# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2007, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236/61 "2007-12-26T17:26:08Z")
Never walked out of something I paid for. Mostly because I’m a pretty good judge of what I would like and I only go to movies I’ll enjoy. At least to some extent. I’ve gone to a few stinkers but none that so bad that I’ll walk out on. Pretty much the same with DVDs. I don’t watch anything that I think I might not enjoy. Why bother? ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2007, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236/62 "2007-12-26T17:29:33Z")
I ejected Natural Born Killers. I don’t think I lasted as long as **Crafter\_Man** did. ---
**Author:** ![SomeUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e480ec/32.png) [@SomeUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SomeUserName)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2007, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236/63 "2007-12-26T17:33:43Z")
Freddy Got Fingered. I was not even sure what to expect and I am sorry I even placed it in my DVD player. ---
**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, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236/64 "2007-12-26T18:14:25Z")
I’m amazed by how many films I’ve watched multiple times people have walked out on! I own _Boogie Nights_ and I have probably watched it at least 7 or 8 times. I LOVE that movie. (I grant that part of it is that I grew up in LA during the 70s, I’m a pornographer and I’ve done lots of coke with girlfriends in Valley houses, so I do a lot of relating, but even so, I think it’s a fantastic movie.) I just watched _Out of Africa_ for about the 4th time, but actually the first time I’ve watched every single minute. I did find it dull the first time I saw it 20 years ago. I was younger. Lots of others…just goes to show about the whole to each her own thing… ---
**Author:** ![ASAKMOTSD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@ASAKMOTSD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASAKMOTSD)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2007, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236/65 "2007-12-26T18:23:30Z")
**Where The Buffalo Roam** - I know there are a lot of “gonzo” fans out there, but really how many times can you watch a guy say “Nixon” to his dog to get him to attack? What a crappy movie. ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2007, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236/66 "2007-12-26T18:24:32Z")
I’ve never walked out of a film at the theater… probably because I don’t go to the theater more than once every couple of years! But I did go to see the recent adaptation of **The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy** and I came real, _real_ close to walking out. Man, they sucked the humor out of that movie! At home, my wife and I can usually get through pretty much anything, even if we have to fast forward through the slow parts. However, **Lost in Translation** made both of us wish for the sweet, sweet peace of an early death. About half-way through we both turned to each other and said, “What else did we rent? Let’s watch that instead!” ---
**Author:** ![lobstermobster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobstermobster/32/10033_2.png) [@lobstermobster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobstermobster)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2007, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236/67 "2007-12-26T18:49:08Z")
I walked out of Waking Life in the theater. It looked great visually but I felt like I was drowning in pretention. ---
**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, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236/68 "2007-12-26T19:07:16Z")
Now that someone mentioned it, Boogie Nights is another one I’ve turned off on TV. I actually liked what I’d seen, but for some reason it just wasn’t holding my attention that night. I’ve been meaning to give it another try. I have literally walked out of Freddy Got Fingered, although it was on DVD; it was in my buddy’s dorm room, and I literally walked right out and went back to my room across the hall. **Astroboy14** , I’m with you on Lost in Translation. The only reason I stayed awake was because a Vicks vaporizer on the fritz was making loud, annoying noises. Since I didn’t have the alternative of a more interesting dream, I decided to not only stick it out, but try my damnedest to find a plot or an iota of character development. I couldn’t. My movie recommendations are usually big hits with my friends, even when they’re skeptical about them, but for some reason my worst work has been with that one friend in particular. I owe her big after wasting her time on Lost in Translation _and_ The Omega Man this year. Speaking of The Omega Man, the DVD abruptly stopped right after the first time he was captured by the vampire-whatevers, but we foolishly turned it back on and tried again instead of heeding the movie’s plea to stop watching. > [@Critical1](#): > > 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. Good on you! > [@Critical1](#): > > 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. Same. > [@Tuckerfan](#): > > 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? It says they’re a religion that values honesty. I like that in a religion, personally. > [@Khadaji](#): > > I see that it got a 92% on Rotten Tomatoes and a 7.7 IMDB. It is pretty common for me to dislike pop culture, but I never realized how far outside the norm I fell until I looked at this movie. I realized how skewed the percentage system was on Rotten Tomatoes the other day when I looked at all the positive reviews for a movie rated 93%, and saw that most of them were actually mixed reviews–things like “it could’ve been an unforgettable movie, but they did this, this and this wrong”. ---
**Author:** ![Genghis\_Bob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/45deac/32.png) [@Genghis\_Bob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Genghis_Bob)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2007, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236/69 "2007-12-26T19:38:21Z")
Love me my Netflix. It allowed me to save myself from any further involvement with: Labyrinth The Man Who Fell to Earth The Osterman Weekend Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels Hitch Head: the Monkees Lewis Black: Unleashed ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2007, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236/70 "2007-12-26T19:44:57Z")
