Have you ever walked out on a movie?

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I just looked at Internet Movie DataBase because I wasn’t sure if the other Jen Aniston movie I saw on TV was Good Girl. Sure enough, it was. You are right, that movie was really bad. No morals in it whatsoever.
 
No, it was not, “Plan 9 From Outer Space,” which, incidentally I have seen, and found, on the whole, not that bad of a movie.

I will not say the name of the movie because I don’t want to encourage anybody to see this movie and I assure you, by not telling you about it, it is not something you would see. I will tell you the plot, tell me if this sounds familiar to you.

The movie begins, BEGINS, it begins, by the Hero/Narrator of the movie, the person who guides us through the movie, the person who the movie is about KILLS HIMSELF, by literally taking a flying leap (he gets a head start by running). I am not kidding you when I say the movie goes downhill from there. My Uncle, whom my Aunt & I were watching this movie with said at this point, “I think we just saw the end of the movie.” He was right. He also could not make it past the first hour of this two hour movie.

So, after/before he jumps, we find out that two weeks(? - doesn’t matter) prior, his best friend, who has, my friend and I think, a very deliberate racist name, was killed. They both live in this run down lodging of sorts, along with others who are, for one reason or another, not all mentally stable. This FBI agent, who is engaged, but, later, in a conversation WARNING: SPOILER ALERT], for some reason not defined, his fiance decides to leave him, and he is perfectly alright with that, gets assigned to this crack house of crack pots to crack this case because Dead Guy’s Very Rich Dad wants to know what happened. The nut jobs all band together and decide to have this sacrificial lamb of the Narrator admit that he killed his friend, who, had these tar paintings, which is really tar covering ACTUAL paintings that other people have painted and that are priceless. The reason that all this happens is because Narrator is in love with the Autistic Whore of the movie, who his friend sleeps with, just…well, I’m not realy sure. The Narrator 1/2 killed, 1/2 let Dead Friend fall (who was leaning back over the top of the building in which they lived, being supported only by Narrator). We find out that FBI Agent Man had three arms when he was born (one on his back), and WHY this is significant, we don’t care. Oh yeah, and there’s some guy who thinks he’s the 5th Beatle in the movie as well.

There’s other things happening in the movie, but, they’re not nearly as coherent as this summary.
 
If there were no space pirates or dancing mummies then what’s the point?
 
Nope. I always determine well in advance whether or not I will like a movie and watch the whole thing.
 
In and Out - my wife and I are Kevin Kline fans (A Fish Called Wand is the best), but I don’t know what we were thinking in going to see this stinker. Talk about an agenda movie. We realized we’d made a mistake after 5 minutes, and walked out of the theater after about 30.

Goldeneye - this was a ‘new’ James Bond movie that we just couldn’t finish when we rented it. I appreciate campy movies, but this one was boring to boot. We haven’t seen a Bond flick since.

We almost walked out of Prince Caspian last night. SO disappointed in that one, but that’s a topic for another thread.

Movies I WISH I had turned off when we rented them:
AI
Pulp Fiction
The English Patient (like watching paint dry, this one)
 
Sailor_Kenshin said:
If there were no space pirates or dancing mummies then what’s the point?
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For me, it’s car chases and gun fights. If there are no car chases or gun fights, then, to my way of thinking, it’s a boring movie. 🤷

For this reason, I thought Die Hard 3: Live Free or Die was an absolutely brilliant movie. 👍

My favourite scenes were when he crashed the police car into a flying helicopter, and when the fighter jet was shooting missiles at the highway to try to take out the big truck. 🙂

(Although, I recently saw Strangers on a Train, which has neither car chases nor gun fights, and I thought it was excellent. So, I do have my exceptions - rarely.)
 
anamchara said:
I . I’d never go near any Jewish concentration camp movies. I can’t take them. I become physically ill. I get that horrible feeling in the pit of my stomach. I get overly empathetic when watching things like that. Nothing wrong with that but I do know my limits so I stay clear.
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that describes me, also ditto for movies about the Vietnam war. I actually deliberately chose research into both topics for my MA to try and get over this visceral reaction, and wrote a couple of books wherein both topics were crucial to the plots. I still have problem watching these movies tho, but could not tear myself away from Life is Beautiful, one of the best films ever made IMO.
 
