Jess admits that he walked out of the movie “Lost In Translation,” and if I had paid money to see it, I likely would have done the same. But, as you know, I very rarely go to the movie theatre anymore - I will only go to see a movie that I know beyond any doubt will be amazing, spectacular, or otherwise incredible (Kill Bill, for instance). But long ago, I did go to movies pretty regularly, and there were a handful that I walked out of. First up: “Aliens.” It was so darn dark and hard to tell what was happening that I finally just gave up. Next: “War Of The Roses.” It was a pretty boring movie so far, and when Kathleen Turner’s character uttered the word “fu**face,” that did it - it just seemed so unnecessarily banal and crude.

Let’s see, what else…oh, I did walk out of “Pulp Fiction” - believe it or not. It had just been released, and me and the Missus decided to check it out. When Marvin got shot in the face, we just sort of blanched, looked at each other, and got up and left. Of course, when the movie was released on video I picked it up and determined that I would see it all the way through, to figure out why so many people had raved about it…and thank goodness I did, because the final scene redeemed everything that had gone before, and I finally understood, and I was thus converted into a True QT Believer.