Two Movie Theater Questions

[Fuzzed]

1. What's your take on leaving the theater before finishing a movie? Emergencies and other external stuff aside. The reason has gotta be related to the film-- the movie sucks, too gross or whatever.

2. End Credits. Do you usually get up and leave the theater right when the film ends, or do you stick around till the credits finish?

 

[PsychicTaco115]

1. I feel as if I spent the money, I'm not going to let the movie BEAT ME

Plus, if it's that bad, I want to make fun of it (well, more than I've already been doing)

2. It depends on the time and what I'm doing. I usually catch the first minute or two and leave

No disrespect to the people who worked on it, but they can be pretty long sometimes

 

[SomeLameStuff]

1) I've never walked out of a movie before. The movie that came the closest though would be Dark Knight Rises. Not even the Twilight movies drove me to that level... ugh.

I suppose if the movie just disappoints the piss out of me, I'll walk right out.

2) I only hang around if:

a. I'm looking for someone specific in the credit list

b. There's a clip after the credits roll (amiright Marvel?)

 

[Eclipse Dragon]

1. I've never left a theater due to the bad quality of the movie, but I don't go often enough to see a movie that might be so horrible I would want to do that.

2. Depends on the movie. Animated movies sometimes add motion graphics and story elements to the credits, I'll stay for those, also movies that are rumored to put secret trailers at the end of the credits.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

1.

Spoiler: I ENDURE

2.
Only if I know beforehand there's an extra clip at the end or I really, really like the music that goes with the credits. In any case this never works out if I'm accompanied, they always want to leave as soon as possible.

 

[Rose and Thorn]

1. I don't think I have ever walked out of a movie theatre because of the movie itself. I have really bad panic attacks and sometimes things in the movie can set it off, so if that is the case I might have to leave or just suffer through it and hope it passes, usually takes about an hour...uhg.

I recently saw Les Miserables and in the first scene you see a bunch of prisoners trying to pull a large ship into the docking bay by pulling ropes attached to the ship. That scene almost made me had to leave, because the ship was so large on the movie screen. I have Agoraphobia, so I get uncomfortable around large things... Like skyscrapers, stadiums, large boats. Even movie theatres can set off an attack. FML?

The closest I have ever come to leaving a film BECAUSE of the film was the Grudge. I was around 14 I think when I saw it and I was so terrified I couldn't even watch the movie. I don't think I saw much of anything, just the first scene and it gave me nightmares for weeks. I didn't leave because I was with friends, even though I asked them if they wanted to leave and they didn't...hehe.

Funny story, the friend I sat beside in the Grudge I also saw the "The Hills have Eyes" with him two years later and HE asked me if we could leave, because the movie disturbed him. I said no. haha.


2. I like to stay until the end of the credits, for many reasons. I think the song that they play after a movie plays a big part of the film. It leaves you sitting there with an impression and really thinking about what you just saw. The credit song of "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" was SOOO good, I really felt something special after sitting through those credits after how the movie ended. Another reason is out of respect for the people who have made it.

 

[Dangit2019]

1. I'm staying for the whole spectacle. Even if the movie sucks, it won't suck so much that I can't find SOME form of entertainment in it.

2. Depends on the movie. If I'm watching a standalone and isolated story, I'll leave, but a franchise? I'll stay for any possible clips.

 

[Erja_Perttu]

1. I feel as if I spent the money, I'm not going to let the movie BEAT ME.

Exactly my thoughts. I paid money for this and damnit, I am going to watch all of it!

Although I was this close to walking out of the Thunderbirds movie. that was just all kinds of awful.

2. Unless I know there's a stinger or something at the end, generally I won't wait until the end of the credits. there are a few exceptions to that, like if I really liked the music and they play it over the credits I'll stay a while, or if I'm too in awe to move by the end of it. That last one doesn't happen too often, but it's awesome when it does.

 

[Aris Khandr]

I have walked out of movies before. If the movie is awful, excessively vulgar, or in some other way completely turns me off of it, I will leave. I can spend my time doing something more enjoyable. To date, this has happened twice: South Park (I'd never seen the show, my father took me because he knew I liked cartoons. I walked out less than 20 minutes into it) and one of the Riddick movies (it just bored me).

I'll usually leave at the start of the credits, unless the movie gives me a reason to stay. Blooper reels are good. So are clips after the credits (Marvel movies). But my favorite credit sequence was for Enchanted. I stayed just to watch the animation they did with the credits, and even watch them on my DVD copy. But just a rolling list of names on a black screen? Unless I want to know who played a character I liked, I'm done.

 

[thejarofdirt882]

1. I've never walked out of a film, mostly because I only really go and see films I think I'll actually like and I don't go and see that many. I would consider walking out if something was a complete travesty, but otherwise I'd stick through it just so I could say I got something out of my money - even if that's just a raging angry/bored headache or a nice nap.

I'll normally hang around for a minute or two of credits to let other people file out of the screen & then leave, unless there's something interesting about the credits (bloopers, good song etc) or there's a scene afterwards.

