# Ever walk out of a bad movie? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 11, 2005, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-walk-out-of-a-bad-movie/293943 "2005-03-11T01:25:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Teelo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@Teelo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teelo)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-walk-out-of-a-bad-movie/293943/61 "2005-03-11T17:52:43Z")
> [@Lsura](#): > > [The People Under the Stairs](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105121/). > It was shown on campus when I was an undergrad - you could get in for $2. My roommate and I were the only two in the auditorium where they showed it…when we left partway through, we knocked on the projection door to tell them we were leaving. > > The guy thanked us. Dude, your nuts. That movie was AWESOME. I borrowd Resident Evil, and could not get through it. Why are so many male teenagers (like myself) so facinated by this shitty movie and its sequel? ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-walk-out-of-a-bad-movie/293943/62 "2005-03-11T17:59:19Z")
Walked out of **Patch Adams**. When I was later told that it ended with one of those courtroom scenes when they explain all the themes to you, I was so glad I did. Almost walked out of **A.I.**. Shoulda. The movies I most remember people walking out of were **Fargo** and **City of God** , both of which I liked. I like it when people walk out of movies I like. ---
**Author:** ![PoorYorick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@PoorYorick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoorYorick)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-walk-out-of-a-bad-movie/293943/63 "2005-03-11T18:01:11Z")
I _wish_ I had walked out of _Anger Management_. It was just as sucky and cliche-ridden as I expected, but I was with my wife and her friend, and I got out voted. I should have just snuck into one of the other movies. ---
**Author:** ![Psycho\_Pirate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Psycho\_Pirate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Psycho_Pirate)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-walk-out-of-a-bad-movie/293943/64 "2005-03-11T19:03:40Z")
My brother, my cousin, and I were bored one evening during our vacation. We usually see at least one movie during our vacations together, but there was just nothing to see. But we wanted to get some popcorn, so we bit the bullet and decided on what we thought was the best of the available assortment of crappy movies. _Cats and Dogs_. Wow, what a horrible, horrible movie. We thought we could make it through the film, just mocking it MST3K style (since we were the only 3 in the theater, we didn’t mind talking during this movie), but we just couldn’t handle it. It was just so stupid. 20 minutes and we were out of there. ---
**Author:** ![RitzyRae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aca169/32.png) [@RitzyRae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitzyRae)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-walk-out-of-a-bad-movie/293943/65 "2005-03-11T19:24:34Z")
**Kingpin**. I should have walked out on **Alexander** ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-walk-out-of-a-bad-movie/293943/66 "2005-03-11T19:32:24Z")
> [@Teelo](#): > > Dude, your nuts. That movie was AWESOME. Just for the record, chief, **Lsura** isn’t a “dude.” ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-walk-out-of-a-bad-movie/293943/67 "2005-03-11T19:55:41Z")
Walkouts are much more common in a film festival environment for a number of reasons, so I won’t count them, although I will give an extra special shout-out of disgust to a movie called _Friday’s Menu_. I wanted very badly to walk out on a complete piece of crap called _No Roses_ at a film festival once, but I didn’t do it because the filmmaker and his mother were setting by the door. So when I’m watching _Friday’s Menu_ a couple of years later at the same film festival, I’m hating it and notice that it’s by the same guy who directed _No Roses_, I immediately got the hell out of there. But the only two I ever paid money for theatrically and walked out on were _Peggy Sue Got Married_ and Woody Allen’s _Manhattan Murder Mystery_. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-walk-out-of-a-bad-movie/293943/68 "2005-03-11T19:59:40Z")
> [@Triskadecamus](#): > > Walked out of “American Beauty” in disgust. Pedophilia is pedophilia, hollywood glitz or not. And an adult attracted to a high school senior (who doesn’t act on it) is creepy but definitely not pedophilia. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-walk-out-of-a-bad-movie/293943/69 "2005-03-11T20:12:39Z")
**Pink Flamingos**. Goes in my “Who _needs_ this shit?” file. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-walk-out-of-a-bad-movie/293943/70 "2005-03-11T20:17:20Z")
I walked out on Good Fellas with only 15 minutes left because they just couldn’t end it in anyway that I would give a rat’s behind. I woulda left much earlier, but I was with a woman and I thought she wanted to stay. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-walk-out-of-a-bad-movie/293943/71 "2005-03-11T20:35:10Z")
I’m with **Tris** : once I’ve paid, the money is gone. The only question is whether I’ll waste those hours of my life, too. I’ve walked out a few tiems: _Wax, or the Invention of Television Amongst the Bees_\*, is the most deliberately awful movie I’ve ever seen. It’s really annoying, and midway through the showing, I turned to my friend and whispered, “This sucks. Wanna get out of here?” She said yeah, and we left. _The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover_, because it was too unpleasant for me. I can take horror, but this particular kind damn near gave me a panic attack, so I left. _Orlando_ just bored the hell out of me. Good movie, sure, but blah blah blah. I wandered out of the free campus showing. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![Licentious\_Ectomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5e9695/32.png) [@Licentious\_Ectomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Licentious_Ectomorph)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-walk-out-of-a-bad-movie/293943/72 "2005-03-11T20:39:15Z")
