Two:
Tank Girl. 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.
It Could Happen to You. I like Bridget Fonda. I loathe Nicolas Cage and Rosie Perez. I only agreed to go see this movie because I was trying to get laid by the girl I went with. I didn’t get laid that night, and the resultant case of blueballs was the best part of the evening.
Wasn’t that line from Better Off Dead, with John Cusack?
This was the case with Epic Movie as well. We’re both in our thirties, and we were easily the oldest people in the movie theater.
I’ve never totally walked out on one because I can’t just leave my friends behind. However, I have taken prolonged breaks in the lobby when the movie sucked. I did this for “Wag the Dog” and a few other movies I can’t remember.
I have never walked out, but the closest I’ve come is:
Wild Wild West - Wow, we all just sat there and for some reason, we thought it would improve.
The Lost World: Jurrasic Park 2 - Shocked. That was the reaction at the preview screening I saw. Absolute shock.
Oddly enough…I saw Jingle All The Way and actually kind of enjoyed it in the theater. I’ve never seen it again, though.
I walked out of* Ted. * Even though I’m a Family Guy fan and a fan of most Seth McFarlane projects in general, Ted was just so blatantly formulaic and seemed to just be a live-action version of Family Guy jokes that for whatever reason didn’t make it into the show, I left. Ugh.
Wizards with my D&D group. It was nearly 30 years ago and we were 17 or 18 and didn’t ‘get it’. We were expecting more swords and sorcery. I like the movie now.
Alien: Too scary for my brother to handle.
Harry Potter, the Last Movie: 3D version was unviewably blurry, so I walked out five minutes into it.
Walking out meant you missed out (until you got around to watching the whole thing) one of the best climax scenes ever… “Here’s a trick mom didn’t show you… I’m glad you changed your last name, you son of a bitch…”
The Story of O. Bad, and neither my wife and I wanted stick around for the big climax, pardon the expression.
When I was about 4 I dragged my great-aunt out of The King and I at Radio City Music Hall after about 10 minutes - right when what I thought of as pirates came to get Anna off the boat. I was a chicken little kid. I should really get that movie and see what the hell I was scared of.
Gabriel. Those days I lived within walking distance of a cinema, so I’d just walk across on Cheapass Tuesdays and see what was worth watching. This wasn’t.
It’s been years! When I did find myself in a movie theater a lot, it was taking the kids to kiddy movies during the hottest days of the summer. There were a few I really wanted to walk out on but of course, couldn’t. Such as “Matilda” - boring, with closeups of ugly people. I may have dozed off during most of it, though.
We did agree walk out of “Babe: Pig In The City” and the second “Incredible Journey” movie, both sad and ugly and pointless.
I’ve never actually walked out of a movie. However, I saw Face/Off only because a buddy of mine really wanted to see it, and we took his car. Had I gone by myself, there is no way I’d have sat through that thing. (But then I wouldn’t have gone by myself.)
The only movie I’ve walked out of was Lost in Space. I’ve sat through some pretty bad movies, but this one was not so much bad as incredibly lame.
I sat through about half of Barry Lyndon and just couldn’t take it any more. It had beautiful scenes, wonderful music but it was just tedious.
I also think I walk out of Paul Williams’ Phantasm. I just couldn’t take it.
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.
I couldn’t actually leave the theater, since my husband was actually enjoying it, for some reason, but about 1/3 of the way through Year One, I went out into the lobby and read my Kindle for an hour. Came back in to catch the ending.
I was about to say me too! But oddly it turns out the movie I walked out of was an animated movie called “Epic”, and is a different movie. It was really cliched and bad, and I didn’t want to waste my time.
Another was Avatar, although I walked out only very near the end(I think). It sucked massive donkey balls. The only point it looked like it would be worth it was when all the good guys were dying and it seemed like the movie might let the bad guys win in a historically accurate middle finger to convention. Then the planet woke up, and I left.
That’s bizarre - same here. That’s the one with the watermelons, isn’t it? Not a great film, at least what I saw of it.
Since that, I walked out of the South Park movie - Longer, Uncut, or whatever it was. It wasn’t bad, but it was out to offend people like me, and eventually, succeeded. I wished I could have walked out of the Sponge Bob movie, but I took my daughter and so I was stuck.
We watch DVDs mostly, and there have been several we turned off half an hour in, but that’s not as big a commitment as actually going to the theater.
Regards,
Shodan
Very few. I can endure almost anything.
Closest are:
I watched **Philosophy of a Knife **at home on video. Because of the nature of the film, even though it was horridly made, I sat through all the hours (in three stages on three days) out of respect for the real victims the film was based on. That said, by the last two hours, that day I just ran the film in the background and played games online not watching it. Can’t recommend to anyone.
I sat through also **Nil By Mouth **even though it was widely panned at Cannes, and there were walkouts there so I knew. However, I am a huge Gary Oldman fan and this was his directoral debut, so I didn’t want to miss it. I considered that the screening fans at Cannes might not be the be-all for deciding if a film is good. They were right, the film stunk. But I sat through it. Can’t recommend. I don’t think Oldman ever directed another film, but if he has, anyone can let me know and I’ll probably at least try it. The best scene was the mother and daughter dancing in the kitchen. This movie, like Gallo’s directoral debut which was Buffalo '66, was supposed to be semi-autobiographical. Gallo’s movie rocked, Oldman’s stunk. I was very excited about seeing it, until I actually did.
Marie Baie Des Anges. Ok, I sat through this little French film which was alleged to be a ‘spiral of crime’ waiting for something to happen. Nothing did. It was like a bunch of unrelated scenes edited together in a loose format. A guy did roll down a hill once after leaping out of the window of a house he was robbing. I suppose that was the spiral of crime.
Salo. I saw this film at the Dobie in Austin in 1977. A friend of mine had seen it and told me I couldn’t sit through it. I did, but later wished I had not. The next day the film was pulled for being a snuff film, and I never did research it until years later when I saw it mentioned somewhere. If it is a snuff film, it’s both disgusting and boring, hard to achieve. But as a real film, which is what it is allegedly, it is disgusting, boring, annoying, poorly filmed and stupid. Just… don’t.