baby Driver 2017

I thought this was awful. An IDIOT friend of mine recommended this to me as I'm a big fan of crime films. The only good aspect I got out of watching this thing was gaining the knowledge never to listen to that person's "crime" film recommendations ever again. "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" is a more edgier crime film than this. I knew I was going to have problems right from the musical-ish get go. I left after 29 minutes and was glad to be out. The derivative, gimmicky, cartoon colour cheese nearly suffocated me. Also, even though a big music fan myself, there is nothing worse than having to listen or even remotely hear what somebody else is listening to on their own headphones as they prance about like a t!t, either on-screen or in reality. It's not funny, clever or cool, its just plain annoying. Awful awful stuff

1 out of 10

You watched 29 minutes? How are you in a position to give it any kind of rating?

buried

RocketRaccoon wrote: »

You watched 29 minutes? How are you in a position to give it any kind of rating?

The 29 minutes was enough. I also never walk out of films. This thing made me want to cut off my own legs never mind walk.

RocketRaccoon

buried wrote: »

The 29 minutes was enough. I also never walk out of films. This thing made me want to cut off my own legs never mind walk.

Sorry but that is nonsense, you have no idea what happened in the rest of the movie therefore are in no position to give it a rating.

buried

RocketRaccoon wrote: »

Sorry but that is nonsense, you have no idea what happened in the rest of the movie therefore are in no position to give it a rating.

Too bad. I just did rate it. 1 out 10.
I know what happened at the start and that was bad enough to make me leave. That's how bad I thought it was.
In fact, looking back now, Ima give it zero.

Easy Rod

buried wrote: »

Too bad. I just did rate it. 1 out 10.
I know what happened at the start and that was bad enough to make me leave. That's how bad I thought it was.
In fact, looking back now, Ima give it zero.

Hopefully we can start a thread where you can review and rate other movies you didn't watch. I'm really excited about where this concept can go. I'd imagine the rating system would range between zero and 1 ... or maybe we could use the % of the movie you actually watched as the rating? "Watched 2 minutes of wolf of Wall Street rated 1%."

budgemook

Easy Rod wrote: »

Hopefully we can start a thread where you can review and rate other movies you didn't watch. I'm really excited about where this concept can go. I'd imagine the rating system would range between zero and 1 ... or maybe we could use the % of the movie you actually watched as the rating? "Watched 2 minutes of wolf of Wall Street rated 1%."

This is a great idea, What Have You Not Watched Recently
"Oh I didn't watch Baby Driver there the other day. Hated it I'd say, 1/10"

buried

lol I did watch it, I watched 29 minutes of it and it nearly made me vomit. What was I supposed to do so? Waste another hour and 30 minutes enduring something I thought was absolutely atrocious? On a Saturday night? Would it have gotten any better for me if I had stayed? Honestly, would it have?

Ridiculous the twisty knickers people get into when a person pans a hyped up movie that particular person didn't like!

budgemook

buried wrote: »

lol I did watch it, I watched 29 minutes of it and it nearly made me vomit. What was I supposed to do so? Waste another hour and 30 minutes enduring something I thought was absolutely atrocious? On a Saturday night? Would it have gotten any better for me if I had stayed? Honestly, would it have?

Ridiculous the twisty knickers people get into when a person pans a hyped up movie that particular person didn't like!

You started watching it. I'm sure you understand the difference.

Haven't seen baby driver myself but did see Dunkirk. Wasn't what I was expecting but the more I think about it since watching (all of) it, the more I think it's a really excellent film. Not what you'd expect from a war film at all and the timelines are novel and a clever way to show the events from different perspectives. One to catch in the cinema.

buried

budgemook wrote: »

You started watching it. I'm sure you understand the difference.

I started watching it, then I stopped watching it because I thought it was terrible. I'm sure you can understand that yourself, never done something similar yourself I suppose?

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

So we need a "What have you started watching recently" thread.

buried

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

So we need a "What have you started watching recently" thread.

See, the difference here is that to start watching something, that sort of implies that you will eventually return and finish watching it.

I won't be doing so with this particular film. I was ecstatic to get out of the thing and shan't be returning

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

buried wrote: »

See, the difference here is that to start watching something, that sort of implies that you will eventually return and finish watching it.

I won't be doing so with this particular film. I was ecstatic to get out of the thing and shan't be returning

That's not going to fit in a thread title.

buried

I suppose, how about - "what have you watched recently what made you kill your screen"

Liamalone

Baby Driver

It was a bit dodgy for the first 29 mins, after that it picked up rightly and I thought it was great.

Left after 36 mins though. Still thought it was great.

buried

lol Look Baby fans, I ain't getting paid to spend the little free time I have watching something I find to be absolute rubbish from the very start, and then to keep watching the rubbish right until the very end of the thing. It was either walk out and be free of it, or, stay in my seat like a total masochistic lunatic until the very end.

