samhexum Posted January 3, 2023 Share Posted January 3, 2023 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod Hagen Posted January 3, 2023 Share Posted January 3, 2023 Inception. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ azdr0710 Posted January 29, 2023 Share Posted January 29, 2023 we should've walked out of My Dinner With Andre but we stayed thinking something was going to happen.......bad decision Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ WilliamM Posted January 29, 2023 Share Posted January 29, 2023 I never walked out of a film. The closest was Taylor and Burton in Cleopatra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Becket Posted January 29, 2023 Share Posted January 29, 2023 The Fish that Saved Pittsburg. All time crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ EVdude Posted January 29, 2023 Share Posted January 29, 2023 Only one… Get Out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kippy Posted January 29, 2023 Share Posted January 29, 2023 Pulp Fiction. Way too violent. The only film I ever walked out on. Kipp samhexum, pubic_assistance and + carlos45 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ poolboy48220 Posted January 29, 2023 Share Posted January 29, 2023 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. viewing ownly 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Pensant Posted February 16, 2023 Share Posted February 16, 2023 When I was a kid: Krakatoa East of Java. My friend and I just couldn’t stand it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Orin Posted February 16, 2023 Share Posted February 16, 2023 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. + FrankR and wsc 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AceHardware Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 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. Quote 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. samhexum 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maninsoma Posted July 21, 2023 Share Posted July 21, 2023 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloKyle Posted July 22, 2023 Share Posted July 22, 2023 The Tim Burton remake of Alice in Wonderland. pubic_assistance and Rod Hagen 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ carlos45 Posted July 22, 2023 Share Posted July 22, 2023 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. samhexum and + nycman 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 23, 2023 Share Posted July 23, 2023 On 1/28/2023 at 7:55 PM, EVdude said: Only one… Get Out. And you did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 23, 2023 Share Posted July 23, 2023 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ BenjaminNicholas Posted July 24, 2023 Share Posted July 24, 2023 I've never walked out of a film, but several Broadway/tours. MikeBiDude 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samhexum Posted July 25, 2023 Author Share Posted July 25, 2023 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ BenjaminNicholas Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samhexum Posted July 25, 2023 Author Share Posted July 25, 2023 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. pubic_assistance 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 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. Rod Hagen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samhexum Posted July 25, 2023 Author Share Posted July 25, 2023 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. Gary 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod Hagen Posted July 26, 2023 Share Posted July 26, 2023 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. Gary 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ BOZO T CLOWN Posted August 5, 2023 Share Posted August 5, 2023 (edited) 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 wsc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samhexum Posted August 5, 2023 Author Share Posted August 5, 2023 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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