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Movies You’ve Walked Out On

An Afternoon Comment Diversion / Dustin Rowles

Comment Diversions | July 23, 2007 | Comments (388)


There are bad flicks, and then there are stupendously horrid films — the kind of movies that don’t make “worst of” lists, mostly because the people who attend them rarely make it to the film’s end. Personally, I try to stick to the old Fear of Pop maxim: “I paid my money, so I’m gonna see all the movie.” I’ve got a pretty decent intestinal fortitude (I’ve even been referred to as “The Barracuda” on occasions) but, every great once in a while, I walk out on a film (though, with a couple of exceptions, not those I’m reviewing) out of simple weariness or, sometimes, on general principal (in fact, I applaud the late Joel Siegel for announcing to the world that he walked out of a movie he was reviewing; I just didn’t think that Clerks II deserved to be that movie). It’s a pretty liberating feeling to cut one’s losses early; to shift in one’s seat for 15 or 20 minutes before, finally, pushing half a row of theatergoers aside with an exasperating sigh, heading toward the restroom never to return. I recommend it, though you should do it sparingly so as not to dilute the high.

So, today’s comment diversion is this: What movies in recent memory have you walked out on?

I’ll start:

1. Trapped in Paradise (you’ll never forget your first).
2. Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace (I waited 15 years for that? Fuck you, George Lucas).
3. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (yeah. I get it. Run. Fight. Run. Fight. Run. Fight. Argh).
4. Aeon Flux (reviewed).
5. Deuce Bigelow: European Gigolo (reviewed).


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Comments

I think that the only movie that I have ever walked out on was All Dogs Go to Heaven. I was really young and I just started crying a lot when the dog died in the beginning and we had to leave. I still haven't watched the whole thing. There are a bunch of movies that I wish I walked out on though.

Posted by: Erin at July 23, 2007 2:26 PM

1. Ghost Rider (Daredevil sucked, but I watched the whole thing. This movie was just plain rotten)

2. Troy (Goddamn awful dreck. And Boring)

3. Me, Myself and Irene (I walked out in the theater but watched it later on DVD and it wasn't that bad, I guess)

4. Robots (I watched this on DVD later too, but it was just as boring as when I walked out of the theater. Beautifully animated though-a shame it sucked)

5. The Devil's Rejects (I think the movie was already almost over, but when they started playing FreeBird I just booked it out of there)

Posted by: Michael at July 23, 2007 2:26 PM

I don't mind Joel Siegel walking out of a movie...I mind that he announced it as he was leaving, interrupting everyone else's enjoyment of the film. I believed he yelled "First movie I've walked out of in 20 years." That was rude and uncalled for.

And I've never walked out of a movie, though I feel I am a trooper for not leaving during the third Matrix (I think I may have entered a coma preventing me from doing so)

Posted by: ishotthedoor at July 23, 2007 2:28 PM

I have never walked out on a movie in the theater (just haven't, sorry). There have been a number of films that I've watched on DVD via fast-forward (Monkeybone being probably the worst of these).

I almost walked out of Spawn, though. I think if I could have talked the friend sitting next to me into it, I would have. But my cajones weren't made of brass, then, just tin foil and thus I sat. And hated.

Posted by: Jo at July 23, 2007 2:30 PM

I've only walked out on a few films

1. Joe Hollywood. I was in High School and thought it would be very subversive and dark but was bored out of my mind. I still have no idea if its any good or not.

2. Wayne's World 2. I still have no idea how my friends talked me into sitting in a theatre whilst tripping and watching something so mundane. It didn't last long.

Those were ancient history.

3. Chronicles of Riddick. I left as soon as Riddick et al outran a fucking sunrise. (The Day After Tomorrow would have recieved the same treatment when they outran cold but my ride wanted to stay. Bastard.)

4. Evan Almighty. Why'd you do me like that Steve Carrell? WHY!? Not a big loss tho since I had promotional tickets and the only seats left would have given me a wicked crick in the neck had we stayed.

Posted by: Matty at July 23, 2007 2:31 PM

Batman and Robin-- God was that bad.

Posted by: kj at July 23, 2007 2:31 PM

I've only walked out on two movies, I don't see nearly as many films in the theater as I used to in the late 90's.

1. A.I.-I wasted about 45 minutes of my vacation at the Jersey shore for this and am still pissed at Spielberg. Fuck you up the goat ass, Stevie.

2. Dracula: Dead and Loving It-don't judge, it was Mel Brooks! My girlfriends and I didn't hate it, we were just ansty to get back home and play Mall Madness or something.

Posted by: Julie at July 23, 2007 2:32 PM

Oh God. I can't believe I'm putting this out there....but the only movie I have ever walked out on is...Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The one with Rutger "I haven't done anything good since Blind Fury" Hauer, Paul "Motherfucking" Reubens...and Luke "Metric Ton of Hair Gel" Perry.

Posted by: Manny at July 23, 2007 2:32 PM

I never walked out of a movie but I fell asleep during Batman and Robin so that should count.

Posted by: Starbuck at July 23, 2007 2:32 PM

I would've walked out of Nacho Libre, but I was with another person who seemed to be enjoying it (I don't know how or why...), so i couldn't really. Other than that I don't think I ever have.

Posted by: Joe at July 23, 2007 2:32 PM

I've never walked out on a movie, always wanting to get my money's worth. But I went through a spell where I would fall asleep through crappy movies. Two that come to mind are Jabberwalkie (sp?), the old Monty Pythonesque movie from the 70's, and Get Shorty. I don't see movies in the theater anymore (I just don't have time or patience for the movies in the theater lifestyle), so my other equivalent would be DVD's that I don't finish, which also happens rarely. The last one was Nacho Libre. What a pile of crap. Not even so bad that it was good.

Posted by: katy at July 23, 2007 2:34 PM

The only one I can remember walking out on was Pink Flamingos. That was a long time ago -- 25 years now I come to think about it. I may have given the heave-ho to one or two since then but like Dustin says, you never forget your first.

Posted by: ccbryan at July 23, 2007 2:34 PM

1. A Perfect Storm (I am severely non-ADD and the storm sequence was just too friggin much for me)
2. The Secret Window (screwdriver into dog, I was done)
3. Larry The Cable Guy (had to wait in the lobby for an hour to drive home the jackass who took me to it- they finished the entire movie.)
4. The Garden State (the theater sold beer, and I still had to walk out.)
5. The Lord of the Rings: All of Them (love the books, couldn't pay me to watch the movies)

I had blocked out a lot of this, so- thanks! haha
Next can we do: Movies you vowed to never see, but are SO glad you did?

Posted by: majandratoo at July 23, 2007 2:35 PM

Boogeyman...I got dragged to it, didn't want to be there.

Posted by: Kevin Longrie at July 23, 2007 2:36 PM

1) The James Bond movie with Denise Richards in it.

2) Ghost Rider. I wanted to leave almost immediately, but I toughed it out until he finally turned into Ghost Rider. Then, when I saw the animated gif for a head they played of as a special effect, that was the final nail.

3) Clerks 2! Joel and I are together on that pile of crap. It was the dancing on the roof that killed it. I mean, I stuck around for that part just because, let's be fair, Rosario Dawson's breasts bouncing up and down is far from the worst thing in the movie, but the scene itself was like Smith admitting he'd been a hack all along.

Posted by: Mitch Clem at July 23, 2007 2:38 PM

Sliver, I Heart Huckabees

Posted by: bburglat at July 23, 2007 2:41 PM

I've never walked out on a movie, mostly cause I'm broke enough to try to only see movies I actually really want to see. I've fallen asleep (from exhaustion, not boredom) during more rented movies than I can remember, though, but they were usually good ones like Annie Hall. It's annoying, cause I've seen only seen half of a bunch of classic movies.

Posted by: Crinn at July 23, 2007 2:42 PM

License to Wed - a few weeks ago. First time. Walking out made me feel like I was on top of the world. Went out and got drunk instead.

Posted by: Eleanor at July 23, 2007 2:42 PM

1. Agent Cody Banks (don't look at me like that, it was my roommate's birthday wish)

2. Hostel (my date and I made a pact that one more set of horrific plastic boobies shoved in our face and we were leaving. The movie, of course, delivered).

Posted by: Astraea at July 23, 2007 2:42 PM

I think the only movie I've ever walked out on was "Van Helsing" - although, to be fair, the reason why I walked out was because the power was cut off 15 minutes in. I didn't go back, though,it was that awful. Here are some movies I WISHED I walked out on:
-"Star Wars Episode 1"
-"The Blair Witch Project" (first movie I actually TRIED to fall asleep during)
-"Troy"
-"Matrix Reloaded" (the naked orgy disco scene left me speechless...and not in a good way)

Posted by: Kolby at July 23, 2007 2:44 PM

Meet the Robinsons...I don't know how you could make a cartoon so damn confusing. As soon as the family was introduced, I bounced before my head exploded.

Posted by: Lex at July 23, 2007 2:44 PM

I confess I'm a weenie -- I've never gotten it together to walk out of a movie. If it's really bad I usually just enjoy making fun of it.

I should have walked out on End of Days with The Arnold and Gabriel Byrne, but I couldn't bring myself to do it -- Gabriel Byrne is just too damn hot, no matter what dreck he's spewing.

Posted by: scullypdx at July 23, 2007 2:45 PM

I wish I'd walked out of "Soapbox" (the one with Sally Field and Kevin Kline as soap opera stars).

I usually won't walk out in a theatre because it's usually something I really really want to see. Anymore, I just put everything on my Netflix list and if I don't like it after 15 minutes, I send it back for something else and pop in a different disk. Life is too short.

Posted by: bweaves at July 23, 2007 2:45 PM

Two that I remember: Jaws, I was really much too young to see that movie and it scared the crap out of me!. And Angel Heart, I'd like to say it was because it was awful, but it was really because it freaked me out too much.

Posted by: Lee at July 23, 2007 2:51 PM

bweaves, you mean Soapdish.

I have never ever walked out of a movie because I couldn't sit through the rest of it. I'm the type that won't even turn off a really bad movie that I rented. It's a sickness.

Posted by: Brenda at July 23, 2007 2:52 PM

Never done it before; but wanted to for these flicks:

1. What's the Worst that Could Happen - During this atrocity, my best friend and I kept looking at each other, muttering "WTF?"

2. Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith - BEGGED to leave, but my sister was so into it. My brother-in-law and I both fell asleep.

3. Slackers - Just awful. When they started singing a hymnal version of The Sign (Ace of Base, remember them?) I said "Fuck it", and stood up to leave, but suddenly remembered I didn't have a ride home. But I would try hitch-hiking before seeing that again.

4. Date Movie - see Slackers.

Posted by: Brie at July 23, 2007 2:52 PM

Brotherhood of the Wolf.

Monsters? Folklore? Belluci? 18C France? Mr. Ranylt and I should have loved it. At the time, though, we just couldn't take anymore bullettime or anachronistic fighting styles or whatever the hell it was the plagued it for us so bad. We made it through most of the film, but gave up before the last 20 minutes or so.

It's the only film I've ever walked out on.

Posted by: Ranylt at July 23, 2007 2:54 PM

I'm a little, nay a LOT embarrassed to admit that I know you're talking about "Soapdish" with Sally Field...holy jeebus that sucked.

I've only walked out twice, and for two completely different reasons:

1. Scenes From a Mall - Woody Allen, you're just not that cool, dude. I'm really sorry to have to be the one to tell you.

2. Trainspotting - I've since watched the movie, and actually find it bearable, but I was at a point in my life where I just couldn't take the dead baby. I just could not.

Posted by: katy cook at July 23, 2007 2:55 PM

the only movie i walked out on was "the score" with ed norton and marlon brando...

but only because i was high, fell asleep, and when i woke up i had no idea what the fuck was going on, so i left.

Posted by: idiot dentist at July 23, 2007 2:56 PM

Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny. Don't ask, but I did get about 5 "girl movies" out of paying for us to go see this one.

Posted by: jvo at July 23, 2007 2:56 PM

The only one I've ever walked out of was The Avengers, and that was only because I was joined in my departure by my brother and nanny (I was twelve or so at the time). Those two decided the price of admission was not worth that tripe, and walked out and demanded our money back. However, those two also subjected me to Armageddon, Dante's Peak, and Batman and Robin back in the day. I don't know that just one reprieve makes up for the sight of Chris O'Donnel's sculpted rubber nipples.

Posted by: Cat at July 23, 2007 2:56 PM

Babel. I hated it so much. I stayed to be sure the kids got rescued and then I left.

Also I only made it halfway through The Breakup on DVD before I turned it off.

Posted by: Rachel at July 23, 2007 2:57 PM

The only movie I've walked out on was Batman & Robin, and I even went to see it with people with whom I regularly would see movies just to mock from the seats. We had a great time on Juwanna Mann's opening night; we loved Spice World; Dragonheart left us rolling in the aisles. But we couldn't even manage to enjoy the mockery of B&R, and left after about 45 minutes.

Though it doesn't count as an "exit", I fell asleep twice during Conspiracy Theory and would have left, but the people I was with inexplicably enjoyed it (one of them had the car).

Posted by: Loomis at July 23, 2007 2:57 PM

1. Big Daddy

2. Little Fish (at TIFF). I thought over two hours had passed, and I was going to be late for another movie. Nope, it had only been an hour - Little Fish was just tremendously slow.

Posted by: Ashers at July 23, 2007 2:58 PM

1. Black Knight (martin lawrence movie)
2. Epic Movie
3. Because I Said So

Posted by: v at July 23, 2007 2:58 PM

1. Something's Gotta Give. Sorry Jack.
2. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason. Not sorry.

Posted by: raspberry beret at July 23, 2007 3:00 PM

Walked out of Stephen King's "Thinner", and into "Turbulence" starring Ray Liotta and Lauren Holly.

Not a good day at the movies.

Posted by: Matches at July 23, 2007 3:00 PM

I've never walked out on a movie. I'm stubborn and I guess a little too optimistic--I'll keep convincing myself a movie will get better all the way up to the credits.

I should have walked out on that miserable piece of crap, "Meet the Robinsons". Talk about a headache. It has to be one of the worst movies I've ever had to endure. Not only was it excruciating to sit through, but you had the added bonus of paying extra for the 3D glasses.

I didn't see this movie at the theaters, but if I had I think I would have definitely walked out of the yawn-fest known as "Alexander".

Posted by: kelley at July 23, 2007 3:01 PM

Old School. I don't care what any of you say, that movie was fucking moronic.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone/Chamber of Secrets. Words cannot describe how much I hate Chris Columbus. And on that note,

Rent. 3/4 of the cast was too old. 1 was horrendously miscast (Rosario, I am looking at you). 1 was completely and obviously disinterested in the entire deal (hey, Taye, how you doing). And one had just finished shrieking her voice out in one of the worst book-to-musical adaptations of all time, so she sounded like shit.

Phantom of the Opera. I will never understand how that got a good review on here. It's a terrible musical to begin with. Every decision made for the movie was horrible with the possible exception of casting Minnie Driver. Gerard Butler should never be allowed to "sing" and Emmy Rossum should never be allowed to "act". And why the FUCK was Miranda Richardson the only person with a French accent in a movie set in Paris? All or nothing, Schumacher.

Dodgeball. Enough said.

Posted by: Kevin at July 23, 2007 3:01 PM

The only movies I ever walked out on:

Mary Poppins and
The Sound of Music

Posted by: Jules at July 23, 2007 3:03 PM

1. Superman Returns...only because of the loud-ass idiot next to me on her phone, the screaming children kicking our seats, and the teenages talking thru the whole movie. We got out money back and later say a different showing.

2. The Hours. Fuck that movie. What a depressing piece of crap. And I watch a lot of depressing movies, but this one made me want to rip Nicole Kidman's fake nose off. I don't care how "great" a movie it was.

3. Polar Express. Goddamn critics made me want to see this one. i walked out when the poor kid started singing about Christmas from the back of a train. Shoot me in the head.

Posted by: vaguelyamish at July 23, 2007 3:04 PM

The only movies I ever walked out on were:

Mary Poppins
and
The Sound of Music

Posted by: Jules at July 23, 2007 3:05 PM

I can't remember ever walking out of a movie, but ones that came close were: 1) Troy - utter, utter, utter shit. 2)Brokeback Mountain and 3) Pirates of the Caribbean 3 came fairly close.

Movies I've walked out of the room while all my friends were inside watching it because they were so bad even their company didn't make up for it (and I like my friends, honest) were I heart huckabees and Neverending Story 2. GOOD GOD.

Posted by: Anna at July 23, 2007 3:05 PM

I very very rarely walk out of movies. I only walked out of one recently. When taking relatives to the movies, I recommend not going to see Fat Albert. After forty minutes, my relative and I agreed to leave the theater.
Movie I wished I could have walked out of: Epic Movie. Don't let friends recommend Epic Movie to you, or never speak to them again. Though I forgave mine.

Posted by: Ben at July 23, 2007 3:06 PM

1. The Ladykillers (Coen Brothers version): To this day, I don't believe the Coen Brothers were responsible for that piece of turd and it made me hate Tom Hanks forever

2. Twins: (Schwarzenegger & DeVito) I knew it would be awful going in but the boyfriend had a thing for Arnold.

3. Titanic: I didn't physically walk out because the designated driver wanted to stay but I stopped looking at the screen and just watched all the idiots sobbing and planned my Nobel-winning novel on mass hysteria in pop culture (still in development)

4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: Don't hate me Pajibans, but I just don't get it. I've rented it twice since then (and even tried it on cable last week) to see what I have been told I so obviously missed the first time and I still don't get it and have yet to make it all the way through.

Posted by: PaddyDog at July 23, 2007 3:06 PM

I have never walked out simply because I was either the driver or the passenger and no one else wanted to. I have however, fallen asleep or laughed throughout the entire movie and commented on its' worthlessness. I have also not finished the movie on DVD due to it's tremendous amount of suck.

Theater:
1. Star Wars prequels - Different dates took me to each of these during their respective "pick the movie" nights. I unceremoniously fell asleep throughout each one of them.
2. Blair Witch Project - This is possibly the worst movie ever. I laughed pretty much the entire time.
3. Dude, Where's My Car?? - I hate my (former) friends who chose this and Ashton Kutcher. I hate you all.
4. Titanic - If your movie lasts longer than the ship took to sink in real life, shouldn't you see the problem somewhere? Huh, James Cameron? At least there was a guy in the theater all diabolic-like at every single death. He did an excellent job of making me question his sanity.

DVD rental
5. Man of the Year - Damn you, Lewis Black. Damn you.

Posted by: Melody at July 23, 2007 3:07 PM

I've only walked out once: The Producers.

I can't believe people walked out on Lord of the Rings (yes, the books are superior, but the movies are pretty enjoyable as well) or Deuce Bigalow European Gigalo. Yes, I enjoy the Deuce Bigalow franchise. It is my retarded guilty pleasure. Shut up.

Posted by: Elle at July 23, 2007 3:08 PM

1. Derailed - It was opening night and we just couldn't contain our disdain, so we left before we were probably going to be thrown out. The RZA?! C'mon now!

The rest are movies I've spent the entire time wishing I had left, but was too cheap to do it.and stupidly trying to make some point to myself.

2. Equilibrium - this was a real movie? I was in disbelief that it was even made...

3. Van Helsing - simply dreadful

4. Ghost Rider - I still want those two hours back! How dare they sully Henry Fonda's good name with that pile of trash

5. Ultraviolet - I knocked out and despite trying to watch it on Starz several times, I never made it to the end.

Posted by: Teresa at July 23, 2007 3:08 PM

Van Helsing. Van Fucking Helsing.

Even with Hugh Jackman, that movie was unwatchable for sheer lack of suspense and overwrought detail of absolutely nothing. Also the intro to Kate Beckinsale's character put the ubiquitous Batcrotch and Batass shots to shame.

Posted by: agent bedhead at July 23, 2007 3:10 PM

9th Gate (I think that is what it was called ... the one with Johnny Depp). It was mind-blowingly horrid


House on Haunted Hill (the remake) I love horror, but this was horrible (heh heh ... ok yeah that was bad ... but so was this movie!)


