(Butbut… there was nothing to feel bad about, laughing at that scene…)
-FrL-
I haven’t seen it…but incidentally, have you seen the “South Park” episode from last week? They go into great depth about their hatred for Lucas and Spielberg for making it.
Connery shows up IIRC about 25 minutes in-certainly not “halfway through”. The blonde German girl and Indy enter this castle, and after some skulkery and attempted bluffs of the Nazi guards, meet his father, a prisoner in one of the side rooms. You probably just missed him by a minute or two.
I’m also amazed that someone didn’t give FOTR a chance. Once Frodo leaves Hobbiton things pick up very quickly soon after. Her loss.
Two.
The first was Roger Rabbit. Just aggravating. I made it about halfway through.
The second was Freaky Friday with Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan. Twenty minutes and they were screaming at each other. I looked at Hallgirl2 and we both knew there was no way we could sit through 90 minutes (or possibly more) of it, so we got up and left.
I have walked out of two:
Solaris (the original, Russian one) - where nothing happens, twice.
Last Tango in Paris - I went for the promise of sex. It was completely unerotic. Soft porn at its worst. Attempts at making porn arty invariably fail.
I wanted to walk out of The Forgotten, but I was with my sister. Thankfully, I’ve forgotten most of it.
Perhaps you would have preferred Sack Lunch?
I’ve only walked out on one movie. “Home Fries.” Dear lord that was terrible. My girlfriend (at the time) and I walked out and went to see the Psycho remake instead. You shouldn’t have to suspend disbelief over and over in a romantic comedy.
The people I went with walked out of Malibu’s Most Wanted, so I went with them. I actually liked it at the time. I wouldn’t be able to stand 10 minutes of it now, though.
There were times I wanted to walk out of W last night, but I’m glad I stuck it through. It’s a difficult movie to watch, what with all the cutting back and forth between the two different storylines.
I walked out on Joe’s Apartment. I think it was one of (if not the) first MTV movies. Talking cockroaches-what was I thinking?
I also walked out of some Jet Li movie, the name of which escapes me. It was just dumb, dumb, dumb. And boring. And dumb.
Most recently, I walked out on American Gangster. The word “gangster” is in the title so you’d think something would happen. Any action at all, please! When my husband started snoring I knew it was time to go.
I wanted to leave Stewart Little, but my husband’s little cousin was loving it, so I just went to sleep instead.
I walked out of “Great Expectations” with Ethan Hawke and Gwyneth Paltrow, and “Batman Returns” with Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito and Michelle Pfeiffer. They just sucked and I wasn’t interested in staying until the end. I have since seen the whole “Batman Returns,” and my first instinct was correct. 
I’ve never walked out, afaik, but I did fall asleep in Thomas and the Magic Railroad. I was only there to accompany young cousins.
** Steel Magnolias ** maybe I was just in a bad mood the day I watched it but I would have been less bored watching paint dry. I wanted to leave but the wife wouldn’t let me.
I have since watched it on cable and thought it was ok for a chick flick.
The only movie I’ve ever walked out on is Good Morning Viet Nam.
Though I agree that the movie sucked, I think it was less that they forgot the story as that they were afraid to tell it. Pullman has a definite POV, and this story is the anti-Narnia, i.e., anti-Christian church. (I phrase it that way because I don’t think he’d oppose what I would name the core Christian values of charity, self-sacrifice, and valor, but rather the mythological & philosophical justifications for valuing those qualities in Christianity.) Making a Golden Compass adaptation without admitting that all the villains but one are Christians, and that their villainy stems from their Christianity, is like making a Narnia story in which Aslan stays dead.
To the OP: I walked out of The Crow and I was with people. I just hung out in a store next to the theatre till they were done.
Ha, so did I. My god, Howard the Duck…
I recall I was with a bunch of friends, young lads all of us, and we had to throw in the towel.
This reminded me of Joe vs the Volcano, another horrid movie I SHOULD have walked out on. No cockroaches, but Tom Hanks showed all the acting range of a cockroach in it.
This.
This, too, — either this or the sequel, not sure (I’ve only seen one and not all of it). Just awful, not remotely frightening but not quite funny enough as a spoof.
Some simply awful “science fiction” :rolleyes: movie one of two concurrently running about an asteroid or a comet coming in on a collission course to wipe out the earth. Spectacularly bad science, with astronauts flying to the incoming, landing on it, doing stuff to blow it up, then flying back, having cracked it into 4 pieces or some such thing yet unable to alter the trajectory to make it miss earth…
DIDN’T leave but wished I had:
“Contact”, the Jodie Foster movie. Annoying except for the nice opening-credits scene with the radio broadcast rippling out into space.
AND…
If TV series on DVDs count, we just sent the remainder of disk 1 of “Dexter” back unwatched. Not believable as a sociopath but not likeable either, and neither is anyone else in the cast. Plots not interesting. Yaw-wwwn.
My brother said of this “I was at a complimentary screening and I still wanted my money back.”
“An American Haunting”. It’s about a witch/ghost/poltergeist/whatever in the 1800s that haunts a family, and one daughter in particular (Betsy). There was one scene that I guess was supposed to be terrifying; during the night, the witch takes Betsy by the hair, holds her above the ground, and slaps her across the face over and over. Problem was, I was too busy laughing to be much scared. I walked out soon after that.