I actually fell asleep during Star Wars Episode III; I’m told I snored a bit. Does that count? I haven’t bothered to see it since.
In the movie’s defense, I went to see it at the end of an exhausting week.
I don’t remember either really liking or particularly disliking this movie, in fact I hardly remember anything about it at all. Since it earned such a singular distinction, though, I’m really curious about why you hated it so much.
We took advantage of technical difficulties in the theater to walk out of Stargate. I can’t remember any of it, which is just as well.
Would have walked out of Starship Troopers, except for friends. Stinky-poo. I grew up with the actor who played the main character (“Casper” Van Dien - we always called him Rob), and it made the whole experience doubly painful.
To the best of my recollection, I’ve only walked out of one movie, the execrable Serial Mom. I wouldn’t have thought it was possible for Kathleen Turner and Sam Waterston to make such a horrible movie.
Two that I would have walked out of if it wouldn’t have meant disturbing and climbing over an entire row of people, are A Clockwork Orange, and There’s Something About Mary. At least with the latter, I had gone as part of a free preview and I hadn’t wasted my own money on it.
I know there are others, but the only one I can remember is Cloverfield, which made me physically ill (because of the ‘style’ of filming). Actually, I left to go to get a drink, but couldn’t face actually going back in. The worst thing was that friends of mine were still in there, so I had to wait around at the cinema for the film to end.
I WISH I’d walked out of Cloverfield. The sensation of needing to throw up for ages afterwards was not worth the viewing experience.
This is the most unintentionally hilarious post I’ve seen in a long time.
The Stranger: There’s just one thing, Dude.
The Dude: And what’s that?
The Stranger: Do you have to use so many cuss words?
The Dude: What the fuck you talking about?
I would have walked out on Star Wars I, Star Wars II, and Star Wars III, but my husband wouldn’t let me. I doubt there’s a movie that could exist that would make my husband walk out of the theater–he would be horrified at the notion of paying for tickets and then leaving early.
I walked out of Highlander 2 when it came out.
I wished that I’d walked out on Ishtar and the crappy adaptation of Asimov’s Nightfall, but I stuck them out, to my regret.
These examples are far in the past, because I invariably research movies now before going. I’m pretty sure it was Highlander 2 that convinced me of this.
I can only remember walking out of a couple of movies. Interestingly enough, they both rate a 6.8 on IMDB. Like I always say, no accounting for my taste:
“They Live”. My brother looked over at me about 10 minutes in. I shook my head, he nodded, and we headed for the door. I guess we’re not Roddy Piper fans.
“Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back”. I like the stories that Kevin Smith tells, but the expletive-laden dialog is hard to take sometimes. Not a good date movie.
I wanted very, very badly to walk out on Dancer in the Dark.
Worst. Movie. Ever.
I got guilted into going by a friend who really wanted to see it. IIRC I had an Organic Chemistry exam the next day and really needed to study. So the agony of having to endure the film was compounded by the agony of knowing that I should really be studying.
I was really tempted with Sleepless in Seattle. The stalkerish quality of the plotline and the nasty treatment the movie doled out to the minor characters were annoying as hell. That’s when I knew my future husband had terrific taste: he hated it.
Ugh, I actually took the trouble to program the VCR to record this back before Tivo. I lasted about five minutes past the opening credits, and this was when I had a crush on Bjork (Oh, come on, admit it! The weirdness turns you on, too.). I think I actually would have had more fun studying Organic Chem.
What the fuck???
Thanks for the reminder 
I don’t know whether it was actually a bad film, but I kept on waiting for it to get better (or at least, less awful).
It doesn’t
The Evil Dead
Urgh. It was the beginning of the end of a relationship - He all excited about this movie, me a forest-loving pacifist. Just plain gross/gory.
I’m going to get booed out of the room for this, but…
Rebel Without a Cause. It was just so mind-numbingly dull. James Dean’s acting wasn’t classic; it was ridiculous and campy. *
And I’m going to get kicked off the SDMB for this, but…
Rocky Horror Picture Show. I left after about 30 minutes, having no clue what the movie was about (something to do with a gay mad scientist or something), and definitely not getting what all the fuss was about. *
*Both movies shown at a revival theater in college; no, I wasn’t at the original releases.
No, it doesn’t, because I fell asleep during a movie I liked.
Metropolis. 2.5 hours. Silent. Black and White. I was exhausted. I missed a half hour in the middle somewhere.
Believe it or not, but I walked out of **The Dark Knight **with about 15 minutes left in the movie.
Left for the intermission break during Gettysburg and didn’t bother going back.
House of the Dead. In my defense, I’d never heard of Uwe Boll before. I walked out a few minutes after the video game excerpts started appearing in the movie.
Saw II. Ejection point: about ten minutes in, when it became apparent that every single character was an irredeemable screaming idiot.
The Butterfly Effect: Ejection point: the second “I burning you dog” incident. Easily as dumb as the Time Machine remake starring Guy Pearce and Jeremy Irons, but with more dog-burning.
The Phantom Menace: Maybe ten minutes after the avatar of Lucas’ hate first manifested itself.