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What Movies have you walked out of? (1 Viewer)

When I was very young my family walked out of a movie that was too scary for me and my sister.  I have a few very vivid memories of it, but have never been able to figure out what it was despite considerable effort over the years.

When I'm watching at home, I frequently punt on movies very early.  Just a couple nights ago, got 10 minutes into Tomorrow War on Prime and pulled the plug.  Aint nobody got no time for a crappy movie.

 
Gr00vus said:
Coffee and Cigarettes. Sometimes pointless vignettes are just pointless vignettes - incredibly boring ones.
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Whoa.   I've never heard of this movie.  Back in college, decades before this movie, we were tripping balls all night and badly needed coffee so were first in line at the CU that morning.   We drank coffee and smoked cigarettes for hours saying over and over "coffee and cigarettes, coffee and cigarettes".  People must have thought we were on drugs.  Which of course we were.

zamboni said:
I'm too cheap to have paid up for a movie and then walk out.
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THIS

 
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2Squirrels1Nut said:
Whoa.   I've never heard of this movie.  Back in college, decades before this movie, we were tripping balls all night and badly needed coffee so were first in line at the CU that morning.   We drank coffee and smoked cigarettes for hours saying over and over "coffee and cigarettes, coffee and cigarettes".  People must have thought we were on drugs.  Which of course we were.

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I think watching you and your friends drinking coffee and smoking while you recovered would have been much more entertaining than that movie.

Also, if Jim Jarmusch is/was one of your friends from that evening, kick him in the nuts for me.

 
The Thin Red Line (I love war movies usually), For the Love of the Game, Magnolia, and the Bridges of Madison County.  Hated them all.  Would have walked on Blair Witch, but I went to sleep instead.  I was so dizzy, but my crew loved it.

 
One of my favorite things about big budget but bad movies is years later looking up how much they cost vs what they brought in. Hopefully a few Hollywood heads rolled along the way.

 
CletiusMaximus said:
When I was very young my family walked out of a movie that was too scary for me and my sister.  I have a few very vivid memories of it, but have never been able to figure out what it was despite considerable effort over the years.

When I'm watching at home, I frequently punt on movies very early.  Just a couple nights ago, got 10 minutes into Tomorrow War on Prime and pulled the plug.  Aint nobody got no time for a crappy movie.
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This was the case for me with WW84.

 
CletiusMaximus said:
When I was very young my family walked out of a movie that was too scary for me and my sister.  I have a few very vivid memories of it, but have never been able to figure out what it was despite considerable effort over the years.

When I'm watching at home, I frequently punt on movies very early.  Just a couple nights ago, got 10 minutes into Tomorrow War on Prime and pulled the plug.  Aint nobody got no time for a crappy movie.
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Oh...right!

My mom took me to see the original Willy Wonka in the theater when it came out. Probably my first movie- I mustve been 3 or 4.

When Augustus gets sucked up the tube... I was out.  Ran out of the theater, with my mom giggling behind me- caught me in the lobby and coerced me back in (I fortunately missed the psychedelic tunnel of doom) after a while. 

When Violet started turning Violet, Violet, I was done. I got out the theater, out the lobby and halfway down the street...mom still giggling.

 
General Malaise said:
Took a date to see Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - She was a single mom and had to be home at a certain time.  The movie sucked so bad she told me if we left now, we could have sex in my car before taking her home.  Sex in the backseat of an Acura Integra.  With me.  That was better for her than sitting through that god awful movie.  That should be the new baseline for a bad film - "It was so bad, I opted to boink GM in the back of a tiny Japanese car instead".  
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So, did you have a good time?

 
Bracie Smathers said:
Blair Witch:  Didn't see it in the theatre but had enough after twenty minutes of zero story, zero dialogue, nothing but F-bombs disguised as a movie.  Utter garbage.

Hated Birdcage because it sucked but watched it however the only movie I walked out of was the second Jurassic Park flick because the girl freaked out when the small dinosaurs started ripping people apart.  We were on a double date so all of us had to walk out but it was not our choice.  Still have never fully watched that flick. 
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So Blair Witch Project I went I saw on opening weekend. This is pre-internet or at least pre-people knowing everything. I had read though that the premise.

Went with a friend and my now wife and told them this was a documentary.

Got super baked beforehand, place was packed. 

About 3/4 of the way into the movie the pre-wife says “this isn’t real” very loudly  :lol:

 
Only movie I ever walked out on was “Hardcore Henry”…not a porn.

Was a movie filmed in first person as it’s hook. Knew it was going to be dumb but I wasn’t prepared. 

 
Back in 1980, myself and a couple of others tried to get ourselves thrown out of the theater. We were watching the Jerry Lewis movie “Hardly Working”. 

We ended up walking out. 
ETA: I just looked up the movie online. Jerry Lewis is basically in yellow face as a chef. Ugh. 

 
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otb_lifer said:
HAPPINESS

Solondz can go #### himself.

went to see it opening night at the Angelika, as i was squiring a young lady who had a bit part in the flick ... i was outta there in roughly 40 minutes - not even her juice was worth the squeeze of one more second of that ####-ery. 

miserable, absolutely ghastly. 
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I think that movie is hilarious but I know it’s not for everyone 

 
Dan Lambskin said:
otb_lifer said:
HAPPINESS

Solondz can go #### himself.

went to see it opening night at the Angelika, as i was squiring a young lady who had a bit part in the flick ... i was outta there in roughly 40 minutes - not even her juice was worth the squeeze of one more second of that ####-ery. 

miserable, absolutely ghastly. 
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I think that movie is hilarious but I know it’s not for everyone 
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The child rape was HI-larious

 
HellToupee said:
Natural Born Killers 
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Not the easiest to sit thru but was a pretty wild ride. 1993, maybe or a little after that. 

