I walked out of Warlock when the title character (Julian Sands?) ripped the gay guy’s tongue out during a french kiss and then made an omelet of it. I walked out of some Stephen King movie–the one with the incestuous werecats–when the son werecat ripped off the hand of the police officer who was feeling him up. I walked out of Crow during some violent scene I can’t remember. And I walked out of Pirates of the Caribbean 2 just the other day because I was bored.
Only time was with Mrs Blondchapess and we exited Possesion after some indeterminate amount of time.
Just so so dull and awful and oh did they just pass comment on the guy being american for the 200th time in the last 5 sceens. Dear god such tripe.
blondchap
By the way–when you guys walk out of movie, what do you do? I’m usually at a pretty big cineplex, so I’ll typically head into a better movie … but that’s probably wrong. Bad Rhymer!
I walked out of Meet the Parents. One, I don’t particularly like Ben Stiller and. two, it’s precisely the type of movie I hate where a huge part of the conflict is because of totally stupid misunderstandings. But, I had gone to see it with friends (the only reason I was even there in the first place) so I went to a theatre next door and watched some moderately less bad Sylvester Stallone flick.
Come to think of it, I was with the same friends when I got drageed to see Gone in 60 Seconds and wound up so bored I started watching the dust motes in the projection beam. I’ve since learned not to bother with films I’m not intereted in seeing.
Heh. My poor grandmother took my brother and I to see it for exactly the same reason. We didn’t walk out, though. I was paranoid of birds for weeks.
Hannah and Her Sisters. Utterly unentertaining.
American Werewolf in London. The scenes where the dead buddy keeps popping up in mirrors just got too intense.
Should have walked out on Stranger Than Paradise. It had gotten rave reviews. My friend and I were sitting there waiting for it to get good, while everyone else in the theater was laughing their heads off. We had no clue why but figured sooner or later it would be come entertaining. There’s 2 hours I’ll never get back :mad:
These days: As another poster said, we’ve researched a movie pretty thoroughly before we’re willing to lay out a small fortune for tickets, munchies, and babysitter, so it’s not that likely that the movie will be that big of a stinker.
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:
Green Card with Andie MacDowell and Gerard Depardieu is the only move I voluntarily went to see that I walked out on. I don’t remember a single thing about the movie now except that I hated it.
I did walk out of a movie I was getting paid to watch, once. I was a projectionist and before Friday’s new movies came out, we had to build the prints and screen them to make sure everything was put together correctly. The movie was Let’s Talk About Sex and it was billed as some kind of liberating real-life exploraion of women’s sexual lives. I guess it wanted to be Sex in the City crossed with HBO’s Real Sex series. Instead, it was a scripted fantasy with some incredibly bad performances, and the most awkward “interviews” I ever saw. There was nothing realistic about it.
I couldn’t take more than a half-hour of it, despite the fact that I was supposed to be watching it for errors. I went up to the booth and just let it run while I did other stuff. I don’t think anything was wrong with the print, but if there was, it didn’t matter, because a total of probably 5 people came to see it the whole week.
I was just having a conversation about this very thing last night. Both of us stated unequivocably that we have not and will not walk out of a movie (and he sat through Battlefield Earth! Oy). I’m wondering how so many people ended up at movies that were so bad you couldn’t bear to watch another minute. Motion sickness inducing camera work I can understand, but do you usually go to movies with absolutely no idea what the the film is about? An American Werewolf in London was gory? No kidding? A John Waters movie offensive? Neveh!
I’m obviously in the minority here and I’m very surprised. I *did * fall asleep during the dreck that is Woody Allen’s Manhattan Murder Mystery. Does that count? Oh, and the Matrix was so bad that we basically ignored it and proceded to get tanked(it was a drive-in).
Yeah, that was it.
I just didn’t care for it; nothing I can put my finger on.
Ha! I was one of those five people. Yeah, it sucked pretty bad. But I stayed to the end.
