Inspired: What movies have you walked out of?

[Deb in IA]

I'm too cheap to walk out of a movie that I've paid for too!! Even for DVD's that we've rented, we usually stick it out until the end, although sometimes we fall asleep. We are too curious to know how the movie ends, even if it stinks!!

The Austin Powers movies were like that for us. Boring, stupid, not funny.

Interesting variety of opinions here. DH loves some of the movies mentioned here and watches them over and over on DVD (Sin City, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Clockwork Orange), but he WILL walk out on any movie where children are hurt or killed. To this day, he will not watch Schindler's List, and has never seen the part in "Gladiator" where Russell Crowe comes home to find his wife and son's bodies hanging from the rafters.

 

[imsorry]

Years ago, a Charles Bronson movie where his daughter gets raped and falls of a building and is impaled on a fence. The violence made me sick.

 

[pansmermaidzlagoon]

Never - I usually feel anything is worht sitting through once - two I almost walked out of: "Jurassic Park" (DH and I thought it was horribly sophomoric - we laughed all the way through it, but not where you were intended to laugh) and "Leaving Las Vegas".

Oh - and at home on DVD could not get passed first 5-10 minutes of "Happiness" - I think that is the name of the SOlonz movie. I really like Phillip Seymour Hoffman - just couldn't take it.

And although I think it is an incredible movie I will not sit through "schindlers List" again - or Sophie's Choice - as someone already said, anything where children are hurt.

 

[ziggystardust]

Never walked out but...

recently saw people walking out of Good Night and Good Luck. (I liked it)
people walking out of Life Aquatic (I liked it)

Should have walked out of that Nicole Kidman/Sean Penn movie - Interperter or something
and the Julianne Moore movie (sci-fi) where they make her believe she doesn't have any kids/husband. That was super bad!

My DBF's parents rented Mr and Mrs Smith, I walked out of the living room - does that count? It was AWFUL!!!!

 

[WIcruizer]

I don't go out to too many movies anymore, but there's plenty of DVDs I rent and turn off in the middle. Titanic, English Patient, Water World, Dune...pretty much any movie that's supposed to be the big blockbuster or critic's choice. They go on and on for 3 hours or more and aren't even entertaining.

 

[T1130]

I never walked out of a movie but fell asleep during Primary Colors and The Usual Suspects. Those were the two worst movies I ever paid money to see.

 

[jbdreamer]

Sharktale - I wanted to leave, but I had my 12 year old brother with me.
Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy - It was just painful to watch. I don't think I made it to the half way point.

 

[Jimbo]

I walked out of Exorcist 2, about the worst movie I've ever seen. What I remember about that is that people didn't just leave, they shouted insults at the screen on their way out. I've never seen that, before or since.

We walked out of Pleasantville, the one where Reece Witherspoon and her brother go back into a 50s sitcom. It was sooo preachy and earnest and we thought it would never end. But that was on a cruise, so it was free, and that probably doesn't count.

 

[mickeyboat]

We walked out on "The Hard Way" with Michael J. Fox and "Joe Versus the Volcano" with Tom Hanks. DH fell asleep during Titanic.

And ziggy - I saw that Julianne Morre movie, too, and hated every minute of it.

Denae

 

[SamRoc]

Hey, at least you got to walk out on it. I had to watch it as an assignment in college. I spent the whole time going "WTH?" That, along with a few other assigned films, made me think my professor was probably a psychopath.

My son also just had to watch this as an college assignment in College in NYC this past semester. He said it was horrible and that his teacher was nuts for making them watch it!

 

[alliecats]

I walked out of Exorcist 2, about the worst movie I've ever seen. What I remember about that is that people didn't just leave, they shouted insults at the screen on their way out. I've never seen that, before or since.

Wow!! Really? (Like what did they say?) I don't blame them, though. The scene with the little boy and the jackals was so far over the line it couldn't even see the line anymore.

I walked out on Gremlins when I was a kid--the scene with the microwave. And I walked out of Hot Shots. It was just so stupid. I felt like paying for it had been bad enough, no use in punishing myself by actually watching the silly thing.

