# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-actually-walked-out-of/678900/141 "2014-01-18T16:38:45Z")
I’ve never walked out of a film. To show you how tolerant I am, when I was in college, there was a special screening of the Lily Tomlin film _[Collisions](http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/ntw-mla000239-collisions)_. Actually, only the first half of it. To say that this movie was a failure is doing a grave injustice to failures. It was _horrible_. So bad, that by the time the first half as over, I was the only person left in the auditorium. I kept thinking - _it has to get better…_ FWIW, it was so bad that it was never completed nor released. It doesn’t even have an entry in IMDB. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-actually-walked-out-of/678900/142 "2014-01-18T16:42:24Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > I’ve never walked out of a film. > > To show you how tolerant I am, when I was in college, there was a special screening of the Lily Tomlin film _[Collisions](http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/ntw-mla000239-collisions)_. Actually, only the first half of it. To say that this movie was a failure is doing a grave injustice to failures. It was _horrible_. So bad, that by the time the first half as over, I was the only person left in the auditorium. I kept thinking - _it has to get better…_ > > FWIW, it was so bad that it was never completed nor released. It doesn’t even have an entry in IMDB. Now THAT’S BAD. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2014, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-actually-walked-out-of/678900/143 "2014-01-19T06:50:26Z")
Like **Baker** , I don’t ever walk out of movies…I don’t think I ever would if I paid for it. If I paid for it, I’m going to get my money’s worth, no matter how big a pile of stinking, wasteful dreck the movie might be. However, if there was any movie that I would have walked out of had I not paid to see it (and had I not been alone instead of on a date), that would be the horrible, horrendous, rotten, terrible dungheap of a movie that is called _A.I. Artificial Intelligence_ I tend to like MOST movies I see, but that is one of the rare ones I loathe with a passion. Horrible movie. Just plain bad on so many levels. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2014, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-actually-walked-out-of/678900/144 "2014-01-19T13:28:47Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > Like **Baker** , I don’t ever walk out of movies…I don’t think I ever would if I paid for it. If I paid for it, I’m going to get my money’s worth, no matter how big a pile of stinking, wasteful dreck the movie might be. > > However, if there was any movie that I would have walked out of had I not paid to see it (and had I not been alone instead of on a date), that would be the horrible, horrendous, rotten, terrible dungheap of a movie that is called _A.I. Artificial Intelligence_ > > I tend to like MOST movies I see, but that is one of the rare ones I loathe with a passion. Horrible movie. Just plain bad on so many levels. I have never walked out of a movie in a theater. I do my homework and have a pretty good notion of whether I will like a film - or, at least be able to tolerate it - before blowing the cobwebs out of my wallet and plunking down the cash. I also rarely end a DVD-viewed movie before the credits roll. One notable exception: **A.I. Artificial Intelligence**. I watched about an hour of it and decided that I hate its guts. The only other movie I can think of that I cut short is **Punch Drunk Love**. Lock me in a room with these two movies playing and give me a sharp knife. There’s gonna be a big bio-hazard situation to clean up. mmm ---
**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 19, 2014, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-actually-walked-out-of/678900/145 "2014-01-19T23:16:12Z")
> [@Lust4Life](#): > > Highlander ii, all that stuff about him “forgetting” that he’d come from another planet, and "Wishing " for Sean Connery to come back, reminded me of a pantomime This thread is only for movies that exist. Seriously, though, can you believe that not only did they screw up that movie as bad as they did, but that it actually came from the same writer and director as the original? ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2014, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-actually-walked-out-of/678900/146 "2014-01-19T23:37:45Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Very rarely. At home, during college, I walked out of my roommates’ showing of **The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover** , because the Thief reminded me too much of my ex-girlfriend’s abusive father and I was getting freaked out. How funny, we saw that movie on a double date, and afterwards the other guy said that he didn’t like it because the Thief was too unrealistic in his behavior. Having actually lived around someone like that my teenage years I tried briefly to convince him otherwise, but there was really no point and I dropped it. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2014, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-actually-walked-out-of/678900/147 "2014-01-19T23:42:22Z")
**Misery** and the remake of **Cape Fear**. Both times it was more me, than the movie. The suspense was making me panicky and stressed and I just needed to leave. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2014, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-actually-walked-out-of/678900/148 "2014-01-19T23:50:17Z")
Meanwhile, I’ve walked out on only two movies. The first was Mel Brooks’ **History of the World** , which struck me as a bunch of dumb gags strung together…I was just bored after a while. The second was a really bad Tim Curry movie called **Times Square**. As someone who actually listened to punk music, I think I was offended…or faux-offended, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2014, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-actually-walked-out-of/678900/149 "2014-01-19T23:54:23Z")
