I’ve been lucky to walk out of all movies eventually.
KidCharlemagne very punny. I like it.
You know I remembered one movie I wish I had been able to walk out of, and it hasn’t been mentioned–Weekend at Bernies. Saw it with two friends. Two of us hated it and rolled eyes at each other thru the whole movie, the other friend loved it, so we had to stay. It was bad.
I also sat thru The English Patient and wish I could have those hours back. It never got better and dragged on and on and on… One thing though I have found when this movie comes up in discussion is that men seem to like it better than women. It was advertised as a love story.
Showgirls. Well acted, well directed, writing and story done in a workman-like manner. But the characters were so thoroughly destestable that I would rather not know what happened to them. This killed the leading actresses career, which I thought was so unfair. She was very faithful to the way the character was written. But there wasn’t anyone I could care about in that movie.
Blues Brothers. Nice tunes, but the plot? I know, there wasn’t a plot, but I was young and wanted to see straightforward movies with plots. I’ve since sat through it all and it was, well, something to see when you can’t necessarily focus. Kinda like Gilligan’s Island for two hours.
Crimes and Misdemeanors. Ewwww. My date wanted to leave even before I did. I would have preferred just a documentary of the rabbi’s talking. But the Alan Alda and Martin Landau character’s just left me feeling so morally drained (probably the intention). My date’s sister had actually dated Landau once so she knew the man. Good actor, but creepy man.
Those are the “A feature” first run films I’ve walked out on. I walk out on any movie that competely sucks in the first 10 minutes.
The very first one I walked out on was Mission Impossible 2. The plane crash at the beginning was unnerving, since I don’t really like to fly and had just walked off the plane from Paris to St. Louis the day before. Then all that violence at the end… shudder I don’t deal well with guns.
The Matrix has many interesting concepts, but that last bit of the movie was hell to sit through. I went to see it not long after the incident at Columbine, and I had nightmares for a week afterwards about some strange mélange of the two.
And Cabin Boy… let’s just not go there. My dad made me pay back the 50-cent rental fee.
Movies I’ve actually walked out of:
The Thin Red Line (I warned the narrater that if he didn’t pipe down, I was leaving!)
Knockoff
The Jetsons (GF at the time really wanted to see it. I told her I was going to the bathroom, and spent about four bucks playing the video games in the lobby. I figured it was better than sitting there bitching about the movie while my eyes bled)
Movies I’ve rented that i didn’t watch all the way through
Dungeons And Dragons
The movie with the female boxer (Not Girlfight) that I think had Edward James Almos in it. Anyway, it bored me to tears.
I’m sure there are others, but I’m too senile to remember them.
I’ve wasted a lot of my life sitting through shitty movies, hoping that they’ll get better.
I cant believe no one has mentioned Dead Poet’s Society! Or am I the only one who thinks it was a total waste of precious breathing time?! I watched it to the end but was left thinking “JEEEEEEEZZZZ Havent you ever heard of COMMUNTIY THEATRE!?” And poor Robin Williams character (waa waa) got fired by a snooty private school! OH MY GOD end of the freakin world! Somebody on that scriptwriting team needs to get a life…
Only walked out of 4 films in my life, and technically speaking, I didn’t pay for any of them (3 were free campus screenings, the fourth was part of a double feature with what I had wanted to see). I have this naive belief that since I paid for it, it has to get better, but it rarely does. Coincidently all 4 films were X rated or unrated (all preceded the NC-17 rating).
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Gothic by Ken Russell. I left about halfway through, and this was after about half the auditorium had already bailed. Truly awful.
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** Dirty Duck **. 70s hippie counter-culture animation (think bad “Fritz the Cat” ripoff). After about the fifth or sixth cut-out animation orgy, I got bored and left.
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** Two Sisters**. Poorly done porno flick, shown on a double-bill with “Deep Throat”. Originally I thought the editing was flat out incompetent, then I realized the reels were out of order. No one complained.
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I’m gonna get flamed as an ignoramus and uncultured philistine, but ** Last Tango in Paris**. I loved Bertolucci’s * The Conformist *, but geez this was so boring and just too artsy for me. The heavy-handed symbolism of her talking about love in French while Brando talks about fucking in English. The shots of trains. Gato’s grating sax squawking. More trains. The film maker boyfriend. Even more trains. I forced myself to stick it out to the infamous butter scene, just so’d I’d fully appreciate the reference.
