I’ve only ever walked out of one movie: Swing Kids. This wasn’t in a cinema, though, it was at this film club and they were supposed to show another movie that night but something went wrong. I don’t remember what movie I was supposed to see, just that Swing Kids definitely wasn’t it.
Just to note- Alex’s gang’s home invasion of the writer & his wife did not have the HPC. The HPC (“a very important work of art!”) is used when they go in to rob the Exercising Cat Lady.
And I think you are totally correct in your analysis of ACO.
I’d read Clockwork Orange and thus wanted to watch it when a group of us got together at a friend’s place about 20 years ago. It was when he slapped her - I still remember this - it was the way he slapped her, as if she was less than human, that made me leave the room. It truly made me sick.
Jaws and The Exorcist were reputed to have a lot of walkouts.
The only movie I’ve walked out of was the first Star Trek - I was so bored, I went out to the lobby to play video games while I waited for my ride.
I hope you mean Star Trek V.
But when that bird flies in front of the camera you never heard such cheering in your life.
Me too, my girlfriend and I decided to go see the rest of Moonraker, out of the frying pan…
But that doesn’t even happen. Billy’s gang drags the girl up onto the stage and gets her clothes off, but Alex’s gang interrupts before things can go any further.
I walked out on this one. I don’t think I made it to the Hellen Mirren sex scenes.
Had to leave the Blair Witch Project because the jerky camerawork made me feel carsick :o
Came v. close to leaving The Royal Tenenbaums - read a load of reviews which said it was “comedy of the year” but in reality it was a boring dire waste of 2hrs.
I left Dante’s Peak. What a waste of time!
I saw Reservoir Dogs in New York when it first came out and the audience was particularly lively, especially during the
ear-cutting scene. One guy shouted at the screen “What’s your point?” and several people were gagging. A number of people dashed for the exits. Probably the strongest reaction to a film scene I’ve ever seen in a cinema.
I walked out of Hollow Man.
I don’t really care about blood, violence and gore in movies (although some of the movies mentioned here certainly tested my limits), but this one was just so mind-blowingly awful I couldn’t stand wasting any more of my time in there.
A few months later, it was on HBO, and I tried to watch it again, but had the same reaction.
Heh. Today; this very morning I sat opposite someone in an office; she was on the phone; her side of the conversation went something like this:
Sorry, say again?
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The AristoCRATS?
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Don’t you mean The AristoCATS?
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Yeah, but…
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I’ve never heard of that. What the hell is an aristoCRAT?
(at this point, I had to leave to avoid laughing)
The only reason I didn’t walk out of The Triplets of Belleville and The Skeleton Key was that there was nothing else to do while waiting for my ride.
I actually liked The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover. I saw it in the theater, and even bought the soundtrack on CD. 
The only movie I ever walked out on was Highlander II: The [del]Sickening[/del] Quickening.
This one intrigued me enough to skim through the IMDb comments about it. Whether it’s “most walked out on”, who knows, but it may well qualify as “inspiring the most contempt toward the walker-outers as puritans, philistines, simpletons and ninnies.”
My favorite comments were along the lines of, “Some may not care for this film because it makes you think.” Of course, no one said what it made them think about.
:smack: Empty link.
IMDb reviews of The Cook
Bwahahaha! I’ve definitely run into my fair share of Aristocrats/Aristocats confusion, but the idea of someone for whom the actual word “Aristocats” carries meaning while “Aristocrats” is just some kinda weird mispronunciation absolutely slays me.
It’s interesting to see all the other reactions to A Clockwork Orange, since to this day I’m still not sure why it made me so uncomfortable. But after that grotesque opening, the rest of the movie proved that it was a perfect setup to deliver such a powerful message and thus artistically well worth it. Even if personally I wanted to either crawl under my seat or run screaming from the theater. To this day it’s still on my list of favorite movies, even though I’m not all that anxious to see it again.
I’ve no stats for the Op either, but I do have to say that personally, out of sheer revulsion, I walked out of “Jackass–The Movie” at the “snowcone” scene. It made me convulsively gag (the closest I have ever been to “throwing up a little bit in my mouth”), and I get nauseous just thinking about it after all this time. WHY I waited so long to leave (the snowcone scene is actually near the end of the movie, if I recall correctly) when so many of the segments of that movie disturbed and nauseated me is beyond me, except I had taken my teenage sons and I wanted to prove to them that I could stomach it. Apparently I could not.
A Clockwork Orange is one of my favorite movies of all time. I too found the juxtaposition between L’il Alex’s cheerfully ultraviolent acts and the extreme terror of his victims to be disturbing, but not at all gratuitous. Had the acts not been extreme, the punishment would have seemed even more horrible than it was—I don’t think we were meant to completely sympathize with Alex’s plight , do you?
–Beck