Have you ever walked out on a movie?

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I will typically sit through any movie that I pay $7.50 at the movie theater to see – but I typically don’t choose to go see totally immoral or boring films, either.

That being said, I have turned off movies that I have rented or am watching on television. Some that immediately spring to mind are:

Conversations With God – a Hallmark movie take on the book of the same name which is truly New Age.

Saw – I continue to find the very *idea *that someone is *writing * (much less the millions who enjoy watching) these type of films to be absolutely disturbing.

Bringing Out The Dead – with Nicholas Cage. Very slow, boring film, I thought. I fell asleep halfway through it.

Recently, I almost walked out on Burn After Reading. In the past, I have typically enjoyed Coen Brothers films, but this one was not only truly immoral but also contained a ***lot ***of bad language.
 
Reading this has been fun. Some of my favorite movies have been slammed like Pulp Fiction, I’m almost embarassed to admit how much I like that one…after years of working and living in NYC, THAT word is just a word to my ears. I loved The Usual Suspects. Did anyone mention Grosse Pointe Blank? Another favorite. Blazing Saddles is one of my favorites because of the bean-scene. I saw it on TV first and that scene didn’t make sense. When I finally saw the whole scene, I roared. Yes, it’s true, I have the sense of humor of a 12 year old boy. I had to leave the room when Sophie made her Choice. My husband watched the rest alone. I sat on my bed bawling for at least an hour. I had nightmares about Nazi for months. Then after the last episode of MASH, they started all over again. I’ve never seen Deliverance even though it’s on TV at least once a week. It was a very big hit in my youth, but I fortunately avoided it. Marathon Man was terrifying, and made me even more afraid of the dentist. We saw that at the Playboy Theatre in Manhattan ($1.50 second runs) and you could still smoke in theatres then. My two friends from work and I got stoned on second hand smoke. If that movie scares you in the living room, image the intensified effect. We were so naive at the time, we didn’t realize those weren’t cigarettes around us. That same situtation made Animal House a lot funnier than it was. And yes, the entire concept of people writing or watching Saw appalls me. I can’t help thinking that some fruitcake out there will get a new idea.

I had to walk out of Billy Jack, back in about 1970 or so, when the teacher got raped. I sat in the lobby and the guy I was with finally came looking for me. I told him to go watch his movie, I’ll wait right here. There was a Walgreens next door, so I wandered the aisles for a while. The other one I couldn’t watch anymore was Tombstone. When they try to take the bullets out of a guy’s back on a pool table. We went to the $1.00 theatre a lot, and I sat in the lobby talking to the ticket taker for the rest of the movie.

These days I like the movies on Sci Fi with giant mosquitos or mutant dinosaurs recreated out of a dab of DNA from a fossil, or black holes that consume St. Louis (and it really was St. Louis in most of the scenes…that’s always fun to see your hometown on the screen. Give me an alligator or a natural disaster movie any day, the more outrageous an improbable the better.
 
mamacita said:
**AUGH!! Sharon, let me just say that Jennifer Aniston should have stopped at “Friends.”

She did 3 movies that we rented. I think one was ‘The Good Girl’, and another of her’s is “Friends w/ Money” and then there was “The Breakup.” ALL 3 were awful!! 😦 DH watched them w/ me and we were so ticked that we sat thru them and wasted that few hours of our lives. Why did we watch the whole entire movies? Because we were ‘waiting’ for them to get better, although they never did. 😦 **
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I saw part of the Break Up, not the whole thing because i was trying to get school done, but still I laughed my head off. The dialogue between the couple was just too funny. The part where they are arguing over whether or not the guy should want to do the dishes, is just simply great!
 
I don’t think I’ve ever walked out of a movie. I usually give a movie the benefit of the doubt and find at least something salvageable by the end.Though, I have considered it in at least one.

Most recently, Twilight. I didn’t get it. IMHO It was so slow. The acting was horrible. Some of the lines had potential but the actors couldn’t deliver lines for their lives. I thought it was just plain dumb and now I won’t even consider picking up the books. No offense to anyone who likes it, though.
 
No, but I once drove out of one that was so obcene and disgusting I was close to vomiting, something to which a former medic would have to be *really *pushed.
 
