What exactly is MST3K? Am I the only one wondering?
First, I’d like to say that I really like the following, in order of best to worst (but I still really like the worst):
The Matrix
Se7en
Moulin Rouge
Meet the Parents
Cabin Boy
Traffic
Me, Myself, and Irene
America’s Sweethearts
Jerry Maguire
Mystery Men
The Haunting
Henry and June
Four Rooms
And I thought I was picky!
I’ve never walked out of a movie, but I sincerely would have left The House of Mirth if I hadn’t been there for English class. What an absolutely horrible movie! And I like period dramas! Also, my health teacher forced us to watch 28 Days starring Sandra Bullock. Being that she is second only to Drew Barrymore in my least favorite actress slot, I nearly vomited numerous times while the class watched that piece of shiz. Speaking of that big fat slut, seeing Ever After at the Mall of America was the worst theatre-going experience of my life. I would have left, but I think I was only 14 and I was there with my friend and her parents. I get dry heaves just thinking about it.
The only movie I’ve ever really walked out of in the theater was First Wives Club. I was seeing it with my church youth group, so I had to stay in the lobby until it was over, but it was more interesting out there than watching the movie. I left about five minutes before the end of Hannibal, and spent a lot of the rest of the movie with my eyes covered. WAY too gory for my taste.
With video rentals I quite frequently turn it off (or leave the room if my brothers are watching) after only twenty minutes. I really don’t like a lot of movies. The only reason that I don’t walk out of many in the theaters is because I don’t go to the movies much, and when I do it’s with friends who want to see the movie, so I kind of have to stay.
Mystery Science Theater Three Thousand. It was a TV show on three different networks over, I think, 8 years, that made fun of really really really bad movies. They’d play the real movie and have Joel and his robot friends inserting funny comments into every scene.
I’ve never walked out of a movie, but I have been dragged kicking and screaming to a few. My friend walked out of Little Shop of Horrors. I thought it was good though. One man’s trash…
Walked out of two movies; the second was Mixed Nuts (I think that’s the title), which I’d thought I’d like until about 90 seconds into the credits, when a deep sense of foreboding set in. How did the credits do so much to dampen my enthusiasm? Same thing happened to the woman I was with, and we just walked out. Did I miss anything?
The first movie I walked out of was Aliens, and before I sound like too much of a wimp, here’s what was going on:
- It was finals week in college; I’d just pulled an all-nighter
- It was a hot day and we walked two miles
- I hadn’t been eating well (Top Ramen and Mac-n-Cheese)
- The first part, (with John Hurt?) freaked me out and I never recovered
So I walked out when they were all searching for what I later learned was a cat in a pile of containers. Couldn’t take it. That half-movie was probably my most terrifying movie experience.
BTW: This is my first post!
During its first theatrical release in 1974, my girlfriend and I walked out of “Emmanuelle.” The print was so scratchy and worn and spliced so many times that it was unwatchable. We probably would have stayed if it hadn’t been such lame softcore, we thought it was a hardcore film. We got our money back too.
Any Given Sunday.
God that movie blew. I saw it with a friend and we still use it as a standard for judging how crappy a movie is. We were MST3K’ing the movie out loud and no-one around us complained. Hell, the people behind us even used their cell to call up a friend and complain about how bad the movie was.
I wanted to walk out of Liar Liar with Jim Carrey, but I took my brother to it, and didn’t want to leave him at the theatre.
I went to Down to Earth with a date. I wanted to leave that one too, but I thought if I stayed, she would make out with me after the movie. Of course, I got nothing after the movie, not even a hug 
Welcome, groo.
I saw Mixed Nuts, and while I did not walk out - let’s just say I saw it in a dollar theater and I still felt vaguely cheated. The only thing that made it worth my time was the opportunity to see Adam Sandler in one of his first movies. His part was small, but it totally convinced me that I didn’t want to see any more movies featuring him, no matter what the role. (Of course, at the time I didn’t think they’d bother making many more movies with him in them - imagine my surprise a few years down the road.) But, really, Sandler Early Warning System aside, the best you can say for Mixed Nuts was that it was not an overtly painful movie-going experience.
In short, nah, I don’t think you missed much.
Unless of course you’re a big fan of ukuleles, especially when played by slightly irritating (the fantastic Hanukkah Song not withstanding) comedians. If that’s the case, by all means rent it.
I’ve never walked out of a movie, but i should have walked out of JP3 in the first 1/2 hour, then i could’ve gotten my money back. That movie was really bad.
I liked Tank Girl and Gladiator, i thought those movies kicked ass. I didn’t read the whole thread, so i can’t say anything else. 
In another mood, I probably would have walked out of Henry and June, but it was kinda like watching a train wreck. I didn’t wanna, but I couldn’t pull my eyes away. I just had to hang on and see if there was actually a plot, or if they were just going to boink their way through the two hours. (For those of you who haven’t seen it: they just boink their way through the two hours. But the film critics assure us they did so artisticly.)
