What movies have you walked out on?
 

For me, Pulp Fiction comes to mind first. My friend and I were somehow expecting an Airplane!-like movie. Obviously, that's not what we got. Not sure how we got the wrong idea - maybe it was the Samuel Jackson Cheeseburger Royale bit in previews. I dunno. We kept giving it 5 more minutes, but we gave up after probably a half hour. I think the overdose scene was when we left.

When I was a kid, my whole family wanted to leave Out Of Africa, but each of us kept quiet, not wanting to ruin the movie we thought the others were enjoying. The movie just wouldn't end. Awful.

Holy Man is the only one for me.

i could never imagine walking out on a movie.

None and I probably never will. I feel I can make that statement because I didn't walk out on Battlefield Earth so, if I survived that, I can survive anything.

Pulp Fiction? That was awesome. So was No Retreat, No Surrender. Everyone has to watch that comedy. ;)

I don't think I've walked out of any movie, since if it's bad then it's something to laugh about with the people I went with. Although Alexander was probably the closest I came to walking out. Just boring and bizarre.

Neither could I really, not until Sixth Sense*.

*movies showing the wrong reels not withstanding

We kept wanting to leave Showgirls early, but were afraid to mention it because of all the boobies and stuff, each of us thought the other was enjoying it.

I dont think I've ever walked out on a movie. Nothing is that bad otherwise I wouldnt have seen it in the first place. Though, if I had saw Howard's End in the movie theatre, I might have walked out

I don't remember ever walking out of a movie, but I definitely slept through 90% of the movie Michael when I went to see it with the girl i was dating at the time. I think her response was that I seemed to be enjoying my nap far more than the movie so she didn't want to wake me.

The only movie I ever ran out on was A River Runs Through It. It took 10 minutes and I was done.

I puked during that navy movie with De Niro and the guy from Jerry McGuire who's career fell apart, and had to leave. But that had nothing to do with the movie.

Other than that, certainly never. I can't imagine doing it.

And I can't believe someone would walk out on Pulp Fiction.

Sleepwalkers (1992)

Mission to Mars (2000)

Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 (2000)

I've never walked out of a movie in the theater, though I've wanted to on a few occasions (The Last Airbender being the most recent candidate), but there have been a few that I've been watching at home that I have turned off, never to return. Most notable of these would be The Thin Red Line and Showgirls.

My wife and I walked out on the first Austin Powers - didn't laugh once.

I don't recall ever walking out on a movie, I think I would have walked out on Watchmen had I seen it in a theater.

As for watching at home, I usually get through an entire movie even if it sucks, but there have been a couple of exceptions.

I fell asleep during the Ang Lee Hulk and fell asleep near the middle of The Tale of Despereaux. The whole time during the Tale of Despereaux, I kept thinking... really, I just watched Ratatouille what the hell is this? And just lost interest. I was also sick so that might explain some of it.

The only time I can remember bailing out of a movie at home is the first Lord of the Rings movie. I just wasn't in the mood, I think. I was bored.

But otherwise, I'm only going to commit the time to a movie if it's something I know I want to see. Maybe I end up disapointed by it, but I have still satisified the desire to see that particular movie.

The Thin Red Line...ugh...I still think that movie even made my popcorn taste shittier than usual.

i was just gonna say this... I never watch movies in the theater but there are ones i cant finish, but a thin red line was terrible.

I've never walked out of a movie.

I don't think I've walked out of any films in a theater...

How can you turn off The Thin Red Line? It's like Saving Private Ryan but without a soul...which is the entire point of war right? It has no soul? Plus there's that cast...Penn, Nolte, Brody, Harrelson, Cusak, Caviezel, Travolta, Clooney, etc...

Anyways, I've turned the following movies off at home.

Old Dogs - How can a movie with Robin Williams be so incredibly unfunny?
Troy - It seemed like they blew their entire wad on casting...worst acting of Pitt's career
Vicky Cristina Barcelona - Manipulative steaming pile of dung
White Chicks - I wonder how a movie of two white guys painting their skin dark and making fun of black people would go over?
Mad Max - I just don't get it...

