# What movie(s) have you walked out on? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 11, 2004, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-s-have-you-walked-out-on/233803 "2004-03-11T23:45:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![corvidae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@corvidae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corvidae)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2004, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-s-have-you-walked-out-on/233803/121 "2004-03-15T03:01:33Z")
I didn’t walk out of **The English Patient** , but it was close. Man, I thought that crapfest would never end. ---
**Author:** ![Nightime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Nightime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightime)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2004, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-s-have-you-walked-out-on/233803/122 "2004-03-15T03:22:01Z")
> [@](#): > > Actually, there are a bunch of rentals I’ve stopped, but I can’t really remember them all. Except Buffalo 66. Woo, that was bad. “Look like you like me”. “Don’t touch me! We’re the couple that doesn’t touch one another.” Ah… I love that movie. I see very few movies in the theater, and I’ve never walked out. But I did fall asleep for most of The Two Towers the first time I saw it. Not because I didn’t like it, but because I was exhausted, and the only reason I wasn’t at home sleeping was because I wanted to see TTT as soon as it came out. ---
**Author:** ![i\_like\_bacon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@i\_like\_bacon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/i_like_bacon)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2004, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-s-have-you-walked-out-on/233803/123 "2004-03-15T03:51:12Z")
in 1983 i and my then boyfriend went to see \*\*“romantic comedy” \*\* starring dudley moore and mary steenburgen. this wasn’t long after “arthur” and it seemed like an excellent date movie. ewwwww stinko! ---
**Author:** ![sinjin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@sinjin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sinjin)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-s-have-you-walked-out-on/233803/124 "2004-03-17T01:09:13Z")
Tenebras: hehehe, hope you weren’t twisted for life. Love Mommy 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-s-have-you-walked-out-on/233803/125 "2004-03-17T14:33:45Z")
Walked out of **ET.** Slept through almost the entirety of **What Lies Beneath.** Mightily wish that I had walked out of **Metalstorm 3-D: The Destruction of Jared Syn.** ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-s-have-you-walked-out-on/233803/126 "2004-03-17T14:50:25Z")
> [@Jman](#): > > Cadfael…did you once post on the TTLG forums, by any chance? Anyway, the only movie I’ve ever walked out of was: _Home Fries_, which was the most rediculous crap I’ve ever seen. > > What surprises me is how many truly excellent movies you have all walked out on, which shocks me, especially for some of the reasons…and so early. Makes me wonder what kind of crap you truly like (not all of you, just some). > > Jman **Jman** , did you read the thread I linked to? Yes, I walked out of _Return of the King_…well, technically, I staggered out. A week later, when I was feeling better, I went back and saw the whole thing… ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-s-have-you-walked-out-on/233803/127 "2004-03-17T16:18:15Z")
I can’t believe it was halfway through the third page of this thread before someone mentioned “Monty Python’s Meaning of Life”. I distinctly remember seeing that movie in the theater, my friends and I laughing so hard we could hardly breathe when Mr Creosote started in with the projectile vomiting… meanwhile about half a dozen people got up at that moment and started walking out. The only movie that I have ever even come close to walking out of was “Punchline” with Tom Hanks and Sally Field. A friend of mine took me to see it for my birthday and she could not stop apologizing afterwards. The only reason I didn’t get up and leave was because I kept thinking it was so bad that it could only get better, but it never did. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-s-have-you-walked-out-on/233803/128 "2004-03-17T16:38:42Z")
Well, we didn’t exactly walk out, because we rented “Gangs of New York”. We tried three separate times to get through that movie, but couldn’t do it. I think it was all the horrendous plaid that those guys were forced to wear. I’d have killed myself on that issue alone. We actually did walk out of “Eyes Wide Shut.” I thought the sexual content was great, but the movie just bored the hell out of me. I’m mean snoring in the aisles! ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-s-have-you-walked-out-on/233803/129 "2004-03-17T17:05:39Z")
> [@delphica](#): > > The only movie I in fact walked out of was **The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover**. I walked out of this one, too, although we were watching it on video. My first relationship, in high school, was with a girl whose parents were violent religious nutjobs, and we spent that relationship sneaking around in very real terror of what they might do if we got caught. A movie that hinges around that terror and turns it into something baroque and horrific was just too much for me to take. The only theater movie I remember walking out of was [Wax, or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105791/), quite possibly the boringest movie ever made. Don’t believe me? It’s a surreal movie without a word of dialogue in it, narrated by a guy who speaks in a complete monotone through the whole thing. Very arty, very horrible. Finally I got up and left. Fortunately, a couple years later I took a college course taught by a pretentiously pomo prof, and guess what film she screened for us? Joy. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-s-have-you-walked-out-on/233803/130 "2004-03-17T17:15:25Z")
I’ll stay for a crappy film just for the “what were they thinking” value, but I am tempted to leave when I get offended/indignant: Brotherhood of the Wolf: sit through two hours of ridiculous monster story and come to find out it was all an arch-conservative Catholic plot. Oh, those evil papists! Vanilla Sky: sit through all that drama and come to find out it was all just a simulation. AI: Just offended by the manipulation Spielberg is famous for. (As soon as Amistad started (opening credits only), the music was enough to make me wonder why I was there, I can’t stand Spielberg!) ---
