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MONDAY MOVIE MEME

Molly looked around for a weekly meme about movies and did not have any luck. So therefore she decided to start her own! Andy will play along as well - hopefully you will too. Go to your blog and create your own post on the topic, linking back to us in your post, then come back and leave a link to your post here in our Comments section. If you don’t have a blog, just share your response in the Comments section.

This week's movie topic is all about Walking Out...

We're pretty tolerant Bumbles. We're optimistic and like to give people every opportunity to shine. And we like to finish what we've started. Which is why we don't walk out on movies. But that doesn't mean we haven't thought about it. Here are a few that made us wish we had given up on them (and one that we actually did). Have you ever walked out of a theater? Demanded a refund after renting? Turned the channel? Share on your blog some of the movies that made you wish you had that time in your life back and then link back here at The Bumbles. And don't forget to visit your fellow participants!

Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny - We love Jack Black as an actor and his band, Tenacious D. So when he made a movie about his band we thought this would be hilarious. Andy didn't think it was that bad. The only reason Molly didn't walk out and go see Borat playing in the next theater was because we were at the film with a group of friends.

Batman Begins - Maybe we just weren't in the right mood. And Molly isn't really a big fan of Christian Bale - something about him bugs her. This wasn't exactly what we were expecting so we shut this movie off the DVD player and shipped it back to Netflix. Now we feel guilty about giving up on it and think we might try again. See, this is why we normally carry movies through to fruition.

Keeping Up With The Steins - Ugh. This had such a great cast of actors. And good plot potential about a family getting carried away with their son's bar mitzvah. But it went NO WHERE. The title is like false advertising since that's not what it's about at all. No laughs. So unoriginal there were lines lifted completely from Fast Times.

Deliverance - Molly had never seen this "classic" and was sorely disappointed when she finally got around to watching it. So much hype. Big whoop. Super cheesy and very dated. And Burt Reynolds just reminded her of Smokey & The Bandit so it was hard to take seriously.

The Juror - Andy's least favorite movie ever. Alec Baldwin is wonderful on SNL and when his dramatic roles are small, like in Glengarry Glen Ross, he is terrific. But he is horrific in this one. It doesn't help that the story about a juror on a mafia trial is weak and we still don't get why it ends up with a shootout in a rain forest temple. We race to change the channel whenever it is on T.V.

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