The Forgotten - wish I could forget what I have seen of it. As soon as the people started getting sucked ... yeah, it was over for me.

Posted by: MystTeree at July 23, 2007 3:10 PM

i walked out on the musketeer and deuces wild.

question, when you bail on a flick, do you try to get your money back? cos i did on both counts. i'm not sure what the rules are when it comes to that, is all.

Posted by: tharine at July 23, 2007 3:11 PM

Generally, I just fall asleep during the really bad ones--Paycheck, for instance.

I did walk out on The Scarlett Letter (the one with Demi Moore). We paid $1, and we thought it would be it's so bad it's funny. It wasn't. It was as awful as you can imagine.

Posted by: chrysophyta at July 23, 2007 3:11 PM

Sorry for the double-post. I swear I only hit the "post" button once.

Posted by: PaddyDog at July 23, 2007 3:14 PM

Katy, you cut me to the quick. I love and own both Jabberwocky and Get Shorty.

Posted by: ccbryan at July 23, 2007 3:14 PM

Also I only made it halfway through The Breakup on DVD before I turned it off.

Posted by: Rachel at July 23, 2007 2:57 PM

Ah Rachel, I am going to 100% agree with you. This was coming on HBO one day so I thought, "I have nothing to do and this is supposed to be funny". Funny? In what alternate universe do you have to be in to find that movie funny? That movie gave me a headache. I later caught the end of it and I all I wanted to do was to go find whatever critic referred to this as a "Great romantic comedy" and kick them in the junk repeatedly.

Posted by: Melody at July 23, 2007 3:15 PM

I've never actually walked out of a movie (yes, I'm that cheap), so I've compiled a list of movies I wish I'd walked out on:

1. Timecop. I hate movies about time travel in general (it's IMPOSSIBLE!! It makes NO SENSE!!! If you're changing the "past" to affect the future, it should affect YOU even though you're visiting the past!! BOLLOCKS!!!) and the wooden acting and retardo script had me rolling my eyes so much that it gave me a splitting headache. But I think that the clincher should have been Van Damme's naked split-leap onto the counter to avoid electrocution. Seriously. Why does Van Damme assume that the audience ALWAYS wants to see his naked glutes? Spare me.
2. The Devil's Advocate. Oh, Al Pacino, you are SO much better than this stupid, stupid borderline porno with Keanu Reeves and a cop-out predictable "twist" ending.
3. Hope Floats. It was when I saw this movie that I came to the sad realization that I couldn't rely on movie recommendations from my girlfriends anymore. They love the cheese too much.
4. The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Dear Disney, I hate you for fouling one of my favorite books with your Disneyfied taint. What would possess you to think that this story could POSSIBLY be made into a movie appropriate for children? You morons. Sincerely, Jelinas.
5. Babel. Much word to rachel upthread. After the great review it got here, I was expecting too much, perhaps. But I thought it was pretty lame and I hated the entire storyline with Rinko Kikuchi.

Posted by: Jelinas at July 23, 2007 3:16 PM

I wanted to walk out on "The Day After Tomorrow" but I was DD. That's right, my friends all got drunk and then picked a crappy movie to watch. They found it highly entertaining.

And you know what, I was almost into it. Then the motherfucking arctic wolves showed up, and I played tetris on my cell phone till it was over.

Posted by: Izzie at July 23, 2007 3:16 PM

Town and Country - I don't even know what made us decide to see it, probably the alcohol.

Nacho Libre - I had even been warned, but I wanted to like it so badly

Freddie Got Fingered - we didn't even get past the scene with the cow (or maybe it was a horse) at the beginning when he was driving past the animal.

Luckily, I'm a hard ass and so got a refund for everyone involved in all three.

Posted by: elc at July 23, 2007 3:18 PM

1. The Skulls
2. Here on Earth
3. Not Another Teen Movie
*I wanted to leave all of these movies, but went to them with idiot friends in high school

Posted by: Alice at July 23, 2007 3:19 PM

I am an absolute movie whore and I pride myself on being able to sit through anything. For instance I actually made it through Norbit and two National Lampoon Presents movies in a single day (due to some horrible Netflix queue management).

With that said the only movie I have ever walked out on, and in the 15 or so years since have never been inclined to see what I missed: Hook.

Special shout out to Fifth Element, which I would have left if I wasn't on a date. Turned out, she wanted to leave too, but neither of us spoke up - which spoke loads for our communication skills together.

Chris Tucker, you are burned in my soul forever. And not in a good way...

Posted by: Andrew at July 23, 2007 3:20 PM

Walked out on "Love Story."
Wished I'd walked out on "A Perfect Storm." Kept thinking it would get better until the sinking scene, which was so bad I couldn't muster the energy to leave till the movie had run its soggy course.

Posted by: tomc at July 23, 2007 3:22 PM

1. Dukes of Hazzard - probably the worst movie I ever saw, as part of a double feature with Wedding Crashers at a drive-in

2. Spiderman 3 - Just godawful

3. Eragon - My little bro was a fan of the books so i took him. He was disappointed and I just hated it.

Posted by: Nate at July 23, 2007 3:23 PM

The only one I've walked out of was Toy Story 2 because my daughter got fussy - I've never gotten around to finishing it, either.

As for rented movies, I only made it through the first 15 minutes of The Brothers Grimm, which was a huge disappointment - I really wanted to like that one.

Posted by: pinkcheese at July 23, 2007 3:24 PM

Starsky and Hutch.

Only movie I've ever walked out on. (I'm one of those people that has to answer a ringing phone, or read a book in it's entirety despite it's content). This thing was just not funny.

Posted by: courtney at July 23, 2007 3:26 PM

I've never actually walked out of a movie, but I might as well have for Austin Powers: Goldmember. I totally spaced out for most of it, and was in and out of sleep for the last 45 minutes. I really hated it.

Even when I rent movies I'll watch them all the way through even if they're crappy - no matter if I feel I've wasted 2 hours. I guess that way I have something to bitch about? I couldn't make it through 'Ultraviolet' or 'A Day without a Mexican', though.

Posted by: superdeluxebabe at July 23, 2007 3:27 PM

Word to everyone who said Day After Tomorrow. My friends rented it and I spent most of the evening texting people who were lucky enough to not be there. (My mother called me the day after she rented it and said that she watched it on mute because she thought the special effects were interesting, but the dialogue sucked.)

I walked out of Little Black Book. It gave me nothing bt a minor appreciation for those Holly Hunter impresssions that Sarah Paulson did on Studio 60.

Posted by: Morgan at July 23, 2007 3:27 PM

1. Pulse...what a piece of shit. Not to mention it was 10pm on a friday night; might have even been opening night. The crowd was lovely...laser pointers, cell phones, arguements, ....so lovely a state cop had to come in and babysit in the corner (I assume) til it finished...made it about 40 mins. Got road head as an apology though so...good times!

2. Shark Tale (which I feel really bad for doing) since i took my 8 year old niece to see it. She bitched and moaned the whole time, but i essentially told her fuck off, you're 9, I paid, and you rode with me. I felt better about my choice when i discovered that was her 3rd time seeing it. 8 years old or not...she should know SHIT when she sees it. Bitch. Gosh i love my niece so much more now that she's 10 (HUGE difference now)

3. DVD - Close - I love me some Clive Owen but this movie was fucking garbage. Watched it with my girlfriend (See 1.) and we both agreed pretty quickly that we cared nothing for any of the characters because they were all pieces of shit.

4. Match Point - Fucking dreck. Made it about 30 mins.

5. Monster's Ball - Again...couldn't possibly care less for any of the piece of shit characters in the movie.

Now... got road head for the pulse and have gotten apology sex a few times when movies were involved that ended up being crap. By this arguement i should be able to take her to see the celluloid abortion that will be 'Who's Your Caddy' and she'll be willing to try anal? I can't WAIT to see Big Boi on the big screen!

Posted by: PissBoy at July 23, 2007 3:28 PM

I've never walked out of a movie as an adult, however, my parents had to take me out of Snow White and Sleeping Beauty about 5 minutes into each as toddler-me could not handle the Queen or Maleficent.

I really would have like to walk out of Anger Management, Volcano, and 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag though.

Posted by: audrey at July 23, 2007 3:35 PM

I'm late to the party, but Pajiba finally just started accepting my damn email address so I'm commenting anyway.

I walked out of Elizabethtown. And then I walked back in. I was with three very obnoxious friends who couldn't make up their minds and decided it would be more fun to ruin the movie for the other 5 people in the theater than to leave and go get high. I'm still annoyed about that.

I walked out of I, Robot once because I had to catch a bus (it was a late showing) but I went back later to find out what happened.

Posted by: Alex at July 23, 2007 3:36 PM

Would have walked out of "Very Bad Things" if not for the fact that I was out with friends in high school without my own ride. Absolutely repulsive.

Posted by: zeppellyn at July 23, 2007 3:40 PM

Never walked out of a film - I'm too stingy so I usually pick only the stuff I'm fairly confident I'll like. I also have a taste for tasteless - I unfortunately like The Avengers, Get Shorty (but both book & movie of Be Cool SUZCKED), and other piece of trash that are roundly despised.

If my 8 year-old son hadn't pleadingly dragged me to Shrek 3, I would have followed my 2 year-old daughter dancing in the aisles and right out the door. She was ready to go after 40 minutes, just as I was. (I kept bringing her back)

Which reminds me of SpyKids 3-D - my son was 4 at the time and he Just. Wouldnt. Shut. Up. About. It. So I take him. After 10 minutes, he's curled up on the seat whining about, "how he doesn't want to stay". I'm going to catch hell from some parents, but I refused to leave even though I could feel the suckitude draining my mind away. "Do you understand what I mean when I say commericals lie?" Yes, I'm a nasty jerk of a bastard.

I have stopped the playback on several movies though - There's Something About Mary made me get up and pitch the tape across the room.

Posted by: idiosynchronic at July 23, 2007 3:41 PM

The Jetsons movie. It's true.

Posted by: mswas at July 23, 2007 3:42 PM

Closer*

Posted by: PissBoy at July 23, 2007 3:42 PM

I have too much faith in movies; I usually hang on until the bitter end. But my main "wish-I-hads" are:

1. The Last Kiss (made me feel physically sick and very, very bitter.)

2. In the Bedroom. I fell asleep, and therefore could not physically walk out. I woke up alone in the credits. Freaky!

3. The Break-Up. 20 minutes in, I knew I was doomed. Whaddya gonna do.

4. Charlie's Angels Fuckin 2. It was not my choice, and it nearly killed me

5. Bring It On. See above.

Posted by: susan at July 23, 2007 3:43 PM

I walked out of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the newest one. I hate, hate torture porn and was only there because an ex-boyfriend's little sister wanted to see it on her birthday. I made it half an hour and decided I couldn't be the generous, even if it was her birthday. The relationship didn't last too much longer after that :).

Posted by: kkg at July 23, 2007 3:44 PM

"Mary Poppins
and
The Sound of Music"

Say it isn't so!

Posted by: Kolby at July 23, 2007 3:46 PM

Dudley Do-Right with Brendan Fraser - We were looking for a kid-friendly movie and thought this was it... My wife left for the bathroom 5 minutes in and never came back. I joined her with my daughter 15 minutes later. We were able to get our money back at the box office; They said several other people had walked out from that one.

Posted by: Paul Burney at July 23, 2007 3:47 PM

Just two:

Don Juan DeMarco (love Depp, but not this movie)

The Passion of the Christ (couldn't take the crucifixion scene)

Posted by: Karen at July 23, 2007 3:48 PM

I've never gotten a chance to see too many movies except ones that I thought would be really worth it, so I've never gotten a chance to walk out on too many, but one I wish I could've was The Hunted. What's that, you say? How did I end up going to something so abysmal as Tommy Lee Jones goes hunting for someone....again? I I don't know. My husband and two friends of ours wanted to see it and I could not, in any way, talk them out of it. To this day I think it must've been mind control.

Posted by: Sally at July 23, 2007 3:48 PM

A Rage in Harlem.

It's my one and only. I was in a frenzied state of rage and boredom and lasted for something like 30 minutes before liberating myself.

Posted by: Rebecca at July 23, 2007 3:49 PM

Nothing yet. It's a form of masochism I think.

I should have walked out on Armageddon, and Behind Enemy Lines.

Posted by: Seth L at July 23, 2007 3:49 PM

many people would probably agree that i am stupid for having walked out on "sideways" but i really couldn't stand that movie for another moment.


"date movie" i walked out on ....not sorry


"zodiac" i fell asleep at two separate times


god, "date movie" still gives me nightmares ::shudders::

Posted by: jessie-marie at July 23, 2007 3:51 PM

I never walked out, either. If I had more taste, I may have walked out on, oh,
1. Little Nicky and
2. What Lies Beneath (almost forgot that title),
the first of which was stupid and the second of which is dull. I mostly settled for sitting and staring at my sister for choosing those movies. And she was the one who walked out when we went to see Love, Actually...and she walked out to go see The Cat in the Hat.
For a third, I really never wanted to see The Hours, which was very boring and I spent most of the movie counting the ceiling tiles. I only went because it was my mom's birthday or mother's day or something, and that was what my mom wanted.
Finally, I once attended a double showing at a drive-in of Bowfinger and The Blair Witch Project. I have no idea what Bowfinger was, because I hardly watched it, and Blair Witch was kind of a drag. But, that was why we went.

Posted by: Cait at July 23, 2007 3:52 PM

"I Know What You Did Last Summer" - one of the few good judgment moments of high school.


"Talladega Nights" - when you find yourself getting angry at the other people in the theater for laughing, it's time to go.

Posted by: Rebecca at July 23, 2007 3:53 PM

the only movie i've officially walked out is final destination. but i tried talking other people into leaving spawn and dreamcatchers because i couldn't take any more.

Posted by: j.r. at July 23, 2007 3:54 PM

the only movie i've officially walked out of is final destination. but i tried talking other people into leaving spawn and dreamcatchers because i couldn't take any more.

Posted by: j.r. at July 23, 2007 3:55 PM

"3. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (yeah. I get it. Run. Fight. Run. Fight. Run. Fight. Argh)."

THANK YOU! You're the only other person who shares my opinion of this dreck. Everyone else thinks I am insane. Can we get married? Or are you the one who's already married? 'Cause, like, anyone else who hates LotR movies as much as I do is my potential soul mate.

The only reason I didn't walk out of Fellowship of the Ring was because I went with other people, so it was either sit and suffer or wait in the parking lot and suffer. And, seeing as how the things was over three hours long (felt like three thousand) I chose to stay seated.

Posted by: amy at July 23, 2007 3:56 PM


"Talladega Nights" - when you find yourself getting angry at the other people in the theater for laughing, it's time to go.

Talladega Nights I actually returned to the video store the same day in order to an early return credit. It still makes me question the intelligence of 99.95% of humanity. The husband and I looked at each other midway through and opted to forge ahead to see if it ever got "funny". It did not. I hate you Will Ferrell.

Posted by: Melody at July 23, 2007 3:58 PM

When I was a kid, my parents and I went to "The Rock"...we were from northern California so my mom was sold on the Alcatraz thing, and my dad was placated by Sean Connery's involvement...we got to the balcony sex scene with Cage and his wife (which was completely superfluous to the film) and mom had me by the arm and walking up the aisle by the time Cage uttered "Peachy Cream Smoothness"... thanks Ma.

Posted by: This one time... at July 23, 2007 3:58 PM

1. Wolf - sat in the lobby and waited for my friends to finish watching that God-awful thing.

2. The Bridges of Madison County - yes, I know. It's "wonderful" and "how could you?!" Whatever. I was bored out of my skull.

3. Battlefield Earth - We left after 10 minutes, but it was fine since we had sneaked into it after paying for/seeing another movie.

Posted by: TL at July 23, 2007 3:59 PM

Movie walked out on:

Star Wars: The Phantom Menace - I didn't actually make it past the first 15 minutes of the movie because I got a call from my parents saying that I was extremely late for an important marching band practice that I had totally forgotten about. That's probably the dorkiest reason that anyone has ever had to leave a theater. Bonus points for me.

Movie wanted to walk out on:

The Matrix Reloaded - the techno orgy scene was so ridiculous that I just had to leave, but my jackass boyfriend wouldn't budge. Idiot.

Movie unfinished as rental:

Multiplicity - I was only 13, but I knew a shitty movie when I saw one.

Posted by: B.F.D. at July 23, 2007 3:59 PM

The only movie I've really walked out on is Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo. Which I was reviewing. I just couldn't fucking take it any more. I got through about 50 minutes.

I would have walked out on The Hulk but I was with people. I did, however, go out for a cigarette halfway through before struggling through the rest.

Posted by: Arran at July 23, 2007 3:59 PM

I still shake my head at the memory of this: "Date Movie". Why oh why did I ever go see that? My friend and I stuck through the entire thing because a) we hoped in vain that it would get better (it got worse) and b) there was nothing else to do. We shot out of there the minute the credits started and just looked at each other, in unspoken agreement that we should have left ten minutes in and gotten our money back.

Posted by: Geetch at July 23, 2007 4:00 PM

For some ungodly reason, my father adores Kevin Costner's movies. For this reason, my entire family was dragged to see both Waterworld and the Postman. I fell asleep during the latter and was too young to sit by myself in the lobby through the former.

However, the boyfriend and I did catch Waterworld on USA yesterday; he had never seen it, so we got high and chuckled through the whole thing.

Posted by: masha at July 23, 2007 4:01 PM

1. Sin City *seriously the stupidest movie in history of movies*
2. Ultraviolet
3. 200 Cigarettes
4. The Break-Up *no wonder Brad left Jennifer Aniston- she's boring, ugly, and plays the same role ALL THE DAMN TIME*
5. Eragon *i loved the books and was just downright HORRIFIED at the movie version, still pisses me off*

Posted by: CiCi at July 23, 2007 4:01 PM

Wow, lots of people are like me...just can't bring themselves to walk out.I will stick with damn near anything, just so I can bitch about it later. Ones I would have walked out on or started to watch at home and said "fuck THAT!" include;

1) "What Dreams May Come" depression, anyone? Jesus, and a really bad choice to watch the day your mother-in-law has quintuple by-pass surgery.

2) "Pirates 3" Now, I LURVE me some Johnny Depp, but wtf was going on? My kids loved it, and I dozed off.

3) "Phantom Menance" so many before have said it better than I ever could....that kid now lives about 30 minutes from me. If I ever see him, I'm gonna kick his ass.

4)"Last Temptation of Christ" My boyfriend really wanted to go. I went to be nice. Not religious, not interested. He is not religious either, but bawled like a baby. Jesus, man, grow a pair!!! (I think this movie spawned Eli Roth, et al.....)

5) any Scooby-Doo or Fantastic Four....again, went with the kiddies...kept trying to doze off...just awful

There are lots more, but, damn....why ruin such a lovely day?

Posted by: dammitjanet at July 23, 2007 4:04 PM

Can I still play? I have walked out on "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" and "The Animal." No regrets.

Posted by: pammeey at July 23, 2007 4:05 PM

The first 5 minutes of Little Miss Sunshine came very close to get me to walk out. I was under the impression I would be getting bad preachy drama for 1:30 and it would ruin my buzz. Well I'm glad I stayed.

Posted by: Sunsneezer at July 23, 2007 4:09 PM

I couldn't sit through Sin City. And the theater was across from a bar. I waited it out at the bar. Just too much for me what with strippers and Bruce Willis and violence and gory dead Benicio Del Toro and just more violence. I don't know why the violence (and the yellow dude) got to me so bad but I was just too revolted to stay. Although the visual style was fabulous and Clive Owen is a hottie and the big red dude was a badass. So basically I can't forget what I did see and didn't want to see more if I was going to have it permanently burned into my brain. Does that make any sense?

Posted by: Anne (in Reno) at July 23, 2007 4:10 PM

Actually walked out of the theater:
The Cell - not because I thought it was bad, but my companion was in an alternate, chemically-induced state of mind and couldn't deal. I was stone sober and drove, and figured it was better to leave than watch him freak out in public.

