The only film I ever walked out on was The Curse Of the Golden Flower.
I never ever would walk out in the cinema. I try to give every film a chance until the very end even if it is hard sometimes. I did turn off or fast forward a couple of DVDs though…
I’ve never walked out on a movie in a theater. I do, however, remember turning off The English Patient at home.
King Ralph was the only movie I walked out on, I seen plenty of shitty movies but can’t seem to get out of my seat and leave.
- The Cake Eaters
- Canvas (actually ran into Joe Pantoliano in the lobby as I walked out of this stinker – luckily for him he was on the phone or I would have asked him for my money back)
- Twilight (the only reason I saw this movie was because I was waiting for my car, which was in the shop, and I needed to kill a couple hours. The theater by the mechanics was only showing this film so I gave it a chance. But after 20 minutes, it was so terrible I walked out).
I walked out of The Brothers Grimm. Truly awful especially for Terry Gilliam and A Scanner Darkly. To be fair because of the rotoscoping technique made me feel ill. I’ve since read the book and wouldn’t mind revisiting this one.
I should ve walked out of Jeepers Creepers and The Fifth Element. Truly awful movies. I watched Indy to the bitter end. I try to watch movies to the end but some films you know are never going to win you.
I really wanted to leave The Good Shepard, but for some reason I didn’t. I guess I feel I have to watch something all the way through to make a proper judgement on it. Also, when I pay for a movie, I feel like I’m wasting my money if I walk out.
pulse, ultraviolet, zodiac.
it takes a lot for me to walk out, but those three had it. i actually walked out of ultraviolet within the first 10 minutes and got a refund.
I think my friend walked out around the same time you did on Ultraviolet. He didn’t pay, but I think he still wanted a refund.
First Knight. When we found ourselves laughing at Sean Connery attempting to tragically emote, we knew all hope was lost. Out.
Looking for Mr. Goodbar, the only one so far.
The Keanu Reeves vehicle ‘Street Kings’. It wasn’t my choice of film, but fifteen minutes in it showed a CGI-generated American flag waving in the wind in slow motion superimposed over the funeral of a dirty cop. An idiotic appeal to aggressive patriotism, reminiscent of the films from the director of Pearl Harbor. After that, and some crude racial stereotyping, I knew I had had enough.
Pulp Fiction. The use of the n word was repulsive to me and a real spit in the face by Tarantino. Spike Lee takes offense and he should. So do I. I later watched it at home in its entirety, but the n word, gratuitous violence and sadism are pure trash and not film. I like some trash cinema, but this went too far. I still can’t watch Salo.
I’ve never actually walked out, but Pirates 2 made me feel like I did since it didn’t even have a damn ending.
“forrest gump”
“superbad”
i would have walked out on “crash” but i was with a group of about 6 people.
Just two: Congo and Sweeny Todd
I recieved a free ticket to see Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull in my local theater. About 3/4 of the way through the movie I took my stub to the manager and demanded my “money back” and got it. Hell yeah!
(seriously THE MOST dissapointing movie ever)
I also walked out of Transformers, the first Narnia movie, Friday the 13th (remake), Pearl Harbor, and Benjiman SNOOZE Button.
Never in theaters. I wish I had walked out on some, mainly more obscure stuff I see at fests, but I try to stay for the whole film.
I lost interest in Titus (1999, Julie Taymor’s adaptation of a Shakespeare play) half-way through when Titus has his hand cut off voluntarily. I don’t know if I wouldn’t have walked out had I been at a theater.
I really wanted to walk out of District 9.
I could never walk out on a film for the same reason that I try to always finish one I start – the fear of missing out on something. It keeps me there no matter how terrible, frustrating or boring the film is. I need closure. Otherwise I’d have an opinion on a portion of a work, rather than the whole thing and that just doesn’t seem fair. I guess this is a direct response to the people I know that go around talking about certain films being crap and they’ve only seen the first ten minutes.
I never walk out on movies. Even a bad movie gives me an opportunity to refine my sensibilities (in this case, based on what I don’t like, rather than what I do like). If I’m going to trash a movie in conversation (as I do with many bad movies), I’d like to have at least seen the whole thing so I can actually articulate what I didn’t like about it.
I don’t go out of my way to watch movies that I pretty much know from the outset will be shit (though I have intentionally gone to crappy movies because there was nothing else to do, and the theater’s selection sucked), but if I find myself in one, I always stick it out to the end.
Terminator Salvation,
Australia,
The Terminal,
Matrix Reloaded,
Vanilla Sky,
“Moon” tested my resistance…but I remained in the theater! It was insipid. And it draws elements of “2001” and “Solyaris” quite unsuccessfully.
anything by Ron howard
I don’t think I’ve ever walked out on a movie. I’ve also never fallen asleep inside a theater (I have at home). I have a sort of strange resistance to utter garbage. I’d rather see it a really bad movie than a mediocre one because after awhile I get amusement out of pure shit.
This is a great thread. There are some movies listed here that I simply cannot fathom anyone walking out of. One guy way back mentioned Ghostbusters. Ghostbusters?!! How do you walk out of Ghostbusters? I cannot undertstand that. Still, what a great range of opinions.
Many movies have seriously challenged my ability to sit through a film, but it has to be pretty egregious for me to actually walk out. For some reason, Oliver Stone brings this out in me; I really wanted to walk out on The Doors, Natural Born Killers and Alexander, but somehow I stuck them out.
But the one I recall so clearly is Across the Universe. Man, what a godawful, diabolical, piece of shit. I was suffering through this hamfisted ruination of great music with pain akin to a root canal, when finally Bono shows up. That’s when my friend turned to me and said (in a regular tone fo voice, not even trying to be quiet), “Fuck this”. We got up and left and felt pretty good about it.
Aha, I think the most recent film I have walked out on has been “Triumph of The Will” that I was watching in my Film Theory class. It wasn’t even that it was terrible for I am fully aware of its influence and so forth. But there are only so many Hitlerian speeches, it seems, I can take in one day.
Watchmen. As soon as The Comedian said “Whatever happened to the American Dream?” (more or less), I walked out. Watching Alan Moore get mauled on screen was too much.
Serena Bramble
Only one: Baz Luhrmann’s AUSTRALIA.