There were others I'm sure...and especially recently. I feel like I've been in a funk with renting god awful films. Is it just me or are movies getting worse?

I could see where upset expectations would have that affect. I remember when I first saw "The Fifth Element". I thought it was supposed to be a new "Bladrunner". A girtty, futuristic serious film. It's futuristic, but not at all that serious really. I hated it. I've seen it many times since and have grown to really like it. Once I readjusted my expectations, I ended up just enjoying the film for what it is. And for Mila.

"Multi-Pass!"

Chick-on good.

I can't think of a movie I've walked out on in the theater, though we did just stop watching our recording of Napoleon Dynamite about half an hour in.

Correction to one of the movies I mentioned earlier. It was Striptease that I turned off, not Showgirls.

A couple of others that I have turned off:

Batman and Robin
The Horse Whisperer

I did that also, I went back and watched it a few months later and liked it better.

Oh, I also turned off The King and I.

I didn't think I would ever walk out of a movie because I generally like a lot of stupid movies.

That being said, I very quickly walked out of Gone Fishin' (not sure why I went in the first place).

Never have but definitely should have/wanted to (was there with a group/no car). Happy Feet and The Golden Compass are recent ones that come to mind.

/tk

I love Jackson's LOTR. I've seen all three multiple times and could watch them over and over again...

That being said, I, too, find his "King Kong" to be absolutely unbearable. I never saw it in the theater, but have come across it several times on cable and couldn't stand it.

I walked out on Leprechaun, tried to walk out on Planet of the Apes but my date wouldn't leave, was about 99% on walking out of the Happening but my sister offered to buy me some candy to stay. I usually got discounted tickets from the student center, so when I walked out I didn't feel like I was wasting that much.

I said it in another thread, but I did take The Crow 2 back to the video store about 30 minutes after I rented it and demanded a new movie for free.

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The only one I can think of.

3 for me.
 

I used to see a ton of movies in the theatre. Probably 30-50 a year. Both HS best friends were projectionists and I was in a movie preview group that reviewed films the week before they were released. You could only miss 2 free showings in a year, and there was no way in hell I was driving across Atlanta to see "Stop or my mom will shoot"
Usually see about 3-4 movies a year now, next one will be Inception. Remember walking out on three movies.

Robin Hood: Men in Tights

Mo Better Blues

Hulk (the 1st remake, left before the Nolte scene)

Don't remember ever walking out during a movie, but I slept through just about all of The Cave.

Maybe I was expecting something more like SPR...non-stop action with body parts flying every where for 3 hours. Maybe I'll give it another go around now that I'm a little older. But, then again, "fool me once, shame on me...fool me twice..."

I think the whole reason The Thin Red Line didn't make as much money in theaters was SPR being released just a few months earlier. On it's own it's an amazing film, but if you're going in expecting 90 minutes of blood/gore/explosions and 10-20 minutes of character development, you're going to be supremely disappointed.

Because it's boring as hell? So, so boring. Yes, war is awful. We know this. We don't need 500 shots of natives swiming or sunlight glistening through tree tops or swaying grass or animals or what not to get the point across. That cast was absolutely wasted on a dull movie.

Clooney was in it for all of 2 minutes at the end. I remember that vividly because of the panic I started to feel when I saw him on screen. I was terrified that I still had to sit through at least another 30 minutes of this horrible, bloated self-important mess of a film because there was no way they'd just introduce Clooney and then end it. Thankfully, they did.

Instead you get 2 hours of mind-numbingly boring stuff and 10-20 minutes of character development of boring and annoying characters.

I have only seen The Thin Red Line once and that was in the theater. If I recall there might have been one or two compelling characters, but they were hardly at all in the movie and misued. The main characters, Caveziel and Penn were just irritating.

I used to never even turn DVD movies off. Now that I'm older though I find myself turning alot of movies off. Probably something to do with me getting older and not wanting to waste more of my life watching something I'm not enjoying.

Recent ones I've shut off in the last year or so : The Golden Compass, The Fountain, Date Movie, Epic Movie. I rented the Informant, but after seeing reviews here I didn't even bother to put it in.