Fell asleep during:
Crocodile Dundee 2
Batman Returns

Wish I'd left:
Robocop
Kingpin

Left the room while friends watched on DVD:
Requiem for a Dream
Punch-Drunk Love
Training Day

Turned off after 10 minutes and returned to Netflix:
Nightwatch (w/Ewan McGregor & Lauren Graham)
The Portrait of a Lady

Posted by: lunabelle at July 23, 2007 4:11 PM

My friend and I walked out on A Knight's Tale. The use of classic rock and popular music in the movie annoyed me, but not as much as the so very obvious plot cliches and stereotypes. I really like that cast too! We also walked out on the first Resident Evil movie. I love horror and zombies, but this was horrible.

When I was little, my dad dragged my family to Fat Man and Little Boy. I was too young to get anything out of it, and I probably went back and forth to the lobby ten or so times.

I wish I walked out on:
Matrix Revolutions
Head of State
Sahara
Shrek 2

If anything else gets bad enough, I can enjoy making fun of it.

Posted by: jessecoombs at July 23, 2007 4:11 PM

Also never walked out of a movie, but I have given up on the dvd for a couple (which i NEVER do-i have to know how it ends):
Master and Commander-could not get into it at all.

The Brothers Grimm-such a waste of time and talent.

Posted by: Sarah at July 23, 2007 4:12 PM

1. The Little Mermaid - tried to see it twice and had to leave twice. It was a little too creepy for my little bitty self. I'm a wuss.

2. Bean- Mr. Bean's movie. It sucked so much.

Posted by: s at July 23, 2007 4:13 PM

Only time I've ever walked out of a theater:
The Nutty Professor 2. It was the ONLY movie showing and I had no better plans for a date than a trip to the movies, but we just couldn't take it. Some movies I wish I'd walked out on:
End of Days (wow...)
Hook (so, so powerfully boring/lame)
Twister (the height of stupidity)
I'm sure I'll think of more, but I can't at the present.

Posted by: Mattfactor at July 23, 2007 4:13 PM

1. Johnny Mnemonic
2. Stuart Smalley Saves his Family (whatever it was called...my grandmother wanted to see it, what was I to do??? Not take her??)

Posted by: Melina at July 23, 2007 4:17 PM

Alot of things suck about being 16. No smoking, no drinking, no girls. That last one probably has more to do with my friday nights spend listening to Director's Commentaries. None the less, the WORST FUCKING THING has got to be getting dragged to the Santa Clause 3.

Sat in the hallway alone for and 45 minutes and it was better than that pile of crap.

Posted by: slang at July 23, 2007 4:18 PM

Sadly, I'm too cheap and stubborn to actually walk out since the ticket was paid for, but I will forever blame my husband for making me endure Johnny Mnemonic.....I'll never get those 100 minutes back!

I've fallen asleep from boredom during:
Star Wars Episode I (at nyc's Ziegfeld no less)
Jade
Ocean's 12

Posted by: Courtney at July 23, 2007 4:18 PM

None, but oh God, oh God I wish I had walked out on the Da Vinci Code.

Posted by: Angelyca at July 23, 2007 4:18 PM

I think the only movie I've actually walked out on was Ice Castles when I was a kid. Then there are movies I thought about walking out on (Whipped--both my friend and I wanted to leave, but were afraid the other one would want to stay) and movies I wish I'd walked out on, and in fact bolted from the theater as soon as the credits began (Hudson Hawk, I'm looking at you).

My favorite "walking out" story isn't mine, but came from a co-worker. His girlfriend really wanted to see Random Hearts, so they went. Then, about 20 minutes in, she announced, "This is boring. Want to leave?" That's not the woman he married, but it did make him want to keep dating her for a while longer.

Posted by: Kate at July 23, 2007 4:19 PM

4) broken flowers - the little indie film with bill murray that blew chunks

3) lost in space - the '98 remake with william hurt. it sucked the breath out of my lungs, it was so bad

2) godzilla - another remake. see above.

1) the village - the last m. night shamalan movie i'll ever pay money to see.

Posted by: amy at July 23, 2007 4:19 PM

I've never walked out, and even rentals I always need to watch all the way through. Even if I have no hope of it improving, for some reason I need to know how things end.

However, basically anything my friends and I went to see in junior high would be on my list of movies I wish I'd walked out on. (Think Heartbreakers, Big Mama's House, The Bachelor, etc.)

Posted by: noxbu at July 23, 2007 4:19 PM

There were many many many films I wanted to walk out on (TROY!!!!) but didn't, due to either my own skintflintedness or the fact that I don't like to miss out on things, no matter how horrible.

Perhaps the worst one was "Torque".

I still have not met anyone that has seen that film. It was actually the first time I'd ever been to the cinema on my own, but the only reason I watched it was that I was in Bangkok, Thailand, on my own for the night, and had some time to kill before my friend arrived for a visit (I was teaching English out there, in case you're interested.)
I and two Thai people were the only people in there, and I think they actually left. It was truly terrible, but even so, I stuck it out.

Posted by: fran at July 23, 2007 4:19 PM

Only movie I've actually walked out on is John Carpenter's Vampires - when I was in high school my friends and I made plans to see it on Halloween. (We should have known better. I mean, the inclusion of "John Carpenter's" in the title - is there no more obvious sign of hackery?) We all grew up in NM, so we considered leaving at the very beginning, when a house was described as "Just another New Mexican shithole" (Shout out to El Burque!!) but we stuck it out for about 30 minutes. When we realized that we could reliably predict every "shocking" and "scary" moment (as in, "Vampire behind the door in 3... 2... 1...") we decided it was too lame even for us.

I would have walked out on Triple X (or is that supposed to be xXx or something? [eyeroll]) but I was at 30,000 feet and didn't have a parachute in my carry-on.

(Instead I began an obsessively detailed account of everything I hated about it, then later convinced my friends to turn it into a drinking game. We had to stop playing halfway through, to avoid serious cases of alcohol poisoning.)

During my semester abroad in Spain, my mother came to visit and we went to see Lynch's Mulholland Drive in one of the few non-dubbed theaters. There was, I think, one other person in the theater. We made it through the whole movie, but as soon as the credits rolled I could not keep from yelling out, "What?!?" I was gratified to hear our fellow moviegoer chime in with, "...the FUCK?!?"

Kevin - I dated a guy who loved Dodgeball. I mean LOVED. IT. He took me back to his place after dinner, and it was on, and - well, I didn't walk out, but in hindsight I really should have.

Idiosynchronic - I think making your son stay and watch Spy Kids 3-D makes you a great parent. You're raising the next generation of Pajibites, you know.

Posted by: alanna at July 23, 2007 4:20 PM

three:
the league of extraordinary gentlemen
napoleon dynamite
face/off.

Posted by: matty blue at July 23, 2007 4:21 PM

Have never walked out of a movie I paid for, but I SHOULD have walked out on "Judge Dredd." There's 90 minutes of my life I'll never get back.

And if I hadn't been with my mother to see it, I might have walked out on "Sleepless in Seattle" (I think that was it; it had both Hanks and Ryan and was so boring I kept checking my watch and thinking - alternately - "It's gotta get better" and "When will it end?").

Posted by: LL at July 23, 2007 4:22 PM

It's been a long time since I walked out of a movie. The last two I remember were Ziggy Stardust (one too many backlit Bowie crotch shots) and something called "The Moon in the Gutter" with Gerard Depardieu and Nastassja Kinski. Yes, I'm old.

Posted by: sansho1 at July 23, 2007 4:23 PM

If it counts, I fell asleep after 5 minutes of the Grudge...and it was a noon showing!

I walked out very few times, but to name a couple:

Autumn In New York,
Hideaway,
The Matrix (Keanu said "woah", so I said "no." I later finished it and loved it despite this.),
Dukes of Hazzard,
The Chumscrubber

Posted by: Scott at July 23, 2007 4:23 PM

King Kong remake- the only time I was rooting for the ape to die

Hostel- the eye thing with the Japanese girl was too much for my stomach

The Hills Have Eyes remake- the rape scene in the van was too much

Posted by: Tiff at July 23, 2007 4:27 PM

Napoleon Dynamite.

The only movie I've ever walked out of. I just don't do it, but I made an exception to my rule 30 minutes into that garbage.

Posted by: Tori at July 23, 2007 4:31 PM

1. Alex and (fucking) Emma - i have never watched something so completely bland.

2. Fur: An Imaginary Portrait Of Diane Arbus - worst.movie.ever. 20 minutes of watching nicole kidman shaving robert downey jr's entire body is not my idea of a good time.

Posted by: citizen_cris at July 23, 2007 4:33 PM

  • Sin City. Complete Garbage, I also hate the fact people try to defend based on the special effects. If you dress a turd up in a tuxedo it's still a turd.

  • The Perfect Storm. I know I would face the worst storm in recorded history for $10 worth of trout.
  • The Aviator. Not good, everyone is too used to kissing Scorcese's ass. Way too long, would have enjoyed a TV biography on Howard Huges more.
  • Vanilla Sky. No Comment, I just hated it relentlessly.

Posted by: Ralph at July 23, 2007 4:33 PM

With all due respect, most of the pajiba readers here are too young to have seen (in theatres) the worst movie of the last century - The Trial of Billy Jack. I disliked the first Billy Jack, but got talked into going to the sequel by my girlfriend and her female buddy. When the National Guard surrounded the school and shot the kid on crutches, I had the same reaction you all had to the "Captivity" movie - tasted a little vomit, and walked out.

Posted by: filloaks at July 23, 2007 4:37 PM

The Thin Red Line is the only movie I've walked out on. I still don't care what happened, I was so bored.

I really wanted to walk out on Die Another Day, Hostel, and Pirates of the Caribbean, but I was with other people.

Posted by: Jen at July 23, 2007 4:37 PM

Blind Spot - Hitler's Secretary

Dull-holland Drive

Slums of Beverly Hills

Posted by: Dirty at July 23, 2007 4:38 PM

I walked out of Heat when I was in High School--the first movie I've ever walked out on. I wonder if I would hate it now as much as I hated it then--a lot of people have told me it's very good. The only other movie I've ever walked out on was the Denise Richards/Kevin Bacon classic Wild Things.

Posted by: ecp at July 23, 2007 4:41 PM

I have never walked out, but I wish I had -

Blood and Wine - One of the worst movies I have ever seen.

Seven (Insert grammatically incorrect number of exclamation points here)This is the one I genuinely regret not walking out on.

The Hours - My husband actually offered to run at the screen in order to cause a diversion and save us all. Interminable pretentious crap.

Highroad to China (Tom Selleck) I was about 12 and still knew it was awful.

ConAir - with a friend who thought it was great and BOUGHT A COPY!

Sleepers - Hammered shit, but the projector broke down and we got free movie passes out of it, so it wasn't a total loss.

Star Wars - Revenge of the Sith - The biggest badass in the universe is reduced to a whining cry baby.

There are more I'm sure, but my psyche has blocked them out.

On DVD -

Something's Gotta Give degenerated into a rant at the TV and then at anyone who would listen for the next 3 days.

Cars - Why was this movie popular? We paused it and just never went back.

Pan's Labyrinth - A fantasy movie that's a metaphor about fascism? How delightful! Tell me more! I begged my husband to make it stop, but we watched the whole thing.

Posted by: Henry at July 23, 2007 4:49 PM

i pride myself to say that i've never walked out on a movie. it would have to be an excruciatingly bad movie for me to leave and say to myself "ok, you can take the money i paid you becuase at this point, even though i respect your power in making a movie to be released and viewed to millions and your ability at story telling (however limited it may be), i dont care how it ends."


however- lets broaden this and say "movies you havent completed"
cause that, i've done. you know, DVR something and then watch some of it and swear you'll finish it tomorrow, only to realize tomorrow that you could be watching far better things because you didnt even like it that much in the first place.

I Heart Huckabees,

i wish i rememebered the rest, but i usually delete them in a few days.

Posted by: MAx at July 23, 2007 4:51 PM

I have only walked out on two movies out of sheer boredom.

Hoosiers
Gung Ho

I should have walked out on Batman Forever, but I didn't. Fool me once, Schumacher.

Posted by: Krebz at July 23, 2007 5:00 PM

Alanna, my friends started a similar drinking game (I was out of commission on pain meds from wisdom teeth removal) to the South Park movie. If you try to take a drink for every cuss word, I can almost guarantee that you will not make it through "Uncle Fucker".

Good times all around.

Posted by: Melody at July 23, 2007 5:05 PM

Like many others who have posted here, I have wanted to walk out on a couple of movies but have been too cheap to do so. The top two of these movies would be:

Anger Management
Why, oh WHY did I go and see an Adam Sandler film?! I hated both him and Nicholson so I don't know why I was present, but I wish I hadn't been.

Open Water
Waste of time.

Posted by: Lola at July 23, 2007 5:06 PM

Alexander.

I tried to walk out during Serenity when Walsh got the big stick shoved through his chest, but I was restrained by Browncoats.

Posted by: shawnp at July 23, 2007 5:10 PM

err, Wash.

Posted by: shawnp at July 23, 2007 5:11 PM

I cannot abide being forced to stay somewhere I don't want to be, & so have walked out on many a movie...screw the ticket price, my freedom from cinematic shite is well worth it...and I'm too wimpy to ask for my money back. That being said, I'm prepared to be mocked for walking out of the following:

1) Pulp Fiction: I was a 19 year-old virgin girl & beat a hasty retreat when the gimp showed up. Call me sheltered, but at the time, holy crap.

2) Leaving Las Vegas: Took my 13-yr. old brother. Think back to some of those drunk sex scenes & imagine watching them with your little bother. If you could do that, you're a bigger woman than me. Or enjoy a deeply inappropriate relationship with your brother.

3) Spawn: John Leguizamo. Point made.

4) King Kong: It sucked. And I am not about to watch something continue to suck for three frickin' hours.

5) Talledega Nights: (DVD rental) I loves me some Will Ferrell but not in that bullshit.

Posted by: dubiwag at July 23, 2007 5:12 PM

I've never walked out of a movie but there are a few I wish I'd walked out of

1. American Dreamz- not only was it boring but everyone was talking during the screening

2. Transformers. Seriously- after I was the only one to laugh when that soldier guy said "you're a soldier now!" to Shia LaBeouff, I knew I should have left and saved myself the boredom of the remaining 20 minutes, especially since I'd already endured 40 minutes of boredom.

Posted by: Claire at July 23, 2007 5:20 PM

The only one i've ever walked out of was Bounce, the Ben Afflek, Gwenyth Paltrow piece of crap. I was like 15, went with a bunch of friends, and two of us spent most of the movie in the arcade.

I kept falling asleep watching King Kong at home. I woke up each time reversed to the last spot I remembered and tried again. Took three tries but I finally finished it. Not worth it.

Couldn't finish The Grudge on TV or Vlad with Billy Zane. Awful.

Posted by: D-Coy at July 23, 2007 5:26 PM

Heartbeeps: Starring Andy Kaufman and Bernadette Peters.
I was 10. The movie was just so bad.

Posted by: Adam at July 23, 2007 5:27 PM

The Ladykillers ('04)- That flick was just a big steaming pile of ass.

Posted by: pntsoptional at July 23, 2007 5:29 PM

I work at a movie theatre, so money is never the issue. I do read Pajiba avidly these days, and this fact has saved me from wasting my time on many occasions. However, over the years there have been a few I just couldn't bear to watch.

1) Batman & Robin. From reading the comments I am far from alone on this one.
2) Sorority Boys. Uggh-- didn't make it more than 15 minutes. totally forgettable flick.
3) The Ring. hated it. not even a little scary.
4) Keeping the Faith. Ben Stiller is not above that crap, but Edward Norton? Come now.
5) Cheaper by the Dozen... OK, I really don't know what I was thinking going in. Oh, now I remember-- it was my girlfriend's idea.

Posted by: Mark at July 23, 2007 5:29 PM

I haven't walked out of a film. There have been many where I was thinking, "I'm not exactly entertained by this," but I don't really have the same violent recollections of those films that you all seem to have. I kind of just tend to simply forget them and now worry about them again.

I'm surprised at some of the choices above though, because there were a few at least where I would concede that they weren't smart films, but I was entertained by them. I wouldn't defend them and call them good, but they were nowhere near "walking out" quality for me.

Posted by: Amanda at July 23, 2007 5:29 PM

I've only ever walked out of Goldeneye. I WISH I'd walked out of Pearl Harbor, The 9th Gate and Titanic.

Posted by: Babypants at July 23, 2007 5:43 PM

Considered walking out on Pearl Harbor, but didn't. I really hated the love triangle crap in that movie.

Didn't walk out of, but turned the video off after only 20 minutes or so: The Matrix. I know everyone loves that one, but my hubby and I just found it annoying. Still haven't watched more than that nor watched the sequels.

I almost walked out on Jurassic Park when I thought the kids were going to die. They of course didn't die, so I stayed.

Posted by: Lainie at July 23, 2007 5:44 PM

I'm of your school as well, Dustin; I don't walk out of movies I've paid to see. I've made an exception to that rule one and a half times. The first was Shallow Hal, which I still count as the worst movie I've ever seen, ever, because I did end up seeing the second half of it on HBO later on. And the half time was Van Helsing...I actually got up to walk out three times, but every time I did, Hugh Jackman would take off his shirt and convince me to sit back down again.

Posted by: MG at July 23, 2007 5:45 PM

I've only walked out of one flick ever....MR SATURDAY NIGHT. I can take Billy Crystal's old-jewish-guy schtick in tiny, tiny little doses -- but a whole movie? Ugh.

Posted by: M.Adkins at July 23, 2007 5:46 PM

I never walked out of a movie,(too cheap), but I sincerely wanted to leave "Porky's," but My date thought it was hilarious. I married him. Maybe I should have taken his enjoyment of that film as a sign that the marriage wouldn't last. It didn't.

And yes, I'm old too!

Posted by: rlr260 at July 23, 2007 5:55 PM

The only movie I ever walked out of was The Portrait of a Lady with Nicole Kidman. I went with a girl I was dating at the time because she was taking a course that offered extra credit for going. I knew from the first scene it would be pure dogshit. At one point two little kids up front were playing around and being noisy. The other 6 people in the theater were all watching and smiling. No one gave a fuck because it was much more entertaining than that turd. Finally my girlfriend made us leave with about 30 minutes left to go. I wanted to stay just to say we made it. Leaving then was like dropping out of college with 1 class left to go. She just couldn't take it anymore so we left.

Wish I had walked out of Me, Myself, and Irene. Also dogshit. I took my little sister to see it and regret it to this day.

Posted by: Jon at July 23, 2007 5:57 PM

Blonde hair and big, beautiful breasts lured me out of Dances With Wolves. I was on a double date and the other 3 were bored. Shitty thing is that I never hooked up with the girl, but I did eventually get to see the whole movie during my liking-Coster-despite-myself phase.
In fact, I'm not even friends with my old buddy anymore.
Dicks.

Posted by: Kballs at July 23, 2007 5:59 PM

I've never walked out. However, I wanted to leave the following but I stuck it out:

Mimic, Mars Attacks, Natural Born Killers, Babe, Disney's Pocahontas, Benny & June, Any Given Sunday, Jeepers Creepers

I know some of these are cult classics and what not but every one of those movies is pretentious as hell and just not interesting enough to justify it. The others were critic's darlings that I saw against my better judgement.

Posted by: Rob at July 23, 2007 6:11 PM

I've never walked out of anything in a theatre. I've seen some truly awful stuff, but if I'm there, then I'm in for the count. There is only one movie which I paid money for (rental), and intentionally never finished:

The original Sinatra/Martin/Davis Jr. version of Ocean's 11.

Just try to stay awake! I dare you. I'd even take Ocean's 12 over this again.

Posted by: Bistro at July 23, 2007 6:12 PM

U-Turn

i just didn't see the point of sitting there any longer.

otherwise i don't go see movies that i know will make me want to walk out on them.

