Both of those “Grindhouse” movies were terrible. Like I said when I first heard about them-- the problem with making a “tribute” to shitty movies is that no matter what, however successful you are at it, you end up making a shitty movie.
I walked out of an art house showing of the original Solaris. I had no idea science fiction could be so dull. I’m more sophisticated now, but even with modern offerings, Solaris was a true achievement in the field of dull.
Back in college (late 1980’s) I was a big Zappa fan, and convinced my roommates to see 200 Motels at a local art theater. It was awful. It was even worse for my roommates, as they were not even Zappa fans. Not sure how, but we managed to watch it until the end.
Walked out: Jawbreaker. No particular reason…the usual suspects: bad acting, bad writing, bad delivery, bad story, etc.
Cliffhanger: Maybe my stomach was upset at the time, but this is the only movie that made me throw up. I think it may have been because of vertigo…or, Stallone’s acting.
Wanted to walk out: Every single film my GF or wife forced me to watch with them so I could get to second base.
I wanted to walk out of Transformers 2, but I rode with friends and had to tough it out.
Walked out:
Star Wars Episode I - What I enjoyed when I was 10 is not what I enjoy when I’m 30.
Powder - The only movie I’ve ever encountered so bad my friends and I couldn’t even stand watching it enough to MST3K it.
Downfall - I have no idea where my friend got his copy of this movie, but it was dubbed by a French actor. Note that I used the singular. One male actor dubbed every single voice in the movie, including the females. They also did not remove the original German voices, the guy just spoke loudly over them. And it was subtitled is Swedish and English at the same time. After 5 minutes I had a headache. I loved the movie when I finally saw a legit copy of it though.
Wish I stopped watching:
Glengarry Glen Ross. Watched it with a bunch of friends. One loved it, all the rest of us seriously consider it one of the worst movies we’ve ever seen. Not even Michael Bay can make a bigger pile of crap.
Phenomenon - You would think that watching John Travolta die for an hour and a half would be the most entertaining thing you’ve ever seen. It’s not.
Dukes of Hazzard - Worst date ever.
Pretty Woman on VHS way back while watching with my then girlfriend. I didn’t really want to get it, but everyone was saying that it was so great and I thought maybe my girlfriend would like it. I felt that the message of the movie was that every woman is a whore, they are just waiting for that special rich guy to take them away from that. About fifteen minutes into the movie, my feeling about the message hasn’t changed. My girlfriend asks me if I am liking the movie. I say no, we turn it off and go to bed.
Kill Bill Volume 2. I turned this off with only about 5 minutes left. I was just so tired of the endless fights with no real direction. At that point I just didn’t give a damn how it ended. Just recut those two Kill Bill movies into one 120 minute movie and it might be great.
There are others.
I wish I’d walked out on The Cell. It gave me the creeps (I have serious issues watching Vincent D’Onofrio anyway), but I stuck it out because I thought my ex-husband was enjoying it. Turns out he was staying because he thought I was enjoying it. Ah, well.
+1 for the stringing Bryan Singer up by the balls thing. Well, okay, I guess I’ll give him a pass just this once. After all, he did direct X-Men and the superb X2: X-Men United. Oh, yeah, and The Usual Suspects.
::Jaw drops to floor in disbelief::
Walked out of:
How to Make An American Quilt- I didn’t viscerally hate it or anything, it’s just that absolutely nothing about it made me care what happened next.
Natural Born Killers- did viscerally hate this one in spite of its inclusion in the Tarantino-verse (though if he’d directed it perhaps it would have been watchable). I know it’s a cult film and I remember at the time some people saw it twice on the same day, but I couldn’t sit through it. In fairness I’ll admit I walked back in after playing a couple of video games and smoking a cigarette, but only to rejoin my party and even then I wish I hadn’t.
Movie I wish I’d walked out of (or better yet never gone to in the first place):
Pirates of the Caribbean 3-very near to being my official gauge of overproduced overfunded overblown under-written “it’s a franchise, they’ll watch any damned thing” pieces of ordure.
Synechdoche, NY- I don’t have to have car chases or explosions to like a movie, there are lots of ‘talk only’ films and even some absurdist films I like (though I’ll admit I think much if not most absurdism is to cover up the fact the artist has no talent) but how this fetid piece of rotten turnips marinated for two weeks in cat piss got so many 4 star ratings and critical raves and named to so many “Best Films of the Year” lists is beyond me unless there’s just a whole lot of movie critics and filmgoers who’ll praise anything before they’ll admit they didn’t understand it [and it apparently doesn’t occur ‘you didn’t understand it because it made no damned sense’]).
::Once again, jaw drops to floor::
Only movie I ever walked out on-- The Wild Bunch. 1969. Durham, NC.
How could I not go see this movie? Sam Peckinpah writes it. Stars are Willam Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmund O’Brien, Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, Strother Martin, Bo Hopkins–these were people you would go see.
Watched perhaps 30 minutes, maybe more. The slo-mo scenes of shootings were a turn-off. I think this might have been the first movie to show slow motion scenes of such, but I could be corrected. It was not to my liking. We left.
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Movies I wish I’d walked out of
[li]Men in Black [/li][/QUOTE]
Now see, we’ll have to come to blows over this, sir. That might be in my list of my favorite 100 movies of all time. I do NOT think I’ve ever watched Tommy Lee Jones in a movie that isn’t quality. Will Smith was truly at his best in that one.
I really, really, don’t understand why you didn’t enjoy it. I know films/food are matters that are personal taste, but please help me understand why you would have walked out on that one.
I wish I have walked out of My Life So Far. I think there was only one other couple in the theatre other than my ex and I.
He already said it was funnier when it was called Ghost Busters, whatever the hell that means considering that they are not similar in the least. :dubious:
Wished I Walked Out Of:
The Simpsons Movie
As fucking retarded as all the new age episodes are. Got half my money back at least when a friend said he’d pay for my ticket after we watched it if I truly didn’t enjoy it.
It had it’s moments, but they were far outnumbered by stupid annoying parts, so we agreed to halfsies.
Never walked out of a movie in my life, mainly because I’ve hardly been to any.
Only one I wished I had walked out on is the 2010 remake of Nightmare on Elm Street. There wasn’t a single good thing about that movie.
Oops, forgot about NBK. I think I made it 20 minutes before ejecting the DVD.
So I guess I’ve only ejected *two *DVDs before the 30 minute mark: **Death Proof **and Natural Born Killers.
And trust me, I’ve seen a ***lot ***of strange movies. I love John Waters’ movies, and I own **Gummo **and Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS. Both are awesome. 
But **NBK **and Death Proof? Ugh.
Walked out of:
The Mummy (Brandon Fraiser)
Coast to Coast (79-80 trucker film starring Dyan Cannon)
Wish I would have walked on:
Transformers 2
When ya walked on Death Proof, you walked on one of the all-time great car chases and endings in cinematic history. Just sayin’.
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Pretty much two words: Will Smith. Oh, and three more words (with two additional in parentheses): Largely not funny (to me).