SPR is just another bang-bang flick that desensitizes you to War. TTRL, god forbid, actually presents it as a vivid real-life event.

I always got the feeling that the US Military had some kind of hand in SPR as a recruitment tool. Sort of a "If you want to kill nazi's, join the military!" kind of thing. Whereas watching TTRL leaves you thinking "who the hell in the right mind would want to do this?"

The fact that you even rented one of these "Movie" movies means you should be punished and forced to watch every movie you ever rent or see on cable in its entirety. Twice.

Seriously. That's shameful.

You must not have seen the first 15 minutes of Saving Private Ryan. If that doesn't turn you AWAY from war, nothing will. However, I haven't seen The Thin Red Line to compare the two though.

I am not comparing the two. TTRL sucks. Period. I never got the sense that TTRL presented war "as a vivid real-life event." I would offer to see it again to see if maybe I missed something, but I don't think I could do it. I don't hate a lot of movies, bu TTRL was insufferable.

So, maybe you're right. If Malik's goal was to make watching TTRL like being in a war, "who the hell in the right mind would want to do this?", mission accomplished!

Titanic, though I have to admit, it was on the second viewing. My then-gf-turned-ex-wife and I got roped into seeing it again with friends, because they hadn't seen it. I fell asleep and we left about 1/3 of the way through it.

Obviously I shut it off, so I can't speak to The Thin Red Line as a whole, I just know that I was bored out of my f*cking skull watching it. I kept waiting for something, anything to happen...once 45 minutes or so had passed we (my gf at the time) gave up and turned it off.

I own SPR, and I've probably watched it a dozen times by now. There's nothing wrong with it as a movie, just as long as you don't look at it as a drama film. It's definitely an "action flick" to the bone. I see the first 15 minutes as a "look at us, we're America, we can fight through anything in just 15 minutes time!" Maybe if they set it up to show 150 different waves of infantry getting mowed down...then it would make people shy away from war.

Wait a second...you wanted to join the army after watching SPR? FUCK THAT NOISE!!! I would think watching bits of bodies flying all over the place for nearly the entire duration of the movie would deter that sort of thing in most, if not all, rational human beings...or am I just a pansy and love my nice, non-violent life too much?

I know I can't speak for the 2nd half of TTRL, but from what I remember army life looked awfully boring and much more appealing (if you didn't want to die or watch lots of other people die) in that movie. Again, I maybe wrong because nothing but shots of scenery are coming to mind when I think of that flick.

This thread makes me want to watch TTRL.

My first though after seeing SPR would not be to run out and enlist.

Funny...the majority of the guys I know in the army (and the marines come to think of it) rank SPR as one of their top 3 favorite movies. Right up there with...

Blackhawk Down

It's a funny thing, what makes people want to enlist.

As far as whether I wanted to enlist...I assure you nothing on this earth would ever convince me to join an organization whose sole purpose is to kill.

Favorite movies and reasons for joining the military are two very, very different things. Band of Brothers, SPR, Blackhawk Down, etc...are all on my "watch them whenever they are one" list but that doesn't mean I want to run out and enlist...they are great movies.

If those movies were indeed their motivation...yikes...then I guess it does take all kinds to make the world go 'round...good on them for doing it, regardless.

My dad was in the military but refuses to watch any of those movies because he says he already knows what being in the military is about...he doesn't need Hollywood to tell him what they "think" it's like.

I haven't walked out on a movie in a theater (if I've paid $8-10 for it, I'm damn well going to enjoy the massive screen and sound at least).

I also enjoyed The Thin Red Line, but yes, it's more of a philosophical view on war rather than your traditional war movie. But that expectation will make some people hate it.

Oh, and I really like Vicky Christina Barcelona, but I'm a Woody Allen fan, so...

