# 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:** 18\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![RetroVertigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@RetroVertigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RetroVertigo)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-walked-out-on/365295/121 "2006-07-25T18:22:06Z")
**Bringing Out the Dead** – About half way through the movie I noticed that my fiance and I were the only one’s still there, so we left. ---
**Author:** ![theunfounddoor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@theunfounddoor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/theunfounddoor)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-walked-out-on/365295/122 "2006-07-25T19:06:35Z")
I’ve never walked out of a movie. The only one I wish I had was Death to Smoochy with Robin Williams. I really like him but, my god, my brain was numb by the end. ---
**Author:** ![muzzynyc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b3f665/32.png) [@muzzynyc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muzzynyc)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-walked-out-on/365295/123 "2006-07-25T19:18:42Z")
**Prospero’s Books** – I decided I’d rather go home and study. Or step in front of a bus. Either one seemed preferable at the time. ---
**Author:** ![lizardling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@lizardling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lizardling)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-walked-out-on/365295/124 "2006-07-28T18:17:03Z")
> [@Antinor01](#): > > I fell asleep during **Reign Of Fire** , missed probably 2/3 of it. From what I hear, I didn’t miss much though. > > When I was a kid, my Grandmother took us out of **The Care Bears Movie**. I don’t remember why, but something about it being evil. Biblethumper family and all that. Oh. That movie, if I remember right, had a scary evil magic book with a face that possessed a boy to do Evil and Nefarious Deeds at a carnival. I bet that might have been why. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-walked-out-on/365295/125 "2006-07-28T18:56:43Z")
> [@Bites When Provoked](#): > > the Quentin Tarantino film _4 Rooms_. My family goes to a movie on Christmas day…I, being the movie buff, usually got to pick… I chose 4 Rooms… I no longer get to pick the Christmas Day movie. ---
**Author:** ![Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bites_when_provoked/32/18073_2.png) [@Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bites_When_Provoked)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2006, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-walked-out-on/365295/126 "2006-07-29T15:10:02Z")
> [@Push You Down](#): > > My family goes to a movie on Christmas day…I, being the movie buff, usually got to pick… I chose 4 Rooms… I no longer get to pick the Christmas Day movie. I can see how it’d take a long, long while to live that one down. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2006, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-walked-out-on/365295/127 "2006-07-29T15:48:46Z")
> [@jellyblue](#): > > 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? 😃 Okay, did nobody else notice this? I personally have never walked out on a movie, although I have fallen asleep watching a couple at home. (Namely, **Dracula 2000** , which my dad got for my oldest sister, and **Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves**. ) ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2006, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-walked-out-on/365295/128 "2006-07-29T16:11:34Z")
> [@Dottygumdrop](#): > > I _should_ have walked out of **Alexander**. That was without doubt the biggest waste of over 3 hours of my life (and several months of the lovely Colin Farrell’s life!) - sooooo boring :snooze: I _[did]_ walk out ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2006, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-walked-out-on/365295/129 "2006-07-29T16:21:04Z")
> [@jellyblue](#): > > 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 find your ideas intriguing and would like to subscribe to your newsletter. ---
**Author:** ![Talon\_Karrde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Talon\_Karrde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talon_Karrde)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2006, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-walked-out-on/365295/130 "2006-07-30T21:56:30Z")
> [@Bites When Provoked](#): > > I walked out of the _X-Files Movie_, and also the Quentin Tarantino film _4 Rooms_. > > The fact that I walked out on _4 Rooms_ when it was the last film in a triple-showing and it was probably about 3am and I was quite prepared to take my chances as a lone female in an otherwise deserted theatre lobby should tell you something about how vile that movie was. > > I have been unable to see or hear of Quentin Tarantino since without thinking of that twisted, sick, depraved movie. In defense of Quentin Tarantino, 4 Rooms was actually 4 short films, each with a different director. Tarantino only did one of them. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2006, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-walked-out-on/365295/131 "2006-07-30T23:04:48Z")
