Walk outs??? - Time Out of Mind (2015) Discussion

Perhaps they walked out after the credits started rolling.

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The director has a certain style that is not for everybody. His last film Rampart was at times a little frustrating and demanding for me, but I am glad I stuck with it, because it was very powerful in the end.

Time Out Of Mind looks fantastic, but I bet it is really slow compared to most movies and it probably does not follow the ususal Hollywood rules of storytelling. But I loved The Messenger and to a lesser degree Rampart so I am very much looking forward to this one as well. But I bet it won't be "sweet" enough for most moviegoers. This director does not do feelgood and many people want that in a film like this.

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[–] mpboylanjr-54038 9 years ago

I'm betting it will be good. Like the user said before. Not every film is for everyone and people walk out of stuff from time to time. I like Moverman and although Rampart was slammed and it really wasn't that good IMO doesn't mean it was as horrible as people say. Woody was excellent (as always). "The Messenger " was fantastic and I'm looking forward to seeing this in September when it comes out!!!

THERES NO ROOM IN MY CIRCUS TENT FOR YOU !!!!

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[–] don-damon 9 years ago

The director should be flogged for putting an audience through 2 hours of non-stop BS. Richard Gere, is an accomplished actor, and should have taken this film deeper into the life it was trying to portray. I watched the entire movie and was really unimpressed with the plot development, the supporting cast, the camera shots. The music was ok. I would not recommend this to anyone. What I would do is ask Richard Gere, WHY? He is so much better than this. It seems the older actors get, the worse they do. And sometimes not their fault. Directors need to recognize these older actors need time to develope their characters.

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[–] wapsgn 9 years ago

"deeper"?

It doesn't get much deeper than being homeless. That's the bottom of the barrel right there. It's loss of everything. I have been there and count myself lucky to be above it now, but I'll never forget it.

Just one person needs to care. That was deep enough for me.

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[–] spidercage 8 years ago

Flame-bait...

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[–] Plantagarden 8 years ago

Wow! We have two totally different perspectives here....I thought it was extremely deep.....great camera work, a good sense of realism and the pain he and his daughter felt because of his mental problem. Great hiiden gem of a movie......advice for others...stay with it.

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[–] Asbo 9 years ago

It's probably due to guilt. Some people can't handle to be shown what an awful society we live in.

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[–] northsouth1 9 years ago

Awful as compared to what?

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[–] jak-stiid 9 years ago

I heard it's a very slow-moving quiet film with long takes of Gere standing and wandering around. Doesn't work well with everybody.

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[–] Jimmy_the_Gent4 9 years ago

It actually does not have very many long takes, they are very short,often you could blink and miss something. That is the only complaint I have, I wanted MORE long takes.

But this is a good film,if you like realism in films and see a class of people not usually portrayed in movies, this is for you. I like Hollywood movies but I don't want to see rich people in mansions all the time.

It reminded me of great movies of the 1970s.

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[–] kyleanderzon 9 years ago

Moverman goes to the most profound American stuff, like Denis Johnson, Bob Dylan, PTSD, War, Homelessness, Brian Wilson,
but I am not sure why. Like Walter Salles, his movies feel like a foreigner trying to get America.
Moverman's script about Bob Dylan was strictly mythologizing Dylan as a shape shifter(of course Dylan allowed his music to be used for that.) His movie about Brian Wilson did not touch the thing that makes Wilson a tender American artist. It was Ray, and Walk The Line, disguised as indie.
Moverman's adaptation of Jesus Son, one of the great American short-story books of all time, was Disney DJohnson.
Ramparts was a flat movie about America, tone deaf.

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[–] DarkKnight4141 9 years ago

I thought this was a great film. Very hard to watch and sit through though, but a movie about homelessness probably should be. I could see people walking out.

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[–] KBiker 8 years ago

Never heard of the movie but watched it on streaming Netflix recently, based on the star being Richard Gere. After twenty minutes, I was tempted to turn it off, but I stuck with it, and it began to get to me, for a reason I can't really explain. I stayed with it to the end, and the more I watched the more it made sense.

The director does make viewers work to get the message, which means you have to have more patience than the casual viewer who wants an entertaining movie with a feel-good message. Nothing feel-good here, but it shows a side of American life most people have no clue about.

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[–] TxMike 8 years ago

" ...casual viewer who wants an entertaining movie with a feel-good message. "

Not only that it also seems in our "instant gratification" society many no longer have the patience it takes to enjoy a good story that might be slow to develop. "Patience" is the key.

When I set aside time to watch a movie that I think I will like, be it the actors or the director or simply the story, my frame of mind is "these people would not purposely set out to make a poor movie so I'll stick with it to the end and see what the whole movie is about."

That approach usually pays off.

..*.. TxMike ..*..
Take a risk, Take a chance, Make a change. Kelly Clarkson - Breakaway

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[–] marydavis-424-614505 8 years ago

maybe they had to get to another screening? Film Festivals run a lot of films at the same time. Also, they may have seen Richard Gere and Ben Vereen and figured this indie had a good shot at running in theaters so they could catch it later.

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[–] Neuronhead 8 years ago

I had no trouble sitting through it. I thought it was paced quite well.

The trouble many may have had with it was the style that separated the viewer from the characters. You'd hear their voices close up, but the camera was far away.

I think it's a style they used in the seventies a bit. Almost like a narration by the characters dialog.

I choose to believe what I was programmed to believe

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