movies you\'ve actually walked out of
 

not movies you just don't like...I mean movies where you payed your ticket, sat down, and actually walked out before the film was over.

My list:

Caligula

The Malcom McDowell/Peter O'Tool/John Gielgud film produced by Penthouse boss Bob Guccione. It's a mess. Apparently, Guccione filmed the stars in one film and then shot porno scenes with unknowns and cut it all together. The worst part is that the porno scenes are actually better executed than the scenes with the actual film stars. A disgustingly bad film.

Nightfall

Late 80's version of the classic Isaac Asimov short story. It stars David Birney and Sarah Douglass and it just may be the worst movie of all-time. Horribly amateurish, with little to no production value. It makes the campy TV show Lost in Space look like 2001: A Space Odyssey.

The Crow

I'm sure a lot of you think this is a great film. It's not. Pure crap, with no redeeming value at all. The "hero" is a sadistic, vengeful thug who gets off on torturing his victims. Worst of all, the highly-touted action scenes are just plain boring. Bad, bad movie.

By the way, if you get up and leave within a half hour of the film starting, most theaters will refund your money. [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

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been reading the film blogs lately, eh Dom?

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and i've never walked out of a film i paid to watch, but i've wanted to, oh have i ever wanted to.

i have walked out of films i was being paid to watch, though.

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I have never walked out of a movie...but I wanted to during War of the Worlds. That might have been more of the combination of me feeling not well and the movie being terrible though.

Not sure.

Sidenote: Boo walking out of the Crow [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] Haha.

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I've never walked out of a movie, period. Even terrible ones I watch till the end.


And I like Caligula. I see it as absurdist arthouse, on a par with the lower end of Greenaway movies.

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only movie ive ever walked out on early was paycheck with ben affleck. jfc that movie was soooo bad.

also..i would have walked out of underworld evolution but i fell asleep.

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what blogs?? where? point the way!

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Malibu's Most Wanted. I don't know how I ended up there in the first place. At least it was a dollar theater.

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what blogs?? where? point the way!

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you haven't? wow, b/c like 2 or 3 of your recent posts have been echoing them

here goes:

No More Marriages!
The House Next Door
Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule
girish
Last Night with Rivera
Like Anna Karina's Sweater
100 films (mine)
Film of the Year
That Little Round-Headed Boy
The Evening Class


there, that should keep you busy for a bit.

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Independence Day

Internal Affairs

The Phantom Menace

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Never on a movie, but I've come close. My wife and I have walked out on a musical though, at $40/ticket.

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Never on a movie, but I've come close. My wife and I have walked out on a musical though, at $40/ticket.

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i've been known to pull out my ipod in the middle of plays. it's a bitch not being able to walk out because you know half the cast.

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I had never seen a James Bond movie, but my friends wanted to see one during the Roger Moore era, so I went with them.

I fell asleep very early on.

When I awoke near the halfway point, my three friends were also asleep.

I woke 'em up, and we got out of there.

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1. What Dreams May Come: Just stfu. I hate films that presuppose a certain type of heaven for 2 hours. Pisses me off. When I found out that Cuba Gooding Jr. was Robin Williams' son, I left the theatre. It was too much melodrama for one afternoon. I snuck into Eddie Murphy's "Holy Man" instead, which was fantastically amusing shithouse comedy.

2. Bad News Bears (Linklater's 2005): Couldn't deal with it. It was such a terrible re-enactment of the original. Billy Bob Thorton could never in a thousand years reach the same level of charm that Matheau did in the original.

3. Enemy of the State: This one I probably would have stayed for today, but back in college, these extremely loud and aggressive hi tech supsense films pissed me off. Plus, it's hard to see Gene Hackman play in these one dimensional acting roles when he was perhaps the best actor of golden age American cinema.

4. Idlewild (I didn't, but): I really wanted to. My friend said "I'm staying," so I stayed. Otherwise, I'm out. The film starts off quirky and fun loving, but becomes terribly repetitive and really just a musical film by the numbers. Since I dislike musical films to begin with, I wanted the [censored] out.

Probably more, can't think of any though.

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Natural Born Killers.
I usually can make it through anything but just couldn't stand this one!

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Cookie's Fortune (but I doubt anyone even remembers that piece of crap)
Elizabethtown - horrible film. Walked out after 30 minutes.

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been reading the film blogs lately, eh Dom?

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what blogs?? where? point the way!

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you haven't? wow, b/c like 2 or 3 of your recent posts have been echoing them

here goes:

No More Marriages!
The House Next Door
Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule
girish
Last Night with Rivera
Like Anna Karina's Sweater
100 films (mine)
Film of the Year
That Little Round-Headed Boy
The Evening Class


there, that should keep you busy for a bit.

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wow, cool...i have no problem reusing someone elses ideas for a thread, but I have never seen these before. thanks. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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I like the Crow. It is a piece of crap but an entertaining piece of crap. I think it has a coolness factor and I like the set a lot.

I have never walked out on a movie that I can remember but I fell asleep in one - the Scarlett Letter. One of the worst movies of all times.

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I really really really wanted to walk on Waterworld, but I was with some friends of friends and figured they would freak out so I had to suffer through it. Been to plenty of other bad movies but I've never walked out on one. Hey, I paid so I might as well see how bad it is.

