Inspired by Stefen's "fell asleep" thread...
What movies have you walked out on? (This is limited to the theater, obviously.)
Mine was Outbreak... I was pretty young and got very disturbed when they started explicitly showing the effects of the virus.
I almost walked out on Rock Star, but I couldn't, because I was reviewing it for my college newspaper. I regret those 105 minutes to this day.
Don't think I have ever walked out on a movie. The closest I ever came was Mission: Impossible 2. I loved the first one and had no idea the 2nd one would be so terrible. During the climax I said to my friend "if that dude takes off a mask and it's Tom Cruise, let's leave." Sure enough, it happened. But my friend wouldn't leave.
Not counting festivals (because sometimes it's not that the movie is awful, it's just that you need to catch something else), I can only think of two.
- The Phantom. My entire family walked out of this. I was mildly interested in staying because I got that it was dumb on purpose, but it still stunk and my parents, especially hated it.
- Silver City - John Sayles, I love ya, but this was cringe-inducing.
Salo. Shitty, shitty movie. I saw it at home. I walked out of my moms house.
I'll probably get kicked off these boards, but when I was 14, I walked out of Thin Red Line.
The only movie ive ever walked out of was Seven Years in Tibet, which lead me to walk into the sceening room across the hall, which was showing Boogie Nights.
I dont have many memories before this moment...
I walked out of Lord of the Rings: Return of the King after the 3rd of the total 7 endings. Just became too much nerd glee for me.
I've never walked out of a movie (except for once where the scheduling wizards of a film festival scheduled Died Young, Stayed Pretty and Dogtooth as overlapping, so I had to leave the former to see all of the latter). There have been times I've never finished a rental for various reasons (Life is Beautiful, Hulk, and Boondock Saints come to mind), but if I've paid for a ticket, I couldn't imagine not toughing it out. And I sat through this (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0295427/). I fell asleep for a bit after realizing how horrible it was (another one for Stefen's thread), but still, I made it.
The Great White Hype
Three Kings - saw this with a friend and his dad, and for some reason he got really offended by it and we left
Quote from: Ravi on November 11, 2010, 10:33:28 PM
Three Kings - saw this with a friend and his dad, and for some reason he got really offended by it and we left
was he a towel head?
i wish i'd walked out of Gladiator. instead, i did the next best thing and fell asleep.
pearl harbor
home on the range (disney movie about cows)
paris, france
innocent voices (mexican luis mandoki film about guerrilla in el salvador)
edge of darkness
godsend
what dreams may come
fireworks (takeshi kitano)
snatch (home video but I also walked out of my parent's house on that one).
wanted to walk out but didn't (and should've):
neverland
pirates of the caribbean 2
l'humanite
lake tahoe
charlie's angels 2
coyote ugly
the happening
indy 4
walked from ed scissorhands, left my friends at the cinema and walked home like 20 blocks, that's how much I was hating the damn thing.
the doors, walked out maybe ten minutes before it ended, we got tired of seeing some stoned dude.
also walked from single white female, this wasnt my call, at the intermission (we had those back then) we went to buy popcorn and then the fucking candy store was already closed! friends were pissed and wanted to leave.
wanted but didnt:
pirates of the whoribbean 2 & 3
armaggedon
some dicaprio movie were he played a gay poet
indy 4
get smart
evan almighty
I walked out of Alexander. But only because it was the cool thing to do that year.
Quote from: Q_FM on November 12, 2010, 11:23:11 PM
I walked out of Alexander. But only because it was the cool thing to do that year.
Oh, walking out of an Oliver Stone movie puts you on Gold Trumpets bad side. He's going to make you watch the other cut!
Well, the theatrical cut was bad. I wanted to love it and convince myself it was good, but couldn't.
I don't know I've ever actually walked out of a movie, but there is certainly some awful shit that I've sat through (Indy 4 springs immediately to mind).
Admin edit: SPOILER for The Others incoming...
The first movie I remember distinctly hating was The Others with Nicole Kidman. The characters spent the entire first scene repeating a variation of "What if we were dead but didn't know we were dead?" which pretty much signaled the entire rest of the film for me. But I stayed as everyone else seemed into it. Then a billion hours later we find out, yep, they were dead all along and they didn't know it. I was the first one out of the cinema as soon as the credits came up. Awful shit.
^^^^^^^^^ SPOOOIIIILLLLLSSS
movie that deserved it: Wing Commander
movie that didn't: A History of Violence
both were out of consideration for friends. The first one I was only seeing for a girl, who had some issue so when she left there really wasn't any point to be in the theater. The second, I walked in late and caught the juicy violence and sex parts then decided it was better suited for dvd. I went to Waiting instead and laughed my ass off.
For the spoils, I'm sorry. If you every plan on sitting through The Others I'm even more sorry.
You make a good point.
my blueberry nights. wanted to leave about halfway through but remembered there was a cat power cameo so i stuck around for that, though i don't think there was much movie left after it.
the women. not sure why i went to this one. intended double feature with my (gay) roommate and his fag hag after burn after reading, which i hated. i stayed for about ten minutes.
just about every student short film festival i've ever had the poor sense of attending, either immediately after a friend's film or when the feeling of time wasted became too much to bear.
Dragged to Easy A, tonight. After 20 minutes, went straight to a bar. Had a Manhattan.
Weird, I liked Easy A.
I spoiled Tarzan and got kicked out when I was 9-10. Does that count?
I walked out on badassss because it was pretty boring but also my rides who went to see another movie were leaving.
Quote from: KarlJan on November 22, 2010, 10:51:34 AM
I spoiled Tarzan and got kicked out when I was 9-10. Does that count?
When was this? 1945? :wink:
Quote from: Mogwai on November 22, 2010, 12:01:04 PM
Quote from: KarlJan on November 22, 2010, 10:51:34 AM
I spoiled Tarzan and got kicked out when I was 9-10. Does that count?
When was this? 1945? :wink:
Wait, what? (https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.contandohistoria.com%2Ftarzan6.gif&hash=25c32db0ff24d09f03d73f3f5883a835b44a8ec3)
Damn son, the story of Tarzan has been around long before Disney exploited it. Like most of their shit, they just took something someone else did, slapped some animation on it and called it a day.