"Baby Driver" isn't some tv show series what starts out a bit slow then builds up as it goes, this films tone, setting and mood was completely evident to the viewer straight from the first 60 seconds, and I thought it was totally awful, and for me it got progressively worse. 29 minutes was hard enough work to sit through as it was.

Once again, Would this film have gotten any better for me if I had stayed? Did it totally change course after 29 minutes or did it still resemble the same ridiculous cheesey cartoon trying to be a stylish crime thriller with really badly written, poor dialogue and badly written characters that I couldn't give a tupennyf**k about?? I seriously doubt it.

I also would like to be shown this new pedantic rule where you can't comment or rate a film just because you found it so terrible that you turned it off or left the cinema. What kind of lame baby infant fanboi new age nonsense is that?
What next? You must listen to an entire album of music you don't like or even enjoy before you can comment about how poor you think it is?

Looks like 'Baby Driver' got some real Baby Infant Fans, and they get real pedantic and really p!ssy about the fact someone didn't like this film and thought it was an absolute heap of $hite.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

I don't think anyone gives a s**t that the film in question, or the 29 minutes of the film in question, was Baby Driver.

buried

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

I don't think anyone gives a s**t that the film in question, or the 29 minutes of the film in question, was Baby Driver.

Well whats the problem here then, you've never heard someone say they thought a film was so bad that they turned it off? Seriously? You've never done that yourself?

I heard it said numerous times, done it myself numerous times, whats the problem?

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

buried wrote: »

Well whats the problem here then, you've never heard someone say they thought a film was so bad that they turned it off? Seriously? You've never done that yourself?

I heard it said numerous times, done it myself numerous times, whats the problem?

It seems it's the fact that you've both reviewed and rated a film you only watched 29 minutes of.

I have of course turned films off but the most I would say about them is I turned them off and perhaps the reasoning for it. I wouldn't rate/review the whole film based on 29 minutes.

buried

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

It seems it's the fact that you've both reviewed and rated a film you only watched 29 minutes of.

I have of course turned films off but the most I would say about them is I turned them off and perhaps the reasoning for it. I wouldn't rate/review the whole film based on 29 minutes.

Yeah, not once did I give a legitimate reason why I thought it was terrible :rolleyes:

You'd want to re-read what I wrote Elmo

Liamalone

I started watching Robocop 3 the other night, it wasn't good I thought at the start but I persevered. It was rubbish. But I did it!

I can now say Robocop 3 is shoite.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

buried wrote: »

Yeah, not once did I give a legitimate reason why I thought it was terrible :rolleyes:

You'd want to re-read what I wrote Elmo

Perhaps you should reread what I wrote.

I was saying what I would write if I didn't watch a full film. I didn't say you had or hadn't given reasoning for not liking the first 29 mins of Baby Driver.

buried

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

Perhaps you should reread what I wrote.

I was saying what I would write if I didn't watch a full film. I didn't say you had or hadn't given reasoning for not liking the first 29 mins of Baby Driver.

You said this

I have of course turned films off but the most I would say about them is I turned them off and perhaps the reasoning for it.

I did the exact same thing in the very first post about it, did I not? So once again, what is the problem??

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

buried wrote: »

You said this



I did the exact same thing in the very first post about it, did I not? So once again, what is the problem??

The bit at the end? The bit you left out of the quote there? Maybe? Giving a 0/10 rating to a film you haven't actually watched.

But maybe I'm wrong. Maybe the problem other posters have with your post is that they love Baby Driver so much. You've accidentally unlocked a whole new sect of Internet super fans.

buried

lol I'm out of this spiralling goobledygook, bad enough I had to endure 29 minutes of it last night, now I've spent the entire day today back in its ridiculous noise. Sorry my review of a totally rubbish film derailed the thread.

I am also going to strangle the clown who recommended this thing to me. That's probably what I should have done this morning.

RasTa

Probably because Kermode had it on his top 10 so far of 2017. He stuck it ahead of La la Land as a better musical. I have always turned musicals off but I wouldn't be spouting what a rubbish film it is without seeing the whole thing.

buried

Jesus christ on the cross, it wasn't like I left and didn't watch the whole thing because my wife was about to head into labour or some other kind of emergency. I left because I thought it was absolute $hit. Am I not allowed that opinion because I walked out because I thought it was $hit? Seriously? Should I go see it again tomorrow and watch the whole thing like an actual torture event? Can I haz opinion on it then plzzzz?

johnny_ultimate

buried wrote: »

Can I haz opinion on it then plzzzz?

Yep. And others are allowed call it out your opinion if they think it's ridiculous. That is how public discussion forums work.

