What makes you get up and leave?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Imagine you are in a theater and have no idea what movie is about to be played. What would you see that makes you completely indifferent to what follows that, to the point where you get up and leave the theater?

For me it could be very early on. If the movie title had "Saw" or "Transformers" in it, I'd be out of there quickly.

However, if the title wasn't a tip-off, and I waited through the intro material, excessive gratuitous violence or sadistic suffering would be enough to make me seek the exit.

[no one]

1) Rap.

[Brian37]

Just about every sappy romantic comedy.

[unfogged]

CGI characters

[Anomalocaris]

JJ Abrams.

[Angrboda]

Imagine you are in a theater and have no idea what movie is about to be played. What would you see that makes you completely indifferent to what follows that, to the point where you get up and leave the theater?

For me it could be very early on. If the movie title had "Saw" or "Transformers" in it, I'd be out of there quickly.

However, if the title wasn't a tip-off, and I waited through the intro material, excessive gratuitous violence or sadistic suffering would be enough to make me seek the exit.

I think not having a sensitive enough "get up and leave" trigger has been a bane for me and my enjoyment of the theater for some time. For whatever reason, I'm not satisfied by the same things I was satisfied by in my youth. The jokes no longer zing. The humor has faded. The action, become dull and lifeless. And I could care less about boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy becomes mutant lizard stories. It's not that I'm depressed, I haven't been better on that score in all my life. I don't know what it is, but the thrill is gone. So when I go to the theater, I'm happy to sit through the entire thing even if what I've already seen doesn't inspire me with hope that my perseverance will be rewarded. It's something of a matter of principle. So the collision of these two facts is that I end up spending days in the cinema unfulfilled. I'm not sure getting up and leaving is the answer though. As that's not a cure, so much as it is just treatment of the symptoms.

[Chad32]

A character bullying someone else. It wasn't in a theater, which made it easier to do, but I was at someone's house where the kids were watching a movie. And there was a bullying scene. I was bullied so much when I was younger, seeing it just makes me angry. And of course later in the movie the bully is supposed to get a redemption arc, and in the end it turned out she bullied the boy because she liked him, but all I could think of was wanting to punch her in the face.

Also if something is a bit too silly, and the comedy is a bit too out there, it kind of turns me off. Which is sad, because it means it's hard to watch Jim Carry movies now.

Also don't give me a movie where there's a third act misunderstanding that pads out the run time. I don't want to see characters get into a fight because someone who doesn't have the full story refuses to listen to the explanation long enough to be corrected.

[Angrboda]

Deadpool. "I can't believe I ate the whole thing."

I don't know what people found funny about him. Apparently I missed it.

I don't get up and leave. I just narrow my choices to target rich environments, like action pictures, which satisfy me more reliably than other types.

[Chad32]

Or how about when the first movie has two people get together in love, then the sequel has them broken up just so they can get back together again, as if it's going to be just as magical as the last time.

[Minimalist]

I don't go to movies anymore.  If I want to see cars explode I'll go watch Phoenix traffic.