Posted by: causaubon at July 23, 2007 6:16 PM

I've never willingly walked out of a movie. I'm of the "I bought the damn ticket, I'm staying" mindset. Also, since moving back to my hometown, I have to drive over an hour to get to a decent movie theater. I'm very, very picky about what I go to see. No more movies on a whim since I'm spending $8 bucks on a ticket AND God knows how much on a tank of gas.

I was forced to leave a theater once, though, and not by management. When the first Blair Witch came out, I was in college. The local theater did a midnight showing the night before it opened. People were foaming at the mouth to get the tickets. My boyfriend and I had two. A guy in the parking lot offered us 25 for each. We should have accepted.

So we're in the theater and it is packed and HOT AS BALLS. The movie starts. I'm not terribly impressed, but I'm being patient. Then they get to the freaking woods. About five minutes into their hike, I start feeling weird. I've broken out in a cold sweat and am totally clammy. Five minutes later, I heart starts pounding and I feel nauseated. Thirty more seconds and my boyfriend is practically carrying me out of the theater. I get to the parking lot and puke everywhere.

We can't figure out what happened. My friends ask if I got scared, but nothing scary had happened (then again, did it ever???). They were just walking.

The next day, the newspaper has done a little write up. Turns out several of us had to leave the theater sick.

Turns out it was some weird, bad motion sickness. The bouncing of the camera messed with my brain which messed with my stomach. I have the same problem with the Bourne Supremacy. Too much bouncing. LOTR on IMAX almost killed me.

It's weird. Roller coasters, boats, riding backwards in a train... nothing bothers me. But bouncy camera work send me one way to Puke City.

Posted by: superEdna at July 23, 2007 6:25 PM

The Breakup. Ugh. I felt so tricked and used (they marketed it as a comedy!) and uncomfortable because it was like sitting through a real couple's breakup. That was no comeback from Ms. Aniston, that was medieval torture.

I wish I walked out of Blades of Glory, Stay Alive, and Pearl Harbor.

Posted by: joann marie at July 23, 2007 6:27 PM

As far as rentals go, my husband and I almost made it our mission to steal every possible copy we could find of "A.I" and BURN THEM.

The first 15-20 minutes of that movie weren't bad actually, but when it started sucking, it sucked like a half-starved calf on a three-day speed trip.

Sweet Moses and Floyd, that was a shitty movie.

Posted by: superEdna at July 23, 2007 6:30 PM

I've never walked out of a movie, but there have been a few I retured to the video store or Netflix after ten minutes of viewing:

The Black Dahlia (What a piece of shit.)
Date Movie (NOT my idea)
xXx (again, NOT my idea)

And even though I paid for the headphones during a United flight from Denver to New York, I took them off and fell asleep after the first twenty minutes of Cars.

Posted by: Rebecca at July 23, 2007 6:32 PM

TROY. The rape scene made me queasy, even if it was a buffed-up Brad Pitt.

Posted by: bonnie at July 23, 2007 6:43 PM

"What About Bob" with Richard Dreyfuss and Bill Murray. Ugh. What a piece a crap that film was and annoying too. My boyfriend at the time choose this over "Goodfellas"! FREAKIN' "GOODFELLAS" (sorry had to shout on that one) Should have dumped his ass sooner. What an asshole.

Posted by: jen310 at July 23, 2007 6:46 PM

I'm cheap and have a really high tolerance for bad movies that I have paid money for, I just hate to leave...you never know it might get better.

That being said we have walked out of 2 movies.
The first had fucking Suzanne Sommers and Donald Sutherland in it.
So bad I can't remember the name of the drek.
About dolphins...I think. At one point Sommers announces that she does not wear underwear and it is downhill from there.
Just a horrible movie.

The other?
The Lonely Woman, Pia Zadora, $1 movie after about 20 min in.

Posted by: Jules at July 23, 2007 6:48 PM

Once, and only once... I totally walked out on a date no less on Batman and Robin. We went to the midnight show, the day before it came out. Such a mistake. I wanted to leave, but it wasn't until she gave us the go-ahead that I knew I had a winner.


I did sit through Wrongfully Accused at the theatre though.

Posted by: Indiebass at July 23, 2007 6:51 PM

I walked out on/left the room with the DVD on:

Step Up
The Good Shepherd
The Notebook
The Producers
Art School Confidential

And when I walk out, which is usually within the first half hour, I ALWAYS ask for my money back. Don't let the pimply kid at the box office scare you away from $10 that you should totally be able to reclaim.

Posted by: flye3076 at July 23, 2007 6:58 PM

I left for a goodly portion of "A Knight's Tale," although I had to return for my ride. How is that movie okay ever?

Posted by: Chesnut at July 23, 2007 7:00 PM

1.Bolero (not even Bo dereks honey covered tits could save it)

2. Cyborg - Fuck you Jean-Claude

3. Saw - I saw it for FREE at a sneak preview and walked out because it was SO FUCKING STUPID!!!!!!

4. Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow - coolest looking crappy film - ever

5. Goldeneye- actually made me physically ill, shat and vomited for 2 hours after the first 25 minutes.

Posted by: Master Vaden at July 23, 2007 7:05 PM

The only movie I actually walked out of was Date Movie. I think it was right after the scene with the cat fucking Grandma's corpse, I had enough.

I almost walked out of Phenomenon, but my ride enjoyed it. I wanted to walk out of Superman as soon as I realized he was a deadbeat Dad, but I stayed hoping it was Luthor's trick or something. It wasn't. :(

Posted by: Patrick at July 23, 2007 7:05 PM

The Somers & Sutherland flick was called "Nothing Personal" and had seals instead of dolphins.

Posted by: krebz at July 23, 2007 7:06 PM

Sorry, that should be chose and not choose. Also there is some punctuation missing. I still burn with such red hot fury at missing "Goodfellas" in the theater that I can't even type correctly.

Posted by: jen310 at July 23, 2007 7:07 PM

Movies I've actually left:

1) Friday Night Lights. I was not enjoying the movie, but I would have sat it out; my friend/ride had to leave about half an hour in.

2) Kicking and Screaming. This one, my friends and I left to our own volition. I think we had maybe one chuckle throughout the entire hour we stayed. Good God.

Movies I Should Have/Wanted to Leave:

1) Date Movie. Well, it was part of a scenario that culminated in a girl asking me to a dance, but the movie was still miserable.

2) Mulholland Drive. Enjoyed it within the first hour or so, but just got more and more fed up with it and rode it out just so I could battle the pretentious fans of the movie more effectively.

Posted by: Drew at July 23, 2007 7:09 PM

Patrick- I also walked out after the Date-Movie-cat- scene. I am a totally offensive and rude person but even that was too much for me. I'm sure there have been several Sandra Bullock movies I've walked out on too, just can't remember them-

Posted by: Be Adequite! at July 23, 2007 7:11 PM

The only movie I ever walked out on in the theatre was punch-drunk love.. i was bored to tears, and i decided that it would be a better use of my time to go flirt with the guy who took my ticket. (i was 17 at the time, and had to wait for my dad and sister to finish the movie).
as for dvds... i've never finished titanic or moulin rouge, despite having tried to watch each a couple of times

Posted by: Nikki at July 23, 2007 7:12 PM

1. Meet Joe Black. I was with some people, so I couldn't actually leave, but I did wander into the theater lobby, play some video games for about half an hour, and meander back in to see if it was over yet. I swear it was still the same damned scene.

2. Jurassic Park 2: Whatever the Fuck it Was Called. I have no memories of this movie. Except that it sucked, and I walked out.

3. Gladiator.

4. The Sea Inside and The Assassination of Richard Nixon. In different circumstances, these might have been good. A local theater in Norwich showed "mystery previews" of upcoming films. You buy your ticket, you take your chance. But if you walked out in the first half hour, you get your money back.

Posted by: Erin Elizabeth at July 23, 2007 7:16 PM

Windtalkers: Nick Cage pretends to be deaf but somehow fails to convince me.

Scooby Do: It made my soul hurt.

Posted by: BlickBlick!! at July 23, 2007 7:29 PM

Never walkd out but I've actually paid to see

Godzilla
Battlefield Earth
Jason X

Wasn't too bad, I had some laughes.

Posted by: xiaoli at July 23, 2007 7:29 PM

I desperately wanted to walk out of "Saw," but I was with a group of teenage boys who were loving it, and plus I needed them to give me a ride home.

So, the first movie I actually walked out on was The Da Vinci Code. I went and saw it by myself at the latest showing, and I was SO bored 45 minutes in that I just took off and drove home. It felt great. I thought the book was fun, if inane, but the movie was so tedious.

Posted by: Brianne at July 23, 2007 7:30 PM

What a walk down Shitty Movie Memory Lane this is. I happen to be reading an article about movie costs/profitability and the lack thereof. It might not make some of you happy to be reminded that according to this article, "The Blair Witch Project" (which indeed sucked balls) made over $248 million, worldwide (gross) and cost $35,000 to make.

I also remembered another movie I should have walked out on: "Threesome," starring Lara Flynn Boyle and that Baldwin brother who I think is a Jesus freak now and some other guy. Waste of time and money. For everybody involved.

Posted by: LL at July 23, 2007 7:34 PM

I can't believe no one has said Summer of Sam. Only movie I've EVER walked out of. Ick Ick Ick.

Posted by: Kelly at July 23, 2007 7:36 PM

I've never had the pleasure of walking out on a movie, but only because my husband is cheap and refuses to do so. I'm not even sure which part of House of 1,000 Corpses made me turn to the hubby and say "I'm ready to go when you are", but we didn't leave. Unlike Siegal, I waited until the movie ended to loudly announce that Mr.Zombie's debut was the worst piece of shit that I had ever seen. Rob Zombie can lick my balls. Hostel was another one that I wasn't allowed to leave.

Now DVDs that I've walked from, let's see...Garfield, Van Helsing, The Forgotten, Derailed, Remember the Titans, Radio, Frequency....too many to recall.

Posted by: Jodi at July 23, 2007 7:42 PM

The only film I've walked out of is "Gerry." Ten minutes of the marooned on a rock / let's make a dirt mattress scene was just too much.

I totally fell asleep during Lord of the Rings: Return of the King.

Posted by: entities at July 23, 2007 7:48 PM

I rarely walk out on movies. When I go to the movies I stay and watch the whole thing. Even if it's terrible. The ones I have walked out on were a long time ago:

1) Philadelphia

I left because the friends I went with at the time got really upset and couldn't watch Tom Hanks' character die.

2)Cops and Robbersons (with Chevy Chase and Jack Palance)

I left to make out with my boyfriend at the time. I never did see the end of it.

3) Car 54 Where Are you? (the 1994 movie version)

This was actually so, so, so painfully bad.

4) Da Vinci Code

I didn't actually leave per se, but I fell asleep twice it was so boring.

Posted by: Nectarine at July 23, 2007 7:53 PM

The only movie I ever walked out of was Random Hearts. It was the worst movie EVER...boring and horrible and depressing. Ick. I fell asleep through every one of the new Star Wars movies...my boyfriend made me go see them because he is obsessed with all things Star Wars and I had never even seen the old movies so I: a.) had no idea what was going on and b.) didn't care.

Posted by: Rai at July 23, 2007 7:58 PM

Oh, yeah! I just remembered the only movie that I actually walked out on:

Patch Adams

It was so super-retardo and, thankfully, a friend's car broke down and we had to leave the theater to go pick him up, else I might have finished watching this piece of crap.

Robin Williams: YOU SUCK. I can't believe you've been crapping all over your own credibility for the last twenty years.

Posted by: Jelinas at July 23, 2007 7:58 PM

"O" the Othello remake. It was just stupid and bad.

Posted by: twilly at July 23, 2007 8:01 PM

Alright, Alanna, a Duke City shout-out!

Only once has a movie been so bad that I walked out - Young Einstein w/ Yahoo Serious...

Posted by: Alarmjaguar at July 23, 2007 8:01 PM

Oh and I fell asleep during "Rugrats: The Movie"

Even the popcorn and giant Coke my mother used as bait to get me to take my sisters couldn't keep me awake.

Posted by: twilly at July 23, 2007 8:06 PM

1. The Terminal:
What a horrendous pile of crap. Left with 20 minutes to go but I couldn't take another second of Tom Hanks' stupid accent and over-acting.

2. Two Weeks Notice

3. Saving Private Ryan:
Left after 10 minutes of violence, maybe that was a mistake, maybe not.

Should have walked out of: Passion of the Christ.

Posted by: Brenda at July 23, 2007 8:10 PM

1. Caligula. This one was so bad, I walked out of the theater and just kept on going. My friend who had driven us there caught up with me when I was about halfway home.

2. Neighbors. I think that's what it was called, John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd? I remember sitting in the lobby, on the floor, waiting and waiting, and knowing that I made the right choice.

3. The Astronaut's Wife. Didn't see it in the theater, but I think I set a new speed record for my TiVo. Watched the whole movie in about 11 minutes. Because 30 seconds of Johnny Depp as a blond Texan was 29.5 seconds too much. I love Depp, but godamighty he's made some horrible, horrible movies.

4. Maximum Overdrive. Didn't leave, but got drunker'n shit on Milwaukee's Best at the theater that served beer, and STILL knew that 18-wheelers aren't scary. Under any circumstances. At all. Anyone who claims that Stephen King is a master storyteller? This is my response. "But 'The Green Mile' was fantastic!" Maximum Overdrive. "C'mon, what about 'Stand by Me'?" Maximum Overdrive. It is an argument-ender.

Posted by: Wednesday at July 23, 2007 8:12 PM

I walked out on Sin City and I slept through the newest Batman movie.

Posted by: Jenni at July 23, 2007 8:18 PM

Although my friends and I should have walked out of Arthur or Camelot or whatever that shit with Knightly was, the only movie I ever walked out on was About Schmidt. Fucking ridiculous.

Posted by: Thomas at July 23, 2007 8:26 PM

The only time I ever walked out of a film was when I made the mistake of seeing The Queen when I had the flu. But I walked back in 5 minutes later and saw it again the next day, so it was all fine.

I've seen wretched films in theaters, but I just can't bring myself not to sit through the whole thing. I spent that 10.50-13.50 on a ticket and god damn it I'm going to amuse myself for those worthless 90 minutes, even if it's by starting to write a really bitchy review in my head during the film.

Posted by: Robert at July 23, 2007 8:33 PM

I don't know if this counts, because I walked out out of fear and not horrible loathing of the movie in general, but:

1. The Ring

And that's all she wrote.

Posted by: paquito at July 23, 2007 8:36 PM

From Dusk Til Dawn - We actually talked to strangers in the parking lot about how incredibly bad it was.

Posted by: Henry at July 23, 2007 8:43 PM

Walked out of: The Screaming Dead. Crappy B-movie horror. It was the premiere so the director and cast were there. Damn, that felt good.

Fell asleep during: Godzilla. The American remake with Matthew Broderick.

Wish I'd walked out of: Napolean Dynamite, Vanilla Sky, and City of Angels.

Posted by: Melissa at July 23, 2007 8:43 PM

I almost never walk out of movies. Mostly because I don't see films in the theater unless I'm fairly certain I will enjoy them. Partly because once I've coughed up my ten bucks I feel obligated to see this thing through to the end.

I did, however, walk out on Syriana. After about an hour I still had no idea who any of the characters were or why I should give a shit about them, I was bored out of my skull, and I was starting to get a migrane. This was also about the time I took George Clooney's dull, self-important ass off my top 5.

Posted by: Haley at July 23, 2007 8:49 PM

Hope Floats. I had to wait outside the theater for the duration of the entire, crappy thing cuz no, my friends wouldn't leave.

Posted by: Emily at July 23, 2007 8:57 PM

I wanted to walk out of LA Confidential. Went to see it with my parents at parent's weekend in college. Dad and I wanted to leave but Mom was sleeping so we didn't want to wake her and besides - we bought the XL popcorn and pop with free refills. We are still trying to figure out what the hell that movie was about.

Posted by: Clevegal42 at July 23, 2007 9:00 PM

Starship Invasions
Night of the Comet
Home Alone
The Covenant

Posted by: Shaz at July 23, 2007 9:02 PM

I sometimes like that brand of over the top comedy, so I liked both "Soapdish" and "What About Bob?". So sue me.

The first movie I ever walked out on was "Mortal Kombat" and we only went because my little brother was dying to see it. We walked out just when the fighting was getting good and the special effects were getting crappy (only about 10 min. in) and my dad said "that's it, we're leaving!" At the time it really bothered me that we left because 1)I'm cheap - even though I didn't pay for it, it felt like a waste and we didn't get to see another movie and so I was pretty pissed at my brother for picking that movie in the first place, and 2)I have that whole "need to finish a movie" problem. I've since seen more of it and couldn't sit through the whole thing, so it was probably a blessing that my dad dragged us out of there. But my brother was pissed!

I went to a bunch of crappy movies in high school but I got a lot more discriminating right about the time I stopped having to go to the movies in "groups". I'm just lucky I never got stuck watching a Van Damme flick, but did have to suffer through some Arnolds and Stallones.

I walked out on Ichi the Killer. Disgusting and not even interesting.

I'm sorry to say I sat through Ultraviolet, Equilibrium, and Waterworld. We own the DVD of Equilibrium and just skip to the fighting scenes, there's really no story anyway. Waterworld is good for a laugh nowadays, but damn if it wasn't a huge waste of time in the theater.

Pearl Harbor was AWFUL! I sat through the whole thing because I have relatives who were there and I wanted to see if they got it right which of course they didn't! Josh Hartnett was bad but Ben Affleck was way worse and so annoying! And there were so many factual inaccuracies that we were grumbling through the whole thing. I would much prefer a good documentary.

Posted by: ms.a at July 23, 2007 9:13 PM

1) The Pallbearer

I was like 12 and this godawful retarded movie with david (fucking FRIENDS) schwimmer and gwyneth paltrow. UGHHH.

2) You Got Served

We actually won tickets to this from a radio contest. We thought it would be awesomely bad. Christ. It was just BAD

3) Star Wars Episode 2

When Anakin said something like "I don't like sand. It's course and gets everywhere" and then they giggled and rolled around in flowers I just had say FUCK THIS and left. I got my money back though. ;)

Posted by: Alexa at July 23, 2007 9:28 PM

I walked out on the first movie I took my youngest brother to- The Mask. He was so upset but I couldn't sit through it so we snuck into see True Lies. Man, did he luck out with that switch-a-roo. He was 9 and I covered his eyes during the stripping scene like a good big sister.

Funny, I also waited in line with baby bro to see Phantom Menace... He must be bad luck.

Posted by: lilianna28 at July 23, 2007 9:33 PM

I've only walked out of one movie. I'm a stickler for going to see critically acclaimed movies (the Tomatometer is golden), giving me a higher chance of liking them, so I haven't especially wanted to walk out of too many. But about a year ago my date offered to pay for the tickets if we could go to RV, stay for 5 minutes, and then come back to my car for extra canoodling time.

Definitely worth it.

Apparently I have a much different taste than the standard Pajiba reader, because I genuinely enjoyed a lot of the movies you guys walked out on. Hook? Loved it. Benny and Joon? Just darlin'. And I love the Pierce Brosnan Bonds, even though they're overly reliant on FX and have ridiculous storylines. He's just such a classy Bond.

Posted by: Hannah at July 23, 2007 9:41 PM

I've never walked out of a movie, but the only one I wish I had was The Butterfly Effect. Shitty and depressing is a hard combination to overcome.

Posted by: Maymar at July 23, 2007 9:41 PM

These are dvds I didn't make it through because they were beyond boring, I only go to the theater when I'm absolutely sure its worth it.
1) Flags of Our Fathers
2) Children of Men
3) The Fountain
4) Idiocracy
5) Miami Vice

Posted by: Selene at July 23, 2007 9:44 PM

I'm another one whose never walked out on a movie EVER, and I've sat through some stinkers that have already been named (The Avengers, Van Helsing, Patch Adams...). I even sat all the way through a horribly porntastic anime (Legend of the Overfiend?) in college even after all my friends who'd come with me had already left.

The one movie I really wish I'd left after the first twenty minutes was Clerks. Still to this day, I don't get Kevin Smith nor his humor. My college roommate and boyfriend dragged me protesting to see Mallrates. It sucked as well just like I had predicted.

