# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2007, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236/121 "2007-12-27T21:42:43Z")
[QUOTE=Argent Towers] _Man On Fire._ I heard this was actually a pretty good movie, and that may well be, but my dad and I were really bored after like 30 minutes and we walked out. I heard that after that point, it actually got really good. I have no idea. [/QUOTE] I remember thinking that the first time I saw it but I couldn’t really go anywhere so I stuck through. It has become one of my favorite movies. The action really kicks up a thousand fold. For example: Denzel’s character ends up shoving c-4 up someone’s ass and blows them up. How cool is that? ---
**Author:** ![Scubaqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236/122 "2007-12-28T03:02:45Z")
count me among those who bailed on _the thin red line_. the then-boyfriend started figeting within fifteen minutes of the movie’s start. i joined him ten minutes later, at which point we looked at one another, got up, and left. great OG what a boring film… i hate comedies made after 1940, so i can’t comment on the ‘supposedly’ funny stuff many of you have bailed on. i did walk out of \*practical magic \* ten minutes after it started. i’ve tried twice since then to get through it. absolutely unwatchable. it took me five hours to watch that overblown russell crowe whatsit _gladiator_? on videotape. i’d watch for a while, stop it, go do something else more important, come back, watch for a while, and so on. still don’t understand all the hype. dullsville. i’d rather watch a 1960s italian hercules movie. they’re more entertaining. i made the former BF turn off _face/off_. beyond dull - and i really wanted to like it. same for _battlefield_ _earth_. anyone and everyone associated with that piece of excrement should be severely punished for wasting even a few minutes of my time like that. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Fionn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fionn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fionn)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236/123 "2007-12-28T04:48:23Z")
I made it about ten minutes into _Party Monster_ before turning it off. I should have known better when my friend handed it to me and said “You should take this home and watch it” on a day when we were just hanging out. I wanted to walk out of _Da Vinci Code_ but my girlfriend wanted to see it so I couldn’t. ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236/124 "2007-12-28T05:14:29Z")
I wanted to walk out _Bogus_, starring Gérard Depardieu and Haley Joe Osmond, but no matter how much I begged and pleaded, the stewardess wouldn’t let me off the plane ---
**Author:** ![Scubaqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236/125 "2007-12-28T05:22:07Z")
[QUOTE=A Monkey With a Gun] I wanted to walk out _Bogus_, starring Gérard Depardieu and Haley Joe Osmond, but no matter how much I begged and pleaded, the stewardess wouldn’t let me off the plane [/QUOTE] heh. wouldn’t you know it? i had the exact same problem while enroute to hawai’i. while the divemaster snored away blissfully beside me, i was inflicted with ‘the fantastic four,’ immediately followed by ‘robots.’ :eek: even with the sound off, neither film improved any. i can only conclude i must’ve done something really bad in a previous life. tired of my moaning and bitching, i was told that i could go sit out on the wing, but i had take a coat. rules, you know. 😛 ---
**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 28, 2007, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236/126 "2007-12-28T05:36:06Z")
I watched A Shark Tale (_twice_) and Up the Creek or whatever that one movie was with Seth Green flying to Tel Aviv and back. Ugh. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236/127 "2007-12-28T05:48:01Z")
I wanted to walk out of _Indecent Proposal_ but my friend’s a huge Robert Redford fan and she wouldn’t let me. What a stupid, misguided movie. Also wanted to walk out of _The Golden Compass_. The movie was nothing but high points, climaxes. That should be a good thing, but it wasn’t – the story was lost. I’ve sent a lot of Netflix discs back unwatched. One in particular I had high hopes for. I’ve forgotten the title. Foreign film, a series of films, actually. Dang. I wish I could remember, or else I’ll queue them up again. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236/128 "2007-12-28T05:56:13Z")
I’ve never walked out of a movie in the theater. At home, I quit watching the following after about ten minutes or so: **Go** –I don’t know why; **Keys to Tulsa** –can’t remember why; **Judge Dredd** –just unwatchable; **Cabin Boy** –also unwatchable and unfunny. Does it count if you fast-forward through most of the movie and only see a few bits and pieces? I did this with **Moulin Rouge** –the modern songs used for a film set in 1899 were bugging me, mainly; **The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover** if that is the correct title—made me sick to my stomach; **The Passion of the Christ** —same problem. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236/129 "2007-12-28T11:57:50Z")
**vivalostwages** I had forgotten how bad **The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover** was. I would have definitely turned that off if I hadn’t been watching it with friends. What a horrible movie. ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236/130 "2007-12-28T12:43:16Z")
I rented Death Proof, watched it for ~10 minutes and sent it back. ---