One of the beauties of Netflix is that I will stop watching movies that are just bad. I've turned off more then a few after about 30 minutes.

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I have walked out of two movies in the theater.

Austin Powers - Just not funny. I actually walked out in the first fifteen minutes. I didn't get what it was parodying, and whatever it was it was done poorly.

Sky Captain - Such a beautiful film, but so deathly dull. I made it most of the way through, but I have never felt so uninterested in a group of characters. Gwyneth Paltrow in particular failed to make me feel she was doing anything but speaking her lines in front of a blue screen. It is like when you go to a museum. I may linger in front of a painting, but I don't want to be forced to stare at it for three hours.

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I can see all why people would walk out of all these movies (I wouldn't agree with some of them, but I can see why you would), except Independence Day.

I really don't get how you would hate that...it's dumb, sure, but it's very, very fun. Plus it appeals to so many disparate groups. It's got a groovy president's speech for the patriots/rednecks, blowing up the white house for the commie pinkos, and how could anyone not love seeing the aliens get theirs...

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Blair Witch 2
The Apostle

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Austin Powers - Just not funny. I actually walked out in the first fifteen minutes. I didn't get what it was parodying, and whatever it was it was done poorly.

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Wow.

I've never walked out of a movie but I think the closest I came was The Terminal.

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The Man with the Screaming Brain-I think the title alone should hint this was terrible

But Bruce Campbell gave a fun Q&A before the movie so it wasn't actually wasn't a waste.

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I walked out of sky captain, but mostly because I wanted to hit the strip club before my train left manhattan.

I also walked out of "the fog of war" for poon, and I haven't respected myself for it since. Yeah, it's poon and I don't necessarily regret leaving, but regret and self respect are two different things.

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Dante's peak was the only movie I walked out of. I've definitely say through some terrible movies, and I doubt that Dante's peak was all the bad. I just changed my mind about seeing it early, and my friends and I walked out to see another movie instead.

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The only movie I've ever walked out on

The Terminal

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I watch a lot of movies, and I usually force myself to sit through the bad ones. I've never walked out of a movie theater, and as far as I can remember, there is only one movie I've ever actually turned off: The remake of Psycho. Back in school my roommate and I started watching it and within 20 minutes, we both agreed it needed to be turned off. Simply awful.

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The Terminal

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I liked the Terminal (well kind of liked it). That may just be because I am fascinated by the real life character it is based on.

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Cecil B Demented, and I usually love John Waters movies.

Prarie Home Companion, We were in physical pain at the end of that one...I'm still so pissed about how sucktacular thet movie was, I never want to find out about the friggin mystery girl...how this one got positive reviews is beyond me.

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Speed 2, but not before my friend and I pissed on the carpetted wall next to us.

I would have walked out of Battlefield Earth, too, but my GF actually LIKED it.

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Holy Man (after an hour or so)

Any Given Sunday (15 minutes)

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i have not walked out on any movie

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Speed 2, but not before my friend and I pissed on the carpetted wall next to us.

I would have walked out of Battlefield Earth, too, but my GF actually LIKED it.

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Beat.

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not yet. In my film society days the most walkouts we got was showing Audition (Odishon), an ultra-violent Japanese film. It's actually worth viewing, which was a shame.

Jenny says she came close on Monday to walking out of Children of Men.

I've not yet felt the urge to leave. I've squirmed a bit in my seat, fallen asleep (Harry Potter avec famille) but not yet wanted to leave. If i ever do, I will.

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Ferris Buellers Day Off - left it and I wasn't alone in leaving.

Only You - Robert Downey Jr movie. Had to get up & go from the front row.

And the record for most walk-outs I've seen was at "Salo - 120 Days of Sodom". I sat through this one. But 75% of the theatre (and it was full when it started) up and went.

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Yep put me in the "never walked out of a movie" crowd. Have walked out of at least 3 plays though.

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A Day Without a Mexican. Good tagline, vapid and pointless movie. The theater manager refused to return my money too.

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Ferris Buellers Day Off - left it and I wasn't alone in leaving.


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Yeah, right. I claim BS. Anyone with 2 posts who claims this has no credibility. Someone *** him.

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Sky Captain - Such a beautiful film, but so deathly dull. I made it most of the way through, but I have never felt so uninterested in a group of characters. Gwyneth Paltrow in particular failed to make me feel she was doing anything but speaking her lines in front of a blue screen. It is like when you go to a museum. I may linger in front of a painting, but I don't want to be forced to stare at it for three hours.

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This is one of those movies that looked so great in preiviews, yet disappointed badly. I actually saw it in the theater, I know it's not good, yet when I see it on a TV set, I'm still drawn to it. It just somehow looks better on TV than on a big screen. Still a bad plot, dull, but damn if it isn't pretty on a small screen. It's almost the reverse of "Lost in Translation", where I hear a lot of people had trouble with it on the small screen, yet the big screen audience loved it. (And I promise never to compare "Lost in Translation" to "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" again.)

I have a feeling that when they were making Sky Captain, they never bothered to blow it up while adding the SFX, thought they had something wonderful, then put it on the big screen and said "WTF?"