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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWhat movie did you stand up and walk out on?
Mine:
Streets of Fire
Under a Cherry Moon (worst sequel ever)
Rumblefish
The only shitty movies accepted are those you paid money for at the theater, and had to make the decision WE'RE LEAVING.
uppityperson
(115,678 posts)7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)Marlon has been in better movies. And Bertolucci has made better ones.
uppityperson
(115,678 posts)Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)RobinA
(9,894 posts)sulking in French for about 6 hours. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
rurallib
(62,444 posts)had two guys from SNL that were not the ones who made the history books - or that is what I remember.
Took my daughter during a college visit - about midway through she leaned over and ask if we could go - I said thank goodness.
7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)No SNL vets there. Maybe you're thinking of Night at the Roxbury?
rurallib
(62,444 posts)It stunk or at least that night it did.
We went out to watch a beautiful thunderstorm.
Dash87
(3,220 posts)A blow torch to my eyes and ears.
Chan790
(20,176 posts)I figure I've already paid for the pitch-black, the air-conditioning and rented the comfy reclining chair for the length of the show.
I'm getting my money's worth. I didn't even make it through the credits of 54, I was out like a welterweight going toe-to-toe with the heavyweight champ.
7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)Bill Murray chucklefest but I had just had a one-hour massage after a day of skiing. I kind of knew I was going to do that because I looked for a dark place for a nap in the afternoon. The owner tapped me on the shoulder when the picture was over, just like I'd brought an alarm clock.
Common Sense Party
(14,139 posts)I hope you've seen it since, on a non-massage day.
Revanchist
(1,375 posts)Don't regret missing it either.
MuseRider
(34,115 posts)I am not even certain why I was even there. Date I guess. Blechh.
7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)it was so long ago I don't even remember who I was with!
orleans
(34,073 posts)steve2470
(37,457 posts)7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)I want my money back.
fishwax
(29,149 posts)Fortunately it only cost me a rental rather than a theater ticket.
Godhumor
(6,437 posts)Though "Johnny Mnemonic" was so bad the only reason I didn't walk out was because I wanted to see if it could possibly get any worse.
It did...once the movie showed a dolphin hacking someone's brain, it definitely did.
Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)the violence was nauseating. imo
orleans
(34,073 posts)Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)I loved the trilogy because it was fantasy, but I can appreciate that it was, indeed, violent. Clockwork Orange wasn't fantasy and the violence was all about human degradation. The gang rape in the park was the more than I could stand to watch. What was more disturbing was the acclaim the movie received.
love_katz
(2,584 posts)I got trashed on a thread when I said I couldn't stand to read this book in high school. Book was too violent for me, so I expect the movie version would've been over-the-top for me. Poster who did the trashing accused me of being illiterate.
Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)I think many people who say they liked this book or movie say so only because the critics liked it...rather like the bandwagon effect in polling.
Anyone who resorts to ad hominem attacks is simply displaying their own lack of erudition!
love_katz
(2,584 posts)I also agreed with your post regarding gratuitous violence. Not my cuppa, that is for sure.
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)I agree it's violent, though not a lot by today's standards. I wouldn't rate it as Kubrick's best either, but I still think its great.
Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)Gratuitous and degrading violence somehow is considered great theater.
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)Not a great film.
The violence was choreographed like a ballet. The bare bosoms were gratuitous & exploitative. Just because they used Beethoven on the soundtrack didn't make it great.
My daughter made me watch several violent films: Kill Bill, Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction.
When they try to make blood sprays artistic.....YUCK!!
I remember NOTHING of them.
Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)I didn't think the violence was so stylized as to be less offensive. I am not a fan or gore for the sake of gore, however I can't think of any other movie that so offended me as did Clockwork Orange. The entire movie was about dehumanizing everyone...
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)Stylized violence lessens the impact and makes it seem less destructive. But that's in most movies. Boom,bullet, blood packet explode, plop.....they're dead.
Reality is far more horrific.
RobinA
(9,894 posts)I found Clockwork to be offensively violent, but I thought Reservior Dogs was worse. Two hours of my life I wish I had back and a memory I wish I could drill out of my brain.
NJCher
(35,713 posts)I really can't stand violence. Just no interest in it whatsoever.
Don't watch war movies, either, and I don't care what the message is
Cher.
BainsBane
(53,056 posts)I stayed as long as I could but couldn't make it through.
Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)I hated it then, I hate it now and even more ,I hate the fact that there are people who think it's a great movie.
lame54
(35,317 posts)Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)misguided!
lame54
(35,317 posts)misguided is kinda my thing
Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)I don't understand the attraction to the degrading sexual violence. I think any message the movie might have contained was lost in that.
lame54
(35,317 posts)therefore you cannot give a proper review
Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)several years later I viewed it in it's entirety. I still failed to see the attraction. If I remember correctly, the 'cure' was as dehumanizing as the perpetrator's behavior. The reversion even more depressing. So what do you find so illuminating about the movie?
edbermac
(15,943 posts)Only one I never saw all the way thru was something called Spanglish, I was on a Greyhound bus and that was playing. Got to my stop about 2/3 the way, didn't like it much.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)Rhiannon12866
(205,867 posts)I saw it six times - at the movies!
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)what's different - good news - both liberals !
UTUSN
(70,725 posts)As I said before politics was an issue. I agreed with her politics not her persona afterward.
lastlib
(23,271 posts)Absolutely HORRIBLE waste of film; thought I would vomit when they wound up having sex. High-order Crap!
7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)Then again, Sidney Lumet... No, there's this: "Amazingly, Lumet claims on the commentary that Fonda was actually drunk in this scene: as good an argument against going to work drunk as any Ive heard." http://thepinksmoke.com/frustratinglumet2.htm
lastlib
(23,271 posts)a lady I was friends with wanted to see it, so I took her. (She hated it, too, by the time we left)
Paulie
(8,462 posts)How the hell the Academy thought it was worth the film I have no idea.
7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)Hackman was underused. The script was weak.
applegrove
(118,760 posts)7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)It was a gentle nudge to the sheeple that they are walking dead. N'est pas?
applegrove
(118,760 posts)neighbourhood and he wanted in. There was gossip about me everywhere. I was so traumatized. I couldn't watch someone being stalked...even if it was benign as it was in Truman's case. I walked out of the theatre and my friend totally understood.
WorseBeforeBetter
(11,441 posts)barf.
7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)It was the last time Steve Martin was funny. Candy was tragically sad. Not a heartwarming movie.
WorseBeforeBetter
(11,441 posts)considering this was back in the late '80s. I see that it has a 94% fresh rating on rottentomatoes -- that surprises the hell out of me!
7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)If you can get sympathetic for Martin's character early on, when he's *just trying to get home*, then you might enjoy it. It's supposed to be a miserable ride. Check out Scorsese's After Hours. Same bit. When Edie McClurg says, "Well, then, I guess you're fucked," you should at least snort.
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WorseBeforeBetter
(11,441 posts)but I just hopped over to IMDB and think I'll add it to my queue. I think it's the Martin/Candy factor -- I can take only so much of Steve Martin and never cared for Jim Candy. I do like Martin and his banjo gigs with Steep Canyon Rangers, though.
7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)I had screener passes to what I knew would be a knockout: Life Is Beautiful. Italian director and actor Roberto Benigni doing a love story in the Nazi camps.
My date was half-Jewish, half-Italian. How could I miss? She walked out; I stayed. No regrets.
Chan790
(20,176 posts)It's in the same line of bad date decisions as Seinfeld taking a date to see Schindler's List.
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)and to think you took her to it because it was a freebie.
Maybe not a good idea for a long lasting relationship.
BainsBane
(53,056 posts)and I don't agree it's a horrible date movie. I never understood the anger about the film. It doesn't say that the holocaust wasn't horrific, rather it shows the lengths a father went to try to protect his son. It doesn't show the actual horror of the death camps, but I found it a touching film.
Cane4Dems
(305 posts)me and my roommate felt like we were cheated out of 14 dollars that night haha
7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)The trailer made this look like a car movie. No Bruce Lee? Who cares?
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)And then it got worse..
rug
(82,333 posts)Although being that it was a drive-in, I drove out.
7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)Ha ha! At least you got Milk Duds!
Initech
(100,099 posts)Where Gary Cole's character gets crushed by a car and one of the other characters says "You just got killed by a Daewoo Lanos motherfucker!!"
Betsy Ross
(3,147 posts)Response to Betsy Ross (Reply #40)
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olddots
(10,237 posts)Clockwork Orange because of the rape now they could play it on the 700 club .
I left the original Night of the Living Dead three minutes into it -now they can play it on NET
fizzgig
(24,146 posts)spiderman 3.
it was too much for me to deal with an emo spiderman.
leftyladyfrommo
(18,869 posts)Saw it at the drive-in and drove out.
I just saw No Pain No Gain and hated it. Stuck it out because I was with someone but if I had been alone I probably would have just left. It's supposed to be black humor but I didn't get the humor part. A couple of days later I could kind of see what they were trying to do but I sure wouldn't go see it again.
Yooperman
(592 posts)Thought I would take in a comedy and I liked Dana Carey.
Absolutely the worst film I had ever tried to watch... left half way through.
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7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)Dash87
(3,220 posts)Or maybe not.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)It was supposed to be a spoof of the "Friday the 13th" movies.
olddots
(10,237 posts)or whatever it was called with the brat pack of the 80s I went and sat in the lobby .
Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)I recently became enamored with 1980's movies and tried it out on Netflix. What a drag.
Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)And above average writing and directing.
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)While I remember doing that, I remember absolutely nothing whatsoever about the movie itself. Funny that.
I don't go to the movies much these days anyway. If we include DVD's, I have "walked out on" Prometheus, Quantum of Solace and Skyfall in the last year. My expectations were so high, and I just absolutely hated them. All triumphs of style over substance. It's like writers can't write anymore and CGI is used to cover up the shortfalls.
FloridaJudy
(9,465 posts)When the gangster started beating that child. I can't abide cruelty, especially toward those who are helpless, like children and animals.
Those who stuck that damned thing out tell me I was lucky to leave before the really disturbing stuff came down. There are movies that are merely bad and awkward: I can usually watch them by running a MST3K commentary in my head. I can even enjoy them, in a purely masochist way. Then there are those I just find distressing. I can't sit through most horror movies, either.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,191 posts)It was a night class, and our professor encouraged us to bring our own food while we ate.
And then we saw the ending.
Needless to say, I literally lost my appetite for two days after seeing it.
RobinA
(9,894 posts)And turned it off during the opening credits. Had one of those "Life's too short" moments.
Shrek
(3,983 posts)My wife's choice, not mine.
I was actually enjoying it.
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)Staring Robin Williams. I was in a bad mood so I wasn't in the best frame of mind to judge but I remember William's acting really annoying me at the time. There have been a few others but I can't remember them.
7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)Lindsay Lohan has a new tattoo that says that. Nuff said.
Xyzse
(8,217 posts)Virgin Suicides - I was with my girlfriend at the time, it got boring as hell, and we did some better activities after.
Bruno - The hell was I thinking. I still blame my sister for suggesting this one. Not really a fan of Baron Cohen's movies. He's good as a supporting actor, but that's about it.
Myrina
(12,296 posts)... to this day ... wtf?
Dash87
(3,220 posts)of the subject matter. Everything else about it sucked (bad story, annoying actors, etc.).
Xyzse
(8,217 posts)Finally tried Vanilla Sky by watching it on Video. Didn't get past 20 minutes of it.
sarge43
(28,942 posts)When Franklin and Eleanor started to sing Tomorrow - neither actor could carry a tune with a forklift.
Jokerman
(3,518 posts)I was skeptical but my date really wanted to see it. About 30-40 minutes in she whispered to me that the movie was terrible and then she suggested something much more fun to do with the rest of our evening.
We were out of that theater in seconds flat.
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)Dash87
(3,220 posts)I came very close with "Bruno" (or should I say, 'porno'). Truly one of the worst movies ever made, and I used to like "Da Ali G Show." It was so bad, it actually ruined all of his other movies for me.
I did turn off (on Redbox):
- Epic Movie
- That Robin Williams one where he was a radio announcer. That was so boring.
- A Haunted House
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, a.k.a 'Lets watch paint dry'
- Delta Farce
Others I barely made it through:
- Wild Hogs
- Alex Cross
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)But I have turned some off while watching on DVD, VHS or On-Line.
Brother Buzz
(36,458 posts)It's the ONLY movie I walked out on.
7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)The Wrestler redeemed Mickey for me. A long wait.
raccoon
(31,118 posts)Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)It was highly reccommended to me by my liberal cousin-in law, and so I took a female date with me to see it. Bad choice for a date movie. Plus the vibe in the theater made her uncomfortable, so we left.
I rented it saw it by myself a year or so later. Meh.
Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)Repellent shit. He ( Tarantino) needs help.
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)Hated some of it, Tarantino is letting his stardom go to his head. That 10min cameo of himself in the film is so fucking cringe worthy. It's a bit too long, and a bit too goofy but that goes for most of his films. Wonderful acting by DiCaprio.
archiemo
(492 posts)TeamPooka
(24,250 posts)TrogL
(32,822 posts)Stormed out during the symphony scene
Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)Tabasco_Dave
(1,259 posts)I started the car and drove out of the drive-in as opposed to walking out of a theater. I hope that counts.
BainsBane
(53,056 posts)the violence was too much for me. The same with Tie me up, Tie me Down and A Clockwork Orange.
WorseBeforeBetter
(11,441 posts)when I think back to that film (The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover). I made it through the whole thing.
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)BainsBane
(53,056 posts)but now I kind of want to see it. I have a fascination with demonology and witchcraft.
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)The church did things.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,191 posts)True, there are some where I've been tempted--Down to You, Eye of the Beholder--(seen back to back on weekends in 1999, btw), but if you find yourself watching a really bad movie, most often you just want to sit through it and relish its awfulness.