The only drama in the movie is when the hell are they going to find him. It is an action movie though for sure. The one character I couldn't stand was the Colonel or Major (can't remember his rank) that is in just about any WWII movie these days and is always a military adviser to the movie he's in. As for the length of that scene, you have to compress time or the whole movie would have to be called, "We Didn't Know About Having to Save Private Ryan Because We Never Got Off the Beach". ;)

I do have to respectfully disagree with you on opening scene at Normandy. I think it showed the brutality of that campaign and that the people that did make it were not only surprised that they made it, but, felt extremely lucky that they weren't one of the dead on the beach. Tom Sizemore's character being an example of that when he scooped up the dirt and put it in a jar/can and Tom Hanks' character with his hands that won't stop shaking. I'll have to watch it again, but, I just don't recall too much rah-rah or gung ho-ness to it like you would see in a John Wayne movie.

I enlisted because I wanted to get a hold of some of that Arcturian poon tang.

Well...more than one of them have specifically told me they were all-the more motivated to join because of those movies.

My grandfather was drafted into the Navy during WWII, and as a Jew nonetheless. It effectively ended his bid to become a professional baseball player (he had very recently signed a minor league deal with the Reds) as a pitcher. He wasn't big on war movies either.

well played :)

Male or female?

I thought Saving Private Ryan did a great job of showing how horrific war is without romanticizing it.

This is one of those movies that I always forget about when I think of my favorite movies.

I love it. Is it considered a bad movie by most?

Doesn't matter, it's Arcturian.

I never walked out of a movie, only because I inevitably fall asleep during opening credits...yes, I go to movies with the wife and daughter....

I'm with Scoobz on this one. I own A River Runs Through It and still watch it with some regularity. Absolutely beautiful film. It always makes me want to visit Montana.

You know what, now that I've looked it up on IMDB, it can't be the movie. I seemed to some how attach that movie title to whatever movie I'm confusing it with. The movie I saw had to come out in late 1990 or early 1991 and A River Runs Through It came out in 1992. All I remember is the first 10 minutes of two dudes running through the woods, with nothing or no one chasing them. I left, so I don't know what happened after that.

I havent ever walked out on a movie. Probably because I have never made movie theaters a regular occurrence.

The closest I got was when I went to watch "No Holds Barred" as a kid. Being a huge wrestling fan at the time, it probably wouldnt have taken much for me to enjoy it...that said, that movie was a botched abortion.

My father was in the Army for 20+ years, including a year in Vietnam. He never killed a soul...

Thank you sir!

Any thought that militarism doesn't exist for the purpose of killing is stemmed in some serious brainwashing.

Could it be A River Wild, with Kevin Bacon Meryl Streep? I've gotten the titles of these movies confused before.

I guess one could look at it as "defending" instead of killing.

One certainly could...plus war is a necessary evil, and history has shown that war is the only thing that really gets things done...right?

Battlefield Earth is the only one, my god that was horrific. wtf was Travolta thinking? . wtf was anyone thinkoing? WTF was I thinking?

I will look that up. Really just depends on what year and part of that year it was released.

EDIT: Nope. Just looked it up. That came out in 94. The movie I'm thinking of had to come out the last half of 90 or early 91.

45 minutes into Highlander II I came to the startling realization that there was no reason whatsoever that I had to waste one more minute of my life watching that absolute garbage. Even though I'd seen some stinkers before, none had ever been so bad that walking out had even occurred to me.

In my world that movie does not exist.

You chose wisely.

"Highlander II" remains the worst movie I have ever seen in a theater.

Never walked out on a movie, but the worst I've seen in a theater is Mortal Kombat: Annihilation.

Holy crap

+1

I haven't seen the movie but knew right where to look.

I'm going to guess that you're referring to Dale Dye.
Dale Dye
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I've never been much on his acting but enjoyed his early writing like Run Between the Raindrops, which is what the second half of Full Metal Jacket should have been.

I have never really walked out of a movie....

I had a smoke break in the middle of Titanic (I never do that). I ended up spending 30 minutes outside playing with my palm pilot.

I fell asleep during The Dark Knight, but that was mainly because I had not slept in 30 hours. It was a mistake going to see it. My dad was in town and that is what he wanted to do. The ironic thing is that The Dark Knight is now one of my favorite movies.

