"The Crow" was a great movie

On 7/21/2015 2:07 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
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> "sf" > wrote in message
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>> On Mon, 20 Jul 2015 18:03:51 -0600, Janet B >
>> wrote:
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>>> On Mon, 20 Jul 2015 14:21:26 -0700, "Julie Bove"
>>> > wrote:
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>>> We did try the movies a week ago but the
>>> >movie that we went to (Ted 2) was so disgusting, we walked out.
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>>> You didn't know anything about the movie before you went? There were
>>> a lot of big movies to choose from last week.
>>> Janet US
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>> I think we've walked out of two movies. One was a Fellini movie and
>> there has to be another one (for sure), but all I can come up with at
>> the moment are movies I wanted to leave except my bad movie tolerant
>> husband chose to stay - so I slept through them.
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> I have been to some that I seriously wanted to walk out of. I hate
> movies with a lot of violence in them. Or those that have no plot and
> are nothing but special effects. Only reason I did not was that I went
> with other people who seemed to like them. I do remember my parents
> walking us out of something when I was a kid. I want to say that it was
> a Jackie Gleason movie but not sure. I just remember in the beginning
> of it, they showed what appeared to be naked bodies with colorful paint
> on them. I couldn't see what the problem was because body painting was
> pretty common during that time period but my mom threw her hands over
> our eyes and marched us out. I do remember that it was a double
> feature. Whatever the first movie was, had been okay.
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> My husband and I did walk out of The Crow. I think that was the name.
> Fine by me because I wouldn't have liked it. But the reason why did not
> make me happy. Some guy behind us kept talking. Although I could hear
> him, it didn't really bother me. What did bother me was my husband
> continually telling the guy to shut up and not being nice about it.
> Then others telling my husband to shut up. I kept looking around
> like... Where are the ushers? In the old days they were always in the
> theater. Not any more. This was a packed theater. My husband got so
> ticked off because we had missed perhaps 10-15 minutes of the show that
> we did walk out. However, our money was refunded after he spoke with
> the manager.
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> I just don't see how people can sit through bad movies but I sure know a
> lot of them who do.