I of course walked out of the theater briefly during the Tarantino/Rodriguez double feature to get a manager because some guy decides to open a can of raw tuna in smelly oil no less, couldn't pop a bag of star-kist, this useless life from decides to open it like a can of cat food and the smell was vomitous and my wife and every woman in that row at the Arclight, I had to do something and we know how that story ends. 

 
jamny said:
The Simpsons spoiled the Crying Game for me when Chief Wiggum revealed the twist. I never bothered seeing it after that.

I've never walked out of a movie, although I rarely go to a theater but when I saw PeeWee's Big Adventure, a group of black dudes walked out cursing at the screen after about 15 minutes. Not sure what they were expecting.

eta: it might have been Mayor Quimby
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The black dudes were expecting Mayor Quimby? 😆

 
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I guess its a product of where I've lived (SF area, NYC, little bit in Milan) that I kept waiting for the "shocking" twist in Crying Game. Movie ends and I'm shuked. Wait...the drag cabaret performer being a man in drag was the surprise?

 
Tom Servo said:
Back in 1980, myself and a couple of others tried to get ourselves thrown out of the theater. We were watching the Jerry Lewis movie “Hardly Working”. 

We ended up walking out. 
ETA: I just looked up the movie online. Jerry Lewis is basically in yellow face as a chef. Ugh. 
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Had to sit through this one because the kid liked Jerry Lewis from his earlier movies.

 
El Floppo said:
I guess its a product of where I've lived (SF area, NYC, little bit in Milan) that I kept waiting for the "shocking" twist in Crying Game. Movie ends and I'm shuked. Wait...the drag cabaret performer being a man in drag was the surprise?
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I didn't live in SF, and I knew it was a dude.  Who can't tell that?

 
El Floppo said:
wish I had walked out of The English Patient. that's 8 1/2 hours I could never get back.
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my best friend & his wife walked out on this one.  I asked him what it was about?  he explained some burnt guy laying in a bed the whole movie with some chick dabbing his burns,  & some dude with no fingers mumbling in the background.  I asked why he couldn't put up with it for 1 1/2 hours.  He said the best he could figure,  it was going to last days.

I waited for the TV version & agree with his assessment.  When I see it is scheduled to come on TV I text him with the time & date.

 
Dan Lambskin said:
I think that movie is hilarious but I know it’s not for everyone 
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meh ... i've sat through, and enjoyed, tons of flicks that dealt with unsettling subject matter or taboo foists of vision. 

difference is, those flicks showed me an artistry, or were fun ... or, in the rarer cases, both. 

Happiness was a steaming pile of Todd's ####. 

case. closed. 

 
Mrs. Rannous said:
Because it's a two hour and 42 minute movie.  And a complete waste of time.  At least Out of Africa was nice to look at.
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My mom liked Dances with Wolves, which, as a kid, was a 3 hour snooze fest. Of course now, I watch the LOTR extended editions without batting an eye, so I guess it’s a matter of taste.

 
Elaine from Seinfeld saved me from having to endure The English Patient. The wiki description below:

Elaine and her date, Blaine go to the movies. She wants to see the comedy Sack Lunch, but it is sold out, so they see The English Patient. She finds it boring and stupid. Elaine's dislike for The English Patient alienates her from everyone. Not wishing to upset J. Peterman, when he asks if she likes the film, she claims not to have seen it. He has Elaine drop everything so he can take her to see it. She endures an hour or so before exclaiming her distaste for the film. Peterman responds by firing her, but she convinces him to let her keep her job by agreeing to take a trip to Tunisia (the filming location of The English Patient).

 
Rocky Horror Picture Show.  During college in the early 90's a theater would play this around Halloween.  A group of my friends were fired up to go so I went.  Made it maybe halfway through where myself and a buddy bailed to go to a bar while the rest stayed and enjoyed tossing their bread and whatever else they were doing.  I just didn't get it.

 
Matrix 3- Didn't walkout but shoulda. Sat there and fulminated the whole time waiting for the stoopid to stop which it never did. Matrix 2 was same but I like beating my head against the wall so I was hopeful 2 was a set-up for a grand finale in 3 but noooooooo, 3 was even dumber and more assinine than 2. I contemplated driving to LA to shake down the Wachowski sisters for stealing my money. Grand theft writ large.

 
Don't think I've ever walked out on a movie in the theatre.

Stopped watching plenty at home.

-Almost got kicked out of the original Blade Runner.  Ford's narration is beyond horrid and laughable. Yeah, I was laughing pretty loud.

-Was with my Grandma watching 'The Man Who Wasn't There'  Still cringe at the part with Scarlett going low on Billy Bob in the pickup truck.  Lonnng awkward silence before Grandma says, 'Scarlett is so pretty, isn't she?'

-Wanted to leave "The Lakehouse' but gf wanted to see a 'romantic' movie.  I asked her why didn't they just build a HUGE mailbox so one of them could get inside and then they could be together?

Some years later, we broke up.  Might be a connection there.

 
shadrap said:
my best friend & his wife walked out on this one.  I asked him what it was about?  he explained some burnt guy laying in a bed the whole movie with some chick dabbing his burns,  & some dude with no fingers mumbling in the background.  I asked why he couldn't put up with it for 1 1/2 hours.  He said the best he could figure,  it was going to last days.

I waited for the TV version & agree with his assessment.  When I see it is scheduled to come on TV I text him with the time & date.
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Kinda like how Bill Murray and his brother text Kelly Lynch's husband every time the Roadhouse scene comes on where Patrick Swayze is laying the wood to her.  And by "every time", I literally mean EVERY TIME.  If it's playing on a movie channel on the east coast, he gets a text, followed 3 hours later with another text.  

 
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