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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.

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)

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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

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

Not a good day at the movies.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

Closer*

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 :).

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

"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.

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.

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.

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.

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*

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

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?

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.

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.

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??)

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

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.

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.)

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.

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?").

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

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.

• 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.
  

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.

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.

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.

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.

Alexander.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

"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.

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.

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?

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. :(

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.

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-

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.

Never walkd out but I've actually paid to see

Godzilla
Battlefield Earth
Jason X

Wasn't too bad, I had some laughes.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Alright, Alanna, a Duke City shout-out!

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Wedding fuckin' crashers

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.

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

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. :(

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.

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

Fell asleep during Zodiac. Repeatedly. ZZZzzzzodiac.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Ghost Rider. Holy fucking god Ghost Rider.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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?

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'.

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.

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

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?

Only 1:

Alexander

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!)

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".

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In the theater:
Storytelling and
Dracula 2000.

Videos:
Pretty much everything by Amos Poe (I really tried, but yeesh).

"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?

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.

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.

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!

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)

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.

Pooty Tang!!!

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.)

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!

City Slickers II. When Billy Crystal started jogging with the cow, I was outta there.

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.

I walked out on Celtic Pride about ten years ago. Horrible movie.

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.

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.

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).

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...

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.

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.

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.

Rumor Has It

The Lake House

Not Another Teen Movie (worst movie ever. EVER.)

amen, Finn. fuck joe's apartment.

1. "Reform School Girls" with Wendy O. Williams

2. "Howard The Duck" with Lea Thompson

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.

Weekend at Bernie's Part 2

Wow, that bees chick, that took guts. ;)

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!

Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (me and my dad left), and Oceans 12. What a piece of crap that was.

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.

40 days and 40 nights

1) Ghostbusters
2) The Avengers - walked out of this one & went to see Zorro instead.

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.

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

the master of disguise, horrible just terrible.

I walked out during Quest For Fire.

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!

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.

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.

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.

Damn... sorry for the double post. Operator error.

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.

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.

LADY IN THE WATER! YUCK! M NIGHT SHYMALAN LET ME DOWN BIG TIME.

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.

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.

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

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.