> [@Talon Karrde](#): > > In defense of Quentin Tarantino, 4 Rooms was actually 4 short films, each with a different director. Tarantino only did one of them. It was also the last one so it’s likely **Bites When Provoked** walked out before seeing it. ---
**Author:** ![ladybug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@ladybug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladybug)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-walked-out-on/365295/132 "2006-07-31T00:50:33Z")
> [@Elenfair](#): > > E.T. It was being shown at the local theatre, I was 4… He scared the living SHIT out of me. Og help me, I was cheering for the government guys to nuke the little bastard. I _wish_ I could have walked out of E.T. I was about 7 years old when I saw it, and I remember holding my hands in front of my face the whole time because I was so scared. My 3-year-old brother was squirming on Mom’s lap, close to tears at some points. Unfortunately my 11-year-old sister thought it was the greatest movie ever, so we ended up staying. To this day I can’t watch that movie. I walked out of the first Austin Powers movie, which makes me something of a pariah among my peers (“That’s such a great movie! How could you not love it?!”) I also walked out of the X-Files – too much mumbling by the actors. ---
**Author:** ![Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bites_when_provoked/32/18073_2.png) [@Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bites_When_Provoked)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-walked-out-on/365295/133 "2006-07-31T05:32:39Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > It was also the last one so it’s likely **Bites When Provoked** walked out before seeing it. Possibly. I took off after the bit with the rotting dead prostitute sewn into the mattress. so perhaps we hadn’t got to Tarantino’s contribution at that point. Still, he was the man on the title, and I’d already sat through _Dusk till Dawn_, which hadn’t made me think much of him either. (It’s like they threw the script out halfway through and just tacked on a completely different movie.) ---
**Author:** ![Promethea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Promethea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Promethea)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-walked-out-on/365295/134 "2006-07-31T11:48:02Z")
I desperately wanted to walk out during “The English Patient”. I’d gone with a friend of a friend I didn’t know that well, so felt constrained by etiquette from asking her if they thought it sucked too and wouldn’t the pub be better? Afterwards, she said she had hated it too but that she thought I must be enjoying it and so kept quiet. Sigh. I have rarely seen a film filled with people so completely uninvolving for reasons I have always struggled to put my finger on. Usually, no matter how badly made a film, I can glean some enjoyment from it. Not in this case. Of course, it was made worse by how much everyone else had loved this film. When I saw that episode of Seinfeld years later, it was like seeing my life on screen! ---
**Author:** ![groo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecd19e/32.png) [@groo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/groo)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-walked-out-on/365295/135 "2006-07-31T12:11:13Z")
Walked out of **Alien** the first time I tried to see it. It just got too scary. Walked out of **Mixed Nuts** before the opening credits finished. Something just felt wrong. I don’t regret it. [hijack] Why do people have problems with Ben Stiller? [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-walked-out-on/365295/136 "2006-07-31T13:39:04Z")
The only movie I think I ever walked out of was **Emanuelle** , the soft-core porn flick. In my defence, it was an appallingly cut-up version, with clips of other films spliced in for no good reason, and with the other parts seemingly assembled out of order by an orangutan. Or something. Proving that even sex and naked women can be spoiled by bad editing. ---
**Author:** ![Dante](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dante/32/9673_2.png) [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-walked-out-on/365295/137 "2006-07-31T14:50:24Z")
I was 12 or 13 and got roped into seeing [Chu Chu and the Philly Flash](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082177/) by my grandmother and younger sister. I wanted to leave and go play video games in the lobby, but my grandmother wouldn’t let me. As an adult, I’ve never walked out on a film, but the closest I’ve ever come was **Kill Bill vI**. And I love Quentin Tarentooty. And count me among those who don’t understand how people can ask for a refund because they didn’t like a movie. How is that the theatre’s fault, exactly? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-walked-out-on/365295/138 "2006-07-31T14:58:55Z")
I’ve walked out of two: _Spice World_, although I stayed for most of it because my friends appreciated my attempt to razz the movie; and _Bruce Almighty_, because the message really pissed me of, and I felt like the movie was jamming it down my throat. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-walked-out-on/365295.md?page=6)