**Hannah And Her Sisters** - as one reviewer said, none of the characters were interesting or even likeable. Woody Allen had definitely moved away, at that point, from making movies designed to be entertaining. We were bored silly. **American Werewolf in London**. We’re not big horror film fans anyway, but after one more scene in which me KNEW the ripped-apart dead guy was going to appear, and we were ready for it, and we still jumped, we decided it was simply not entertaining. Shoulda walked out of **Stranger Than Paradise**. My friend and I sat through it because it had gotten such rave reviews, and we were waiting for it to get good. We were sitting there, praying for it to end, and wondering what in HELL the other people in the theater were laughing at. ---
**Author:** ![chancetx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cdc98d/32.png) [@chancetx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chancetx)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2014, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-actually-walked-out-of/678900/150 "2014-01-20T10:54:04Z")
I’ve walked out of plenty: American Me Dracula, Dead and Loving It Rush (Jason Patric/Jennifer Jason Leigh) Wet Hot American Summer Tadpole (some awful shot on digital video “indie” with Sigourney Weaver and Bebe Neuwirth) Anchorman (the mass appeal of this one truly eludes me) ---
**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2014, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-actually-walked-out-of/678900/151 "2014-01-20T15:05:48Z")
Never really walked out though we did roll our eyes and walk out of National Treasure with about 10 minutes left. ---
**Author:** ![Learjeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/94ad74/32.png) [@Learjeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Learjeff)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2014, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-actually-walked-out-of/678900/152 "2014-01-20T18:13:39Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > **[Andy Warhol’s Bad](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075679/synopsis?ref_=ttpl_pl_syn)**. Ah, that reminds me of another DVD I didn’t bother finish watching: I Shot Andy Warhol (or something like that). Boring. Tried to be artsy, I think, but failed. ---
**Author:** ![busterpickle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@busterpickle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/busterpickle)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2014, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-actually-walked-out-of/678900/153 "2014-01-20T19:55:05Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Two: > > [Tank Girl](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114614/?ref_=nv_sr_6). I paid $1 and made them give me my money back. It was so bad that I left during the nude scene. Not even THAT could redeem this post-apocalyptic abortion. There was a nude scene? I didnot even make it that far apparantly. For me, it was Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie… A grueling 12 minutes and I just could not take it. I felt likemy brain was boiling and I was gasping for air and I ran for it. I did like the Tank Girl comics as well as the Buffy TV show. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2014, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-actually-walked-out-of/678900/154 "2014-01-20T20:25:57Z")
**On the Fast Track** , with Gary Coleman. Just dreadful. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2014, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-actually-walked-out-of/678900/155 "2014-01-20T20:39:37Z")
Faded memories ago, the wife and I walked out on what I believe was Peter Sellers last film, or last Pink Panther film. Don’t make me look it up!!!. Most of the theater walked out as well with folks storming the box office for refunds - and getting them. It was if everyone associated with the film; writers, actors, directors, cameramen; were going through the motions/fulfilling a contract/ being blackmailed. Might have been the Fu Machu thing. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2014, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-actually-walked-out-of/678900/156 "2014-01-20T20:45:52Z")
I don’t think I’ve ever actually walked out of a movie myself (though I came close to it with Leslie Nielsen’s awful _ **2001: A Space Travesty** _), but a woman I was out with once did get up and walk out in the middle of _ **Blazing Saddles** _—the humor was just too gross for her, a sign that we never really belonged together anyway. ---
**Author:** ![CatherineZeta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@CatherineZeta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatherineZeta)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2014, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-actually-walked-out-of/678900/157 "2014-01-20T23:36:32Z")
My friend and I should have walked out of _Epic Movie_. We saw it when we were 17 and couldn’t figure out until the movie started why her older brother was laughing hysterically when we told him what we were seeing. Another friend and I walked out of a screening of _American Gangster_ that my college showed. She thought it was boring and I had already seen it. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2014, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-actually-walked-out-of/678900/158 "2014-01-20T23:55:57Z")
The only movie I’ve ever walked out on was **Gran Torino**. I was just tired of his racist crap; I’m sure he is redeemed somehow in the end, although I will never know. In addition, there was a couple in front of me who whispered to each other throughout the whole thing so that helped me make up my mind. ---
**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:** [January 21, 2014, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-actually-walked-out-of/678900/159 "2014-01-21T00:49:04Z")
The only time I’ve ever left a theater in the middle of a movie was Woody Allen’s _Hannah and her Sisters_. I was eleven. I have no idea why my parents thought it would be something I wanted to see. ---
**Author:** ![Joools](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6de8d8/32.png) [@Joools](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joools)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2014, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-actually-walked-out-of/678900/160 "2014-01-21T01:02:02Z")
I walked out of _Field of Dreams_. I had gone to see it with my family, the story was just meandering around, not really holding my attention, and I wanted to be a little early for my shift that afternoon at a restaurant down the street. I left around 5 minutes before the end. After work that night, my father told me, “you’re going to see the rest of that movie.” He drove me back to the theater, and we watched it again from start to finish. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-actually-walked-out-of/678900.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-actually-walked-out-of/678900.md?page=9)