if i saw crash in a theater i would have
I took my daughter to see Disaster Movie. I know, I know, I should have known better, but I have seen a lot of crap kid’s movies and usually I use the time to have a little nap in the cinema. I thought I would do this same in this one, but after a half hour, my daughter asked me if we could leave as it was so bad.
Croenenberg or that Haggis piece of crap?
Never happened to me. Not at a theater, anyway, because I’ve invested the money and time and I just have this ridiculous faith that it will get better. There DVDs I’ve taken back unfinished, but to me that’s a different thing.
haggis, im throwing up just thinking about it.
I have no trouble finding an answer to this one. I’ve only walked out on two movies in my entire years of moving going – and both of them happen to be Robert Altman films. They were “Buffalo Bill and the Indians” and “Quintet”. Both for the same reasons. Both films were undeniably DULL. I just couldn’t take it anymore. And this is coming from someone who sat through the uncut “Heaven’s Gate” about 7 times through the years………..
Gosford Park is the only film I’ve walked out on, and I walked out ten minutes before the end, because my grandmother wanted to leave. I didn’t mind.
Iron Man is the only movie I’ve ever walked out on. It was a completely uninteresting, generic comic book movie with the same hero, villain, plot, cheesy dialogue, and boring CGI as every other crappy comic book movie I’ve ever seen.
I would have also walked out on Hot Fuzz but my girlfriend had won two free tickets and she wanted to stick it through until the end.
I’ve only walked out of one movie and it was Romeo & Juliet (1996)
Lost in Space.
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Lost in Space.
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WILKY61 how did you almost walk out of Hot Fuzz, that film is fantastic and it gets funnier everytime I see it. I was about to walk out of The Hitcher, I would never see a film like that normally but my friends convinced me to, what a waste of money.
Great thread. I have to agree with all of your choices to WALK FAST! Especially with Haggis’ CRASH—one of the mosst horrid films I have tried to watch in years. IRNOMAN—I would have walked on that too—because i had my hand on FF for 90% of it right before turning it off…very disappointing.
I can only really remember walking on two films—INNERSPACE (Quaid, mid-1980’s) and ELIZABETH (while in film school)……….
I can’t walk out on anything, even if it’s completely terrible. I just feel this compulsion to stick it out til the end. I also feel like I can’t properly judge something until I see it from start to finish. This is especially because there are some things that I hated at first but were redeemed toward the end.
For some reason Joe Dante’s “The ’burbs” offended my 14 year old sensibility so much that I indignantly left the theatre. Maybe I was such a big Tom Hanks fan and disgusted that he could not meet my expectation of the film. Maybe it was Rick Ducommun’s character hamming it up in a dreadful way.
Yet, for some reason I sat through Patrick Dempsey’s atrocious turn as a Cougar target (before we had a name for such a thing) in “Loverboy.” But that’s a story for another thread… "What’s the worst movie you wanted to leave, but for some god-knows-why reason didn’t?
Jeremy: I just found myself rewatching LOVERBOY last week with my fiance who never saw the film—and I hate to say it……….I had a blast! Thanks for bringing that little, goofy gem on the board! HA HA! PS….love the term “Cougar Target”……..I think with this updated title we can get it into The Criterion Collection……….
I’ve only ever walked out of a movie once, and it was Phone Booth. I know it’s Schumacher, but I don’t care.
I said it here. My one and only time walking out of a film. choke
Hot Fuzz is excellent in my bok.
I would have LOVED to have seen The ’Burbs in the theater. It is my favorite comedy ever, slightly ahead of Clifford.
There was a time when I liked Fight Club, but I really have no taste for anything Palahniuk writes anymore, so I would expect to Choke to be pretty bad.
Only ever walked out once. Charlie’s Angels 2: Full Throttle. Not sure what I was doing there in the first place…
Dune, Quarantine, Star Trek: The Motion Picture (when I was 7, in 1979), The Blair Witch Project, The Doors
I could never walk out—I wish I could when I think of all of the time I’ve wasted watching crap films. The one film mentioned above that I found so over-the-top condescending that, had I seen it in the theatre, I may have considered walking out on would be Haggis’ Crash. I feel angry just thinking about that piece of filth.
The only time I remember actually seeing something in the theatre & considering leaving was whilst watching Garden State—that film makes me nauseous in its attempts to be irreverent & quirky—SO bad.
Nice, a fellow Garden State-hater. As for films I came extremely close to walking out of: Phantom Menace, Dreamcatcher, Snatch, Freddy vs Jason, and the rest I’ve probably permanently blocked from memory. I nominate Dreamcatcher as one of the worst films ever made.
Oh yeah, Pirates of the Caribbean. I still can’t believe how popular that is. (And of all his performances, Johnny Depp gets nominated for an Oscar for THAT?!) Pretty much anything involving Michael Bay or Jerry Bruckheimer.
Walking out on a piece of shit movie is invigorating. I’ve only done it three times, but I don’t regret it. Well, I regret going in the first place, but I don’t regret not finishing the movies.
Oh, wow! Dreamcatcher! I totally walked out on that movie! I completely forgot about that. I don’t think I made it more than 30 minutes. I barely remember anything. Wow, that was a horrible movie. Put me down for four walkouts, I suppose.
What makes the horribleness of Dreamcatcher surprising is the amount of talent that was involved in making it. Then again, most adaptations of Stephen King books are cursed. I suspect I sat through all of the movie for the same reason people can’t help staring at automobile accidents.
oh man Dreamcatcher was horrible! I was young when I saw it and it really offended me how bad it was but I couldnt walk out cause it was for a birthday part. and MR E 2 ME you cant blame a curse on adaptations of Stephen King books for this being bad…look at all the fantastic adaptations: Stand By Me, The Mist, The Shinning, Shawshank Redemption, Misery, 1408(pretty good not great), The Green Mile
the third spy kids movie. Terrible.
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It takes a lot for me to walk out on a movie. It needs to be terrible. I watched An American Carol last month and did not walk out, that’s how hard it is to get me to walk out of a movie. I went to laugh at how not funny it was, though. It was so not funny it was hilarious!
Anyway, I’ve walked out on three movies.
1. Dante’s Peak: I found out later I only missed the last ten minutes. I should have walked out when the grandma jumped in the lava lake and pushed the family’s boat to safety.
2. Tomkats: I snuck into this movie with a friend. I never would have considered paying to see this. I think we left when they testicular cancer talk started. My roommate and I went home and told our third roommate (we were in college, living in a duplex) that Tomkats was one of the funniest movies we’d ever seen and that he should take his girlfriend to see it tomorrow. He did. He told us he couldn’t believe we thought that movie was funny and we laughed and laughed and laughed at him. Then he told us about how they eat the testicle in it. Gross. I’m glad we walked out when we did.
3. Cruel Intentions: I hated this movie so much that I walked out despite the fact that I had a ticket to another movie starting 30 minutes after Cruel Intentions was over. And my parents had dropped me off so I had nowhere to go. It was that awful that I sat in the lobby for 45 minutes until my next movie started seating. I think the next movie was 200 Cigarettes which I remember thinking was pretty good. Anyway, Cruel Intentions is the worst.
I almost walked out on Kansas City, but I was young when that came out. I should give that another chance sometime.