Occassionally I have turned off a movie I've rented, however. I remember my wife and I renting the Rob Zombie movie "House of 1000 Corpses", and somewhere after seeing Dwight Schrute being turned into a fish, my wife turned to me and asked "Do you really care watching the rest of this?" And I replied, "Not really."
(Ironically, the sequel to "House of 1000 Corpses", "The Devil's Rejects" is halfway decent.)
I do remember my parents telling me rather excitedly that they were going to see "Borat" in the theaters. Knowing my parents and knowing what I heard about "Borat", I told them they weren't going to like it. They went anyways, and lasted about 2 minutes before walking out.
mainer
(12,028 posts)Well, didn't walk out of exactly. Just turned off the DVD player.
Iggo
(47,564 posts)Marketed as a comedy.
It wasn't.
Even then, I would've stayed, but it just wasn't any good. I made it I guess about 20 or 30 minutes then I stood up and said "fuck this shit" and walked out.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,191 posts)But you are 100% correct that it shouldn't have been marketed as a comedy. It was almost a straight up drama.
Baitball Blogger
(46,756 posts)But I think my dad walked out on the Entity. It was playing at the same time as E.T. and we went to a Spanish theater. He got them confused.
TheMightyFavog
(13,770 posts)What a stinkburger.
Iggo
(47,564 posts)Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)I just couldn't. Lame obvious gutter humor. Reccommended to me by people I obviously didn't know well enough.
Broken_Hero
(59,305 posts)Titanic(Cameron film), I didn't leave because of the movie, I left because I got stood up...
dry99
(168 posts)The Thin Red Line.
What an overblown piece of shit that was!
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)LWolf
(46,179 posts)I don't go to that many movies; if I drive to the theater and pay for the tickets, I know enough about the movie to be a little interested in it.
GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)To be fair, the film kept breaking, but the film wasn't worth all the interruptions.
Rob H.
(5,352 posts)but there's only one movie I've seen in theaters that I would've walked out of: Boxing Helena. Just flat-out terrible--simply mind-blowingly bad.
All I can say is thank goodness there's now RottenTomatoes.com. That site has probably saved me quite a bit of money over the years.
tavernier
(12,396 posts)The first because the script bored me silly: "fuketyfukfukfuketyfuk." I really resent having to dummy down just to watch a movie. The second because it was just plain awful.
Initech
(100,099 posts)GReedDiamond
(5,316 posts)...but, yeah, it totally sucked...don't blame ya for walkin' out.
I almost walked out of "The Flinstones Viva Rock Vegas," in which I also have some costume graphics, but if I did, my girlfriend would have followed me, and then there would have literally been NOBODY left in the theater at that particular screening.
So we stuck it out. My fleeting graphics looked great on the big screen.
Initech
(100,099 posts)Mainly because I'm a huge fan of the Dark Knight trilogy and Batman & Robin explains a lot about Bane's back story.
retread
(3,763 posts)El Supremo
(20,365 posts)And have refused to see any Richard Gere movie ever since.
Common Sense Party
(14,139 posts)GReedDiamond
(5,316 posts)...in Los Angeles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocksucker_Blues
Sugarcoated
(7,728 posts)I didn't walk out of the theater, I can't remember doing that, but hit the stop button on Hudson Hawk and the Fifth Element.
I went into watching Nothing But Trouble starring John Candy and Dan Akroyd knowing it sucked, but just couldn't waste more than maybe 10 minutes of my life on such a hideously bad movie.
7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)"Meat Popsicle."
Ian Holm, Chris Tucker, Tricky, costumes by JPG. Get a couple pops in ya.
tblue37
(65,483 posts)Separation
(1,975 posts)My god. Spielberg, Lucas, they ought to be ashamed. I actually asked for my money back on the Indiana Jones movie and received a free movie pass.
Hell Hath No Fury
(16,327 posts)I can usually do "watching paint dry" slow movies, but this one was just too much for me. The showtime, subtitles, and being tired did me in -- I walked at hour two.
I left "The Cook et al" towards the end against my will -- my date/ride had become disgusted.
Even when renting or watching on HBO/Cinemax I rarely turn off a film. The only one I have recently had problems with was "The Green Lantern" -- I have tried to watch that at least three times but have given up each time. Still have no idea how it ends.
There are films I simply choose not to watch, period, because I know in advance they are not my taste or they will be bad. Anything in the slasher genre or the new movie "satires" like "Scary Movie" never even get a chance with me.
In reading others choice of walkouts I see many of my favorite films or films I enjoyed and acknowledge to be great. With movies there's something out there for everyone, which makes it the perfect art form.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)a pre-rug Burt Reynolds vehicle. It was actually Mom who waked out, taking me with her.