# Movies you've walked out on **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 20, 2006, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-walked-out-on/365295 "2006-07-20T04:36:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2006, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-walked-out-on/365295/81 "2006-07-21T00:46:58Z")
> [@mamboman](#): > > I cannot believe, however the OP walked out on _Twister_. Even Bill Paxton is tolerable when enough of Helen Hunt’s luminous lovlieness is onscreen 🙂 While I completely agree with the sentiment of Ms. Hunt’s being lovely, it just wasn’t enough. However, if the film could have been properly edited to leave her as the ONLY on-screen character… ---
**Author:** ![phonemonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b19c9b/32.png) [@phonemonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phonemonkey)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2006, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-walked-out-on/365295/82 "2006-07-21T00:54:41Z")
When I was 17, me and my highschool buddy snuck off to see “Showgirls”, our first NC-17 movie. We made it to about the third or fourth time she shacks up with someone to advance her carreer, then gets mad when they point out she only shacked up with them to advance her carreer. It was a film about a stripper, and a pair of seventeen year old boys walked out bored… I’ll never know, personally, how I or anyone else made it to the end of ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ (how about that ending folks? That, uh, really went somewhere…) or Thin Red Line. (I fell asleep during a still shot of a lake that went on for seventy one seconds without music or human voices) ---
**Author:** ![lizardling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@lizardling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lizardling)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2006, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-walked-out-on/365295/83 "2006-07-21T01:15:01Z")
Heh. Let’s see. I got motion sick during Who Framed Roger Rabbit as a small child, and had to be evacuated just in time to upchuck into the bushes outside. Then one of my elementary school playmates’ mom took us to see one of the Jaws movies. In the theater. I freaked out right about the time that there was a very close up shot of someone being bitten in half and spitting a fountain of blood. And one of my high school acquaintances took me to see an arthouse movie about a romance in the Dark Ages with open captioning. Unfortunately, we found out that it was also about the Black Plague. Lots of people dying right, left, and center. I was glued to the screen in horrified fascination. Acquaintance probably wished he’d never picked it for a date movie. 😃 These days, I research the movies I go to see a bit more closely. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2006, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-walked-out-on/365295/84 "2006-07-21T02:29:27Z")
> [@winterhawk11](#): > > **The Hunger** : I don’t remember much about it, except that it was a horror movie and very gory. Another college movie. I didn’t feel compelled to get grossed out for a dollar, so I left. Would the hot lesbian sex scene have grossed you out? I never thought it was that gory- certainly not as bad as seeing Grace Jones \*eat a trench through a guy’s neck \* in some bad vampire movie… ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/45deac/32.png) [@Evil\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_One)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2006, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-walked-out-on/365295/85 "2006-07-21T18:50:58Z")
I actually go to a theater to watch a movie about once a year for reasons I’m sure many of you share. Price, the cattle, etc. I do buy on-demand movies every once in a while. And I made the mistake of buying _Date Movie_ last week. Horrid. Trite. Juvenile. Repetitive. A complete waste of money and my time. ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2006, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-walked-out-on/365295/86 "2006-07-21T21:42:45Z")
I only made it through about 30 minutes of “Last Orders,” a boring, lugubrious piece of tripe about the friends of a dead butcher. A great cast wasted. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-walked-out-on/365295/87 "2006-07-22T02:13:16Z")
On our flight back from Germany to Atlanta, my Stepdad had a chance (as did we all) to see “ **The Dukes Of Hazard** ” 4 times. My Stepdad did, or attempted to, but he told me that each time he could not get past the barfight scene. (That is, he tried to watch it 4 times). And to think, my mom and I actually sat through “Sky High” “Herbie Fully Loaded” and “Little Manhattan”. I should have stuck with Gremlins. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-walked-out-on/365295/88 "2006-07-22T02:15:35Z")
> [@Meeko](#): > > On our flight back from Germany to Atlanta, my Stepdad had a chance (as did we all) to see “ **The Dukes Of Hazard** ” 4 times. Althought the OP doesnt mention it, I think inflight movies count, even if we couldn’t walk out the film. ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-walked-out-on/365295/89 "2006-07-22T02:50:58Z")
I walked out of the “Erotic Film Festival” in … um, 1992? 3? Warmed over sixties art trash, so indirect that even my artprofessor girlfriend wanted to leave. She’s also the one who dragged me out of “La Belle Noiseuse” ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-walked-out-on/365295/90 "2006-07-22T03:16:27Z")
There’s only been one movie I’ve ever walked out on. But it was painful beyond description for the hellishly long hour that I gave to it. Behold… [Major League 2](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110442/) ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-walked-out-on/365295/91 "2006-07-22T03:21:55Z")
> [@Asimovian](#): > > I was chatting with a coworker today about movies, and he mentioned that he walked out on “Who Killed The Electric Car?” Apparently, this was the first time he’d ever walked out on a film. Is he a Stonecutter? ---
