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.
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.
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.
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.
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. 
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. )
I [did] walk out
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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.
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.
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.)
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!
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.
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Why do people have problems with Ben Stiller?
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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.
I was 12 or 13 and got roped into seeing Chu Chu and the Philly Flash 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?
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.