I feel obliged to say at this point that I watched the Street Fighter: Chun Li movie IN A THEATER and it was still better than Happy Feet and The Golden Compass.

/tk

Yup, that's the man. Waaay too stiff of an actor and he only has one tone and volume to his voice. Now R. Lee Ermey, he can act.

Dude where's my car.


we walked out of that and snuck into a different movie, i wasn't about to waste $10 for nothing.

I'm amused by some of the movies you people are willing to pay for and then are all shocked they're not good.

Only once. I walked out of "Beverly Hills Ninja", one of Farley's last movies. I think we decided to after the fifth joke consisting of Farley walking and hitting his head on an object. That was about 30 minutes in if I recall.

At least with dramas or action movies that are bad you can make fun of them and be entertained. With a bad comedy its just painful to sit through. "Year One" I made it through, but that was bordering on painful too.

I got dragged to the 3rd LOTR movie. That goddamn thing just wouldn't end. I would have walked out early from that one too, but I was with some friends who were big fans of the series.

I walked out of one movie one time, but I can't for the life of me recall what it was. But it wasn't because of the movie, it was because I went to take my mind off some personal drama, and then couldn't get my mind off of it and just got really irritated and didn't want to be trapped there thinking about it.

I don't go out to the movies much, but have wanted to leave several, but only left for a walk around while the missus watched them. Fell asleep in one of the Batman movies and was pissed the sound was so loud it kept waking me up. I typically only finish half of the rented movies the missus brings home. A book is a hundred times better. I have seen a car chase before, no need to see several hundred more. Ditto for gunfights. If I wanted to see gunfights, I'd buy a gaming console and twitch my thumbs at it for an hour before falling asleep. I am convinced there are only seven scripts left in Hollywood that are recycled with different actors, special effects and accents.

Not that I'm crotchedy and opinionated or anything.

Maybe you should just watch movies about sleeping? That seems to be what you enjoy most anyway.

Sounds like you just don't like movies.

Or suffer from narcolepsy.

Maybe he just needs a movie with narcolepsy in it? Kevin, have you seen Deuce Bigelo?

Must be the geek in me - but I'd definitely give it a whirl if it shows up on cable ;)

Kevin,

I think what everybody is saying here is...

In regards to your sleeping, you're not normal...you're, you know...different. Have you ever considered Red Bull?

I think we need to back off of Kevin's sleeping situation. Perhaps it's just the cool, darkness of the movie theater that makes him sleepy. It's like some sort of trigger or something.

Same thing happens to me sometimes. Odds are that if I go into some big bookstore like a "Barnes 'n Noble" or a "Borders", I'm going to have to take a dump before I leave. It's odd, but for whatever reason that's how it goes.

These things happen. People are susceptible to certain triggers sometimes. It's no me, it's science talking.

I don't remember the name of it now, but there was a movie some years ago I went to see that I thought looked really interesting. And it wound up being so tedious, so slow, and so boring, I walked out for about 20 minutes and only went back in so Mom and Dad wouldn't worry that something happened to me.

They were stunned, because I'd never walked out on a movie before and I haven't since.

The only details of the movie I can recall are that there was this teenage kid and his parents were divorced. He went back and forth between them and everybody seemed to hate each other. I seem to remember a scene where he was eating with his mom in a restaurant that looked pretty empty.

Sounds kinda/sorta like Ordinary People.

Never walked out on a movie, but the Avengers came close.

Back in high school I paid money and sat through all of Camp Nowhere staring Christopher Lloyd. If I can make it through that I can never walk out of a movie.

I should have known the movie was bad when the girl working the ticket booth looked at me and my friends and asked us if we were serious when we said we wanted to buy tickets for it.


I have however rented plenty of movies and stopped watching them The Thin Red Line being one.

Blair Witch 2
Weekend At Bernie's 2
Mr. Mom - which I actually ended up enjoying later on in life

The Dungeonmaster has shown up on my cable twice in the last 6 months....and I watched it both times. And it was TERRIBLE, except for the part with W.A.S.P.

Also, the title 'Dungeonmaster' may imply that there is some medieval-themed action to be had in this flick, but there isn't.