Inspired: What movies have you walked out of?

[mark&sue]

dturner

I think that film was called "Don't go into the house" but it could be "the Burning" or "home before midnight", all of which I have seen around the same time and the plot of the one you describe sound similar.


Susan

 

[poutytink]

My friend and I walked out of "Dumb and Dummber". with Jim Carey. We thought it was horrible!!! I still don't understand what people think is so funny about it.

 

[kcork1026]

As a teenager I walked out of Eddie Murphy Raw -----can't stand the language!

 

[dturner]

dturner

I think that film was called "Don't go into the house" but it could be "the Burning" or "home before midnight", all of which I have seen around the same time and the plot of the one you describe sound similar.


Susan

OMG - it was "Don't go into the house"

When I read that title my eyes got all watery, your going to make me cry again I tell ya, that one I couldn't stay and watch and I usually like horror films but that one was way too HORRIBLE for me.

 

[almacdonald]

Movies I should have walked out of (or should not have gone to in the first place!!!):


-Vanilla Sky... worst movie EVER!

-The Talented Mr. Ripley... 2nd worst movie ever, I could acutally hear people snoring in the theater!

-Life Aquatic

-Boogeyman

-Alien Vs Predator

-The Village

-Starship Troopers


(I think i should win a prize or something for "Most money wasted seeing really terrible movies!)

 

[Blondie]

The only movie I remember walking out of was way back in 1976 or so, it was the movie "Nashville." Pitiful!

There's been others that I've felt like walking out of, like Alien vs. Predator and Reign of Fire. Matthew McConaughey couldn't even save that movie!

 

[EthansMom]

Eyes wide Shut

I'm too cheap to walk out of a movie, but "Eyes Wide Shut" is the worst movie I've ever seen in a theater... I wish we'd walked out. Listening to other movie-goers leaving after the film was over, most of them wished they'd left earlier too.

We don't go to the theater too often anymore. I don't mind shutting off a bad DVD. Can't think of which movies have inspired that lately, but we've had a few in the last year.

 

[liamsaunt]

I worked at a movie theater thorugh high school and on my college breaks. One of the perks of that job was the free movies. Since there was nothing else to do (or so it seemed) in my town, and it was free, I went to see just about everything, even the true stinkers. I really raised my tolerance for bad films with that job.

That said, the only movie I remember walking out of was Rocky and Bullwinkle. Just terrible. (that was after my movie theater job). However, there was one movie I saw while working at the theater that EVERY SINGLE PERSON in the theater walked out of at some point because it was so bad: Married To It. Totally inane story, horribly filmed, terrible acting, the whole shebang. The last couple to leave said to me and my friend: "you're braver than us!"

(To anyone that likes Married To It, I apologize in advance. )

 

[LeesyUD]

The only one I can think of right now was Home for the Holidays when I was in high school. OMG was that bad!

 

[krcit]

The only movie I ever left was Hi Fidelity with John Cusack. Ughh, and I love John Cusack but even he couldn't save that movie for me. At home, I turned off Eyes Wide Shut. Yuck, and that was before Tom became a freak, lol!!

 

[dhcoffey]

The only movie I've ever walked out of was Russia House with Sean Connery and Michelle Pfeiffer (sp) in the '90s. Horrible movie.

The other one I should have walked out of was Down With Love with Renee Zellweger (apparently I only see movies with people's names I can't spell!). I was with my mom and sister and neice and each of us hated it while we each thought the other loved it, so we didn't want to be the one to say to leave.

 

[ElizK]

My friend and I walked out of Beauty Shop. That movie was so offensive! I would have walked out much sooner had I realized she wanted to leave, too!

 

[mark&sue]

Dturner, you are right that movie was really bad and we stayed all the way through it. I saw it as a double bill with Phantasm on January 17th 1982 at a cinema in Edgware (just outside London)

I remember that it upset me for weeks but I hadn't thought about it for a few years now until you posted. It was a very disturbing film. I am not even sure a cinema would buy it now!


Susan

 

[Mellie0119]

In our house we have a 30 minute rule when watching DVDs. If the film has not engaged us within the first 30 minutes, we shut it off or switch to another one.

I've never walked out of a movie I've seen in the theatres, but I couldn't begin to tell you how many movies at home never saw the 31st minute!!

We're grateful for Netflix! That way, when the rallying cry of "Is it 30 minutes yet?!?" comes up, we don't feel guilty about shutting it off since the price of each film isn't more than a buck or two....

We have the same rule here! Bless Netflix! We've canned so many movies, I think we turn off just about as many as we watch all the way through. :lol:

As for movies I've left...
The Santa Clause (w/Tim Allen)
And (don't ask why we went in the first place) Stop or My Mom Will Shoot (Sly Stallone and Estelle Getty) talk about blech!

 

[rileyroosmom]

Undercover Brother......didn't make it past the first 15 minutes. I was able to get my money back though

 

[ADisneygirl]

I am shocked and more than a little disturbed that two people on this thread have said that my all time worst movie was a college assignment for their child to watch! What kind of sicko mind assigns A Clockwork Orange as a class assignment???? I saw no art in that movie, only bizarre rapes and beatings, followed by gleeful singing and carousing about what they'd done before they were off to do it again.

Blech!

 

[OceanAnnie]

Oh! That Tom Cruise movie where he is a futuristic cop? It was just beyond "out there" and gross! Boring then gross, alittle action, back to boring, then to weird and back to gross. Should've left that one.

Too much and not enough!

 

[SamRoc]

I am shocked and more than a little disturbed that two people on this thread have said that my all time worst movie was a college assignment for their child to watch! What kind of sicko mind assigns A Clockwork Orange as a class assignment???? I saw no art in that movie, only bizarre rapes and beatings, followed by gleeful singing and carousing about what they'd done before they were off to do it again.

Blech!

I was really upset too when my son came home from college one day and said that was the film he had to watch in college. I never saw it and never wanted to but I think its horrible that these college kids were forced to watch it by their nutty professor. The only film I had to watch in college was Citizen Kane, and I loved it.

 

[chesirechik]

Eye of the Beholder with Ewan McGregor and Ashely Judd. An hour in we had NO idea what was going on.

 

[IvyandLace]

American Beauty...the only movie I've ever walked out on. Just made me feel...icky, and it definitely offended me morally. BLEECH!

IVY