What movie did you stand up and walk out on?

[7wo7rees]

Mine:

Streets of Fire


Under a Cherry Moon (worst sequel ever)


Rumblefish



The only shitty movies accepted are those you paid money for at the theater, and had to make the decision WE'RE LEAVING.

[uppityperson]

1. Last Tango in Paris. Boring.

[7wo7rees]

6. I can't say I've made it thru that one either.

Marlon has been in better movies. And Bertolucci has made better ones.

[uppityperson]

13. I went when it was in theaters, supposed to be all "ooooo" but meh. Boring.

[Sekhmets Daughter]

14. Yep ...totally overrated!

[RobinA]

138. Marlon Brando

sulking in French for about 6 hours. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

[rurallib]

2. Almost Famous I think it was

had two guys from SNL that were not the ones who made the history books - or that is what I remember.
Took my daughter during a college visit - about midway through she leaned over and ask if we could go - I said thank goodness.

[7wo7rees]

4. I doubt it was Almost Famous

No SNL vets there. Maybe you're thinking of Night at the Roxbury?

[rurallib]

8. Almost Heroes - Farley and Matthew Perry

It stunk or at least that night it did.
We went out to watch a beautiful thunderstorm.

[Dash87]

63. What a piece of crap that was. Grating beyond belief.

A blow torch to my eyes and ears.

[Chan790]

3. I don't walk out. I take a nap.

I figure I've already paid for the pitch-black, the air-conditioning and rented the comfy reclining chair for the length of the show.

I'm getting my money's worth. I didn't even make it through the credits of 54, I was out like a welterweight going toe-to-toe with the heavyweight champ.

[7wo7rees]

7. I napped at The Man Who Knew Too Little

Bill Murray chucklefest but I had just had a one-hour massage after a day of skiing. I kind of knew I was going to do that because I looked for a dark place for a nap in the afternoon. The owner tapped me on the shoulder when the picture was over, just like I'd brought an alarm clock.

[Common Sense Party]

129. That's actually a funny movie.

I hope you've seen it since, on a non-massage day.

[Revanchist]

133. I fell asleep during Alien 3

Don't regret missing it either.

[MuseRider]

5. Love Story.

I am not even certain why I was even there. Date I guess. Blechh.

[7wo7rees]

9. So, tell us, how did the date end?

[MuseRider]

15. LOL

it was so long ago I don't even remember who I was with!

[orleans]

25. omg! that's so funny! n/t

[steve2470]

10. Scary Movie Two, pathetically juvenile nt

[7wo7rees]

12. Yeahhhh

I want my money back.

[fishwax]

48. yeah, I didn't bother getting through all of that one either

Fortunately it only cost me a rental rather than a theater ticket.

[Godhumor]

11. Have only walked out on two - Showgirls and Jurassic Park 3

Though "Johnny Mnemonic" was so bad the only reason I didn't walk out was because I wanted to see if it could possibly get any worse.

It did...once the movie showed a dolphin hacking someone's brain, it definitely did.

[Sekhmets Daughter]

16. A Clockwork Orange...

the violence was nauseating. imo

[orleans]

28. that was why i walked on lord of the rings. n/t

[Sekhmets Daughter]

51. I can understand that.

I loved the trilogy because it was fantasy, but I can appreciate that it was, indeed, violent. Clockwork Orange wasn't fantasy and the violence was all about human degradation. The gang rape in the park was the more than I could stand to watch. What was more disturbing was the acclaim the movie received.

[love_katz]

135. Thank you for this.

I got trashed on a thread when I said I couldn't stand to read this book in high school. Book was too violent for me, so I expect the movie version would've been over-the-top for me. Poster who did the trashing accused me of being illiterate.

[Sekhmets Daughter]

136. You're welcome!

I think many people who say they liked this book or movie say so only because the critics liked it...rather like the bandwagon effect in polling.

Anyone who resorts to ad hominem attacks is simply displaying their own lack of erudition!

[love_katz]

137. Exactly.

I also agreed with your post regarding gratuitous violence. Not my cuppa, that is for sure.

