Walking out of movies
Don Hewitt, of whom I’m no great fan, is retiring from 60 Minutes, of which I’m also no great fan. I heard him on NPR yesterday talking in a highly opinionated fashion about the propensity of Americans to change the channel repeatedly and essentially “walk out” of the program; he compared the remote to “a gun”. He posed the following question: how many feature films have you walked out of in the theater? He claimed that no one would be able to name five. This is supposed to prove that we have “nothing invested” in television programs, compared to movies.
Well, I’ve walked out of four films, and I’ve fallen asleep in three others (post-childhood.) I’m also a third his age. Extrapolate at will. I have a feeling others have comparable statistics. So, if you’re inclined, post at the board.
OK, if you’re curious: I walked out of:
- Trespass (1992, 5.9 stars at IMDB),
- Hard Target (1993, 5.3 stars, stars),
- Natural Born Killers (1994, 6.6 stars), and
- Starship Troopers (1997, 6.6 stars)
I fell asleep during:
- The Ghost and the Darkness (1996, 6.4 stars),
- The Core (2003, 5.5 stars), and
- Cavale, aka On The Run, aka Trilogy:One (2002, 6.8 stars)
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