Seriously. I’ve never walked out on a movie, and I watch at least one a week. Also, some of you that registered your hatred of movies many consider “great”, how about backing it up some more? Several of you mentioned walking out of Pulp Fiction, for instance. Was it that the violence or language offended you? Were you simply not entertained? What was it?
Now, my picks (not for movies I walked out on, but for movies I hated or had a major problem with):
The Doom Generation: Sucked. Read Ebert’s review of it if you want an in-depth look at why it sucked.
Happiness: Intentionally disturbing, and not that great a movie. I mean, its interesting to watch, but I didn’t really get an idea of what the movie was trying to say.
Godzilla/Armageddon/Independance Day: The first two I disliked outright, especially Godzilla. It was just SO ridiculous, the characters were silly NYC stereotypes, there were tons of “goofs”, the monster kept changing sizes, etc etc. ID4, while ambitious, and with some great effects scenes, was still a stupid movie. Just think of the ending (yeah, we can upload computer viruses to completely alien computers.)
Had I been alone I would have walked out on The Muse and Three to Tango, the latter being possibly the worst movie I have ever seen, including 200 Cigarettes.
Random Hearts was also very, very bad.
Most people in the world love Misery, but my best friend and I turned that off after 45 minutes. Men at Work starring Emilio Estevez… yeah, I know, but I was young.
I could hear my intelligence being sucked out of my head as I walked out of “Dick” (the ‘parody’ - as parodies are supposed to be funny - about Watergate). Good lord!
I ask not what you can do for me, but what you can do for me right now.
Quite a few tapes have been pulled from the vcr before the closing credits, but the two we actually walked out on, per the OP, have already been mentioned: MaxTorque said “Heat” - stupid, stupid, stupid. We watched the first couple scenes, occasionally glancing at each other in amazement at what we were expected to be buying into. After ten minutes or less we turned to each other simultaneously and said, “Let’s see if we can sneak into something else down the hall.” Just unspeakably dumb and senseless. (We walked into a Jim Carrey movie instead, which seemed like the height of intelligent filmmaking by comparison, so that should say something.) We occasionally mention it still.
And Scoop said “35mm”. We rather like Nick Cage and thought, “How bad can it be?” The answer was, very, very bad indeed. We tried to stick it out for perhaps fifteen minutes, even gaving it another few minutes after our two companions walked out, but it was just too hideous. We spend the next week periodically marvelling at our revulsion.
Lots of dumb movies, lots of bad ones, but these two stood out for having the power to actually compel one to head for the exit at a fast trot.
I would have if my date didn’t want to stay. (Needless to say he didn’t get a second date with such abysmal taste… in movies!) It didn’t work as a slasher flick or a slasher flick spoof. You want a spoof? Go rent Student Bodies - you’ll laugh your ass off.
It’s a very liberating experience to just get up and walk out of a movie. Like your taking control back of your life. The last movie we left was Austin Powers I. 5 minutes of him urinating did not bode well for the rest of the movie.
Opinions sure are varied around here. I loved magnolia. That scene with W.H. Macy’s face all mashed and the cop droning on with homey wisdom was hilarious.
Waterboy was great too. never laughed so hard.
We have an even lower tolerance for videos. If we don’t like them after 20 minutes, they’re gone.
Am I the only person that hated, hated, hated “The Matrix”??
I was on my first date with my, now, husband and I had to get up and go to the bathroom about four times just to try to stay awake. Now it’s on HBO and I had to sit through it again (and I’m sure, again and again).
And from the looks of everyone’s choices, let’s just say any movie featuring a “Friends” cast member automatically makes the list.
I’m the same way. As soon as the first orgastrial “spaceship ballet” scene starts, my ass is a. Sleep. I wake up in time to see the long, drawn out stupid ending.
Eyes Wide Shut. I really should have waled out of that steaming turd.
The Thin Red Line. I can’t say enough aobut how truly bad this movie was. It embodies all of the nnedless artsy, pretensious movie making style that I abhor. I went with my friend because we were still jonesing for WW2 movies after Saving Private Ryan (A simply superiour film every way). I walked out of the film in the last 15 minutes because I just could not stand listening to the narrator ask “What IS war”? Yet again. ARRGH!
My ex girlfriend drug me along to see The Jetsons. About halfway through, I got up to use the bathroom, and spent the rest of the movie in the arcade. My ex was pissed, but there are simply something I won’t put up with.