[Locut0s]

56. Too bad it's a great film...

I agree it's violent, though not a lot by today's standards. I wouldn't rate it as Kubrick's best either, but I still think its great.

[Sekhmets Daughter]

57. And that's part of the problem with today's society.

Gratuitous and degrading violence somehow is considered great theater.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

73. Very stylized violence in Clockwork Orange.

Not a great film.
The violence was choreographed like a ballet. The bare bosoms were gratuitous & exploitative. Just because they used Beethoven on the soundtrack didn't make it great.

My daughter made me watch several violent films: Kill Bill, Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction.


When they try to make blood sprays artistic.....YUCK!!

I remember NOTHING of them.

[Sekhmets Daughter]

74. I hated Clockwork...

I didn't think the violence was so stylized as to be less offensive. I am not a fan or gore for the sake of gore, however I can't think of any other movie that so offended me as did Clockwork Orange. The entire movie was about dehumanizing everyone...

[Manifestor_of_Light]

75. I agree!!!

Stylized violence lessens the impact and makes it seem less destructive. But that's in most movies. Boom,bullet, blood packet explode, plop.....they're dead.

Reality is far more horrific.

[RobinA]

139. Like You

I found Clockwork to be offensively violent, but I thought Reservior Dogs was worse. Two hours of my life I wish I had back and a memory I wish I could drill out of my brain.

[NJCher]

117. most of those were walkouts for me

I really can't stand violence. Just no interest in it whatsoever.

Don't watch war movies, either, and I don't care what the message is


Cher.

[BainsBane]

89. me too

I stayed as long as I could but couldn't make it through.

[Sekhmets Daughter]

94. Yep...

I hated it then, I hate it now and even more ,I hate the fact that there are people who think it's a great movie.

[lame54]

108. Don't hate me

[Sekhmets Daughter]

109. I didn't say I hate the people, but the fact that they are so,....

misguided!

[lame54]

112. I can live with that...

misguided is kinda my thing

[Sekhmets Daughter]

113. Perhaps a new GPS would help?

I don't understand the attraction to the degrading sexual violence. I think any message the movie might have contained was lost in that.

[lame54]

114. You walked out of it...

therefore you cannot give a proper review

[Sekhmets Daughter]

115. Actually, I walked out the first time...

several years later I viewed it in it's entirety. I still failed to see the attraction. If I remember correctly, the 'cure' was as dehumanizing as the perpetrator's behavior. The reversion even more depressing. So what do you find so illuminating about the movie?

[edbermac]

17. Never walked out on a film.

Only one I never saw all the way thru was something called Spanglish, I was on a Greyhound bus and that was playing. Got to my stop about 2/3 the way, didn't like it much.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

18. Star Wars. Hated it

[7wo7rees]

22. You're not the first.

[Smarmie Doofus]

78. Me three. Cowboys and Indians in spacesuits. How original. n/t

[Rhiannon12866]

91. I made up for you.

I saw it six times - at the movies!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

99. it would be very interesting to do MRIs on our brains to see

what's different - good news - both liberals !

[UTUSN]

19. barefoot in the park. jane fonda screeching. before she was antiwar. i was on my ship in nam

As I said before politics was an issue. I agreed with her politics not her persona afterward.

[lastlib]

24. "The Morning After" w/ JF & Jeff Bridges.......

Absolutely HORRIBLE waste of film; thought I would vomit when they wound up having sex. High-order Crap!

[7wo7rees]

29. Ooh! Don't think I would have paid for that in the first place.

Then again, Sidney Lumet... No, there's this: "Amazingly, Lumet claims on the commentary that Fonda was actually drunk in this scene: as good an argument against going to work drunk as any I’ve heard." http://thepinksmoke.com/frustratinglumet2.htm

[lastlib]

31. Didn't want to, myself.....

a lady I was friends with wanted to see it, so I took her. (She hated it, too, by the time we left)

[Paulie]

20. I walked out of my moms house when she showed me The Conversation

How the hell the Academy thought it was worth the film I have no idea.

[7wo7rees]

23. Cindy Williams droning was a drag.

Hackman was underused. The script was weak.

