Some of you have listed movies that I actually enjoyed, but I guess that’s to be expected. Many more terrible movies have been mentioned though.
No one has mentioned the only movie I ever walked out of: Lost in Space. I think I left when they crashed on some ice planet or something. I’ve seen bad movies, but this was bad. I wish I had walked out of The Lost World: Jurassic Park, but I with with other people (who also hated it, I found out when it was over). I thought about staying away from “Lost” movies, but I ended up really liking Lost in Translation. Come to think of it I also liked Lost Boys.
Wow, I was sure I would be the only one that listed this one! Those goddam huge headshots freaked me out - why do we need closeups that only show half of a pore-exposing face? Plus there was some weekend dad there with his little kid, and it freaked us out to think of that poor little kid seeing that far-too-graphic child’s autopsy played out in glorious color.
I won passes to Blind Date, and was really glad I didn’t pat to get. We would’ve paid to get out, though! First glance into a surly, grouchy, bitchy Bruce Willis was not a pleasant experience.
The only movie I ever actually walked out of was Jacob’s Ladder. Many people have told me since that if I tried to watch it again, I’d probably enjoy it. I don’t doubt them, but I also don’t want to try.
I fell asleep at a midnight premiere of Fellowship of the Ring, not because I was bored, but because I was exhausted. I also fell asleep during Dragonheart, and drooled all over my boyfriend. He was quite gracious about it, actually.
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 occasionally write movie reviews for an online magazine, and some of the movies I’ve had to see have been unfortunate. I never would have seen Signs in the first place, given my feeling about Unbreakable. The Ring probably would have lost me about halfway through. And I actually contemplated slitting my wrists with my ticket stub during Daredevil.
My wife and I walked out of “Dirty Duck” (the Flo and Eddie movie, not the one iwth Lea Thompson) because it was obviously the drugs talking, not the filmmakers
Our whole party of six walked out of Solaris (the original Russian version) because it was so fucking dull.
I’ve walked out of a number of movies, but the only one I can think of at the moment is Jurrassic Park. I got fed up with this supposedly big time, well-thought out and researched film, where I could see at least one way for the foolproof plan to keep the critters from breeding to fail. And I’m not even a biologist.
I have also stayed at a number of movies that I didn’t actually whether I watched them or not - I used to go to movies for the A/C.
I don’t think I’ve never walked out on a movie (pay way too much in NYC to do that. I should have walked out on several, including Saving Private Ryan, and the complete tripe that was Win a Date with Tad Hamilton.
I nearly fell asleep in Master And Commander, so I walked out. I guess I am more of a comedy fan.
As a Jack Black said at the Oscars “Booooring! Catherine Zeta Jones is Snooring!!”
I cannot wait to see the new Jack film this spring. I think Envy is going to be hilarious! Anyone else??
One of the Robocops… either 2 or 3. I was bored and wanted to work on seducing the ticket guy. The two people I went with were not amused. I’ve shut off several rentals, including Druids (the recent one with Christopher Lambert).
My dad fell asleep during Dragonslayer… it was hell on a still-quite-young-me waking him up at the end (he’s a very sound sleeper).
Same exact thing for me. I just went ahead and fell asleep instead.
The only movie I ever walked out of was Dune My god what a snorefest that was. I guess I would have like it better if I had read the book, but that put me to sleep too.
I walked out of the movie “Tomcats” after 5 minutes… Just enough to hear about their plan to pour viagra in a wedding punch… Aaaaaah! Unfortunately, tickets were not refundable (I could have had my weight in M&M’s for that).
Watching “I still know what you did last summer” was painful too, although not as much as “the beast”, a would-be horror movie with a giant rubber octopus which has leakage problems and hates bearded men. Humph.
The Coneheads–I didn’t even want to go see it, but had an argument with my husband and was in an absolutely vile mood. It was the only thing starting at the time I arrived at the movies. I made it about 15-20 minutes before leaving.
Wind–at least, I think that’s what it’s called. It was this weird surrealistic movie about some kind of sailing competition and exes and new loves getting together all over the place. I don’t recall. I just remember about an hour into the movie, my husband and I looked at each other and read the “please let me out of here” signs.
Lost in Space–I loved the TV show. The less we say about the movie, by far the better.
There were a few others–Willow (too bloody), Clear and Present Danger (I just wasn’t getting into it, although my husband stayed through the movie and enjoyed it
The first movie I ever walked out of was Bambi. I was 5 and got very traumatized by the violent death of Bambi’s mom. And yeah, I was a kind of a chicken as a kid. Obviously.
Well, since Izzybella is carrying it back to our childhood, I must here hang my head and shamefacedly confess that I walked out of Snow White when I was a little girl. Actually, “walked out” is probably way too mild. If I recall correctly, I ran crying out. It was the part where Snow White has fled from the hunter who was supposed to kill her, and all the eyes are looking at her from the dark forest.
I walked out on Goodfellas with only like 20 minutes left. By that time we (my girlfriend of the time) relized that it didn’t matter how it ended, it was that dull.