> [@Teelo](#): > > I borrowd Resident Evil, and could not get through it. Why are so many male teenagers (like myself) so facinated by this shitty movie and its sequel? I _love_ the _Resident Evil_ movies, and I’m 34. 😃 I went with my SO to see _Gladiator_ when it first came out. I was so screamingly bored I wanted to hurt myself. I leaned over to him and whispered, “Are you enjoying this?”, fully expecting the answer to be no and we could leave. Unfortunately for me, he answered in the affirmative, so we stayed. I turn off DVDs all the time. Just yesterday, I turned off _Soul Plane_ 20 minutes into it. And _The Rules of Attraction_ didn’t even make it that far. I have never hated a movie so much so quickly. ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-walk-out-of-a-bad-movie/293943/73 "2005-03-11T20:40:02Z")
I just walked out of Almodovar’s [Bad Education](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0275491/) yesterday. I was out for drinks with a friend and we decided to run to an art house theater and catch a movie. The one starting at the time we got there was that movie and we knew nothing about the movie. Or so we thought. Thirty seconds into the movie, my friend leans over after seeing the crucifix in the credits and says “I think this is the movie about sexual abuse by a priest that I heard about on MPR”. Not really the way I wanted to spending some time. But he wanted to give it a try, after 45 minutes the movie wasn’t really going anywhere, and not in a Stanley-Kubrick-paced way. ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-walk-out-of-a-bad-movie/293943/74 "2005-03-11T20:58:25Z")
One of the Ernest movies, I don;t remember which one. Maybe the one where he robs the bank. It was in a Dollar Theatre And someone else had paid ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Ruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Blue\_Ruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_Ruin)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-walk-out-of-a-bad-movie/293943/75 "2005-03-11T21:13:20Z")
I’ve never walked out of a movie in a theater. I usually won’t pay to see a movie unless I’ve read a review for it and usually avoid movies that are painfully bad. I did come close once - my date insisted on seeing ‘Bless the Child’ even though I told them it got nothing but bad reviews. If I had, for whatever reason, wandered into that movie alone, I would have left early. I’ll usually tough out movies I’ve rented as well, with only one exception I can think of - I rented ‘Crossworlds’ (big Rutger Hauer fan) and it was one of the worst movies I’ve seen. I managed to make it to the final fight, which went on so long and was so pointless, I just turned it off. ---
**Author:** ![MeanJoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanjoe/32/5693_2.png) [@MeanJoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanJoe)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-walk-out-of-a-bad-movie/293943/76 "2005-03-11T22:27:05Z")
I walked out of **Star Wars - Attack of the Clones** after 45 minutes. It took that long to realize that Lucas had not only failed to see the errors of his ways from the Phantom Menace but had compounded them exponentially. I will not go see Revenge of the Sith. I might rent it when it comes out, if they are out of all other new releases and the last copy of Ernest Goes to India has just been rented. MeanJoe ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-walk-out-of-a-bad-movie/293943/77 "2005-03-11T22:43:11Z")
> [@MeanJoe](#): > > I walked out of **Star Wars - Attack of the Clones** after 45 minutes. It took that long to realize that Lucas had not only failed to see the errors of his ways from the Phantom Menace but had compounded them exponentially. You missed the parts that proved you most correct, so good call. ---
**Author:** ![Ponster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponster/32/17081_2.png) [@Ponster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponster)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-walk-out-of-a-bad-movie/293943/78 "2005-03-11T23:04:02Z")
**Fiver** , the first and last time I saw Eraserhead I watched until the end, but once I had emerged from my curled up ball of self and walked out of the darkness in search of my sister who was in the bar nextdoor I was ok. Some movies we walk out of because of their quality (or lack of) but Eraserhead is a whole genre of its own. ---
**Author:** ![Tracy\_Lord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@Tracy\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracy_Lord)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-walk-out-of-a-bad-movie/293943/79 "2005-03-11T23:17:45Z")
_Napoleon Dynamite_. (I liked it a little more in rental, though.) ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2005, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-walk-out-of-a-bad-movie/293943/80 "2005-03-12T00:59:57Z")
I’ve never walked out of a theater, I really wanted to walk out of The Nutty Professor but that was at a dollar theater but I was with my boyfriend and my sister and just waited it out, afterwards my sister admitted she wanted to leave early too. But most of the time I just stick it out hoping the movie might actually get better. I did walk out of a drive in once, literally. I was 17 and a friend and I snuck into a drive in to see an x-rated movie with a group of friends and since they drove, we just walked home. It was [Alice in Wonderland](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074113/combined), a porn-musical. After a gazillion years I still can’t get the ding-a-ling song out of my head. _His ding-a-ling up! His ding-a-ling up! She got his ding-a-ling uuuuup!_\* I think we walked out after that song … singing it the whole way. :eek: [sub]I hope I can’t get banned for that.[/sub] ☹ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-walk-out-of-a-bad-movie/293943.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-walk-out-of-a-bad-movie/293943.md?page=5)