[applegrove]

21. The Truman Show, The Cove. Both too upsetting for me to watch.

[7wo7rees]

26. Truman was a special film but I know why you walked out on it.

It was a gentle nudge to the sheeple that they are walking dead. N'est pas?

[applegrove]

32. I was figuring out that I had a psychopath in many areas of my life. I grew up in a rich

neighbourhood and he wanted in. There was gossip about me everywhere. I was so traumatized. I couldn't watch someone being stalked...even if it was benign as it was in Truman's case. I walked out of the theatre and my friend totally understood.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

27. "Planes, Trains and Automobiles"...

barf.

[7wo7rees]

30. Interesting.

It was the last time Steve Martin was funny. Candy was tragically sad. Not a heartwarming movie.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

34. I might give it another go...

considering this was back in the late '80s. I see that it has a 94% fresh rating on rottentomatoes -- that surprises the hell out of me!

[7wo7rees]

38. Here's the gag: fish out of water.

If you can get sympathetic for Martin's character early on, when he's *just trying to get home*, then you might enjoy it. It's supposed to be a miserable ride. Check out Scorsese's After Hours. Same bit. When Edie McClurg says, "Well, then, I guess you're fucked," you should at least snort.

?w=620

[WorseBeforeBetter]

42. Hmm. Not sure how I missed that one...

but I just hopped over to IMDB and think I'll add it to my queue. I think it's the Martin/Candy factor -- I can take only so much of Steve Martin and never cared for Jim Candy. I do like Martin and his banjo gigs with Steep Canyon Rangers, though.

[7wo7rees]

33. I had a date walk out before.

I had screener passes to what I knew would be a knockout: Life Is Beautiful. Italian director and actor Roberto Benigni doing a love story in the Nazi camps.

My date was half-Jewish, half-Italian. How could I miss? She walked out; I stayed. No regrets.

[Chan790]

54. In her defense...that's a terrible date movie.

It's in the same line of bad date decisions as Seinfeld taking a date to see Schindler's List.

[sharp_stick]

76. What a horrible date movie

and to think you took her to it because it was a freebie.

Maybe not a good idea for a long lasting relationship.

[BainsBane]

101. I liked that movie

and I don't agree it's a horrible date movie. I never understood the anger about the film. It doesn't say that the holocaust wasn't horrific, rather it shows the lengths a father went to try to protect his son. It doesn't show the actual horror of the death camps, but I found it a touching film.

[Cane4Dems]

35. The Green Hornet (with seth rogen)

me and my roommate felt like we were cheated out of 14 dollars that night haha

[7wo7rees]

36. Ha! Admit it! You went for the car!

The trailer made this look like a car movie. No Bruce Lee? Who cares?

[BlueJazz]

110. Amen...After about 10 minutes into the film...I thought, "Shit. this is going to suck bad"

And then it got worse..

[rug]

37. Pineapple Express.

Although being that it was a drive-in, I drove out.

[7wo7rees]

39. Took the "Express" did you?

Ha ha! At least you got Milk Duds!

[Initech]

127. There was one good line in that movie:

Where Gary Cole's character gets crushed by a car and one of the other characters says "You just got killed by a Daewoo Lanos motherfucker!!"

[Betsy Ross]

40. Cleopatra nt

[olddots]

43. If I go alone I walk out on alot of movies

Clockwork Orange because of the rape now they could play it on the 700 club .

I left the original Night of the Living Dead three minutes into it -now they can play it on NET

[fizzgig]

44. i have walked out of exactly one movie

spiderman 3.

it was too much for me to deal with an emo spiderman.

[leftyladyfrommo]

66. Anyone remember Lord Love a Duck?

Saw it at the drive-in and drove out.

I just saw No Pain No Gain and hated it. Stuck it out because I was with someone but if I had been alone I probably would have just left. It's supposed to be black humor but I didn't get the humor part. A couple of days later I could kind of see what they were trying to do but I sure wouldn't go see it again.

[Yooperman]

45. Master of Disguise - Starring Dana Carey

Thought I would take in a comedy and I liked Dana Carey.

Absolutely the worst film I had ever tried to watch... left half way through.