Gods and Generals - the epic Civil War pic that complements Gettysburg on many levels. And… get this… I actually LIKED the film. But the thing is, at the two-hour mark (it’s a four hour movie), there is already so much information, so many characters, so many incidents, and it’s so dense, and the structure of the film is entirely nebulous–that, good qualities aside, I felt that sticking around for the second half would have been overstaying my welcome.

There should be a post “Have you ever walked in on a movie?” Of which, “the Gospel of John” qualifies for me, as I came in on the film 90 minutes into it.
 
I walked out of Who Framed Roger Rabbit - it was one of the stupidist things I’d ever seen.
 
Had to be “The Exorcist”. After the little girl was sitting in the chair and the pictures starting falling off the mantle, I told my boyfriend at the time, “either we leave now, or I am walking”.

We left.

As an ardent Dark Shadows fan, I like some scary movies like Christine, Carrie, … but Exorcist and the Omen…I draw the line.

I did not watch any of the Terminator movies. I liked Lethal Weapon…not Die Hard so much.

Enemy of the State kept me on the edge of my seat.

For Romance it has to be: Notting Hill…dumb movie, hated it.

I also didn’t see Schindlers List…I can’t get through WWII concentration camp movies. I didn’t see Titanic either…maybe I just don’t like history type movies because I know how they end.

I liked Forrest Gump even though it had war scenes in it.

Best Clint Eastwood movie…“we”, who’s we?"…“me and smith and wesson”…Sudden Impact

I most anything with Gene Hackman in it. He will always be Lex Luther for me. He also plays a great conservative senator…I laughed all the way through the Birdcage.

Rodney Dangerfield in Easy Money was a laugh riot too.
 
I have never walked out of a movie in the movie theatre but I did turn off the VHS Player when I saw the movie Black Robe.
 
jmcrae said:
For me, it’s car chases and gun fights. If there are no car chases or gun fights, then, to my way of thinking, it’s a boring movie. 🤷

For this reason, I thought Die Hard 3: Live Free or Die was an absolutely brilliant movie. 👍

My favourite scenes were when he crashed the police car into a flying helicopter, and when the fighter jet was shooting missiles at the highway to try to take out the big truck. 🙂

(Although, I recently saw Strangers on a Train, which has neither car chases nor gun fights, and I thought it was excellent. So, I do have my exceptions - rarely.)
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If you are talking about Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train, there is that carousel accident that is pretty intense! I highly recommend Hitchcock’s *Shadow of a Doubt *too, stick around for the end. And speaking for Hitchcock (I am a big fan), I had to turn off Rope the last time I saw it on TV. It is a really fascinating and intriguing story, but once you have seen it, the idea of it can make you sick.
 
Yes. When my aunt and I found out we were watching the wrong movie. 😃
 
childofmary1143 said:
I have never walked out of a movie in the movie theatre but I did turn off the VHS Player when I saw the movie Black Robe.
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Was that the one about the Jesuit in Canada during the 18th or 19th century?

I walked out during a play once. Me and a female friend of mine went to see The Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Roxy in Atlanta. Now I know some of the subject matter is a little…unusual :rolleyes:, but it got to be down right explicit and over-the-top sexual. Right before intermission I asked her if she’d like to leave and she said, “yes.” So we went and saw that movie with Kevin Kline and Meg Ryan where he’s the Frenchman. Chick flick, but funny.
 
I walked out of “Brother Bear,” which was a Disney animated movie back in 2003. I knew it would have some New Age stuff in it, but the first few minutes it was just so blatant that I walked out.
 
Orpheus2112 said:
Was that the one about the Jesuit in Canada during the 18th or 19th century?
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Yes it was but I think it was the 17th Century. In the movie, I saw that one of the young men who said he wanted to enter a seminary, later having sex with one of the Indians, made me walk away from it.
 
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