# What movies have you actually walked out of? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 15, 2014, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-actually-walked-out-of/678900 "2014-01-15T19:39:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-actually-walked-out-of/678900/41 "2014-01-15T22:28:27Z")
I don’t go to too many movies, so I don’t have a chance to walk out of a theater. But I saw _ **Adventureland** _ on Netflix last weekend and it just made me so MAD. Like, I couldn’t get to sleep afterwards. And I almost cancelled my Netflix account. Had I been in a theater, I’d have walked out. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-actually-walked-out-of/678900/42 "2014-01-15T22:31:16Z")
I would have walked out of The Day After Tomorrow if I wasn’t there with friends, but then again I wouldn’t have walked IN to The Day After Tomorrow if I wasn’t there with friends. It looked like the worst movie ever made from the trailers, and surprise! it turned out to be slightly worse than that. ---
**Author:** ![stegon66](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@stegon66](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stegon66)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-actually-walked-out-of/678900/43 "2014-01-15T22:31:54Z")
Never walked out of a theatrical viewing but have shut down a few DVDs. Notable among them was _i am sam_ which nearly caused me to vomit. ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-actually-walked-out-of/678900/44 "2014-01-15T22:36:10Z")
> [@Bellhorn](#): > > **The Lord of the Rings** (2001) > In college I couldn’t get through the first 20 pages. In the theater, I couldn’t last even that long. Huh - I first read the whole LOTR trilogy when I was ten years old (which was a bit of a slog at times at that age), and at least three more times thereafter before I finished high school. As for the first movie, Not only did I watch it all the way through, but came back the next night to watch it again! Anyway, one movie I did walk out on was _ **Highlander II: The Quickening** _. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-actually-walked-out-of/678900/45 "2014-01-15T22:36:34Z")
The only movie (at a theater) I/we ever walked out of was in 1985 or 1986 at a duplex that was showing _Emerald Forest_ with Powers Boothe and some others I have since forgotten and won’t bother looking up. The kid was a Tommy and after he ran away to join some Amazon Indians he became “To-May” or something like that . That did it. We quietly and stealthily went next door and got in before _Silverado_ had started and enjoyed the whole thing. I have yet to have the curiosity to see what we missed in _Emerald Forest_. As for movies at home, I have bailed on many a movie in five minutes or less. And I have Netflix streaming things that I quit on in less time than that. But that’s one of the main reasons I stay away from theaters. ---
**Author:** ![TheBoltEater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@TheBoltEater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheBoltEater)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-actually-walked-out-of/678900/46 "2014-01-15T22:43:46Z")
Just one - _Sarafina!_, starring Whoopi Goldberg. My girlfriend wanted to see it, but somehow neither of us knew it was a musical… and holy cow, it was just like watching the first episode of _Cop Rock_. After about 10 minutes she turned to me and said, “I’m sorry, let’s just go.” And we did. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-actually-walked-out-of/678900/47 "2014-01-15T22:43:53Z")
A couple years ago we went to see **Bridesmaids** but due to some mix up on our part we missed it and had to wait 90 minutes for the next one. I suggested **Thor** ; Mrs. Morbo suggested **Atlas Shrugged: Part 1**. We were both not too enthused but we went to see Atlas Shrugged. After 30 minutes of exchanging horrified looks with one another she started laughing, then whispered “Let’s go.” ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-actually-walked-out-of/678900/48 "2014-01-15T23:12:04Z")
[quote=“Lowdown, post:36, topic:678900”] Star Trek V: The Final Frontier It was so, so bad. My mom took me. First and only movie I’ve ever walked out on. [/QUOTE Wow, it’s bad, but it isn’t that bad, is it? I mean, some of the individual scenes are nice enough. I do understand on some level, but as a Star Trek movie, I think I’d stay just to see what happens. > [@stegon66](#): > > Never walked out of a theatrical viewing but have shut down a few DVDs. Notable among them was _i am sam_ which nearly caused me to vomit. I also do not quit too often on DVD’s. I did quit on Love, Actually though. Wow, that was a horrible experience. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-actually-walked-out-of/678900/49 "2014-01-15T23:17:49Z")
_Tommy_ I was 17 and just didn’t get it. Too weird for me. I can’t recall every walking out again. Movie rentals are different. I often start a movie and lose interest. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-actually-walked-out-of/678900/50 "2014-01-15T23:25:25Z")