(For the record, the film's best sequence is later on and marks a notable tonal shift from the cleanly choreographed ones at the beginning).

johnpatrick81

Look at it this way. I clearly know I'm gonna hate a one direction concert movie. If a mate of mine told me it was actually an all action sex drugs n rock n roll epic and I got fooled into seeing it, and left after a few minutes, even 29, I'd not be coming online posting reviews of it.

Baby driver is crystal clear a leave your brain at home action driving cartoon like caper. Just because you expected the usual suspects due to your mate's explanation of the movie doesn't give you enough ammo to come on saying it's trash.

buried

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Yep. And others are allowed call it out your opinion if they think it's ridiculous. That is how public discussion forums work.

(For the record, the film's best sequence is later on and marks a notable tonal shift from the cleanly choreographed ones at the beginning).

Well That's handy. Can you remember what time it starts at? I'll just go in tomorrow and catch that bit so

buried

johnpatrick81 wrote: »

Look at it this way. I clearly know I'm gonna hate a one direction concert movie. If a mate of mine told me it was actually an all action sex drugs n rock n roll epic and I got fooled into seeing it, and left after a few minutes, even 29, I'd not be coming online posting reviews of it.

Baby driver is crystal clear a leave your brain at home action driving cartoon like caper. Just because you expected the usual suspects due to your mate's explanation of the movie doesn't give you enough ammo to come on saying it's trash.

Sorry JP but that wasn't my only reason, I also said it was badly written with bad characters that I literally did not give a damn about.

But yeah, your right I suppose, I should have done my own research on it instead of going in totally blind. FWIW I was told that it was a "crime thriller" on par with films such as 'Drive' and the 'Pusher' trilogy by an absolute total idiot, either that or an absolute liar who hadn't seen it or those other films at all.
It's a cheesey cartoon, badly written with bad characters along with a relentless pop soundtrack with not much else. It wouldn't have mattered if it was 4 hours or 30 minutes long. It was awful.

johnpatrick81

It's clearly not for you. I loved it tbh!

Did you ever see Scott Pilgrim vs the World? It's like a mix of that and Drive. I thought it was much better than Drive too

Frank O. Pinion

I like hearing about how someone couldn't bear a second longer of a film, and how they had the leave the cinema. It's interesting to me that a film I plan on watching (Baby Driver) could provoke such a reaction. While I've never walked out at the cinema, I've turned off a lot of crap at home.

Snatched (2017)

I watched the first few minutes of this Amy Schumer excretion, got to the "joke" about her Facebook wall and stopped it. Minus five stars.

Frank O. Pinion

Frank O. Pinion wrote: »

I like hearing about how someone couldn't bear a second longer of a film, and how they had the leave the cinema. It's interesting to me that a film I plan on watching (Baby Driver) could provoke such a reaction. While I've never walked out at the cinema, I've turned off a lot of crap at home.

Snatched (2017)

I watched the first few minutes of this Amy Schumer excretion, got to the "joke" about her Facebook wall and stopped it. Minus five stars.

How dare you mention a film after not watching it fully! Fifty lashes of the Cat O Nine Tails for you!

pixelburp

I dunno, I've watched many movies that start terribly, only to pick up in the middle or back-half. Equally, I've watched plenty of films whose first act(s) are magnificent, only to completely plummet off a cliff and end on a sour note. Same goes for books, maybe even more so as I've lost count the number of novels I've read that just don't go anywhere or whose ending ruins the entire journey to that point - and vice versa. As for TV shows, at this stage I simply accept the likelihood of a wobbly first seasons while the production team try to find their way or the particular tone they're going for - I've made recommendations with the open proviso 'Give it a chance, it doesn't start great, but it gets good'.

Point being, that while life's too short to waste time on something you're not immediately enjoying, it feels only fair to give the whole damn thing a chance to redeem itself. It's only a couple of hours out of your day & if by the end you still feel the same, cool, no harm done but at least there's a definitive confidence that you gave it a shot..

Now admittedly, I generally only consume media I'm at least partially aware of what I'm getting myself into, if it's a genre I know I gravitate towards etc., so maybe it's different if you have no prior idea of what's to come; I wouldn't willingly watch an Adam Sandler film for instance, and yeah there's probably a chance I'd not last to the end credits, but still, he did make Punch Drunk Love!

buried

Well like I said, I never walked out on anything else before in the cinema, I always take care not to even have to go out for a wazz if I'm going to see something. But this thing. It was torture, absolute torture. On a Saturday night, stuck in the cinema, knowing full well I was going to need a good amount of drink after it, but had I stayed until the end of this thing the off-licence would be closed. No way man, not on my free time. I looked at my watch, got up and I was gone. And I'll do it again. It was so liberating to say no. I caught the eye of some other poor bastard as I went up the steps and he looked like he wanted to do the exact same thing I was doing. It was great to be free of that films noise, even if it was 30 minutes

budgemook

Walk out of a move all you want, it's a free country. Just don't come on to a film forum and rate that move zero or one out of ten and expect not to get called out on it.

buried

budgemook wrote: »

Walk out of a move all you want, it's a free country. Just don't come on to a film forum and rate that move zero or one out of ten and expect not to get called out on it.

