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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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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.
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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.
I also do not quit too often on DVD’s. I did quit on Love, Actually though. Wow, that was a horrible experience.
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.
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.
Les Miserables, but only because my wife was having a severe gastrointestinal crisis.
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.
As George Costanza used to say, “It’s me, not you.”
I never, ever could deal fantasy fiction or sci-fi, either.
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.
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea, when the boys started in on the cat.
Theo because it was boring as hell.
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.
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.
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. 
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).
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.