**Author:** ![wheelie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b4bc9f/32.png) [@wheelie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wheelie)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-walked-out-on/365295/92 "2006-07-22T03:22:33Z")
Only one. [Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083798/). I totally didn’t get it (hey, I was sixteen!). Never seen it on cable or DVD either. I hear it’s supposed to be pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![StuffLikeThatThere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@StuffLikeThatThere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StuffLikeThatThere)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-walked-out-on/365295/93 "2006-07-22T03:57:34Z")
I should have walked out of one, and I still don’t know why I didn’t. My dad was, at the time, dying of cancer, and had about two months to live, although we didn’t know if it was two days or six months at that point. I was away at college, and my roommate wanted to cheer me up (or at least distract me), so we went to the movies. We didn’t know anything about any of the movies, so we just picked one in which we recognized the actors. It was **My Life** , starring Michael Keaton and Nicole Kidman. If it didn’t hit your radar, it’s about a man who learns that he is dying of cancer and has only a few months to live. We actually sat through the whole thing. I think that we were just young (18) and sort of stunned, and didn’t know what to do. I was a wreck at the end, and my roommate wasn’t doing too well, either. We hadn’t known each other before that year, but we ended up becoming very good friends, and are still in touch. We still talk about that every once in a while. What were we thinking? I’m actually curious about the movie, because I can’t remember much from it, and I’ve never had the gumption to watch it again. ---
**Author:** ![Bertie\_Wooster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/58f4c7/32.png) [@Bertie\_Wooster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bertie_Wooster)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-walked-out-on/365295/94 "2006-07-22T04:27:16Z")
I walked out of _Jaws_. Mind you, I was less than ten, and the head, missing an eye, floating from a wrecked boat, didn’t agree with me. Mom was a good enough sport to keep me company while the rest of the family saw the end of the movie. I also fell asleep during _The Abyss,_ but I don’t think that’s an unusual response. ---
**Author:** ![jellyblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@jellyblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jellyblue)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-walked-out-on/365295/95 "2006-07-22T06:17:29Z")
> [@Runestar](#): > > I don’t recall ever walking out of a movie, but I came damn close to doing so during **The Minority Report**. I’m not a big Tom Cruise fan anyway, and that movie just got sillier and sillier as it went on. > > When it got to the eyeball swapping scence, I almost bailed, but didn’t. Now I’m sorry I didn’t – that’s some of my life I’ll never get back. Ah! You reminded me that I walked out of **Top Gun** in college. I went and made out with my best friend in the women’s room instead . See what can happen if you drag your date to a “guy” movie? 😃 I kinda liked **Minority Report** , but developed a sudden need for more Jujubees during the dig-the-eyeballs-out scene. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-walked-out-on/365295/96 "2006-07-22T06:29:46Z")
> [@Meeko](#): > > On our flight back from Germany to Atlanta, my Stepdad had a chance (as did we all) to see “ **The Dukes Of Hazard** ” 4 times. My father once wrote a complaint letter to American Airlines over a similar situation…we sat through the same stupid in-flight movie on our flight to England and on our flight back from England a week later. I can’t remember the name of the movie, or even much of the plot. Something about a young boy who switches mothers? It was billed as a sappy comedy, but seemed rather dark to me. (This was around 1993 or 1994. The movie was apparently popular enough to have several prominent posters up in the front of the video rental store.) ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-walked-out-on/365295/97 "2006-07-22T13:26:12Z")
_North_, probably. I couldn’t watch the _trailer_ all the way through… _My Life_ was pretty good, actually. It’s easy to forget that Keaton is pretty good. I thought the best scene was right after the birth of the baby (he was afraid he wouldn’t make it that long), when he kind of staggers, looks up and mouths “thank you” at God. Powerful. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-walked-out-on/365295/98 "2006-07-22T13:45:37Z")
I never quite walked out on a movie – I considered walking out on _Batman and Robin_ (but developed a perverse pride in sticking it out) and _The Skeleton Key_ (there was nowhere else to go and nothing to do at the site, and I would have just had to wait for my ride). ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-walked-out-on/365295/99 "2006-07-22T16:52:36Z")
_Lizardling:_ > [@](#): > > And one of my high school acquaintances took me to see an arthouse movie about a romance in the Dark Ages with open captioning. Unfortunately, we found out that it was also about the Black Plague. Lots of people dying right, left, and center. I was glued to the screen in horrified fascination. Acquaintance probably wished he’d never picked it for a date movie. Do you remember the name of the movie? I’d like to see that. Are you sure it wasn’t set in the middle of the 14th Century instead? ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-walked-out-on/365295/100 "2006-07-22T19:20:53Z")
Was it [Flesh & Blood](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089153/)? There was a bit of rape and romance among the plague corpses! 😉 Seriously, it wasn’t that bad… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-walked-out-on/365295.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-walked-out-on/365295.md?page=6)