YM

<a href="http://afotographer.smugmug.com/Other/Various-Pics/29555999_thDzXc#!i=2527456635&k=FKthrkk&lb=1&s=A" title="Photo & Video Sharing by SmugMug"><img src="" title="Photo & Video Sharing by SmugMug" alt="Photo & Video Sharing by SmugMug"></a>

[7wo7rees]

46. Good call.

[Dash87]

64. Sadly, someone somewhere thought that was a funny movie.

Or maybe not.

[Art_from_Ark]

47. Saturday the 14th

It was supposed to be a spoof of the "Friday the 13th" movies.

[olddots]

49. Did anybody make it thru Saint Elmer's Fire

or whatever it was called with the brat pack of the 80s I went and sat in the lobby .

[Populist_Prole]

71. You mean 'Saintt Elmo's Fire', and no I didn't either.

I recently became enamored with 1980's movies and tried it out on Netflix. What a drag.

[Smarmie Doofus]

77. I like that film, actually. ("Elmo's" btw.) Good ensemble acting by the brats.

And above average writing and directing.

[Ron Obvious]

50. I remember walking out once...

While I remember doing that, I remember absolutely nothing whatsoever about the movie itself. Funny that.

I don't go to the movies much these days anyway. If we include DVD's, I have "walked out on" Prometheus, Quantum of Solace and Skyfall in the last year. My expectations were so high, and I just absolutely hated them. All triumphs of style over substance. It's like writers can't write anymore and CGI is used to cover up the shortfalls.

[FloridaJudy]

52. The Cook, the Thief, etc.

When the gangster started beating that child. I can't abide cruelty, especially toward those who are helpless, like children and animals.

Those who stuck that damned thing out tell me I was lucky to leave before the really disturbing stuff came down. There are movies that are merely bad and awkward: I can usually watch them by running a MST3K commentary in my head. I can even enjoy them, in a purely masochist way. Then there are those I just find distressing. I can't sit through most horror movies, either.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

82. I saw it in college as part of a class.

It was a night class, and our professor encouraged us to bring our own food while we ate.

And then we saw the ending.



Needless to say, I literally lost my appetite for two days after seeing it.

[RobinA]

140. I Rented That Thing

And turned it off during the opening credits. Had one of those "Life's too short" moments.

[Shrek]

53. "A History of Violence"

My wife's choice, not mine.

I was actually enjoying it.

[Locut0s]

55. What dreams my come...

Staring Robin Williams. I was in a bad mood so I wasn't in the best frame of mind to judge but I remember William's acting really annoying me at the time. There have been a few others but I can't remember them.

[7wo7rees]

83. Super saccharine.

Lindsay Lohan has a new tattoo that says that. Nuff said.

[Xyzse]

58. 2 Movies

Virgin Suicides - I was with my girlfriend at the time, it got boring as hell, and we did some better activities after.
Bruno - The hell was I thinking. I still blame my sister for suggesting this one. Not really a fan of Baron Cohen's movies. He's good as a supporting actor, but that's about it.

[Myrina]

59. Vanilla Sky ... Master & Commander

... to this day ... wtf?

[Dash87]

65. I actually somewhat enjoyed Vanilla Sky, only because

of the subject matter. Everything else about it sucked (bad story, annoying actors, etc.).

[Xyzse]

69. I saw Abre Los Ojos...

Finally tried Vanilla Sky by watching it on Video. Didn't get past 20 minutes of it.

[sarge43]

60. Annie

When Franklin and Eleanor started to sing Tomorrow - neither actor could carry a tune with a forklift.

[Jokerman]

61. The Blue Lagoon

I was skeptical but my date really wanted to see it. About 30-40 minutes in she whispered to me that the movie was terrible and then she suggested something much more fun to do with the rest of our evening.

We were out of that theater in seconds flat.

[Locut0s]

87. I think that would get me to walk out of even the best movie! ;)

[Dash87]

62. None at the theater. I'm picky, bc theaters are so expensive.

I came very close with "Bruno" (or should I say, 'porno'). Truly one of the worst movies ever made, and I used to like "Da Ali G Show." It was so bad, it actually ruined all of his other movies for me.