Wanted to bail out of the “restored-with-20-extra-minutes-to-suffer-through” version of ** The Man Who Fell To Earth**, but my friends were two die-hard Bowie fans who wanted to stay, despite the fact that they’d already seen the movie.)
Also would have exited Godard’s excruciatingly pretentious** Soft and Hard** but it was in a film class.
On video - another Ken Russell - The Devils. Fell asleep, didn’t bother to finish it before returning it (to the library, which was free!)
In the cinema, fell asleep during ** The Arrival** (Charlie Sheen tracking space aliens in Mexico).
you people are too critical.
I’ve never walked out on a movie (unless I had to go do something).
The reason I don’t walk out if I don’t like the movie is because I’m aware that there can be a two-second part in a movie that I could think was really cool because of the camera angle/soundtrack/score/sound effects/colors/quote or whatever. THis won’t make it a good movie, but storytelling can be incredibly stupid at one point, then spike suddenly.
One of the terrible movies I’ve seen lately was The Mummy Returns. It started 20 minutes late, the curtains closed and the movie turned off 3 TIMES during the high points of the story, but I STILL stayed till the end.
I know a lot of people who saw The Mummy were dissappointed because they weren’t expecting a campy comedy. I liked it.
RHPS shouldn’t be watched on video. The only reason anyone should see it is for the audience participation. Remove that and you’ve got one stupid movie on your hands.
Me, I’ve only walked out of one movie, Teen Wolf, and that was because I had appendicitis and had to go to the hospital.
2001: A Space Oddessey took me 3 different rentals and countless sittings to get through. I kept falling asleep. And I’d already read the book.
I wanted to walk out of Atlantis, The Lost Empire, but I was there so my son could see it, not me. What a piece of crap.
I’d have walked out of Howard the Duck if I hadn’t seen it on TV. Man what a stupid movie.
Ooo, I walked out of that one too!!
We walked out of Mission Impossible: 2. I really, really tried to pay attention, but it just wouldn’t stick to my brain.
The only other movie so bad I wanted to leave was Red Planet, but we saw it at an odd time, no one else was there, and the tickets were free, so I ended up just making it into one big running joke (a la MST3K). Along with accurately predicting pretty much the whole movie within the first ten minutes…
I haven’t walked out of any movies, but during the truly abysmal should-have-gone-straight-to-video “Ghost in the Machine” I did go to the lobby for a cigarette when it became clear that it would be at least ten minutes before anyone else got killed.
The only movie I’ve ever walked out of was Stir of Echoes and that was because all the electricity in town went off because we were about to be inundated with floodwaters. I wouldn’t have lasted anyway. It cut off right at the part where Kevin Bacon had that first vision of the girl. When her nail broke off I thought, “Oh great, another movie I’m going to spend face-down to watch.” Never have I been so grateful for power failure.
And while I have a high tolerance for crappy movies, Starship Troopers defeated me. I cut that off halfway through and almost threw it back to the video store. Which is a shame almost, because it would have been excellent as an MST3K episode.
The only movie I’ve ever walked out of was Primary Colors man that movie sucked! I should of walked out of ** Coneheads** (does anyone actually remember that movie?) but I was only like 10 or so I think.
As for movies I’ve rented at home but never watched the whole way through… well there are too many to count. 
I think that when I saw Jacob’s Ladder in the theater, they showed the same reel twice. Not sure, though; I was pretty loaded at the time, and I’ve never seen it again to be sure.
Gah! For those of us who like the sounds of cats being tortured, Repo Man is a classic. The music rocks. Suicidal Tendencies doing Institutionalized, The Plugz doing Pablo Picasso, Black Flag with TV Party, Iggy Pop with the title song. Classics all.
And the movie kicks butt too. Who can forget great lines like “I suppose a blow job is out of the question”, “John Wayne was a fag”, and “Let’s go do some crimes!” And to think, Mike Nesmith was involved…
The English Patient - geez, it was interminably boring. I couldn’t believe this movie got great ratings.
I became enamored with the character Elaine from Seinfeld to this day because she hated it so much. Up till that point, she was never my type!!! 8*D
paid good money to see:
What lies beneath
Lethal Weapon IV or V whatever - the last one
Forces of Nature
The Mexican
and these are the only movies I have ever walked out of. maybe I don’t have the patience for crap anymore.
To each his own; my tastes just happen to run more towards Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians.
Neidhart [sub]psst, I think that was sarcasm[/sub]