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.

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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.