# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![NailBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecae2f/32.png) [@NailBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NailBunny)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2006, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-walked-out-of-movie-ever/357971/121 "2006-05-25T16:41:09Z")
> [@jackelope](#): > > You sat through the execrable, rotten-to-its-soul _Very Bad Things_, but couldn’t take the essentially good-natured _Pink Flamingoes_? _Thank_ you! Gods I hate that movie! I didn’t walk out of it, but I should have. Me and the other two people who saw it with me just sat around ranting furiously about how awful it was for hours afterwards. The only movie I’ve ever walked out of was _Congo_. I didn’t notice a lot of other people leaving, but they really, really should have. Now movies I’ve turned off because they were so godawful? I got tons! ---
**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 25, 2006, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-walked-out-of-movie-ever/357971/122 "2006-05-25T17:14:17Z")
> [@ambushed](#): > > What does the phrase “slash pairing” mean? What are you referring to? (I didn’t see the movie). > > 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’ll do both. “slash” fiction is a fan fiction term used to inform potential readers that this story is about “x” getting it on with “y”. It comes from Trek fanfiction originally. A story titled “Transporter Malfunction” doesn’t tell you who is in it and who they will be doing. So the title would be “Transporter Malfunction Kirk/McCoy”. So if you really wanted to read how some bored hausfrau would write a gay sex scene between those particular characters you could look for Kirk and McCoy SLASH fiction. Second question. in the movie and the book (I assume i haven’t read it.), Jesus opts out of divinity and is allowed to lead a humdrum life with Mary M. But the legend of Jesus still exists. Paul comes to the town in which non-God Jesus lives and tells stories about how Jesus was resurrected… Jesus confronts him for telling lies. Paul gives the whole “It don’t matter to me. People need something to believe in regardless if it is true” line. If memory serves this prompts Jesus to beg God into letting him go back and die on the cross and accept divinity. ---
**Author:** ![Amok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f17d59/32.png) [@Amok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amok)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2006, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-walked-out-of-movie-ever/357971/123 "2006-05-25T17:23:46Z")
> [@jackelope](#): > > You sat through the execrable, rotten-to-its-soul _Very Bad Things_, but couldn’t take the essentially good-natured _Pink Flamingoes_? Actually, it wasn’t _Very Bad Things_ we saw. I got the titles confused when I was thinking back. We saw some horror movie, based upon a Stephen King book, I think. Hmm… (checks [imdb.com](http://imdb.com)). OK, it was _Needful Things_. Which sucked, and I barely remember it, but it was pretty standard horror movie fare. It was basically what we were expecting to see, only not as good. But as for _Pink Flamingoes_, we were a pair of 18 year old guys, and all we knew about it was that it was rated NC-17. Neither of us had ever heard of it before. So you can imagine what we were thinking. Instead we got Divine, and the chicken fucking scene, and whatever else was in the beginning… Wasn’t there a dude in a diaper? I don’t remember it so well either. But anyway, it was pretty gross, and not really something we were interested in seeing, so we left. ---
**Author:** ![RogueRacer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7ab992/32.png) [@RogueRacer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RogueRacer)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2006, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-walked-out-of-movie-ever/357971/124 "2006-05-25T17:41:51Z")
The ticket person asked us if we were sure when we asked for tickets to _Open Water_. She went on to tell us that it was having an extremely high number of walk outs. We didn’t walk out, but I didn’t find it to be all that good (other than the very gratuitous nude scene). This is a movie that still has a 73% rating at Rotten Tomatoes. I take this as more anecdotal evidence that movie reviewers are a different species. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-walked-out-of-movie-ever/357971/125 "2006-05-26T00:30:10Z")
> [@DxZero](#): > > And I never quite could understand why people would walk out of a movie, especially nowadays when with reviews and the internet, you can get a sense of what a movie is going to be like. I second that! I’ve never voluntarily walked out of a movie (My ride home walked out of “Perfect” so I was obliged to follow. Not counting some popular movies that people walked out of 5 minutes early to avoid the rush, the only movie I’ve been to with noticable walk outs was Fahrenheit 911. Surely these people must have known what kind of movie they were walking into. (That goes double for Pulp Fiction!). Although I guess its possible to grossly misjudge a movie. My Mom took me to see Alien when I was a little kid, thinking it was going to be like E.T. She “watched” the entire movie with her hand over her face. I took it all in stride. ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-walked-out-of-movie-ever/357971/126 "2006-05-26T02:49:51Z")
I’m probably forgetting a couple, but I remember walking out on: _All That Jazz Au Hasard Balthasar The Return of the King Broken Flowers_ ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-walked-out-of-movie-ever/357971/127 "2006-05-26T05:27:34Z")
> [@BobT](#): > > People got upset at the scene where Uma Thurman gets an injection in the chest? But they didn’t get as upset as John Travolta accidentally blowing a guy’s brains all over the back seat and window of a car? We had a similar problem at the theatre I worked at in NYC, but slightly different. No mass walkouts, but for the first few weeks, during the sold out shows, everytime right after that scene, someone would walkout to the lobby and faint. All and all we had about 20 -25 faintings during the run. Natural Born Killers had some walkouts. In my expierence, Fantasia has a fair number of walkouts. “When do they talk? It’s just music?!?!” Of course the place a movie plays could affect this. What people walk out of in Arkansas is different from what people walk out of in L.A. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-walked-out-of-movie-ever/357971/128 "2006-05-26T05:35:26Z")
