# What movies have you walked out off/turned off? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 25, 2007, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236 "2007-12-25T23:17:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2007, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236/21 "2007-12-26T04:10:41Z")
It was 20-25 years ago so I don’t remember the name. And probably would have suppressed it by now anyway. Some fantasy thing where the opening cinema was in an underground cave system that the evil wizard had taken over for his lair. Tables of glassware and experiments set up and merrily bubbling away. Ancient evil sorcerer. Glassware with the Pyrex labels clearly visible. I left. Another that unfortunately had a good enough story that I went ahead and sat through apparently had a chimp operating the camera and Mr Magoo running the editing booth. Close-up dialogs where the frame is from the upper lip to navel. Scenes where the camera is bouncing and shaking so much that motion sickness is inevitable. Don’t remember the name of that one either. The worst thing I’ve sat through and remember is Little Shop of Horrors. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2007, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236/22 "2007-12-26T04:14:35Z")
[QUOTE=Projammer] It was 20-25 years ago so I don’t remember the name. And probably would have suppressed it by now anyway. Some fantasy thing where the opening cinema was in an underground cave system that the evil wizard had taken over for his lair. Tables of glassware and experiments set up and merrily bubbling away. Ancient evil sorcerer. Glassware with the Pyrex labels clearly visible. I left. Another that unfortunately had a good enough story that I went ahead and sat through apparently had a chimp operating the camera and Mr Magoo running the editing booth. Close-up dialogs where the frame is from the upper lip to navel. Scenes where the camera is bouncing and shaking so much that motion sickness is inevitable. Don’t remember the name of that one either. The worst thing I’ve sat through and remember is Little Shop of Horrors. [/QUOTE] I guess that means that you liked Thelma and Louise. What did you think of Crichton’s Terminal Man and The Andromeda Strain? ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2007, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236/23 "2007-12-26T04:15:34Z")
[“New York, New York”](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076451/), with Liza Minnelli and Robert De Niro. Man, that stank. There isn’t enough space to list every movie I’ve turned off after watching it part way on TV/videocassette/DVD. ---
**Author:** ![SiouxChief](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@SiouxChief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiouxChief)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2007, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236/24 "2007-12-26T04:41:03Z")
I’ve only walked out of one movie in my life: the Chuck Norris movie, **Sidekicks**. I had just flown into San Jose to visit my friend for a few days. We were going to meet at a mall close to his house after he got off work for the day. I had 3 or 4 hours to kill, so I went in to watch Sidekicks to pass the time. I walked out after only 20 minutes, preferring to just sit on a bench _outside_ the theater than to have to sit inside with that piece of crap playing in front of me. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2007, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236/25 "2007-12-26T04:49:55Z")
There was a stinker comedy called _First Family_ that I walked out on. Also, _Indiana Jones and…_ something. I just went to see it because I’m a Sean Connery fan, he he hadn’t appeared half way through. And the blonde bimbo was making my head throb – the upper one. I should have walked out on _Joe vs the Volcano_, but I just couldn’t believe it could be so bad. I was wrong. Same goes for the remake of _Planet of the Apes_. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2007, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236/26 "2007-12-26T04:57:21Z")
Malibu’s Most Wanted, but only because my friends walked out and they had the weed. Legally Blonde, too. Jackass. Some Nicolas Cage movie where he told some girl he “could eat a peach for hours”. I think it was Face/Off. Whatever it was, the unrelenting ferocity of Cage’s lack of talent threatened to melt _my_ face off if I kept watching. > [@devilsknew](#): > > I actually wanted to watch Ultraviolet but got the movies confused. I dreaded having to see Underworld, since my best friend since high school is way into it. She finally got me to watch it last night, though, and I actually kinda liked it. ---
**Author:** ![Ersatz\_Shmoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@Ersatz\_Shmoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ersatz_Shmoe)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2007, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236/27 "2007-12-26T05:22:57Z")
I’ve never walked out of a movie, but the only time I’ve ever shut off a movie was when a friend of mine insisted on renting _Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo_. Sadly, she replaced it with _Fantastic Four_, which my sanity fortunately willed me to sleep through most of. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2007, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236/28 "2007-12-26T05:27:12Z")