A few months ago my husband and I rented The Transporter. I got so bored by it that I picked up a magazine and started reading.

It has been pretty interesting reading through the posts at the wide variety of reviled movies here, from the obvious stinkers to revered cult/indie movies and award-winning films.

Posted by: Alabamapink at July 23, 2007 9:58 PM

I've never walked out of a theatre - I don't see that many movies and usually choose ones I actually want to sit through.

However, I recently turned the DVD player off during:

The Breakup
Blood Diamond
Scoop

Posted by: eiluj at July 23, 2007 10:14 PM

Wedding fuckin' crashers

Posted by: rutilante technicolor at July 23, 2007 10:33 PM

Well, MEL BROOKS DRACULA - that was just too stupid. SCOOBY DOO - we only went in there because Bad Boys 2 was sold out, what a mistake! NIGHT WATCH, NOCHNOI DOZOR - I didn't really walk out, but fell asleep. I NEVER fall asleep during movies, so this counts as mentally walking out. There were friends, you know...

Posted by: Jakob Montrasio at July 23, 2007 10:38 PM

King Kong- (peter jackson)I left and came back after an hour, the shit was STILL going on.

Tibet - the one with brad pitt, im not sure the actual name though, and i dont want to imdb it! but it was hurrendous. after the first 5 minutes i left.

Prince of Egypt- this one i wanted to walk out on but couldnt as i was with my younger sister.

Lord of the Ring- mentally walked out by sleeping through most of it.

Posted by: sara at July 23, 2007 10:41 PM

Three Days in the Valley
The Craft

Posted by: bobo at July 23, 2007 10:48 PM

Hackers - useless, useless movie from time before Angelina Jolie was known.

Posted by: Koboldin at July 23, 2007 10:48 PM

You have to list:

"A.I." - what a steaming pile of trash

"The Wedding Singer" - honestly, I did walk out of the theatre for this one... I heard there was a fun scene with Billy Idol but I couldn't stand it, the movie was so cliche it was painful.

Posted by: Pile at July 23, 2007 10:49 PM

The only movie I can clearly remember turning off in dusgust (not because I was seven and the wicked witch was scaring me) is:

Black Ninja. Worst movie of my life. If any of you have seen it, you know what I mean. The cover = lies. All lies. :(

Posted by: MaliceAlice at July 23, 2007 10:53 PM

Fear-dot-com
If you *need* an explanation, try (try!) watching it. All the way through. I didnt make it...

Posted by: Miguel at July 23, 2007 10:57 PM

Paddydog said: The Ladykillers (Coen Brothers version): To this day, I don't believe the Coen Brothers were responsible for that piece of turd and it made me hate Tom Hanks forever

I'm with you. There are only two movies I've ever walked out on. The other is Cronenbergs Existenz. I got as far as the bit where Willem Dafoe plugs himself in (about 20 mins in?) and that was that.

I'm ashamed to say I made it all the way through Pearl Harbor and Pirates of the Carribean 3. I should have walked out on both.

Posted by: dot at July 23, 2007 11:08 PM

First walk-out: "The Erotic Adventures of Zorro." God only knows what my date was thinking. Now, after 25+ years of marriage to that same guy, we've evolved to arguing over our Netflix queue.

Have also walked out on "Kingpin"... though NOT SOON ENOUGH. (Brain bleach, please.) The marijuana fumes wafting from other audience members did not, regrettably, improve the experience.

And, despite its starring the wonderful Cate Blanchett, we walked out of "Elizabeth," which struck us as utterly inert.

If I hadn't been dragged there by some of my oldest friends, I would have walked out on Star Wars I. Sure wish I could retrieve those two lost hours of my life.

Posted by: flickfan at July 23, 2007 11:31 PM

The Island of Dr. Moreaou. Foul, weird, stupid.

Fell asleep during Zodiac. Repeatedly. ZZZzzzzodiac.

Posted by: savy at July 23, 2007 11:48 PM

The only movie I can recall ever walking out of--I'm cheap, and I used to be really picky--was Sphere. God FUCK me.

I can't believe no one's mentioned it. Perhaps even the people who spent money on Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo were too smart to drop a cent on this giant turdsmear.

It was a wretched movie with wretched dialogue and wretched acting and wretched casting and a wretched script, but I stuck it out until the freakin' scrambled eggs. Sam L Jack gets into a (supposed) alien ship underwater in the middle of the night and they cut directly to breakfast the next morning? Where no one's yet asked him what the hell happened, but they're all staring at him passive-aggressively? And he's obliviously going on and on about how tasty the eggs are? Right about the time he said "What's in these? Chervil?" was when I elbowed the future Mr Salieri2 in the ribs and we stalked out to go rent Event Horizon instead.

Which also sucked. But mainly at the end; I still think the first half was a bucket of fun.

I SHOULD have walked out of The General's Daughter, which spent 116 minutes telling us rape and sexual exploitation was bad while showing us as many repeated shots of the raped, exploited victim as it could, both in the ongoing plot and in multiple flashbacks.

And while I would like to have walked out of xXx after the memorable line, "Bitches! Come!" I have to admit that in hindsight it has proved hysterical in casual conversation.

Posted by: Salieri2 at July 23, 2007 11:50 PM

Only movie I recall walking out of in the theatre was "Judge Dredd." Tried to watch it at Brew and View; even hammered, it was so boring we couldn't stand it.

Should have walked out on "Rumor Has It...", that horrid supposed sequel to the Graduate with Jennifer Aniston and Kevin Costner. There's two hours of my life I'm never getting back.

Posted by: sidster at July 23, 2007 11:56 PM

I think the only movie I've ever walked out on was "Cats Don't Dance" - which is funny to me now, as it's become an enormous guilty pleasures of mine.

However, while not exactly a movie, I did walk out on a theatre production of "Nunsense II" a couple of years back at the Fox Theatre in Detroit. Absolutely horrendous.

Posted by: Jen at July 24, 2007 12:01 AM

Mystery Men-I still remember one fantastic line from it, though, with absolutely no context around it: "I'll fork-give you if you fork-get." My friend and I repeated that for months.

The Divine Secret of the YaYa Sisterhood (how I got talked into seeing it in the first place is beyond me)

Harry Potter and the Something Something. Either the first or the second. I couldn't handle having my mental image of the characters being ruined.

I fell asleep during Cars. I don't understand everyone's praise of this movie-I was bored out of my mind.

I spent about twenty minutes of the third Matrix in the bathroom because I was some sort of group trip and couldn't leave outright.

I've stopped watching way too many DVDs to count, but the most notable one is Garden State. My friend and I had both been told we would LOVE IT TO DEATH, so we gave in about a year later. After about 7 minutes we started fast forwarding and stopping at random moments to see if anything interesting was happening or if Zach Braff decided to utilize inflection. Prognosis? Negative.

Posted by: Sabrina at July 24, 2007 12:03 AM

The only two movies I ever walked out on were 28 Weeks Later and The Constant Gardener. If it hadn't been for extreme circumstances, I wouldn't have left either, I don't think, but for the former I was absolutely shitfaced (because booze and zombies go together...right?) and my friend threw up in the theater, disgusting me so much that I threw up too/made a run for the bathroom. The latter, I walked out because my date started being creepy and I just couldn't handle being there anymore.

Posted by: oggi at July 24, 2007 12:07 AM

I've never walked out of a movie that I remember. Not because I have like awesome will power skills, I just usually only go to movies I think I'll probably like and save the rest for Netflix. Or a friend chose the movie and it would be rude to leave.

1). Chuck and Buck- I'm sure this is a wonderful film and all, but it is sooo uncomfortable to watch.

2). The Razor's Edge- I heard this movie sucked royally before renting, but I assumed it sucked in an Ed Wood way. Actually it just sucked in a boring way.

3). Seven Samuari- I know...shame...shame...it was horribly dubbed though.

4). North by Northwest- another classic I just couldn't make it through. I'm sure I'm an idiot, but I'd much rather re-watch Vertigo.

Posted by: heather at July 24, 2007 12:10 AM

Only one: The Passion of the Christ. Not because of any religious objections or anything political, I just thought it sucked.

Posted by: ric at July 24, 2007 12:10 AM

i never walk out on movies.but i did nearly fall asleep during miami vice ,i could'ent even get over the fact collin farrel had that damn porn star look .it just bothered me with the weird musustach and it just bored the heck out of me.another movie would be pirates 3, i'm a johnny depp fan but dude,that movie was boring and so not funny it was just pathedic.it annoyed me with people saying it was the best pirates movie phttt yah right. spider man 3 sucked too, way to much crying...it was just annoying

Posted by: anna at July 24, 2007 12:15 AM

one movie i never can understand is minority report.i tried watching it one time but i could barely watch it for 15 min before i almost fell asleep.then this weekend i was majorly bored so i watched it,had nothing better to do.it still confused the hell out of me, i had to force myself to watch it practicly

Posted by: lizzie at July 24, 2007 12:19 AM

I have only ever walked out of two movies. I can stand watching a bad movie - these movies committed the mortal sin of not even being interestingly bad.

The first was Master and Commander. This reminded me of nothing so much as a bad Star Trek movie. A captain does battle with a faceless enemy ship that appears out of nowhere when the plot requires - and here's the twist - grows obsessed! They also talk about ships. I can do better thing with my time than watch Russell Crowe sweat for two hours with a half a cast not even trying to fake an accent.

The second was Death Proof. Some of this, no doubt, was that I'd already seen the goofy and exhilarating Planet Terror, and so was A) Slightly tired, and B) Expecting a plot. After 40 minutes of watching a group of interchangable hot women talk the way Quintin Tarentino thinks hot women talk, I was pretty excited just to see them finally leave the bar. And then, having spent nearly half his movie fleshing out 2 of the women, they are promptly killed, punishing whatever viewers tried to take an interest in them. After the movie brought in a pair of seemingly psychic detectives to spout exposition and introducing a completely new set of interchangable hot women talking about blow jobs, I gave up.

Posted by: Seamus Gentz at July 24, 2007 12:27 AM

I'm really glad that so many people walked out of A Perfect Storm. I REALLY wanted to leave, but my date was really into the movie, and I was hoping to get some. I didn't, and he didn't get my jokes about wanting to go buy a boat.

I walked out of Summer of Sam. The date (hrm. I sense a trend!!) and I just looked at each other and left.

I would have left The Village, but my boyfriend and I were kind of stuck in between some large ghetto people, and so amused ourselves by cracking jokes about mustard and ketchup bottles chasing each other. Or random day trippers stumbling on a lost village in the middle of Memorial Park (in Houston)

This dosen't count, but I ran screaming out of Willy Wonka when I was a kid, but that's cause the Oompa Loompa's scared the fuck out of me.

Posted by: Rowen at July 24, 2007 12:30 AM

Ghost Rider. Holy fucking god Ghost Rider.

Posted by: ryan at July 24, 2007 12:42 AM

I've never walked out of a movie. The only one I really wish I would have walked out of was Catwoman. But I went with my dad and he had the keys to the car. So I painfully endured that one. Generally I'm pretty selective in selecting movies to watch. So I'm rarely disappointed enough to warrent a walkout.

Posted by: Dave at July 24, 2007 12:53 AM

Pulp Fiction. I know, I know, but frankly I really didn't care what a royale with cheese was called in France. And expletive laden language is like kryptonite to me, either in movies or in real life.

Posted by: Trent880 at July 24, 2007 12:56 AM

Romeo and Juliet
-Not because of the film but because of the obnoxious asshole dates of some teenage girls who wouldn't stop saying that it was bullshit and stupid as loud as possible. I later saw it later in peace and quiet.

The Ex
Couldn't even stay for Jason Bateman.

Miss Potter
Reducing an interesting woman, an author, illustrator, botanical scientist, expert mycologist and well respected farmer into a dithering idiot talking to imaginary bunnies? Fuck you.

Wedding Crashers
I know, I know, Pajibans love it. I don't. I found it so...obvious and just really not funny.

Posted by: Jamieson at July 24, 2007 1:04 AM

I walked out on "28 Weeks Later"

It was a screening set up for my co-workers the night before it opened. Everyone in the theater pretty much riffed it until the rage-zombie-whatever things started rampaging. That's when I said "Fuck it, I gotta be back here for work in 12 hours. Think I'll sleep instead." Turns out half of my co-workers left soon after me.

Wish I could have walked out on "Phat Girlz" "Because I Said So" and "Little Man" but I couldn't because I was doing the tech screening.

Came very close to walking out on "Blades of Glory." Think I laughed once and couldn't remember what the joke was once I walked out.

Posted by: Jim at July 24, 2007 1:09 AM

The only one that I can remember leaving was that Nick Cage "I'm an angel who just stands there looking constipated" movie with Meg Ryan. Dude. We RAN out of that theatre!

Posted by: fish face at July 24, 2007 1:13 AM

1. Napoleon Dynamite. I've always tried to find some good in a movie or something I can relate to but it was impossible. To this day I haven't seen the whole thing and I refuse to.




2. Insomnia (Al Pacino, Robin Willaims). I didn't walk out because I was busy sleeping through it. The irony.

Posted by: Kelly at July 24, 2007 1:28 AM

Cinema Paradiso. My fiance loves Rik Mayall with a passion, but I just couldn't sit through this garbage.

Posted by: Ali at July 24, 2007 1:35 AM

A lot of mentions of Van Helsing. I love that movie so much for its unintentional comedy. The moment at the end when he's turning from werewolf to man and howling an anguished NOOOOOOO!!!!! cracks me up.

Posted by: ecp at July 24, 2007 1:46 AM

I've never actually walked out on a movie, cause I'm a cheap bastard at heart and...as this site can attest...you can definitely rip on any movie you've seen. I feel less street cred ripping on a movie that I actually didn't sit through. I HAVE been one of the last two in my Hannibal Rising group to remain after the Ray Liotta (spoiler alert!!) losing his scalp thing, which was especially funny considering how close to the end it was anyway. But, I did have Mono once in high school and was rendered paralysed on our couch...for some serendiptous reason, the "Request" channels (early on-demand for the young-uns) had some sort of glitch and for most of this time, and we ended up getting all of their channels free 24/7 during this month-long period. And although I had the opportunity to watch "Batman and Robin" at any 2 hour point, I never actually was able to sit through it...the presence of George Clooney and occasional mono-induced comatose still couldn't save that movie for me. To put this in perspective, I sat through Armageddon and Con Air on multiple occasions (even taking into acount that none of these viewings were all in one sitting.)

Posted by: Barabajagal at July 24, 2007 2:03 AM

Grindhouse.

Well, technically, Death Proof.

And not the whole thing. I'd seen it before, and thought the first half or however much was BEYOND boring, so I enjoyed Planet Terror, and then ducked out to read my much much much more interesting book in the lobby, and then popped back in for the car stunts in the end.

That's the only one I can actually recall...

Posted by: fuggle at July 24, 2007 2:16 AM

I usually walk out before the movie starts - meaning, I usually stay home to avoid the "Ghost Riders" and "Thin Red Lines" of the world.

There are only two movies I walked out on: "Scary Movie 2" (left my girlfriend and our friend in there and went for a walk) and "Dreamcatcher" (that Stephen King intestinal gift).

But, to make it a five, three others deserve the same credit: the only three films during which I fell soundly asleep. Check it out: "The Phantom Menace" (drooled all over same girlfriend's shoulder), "Master and Commander" (or whatever that Russell Crowe thing is called) and "Cold Mountain". About this last one, honestly, all I can remember is that Zellweger and Kidman were there, surrounded by snow. It was all so white.

Posted by: Gargumma at July 24, 2007 2:27 AM

Eyes Wide Shut is the one and only time I've really really REALLY felt the need to book it out of the cinema before I waste another SECOND of my life on a baaaaaad film.

Posted by: Tallulah at July 24, 2007 2:43 AM

Closet-Land: Two people in a room, a government interrogator and his political prisoner, the authoress of maybe-not-really-a-children's book. VERY uncomfortable for my teenaged self way back in the early 80s. I only recently discovered that it stars Alan Rickman, one of my all-time favorites. I think I could watch it all he way through, now that I know that.

Posted by: Whiskers at July 24, 2007 3:16 AM

Oh yeah, you can add my voice to those who hated Wedding Crashers. I had to turn that off about half-way through. A couple of uber-creeps being uber-creepy, that's entertainment?

Posted by: Whiskers at July 24, 2007 3:23 AM

Oh, I have serious patience and an almost cringy-whingey desire to let a movie save itself. I sat through Cronenburg's Crash WITH MY BROTHER after our seatmates mentioned how much we resembled the Spader/Unger characters. Grim indeed.

However, the only flick I can recall walking out on was SHOWGIRLS. Never regretted it. I was even watching it with my snarky friend-with-benefits and we couldn't hack it. Bailed at the 'check if I have my period' flirtation part. yuk. And I thought I could endure almost anything.

Posted by: rebeccah at July 24, 2007 4:24 AM

I didn't walk out of Gangs of New York, But I did spend two hours repeating 'What the fuck has happened to Martin Scorsese'.

Posted by: Wildo at July 24, 2007 4:26 AM

I wanted to walk out of Closer but didn't. I found not one of the characters sympathetic even though I thought the acting was good. I'll still never be able to buy Jude Law as a bloody undertaker.

And Inland Empire. What a piece of toss. It's like something you should have on in the background at a pretentious art school party. Meh.

Posted by: amanda at July 24, 2007 5:51 AM

I've never walked out on a movie...not even Spiceworld, though I did get a good nap out of that shlock.

Why Spiceworld? Why else, theater hopping and friends.

Posted by: Andrew831 at July 24, 2007 6:26 AM

My boyfriend and I would have walked out of Van Helsing...but we both fell asleep.

Posted by: Siege at July 24, 2007 6:40 AM

walked out on that bill murray movie..the life aquatic,..and the aviator,...REALLY wanted to leave gothika

Posted by: sdel at July 24, 2007 7:26 AM

Aw, I feel like I've missed out on the triumph of walking out of a crappy movie.

I normally just fall asleep during them.

I did walk out of the end of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, but only because my bladder was about to burst, I was bored and my cousin walked out first.

I wish I had walked out of the Wannabees. I think that was what it was called...someone gave me tickets to it, and it had Nick GiamopalopadopIdontknowhowtospellhisnamealos in it.....that was horrible. I just sat there thinking, it can't get any worse, it CAN'T get any worse...I will never get those hours of my life back.

And Shark boy and Lava girl in 3D. I watched it on DVD, and honestly, what a steaming pile of crap. Just steaming.

Posted by: Chantelle at July 24, 2007 7:45 AM

Sorry, completely different question, but I'm just wondering if anyone here tried to get a refund (like from the cinema) when they've walked out on a crappy movie?

Posted by: Chantelle at July 24, 2007 7:57 AM

Only two: Sgt. Bilko and Mixed Nuts. Did Steve Martin go downhill or what?

Posted by: Johnny at July 24, 2007 8:39 AM

Only 1:

Alexander

Posted by: Allie at July 24, 2007 9:09 AM

I am a member of the "get your money's worth" weenie club, but I managed to take my mind elsewhere while suffering through the following:

A Perfect Storm (I don't remember a thing about this one except that they all die), Doom (thanks computer geek boyfriend), Deep Impact (I even took notes during this one to help in my argument with the then boyfriend who loved it), Grudge 2 (since I have seen all six+ hours of the Ju-On movies I already knew everything that was coming...thanks for being unoriginal).

Posted by: BLA at July 24, 2007 9:12 AM

Umm..I agree with Rachel, I've walked out on Babel. I just could not watch the scenes where the father beats the kids. Also we could understand around 20 pct of the lines only! Other movies have been Accepted, Clerks, Great Expectations, to name some. Slept through most of Chamber of Secrets (I was tired!)

Posted by: ilovecheese at July 24, 2007 9:12 AM

I've never actually walked out of the cinema, because if I've paid, I'm certainly going to suffer through it until the end. But there have been times when I fell asleep, or really really wanted to leave.

