When I was in high school I lived in the country and most weeks my friends and I would drive into Red Deer to watch a movie. This was between 1989 and 1991 or so, and while you could look up what was playing in the paper, we would usually just wing it and watch whatever when we got there. At the time, Red Deer had two theatres, but only maybe six screens between the two, so often we didn't have a lot of choices. One time we got there and only 'Scenes from a Mall' hadn't started already, so we decided to watch that. I've watched a couple other Woody Allen movies over the years, and never liked any of them, but Scenes from a Mall was definitely the worst. We left after maybe half an hour. A couple of other people followed us out, so it wasn't just high school kids who thought that movie sucked.
The second time was The Avengers. Not one of the Marvel one, the one about spies with Uma Thurman. What a boring, slow slog that movie was.
Now I pretty much never go to the theatre, so if I don't like a movie I just go back to the streaming menu and start over with something else. I did that recently, but I can't remember what it even was. I guess if it didn't involve driving to a theatre and paying money for a seat, my brain doesn't keep track of the details of a crappy movie.
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