Never walked out of a movie in the theater because I don’t really like theaters and any time I would walk into one then I’ve thoroughly researched the movie.
I’ve rented/bought a few DVDs that I just couldn’t finish. The most prominent was “Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon”. I just could not keep the characters straight and was confused over who the good guys and bad guys were. Then they started doing that silly-ass-running-on-trees-walls-roof crap and I hit the button on the remote and bailed out.
Pink Flamingos. I had no intention of seeing it in the first place, but I was tricked into it by a mischievous girlfriend. We had come to see Quadrophenia, but she then announced that we were staying for the midnight show of PF.
No, I think this requires some explanation. Why did you walk out on Back to the Future?
When my wife and I were dating we Walked out on John Carpenter’s Vampires. Just terrible, we left when whatever Baldwin brother was co-starring started slapping the girl who he was supposed to be helping rescue around. It’s a real shame, because the book was so fun and seemed readymade to become a film. The only thing they kept was the main character’s name and profession.
Mystery Train: The woman I was with at the time went kind of nuts (unrelated to film). I insisted we leave, just to avoid further embarrassment. Really pissed me off, too, because I was just becoming aware of Jarmusch and was looking forward to seeing the film. Haven’t had a chance to see it since.
True Romance: Girlfriend (different one) found some of the violent scenes to be too much and we left at her request. I suppose that scored me some points with her.
A documentary on Ayurveda. I thought it was supposed to be a Van Damme film. Just kidding. Went to see it on my own and ended up doing the self-righteous march out of the theater because one of the people being interviewed, an elderly practitioner, seemed to display a complete lack of humility. I dunno, maybe I overreacted, but something really rubbed me the wrong way (so to speak).
Oh, this one! I watched almost the whole thing, close to 3 hours of it, waiting, waiting for some pay-off, watching painfully slow scenes of soldiers moving through artistically rippling grass, then remembering home, with bedroom curtains also slowly and artistically fluttering in the breeze…until I couldn’t take it any more and left in a near-rage with just a few minutes left in the movie.
I doubt I will ever watch a Terence Malick movie again.
Oh, right. Sometimes I forget poster’s names and their…eccentric views. I will say if Back to the Future pushes that many buttons for you, it’s probably for the best that you haven’t seen a movie in 30 years.
Emmanuelle, the 1974 Sylvia Kristel soft porn film. The only movie I’ve walked out on for reasons othe than time or lack of interest. In my defense, it was a horribly butchered copy, with irrelevant parts of other movies tossed in. I have no idea where the print came from.
