# What is the most 'walked out of' movie ever? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 23, 2006, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-walked-out-of-movie-ever/357971 "2006-05-23T22:39:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Scupper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Scupper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scupper)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-walked-out-of-movie-ever/357971/101 "2006-05-24T21:40:56Z")
> [@Malienation](#): > > **What About Bob**. To my knowledge, Bill Murray’s only serious misstep. * * * Charlie’s Angels Garfield 2 Garfield Osmosis Jones The Man Who Knew Too Little Meatballs * * * Sorry, but I get a little weary of the Bill Murray deification that seems to be going on these days. ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-walked-out-of-movie-ever/357971/102 "2006-05-24T21:52:23Z")
> [@Amok](#): > > I don’t know about hate, but it’s the only movie I’ve ever walked out of. My freshman roommate and I went to see _Very Bad Things_ at a cheap screening on campus, and _Pink Flamingoes_ was shown after it. We knew nothing about it other than it was rated X (or maybe it had been reclassified NC-17 by that point, I don’t remember). I think we lasted about 20 minutes before we were said it wasn’t for us and left. My freshman roommate at college said to me, “I just have to see a movie where someone eats shit”. I felt compelled to join him. I actually got a laugh out of that trainwreck. PS He went on to be a doctor. ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-walked-out-of-movie-ever/357971/103 "2006-05-24T22:00:14Z")
Just anecdotal, but a friend of mine reported that a group of four middle-aged women left _28 Days Later_ in a bluster about 15 minutes in. Prior to that, they had apparently been wondering when Sandra Bullock was going to appear, mistaking the zombie movie for a sequel to the romantic comedy _28 Days_. ---
**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:** [May 24, 2006, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-walked-out-of-movie-ever/357971/104 "2006-05-24T22:09:42Z")
> [@iamthewalrus(:3=](#): > > Just anecdotal, but a friend of mine reported that a group of four middle-aged women left _28 Days Later_ in a bluster about 15 minutes in. Prior to that, they had apparently been wondering when Sandra Bullock was going to appear, mistaking the zombie movie for a sequel to the romantic comedy _28 Days_. Yeah… I heard that story related probably even before 28 Days Later was released stateside. It was probably a Leno joke. Re: Bill Murray. Counting Meatballs as a misstep is like faulting Tom Hanks for Bachelor Party. It’s super early in their careers and are what they are- Dumb comedies. Osmosis Jones is a pretty good kids movie though. The first Charlie’s Angels isn’t bad. The Man Who Knew Too Little is very very funny. Garfield sucks though. ---
**Author:** ![Petey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f1d935/32.png) [@Petey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Petey)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-walked-out-of-movie-ever/357971/105 "2006-05-24T22:14:03Z")
I’ve never walked out of a movie, but came very close with the worst movie ever: [Nightfall](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095738/) I think 90% of the theater emptied when A crow plucks out and eats a woman’s eyes The only reason that I didn’t walk out: I would have always wondered if there was something redeeming in the film, and I wasn’t going to watch it again to find out. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-walked-out-of-movie-ever/357971/106 "2006-05-24T22:18:50Z")
> [@Scupper](#): > > * * * > > Charlie’s Angels > Garfield 2 > Garfield > Osmosis Jones > The Man Who Knew Too Little > Meatballs > > * * * > > Sorry, but I get a little weary of the Bill Murray deification that seems to be going on these days. You’re forgetting one (the only movie I ever walked out of): \*\*[Where the Buffalo Roam](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081748/) \*\* ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-walked-out-of-movie-ever/357971/107 "2006-05-24T23:39:26Z")
I considered walking out on **The New World** a few months ago. I wish I had. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2006, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-walked-out-of-movie-ever/357971/108 "2006-05-25T01:30:31Z")
> [@Kalhoun](#): > > We walked out of **Eyes Wide Shut** about 3/4 through it. I think I’d have walked out on that one, if I’d been to see it at the cinema; it was on TV the other day and I stayed up late to watch it, keeping on waiting, thinking that _something_ was about to happen to tie the whole thing together into a coherent whole, then the end titles went up, but I was still waiting. It could be summed up as: 1: Tom goes somewhere and does something 2: Tom goes somewhere else and does something else 3: repeat from 2 Then again, maybe I’d have sat there to the end in the cinema, stupidly waiting for the story to start. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2006, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-walked-out-of-movie-ever/357971/109 "2006-05-25T02:36:29Z")
**A Sound of Thunder** would have had a lot more walkouts if people had actually walked in. Fortunately, most were not so foolish as I was. ---
**Author:** ![ambushed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3bc359/32.png) [@ambushed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ambushed)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2006, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-walked-out-of-movie-ever/357971/110 "2006-05-25T02:48:21Z")
> [@KGS](#): > > [The Last Temptation of Christ](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095497/) had a very high number of walkouts, all six times I saw it in the theater. The Jesus/Mary slash pairing was a big trigger (naturally)… What does the phrase “slash pairing” mean? What are you referring to? (I didn’t see the movie). > [@KGS](#): > > … but so was a later scene where Paul says to Jesus… What? The movie contained a scene between Jesus and the Paul of the Epistles, who certainly never knew each other? I mean, I knew the movie was horrible, but WTF? ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2006, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-walked-out-of-movie-ever/357971/111 "2006-05-25T02:57:33Z")
