Movies you walked out of because they were so awful

[samhexum]

The only 2 movies I can remember walking out of were Blade Runner (saw alone) & Down and Out in Beverly Hills (saw with a friend and we both left).  I tried to walk out of Grease (Grease is the worst... the worst... the worst...) but the friend I was with wouldn't let me because it was a late show & he didn't want to walk home alone.

BTW, I'm sure it's just a co-inky-dink, but the first two theaters were torn down years ago, and the theater where I saw Grease (& Worst Encounters) was converted to a church a long time ago.

Edited January 3, 2023 by samhexum
for shits and giggles

[Rod Hagen]

Inception.  

[+ azdr0710]

we should've walked out of My Dinner With Andre but we stayed thinking something was going to happen.......bad decision

[+ WilliamM]

I never walked out of a film. The closest was Taylor and Burton in Cleopatra

[Becket]

The Fish that Saved Pittsburg.  All time crap.

[+ EVdude]

Only one… Get Out.

[Kippy]

Pulp Fiction.  Way too violent. The only film I ever walked out on.

Kipp

[+ poolboy48220]

A Woody Allen movie with Julia-Louis Dreyfuss, probably "Deconstructing Harry".  I didn't exactly walk out because I was there with family but wished I'd brought a book.  Made worse by some guy in the row behind us bellowing with laughter at every middle-school humor-level gag. 

[+ Pensant]

When I was a kid: Krakatoa East of Java. My friend and I just couldn’t stand it.

[+ Orin]

Well, I had a different reason for walking out of one. I don’t recall which city it was, but the cinema played Fantasia with the reels out of order. 

[Guest]

Caligula, shown at my university in a special showing (reason unknown now). So many other people walked out halfway through, that my roommate and I left because we didn't want to be left alone among "the perverts." But that was in the 1980s, when any porn was kinda shocking.

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Pulp Fiction.  Way too violent. The only film I ever walked out on.

That makes at least 2 of us to not like that movie. Took me many tries to sit through it at home and still not a fan.

[maninsoma]

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom. If child abuse is your thing, maybe you'd feel differently.  I found it terribly disturbing and without any redeeming qualities.  Just depraved.

The Wiz -- though decades later I sat through the entire film at home and thought it had some things to like about it.  As a teen, however, I just didn't like it and left right after Michael Jackson made his first appearance.

Some gay film whose name I don't recall.  It was at a film festival.  I'm not exaggerating this (I remember checking my watch): The film opens with a static shot of some landscape and that image doesn't change for several minutes. 

[BuffaloKyle]

The Tim Burton remake of Alice in Wonderland.

[+ carlos45]

On 1/28/2023 at 8:01 PM, Kippy said:

Pulp Fiction.  Way too violent. The only film I ever walked out on.

Kipp

Me too.  I meant to go to the concession stand to ask for the plot, but I just walked out instead.

[Guest]

On 1/28/2023 at 7:55 PM, EVdude said:

Only one… Get Out.

And you did.

[Guest]

I've stopped watching movies online that I didn't like as much as I'd have thought, but the only time I can remember literally walking out of a theater was for The Tragedy of Macbeth. I should have suspected I wouldn't like it, since I find Shakespeare's use of language arcane and archaic at best, and I find his work to be quite pseudointellectual. I thought the movie might have spiced it up, but the sets were so bad, especially with the black and white, that I simply couldn't stomach it past about 30 minutes or so. His use of ridiculous words like "fardel" piss me off. I might enjoy his works if someone were to translate them into modern English, but as they're written, reading or listening to Shakespeare is a chore, and attending a performance or reading a play shouldn't simply be a "challenge." 

"...The insolence of Office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th'unworthy takes,
When he himself might his Quietus make
With a bare Bodkin? Who would Fardels bear..."

Quietus? Bodkin? Fardels? WTF? I shouldn't need an interpreter to enjoy a piece of literature. 

Edited July 23, 2023 by Unicorn

[+ BenjaminNicholas]

I've never walked out of a film, but several Broadway/tours.

[samhexum]

On 7/24/2023 at 4:54 PM, BenjaminNicholas said:

I've never walked out of a film, but several Broadway/tours.

I walked out on Jerome Robbins' Boredway and a matinee of Hurlyburly.

[+ BenjaminNicholas]

19 minutes ago, samhexum said:

I walked out on Jerome Robbins' Boredway and a matinee of Hurlyburly.

See, I was a kiddo when I saw JR's Broadway, but was enthralled.  It helped start my love of live theater.

Years later, I became friendly with Debbie Gravitte.  I asked for all the fun stories about working with such a massively talented cast (Jason Alexander, Charlotte d'Amboise, Nancy Hess, Michael Kubala, Faith Prince, Donna Marie Asbury, Mary Ann Lamb).

I'm sorry you didn't enjoy it.  

[samhexum]

2 minutes ago, BenjaminNicholas said:

See, I was a kiddo when I saw JR's Broadway, but was enthralled.  It helped start my love of live theater.

Years later, I became friendly with Debbie Gravitte.  I asked for all the fun stories about working with such a massively talented cast (Jason Alexander, Charlotte d'Amboise, Nancy Hess, Michael Kubala, Faith Prince, Donna Marie Asbury, Mary Ann Lamb).

I'm sorry you didn't enjoy it.  

I walked out at intermission, my 2 friends joined me after the first second half number.  We met in front of Mama Leone's and had dinner there.

[Gary]

Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves, starring Kevin Costner.  An early scene depicted the amputation of a man’s hand in a moorish prison.  I considered the scene gratuitous violence, and found it offensive.  I left, filling out a form asking for a refund of the ticket price.

[samhexum]

8 minutes ago, Gary said:

Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves, starring Kevin Costner.  An early scene depicted the amputation of a man’s hand in a moorish prison.  I considered the scene gratuitous violence, and found it offensive.  I left, filling out a form asking for a refund of the ticket price.

Possible new topic:  Movies/Plays you sought a refund for.  That would be Punch Drunk Love for me. (Hey!  I just remembered another movie I walked out of!)  I saw it with one of the friends who walked out of JRB, and the first ten minutes were so abysmal that we left and actually got a refund because it was so early in the movie.

[Rod Hagen]

16 hours ago, Gary said:

Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves, starring Kevin Costner.  An early scene depicted the amputation of a man’s hand in a moorish prison.  I considered the scene gratuitous violence, and found it offensive.  I left, filling out a form asking for a refund of the ticket price.

A friend objected to the movie Robin Hood, PoT as well.  In a later scene, which you didn't see, there's an attempted rape and it's played for comedy. 

But I'll watch anything with Alan Rickman, even Closet Land.  Such a sexy guy.

 

[+ BOZO T CLOWN]

Agnes of God.
Bozo walked out of this senseless, boring, pointless movie about two-thirds of the way through.
I suppose just another reason to dislike Jane Fonda.

Bozo watched it on cable 30 years later. Still can't figure out how how that nun (Meg Tilly) got pregnant.

BoZo

 

Edited August 5, 2023 by BOZO T CLOWN

[samhexum]

30 minutes ago, BOZO T CLOWN said:

Agnes of God.
Bozo walked out of this senseless, boring, pointless movie about two-thirds of the way through.
I suppose just another reason to dislike Jane Fonda.

Bozo watched it on cable 30 years later. Still can't figure out how how that nun (Meg Tilly) got pregnant.

BoZo

 

Disliked the play, but stayed though it all.   Don't remember who I saw, just remember that Agnes was played by the understudy that night.

For some reason, a little voice in my head is saying I saw Elizabeth Ashley and MaryAnn Plunkett.  I'm too lazy to check their resumes.