After Stephen King revealed the blockbuster he came out of, other directors and actors followed suit.

Last week, beloved author Stephen King made an interesting admission that he only released one film as an adult, and it was Michael Bay. transformers in 2007. During the Twitter reveal, he encouraged others to share the headlines that saw them reach their breaking point, and among the hundreds who responded to the post are directors and actors.

It’s not uncommon for people to get to the point where they’re watching a bad movie where they feel like “life is too short for that”, and of course you can count The walking dead Laurie Holden on this list (who has a connection to Stephen King for starring in Frank Darabont’s adaptation of Fog). Holden remembered being a child and could barely sit up during one of the I can’t stop the music – the pseudo-musical biopic about The Village People released in 1980:

Steve Van Zandt – Best known as the lead guitarist of the E Street Band and for his performances The Sopranos Yes lily hammer – couldn’t remember the title of the movie he couldn’t see in the cinema, but based on his description it’s pretty easy to identify it as 2007 I am a legend (It is curious that Steve Van Zandt and Stephen King left the cinema the same year). Of course, it wasn’t so much the quality of the film that made him give up as his concern for what would happen to Will Smith’s canine companion in the story:

Writer Michael Starrbury, who wrote The inevitable defeat of Mister & Pete and the fourth episode of Ava DuVernay’s Netflix miniseries when they see us, revealed that his only exit story didn’t see him get up from his seat and leave the theater. watching 2004 Van HelsingStarrbury chose to go out mentally by taking a nap on purpose:

With his response to Stephen King’s exit notice, commentator / host / reporter / actor Keith Olbermann peek brought fans back to the 1990s and theatrical release of The Godfather Part III. It’s a different kind of strike story, as Olbermann reveals that he only left the cinema temporarily and went back to his place, curious to see if the film could get any worse:

Bruce Miller, the creator / executive producer of The Handmaid’s Talehe also cited a 1990 theatrical experience, but much darker than The Godfather Part III. Apparently, the film that pushed Miller to the limit was that of Armando Acosta. Romeo Juliet, which is an adaptation of William Shakespeare filmed with wild cats. The voice cast includes legends like John Hurt, Vanessa Redgrave, Ben Kingsley and Maggie Smith, but Miller felt (and still feels) it was unbearable:

Oscar-nominated composer Shawn Patterson (the lego movie) responded to Stephen King with not just one breakup story, but two. The first he mentions is from 2018. The Snowman – which was criticized when it was released – and 2020 caponewhich he considers “one of the greatest failures / disappointments of cinema [he’s] never seen.”

Personally, I’ve never left a film as an adult, but that’s mainly because I’ve spent my entire adult life as a film critic and feel I have a professional responsibility to watch everything I see to the end. the final. That said, I’d be lying if I said I’ve never felt the desire (Morbio being the most recent source of inspiration).

The positive twist in all of this is that the urge to get out of a movie before it’s finished is usually rare, and we can always hope that every next movie we see on the big screen will be the one that will seat us with charm. and delight.