What movies have you walked out off/turned off?

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Saw a thread from 2004 on this and now that we’re nearly four years later thought there might be some other good contenders in there to discuss.

I walked out of Red Dragon because the friend I was seeing it with was freaking out. I’m not sure that I missed much, from what I heard.

I turned off Legally Blonde 2 - I’m a huge Reese Witherspoon fan but someone must have held her family hostage to get her to make that film it was so bad.

I recently turned off the remake of the Producers, partly because it was shit and partly because it was making a mockery of the original. Matthew Broderick isn’t someone whose ever going to win an Oscar but he looked like he was reading instructions of the back of a fire extinguisher in that.

I happily settled down to watch The Good Sheppard with Matt Damon and realised too late that I’d rented the film with the same name starring Christian Slater. Needless to say the power button was pushed fairly quickly. Sadly when I did get the right version of the film I turned that off too because it was dull.

I lasted ten minutes into Existenz, which no amount of good looking Jude Law could save.

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None really, I’m not that jaded. I always sit through and give the movie its fair chance, suckfest or not. If I don’t think I will like I just don’t see it in the first place.

3

Ishtar…couldn’t take it.

4

Dreamgirls. Don’t believe the hype.

5

I’ve never walked out of a film at a cinema.

Tell a lie. There was some Italian thing where I left between reels. I think that encapsulates it.
I’ve never got through any James Bond film. There’s many I’ve fallen asleep through, either on a sofa, mostly thanks to a Bond-obsessed housemate, or on long coach trips (even when I’ve supposedly been in charge of what films are shown).

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In the cinema, if falling asleep counts: LA Confidential. Seen it again later when I wasn’t [del]pished[/del] very tired. It wasn’t bad, but still not great.

7

I wish fervently that I could have walked out of Leaving Las Vegas, but I was with my dad and stepmother. I found out afterward that my stepmother also really wanted to walk out. Dad seemed to like it fine.

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Walked out because it was boring- Apollo 13- I could sit throught My Dinner with Andre but couldn’t make it through this snoozefest.

Walked out because the cheesy cinematography, stupid editing, pointless close-ups, etc. were too offputting- Any Given Sunday.

9

The only movies I’ve ever walked out of in the theater were Spice World (after staying almost to the end to make fun of it) and Bruce Almighty (I found the message intolerable).

10

The Thin Red Line. I was excited to see it too, but damn that thing was long and plodding.

11

I’ve never walked out of a cinema (I don’t go that often, so I tend to see films there that I can at least tolerate).

I watch a lot of rubbish - I have a high tolerance for it. Three films I’ve turned off, though, are Meteor (twice - we’re talking something that makes Armageddon look like 2001 here), Dick Tracy, and Anger Management. Make of that what you will.

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I almost never quit in the middle of movies. Really the only case I can think of where I just gave up and turned the DVD player off was Alexander

Not sure why that one in particular bored me so much. I usually like even really bad historically based films, but that one killed me.

13

Gone With The Wind. During intermission.
I’m convinced the only reason that movie was popular was because it was in color.

14

I very rarely go to movies in the theater, so when I do, it’s a film I REALLY want to see. The last movie I started watching at home and turned off was The Family Stone. Awful.

15

Walked out of:

Hear No Evil with DB Sweeney and Marlee Maitlin
Mixed Nuts with Steve Martin
Robin Hood: Men in Tights

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I walked out of **Knocked Up ** this summer. Never once cracked a smile (and I really like Judd Apatow’s work.)

17

I went through a Steve Martin phase on Netflix a few months back. I like Steve Martin a lot, but The Lonely Guy was more than I could take. Shut it off about thirty minutes in. Just… lame. Painfully lame.

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Borat was the first movie where I thought “You know, this is from Netflix and isn’t actually costing me anything extra except time” and shut it off around the halfway point. It felt liberating.

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I take it back, that Bloodrayne was more than I could handle. I actually wanted to watch Ultraviolet but got the movies confused.

20

The Pink Panther with Steve Martin. In 15 minutes it made my teeth hurt and my eyes cross. God, it was painful to watch.