**Author:** ![Weaver\_of\_Nightmares](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/73ab20/32.png) [@Weaver\_of\_Nightmares](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weaver_of_Nightmares)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236/131 "2007-12-28T14:11:28Z")
[QUOTE=Hostile Dialect] Try [these ones](http://www.landmarktheaters.com), if there’s one in your area. [/QUOTE] I’m across the Atlantic, but thanks. 🙂 After about watching half an hour I tuned out the 2004-version of _Phantom of the Opera_ so I could read _Maskerade_ (Discworld) instead. Not even the fact that Gerald Butler was in it could save the movie for me. I was just bored. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Credible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a8b319/32.png) [@Justin\_Credible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Credible)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236/132 "2007-12-28T14:17:30Z")
[QUOTE=Hostile Dialect] I watched A Shark Tale (_twice_) and Up the Creek or whatever that one movie was with Seth Green flying to Tel Aviv and back. Ugh. [/QUOTE] Without a Paddle. I liked that movie pretty well. I’ve walked out of two movies. One was Mercury Rising. My friend and I walked around the lobby and played some video games, but then decided we wanted to see how it ended, so went back in for the last 15 minutes. The other time doesn’t really count. I only walked out because I discovered I was in the wrong theater. Oops! I went to see The Number 23, and I guess I wasn’t paying attention to where I was going, because I ended up in Wild Hogs. About 5 minutes in, I was thinking, man this is a long trailer… My friends, who apparently hadn’t been paying attention either or who had been following me blindly, informed me that we were indeed in the wrong theater. So we missed the first 5 minutes of The Number 23. ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236/133 "2007-12-28T14:17:37Z")
[QUOTE=BarnOwl] I rented Death Proof, watched it for ~10 minutes and sent it back. [/QUOTE] And there were two supplementary DVDs with this piece of shit, and I sent them back without viewing. They’re in my mailbox now, waiting for the postman. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236/134 "2007-12-28T15:46:57Z")
Sticking only to ones I’ve walked out of, not ones that I turned off: [Cool World](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104009/) [Liar, Liar](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119528/) I have no excuse for having sat through [Norbit](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477051/) ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236/135 "2007-12-28T16:40:06Z")
Most recently (a couple of years ago) my wife and I walked out of **Broken Flowers** , after telling each other “If they give us one more gratuitous shot of the Mapquest logo…” A couple of movies I’ve walked out of are probably better than I gave them credit for, but I was too sleepy to stick with them: **Au Hasard Balthasar** and **The Lord of the Rings** Part 3 (can’t remember the subtitle). My wife wisely walked out of **High Art** , but the friend we were with wanted to stay, so I stayed. Bad choice. Many years ago I walked out of **All That Jazz** , but came to like it on later re-watchings. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236/136 "2007-12-28T18:23:05Z")
[QUOTE=E. Thorp] Most recently (a couple of years ago) my wife and I walked out of **Broken Flowers** , after telling each other “If they give us one more gratuitous shot of the Mapquest logo…” A couple of movies I’ve walked out of are probably better than I gave them credit for, but I was too sleepy to stick with them: **Au Hasard Balthasar** and **The Lord of the Rings** Part 3 (can’t remember the subtitle). My wife wisely walked out of **High Art** , but the friend we were with wanted to stay, so I stayed. Bad choice. Many years ago I walked out of **All That Jazz** , but came to like it on later re-watchings. [/QUOTE] LOTR part 3 is **Return of the King**. Long, yes, and a ton of battle scenes, but worth watching. The end is very moving. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2007, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236/137 "2007-12-29T03:27:24Z")
I walked out on Fahrenheit 9/11 because it sucked like a Hoover on steroids. I’ve walked out on several movies (like the last two Bourne movies) because they were filmed using shaky-cam and I got motion sick. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2007, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236/138 "2007-12-29T03:41:03Z")
The thing that really bugs me about Micheal Moore (the guy who made Fahrenheit 9/11) is that he never really was one to let objective facts get in the way of a good story. This wouldn’t be so bad if he didn’t insist he was making documentaries. ---
**Author:** ![newcrasher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b3f665/32.png) [@newcrasher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newcrasher)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2007, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236/139 "2007-12-29T16:12:49Z")
I am late to this thread, so pardon me if someone has already mentioned “Eyes Wide Shut”, the movie that killed Tom and Nicole’s marriage. The thought of seeing Nicole Kidman naked was a draw, but once I did…meh…she’s built like a 12 year old boy. Nlot to mention it was a limp attempt at arthouse drivel. It succeeded at the drivel, but not the art. ---
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I forgot that I walked out of **Nightwatch** and caught the last hour of the far-better **Brokeback Mountain**. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-walked-out-off-turned-off/431236.md?page=8)