Hey Mook. I'll rate it what I like. You don't have to read it do ya?

mewe

Jesus lads I think we all get what both sides of the argument are saying. No need to be page after page of repetition.

Sad Professor

I've split this (very entertaining) discussion off from the recently watched thread.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

This could be a new thing now. Give a film exactly 29 minutes and then review it.

I recently tried to watch much acclaimed Irish film Mammal. Full disclosure, I gave it more than 29 minutes but it felt more like 7 hours. Not for me.

Telecaster58

Easy Rod wrote: »

Hopefully we can start a thread where you can review and rate other movies you didn't watch. I'm really excited about where this concept can go. I'd imagine the rating system would range between zero and 1 ... or maybe we could use the % of the movie you actually watched as the rating? "Watched 2 minutes of wolf of Wall Street rated 1%."

I unfortunately stayed for the whole film, and think this rating is quite generous.

ZeroThreat

As soon as Shazza uncrossed her legs in Basic Instinct, the 9 year old yours truly was dragged out of the cinema by parent.

buried

I'm telling ye, do it for any film you are trapped in that you are clearly not enjoying. I only wish I did the same for Alien Covenant, that's where I got completely fooled last time on a Saturday night. It wasn't happening again. Try it. Try it before Hollywood starts demanding the screens showing its souless muck start locking the screen doors once the audience is in

B-D-P--

I'm just surprised you have spent more time justifying your rating than actually watching the movie.

If you didn't like it, rate it on Rotten Tomatoes, no need to start a whole thread whinging about how you didn't like a movie.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Didn't really enjoy it myself. I didn't find it utter sh1te or anything but it just didn't click with me.

IIRC the only film I ever walked out of was Sin City.

JoeyJJ

Saturday night time must be worth a hell of a lot more than non Saturday night time as he is wasting more time here talking about said movie.

I walked out of 1 movie ever it was Colin Farrell one in Greece never wrote a review though, I now watch movies to the end even if **** if I had planned to watch the movie (don't mean flicking tv movies). I have loads of time to waste though.

buried

B-D-P-- wrote: »

I'm just surprised you have spent more time justifying your rating than actually watching the movie.

If you didn't like it, rate it on Rotten Tomatoes, no need to start a whole thread whinging about how you didn't like a movie.

Didn't start this thread BDP.

Yeah I was also surprised how many knickers got into a hypercyclonic twist over it, resulting in hypercyclonicing mine

leggo

This is hilarious. The OP clearly came on going, "I'm going to say something that's really gonna piss Baby Driver fans off, because that's popular and I felt this way, so they're gonna get so mad..." Then he just got slagged. Then he got annoyed his message wasn't hitting home, so literally addressed the people he was trying to annoy, "HEY BABY DRIVER FANS I'M TALKING TO YOU..." Got slagged some more, then spent the back half of the thread acting like he didn't create this entire mess himself. "Am I not allowed to have an opinion?", "For the record I didn't start this thread..." etc.

Great craic lads, well done.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

leggo wrote: »

This is hilarious. The OP clearly came on going, "I'm going to say something that's really gonna piss Baby Driver fans off, because that's popular and I felt this way, so they're gonna get so mad..." Then he just got slagged. Then he got annoyed his message wasn't hitting home, so literally addressed the people he was trying to annoy, "HEY BABY DRIVER FANS I'M TALKING TO YOU..." Got slagged some more, then spent the back half of the thread acting like he didn't create this entire mess himself. "Am I not allowed to have an opinion?", "For the record I didn't start this thread..." etc.

Great craic lads, well done.

To be fair, he/she didn't start the thread.

me_irl

leggo wrote: »

This is hilarious. The OP clearly came on going, "I'm going to say something that's really gonna piss Baby Driver fans off, because that's popular and I felt this way, so they're gonna get so mad..." Then he just got slagged. Then he got annoyed his message wasn't hitting home, so literally addressed the people he was trying to annoy, "HEY BABY DRIVER FANS I'M TALKING TO YOU..." Got slagged some more, then spent the back half of the thread acting like he didn't create this entire mess himself. "Am I not allowed to have an opinion?", "For the record I didn't start this thread..." etc.

Great craic lads, well done.

I think what initially happened is OP posted it in the "what have you watched recently" thread... And seeing s/he didn't actually watch it, it was forked.

I'm of the opinion that you can't make up your mind about something until you watch it in its entirety. This works for books / tv series too.

You keep hearing that "x gets better!", but my own example is that I gave up Breaking Bad after one season because I didn't like it. Not that I thought it was bad, I didn't like it. There's the difference.

Art, in all it's forms, is subjective.