Oh and something I forgot. When I saw the remake of House of Wax, quite a few people walked out after Paris Hilton died. They came to see her die a horrible death and after that, they left. I imagine that went on in quite a few theatres. ---
**Author:** ![Tamryne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3e96dc/32.png) [@Tamryne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamryne)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-walked-out-of-movie-ever/357971/129 "2006-05-26T14:04:03Z")
Only movie Ive ever walked out of was _Kung Pow_. I was with a huge group of friends going to see something else, but they met up with another huge group of friends going to see this. I lasted until the old woman threw the baby down the hill, then insisted on a refund from the manager and bought ice cream while I waited for everyone else to finish the movie. All in all, less than a quarter of our group (almost 50 people, if your curious) stayed for the whole thing. God awful movie. ---
**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 26, 2006, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-walked-out-of-movie-ever/357971/130 "2006-05-26T17:54:55Z")
> [@Push You Down](#): > > Yeah… I heard that story related probably even before 28 Days Later was released stateside. It was probably a Leno joke. I kinda thought that that friend was full of shit. And now I have confirmation from the internet! ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-walked-out-of-movie-ever/357971/131 "2006-05-26T20:06:31Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I’m surprised no one has mentioned 2001: A Space Odyssey. > > Fantastic movie, but I can see some people back in 1968 leaving during the opening with the apes. Back in 1968, I read everything I could about 2001, and I don’t remember anything about people walking out. Not understanding, yes, walking out, no. Certainly no one did in the showings I went to. We were more civilized back then, perhaps. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-walked-out-of-movie-ever/357971/132 "2006-05-26T20:18:26Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > Oh and something I forgot. > > When I saw the remake of House of Wax, quite a few people walked out after Paris Hilton died. They came to see her die a horrible death and after that, they left. I imagine that went on in quite a few theatres. That was the only scene worth watching. In fact, was the only reason I agreed to even see the movie. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![rowe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e68b1a/32.png) [@rowe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowe)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-walked-out-of-movie-ever/357971/133 "2006-05-26T20:22:25Z")
My wife & I walked out of _Dreamcatcher_ during the scene where one character literally craps out an alien. It was a bit too much for her to handle. I hadn’t read the book so I didn’t know what to expect going in. A few other people left during the earlier explosive farting bits too. I don’t remember all the gory details though. ---
**Author:** ![5que](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/3bc359/32.png) [@5que](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5que)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-walked-out-of-movie-ever/357971/134 "2006-05-26T20:56:28Z")
(Kids, go ask grandpa about this movie if you’ve never heard of it) The only movie I ever walked out of was [What do You Say to a Naked Lady](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066559/) (circa 1970). I was disappointed that you couldn’t see “enough” of the naked lady. But I walked out when Allen Funt was interviewing the prostitute and she talked about how she liked to get beat up. Too much for me, even with naked ladies potentially in later reels. ---
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-walked-out-of-movie-ever/357971/135 "2006-05-26T22:28:46Z")
> [@ambushed](#): > > One thing that has disturbed me somewhat upon reading this thread is the large number of people who proclaim – quite proudly it seems to me – that they have a “no walkout policy”. What the Holy Jumping Fuck??? If someone starts shooting at you, do you have a “no ducking policy”, too? What, are you masochists or something? **Get up off your ass and get your money back!** Such feedback may well help ensure that fewer bad films are made. I find value and things to learn even from films I hate. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-walked-out-of-movie-ever/357971/136 "2006-05-26T22:48:41Z")
> [@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 can do better than that: “Tom Cruise can’t get laid.” ---
**Author:** ![bluetrust](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@bluetrust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluetrust)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-walked-out-of-movie-ever/357971/137 "2006-05-26T23:10:38Z")
> [@mobo85](#): > > Disney hasn’t re-released their old films to theaters for at least ten years. They re-release them briefly on VHS (now DVD), then place them on moratorium for a ten-year period. Well, that’s sort of right, and sort of not. For special occasions, Disney sometimes releases classic animated feature films on Imax (like [Beauty and the Beast](http://www.infoplease.com/movies/50351) a few years ago) and there’s also short runs of classics at the [El Capitan theatre](http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/el_capitan/) in Hollywood. Right now they’re playing Dumbo if I remember correctly. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-walked-out-of-movie-ever/357971/138 "2006-05-26T23:18:11Z")
My mind tells me I stayed for all of it, but logically, I must have walked out on _Return of the King_, because I never saw the Scouring of the Shire. ---
**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2006, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-walked-out-of-movie-ever/357971/139 "2006-05-27T00:48:29Z")
“Out of Africa.” It was sooooooooooooooooo looooooooooooooooong and boooooooooooooooooring ---
**Author:** ![ambushed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3bc359/32.png) [@ambushed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ambushed)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2006, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-walked-out-of-movie-ever/357971/140 "2006-05-27T01:30:57Z")
> [@even sven](#): > > I find value and things to learn even from films I hate. I can see that. I find value and things to learn when I get hit over the head with rocks, too. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-walked-out-of-movie-ever/357971.md?page=6)