**Author:** ![JerH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bb73d2/32.png) [@JerH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JerH)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-s-have-you-walked-out-on/233803/131 "2004-03-17T17:16:56Z")
I walked out of _Waking Life_, and my girlfriend thinks I’m weird because I refuse to see another Richard Linklater movie until he issues a formal apology for that one. I would have walked out of _The Blair Witch Project_ and _Phenomenon_, but I’d driven people to the theater and didn’t want to leave them rideless. As it was, I just tried to fall asleep until the horror was over. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-s-have-you-walked-out-on/233803/132 "2004-03-17T17:28:17Z")
I’ve never walked out of a movie, but then again I don’t go see very many in the first place. I know what performers I like, I know the types of movies I enjoy, and I know what directors I think make good films. I don’t generally look at the movie listings and say, “Wow, Keanu Reeves is in another “Matrix” remake, this time directed by \, I think I’ll go see it.” ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-s-have-you-walked-out-on/233803/133 "2004-03-17T17:32:44Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > Brotherhood of the Wolf Oh, crappy movie, no doubt – but it was worth it just to be able to shout at the critical moment, “I’m just a sweet transvestite…” Daniel [sub]okay, I didn’t shout it, but it did bust a gut laughing[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![MeanJoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanjoe/32/5693_2.png) [@MeanJoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanJoe)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-s-have-you-walked-out-on/233803/134 "2004-03-17T18:06:10Z")
Funny story… When my mother and I moved to Ohio, we lived with a fundamentalist Christian family for a brief period of time. One day while looking through the newspaper, we saw an advertisement for a Special Sneak Preview of a new movie coming out called E.T. Oooh, said they. As a part of the “special” if you bought your ticket to the showing of E.T., you got to stay and see… Conan the Barbarian… for free. Oooh, said I. What a combination, huh? Anyway, my mother, the couple (husband and wife - very fundamentalist) and I went to see the movie(s). E.T. was great, everyone was happy as clams. By the time of the Conan/witch sex scene (which I enjoyed very much) I was being dragged out of the theater by the previously mentioned fundamentalists who were just outraged. Heh, to my mom’s credit she thought they were nuts too for leaving but what are you going to do? The only other movie that I walked out of was **Star Wars: Episode II**. Both my wife and I kept nodding off through the first 45 minutes and finally just got up and left - that movie was SOOOO bad. I suffered through, and wish I’d have left, Brotherhood of the Wolf and The Thin Red Line. I kept telling myself throughout both movies that if I stay, I will be rewarded by at least ONE good scene or an ending that made all the suffering worth it. Nah, didn’t happen. MeanJoe ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/45deac/32.png) [@Evil\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_One)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-s-have-you-walked-out-on/233803/135 "2004-03-17T18:39:13Z")
Summer of Sam sucked. ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-s-have-you-walked-out-on/233803/136 "2004-03-17T20:04:48Z")
Only walked out of a theater once: “The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover”. Following weeks of high art blather about how important this film was, and how dare they force them to release it unrated, blah, blah, blah, my date and I realized it was just so much self-important bullshit. fell asleep to any number of movies on TV or video, ususally because I was tired. I have never made it through a screenor stage version of the musical “Camelot”. My family and I watched the first of two tapes of the director’s cut of “Heaven’s Gate”. Not oneof the five of us could bring ourselves to put the second tape in. Only time I recall falling asleep in a movie theater was “Tea with Mussolini”. My wife and mother-in-law still talk about it. WISH I had walked out on “Poison Ivy”. One audience (not mine) noticed a local TV station’s film reviewer amongst them, one who tended to overpraise dreck. She announced tha they cornered her after the showing and told her it was her civic duty to warn people away. ---
**Author:** ![FluffyPlague](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/958977/32.png) [@FluffyPlague](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FluffyPlague)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2004, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-s-have-you-walked-out-on/233803/137 "2004-03-18T00:43:50Z")
The second Warlock movie. In the first 10 or 20 minutes, there were not one but TWO violent scenes involving pregnant women. Being that I myself was about 6 months pregnant, I was completely disgusted and left. My then-husband insisted on getting the whopping $1.50 he’d paid for each of our admissions and refused to leave with me, so I sat in the lobby for the next hour and a half. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2004, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-s-have-you-walked-out-on/233803/138 "2004-03-18T01:53:17Z")
_Free Willy_. Twice. I even paid a second time to at least give it another chance. Nope. Nada. Nein. Didn’t even risk FWII. _Andre the Seal_. Actually made _Free Willy_ look good. ---
**Author:** ![diku](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4af34b/32.png) [@diku](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diku)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2004, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-s-have-you-walked-out-on/233803/139 "2004-03-18T16:16:55Z")
Ex-girlfriend and I walked out of **Feardotcom** after about 30 minutes. She looked at me, and I said let’s go, leaving a couple of our friends. They have since regretted staying for the rest of it. I also walked out of **The Object of Beauty** , but it was a free preview, so I don’t know if it counts. I just realized that I didn’t care what happened to anyone in the movie, so there was no drama. I split. ---
**Author:** ![susan\_foster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@susan\_foster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan_foster)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2004, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-s-have-you-walked-out-on/233803/140 "2004-03-18T16:21:53Z")
> [@Draelin](#): > > I wish with all my heart I had been able to walk out of _Unbreakable_, but it was cold out, there were no video games in the lobby, and I didn’t drive there. I had Unbreakable on DVD from Netflix. Couldn’t get through it - the first scene freaked me out too much - I have a weak stomach. Almost passed out once in middle school from hearing a broken bone being described - and this reminded me of that. Susan [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-s-have-you-walked-out-on/233803.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-s-have-you-walked-out-on/233803.md?page=8)