| My 12 yo dd (former Barbie aficionado) was laughing so hard she was crying. I’m sure she didn’t get all the themes but she could enjoy it nonetheless. My teen boys liked it too. I thought the music and set design was great and the writing very funny. At the same time it didn’t take itself too seriously. A perfect summer movie. |
Yes, touching my husband’s wrist and making the universal let’s go movement with my thumb is so hard to understand. Sometimes we are holding hands already and manage the entire decision without letting go. It is indeed mysterious. I suppose you are not in a happy long-term marriage and so don’t understand how long-term spouses that love each other don’t need to use words at all to communicate. But I assure you, it happens. Sometimes I think there are posters on DCUM who are actually aliens, because they are so mystified by the idea of people who do not think and act exactly the way they do. You don’t have to enjoy all movies and you don’t have to sit there and grimly endure movies you don’t like because you bought a ticket. It’s okay to not like a movie and it’s okay to leave. Really, I promise. |
You are an odd duck. |
How often do you go to the movies and how often do you leave? Just, ballpark. I love going to the movies and have only walked out a couple of times - but if this were a regular thing for me, I have to think I'd really just stop going to the movies! Do you read reviews before you go or are you just showing up and popping into whatever happens to be playing or something? What movies do you actually like? |
No they are not. Spot on 100% especially the part about DCUM's who can't comprehend that most people do not have the same opinions or views they do. This place is a progressive island and its fun and interesting to read some of their idiotic posts. The insecurities just jump off the screen at you. Everyone has 20+ million net worth. Everyone needs to divorce their spouse. |
WTF does this have to do with Barbie? Go find a therapist to talk about your problems. |
I used to go to the movies all the time pre-pandemic. I didn’t leave very frequently, maybe once or twice a year at most? Post-pandemic, I go a lot less. I haven’t left a movie since the pandemic, though I contemplated it for Barbie (but in the end didn’t leave). I leave in cases of excessive violence beyond what I expected, or if I am getting really bored. The problem with the boredom is that I have a bad back which I start to really notice if the movie isn’t engaging and it becomes really uncomfortable. I always have back issues but if I’m not engaged in the movie, I find the regular ache I have intrudes more. I hate spoilers so try not to read much of anything before I go. I also like to reach my own opinion on movies without influence of critics, so I read the reviews after I see a movie. So I probably know less about movies than some going in, but I am willing to cut my losses. |
| I am seriously confused and skeptical on some of these glowing reviews. The movie was boring! |
I thought it was okay, somewhat boring. I suspect that it reads better than it played out. But I find walking out of it pretty odd. |
This seems odd to me. Most of these Barbie shows have been sold out. So are you making everyone get up in the middle of the movie so you don't have to stay? (Let me guess, you are going to tell us how you always get seats that are strategically situated so you can walk out with bothering others). |
Most theaters are stadium seating now and it’s very easy to get out of your row without making anyone get up. Plenty of space in between the rows too. |
| This thread is hilarious. I saw it Sunday, in Crystal City at a sold out show. People had a GREAT time. No one left, no one booed, people left happy and stayed after to take pictures. It was a really positive environment. This thread is weird. |
You walk out of two movies a year??? Maybe movies aren't your thing. |
I think it plays into the discussion above about homogeneity of current reviewers. |
| I’m laughing at all the pearl clutchers who clearly only step into movie theaters every five years and are horrified by someone not liking a movie they like and then (gasp!) leaving that movie. People leave movies all the time. All the time! If you don’t know that, you obviously don’t go to the theater often. |