Wayne’s World II. Why did I think I should go to that?
I’m getting the impression that all you folks are like me in that I can’t abide reviews before seeing a movie for the first time. I prefer taking my chances and if something about the cast or the director or even the studio appeals to me, I’m going to risk it.
Paying too much admission money, driving across town, enduring the chatter from uncivil audiences and the overpriced popcorn are all reasons I can wait until anything I think I might like to see is either out on DVD or is on one of the commercial-free TV channels, is part of why I don’t get burned any more often than I do.
Powers Boothe has been excellent in over 90% of the things he’s done – he was a fantastic Jim Jones the first time I noticed him – so he was why I dared to try Emerald Forest with no clues as to what was in store. But I have managed to avoid the real stinkers some of y’all have mentioned!
In my defense, I saw Knocked Up in Bennington, VT where I had to spend 2 lonely weeks. The theater had 2-4 selections and that was the best of the lot.
The only movie I ever walked out of was Your Highness with Danny McBride, James Franco and Natalie Portman. I really tried to like it, but after an hour, I just couldn’t take it.
I walked out on Back to the Future. 'Nuff sed.
The Man Who Fell to Earth" Halfway through it, my girlfriend and I agreed we didn’t like it, let’s go to a party.
Lawnmower Man 2
Peter Jackson’s King Kong. It took an hour for the damn ship to get to the island, during which I started to lose interest. Once it got there and the stupid dinosaur stampede started, I walked out. I never made it as far as the giant monkey.
I’ve watched it since on TV and I’m glad I didn’t stick around. He was good, but not great enough to have made staying worthwhile.
My mom took me an a friend to see this movie, she left at the chainsaw scene and told me she would be back to pick us up later.
Mine was Sleepless in Seattle. I had somehow confused this movie for some other movie. I went to go see this movie by myself. Which I normally don’t think twice about. But in this particular instance, I started to feel a little self conscious because as I was waiting in the lobby for them to let us in, everybody there was coupled with a SO, and acting all lovey dovey.
I also thought this was strange because the movie I THOUGHT I was going to see wasn’t supposed to be a “chick flick”.
As soon as the movie started to play and I realized what it was, I was beyond fucking embarrassed! I mean, how sad does that have to look? A lone guy going to watch a romantic drama all by himself? Bleh!
Hear No Evil, a really shitty crime thriller with DB Sweeny and Mixed Nuts, a Christmas comedy with Steve Martin. I couldn’t bring myself to sit through either one of them.
Movies I WISHED I had walked out on that I was so bored I sat through anyway:
Full Fathom Five with Michael Moriarty
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Bowfinger
Revenge with Kevin Costner
Walking out of the theatre?
Only one I remember was The Godfather 3. One of my friends leaned over and said he couldn’t take it anymore, I was right on his heels, so were our friends, then everyone in our aisle, then pretty much the whole theatre cleared out.
I remember us all tearing out of an all night drive-inn because the final film was Streets of Fire(1984) was so awful we couldn’t take it anymore.
I believe we also left long before the end of Roadie (1980) andPhantom of the Paradise (1974) and Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives(1989)
While I liked parts of this, and like the Tevis novel, I think it may belong in the aforementioned category of 70s movies that aren’t about much of anything or anyone, have bad lighting (and sound) and just kind of… stop on the most depressing note possible.
After going on far far far too long.
I can remember walking out of a theater twice.
Once was when I was fooled by the title, H. G. Wells’ The Shape Of Things To Come, into thinking it had something to do with the classic movie. After about ten minutes I realized I was watching a kiddie-matinee grade schlock SF movie and walked out.
The other was Winds of Change (as it was cut and re-released in the US). I was under the general impression that it was an animated version of the Greek myth of Perseus, which I suppose in some sense it was. But after the first segment I basically said “what the hell is this shit?” and walked out.
I know a movie I wanted to walk out of, and only the pleading of the friend I’d gone with made me stay: My Dinner With Andre. Holy crap, that was a dull movie. I’m not sure whether my friend liked it or if she was just too stubborn to leave after we’d paid to get in (and it was only a dollar–it was another college auditorium showing) but I managed to make it through somehow. There was a couple of hours of my life I desperately wanted back.
That must have hurt.
When I was a kid, I think I walked out of Fantasia. That’s the only time I recall walking out of a movie in the theater. I’m one of those “I paid for it, I’m going to watch it” types.
During Man of Steel, the two friends I came with wanted to walk out at the start of the third act. I convinced them to stay, mostly because I thought it was nearly over and wanted to finish it up, having already suffered through most of it. I wish we’d left when they wanted to. The finale was an awful, boring mess that dragged on way longer than it had any right to.
Practical Magic.
Never been a big fan of Sandra whatshername or Kidman. Both are overrated in my opinion and so was that movie.
I lasted fifteen minutes, told my friend i was nauseous - not far from the truth - and booked.
The Thin Red Line was the other. The then-boyfriend and I lasted about a half hour and then bagged it. Sean Penn wasn’t the only reason we walked out.
Death Proof. . . course it was part of of the Grind House double feature with Planet Terror, so I was kinda tired of sitting there. But, when the girls in the diner are just talking and talking and talking about nothing and then I decided I hope they die, then I realized that they’re probably the protagonists. . . I walked out. Couldn’t take it anymore.
My girlfriend and I almost walked out on Catch Me If You Can. Neither of us cared for that movie. OK, he’s pretending to be a doctor, OK, a pilot, OK. . . who cares. I guess I wanted Leo to die too. But we stayed.
The only movie I ever walked out of was Stir of Echoes. I was on a date with my then-boyfriend and I could tell ten minutes in this would be the kind of movie that would make me sick. Fortunately the power cut off right when it started getting gory. That was right after Hurricane Floyd in eastern NC and that night was when the flooding started. I don’t think I would have been able to make it through the movie even if the power had stayed on.
The book is more interesting, even if it’s more fictionalized than he lets on. Keep in mind that the story is true… Abagnale did impersonate a raft of skilled people, and at an astoundingly young age.