The only movie I ever paid for and walked out on was _Silence of the Lambs_, and only because my girlfriend insisted. The final confrontation scene at Buffalo Bill’s house was just too intense for her. I once attempted to sit through a free screening of _The Big Chill_ and found it the most boring piece of crapola I’d ever endured. Couldn’t make it past the first twenty minutes or so. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2007, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236/71 "2007-12-26T19:48:03Z")
**Misery**. Could see it continuing to be quite ugly. Fortunately, **Edward Scissorhands** had just started elsewhere in the building. ---
**Author:** ![NailBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecae2f/32.png) [@NailBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NailBunny)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2007, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236/72 "2007-12-26T19:52:02Z")
I _think_ I sat all the way through **Moulin Rouge**. I say think, because it was so GAWDAWFUL that the only way I could cope was by getting knee-walking drunk throughout the film, so I have very few memories of it from about 1 1/2 hours in. Thank the lord. My husband and I turned off **Sideways**. I said “If he sleeps with that poor fat chick, I’m done.” And he did. And I was. I know too many unforgiveable assholes in real life to want to watch movies about them. It took me several tries to make it all the way through **Bloodsucking Freaks**. As Lloyd Kaufman put it: “That’s the only movie I feel I might be condemned to Hell just for _watching_.” ---
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2007, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236/73 "2007-12-26T20:00:11Z")
Why all the hatred for Moulin Rouge? I thought it was a great film. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2007, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236/74 "2007-12-26T20:07:28Z")
Like a couple of others here, I couldn’t make it through _Borat_. I got to the scene with the formal dinner, you know, the one where he returns from the bathroom with a bag of his own feces, and later invites a hooker to the house and just couldn’t do it anymore. It was funny in parts, but too cringe-inducing. And, assuming that the people at the dinner really were innocent bystanders and not actors, they didn’t deserve that. Just this weekend, my father-in-law, for reasons known only to him, put _Anger Management_ in the DVD player while everyone else in the room was attempting to read and after we had all answered “No” when he asked if we wanted to watch it. I think I chuckled at the airplane scene and the first scene in the “group”. I might have lasted a couple more minutes, then I went to hide in another room. ---
**Author:** ![Linty\_Fresh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Linty\_Fresh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linty_Fresh)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2007, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236/75 "2007-12-26T20:11:02Z")
**Borat**. I just don’t get why people find this funny. The third **Pirates of the Caribbean** movie. Look, Johnny and Bill, no one gives a fuck about your back stories or your mysteries or your sorceries or your lost loves. Just shut up and try to kill each other with swords, OK? That’s what made the first one great. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2007, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236/76 "2007-12-26T20:26:13Z")
The only movie I have ever walked out of the theater on was **Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.** I have never done acid so I do not know what it is really like but about halfway through I was starting to feel queezy and weird so I left and waited for my friends outside. Other movies with drugs in them like Requim for a Dream and Trainspotting had no affect on me. I rarely turn off movies I rent and in fact I can’t think of any right now but I recently bought **Gigli** because it was on sale at Blockbuster for $2.99. I’m saving it for a special day. I have a feeling I might turn it off. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2007, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236/77 "2007-12-26T20:26:43Z")
Only remember ever walking out of one movie, and that was _Beyond Borders_. The film’s content was pretty disturbing, and I was there with my grandmother. I was totally embarrassed I took her to see this incredibly violent and depressing film, and she kept asking if I was okay, so I figured she wanted to leave. After we left, she told me she would have been just fine, she was only concerned that I wasn’t enjoying the film. I’ve never quite been able to make it through to the end. It’s too distressing. And one movie that my mother and I stopped in the VCR when I was about 14 was _My Boyfriend’s Back_, which was some cheesy teen comedy about a zombie boyfriend that was neither funny nor appropriate to watch with my mother. ---
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2007, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236/78 "2007-12-26T20:43:09Z")
Well I can add two more to the list that I’ve just attempted to watch (so much for xmas viewing). Tried to watch the 1998 version of **A midsummer night’s dream** but about five minutes in I was very aware of how much I dislike Shakespeare and stopped watching it. Got half an hour into **Venus** and was just bored. Think I’ll read a book… ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2007, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236/79 "2007-12-26T21:41:52Z")
[QUOTE=Frostillicus] I walked out of \*\*Knocked Up \*\* this summer. Never once cracked a smile (and I really like Judd Apatow’s work.) [/QUOTE] Funny you should say that. I respect his ability, but there’s something about his work that’s so uncomfortably on-the-mark that I can’t watch **The 40 Year Old Virgin** all the way through. I felt the same way about **Superbad** , but was in a theater and stayed through the end. Mortifying memories of my teenaged years, I guess, but it just feels like such emotional sadism at so many points. I was in the mood for lightly raunchy entertainment, and got something else. Still plan to see **Walk Hard** , though. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2007, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236/80 "2007-12-26T22:22:18Z")
[QUOTE=Illuminatiprimus] Why all the hatred for Moulin Rouge? I thought it was a great film. [/QUOTE] Had I rented it instead of seeing it in a theater, I would have ejected it. But I stayed. I thought it was a pretentious load of horse-shit, but I’m a philistine. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236.md?page=5)