I’ve never walked out of a theater, but I’ve given up on some DVDs (too forgettable to mention). The only movie I’ve literally walked out on was _La Strada_, during a college film history course. It was pretty awful, and the professor had already left; it was a road I did not want to continue upon. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-actually-walked-out-of/678900/51 "2014-01-15T23:28:50Z")
_Les Miserables_, but only because my wife was having a severe gastrointestinal crisis. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-actually-walked-out-of/678900/52 "2014-01-15T23:32:47Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > The only movie (at a theater) I/we ever walked out of was in 1985 or 1986 at a duplex that was showing _Emerald Forest_ with Powers Boothe and some others I have since forgotten and won’t bother looking up. The kid was a Tommy and after he ran away to join some Amazon Indians he became “To-May” or something like that . That did it. I’d have to dig around for the specifics, but Robert Benchley was once in the audience of a horrendous play, and whispered to his companion that one more instance of pidgin English was going to send him to the doors. A few moments later, a character announced, “Me Too-Mak. Me good Indian. Me stay.” Benchley stood up, announced, “Me Bobby. Me bad Indian. Me go.” And left. ---
**Author:** ![Bellhorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@Bellhorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bellhorn)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-actually-walked-out-of/678900/53 "2014-01-15T23:36:13Z")
> [@robby](#): > > Huh - I first read the whole LOTR trilogy when I was ten years old (which was a bit of a slog at times at that age), and at least three more times thereafter before I finished high school. As for the first movie, Not only did I watch it all the way through, but came back the next night to watch it again! > …\*\*\*. As George Costanza used to say, “It’s me, not you.” I never, ever could deal fantasy fiction or sci-fi, either. ---
**Author:** ![AndrewL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@AndrewL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AndrewL)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-actually-walked-out-of/678900/54 "2014-01-15T23:55:33Z")
I watched the **Speed Racer** movie at home, so I can’t say I walked out, but I did shut it off in disgust halfway through. I would have walked out of **The Dark Knight Rises** had I been watching it by myself, but I was at the theater with my wife and didn’t want to just up and leave while she was still watching. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-actually-walked-out-of/678900/55 "2014-01-16T01:28:28Z")
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea, when the boys started in on the cat. Theo because it was boring as hell. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-actually-walked-out-of/678900/56 "2014-01-16T01:51:30Z")
Walked Out of some long, tedious thing with Robert Redford and Meryl Streep. They gave us an intermission, we used it to great effect, because bed is a much better place to sleep than a theater. Later, I walked out on a Polish movie I cannot remember the name of, but it had something to do with a girl and a violin. It was actually probably an OK movie, but it had been paired with _High Heels_ by Almodóvar, which I saw first: _High Heels_ was bright, lively, lots of primary-ish colours, while the Polish movie seemed like a dim, drab downer. ---
**Author:** ![diggerwam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/919ad9/32.png) [@diggerwam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diggerwam)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-actually-walked-out-of/678900/57 "2014-01-16T01:54:31Z")
I walked out of Elf because I was literally falling asleep. Not a bad movie, but I must not have been sleeping because my wife was out of town. ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-actually-walked-out-of/678900/58 "2014-01-16T01:55:53Z")
I walked out of _Jason X_, insofar as I could. I was with friends, one of whom paid for it. (I wouldn’t have went to it otherwise.) So I couldn’t completely leave, but I did walk out several times to smoke a cigarette and get away from the horrible stupidity. I would have done the same during either _Jurassic Park 2_, or maybe 3, but I wasn’t smoking at the time. 😜 ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-actually-walked-out-of/678900/59 "2014-01-16T02:40:06Z")
Wanted to walk out of _Cool World_ but didn’t. I have never walked out of a theatre, but in have left the room twice when my hubby was watching Judge Dredd (the newer one). ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-actually-walked-out-of/678900/60 "2014-01-16T02:43:29Z")
Two: _The Hunger_: It wasn’t exactly a theater, but a college film-night screening in an auditorium. Too gory for me. _Poltergeist 3_: Loved 1. Not sure I ever saw 2. But 3 was just stupid and gory and…yeah. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-actually-walked-out-of/678900.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-actually-walked-out-of/678900.md?page=4)