I did turn off (on Redbox):

- Epic Movie
- That Robin Williams one where he was a radio announcer. That was so boring.
- A Haunted House
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, a.k.a 'Lets watch paint dry'
- Delta Farce


Others I barely made it through:

- Wild Hogs
- Alex Cross

[bigwillq]

67. I'm never walked out of one in a theater

But I have turned some off while watching on DVD, VHS or On-Line.

[Brother Buzz]

68. I totally walked out on Rumblefish, too

It's the ONLY movie I walked out on.

[7wo7rees]

84. Nice to meet the other guy who bought a ticket.

The Wrestler redeemed Mickey for me. A long wait.

[raccoon]

70. Natural Born Killers. nt

[Populist_Prole]

72. 'Do the Right Thing'

It was highly reccommended to me by my liberal cousin-in law, and so I took a female date with me to see it. Bad choice for a date movie. Plus the vibe in the theater made her uncomfortable, so we left.

I rented it saw it by myself a year or so later. Meh.

[Smarmie Doofus]

79. I would have walked out on Django... were I alone.

Repellent shit. He ( Tarantino) needs help.

[Locut0s]

86. Quite liked much of it...

Hated some of it, Tarantino is letting his stardom go to his head. That 10min cameo of himself in the film is so fucking cringe worthy. It's a bit too long, and a bit too goofy but that goes for most of his films. Wonderful acting by DiCaprio.

[archiemo]

92. I did walk out. Attended with my family but couldn't take any more slaughter...

[TeamPooka]

80. Dune

[TrogL]

81. Parental Guidance with Billy Crystal

Stormed out during the symphony scene

[Tom Ripley]

85. Lazerblast, The Lonely Lady

[Tabasco_Dave]

88. Rock of Ages

I started the car and drove out of the drive-in as opposed to walking out of a theater. I hope that counts.

[BainsBane]

90. A Cook, A Thief, a Wife and her Lover

the violence was too much for me. The same with Tie me up, Tie me Down and A Clockwork Orange.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

124. Nearly 25 years later, I still get queasy...

when I think back to that film (The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover). I made it through the whole thing.

[In_The_Wind]

93. The Devils. We walked out soon after the beginning.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devils_(film)

[BainsBane]

102. I hadn't heard of that film

but now I kind of want to see it. I have a fascination with demonology and witchcraft.

[In_The_Wind]

104. The exorcisms we too painful to watch when I was young.

The church did things.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

95. I never actually walked out on a movie.

True, there are some where I've been tempted--Down to You, Eye of the Beholder--(seen back to back on weekends in 1999, btw), but if you find yourself watching a really bad movie, most often you just want to sit through it and relish its awfulness.

Occassionally I have turned off a movie I've rented, however. I remember my wife and I renting the Rob Zombie movie "House of 1000 Corpses", and somewhere after seeing Dwight Schrute being turned into a fish, my wife turned to me and asked "Do you really care watching the rest of this?" And I replied, "Not really."

(Ironically, the sequel to "House of 1000 Corpses", "The Devil's Rejects" is halfway decent.)

I do remember my parents telling me rather excitedly that they were going to see "Borat" in the theaters. Knowing my parents and knowing what I heard about "Borat", I told them they weren't going to like it. They went anyways, and lasted about 2 minutes before walking out.

[mainer]

96. Babette's Feast. The Fountain. Moulin Rouge.

Well, didn't walk out of exactly. Just turned off the DVD player.

[Iggo]

97. Adventureland.

Marketed as a comedy.

It wasn't.

Even then, I would've stayed, but it just wasn't any good. I made it I guess about 20 or 30 minutes then I stood up and said "fuck this shit" and walked out.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

144. It was an okay movie.

But you are 100% correct that it shouldn't have been marketed as a comedy. It was almost a straight up drama.

[Baitball Blogger]

98. Never!

But I think my dad walked out on the Entity. It was playing at the same time as E.T. and we went to a Spanish theater. He got them confused.

[TheMightyFavog]

100. Face/Off

What a stinkburger.

[Iggo]

105. "Face...off!!!"