 

[Professor Lupin Madblood]

I don't go to see bad or mediocre movies, so there's little chance of walking out. Even if a movie is bad (I saw a free screening of 2001: A Space Odyssey a couple years ago, for instance, which was horrible), I want to see the whole thing and be able to explain why it's bad.

I always watch the credits. It takes an insane amount of effort to make a major motion picture, and it's extremely disrespectful to walk out without at least taking the time out of your extremely busy and taxing day of movie-watching to glance over the credit scroll and appreciate the countless technical extras who made the movie work.

Semi-related: I was watching Do the Right Thing in a class screening yesterday, and at the end of the movie, there are a couple of quotes by Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X that illustrate just how there isn't any clear right or wrong thing to do, and the fact that literally almost everyone in the room got up and left pissed me off to no end.

 

[game-lover]

I've yet to watch a movie that has made me want to leave the theater. Generally I try to avoid it. I mean, I paid for it, I'm gonna finish the whole thing.

Usually I try to watch the credits. A lot of the time, it's because the music is so catchy. But other times, it's the hope that there'll be something at the end of the credits. I try to do this on my own though because when you're with other people, they don't always wanna stick around.

 

[CrimsonBlaze]

1. I've seen a few bad movies, but thankfully, none that actually made me want to leave the theater.

2. Depending on the movie (which comes down to one that I liked or one that has a habit of having extra goodies during and after the credits), I would usually wait for the credits to end.

 

[Scarim Coral]

1. I had never once done that before but I came close with Ang Lee Hulk, sure the film was boring but my main reason was that I suppose to meet back at my parent car (we were out shopping) and I didn't read before hand that the film was so long.
While I had my fair share of watching bad movies (Doom and Eragon) but since I spend money to watched it, I may aswell watched it throught no matter how bad it is.

2. I leave during the credit roll most of the time. The only time I stick around longer are like extra scene in the credit (like Marvel films) or the music being played is interesting (the Misty Mountain song in The Hobbit).

 

[Marter]

1. I've never left a movie theater before finishing the movie. I don't think I would consider it, actually, because I feel the need to see things like that through to the end. Plus, money spent and whatnot.

2. I'll often stick around if I'm alone. If I'm with other people, it'll depend who those people are, and if they want to stay. Plus, with all the post-credit scenes lately, it's better to be safe than sorry with some movies.

 

[teqrevisited]

1. I only go when there is something on that I really want to watch. The exceptions being when other people drag me along to see things, but we get in for free anyway. I'd rather stay until the end of the film either way, because if it's good then I've seen a good film and if it's bad then I can say I sat through it and found out just how bad it was.

2. I'll only stay for the credits if they include something else in or after them. Otherwise I'm gone.

 

[Stasisesque]

1. I walked out during The Grudge. It scared me to the point of having a panic attack, so I wasn't staying for the end.

2. I often stay for the credits.

 

[Psykoma]

1. Only movie I've ever walked out of was Dave Chapelle's Block Party. I wasn't a fan of Chapelle anyway, but my friends were and they wanted to go. Apparently they were dissapointed enough as well, because they were the ones who suggested leaving and I was all to happy to follow.


2. I'll only stay through the credits if:
A. I know there's a clip coming after them.
B. I'm still stunned from how awesome the movie was.
C. The music playing over the credits induce ear orgasms.

 

[shogunblade]

I work in a movie theater, but there are times when I wished I got up from the theater seat. As for your questions though:

1. I have never got up out of a movie. The closest I came was Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, for many issues, but chief among the reason why I didn't get up and leave was because I got to watch it without paying a dime, and I still felt ripped off.

2. I'm a projectionist, so if a movie is going to have some secret at the end, chances are I'll stay and watch the movie if it's big, but barring the Avengers, movies have been strangely absent in codas.

 

[tseroff]

1. I tend to stay through bad movies, but I will walk out if something is seriously wrong. The only time I've ever walked out on a movie was during Transformers 3, which was a bad movie in its own right, but that wasn't what made me leave. I couldn't stand what it was doing to Alan Tudyk. I left because of that. As for emergencies, etc., I think that if you have a scenario where you would need to be called away at a moments notice, you really have no business being in a theater. People say, "What if it's a doctor that needs to be called away?" Easy- if you're a doctor on call, what are you doing in a movie theater? If you're not on call, and for some reason, you get paged, at least have the decency to leave quietly. I'm not completely unreasonable about it.

2. I always stay through the end credits. I like listening to the music, I think staying gives you a few minutes to think about the movie, and I like seeing which sections were larger than others. For example, I just saw the Impossible, which had a veritable army of crowd hairstylists. It's also nice to respect the people who worked on it. Even if it's a bad movie, the crew was probably doing their best.

If I bring a date, though, I usually won't make her stay through. Most people aren't used to it and if they don't like it, five minutes of boredom is enough to kill any mood. Sometimes I'll try to make it fun by making fun of people's names or titles, but it's pretty disrespectful. Oh well. I think they'd understand.