We did walk out of My Best Friend’s Wedding. I could just see that it was going to have to come to some Hollywood Happy Ending, and the only happy ending I could foresee was if the gay friend - who was a jerk but at least had a sense of humor and therefore the only redeeming quality among all the lead characters - stopped the wedding when the minister said the “speak now or forever hold your peace” speech to announce THIS MOVIE SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCKSS!!!, pull an AK47 from under his morning coat, and open fire on Julia Roberts, the groom and the doormat-cum-bride. Since I knew this would never happen, I happily went along with it when fella bilong missus flodnak suggested that a walk in the freezing rain would be a lot more pleasant than sitting through the remaining thirty minutes of the film.
I’ve never walked out of a movie, mostly because I can sit through anything but also because I am EXTREMELY picky about what I see in the theatres. And if I don’t want to see it, I wont. My friends and SO be damned I ain’t going!!!
The closest I ever came was As good as it gets After about 30 minutes into that movie me and my girlfriend’s best friend just started having LOTS of fun ragging on the movie, so much so my gf got up and moved far away from us so she could watch it in peace, giving us dirty looks and muttering under her breath as she went. The theater was pretty empty.
But TV is a different story. I will actually switch away from good movies just to see what else is on.
P.S. they’re making Jumanji 2, I hope it’s good
I’ve never walked out on a movie, but I did have one put me to sleep. I think it was Out of Africa. I was there with my parents, which I why I stayed.
I would say that Mystery Men (thanks for mentioning that—I had supressed the horrid memory!) has to be one of the worst movies I ever rented. I fast-forwarded through the entire movie, because I thought it had to get better at some point (nope!)…even the crappiest TV shows are better than this one! I wanted to walk out of A.I., but that was primarily because the person I was sitting next to in the fully-occupied theater was really gross and smelled awful, and not because the end of the movie seemed to drag along endlessly.
Another rental I never watched to the end was TRON. I first tried watching it on HBO when I was 12, but it was so boring and the crappy special effects were intolerable. About halfway through, I developed an excruciating headache and I went upstairs to go to bed, but fainted at the top of the stairway and ended up in the hospital. (To be fair I can’t blame my losing consciousness on the movie, as I did have a really nasty case of the flu at the time.) I tried to watch it again in college, when a lot of my friends were raving about how much they loved it, but still couldn’t bear to watch it all the way through.
From the IMDb:
See, it was just a way to dump money. They didn’t care how good it was.
Free Willy - don’t even get me started! - bad acting, plastic whale and Michael Jackson on the soundtrack. Ech.
Would have walked out on Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band - remember THAT piece of dreck with the BeeGees? - but my friend was the driver and we were way across town. We all hated this waste of emulsion, but nobody had the guts to be the first to say so (in case someone else liked it). Unfortunately, no one did, and we all stayed. (I read the newspaper.)
I’m surprised no one’s mentioned Mission Impossible #1 and #2. I rented the first one, and my sister after watching the first few minutes, said: “What the hell is this shit,” got up and left. I stuck it out, scratching my head, occasionally, and sipping on a beer hoping the alcohol would help it go down better. [sigh] But get this, while I decided to leave MI #2 alone, my sister actually pays full price to see it in a theater, and then falls asleep halfway through it, missing the end!
The only movie that ever tempted me to walk out of it was Star Trek V. Unfortunately, I didn’t, and since MST3K-ing a movie was an unknown concept at the time, I sat through the wretched thing. Nowadays, of course, I can easily endure a bad movie just by mocking it the way Joel and Tom and Crow do. 
I’ve never walked out of a movie, possibly because I’m a masochist in that way, but contenders would have been The Witches of Eastwick, The Blair Witch Project, and the all-time worst - Event Horizon. But I stayed. I stayed and suffered through them all and never got my life or money back. These days I reduce the chances of that happening by being very selective. I have only seen maybe three or four movies this year, but with the exception of Tomb Raider, which I saw against my will, they were all good movies.
On a side note, PLEASE don’t MST3K movies in the theater. Nothing irks me more than the “hilarious” guy a row over who has decided he’s going to “improve” the movie. I have never encoutnered such a person who was actually funny, despite the numerous “everyone around me was cracking up!” stories I’ve heard. It’s rude and annoying. and, as has been shown in this thread, there could be someone around you who likes the movie and is actually trying to watch it.
The only movie which has truly been horrible enough to walk out of was Striptease, with Demi Moore. Even in spite of Demi getting incredibly naked, that was one of the worst pieces of dreck I’ve ever seen. (Which is an incredible shame, because the book it’s based on was written by Carl Hiaasen, who’s one of the best comic-crime-novel authors I’ve ever read.)
As for videos I’ve rented, I’ve usually got a pretty high tolerance for crap – I’ll fast-forward through something but I’ll stick it out to the end, dadgumit. The only movie I remember turning off completely was Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion, thus proving that the only thing worse than Lisa Kudrow on a half-hour episode of Friends is Lisa Kudrow in a full-length feature movie.