Howard the Duck. Bad, but not cheesy/funny bad.
John Carpenter’s Vampires. I note others above walked out on this one as well; my then-wife and I walked out on it because the movie felt gratuitously misogynistic.
Goodfellas. There was only like 15 minutes left, but my date turned to me and asked if I cared how it ended and the truth was, I really really didn’t. So we left.
*Moulin Rouge. *And believe me, I really tried, more than once.
High Road to China,don’t remember why.
More recently, I would have left I am Legend,but was with my family.
In a theatre I have left-
Supergirl
Henry and June
Boogie Nights
and probably a few others I can’t remember.
On video, too many to recall.
Me too.
Me too!
The only other two movies I walked out of in cinema were Blue Velvet and Jlo’s movie The Cell. Both too damn scary.
For a while now people have been asking me if I had seen “Cable Guy.” I am in the SCA and there is apparently a scene at a Medieval Times resterant.
I tried watching the movie, but Jim Carry got on my nerves so bad I had to turn it off.I’ve never walked out of a movie in the theater.
I do wish I had turned off Alexander when I saw it on dvd. I think my boyfriend and I both wanted to but we were literally bored stiff and couldn’t move to reach for the remote. It seemed to suck the life and joy right out of the room and we couldn’t even fall asleep during it.
We also gave up on another movie recently and turned it off, I can’t remember the name of it or everyone who was in it. I do know Zoey Deschanel was in it. Some loser guy who was always pulling scams tried to rope in his friend who had just inherited part of his dad’s storage business. Zoey D played the friend’s sister. We watched it for a while but it was obviously going nowhere. Everyone in the film looked like they had other things they’d rather be doing.
And speaking of Zoey Deschanel, the only movie I walked out of that was playing in my own living room was another movie of hers called Winters Passing. There was a particular scene where I could see what was about to happen and I told my boyfriend I was done with the film if that happened. It did happen and I left the room. My boyfriend ended up falling asleep.
If you’re curious
She had a sick kitten. The vet called to tell her it had feline leukemia. Zoey was going to see her dad so she took the kitten for a taxi ride to the docks stuffed it into a duffel bag and threw it off the dock. There was no need for this, her vet would have humanely euthanized the kitten for free if she couldn’t afford it. So essentially she tortured the kitten in its last moments of life. I’ve seen other arguments about this movie and I don’t think the scene was necessary. We already knew she was tortured and angsty from a bunch of other crap they had already shown us. That scene just made the character despicable and unredeemable to me and I didn’t want to watch anymore.
I didn’t turn it off, but wanted to. I watch films while I work out on the elliptical and usually finish anything I rent, but I absolutely hated it.
The only character that I didn’t hate in it was Paul Rudd’s - including the smoking hot Katherine Heigl. The sister was smoking hot too, but she played the pampered bitch so well I had to wonder if she were type-cast.
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.
Should have walked out on:
Castaway: Tom Hanks’ character was so goddamn stupid that ,realistically, he would have been dead in less than a week.
The Hours: actually, I only wasted time in front of the tube for that one. The critics loved this one because if they didn’t ,they’d be condemned as homophobic. Whiny queers are just as annoying as whiny heteros and the critics should warn us about movies about nothing petty whiners, regardless of gender preference.
Years ago, when VCRs first came out and the appliance stores teamed up with video stores to give 25 free rentals to anyone willing to pay $500 in 1983 dollars for one, I wasted a freebie onOut of Africa, at the insistence of my then-wife who heard it was very good. Both of us tried several times, unsuccessfully, to watch it all the way through without falling asleep.
My current wife watched A Perfect Storm while I was at work one night and told me not to bother.
A wise woman. My review of the film would have consisted of just four words: Shut up and drown.
aww I liked that movie. I remind myself of Rachel McAdam’s character a lot. I would totally torture that stuffy woman if she came into my house just like that. I also like how she never got out of her pajamas throughout the entire movie.
I will watch ANYTHING on an airplane. I watched Little Man on an airplane. I watched the Lake House on an airplane. However, on a flight last year to Nashville I took off my headphones and gave up on The Holiday with Cameron Diaz, Jude Law, Jack Black, blah blah blah. I just hated the whole lot of them so much. Doing crostic puzzles proved much more satisfying.
I’ve never abandoned a film at a cinema. At home on video, there have been some that had to be taken in installments over the course of several… well, years, but only one that I out and out abandoned: The Empire Strikes Back.
I had watched the first Star Wars episode, going in with an open mind and high tolerances, and still came to the conclusion that the only way anyone could possibly enjoy it was if they saw it as a child and were left with nostalgia mojo powerful enough to blind them to how awful every aspect of the film was. I drew comparisons to my own love of The Goonies.
Never mind that. I had determined to watch this monstrous trilogy, I was going to do it. I recorded the second episode. Trouble is, I had apparently misjudged how much tape was left and the VCR only taped five or ten minutes.
I watched the start of the film, not knowing that was all I had. I had hoped that, with the success of the first episode, more care would be taken on the second one’s production–like, perhaps hiring a competent scenarist and retooling the main character into someone you don’t actively want to die–but no, same as before. Might even be worse. Each second that went by was more hated than the last, and I was debating whether I would call it quits after this one and not even bother with the third installment.
Then, my VCR, as merciful as it is antiquated, stopped playing and rewound the tape. I had been spared. I took myself up on the offer of nixing the third episode, and decided that the five or ten minutes I saw of the second surely encapsulated all I need to know and there was absolutely zero need to re-record it. Maybe negative need.
That is the only occasion I have ever started a movie and didn’t finish it. Even then, I would have done if the recording was a success.
I can watch just about anything. I’ve seen Gummo… Ilsa She Wolf of the SS… Desperate Living… just to name a few. There has only been one movie that I simply could not stomach: Natural Born Killers. I watched the first half hour, then turned it off.
Hannah And Her Sisters. Completely underwhelming. We didn’t like any of the characters and were bored silly.
American Werewolf In London. I’m not a big horror fan anyway, and this just had one to many GOTCHA! scenes.
One that I wish I’d walked out on: Stranger Than Paradise. It got rave reviews. My friend and I were sitting in the theatre, listening to the other people in the audience laughing, and we stuck it out because we kept waiting for it to get funny. It never did. There’s 2 hours I’ll never get back :mad:.
A few I forgot:
Turned off Boogie Nights - started really well but clearly didn’t know when to end. My friend and I got seriously bored.
Layer Cake - I must have been about 3/4 of the way through and by that time had no idea what was going on anymore. Decided to quit whilst I was ahead.
The Hours - I am a whiney queer and I still didn’t like it. I thought Kidman played a great Virginia Woolfe but other than that it was just a snoozefest so hit the off button (much to the disgust of one of my friends when I told him later as it’s one of his favourite films).
Oh my god, I hated that character. I don’t remember when the last time was that I saw a character who was so unnecessarily mean. She deserved to be slapped silly.
you still love me though right? i still argue that SJP had it comin
I really wanted to walk out of the theater when I saw Blood Simple because the violence was so sickening, but my boyfriend convinced me not to.
I’ve wanted to turn off every chick flick I’ve been forced to watch at family holidays, but certain other members of my family seemed to be enjoying them. My Best Friend’s Wedding and Notting Hill come to mind.
I don’t watch a lot of movies, at home or in the theater, so I don’t get a lot of opportunities to walk out.
Of course I still love you. I’m convinced you aren’t as rotten as you pretend to be on the internet! 