The Ninth Gate. Another film I should have walked out of. This movie is such prime MST3K fodder.
Eye Of The Beholder. “Man, if this is the end of the movie, I’m gonna be pissed.” This piece of shit meandered through 2 hours (seemed 2 days) before finally ending abruptly, with out resolving of the main plot complications of the movie. I hope Ashley Judd and Ean MacGregor(sp) fired their agents after this movie.
Oh, yeah. Add me to the list of losers who loved Baseketball AND From Dusk Till Dawn. They were both deliciously cheesy.
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (and I absolutely refuse to watch anything else he ever appears in. Ever.)
Pulp Fiction (it just creeped me out - I can’t explain it, it just creeped me out.)
Schindler’s List (honest to God folks, I’m not an idiot, but I couldn’t follow this at all. I swear I finished high school and am not a COMPLETE idiot, but for some reason, I couldn’t stick this one out.)
I was waiting to see how many people would mention Magnolia…I think it’s funny really the amount of people that can’t see things in a movie.
When I watched American Beauty, I got up with my group and stated, “I’ll bet over half the people in this theater didn’t even see the reality and truth of that movie’s message. Funny because it was just bluntly thrown in their face!”
When we got up from Magnolia, I made the comment, “I’ll bet only 1 in every 50 people in this theater even have the vaguest idea of what they just saw.” In fact, I’ll bet none of them even have a clue!" As I left the theater I heard so many people saying “I don’t get it” and “That just made no sense” that I couldn’t help but laughing hysterically at the overwhelming losses the gene pool has suffered over the years!
-SS :rolleyes:
If “knowledge is power,” why does stupidity reign?
And I was waiting to see how many people would equate appreciating a movie with intelligence. :rolleyes:
I loved Magnolia, Happiness, Waterboy and Duece Bigalow. Found American Beauty a bit dull (Pecker did a better job with the same theme) and disliked Eyes Wide Shut.
For my birthday (while ago, maybe my seventh or eigth) my mother took me and about 15 friends to see an animated film that had something to do with mice.
Note that she knew nothing about it - she just picked it because it was a cartoon.
When we got all 20 people in and seated, sodas were delivered and popcorn was distibuted, then the movie began.
It was completely revolting. I don’t really remember, but it seemed to have something to do with the Holocaust or some other bit oppression of the Jews. The mice represented Jews (a la Spiegelman’s Maus) and other animals were involved. I think there was an evil wizard (?) and other baddies. It was terrible.
Some of my friends began to cry.
My mother picked all of us up and led us, single-file, up the aisle and into the theater next-door.
What was that movie?
Seargant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Not exactly standard childrens’ fare, but what the hell? We didn’t understand it anyway.
How many 8 year-olds do you know that spent their birthday watching a drug-themed fairy tale?
Thought of three more (these were videos, not theater showings):
The horrendous A Walk in the Clouds with the world’s worst “actor,” Keanu Reeves.
The even-worse In Love and War with the world’s second-worst actor, Chris O’Donnell. I only watched this at all because it took place in Vittorio Veneto, Italy, where my family is from - I have been there many times and wanted to see what I would recognize, but I just couldn’t get through it.
And finally, the incredibly awful rendition of The Three Musketeers with the aforementioned Chris O’Donnell. That was one of the most poorly cast, most horribly mangled novel adaptations ever. Dumas must have been rolling in his grave. Criminals should be forced watch this terrible movie over and over.
I think the only movie I ever walked out on was Spaceballs, when I was a kid.
Most recently, I saw Hi-Fidelity, with John Cusak. AWFUL!!! I wanted to walk out but my friend paid for my ticket and I didn’t want to waste her money.
I’m amazed at how many hate some of the movies I love!
My most hated movies are:
Spawn (I really, really wanted to walk out on this one! I’ve never felt so insulted by moviemakers. But I went with friends and feared that without my moral support they would be crushed to dust by the sheer weight of incompetent filmaking.)
CB4 (A friend rented this one and after about 30 minutes I refused to watch any more… this happened several years ago and only recently have I been able to overcome psychosomatic nausea at the sight of Chris Rock and admit that he can be pretty funny.)
Godzilla (I cry for the poor dollars that I squandered on this junk heap. I could have bought something to make me happy, or at least indifferent, and they would have been better spent.)
A friend of mine has challenged me to watch Speed 2 while he watches Spawn, and at the end we try to figure out which is actually a worse movie. We’ve never been feeling masochistic enough to try though.