I’ve never walked out of a movie, but I’ve fell asleep in dozens.
Really stupid movie and is probably the only one I walked out of:**Breakin’ All the Rules with Jamie Foxx
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Let’s see…I went to see the Crow with my two best friends and was outvoted; I didn’t really know what it was about before we got there. Pirates I went to see because I enjoyed the first one – and,hey, it had KEIRA KNIGHTLEY! Sadly even her great pulchritude could not save it.
Two I almost walked out of, but it was late in the game so I just stayed:
Vanilla Sky It was all a dream!?! And I wasted my time trying to figure out what was going on??
Brotherhood of the Wolf I sit through all that trying to figure it out and it ends up being a Catholic plot?!?? :rolleyes:
Coffee and Cigarettes broke in the middle and I didn’t stick around for them to fix it.
I do agree with you on this point. Both movies I walked out on I didn’t know anything about, Green Card being a date thing and we didn’t have anything else to do. It was so predictable, and didn’t seem worth another hour investment.
I worked for a while as a cinema manager, and it shocked me how many people tried to get their money back on a film they didn’t even know anything about. We had descriptions for every film at the box office. I remember once a mother getting righteously indignant when I questioned why should would bring her tween child to see Novocaine, when it was rated R for a reason. She told me that it had Steve Martin in it, so it was supposed to be funny.
We almost always gave people passes or their money back, but it bothered me a lot to think that people expected theaters to be arbiters of their tastes. Imagine the fits that would be thrown if the box office staff questioned patrons and made judgements on whether or not they would like the film.
But that’s just my personal opinion and I never almost never strayed from the company’s policy of accomodation (gotta keep the guests happy). Except to one really obnoxious lady who every week got more passes for movies when she would see something all the way through and then tell us she hated it. I asked her if she would go to an art museum and demand a refund if she didn’t like some of the art. She told me yes, absolutely she would. I couldn’t argue with that and she got her passes.
Night of the Comet. I’m now fairly sure that it was supposed to be that cheesy, but we wanted to see a SERIOUS comet-turns-everyone-into-orange-dust-zombies movie!
Maybe I should give it another chance, it couldn’t be worse than War of the Worlds, right?
The only one for me was Eyes Wide Shut.
The only time I’ve walked out of a movie and gotten a refund had nothing to do with the movie. The theater itself had had some sort of plumbing or air conditioning malfunction the night before which caused the carpets to get soaked, and they had shop-vacc’d and set up fans, but the mildew smell was awful. I couldn’t stand it. They were very understanding about it.
I wanted to walk out of There’s Something About Mary, but I was on a date. I just don’t get Ben Stiller at all.
I had to leave the theater – well, rush out while holding back sobs, actually-- during the beginning of the remake of The Manchurian Candidate during a rather realistic and unexpected depiction of a firefight set in the first Gulf War. My brother had just shipped out to Iraq at the time and I was upset about it. I waited out in the lobby for about five minutes until I figured the scene was over.
Quite often, actually. Usually someone will mention to me that they’re interested in a film. I tend to trust my friends’ tastes, or at least the idea that a premise may be interesting, and so I’ll intentionally try not to learn anything about the movie ahead of time. A movie can be very, VERY enjoyable if you walk into it without any preconceived notions about it. “A History of Violence” is probably the last film where I employed that tactic, andI enjoyed it immensely. I did the same with “A Scanner Darkly” just this past weekend, and found it to be so-so. But I certainly don’t regret the experience.
Considering I’ve walked out of 1.5 movies in the 28+ years I’ve been going to theaters, I don’t think I’m doing too poorly overall.
When I was a bit young my aunt took my sister and I to see Satisfaction (starring Justine Bateman and then little-known Julia Roberts). It was horrible, and we didn’t stay.
I also fell asleep during the first Austin Powers, so my friend roused me and we left. I did eventually see it and love it.
Movies I wish I had walked out of:
Sleepers
The Piano
Seven