Fell asleep:
Mercury Rising
Gone in 60 Seconds (luckily my brother paid for my ticket on this one)

Wished I had fallen asleep, or wasn't stubborn enough to stay:
Match Point (by far the dullest and most overrated movie I've ever paid money to see)
Blair Witch Project (Not scary, made me feel sea sick and was oh so very dull)
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
Star Wars: Attack of the Clones
The two Matrix Sequels
DaVinci Code (Dad paid for the ticket, couldn't leave without hurting his feelings)
Underworld

DVD I couldn't even be bothered to finish:
Napoleon Dynamite (who actually LIKED this film? So dreadfully unfunny)

Posted by: Malin at July 24, 2007 9:16 AM

First movie I ever walked out on is the original Jaws. Granted, I was in grade school. I still hate my parents for taking me to see it and initiating my fear of the water.

The last movie I walked out on was "The Last Action Hero". All I can say is thank GOD I had free movie tickets from a radio contest and didn't waste my money on it. They were panning it heavily the next morning on their morning show.

Like others, there are a few I wish I had walked out on. Like "Hannibal".

Posted by: Jeanette at July 24, 2007 9:21 AM

I saw Grand Canyon (with Steve Martin) on the first date with my now husband (of eleven years) -- when we both laughed out loud during the heart attack scene and got evil looks from the pathetic saps around us, we knew we had found our soul mate.
I also wanted to walk out right at the end of Saving Private Ryan -- typical Spielberg (I hate that guy's emotionally vacuous tripe). Make a great movie, and then absolutely ruin it in the last five minutes of simplistic sloppy emotionally cheap garbage. He has no respect for his audience - he did the same thing with Schindler's List.

Posted by: kts at July 24, 2007 9:58 AM

1. Dude, Where's My Car - the first movie I ever walked out on. It was just unbearable.

2. Corpse Bride - Tim Burton needed money, and he knew he could trot out the same lame-ass "gothic" "characters" and "plot" as Nightmare Before Christmas and people would eat it up. I took some friends to see it, and was just settling in to get my mind bored out of my ears when the friends looked at me and said they wanted to leave. I watched it later on DVD, wish I never had.

Posted by: GoreMotel at July 24, 2007 10:00 AM

I've gone to see some bad movies, but really, who would pay to see Ghost Rider? I don't get it. Why even bother? I'm shocked that it even showed up on anyone's list.

Posted by: Jen at July 24, 2007 10:00 AM

I'm going to walk out of "Who's your Caddy" come the F%$# on!

Posted by: Showe at July 24, 2007 10:16 AM

1) Howling 2 - part because it was awful, part because I had talked my grandmother into going to it and she WAS NOT enjoying herself.

2) Darkness Falls - it was a free preview.....if I had paid I might a stayed to heckle.

3) Legend of the Overfiend - I just wanted to see a cartoon---but it pays to research your movie choice before you go out. This was not how I wanted to learn about tentacle rape. That's a job for religous leaders and sex ed teachers (we need to teach tentacle rape here so kids don't learn about it on the street).

Does it count if you fell asleep instead of walked out? In that case add Terminator 2, the first 3 Harry Potter movies, and Swimming Pool.

Posted by: grim at July 24, 2007 10:37 AM

The only movie I've walked out on was Alien vs Predator. It sucked copious amounts of donkey dick admittedly, but that doesn't usually matter as I'm one of those sad souls who generally sees even the worst movies through to the end. However, this time around I was with about ten friends, all of whom seemed to be enjoying themselves, and the shame of associating with so many morons tipped me over the edge.

Posted by: Craig at July 24, 2007 10:43 AM

I try not to walk out of movies, but there have been a few.

Anchorman...I know, I think I might be one of the few people that didn't like it, but I found it appalling.

Jeepers Creepers, I believe that is self-explanatory

I would have walked out of Nacho Libre, but I actually suspected it would be horrible before I went (with friends who really wanted to see it) and I got tanked beforehand, so was too drunk to worry about it.

Posted by: Amelia at July 24, 2007 10:44 AM

I remember my mom walking us out of footloose as kids, don't remember why.

I've walked out on Van Helsing, the Hulk,
I fell asleep watching Apollo 13 at the theater.

Posted by: danR at July 24, 2007 10:51 AM

I sat through Ultraviolet.
The Last Action Hero.
The Devil's Advocate.
Mimic.
Unlawful Entry.
Legends of the Fall.

But... A Bugs Story or Antz Life -- the one without Woody Allen & Sly Stallone -- that, that movie sucked. I walked out

Posted by: Rearadmir0l at July 24, 2007 11:17 AM

1. Lord of Illusions. I was about 17 at the time and had a major thing for Scott Bakula, but even he couldn't save that crap.

2. Napoleon Dynamite. I've even tried renting it and watching and still can't get though it. I just don't get why it was so funny.

3. Date Movie.

4. The Producers. Actually, this is a Tivo'd movie that I deleted after the first 10 minutes.

Posted by: christina at July 24, 2007 11:39 AM

Renaissance Man, with Danny Devito. I was 13, had a high tolerance for crap, and it was only a dollar. Still walked out.
Spouse and I almost walked out of Napoleon Dynamite, and probably should have. For some reason, having got in for free made us think we should stay.

Posted by: Cisslepants at July 24, 2007 11:40 AM

i have never walked out of a film. maybe it's the money issue or more than likely my fear of walking out of a fire exit under the screen and into a deserted carpark rather than finding the normal exit and the toilet (this did happen.) ANYWAY. but i wish i had walked out of:

the second matrix,
300 and
stay.

as for dvds - my boyfriend tried to make me watch 'biodome' recently. i got 10 minutes in and told him it was either pauly shore/stephen baldwin or our relationship. we are still together (but the dvd has 'mysteriously' disappeared). also for any british readers of pajiba - the recent ITV version of 'mansfield park' starring billie piper and that bird out of eastenders was dire. i couldnt finish it.

Posted by: Sarah at July 24, 2007 11:42 AM

Movies I walked out on:

Natural Born Killers- Oliver Stone, Quentin Tarantino, Woody Harrelson, blah blah blah. I have stomached some pretty tough ones in my time, but this one put me over the edge. Granted, I was just a teenager.

Waiting- Hey, I manage a restaurant, this thing's gonna be hilarious! Um, not so much. The frat boys in front of me kept bitching for Dane Cook to do bust into one of his routines.

Just couldn't take on DVD:

Supertroopers- People wouldn't shut up about how great this was. Bought it on sale at Target, and returned it to Amoeba the next day.
Die Another Day- An evil guy with diamonds stuck in his face? Ugh.

Posted by: miguel at July 24, 2007 11:44 AM

1. Bram Stoker's Dracula - first one. Mr. Coppola, this was absolute shit. Neither you or I have ever recovered.

2. Cry Baby - Got kicked out of Tales from the Darkside for not being old enough and this was the only other film playing at the same time. Wasn't really ready for John Waters stuff at age 13.

3. Star Trek V: The Voyage Home - What was I thinking? I hate Star Trek...

4. Dude Where's My Car? - Even though my roommates paid for me to go (the only way I'd go in the first place), I still walked out. Piece of shit.

5. Armageddon - I left my girlfriend in the theater because she was enjoying herself. I had more fun playing X-Men vs. The Avengers in the lobby.

Since I've acquired taste, I choose the films I watch very carefully and it rarely comes to me wanting to leave.

Close calls:

The Cooler

Chocolat

The Wayward Cloud - only so much sexual stuff involving watermelons a guy can handle

Charlie's Angels 1 & 2, Sweet Home Alabama - Date rule. Had I not been with my wife, well...I never would have been there at all. Total shit, the lot of them.

Posted by: Harmonov at July 24, 2007 12:04 PM

Evolution-i got dragged to this by a boyfriend..no wonder that didn't last long
Titanic-I couldn't walk out b/c I was in middle school and couldn't drive, but I wanted to run as far away from that theater as possible
Under Cover Brother-it was the 2nd movie at the drive-in so I left our picnic, got in the car and went to sleep
the Producers-I tried it on DVD and only made it long enough to see Will Ferrell with the pigeons.
Mr & Mrs. Smith-I've never made it past the first ten minutes.

Posted by: jmurae at July 24, 2007 12:12 PM

The Night Porter.
My date erroneously thought it would be a good third date movie. Since I had to lie about my age to get in, you'd think he'd have caught a clue! The film was preceded by a really crappy soft porno, too. Needless to say, I was too young to appreciate either film, and certainly didn't have the reaction he was probably hoping for. The whole experience was very uncomfortable. I walked out of the movie, the date and the relationship...

I've seen the film since - it still creeps me out.

As for films I've started on DVD and not finished, too many to count! But I have to confess I'll carry on watching if there's my type of eye-candy involved. Hence, I watched all of Devour... Yikes.

Posted by: Tarn at July 24, 2007 12:27 PM

Pulse.

You try seeing that on the opening night and see if the hoards of 14 year olds don't dampen the experience further.

But even if it had been a tuesday afternoon, that 20 minutes was unbearable.

Posted by: Nat at July 24, 2007 12:34 PM

Whiskers - where did you see Closet-Land? I didn't think it got shown much. I saw it at the NFT in London when it was released. It disturbed the f*ck out of me, but Rickman and Madeleine Stowe were the reasons I sat it out. I really don't think I could watch it again, though - even now.

Posted by: tarn at July 24, 2007 12:40 PM

The Cat In The Hat... atrocious.

Posted by: Tsuru at July 24, 2007 12:48 PM

Like so many people here, I used to avoid walking out on movies. I will get my money's worth damn it; I will be entertained even if it's crap-ass boring. As such, I forced myself to sit through some HORRIBLE movies, like:

Dreamcatcher (it's already been said, see the comments above. I don't need to add anything more)
City of Angels (a romance movie has never made me so steaming mad)
Vacancy (it was the last time I saw a movie based on a Ebert & Roeper's recommendation. I can't trust the opinion of anyone who'd like that movie)
The Matrix 3 - I don't talk aloud at the movies but when Trinity was dying, I really did yell out, "Shut up and just die already!" I got more than a few chuckles.

But the one movie that broke my "don't walk out on movies" rule? Alexander. I HAAAAAAAATED that movie. My classical civ. professor was giving extra credit to students who saw it so I dutifully bought a ticket and suffered an hour and a half of agonizing boredom and actual physical pain. Finally, I decided I didn't need extra credit that bad and left, tears of relieved joy in my eyes. After having gone to see it herself, my professor offered a heartfelt apology for encouraging us to go to see it. I showed her my ticket stub, she said "I'm sorry," and gave me the extra credit anyway.

Posted by: J.S. Peyton at July 24, 2007 1:02 PM

There was a period of time in middle school when my friends and I would see absolute garbage, but only because it afforded us the opportunity to make out with our boyfriends. So while never having walked out of these movies -- for obvious reasons -- here are the ones that I regretted in the light of day.

Before and After -- Meryl what were you thinking!

Joe's Apartment -- this little MTV gem that starred pre-Mr Romijn Jerry O'Connell

Ransom -- forcing the duct-taped kid to drink cough medicine was a bit much for me.

Independence Day -- did ANYONE like this movie?

Posted by: Finn at July 24, 2007 1:05 PM

In the theater:
Storytelling and
Dracula 2000.

Videos:
Pretty much everything by Amos Poe (I really tried, but yeesh).

Posted by: ag at July 24, 2007 1:07 PM

Twice, I've fallen asleep attempting to watch Heat all the way through. I thought the first time was a fluke, but the second?

Otherwise, I'm firmly in the "not-leaving-the- theater-because-I-paid-good-money-for-this-movie -dammit" camp. If all else fails, I can always make fun of a terrible movie.

Posted by: Mary at July 24, 2007 1:07 PM

"Independence Day -- did ANYONE like this movie?"

*shamedfacedly raises hand*
For me this one comes under the banner of 'so bad it's good' - like Snakes on a (Motherfucking) Plane. A guilty pleasure. And the first time I saw it, I was kind of drunk with a bunch of pals... Actually, that goes for SOA(M)P too - and Waynes World. I'm sensing a pattern emerging... ;-)

Hey, Shawnp - so, when 'Serenity' was over, did you thank the Browncoats for restraining you, or curse them in Mandarin?

Posted by: tarn at July 24, 2007 1:16 PM

The Relic

Posted by: crafty at July 24, 2007 1:20 PM

I haven't walked out on any movies I've paid to see at the theater - I tend to be pretty selective on what I'm willing to pay $9 a ticket for - but like several of the other posters I've come close to falling asleep during a couple of them. Case in point: The Bourne Supremacy. It dragged to the point that I damn nearly fell asleep halfway through the film...and my friend did fall asleep during the climactic car chase through the streets of Moscow.

Personally, I think Robert Ludlum must be rolling in his grave at the thought of Matt Damon as Jason Bourne...

On the other hand, I've turned off several rentals before finishing them because they were either stupid or disgusting. Case in point: Rob Zombie's House of 1,000 Corpses. I spent about an hour peeering through buckets of fake blood, searching vainly for any trace of an actual plot, before finally giving it up as a bad job and shutting off the DVD.

As far as I can tell, Corpses may be the single most pointlessly depraved movie ever made. Well, except maybe for the two Hostel films and Captivity...and I also shut off the first Hostel halfway through, too. And I have no desire whatsoever to watch the other two films of that unholy trilogy, even for purposes of comparison with the incredible suckitude that comprises Corpses.

Posted by: Wes S. at July 24, 2007 1:31 PM

Oh yes: to whoever mentioned the South Park movie back up the thread - Melody? - the best part of that movie was going to the theater to see it and watching everybody else walk out and demand their money back. That's why South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut doesn't work so well on video as it does on the big screen...

I went to see it on opening night, and was amazed at all the people in the audience who had brought young children along to watch the film. Hadn't these people been paying attention to all the publicity surrounding the movie...or even the TV show on which it was based? What were these people thinking?

Then the movie started. By the time Terence and Philip started singing the "Unclefucker" song there was a steady stream of people heading to the exits, with angry looks on their faces, sheperding their kids ahead of them...or dragging them by the arms. And by the time they got to the part of the film where Saddam Hussein was wagging his willy at Satan, there was only about a third of the original audience left.

I may have laughed harder in my life at the antics of other people...but it's hard to recall precisely when.

Posted by: Wes S. at July 24, 2007 1:44 PM

I've never walked out on a movie. Too cheap. I'd rather read Pajiba 1st so I know what kind of crap to avoid. Unfortunately, kids movies are another story. Hoodwinked comes to mind. Now... if the question was - what's the longest you've ever slept during a movie, well that's totally different.

My parents took me to see History of the World when I was a kid & then realized it was kinda innapropriate for a junior highschooler so we left. I'm sure this is revisionist history on my part, but I think it was the Louie the 14th part when Mel lifts the backend skirt of some powder faced, boufanted courtier who is leaning over to pick a flower [maybe?] & ... ahem... well ... ah.... gotta go! I also kinda remember seeing the Holy Grail with them, but I was much, much younger.

Posted by: GinKirk at July 24, 2007 2:04 PM

I would have walked out on Pride & Prejudice (with Keira Knightley) but for the fact that I went with some friends and didn't have a ride back.


I figured, okay, it's Masterpiece Theater-type stuff: It ought to at least appeal to the snob in me. No, no, no. It was mindbendingly dull.


I lifted my wrist to look at my watch so many times during the film that a female friend said afterwards: "I thought you were masterbating."

Posted by: Inkstained Wretch at July 24, 2007 2:25 PM

1. Chicken Run--don't ask...
2. The Break Up--Jen Aniston really needs to stop playing 'Rachel' already!
3. Big Fish--god, this one... I've never seen so much cheese crammed into one movie in my life!

Posted by: A.Lo at July 24, 2007 3:24 PM

1. Chicken Run--don't ask...
2. The Break Up--Jen Aniston really needs to stop playing 'Rachel' already!
3. Big Fish--god, this one... I've never seen so much cheese crammed into one movie in my life!

Posted by: A.Lo at July 24, 2007 3:25 PM

I've never walked out of a movie at a theater, however I have not finished DVDs:
The Producers (the new one; it was GOD AWFUL!)
Austin Powers Goldmember (I fell asleep, I don't know if that counts)

Posted by: bb at July 24, 2007 3:58 PM

The only movie I've walked out on was "Trainspotting", only because my friend is extremely squeamish and couldn't handle the "diving into the nasty toilet in Scotland to retrieve my drugs" scene. We didn't even make it to the baby. I have seen this movie since - and read the book - and LOVE both. She has not. :-)

I desperately wanted to walk out on: "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days", "Cape Fear", "Armageddon","Batman Returns", and, god help me, "The Thin Red Line". I do NOT like my war movies all froofy and artsy-fartsy. GAWD. Get over yourself, Terence Malik.

Posted by: maylai at July 24, 2007 4:38 PM

Oh - DVDs I've walked out on plenty. Most recent was Running with Scissors. Boring & seemed so Royal Tennenbaum wannabe. Or something. Also couldn't get into Kiss Kiss Bang Bang & returned it to Netflix after about 1/2 way through.

Posted by: GinKirk at July 24, 2007 4:47 PM

I can't believe I only saw one other person mention The Black Dahlia!

Granted, I didn't actually walk out of the film (I haven't done that yet as I am one of the "I paid for this, damn it!") but damn I wanted to! I went with my fiancé, a friend and her husband and we all just kept looking from one to the other with expressions of "How can it be THIS bad?" The acting was so atrocious and that was one of the reasons I warned others against seeing it. I picked one moment to re-enact get my point across: when Scarlett Johansson literally stuffs her knuckles into her mouth to show her fear and trepidation over doing something potentially wrong(can't remember what now). I'm shuddering just thinking about it.

A movie that I rented that I had to shut off in the first twenty minutes was Click. Terrible.

Posted by: Jessica at July 24, 2007 5:26 PM

Pooty Tang!!!

Posted by: Showe at July 24, 2007 5:47 PM

I walked out of Super Troopers. It was quarter night at the dollar theater and the scene of the guy using the radar gun to see how fast he was jacking off was a bit too crass for me. And besides... I only paid a quarter.

I saw the movie recently and decided that I didn't really miss all that much by walking out.

Posted by: Tanner at July 24, 2007 6:08 PM

Two movies: Click (This was so absolutely atrocious that I almost cried with fury) and How to Lose A Guy In Ten Days (actually didn't walk out, but clicked off the TV with fury. Matthew McConaughey, I hate your fucking guts.)

Posted by: riahmor at July 24, 2007 6:57 PM

Does walking out of the local Pornoplex count? I was finished. Brown Bunny.

Posted by: JP at July 24, 2007 7:28 PM

Should have left the theatre:

Oceans 12 (I kept thinking it would get better, but . . . WRONG!)
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
Star Wars: Attack of the Clones

Fell asleep during:

Godfather IV - (the one that Sophia Copola was in --BORING!!)
The Wicker Man (What was Nicholas Cage thinking?)
Ghost Rider (Nick, Nick...wha's up dude?)

Stopped the DVD player after 20 mins....

The Dukes of Hazzard
Talladega Nights
Because I Said So
Epic Movie

Man, there are so many I just can't think of them all!

Posted by: Les~ at July 24, 2007 7:33 PM

Beloved, Beloved, Beloved. That movie made me physically ill. To this day I get sick just thinking about it. I was just a horrible movie experience. I never watched Oprah again after that either.

Posted by: Candy at July 24, 2007 8:03 PM

City Slickers II. When Billy Crystal started jogging with the cow, I was outta there.

Posted by: Grace at July 24, 2007 8:14 PM

Only movie I ever walked out of was Get Carter. I demanded my money back and actually got it, hahaha. Fuck you, Stallone.

Posted by: Lyric at July 24, 2007 8:19 PM

Little Black Book (for the record, weed and matinee showings of romantic comedies do not mix very well) and Payback (I left with probably 45 minutes remaining in the movie to use the facilities and just couldn't bring myself to go back in, choosing instead to mope around the theatre lobby until my date came to find me...45 minutes later.)

