I can’t recall ever walking out on a movie, but I remember being so appalled by SGT. PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND that I demanded my money back. (I didn’t get it.)
Never happened to me… But I almost walked out with “Pirates of the Caribbean”, and two Adrian Lyne’s gems: “Lolita” and “Indecent Proposal”. In DVD the only movie I never finished: “Saw IV”.
“norbit” wt Eddie Murphy. I was dragged to see it by my friends. it horrified me in every way possible. Worst movie ever!!!
@ Daniel – yes, there are some fine King adaptations, but think of how many didn’t work. More than half, at least, I’d say.
I’ve never walked out of a film before but more than once have I turned off films when I just couldn’t stand it, and please don’t hate me for some of these, 2001: A Space Odyssey, anything by Michael Bay, Iron Man, Salo, Andre Rublev, Dances with Wolves, Hostel, Not one less, Branded to Kill, Look Back in Anger, and Pierrot Le Fou.
I think that’s it, Also the last two I fell asleep during I just couldn’t stand them.
Obvioulsy I’m going to get flamed for 2001 and maybe a few others but oh well I just thought they were bad to terrible films.
Sorry.
I almost never walk out of movies because I hate missing anything, even crap, but I made an exception for that late-‘90s/early-’00s rave movie Groove.
MR E 2 ME – actually ya I have to agree with you, Ive just visited good ol Stephen King’s IMDB,, who knew how many terrible terrible adaptations of his stories there have been! wow.
The last one and that also ended the series for me is Moonraker..it took untill Casino Royale, the latest one to get me back in to view the Bond series.
Well only three films in my whole lifetime Black Mask(horrible) Blast from the past, and troy! i think someone had created a thread about this already anyways there they are:(
I’m one of those who always finishes watching a film. There’s always the (perhaps unlikely) chance that there’s some little scene or moment at the end that redeems the film at least A LITTLE in some small way. I am a credits watcher and that personal policy extends to the credits sequences as well.
The only time I haven’t finished watching an entire film was as a screener for the Sundance Film Festival US Documentary category (have done it for the last three years). There are some pretty bad submissions, but I always watch them start to finish. Except one film my first year that was beyond unbearable. It was called SUPER SLIM ME and was a “rebuttal” to Super Size Me, made by a really annoying flooring guy from Washington state. I REALLY tried to finish it, but it was so incredibly, painfully bad that I finally couldn’t stand it anymore and HAD to shut it off.
Kudos to you for staying through the credits. I’m a stickler about that, too. Only after really terrible films do I sometimes leave before the credits are over.
I’m a credit-watcher, too. In fact. were I to be a filmmaker – and none of the true artists here should feel remotely threatened by that impossible prospect – I would bury the core of my creation at the very end of that looooong scroll just to reward the initiated. And I’ve never walked out of anything, which makes me either overly reverent or a glutton for punishment. Then, again, I appreciated Haggis’ “Crash,” which makes me somewhat of a dunce in these parts.
I’m a credit watcher also. I don’t think I’ve ever walked out at the cinema but perhaps I’m forgetting something. I feel like I’ve seen an awful lot of terrible films, hm…
When I was about 12 my parents took me to see “The Magic Christian” with Peter Sellers. They had seen “The Party” recently and thought this would be similar. Well, they were horrified, and I was uncomfortable…we walked out during the Raquel Welch galley scene. I have since seen the entire film….it’s very funny in spots, but a bit incoherent. Funny, it STILL makes me a little uncomfortable…!
There was a power outage when I saw Kill Bill Vol. 2. Got my money back. Now if only I could get my money back for Scorpion King…which I made it all the way through.
Queen of Outer Space most recently.
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I don’t think I have ever walked out of a film in theatres.
1. Jawbreaker
2. Indiana Jones and The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull
3. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
4. Shoot ’Em Up
5. The Mothman Prophecies
6. The Bourne Identity
7. We Were Soldiers
8. What We Do Is Secret
9. Russian Ark
10. The Tracey Fragments
11. The Brothers Solomon
double post edit fix
The only movie I can ever remember walking out on was the original Dawn Of The Dead. The opening gun battle with the exploding heads was just too much for me. This was as the second half of a double feature and I was still pretty shaken up from watching the first movie which was a little thing called Eraserhead.
Shoot ‘Em Up wasn’t that bad! Loved it actually. Mothman Prophecies was bad. You missed out on the very forgettable yet painful quote at the end…
The only movie I’ve ever walked out on was the first Kill BIll. I started seeing it in NYC with my mom on a trip and there just seemed like so many better things we could be doing with our time. I almost walked out of No Country For Old Men and Be Kind Rewind. I stop watching DVD’s quite easily though, including Catch Me If You Can, There Will Be Blood, Eyes Wide Shut, and Amores Perros (couldn’t handle the dogfighting.)
To Seven Costanza – I’ve never walked out of a movie, but I fell asleep in Troy. God, that was terrible. I think Brad Pitt is great when playing against type, but not even he could bail out that piece of crap.
And I will admit that I fell asleep during Waking Life, also, though I’ve rewatched it more recently and loved it.
Gah, double post! D:
I didn’t mind The Tracey Fragments. I’d never watch it again, though.
I don’t think I’ve walked out of anything, but I have ejected DVDs from my player well before the end: Where Angels Fear to Tread comes to mind, and I almost did that with Mozart and the Whale.
Demons—when I was in high school (and mainly because it wasn’t good enough to show up late for work)
American Pie 3—the wedding one. The only reason I went in the 1st place was because I was in Taos, NM and I hadn’t seen a movie for 5 weeks and people had liked the other Pie movies. We made it through 1 scene. I would have walked out on Tarnation, but I thought the people I was fill were liking it.
Kudos to my fellow credits watchers. I am so adamant about it that when I saw TITANIC in the theater (at a second-run movie theater — wouldn’t have paid full-price to see that) they actually cut the credits early (it was the last screening of the night and I’m sure the staff were ready to go home), and I went and complained to the management and made them turn them back on.
This is something I gained an appreciation for in film school. As a filmmaker, I understand the hard work and dedication that is required to make even a really bad movie. In fact, there are so many challenges and factors working against the production of any film you care to name, that it’s a small (or sometime large) miracle when any film gets completed and shown to a paying audience. So I feel I owe the filmmakers at least that small nod of respect — even if the film totally blew chunks.
‘Secret Window’
Figured it all out during the scene in the post-office.
Caught the rest of it on HBO or something or other.
Found out I was right.
Maria
I walked out on American Gangster, it was really tedious and forgettable.