**Jurassic Park**. When I could think of one theoretical way for the dinos to start breeding, and I wasn’t any kind of geneticist, I knew I wasn’t going to enjoy the movie. (And I had no one with me to MST3K it.) I wish I could have walked out of **American Cyborg**. Though I would have missed the great snarklines my buddy and I ended up trading with the other two idiots who paid to go to that film. I didn’t walk out of it, but I did sleep through most of **Wayne’s World** , only waking back up for the Scooby-Doo ending. ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2007, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236/29 "2007-12-26T05:37:26Z")
Borat. It was funny, but it was so embarassing I actually ached watching it. ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2007, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236/30 "2007-12-26T05:40:53Z")
[QUOTE=Hostile Dialect] Whatever it was, the unrelenting ferocity of Cage’s lack of talent threatened to melt _my_ face off if I kept watching. [/QUOTE] That deserves a quote. Brilliant description! ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2007, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236/31 "2007-12-26T05:43:04Z")
[QUOTE=Hostile Dialect] I dreaded having to see Underworld, since my best friend since high school is way into it. She finally got me to watch it last night, though, and I actually kinda liked it. [/QUOTE] Underorld is imaginative, well written, and has excellent production value. I really liked it. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2007, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236/32 "2007-12-26T06:08:17Z")
> [@Mosier](#): > > That deserves a quote. Brilliant description! Thanks. It was all the more disappointing since I hadn’t seen a Cage flick but I’d seen him on Inside the Actors’ Studio or some such thing, and he sounded like a hell of a thespian. Without tooting his own horn at all, he actually had me walking away from the TV going, “Wow, I really want to see that guy’s work”. It took me about five minutes of one movie to come to the sad conclusion that there wasn’t an ounce of actor in his body, thespian be damned. > [@devilsknew](#): > > Underorld is imaginative, well written, and has excellent production value. I really liked it. I liked that they stayed true to the classic vampire/werewolf conception but did interesting, innovative things with the characters and the undead societies themselves. ---
**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2007, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236/33 "2007-12-26T07:10:54Z")
I walked out of “Scent of a Woman” in Germany when I realized that they don’t subtitle American films there for the most part. And I don’t speak German. Strangely, the people at the ticket booth did not know the word for “refund” either. ---
**Author:** ![Mrs\_Johnson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7cd45c/32.png) [@Mrs\_Johnson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs_Johnson)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2007, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236/34 "2007-12-26T07:20:54Z")
The Hills Have Eyes - After the rape scene I pulled the pillow over my head and went to sleep while Mr J watched the rest. Open Water - We were both thoroughly bored and walked out of the theater. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2007, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236/35 "2007-12-26T07:42:48Z")
Hot Rod - incredibly unfunny, didn’t laugh once in 45 minutes. Vampires - 1998 movie by John Carpenter. Don’t remember much about this one fortunately. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2007, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236/36 "2007-12-26T08:12:31Z")
[QUOTE=Mrs Johnson] Open Water - We were both thoroughly bored and walked out of the theater. [/QUOTE] It should have been a short. You missed an incredibly haunting ending, though. ---
**Author:** ![Shamozzle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shamozzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shamozzle)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2007, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236/37 "2007-12-26T08:46:43Z")
I shut off _Crash_ (with Matt Dillon) after about 20 minutes. I found it disingenuous and gimmicky. ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2007, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236/38 "2007-12-26T08:50:33Z")
[QUOTE=drm] Vampires - 1998 movie by John Carpenter. Don’t remember much about this one fortunately. [/QUOTE] Oh, Jesus. Why did you have to remind me? I actually melted that movie in the fireplace during one of my dramatic episodes. ---
**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2007, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236/39 "2007-12-26T09:25:36Z")
funny this thread should pop up now, just last night I walked out on “I am Legend” right when the chick appeared. after all I had read here and on another board I figured it was the best plan. I normally never end up starting a movie that I will walk out of or turn off, but thats probably because I can smell hollywoods shit for miles and miles. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2007, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236/40 "2007-12-26T09:33:42Z")
Battlefield Earth. The book was a light, frothy souffle, the movie was pond scum. What’s it say about a religion when it’s own adherents admit that they don’t “get” the allegorical nature of the writings of the religion’s founder? I also walked out of _Grease_ and I’ve probably walked out of others, but I’ve blocked them out. As for stuff I’ve watched on video and switched of, that list is too long for me to even begin to think about. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236.md?page=3)