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Everyone left the theater...


I saw this when it first came out in the theater on it's opening weekend. The theater was a packed house. By the time the movie ended, there were only SIX people left! I've had never before,or since then, seen that many people hate a movie so much and leave in such a mass exodus. Did anyone else have an experience like that?

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You're full of it.

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I have only had one experience with mass numbers of people leaving a screening early. It was for Star Wars: The Force Awakens believe it or not. It was in a foreign country where English is not the first language and SW is generally known about but not revered as it used to be in the western world before this new trilogy.

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really?

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This was true in many cases but it happened because the studio promoted this as a send up to Saving private Ryan which is about as much a Spielberg tear-jerker, appeal to reactionary emotions as it can get. This movie is NOT that type of movie and I'm glad those who stuck with it appreciated it for other reasons and not some phony Boomer-laced nostalgia for the Greatest Generation.

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