ETA: I TRIED to walk out on Natural Born Killers, for obvious reasons, but DH made me stay. I refused to finish watching A Clockwork Orange, for obvious reasons. And I would have liked to light Prince of Tides on fire (the person who said I HAD to watch it failed to warn me about one of the most upsetting, disgusting scenes in movie history) and erase it from my memory. Ah, I feel better now.

 

[Jimbo]

I tried to walk out of Solaris, but unfortunately, I fell asleep. Best nap I've ever had in my life! Thanks, George!

I saw the DVD of the original version. It was in Russian, with subtitles, and about 4 hours long. I think I'm still groggy from the nap I took during that thing. And Clooney and Soderbergh thought it was a good idea to make a new version of it???

 

[SamRoc]

Just thought of 2 more movies, Sphere with Dustin Hoffman was horrible, he had no emotion the whole film and was so boring, and also Bicentennial Man with Robin Williams, I fell asleep as soon as it started it was so bad!

 

[Jimbo]

Wow!! Really? (Like what did they say?) I don't blame them, though. The scene with the little boy and the jackals was so far over the line it couldn't even see the line anymore.

Just generic insults, like "what a piece of ***" and "you owe me $5." I don't remember any jackals, though. This was the one with Linda Blair and Richard Burton. It had a lot of locusts in it.

 

[alliecats]

Just generic insults, like "what a piece of ***" and "you owe me $5." I don't remember any jackals, though. This was the one with Linda Blair and Richard Burton. It had a lot of locusts in it.

My bad! That was the one where he came down the stairs swinging the thing through the locusts at the end? That scene made me laugh. I just assumed you mean the one that just came out--A New Beginning or whatever. Oops! It sucked, too. Stay away.

 

[boomhauer]

Only movie I remember walking out of was "Indecent Proposal". But that was the 2nd time we went to see it. Don't know why we went to see it twice. Can't remember.

That's pretty amazing, considering I go to the movies anywhere between 75 - 100 times a year (no exagerration.)

 

[Jimbo]

My bad! That was the one where he came down the stairs swinging the thing through the locusts at the end? That scene made me laugh.

I can't answer that. I walked out!

I just assumed you mean the one that just came out--A New Beginning or whatever. Oops! It sucked, too. Stay away.

Thank you, I will.

 

[mark&sue]

The only film I have ever walked out of was the same a SamRoc was Caligula in 1980.

I was with a boyfriend and a few of his friends. I thought it was disgusting so made up an argument with him and walked out. He had to follow me and then the rest of them came out too. I don't if they were glad as it was so awful or they were annoyed with me!!!

IMsorry the film title is Death Wish which I saw in 1980 as well.

and Jimbo the Exorcist 2 gave me nightmares (and I love horror films). I kept seeing the scene where someone's heart was grabbed and they kind of had a heart attack. Not particularly scarey when I watched it but seem to come back and haunt me that night when I went to bed.

I saw all these X rated films in 1980 when I was 16 with my 15 year old boyfriend. I guess it served me right!


Susan

 

[Towncrier]

Haven't walked out of a movie (yet), but I have fallen asleep at one movie, Muppet Treasure Island. I don't know why, but I just zoned out about halfway through the movie. The really funny thing is that, years later, someone brought the DVD of that movie over to our house. And I fell asleep on the couch while trying to see what I had missed the first time. I guess I am destined to never see the end of that movie.

 

[dturner]

The Beach. That is another one should have have left. What a terrible movie. The thing is it started ok and then just got BAD!

These threads always suprise me because some of my favorites are always listed as horrible. Some I can see why people wouldn't like it but others I just don't get.

I love The Beach - just bought it at Walmart for $3.44 on Black Friday

The only movie I ever walked out on was a low budget horror flick back in the early 80's, I don't remember the name, don't want to remember the name but the guy was kidnapping people then blow torching them alive in his basement -I cried, it was HORRIBLE!!!!