I also fled from a first week showing of The Phantom Menace. I had a blinding migraine - the kind that makes you sick to your stomach - and the pod race scene was doing nothing to help matters. I remember getting up without saying a word to my friends and blindly scrambling over rows and rows of really annoyed people to get to the aisle. No fear, though - my boyfriend of the day insisted that I go with him on a return viewing because apparently, life is not worth living until you've seen the pod race scene. I beg to differ. Which is why we are no longer together.

Posted by: Sandra at July 24, 2007 8:50 PM

I gave my list up there, but people keep posting "I wish I had walked out on this", so maybe I can add a few?

I should have walked out on:

- "The Black Dahlia" (good call there; I just had nothing better to do than go home and sleep, so I stayed)
- "Van Helsing" (the girlfriend excuse)
- "DaVinci Code" (the girlfriend excuse)
- "Gangs Of New York" (possibly the girlfriend excuse)
- "Bruce Almighty" (the ride excuse)
- something I believe was called "The Darkness", with Maria Bello and the LoTR guy. This was a freebie. I stayed for the laughs, actually, because it was supposed to be some sort of horror flick, but it was truly ludicrous. I felt ashamed for those two kinda nice actors.

Posted by: Gargumma at July 24, 2007 9:32 PM

I walked out on Celtic Pride about ten years ago. Horrible movie.

Posted by: kelly at July 24, 2007 10:43 PM

I Heart Huckabees, was trapped on at plane at 20,000 feet. If it wasn't for the fact that I would have been gunned down by an Air Marshall, I would've jumped out without a parachute so as not to have endured the pure torture.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at July 24, 2007 11:46 PM

Sorry, completely different question, but I'm just wondering if anyone here tried to get a refund (like from the cinema) when they've walked out on a crappy movie?

Yes, with success. Walking out early helps.

Posted by: flickfan at July 24, 2007 11:48 PM

1) fay grim. SO BAD.
2) summer of sam. SO BORING.
3) broken flowers. AAAAARRRGGG.

Posted by: bad at July 25, 2007 12:01 AM

i rarely leave theaters. most of mine are very old.

1. her alibi (my first time!)
2. roadhouse
3. wyatt earp
4. l.a. confidential (long story. rediscovered on video and now it's one of my favorite films of the decade)
5. the fifth element (can't stand chris tucker to this day, except in jackie brown).
6. brotherhood of the wolf

6. i nearly left grindhouse. "death proof" about killed me. instead of leaving altogether, i took 10. got some air and some sunshine. went back in for more of the same.

Posted by: matt at July 25, 2007 1:17 AM

I ditched "Wise Guys" with De Vito and Piscipo. Sure, you would think it would be great having Joe at the height of his powers and all, but you would be very, very wrong. I've experienced funnier infections. I also fell asleep during "Bob Roberts" during the 75th "funny" folk song. Freakin' Mark Russell was edgier. And I walked out of "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"... which I got in for free because the Army was screening it in a combat zone. Yes, I literally chose to face death than take even another second of that unspeakable piece of crap. I saw a lot of ugly things overseas...but nothing worse than that movie.

Posted by: kdawg at July 25, 2007 1:21 AM

can't stand chris tucker to this day

Can anyone? I mean, Chris Tucker is some sort of Ann Coulter of cinema. Nobody knows why they're still doing business.

Sorry, completely different question, but I'm just wondering if anyone here tried to get a refund (like from the cinema) when they've walked out on a crappy movie?
Yes, with success. Walking out early helps.

If I were you guys, I'd thank God every day for living in a civilized country, even if you sometimes don't feel so sure about that. Where I live, this demand would be just laughable (at best).

Posted by: Gargumma at July 25, 2007 1:49 AM

First off, Claire please considering marrying me. I almost pissed myself when Las Vegas guy told Shia Lebouf he was a soldier. I couldn't actually leave the theatre, but only because I felt that once I did my mind would force me to enlist in the army. That movie was so transparent it makes me laugh.


The only film i've ever left was Big Bully..holy fuckin' hell was that movie bad.

I almost left "the passion" but I wouldn't let myself be that oversensitive jew...so i stuck it out with my catholic friends only to hear how great they thought it was. Oh torture porn, hallowed be thy name....

Posted by: Elon at July 25, 2007 2:25 AM

For all the cheap people, most theaters will give a full refund if you leave in the first 20-30 minutes.

I've walked out of several flicks, because $9 is not worth wasting 2 hours of my life on crap. My time/brain cells are WAY more valuable than my money.

1. Saving Private Ryan TWICE! I couldn't handle the D-Day/Normandy storming-the-beach scene. It was just too brutal and too... real. I know that's what the filmmakers wanted, but honestly, it made me nauseated. When I finally saw it on DVD, I just skipped to the Nathan Fillion/Wrong Ryan scene.

2. The Wedding Crashers . Now, this gal loves a good raunchy romp (40-year-old Virgin is my all time fave comedy), but that wedding/bedding montage did me in. It embodies the two most depressing things about weddings: desperate singles and predatory assholes.

3. The Pacifier . 'Nuff said.

4. Mr. & Mrs. Smith Maybe my libido needed adjusting, but I did not see any chemistry on that screen. And why was AJ mumbling the whole time? She needed freaking subtitles. And I'm not Team Aniston because I also walked out of...

5. the Break-Up . JA has a head like a potato. I hate movies where the chick, no matter how shrill and irrational, is always right... and I'm a chick! This movie also solidified my hate for Vince Vaughn. Is it me or is he always playing the same guy? And why am I the only one who notices that his thumb is jacked up! Frakkin' Jolly Green Giant...

Posted by: ciji at July 25, 2007 3:04 AM

I've never walked out of a movie because I'm pretty damn good at picking the good ones to see (Children of Men, Pan's Labrynth, 300) but there are a couple movies that I saw with friends or with my ex that I really wish I could get my money back on.

Resident Evil Apocolypse
Epic Movie
My Super Ex-Girlfriend
The Bros. Grimm
Taxi
The Incredibles (not so much anymore)
Dude, Where's My Car?
the "DON'T" trailer that played during Grindhouse
Lady in the Water

Posted by: Corey at July 25, 2007 3:08 AM

Can I just add that while I didn't walk out of Vanilla Sky , I sure as hell wanted to. I went with some girlfriends who were too cheap and too stubborn to leave.

After the movie, the whole theater just sat there in stunned silence for what seemed like forever. Finally, a guy in the back yelled: What the Fuck! and everyone laughed and applauded.

We renamed the movie Vanilla Shit.

Posted by: ciji at July 25, 2007 3:14 AM

1. The Avengers--Does anyone think Uma Thurman can act? An example of comic timing as a foreign concept. Delivered her lines like she was reading off idiot cards. Toughed it out for about 40 minutes and left before I started launching my shoes at the screen.

2. The Ladykillers ('04)--Managed to last 20 minutes for this one. The longest 20 minutes of my life.

3. Battlefield Earth--Calling this film (the bit that I suffered through) complete crap is an indication of my generous nature.

I wish that I had walked out on "Nixon," but I was on a date. Spent the better part of the movie glancing at my watch, mourning the irretrievable moments of my life wasted enduring that festering pile. Sir Anthony should be ashamed!

Posted by: Doc PBK at July 25, 2007 4:17 AM

Rules of Attraction.

I finished it later when a friend convinced me it got better. FUCK THAT MOVIE. I've never actually gotten so angry because of a movie.

I also walked out of Mafia and Perfect Strangers, neither of which I paid to see.

I fell asleep hardcore during the second Harry Potter and Apocolypto.

I wanted to leave Dumb and Dumberer, but was with a friend. At the end I looked over and realized she'd been asleep. If I didn't hate Rules of Attraction so much it would be the worst movie I've ever seen.

Posted by: Lindsay (not the coke head) at July 25, 2007 5:37 AM

I've never walked out of a movie. I guess I want to see the whole thing to be able to bitch about the atrocities I endured to everyone I meet for the next, say, two weeks. (Hey, don't kill the messenger, I'm doing the world a favour.)

One movie had me absolutely pissed, though, and I couldn't help myself breaking the moviegoer code of not moaning loudly: MATRIX RELOADED. Those endless fights between Neo and millions of Agent Smiths? The unmotivated nude dancing in Zion!? The only thing good about that snoozefest was Trinity's motorbike chase. God, now I'm all fired up.

Posted by: piedlourde at July 25, 2007 6:54 AM

Only one: National Lampoon's Class Reunion. It wasn't even good enough to makeout to. My high school GF and I chose to walk around the mall instead. Nothing like a browse through an early '80s Spencer's store.

Posted by: eddieot at July 25, 2007 9:58 AM

very very close to walking out of Bicentenial Man.. with Robin Williams as a robot.. seriously what WAS that. I was like 15 and with 10 other kids that wouldn't walk out but afterwards we all said that was the worst movie we ever saw

Posted by: kam at July 25, 2007 11:11 AM

Rumor Has It

The Lake House

Not Another Teen Movie (worst movie ever. EVER.)

Posted by: Maddy at July 25, 2007 11:29 AM

Rumor Has It

The Lake House

Not Another Teen Movie (worst movie ever. EVER.)

Posted by: Maddy at July 25, 2007 11:36 AM

amen, Finn. fuck joe's apartment.

Posted by: the-ian at July 25, 2007 11:37 AM

The Passion of Christ,
Fuck you Mel Gibson, i know the story already!
and
Fuck you parents for taking me to see that on a friday night!

Posted by: beyondkant at July 25, 2007 12:18 PM

1. "Reform School Girls" with Wendy O. Williams

2. "Howard The Duck" with Lea Thompson

Posted by: derekthered at July 25, 2007 1:19 PM

There are only three movies I have walked out on, and luckily I walked out early enough to get my money back for one of them.

1. Alien vs. Predator
2. Madagascar
3. Wolf Creek

Posted by: Ana at July 25, 2007 2:06 PM

Hollywood Homicide
Pirates of the Carribean
Pirates of the Carribean 2 (fool me once)

and some movie with Richard Lewis (some kind of doc? I dunno) I walked out on when I was 12 cuz they wouldn't let me into Ransom.

Posted by: alexis at July 25, 2007 2:19 PM

Oh! And Date Movie. Don't know what I was thinking, but I was bored. Lasted for 15 minutes.

Posted by: aperkins at July 25, 2007 2:21 PM

Weekend at Bernie's Part 2

Posted by: yo at July 25, 2007 2:52 PM

dont hate me dont hate me...

Life Aquatic

don't hate me. I still think Bill Murray + Wes Anderson = true peace on earth.

Posted by: that bees chick at July 25, 2007 3:21 PM

Wow, that bees chick, that took guts. ;)

Posted by: piedlourde at July 25, 2007 3:29 PM

Even seven years later, the very thought of the piece of celluloid shit that was Autumn in New York is enough to make me clench my fists and spit. Richard Gere is a suave, rich, womanizing, older New Yorker and Winona Ryder is a doe eyed, 21 year old, elfin hat designer (actually looking about thirty) who floats above the sidewalk while autumn leaves fall slowly against a highly stylized, An Affair to Remember-ish New York City. They have sex and afterwards he is about to do his cad thing and boot her out his apartment over breakfast but she beats him to the punch and tells him that she's DYING of a "HEART THING!" Did I mention Gere's character also fucked her mother and probably her grandmother, too? This is only about fifteen minutes in! I could not contain my disdain and when the woman sitting behind me, who was already crying, kicked my seat and told me, "shut up!" I fumed my way to the box office and demanded they return my 6 bucks (this was in 2000). They returned it without question and said I was the fifth person that day to want a refund.



The only other movie I have ever left was Saturday Night Fever when was, what, 6? My mother took me to see it (what kind of mother brings a 6 year old to see Saturday Night Fever?!?) because I was IN LOVE with John Travolta (thanks to Grease-little did I know what an idiot he would turn into) and the minute Tony Manero opened his mouth with a flood of "fuck"s, my mother grabbed me by the arm and dragged me out the theater. This was 1978 and they would not give my mother her money back and she fought them tooth and nail for hours. I guess it is a good thing we didn't stay till the car gang bang scene, eh? Ah, the seventies!

Posted by: Amy Rowan at July 25, 2007 4:44 PM

Only walked out of a movie twice -- actually just one movie. BLUE VELVET

I walked out the first time; then went back to see if it would be better a second time and, well, walked out again.

What a god awful waste of celluloid that was!

Posted by: Baer at July 25, 2007 4:56 PM

Another "never walked out" - but two (2) movies almost pushed me to the edge:

1) The Avengers - Connery controlling the weather while dressed as giant stuffed animal

2) Stay Tuned - John Ritter, RIP

Posted by: Des McGrath at July 25, 2007 5:15 PM

Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (me and my dad left), and Oceans 12. What a piece of crap that was.

Posted by: simbalina at July 25, 2007 5:56 PM

ANY GIVEN SUNDAY.

there really wasn't anything of note in that movie other than - oh my god, this is too much for celluloid! - a black man's penis. oh wait. even that was puritanical hype.

Posted by: djfox at July 25, 2007 7:18 PM

Wish I had walked out of:

1. Some horrible Stallone movie about racing cars, the ear-splitting volume of which infuriated me as I was trying to sleep. And also drunk.
2. Children of Men, which I found contrived, overly long, melodramatic, and suffering from Julianne Moore's presence. She fooled me once with The Forgotten, again with the truly atrocious Freedomland, and damned if I wasn't dumb enough to go back for more.
3. What Lies Beneath. "Wait," I said to a friend during a moment specifically engineered for the preschoolers and feeble-minded in the audience. "Do you think those initials filling the screen have something to do with the mystery?"
4. And the one that makes me angry to this day, the Fed-Ex commercial that was Castaway.

Posted by: fresh hot mess at July 25, 2007 7:26 PM

Blues Brothers 2000. Oofa.

Posted by: moosiest at July 25, 2007 8:12 PM

40 days and 40 nights

Posted by: brandt at July 25, 2007 8:29 PM

I have never walked out of a movie because I am too cheap and too polite. But I have been sorely tempted...

Starship Troopers - Only the presence of Doogie Howser kept me in my seat. I hated everyone else in that flick. I am still bitter.

Jacob's Ladder - To this very day. What. The . Fuck. ?

Revenge of the Sith - We actually rented this mess and I fell asleep while we were watching it. Still have not been able to watch it end to end.

Chicken Little - If I had not taken my daughter to see this I would have walked the HELL out. I sat there gritting my teeth. The sound of Zach Braff's voice! I couldn't take it. And the girl wouldn't let me leave. I decided not to ground her for making me stay.

Posted by: greer at July 25, 2007 8:39 PM

1) Ghostbusters
2) The Avengers - walked out of this one & went to see Zorro instead.

Posted by: Karmen at July 25, 2007 11:52 PM

A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon -- which I went to see with someone named Jim Reardon. He left too.

Posted by: Nora at July 26, 2007 2:51 AM

You guys are weird. Why would you go see a movie and walk out? When you're not sure whether you like it, you should not go see it and wait for the DVD.

Posted by: Tjeerd at July 26, 2007 5:51 AM

Transformers. I wanted to like it. I knew it would be cheesy and all action but the robots absolutely sucked. I mean they got destroyed by bloody pee shooters. More reason to hate Bay

Posted by: Mattimo at July 26, 2007 8:47 AM

Ciji, I still maintain that Vanilla Sky is the worst movie I've ever seen. "Vanilla Shit" is hysterical.

I walked out of Living Out Loud, which starred Holly Hunter, Danny DeVito, and Queen Latifah. Awful. I wanted to walk out of Moulin Rouge, but was with a friend and she really loved it.

Posted by: Samantha T at July 26, 2007 9:36 AM

I can't believe no one mentioned Pay it Forward! I couldn't walk out because I was with a crowd, but if there's a more manipulative, rancid, festering piece of utter drivel on the planet, I have yet to see it. It's one of only three movies that made me absolutely furious to have wasted my time on (the other two being The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Pirates 2).

Posted by: llism at July 26, 2007 11:56 AM

8MM, god, so depressing, gory and boring. Why is a snuff film supposed to be entertaining to me? Early torture porn. Plus Nicholas Cage hasn't been in a good movie since Fast Times at Ridgemont High. And that was damn near a cameo!

Posted by: Kass at July 26, 2007 1:26 PM

dont hate me dont hate me... Life Aquatic
don't hate me. I still think Bill Murray + Wes Anderson = true peace on earth.

LOL don't worry, you got at least one more with you there. Life Aquatic is one of the most boring crap I've seen on TV - and this even considering I've checked the guide and sit there just to watch it (never walking out of my own house, but still...). That dude crapping all over Bowie in hippie-ish Portuguese is probably the lowest point of it all.

Posted by: Gargumma at July 26, 2007 2:13 PM

war of the world
Spielberg prasing my ass that sucked and tom u were such a loser in that
the moment he started some car i left

Posted by: indianfreak at July 26, 2007 3:22 PM

The Freshman
Thin Red Line
Scoop
Van Helsing
Sweet Home Alabama

Posted by: rose at July 26, 2007 4:27 PM

I know I'm late in the game, but here goes anyway...

I've never flat-out walked out of a film in the theater. The closest I've come is falling asleep, and that happened at Inland Empire. God, Lynch. Get over it.

On DVD, I remember turning off Gerry because I wasn't willing to sit through eighty minutes of "meditative" long takes and what not. I turned off "Alone in the Dark" because after watching a half hour, I realized that yes, it was going to be as bad as I had heard.

Other than that, though, I have a pretty high tolerance for crap.

Posted by: Ben at July 26, 2007 7:55 PM

screw you to anyone who pulled out some electronic gadget instead of walking out of the theater. let the other people enjoy their crappy movie without you disturbing them.

Posted by: joebediah at July 26, 2007 10:27 PM

I have never walked out on a movie because I am selective about what I attempt...but I did almost slit my wrists halfway through "Lost In Translation".

Also, I turned off the television after ordering "Batman and Robin" on the selectavision at a hotel.

I watched a movie called "Flesh And Bone" in my own living room and thought I was having an acid flashback because it sucked so bad.

Posted by: Michelle at July 26, 2007 11:15 PM

I've walked out on The Phantom Menace, Lara Croft Tomb Raider, and a super-suckfest called Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence that featured David Bowie. All three of these were confused, posturing, boring and insulting messes.
I would easily have bolted out of Transformers but I had my kids and all their buddies with me so I had to stay and endure it.

Posted by: Tony at July 26, 2007 11:33 PM

i wish i had left vanilla sky, too. i was with a group, though. same goes for the crucible.

BLUE VELVET:

i discovered lynch for real around 1989 when i saw eraserhead. i'd seen dune and the elephant man each several times, but it was eraserhead that opened the door to my eternal lynch geekitude.

so then i went for blue velvet (on horrific pan/scan vhs).

it bored me to tears. a little more than halfway, i killed it and went elsewhere to do whatever high school boys do.

then i tried again about 18 months later because i'd become obsessed with twin peaks. i made it to the end. still wondered "what's the big deal"?

a couple of months after that i saw it at two consecutive midnight screenings in its proper aspect ratio and was blown away. came back the second night and was even further hypnotized.

in the following 16 years or so, i bet i've seen it 40 times. i watched it everyday for a while in college, and even wore out the tape (i'd lifted it from a video store - what a goon i was in those days!)

i bought a dvd player in nov. of 1999 and in january bought my first dvds: 2001 and blue velvet.

moral to the story: for some people, BV needs to gestate for a while.

Posted by: matt at July 27, 2007 2:14 AM

and ps:

the thin red line is a masterpiece. i knew that the first time (and the second, third, fourth, etc.).

Posted by: matt at July 27, 2007 2:23 AM

It probably wasn't worth walking out on, but: Grumpy Old Men. I went to see it when I was 22, with my three (also female, also 22-year-old) college roommates. We sat there for about ten or fifteen minutes, then looked at each other and kind of went, huh? We just didn't get it.

Posted by: magic8ball at July 27, 2007 4:48 AM

I have never walked out of a movie I paid to see in the theater (though there were a few trips to the dollar theater where I felt bad for spending that buck).

