To show you how tolerant I am, when I was in college, there was a special screening of the Lily Tomlin film 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.
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.
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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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.