[Populist_Prole]

103. Couldn't get through more than 20 minutes of 'Borat'

I just couldn't. Lame obvious gutter humor. Reccommended to me by people I obviously didn't know well enough.

[Broken_Hero]

106. Only 1 movie....

Titanic(Cameron film), I didn't leave because of the movie, I left because I got stood up...

[dry99]

107. I think I've only walked out one time.

The Thin Red Line.
What an overblown piece of shit that was!

[BlueJazz]

111. Moulin Rouge. It was so damn "busy", I felt like I was being mugged.

[LWolf]

116. None.

I don't go to that many movies; if I drive to the theater and pay for the tickets, I know enough about the movie to be a little interested in it.

[GoCubsGo]

118. Russ Meyers' "Up!"

To be fair, the film kept breaking, but the film wasn't worth all the interruptions.

[Rob H.]

119. Couldn't walk out because someone with me was my ride

but there's only one movie I've seen in theaters that I would've walked out of: Boxing Helena. Just flat-out terrible--simply mind-blowingly bad.

All I can say is thank goodness there's now RottenTomatoes.com. That site has probably saved me quite a bit of money over the years.

[tavernier]

120. Beverly Hills Cop and Cabin Boy

The first because the script bored me silly: "fuketyfukfukfuketyfuk." I really resent having to dummy down just to watch a movie. The second because it was just plain awful.

[Initech]

121. Anger Management, Batman & Robin, Car 54 Where Are You are a couple that come to mind.

[GReedDiamond]

125. Batman & Robin?!! I have some costume graphics in that fine film...

...but, yeah, it totally sucked...don't blame ya for walkin' out.

I almost walked out of "The Flinstones Viva Rock Vegas," in which I also have some costume graphics, but if I did, my girlfriend would have followed me, and then there would have literally been NOBODY left in the theater at that particular screening.

So we stuck it out. My fleeting graphics looked great on the big screen.

[Initech]

126. I might try rewatching it at some point.

Mainly because I'm a huge fan of the Dark Knight trilogy and Batman & Robin explains a lot about Bane's back story.

[retread]

122. Patton.

[El Supremo]

123. Days of Heaven

And have refused to see any Richard Gere movie ever since.

[Common Sense Party]

128. Caddyshack 2.

[GReedDiamond]

130. Back in the early 90s, I saw a screening of "Cocksucker Blues" at the Wiltern...

...in Los Angeles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocksucker_Blues

[Sugarcoated]

131. Two Bruce Willis movies

I didn't walk out of the theater, I can't remember doing that, but hit the stop button on Hudson Hawk and the Fifth Element.

I went into watching Nothing But Trouble starring John Candy and Dan Akroyd knowing it sucked, but just couldn't waste more than maybe 10 minutes of my life on such a hideously bad movie.

[7wo7rees]

141. Fifth Element is worth another look

"Meat Popsicle."

Ian Holm, Chris Tucker, Tricky, costumes by JPG. Get a couple pops in ya.

[tblue37]

132. Forty Carats. nt

[Separation]

134. Indiana jones & the Crystal skulls, and Star Wars ep1

My god. Spielberg, Lucas, they ought to be ashamed. I actually asked for my money back on the Indiana Jones movie and received a free movie pass.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

142. "Solyaris"

I can usually do "watching paint dry" slow movies, but this one was just too much for me. The showtime, subtitles, and being tired did me in -- I walked at hour two.

I left "The Cook et al" towards the end against my will -- my date/ride had become disgusted.

Even when renting or watching on HBO/Cinemax I rarely turn off a film. The only one I have recently had problems with was "The Green Lantern" -- I have tried to watch that at least three times but have given up each time. Still have no idea how it ends.

There are films I simply choose not to watch, period, because I know in advance they are not my taste or they will be bad. Anything in the slasher genre or the new movie "satires" like "Scary Movie" never even get a chance with me.

In reading others choice of walkouts I see many of my favorite films or films I enjoyed and acknowledge to be great. With movies there's something out there for everyone, which makes it the perfect art form.

[KamaAina]

143. W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings

a pre-rug Burt Reynolds vehicle. It was actually Mom who waked out, taking me with her.