Not entirely… I went to see RENT. I left in the middle to go the bathroom, washed my hands, wondered around a little, bought some candy, and went in hoping to high heaven that it was over. I hated those whiny little lazy bohemians. 😃 Then there was Golden Eye the most boring movie I ever saw, fell asleep, my father woke me up. No story line and flat character development. Last James Bond movie I ever saw. Explosions do not make a story.
 
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I wanted to walk out on the Others and the Interpreter because they were dull.
 
This one sort of counts toward answering the OP, I guess:

Batman Forever. I remember the (physical) film split partway through, and they couldn’t repair it. So they gave us our money back plus a free pass to go see it again. We didn’t go back. It was just too lame.

I should have walked out of The Phantom Menace – and thereby never have gone to The Clone Wars. The little kid who played the young Anikin was cloying, and the older whiney emo Anikin had the all the personality of drying paint. I never went to see the last movie (see? I’m not totally without intelligence).

There should have been one big lightsabre battle scene: Jar-Jar vs Anikin. I would have then given the Clones the command: “Shoot the survivor.”
 
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I don’t think I’ve ever walked out of a movie. I usually give a movie the benefit of the doubt and find at least something salvageable by the end.Though, I have considered it in at least one.

Most recently, Twilight. I didn’t get it. IMHO It was so slow. The acting was horrible. Some of the lines had potential but the actors couldn’t deliver lines for their lives. I thought it was just plain dumb and now I won’t even consider picking up the books. No offense to anyone who likes it, though.
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It is amazing how different individuals perceive things. I have read all of the Twilight series books several times and I LOVED the movie. You are so right much of the acting was in a word ‘awkward’ The movie had so much more depth because I had read the books first though. I also read Midnight sun…Twilight from Edwards perspective. It truly made the movie better.
 
Epistemes said:
Hello,

I will typically sit through any movie that I pay $7.50 at the movie theater to see – but I typically don’t choose to go see totally immoral or boring films, either.

That being said, I have turned off movies that I have rented or am watching on television. Some that immediately spring to mind are:

Conversations With God – a Hallmark movie take on the book of the same name which is truly New Age.

Saw – I continue to find the very *idea *that someone is *writing * (much less the millions who enjoy watching) these type of films to be absolutely disturbing.

Bringing Out The Dead – with Nicholas Cage. Very slow, boring film, I thought. I fell asleep halfway through it.

Recently, I almost walked out on Burn After Reading. In the past, I have typically enjoyed Coen Brothers films, but this one was not only truly immoral but also contained a ***lot ***of bad language.
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I might be disturbed then:eek: …I have enjoyed the Saw series…I admit, the torture scenes are horrible…I think the plot though makes it all meaningful, to a degree. But, I think you either like those movies or hate them…there’s no in between.
 
A movie that was difficult to finish watching but we did was The Mist, by Stephen King. That was just downright horrible…the acting…the monsters…the whole thing was just jumpy and off…
 
I’ve walked out of three movies:

Casino - blecch

Omen 666. My 15yo wanted to see it so I went with her. We left about 20 minutes into it and got our money back.

Blair Witch Project. The theater had people ready with bark bags and credit vouchers.
 
I didn’t really walk out on it, since it was on TV, but I couldn’t stand to sit through Wedding Crashers. At first, it was like ‘oh, how cute, they’re having a fun time at people’s weddings’, then I saw the topless girls :eek: The movie was stupid, in any case.
 
I recently stopped watching “Traitor” about 45 minutes in. It wasn’t that objectionable, just overly-stereotypical and boring. And plus I was watching it by myself, which isn’t and fun.
 
cthulhubryan said:
I’ve walked out of three movies:

Casino - blecch

Omen 666. My 15yo wanted to see it so I went with her. We left about 20 minutes into it and got our money back.

Blair Witch Project. The theater had people ready with bark bags and credit vouchers.
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Really–on Blair Witch? It was a bit boring at first, but really…it is quite believeable…this Halloween, give it another chance. 😃
 
whatevergirl said:
Really–on Blair Witch? It was a bit boring at first, but really…it is quite believeable…this Halloween, give it another chance. 😃
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I watched it later on video. We were really up close to the front of the theater and that may have contributed to the nausea.
 
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