> [@Amok](#): > > I don’t know about hate, but [_Pink Flamingoes_ is] the only movie I’ve ever walked out of. My freshman roommate and I went to see _Very Bad Things_ at a cheap screening on campus, and _Pink Flamingoes_ was shown after it. You sat through the execrable, rotten-to-its-soul _Very Bad Things_, but couldn’t take the essentially good-natured _Pink Flamingoes_? ---
**Author:** ![Scupper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Scupper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scupper)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2006, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-walked-out-of-movie-ever/357971/112 "2006-05-25T04:52:33Z")
Walked out of _ **The Curse** _ with Wil Wheaton because it was just sickeningly gross. (I have a problem with larvae.) Turned off _ **The Ladykillers** _ (remake) when I’d rented it on DVD. God that was crap. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2006, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-walked-out-of-movie-ever/357971/113 "2006-05-25T05:15:26Z")
One more anecdote from a recent movie: When I went and saw \ ***Sin City** \* there was a pretty high number of walkouts. Probably a bunch of people expecting your standard action movie and/or gratuitous Jessica Alba scenes. I don’t suppose it was at record levels, but certainly the most I’ve seen since _ **Cool World** _. ---
**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:** [May 25, 2006, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-walked-out-of-movie-ever/357971/114 "2006-05-25T05:48:13Z")
> [@ambushed](#): > > What? The movie contained a scene between Jesus and the Paul of the Epistles, who certainly never knew each other? I mean, I knew the movie was horrible, but WTF? I’m too tired to answer your first question, but I’ll address this. The scene in question occurred on an alternate timeline. I’m not exactly what you mean by horrible, but I liked it a lot. It wasn’t supposed to be historically accurate. ---
**Author:** ![Q.N.Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/3da27b/32.png) [@Q.N.Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.N.Jones)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2006, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-walked-out-of-movie-ever/357971/115 "2006-05-25T08:23:59Z")
When I saw **Bad Santa** , the theater was packed when the movie started. By the midpoint, half the moviegoers had walked out. **South Park** had a lot of walkouts. I went with my mom (librarian type in a tweedy sweater) and my little sister, who was underage and looks even younger than her years. They were both laughing uproariously, and a lot of the people leaving glared at her on the way out for her apparent moral turpitude. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2006, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-walked-out-of-movie-ever/357971/116 "2006-05-25T10:35:16Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > I think I’d have walked out on that one, if I’d been to see it at the cinema; it was on TV the other day and I stayed up late to watch it, keeping on waiting, thinking that _something_ was about to happen to tie the whole thing together into a coherent whole, then the end titles went up, but I was still waiting. > > It could be summed up as: > 1: Tom goes somewhere and does something > 2: Tom goes somewhere else and does something else > 3: repeat from 2 > > Then again, maybe I’d have sat there to the end in the cinema, stupidly waiting for the story to start. That’s EXACTLY how we felt! When the hell was it going to come together? By the time they got to the weird party with all the naked people and statues, we were completely lost (though at least there was a sense of _artsy_ in that scene). And I didn’t believe for one second that there was any heat between those two. Evah. ---
**Author:** ![Engineer\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9fc29f/32.png) [@Engineer\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Engineer_Dude)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2006, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-walked-out-of-movie-ever/357971/117 "2006-05-25T12:28:43Z")
If I had seen _Freddy Got Fingered_ in the theaters instead of on video, I probably would’ve walked out of that. That movie did irreversible psychological damage [shudders]. ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2006, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-walked-out-of-movie-ever/357971/118 "2006-05-25T15:32:47Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > It could be summed up as: > 1: Tom goes somewhere and does something > 2: Tom goes somewhere else and does something else > 3: repeat from 2. I can sum it up shorter than that: “Manhattan doctor flees troubles with the wife and accidentally stumbles across sex magic cult. Nothing much comes of it.” I actually like the first half of **Eyes Wide Shut** , but the wheels come off the wagon after the orgy scene. At least in the first half you get to see Kidman acting circles around Cruise. In her underwear. That was worth the price of admission for me. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2006, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-walked-out-of-movie-ever/357971/119 "2006-05-25T16:01:04Z")
> [@vibrotronica](#): > > I can sum it up shorter than that: > > “Manhattan doctor flees troubles with the wife and accidentally stumbles across sex magic cult. Nothing much comes of it.” > > I actually like the first half of **Eyes Wide Shut** , but the wheels come off the wagon after the orgy scene. At least in the first half you get to see Kidman acting circles around Cruise. In her underwear. That was worth the price of admission for me. I’m a straight chick and she kinda turned ME on. If there were awards for Underwear Scenes, she would easily take first place. ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2006, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-walked-out-of-movie-ever/357971/120 "2006-05-25T16:05:45Z")
The first movie that came to my mind when I saw this thread was “Saving Private Ryan”. As I recall, there were news reports about large numbers of people walking out during the D-Day sequence. In fact, when I went to see it, half of the row in front of me walked out. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-walked-out-of-movie-ever/357971.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-walked-out-of-movie-ever/357971.md?page=7)