I will walk out/turn off free offerings, though. I walked away from a free showing of a Harry Potter movie. I sat for about 15 minutes before I just COULD NOT tolerate it any longer. I also refused to finish watching "The Longest Yard" (that Adam Sandler turd of a movie).

Posted by: MadameUgly at July 27, 2007 10:28 AM

The only movie I've ever walked out on was Less Than Zero. My friends that I saw it with couldn't handle the BJ scene.

Posted by: minorblue at July 27, 2007 1:06 PM

Walked out on Hostel 2. A couple of drunken rednecks kept yelling things like "Yeah, shoot that ni**er" (when the kids were being lined up in front of a gun) and "Kill da bitch HAHAHAHAHA".
I don't even enjoy horror movies and got pressured into going with the "thrill/fun of being scared" excuse. My friends and I left shortly after Bijou Phillips got a saw to the face. I feel immense guilt for not having left sooner.

Fell asleep during: The Majestic.

Wish I had left: Bruce Allmighty. But I was with my aunt out of town in California. Which blows because I was out of town, in California, watching Bruce fucking Allmighty.

Posted by: Meg at July 27, 2007 1:23 PM

4. And the one that makes me angry to this day, the Fed-Ex commercial that was Castaway.

Posted by: fresh hot mess at July 25, 2007 7:26 PM

That was a bad movie. However, they did market a "Wilson" volleyball that year. Some friends of mine had one and they would get drunk and scream "Wilson" whenever they dropped or lost it.

Still does not excuse Tom Hanks for that movie.

Posted by: Melody at July 27, 2007 2:47 PM

The Life Aquatic. And it was a free movie (university cinema).

Posted by: Lia at July 27, 2007 4:36 PM

1. "Pee Wee's Big Adventure." My first walk out!

2. "Color of Night." Walked out of that one and into "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert." Best decision I ever made.

3. "AI." Blech.

4. "Exit to Eden." Worst. Movie. Ever.

5. "The Cable Guy." Do I really need to expand on that?

6. "Elektra."

Posted by: AnnArrogance at July 27, 2007 11:36 PM

Even though I try to see almost everything, I can honestly say I have never walked out of a film and I have rarely ever fallen asleep during a DVD, but there are 5 films that have come really close to making me want to check out early. Here they are:

5) Matrix 3 - Never have so many worked so hard for so little a result. I saw the first Matrix three times in a theatre because I loved it so much and I wanted to walk out of Matrix 3 about a third of the way through the film because it blew so badly. I guess that sort of balances out the trilogy for me.

4) The Truman Show - It´s hard for me to describe the depths of my hatred of this film. Not because any aspect of it is particularly horrible - God knows that I´ve seen much worse acting, writing, directing, camera work or sets in any number of crappy films. It´s really because I have never watched a movie that has been praised as a classic by so many people when it really is just a mediocre movie that thinks it has such important things to say. The reality show Big Brother is more profound than this lackluster piece of self-important crap. There is nothing even remotely special about this film and I knew it within 10 minutes of watching it. The emperor has no clothes.

3) Poseidon - Do I even need to go into this one? They took a silly, but exciting camp classic full of mostly b-list actors who were actually operating at their very best and remade it as a silly action movie filled with explosions and full of mostly b-list actors who were operating at their very worst - AND they sucked all the camp out of it!?!?!?!? I wanted to leave the film almost as soon as the boat overturned, but stuck it out because I knew I would get to see Fergie drown at some point and I was hoping all the other characters would meet the same fate. Sadly, they do not.

2) Phantom Of The Opera - Two words: Joel Schumaker. Don´t know what I was thinking even seeing this movie in the first place since I knew he directed it, but I guess my love of film musicals won out over my sense of reason. This movie was so bad that I wanted to burn down the theatre I was watching it in as a gesture of support for the Phantom´s actions in the film. It was so bad that I actually heard a girl behind me say to her boyfriend (no lie), "Okay, I am so sorry I made you come to this. I feel so bad for making you come to this that I will go to any action movie you want to take me to for the next year." By the time this movie was over I was actually one of the few people left in the theatre that started out with about 40 patrons. I wish I had been as smart as the majority of the crowd.

1) The Nightmare Before Christmas - I guess I should reconsider what I said about The Truman Show being the most overpraised movie that is considered a classic, but really isn´t. This one might actually deserve to win that award as most overpraised classic, but the truth is, it might actually be a classic for all I know. The problem is that I will never find out. This is the only movie I have ever fallen asleep during in a theatre. I wasn´t especially tired that evening, I had my jumbo caffeinated Coke to drink in the theatre and I had my love of Tim Burton films stored securely in my head and still I fell asleep about 20 minutes into the movie. I even rented it once with a friend who swore it was an amazing film and insisted I watch it again and I was out like a light within 15 minutes. I then rented it again a few years later to watch with my 5 year old nephew who started fidgeting within 10 minutes of the movie and started crying after another 10 minutes because he wanted to get up and go do something more interesting like throw legos against the refrigerator door. If I hadn´t already been fidgeting myself and throwing popcorn into the dog´s mouth, I probably would have realized his pain earlier. I will never understand how anyone can like this movie. It is without a doubt the slowest, most boring film I have ever tried to sit through in my entire life. However, to be fair, I´m sure it gets fascinating after the 30 minute mark, but I´m pretty sure I will never know that for a fact.

****Special Mentions) Crash & Million Dollar Baby - Before I even knew who Paul Haggis was or the extent of his crimes against film history (as well as the Oscars), I knew within minutes of their start that I was watching total hackery.

Posted by: Tallsonofagun at July 28, 2007 7:46 AM

1. Anaconda, the first one with Jennifer Lopez (God damn her black heart). I now actually appreciate it for it's supreme cheesy factor, though I still can't sit through it.

2. Judge Dredd. I'm all for mindless action films (I'm admittedly a Van Damme, Seagal, and Snipes fan... whatever, I'm not ashamed.) But after falling asleep twice and waking up with a pain in my spine, I decided sleeping in my own bed would be more fun.

3. Spiderman. Fanboys always give me ten loads of shit for this, while trying to bait me into an in-depth discussion about why I'm wrong for hating this film. Sorry, but I was bored to tears with it, it's that simple.

Posted by: Sarah at July 28, 2007 11:23 AM

moulin rouge-schmaltzy and just not fun for me

king kong-very bad and jack black makes me sick to my stomach

devil's rejects--could have been an interesting comment on many things but wasnt at all

the friday the 13th movies-why did i even go to them? creepy, and they stay with me to this day.

the last matrix sucked but i couldnt leave

and that fucking stupid museum movie with ben "kill me now please i hate him if you love me youll kill me" stiller was god awful and i couldnt leave.

Posted by: WTF at July 28, 2007 12:33 PM

Being dragged to see Titanic with a fat & lonely friend, I rationalized my attendance by telling myself the sinking scene would make it all worth it. I was so fucking wrong about that. I walked out 3 or 4 times to hang out in the lobby and play Galaga.

Posted by: Amanda H. at July 28, 2007 2:03 PM

I SHOULD have walked out on 'Birth.' I almost died of frustration sitting there. The acting and characters was beyond ludicrous.

I think it's the WORST movie I have ever seen in my life (and I have seen some doozies).

Posted by: smooga at July 28, 2007 3:03 PM

the master of disguise, horrible just terrible.

Posted by: Ana at July 28, 2007 3:05 PM

I have only ever walked out on one film

1. You Me and Everyone We Know

walked out after the first 15 minutes

Posted by: Sarah at July 29, 2007 5:13 AM

I walked out during Quest For Fire.

Posted by: Elena at July 29, 2007 10:03 PM

Very late to the party here, but I couldn't resist. Can I just say that in general y'all have a very low threshold for walking out of a movie? Maybe it's just that I'm such a film nerd, but I've never walked out of a movie (at the theater), and some of the stuff y'all listed...well, I can imagine not liking them, but I can't imagine disliking them so much that you feel compelled to leave. Y'all must just have better things to do and places to be. A sad statement about me, I suppose.

That said, here are a few on which I probably should have bailed (or could have bailed) but did not...

The Matrix Revolutions - I do believe that Trinity's death scene might be the most painful attempt at drama in the history of cinema. I don't think laughs were the intended effect.

Catwoman - Yes, I saw this at the theater, and it is arguably the most fun I've ever had watching a movie. Unlike The Matrix Revolutions, this was good-bad instead of bad-bad. My friend and I MST3Ked the hell out of this thing (with the permission of the only other four people in the theater), and we were still laughing about our various riffs the entire drive home.

On Deadly Ground - Again, unintentional laughs made for a great time with a bunch of my friends. The Steven Seagal good-bad masterpiece. Unlike Catwoman, however, this was a full theater, and I think our chortling actually pissed some of them off.

Transformers - More bad-bad. I can't believe how many of my usually trustworthy action/sci-fi fans gave this one a pass. I spent two hours listening to lame humor from paper-thin human characters just so that I could see some robots beating the snot out of each other, and that action, which comprised perhaps five minutes of the two hours and twenty minutes running time, was so not worth it.

Outside of the theater, for the record I made it maybe thirty minutes into Caligula before taking it out of the DVD player. I have a fairly high tolerance for sex and violence, but that thing is unwatchable.

I recently made a masochistic exercise out of sitting through Tideland.

I can't believe I watched all of 3000 Miles To Graceland.

I couldn't make it through Bloodrayne.

And since someone mentioned it, Anaconda is definitely good-bad. My friends and I had a great time at the theater with that one.

Posted by: Rob at July 30, 2007 12:16 AM

Oh man, this is fun! Such trash in this list (and a few gems too - Idiocracy is an ultra-dumb classic, but class nonetheless!!)
I've jus realised that we've actually walked out of a fair few in the last year or so:

1) Casanova - stuck it out for a while thinking Jeremy Irons would make it watchable. No such luck.

2) Pirates of the Caribbean 3 - Shit. Pure, boring shit.

3) Saw III - the whole point of the series is that the victims get a chance to redeem and save themselves... EXCEPT in this horrible movie.

4) History of Violence - the most insulting movie to audience's intelligence, unintentional funny and cringeworthy. Worst of the worst, led us to create a new code word - 'HOV' now means 'I'd rather donate my eyes immediately than sit through this pile of crap'.

Aaaah, now I feel better - thanks Pajiba!

Posted by: berrydubl at July 30, 2007 8:15 AM

The only movie I remember walking out on was "The Patriot." AND there were only a few minutes left. Sat through an hour and forty-five minutes of "No this isn't Braveheart, it's AMERICA" only to bail follwing these lines:

MEL: May I sit here?

WHOEVER THAT CHICK WAS: It's a free country... or at least, it will be.

Worst. Dialogue. EVER.

Posted by: bev rage at July 30, 2007 3:11 PM

Nothing recent, actually. I walked out on "Fannie & Alexander," "1984," and...oh, what was that one about limbs? "Jacob's Ladder." I refuse to watch anything that disturbs me - I don't like that, I just won't go there, you know? At all. Oh, and "Brazil," which I hated.

Posted by: bluebird at July 30, 2007 8:11 PM

One. I was a kid.

"Toys"

I still refuse to see anything with Robin Williams.

Should have walked out on "Star Wars: Attack of the Clones" And I say that as a Star Wars nerd. With the shitty acting and writing, "I don't like sand." and the hilarious "I'm sorry" after their ~*omg first kiss*~ Lucas needs to keep his ass and his beard away from so called romance.

Posted by: Kathryn at July 31, 2007 9:26 AM

Be Cool. There was nothing cool about this movie.

Note to any actor anywhere: Never agree to be in a movie with "The Rock," ever.

Posted by: jer at July 31, 2007 12:53 PM

Kinda late in the game but only one comes to mind. It's a thankfully faint blur in my memory...
Jurassic Park 2: Lost World

Shame on you ,Julianne Moore & Vince Vaughn.

Posted by: vllach at July 31, 2007 1:46 PM

AWESOME!!!

1. Jingle All The Way... I was a bored teenager and it was playing at the Dollar Movie Theater. I wouldn't try watching that movie again if someone paid me many, many dollars.
2. Black Dog... same as number 1
3. Event Horizon... I was seeing by myself late at night and there was almost no one else in the theater either and it was just too damn scary!! Eventually I went back and watched the whole thing with a friend. Good movie!
4. The Good Shepherd... BOR. RING.

Posted by: Eva at August 1, 2007 12:02 PM

AWESOME!!!

1. Jingle All The Way... I was a bored teenager and it was playing at the Dollar Movie Theater. I wouldn't try watching that movie again if someone paid me many, many dollars.
2. Black Dog... same as number 1
3. Event Horizon... I was seeing it by myself late at night and there was almost no one else in the theater either and it was just too damn scary!! Eventually I went back and watched the whole thing with a friend. Good movie!
4. The Good Shepherd... BOR. RING.

Posted by: Eva at August 1, 2007 12:03 PM

Damn... sorry for the double post. Operator error.

Posted by: Eva at August 1, 2007 12:06 PM

Benchwarmers -- Had an injured knee so I limped, rather than walked, out. I think limping out makes a stronger statement than walking out :)

But thats the only one I walked out on - I tend to sleep through the bad ones.

Posted by: Gatchaman at August 1, 2007 5:36 PM

Must Love Dogs - Must have been contractually obligated to spit up that lame dialogue. I walked out after 10 minutes.

The New World - Gave me such a headache I literally had to leave the theatre and throw up.

Posted by: Nipsy at August 1, 2007 6:11 PM

Wish I had walked out, but was with a group...

The Whole Nine Yards - what a ridiculous movie.

Posted by: Anne at August 2, 2007 12:06 AM

I worked as a projectionist at a theater for several years and I've walked out on more than a few movies, ones that stand out are ones I was paid to screen. Paid, and supposed to make sure they were in working order but could just not stomach they are...

Boys and Girls (that scene in the nightclub with the choreography and bubbles! No sir.)
Down to You (fuck you Julia Stiles. I hate you.)
The Next Best Thing/Swept Away (May Madonna burn in hell.)

I think the last movie I paid for and walked out on was Jersey Girl (Kevin Smith can never do enough to make up for that pile of excrement.), or Elektra, which I was dragged to by an Alias fan.

Posted by: Jonah at August 2, 2007 1:29 PM

Close Encounters of the Third Kind. 30 years later, I STILL don't get the fuss.

Posted by: Otter at August 4, 2007 5:57 AM

LADY IN THE WATER! YUCK! M NIGHT SHYMALAN LET ME DOWN BIG TIME.

Posted by: MEEPER at August 4, 2007 10:58 AM

Walked out:
Vanilla Sky

Fell asleep:
Blade II

Posted by: claudia at August 5, 2007 3:52 PM


The only film I ever walked out on was "Event Horizon", which should have been called "Galactic Bloodbag". I can still see that guy holding his eyeballs in his hands and speaking in demonic bowels-of-the-earth bass profundo. Someone get me a puppy and a Saturday morning cartoon, stat!

Couldn't walk out of "The Stupids", which was staggeringly, mind-whelmingly moronic, because my kid sister was loving it. I actually closed my eyes, curled up in a fetal ball and covered my ears to keep my brains from fleeing my skull. Tom Arnold is The Beast.

During "The Hours", aka "The Centuries", I heard a voice telling me to run headfirst at the screen, and the concrete wall behind it, to end my agony aka the film. My wife talked me out of it. Somehow, our marriage survived...

I would have walked out of "Soylent Green" but I was unable to move because I WAS FIVE YEARS OLD AND PARALYZED WITH SHOCK!! Mom dropped us off at the Jerry Lewis kiddie theater which never played anything but Disney flicks. Unbeknownst to her and our babysitter, the theater had changed management. We had roast beef for dinner that night. The horror.

Posted by: Spike Leo at August 6, 2007 2:48 PM

I'm very late in responding to this, but I can't resist. I've loved going to movies for years and have only walked out on a few:
Harry and Tonto (I was with friends and we just couldn't get into it);
A Passage to India (it was either walk out or stab myself from sheer boredom);
Armageddon (quite possibly the worst piece of crap ever filmed).

Posted by: teresam at August 6, 2007 7:51 PM

Ah, the crapfest.

I'm sad that so many of you will not see the ORIGINAL Insomnia, Ladykillers, and so on, and they are great films.

I only walked out on two films, both when I was a little kid: Fantastic Planet, because I was really too young for a Czech or Wherever animated film about humans kept as pets by giant aliens. And a Star Wars rip off I always forget the name of, but will call "Space Nuts". Because it's about tiny people who travel the galaxy inside of walnuts, and the people who love them.

The only recent film I nearly walked on was Derailed. Jennifer Aniston as an irresistable temptress? Clive Owen as a dull simp? More coincidences than you could shake a coincidence at? I'm a fool for the CO. But. Damn.

Posted by: Janis at August 8, 2007 3:58 AM

Seigel is a little bitch for walking out of Clerks 2. You know what offended him so much? A guy fucking a donkey. With no actual footage of genitals, so implied donkey fucking.

This is the fucking internet age. We've all seen worse, whether we wanted to or not. Prudish little bitch, Joel Seigel.

I never walked out of a film. I don't get offended easily. Not by media anyway. I do wish i had walked out of the first Resident Evil movie, and Aliens vs Predator. Anything WS Anderson does is utter shit. In RE he kicked off the film with knock out amnesia gas. That belongs in an episode of GI Joe.
In AVP, it was all the cannon fodder not blinking an eye at the giant hole in the ice drilled by a LASER FROM SPACE. I should have walked out at those moments, I think watching the whole films made me dumber.

Posted by: Vellocet at August 13, 2007 9:11 AM

Monday 13th August 2007
I also,never go to the cinema anymore,why because i refuse to spend my welfare cheque on being subjected to a pile of steaming hollywood dog sh$t crap and asked to pay for it to fund the tedious little shitty trite lifestyles of a bunch of overrated talentless hollywood wh$res-male and female.oh how crazy,wild,wacky they all are!how extraordinary in their tedious little self-obsessed junky wh$re poorly educated retarded chav lives.do you want to fund mr and mrs shite's next exotic african safari 5 *****star hotel(these chavs would not be seen dead in an SAS regulation tent and camping stove to cook their macrobiotic shite on of a starry starry night.)no, i do not wish to fund your boring shitty little lifestyles of shite,so i don't pay out to watch your shite movies,period.

fight club:oh!how anarchic crazy,wild! hollywood rentboy ed norton and his twinkie bimbo boy brad play two sneering snide little hipsters way too kewl for the shitty hollywood scene,yet whom do these people hang with in real life(the movies are not!real-life! lol) yes, correctafuckingmundo they hang with boring,poorly educated self-obsessed shitty little LA talentless wh$re turds who live exactly the kind of meaningless shitty LA lives,hollywood rentboy ed norton and twinkie bimbo boy,brad pitt sneeringly mock(albeit someone wrote the script for them) how ironic!isn't it just the most hilarious
wild,crazy inverted-irony we are laughing-at-ourselves-for-being-exactly-like-the-kind-of-tedious-talentless-tossers-we-are-sniping at in this trendy hipster shite movie:fight club?
no, hollywood rentboy ed norton and twinkie bimbo boy brad pitt,it isn't funny at-all it is just hollywood sh$te.

yours sincerely,
marianna jane close

Posted by: Marianna Jane Close at August 13, 2007 4:43 PM

A person who says either300 or transmormers shall burn in hell!

no jokes, 2 of our times greatest movies ever made, without a doubt!

Anyways, movies walked out on?

Sorry to say, but Space Jam. I mean it was a good movie and shit but sitting on the front row wasn't my thing.

I wish I would have walked out on Fantastic four 1 and the hulk. Utter bullshit

Posted by: sebastian at September 14, 2007 2:29 PM

pig-swill hunting (i never bothered to actually pay to see this cheesey-faggotty whiny cheesey dogshite at the cinema but i slept through it best i could when i was bored one night and it happened to be on the brain-dead television)
pure unadulterated-dogsh$te.

Posted by: Marianna Jane Close at September 27, 2007 10:59 AM

The Chronicles of Riddick. I watched until they set up the big climax finale, realized I didn't care how it ended, and left.

Posted by: Patrick at November 11, 2007 1:32 PM